June 26

View of the day-Moving north thru Albert, KS

Another humid day, really cloudy to start, and it looked like we might get some rain at some point during the day. We did a test around noon and it was 14.5, so we went into Albert to find some place to have lunch. We found Matt's Barbecue, a little place with an older couple running the joint. Excellent hamburgers, and they even brought us out a piece of cake, as they put it "for some extra energy this afternoon".

We got rolling around 1:30pm and finished the field we were on and headed north about 15 miles to another field. Once we got everything moved, it looked like it was going to be a late night of combining, although the straw was not cutting or getting chopped up like it should, the 44 bushel yield was probably a contributing factor. The ever present moisture, and the guards that the knife sections cut against on the header were in need of replacement, since they were so worn. The knife kept jamming up and eventually one of the bolts holding the knife in place, worked itself loose. Thankfully it didn't get lost, so after putting it back in we cut some more until finally the bolts broke off completely, which ended the day's cutting.

We took the wobble box off (that we had just replaced in Davidson) to take it into Great Bend to get it drilled out. Since everything was closed, and we didn't have anything else to do, we decided to do the weekly laundry thing.

Tomorrow we replace the guards, fix the knife and commence to cut once again...