View of the day-Storm clouds starting to shoot up over the buttes outside of Hamill.
We broke out of the mold and got some outside work done today. Unfortunately, we waited until after lunch which meant the heat of the day was on us. No wind meant it was pretty stifling, thank goodness the humidity was low, but it was still in the mid 90's.
It was electrical repair day...the brake lights on the cart trailer weren't working and there were issues with the headlights on both grain trucks. Al looked after getting the combine greased and the chains lubed and tightened, while Marilyn looked after the electrical end of things. She got the brake lights working...too bad we don't know how...and got the headlights dismantled which was no easy task with everything rusted in.
Al figured it was time to break out the portable combine to see how close the crop was getting. He spent a half an hour cutting heads off with scissors and feeding them into the "combine" and tested the grain on our little grain tester...it was around 12.8-13.8 moisture. We called in to see how long the elevator was open to get it officially tested and finding we had time to make it in to Winner, dropped what we were doing and left for town.
After stopping in at the elevator to get the grain tested, we found out it was 12.8 on their machine...looks like ours is pretty accurate. We also needed to get new bulbs for both trucks while we were there, so we thought we'd try to see if we could find any...our luck usually finds they are "special" bulbs that have to be ordered. We found them right away at Runnings and after supper at Pizza Hut and a walk around the Pamida store...Winner's "Walmart"...we came back to Hamill to finish our fixing.
Back in Hamill, Al was thinking about trying a load, but decided against it...for one thing, they haven't sent us out harvest permits yet...and both trucks looked like they had been in a fight and had their eyes knocked out...no lights.
Al went out to talk to the farmer and Marilyn proceeded to do a little optometry on the General and at least get those lights back in on one truck. That truck had come from the eastern part of Canada and behind the trim on the front of the lights, it was totally rusted out from all the salt on the roads...just a few flakes of what used to be metal, holding things together...more work to get everything rebuilt to hold the lights. Got one truck done before it got too dark to work.
Maybe we make some dust tomorrow...
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