View of the day-We got some rain today...2.75"at the combine...in about a hour.
Well the day started off good.
Al got up early and fueled and serviced the combine so Marilyn could catch a few more ZZZ's. We tried it at noon it was 15.3, so we had lunch, then started at 1:30. We continued on the first field, the farmer wanted to bin the rest of it for seed, so Al go to finish combining while Marilyn did some work on the computer back at the camper.
The clouds started building most of the afternoon and when we moved to the next field it was dark blue in the west and north. Marilyn helped get everything moved and Al got started combining. He had just dumped his first hopper when the odd rain drop showed up on the cab window, so he unloaded it, took the truck to the elevator and just after he got it unloaded, the rains came...and boy did they come!
The clouds started building most of the afternoon and when we moved to the next field it was dark blue in the west and north. Marilyn helped get everything moved and Al got started combining. He had just dumped his first hopper when the odd rain drop showed up on the cab window, so he unloaded it, took the truck to the elevator and just after he got it unloaded, the rains came...and boy did they come!
When it was all over there was 2.75 inches in the rain gauge in the combine and some of the streets in town turned into rivers. When we went out to check the combine and open the trap doors on the hopper to let the water out...it was a waterfall and there was standing water all through out the field. Marilyn finally got fed up with loosing her shoes, and just took them off, sinking about a foot into the mud. The farmer only managed to get one of their two trucks out of the field, the other was stuck and would probably have to sit their for a day or two. It looks like we may have some time on our hands waiting for things to dry out.
But all in all it was a not too bad day...
1 comment:
Kunz's, come up here where it almost never rains, central N. Dakota. It sprinkled today, so no combining, but yesterday I took some wheat straight at 15% and got two truckloads. About 30 bu./acre. That is a pretty shiny combine you got there, Al must wax it each morning. How wide is the header? What are your plans? We aactually want it to rain here even though there are a lot of crops swathed now, it is very dry, no pasture regrowth. Bob
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