View of the day-Another patch job on the pick up head...Kim does some welding while Al ponders the pickup belt dilemma.Al was at work on the header first thing, the centre pickup belt was stopping in heavy crop so he decided to swap it out with one of the outside ones...that didn't change anything...the new belt started slipping too. While we had the belt off we could see there were a couple of cracks in one of the braces so before Kim could get too far away we got him to fix them up.
We needed to pick up a few things for the combine so Marilyn had to go on a parts run...she just had to find out which dealer had all the parts on the lists that Al and Kim had made. Fortunately for the guys, the dealer that had everything was not in the bright lights of Estevan...home of a Walmart among other stores...it was in the opposite direction. Marilyn wasn't looking to shop anyway...it's like napping...if you can't do it for at least three hours, it's not worth laying down...or pulling a cart from the rack.
The guys went out and finished the canola field they were on, then moved over to Kim's dad's canola to test it...too wet. Al pulled the 'portable combine' and they went over to test some wheat...too wet...then they went over to check some barley...just right, but since it was late in the day they figured by the time they moved it would be quitting time, so that was it for the day.
We were in a severe weather watch for most of the day and even though it seemed like something was brewing, the sky cleared off and we ended the day with no precipitation...lots of humidity, though.
No word where the bad stuff hit...
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