September 8, 2009

View of the day-The camper and shop trailer get dropped in the pasture so we could race back to Kenmare and get both loads into Canada in one day.

We were up early getting the camper closed up and the tanks drained before heading to Wilton to get the General/combine and shop trailer. It had rained during the night so that made for a sloppy mess trying to get things hooked up, but we finally did and after fueling both rigs up started on the way north.

It rained off and on most of the way but it never amounted to much, we waved at the Freightliner on the way past Kenmare and made the border around 2pm. We stopped at the US side to check everything out of the country, then at the Canadian side to declare our purchases...everything went smooth as silk. We continued on to the farm at Carlyle, then unhooked the camper and returned to Kenmare to get the Freightliner/tractor/cart and header.

We stopped long enough to fuel up and have a chat with our Kansas harvester who was parked at Kenmare...waiting for things to dry up after the rain, then we headed back for the border. The second trip through was even faster than the first one, but we didn't really have to declare anything since it was all done the first go round.

Back at the farm in Carlyle, we unhooked the shop trailer from the camper, planning to just leave it in the pasture where we had parked, then hooked the camper up to the pickup to get it set up by the house. We pulled up beside the shop and Kim asked us if we were going to leave the shop trailer by the bins and we told him we left it in the pasture...he said, "but it's still hooked on behind the camper". We looked in the mirrors and sure enough there it was tailing along.

When we started to unhook it, Marilyn thought it was mighty convenient that we only had to crank it up a short way before removing the safety chains and flipping the latch. The front end of the camper was raised to unhook it from the truck making the back a lot lower....of course, when the camper got hooked up, the back end raised up...and the shop hitch dropped right back onto the ball.

We had a pretty good chuckle over that one...