View of the day-the General goes it alone after the cart is down...
It was a nice windy morning we got out to the field about 9:oo AM. The General was full and the cart so Al was busy unloading while Marilyn serviced her rig.
She hit the field and well that was it the feeder house would cut out when engaged so a call to Ray at "Pro Harvest" he gave us a couple of things to look at. Well after spending about an hour getting a shield off we got to look at the sensor on the feeder house and it was not quite right. The feeder would shut off randomly and when you are picking up those fluffy swaths of canola at 4.5mph, there gets to be quite a ribbon that folds up before you can get stopped. We sort of rigged it up to work and though it got the job done, Marilyn had sort of a frustrating day...but you know how it goes...shut up and drive.
Around 4:00 PM Al called on the radio to say the cart auger would not go down, after further inspection a weld had let go on the hydraulic cylinder so a trip to the welder was in order. Fortunately we were right next to a farmer who has the technology and manpower to repair it tomorrow, so it will be good as new...or perhaps better, since Marilyn noticed that there hadn't been much holding on before it broke.
Then the General wouldn't shut off...bad things come in three's, so Al worked on that and discovered if he just held his tongue right, he was able to start and stop it. One more thing to look at tomorrow.
From this point on it was just the General and it was a good thing we were dumping close by, this allowed Al to get back to the field before the combine was full. We got done on this job by 10:00 PM, then we fueled the combine at the farmer's yard and roaded it back to Kim and Marg's, so by 11:30 everything was where it needed to be.
Marg had picked up a new sensor in Estevan while at football practice for Gordie so it will get changed first thing in the morning, then we start on Kim's, the weather sounds good so we can make more dust.
Even with the late start and feeder house issues we still got 115 acres covered...
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