View of the day-Al cutting a terrace
out with his hopper full lights flashing.
Another busy day with more of the same…heat, wind and combining. It was overcast and humid this morning, so we got started a bit later than we had hoped.
Since Al had his own ride, he went out first thing with the General to empty the cart and bring it in to the elevator. Marilyn had to stop at the grocery store to pick up a few things, then went out to the field to take over combining from Al, who had already started in where she had left off last night.
We went non-stop…Al was almost meeting himself on the road, he was kept so busy hauling into town. Thankfully the line-ups weren’t too bad that he couldn’t make it back in time to make sure the combine kept moving.
We finished the field around 6pm, then with the help of John, Ron and Darryl, Marilyn got the header into transport and we started moving south to Carmen. To avoid the highway, we had to take a few back roads…the oil traffic in the area had them pretty well hammered out, so it was a slow 15 mile drive.
Al had to make an extra trip into the elevator to take the last dab in the cart that would not fit in the truck. When the rest of us got to the farm, Marilyn got the header hooked back up and got the lowdown on where to start combining, then got right down to business.
Ron, Darryl and John went back to get the tractor/cart and bring it to the field. Ron drew the short straw and had to drive the tractor…again…he remembered moving it last year and tried to get out of it, but wasn’t successful.
Al got back to the field in time to get a load to take in to Carmen, then came back out to the field in time for us to shut down, fuel the combine and head back to Cherokee.
Another great day…the storms stayed away and even with the move we did 105 acres.
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