View of
the day-Getting serviced and set up for the last day of canola combining…in
Oklahoma, at least.
Wow, did
the harvest ever crank up around Cherokee!
We had nicely gotten started on the canola, when three JD combined
pulled in next door and started cutting wheat.
From our field, we could see plumes of dust dotting the horizon all
around us and the trucks were rolling down the roads to town. Harvest is in
high gear.
Al was
hauling to Carmen now, so he was getting back to the field in plenty of time…until
he was leaving with a load and noticed one of his inside back duals was
flat. He called in to Cherokee…there was
someone at the tire shop(take note, on a Sunday)
but since he wasn’t hauling to that elevator, they called over to their branch
at Carmen and they had someone come over to help him out. On a Sunday!
Al got
his tire fixed and was back at the field, just as Marilyn had enough for a
load, so she met him out at the gate with the combine…this was the closest thing
to a “wait” that she had. Al was doing
the old “ride and tie” trick, where he would leave the cart out by the swaths…since
Marilyn was getting farther and farther away…then when he would get back with
the empty General, he would leave it at the gate, take the Dodge out to the
cart to bring it back to dump in the General, leaving the Dodge in the
field. Once the cart was empty, he would
come back out to the field to wait for the last dab to top off the truck…only
this time Marilyn met him with the “dab”.
Once the
tire was fixed, he managed to get back on schedule and there was no more
waiting.
We finished the field by 6pm,
then Marilyn drove the combine back to the farmyard and Al picked her up from
there with the Dodge. After giving him a
ride back to the General, Marilyn went back to the farm to fire up the air
compressor and blow off the canola remains so the combine would be clean to go
into the wheat. Al got back with the
General, then Marilyn took him back out to the field to get the tractor and
cart.
When Al
got back to the camper with the cart, we took a road trip to Alva to get a
Sonic malt and some supper. There were
combines everywhere! It looks like most of the wheat along the
highway to Alva was either cut already or in the process of being cut. Now,
this is action.
The
clouds had been threatening all day, mostly just to the SE of us, but they were
building all around us…it was like we were under a sunshine dome in the field. As the day wore on we could see there were
more large banks of clouds moving in from the west and we are now in a
thunderstorm warning…and the rain is falling.
Tomorrow
the pickup head gets loaded back on the trailer and, depending on the rain fall
tonight, perhaps a road trip will be in our future…
June
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