September 30, 2013

View of the day-If this shows so much promise, why does it come after a harvest stopping rain?

Al went out early to unload trucks and service the combine. He was able to get combining while Marilyn got the lunches ready before coming out to take over.

Phil kept combining after we left last night until everything was full...until 4am! Not for us...gotta get some sleep.

We finished the canola, then while Al was unloading the semi, Marilyn got the pickup head loaded on the trailer, then started driving back to the field where the straight header had been left. We were going back to the wheat.

Marilyn got the header hooked up and started combining. After dumping one hopper into the General, Al called to tell her the elevator was closing at 6pm...6pm. During harvest?? Oh well, who are we to argue? He waited for the second hopper, but when Marilyn was dumping it in the General, it was filling way too fast. Apparently, Chris had dumped some in the truck when he finished his field...so it was really loaded.

While trying to fill one of the other trucks so Al could get it into the elevator before cutoff, Marilyn noticed the sky was looking kind of dark to the SW. It didn't take long before there were drops on the window…but it wasn't running off the header. But, by the time she made it back to the truck…the rain was coming down…and it was running off the header. After rushing into the rain to get the trucks tarped, Marilyn sat and waited for Al to get back so we could head back to the camper.

Al wanted to get the pickup head strapped down to the trailer, so Phil met them on the road and gave Al a ride down to the big Dodge that was still sitting at the canola field from this morning. Once he got back to the camper, we went to the house to have supper, since we missed it in the field when the rain started.

Hopefully it didn't rain a lot at the field...