September 12, 2014

View of the day-It took the better part of the day, but Marilyn couldn't stand prosperity.

We had the morning off while the other two combines finished yesterday's field. Marilyn was good with that. We got the call to go move to the next field after they confirmed that there were some high spots for us to work on.

We moved the combine and cart over and Marilyn started cutting, while Al ran the cart until the other cart got rolling. There had been a change in carts, with the rental going back and a new bigger unit with tracks coming on the scene...the only problem was the PTO shaft was too short, so there was a parts run to get one the right size.

Marilyn's goal was 40 acres for the day and it was looking like it was going to happen. At least there were a couple of times where the hopper alarm actually got to go off, but when it came time to unload, she always found high ground. That didn't necessarily solve the problem.

At one point, parked on a hill with the auger out, Marilyn noticed the combine was leaning on the auger side, which would have meant it would not clear the cart when it pulled under to dump. To remedy this, she decided to back up out of the low spot...only it got lower. She didn't get to dump until the tractor pulled her out...the ladder was even packed with mud.

Running out of high ground, she made a point of dumping the combine every time the cart passed by on it's way to the trucks. This worked quite well until she decided to make a couple of passes before going to park for the day. Big mistake. This time the tractor had to pull her waaayyyy back before she was on solid ground.


Al came out to help get the combine out, then got to drive it back to a high hill to park for the night. We took a look around the combine to see if anything had gotten wrecked...the ladder had taken a turn for the worse. Actually, the ladder is getting easier to use, the only thing is that now there are cracks in the top of it where the kinks are. A couple of times up and down and that first step will be a loo-loo.
After we got the combine parked, Al unloaded the corners in the box of the General, then we went out to bring the tractor and cart back from the far side of the field, where Al had left it when the big cart showed up.

Only managed 39.5 acres...