August 26, 2015

View of the day-The first hopper full at Carlyle.

We were up early and had the straight header in transport and hooked up to the Dodge, ready for the move. We put the pickup head on the combine and headed south.

It was a two hour drive to get to the field...you get to see a lot of scenery at 18mph...and a lot of idiot drivers. We made it without incident and after leaving the pickup head in one of the canola fields, got to the wheat field and hooked up the draper head to start combining.

Al got a patch cut out for the trucks to park, just as Kim and his brother James showed up with the tandem grain truck. They went back to get the semi and Kim's combine, while Al continued cutting wheat. Marilyn went in to Subway to get lunch for everyone.

Marilyn rode around with Al in the combine for a while, then he jumped ship and left her so he could start hauling grain in Kim's tandem. James was running the other combine and had a breakdown around 6:30pm, so he took the combine back to the yard to get some welding done.

We shut down around 7:30pm...a pretty good day considering the drive...with just over 100 acres combined. We decided not to move the camper, so we had a few miles to cover to get back to Langbank.

Al gets to combine tomorrow...