September 25, 2015

View of the day-Everything is all shiny and back in order in the engine compartment...much better than before.

Al had to sit on his hands to keep from dialing the repair shop to find out when the combine would be ready. He finally got the call around 11am to let us know the combine would be finished around 1pm. 

We went into Kipling to have an early lunch, then filled a couple of water jugs before heading over to Windthorst to get the combine. We checked it over, got settled up and started out for the field of canola that we were to combine. Once out there, we got everything running and set, then Al started to combine the outside round...just to make sure it was working fine...when an alarm went off.

We couldn't see any lights on the post to indicate what the problem was, so Al went out to watch as Marilyn started it up again. He could see one of the spreaders wasn't turning...the gears were all worn and weren't meshing. Back to Windthorst for parts.

We had taken the old gears off the shafts and just had to replace them with the new ones, but Al kept saying he didn't like it...it was too easy. Nothing was rusted on, the clips and shafts came out with no problem. Way too easy. We got back, put it together in about 20 minutes and were back in business. It really was that easy.

It was still really warm and the wind was blowing hard, so we kept going until 10pm, when Al shut down the trucking end of things. He was hauling from three combines and we were getting further and further away from the bins, making it tough to get back in time...and he was the only trucker on the scene. Even though we didn't get rolling hard until after 3pm, we still managed to get in 60 acres.

If the wind keeps up, we will get an early start tomorrow...