August 18, 2017

View of the day-And, we wait. Finished the winter wheat and had to wait for the other truck to show up.

We had high hopes of the combine parts sliding on as smooth as they came off. We were also hoping last night was a bad dream. Both wrong.

We started working on the combine early and were having the same issues as last night. Fortunately for us, Alex was fueling up the combine and was able to give us a bit of input into the way it should go back together. The biggest problem was that the hammer we had been using on one of the old parts had made a mess of some of the parts. This would be one of the expensive parts that we thought we could salvage.

We got various files out and started to "unmash" what the hammer had reformed. We worked on those splines for quite some time before deciding we wouldn't need the slow speed option so we could slide the toothed bearing on from the other side. And it worked.

After getting everything back on the shaft, we tried putting the range shifting yoke back on. No way would it go...the shaft was sticking out too far. This meant we had to take it half way apart to get that put on. Once that was accomplished, we put the rest of the shields back on and went to test it out. It worked fine...that was a relief.

We got to help finish the field they had been working on, then moved over to combine some seed wheat. It wasn't a big patch, but with four machines, it didn't take long to lap up.

We moved back to the yard and blew off the combine before parking it for the night. We have finished the winter wheat and have a week or so wait until the oats is ready.

Maybe we'll find something to occupy the combine until then...or maybe get the autosteer working...