Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Hope you had a nice Labor Day weekend.  It was restful and calm here.

Today, we are doing some final tasks of harvest machine preparations.  Put the corn header on the JD S780, and checked the gearboxes.  Performed some tests, too, that confirmed the proper operation of the height and tilt controls.  Lubricated the gathering chains, and every grease zerk.  It’s as ready as we can make it.

Brandon checks each row unit’s gearbox to see if the oil level is adequate. Had to add oil to two rows.

The grain cart is now hooked up and is getting cleaned and serviced.

Washing the grain cart, then it will be serviced.

John is spreading some stone on the areas of the driveway that were disturbed when the concrete guys were here.

New stone to cover the driveway that goes to our unload pits.

And, the sprayer’s water nurse trailer has been disconnected to allow the Mack truck to be hooked to its Wilson hopper bottom trailer for harvesttime.

Parking the Demco liquid tender trailer. We need the Mack hooked to its Wilson trailer for harvest time.

Little tasks, but important to get ready for #harvest22.

Pat and I did a ‘drive by’ of several fields yesterday afternoon to check on the crops’ maturation progress.  Found 2 soybean fields that are not far off.  Will likely begin harvest with corn, at least for a few days until we have some soybeans ready.

Soybeans at the Dunn farm on Labor Day. We think these are about 2 or so weeks of warm days away from being ready to cut.

We are looking forward to this harvest.