Friday, September 27, 2024
We had a couple good days in the corn field Wednesday and Thursday. But this morning, Hurricane Helene is bearing down on our part of Indiana. The wind picked up yesterday evening as we were wrapping up field work. The rain began here about midnight. Now, this morning, the wind is even stronger… with wind advisories here throughout the day. They say we could expect winds at 50 mph! Let’s pray the unharvested corn can keep standing up during this windy day!
Wednesday, the field at the Pond worked well, and it was a mostly sunny day. The Demco 1322 grain cart has worked well this fall, and Brandon is an excellent operator.
Thursday morning, the two Brandons had to work on replacing some bolts under one of the corn heads. John is back there preparing a temporary “fix” strap for them to bolt on. The correct part will be here this morning.
Pat sent me this sunset picture Wednesday evening. Pretty neat!
View from the seat of the JD S780 combine
The two Brandons are delivering corn to GPC at Washington, Indiana today. The rain does not hinder those important deliveries. Their deliver-by-appointment system works well, and eliminates waiting in line… but this fall the appointments have been harder to snatch up. The guys use every opportunity they can to fill our contracts! Maybe this rainy spell will allow us to get sort of ‘caught up’ with those deliveries. Hope so.
John was here quite late last night, tending to the dryer. It’s a big job to manage that beast. But he does it well.
Helene (now a tropical storm) is supposed to bring us rain for today, tomorrow and Sunday. We will have some time now to do the work on the corn header. We can now have to time to fix it ‘proper’ instead of the ‘just to get by for today’ repair they did yesterday morning. Also, it appears that we have some work to do on the Volvo…some weird vibration in it. I hope it is something we can fix here, and not send it off to the shop in Vincennes. We will see…
Helene has brought us .84″ (21 mm) of rain so far. Two inches are predicted for today, and another half-inch for the rest of the weekend. Again… we will see…
Looks like Florida was hit pretty hard by Helene. Please pray for those many thousands of people affected by the hurricane.
Have a happy weekend.
