Rolinco Road Ramblings: Harvest 2015 is in the Bins!

Friday, July 31, 2015

Harvest 2015 is in the Bins!

We finished harvesting our winter wheat crop today. It was a terribly hot day, over 100 degrees by the time we finished, mid afternoon. But that's ok. We're done!!!! The house is cool and the beer refreshing!

A super fun thing happened today. David arrived from Boston last night and helped us finish harvesting today. His first experience with such activities!!!

I took a few photos today of the tear down and moving process. We finished at the home place and then moved to Pumpkin Center to finish up an hour of stuff that we left in the bottom of a deep draw, that wasn't quite ripe when we left that field a few weeks ago.

Removing the header platform is much easier than in the old days when Reynald and I were kids. It takes about 5 to 7 minutes from start to finish. The reverse is true for putting the header back on to the machine.

Reynald unhooks the electrical harness that runs from the back of the header to the feeder house of the machine.

There is a receiving bracket on the header, just another short clip and hold.

This shaft has to be unhooked and put in to place.

There are two of these "V" shaped devices on each side of the header. This is what automatically controls the cutting height.

They are easily flipped up and pinned in to place for transport.

Next you drive the machine to this yellow cart, and deposit the header there.

Lowering the header on to the cart.

And it's on the cart and you back away the machine.

Backing away....

backing away.......

And the lonely header on the cart, which is hooked up to the tonner. It is always my job to drive this to the next field.

The combine with out the header.

We enlisted David's help to move the rest of the equipment. He hopped on the gator that tows the big air compressor. We use the air compressor to blow off straw and chaff every morning before we start cutting.