Hanging out in the corn fields

Daryl was able to get all the beans out that were dry, so he switched the bean head to the corn head on the combine and has been out to the corn field since.

Putting the corn head on the combine

A lot of farmers have been talking about the corn getting wrecked so bad this year by root worms, so we’re hoping that we only have a small patch down because of it and hopefully it won’t effect too much of the crops. When you have root worms in your fields, what happens is that the corn isn’t very stable in the ground and it just literally falls over. And then when you go and try to combine it, it really isn’t fun at all. Not only are you worried about picking up all the corn with the combine, but you have to sometimes combine the rows only one way. That means that you combine to the end of the field and then just drive back to the beginning again through the field and then combine the next row. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does it’s not fun! It doubles the time to get the same amount of corn that you should have gotten in the first place.  So like I said Daryl’s hanging out in the corn field and didn’t want to stop to get anything to eat, so I called  to see if he wanted me to bring any supper out. He said that he was having some trouble with the combine and I said that I’d be right out. Now, I’m pretty sure that there isn’t much (or anything) that I really could do to help, but I thought I’d go and see what was wrong. It always scares me when he’s out in the field at night and then he says he’s working on the equipment.  But he figured out that a bearing was out and needed to take it into town to get fixed. Since it was dark and the highway that we were going to go on is always crazy busy, I followed him to town with the light’s flashing on the car. I don’t know for sure, but I think that there are a lot of ‘town’ people that probably don’t have any idea where the emergency lights are on a vehicle if they ever needed to use them. And for the farm kids, they pretty much grew up with someone along the line telling you to ‘follow me with your flashers on‘. So you had to learn quick on the vehicle that you were following just where the flashers (emergency lights) were because you never know when you’ll use  them to follow a load of rocks on a hay wagon or a combine at night.