Posted by Dave H (MI) on November 22, 2016 at 14:54:00 from (50.33.251.151):
Well...mostly. If I sound surprised, you will have to understand my situation. I have done hay for maybe two years short of eternity. Or maybe it just feels like that long. Grain on the other hand...three years. My first year, 2014, I planted just one of my fields. I had picked up the IH 1660 combine at auction and drove it 60 miles home...a story unto itself because I had no idea that a lot of combines do not have working brakes. Anyway, I ran my first small 10 acre field of corn. While unloading the last of it, the combine spun a bearing. Jump ahead a year and many thousands of dollars later and I have almost the whole place planted in corn. Still using the same corn head which, to be kind, had "seen better years". Every single day of operation I had to stop at least once and repair something. So this fall I really did some pre season work on it. Clutches with the springs installed wrong were a big issue. Drive lines welded into their couplers...to name a couple things. So I am pretty darn shocked to be three days into 2016 combining and NOTHING has gone wrong...knock on wood. Except....
Before I pull onto the field I like to engage the corn head and, using a plastic bottle with a really long spout, drizzle used motor oil on the driven sprocket at the end of the row units. It spreads out and lubes the chains and really keeps things running nice. I got it in my head that my wife could operate the corn head from the cab while I did this. Long story short, she did not know the toggle had to be lifted and pushed forward so she tried to force it and broke the toggle switch off. When I realized what had happened I am afraid I let loose a few inappropriate words and said something regarding her inability to figure out how a toggle switch worked. These were words I would come to regret many times during the course of the day. She forgave me within the hour but it is amazing how often the topic came up later. Her birthday is Saturday. I think I better make sure it is a good one!
I'm done for a couple days, y'all have a great Thanksgiving!
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