We finally got started picking field corn this week.  Pretty dang muddy in places.  So much so, the neighbor brought in his combine with tracks on it. So far he hasn’t been stuck in the mud but, he did fall off in a hole!  All the rains caused a new washout and one of the tracks fell in.  3 Tractors (and several chains) later, he was back to work.  We almost had one grain bin full but disaster struck again…

Last week I had someone come work on the stirrators in this bin.  (a stirrator is just a set of augers used to stir the grain while air is blown through the bin to dry the grain)  Now that the bin has several thousand bushels of damp corn in it, I discover the stirrator is not moving around the bin.  It just sits in one spot and pulls grain up from the bottom.  Anybody know where to find a stirrator motor on a Sunday?  Me either!

I have a hopper bottom truck coming to empty the corn from another bin so we can continue picking.  I had better close for now as the combine will soon be running again.  Wish me luck!