27/07/08

Working sunday!

I started at 8:30 am with tedding the last fields. After that I drive to the finished fields to get the bales home, in the shed. On the last journey (20min) Airton touht it would be great to film the traffic jam we make every time we drive on the big road...And the one on the video (unfortunately bad quality...) is very small...it was already 6:30pm, at 12am it can be as long as 2km...

26/07/08

Unloading from a full trailer (30 bales) hay and back again 2 times to get more. In the late afternoon, I rowed up with Knud's father's old Deutz (3,5hours) the grasseeds straw till 9pm.

Here for the one who don't know about tractors, the last picture shows the instruments control panel...

25/07/08

I started the day with the partly remounting of the Kuhn tedder new transmission axle. Then 4 hours tedding again. After that we had to repair the windrower which one protection bar was broken and risked to fall in the working area and make more damages. Knud started baling the first hay, while Airton was rowing up other fields and I put the bales on the trailer and took them back home.

24/07/08

This morning I greased completely the windrower for his next working hours. Then I drove to the part dealer to get the new axle for the Kuhn tedder and went looking at new fields that were mowed, wich I would have to ted in the afternoon, after going back with the tractor to the Krone dealer workshop to get the repaired tedder. I ted till 10:30pm.

23/07/08

BAD DAY!!!

I woke up at 2h45 and leave here at 3 o'clock to go ted the luzern (30ha). At the 5h30 the tedder broke down (one gable broke after an height regulating bolt from a wheel came off, so the wheel came in the path from the machine and BANG...) Back at home to the workshop to see if we could repair it by ourself, but no...So direction to the next (45min) Krone machines dealer with the tractor and tedder to see if they could mend it quick. Bad luck, they don't have the broken piece. So, back at home, where we worked out an old Kuhn tedder and made it ready to work (without a lot of hope that it'll last...) Back to the luzern field (11AM)...where one of the transmission axle broke after one hour working! Back home...We had no more tedder left, so no tedding anymore today. Airton and I dismounted the machine to take out the broken axle to order a new one...The other tedder which is at the dealer workshop will be repaired about 12am tomorrow...





















So a lot of tractor driving on the street, and not a lot of field work...but hopefully in both broke down cases it wasn't my fault...The weather forecast is good, so the hay can wait till tomorrow to be ted again.

In the afternoon Knud started harvesting the Ray-Grass seeds...Airton and I had to fill up the silo. We finished working at 9:30pm.

22/07/08

Hay tedding from 8 to 16o'clock...Afterwards regreasing from the tedder. Next morning, I've to go to the Luzern fields (about 40min away) to ted them. I've to start there at 3h30 in the night to avoid making the blades fall (Have to work when there is still some moisture on the plants). So early in bed!

21/07/08

In the morning we unmounted old grain elevators to put to the scrap. After that, I had to load a trailer with 22 bales of hay to deliver it abou 40km away from Randers. Knud gave me a map where he drawed the way I had to take, but this way was wrong...I had to find the way by myself, however I got stuck in dead end streets (the width froml the tractor) 2 times...and had to backup up and turn arount, alone and with the 10m trailer full of hay. Hopefully the hay came good to the customer and tractor and trailer good back home!!!
In the afternoon, I greased the tedder, Airton started to mowe for hay... The fields are 20min away from the farm. I started there at 16h30 til 21h30.

20/07/08

After long sleeping, the brasilians had to cut their hairs...They did it in the garden, but the weather wasn't so warm... so it was a bit frisky for them. After eating, We went to visit the city center of Aalborg. Nice city, the fourth big from Denmark. As you can see on the pictures, the weather wasn't the best to visit...

19/07/08

Nothing done except visiting the pig farm where one of the brasilians is working...The weather wasn't good, and as we wanted to get walking, the rain came... In the evening some beers, some talk and a James Bond film...

18/07/08

This morning we put old balers and trailers together in a clean corner of the farm, so we could mowe the field where they were staying. After, I cut the grass under the electric fences from the horses fields, till the rain came. (the brushcutter is very bad...) Then I cleaned the two silos for the grasseeds, to put the new harvest in it.
In the evening Airton and I drove to Gistrup (Aalborg) to spend the week end by Airtons' brasilians friends, also working in farms.

17/07/08

This morning, a lorry with a vacuum system came to get all the grasseeds we harvested. I had to help the driver to shovel the seeds to the vacuum hose. I shoveled about 2 hours in the heat and dust...After that I sharpened the fingers from the cuting bar of the combine.

In the afternoon, Knud, his daughter Annie, Airton and I went to visit a big farm about 40km away. http://www.overgaardagro.dk/. This farm has +/- 2300ha. Most of them are just below the sea level... We drove thru the fields and visited the different storage facilities for the grain.

The way home we stopped by Knud's friend to have a beer. Then we took the ferry to cross the Randers fjord to get home.