Farmerboab

By Farmerboab

Lab in the cab......

Friday, a day of chaos !
Set the drier going once it was daylight and I could see if it looked like staying dry above long enough.
Then the fencers arrived in to start taking down a fence at the sand quarry, a buyer cane to look at some heifers and was trying to tag some calves at the same time !
Showed the fencers where to make a start then headed down the road to show Mr W the heifers. Once he was away, a second potential buyer , DM, phoned to say he was on his way, so walked the dogs round the field for 20 minutes while I waited.
Back home by 12.30 and set the dryer going again, then various other jobs until it was ready to empty. Unfortunately when I went back I could smell a burning rubber smell. It looks like the 2 big bearings on the big auger are on their way out as the cast housing was hot, causing the belt pulley to heat up and causing the rubber belts to start to smell. Bugger. Only have about another half dozen loads to dry and we would have been finished . Of course this was about 5 pm on a Friday so will now need to wait till Monday to get someone to come and fix it. More expense. It never ends.
After various phone calls tonight have managed to sell both lots of blks and heifers. Just means more rodeos getting them home now!
The lab decided to keep me company in the tractor today, think it was just to get away from the terrier for some peace ....

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