Pipeline

Son #2 works with a couple of engineers from India who wanted to come out and visit the farm during harvest.  The parents of one of the men are visiting him from India for a couple of months.  The parents do not speak English.   We gave them rides on the combine and they were very impressed with the size of the machinery and the scope of the operation.  The father is a farmer in India and has a medium sized farm of about 13 acres.  They do have a small tractor about the size of a large garden tractor, otherwise everything is done by hand or beasts of burden.  They had not seen a confinement hog operation before either, as they don't have many pigs in India.

Wednesday, we helped harvest a field of soybeans for Jerry (see previous post), then moved our equipment to our farm near Goodfield.  Enbridge is building a gas pipeline from Flanagan IL, to Cushing, OK and it cuts across our Goodfield farm.  There is an old pipeline already in place, and they are adding a second bigger (36") one.  We finished harvesting  the front half, then needed to figure out how to get to the back half and get the grain out.  We were able to get permission from two neighboring farmers, whose crops were already harvested, to cross their land behind ours.

The barrier splitting our field in half.

The pipe welded together waiting for the trench to be dug and then buried.

We finished that field after dark, and when I shut the combine off, I smelled diesel fuel.  We couldn't find the problem in the dark, so we waited till morning to discover an injection line leaking.  We first checked with the John Deere Industrial dealer in Goodfield for the line.  They didn't have it but told us that the Lacon dealer had one in stock.  We drove to Lacon.  They had one in stock, but it wasn't the right one.  Lacon told us that the dealer in Pontiac had the right part, so we headed cross country from Lacon to Pontiac.  Fortunately, they did have the right part, so we bought it and headed back home.  We got the line installed and drove the combine back home and started the next field at 3:00 in the afternoon.  Another short day in the field.

By the way, the Bacon Soda tastes like cold, artificially flavored bacon grease.

And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
Zechariah 4:12