How Great The Yield From A Fertile Field

Random musings from an old farmer about life, agriculture, and faith

Saturday, February 14, 2015

The Week

Conference week is past. Friday night we put the church back together, and it went smoother than I expected.  We enjoyed keeping Rod and Sue for three nights even though their schedule kept them very busy.  We appreciated the time we had in the mornings and evenings to visit with them and catch up a bit.

Tuesday morning we discovered that the feed mill motor had shut down during the night.  I pulled it out and had it to the motor repair shop by 11:00 AM.  I called around and found a hog farmer in Minier that had a used spare motor that he was willing to loan us for the week.  I had it installed and running by mid-afternoon.  Wednesday afternoon the motor shop finally called, but said our motor was junk.  They found a source for a replacement (it's a special, uncommon motor) and could have one shipped in the next day.  We told them to order it and let us know as soon as it came in.  I was worried that it wouldn't be the same frame and RPM.
Thursday afternoon at 4:30 they called that the truck just dropped the motor off and someone would stay at the shop until I got there.  Friday morning with some help, I swapped out the borrowed motor for the new one and everything is working and back to normal.  My stress level decreased dramatically.

Our tiling contractor was able to finish up our winter tiling project last week.  They had started earlier, and had all the mains in, then it warmed up and the Township posted the roads. So rather than getting trapped in our field, they pulled their machinery off the job.  After the cold returned, they were able to come back and resume the job.  They plowed in all the laterals, despite six to ten inches of frost, and got them all hooked up.  This new drainage system should be a huge improvement on that farm, allowing us to plant and harvest earlier, and also increase yields.



And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis 8:13

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