Friday, April 2d, 2010
Up early this morning to repair the bedder and get it loaded for Pass 2 up at Breeze. Ray Tice came over to help, thank God, and between the two of us we were able to get the repair complete and everything loaded by 10, and get up to Breeze by 10:30. The main problem was bearing for the right-lead harrow. I resigned myself to not being able to fix the bearing, so I swapped the front and back discs and bolted the rear one tight, hoping that having a static (non-rotating) disc would do the job. I also had to straighten out the mount, which was 1 1/2″ steel, and the forge came in handy for that. Well, it worked.
When Ray and I arrived, Marcia, Gretchen, Dave Rameriz, and Jennifer were already on the scene. Ray got busy tilling while the rest of us attached irrigation problems. Once done with his plot, Dave took over and tilled some of his, and then we bedded Ray and Marcia’s. It looks great. Then a few rows for Dave, a surprise lunch from Marcia, and we finished up the afternoon with Yingling thoughtfully provided by Gretchen. Hard work, but a lot accomplished.
