First Breakdown On Wheat Harvest

Hello again!
Last time I talked about the first breakdown I had on the wheat harvest. Actually it was the only breakdown I had my first year of combine harvesting.

We have the John Deere shop inspected our combine at the end of the year or early spring. They have a list of items and areas on the combine that they look for worn or loose bearings, belts or hoses. We get the combine it in like a new condition by replace any of broken or worn parts.

I had the shop replace the bearings on the chopper drive because I heard them making a noise when I finished corn harvest the fall before. When doing so they didn’t tighten one of the lock collars on the bearings in the correct direction. It came loose and cut the shaft that drives the chopper completely off, lucky it didn’t start a fire.

This happened at 4:00 on a Saturday afternoon. I had about sixty acres left for Phil and was planning on moving up to Hobart yet that evening.

I pulled all the broken parts out of the combine about 5:30 pm and made a list of everything that I needed.

I called the John Deere shop in Altus Ok.; that is where the John Deere Company had the parts van that they keep moving with the wheat harvest. This van has almost every part of a combine in it and they had the parts that I needed. Altus was about two and a half hours away from Walters, and they close at 8:00. They said they would wait for me if I was late.

I made it in time and got all the parts I needed. By the time I got back to camp it was 11:30. I worked on the repair until 1:00 AM and had most of the repair made I decided to go to bed and finish in the morning rather than try to get it together yet that night and be tired all day tomorrow.

The next morning after church, I got the combine back together about 10:00. Phil said he would finish the little that was left and I should just load up and move while it was still tough in the morning. That is what I did.

Next time I will talk about how we moved with just one truck. I would enjoy any comments or questions, send to dannyh@heimesharvesting.com . Till next time. Danny

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