End of harvest

A few seconds after 9 pm, Jussi driving the combine.

The day was a combination of good, bad and odd. I started by emptying the barley from the dryer and filling with the oats batch that had highest (though very modest) moisture yesterday, and turned the dryer on. I didn't leave it unattended for long, but the batch was too big and caused a bit of a mess, which I had to clean. Decided to leave drying for another day.

Serviced the combine before starting raking. First I raked all the grass fields and after coffee break started the straw. All went well except... a shaft broke again! One rake arm less didn't seem make much difference, so I continued and it worked quite well, but there's a little something to do before next summer.

I was waiting for Jussi to come home for a long weekend leave, so he could continue raking and I could start harvesting oats. A little delay there, as his car had a puncture.

The baling contractor came to bale the grass while I was still working on it, and another one came to bale the straw, when I had finished the larger field that had straw to bale. Jussi continued on the smaller field, and I went there with the combine to finish it, this time with the straw chopper on. Afterwards Jussi went to the last field with the combine and I took the trailer there, and while he was harvesting, I piled bales on two fields.

For those who read this far, here's the odd part: when I was driving to a small grass field on a forest road, which leads nowhere else, there was a VW Beetle on top of a hill. A peculiar sight!