Doesn't pay to work on a Sunday....

But if I didnt try to work on a Sunday how would I know what to fix on Mondays?

Sheez.

Got a stalk shredder, soil saver, and tractor lined up for morning work.

Paul

I know exactly what you mean. When I chopped and filled silo on Sunday,I ended up working on the chopper most of the day Monday. When my son wanted to chop on a Sunday a few years ago,same thing. Long expensive trip for parts then most of the day working on it.

I picked four loads of corn today to finish a field then opened another one up with the chopper. I don't want to think about what I'll find wrong in the morning.

Does it pay to work on any day? Lol

I agree guys, seems like we always break something on Sunday or first thing Monday morning. But God gave us a good crop and I don't think we should take a chance losing it! That said we could have worked harder and longer last week and wouldn't have to work on Sunday. We did get done corn shelling today and everything went smooth! The old Gleaner newer missed a beat.

yep got in the combine this morning and broke a belt pulling out of the shed. luckily the dealer is open sundays this time of year.

-paul

Doesn't matter what day around here. Fix one thing two more break. Just when I finish all the tasks lined up, I find a whole other line.

Decades ago when I got stationed at Ft. Hood, I went into a grocery store one day and there was chains across items with signs that said, "This Item Not Sold On Sundays". About the only one of several that I can recall were women's pantyhose by the register. I pointed out to the cashier that I had seen a lot of signs like that around the store, and now there were chained off pantyhose by the register, asking if it was a joke, or to keep some goof like me from buying a pair of pantyhose, putting them over my head and running around acting like a moron. She replied, "No, its blue laws". Blue laws? I was from Indiana and never heard of blue laws and asked the obvious, "What's a blue law". She told me that blue laws were created to keep people from working on Sundays. "Keep people from working on Sundays? It's Sunday and you're here aren't you?", and paid for my beer.

Something else that I learned while I was there. Pizza Huts with brown roofs don't sell alcohol, beer. Maybe has since changed. I don't know. Back then, around Ft. Hood were dry counties, but you could drink if you bought club cards to the various bars, clubs, restaurants if you wanted a beer or drink that went for about $3 per month, then had to buy new ones for the next month. Were replaced years later by some sort of Unicard. Anyway, went into a Pizza Hut for a pizza and beer, and had to buy a club card for the beer. Across town days or weeks later, stopped into another pizza hut for pizza and a pitcher of beer, but when I asked for the beer, the fella said "We don't sell beer here, we have a brown roof". Brown roof? "What does a brown roof mean?", I asked. He said Pizza Huts with brown roofs didn't sell alcohol. I walked outside, looked up...brown roof. No beer, cancelled the pizza, went across town.

Don't get me wrong. I loved Texas more than any place I ever was in my life. Figured one day I'd make it back, and that's where they would bury me one day. Just haven't made it back for good yet, but life aint over.

Mark
Texas When I Die

Late last night, stalk shredder musta thrown a spring, this allowed the belt on one end to walk around and shredded the belt.

So need a spring and belt Monday.

Unhooked, and hooked on the Soil Saver to work up a small field today.

One of the hyd cylinders was leaking down on my Glencoe Soil Saver, well it didnt work at all today, went up once and just stayed down after that. So, rigged up a quick connect and put in a regular hyd cylinder to get by. But no, worked once and then stayed down. So, it must be the other cylinder, not the one I took off with the internal leak.... Fortunately both the Balzer dealer and Glencoe dealer is the same short line place so can do both in one trip....

So took a dual off, and put the plow on the tractor. And found, the plow would go up once, and then would take 10 minutes to come up in small jerks after that.

Oh boy. So its the tractor, not the hyd cylinger that is bad. Added over a gallon of hyd fluid, no improvement. Sun was getting short by then, pretty much called it a day.

Took another tractor over to the Soil Saver, and lifted right out of the ground easy. So I think I did get the bad cylinder off of it, it still needs repair, but was not -the- problem.

So, in the morning get the chopper parts, drop off the cylinder, go look for a hyd filter for the tractor and pray (its Sunday that should help?) its that simple of a fix on the TW20.

Otherwise not sure what I'll do, I don't have a backup for that tractor, its the main boss on the place, and winter is hitting us next week, lows of 10 or less pretty much will end farming for a while, maybe until spring.

I have 1/4 of a round plowed, and 3 acres of stalks chisel plowed.

At least its harvested.

Paul

Talked to a guy this afternoon who was trying to get corn in.
He broke two belts on his combine. Said they were $500 a piece.
Ouch.

went to the pond this afternoon came across a cottonmouth didn"t see him in time to put him to sleep we both lived to have a shootout another day

My neighbor, a successful old farmer would say.

A poor manager has to work on Sunday.

What you gain on Sunday you loose on Monday.

Never worked on a Sunday in his life other than feeding his cattle.

As has already been said, my Grandpa would say, what time you save on Sunday, you loose on Monday!

Hey just a thought you don't have a quick release coupling playing up on the tractor /implement or combination of both worn.
guy next door came round with his baler, tail gate wouldn't open.
Tried it on our tractor still the same, messed with it a bit then found both our tractors had same style couplers. and it wasn't pushing the tip on the other line to let oil flow out the other side to open the gate.
Maybe the other tractor has different style pin in the coupler and it let the flow go properly. some have ball ends or 2 different style pins. sometimes they miss match, or those that you can push the end in or pull out without moving the collar will go in and not open the flow through also once in a while.
Regards Robert

And my friend, Isaac, says when he gets back from Temple.....everything works so well on Sunday! Just what are we doing wrong? Oy, vie!!!! (maybe vay? IDK)

I try to avoid it like the plague,but this year has been something else! I've worked more Sundays this year than I probably have total in my life. The weather just hasn't let me take four or five days a week off by not working Sunday. If I've worked Sundays,I've been able to get it down to three or four days a week sitting on my duff waiting it out.

I can remember when you almost never heard a tractor run on Sunday. Now (at least in the afternoons) it is a work day just like any other.

Working 50-60 hours a week normal job, I have to work Saturday and Sunday. Then M-F when the kids are in bed 9pm-midnight, I spend on maintenance and fixing.

Not sure why I do it, other than I love the smell of dirt and the outdoors.

Rick

But if you break on Monday, you would be fixing on Tuesday!

Yep, I qm short hay so right after the freeze, I cut about ten acres of mostly alfalfa and some short grass. had eight days of drying and was close to OK when we bailed, but everything went wrong on Sunday. Baler would miss every 5th bale, my Son came out to help with the Grand daughter baling and I went in to get the Oliver 77 and wagons and the skid steer. Meanwhile the cold front came through and although it didn't rain, got cloudy and real damp.
I had left the switch on and battery was dead on the 77 so put it on the charger. Went to pump fuel in the skidsteer and the hose blew off spewing diesel all over me. Got the 77 started and noticed oil on the right side...where the spin on filter had blow off!
Told my Son that God was tellin us to wait. Sure enough, the rain/snow showers missed us and Monday was a beautiful day! Week ago Saturday I pulled all 97 bales outa the barn and brought em back in eight at a time, cut the strings off and fluffed em up. Feedin the critters loose hay for the next 6 weeks or so!

I've worked for 2 BTOs neither of which required me to work on a Sunday, but when there was a job that needed doing, I worked.

Are you sure you're from Indiana? Go to a Kroger on Sunday in Indiana and you'll find the gate closed on the liquor section. And it is not Kroger's choice, it's state law. That's a "blue law".

worked on a dairy while in school,the man that owned it always had feed loaded saturday and ready to just pull into the lot for the cows on Sunday,cows were milked ,milking equip.cleaned calves fed, rest could wait until Monday unless it was an emergency,there were very few people that worked on Sunday and almost no business open people had a respect for GOD's day back then,i don't care to work on Sunday was brought up that way, it's explained about the Sabbath day in the Bible in Exodus 20:8-11

Had a neighbor that would work until midnight on Saturday but do only chores Sunday. I say to those guys, what if you needed medical attention on Sunday and the dr told you that he does not work on Sundays. Or they go out to eat on Sunday. Was it okay for others to work on Sundays to fix and serve you? Most of the ones that are so fanatical about religion and are the first ones thru th door on Sunday will be the first ones to screw you on Monday, especially if they drink tea!!

Yeah, but they don't call it a blue law to prevent people from working on a Sunday. They just call it a ban on liquor sales on a Sunday other than restaurants and bars. And they're talking about changing it.

Mark