22/09/14

Today has been tedious beyond belief.  I have been seed dressing again, which was no surprise, but that isn't usually a problem.  Some customers are nearly beyond belief.  The first customer started by attaching his loader tractor to a trailer, thereby tying up the loader tractor.  He then proceeded to fill the hopper from half tonne bags which he held over the intake hopper with his dedicated loader.  The only problem with this is that it left him unable to remove full bags of seed unless he tied off the bag he was holding and put it down first.  Great!  We finally got through the seed he had bagged and started on the seed he had put in trailers.  Yes trailers! He managed to split five tonnes of seed of the same variety between two eight tonne trailers, I still haven't managed to work out why he did this.  I think this level of disorganisation must take a great deal of planning and forethought, otherwise it just wouldn't be possible.  The job took at least twice as long as it should have done but I did manage to get finished and move on to the next job.  The second customer holds the record for the most screenings from one and a half tonnes of seed, this record has been unbroken for four years and I sincerely hope it remains so.  This year the barley wasn't quite as bad, but nearly.  Its not that the quality of the grain is poor, quite the opposite, it was very good.  Its just that for some reason his combined harvester makes a very poor job of threshing barley.  There was a very large amount of partially threshed ears in the sample so I had to run the machine very slowly. But I eventually did manage to get the job completed and got back into the yard, with a sigh of relief, at about a quarter to five, having not stopped working since six in the morning.  No lunch again, this job is very good for slimming.  So it took me all day to complete just over ten tonnes, with good organisation this should have been two and a half hours working time and two hours setting up and cleaning down.  But some days it just goes like that, tomorrow will be different.  Could be better, could be worse, I don't know which, but it will be different it always is.  See you tomorrow.