Round 3

    Round three began on Wednesday May 30.  (Round one was the chisel operation.  Round two was the plow operation.) 

     I took one oneway out to start the process. It took some time to get ready.  I had to rebuild the old weight box.  The wood structure was built by our neighbor William Suchanek sometime in the sixties.  Dad bought the oneways when Willie retired, sometime in the seventies.

          Take off the old one.

           And load up the new one

         But then, I hooked up two oneways and away we went.

      Dad would have said I was cutting the fat hog.   I got a good start Thursday afternoon, the last day of May.  I had to buy hydraulic hose and hook it all up so both oneways come out of the ground when I cross windmill roads.  We used to just leave the disks in the ground until the field was done.  Then, you grabbed the crank and turned it 30-or-so turns to raise the disks out of the ground.  You had to do it twice, once for each oneway.  Not a very good option when you have to cross the windmill road every time around the field. 

     I got in a full day Friday, slowed down a little by having to dodge stakes marking various routes across the field where wires will connect wind generator towers.
     Saturday, a huge wind gust and a very brief thunder shower drove me out of the field about 3 p.m.  I tried to finish the job on Monday, but couldn’t quite do it.  So Tuesday, June 5, Round 3 is done.

         And I’ve gone through 300 gallons of diesel fuel.