Shop work

Hi guys,
  This afternoon, Andrew and I worked on "Peeley", Andrew's combine.  A bearing had gone out on the feeder house, the part of the combine that takes the grain from the header up in to the thrashing components...

  So, after fighting with the big electric clutch/gear, we finally got that piece off of the combine, to find two very chewed up bearings!  You see, when one bearing goes out, it usually sends lots of little metal shavings everywhere, and in this case, they went into the other bearing and took it out too. >:-(

  After examining the damage, we lifted up one of Andrew's cars to try to figure out if he had a warped brake roter, or if there was just a bunch of junk in behind the roter, causing it to be mounted a little off center.  It turns out that it was just a bit of rust, and not a warped roter.

  Well, time to go do the chores.  Jacob B.

School...

Hi guys,
  how ave you all been doing?  We've all been doing fine around here...  Well, except for the cows knocking the water hose out of the water tank and making a huge muddy mess, that is. :P  At least almost all of the cows are staying in the fence now!

  This morning, Mom left to do sessions in Bismarck again; Dad and Andrew both left for that farmer's farm; Cora worked around the house, and I worked on my school some; checked the cows again, and also played some too... 

  I am having a rather hard time coming up with something more to write rite now, so I will say goodbye.

It's that time of year...

...for mysterious packages to arrive, only to be whisked away to Cora's bedroom.  The reason for that is because my brother Andrew and my birthdays are just around the corner. In fact, mine is only five days away!  And then I will be 16!

  Anyway, yesterday we all got up and did our chores, and then we went up to our pasture to move our cows the five miles (roughly) home.  That project took us a good three hours...  When we got them home, we put them in our combined corn field, so they can eat on the stalks for a while.

  We are working on school in full swing now days, so between doing school; checking the cows; and doing odd jobs around the farm, I have been keeping plenty busy...  Andrew and Dad have been keeping busy too, as they have been gone almost every day of the week.

  We have talked about building an ice hockey rink for several years now, but we never got around to building it, but this year I think that it might happen!  Andrew has found a fairly inexpensive liner, but we are still looking...

  Well, gotta run, Jacob.