DH and Grandpa had to make some decisions about harvest. The corn is wet, but we had a lot of wind damage with some rows lodged (tumbled into each other) and some down completely. The remains of Hurrican Ike went through here with about 8 inches of rain and high winds that hit the drought-damaged corn pretty bad.
Since it's fragile, "the men" including DS1 figured they would be money ahead to harvest now, even if we have to pay for drying, than take a chance on losing more to weather damage.
DH hired a Mennonite neighbor with a smaller combine for the job. We sold our combine years ago. In other years we've had neighbors and cousins with bigger machinery harvest, but to get all we can out of the field we needed someone who was content to go slow and proceed carefully.
Break-down's ...
Neighbor's combine broke a chain
Disk -- broken bolts. It's "shedded" until spring, though.
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