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It's Sunday morning and we have completed our third week at Autumn Seed drying plant in Hart Michigan. Theoretically we only have three weeks till it will be time to work our way back to Oregon.
Production wise, this was our best week so far. We produced 15 1/3 bags of seed, so with the 4 that were left over from last weeks shipment, we will have our 2nd load on the way to Oregon next week.
Friday morning early, the part for our dryer came in. We were able to get the electrician here within an hour. It really helps to have 4 dryers together in one warehouse.
The Friday midnight pickup was not ready till about 1:30 Saturday morning, and there were 6 totes to bring back. Because there was so much pulp and string the seeds had to be washed, so when we started at 3 AM Saturday morning, the four of us worked together till all the seeds were on the dryers, which was close to 4 AM. Barb spent several hours during the early morning hours pulling weeds and doing some extra cleaning by vacuuming up the sluff between the dryers and wall, and between the two center dryers. We smelled smoke from under the dryers at least 3 times during the night and once was able to see the sparks and sluff burning between the two center dryer. This time it did not get onto the seed bed like it did the last two times.
A little after 2 PM Saturday we started taking off the next to last dryer and about 2:45 PM the last dryer. Loran and Fritz came on about 3 PM and watched the bagger, while we continued to vacuum up the seeds into the cleaner and clean up the warehouse for the weekend. We checked out about 3:45 PM and Loran and Fritz were done with the bagging before 5 PM.
Loran had a friend, who was having a 3 day weekend, drive up from Nebraska for the weekend. Loran had worked with him when he was working for a federal campground in Washington State some time back.
Till next time.
Red Lion Man
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