A Day in the Life...(Continued)

So when we last left... One tractor was down with a faulty glow plug switch and a flat tire... Another was 5 miles down the road...

The next morning was just as foggy, and a little bit more crisp. But right after breakfast, we headed to town.

Since we hadn't loaded up the day before, we started the other tractor (a 656) and threw a quick load onto the pickup. We'd also gotten a call the day before and a friend had a few of our cows in his corral, so we ran up there and loaded them into the trailer while my mom drove the hay back home.

After grabbing the cows... I buttoned up my coat, tied my earflaps down, and jumped into the seat of the 656 and made the foggy drive back home. It was... a bit cool.

So we got back home, dumped the cattle off, jumped into the pickup and fed the hay that we'd just loaded.

After that, we went back to the haystack and I jumped on the 656 and pulled in to grab a big bale of hay. I latched onto that sucker and pulled back on the hydraulic valve and with a large *pssssssssssssssssssssss* a hydraulic hose broke and sprayed oil all over me and the rest of the tractor. Without this particular hose... I couldn't load anything. It was at this point that I might have said a couple of cuss words... We were able to get the tractor over to the shed though.

Ok... time to make a new plan.

Cannibalism is a common practice on any place like ours, so we pulled the front tire off of the 656 and ran down to my house to the shop where the 560 was.

Once there, we pulled the flat tire off of the front of the 560, put the other tire on it (it fit), and hooked the battery charger up to the glow plugs to warm up the engine. Once it fired... I drove it up the road... loaded the ton bales on the pickup and then we finished feeding. Then I drove the 560 (not my tractor, but it is a picture of a 560) back to my place and the shop. And we went back to town to load up for the next day.

The tire has been fixed, the hose repaired, and the glow plug switch replaced. But there you have it... just a fairly common day in the life of your favorite Loser...

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Today's mystery lyric: (Remember the rules folks, no online searching of the lyrics, if you don't know it, you don't have the answer!)

In all I read
Till the day was gone
And I sat in regret
In all the things Ive done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams till my death
I will wonder on

Answer to last lyric: I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace Way to go Dani!