More August Repairs.

August also had its share of things needing fixed. Like this belt.

And of course, sprinkler tires. We decided to back this one up to the pivot road to fix.


It took a few tries.


And, of course, I had to combat my own personal mental glitches. Like, how was I planning on driving back out of the corn field?

Although Dad generally makes most of the trips to town this time of year, we prefer loading the tires into my pickup (a 2002 2wd Chevy,) since it sits so much lower to the ground than Dad's (a 2004 4wd Ford.) This particular time it was especially handy since both my rear tires needed fixed.
Here you can see Dad modeling our makeshift gearbox sled. Good times!

And here you can see the (as it turns out) not-bad gearbox with the broken U-Joint.
In addition to dragging a gearbox through the field unnecessarily, this fix was also memorable because I dropped my camera on the way out of the field. It only took a half hour or so to find it.

And here is another flat tire. Most any sprinkler problem diagnosis begins with a trip up a tower to pinpoint the tower which has stopped moving.


Then a nice hike to the problem.


Then a nice hike with the necessary part(s)/tools.



And then the repair itself.


Have you lost count? You should have, since I haven't mentioned a couple. First, it turns out there were three flats on the Funky truck, plus one sprinkler tire fix with no pictures, plus two new sprinkler tires and two repairs in this post, which brings us to 14. Congrats to Chris.