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19th August 2009

Laurence drove the combine harvester over to Normandy at 5am and then returned home to prepare a convoy of tractors;

one pulling the combine header bar on a trailer and another tractor which pulled two trailers across to the fields the other side of Guildford.

We have a new chap working for us, Ed who was discing at Silent pool this morning.  These fields have just been harvested of wheat and will shortly be drilled by David with oil seed rape.

As the day progressed, Ed joined Raymond, Roy and Luke, carting grain back from Normandy.  It took each tractor and trailer over two hours to do a round trip to Wotton and back and at times, the four tractors have not been able to keep up with the steady progress of the combine on the level ground of this well shaped field.

By 4pm the first field was cut and the machinery moved to another 60 acres of wheat; not so uniform in shape, more undulating and a little more tricky to work.