that is one big pile of straw dinosaur poop nick i found a needle no way oh that lucky day
all right quickly change the bearing on b-spine swap the chain out
we're gonna hook it back up to the header as you guys probably have noticed the header's a
little dirty yes we cleaned it up last year so i can only mean one thing yes we've been
in the field already harvesting i just didn't record it it was just a trial run and then we
had a squealing bearing that we fixed but we're over that now we're gonna pick it back up again
and we put the header on the ground and it worked so let's even get it back up again
is it amazing how powerful those feeder houses are
oh
pretty sure i know somebody wants to go for a ride
i don't think he's ever been in the combine tell the truth it's always been kobe
both combines are in the field this is awesome we are getting the crop and we
are putting in the combine we're gonna put in the truck and we're gonna put in the pins so
be very thankful for what we have you know it's uh don't get me wrong i'm slightly discouraged
because we've had a fairly drought year and um so the yield is down quite a bit and then we got hail
a lot of hail and that's not very easy to see and so usually this time of year is in a very exciting
time of the year because all the hard work and everything we put in to try to make the best
crop that we can and see the fruits of our labor and then you know there's not really going to be
a whole lot out there and it's it's discouraging but you know it's okay to be discouraged it's how
you go about being discouraged that matters um and you know what count your blessings and we are
truly blessed there are so many wonderful things that we haven't given and opportunities and
hey we're still farming so just part of the struggle your first combine ride for the season
just got started today goby what do you want to do you want to go huh you want to go
that's quite a ladder how about over here let's try these new tires out you ready
wow he's on a diet okay well we're in the cab what do you think oh i better turn the
air conditioning on a little cooler because uh
you got a warm companion in with me huh good boy yeah like your haircut
hey guys welcome back to the farm we are farming harvest season has kicked off as you saw the
comments you took off the fields um it's gonna be slow going uh right now they're running about
seven to ten bushels an acre in our peas some of this did see some hail so that's one reason why
the number's a little lower we'll see how it goes the rest of the peak crop but at least half of
it's gone so the other half we'll see we can get i'm gonna go fire the 4520 up with the westfield
mkx 130 94 foot 13-inch auger and we're gonna go ahead and get some bins ready for some peas
i do really like this auger it's been a really good auger we've had one season with it so far
really like it it's nice being able to drive over the swing out without having to have that extra
grain deck it's just a pain to move around twice it's all in one package
and this thing's got pretty high capacity but it's a little overkill for this grain
bin that's okay though overkill's not a problem when you're farming right
yeah got some spring wheat still sitting around from the corner so i'll get a broom and a shovel
and clean this out and get ready for seed gotta open the top up put the auger over it
everything's just slow this year slow and low key there's just not gonna be a lot of trucks moving
it's not gonna lie a lot of things as long as the call might just keep operating around the hours
that's what matters got comfortable back in the saddle again overall no it's working very well uh
the crop yield isn't working that well but we're cutting off this field where it hailed on half of
it pretty hard then kind of spread out a little bit more and then the other end didn't get hardly
any hail and according to that it's running around anywhere from eight to 12 for the yellow peas
we get down there where it starts hailing you're getting into the the five to seven four to six
three to two and then that one zero then so we're cutting what we can
um but we're glad that um um may west it has uh provided us with these uh paddle fingers
on the reel what it does it fills in between the those narrow tines that way if there's any uh
material that's going to fall through between the tines it will help pick it up and kick it in
so i see they are helping so it's good on these kind of crops when you have to cut down on the
ground they're already short you need all the help you can get first truck of 2021 coming off
the field we need about 25 of these more like 30 to build a contract that we pre-sold already
i don't think we're gonna get it and then we needed about another three of these
including some of the pcs we already have on the farm to see next year's crop
i don't think we get that either but we'll see you never know
some of these peas might do a lot better than we're expecting and some of this hailed ground
we might be able to recover some of it there we go first load of 2021 crop yellow peas going
to demand this stuff is uh certified seed so it's important that we get this stuff
and we're gonna put it on air it's a little wet but that's okay that's okay
now the peas that we have here they're small we're not used to it that small but not like
terribly small but i mean it still could be used as seed so this here is actually seed we bought
this year and we were hoping to grow more seed for next year so we're trying to get
as much as we can off this field because this is a new variety and we want to update our variety
we're getting some but not not a whole lot
oh boy just had a rock go through the rotor i don't know what kind of damage was done hopefully
nothing too serious i'm gonna investigate here and take a look i think i got it through
it went in so fast i couldn't even shut it down before it got almost all the way
through the rotor so i think it went through the rock or the straw chopper and everything
else so let's take a look visually i don't see any knives on the straw chopper broke off from
this angle obviously i can't see half of them um the straw spreaders a couple dings couple dents
nothing out of the ordinary so pull the cover and take a look see how you look at the rotor
ah i think you guys heard that
the rock got in it shattered it so i think the majority of the rock went out the back
but i got little fragments everywhere in here let's see now what happened trout chopper
brock once i got caught in it and uh it's jammed up so i'm gonna take it back to the
shop and work on it there all right well i brought it back to the shop just investigated
you can see there's a big mark down there if you look closely right here
so the straw had a knife hit a rock and then it uh broke the bolt and then now it's gouging
right there we can fix it just a bolt thank goodness he's going to look on crack see if
there's any type sign that it might come apart because those would be bad if they flung off
this thing it spins pretty quick or any new knives ah these rocks are bad it's gonna be a tough year
it's gonna be a tough year for rocks all right cool pretty sure that was it so i'm just gonna
engage the separator real quick just for a little snip
all right we'll see if it sounds pumpkin it's hot here yesterday was nice today not so nice
oh right there
oh what whoa did you see that lightning bolt well it's not there anymore
it's been gone okay say bye bye to camera bye bye make making progress a little bit of weeds
in this but they came up after the peas finished out so they're not really affecting the yield
i'm grinding through them but look at that 21 bushels an acre i like it i like it if only it
was that way across the whole farm that's not a great year but on a year like this
that is money all right that's it day number one is done go to bed starting tomorrow see you again
well we're back in the saddle again did you check in huh did you punch your time card
um no he pawed his time card did you okay another day huh another day another bunny listen to that
right there yellow piece inside the wall i wanna show you guys something really cool what's gonna
happen this year with these green bins these are these west steel bins we got from agi
well we added on their mid manager sure track system so it'll basically keep
tabs on what's going on in the grain bin because these are larger bins there's a lot
more potential for stuff to spoil for things to go wrong so there's probes and there's moisture
sensors temperature senders there's all sorts of uh sensors that then gather data that then
tell the system should it kick the fan on should turn the fan off cool these down add moisture by
pumping in cool air in the night that's humid a lot of really cool things we're excited about
it we'll be able to handle that remotely so i'll keep you guys updated on how that goes but i think
i'd try it out just got back to the field and dad had an alarm come on and a bunch of smoke
surrounded the combine unfortunately it was just a belt slip and we think it's the straw
chops but the back end of this thing is plugged up tight we don't know what happened you said the
spreader alarm was going on saying the straw spinners weren't working our speed was low
but it happened quick so i'm gonna take this up pull it all out dig in there it's gonna get fun
i'm gonna swim in some peach half and hopefully find out that nothing jerry's done because
i don't want to calm mine down right now that'd be bad
news she's packed
he might have gotten a rock stuck in one of these spreaders here and then it
might have jammed it up and then it just kept backfilling it did this we'll find out shortly
so
and we're back we got shut down for a little bit decided to take a break while the crop
dried out from a little bit rain we got um it was actually my grandma's 91st birthday so worked out
a great time to eat some cake celebrate her birthday she's the last of the welker family
of that generation from the farm but uh yeah another storm coming right there
here we go it's coming out on top of us i am stopping and i am going to drive back to the truck
there's lightning coming down everywhere it's not coming down super hard but it's definitely going
to make things a little tacky it was looking like a pretty good system coming over but
over there it's raining real hard yeah i would sure stink get a combine struck by lightning
take it out of commission for a while oh my goodness did you see that one
yes i did i like literally turned my camera off right now
that was a massive one all right let this thing cool down shut it down get out and then um
come back tomorrow the peas and the hopper will get a little bit of water on them but
they'll blend and mix out when we throw this on air tomorrow anyways in the bin so it'll be okay
you