i gotta go grab the skid steer and i need
to bring it all the way over the quonset they're starting to lay that line in the
ground and uh they need help moving some sand
and then bearing the line as well and i figured the easiest thing right now is
the skids here and i also have the grater over there
so when i get the scissor kind of bury some of it then i can take the crater
and knock the rest of that uh well all that dirt into the trench
and then we can pack it but yeah then we'll get power power over there pretty
soon they're gonna start putting up the poles and
fun fun i guess i gotta use the tonka
deer so the crew is here with their wire i
got to take the skid steer and i got to put a little bit of sand in
the trench that way there's a little cushion for the wire to sit on
and then uh we'll put sand on top of that right where the trucks drive
and then just kind of run the wire down the whole thing and bury it and
well they're going to do their thing and i'll just assist them how i can okay
let's get this done
we laid the sand on top that line he's taken this ribbon or
uh kind of uh tape or do you want to call it land it on top and then the
bury it so if they ever have to dig up the line they can
dig down to that ribbon and then they know okay it's only going to be
maybe six inches or so down to the line so they don't hit the line
they'll run that in and then i'll bury all this up and we should be good to go
all right there we go now we can drive across it
it's not level it's not perfect because we need to mash that down and we need
moisture to really get that ground to settle but i
left it berm there just so that we could take the trucks
and drive on and mash it down but uh yeah awesome one last thing to do
wiggles and i have been waiting very patiently and we're losing our
patience nick we really need to like bag him right now
because we're just sitting here waiting for him
zero patience zero patience this is just unacceptable
oh there he is sweet let's go to work
three bags and that's all we're gonna do right now
we just got done unloading we gotta pull the tractor forward button up the end
and we're going to fill the rest of the bins and then we'll know how much more
we need to put in bags i'm guessing one more bag will probably
finish um but since we got some hail land that uh
well you don't know what's going to produce so i think
at this point to be safe let's tighten up the bags
bin and um then we'll know so we got the power line buried now
they're putting in these poles and they got four of them so far and
they got a little bit further to go but they'll get these in today and then uh
probably tomorrow start stringing wire and sometime early next week they'll
have power to that location over there then we can turn the fans on to the peas
these are okay but we should turn the fans on
and we also need to fill that big bin too so this bin over here i just got
done marking it we got to put more grain on top but we got to keep everything
separate from each field depending on who's the landowners once we're done
with that filling it up we got to fill this big beast over here
it's empty uh we just got done filling up three
drain bags and right now my job is to just make sure that everything's going
smoothly i got a couple things to go over here
and fix and take care of but you know it's just crazy how things
go but wait did you just see that oh my gosh i knew
this was gonna happen i knew it i'm gonna have to talk to
these guys and try to figure this out hey guys you're gonna have to learn to
get together okay this is just unacceptable
meridian say you're sorry west steel say you're sorry come on
this might take a while
i found a hitchhiker hey how you doing buddy how you doing
he's doing okay finally putting weed in this brand new bin
let's take a look inside and see what it looks like might not look like it but
it's really dusty and that's actually really really cool
to see that happening i need a shower don't i
good morning a little bit of servicing fueling greasing changing out sections
all kinds of good stuff i'm gonna lightly blow off some of the
areas on this thing we didn't get blown off last night it was kind of late
so get this going and i'll run v-spine you see he's all opened up
oh good we're gonna hammer out the acres and then we gotta take off a couple days
for a special trip always happens during harvest but we'll
be back there's nothing better than watching those
tracks turn i don't know what it is about them but they're really
mesmerizing i love it it's tracks everywhere tracks
are cool and like that the 60 bushel wheat
well maybe 50. we'll find out later how much he really yielded but
it's over so we're gonna head up north but let's hope that there's 50 bushel
eat up there so we're gonna go about six miles up
north on road
we got a whole uh convoy of guys behind us some friends are visiting so
we threw one of them in big brew one of them in the fountains
we got guys all over the place oh yeah let's get there rodent this was a county
road once i'm sure they still probably
consider it their road but as you can see it has not seen a
grader on it for many years and actually i think the last crater on
it was ours because we tried to touch it up once
that's okay though i understand can't have enough graders and manpower to do
it these days got to pick and choose which battles and
this road does not get used very much so it's uh
it's an abandoned road but we're taking it all right there's our neighbors
barley that got hailed really bad this neighbors some of our stuff we're gonna
wait till last to cut it because ours got hailed as well
some 50 or more 70 in some areas when i say percentage i mean how much
was lost but that is a hundred percent without borrowing
it destroyed that this side there's some winter wheat
and it is hammered too that poor wheat got
annihilated so we'll see what our yields are when we get into that stuff we did
collect some insurance on it but it won't be nearly as good as if it could
have had just a normal harvest on it but that's okay you know that's just
farming and fortunately the whole farm did not get hailed out so
we'll be okay ah there we go county road again
20.8 miles an hour is what beast buying can do with these lsw 1400s these tires
still loving them look at those bad boys turning down there
man they're nice really really really nice lots going on right here
yeah that's one way to get to the grain bin and
in and up and in really you're going to stay right there out of
all places to hide out you're going to be on my window wiper
oh yeah let's see what you can do now huh what now what now what
do you got he's he's still on it no no he came off we're good
okay that worked 30 bushel wheat but this stuff is threshing
awesome i can't see anything back there because i'm just dumped
but i'm running at five to six miles an hour i'm going 5.6 right now with the 45
foot header and this combine is just eating it up
no issues at all at least in this stuff i love when it thresh
is nice burn through it so the grain cars ran about 88 000 bushels through it
so far of wheat we did do some just directly two trucks
some directly to the grain bagger so that's not everything
that is equivalent to 5.2 million pounds of grain
have come off this land now think about this 5.2 million pounds imagine 5.2
million pounds that's like what five well then a little over five fully
loaded airbus a380s stacked on top of each
other suspended on top of all these little stems holding up so
this this little wheat stems across the board
all these millions and millions of millions of wheat stems
held up 5.2 million pounds and we still got more to go
and we're not even that high yielding of a farm that's amazing
so nick wanted to trade real quick i jumped in this tiger and is running for
a little bit and all of a sudden uh get a phone call and the guy is like
i'm here to pick it up and i'm like uh you said five to six
and uh he's a couple hours early so i'm racing back in the pickup nick
just took this tiger and grabbed the front end loader and
i'll push that thing up on the trailer and if you can guess what it is well
you're good at guessing so okay let's go get the front end loader
you know it's kind of sad to see this thing go
because it is a neat tractor and we always thought about like hey you know
if we could find a transmission and you know do uh
some work on that other motor that we have and we might be able to see this
thing running again and that'll be kind of fun but here's the
thing we got three big buds they're solid and
if we're gonna put money into something we're gonna put them in those ones
we really don't need this tractor and if this tractor is able to
live again by somebody else taking it or if they need parts for their other one
to run i think that's what it needs to be done
so it's going somewhere and um you know it was fun to see it
well we could so yeah good luck
if he's gonna fix the tractor up so good
luck
so the piece that we're on right now is yielding quite a bit better than
all the other pieces that we've been on and if nick didn't mention it
it's because this is next to where the hail plan
was there's a bunch of hail that went up north of us this didn't really get
hailed on but it got rained on and it got a lot of
rain so basically what's going on is the one
truck can't keep up i went to grab the blue peterbilt tire
off the rim and uh so i grabbed the red peterbilt
the beater peterbilt hey that's a good name the feeder peterbilt
anyways so i'm trucking another thing i forgot to mention
is uh chadster kicked me out of the quad track so are on the green card
thanks chadster seriously buddy
it's amazing how much wheat that auger puts out he's not even full
board he's just kind of trickling it in it really packs wow that's a lot
it's awesome this old peterbilt right here the beater peter built
it's got a 3406 b cap motor and it runs good
and it does what we need to do but it is definitely not the prettiest speeder
built out there as long as it gets the work
done that's all i care about right now maybe one day we'll upgrade this truck
in a different one or do something with it but uh
run until it doesn't run anymore i guess i guess i'm done
yeah that's pretty full every farm understands this very well
yeah one of the gates accidentally got left open the grain car came over and
started jumping in it and created a mess well
let's clean it up it's okay things happen it happens just
sucky that it happens but it happens so it took a little bit for me to get up
here but i finally moved the track or the tractor and the auger
he's gonna unload into me into the truck i'll take that unload into
the bins over here and there's about 23 000 bushels roughly up here
we'll fill these then we'll move back and we'll figure out where we're sitting
on storage i don't think we're going to need
another grain bag but we might be surprised and might have to bag another
one which would hopefully be the case so anyways awesome things are going great
in fact the yields are a little higher than we
thought and that's really nice to hear because uh well we thought it was gonna
be a little less but it's actually a little more than we thought
they moved to the next field and uh behind here
you can't really tell but there is a beautiful 9370 truck
just sitting right here that truck is just an awesome truck
it runs great it sounds great it does a good job
and you know what this truck does not want to be a show model truck
it wants to work and that's the beauty about it
just like that harvest went to a complete standstill
90 degrees to 45 and rainy burr but we'll be back harvest is not over
it's gonna be a couple days though so we're going on a little trip
fortunately it worked out perfect timing because we won't build ours for the next
two or three days with this so i'll see you guys on the flip side
so
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