the 4520 is still slightly getting hot it was down just a little bit of coolant so i just put some in
but the water pump definitely helped
i think it just i think it's a combination of a smaller radiator and the engine is getting
more out which means it's grabbing more fuel into it and it's getting hotter and
plus the engine doesn't really have as much pro or horsepower and torque at lower rpms so
there's a lot of things that can be going on but all that matters is getting the job done
that's all that matters real quick of my thoughts of this uh westfield 1394 auger love it absolutely
love it the auger itself is just stout they got a great backbone on it it's structurally sound
it is stout meaning when you put grain in it it doesn't like to droop it just stays
very consistent with its form and i love it
so
huh i looked at my window and uh
i am pure chaff back there pure chaff something's going on i just ran it real hard
opened everything wide up let the fan blow cleaned it out tried cut again
chaff going in again so something's going on no alarms came on
uh my suspicion is something with the sieve or the chaff or is broke i don't know maybe
the fans plugged up the fan spinning so it can't be that but let's start investigating
well uh i don't see anything out of the ordinary the bottom sieve looks good i opened them all
the way up i'm looking through them i thought maybe the sieve broke out or something but no
chopper looks good must be something with the fan let's take a look at that it said it was spinning
but maybe something happened i think the fan filled up with green it's plugged there's a gate
here i've actually never opened it looks like i got to do it from the other side i don't know why
the fan would have filled up like that i've been running all day no problem damn change anything so
that's always a sign that something came apart somewhere or did something out of the ordinary
okay let's give it a shot i'll let it run for a second with a fan on the highest setting like a
1100 rpm what it runs at a little cranker up here fire up
yeah 1100 rpms let's run on it right now and
little bit of stuff coming the top all right throw the fan down i love how fast this fan
adjusts hydraulic fans genius genius idea all right let's go cut and see what happens
so i'm waiting i'm gonna see if i can see nice clean grain come out of there
it does then we fixed it it doesn't something's going on still all right there comes the green
looking better yeah that's clean
all right well i think i know what happened i've been running the fan a lot lower like barely 800
rpm reason is is my loss has been really good it's been cleaning the tank and so i just run
a hard like that without the fan running real high because why blow unnecessary small kernels out the
back but i guess that's what happens you get it on that fine edge and it can overload the fan and
that's what i did plus i think my front sieve is open just a little bit more than it should be so
it might have dumped on there all right well it's going now we're good now this blue peter built
uh i was as i was driving it i heard a little hissing sound and i've got a tire that's flat
and the tire shops closed and there's another tire that's going flat too so i think i picked up
uh nails and two different tires at least that's what i'm thinking don't know until you get to
the tire shop but i got the beater pill i always called the peter belt but anyways got it running
and now i'm going to thump the tires my foot my foot so far those has got it here
and no this doesn't have the winter air in it we took care of that yep there's one right up here
it's low it's not flat it's just low it needs some air so we'll run over the shop throw some air in
it and make sure i got enough diesel and then head back out to the field because they need me
all right good deal all right so we finally got out of our nice spring weight now we're into our
not so nice spring wheat because this field got hailed this half up here is good as far as dink
it hail or very little hail that side over there is annihilated so we're cutting this out first but
look at the weeds oh it's horrible the entire field just below the wheat is kosher growing
entire thing i sprayed this field i think what happened was the hailstorm opened up a
new flush of weeds and there's not enough because it was so dry this year the drought prevented the
wheat from canopying real well so there wasn't a good stand so the weeds were able to get sunlight
that were started by the hail storm and uh it is a wreck so we're getting it done now we only
have a little bit of time left to harvest this before the weeds get too big and we can't even
combine it the combine's struggling right now the header is turning green from all the kosher
but we're getting it done and uh we'll get this cut off as much as good as we can and
get on the next field but this could be a wreck oh man what a mess okay i'm getting low on fuel
we need to bring the fuel truck up this morning because we didn't think we'd need it depending
on how the day went and uh yeah i'm on fumes so i'm gonna run back grab the service truck bring
a little fuel maybe to give something dad to so we can go through the rest of the night and then
we'll top them off tomorrow i've got bite bite to eat two while i'm at it and there's big brute
looking good as ever tanks still hold water but that uh that flex seal is leaking barely but it is
all right dad take the last fuel within that truck i took half he took the other half tank
holds about 100 or 300 gallons so we got roughly 140 in my combine and put 140 in his and that
will get us by for the rest of the day but we're almost out of diesel on the farm our big tank is
just about empty and we gotta get some diesel so it's a weekend so i don't know if they can deliver
but we'll uh if we have to run the service truck to town it's only two miles top it off
bring it out top the combines off gotta keep fed these things are hungry they eat a lot
take a look at our afs connect here this is the accusync there i am there's my dad and you can
see how he's just kind of in and out like that up there that's because the hail storm
went across like this so the yield significantly decreases from the south end of the north end so
here 16 20 bushels an acre here 10 here two or three here zero that's why he quit cutting
even though the field technically goes up here a little further um like up to like right here
he's not gonna cut it so but we're getting more off this field than we expected that's good i
just realized something really cool about accusync it works great at night time when
i don't know where the truck is it's over there somewhere
when i look here i see my little arrow i'm pointed right to where the truck is
that's pretty cool there it is we found it all right let's unload the shut down let's go to bed
tomorrow's a special day got a special guest coming right on the combine all day it's gonna be
fun so let's get to it all right another beautiful day guys we're gonna go hit it hard but today
i mentioned i have a special guest today name's billy billy is from the make-a-wish foundation and
he's coming around on the combine for the day and maybe get a big bud ride maybe a big brute ride
we'll enjoy a little taste of welcome farms here in north central montana so i'm excited to have
a make-a-wish kid here and billy you guys will meet him in a second i actually met him a couple
years ago at the national farm machinery show in louisville kentucky so let's go go pick up billy
well we got we got billy here with us and uh he's gonna ride spend the day
in the combine we're gonna ride in the big bud want to drive it
that'll be good and we're actually in our best field of the whole season right now
um it's running 30 to 40 bushel an acre i have just blown away we left this field because it
was green we kept kind of trying it and it was just too green too green too green and
now we're in it and it is yielding like crazy so i don't know why this field here
in particular with crp a couple years ago i might i think we had some manure put on it
but you still can't grow something without water so why did this one grow i'm not sure
but it it's looking good so yeah i feel like just experienced the best field in the farm or the air
so that's good all right let's keep combining all right we got billy in the international
back when we met we were working on this truck a couple years ago so uh
does it feel like the truck is on the videos does it does it look nice
he likes it okay go take his truck back see what light arm is up to
oh he's got the bin site and i just started load the truck and that bin is full so we're
gonna switch to the next one billy said do the middle one so we're gonna do the middle one right
okay we're gonna middle one middle one it is contain your green bins that one full
that one not so full but we're gonna fill it i know we will i think maybe we'll try it
let's do it all right auger's moved and uh billy's waiting to the truck patiently so
uh i'll go get him drive him over the pit and uh yeah load dump that truck
and then billy wants to drive a big bud so we're gonna make that wish happen
all right there we go first trucks in i'm going to leave the uh tractor running but
i like that it's going to be 97 degrees today let it cool down that way it'll be ready for
the next truck i think billy's ready to go get some air moving in our non-air conditioned cab
he's been waiting patiently for me all right
okay here we go all right change of scenery we got billy in the big bud
you're gonna drive this one got family down here they're watching closely so uh billy uh
what are you gonna do we're gonna drive over house maybe okay we'll find out
it's pretty fast
nice this is probably about the speed that we go see not like this okay there we go
good job billy he needs one of these you need one of these
yeah he wants a big bud thank you that'd be awesome all right oh it's good to have you
here billy that's pretty cool so and shout out to make-a-wish for making this happen
that's neat that they will do stuff like this and uh yeah you know it was a good day we got
some acres cut they got to be on the best crop on our farm so far to date of 30 plus bushels an acre
so yeah that's good but anyways we'll mail around you again the national farm machinery show
you're going to be there right okay all right all right we'll be waiting for them
wearing the hat this time i mean it's okay wearing your hat but i was kind of you know
next time you put the right hat on right right take care well billy if you're watching thanks
for being our make-a-wish and uh it was great having you out here and i just want to know
i'm honored that you chose us out of a lot of different things you could have picked so we don't
take that lightly so i hope you made your day special and uh keep farming on we'll see you soon
you