back at it all right we just got to the field combines are right here
so we're gonna go ahead put some grease in them fuel them up clean them check
them just kind of do that sort of thing and then
uh hit the field start rolling so chad's ready to go i'm taking over dad's
position today he's busy he's got some things to do so uh
i get to run combine interesting when you change something
it's amazing how sometimes that leads into finding more problems
well i changed that secondary filter which was throwing a code in there
because i didn't know it had a secondary fuel filter
there's this one here that we've changed all the time we always thought there was
one there's a second one it's on the engine
in a really ridiculous housing that's a pain to get off i got it off i got
swapped but i was trying to re-prime that bowl
took the plug on top and i'm like why isn't it priming itself with the key on
came down here fuel pump wasn't running this is the lift pump
just helps get it up to the engine the ground wire was ripped off
who knows how long it hasn't been running i don't know how it's coming
they're running like that which makes me nervous going
the engine was having to do all the work to suck all that fuel
from down here up there so i stripped the insulation off the wire i
wrapped it around the old lead tighten it up tight gorilla taped the
snot out of it so we can get back to the farm yard
and solder it back together again but it'll run it's running right now
it just that makes me nervous i don't know anyways so found out the fuel pump
wasn't running it's running now all right back to work
okay grease fuel cleaning the windows and we're good to
go let's go cut some peas i can't have
everything go perfect uh it's not yielding as well as the other
stuff we were in i think it's averaging according to my
monitor around 30 bushels an acre that's still a lot better than last year
if we had that last year we'd be thrilled
so not complaining just inserting that this land which was
planted not far from the other stuff is yielding 10
15 bushels less hard to say what that could be
could just be conditions this is a couple miles away from the other area so
maybe i didn't get the rain this year i don't know um but it's okay we'll get
her cut and maybe the other field which is down
here a little ways will surprise us when we get into it but so far
it's good we'll get through this one thing you got to think about is how do
you tackle a field during harvest if you've got one combine it's not a big
deal because well he's got the whole field to himself if
you got two combines you got to start thinking about
where is the unloading auger going to be where the truck's got to dump or the
grain cart where the combine is going to be how do
you split the field because so what we usually do is we come in we
figure out so far distance in the field where we feel
there's enough to carve us open it up so one combine goes down
cuts back and then the other one goes up and then you slowly work
from the inside out and spread out so one goes this way
one goes that way and the field slowly gets harvested to center
or what we're gonna try right now is we go together so he goes up behind me
i go over i skip two suaves
possibly three and then i come down and then he does the same thing and he
just picks up basically the swath that i leave behind every time
only work the gps sometimes the gps isn't working real great it doesn't work
so we're give our shot see what happens take a close look at the pro 700 right
here you can see how i'm one two three swaths over
so i'm going down this one he's coming up this one and it leaves one between us
and then he'll turn around and he'll catch this one
as you can see that's him right there in b spine that's chad so he's on that
swath then there's two swath then three and
i'm on three right here makes sense all right we'll smell it and
make it complicated and try to do this oh no
there's i'm not gonna get to the end in time it's just about to go over the top
oh slow movements i'm gonna have to pull
out of the field there's no way i'm gonna make it yeah pulling out
not happening all right well we'll just see if i can
carefully maneuver my way to the truck without spilling everywhere that oh that
is full that is not good oh no no no no no
no it's trickling over oh i don't know it's gonna make a mess whatever let's
just deal with it i don't care plug my ears okay we're going uphill
which means it's kind of holding it in the hopper um
getting to the truck it's right there now i'm going to go real slow and
hopefully get this out without dumping a pile in the cab
did i get you on the cab you guys tell me
is it is it bad is it really bad but we made it
let's dump this thing all right park combines go get the pick up
go back and eat some food i guess we're not having food out in the field today
so that's fine drive back but i think we're gonna
finish over here today no we're not really pushing 100 like you
think we would but that's not up bad because
we do know that we have a good forecast ahead of us
and uh we're gonna have a couple days between spring wheat when spring
restarts we'll have some down time to golf sleep sleep golf play with kids
sleep golf and then maybe do a little maintenance
and then start spring wheat this bin right here is full of peas the
other one's starting to be full of peas and we have a spot over here
for the third bin well the con concrete truck is just about to show up
in fact there he is right there just about turn the corner
so one of the things they have to do is they have to wet down the surface
because when you pour the concrete on top
all that dry soil is actually going to suck the
moisture out of the concrete and it will change the way it sets up
so you wet it down so that way it sets up more evenly
at least that's what i'm told i could be wrong which i often
am but that's the idea right yeah we learn a couple things here and
there right
foreign
awesome first trucks down here comes the second one
hey i can count amazing they're making quick work for this
and this is probably the wettest one i've seen in a long time
which means it's going to finish really really well at least that's the idea
so
there we have it the third truck they'll pour that in there
figure out what they need order another truck and uh
then it's just a lot of flat work that looks nice
looks really nice i'm happy i hope they're happy too
if you ask me this is like plato for men you asked me
i answered
so we're finishing up yellow peas it should be tomorrow hopefully
but we also laid concrete this week and uh the bin guys are here to erect the
bin they are i think this is our last stop
before they head home so they're trying to get it done because they're talking a
little bit of wind in the next couple days and
they want to make sure that bin's secure and done so i've been around taking the
skid steer helping them out a little bit moving some stuff around but let's watch
them do their thing and like they did on these two they made it
look very easy and thanks guys really appreciate it
it's amazing how hard i work
i wish i was getting rewarded by you know not working
oh you thought i didn't share i already gave him some
i'm serious i did give him some
roll it again and my auto steer does not look like it's working i'm just
cutting off at an odd angle what is going on here
i know i turned it on i know i did maybe i got distracted and i reached up to
grab my camera to make a video that's never happened ever it's okay the
best part about harvest is my mistake right here yeah it's gonna be gone in
about 10 minutes no it'll know not even you
guys right right you won't re-watch this point with you
right you won't you won't share the video don't share the video please
thank you okay keep this between us here we have it trucks coming they're
gonna be uh pouring the slab over here and um
then we can put these wonderful smooth walls on that slop
and i'm gonna sit here and drink coffee while they work
just finished this field now i gotta drive it across the two big
coolies we call them draws but the header it's
really big and it's not a very very wide road pretty small so it's gonna be kind
of fun chad's already took off a beast but i'm
gonna follow him shortly i might go and take the pickup down
there too and then that way take him back to grab these trucks but either way
i got a little road trip to make it fun so uh let's go
finally get to drive him kind of move like
a half mile that way but it's still awesome let's go take it for a drive
about three quarter loaded but we're gonna use every space we got because
right now uh we need all the trucks over there as
mean as we can get all right let's see here it's not a
combo oh yeah that's right steering wheel
okay let's go
all right let's get combining
as you can tell it's basically dark out these guys are still working on the bin
yep oh there we go and they need a light so i put lights on
the skid steer
even in the dark that thing works see how nifty that is
you don't even know where you're at when you're driving the truck forward but
when that kicks on you know
nifty
got my trusty headset on yeah i know i wear this thing on and off it's awesome
you're jealous i know it's great okay anyways yeah it's uh
what is it past uh 10 o'clock dark out a little bit of horizon for the sunset
not much we're getting acres knocked out things
are going well machines running great uh there's a thunderstorm coming and it's
over there and it's headed right this way and all
the predictions have just shot up from some
rain a little bigger so bring it rained out we'll see how far we
can get but um we gotta just try to get as much of
these pieces because we can so we'll keep pushing hard wish you
sluck you guys are awesome thanks for support use the pad on the
back right now or you know maybe like a cool comment or something like that get
it done nick even though it's already happened you want to see the vanilla's
cool look at my spotlight yeah i think the the cover the light
fell off or something so now it's just a meme
it works
so
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