hello welcome to Kate's Ag
so i got a notification that my tailing auger is at zero
i wasn't pushing dirt but i ran into this huge mound of dirt with rocks in it and at least five
rocks went through my header so this might be my first official breakdown it was bad i
heard it and i immediately stopped the combine shut the machine off we'll see what's going on
and hopefully it's nothing too bad i had to rode all the way off the hill
come down here my dad's going to help me with this definitely got some dirt and rocks
in the header this is the cutter bar right here hey you got all this dirt in here
oh it's clogged with dirt so i'm going to go in i'm going to slowly put just put the machine in
and idle it's gonna start clicking and then some of these come out okay tell me if it
comes out don't stand over here there should be dirt coming out there that'll clean it out
yep dirt came out so a lot of grain and dirt came out mostly dirt
actually a ton of dirt as you can see a grain's just covering it
that's where you got to watch your daily village i'll get my gloves in
first time digging out my header
and i'm ready to go they're a little bit big but they work okay crawl in there and
drag some of that dirt out this is the first time i've had to dig my header out
oh yeah yeah there's a good amount of dirt i'll sweep it off in a second there's still a lot of
dirt no there's so much more to get i'm not even close to being done i'm just trying to it's like
you know packed in i don't know and the only thing that was absorbing into your machine is
all that dirt that's why it plugged up your return rock keep going i'm going can i go this direction
i really did bad thing get it to the metal and brush it down to the bottom of this auger where we
this mound is like crazy over here okay now dig all this stuff out down here you got that
i don't have gloves otherwise thank you
hurry up yes exactly dig quick get rid of it when you make mistakes they're bigger than he's gone by
now yeah get rid of all that dirt because this belt's gonna run all that dirt back here too
to get rid of this dirt sweet get rid of that dirt i have more gloves in the cab if you want
them here just dig i'm digging thank you for helping me get all that high with your hands
i just got it i ran into a large pile of rocks and dirt and i didn't stop soon enough
my dad says do's and don'ts of combine driving do do this and don't do what i just did
this is my reward for what i did do i pull this dirt out to the stuff that's plugged here
yeah exactly laying around well i just got back in the combine from digging my header out and it was
an interesting experience i'll tell you that a lot of hard work time consuming and i definitely don't
want to be doing that again i'm driving forward a bit and then turning because i've got a combine
park behind me but dad kindly came and helped me too so now i am headed back to the durham
it was really an interesting experience digging my header out never before have i ever plugged
it i won't be doing that again i'll try it could have been a lot worse i did all the right things
i stopped the combine i did everything i could have to prevent further damage and
i didn't cause any damage but my return auger was filled with dirt pretty much no derm and my
whole header was filled with dirt too as you saw three years running combine deborah plugged it
up over and popped that thing open i showed you this is the second time i plugged it up today
it is definitely not my day for combining wow i plugged it up with dirt again so i'm turning
the machine on and that's return auger and i'm trying to empty out the dirt and then i turn it
off and on again i might need to turn it on again nope now i'm shutting the combine off
a lot of headaches today and i was really paying attention too that's what i don't understand dude
start from the bottom yes that's why this is happening because the food ain't going anywhere
can't get up there you got to reach way way you got dirt way up in there i can't believe i did
it again you got it i'm a bad combine driver it isn't that kate you got it on these edges too
you got to get out i was cutting higher too reach up in here like this and i did this all last year
with the barley but if you do this you have to dig it out i've never done this before get rid of it
i apologize i'm gonna try my best not just no it isn't that i understand kate
i've done this why that's why i was cutting out of them coolies
oh no there's dirt oh yeah it's plugged over here
i'm three years combining first time i've ever plugged it twice in the same day
and it's always random harvest to the end of my first year my whole back wheel fell off
no i didn't i was paying attention i can assure you i don't know how to get this out
it's plugged thank you for offering the help i really appreciate it character building yes yes
now i'm going to start it off we're having tacos for dinner so that's exciting
well we are officially done with the 2021 harvest and i am roading my combine home it did not
finish harvesting the durham today so that's a little bit upsetting i had to dig my header out
a second time i had it filled so much with dirt we are going to have to drop the plate
and we actually ended up finishing this field before we could get my combine going again
this happened to be my first year of harvest 2. the back wheel fell off the very last day
straight cutting spring wheat and then the front wheel totally blew out so i am really good at
breaking the combine down the last day of harvest at least it's not the first day i've
been on a roll three years combining never once plugged it up plugged it up twice today
and not with wheat with dirt have a lot of coolies in this field and areas where the field crowns
meaning it's higher in the middle than it is on either side i'm just going down a little road
here there was a lot of areas that it was really challenging with this 35 foot header the other
combines have 30 foot and smaller headers to not be able to plug it up also my header is
not completely level and the float sensor so what determines the height of the header are
not working very well so one side of my header is stripping the wheat meaning barely cutting
it off and the other side is almost digging in the dirt look in your tank how much you got in there
they're only five for the very front the very back
and it's loaded heavy now now i'm unloading my last bit of weed in this
semi truck i don't think you could get dumped out putting it in there would you
more on that drive away and fold your auger so much is left in there pretty much nothing just the
tiny bit that was gonna fall out okay well we'll check when we get home now i'm in second gear
i'm going to drive across this field and driving back to the schoolhouse i cannot believe harvest
is over i'm sad i didn't get to be a part of finishing the last rose but that's okay
i had great luck all harvest so i'm very thankful for that it's crazy that it's gonna lower your
head just a little bit get some suspension on my dad just said you can see the flag on the back of
my combine it's like the home stretch driving my combine home oh i'm so sad but it's very exciting
to have completed harvest and not gotten terrible weather and been able to pick up our crops
okay you went around that bump in your car but you don't do it in your car i'm driving in second gear
at 8.7 miles an hour i'm still leaving the field i'm in summer follow right now i'll put it in dirt
don't stop in the turn you know what i mean yes i do i'm going to put my hazards on i'm just heading
off of the approach third gear now i just put my combine in third gear drop your head a little bit
give yourself a suspension easy now easy stay center when you get closer to this corner can
i want you to slow way down we got a triple look left and right before we pull this thing over hey
what are you doing okay slow way down okay way down because you got wired on the left mailboxes
on the right get your header all the way up okay now you gotta look because i can't see from here
left and right nobody coming right the road is clear so i am now on the highway to the school now
leaving in and out of these two signs so if you ever see a combine driving down the road with the
k2 plane you know it's me the home stretch i can't believe that this is the last time
i'm driving my combine this year okay the extra save on these last couple turns so we don't have
nothing bad happen go between the cars my combine out into that field turn around and come back and
line up yeah a huge thank you to our neighbor who allowed us to use his green card that's actually
exactly like ours because ours broke down lining up the combine for the last time this year what
a harvest it's been i'm going to idle my machine down today was a super frustrating day because i
not only once but twice two rounds of digging my header out everyone came and asked me if i
was using my combine as a bulldozer because i kept digging dirt and rocks it was pretty
crazy this sunset has completely made up for it it is so amazing words can't even describe it
it's the best sunset ever and all of harvest to have this sunset be the last day of harvest 2021
is just incredible it's so beautiful thank you so much for watching today's video i really hope
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