hello welcome to kate's Ag today today is the most exciting day ever not only is it the first
day of harvest 2021 but i got a new combine to drive for harvest i'm ecstatic about it
i will be driving the 9870 sts if you've been watching my recent videos you know that
my dad sold my 9610 combine and i was super sad about it because i just love running it
it's pretty much like we grew up together but i know running this one will be just incredible
i'll give you a little walk around tour of it because i'm just so excited so this is
the header right here oh i just can't wait to drive it so today is the first day of harvest
and my dad's going to give me a lesson on how to drive this combine and take me through it
it's kind of similar to the 9610 but there's a little bit more technology there's a screen inside
the buttons are very similar give you a full walk around tour here's where the straw comes out the
bath and then there's the auger and the auger is so much longer it always takes a couple days to
get used to the combine again and it'll take me a couple more to get used to this combine okay
now i'm going to take you inside the cab here my dad is coming in the semi truck this one's
full so he was bringing another one all right this is the inside this is my steering wheel
ooh grandpa's here hi grandpa you want to say hi to video
hi video we don't have the grain cart going right now because we're just trying it out
and seeing if the moisture is okay and making sure the combines are in good
shape and setting the concaves which are the inner parts that kind of separate the grain
from the little covering of the grain very far down there is where the other combine is right
now this is the beginning of harvest there's uncle chris in the 9760 combine getting ready to dump
here's your speed on your your ground speed this is your throw over meter and this is your return
do not let the return get up to the top because it's going to be plugged i guarantee it and you
could lay your belt down a little more you know like so right now the weeds going to be heavier
because we're in this little draw here okay this rotor is stumbling okay slow down for it and look
what's happening here we're high on the throw over meter right gotta know that this was green when
we swapped it so this could be a little damping just can't set a number and go you got to feel the
rotor just like you did your combine the cylinder speed is set at 820. we're 14 on the top sieve
that means it's more open we're nine on the bottom normally i don't run that big but for some reason
i got to and we're running 790 on the fan because it was blowing all the weed out it was probably
light i don't know we're going to keep this we're going to not go over the middle bar if we can
so here the weeds coming into the back and it is pretty clean meaning there's not any coverings
on the kernels which is what we're looking for there is a couple of them with it but
the majority isn't there's a lot of kernels how much grain does the combines green tank hold
300 i don't know okay when this tells you it's full you can check your you can lean back over
here and check the window right but if you're on a tilty thing gate you can't use that window
because the one you're looking at this side the grain is going to be well right out this side
this side you got to get way down the look because we you know we haven't brought but i like to see
the back tires too you know your tire falls off or something you know you maybe would stop and notice
it if you haven't watched my video my dad sold my combine go check it out because i explained
the story of how the whole wheel fell off my combine i didn't even notice and i kept going
you know speed and this stuff is relative key how big the swath is you know just start running over
your numbers you need to slow down for it if you're going slower you likely will be in some
of these other fields then you can slow your belt down a little bit here we have our green cart that
you'll see in all of my harvest videos we have our disc just in case the field catches on fire and we
move that with us to every field tractor running the disc is actually the same tractor that i got
to drive for the first time ever doing my disking lesson so that's pretty cool darcy's truck that
he drives is parked right here and that's what we're dumping in right now we're gonna we're
gonna slide in just like we always do on them you know we're gonna look and see where your tire is
so we don't drive over as much weak get in there okay going straight now a little bit okay get your
hat on up and down but oh it's opposite on this one i forgot well up is up and down it's down so
it's easier okay well okay lower the motor turtle speed one two no no you gotta push these in one
two okay wait for the head to catch now bring up the speed this is my first wheat swath of
the 2021 harvest you're always looking at the angle of your head okay and that's that belt
if you push it down now that belt will lay down pick it up okay now start your turn get centered
on slow down a little bit lower your head miss that thing okay lord lord a little more okay easy
you planted your gauges it's just like flying you get this set up because this is the meat
potatoes of this whole operation and you check what you're doing here with these things here
these combines can eat a certain amount of grain and the reason we swap is is because
then we can kind of make it the maximum that these combines can eat you know smoothly
because we don't have to fight the the thing we just got to pick the week
okay what's happening here i'm speeding up no i know but what's happening here there's a draw
but the weight's getting big when it makes that you know so you need to start looking there hey
you're pushing as hard as you can right now in this the weave will probably lighten up as you go
up this hill but you've got to be aware if you're running a capacity gate you go down in a goalie
and the wheat gets bigger how are you going to adjust for that flow down see this thing
just purrs don't it it does really runs well and the wheat just goes straight in
it's a super nice combine thank you for giving me the opportunity to run it
i'm happy to have somebody who's treated my 96 10 as good as you did to run this
the 9610 if every time you turn the steering wheel make a ch
noise like uh i don't know how to describe it
when the wheel fell off it stopped making that noise and that's the only thing i noticed that
i thought was weird was that it didn't make the noise anymore this looks like you know a big sloth
it just doesn't appear to have much you need to pay a lot of attention to how heavy this swath is
because if you're cooking along a capacity gate you just overrun this a little bit it plugs
you've almost got a full window in the back it feels slow to beat me you know i just feel a tenth
of a mile an hour but when you know the way i've run this is kind of at the very upper end of this
but i'm i'm kind of looking for stuff
a lot of times you know not all the time around and around the field we go
what my dad means by deadhead is pick up our header and not pick up any more wheat
and road which means just drive the combine back to the truck to dump you can see how heavy the
swath gets in that cooling yes and so before you get there you're going to be looking at this thing
because nobody wants to plug a machine with this kind of power paint you might even do the
smart thing by slowing down just a little bit to make sure you don't plug it i've never plugged a
combine yet so i know don't say things like that let's hope to keep it that way hey i feel slow
you need to watch what we're doing here okay start thinking about settings down is down don't
but set it down right before the thing turn into it okay you're late on your turn now take a look
at your belt angle your swath and start pushing don't sit around you know these things are made to
cut weak hey you're going what how fast you ain't but it looks extremely heavy yeah so you're okay
and start feeling
oh my gosh is that uh okay start looking at what you're gonna do up here oh we're not gonna do
anything we're gonna do the right thing just rode back oh my gosh wow he's right next to us
oh that's cool wait up is up start your turn i know but i'm trying to figure out which button
is uh just keep your turn going and then get in the middle of one of these two rows down here
with a bomb down at the bottom we'll let you go by and run for a while to get rid of
turning goes about eight or nine
i'm trying there we go your arms are going to get really tired if you keep doing that
just little corrections now we're rotating back to the truck to dump
because our grain take is full there's uncle chris
okay go down and give yourself some room with something
now start your turn start looking at the thing you're turning on are you turning too sharp slow
down a little bit kick your auger out press the top button that is no tarp that truck
where's the radio yeah you know we're just putting the auger out so you can see how far out to pull
well that's what i thought
now i'm getting ready to dump i just did my first round in my new combine that i'm driving for
harvest so it was pretty fun and it went well it's always hard lining up to the truck the first time
of every year of harvest it's like riding a bicycle you remember it but you also need a little
bit of practice to become as good as you were one thing that's really starting to mix me up is the
header goes up and down and on my old combine the top button went down and the bottom button went
up but with this combine up is really up and down is down so i get to the end of the swath
and i freeze and i can't figure out which one's up and down but that's something that will come
with a couple of days i'll show you my dad is untarping the truck he brought over right now
as you can see it's that black thing and those are soft lies on the window
my dad's got his hand up because he doesn't want me to dump yet you're a little outside
of where you want to be so bring the auger back because it will extend out some now just press
the button and then bring the rpm up now we're going to drive ahead and put the weed in front
combines like trucks you don't want a
you'll probably wake up and your arm will be sore
and you won't even know why because i think it's done it to me okay you know you're doing this
yeah your 9610 would have left a way nicer uh bro it really leaves long straw yeah it would have
been this is what the row of the 9610 looks like when it's got the choppers on it almost yeah it is
slow down a little bit four miles an hour oh that was a little fast you know three i just
ballparked in about a three three game that would keep you kind of safe except for when it gets
really heavy and i can start to hear and fill the rotor up you know now just a little bit
well we're heading down is it the vibration or are you also listening for something
it's just it's just a sound what do we need what we can do now auger out no
um let's drift out let's not angle right over there put your auger out so you have something to
look at i feel like i'm too far oh you're you're about right be on the safe side you know okay
you're gonna think about when this gets full what am i gonna do i'm going to back
up smoothly i'm not gonna get caught you know whatever okay you see it's going to fill up
hold it okay now i want you to leave your auger out and drift
out and watch your auger go over the top of the truck you know what goes on
oh it does clear it yeah so keep going now don't pull your auger get away straighten out get away
where do you want to park on the other side of the desk or on the other side of chris
on the other side turtle now to let it cool down first day of harvest 2021 is completed
yeah and the first day driving my new combine for this year okay this is the end of the first day of
harvest for 2021 it wasn't a full day we started around midday a little bit late and it's 6 40 now
so usually we would go to about 10 pm just until it's dark and then stop but because we don't have
the grain cart going and we're still figuring out the positions of who is going to be the driver on
each piece of equipment we've almost got both these two trucks filled and i had such a fun
time driving the new combine that i'm driving this year it's really exciting and i'm so thankful that
my dad's giving me the opportunity to drive this so thank you dad thank you so much for watching i
really hope you enjoyed the first day of harvest 2021 and me getting my new combine to run this
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