hello welcome to Kate's Ag today we are preparing to go seeding but it is so windy we can hardly
even stand up outside it's 35 mile per hour winds gusting 47.
i think i'm gonna blow to north dakota
right now we are trying to level our john deere drill which ensures that the seed will
go in at the same depth so there's not one seed plant that's much shallower than the
other seed we're in our Prius farm car today so here we have john deere out to help us
so what is the process to level the drill well you got front shanks and back shanks
and they need to be level like this and then you want it level all the way across and how
do you level them or check them
things here okay
yes so those are the peas that we're using to level the drill and are they chickpeas
yeah these are sawyer Kabuli sawyer Kabuli which are the large chickpea variety
and would you say it's looking pretty level so far well i don't know okay there's a lot
of shanks here you know and chris has been at this for a while so this might be about
right here some of that's kind of deep it's hard to tell if you plant the seed too deep
it won't grow out of the ground but if you plant it too shallow that's not good either
i can hear the chickpeas come through here it's nice out warm too ain't it Kate it's
beautiful outside wish it was like this every day yeah it is yeah actually it is
what's that
oh it is incredibly windy today and this is one of the reasons that we don't use conventional
seeding methods and we do a no-till operation primarily because of the dust bowl days in
montana all of the wind would blow all this dirt to part of the field so we farmed in
much smaller fields because of days like today when the wind is unbearable
we are about to go into john deere because we need some parts for the air drill and tractor
what specific parts do we need dad we're getting a pre-cleaner for the air intake for the induction
into the motor it'll keep the filter a lot cleaner and it'll be it's just better for
it to very important it cleans the air before it gets into the air cleaner a little bit
and it helps a lot that's great thank you have you been getting a lot of people in for
parts for spring seeding yes we have so it's been busy that's fantastic expect everybody's
really enjoying this wind today huh it is yeah it's abusive they said it's blowing pretty
hard out there so almost 50 miles per hour well the thing on the old man's tv said uh
35 to 47 and it almost blew me off the drill cart today you know i mean just not hanging
on us in the big gust come in and blow me off.
I'm just trying to stay alive i don't have any other things up here doing it look i don't
think so i forgot to bring that that one bolt thing up but look at that i wish i had one
of them that's pretty cool
and you can trim trees with them too
yeah i'm sure yeah right problem at all
i like that idea about being able to do trees you know on the flat like the edges like caragana
or something get a big bush okay i have to bring up that other bolt you know it isn't
a super important item but it's got that shoulder on it you know them other ones looked like
it but they're just too big yeah so thank you have a nice afternoon thank you
okay Kate when don't you open the door so I can
get this in we've got the farm prius here
yep and the part we got in conrad hi austin it's going well thank you how are you not
bad
you excited to start seeding
so you were a grain cart driver two harvests ago something like that yeah and last harvest
you did the bin correct that's awesome so you've seen austin in some of my videos i
suppose they have yes what are you working on today
number of things, loose ends
yes now what are you up to dad
it's nice to be in the shop when you have 50 mile an hour winds outside okay
the big staples in the box
we're gonna look to see what we need to put this on so we don't have to spend a lot of
time out there on the tractor that sounds good yeah yeah throw it away so we don't have
it poking a lawn mower tire you know is that exhaust for the intake yeah
kind of like the deal we put on Darcy's tractor yeah exactly like that
is there anything else in the box looks empty I will examine it
do you change these every year check to see what size thing this is before we leave i'm
feeling a half inch do you change these every year no this is a special thing Kate but then
too
the things that are heavier like anything else go to the outside like dirt particles
and come out they come out like this They come out uh
that's a really good question that's a really good question maybe these holes here or something
kate
um this is where the air goes in oh air comes in here and then it's filtered right here
it gets set in a in a swirl and this thing somehow dumps the dirt out and keeps the cleans
the air before it gets to the air filter that's really interesting it keeps your air filter
way cleaner than otherwise so it's like a centrifugal right it's like a rock on a string
you know the heavy things go to the outside
okay 10.
you need bigger than 10
but it might not be i don't know anyway do you have wrenches for this with an extension
to clear us off i'm working on it
what about at 7 16 what is that it's an 11 so it probably isn't
well the 11's a little tighter okay this looks like a three a half inch drive right i don't
suppose we got one in a regular size okay yeah the only way i can see to get it out
is here there's a hole here and one down here but you'd think the big particles would need
a bigger hole when i parked here you know being how the air conditioning wasn't running
the car just you know quit yep and i sit here and sit here and i wait for you and wait for
you and then i think well i'll go talk to Austin or just get out and go talk to him
what happened the car started up took off and drove over and almost smashed the tree
hahahaha no way but it didn't get over there
why did the car drive itself over there because it starts up when this thing starts up if
your foot's not on the brake it goes did you not have it in park no because it quit it
wasn't even like it was on i forgot about it look at those tire marks though did it
hit the tree it's a real question no it didn't so did you have to run and chase after it
or what happened oh i come out my car was parked right here you know so i could get
that thing out you're looking for where your car went yeah but it was it still moving when
you were no it just it went over there and quit right there didn't it i thought it probably
at least ran into the tree but it didn't well that's lucky it is let's go get your pickup
Austin and then you can haul that ladder over very well do you want me to take this think
you can can you
i don't know it's pretty heavy
now we're headed out to the tractor to put the pre-cleaner on the tractor
and get it prepared for seeding so this is actually the tractor that i will be seeding
in this year so that's very exciting and it's also the same tractor that i did winter wheat
seeding in so it feels good to be back in the tractor i was seeding in kind of feels
like coming home yeah so this is the monitor for the implement or our drill that we have
attached right here and it has a separate monitor than the tractor because the drill
is by the brand flex coil and the tractor is john deere so this monitor shows everything
related to the john deere and the tractor part of this and then this is for the tanks
on the drill um and tank one two three four which tank is on and off and then this is
where you'll see the numbers of your tanks and different screens these are all of your
hydraulics here you have lights some different things going on you have your rpm and then
your gear shift you've got the clutch and then the brake although you don't really need
a clutch in this tractor it's still good to use it is still so windy the wind noise outside
of this tractor is just astronomical it is insane we use the tractor wheel as a countertop
sometimes
okay and if it gets kind of loose you shouldn't have to take it all the way off if it's still
on you know you know you might have a point you gotta wiggle it and probably slide right
off
i definitely want to keep that thing you know they take it from the top and work it you
know a little bit don't don't hit it on top hit it on the bottom on that lip if you are
going to hit it okay it's about to come off now
lessons and fabulous commentary from dad it helps sometimes
yes i would say so so that was the old one dad's getting the new one
we might have to turn that exhaust thing
uh ok I didn't even look that far forward don't tip over backwards and ruin my Prius
that was nice of you dad we're like this much too close together yeah but you gotta tilt
it in like this so i want you that no that's what i'm saying
we're hitting here before we're all the way on uh i mean realistically we could i'm not
saying it's a good idea and i'm not saying let's do it but you can put a dent in the
side of it in a fit i want to take that them uh things off first or take the top one off
and see if we can pivot it out some
a bunny oh my goodness you are so cute hello hi you are adorable on you are the sweetest
hello you are so cute i know there was a bunny where
it just ran past me isn't that incredible yeah aren't you so happy I am
that was so cool oh i love bunnies
now back in the tractor cab to get a little bit of a wind break but this one's really
hard to open
looks like they got it put on fully the tractor is literally shaking and this is a massive
tractor now i'm here with darcy and how do you feel about the 50 mile per hour winds
today i hate it me too it's pretty awful it is terrible and you were out helping with
the drill right what more do we have to do to get it prepared for seeding it's prepared
but acceptable the mapping isn't working right i can get by without it because i know where
the tractor knows where it's seeded yeah it's just you don't see it definitely but if you
can't look outside and see the seed you shouldn't be in the tractor yes that's very true actually
you have to run the tractor off the off of the field not the screens yeah but it's still
you still have your gps are you are you excited to start seeding again well no i just like
to do it excited for somebody your age yes it is very exciting for me yeah i'm really
looking forward to your age i was excited now i just gets out and does something yes
do you prefer seeding or driving truck seeding they're really a nice smooth ride in the tractor
oh they are yeah yeah i'm ready to go anytime we just got to figure out what's wrong with
it what do you think we're seeding first i'm gonna start on peas i don't know when you
guys are gonna start at barley yes so chickpeas right yeah i'll probably start tomorrow maybe
darcy was working on leveling the drill today with uncle chris and our john deere mechanic
yeah did you would you say it is pretty level now well i don't really know yet is it challenging
to see yeah it uh it's better than it was how long would you say you spent leveling
the drill probably over eight hours a week chris and i worked on about five hours the
other day and probably about four or five today oh wow and that's just one drill yeah
well thank you very much darcy i'm glad you made it in the video again yeah thank you
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