hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is another day of spring seeding 2022 on our Montana farm
we have the second drill going today the flexi coil so i'm going to be taking some
more lessons to remember how to drive it with my dad and hopefully i'll be driving it soon
we have to fix the drill right now so i'm going to get out and see what's happening we
are having some interesting weather it might be starting to snow yeah wouldn't you say
what are you working on right now
the hose that feeds the shank oh it's broken right here yikes so we're replacing it with a new one
that's very important aspect to seeding is getting the seed
from the tanks to the ground so as you can see these are our seed and fertilizer tanks right here
it looks like one big tank although there's three compartments so two are usually filled with seed
and one fertilizer and they're dropped down here so you can see they all go through separately
and then they're combined together at these big hoses
and these hoses direct them to the specific pods so for example this long hose
goes to this pod over here and as you can see then it's separated by these small tubes which is what
is broken over there that takes it kind of through the shank into the boot and drops the seed out
into the ground so the seed and fertilizer start out separately but they're all combined when they
get to this point so when they grow when they go in the ground we are putting seed and fertilizer
from each boot so not one boot puts down seed and another fertilizer it all goes together
and there's so many of them but it's so important that they're all seeding because even if you
just have five of these that get plugged or have broken hoses or stop seeding you have to go back
over that section and we don't have a way to just seed this portion of the drill so you have to
reseed the entire length which i think this drill is about 57 feet so that's a lot of extra cost
when there's not huge margin in farming already so you really have to be very on the ball and then
we purchase these hoses in these long forms and we have to cut it specifically to fit the shank
and if you cut it too short you won't be able to clamp it on here and it will keep sliding
off so it's really important you get it just the right length and then we put this little clamp on
i remember last year winter wheat seeding i didn't have a broken hose but i had one that a clamp came
off just because when we were originally putting on the hoses someone put it on a little bit too
short and that can happen but it's just important that you notice that and you're able to fix it
we like to use clear hoses so we can sometimes see whether the hose is plugged or not if you
use black ones then you're not able to tell if the hose plugs but it's
still pretty hard with the clear one so it doesn't help a lot just a little bit
so as you can see this hose is going to go into that shank
and attach to the boot and then up to that pod over there
and there's also another one of those clamps up there to attach it to the pod right right and
then come over here so we can put this other one in did any more break oh i see it way over there
what causes these to break or pop out stress
this civilized way you're gonna go all the way around okay the air seeder is all about air so
make sure that before you do anything turn on the fan make sure it's running which one's the fan one
more time this one okay the end one push it ahead till it clicks make sure it stays on running about
4 400 that might change as the weather gets nicer or not okay you know how to put this into gear
this is park yep don't put it in park until your stopped check your gear on that screen see what
you're in and you start out in about fourth or sixth right well i'm we're not in the ground so
i'm just starting out in eight because that pulls it about five probably should start out in six but
okay so i'm going to push the first one all the way in and i'm going to look for numbers up here
okay we're seeing 50 pounds of seed 100 pounds of fertilizer
don't leave corners you have to drift out a little bit and then kind of sweep okay
don't back the plow up don't turn so don't turn sharp in the dirt lift it up turn around whatever
this is a back and forth game you know 100 pounds on the second because the third's almost gone
we're pretty good right now you see that yes so it's this kind of distance but it's
the distance from where you're sitting in a chair you know you just get a feel for this
but it's also don't get yourself wound up into places that are triangles you know most of these
places you get one good pass you know but the first one's a hard pass yeah so you because he
can see his plow you can when you turn you lose sight of that outside round of this edge of it
we're a little bit out so i'll just walk it back in a row straighten this tractor back
out a little bit set up your guidance passes know how to do that and i barely could get it
done yesterday because my glasses broke made it really hard okay we're 51 and 99 we're going 4.9
okay so you don't run at full rpm i run at it about five five one whatever
but you're always checking the shank that's uh backing up to turn you can't set it back in the
ground until that thing starts to come forward once you pick this up you know and we'll we'll go
out on this pick it up and roll back in on that angle there because there isn't enough room to
turn this thing around in the dirt here there just isn't without backing the shanks up in the dirt
so we're going to avoid that so we don't have to dig them out right sounds like a smart plan yeah
so we're just going to drive straight and then pick it up yeah but we got to let the plow come
out of this the plow is way way behind us because it's a tow between the carts in the middle
yes Darcy's is a tow behind right but you gotta wait until your stuff comes out you see oh you
had a little skip yeah i know but i'll probably pick it up and you can turn sideways and then pick
this thing up can turn pretty sharp with these but don't start thinking you know much more than
this is good it ain't take a look at what's going on back here you have to look at everything when
you're doing this okay the plow's going forward now we could have sunk it but we're way out here
well you missed it i'm gonna sink it now see it's in the dirt yeah it runs for a while
hopefully get seed to the boots by the time it gets into the that's why you got to put it
in first early have you ever seen it in the field when the wheat started growing where
you know someone didn't put it in early enough all the time oh really you'll do it too trust
me this one here's your acre meter got 110 on it so far press the card again to get your things
okay we've been getting a tank two air sensor communications error on this
punch it off on the alarm it still thinks it's going on it can't read it or that wouldn't be
blinking now oh okay it's gonna say this tank two air center communications error
i'm not believing it you're not believing it no i think it's a uh terminator problem
what's a terminator it cleans up the noise on electronic information that it feeds its computer
or something i don't really know i just know that when they're not working you're having a bad day
because it just shuts the drills off a lot of times but i know the air is blowing because i
got fan and i know the meter's turning because i got numbers right so i'm thinking it's probably
working how close is my wheel to the edge of the seeded part um you're two in three too far
out but that's better being out you don't want skips because if you go the other way kate you'll
be doing skips but as Darcy wanders around that changes unless i drive perfectly along this deal
i'm going to go out a little bit and i'm going to cut this corner off here you see it i'm not
gonna make this big hole here i'm gonna cut it off and sweep this corner out right that's the high
point now so i'm driving this edge to that high point okay and then i'm going to smoothly turn
it into the thing are we splitting this north and south or east and west darcy see i'm trying to get
oh i think north and south should probably be okay
so you go and start on the other end and i'll go down about halfway and peel that off okay
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