darcy has now brought the fuel truck and we are going to be fueling up the tractor before i drive
it all by myself so that's very exciting as you can see the red is where the fuel is and there's
not much left so we definitely need more fuel i am back in the tractor now we are done fueling up so
i'm all by myself and i'm about to drive this hero so wish me luck i guess is all i can say
i do know how to stop the tractor now it's clutch and brake and rpm down so i'm good on that aspect
if you haven't watched my video yet about the runaway tractor then you definitely should
okay rpms up a bit but the clutch out easily
we are up slowly i run in about 12th gear darcy runs in year 13 but i'm not as talented as him
i'm gonna go rpm almost all the way and hook up to guidance so i'm a oh
okay god it's now i'm officially harrowing all by myself
we are harrowing at a 20 degree angles because when you go through the furrows
meaning the little grooves in the field and you go across them
all of the straw spreads out better and it doesn't get clumped up into piles so that's why we do that
i forgot to put my rpms back up all i have to pay attention to is the speed that the tractor
motor is running so that's 1990 rpm i'm going 8.4 miles an hour i'm in 12th gear and then
i just watch that my guidance is working and i have auto steer engaged which is a green circle
on my screen and also a red blinking recording dot and it paints a blue line where i've narrowed and
a darker blue line where i've double harrowed and then it spray in the rest of the field
i also make sure none of my hydraulics are running and just kind of do an overall check
of the tractor and then my seat swivels a little bit so i watch my harrow in the back make sure i
want not leaving any big piles and everything's still attached to the tractor because i'm very
new at this i just try and focus very hard at the task at hand and try and do the best job i can
there is a lot of straw in this hero but they're actually supposed to work better the
more straw they have in them that's something very interesting that i learned actually last year when
i went harrowing with our neighbor when you do diagonals the field just gets smaller and smaller
and smaller you have to do more turns and turns are the most challenging part of running the drill
hero anything really because that's the time it's not driving itself and you actually have to drive
it it's all about timing with corners and also not hitting this big cable on either side of the
tractor on the wheel when you make the turn so i really have to watch that closely well looking at
my guidance screen and making sure that i'm making a turn with the right radius to line back up to my
next guidance pass it all has to happen together so i usually slow my rpms down a little bit
there's a huge coulee up here so i need to go quite a bit slower i control my speed by my
rpms usually but once i get through this cooling i will start my turn right now now i have to look at
my guidance line which i'm lining up pretty well with so i think i'm going to hit that
and my tractor is now driving itself which is the most wonderful part of this tractor actually
everything's going well i didn't really leave any big piles which i can't control that but you
do want to monitor the field the piles you're leaving because it could be too cool to harrow
and that's something we definitely have to look out for
i'm just so happy right now i can't believe i'm driving harrow it's the best feeling ever to be
in the tractor again and learning something new i'm now going to move my rpms up because i forgot
about it just a second ago and they run between 1990 in 2000 to 2010 it really just depends this
field has had a lot of sawfly damage and a soft fly is a insect that burrows into the stem of the
wheat and lays its eggs and then the wheat falls over there is no spray to solve that issue the
only solution to prevent soft like damage to your crop and a huge crop loss is to swap your wheat
basically cut it off and put it in roads before the sawfly can get to it which we definitely
should have done with this spring week and over 50 percent of our crop is still on the ground that's
why it's really critical to harrow this field but swathing is really the only solution i'm coming
up to the end so i'm going to slow down a little bit to give myself some time to turn around which
i went i didn't give myself enough time oh i'm nervous yeah i went on the road a little bit there
that's okay i should have launched my guidance line a little bit better and i didn't but it's all
a learning experience in every corner i get just a bit better at knowing what not to do in this case
everything's going pretty well so far it's about five o'clock right now
this is the monitor for the drill and the flex coil implement this is also a flex coil harrow
but it's not needed this runs the tanks on the drill and then this screen right here
is for the john deere tractor so that's basically what i'm looking at and then i also have a little
smaller monitor on the tractor i'm now slowing the rpms down to make my corner maybe about now
now i'm going to link to my guidance i think i did an okay corner there
i am now getting ready to come up to another corner because i'm going through a coulee or
a bit of a draw in the field here i'm going to idle it down a little bit and now i am
back on guidance and that was actually a really good corner the tractor didn't have to really
move it sells a lot to get back on the guidance that was the little coulee i was going through and
equally is basically a draw in the field where the fields meet like this and all the water runs off
it's hard to run equipment through them but i was already had my rpms lowered for
it it's just a slightly bump and that's why darcy was disking that is to kind of make the
coulee a little bit less substantial my dad is flying the drone right now
i'm about to go through that big coulee again so i'll just lower my rpms
i think i'm kind of coming up to the edge of the field so i'm not really sure we didn't do a second
end pass on this side because going straight was leaving too many clumps so i'm not really
kind of sure how the diagonal works when we get up here but i guess i'll just start
doing my own pattern in the field if i can't figure it out
i'll start my turn right now make sure not to hit the cable on the back of the tractor wheel
hook back up to guidance raise my rpms a tiny bit not much so because i have to go back through this
draw hero looks like it's doing good now that i'm through the draw and i went easy on the equipment
i'll raise the rpms back up and keep on harrowing i'm coming up to a corner of a field so i'm going
to have to turn around this way because i'm not going to have room to turn around the other way
it's going to be a bit challenging here to figure out what to do i'm lined up to my new guidance
path i'll be starting going this direction again so that was a little challenging to figure out
but i think i was able to find a solution to the i'm going to run into the road if i don't turn
here problem the sky is very beautiful outside i'm super glad that everything's going well
harrowing i'm really enjoying this experience of learning how to drive something new on the farm
i'm still only in 12th gear i do feel that i could maybe go a little bit faster
and that i'm a little bit more capable of running this machine confidently but i don't want to go
there yet because it is still my first day oh my gosh there's cows over there that's crazy it
doesn't look like they're fenced either but they might be it's really hard to tell if that's it
my passes are getting shorter diagonally because i'm coming up to the end of the field so i have
to make quite a few more turns and be watching a little bit more i'm going to start my corner now
because the road is built up a little bit here and i noticed last time that i didn't start my
corner with enough room to miss the road the harrow went up on the road so that's never a good
thing i lined it pretty well for my guidance path i could have done a little bit better of a job
i'll move my rpms up and that's what harrowing is it's basically spreading out everything left
behind in the field during harvest so that when we go back to seed it in the fall we don't plug
the drills up and have to continue stopping we can just go straight through the whole field if you've
seen my fall seating 2021 videos where i drove drill all by myself i did have a couple times
where the drill plugged up and that just means that you're going through an area and a bunch of
straw plugs around your boots which are the things that put seen in the ground that's what plugging
the drill up is and i had to go out of my path make a corner hope some of that dropped out and
hooked back up to guidance again and that was actually in a field we did the hair so that's
why we're trying to harrow all our fields this year because we had those issues during seeding
in the fields we had the hero and definitely learned our lesson there but there's so much to
be done on a farm during the year you don't have time for everything and your time frame is also
very much limited on the weather so when you have that variable you never know how much work you
can do because you never know when you're going to have several feet of snow in the field and it'd be
40 below it gets very cold here in montana you go through fields really fast raking i'm going
8.4 miles an hour i'm pretty much speedy gonzales because combining i was going two and a half miles
an hour and then seating i was going five miles an hour the next equipment i'll be driving is combine
again so it'll be really hard to go from eight miles an hour to two miles now we're gonna feel
i'm not really slowing down for this because i feel slightly more confident in my ranking
abilities i have to hand drive this for a while because it doesn't see my line yet now
crazy the feeling when you get out of a tractor that's 525 horsepower and drive your car because
then you realize how easy driving a car really is and how it's not very complicated my dad just
pointed up here and went like this so that means that this is my very very last pass in
the hero today and driving tractor all by myself which is very sad but it's also going to be nice
to end for the day and have a delicious dinner i'm waving at my dad he's driving his car well clutch
and break i did manage to get the tractor stopped this time i'm going to gear it down i've idled it
down oh i need to put it in park that would be helpful the sky is absolutely gorgeous tonight
and i wanted to show you a little bit more about the heavy harrow and what it looks like when
it's completely full with straw after i finished harrowing for the day so it's got all this wheat
in it and this was the wheat damage by the sawfly this is the part of the field that i'm harrowing
and this is the part of the field i haven't harrowed as you can see this is all of the wheat
on the ground from the sawfly this is everything we couldn't harvest and what we're trying to
harrow and spread around because i go different directions with the harrow this way and then this
pass was done going up you see different colors in the field because the straw is laying different
directions so if you've ever seen a field like that and wondered why it has perfectly straight
lines that's because of gps and auto steer but it has the different colors because of the different
directions the straw is laying from when you rake the field and when i talk about not hitting the
wire and the cable i mean this right here that's very bad i'm heading out of the field now thank
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