hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is my second day driving the tandem truck
and today i'm hauling wheat to united grain which is super exciting so my second lesson in
my second day driving the tandem truck i'm very excited to take you along and i hope you enjoy
right now we're at the grain bin and i actually harvested this field in one of
my videos so that's super exciting and this is the grain bin site of my grain mentor video also
now i'm going to get in the tandem truck and the
difference between a tandem truck and a semis is smaller
clutch push the yellow button
for speed is it flashing or did it go in no it's not flashing okay it's in here then you
just gotta let the clutch out slow till the truck starts to move and then hold it for a minute easy
okay now feed a little throttle in it nice and smooth
keep the turn going follow the look over here where you're going look here follow the tracks
you don't need more than about half throttle till you get to about
it's irritating it just doesn't help
we're gonna hang to this side a little bit kate
okay now just angle over there towards that stop sign
you're kind of sitting on the front wheels look down the road coming nope
okay then just keep on easing it out you can add a little gas scaring the horses
okay just about half throttle and let it run through the gears but here he is five okay
it won't even start running until he gets to seven or eight hold it there and let it shift
okay
so here's yes oh my gosh and it's so fun
very exciting thank you for the wonderful lessons dad yeah why am i here
that is probably true
then we're gonna continue to slow down a little bit on the way down you know you want to break a
little bit and let up let it because your brakes will burn and i remember well just let them cool
you know but you have to get off them a little bit too so they're not just lightly
we gotta turn right left right beyond that yellow sign to go a little bit on the wall where that red
barn is yeah but we're going the other way oh left i got it oh my blinker was still on
united grain where i did the video how farmers make money and i showed the process
of hauling your grain there and then also kind of how the elevator operates
okay oh stop here on world tarps yes and clutch clutch first break
so clutch and then break yeah neutral
stop stop break out yes now we're getting out to untarp the truck we just made it to united grain
there's even this sign that says stop here and unroll tarp so that's exactly what we're doing
so i just unrolled this tarp here it's this black thing right here and
a wonderful second day driving tandem truck and it's my second lesson with my dad on this so
maybe it could be a whole little series now i'm going to go get in
the tandem truck again and here's the elevator right here so we're going away tell them who
we are and then go in and dump and my dad will get that all on camera
machine up here why is it going it's going it's break break break clutch break
stay on the brake
you don't have to push hard on it you just gotta i mean we could have locked it but then you
gotta release it yeah yeah okay next time i'll make you lock okay now you gotta kind of angle
over toward that thing end with the clutch brake and clutch now push d is it blinking
yep no it's not okay now it kind of cruise over by the window over by that thing and
you're clutching and breaking right there too pull over there stop now you got to go a little further
stop right there neutral
hello we're uh
winner
that's great thank you yep
okay just let it kind of idle off their scale it's still red though
and what you're going to do is watch this guy in your mirror when you go past it stay centered on
this and get ready for the clutch and break tell me when when he tells you in his mirror
keep going up love clutch clutch now look look at him
do you want you no don't break and crunch stop no he didn't say stop he says keep going okay
okay neutral thing okay now get the clutch in and put this up this up pull that the black thing up
and move it forward so basically as you can see in the mirror i'm lifting up my box and my truck
right there and i have to wait and he tells me when to lift it more and when i lift it more
i pull this little part up and back and that is the raised body button so that's
what that means and then to lower body i'll lift it up and push it forward and my dad's
taking the other camera out to video some other footage but i have to stay in here right now
this is a little cab tour for you while we're in here this is my blinker so right and left
but unlike a car it doesn't automatically come back okay so down so right now my um
body of my truck is being lowered through this button right here you pull up with your
fingertips like this and lower so it's coming down right now and i'm just watching it in the mirror
and i'm going to wait until it's fully down and then i'll just release it
light up it's up my dad was just telling me to light up but i was able to see through my mirror
that's the great thing about these trucks is you have this mirror and then this mirror and
then you have two identical on that side and then you also have these two mirrors here push
the clutch in and take the bto out okay now i'm taking the pto out is it in the middle or out
okay so there's apple okay get in let's get going all right yes like my dad said
i have to go back through the scales so that basically says what you weighed when you were
empty and what you weighed with the grain in it and then they'll know how much grain you had
do
thank you so much
no
now my dad and i are back and i had such an amazing time driving tandem truck i learned a
lot today too because it's my second lesson and also right now i'm standing in a field that we
planted with lentils so i want to show you kind of what they look like as they're starting up
because you saw the wheat this is what they look like right here this little plant is a lentil
all these plants here are lentils in this whole entire field
so that's the elevator over there they're just starting to break ground i had such a wonderful
drive driving truck so dad how do you think i did driving tandem truck for my second time
it was scary very very scary and do you remember anything from when you were driving truck when you
were little and how early you started and kind of what you remember they did you did have to shift
with the clutch well this has a clutch too kate you need to remember that more yes but uh yeah
i started probably at about seven i couldn't push the clutch in unless i slid into the front of the
front seat and then i could get the clutch down and shift and then i'd pop back up on the seat so
i could see the drive that is absolutely hilarious and my dad thinks i'm just now big enough to
use the clutch and this clutch is easier on this tandem truck it is easier than the other one
so that's pretty awesome and i'm so thankful i got to learn how to do that so thank you dad
you're welcome and it's a wonderful beautiful day in montana it is a little bit windy out today but
not too bad it's pretty nice out actually so here's the wonderful fields as you can see
this is montana no trees anywhere the where you see the trees were old homesteads so for example
my great grandfather where he homesteaded and he hopes that at our farm in 1912 where he immigrated
from denmark and then that's another old homestead there but no one lives there anymore thank you
so much for watching i really hope you enjoyed this video and learned a little bit more about
how your food gets to your table and also i hope you enjoyed watching me drive tandem truck for the
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