hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i'm out in the field again and we're doing our harvest morning
routine to start another wonderful day of harvest i'm still wearing my Kate's Ag shirt although this
time i'm wearing a different style which i also offer with the logo on the sleeve so if you'd like
to put a jacket over it or go out for dinner you don't have to have the logo on the chest
and really up front i'm having a great time here say hello to the video this is Ivor
McGill from McGill harvesting and you let me run your balers so that was so fun last year
that's right and you've done a hell of a job oh thank you yeah wow this was so cool hello
good morning i'm good thank you how are you well i'm well slept Austin did you grease the
three bearings on each side of the head so you used to haul grain in a truck like that well
yeah with a box on it did you enjoy it i did does everything look good yeah are they all fueled and
everything yeah is the other one ready to go too we need to grease it okay it's about 20 minutes
combine for fueling call it about a half hour for blowing each combine 45 minutes maybe
and then you got greasing which um i don't know it's probably about a half hour project per
combine like what's next to do i'll just put on the covers oh perfect Austin is just putting the
covers on my dad's combine i guess my combine for today and then i'll be good to go we almost good
here's what the inside of a combine looks like oh this chain might be in the way yeah that didn't
sound right i might need a couple pumps of this which basically kind of prime it like an airplane
it's not starting Austin i pushed the yellow button a few times to prime it
no it's not hold on it might start now no like when i you turn it all the way over it doesn't
do anything but when it goes back a click it has ac my dad left the header on yeah he has
a terrible habit of doing that really well thank you let's see if it starts
and it starts so thank you i didn't even think to check that my dad had left the header button
on and of course it's not going to start oh my goodness that's hilarious i've got to de-inflate
the seat a little bit because i'm not that tall so now i'll pick up my header Austin i don't have a
radio thank you i really appreciate that because this combine was new last year we didn't have it
equipped with radios so my dad has to use a handheld radio in this my dad's not out in
the field this morning because he's taking that combine to Conrad so he just told me go out to
the field make sure you guys get started and make sure that the three bearings are greased on each
head but Austin didn't know there was three or couldn't find them so if he'll have Arvid come
back this combine is exactly the same as mine just with duals and it also has header tilts like Arvid
is doing good we don't have too many it looks like i have to deadhead to this end to find a row
because i don't think that one's headed the right direction because that's Arvid's row right now
he should have taken the one further over but that's okay i'll go and get that now anyway
oh he is on the one further over so he'll be getting the rock pile i wonder where this row
starts then he just waved at me which is nice hopefully he doesn't need to talk because i
don't have those capabilities right now hopefully Austin's able to get me a handheld radio if not
i'll i should be good i actually don't know where to start this next field but we'll figure it out
i think we started at the south end um that would be my guess so i just spoke to my dad on the phone
and we got going way too late this morning you never know oh don't tell me okay this is going the
right way turtle speed on there's not much left in this row come on load the front first Arvid please
so that's interesting i didn't know if the header was on or anything that the combine wouldn't start
it must be some sort of safety feature so this is the last pass here i'm getting zero bushels
per acre it's not a great crop at all here Ivor was telling me that in Colorado they're getting
15 to 20 bushels per acre so they're in the same situation we are all right so i just finished
Arvid seems to be having some problems dumping i'm not sure why but he can't get in touch with
me on the radio so i'm just going to come over here and make sure everything's okay
i guess he got dumped i can't really tell so following Steve wall over to the next field
i'm just checking to make sure we don't have any passes we missed here i think you feel more
in the field with the duels and it feels like a wider ride it's kind of interesting you wouldn't
think it'd feel any different what we'll do is we'll head east or we'll head west first
and then we'll head south and then east we'll head west and then north and then east and then south
my dad's header is not as sensitive so if you want it up you have to really click it a bunch of times
i'm going about three six three seven so i don't know this looks like 80 acres right here
so i think this pass will end right in the middle here and then we'll have two more sections of the
field up there so this is 80 80 this field must be 320 acres as well now i'm going to pick up
my header move it back see if i'm missing any and it's actually picking up a lot cleaner than
i think my combine is so we should be able to make two laps here maybe one lap will fill us
up because these are outside rounds well grain's looking fairly clean it's a cool feeling to be
the only person in the field right now and that my dad trusts me to be able to get harvest started
Arvid's combine looks to be running well i'm going to unload in Steve Wahl even though i've only done
one round and i definitely have more room i'm just going to see how much more he needs to be filled
it'll probably take two more rounds in the combine though i would say or only one more round but both
combines and right down the center i cannot believe i lined up that way i think sure hope
it's not it might be a little on the far side hope it's not going over the edge that was pretty much
down the center i'm kind of proud of that Arvids could definitely make it another pass but i think
he's going to dump it anyway i definitely feel more rocks and different things in the
field and maybe a bit more shifting happening because you've got double the amount of wheels
in the front running over things hopefully i don't know that we'd fill Steve
next round actually we might need i think if we had three combines next round we would fill him
but i don't think we'll fill him with just the two because he needs three loads on the front
and he really only has two and they're partial loads and then he needs three on the back so
we'll definitely have to take another round i just got outside and looked at my grain tank
i'm going to need to dump i don't think i'll make it another round go all the way to the back all
the way to and lunch is here so lunch is here but we're going to take another round to get him full
so you don't stop for lunch when you need to get a truck out and that is important Arvid's just going
by so i'm waving at him harvesting at low speed so i'm just going to do one more pass to make sure i
can get him full he's full in the front now we just need the back so Arvid will have one dump
for him so we might both need to go around one more time i really want to get a truck out before
noon it is noon but before we stop for lunch i don't know how long one passes but lunch will just
have to wait slow down a little bit here the wheat looked heavier i'm going about 3.8 miles per hour
i'm wondering when my dad's going to get back i know it takes a while to drive a combine that far
too though yeah i think just with one more lap we'll get there usually Steve would already have
one load in and be back by the time we stop for lunch now i'm about to dump in Darcy Arvid did
not think he'd make it another round because we just went three laps without dumping but i took
a look in his grain tank and knew for sure he'd make it do you need any more in the front Darcy
yeah i think you can put a little bit more in here okay thank you so hopefully i'm lined up okay here
you think i have more room in the front okay whatever you think i
i definitely didn't line up well for that one so Darcy's not going to be pleased at the front load
he might have to move grain off some of the top things so now i'm taking about the last pass of
this field uncle Chris said something on the radio but i'm not completely sure i think he
said are they driving both trucks but we don't have a second truck driver right now so i'll
just take this last row really quickly while Arvid is dumping i don't know if this half row is going
Arvid's direction or might be going my direction i can't really tell and then we're starting the next
part of the field which is super exciting i think Arvid's just going to wait for me until i get back
i think Arvid is just going to wait for me until i get back before he does anything else there
seems to be a little row right here too wonder where that started let's see let's do the last
roll there there's a couple of half rows i'm just trying to figure out where okay this one
is very short so i'll pick it up and then there's one almost directly in front of you
that goes up like it's picked up headed south it's not very big though so i can just pick it up
on the way back you don't see it i think we've gotten all of the rows so but we'll just see
i'm not completely sure where we go next so Arvid is going to pick that up he was headed
north on it and realized it was the wrong direction it needs to be picked up from the
south next part of the field we're supposed to go to i don't know that i'm gonna go look at
what's happening at the rock pile this seems to be too big to have been two full fields so
i think this is all ours so this is all ours this next field i'm just figuring out where to start
whether we go up this way first and do the top half or whether we do this bottom half uncle Chris
do you have a copy so it might be my decision i'll see i know i seeded to help seed this field too i
just don't know how to start it looks like Arvid's following me it looks like we'll take the top half
first that's kind of my general idea Arvid will take the second row we'll go all the way around
i just need to see what ways the rows are facing for example i think this is the wrong way
that's the wrong way i hope Arvid isn't behind me right now because that could be a combine
wreck i'm just thinking about what to do here i think we're going to take the top half of this
field first and that's the decision i'm making because we need to be cutting and
not just sitting in the field thinking about what to do uncle Chris do you have a copy we finished
that one piece do we i started on the north part of the field like beside the rock pile i couldn't
really hear what you said it was all mumbly but i just wanted to let you know or i mean the south
part not the north part excuse me the radios aren't working i can't get in touch with anyone
i'm hoping that this is the correct area to start i'm almost positive this is our field
so oh i have two LTE bars i might be able to get in touch well i guess this part of
the field will just have to work no one's coming out either thank you so much for watching today's
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