hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i am going to be trucking winter wheat to the elevator
which is very exciting i'm getting in the pickup now and i'm going to meet dad at the
schoolhouse so we have a vehicle there
Austin you're setting a cone up so the truck knows where to back up to right it's helpful
yes yes it is it's really nice to have
we load the semi truck front to back because that's where the axles are which are the strongest
points of the truck and we don't even load the middle or the center of the truck this
semi truck right here is the red one it's the one you always see darcy driving we are
at the 15 grain bin site it used to be 13 bins we put another two up and this is also
where the school house is so if you've ever seen that in any of my videos it's all the
way down there the truck i will be hauling with today is this back red one which is a
tandem truck so it's not quite as long as the semi truck but it's still very fun to
drive good morning Darcy
it has been incredibly windy in montana and actually darcy just said that we had to stop
hauling yesterday because of how windy it was it was just awful
this little lever that's not covered green yes that is uh what we have the fold hooked
up to oh darcy set this up so he put like basically a throttle limiter on it when it's
uh when the pto is in so you just push this forward and i'll give you a thousand at the
very max throttle but it's just this little thing there you know make sure that you're
at idle and then i i let it kind of balance out for a second and then i push it forward
slowly what do you mean when you say balance out uh just even out on the rpm so so it's
not like uh starting up you know as you're pushing into it yeah it kind of like it starts
turning smoothly because it's running you know and then you push it forward okay it
might not make that big of
a try to be nicer yeah i am sitting in our new tractor that we got to the farm which
is very awesome austin's gone to the back of the semi-truck to see how full it is
this tractor has a pto which runs the grain vac the grainn vac sucks the grain out of
the bin with this big hose and then augers it up to the semi truck oh i did it neutral
pull the brake oh i can't believe i just did it the camera was not filming while i pulled
up so that's super sad but austin was a fantastic instructor and he was just about to pull the
truck on suggested i could maybe take a lesson so that's what happened and it was just awesome
you have to look in your mirror and basically line up with the cone in the mirror and look
at the tire tracks and then also kind of imagine where the grain gap would be when it's dumping
grain in you can mold these from inside you just kind of look out oh wow that is really
cool so how did you know how to move it when you backed up or how what exactly perfect
would be well really uh i i first saw somebody do it you know a number of years ago it's
sort of tricky or at least it feels tricky because you feel like you're going to dump
it out like the box when you're wiggling the truck around but um mostly you know obviously
wow it's going to kind of push the grain that way right so you want to be slightly off center
towards in this case i didn't even think about that that definitely makes sense it's not
like super critical but it it helps consistency on your weights set it right yes and then
you're gonna back up it'll probably happen sometime you'll probably know that you need
to back up and you try to pull forward anyways but you know yeah the conscious thought that
was an incredible suggestion thank you so much for teaching me how i really appreciate
that yeah no problem i mean you ought to know how right yes especially with driving semi
truck and tandem truck there's a little bit of difference in between the two like i i
find that uh i feel like the tandems are like more top heavy so i i actually take corners
slower in a tandem than i would in uh the trailer truck oh you do yeah just a little
bit not by a whole lot that's interesting all right so if you look at this this is about
time to move but you you want to hold out for just a little bit longer and a lot of
the time i don't get like say all the way out of the clutch okay so i'm moving slower
and if i remember right these legal weight it's like two big piles and then a third like
three quarter pile okay pull it back towards you push that thing and then pop it out of
its holder get underneath it and hold your arm up the other way go the other way use
the other arm to hold it up
easy hold it now that was a good clutch yeah but i did three good clutches lining the truck
up with the grain vac we are on the road well not yet but we're driving we're moving anyway
we're gonna have to do about half throttle
on this road or so turn your cruise on the button on top in the middle get going okay
we'll go to a little bit about 55 and then we'll lock in get going step on the gas i'm
on it okay that ain't set
you want down not get in the middle of this oh
they go where they want and they have the right that's the United States Marshal in
that white pick up
Turn, turn go straight over to that other side
now i'm on the freeway ramp oh a helicopter yeah they've got a helicopter two United States
Marshalls wow stay out of their way you see that action Kate so we just passed a lot of
people from the air force moving parts of the nuke for the missile we don't have a super
long trip today we but we are hauling winter wheat
we are hauling to united grain which i actually have a video about and it's called how farmers
make money because we grow the crop harvest it and then it we put it in our bins and then
when we go to sell our wheat we haul it to the elevator
lock cruise in doesn't feel like it locked in
it's probably slower than we wanted to go okay now get back on it and we'll try it going
out can we pass this guy if you have room Oh my gosh Darcy
kick it back in okay
turn turn turn
i'm just telling you that because if you ever run into these long trucks you can't cut these
things you've kind of got this truck being slow is no different than the big ones you
might have to stop somebody comes barreling up there with a Prius going 75 you got to
make it stop
and this is going to be pretty much because the coast going down here
don't get on these edges you know like that gravel right there
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