so
it's another day of montana harvest and today we're cutting barley which is very exciting
i love cutting with the big headers because it's more challenging
and it's our second day on barley this barley isn't quite as thick
but we rode it over here we finished the other field last night so we parked the combines
i gotta go work on this header a little bit my dad just said he has to work on the header
but we have when we rode to the next field with the really big headers minus 30 feet
dan's is 45 and my dad's the sport my dad's 45 p2 i believe oh i got a broken guard and
some of the sections jumped on top and i can see the color changing so i know they're smoking on
i think i better get it out of this party barley pill and fix it
barley is something you have to do with that other fuel pickup
barley is something there's guards and stuff in the back of the red pickup in a bucket
oh my gosh we talk on the radio a lot well when stuff is happening barley is something yeah
i'm not remembering
austin i know what you're talking about about as far as me that works perfect
okay the car guy just said he likes to pull into the field and line up with it
before he lines up with us and he knows about as far away as he needs to be i i can't speak
that way neither i can't speak for the other combines
but as far as for me with the shorter header it works absolutely fine
and actually i like it better when he lines up because then i don't have to be worried about
him pulling from behind i can totally see him in front anyway as i was saying barley is about the
worst thing you can have something go wrong in because barley lights on fire so easily
and so my dad the section so the teeth on the header that move back and forth like this
that is what was making like uh smoking and becoming hot so he definitely has to get out
of even the barley stubble if you can believe that and you never want to drive a pickup or
any sort of car barley because it'll light it on fire and we've had pickups burn up that way
that is why my dad is moving his combine out of the barley field it's not a huge problem just a
little bit with the header it looks like the noise he was hearing was just the sections and car guys
right to come and dump me because my combine's getting pretty full my buzzer just went off
section the guard is the part that doesn't move and kind of keeps the section on the section
is the moving kind of tube looking thing and i'm gonna pick that stuff up out of the pickup
i think we'll just stop up here
or actually it's probably okay i thought it was a bigger hell than it
it's is not a big pill i kind of thought it was
dan says his combine cuts about 50 acres today probably a little more than that because we cut
a little more than 150 so each combine probably cuts maybe 60 70 acres a day we're coming up on
my dad's house which is a different homestead so i'll show that to you
it's right here so that's another homestead now that one would probably be
maybe a little newer than no it might probably be the same around the same time as when my
great-grandfather home is seven it's a different location and then it has a reservoir as well
right now we're rolling over well i guess we're not we are we're roading over to the
road it sounds kind of funny to say i'm just following my dad's combine
we're just headed on the road now these combines steer from their back so it's
really hard to control it we're going about 19.3 miles an hour and i have to watch out for
these signs coming up so i'm going to slow down and just make sure my header doesn't hit them
which didn't hit that one or that one and not that one all right now we're gonna peg up the
speed again go 19.3 miles an hour when we're on the highway we pull off for other vehicles but
it's hard for us to do that here we don't ever want to go in someone else's field although the
fields on the left and right of us are ours they are not always so they pick up usually tries to
pull to the side we're not going too far just a little ways but it's still a waste so we
have to have it in third gear we have another road sign up here and a lot of the road signs
here are bent and it's because of combine headers hitting them so if you ever come to montana
and go on the back roads the gravel roads in the small little towns the farming towns it's because
a combine header the big header not the pickup header hit it when they were driving down the
road i like traveling from field to field i think it's kind of fun now we have a turn coming up so
you can't do your turns fast you really have to slow down we'll make a turn here it's kind of fun
actually it's really nerve-wracking as well though if you pay attention you don't have any trouble
though we had to fix one of my broken sections on my combine the hired man fixed it for me
dan and then on my dad's combine as well there was a broken section so he had to fix that hey when
you go down to these toolings you got the dirt on the side so you want to stay really centered
up so they don't hurt the dirt there's dirt on the side of this [ __ ] this is the road to my
dad's house and it's it all it felt so much bigger when i was little and we'd always go fast and it
it's great to feel the dip in the hill but it's we have to be careful with these combine
headers because the middle the part we drive on the gravel row is lower than the side so we
have to lift up our headers and just so i have it all the way in the air to make sure i don't
hit anything and then if you're a combine behind me you always want to make sure the other combine
is up the hill before you go because you may not be able to make it and it's always nerve-racking
going up the hill too is your combine going to have enough power which it does for this one so
i put my header down a little bit now to give it a little bit of movement if it needs to bounce
up and down so it's not and also i don't want it right in my sight of vision this sign over here
is ben as well and that's from a combine editor not our called line header but it is from one
i can see the other combine just kind of cresting the hill montana is beautiful to live in
i absolutely love it and it's so fun especially where we farm it's totally flat so the sun sets
the skies everything's just like living in a paradise it's so beautiful to think while
you're combining what a beautiful place you live in and how thankful you are for everything at
least that's what i think about i can't speak for the other combine drivers but it is beautiful here
now this looks a little bit harder because the row just is a little narrower here and you really just
have to focus and make sure you're making precise and good decisions with these combines
we're just cutting our first pass right now so i'm going to idle my machine down
take it out of third gear because that would be horrible if i was in third gear running
my combine through the barley i would go be going really fast but that would not be good
so i'm just right now going down in the barley and kind of figuring it out right through here
it looks like this is a lot shorter about barley and it's not quite as thick took me a second to
figure out and i think it takes everyone some time to figure it out so i'm always careful and i try
and figure out as best as i can but not always so you just have to try your best and then not
get do you have a coffee what are you looking for i must miss you are you going over the bin thanks
and then i'll be back as soon as i deliver the ice in the water i'm going to come over
and we'll pull down the motors that next minute so we need to climb up and open that lid too
see i'll have to let the hired man pass up here because his combine goes faster than mine does
the barley is going in very nicely here going about 2.4 miles an hour
okay thank you
so
here is my dad in that front combine and dan in the second combine
dan is just making a turn so that he can start his next row i'm going to let you take this rest this
first pass one look at the center for a minute my dad just said he has a noise in his combine
so he's gonna let dan take the rest of the first pass and make sure nothing's wrong
right now to straighten things up i'm just going to go straight
so we don't have to always make a turn because what happens if you make a turn in the beginning
you'll pretty much be making it towards the end here's my dad over here looking at his combine
no i just did something they were 11. i'm trying to make it to where we started awesome
yeah we probably can get away with this for now
i'm still lifting today
i had a little skip there so i just wanted to go back and pick it up
so we get the most barley possible
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