hello welcome to Kate's Ag
we're now in the pickup driving to relocate our raccoon as dad puts it the mask to bandit
this is the field right now and our last winter we feel
my uncle chris just picked up his header and set it back down because there was
a rock a huge rock i saw in his weave we've got our grain cart following behind in the
mirror because he doesn't know when we are going to fill up my dad program these buttons
for me so when i come to the end of a row i don't have to press and hold this button to
lift my header up i just press button number one like that it lifts the header up i make my turn
without running into this person's wheat and then i line up to my wheat row press font number two
to set it down and then go into the wheat swath i'm going 2 miles an hour and my return auger
is maxed out i mean it would be plugged if it was anymore
yes it's a half row but i think it is going the wrong direction
right here
thank you
yes the big swath is the one that only goes halfway that's also a half swath is not
i don't think so i don't see the hawk feather oh my goodness i do see it
that one's gotta be going the right direction
now i'm turning my combine back on so here's the feather it was very cool and really exciting i
actually have quite a few hawk feathers now this harvest and i've been setting them in
my little glove compartment of my combine got a pretty decent sized hill coming up
now i am getting a little bit full with grain so i think i will be dumping in the green cart soon
our grain cart driver is just kind of lining up with me because i am going to unload right
after we go through this little dip here now you can only pick up wheat swaps going
one direction the swather will do passes either back and forth or all the way around the field
and you pick your wheat swath up with the heads laying towards you so that means the head of the
wheat which holds the grain kernels and it kind of looks fluffy when you look at it in the field
that goes into your combine first and then the bottom and stem of the wheat go in last if you try
and pick it up with the stem of the wheat first it will hardly go into the combine the heads of wheat
connect so if you pick them up at the head it will all kind of flow in and just lay into your combine
but the stems don't so it makes it a lot more challenging and not ideal to pick it up with the
stems going in first so that's why we had certain directions with swaths and make sure we are going
the correct way in them so that we can pick up all of the wheat in that swath i am making my
turn right now it's a beautiful day out today we have gorgeous blue skies which is wonderful
because there's been a lot of smoke lately and i'm just really happy that we don't have that
anymore our green card driver is lining up with me right now combines actually aren't too close
anymore we've got uncle chris pretty far ahead and austin's pretty far behind i am the second person
to unload in the green cart so the third is always the hardest it fills up so you really have to work
the car go forward backwards the car driver will drive the same speed it looks like my grain tank
is almost empty so when it gets to about this point i'll press my button on my handle shut
it off and then once the grain is fully dropped out i put my auger back and our green car driver
will turn around and go in dump austin and then head back to the trucks where he will unload so
after three combine dumps the grain cart is pretty much full and he has to unload in the semi our
green cart driver just radiated and said there's a coyote off to the left oh i think i see it
way off kind of see it walking away my dad was just telling me on the radio to be careful of
this because it is pretty thick so what i do is i move my lever forward a bit let some of it come
in and then slow down and just let it process that a little bit otherwise i would plug my
combine on every time i do that you hear the rotor stumble so there's definitely a lot of wheat there
it looks like there's still that little half kind of row off to the left i don't know if
we should get that now or we'll be in that next time game would just seem to come by
the i'll run over and grab it next time okay thank you to antelope running through the field
oh my gosh that is so cool i'm putting the combine in
third gear now turning my flashers on and i'm going to start roading the combine it looks like
the fire got put out we had some neighbors stop by dinner and let us know that so that's really great
fires are never good and it seems like we've had a lot of them this year more than i've ever seen
i'm going 21 miles an hour on this gravel road so we are completely done
with pickup headers for our 2021 harvest oh no we've got a corner coming up the other
so this is the other field of spring wheat we have we have two fields that make up the 300
acres and my dad is just saying kate this is the field you broke your wheel off oh that's funny oh
my gosh that's hilarious and we were actually straight cutting spring wheat two years ago so
now this field came back up for crop rotation it has some coolies in it so i was kind of cleaning
up a section along the coolies and yeah my wheel fell off so if you'd like to hear the full story
you should watch my dad sold my combine video because that's the combine that the wheel broke
off in and i tell you the story of my 9610 and i we basically run all john deere equipment we
love our john deere's my family has been running john deere appointment since the beginning oh i
have a strobe off the road there doesn't look like there's anyone coming so i'll go ahead and make my
turn we are on the highway now oh we've got a semi truck coming i've got to pull off the road here
i always love waving at the semi trucks and people going down the road it's really fun
and i don't know really any of them but i always wave because it just brightens your day and it
probably brightens their day too i think my dad's combine goes a bit slower than mine
i'm suspecting it goes about a tenth of a mile an hour slower so my combine i think is the fastest
combine on the farm which is pretty exciting we've got another mile on the highway to go
anybody behind you no the sun's in my eyes but i don't see anyone behind me we won't start cutting
the spring lead tonight we will just put the big headers on this harvest has been absolutely
wonderful and i'm so happy i've been able to film the process to educate you a little bit more about
how your food ends up eventually on your table oh and there is another vehicle right here i'm pretty
close to my dad right now which is not good i did not see that one coming but the other one was our
neighbor dave so if you're watching this hello i'd also like to say hello to jens tuft and his family
in denmark they're very good friends with my family and my grandpa and he actually came
to harvest a couple of years with us so that's just awesome so hello if you're watching this
and they're just the nicest people oh my gosh a baby pheasant oh baby pheasant
that was adorable
i was waving at dean he's in our service truck
what's my outlook on things not too good there was a baby snake about two and a half to three
inches long over by the bins oh wow really i got a picture of them if you want to see it
gardner snakes are a lot better than rattlesnakes though he was so small
all right now i'm going to line the columbine up pull up on my right cape and when we blow these
it'll blow the dust away from it now we have to blow out the combines and clean them really well
for when we go into spring week dean if you could bring that around to the side turn my
hazards off because i almost forgot again the headers on the ground my dad is now blowing off
the combine he's blowing off the header part this right here it's really critical that we
clean the combines very well before moving crops my dad just dropped the pickup header the combines
look really weird without their headers and they they feel like you're going to just topple over
once the wheat comes through this part of the header this is what it goes into
and if you can see up there there's the little shaker part that get the grain kernels out
thank you so much for watching today's video i really hope you enjoyed the last
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