hello welcome to Kate' Ag today we have the big headers on which is super
exciting i'm shifting gears now to third we're gonna go up past katrina and i'm going to rode
my combine to our spring wheat field this has a 35 foot header and that's the biggest header i've
ever run i think my 9610 had a 30 foot straight cutting header but i'm very excited and it's
always hard the first day going to the big headers but once you get used to them it's pretty simple
you definitely have to pay a lot more attention and be very careful because big header big
mistakes all right i'm following my dad i have to be really careful of road signs now my 96 10
i didn't have to weave through too many road signs whereas these headers are way too big you have to
weave through every road sign my dad's header is 40 feet and we've only got two combines running
for spring wheat because we only have two big headers so that's why our third will not be going
i think your header tilt is at an angle mark oh it does look like that my big header does not have
head or tilt so that's good that's just another thing i don't have to worry about the header feels
so heavy on the front of this combine i'm on just a small downhill slope and i have to have
my hydrostat back a little bit i have to check to see if mark has his radio i've got my radio right
here and i might take it down on the big headers we have something called a cutter bar and it's
basically looks like combine teeth that's what i like to call them and they move back and forth
like this super fast and that's what cuts off the bottom of the stem of the wheat in order to put it
into the combine and then we have these belts that move the wheat from each side of the header to the
inside part that will take it to the back and to the concaves which help break apart the straw from
the grain kernels then the grain kernels drop onto the sieves which sifts out any chaff or
wheat straw that might still be mixed in and then the good kernels are augured up to the grain tank
and the rest goes out the back of the combine i have to go get marks radio what's in the house
well you should have noticed it this morning and been there and back already you've
had an hour or so to do it but go ahead and do it i'm not pissed that you're doing it i'm just
not pissed that we're doing it now they're only open till noon anyway today today's saturday
there's a big ditch off of this really thin road out of the yard so i'm a little bit nervous for it
i just have to be really careful yes i have a copy
yes i have a copy can you hear me or you could go over by katrina and go over to the schoolhouse
and then across you don't have to go on the highway no i'm gonna go on the highway because
these things are hard enough to get around got a sign coming up but it's already completely bent
almost to the ground so i shouldn't have to worry about it too much you could do that all stubble
if you wanted to go behind katrina's house double trip i'm going down a pretty big hill but getting
up it is going to be the hard part when roading combines and you see a big hill i always wait
till the other combine in front of me is up the hill before i go down so if anything happens that
we are not both stuck at the bottom of the hill can you hear me chris yeah i can hear you this
is a different radio then same radio i just put it back under another road sign but it's also
almost bent to the ground because of headers although i really do have to move be able to
avoid this one still this will be the only combine running today because my dad's combine header is
completely tilted and it's pretty bad so we don't know what's happening now we have to go around
these little signs and posts oh gosh there's one on this side and then one directly on the other so
you have to weave this way and then this you got to do slalom turns in your combine looks like
we're not going on the highway we are roading through one of our fields so i'm just going
onto the field approach here can you hear me now i've always been able to hear you can you hear me
so when we come off this road going to that next field that's one of them pump things you want to
go real slow so your header don't start to rock and roll you know what i mean yes bring the pickup
up to the highway by the road yeah we're gonna go to the field down to the schoolhouse anyway
we are driving through all of our fields to get to the schoolhouse we own this one then the next
one and the next we can do that we're not driving through neighbors fields now we're crossing onto
another field to travel to the schoolhouse pretty big bump going through the field road
here so i have to be careful my dad will probably take a couple of passes with me in this combine
because this is the biggest header i've ever run before and also the buttons are a little different
so i have to get used to that with pickup headers you don't use nearly as many buttons
now we're driving on our summer follow and then we are just about to start driving on the stubble
that we picked up this year we've got our other combine that will not have a straight cutting
header on it parked here at the schoolhouse we just made it here this is also where the
15 grain bins are there's a grain cart moving on the road right now so we won't be able to go for
a little bit i think there's a bunch of combines coming behind oh there is i can see at least one
there's combines coming now so we're just going to wait for a little while two combines definitely
don't want to meet on the road there was one time last year where we had oh gosh it was a
combine traffic jam six seven maybe even eight combines all right on the same road it was crazy
looks like something else is coming down the highway here yeah there's a combine or something
we could go across and up this double strip so you don't have to weave like that combines doing
you have to weave in and out of the little reflector signs on the side of the highway
that's always a bit challenging it's a combine slalom course this combines got a flag on a cape
really that's cool i don't even see the combine yet driving it like it's in indianapolis 500.
my dad just said this guy's driving his combine like he's in the indianapolis
500 that's hilarious oh wow the combine going by has a montana flag oh he is driving fast
wow this is cool and it's a girl running it kate very cool mark
i always love seeing other girls driving combine because you don't see it very often and there
should be more women in agriculture and i hope to help inspire other girls to be a part of
agriculture it's a very important industry and one that needs more women do i go or wait now
so it looks like we're going to try and drive on our field
so that we don't have to drive on the highway don't hit the mailboxes
i'll try not to hit the mailboxes just set up in the shade of that red truck it looks like we won't
get started before lunch i'm going to take darcy up to vegas we're almost to our spring wheat field
we might try it before lunch to see if it's even going to be ready to harvest we think it might
be too green we're not entirely sure if we had it swapped it would have been ready we're just
going to try and see how it goes we're crossing a little bit bigger of a [ __ ] here so i have to
be careful my dad's head are so tilted that the left side's in the ground on this [ __ ] which
is why we can't harvest with it today you might want to shift into second for that cape thank you
i'm super glad my dad let me know that i should shift in a second because that would have been
bad if i didn't so i have to lift my header with still giving it float room slow down
and i made it through now i'm shifting back into third austin do you have a copy i do come out to
lunch we're a mile west of the school house and take the left all right i'll be out there
shortly now i'm climbing back onto the road on this approach here what gear are you in dad
what was that what gear did you just put it in i had to get out of that hole i had to put it
in second to get out and then i put it in dirt so i go down the road again yeah i needed to put it
in second too i definitely should have i can't climb onto this approach if i'm not in second
i should be able to make it now yep now third again oh we're doing the field where i broke
the wheel off two years ago so well i didn't break the wheel off the combine it kind of
just fell off a bearing went out that tractor oh we're not starting in this field we're starting
we're starting in the one over there okay what's the header in the post
yeah i definitely would not want to hit the power line poll i'm putting it in the 3500
oh it's okay i'm lining up to my dad's combine to park for lunch