hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is very exciting because we are cutting durham
durham is the grain that is used for pasta so i'm roading my combine to the field we're starting in
we're completely done with spring wheat i've never cut durum before
and i'm super excited to we still have the big headers on this crop looks a lot
like wheat but it's just a different kind of crop idle my machine down turn the back on
turn the header on now i'm going to set my header on the ground once i get lined up
yes i have a copy just give me a second okay it's 7.90 what is it 790. let's bring that rotor
speed up to about 880 or 850 at least so press that button and then turn that closing stop to
you to the right now that's the geared cog one you know turn it to like 78.50 or something are
sure are you sure you weren't looking at the fan speed versus yeah the rotor is the little
gear icon right with the line under it and the fan is the icon with the line sticking out of it right
so when you press that button you should get a screen you know and it's going to come up
with a number and then you dial it to the right until it goes to the number you want
yeah i dialed it to 840 and it moved it to 890 and now it doesn't want to even change it
okay shut your head off you know stop and shut your head off when you change it did it change
you have to have the machine going full speed otherwise you don't know what it's going
is it working for you yes i've got it at 8 50 now put your head back in and we'll go cut some
of this she's already cutting this crop does not look like it was affected by sawfly really at all
i'm about to go down a big hill so i'm just going to manually run my header
how's your return running gate it hasn't even been filling up to halfway at all so when you
look in your tank how clean the green look and did you notice how yellow the girdles yeah the
kernels are very yellow and the grain looks really clean actually it kind of looks cleaner than the
last field so this is the first pass in the durham field this year and my first pass in durham ever
so i'm pretty excited about it seems to be going really well and just like straight cutting wheat
my dad's cutting a circle right now so he has room to dump in the grain car he looks pretty full
i'm just going to line up with the green tart right now i'm not going to dump on the go
just because this is the first pass i probably will soon the grain is a lot more yellow than
wheat or barley i'm going to shut the grain off let the rest fall out and then put my auger back
our grain cart driver will drive away and then i don't have to drive past his big wheel
which i like i'm going to idle my machine down turn the back on and then the header
and then rabbit speed and i'm getting back into the crop i'm going three miles an hour
right now and it looks like my combine's handling it pretty well my dad's splitting
this field in half so he's driving down the middle of the field with weed on either side
i see a john deere pickup here yeah i see him headed that way our combine headers have an
auto float so you can set them at a height and they'll kind of float to the ground
but they've got some issues with the sensors that my dad's going to
yes so my dad is having a john deere person come out and help us with it
again now i am making another path gotta line up with my bro our grain cart driver lined up
over here and i didn't need to unload yet so i told him we're not going on this path
but i'll probably make it this width pass i'm not sure hopefully i'll make it over there i
think i will it'll be close if i make it over there i was thinking i would dump on this side
and i could radio to our green car driver and have him come over here but i should be good to make it
over there my tote bag is getting really dirty now because i always have it with me at harvest
and i think it looks absolutely great maybe even better with all the dirt on it and i can
always put it in the wash do not wash it on warm water i tried that once and well it was still a
fabulous tote bag but much smaller if you do wash your tote bag make sure to wash it on cold water
we can do this one on the go i don't think it should be a problem after that little hill
though had a little skip there and the reason i want to do it after that tiny hill is because
i don't want to have to move my header up and down my dad is still over there they are working on the
header height sensors just stay there until i get up there my auger out i make sure i have
my auger button handy to move it back and forth just in case it's not lined up properly and also
my grain button because if anything goes wrong i immediately have to shut the grain off you should
be able to see my green tank emptying a little bit i am the only combine in the field right now
and our green car driver is going now so that went super well dumps on the go aren't too challenging
once you figure them out you just you really have to pay attention and make sure not to hit your
left side of your header with the green card oh there's no comparison it's really great to cut
my uncle chris just asked me if this was this is my favorite crop actually i like derm
it is really nice uncle chris just said this is his favorite crop and he also asked me
if i enjoyed cutting this better than the spring wheat and i told him no comparison because of
the saw flies it's so hard to cut the spring wheat and this just flows in so nicely it's a great crop
it's all standing and it seems to be just really wonderful so i love it dad was back in the field
for a little while while the john deere mechanic was getting some parts for his header sensors now
they're stopped again working on it i just stopped my combine turned the machine off and idled it
down because there's a rock on my cutter bar that i need to get off and it's really important that
everything is turned off for safety reasons when you do this i have to put a glove on as well so
this is the cutter bar right here of the header and then this is the reel which helps bring in
the derm and here's a close-up of the derm it looks a little bit different from wheat but
not too much so i was pushing a rock here and it wouldn't fall off my cutter bar i'm taking it off
i'll just throw it over here that's what i had to do dinner is here but i have
to continue combining until i reach the area where dinner is but i just wanted to show you
what happens when you get a rock on your cutter bar you can't just leave it there because you
don't want it going through the combine i just unloaded in the green cart and it's dinner time so
i've idled my combine down and i'm just waiting it for it to cool off a little bit and then i'll
be going to dinner i'm here at dinner with darcy and we were talking about how delicious the derm
would be in pasta i'm not a pasta either though really pasta's my favorite i just once in a
while it's nicer than wheat though yeah it does look super nice thank you so much for watching
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