hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is i can't even remember how many days of harvest it's
been not too many though under five maybe around the fourth day there's uncle chris
and we're just getting combines ready and greased and prepared to move to
our field to finish the last couple passes we have and then move on to the next field
we're just getting ready to move combines uncle chris is
taking his right now i'm lifting up my header and i'm going to take my
i'm in the field now and uncle chris is roading up because there's two rows coming down and only one
going up and we're about to finish it off here and then we'll move to a different field actually one
a little bit further away i idle my machine down turn the back on then the header and once that
is running for a little bit i'll idle it up set my header on the ground and go into the wheat swap
i'm on the last row of this field right now so it's pretty exciting and then we'll
road all the way to a field over there these are not rows that you see behind me there
draw rope well they're rows of something they're not rows of wheat anymore they're
straw rose which comes out the back of the combine
here's what my machine looks like going 3.3 miles an hour which is actually pretty fast
and i'm running below capacity as you can see there capacity would be at this green line and
then somewhere in the middle here now that's where uncle chris cut in and this is where
my row finishes i got a little bit close to the green car this time but that's okay it'll still
go in the cart and that's the most important part now we're headed to our next field i shifted into
third gear so i can go really fast now i think in third gear i can go around 19 miles an hour
now i'm going to drive on to this little field road we have rather than drive in the field we
even get to use our blinkers which are located right here on the left side of the steering wheel
i'm driving onto this road now your blinkers don't shut off automatically like in a car so
you have to remember to shut them off like a semi truck which is very challenging sometimes it's
pretty easy to road combines around when you have the pickup headers on they're only 16 feet long
compared to gosh i think it's 45 feet for this straight cutting header so that's a big difference
and especially for road signs a lot of times by farming land you'll see road signs completely bent
and that's a lot of times from equipment and you can even tell what equipment did it by what color
of paint scraped on the sign it's pretty crazy i've never been assigned before thankfully but
you do have to weave in and out of them which is somewhat challenging and also the little
reflectors on the highway you have to weave in and out of it doesn't look like anyone's coming on the
road so i should be good to go you also don't want your header bouncing up and down too much
so even though your combine can go for most of the bumps you don't want to go too fast i just turned
my hazards on because i forgot to do that this right here is our lentil field this is also next
to the elevator that my great grandfather built on our montana farm around 1930 not sure if you can
see it from this angle but it's right there we've got a little bit of a turn coming up in the road
i'm driving around 18 miles an hour right now but i'm going to slow down for this
all this sweet is laying in spots and this is actually it looks like it has been recently
swapped because the spots look really big and kind of fluffy and after a couple days to a week
they start to settle down and they'll look a lot flatter oh wow my combat goes 21.5 miles an hour
it goes way fast so my 9610 used to only go around 19 miles an hour but this goes oh now i'm going
22. oh my header was really starting to bounce so i had to slow down there my dad was just telling
me that these swaps are pretty big so i'll have to go a little bit slower and really pay attention to
my meters to see what capacity is brad uh stevie's there but just stay on stay on the road until we
get this field open now that you can go jump on them there's not enough room in the field for
the trucks to park so we have to open up a couple of passes and then our green car driver can go in
the field and dump in the trucks now i'm starting a pass that goes all the way around the field and
there seems to be a lot of grasshoppers in this we swap this is a ginormous we swap right here
now i'm going to have a combine snack and today i've chosen an orange because oranges
are always delicious and especially combining and it's not really eventful
right here in the field so i don't really need my hands on the steering wheel very
delicious okay i'll be back i'll be back down here keep up thanks lots of fun radio conversations
my grandpa just said if there's anything good in his lunchbox he's gonna eat it
i also got my orange peeled in one piece so that's pretty awesome
it's the little things on combine that are super fun
where's a good place for me to be chris you need to just follow us throughout this round
i don't know how far we'll go the other fields i was going around 3.3 miles now or sometimes
three sometimes under three but now i'm not really going faster than 2.2 or 2.3
we're heading the left right there brad now end up a little bit and we're going to dump
before we get there but my dad just ran said we're having lunch by darcy's truck for shade
we always usually have lunch by darcy's truck for shade dad and i are here at lunch and also grandpa
you know what to say kate there's no rest for the wicked that's right
none of us out here probably i'm having the most delicious watermelon at lunch
we just got done with lunch and i'm getting back in my combine
to go for the rest of the day the grain carts right there and the other combines over there
now i'm outside of my combine and uncle chris suggested a stretching break which i'm super happy
about because it's always hard sitting in combine all day and it's really good to get out and
stretch your legs so that's what i'm doing right now and then we're going to start our next field
our farm is located in montana and we are cutting winter wheat right now so now we're heading to
this portion it was swathed in half so it's easier for the grain carton trucks they all
just move over when we get to the next half i'm going to turn on the back of my machine which is
the internal parts that separate the grain kernels from the chaff and straw and everything and then
i'm turning on my header which is the part that picks up the wheat i have to drive on this wheat
swath to get to my next row and usually we don't like to drive on wheat swaps because it crushes
the kernels but there's some times when you can't avoid it and this would be one of those instances
everyone's setting up for dinner right now my dad's starting another row and darcy's truck is
shade today and then the green car is getting prepared to unload into steve wallace semi we
finished that half of the field after lunch around maybe three and now we've been in this side of the
field ever since i just parked the combine and now we're going to have dinner it's been a very
long day but a pretty awesome day we didn't have any breakdowns and everything went pretty well
everyone's setting up for dinner and then these little bugs on my window are soft flies and
that's why we swath is because they eat the stem of the wheat and make it fall over and they're all
over the window i'm gonna have to windshield wipe them away bye saw flies dad's pulling up
to dinner now he's pulling up way closer than i did i definitely should have done that my uncle
chris is giving me the evening off so thank you uncle chris and i really hope you enjoyed
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