i'm going to start the combine to warm
it up
there we go hello welcome to kate's egg
today
is the second day of harvest on our
montana farm
i'm driving combine
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i was a little slow i was getting picked
here so i was at like 2.9
oh that's okay i'm driving
a different combine this year than i
drove last year so
this is a john deere 90-70 and last year
i drove
a 96-10 and the year before that so this
is my third year of harvesting
i'm just starting my next row right now
the first day of harvest my dad gave me
a lesson
in this combine just kind of a little
bit of a refresher
i'm very excited for harvest this is
pretty much the first day where we're
starting in the morning
the beginning of harvest in the first
week is always kind of getting the kinks
out
and choosing which position each member
of your crew will have
my dad is in the green car right now
training hopefully our new green car
driver for this year
right now i'm the only combine in the
field because we also have to
choose another crew member for combine
so we haven't done that yet
and there's just no one else to run it
right now i'm starting to
get the hang of this different combine
it's pretty similar it's kind of like
riding a bicycle you don't really forget
what's crazy though is i can go a lot
faster with this combine so the wheat
swaths are pretty big
and i'm still going around 3.3 miles an
hour
it's around 11 a.m we didn't start until
i would say 9 30.
so we've just been going for a little
while i have not seen any wildlife today
i will keep you updated on that
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i'm going down into a coulee right now
so i'm slowing down a little bit the
wheat swaths tend to get bigger here
because the cooley is like a draw in the
field where all the water runs down to
the one part that i seem to be getting a
little confused on is my 9610 combine
if you press up on this button i've got
my hand on right here
the header goes down and if you press
the down part it goes up whereas this
one
up is up and down is down so it's really
confusing
we are picking up swaps of winter wheat
that's primarily what we grow here in
montana
we're in an area called the golden
triangle which is the best producing
area in the u.s for
wheat and barley we have to have really
hearty crops here so we can't grow
corn or anything that requires a lot
more moisture because we
get very little moisture it was planted
in the fall
something specific to this type of crop
is it has to freeze in order to produce
the head
which is the kernel part of the wheat
and oh my gosh a mouse
no way a little mouse was running
through the wheat swap
even though the swaths look big it's not
a good gauge
on whether or not we'll have a lot of
grain kernels from them because the
heads may not fill out
our governor actually declared montana
in an emergency state of drought because
we were getting
no rain at the end of the week's growing
time
that rain is what will fill out the
heads but it did get good rain
in the beginning so we're just not sure
if the head's filled out and i've got
a bushel's pareto meter here which is
not calibrated so
i'm not entirely sure what this is
yielding
okay once you put your auger out give
yes putting my auger back in now
my dad's now done two dumps with a
potential new cart person but
right now my dad is driving the tractor
to kind of just explain to him how to do
it
now the cart's going to go dump in a
semi and actually steve wall i did a
trucking video with him so that's kind
of fun
my grandpa's driving by right now
i'm going about 3.1 miles an hour and
both my return auger and throw over
meter are looking good i'm a little bit
under
my maximum capacity and i like to stay
there the first day of harvest because
you don't have a good feeling for your
combine yet
now i'm looking over to see where my
next swap is going to be
all right i just got to the end of this
row that's going
the width of the field and i'm going to
rode my combine up the field
because my next row i stopped in the
middle because my dad
wanted to dump going this direction and
he said kate are you on the outside row
and i said
i'm not but then i wrote it back and it
looked like yesterday
uncle chris had only done a half a row
so when i started the row it was the
first
but when i was getting up to the top it
wasn't anymore so it got a little bit
confusing and my dad's like kate that's
a rookie mistake
i said i know i can't believe i did that
but then it ended up not being my
mistake
so that's kind of what happens the first
day of harvest
in the first week of harvest
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i just noticed a package of steel will
on the right side of my combine
opposite of the stairs and we're just
sitting there we'll get that out
and let yourself
okay thank you we do lunches and dinners
in the field so that's something really
unique
and awesome that i'll have to film and
show you we have a cook
come for harvest we eat lunch around
noon and dinner is around
6. are you going up to getting outside
and
what i had to stop my row in the middle
because i realized it wasn't the outside
row anymore because the
row to the left of me was also stopped
in the middle so i'm going to get the
rest of it
so that i don't do half of another row
that was uncle chris asking why i was
roading up and not picking up a wheat
swap
all right i'm coming up to the wheat
swap here the grain cart
is now driving away i just stomped and
my dad was driving it right now
here's what my weight swap looks like
they're the green car goes
uncle chris just got out in the field so
that's really awesome
he's that combine right there and then i
just dumped in the green card
so now we've got two combines going i'm
just lining up to my wheat swath now
i'm going to drop my header
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my grain tank was too full so i had to
stop
and if you can see in that back window
that's my grain so it was getting really
full and my green tank
buzzer has been going off
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i just finished dumping with the grain
car now i'm going to
idle down my combine by pressing the
turtle button
turn on the bat and then the header
lower my head to the ground
rabbit speed now lunch is set up over
there and i'm just cooling down my
combine on turtle speed
so it's lunch time i'm really excited
because i'm kind of hungry
and then i'll get back to combining
after lunch uncle chris parked his
combine right there got mine parked here
the disc is over there
my dad is unloading the green cart
over in darcy's truck now i've got my
kate's egg tote
and i'm headed to lunch i'm here at
lunch with grandpa so i might have what
do you want to know
because it isn't known if i don't know
it look at there
oh a grasshopper
you know i've seen it i've seen on tv
like grasshopper
the pulse was totally covered with grass
really i'm routing my combine up to the
other end to get this last pass a week
coming down
and i'm full throttle at about 8.5 miles
an
hour so i'm just crossing a bit of a
right now
and looking for that last swap
which is right up here
so what i'm going to do is idle down my
combine i'm going to press
the turtle button and then i'm going to
turn the back of the combine on which is
the internal part
and then the header and after i let the
header catch a little bit i'm going to
turn
on rabbit speed now i'm into the wheat
and i'm going into this small swath at
about 2.7
and i'm now at about 3.5 you want to
ease it in so that it's easier on your
machine
it's also easier on your machine if you
put the back of the combine and the
header in
at turtle speed lower throttle rather
than full throttle so that's why we do
that
i just increased my belt speed a little
bit because i'm going 3.9 miles an hour
this is a half swap
because it's the end of this section of
the field and then we have that section
of the field over there
it was swapped into two so that it
wouldn't be so long
that is dean our truck driver and i
think you actually met him in my first
trucking video my first time ever
driving truck he was in the bin
with the grain back helping to load the
trucks he's a truck driver on our
harvest team this year darcy is also a
truck driver
and our new green car driver is doing
his first dump in a truck
by himself without my dad so he's just
giving him a little bit of help and
information when you want when you start
that dump you want to be in that back
set of bows where the rope is
and then these little trucks you're
going to start in the back
and then just back up to fill up that
was my dad speaking on the radio
giving the car driver some suggestions
for
dumping in the truck i'm going about
three points
shut the gate before you do anything
else the gate
not the pto there's a lot of training
that happens in the first couple of days
of harvest
we're definitely gonna throw that that
auger down
later the skies are so beautiful i'm
very glad that the smoke is starting to
clear up here
it has been terribly smoky
i keep my radio right here so it's nice
and handy just in case i need to radio
anyone or if i'm dumping on the go and
something's going wrong
i have to be really careful with our
cart driver this dump because
it's going to be his first dump without
my dad in cab with him well
he dumped uncle chris but his first one
with me so i have to pay more attention
and
give them a little bit of a break i'm
just putting my auger out now so that
the cart driver can kind of gauge where
to dump i'm going to slow down to about
2.93 miles an hour just to make it
easier on everyone there's a little more
room for
not really air but for to think about
what to do
i see the green car driver in my mirror
right now so
i'm just making sure i keep a straight
line with this swap
and all should go well oh that was a
perfect lineup
wow brad when you're doing duplication
speed around and grab chris and then
come back and dump
you know what i mean okay it's a fuel
for this pickup i'll be right back
you're outrunning me a little bit
and my green auger is back in so i'm
good to go
that went fairly well i was he was
outrunning me quite a bit though i was
going 3.8 to keep up with him which is
pretty fast and i wouldn't have been
able to do that if this swath wasn't
allowing me to but i don't want to go
that fast when dumping on the go anyway
or in general
since it's so far out in the country
here you never see
anyone and then harvest time there's so
much traffic
and a lot of things happening all the
time
brad you have to go around down to the
bottom of the ship and
header up and i'm going to go to the
other half of this field right now
got the green car driver who's also
going down there to
dump uncle chris eventually so i'm just
going to let him go first see someone on
the
road i wave of course i wave at everyone
even if i don't know them
most people on the road i don't know who
they are but it's just so fun to wave
and i always love
waving at people i have to kind of swoop
in here
while not running over the wheat to get
this one
we'll definitely finish this field
tonight you really don't want to drive
on the jab so if you
don't have to drive on either side of it
brad is our car
driver and uncle chris is just telling
him not to drive on the row of chaff
which is the straw
we don't have the straw choppers on the
back of the combines because
we have people who are going to come and
bail it usually we would put the straw
choppers on but this year and last year
we haven't been
oh wow the swath is really big right
here harvest is
always long days and long hours but i
find the first three days to be the most
challenging
if you can make it through the third day
you can make it through the rest of
harvest
that's my thought process on it and
that's something i recognized
very quickly my first year on these
field sites we have to be pretty careful
where we jump
otherwise these augers will use the
tractors
that make sense my uncle chris was just
explaining this field has a lot of hills
and
on your way back to the truck roll in
and grab kate before you
go to the truck you know
my uncle chris was explaining to our car
driver that
we have a lot of coolies and hills in
this field and if you're on an angle in
the combine
and the cart is on a different angle the
auger of the combine will hit the cart
which is never good you definitely don't
want that to happen
so we have to be careful and make sure
we're dumping on flat even areas
for a breakdown i
think i will brad why don't you just
hang out
there joking and then we'll take him out
with you there and then you can go
oh yeah yes i think i'll make it
we don't have any barley to cut this
year we only have wheat so
most of its winter wheat that will be
picking up
and it will be swathed and then we have
a little tiny bit of spring wheat we
also have
a lot of lentils but we won't be
harvesting those because they require
different types of headers
i'm getting the hang of running this
combine it's a very similar feeling to
my 9610
except for it really goes so much
faster with these huge swaths i can't
even believe it
i'm coming down in some heavy weed
somebody should wait and put a few
combines together because this is going
to be complicated pretty immediately
big swaths here i'm at 2.8 and i'm
maxed out for my return auger and
also my
a return auger is basically anything
that doesn't get
thrashed meaning any kernels that didn't
get the coverings off of them
is sent back through the combine for a
second round of thrashing
and then the throw over meter tells you
how many kernels you're throwing out the
back because there's only so much the
combine can do
and so many kernels the combine can get
out which is most of them but you do
throw a little bit out the back with the
chaff and the straw
so if you're pushing your combine too
hard and going too fast it can't process
all of that weed at once
and that's when you get high on your
throw over meter
my temperature gauge looks good i'm only
on three bars of temperature
i've just now caught uncle chris in the
combine so
we're close to each other now which is a
lot easier on our cart driver so
he can just come dump us both and then
go back to the truck and dump because
his cart can't hold three full
combine loads harvest has only just
begun there's going to be so many more
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thank you so much for watching i really
hope you enjoyed today's video
it was our first full day of harvest on
our montana farm
well we just got done with dinner and
we're going to finish up coal mining for
the day
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this is actually a picture of winter
wheat swath
and then this is a combine right here
i'm very excited for many more awesome
harvest days to come
okay thank you so much for watching bye
would you like to say bye to everyone
bye
it's going good thank you how's it going
up there
well good thing you're not
you