hi everyone it's Jack at Mainsgill so thanks for tuning in again thanks for watching
the youtube so we keep going we're doing well we've just got over that thousand subscribers
so we're going to keep going and see where we can get to what we are on with today is we are going
to be drilling so i'm on the drill uh matthew's going to be plowing in the field next door as well
but today i'm going to be showing you drilling really so what we have is it's a 155r john deere
so it's a good john deere all the auto steer and that on we'll show you that
we have a front press and the three meter combination on the back so it's got the power harrow
and the combination drill on the back so there you go and we're going to show you drilling
these fields so we've got this 12 acre here to start with that he plowed out the other day
it's rained a bit it's dried up again now and then there's 24 acre there next to it as well
he's um got nearly halfway he's coming back now he's going to carry on plowing that and we'll
crack on and see what we can do so i'm just going to show you the land getting worked down we're
going to be drilling so what we're drilling is we are drilling spring wheat in here so this spring
wheat will be fed to the cattle through the winter and that's what we used to finish them off so we
feed them on the silage based diet with the feeder wagon but we also mix in the likes of the wheat
that we grow all the barley we grow we've got some beans to drill so there'll be beans to go in it as
well and we feed all these to the cattle this is just going to show you what we do how it works and
hopefully a good job see what happens we'll crack it on here we go oh and he's fetching
the drone as well so we'll get that up and we'll show you some more drones he likes flying that
so right we're in the cab of the tractor and i'm going to show you how it works a bit so what
we have here is we have the john deere then we have the green star this is called so that's the
version of auto steer green star and what we're going to do is i have set up so they asked i've
come to the field i've told it which field i'm in i'm in the middle 12 acre field and uh it has my
track set from last year on the woods side so that's this side here so it's a straight line
down here so that's set up from last year ready so we can remember and then what we have done is
i've got it so if you press auto if you press auto on there that'll drive it for you
stick to these lines so these lines are all your tracks three meters apart set up so that
it'll do it for you but also this one here it's all set up so these ones if i weren't on it it
wouldn't be blue it'd be green this one like that one over there and these are tram lines
so these are spread out every 36 meters but the first one has to be 18 meters off the hedge side
for the center of the sprayer so that's what we're doing so i'm going to show you now if we back up
so what we do is i've got my itec setup and i've got me uh autosteer so if i press auto
it starts driving itself putting it on the line like that
and then i'll just turn that down so then also i've got my itec
set up which drops the front press
sets the pto goin drops the power harrow in sets the seed going
there we go
good job so i've done my first couple of runs now there we go just done two
runs down there and looks like matthew's here with the plough so he must be coming to see me
as you can see me tractor is covered in well muck from muck spreading the other day i hope
you seen that video that's quite a cool video like one with the drone it made a good job
but here he is with the plough and the fasttrac and be able to crack on good job uh the drone is
flying around somewhere i've seen matthew must have set it going he's just been flying oh here
he is yeah nearly a right off so there he was that was him flying it there past the drill
don't know where he's gone with it now we're stuck in the tree of summit but we'll get it back later
well yeah so we're doing all right we're getting there uh that shows you all the
blue one there's been done so that's the good thing about having the auto steer
is i can go up here now swing around and come back down there whereas if you're don't have this and
you have to work along you have to do it line by line drop down them arms there they're your
markers bout markers you drop them down and use them so if you do it that way you just have to
put a lot more turns in on the headlands and it compacts your headlands a lot more
so the way we do it with this auto steer means that we can flick it around and do it this way
so we're not getting on too bad now so here we are with the drill Matthew just been back to the yard
so he said he fetched a bag of seed down so here he is so he's on the loadall he's just fetching it
i'm going to put it in the back of here so you can see the seed there it's getting down now
so we're going to fill it back up so this is the spring wheat seed so it's called kilburn
the variety we're on and uh yeah we're gonna fill back up ready for carrying on good good
up
so that's it i'm back now so we have finished the drilling i've just finished the headlands on that
field so that is the uh 12 acre in the 24 acres 36 acre they're done in spring wheat so that was
the last lot of spring wheat to do and the spring barley is done as well so that's all the spring
rate all spring barley to done sorry so that's all done now uh we've got some maize to drill but
that's a precision drill job but i'll still show you that but it'll be to get ready for the drill
uh so it's to work down plough up work down and all that subsoil it we go through the subsoiler
when uh we put maize in so that's it there um what else have we done so we got that done and uh
that's about it right i just thought i'd show you that we're finished we've got the drill back we
uh we're back here we're gonna get ready for the beans now so uh we're gonna have to put some fresh
power harrow tines on so there's a little bit of life left in them but not a lot so they'll be to change then
uh we'll be able to calibrate it and get ready for the beans so matthew's on ploughing that out now
uh it's blowing up a little bit wet so we're gonna leave it for today so i was gonna go tonight now
but we'll just leave it for now because it's a bit wet so let it nap over overnight and then we can
crack on in the morning with it so we'll get ready and uh yeah that's about it really so good job
uh that's a bit of a look at our drill our setup and our tractor so there we go thanks for watching
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