hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is very exciting because i am in the tandem truck again and
we are hauling grain to the elevator so i'm getting a little bit better and hopefully
it's not quite as scary for my dad as it usually is when he comes for rides with me but i hope
you enjoyed the video
now i'm inside the tractor and i will be starting the pto and bringing the rpm up so that the
grain goes into the truck when my dad gives me the a-ok he's talking to darcy right now
now dad is backing up to where the grain back is going to load first so i engage the pto
as you can see here and now i'm going to bring the rpms up slowly
now that they're all the way up and you can see the pto is running here's what it looks
like running and then there's the wheat coming out now my dad backed the truck up a little
bit to start filling this portion of the tandem because as you can see there's a grain pile
in this part we do a really small third pile so you can see we have two big piles and then
just a partial third one and that fills our truck to legal weight to drive on the roads
we've got a sprayer coming up and that takes up the whole road so not sure not the sprayer
just past the sprayer and made it by safely he pulled halfway off the road for us so that
was very nice we are headed to united grain the grain elevator in conrad to sell our winter
wheat i actually did a video of that grain elevator if you're more interested in learning
about the process farmers go through to sell their wheat and what that looks like it's
a breezy day here in montana it would be very windy for most other states but pretty typical
for here now i've engaged cruise control which is a very nice feature we have on these trucks
this is the first semi truck that i learned how to drive in well actually it's not a semi
it's a tandem but that was a very fun experience and it's so interesting to be driving the
same tandem truck again but much better with a little bit more of an idea of how to drive
it properly i've also driven semi trucks now so i think that makes going back to the tandem
a little bit easier i think it was around maybe a year ago that i first learned how
to drive this right dad so it's crazy to see how far i've come not quite ready to drive
by myself but maybe a little bit better than when i started i've also gotten a lot better
at doing the tarp which is really interesting wouldn't you say dad
i remember my first tarp darcy and our other employee had to help me just on on tarp it
or no i had to help me tarp it but now i'm able to do it by myself for the most part
was this also the same truck i stalled out at the elevator in Sunburst so i don't want
you to stall it out do you know how it is yeah so lots of memories in this truck for
sure so i'm going to try my very best to not stall it out and i think that would make it
a very successful trip okay do you remember what goes on up here yeah i'll shut my cruise
control off at the top of the hill
i'm in 10th gear right now which this is an auto shift truck so i don't have to manually
shift it which is really nice about now
now let's let go and then we'll start putting a little break on it and slow it down
i want you to drift left a little bit look up there way up there no one's coming
now i have cruise control engaged again hopefully we're gonna shut that off before the river
yes before the big hill so we don't take off like a rocket with our loaded semi
so this truck must mostly run in 10th gear on the highway yeah the gears are really low
you can be driving around in 35 at 7 30.
oh wow oh wow a lot of tin yeah don't want to run over that water temperature's good
oil is good
air is good what's trans stand for transmission so the transmission temperature is 100 degrees
fahrenheit
i'll have a semi passing me in a second okay stay in the right lane
got half a few tank of fuel turn your cruise off
how fast are you going 65 what are you now?
64 Don't drive off the road!!!
Don't stare at the insturments right
right okay now let it go just let it run how fast?
70.
uh uh 60.
how far back is he he pulled back yeah pretty far back start looking down that other road
and down this other road don't be tight on your corner
I don't see anyone ok go
just hold the same speed don't try and accelerate and make it shift
blinker we don't want it to go too much faster we have to turn off up here too yes
ok start slowing down a little bit ok if I were you I'd just let this guy go
cause he probably ain't gonna let you go you got your blinker on
yeah clutch yeah
keep going keep going so take the clutch out yes tap on the throttle and stop just can't
cut the corner and run into him you gotta square this out
turn turn turn TURN these don't turn very sharp
did he waive?
I don't know pull up a little bit clutch break break now
yeah start breaking easy now easy now what?
no neutral yes check to make sure you're in neutral before
you let the clutch out remember you're always facing the way you're moving the tarp rolling
let it down you're on the wrong side
okay it rolls better when your arm's higher
walk with the roll don't get ahead of it all behind it higher is the easier i'm as high
as it'll go
okay now you're ahead of it it ain't gonna roll very good get your arm up okay now walk
it down into that thing and hook it
that will work yeah lift that thing up
okay back to your truck let's go