hello welcome to Kate's Ag today we are getting ready to road the combines back to the field we
were in yesterday so I just put it in third gear it wasn't quite in so it wouldn't move
make sure Avid's ready to go I let the combines idle for a little while and then I revved it up
because in the morning time you always want to give the combines a little bit of time to warm
up just want to yep, Arvid's right behind me um hold on I'm just gonna let this car go in front of
us because a combine is going to take up the road for a little while and we can't drive very fast
so if you see a car you always want to let them go in front although I don't have a radio so I don't
know what's going on it might be Uncle Chris I think it is actually oh turning so we are good to
go I'm wearing my Kate's Ag shirt that is grown and made in the USA again because it's perfect
for Harvest time it is 10:20 right now when we're getting started most operations start earlier and
we used to but just because we've been doing it so long we start a little bit later gotta slow down
the combine got a little bit turny there I'm going to go to the approach on the shoot I don't know
how I should get on this field I'm trying to think yesterday we got off at this part so this is where
I'm going to go Arvid seems to be pretty far behind me but he still is behind me I don't want
to completely lose him when I don't have a radio so now I'll take a slight turn hopefully I'll
be able to see where Arvid is at now oh it seems like he's coming I wonder why he's going so slow
I bet he's only in second gear and because I don't have a radio I can't let them know
to get in third so I have found the approach to the field and I'm going to get on it here drive
to where we've been harvesting at in fact I think I'll put it in second gear right now I don't know
where they left off last night yesterday I took the evening off combining so I'm just trying to
figure out where they left off I think I see it right now there's not too much left of this field
which is really good actually there are so many hawks one two three four I see at least six in
this field right now so it's kind of interesting some years there are tons of hawks and others
there aren't sometimes you'll see them come out of the wheat swath with something in their hands and
usually it's a little mouse because mice like to hang out in the wheat swath as well so my dad said
definitely don't go four miles per hour in this stuff because it's good wheat I'm just coming up
to my row right now so I'll slow down idle it down put the back of the combine in and then put the
header in and wait till it starts moving and then you rev it up put your header on the ground I just
readjusted my header height setting and I'm going to start harvesting I don't see where Arvid is wow
this window is so clean we cleaned it yesterday so I cannot believe it I wonder if that ladder
is supposed to fold down oh looks like Arvid's close behind me so I'm going 3.4 miles per hour
right now and we'll see what my bushels per acre meter reads I just have a 50 hour service notice
um it's reading 9 or 11 right now it may have not had enough time in the wheat yet though
to know now it's reading 14. these rows are starting to get very short because they end
in one two three four five passes and then we'll almost be done with this field by then actually
you usually make a left turn when you come out of your wheat swath to line up to your next pass but
that would be if your left pass is right here you'd make a left turn I'm actually probably
going to have to make a right turn because I think there's one less inside pass than there
is outside passes and it usually gets that way when you are closer to the center and then I'm
going to lower my header a bit because I don't want it going up that high maybe a little bit
higher and then do my full turn set my header back on the ground and get to harvesting because
that's what combines are made to do there is a hawk at the very end of my row if you can see
there's a hawk all the way over there also they're everywhere I wonder if they'll leave
a hawk feather oh when he's flying away I don't see a hawk feather though this time anyway
just a little tiny one they're hawk flying away in the field now we've made it two rows and
we'll probably need to dump eventually I'm just gonna keep going around for another row because
I don't know where a truck is so I say we just finished this field because we still have lots
of room for more wheat and I don't see any grain in the windows of Arvid's tank and he actually oh
actually no that combine does not have a bigger grain tank it's the one that's still broken down
if you haven't noticed our grain card is not in the field today because it broke a sheer bolt
yesterday and that was probably an operator error either shutting it off while it's still a grain in
it or something like that my dad was saying so we had to spend the morning fixing that and my
dad has to go to town to see if he can get this other combine fixed so he's not able to operate
the grain cart today we'll just have to dump in trucks but I don't even know if we have a truck
at this end of the field because this is a 160 acre field so the trucks are probably way down
there there might be one on top of this hill I can't remember if I saw one there or not I see a
red truck going down the road though so that might be to come and get us I'm not completely sure and
then we'll move on to this field next but we'll just keep going rounds until we completely fill
up and then I'll try and get in touch with my Dad I'm not able to right now and I also don't have a
radio to talk to Arvid but I'll probably get one at lunch now I am making my turn to start another
row I'm just going to look there's nothing in my window yet the swather rows at the end look like
they just went all the way through rather than stopping and having another end pass it's kind
of just like a curve which is a lot nicer I think I still don't have any wheat in my window but this
back windows full which you can clearly see now because of how clear it is we might actually get
this little portion of the field finished before having to dump that's what I'm hoping we have one
two three four five well actually only four passes left because Arvid's taking this one
so I would say we'll make it because they're very short passes going a little bit fast I was going
three four I'm getting about 20 bushels per acre here which is really good this was our
very best field this year so whatever we get here is probably going to be our best crop of the year
my grandfather is 95 and he's been farming since he was 20 years old or younger and he said this
is the worst crop he's ever seen in his life so I'll take a right turn here and I actually think
this is probably going to be oh wait wait wait I've missed my row there is one more pass headed
from west to east and I just about missed it but after this all these side rows will be completed
and then we'll just have short little rows I just want to fill up the combines because I know my dad
was a little bit unhappy that we started late because the grain cart and the problems we've
been having we just want to get these crops in the bin so we want to harvest as efficiently,
quickly and safely as possible actually I'll make a left turn these should be two down rows
I now have a grain tank full buzzer but oh we might not make it we'll see we might be like
one pass short because I am almost full in my window now it's interesting your grain will sit
at a different portion and then when you make your corner it'll fill up the whole window so
once my window's full I'm done pretty much so it might fill out the end of this pass I'm hoping not
I have another long pass though with that kind of curved corner and I don't know that I'd make
it all the way through it but I'm going to go until I completely fill up and when I fill up
Arvid's probably going to fill up also I don't see a mountain at the top of his combine yet and my
rows since I've always been on the outside my rows are always going to be a little bit bigger than
Arvid so he should fill up a little bit later than I do I'm going 3.3 miles per hour right now and
I'm directly heading south and actually looking at the white grain elevator my great grandfather
built around the time when he homesteaded our farm well not quite when he homesteaded probably 10 or
15 years later ooh it's getting full not quite full though so I'm going to be taking another
pass because I just like to see how full I can get before all the grain starts coming out I
am starting to see a pile in Arvid's grain tank but he'll definitely make another pass and I'm
thinking we can finish this because we only have my pass and one more back for Arvid and then we'll
be good I don't know that I'll make it all the way through that this pass though is the problem
Arvid just waved at me that was so nice even before I could wave at him that
makes me so happy when the combines wave at each other oh I think I'm gonna make it
I have determination even though that doesn't really play a part in whether I'm going to fill
up or not I definitely hope I'll make it I'm just going to drive over this hill and try and find a
semi truck or get in touch with my dad or Uncle Chris to see where to dump or what to do and Arvid
will definitely make this pass too it doesn't seem to actually be filling up very much more
when I turn around and I'm on a downhill slope it'll fill up this window I'm sure well thank
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