right now we're at the bins these are the 13 bins well 15 now
this is our semi
you can see the grain coming out of the truck we decided to stop harvest early today because
the grain is too moist so these are the bins so when we talk about
the semis and the bin people
We're gonna see here This is the grain in the grain bin and grasshoppers
are in here and its filled clear to the top there's some of the grasshoppers
it's really really cool up here kinda scary but cause we are really high up
There's another team they run red combines it's so cool to see where the grain goes
let's see I'm feeling how moist it is
down there are the fans I beleive if you can see now the truck is empty
it's so beautiful up here and this wheat is drying out really well
here I have a cricket now the truck's going out
because they are going to empty out the back of the truck
we stopped before lunch today because the wheat is too moist so we're going to give
it a day and a half two days and then we're going to try and start back up again
I was just waiving at my Dad.
And that's our tractor and what the tractor does when you turn it on it powers the grain
loader which is the red part and then the grain loader takes the grain
up to the top of the bin which is just like that right there They were just loading that
so they haven't shut it yet That's where the top of the grain loader goes
the auger so that the grain can go in the grain bin
and the truck has to back up to the grain loader and dump
I don't know where my Dad's going oh there's another truck but this isn't ours
when you see all the smoke it means people are combining
the sky is beautiful I might head back down soon
this is a great view I'm so glad I came back up here I'll have to come up here more often
I can't believe how many crickets are here I mean I always get crickets in the back of
my combine but I didn't realize they are still in the grain bins too
I don't really come up to the grain bins often because I am a combine driver but occasionally
when you have days off or you have to see what they are doing
air bins are for the moist wheat otherwise your whet would start on fire if you put too
moist wheat in your bin so the air the fans are to dry it off but we don't have a lot
of air bins the tractor is a little bit loud
kind of go all around as you can see there's not many trees here where you see trees like
up there over there is usually where someone has a homestead that might not be being used
now but it's where people originally homesteaded There were a lot of people who originally
homesteaded around this area and there's not very many of them left but most of the families
that are left they homesteaded well actually all of them
It's really great to have the view up here you can see the whole countryside from up
here just over here was the field we cut on the
first day because this is by the homestead area
and then here on just over here is the schoolhouse where my grandma actually
went to school and we own this property now so I'll have
to show you the white schoolhouse it's really really cute
that's where I was now we're on the path to the schoolhouse
here are some more bins the ones the one I climbed up is a new one that my Uncle Chris
built here's a far view
That's the schoolhouse right there and that's Darcy in his semi and he goes next
it's a really cool operation Then over here is our crop we can go take
a close-up of it and that's the elevator over there here I'll zoom in a bit and that is
the homestead part right there where those trees are
this is the wheat some of it is starting to lay over
sometimes it's from these flies called Saw Flies and other times it's just a really really
good crop we'll go over here
really beautiful scenery out here now we'll probably go over here
kind of walk around the farm we'll be cutting this too soon but it's a
little too green as you can tell the green bits here and all throughout
that's the main road now we are able to see from here the truck
is still backing up and then it empties from the bottom those two triangular parts you
open that up and it empties until the unloading auger the big red long thing has a little
tray that comes under the truck and when you open one of those triangular things it dumps
the wheat from the semi into the tray which will feed it to the auger and all the way
up into our grain bins which is the process of getting the wheat
into the grain bins and that's where we store it until we decide to sell it
It's a beautiful day I was wearing a long sleeve shirt at first but it got way too hot
so I had to change into a short sleeve although it was very cold this morning I had on a long
jacket and a vest that's not our place but that's what happens
when a homestead isn't lived in it kind of deteriorates really bad
he has to get all these samples of wheat that tells you the moisture the protein and a lot
of different things and then over here in that field over there's
someone disking it as you can see it's coming out now
let's go look a little more in-depth about how the tray the semi's wheat gets dumped
into before it goes to the loading auger there it is
and then they'll back up more or come forward and get that one
now let's go look at the wheat bin my dad is going to go on top of the bin and
see how full it's getting