hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i'm going to be doing a current equipment tour so
all the equipment we use on the farm right now during harvest time and all throughout the year
right here we have our tractor that we hook up to the grain cart as you can tell it is definitely
not ever windy in montana we do not have 40 mile an hour winds to where i can barely stand up and
that is not happening well it's just a mildly breezy day here kate it blows like this all the
time yes mildly breezy we have a john deere 9430 and it's our newest tractor on the farm
it has no
here we have the fuel tank it's about full this is
an articulating tractor that means it bends in the middle to steer
we use this tractor primarily for hauling the grain cart when we do harvest this is
the tractor you saw in all of the harvest videos the added wheel weights give it
better traction it's a fabulous tractor and we love it we'll wait again for the rear end
we have the opposing fuel tank and the air cleaner we have a dirt separator at the top of the air
cleaner it helps keep the air cleaners clean it's a lot cleaner than it would be with just a normal
inlet works good okay now we are going to go over this little snow bank and around and go inside
do a little cab tour and of course it's john deere we love john deere that's all we run
prime air when we can we are out of the wind i've never driven grain cart before so i don't
really go inside this cab too often we have our steering wheel we'll see if this thing will start
up it might it's kind of warm today it's just windy and it started here we have our screen
in here this is our gps screen here kate this is stuff to do with the motor speed of the tractor
it's a 900 rpm we're in park this thing here is an auto shift which means you don't have to use
the clutch but it's got a clutch anyway this here is to throw the pto in and this here is to hook
up your auto steer after you make the corner at the end of the field and you get straightened out
you'll press this button and the tractor will hook back up do its own steering that is awesome the
gps is now starting to load i don't know what it's going to show us when it because i don't run this
very much and so i don't know much about it and it has a second seat these are hydraulic things
here okay so this is a really great tractor and we love it we use it every year all the time at
harvest and it's so important to our operation oh yes we have our radio up here such a key component
to harvest this here is showing us right now it's showing our implement in somewhere in the
world but we got guidance lines happening here because they were set from the last field you
know and you can go into your screen we'll see how many satellites we're tracking all the green ones
we are currently tracking at this time 20. there's a bunch of other stuff that nobody understands so
for some rocket scientists this shows what gear you're in and your engine temperature and your
fuel level this is probably your temperature gate this is your oil pressure here so we got plenty
oil pressure because the oil is cold here i'm sitting in the driver's seat you can see out the
back window beautiful skies today montana skies are always so beautiful here we have our hazard
so for driving down the road we have to turn these on here we have our wipers which we don't really
use that much we have all of our light hands just a lot of cool features in this tractor you really
love it your green car would be driving by they would be looking out this right side to see the
combine to make sure that everything's going well while dumping it in the grain cart now we
are going to stop at our grain cart which would be hooked up to this tractor during harvest time
onto the grain cart we go out in the very windy
montana weather it's always breezy but it's a little bit more than breezy today
here we have a kinsley 840 grain cart and it can hold about 840 bushels but
if we really load it which we do in the field to maximize it with the three combines we have it
will hold about a thousand bushels i'm staying out of the wind kate that's what i'm doing
and then this little window right here is for your green car driver to see how full it is
but sometimes the grain car driver will ask the combine driver how full it is because they can't
always tell when you have a combine far away from the grain cart that can see what's in it
that's better here we have our lever to park the green cart oh my gosh that was
a huge gust of wind i'm gonna go under a wheel here i'm gonna go under this wheel
oh my goodness it's a windy day i apologize for any wind noise that was the tarp to tarp the grain
cart in case we have any bad weather or anything coming in we can put our tarp on it and it'll keep
our wheat and our grain that we worked so hard to grow safe and dry now i'm going to be showing you
the inside of the window hopefully i don't fall off because it's very windy
here's our frontline ax solutions part here's the inside of the grain cart here we have a john
deere 7520 and right now it's broke down so we don't use it but we would use it so maybe that's
on the next plan yes next plan like my dad said maybe that's a goal to get this running and so
comment down below if you want to see it running this used to be the tractor we used to plow snow
god oh my gosh look at my dad trying to hold on to the door just to stay on this is a true montana
video here's one of our older fuel pickups it's a chevy we don't use it a lot but we still use it
sometimes and in this particular one the fuel tank is in the bed of the pickups in this portion here
now we're going to go look at these hiccups over here here we have an old chevy truck
i forgot to put this in the antique equipment tour it's an awesome truck
we love it we still sometimes use it but we don't use it very often it's really cool
okay now we're going to go inside let's hope there's no scary mice in this one
and it still runs here we have our old spray truck but now we use a john deere sprayer
here are our duck foots we have two of them
these are 35 foot flex coil duct foots and i'll show you them they're pretty cool
these are the duck foot shovels
it dries out the soil and it breaks up the stuff and makes the dirt looser so the wind can blow it
away on days like this yes that's why they like to do chem fallon now so it doesn't disturb the soil
and it doesn't blow away it'll stay where it is right for example we used to have really bad dust
bowl days and that's why a program called crp was invented because your whole basically farm
would blow away every time you plow it loses some moisture in it now we're going to drive over to
the drills and i'll show you those this is a 4350 flux coil air seater it is a pull between there
are two types of air seeders there's one that's a pull behind and one that's a pull between this one
right here is a pull between and that's because the implement is behind the car the implement will
dig up the ground and you won't have any my gosh we do have a flat tire we put fertilizer and seed
in this tank here the back two tanks are usually set up for fertilizer and the front ones for seed
if you would have watched my seeding 20 20 video you'd have seen us filling up our john deere one
which i'll show you in a second which is a pull behind there's some of the equipment we just
looked at and here's some we're going to look at here soon now we're going to go look at our other
cedar here we have an old header trailer we don't really use this anymore it's an old one-way dick
this worked good they put the rocks in there to give it weight weigh it down so it'll go in
the ground good and it would pull up here but it pulls off to one side it worked really good here
we have an orange one we have a yellow a green and another yellow one there's so much equipment on
farms that make the operation work and keep it going it's crazy to do an equipment tour because
you don't even realize how much equipment you have to use to keep the farm going until you do a tour
of it here we have an 1830 john deere air cedar and it's 61 feet it's a pull behind it's better
for corners because you're able to see the edge of where you're seating at now something we really
love about these air seeders how high the shanks go up so when we're on the road we don't have to
worry about them dragging on anything here we have the packers and they run behind each shank so that
when the seed gets put in the ground the soil gets packed back over it it's actually kind of a little
bit like when you put seeds in your garden you put the soil back over and then it can retain moisture
and the plant will grow better this is a 1910 air cart we fill the back two tanks with fertilizer
just like the other one and the front one was seat this air cart has super big wheels also
this was the air seater we were filling up in my seating video here's an overview look at the cedar
oh my gosh what is this this is a little caterpillar i found a caterpillar oh he's so cute
do you see the caterpillar oh now on to the next piece of equipment we have to climb
up and over the snow base to our long journey back to the car in the very windy weather here we have
our freightliner semi this is what my dad uses to load his sprayer and we have a 3 500 gallon
tank in front of it so this blue one and a 1200 in the back we're going inside now and you can see a
little semi tour because i know how much you love the semi and i even put a backup camera on these
cakes oh really you can look at the top of your trailer is our steering wheel and this is the back
yeah oh my gosh that's like bunk beds it is it's a bunk bed one wow that's what everybody needs
yes exactly the best part about this truck and all the other ones we have on the farm is this cake
it's an auto ship oh yes it'll do all the shifting but this truck still has a clutch so you have to
let the clutch out to get the truck going but once it's going it'll do all the shifting for you
so nice to get into a warm car after being outside in this very windy weather right dad yeah it's
pretty windy we'll do some old pickup heads them two can get used on your combine kate but not on
any of the other ones here we have our desk and we use it to disk around the field and also if we
get stuck in the mud we will come back later and disk you know kind of replaces the one-way disc
it's 32 feet makes it much more portable when the wings fold up they're all about
70 feet long and 10 inches around so that you know they they'll move a fair amount of grain
here's a red tractor it's not ours but we have one a lot like it that's getting worked on in town oh
my gosh all the birds are on the combine header do you see that second one in all the birds right
there well what a wonderful day we just saw lots of birds by the combines
here we have my combine which is the 9610 it's the one i run at harvest and i love it
we have the pickup headers on so they pick up the swathed wheat this is a pretty old combine
but it works great and it's john deere this is so fantastic i have not climbed up this
ladder since harvest time it's a 96 maximizer i got a couple of questions during a harvest
about that this is such a phenomenal combine here's my dad i'm waving goodbye until harvest