hello welcome to Kate's Ag today my dad and i are doing some projects at the farm
and getting ready for seating yep yes and it's going to be very interesting so stay tuned
this is a distributor for part of the drill a section of the drill
the wheat comes up these tube things so it'll come up here yeah and this gap's in here like this
and you see how it's pointy yeah and it goes through all these different outlets
but this is this thing's all wore out in here so i don't know how much difference that makes you know
maybe well and all the hoses will be attached here that go to the separate
yes the shanks which is the little thing that the seed cut the seed comes out of and there's
a bunch of them on the drill right but these are totally wore out like over wore out and
then this is the new one right here but they all had these little ring things on at the beginning
and fertilizer just eats up everything oh so fertilizer is why you have to replace them
well we wear them out too but not like fertilizers i didn't know that this this wheat must come in
around like this it must be spinning when it comes up because this side of the deal is more
world than this you can see this one kind of goes straight down and this one kind of flares out
oh yeah and they do it on all of them so the wheat must have been turning probably when it came up
though that makes sense oh look there's a shop cat what are some of the things you make sure you
check before you start seating for example this would be one of them yeah and and then you run
air through your machine to make sure that every boot is unplugged okay so it can flow the grain
out smoothly that your your tips aren't so worn out they're going to get plugged up in the dirt
it's really important to make sure all of your equipment is working before you start seeding
right and so it's super important because if you don't know what wasn't working you got to
go back and do the whole thing over again yes that's expensive and time-consuming yeah let's
do it okay so dad and i are going to go and look at what a new one will look like attached to the
we didn't hook the hoses up yet but it's on the machine well
and that'll be kind of good to be able to tell and see an example okay all right let's do it
back in a minute lots more projects this time of year in the shop
so this is the flex coil drill and these are the sections here this is for this section
there's another distributor for that section there's two in the center and two more on that
oh yeah i see them so there's this one right here and then there's this one over here also
like my dad said the two in the center right there and there and then one on the very end right about
there well there's there's two on the ends for one for each section oh yeah another one on the end
and as you can see that far one has the tubes hooked up so basically all of these plastic
tubes get hooked on to one of these like that and the tubes come down into here this is the
one we were looking at and this is called a shank and so this basically digs up the ground and then
this yes the seed falls in the little hole that this created this wheel will then run over and
pack the seed in the ground it's just kind of like gardening on a bigger scale because you dig your
hole and then you put the seed in it and then you pack it down with dirt so that's basically
the process of the drill these meters you tell your computer how fast to turn them and it drops
a certain amount of product down and this would be the seed the first tank the second uh compartment
is fertilizer and the rear one is two so these two are fertilizers and this is dropping the seed
and then it takes it through here it drops it down and the air is blowing it through these
things and that's what makes it an air seeder versus a direct seeder how would a direct seeder
what would that process be that's somewhere into where the mouse was they got their little turning
things in the bottom and they're mechanical oh okay these come out and blow up and they go to
them distributor pods which separates the seed and takes them to every one of the individual boots
it's kind of all mixed up when it comes to their cake because it drops seed and
fertilizer and the same stuff then we're going to put new hoses on because the hoses are so
yeah that looks not great no they're dried out and sun sun cracked
these are the hydraulics that run the fans and uh and here's the fan up in this thing
this is a hydraulic motor for the fan drive right here the fans in this housing you can see part of
it in there this is the ladder you'll climb up to go and for the person at the top who has to watch
the seed and fertilizer being filled into the tanks we put a new bearing on here because
the fertilizer takes them out all the time so it runs smooth instead of how it was running
this is the new hose look how much different it is oh my gosh wow you can see that it was clear you
know it's banded with the black yes it's clear and then we'll go out and look at this very long hoses
so now this last distributor this one's still put together because we haven't got this one yet this
is what it'll look like pop the top off every year you pop this dealie off and this thing is needs to
be popped off in here too and that's what you saw before inside the shop then well if you look down
in here kate you can see that this is all wore out in here too these are all plastic and they
have a smooth uh funnel type thing that sticks down in this tube but they're all wore out so
that's why we're replacing them that's awesome it's still a little war on this side here kate
because you can see it's straighter down and on this side it kind of flares out that way
yeah the red stuff is seed treat is what it is oh yeah keep the bugs from eating
all your wheat before it has a chance to grow so these hoses here go to the individual shank
and we'll follow one down so i can show you so this clear one goes all the way down here
to here and then it's got the hole down here i don't know if you can see that oh
yeah there it is and that's where the seed comes out and this sticks a little hole
then the seed drops in and then that wheel right there would pack the ground back down
and cover the seed and the last one now what's the difference between the black and clear hoses
it's the stuff we had at the time oh so just mix and match i like the clear because once in a while
you can see if you get a plugged up boot the black you can't see at all but
the white you can but you can't see it all the time just if the sun's shining through the
pose you'll see color in it then this black hose is the last one and it comes down through
here it has that hole again well it digs the hole drops the seed and then this is the one
wheel that will pack it down that's awesome dad thank you
hi there i'm here with darcy and darcy's always so fun yeah yeah after working on it i want to
be back enjoying it now sitting down where i don't have to work so hard so you can't hardly wait to
go seeding yeah oh yeah i like seeding oh really it's better than working on them isn't it it is
a lot better than working on them well that's amazing thank you so much for being in the video
okay here dad's got the sprayer in the shop racing skids you know racing no treads
now i'm going to go and see if i can find the shop
cat and i'm not sure if i can i think she's probably up here
don't see the cat anywhere a lot of times they'll be
on the seat of the forklift go back here see if she's over here oh my gosh look at all the
birds under the truck they just flew away oh that was so cute there is so many birds
out this time of year and it's always so fun now what are you checking with the truck dad
oh see the extension cord if you want a more in-depth tour of the trucks and the
equipment we have you can watch my videos sleeping giants and more sleeping giant
to see some of the equipment i did the video on come up in here and see what's going on
this is the sleeper one so it's the bigger one