00:00 hello welcome to
Kate's Ag today i am in 00:02
the baler again 00:04
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it's so much fun to drive it's got 00:20
electronic steering so it's very 00:22
sensitive to movement what's amazing 00:24
about this whole experience is i was in 00:26
this exact field combining now i'm 00:29
baling my straw rows that were behind 00:31
my combine it's super awesome 00:34
and i'm having a great time i just 00:37
picked my baler up and i'm making my 00:40
turn to start another row just like i 00:42
would in the combine 00:48
this is like the race car you can go 00:51
six miles now it is crazy i've never 00:54
driven a tractor with this type of 00:55
transmission before i have to make sure 00:57
to keep it even in the row 01:01
i've got two Kate's Ag tote bags with 01:03
me today this one and this one because i 01:07
couldn't fit everything in one Kate's Ag 01:09
tote bag i've got one baler in front of 01:11
me in the field so if i have any 01:12
problems i'm thankful that i've got a 01:15
radio and someone can help me i have 01:18
very little experience driving this type 01:20
of tractor and i've never baled before 01:22
so it's all a learning experience a huge 01:25
thank you to Iver for giving me the 01:27
opportunity to 01:28
run this awesome tractor and baler i've 01:31
got an image of how the baler works on 01:34
here and also i get arrows pointing to 01:37
which direction i should drive to make 01:39
sure i'm straight down the center and 01:40
picking up all the straw which is good 01:43
and it's really important we do pick up 01:45
all the straw and don't leave any in the 01:47
field because my dad would have to burn 01:49
it can't seed through it so if there's 01:51
any extra on corners or anything like 01:53
that i always pick it up i must be going 01:55
faster than the other baler because i 01:57
keep catching up and don't notice it 01:59
maybe i should go a little bit slower 02:01
because if he's driving slower probably 02:03
means i should too he has a lot more 02:05
experience than i do 02:10
you can turn pretty sharp corners with 02:12
these not too sharp but sort of sharp oh 02:15
he has to fix another twine again so i 02:17
guess i am passing him this round oh 02:19
that was pretty bumpy we're going across 02:22
the furrows right now furrows in the 02:24
field are the little rows from planting 02:27
your wheat and it's always bumpy going 02:29
across furrows 02:38
so i'm picking this up i'm gonna drive 02:40
around this 02:42
to my next row which will be here oh i 02:46
probably shouldn't have driven on that i 02:47
accidentally drove on a straw row which 02:50
was not good i'm going 5.6 miles an hour 02:53
right now i'm keeping this ball black 02:56
which i can't remember what it means but 02:57
i know i need to keep it black oh the 02:59
black box means the plunger to create 03:01
the leaf and the bail the flight has to 03:03
stay black so it continues plunging and 03:05
it doesn't stop this has done 03:07
787 bales 03:10
i just lined up to my next pass i have 03:12
this little button right here that i 03:15
push down 03:16
to drop the baler back in it's run on 03:19
hydraulics kind of just like when i was 03:21
seeding in the drill i don't think i 03:23
would have felt nearly as comfortable on 03:24
this baler if i hadn't run the drill 03:26
this year just because it's got the 03:28
hydraulics everything like that i'm a 03:30
lot more comfortable with different 03:32
pieces of equipment and driving tractor 03:34
specifically after running the 530 03:36
horsepower tractor pulling our flex coil 03:40
drill 03:41
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i had driven tractors before and run 03:47
them but never as long hours as seeding 03:50
and as much as seeding so that really 03:54
prepared me for this if i see a rock 03:56
i'll lift it up slightly and then put it 03:58
back in the ground i definitely noticed 04:00
the straw rows going like this i'll be 04:04
trying to drive perfect blinds next year 04:06
in combine so when i come to bail i 04:07
don't have to drive in a zigzag pattern 04:12
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it's nice to be in these fields to seed 04:21
combine and then bale all of the fields 04:23
i combined and harvested this year i'm 04:26
now bailing off i cannot believe it i 04:28
definitely feel like a race car driver 04:30
in these tractors it is awesome 04:36
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there's a coulee in the field here so 04:45
i'm going to slow down so everything 04:47
goes through smoothly 04:49
i get a little blue dot on my screen 04:52
here on the picture of the baler when 04:53
it's tying a knot so that's awesome 04:56
now i'm letting the baler go through and 04:59
picking it up and now i'm starting my 05:01
turn it doesn't take nearly as long to 05:03
pick up as the drill did for seeding 05:06
my dad said i drove my combine like a 05:08
go-kart and this kind of feels like a 05:10
go-kart when you're driving it so i 05:13
really like that it's very bumpy here 05:15
with these really expensive big pieces 05:17
of machinery you want to be very very 05:20
careful 05:21
when you go through dips and treat them 05:23
very well because you want them to last 05:25
as long as they can i'm very conscious 05:27
of that when driving any piece of 05:28
machinery because it costs a lot to 05:31
replace them and if you take good care 05:33
of them they should last you a long time 05:40
even though my tractor's reached the end 05:42
of the straw i have to make sure the 05:44
baler has before i pick it up and make 05:47
my turn oh i left a bale in that row 05:50
very nice now i'm lining up to my next 05:53
straw row it's harder to tell where the 05:55
straw rows are than where the wheat was 05:57
but i look for the straw row and then i 06:00
look for the bail next to it so if i see 06:03
a bale in the row directly next to it 06:05
and no bails in this row it's probably 06:07
the next straw row i have all these 06:09
monitors even more than i did seeding 06:12
this is an awesome tractor i feel very 06:15
lucky to drive it here i have where i 06:18
put it in forward that moving the lever 06:21
to the middle here would be neutral and 06:22
then moving it down here would be park i 06:25
have this for my rpm this black roller 06:28
controls my speed this is the hydraulic 06:31
for the nailer to go up and down and 06:33
then this is my pto over here and then 06:35
this is my whole screen and monitor for 06:38
the baler this is my information for my 06:40
tractor 06:43
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i'm running between 2000 and 2080 rpm 06:52
and i'm going 5.6 miles an hour i've got 06:56
half a tank of fuel Iver ran this baler 06:59
all night long because the moisture was 07:01
good and he said they usually don't work 07:03
that long when you have a good day you 07:05
want to go as long as you can because 07:06
some days you can't start until noon 07:08
i've got a bale that's getting pretty 07:10
close to falling off here it's at 91 07:12
inches of 102 inches is what it was set 07:15
at so that bale ended up finishing at 07:18
101 inches in length when it dropped off 07:21
so it's fun to look at the monitors and 07:23
tell our swather header is 35 feet wide 07:26
so each pass was from a 35 foot swath 07:30
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these are actually pretty heavy straw 07:37
rows the straw looked really huge the 07:39
wheat didn't fill out towards the end of 07:41
our growing season we had a drought and 07:44
that's when the filling of the heads 07:46
would happen and our last rain is 07:48
usually to fill the heads of the wheat 07:50
and produce all those kernels so we have 07:52
a huge crop of straw because we got good 07:55
rain in the beginning of the growing 07:56
season but no wheat heads because we 07:59
didn't get any rain when they needed to 08:01
fill so we didn't get much wheat from 08:03
these swaths but we got a lot of straw 08:05
you definitely feel like you're getting 08:07
a lot more done in the baler than in the 08:08
combine or drill because you can go a 08:11
lot faster well actually the combine you 08:13
feel like you're going so slow the drill 08:15
you feel like you get to go super fast 08:17
and then to be in the baler you feel 08:19
like you're just the fastest in town i 08:22
like to look at my row and make sure i 08:23
was picking everything up and doing a 08:25
good job bailing i'm trying to do the 08:28
best i can at running this baler 08:30
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we've got the other one going down the 08:40
other side and this whole setup swivels 08:43
so the monitor all the buttons the seat 08:47
like this and it's a super easy swivel 08:49
it's not a hard one 08:51
like my drill so it's nice to be able to 08:53
look at your monitor look at your baler 08:56
have a little bit more room with your 08:57
feet to stretch and look at your speed 08:59
and also important to look out front of 09:01
the window to drive the tractor 09:11
get one arrow if i need to move over a 09:13
little bit to the left for example and 09:15
two arrows if i really need to move over 09:17
and three if i need to move over a lot 09:19
you really get to know your fields when 09:21
you seed them harvest them and bale them 09:24
so three times this year i've been in 09:27
this field now i'm making my turn which 09:30
this steering wheel is so much easier to 09:32
turn than my dad's tractors and combine 09:35
i want to line up to the straw row we're 09:38
getting to the end of this field so the 09:40
passes along the width of the field are 09:43
a lot smaller i just set my baler down 09:47
and i'm about to pick it back up again 09:49
running a variety of machinery really 09:51
helps to be an overall good driver it 09:54
looks like we'll have to move the balers 09:55
to a different field soon so it'll be 09:57
interesting it's awesome i have the 09:59
opportunity to bale our own field of 10:01
straw whoops i need to go a little bit 10:03
this way 10:04
the average weight of the bales coming 10:06
off this baler have been 10:08
1058 pounds and the last bale that came 10:12
off was 1037 pounds i just got a beep 10:15
and a little blue dot on the screen so 10:17
that means the bail was knotting and it 10:19
just dropped off the back 10:25
i didn't check to see how long that bale 10:27
was i'm starting to get a little bit of 10:29
a feel for the baler you don't have to 10:30
steer nearly as often as i have been 10:32
steering to keep it straight down the 10:34
center it's incredible to see all the 10:36
bales in the field oh and there's no 10:39
more 10:40
side passes left so oh there's only one 10:43
path left in this field i get the very 10:46
last pass 10:47
wow 10:49
oh no there's one more 10:51
the other one you can barely see though 10:53
because it was a half swath so there's 10:56
very little straw in it and if you go to 10:59
my swathing 2021 video you'll be able to 11:02
see why we have to do a half swath on 11:05
the last pass and it's basically so that 11:07
we don't have to drive over another 11:09
swath because it doesn't line up quite 11:11
correctly and we don't have a swather 11:12
that can shoot the swath off to the side 11:16
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so i guess i'll get to experience moving 11:22
balers to a different field this is such 11:24
a small piece of equipment too it's kind 11:26
of nice to not have to worry about a 11:28
huge long drill or a huge combine 11:30
although it's not very small it's 11:32
smaller than what i'm used to 11:35
the baler was knotting i just finished my 11:37
last straw pass in this field so i'm 11:40
going to wait for the other baler to 11:42
come to the end and figure out what to 11:44
do right there you can see what happens 11:47
when the bale falls apart behind the 11:49
baler and the twine doesn't correctly 11:52
knot we come and pick those back up 11:54
later i'm not sure where to go next so 11:56
i'm waiting for our other baler follow 11:58
me here 12:00
okay thank you 12:02
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now we are moving fields 12:21
so we are going to fuel the tractors up 12:24
i've almost done with the one section 12:26
here so i'm gonna jump over and i'll 12:27
afraid everyone get too long we're 12:30
gonna go to another field no we're gonna 12:32
do that one uh Kinder baled last night i 12:35
don't think it's dry enough they're 12:36
deciding what field we're moving to next 12:39
looking like my guys i'm at 756. 12:42
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i'm at 812 bales 12:47
i wasn't baling all night like everyone 12:50
else though 12:57
i'm here with Ron and you drive baler 12:59
for Iver yeah that's awesome yeah and 13:02
thank you for helping me fuel up yes 13:05
and then we're moving fields yep 13:08
well that will be very exciting thank 13:09
you yep break 13:12
Ron help me fill up with fuel so thank 13:14
you and now we are headed to the next 13:19
field which is also my dad and we will 13:21
be roading there with the baler it's 13:24
crazy that we're going to the new field 13:26
with a bale on the back i am going 20 13:30
miles an hour right now now i'm going 27 13:33
miles an hour which is probably the 13:36
speed i'm going to stay at make sure 13:38
everything's good with the baler 13:42
slow down a little bit because i'm 13:45
coming up at a crossroads this radio 13:48
channel is hilarious 13:51
we are roading the balers 30 miles now 13:54
did you give an estimate of how many 13:55
bales you think we've done all together 13:57
um of yesterday 13:59
about two five two thousand 14:08
wow i just turned my hazards on because 14:10
i forgot to i'm on the highway now which 14:13
is a little nervous 14:16
i love it it's very fun i'm maxed out on 14:19
my speed at 33.1 miles an hour watching 14:23
my mirrors behind me so i can move over 14:26
a little bit if someone is behind we're 14:28
going 14:35
it's a lot simpler to rode these than 14:38
combines and 14:40
drills so 14:42
this is really nice i remember roading 14:45
my combine up to this field to harvest 14:47
it 14:52
definitely had to slow down for that 14:54
there was a lot of mud there so whoa 14:59
so i drove around it 15:01
i didn't want to get stuck oh my 15:02
goodness there's deer running through 15:04
the field oh wow no there's antelope did 15:07
i ever teach how to start to the PTO up 15:09
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