hello welcome to kate say today is another morning on our montana farm
seeding we are at the very beginning of seeding and have had quite a few breakdowns and different
things go on but we're starting first thing this morning with our john deere tractor
pulling the tow between flex coil drill yesterday we couldn't start in the morning because the
auger to fill the grain tanks needed a hydraulic motor so hopefully we get a lot more seated today
darcy's running the john deere drill over there uncle chris is starting the tractor
and then austin our employees in that truck ready to back it up
that one has fertilizer we're filling the tanks before we start going here
to grab my kate's and toby and i really should be carrying a second one in the tractor
because i have so much in this one it's gotten pretty dirty but that's how they are and it looks
fabulous dirty too like a real farm can't say tote bag this is what they call the priming lever
okay when your fan is going you pick that up and it runs a little bit out
that far switch with the cylinder and you do that after just every morning or after
every fill or how often after every fill in every new field we now see the geese flying
i have to learn how to do all this every year
there's little pellets you can put with your seed or fertilizer but usually your fertilizer
and it's a pellet that absorbs water you know if there's water in the moisture it absorbs it and
then when it gets dry it releases it to the plant wow they have it in potting soil yeah just little
small scale gardening yeah a little pellet they put it in and what it does it absorbs water and
then it releases it they're like the little ball things yeah the little ball thing that's
that's the technology i tried i could get some of that one here you never know
if it was a good gear that contributed yeah there's so many variables it's hard to keep
track of what which thing yes exactly we try to control as many variables as we can though
get back down there okay
i was close there was nothing yeah maybe way way back um
did you have the steering on yeah i do
that wasn't good so on the middle of the turn and before continuing turning i should
have kept the steering wheel straight and then finished to turn a little bit i don't know what
you were doing because i was watching this so yeah you don't really want that drill backing
up too much no that's really bad yeah i mean it does a little bit when you do it see and then yeah
you turned way too sharp what i usually do when i lift it up i steer a little bit out the other
there's a post here that uncle chris is going to see it around
we've only got one pass left after we finish this one hopefully we make it we're low on
seed well it didn't give us the notification yet but we know we're
going to be running out soon so we're just hoping we can make it it's a mile up and a mile back
do you have any
very far last pass in this field hopefully we made it we're driving up and not skating
so that we can see it coming back and not drive on the whole field darcy just got his low seed buzzer
as he was finishing his last pass he can go a little bit longer not much but we're roading up to
this side of the field so that we can see back and if we don't quite make it darcy can see it up a
little bit and then we can get this field finished then we're going home to some other fields
now darcy's folding the wings of the drill because we have officially made it with not running out
of seats so that's fantastic we're doing this little middle part here we're overlapping a bit
because darcy's on this side and his drill's a different size than over here so if it was one
drill you just go to the end but we have a middle part because one drill starts on one end and this
drill starts on the other now we'll be moving fields and i'm going to be playing in the pickup
thank you uncle chris for another wonderful lesson in the drill welcome you let us know when people's
behind us because we can't see behind you yes i will now the wings of the drill are folding
up you can see that's one of the hydraulic levers in the cab that does that now they are pulling out
of the field and i'm walking all the way back there to get to the pickup so that i can play
we're moving drills now i'm in uncle chris's pickup just following behind to make sure
that i can notify them if there's any vehicles or equipment behind us this is darcy and then uncle
chris is in front no one over here got my hazards on i just radioed to let everyone know that
there's a vehicle coming up and that they should pull off the road so i'm in my mirror we're good
they took a different road i thought they might but we have one coming for us so we might as well
wait don't wait it's me i'm just coming out to get the fertilizer truck i'll pull up the road here
when darcy pulled off the road for this truck there was like a power line on the ground it
hooked on his drill and he's driving i see this wire attached to his drill pulling and i'm looking
here trying to figure out what it is radioing to darcy and i realize it's a power line from
the ditch over here that he's pulling and it eventually slipped off but gosh that was scary
it's crazy how close to the ditch it was and it when it's now laying right next to the road
now darcy is filling his drill we just got to our new field we can only fill with fertilizer
because we don't have the seed yet this drill has a nice ladder not like the other one
hi darcy how are you doing today oh that's wonderful has seeding been going well for you
exactly do you fill these two tanks with fertilizer and then the front one with seed
yeah you run out of seed first no i love not steering that's the best part is feeding your
favorite or harvest by myself yeah it's nice and the tractor is really smooth
well have a wonderful day darcy
you