hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is a super exciting day because we have the new combine
that's arrived to the farm it's a 9870 sts just like the one i'm driving but it has dual so it's
getting the wheels put on it right now and then it will start harvesting wow this is exciting
it's got its pickup header right here it couldn't
travel with the duals because it would have been too wide
traveled on that semi truck i'll give you a little combine walk around
this is the pickup header and it's what's used to pick up the swaths
it's got a lot of boxes in it do you transport a lot of combine
yeah that would be easier yeah a slide out trailer 20 miles away for a minute
drive 500 miles and go get the trailer and come back
are you ready i'm not
my dad's about to back it off the trailer i guess this is not the trailer they would normally use
but our transport person was 20 miles from the combine and to get the trailer was 500 miles
oh it made it that's a relief
no but that would have been bad there it goes wow it's cool we've never had a combine with
duels before was that scary backing it up dad not really it kind of looked it
is that the same like the one i'm driving now just with duels yes and it came from north dakota so it
was probably cutting similar crop yes a small grain combine this is our red massey ferguson
tractor it'll help get the pickup header on the truck have you been putting a lot of tires on
combines lately maybe yes because it's harvest has there been a lot of combine delivery uh just what
the custom cutters are bringing in here no other than that this is about it oh wow okay they're
probably showing up here i'm just not seeing them definitely well thank you you're welcome tractor's
coming down the road now it had a flat tire so it had to get new tires which is why it's here
here's the pickup header thank you for delivering our combine yes ma'am thank you
we appreciate it you guys have a good day okay thank you bye let's go uh unload some of this
are you excited dad yeah really excited kate me too now we might finish harvest by thanksgiving
rather than christmas do you want me to climb the ladder and pass them down this is a tiny
spot to fit into all right these boxes are so heavy they look like but they're definitely not
thank you bye
only miniature people can fit through that my dad's going
to go pick up the pickup head with the combine now
my dad's now taking our new combine back to the farm and i'm going to follow him in
the pickup because the pickup has to come home too my dad's now driving the combine back home
hopefully it'll be able to harvest today my dad just pulled off the road for a semi-truck this
combine is big because it has duals it doesn't have one big tire on the front it has two big
tires another semi trucks coming by so my dad just pulled off the road it's coming right there
we've had to pull over around at least four times for semi-trucks and other people so far it's
just really busy during harvest time hopefully you'll get to see this combine in action today
pulling over again this time it's just a pickup truck
we got the combine back to the farm and now we're taking the filters into the shop from the pickup
taking the filters in the shop now i'll leave the big one for you jake oh yay thank you that's so
kind that's the other thing that we have to do is put the top part of the grain tank on so it
can hold more grain it'll hold more grain with them things up probably 300 oh wow that's quite
a bit yeah that's a lot this is the inside of the combine so that's the rotor which is what
processes all of the wheat how do you like being in the grain tank it's wonderful right
i'll show you inside the new combine to the farm now this is the inside of the combine here's the
steering wheel has a horn this is the hydrostat here are all the buttons it's pretty much the same
as my combine that i'm running the screens has this monitor right here this is the grain tank
this is the air conditioning up here here's the gear shift that's a cab tour of the new combine
we've got at our montana farm hopefully it runs really well so you'll see it for years to come
you have to set all of this before you start harvesting a different kind of crop it might go
by now you never know about a machine like this oh well they took care of it or something looks
well taken care of but if he needs that part for that auger could be two or three days for that oh
wow this combine is a 2008 john deere 9870 sts but it's just a big green combine that will hopefully
run that's right hopefully i don't think they're going to fix this one today so that means monday
or tuesday we'll still just have one combine one combine well we what do you want for thanksgiving
dinner christmas dinner you never know if you get done having christmas dinner out in the field
yeah santa claus would be out running a combine yes that is true grandpa well i suppose lunch
will be out there you guys are going to go down and eat lunch yes i think we will all right want
me to take you down or what do you think chris jensen which is who homesteaded this farm my
great-grandfather would think of this combine today he wouldn't believe it he wouldn't believe
there'd be something like this but he'd look at that and say look at all that stuff on it
hoses and hoses and hoses it's just look at the hoses on that hose is all over the place
look it up in there pretty complicated well yeah it's complicated too much to go wrong he'd say
probably would be too i don't know that's the way to make everything now what was the newest combine
he got to see oh i had a john deere 55. that's the nearest one and that didn't have a cab did it
no it never had which is very luxurious i i super appreciate my cab here yeah yes i do
what i love it keeps the dust and you got air conditioning yes the air conditioning we had was
the air outs are all around you the chaff blowing up in your face and the barley itching your
barley's the worst that's terrible well anyway that the way things go but the new big one the x9
i don't know i never looked it over very good but i imagine it's got more hoses on it than this one
they make them so you have to get rid of them after so many years because they just wear out
that's the way it goes with this type of work well thank you grandpa okay isn't the new combine to
the farm super exciting dad it's really exciting really if only they would have sent all the parts
and stuff but yeah it's really exciting so you're going to try and get it running and hopefully
it'll be harvesting soon right that's awesome i'm at lunch right now and this is the setup we
have we have all these chairs and darcy provided shade today so thank you darcy we set all these
chairs up and this is the lunch table and we have delicious oranges for snacks as well to take in
the combine which is always fantastic because i always love to have oranges in the combine and i
think that the rest of the crew should be arriving here soon started a new field and uncle chris was
opening it up so that all the trucks can park here i'll be a little bit dead i'm gonna do the first
round so what you're finding is that the wheat heads didn't fill out mostly ran out of water
uncle chris and i we're just talking about how there's a chunk in this
little part of the field that was swathed and then another chunk over there and one over here
so i'll be a little bit confused but i will be able to tell what way the swaths are going and
i think i can do it we discussed it's probably not rocket science so i should be good it's probably a
lot more challenging to figure out what direction to go in the swather you know where the wheat is
with this water though ooh that is true and it's a little bit harder to tell when you don't have
the straw choppers on because you have to really look and see if it's got the heads on it or not
so uncle chris made the first round with me in the new field thank you you're
there are tons of grasshoppers there's actually a lot more grasshoppers than there have been the
past couple of years grasshoppers actually aren't good for farmers because they end up
eating the crop that you plant but they're fun to look at the start of harvest has been
a little bit rough because we've had quite a bit of breakdowns with the other combine
it's crazy how big the swaths are for such little wheat there's a lot of variables in farming you
can't control and rain is one of them so you can have everything really precise and be a really
great farmer and not end up with a wonderful crop at the end of the year you do try and control as
many variables as you can but this was one that we could not control and you see it affecting farmers
in our area it's become a pretty big problem not getting the last rain to fill out the heads
look at that abandoned missile silo there's a lot of missile sites out here
when they were first opened we would take a lot of aluminum foil and toss it over the fence and
they'd have a bell jet helicopter out here in about five minutes really that's terrible
or else that when we went home for lunch we used to go home for lunch
we would take a truck and park it close to the fence and open up the hood and just go home for
lunch when we came back to be surrounded by all these young air force guys wondering what to do
and we'd go and tinker with the engine a little bit close to it and start it up get them just to
mess with them oh the hutch is terrible the radar actually extends outside the fence so
if something was parked there and come check it out wow tell us what happened well get hot
letting it cool off that is funny you have really good stories uncle chris we didn't do that often
that's good i couldn't figure out how to go around around anymore so i just went back and forth
well almost dark that's funny well that'll work too a little bit of freestyle swapping
if you have a really good i can start at the very center and swap backwards round and round
then you could start with the combine backwards and go around
and your auger would always be on the inside no your gray cart just wouldn't
have to go very far actually i've seen that done really wow oh my gosh there is a pheasant
he's running through the right there you can barely see him oh that is so cute
you can just on the left side there of the swath barely see him oh my gosh there is one oh they're
so cute i wonder if i'm going to get to save any baby pheasants this year i hope we get to see much
more wildlife in the field that's definitely a hot light of harvest for me oh you can see him
right there he's so cute oh and so sad taking away their home but we're leaving a straw row behind
so they'll get a new home oh he's so cute going up on the road be careful little pheasants and
then the next one will be the one behind dean's truck right okay i think i can figure that out
another bottle of water underneath there if you need one awesome thank you
have a good afternoon uncle chris i'll probably be back later okay uncle chris is just leaving
now we did one full round together and now i'm going to combine the rest of this
my grandpa's giving him a ride i just pulled out of my wheat swath here and as you can see i backed
up into the middle because i didn't want our green car driver to run on a wheat swath and i don't
think there's enough room on this path coming back well there might have been but it would have been
close and then there's a corner this field's kind of crazy so i wanted to just stop and dump
and then the next one i won't have to because i'll have this pass here thank you so much for watching
this video i really hope you enjoyed watching the new combine come to the farm and us taking it home
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darcy and our grain catr driver were just on the radio i guess there's a really
big fire east of here i can definitely see flames definitely burning one of our fields
it is already past the cooley this is a huge crisis and we might have to move fields right now
yikes that's bad picking up quick