hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is not as super exciting as you would expect it's actually a
super sad day my 96-10 combine that i love so much we practically grew up together
is being sold but i'm going to say goodbye to it and well i hope you enjoy your new home
this was my first ever combine that i've ever driven and was my combine for my first harvest
which was two years ago when i was 15 years old and now our time together has come to an
end it's going to a good home my 9610 combine has been incredibly reliable it's such a good
combine i can't even describe it in words how great of a combine it is it's pretty old
and it's never broken down well except for the last day of the first harvest when the
wheel fell off but that's kind of a whole nother story well maybe i'll say that because this is our
our parting video and my last moments with my amazing combine that my dad just sold oh my gosh
it'll be okay i know it will now i'll tell you about the day that the wheel fell off my combine
my 9610 my great combine and i just kept going i didn't even realize it fell off it was this exact
wheel that fell off and i'll insert some pictures here what it looked like so you may think oh the
tire just fell off you still had a rim nope the whole thing fell off a bearing broke back here
and all that was left was a metal part that sticks out from this green part
and it's kind of in inside this case and you can't see it it was the last day of the 2019 harvest my
first harvest ever i'd gotten through the whole thing without one breakdown when all of a sudden
we're in a spring wheat field and we're straight cutting it with the big headers the 30-foot
headers and i'm cleaning up a part between two coolies i feel this big bump like this
it was really weird i thought i ruined my header i was a little bit nervous i pick up the header
and turns out it's perfectly fine so i thought wow that's kind of good i keep driving and then
i make a loop to go and start my next row a little turn and i see this tire in the field
and i thought gosh my dad should really start cleaning up his fields i mean a just huge tire
just laying here in the field that that's not very good so i stopped the combine i went to call my
dad and my phone was dead and i didn't want to tell him on the radio that he really shouldn't
leave a tire in his field so i just decided to keep going so i make my turn i make my i start
my pass i notice my steering it usually makes a ch noise it didn't make that noise anymore so i
thought that was a little bit weird but nothing to be too concerned about when you're driving combine
for 30 days straight you start to go a little bit insane so you can't really tell if something's
going wrong i also noticed on my turns that it just it didn't feel like i had as much control and
when i was steering the combine but not enough to make a huge difference to me in my mind then
and so i do a whole another strip down the field i make another turnaround and it felt a little bit
weird but i i'm not weird enough to talk to go out and look and now i realize i should have stopped
the combine turned it off went outside and looked but it didn't feel weird enough i didn't feel
much different just a tiny bit slightly that i was trying to tell if there was anything going on all
of a sudden our cart driver radios and he says has somebody lost a wheel there's a wheel in the field
and my dad told me he was scrambling and looking because he said when you have a flat tire you
can't really feel it and i thought oh my gosh it's me i finally put two and two together and so my
dad radios and he says that is it you kate because i don't think it's me and i said i think so
so i said do you want me to just pull out of the field he goes no no no you gotta stop the combine
and said okay so i just stop it and i get out and it turns out that my whole combines tilted over
and i've been dragging my combine over three football fields in length it was insane
and just gave it more power gave it some more gas i ended up not doing too much damage because
if you drive a combine like that it's potential that you could hit a rock and start a fire which
was a very dry day and my grandpa had said earlier hopefully there's no fires that go on today
because we were next to a neighbor's field and also you could damage kind of this inner part
of the combine here where you would attach the wheel again but none of that was damaged
i was super lucky my combine is just so good we actually still ended up finishing harvest that day
with only two combines harvesting and it took a couple of days to end up fixing this
combine getting the wheel back on it my dad said well you should really finish
the 2019 harvest with your 9610 and i said yes i should so uh the little pass of wheat that was
left in front of it that no other combines could get because i left this combine right where it was
because it needed necessary attention it there was still some wheat left and i ended up picking
it up and driving it all the way home back to about where it's sitting right now except
i didn't quite get that far i was on a little bit of a downhill slope nothing major and all
of a sudden i feel this huge bump and this time i know something's wrong it's not maybe i know it's
wrong and it was my front right tire completely blew out it was crazy and i got out and looked at
it and i'll show you a picture of that too it was completely ripped so it was this tire right here
and as you can tell these are much bigger they're taller than me and i'm five foot two so that's
really really big i definitely felt that one so i radioed to my dad and i said there's something
wrong he drives up and he's like wow there is definitely something wrong there and it ended up
but bending this rim which you can't get a new one for so he had to have someone come out and try and
unbend it it was crazy it really was a crazy first harvest experience having had no breakdowns
and then two well one wheel fall off and one tire completely blow out as i'm driving it i
guess maybe a bit of bad luck but the way my 9610 handled it was just phenomenal i thought that that
would be a perfect story to kind of signify the end of such an amazing time with my 9610 combine
because i've had so many great memories that i'll never forget with this awesome awesome
combine now i'll give you a walk around tour on the outside and the inside of my 9610 so here we
have the wheel that i was talking about that fell off and then the john deere logo 9610 maximizer
there's the auger here's the ladder that you climb up to get on the combine and then this is
the pickup header so this is mostly what we use on the farm we have our wheat swathed first for two
reasons one we have a bug called sawfly that eats the stems of the wheat and also when you swap your
wheat and cut it off all at once it dries all at once so you don't have to worry about there being
a green spot in the wheat these pickup headers are what you use to pick those swaths up so this is
about 15 feet this header and this is just what it looks like the header is a 914 pickup then here's
the other side of the combine that's the cab right up there this is the wheel that completely blew
out here's the back here's a look at the inside of my combine this is the grain tank up here i'll
also start up the combine for you which will be super exciting and great to just remember
the good old times with my 96 10. all right so this is the inside of the combine i'm sitting in
the driver's seat right now this is my steering wheel i've got a little button here to push down
right here is what i call a combine tooth but it because i mean it looks like a tooth don't you
think but it's actually called a section and this is the blade that moves back and forth super fast
and cuts off the wheat here's the body seat i've even got air conditioning which is super luxurious
my grandpa was telling me stories about when he farmed he didn't even have a cab let along air
conditioning although i don't use it often i do really like it you have neutral gear two and three
so when you're roting down the road that's usually when you'll be in gear three it's when you can go
the fastest i think if i'm remembering correctly this combine can go about 19 miles an hour
and you combine in gear two that's what that lever is for i definitely can't wait for
harvest i'm very excited but i'm very sad that my 9610 won't be joining us because it's found
a new home oh it's so terribly sad but i know it will be okay well at least i hope it will be
okay and i hope my 9610 enjoys its new home here i have my turtle and rabbit so this is my throttle
you turn on your back of your combine which is the part that will separate the wheat from the chaff
which is what covers the wheat kernel that's what separates it is the internal parts of the combine
and then this is what picks up the wheat is the header so this turns on the back of the combine
and this turns on the i'll have it internal speed turn on the back then front and you always
run your combine in rabbit speed so you'll have a bunch of alarms going off and then you turn it on
rabbit but it's nicer to things if you leave it on turtle before going into rabbit and i love the
images i mean turtle and rabbit make it so easy and especially for learning and it still makes it
easy on me now so i can just say dad do you want me to press the turtle button or the rabbit button
it's just awesome and here you have your concaves which say how far apart you want the part of the
combine that separates the kernels from the stems and shaft so if you make it way too far apart
all your wheat just goes straight back through and you get no kernels which is not the point
so you have to make sure to get that set correctly and you don't change it after you get it set this
button pushes your auger out and this takes it in and then this turns on the grain so this will make
the grain come out of the auger and you definitely only want to turn that on when your auger is over
the green carp this is my parking brake which is important at lunch because you don't want
your combine going on a joyride without you that would be very bad this is the grain tank so i have
a little window here that i can see how full i'm getting and as you can see inside it that's what
it looks like it has a little ladder if you need to go in there not wind grains in there but when
it's parked and then i've also got a little basket here that i can put window cleaner or
stuff like that that's important if your windows get really dirty during harvest i've also got my
fan and temperature here and one of my favorite parts the radio i do love talking on the radio
although you can't talk too much because it's very important that other people can access the
radio if there's a fire or something wrong with their equipment up here i have all my lights for
night my hazards and my windshield wipers i also have a blinker right here which is very cool all
right which you've all been waiting for the startup of my favorite combine ever the 9610.
so it just came on here and these are all the different screens we have that says fan speed
and everything like that i wish you well 96 10. i really hope you have a wonderful life
at your new farm well maybe i can go and visit it all right i'm going to turn the key off now
bye 9610 i wish you well this is the last time you'll ever see our combine pack together oh
it's just so cute i have the most adorable combine ever oh my gosh it's just starting to hit dad this
is really sad yeah it's really sad i spent over two months of my life sitting in that combine dad
dad i'm really sad you sold my combine yeah it's just sad isn't it yeah it'll it'll be okay
kane i'll have some bins for you to sweep out you know so
you will you won't be lost at harvest you'll have things to do
he said i could come and visit at any time and take a ride in it and that
truly made my day and made me feel so much better because it's not our final goodbye it's
just goodbye from our farm here it comes oh my gosh the combine i drove for so long is now gone
so
my
well a very successful landing dad well dad i'm super sad you sold my combine
too bad life goes on so i bought it in 2000 it was a 98 with 600 hours which is the newest
combine we've ever had that i remember anyway and so it's a good combine it's just you know getting
some time on it and so you know and these other ones are bigger they go a little faster and so
it spreads things out more too much because the card has to go way back to get somebody
yes and then up to get us so uh i do remember that at harvest that he'd have to right travel further
because you were going slower if the wheat was heavy and stuff but yes for the most part we never
lapped it so it didn't mean much other than to the cart guy well i think it was a great combine
it was the john deere guy when they came out with the rotors i was in buying some parts for
and i said gee i'd sure like to have one of them rotaries and he looked at me and said
i think a 9610 is the best combine john deere ever made but that was about eight years ago or so you
know so well that's not too long ago in combine years combine years it might be a long time it
just depends on how much they work yes okay have we put a lot of hours on it since you got it it
has about 4 800 on it now kate and it had 600 when i got it so we put 40 200 wow what was your first
combine you learned to drive on i drove combines before they had cabs i don't remember if it was
a it was a 105 that's what it was we had 105s and we bought a 7720 and then we regretted it we knew
we should have bought 88 20. so then we traded it off and got two 88 20s and run them till they were
like old and then i bought the 96 10 because we needed a third combine and as soon as i did that
they sold the other two and bought one so now i'm back to two again that's why i want you know if
we can we'd have three if if we can figure it out yes we wanna get the crops off the ground as fast
as possible yeah so don't get rained or hailed on and stuff like that exactly and then you get to
the finishing point you can't get your crop well if you get any weather or anything or one combine
breaks down then you only got one combine left if you got two if you got three then you at least got
two combines working and stuff and they all break down i don't care if they're brand new or not
you know i just as soon have two more cutting and the one i got broke down then i would have one
really big combine and have it broke down because then none are cutting so combines run at about a
50 ratio at any given time 50 of them are broke down so that's the way it is yes but make sure to
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