hello welcome to Kate's Ag oh no so i lifted the implement out of the ground because
i saw a metal piece in the field that's really bad i wasn't seeding that whole portion of the field
i'm now pretty close to my corner so i'm going to make sure i walk myself through everything
that i have to do on the corner beforehand so that when everything's coming at me fast i can
make good decisions and keep the drill running and make a good pass coming back
so i just got a notification on the screen and that means i'm about to come up to my head
wall and a head wall is basically the part that's been seeded that you make your turn
in and those are the end passes on the field we usually do about two of them here there are three
because we don't want to go into this at next field and there was a kind of reservoir rock pile
here so i'm going to have a little bit of a skip here and i'm going to turn around and pick that up
so i'm not turning the direction i normally would but dad thought that i might have a skip and i
ended up having one so let's see just checking all my pods and the other shanks to make sure
they're okay so now that i'm directly over it i'm just going to drive straight and wait until my
inside of my drill is straight and put it in the groove and actually i missed
i did have a little bit of a skip here my last pass so what i'm going to do
is drive do a teardrop turn so i'm going to go a little bit to the left and tear drop into it and i
need to go back this way anyway so i might as well get this it's hard to tell though once you're here
now that i'm kind of lined up with it i'm going to wait until my drill fully comes around
and i'm going to put it in the ground
and seed right over it now that i've got it i'm going to pick the drill up and go back to my
guidance pass headed the other direction which would be north and let's see you just basically
have to look at the lines on your monitor and kind of picture where your tractor would be
when you're starting your next row to line it up properly because your tractor doesn't drive itself
to its guidance line you basically have to line it up and then set it or else your tractor gets
jerked around super fast and that can be very bad so i've now found my new guidance line and
i'm just going to line up here hit guidance hopefully my drill comes around in time
and i'm going to sink it in and it is seeding in time so that corner completely worked out and i
don't have any skips over here anymore so that's super fantastic now Darcy's coming this way again
sometimes i like to check to make sure my implements fully in the ground
and then just turn off the hydraulic i am seeding 50 pounds of barley an acre with a hundred pounds
of fertilizer name fertilizer an acre we we are not seeding any less fertilizer than we
usually would because 100 pounds is already quite a bit less than
other people in our area are seeding and what would be common it's already substantially less
than what other people in our area are putting on and what would be common or recommended
so we're doing 50 pounds of barley and 100 pounds of fertilizer and i'm on tank 1 and tank 3.
tank 2 is still full of fertilizer i have a pretty good amount left on tank 3 and then i have maybe
let's see two bars left of seed which after we run out of seed which we will before fertilizer
we're not going to be able to continue for today because it's sunday and you're not
able to purchase more seed on Sundays so that's something farmers also have to look at too
so i just stopped the tractor wait no speed
because um there's a let's see i'm gonna put it in park
i'm gonna lift actually the implement out of the ground oh no so i lifted the implement out
of the ground because i saw a metal piece in the field that i'm going to go and grab
now i'm just going to check over my boots to make sure none of them plug there's Darcy
yeah all the boots look good so i should be okay all right now i'm gonna go back in the tractor
so that's from the plow not from the drill
and that was pretty crazy to see that in the field whenever you see those you want to pick
them up because they're bad for equipment they can really damage them so now that i'm
back in the tractor and my plow is raised i'm going to clutch bring my rpms up a little bit
put it in gear and i have to turn around and go back on my guidance path because where i stopped
the drill and where it stopped seeding it won't be able to get the seed from the tanks to the
boots in a short enough period of time to be able to see the area i was at right then and there so
i'll have to go back over it otherwise i would have probably a 15 foot skip so that the tanks
have enough time to catch up with where they're at going to slow down a little bit hook back up
to guidance so now that i'm back to guidance i want to make sure my drill comes fully around
before i put it in the ground again i might have missed it even there gosh i hope i didn't i i
don't know if i gave it enough room are you past that reservoir yet yes i am i had to stop for a
second because there was like a big metal plow thing in the ground so i went and got that
okay good where'd you put it in the cab or what yeah it's in the cab with me so i'll show you
this is what um either like a plow or maybe a hoe drill would have been like to dig up the ground
so this was my tractor finds today what mysterious thing kate found in the field today pretty cool so
now i'm gonna go back to oh master off i need to go back to where i had stopped and turned around
that's really bad so if your master i spooled the boots to make sure i didn't have anything plugged
and i forgot to turn the master back on which was super bad because i ended up not turning it
back on that means i wasn't seeding that whole portion of the feel so now the master's back on
and i have to go back to where i was which is really upsetting oh my gosh i can't believe i did
that oh no well i guess i get to reseed that area now yikes oh i can't believe i made that mistake
i wasn't seeding anything so we weren't losing anything but it sucks when you make those kind
of mistakes because you're like you should have thought that through and you know what if i make
that mistake on a greater level and actually end up hurting part of the machinery my dad trusted me
enough to do this by myself you know i don't want to do something completely wrong so now that the
master's on i'll actually be seating this time which is nice so i'm going to turn around here
and then i'm going to put the drill in the ground when it's not going to back up anymore
okay so i am seeding now yikes big mistake but i'll be okay darn i think it's so important to
show these moments in the tractor and when you mess up because it does happen and especially when
you're learning new things although it's really bad of me to do that it shows that i do make
quite a lot of mistakes even though i try really hard not to and to pay attention and focus
on everything there's Darcy so if i hadn't noticed that i would just continue seeding
and there would be no barley in the ground no barley would come up you know when everything
starts to sprout my dad would think what's happening we maybe only have two more passes
left on this field Darcy's getting very close so i definitely am going to look out for that
i'll go back up because i'm closer to my end than he is but he might not be able to come back
down without us having to move i'm not well he might have enough room i'm not entirely sure yet
so that's an air sensor communication error which we've been getting and dad said just read
the air and make sure it's not something different but that i just silenced
so now i picked up my implement i started my 90 degree turn and i'll go straight
for a bit i really won't turn out until i notice the drill really starting to wind up
now i'm going to straighten out again hook up to guidance that was pretty good put the implement in
the ground and continue going i'm still going 4.9 miles an hour i didn't really need to slow down
for that corner there wasn't a huge amount going on so i'm just going to leave it at this speed
i have all the covers on the hydraulics that i'm not using except for the one that picks the drill
the shanks out of the ground and puts them in because it can be very bad if you accidentally try
and move these and detrimental to whatever you're doing so if they're covered no mistakes happen
Darcy's coming by now so we might actually i might have another pass going down which would be cool
but there's definitely only like maximum two to three passes left on this field
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