hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i am rolling again so that's super exciting this is our only
chickpea field we're planting and i maybe have probably another full day of rolling
and then will be completed so that's exciting and we're moving on to barley
next we might plant a little bit of spring wheat we're not sure yet so
i'm just about to get ready the tractor's been started for a while
because with diesels you have to make sure to let them warm up so i just put my steering wheel down
and i'm going to bring my rpms up in the tractor i'm in park right now so i'm going
to make sure i'm in a slow speed and then i'm going to start going again so i'm taking off
i don't need a clutch to get started so that's super nice i think my first pass is back here
so i basically can just tell by all the dirt kind of dug up from being seated and what a roller does
is it pushes the rocks into the ground so when we go to harvest it or when we have custom cutters
harvest the crop it doesn't break off the rocks don't break off the machinery and the cutter bar
of the combine because pulse crops or chickpeas for example have to be cut very low to the ground
because they don't grow very tall this kind of maybe looks like it's been rolled i'm just going
to take a look over here i can't really tell so i'm going to drive partially in the field to see
kind of does look like it's been rolled oh no actually no i don't think this has been rolled so
oh i see where my line is so i'm just going to speed up and drive over here
although i'm going across furrows right now so it's super bumpy and i'm just going to slow down
a little bit because whenever the tractor is bumpy and it's not very pleasant in the
cab you're also hurting your tractor so that's a good thing to take note of so i'll go down here
it looks like all of this end pass has been rolled my uncle chris very kindly gave me the evening off
and rolled some of the field so that i would have less to do today and i would be able to get some
rest so i now have a much straighter line to roll off of which is very nice i might add i'm going
to increase my speed to 10 miles an hour because there doesn't seem to be too many rocks right here
and i'm just going to make sure everything's good with the roller
move my chair around here for a second i'm keeping my tractor on this edge line so that i'm double
rolling the field so the right side of the loader is on the part that i've already rolled and that
brings me to about the middle of my roller i just spoke to darcy this morning and he got out of his
tractor to tell me we've only seated until we ran out of chickpeas here so i don't obviously have
to roll the part that hasn't been seated and we're going to plant barley in the rest so i think i can
kind of tell where he stopped but when it gets closer i'll make sure rolling is definitely a
bumpy job on the farm but i really like operating this tractor and it seems to be coming back to me
because i actually out of my whole family have had the first experience driving a tractor like
this so that was super nice because of all the bailing i did last year although that was a year
ago so i'm still a little bit rusty it's a super quiet tractor as well so i really enjoyed that
and it's just super fun i don't think there's any tractor you can drive on the farm without
having a good time i also i have a speedometer right here and then i also have my speed here
as i drive a little too far over into the rolled part oh my goodness a hawk oh my gosh two hawks
wow that is so cool also get my camera out next time around they were right by me in the field
that is awesome it's a very nice day today but i think it's supposed to
get a little bit cooler later on this week montana weather is crazy it can change super fast i don't
see any more hawks yet in the field so maybe those are the only two it looks like my line of what has
been rolled and what hasn't been world changes a little bit here so i've had to drive in slightly
everything looks good on the tractor so far i'm glad there's no problems i hope we get some
rain soon we definitely need it oh there looks like there's a case tractor seating over there
and maybe a john deere tractor with a different type of implement so maybe oh wow too that's
pretty cool it's always fun to see the different people working in the fields across from you
and i'm coming up to the end here so i'm about to have to make my corner i'm just kind of looking
to see if uncle chris rolled the last pass in the field that darcy did going
all the way around the field rather than back and forth and it looks like he did roll all of that so
i'm just going to go forward and turn around here it's like mr toad's wild ride once i get
into this next field to make my turn so i try to be pretty careful and really slow down to like
two miles an hour well actually i'm going 3.2 but still very slow whereas on the other side i
can kind of do a turn at 8 miles an hour because i'm capable of lining the tractor up with that
little amount of time it's just very bumpy if you go that that fast on this part of the field
so now i'm lining back up to my last pass and i'll start the next one for the day which is exciting
a hawk just flew away again i'm not sure where you went but oh my goodness that is so cool
there's the hawk right there oh my goodness i think it's super hard for you to see him
but he just flew out again this field quits where the end of that green stuff is okay
so there's not much of this field in there but he's seeding this way and there's a coulee over
here that isn't planted with nothing but chris could have went and seeded that whole bottom
the north end of that down there okay as far as the coulee goes and and it runs along and
there's a fence line about over there i can see the post see that big set of tracks wandering
around over there yeah the crooked one yeah if you look off to the right there's a fence post
see it it's right under that black hill it's just a little stick type look yeah i see it
okay that's a fence so it runs all the way along and and that thing goes down a little coulee
turns the corner runs along but there's some coulees that come up a little one so you got to
be looking ahead you have to cut out the coulees or do you go through them no they're not they're
grass coulees okay oh just roll where the tractor went okay so if if the coulee comes into that
you've got to be looking ahead so you don't get this thing tied in a knot where you hook
the frame on this right right so you'll find that fence line and that's the north end of this field
actually and then the additional stuff will be over there it'll be that way west but it's always
easier to turn things like this around if you got two laps around it you know what i mean right
and don't don't get turned too sharp so you've got to know what's coming out 100 percent. so you
know pay attention okay thank you so my dad did confirmed last night fire i saw over there was
not controlled it didn't end up burning down any buildings which is good but it seems to be going
again today so i hope everything is all right i'm not sure what's going on i just noticed it again
i am still driving the tractor dad just gave me a little overview of what's probably happening on
this end of the field um i didn't notice that that part was seeded i just came back from there but as
i get closer i should i did notice the fence post so i'll have to be extremely careful around those
this is much bumpier in here because it's a different type of soil it seems to be maybe
more of a clay soil rather than a clay loam and there's also a lot more rocks in here
so i'm driving a little bit slower because it's a lot easier on the machinery although you do have
to keep momentum up for the roller to actually push the rocks into the ground it's almost like
a little bit of a water hole in the field which all has to do with the composition of the soil
and what it's deficient in i'm not driving in straight lines again let's see
so i only have about this much left and i've done well over half the field there are some
coulees coming up so i'll definitely have to slow down for those i'm at about a half a tank
of fuel which is really oh my gosh a hawk oh no it's not a hawk it's an owl oh my goodness
no way it's an owl i kept thinking they were hawks oh and it looked like a baby too that i wonder
if you saw that on the camera that was the cutest thing ever uh i hope i see him again my next pass
that was incredible ah i noticed the round head and i thought goodness that's an owl not a hawk
so now i'm almost to the other end and i'll be making my turn again you can also hear all the
rocks being pressed into the soil i have had a really giant rock it would be interesting i
know some tractors do but to be able to pinpoint on the map where the really massive rocks are
and then come back with this same tractor and pick them out of the field thank you so much
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