hello welcome to Kate's Ag today we have the combines parked at the schoolhouse and
the grain cart as you can see here there's the schoolhouse and then those are the 15 grain bins
and we're moving fields that's why we have them parked here so we service them in the morning and
we're just getting ready to start combining now
i just started my combine off and we're about to road to our new field in third gear
but we're going to run the field first gear because there's a really big [ __ ] and my
uncle chris said that just helps give you more control and power
so i'm in third gear right now because we had to road the combines down
to the school house in order to park them have to make sure no one's on the road and they're not
and now we're not roading on the highway we're just roading on a gravel road across the street
from the schoolhouse we're going by horses and cows right now you have to be really careful
when you're roading and in third gear because the combine will start to get really steery
and it's pretty easy to drive off the road going to put my combine in that second
the lever doesn't want to pull back very easily just give it a big tuck gosh this is hard
well i went into second and then i think now i'm in neutral and then back one more would be one i
don't think it's budging i'm really pulling on this and this doesn't seem to be moving
i'm maybe i am in gear one because i'm really pulling on it yeah that's what i'm thinking oh so
i got it turns out i was in first gear no wonder it wasn't budging anymore because i was able to
move it forward so my uncle chris came to help but it turns out it's all okay now i'm going to pull
up just behind him but give him a little room he's taking the first swath in and i'll take the second
swath ooh this does have a big [ __ ] in it so we'll see how this goes going to stop the combine
let the auger catch rabbit speed put my header to the ground and start picking up the wheat these
wheat swaths are not nearly as big as the last field but hopefully they filled out more because
the last fields wheat swash were really big but they didn't have any wheat kernels in them hardly
i'm going 2.6 miles an hour this field has a lot of kind of dips and coolies in it so i'll have to
make sure dumping with the grain cart that we only go on a straight part where my auger won't hit him
we've got red combines cutting right next to us don't you wish you had yellow flashing lights
oh that's pretty cool this red combine next to uncle chris has yellow flashing lights on it
i'll turn my camera around so you can see it
you want to keep the combines close together so that they dump at the same time with the grain
card it makes it a lot easier for our grain cart driver we have a lot of grasshoppers in
the fields all the time you see them hopping up everywhere and you'll occasionally also see
them in the grain tank which is kind of cool and then they make it all the way to the grain then
like last harvest i picked the grasshopper up and showed you in the grain bin it was kind of cool
i'm getting ready to dump in the green cart right now
i had a grain tank full buzzer going off for a little while
harvest is in full swing now so that's pretty exciting it's not running me a little bit but
i have a little room to go faster not much green tank is empty in the window
so i'm just waiting for it to finish the little bit that's left and i'll shut it off
now i keep going i now just got my uncle chris's combine and i'm driving it down to the other side
of the field because something's wrong with it and i guess this field's confusing with the swash
so uncle chris is taking my combine and we just switched now i see my dad coming up the road so
he's gonna try and figure out what's wrong this combine actually had a
belt problem last year so my dad just got here and i'm going to see what's going on
did it a couple times yesterday when i cleaned out the speed sensor and
everything seemed to be fine what what belts are we talking about nobody showed me any belt
when i started it up yesterday and the belt broke i think that was the thing i it sweat
on me and and i just started it back i you know i flipped the switch and it started
yeah i don't know if there's grease on in on this sensor i'm gonna go wipe it off again you
know maybe it's it's too far off maybe the sensor needs to be set down what do you think's wrong
with it i think the speed sensor is kicking in what did you do to make the alarm stop coming off
i wiped the sensor off so it didn't have dirt and grease covered
because it's a magnetic decay it says that the shaft is not turning
shutting the combine off now
i guess it's broke down again
i'm about to pass my dad right now
he's just cleared up this row so i'll be able to dump my window is full so my green
tank buzzer should be going off a little bit a lot of times i've been stopping to dump because
i'll be at the end of this row by the time the car driver gets here or we'll be in cooley so
this is kind of an unusual field in that way i'm going about 3.1 miles an hour and i'm
pretty much at capacity right now according to my meter my throw over is right at the top of
the middle green line which is where you want to keep it at and my return auger is almost halfway
thank you i just finished something by the very end of my row so there's one that goes all the
way around there yeah i will be good i'm starting my last pass of this section of the field and then
we'll be moving to the other half which is divided by the cooling darcy just moved his truck to this
side of the field to be closer for the green car to dump in he was parked over there before
i've got a green tank full buzzer now i'm dumping in the grain car i just pulled out
of my wheat swath because there's a wheat swath on the other side of me and the green card can't
drive on that so then i'll get back to this sweet spot right here and then head back up is
that combine over there like the combines you used to run yeah i used to have three of them
in my pack i think i had four of them really four of them 55 you know that's a 95.
that's not an idea yes it is yes well i had a 95. the 90 the 55's i had straight steering whales
and i had one little crooked steering wheel we just got back from dinner and now we're going
to finish up for the evening i think it's around seven o'clock we go to around 9 9 30 whenever it
gets dark we always stop for dark though because a lot of breakdowns happen in the evenings
when you can't see we didn't quite finish this field there's still a couple of passes
but we're going to do them tomorrow morning my dad said it's 9 00 pm right now so we're stopping and
we're going to road back to the school house just because if there was a fire that's the best place
to have our equipment so i guess we'll road the combines back up here in the morning and finish
the couple passes that are left there's probably two rounds back and forth it's 30 minutes up and
30 minutes back down so that's about an hour so we probably have around two hours left at this field
gotta pick my header up a little bit more or i'll be banging it on the ground that would not be good
i'm in second gear right now i don't need to go into third because we're not going too far
gosh i've just been seeing so many mice today i've seen at least 10 run out of the wii swap
just today if we're close to the school house we ideally always like to park there and i
guess we're moving off the road onto a field to drive because there's a pickup truck coming
and they just picked up this field today with red combines it's not quite dark out yet but
the sun is super beautiful and pink we're going some different directions today oh there's my
uncle chris i'm not sure what my dad is doing actually it looks like we're passing a little
[ __ ] so i guess you could call this a combine adventure and off-roading with the combines
you usually cross coolies at angles just because your header won't hit the ground then and it's a
bit easier on everything to kind of walk them across you can say oh goats they are adorable
they are so cute there's about four of them now we're heading back onto the road
turn around go back to where we came because you can't go forward because of the big washout across
that cooling up there that's why everybody's been going out this way now i'm going to idle my
machine down and cool it off today is the end of oh gosh i can't even remember it's like the third
or fourth day of harvest it might be the fourth i just can't remember it's all a blur to me now
gotta pack up my stuff now and head out now i'm going to turn my combine off for the evening and
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