hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is super exciting because i'm going to be driving a
baler for the first time ever if you watched my 2021 harvest videos you would have seen
that we took the straw choppers off the combines and left straw rows behind them so now i will be
riding with and driving with the people we are having bail our straw
today is super exciting because i have learned how to drive a baler and i'm here
with iver with mcgill harvesting and he bails all of our straw that we left from combining
yeah and you bail strong all over the u.s and canada we build straw in montana and canada yeah
alberta and saskatchewan that's amazing and swathing and and swathy and calmly thank you
so much for the opportunity you are welcome and i've never driven so i don't know how to
stop for so just do that move it to the yeah so i'll just i'll just drive i got it wind right
dying like we're doing 0.07 miles so you just move that all the way down idle it down and put it in
park okay and is there anything else not that i know off katie it's pretty it's up and down
up and down yeah right forward forward and then you want the tractor in full yep and then speed
and then you just set your speed like that okay follow your marks i'll leave it running right now
all you got to do so you got if you look here your target speed yes right so this tractor
will actually do 0.04 mile an hour wow that is crazy are you ready to take over the tractor yes
i believe so well i'm gonna get iked okay you can finish this field by the time i get back thank you
all right i'm very excited okay you got it figured out you're a farm girl yes thank you
whoa this is so exciting so i wanted to make sure that's happening
and i
here's what it looks like from inside the baylor the sky and sunset is gorgeous here's the screens
and what it looks like outside the back i cannot believe i'm driving a bail right now
after one pass that is crazy but i'm really enjoying it this is so fun to drive
i have black arrows on my screen to show me if i need to move over a little bit and which
way and then i have two black lines that go up and down so that it bales equally and my dad is
taking ivor in his pickup to go and show him the other fields we need bailed while i bail this one
this is amazing i cannot believe i'm running a bailor right now it's just the coolest thing ever
it's crazy how scary this tractor is and how fast i'm going i'm going 6.9 miles an hour i've never
driven that fast in any equipment in the field before in combine i'm lucky if i can drive three
miles an hour which is super fast and in drill i only go 5.2 miles an hour and i'm going 6.9
wow ivor said we want to keep the bales at average around 1 100 pounds this fail is 1080 pounds that
just came off and i have a little screen here too which is really awesome to show me that this black
knob here is for speed so i pull that back at the end of my row to give me more time to turn around
i lift up the part in the back oh my goodness the sunset's beautiful tonight oh i need to probably
go back and do this part here looks like i didn't have the failure down for the rest of this
there we go i got that now i'm going to my next row over here and put this down and then speed up
sure this is fully down
everything's going good here it's so fun to see the bales in the field also
wow this sunset is absolutely incredible it's one of the most beautiful i've seen since
harvest we actually didn't have a lot of beautiful sunsets this harvest this is so much fun to drive
i just saw what was happening
okay is there anything i should do differently to prevent that no it just happens
oh really that's what happens well thank you
oh okay how do i do that i've never run a tractor like this before oh awesome thank you so much
thank you a bail broke so that's really bad and i didn't know what to do i thought it was my fault
but i guess it wasn't so i'm going to take it out of park rev it up make sure this is in the ground
and then increase speed oh that's way fast so my lights are now on and i'm officially a baler
i'm really trying to focus on this screen to drive in a straight row which i also combine
this field so it's crazy to be back in it bailing the straw rose in combine if you drive all over
the place because it doesn't make a huge amount of difference whereas when you come to pick up the
straw rose the row you left behind it does make a difference so you have to keep doing turns if the
combine driver wasn't driving in a straight line so this was probably me it's really cool to see
the operation come full circle though got that there's part of the screen i want to keep black
we want three inch not sure what the three inch stands for i can't remember but you
want to keep it at three inch not four in and also when i turn i look to make sure all those
little sticks with yellow on top ivor calls them lollipops because they look like lollipops are all
off i'm trying to find my next straw row here which is right here and then i lift this up
back and i think this is my next no this is my next row oh it's white and i need to do
way more over here ivor's employees are from south africa which is very cool drop the
baler down and speed up hopefully the bales are coming out how they should
everything is looking good so far i'm watching the straw row in front of me and i'm noticing
if i just try and keep my tractor dead center down the middle of the straw row
i keep a pretty good black lines here and then i get to watch the bale come off the back
so that's really awesome i've always seen them in the fields and wondered what it
would be like to drive one or to be in one and see how it works so this is very cool
my dad's actually never driven a baler either so he's pretty excited that i get to drive one
now i get to look at the bales that i bailed wow they look pretty good i must not be totally
messing up so once the baler fully comes through here i'll lift up this is an awesome experience
i think it plugged in the back again midway through the row so there's a bit of straw
left would you like me to go and pick that up oh and you just push it out of the way yeah that is
incredible when you just move back like there to back up down here this is incredibly fun to run
so yeah if you ever hear that ratcheting thing yes you just stop and i will attract it right now
okay yeah and then once it stops ratcheting and the cold goes off the screen you cannot
okay it should be good to go yeah again see this is pretty heavy strong here along this bottom
picked up this one that one's tied to this one that one's tied to this one and then this one goes
like this that's a nail i'll show you how to tie a knot cake there's two knots you can do right
yep oh that's not too challenging but i'm going to show you something see that the tail of the twine
is going this way that's wrong oh okay so so the tail of the twine has to go with the string okay
you don't do that when it changes the ball it'll get stuck in the knotters oh right okay so this
knot will be in the veil you can see they're all going different yes when you tie the knot
the other way the tail will go this way so when the tails go that way it'll catch and everything
and then you have to yeah then you have to start re-threading the bill thank you so much for giving
me the opportunity to run the baler i really appreciate it you're welcome kate anytime your
job starts tomorrow full time okay thank you i'm excited make sure to like and subscribe to
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