i chose the wrong field i ended up choosing the south field when i really should have
chosen the north field so we are now roading back down and going to
the north field which i wish someone would have told me that but it's okay
i was able to get in touch with uncle chris at the top of the hill so it's all good now
marvin you can just take the road to the right of me it should go all the way around and then
it'll break into two parts so hopefully i've got this right now i'm now on the north end
but at least it's all our field so i wasn't cutting another person's crop
i'm just trying to look at these rows and see which are the three that go all the way around
because i don't think it's these i am so unsure of how this is working right now
this definitely isn't a part of that nothing so i'm not sure i guess we just see if these rows
go all the way around i mean my row ends here this field is definitely confusing me i just made it to
the end of my pass and i'm not even completely sure just give me a second here to turn around
i think that these are the passes that go all the way around i'm not a hundred percent sure but
that's what we're going with right now so let's hope this is right because it's at the very end of
the field they almost have to be the all the way all the way around passes i don't know what else
they could be my moisture reader is reading 8.3 percent moisture so that's good it does work on
my dad's combine and it's telling me i'm getting three bushels per acre here oh my goodness a ton
of feathers oh that is so cool so many of them it was too late though to pick them up i feel
like i did okay for not knowing what was going on even though i completely chose the wrong feel
this field is definitely confusing me i just made it to the end of my path i think these are
peas beside me here out the window i start my next corner up here our truck is still parked
way over here because no one has been out to the field to move it and i went through this big like
dip in the field and grain spilled out the side of my combine which is not good but that's okay it's
not spilling out you shouldn't be dumping i guess that's what my uncle said put my auger out right
now so it's going fairly good looking forward to when someone comes out to the field to give some
direction but other than that i think it's okay there's little windows in the side of the semi
truck and you can see when they're full you can stop put a little bit more on the front okay now
that's pretty well loaded if you ask me
there we go that's quite a bit better well i think i loaded that truck pretty well
yeah i'm happy with how i loaded that that's probably one of my favorite dumps i've done so far
could have maybe had a little bit more in the front i wasn't fully even but it was pretty good
yeah i know Arvid's having problems lining up to you just like i did i to back up and turn around a
bunch i just kind of want to stay together for the first laps i think that there's a third lap that
goes fully around because of the three combines so i'll go ahead and take that one and then you
should see kind of where the field splits into two oh hopefully this is uncle Chris lost that Katie
say that again i missed what you said there oh there's three laps that go all the way around
the field so i'll take the third full lap full pass and you yours should cut halfway
kind of in the middle like the last couple of fields we've done just follow the swath i think
it'll make sense hopefully it does so Arvid's not going to be able to follow me all the way around
he'll have to split the field in two so what i'm gonna do is when i see oh my header just
bounced there that was not good when i see where the field splits into two i'll just let him know
oh hawk so i'll kind of watch his past as well as my own put my header down
okay i see where it splits into two it looks like there might be one more all the way around path
where my combine is now is where the field splits arvid do you have a copy okay i'll come in here
okay thank you i'm just gonna make sure it's where it splits though so i'm gonna go to this
other end here there might be a third pass do you remember how the last two fields we did were um
80 acre pieces it was a 160 acre field but split kind of in in two halves so we do one
half of the field and then the other so you should come in right here do you see where
the first pass that you would take headed north meets the row you're on yeah there's this uh
windrow that i can get right where i'm at that's ready to go yes you're probably at the right one
then all right thanks Katie bye you're welcome thank you arvid's so nice i'll drive down there to
see if i can spot it for him thank you darcy steve wall just arrived so i'm going to dump in him but
but before Steve wall was there Darcy parked in the middle of the field to help arvid find where
the middle row is and where the two fields well it's one field but where the swathers split them
so that we would be able to make it to dump in the truck although we can make it all the way around
too before dumping into the truck because the wheat is so bad i think i will done this time
because i do have a little bit of wheat in the window and that is not centered oh it might be
close though as you can see it's coming down in the window i think my dad's combine doesn't clean
the wheat as well as mine does i think Arvid could probably make it another round oh maybe
not i don't know that is the field up there that i started picking up wheat and this is the field
we're supposed to be in so now Arvid's lining up the sky looks a little bit like it's going to rain
i know it's raining in a city near us idle down put the back in front in check mark these buttons
just so we can see what it's reading 9.6 moisture which is good we don't want to cut anything above
12 moisture if we're not putting in a bin with a fan and average bushels per acre is 15 which is
a lot better than we had oh i forgot to put it in rabbit speed you always want to harvest at a big
speed so i guess technically today is my first day as interim farm boss which is kind of crazy and
it has just been one mess up after another to be completely honest with you
i chose the wrong field to start picking up wheat and thank goodness it was our field and not
a neighbor's field that would have been so bad yeah it's just been a tough day my dad
said this is like if you're running the farm kate so treat it that way it's been interesting trying
to figure out where which part of this field to start on which rows go all the way around and you
don't realize how much logistics are in farming when you're the one managing it all for the day
so it's been really an interesting experience and i am quite thankful that i get a lot more help
from my dad before maybe one day i'm able to take over the reins i'm not sure that Arvid completely
split this even this side looks a lot bigger than this little portion of the field but that's okay
because it doesn't really matter anyway we can get through any of these paths without having
to dump before we get to the end i saw the bushels per acre meter go from 17 to 20 just a second ago
so this is definitely a better wheat than the last couple of fields well i just started dumping grain
over the other side so Steve had to run out waive me down i'm on turtle speed right now to
put out less grain and kind of control where it goes so it looks like i got completely empty
Steve got full so now he's tarping his truck which i feel so bad about making that big
grain pile he probably won't be able to put his tarp over that at all actually Arvid got to his
down path before me so i'll be going a little bit slower now turtle speed back in front in
rabbit speed lower the header and go forward it's dinner time so i'm going to cut in the middle of
Arvid's row and pick some of it up he ended up just getting the very last row and there
wasn't a second one for me to take up so turtle back in front and rabbit put the header down
another example of good combine etiquette we are about to head into dinner i've just parked
my combine arvid's going to park his combine so we just let it cool down for a while now that
it's cooled down i'll go ahead and shut it off we just got done with dinner it was only Darcy
Arvid and i for our crew which was unbelievable that it's just me on the field today usually
there's always my dad or uncle chris or grandpa or someone so just be left out in the field alone to
fend for myself and just know what swath to take is pretty cool and i actually feel honored my dad
had the confidence in me to let me do this Arvid just radioed to me and asked if we should dump
this around or go another but i said for sure dump this around because i could see grain
on the top of his bin and also mine at lunch i wasn't sure whether we'd make it two laps or one
lap but it turns out we for sure only made it one lap but it's coming to the evening we did
have dinner and it was so delicious the cherry cobbler was just fantastic so i'm super happy
and the meat was very good as well my dad just radioed and he's back from fixing the combine well
he actually took the combine to the welders to get the straw chopper unit welded back on but here he
is coming down the road right over there it's really hard to see he's covered up by the hill
but he's coming i'm very glad to have my dad back i missed combining in the field with him for a day
i actually missed it a lot but don't tell him that i can barely see my dad coming over the hill here
and then Arvid's up there and i'm right here and the combine is officially back in the field so my
time as interim farm boss is up sad moment but also happy moment to have my dad back
we are almost done for the day my dad's back in the field like i said Darcy is just getting topped
off by Arvid Arvid's hold load won't be able to go into Darcy's truck but a good portion of it should
and i think we're finishing soon i believe that's grandpa is on the field road there
active header height control i've really enjoyed running my dad's combine it's
very similar to mine but it is cool to run a little newer combine with duals and a moisture
sensor reader it's very neat dad the wheat seems to be a bit better here doesn't it
yeah we're going to call it for the night after we've done
okay thank you all right so i'm roding over to the red truck in the other field and i'll dump my load
into it i pretty much got a full load i don't have the very top filled it's nice to be ending now
it's 7:50 so we'll all get home at a decent time it is so hard to line up properly to the truck so
i'm hoping i'm able to do it this time i don't know if this is quite center or not i'm hoping
it is because grandpa's watching all right that's a lot more center i think last unload of the day
that's always a good feeling i'm not completely sure where to go so i'm just staying here for the
time being where would you like me to go just wait Kate see i think you need to be closer
the two other combines are lined up to dump thank you so much for watching today's video i really
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