hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i'm here in the tractor with uncle Chris and he is
teaching me how to roll which i actually took a ride in the roller last year which
was super fun but this year i'm going to be doing it by myself which will be exciting
okay then until you unlock it and there's a little green light there okay
and you want to keep that you know above the ground obviously
out of your eye let's look back here and see which hydraulic does what
so that does the wheels see the first one does the wheels yep and the second one see that
see the arms that catch it yeah so the second one kind of pushes the roller into the ground
no the second one see those arms yep they capture that thing
and lock it and then it lifts the tires up too okay so what one do you do first
you always want to do that you have to fold it out first so you have to go out in the field
oh so you put it in forward forward and then
you can just like here is fine and then this just controls speed
and then you got to probably bring the rpm up a bit
i roll back so you go up a pass and roll back the same i i only roll half of the back and
you know i only roll half that that way and we end up rolling rolling at all twice except for
the first round then we'll have to do the first number it does this doesn't it isn't very heavy
so it doesn't push the rocks in very good and it's real dry so the ground is hard okay now see that
the wheels in the back yeah tires they're straight so you're going to turn them out
i think you're driving forward
oh yep i knew how you'd go forward you turned the wheels okay
and the wheels are the first hydraulic yes and then as they get
i knew it was i knew you had to pull forward play rake you have to back up oh and i see the bar it's
gonna catch too the raid can be challenging sometimes you have to just turn the wheel
and you just roll straight back and forth or do you follow the path that's been seated
what i think we'll do is just uh we'll go down and then we'll just go back and forth until
you know follow him over that way yeah right i mean the whole deal is not you know not to go real
fast or you don't ruin the thing how fast would you stay is a good speed between seven to ten i
don't know it just sort of depends you know i i don't like i personally don't like this throttle
in the way they do that really i prefer have the thing i like to have it with the roll of the thumb
it's a bit handy but it can be really sensitive see some of these places we
won't be able to roll so what a lot of times if there's a dip like there yeah i will turn around
and roll put that on the edge if i were if we were to buy another roller we'd buy one
we could put water in rather than just it isn't quite heavy enough that's interesting you were
telling me about that last time we went rolling you know it didn't roll down on that dip yep
so what i'm going to do i'm just going to take the edge of that roller
and put it right down in there there's always lots of rocks down in the coolies too so you
really want to if you can you want to be able to so that's the whole idea so that
you don't have trouble yes and you aren't really rolling to make the seed to firm this thing that
isn't the thing we're just really rolling the rocks down yeah because uh the pulse
crops you have to cut them so low to the ground because we don't do this for wheat or barley
some people do actually some people roll just roll their wheat field so if they're
i'm thinking of doing a little bit just to try it out to see if it'll help the swather won't
have to deal with the rocks that would be down oh that's a good point actually so i'm gonna
we'll wait and see we'll do this first and then i might i'm going to pick a field or two and just
try it that's what i'm going to do and you just kind of eyeball where you rolled before
yeah i don't have gps on this though my neighbors have their little tractors have gps but you don't
have it on this we can put it on there but we just didn't get it as an option because we use
it mostly around the door so we don't use it for a lot of field work and i'll show you what i mean by
double rolling we what we'll do we'll just turn around
and drive the tractor down the edge of this down right where we went see where that edge yes
i'll just put that silver thing on the edge of where we rolled okay and that'll that'll double
roll everything except for the first half of this field i mean that first pass along the road
we'll probably do that again anyway because of the monster rock after that
this is quicker than picking rocks and much less labor intensive probably not as long-term
see that's going like eight eight two once we get going straight we might do all of this
but you see this ridge right here we'll probably come back here and get this cooling thing later on
i don't suppose you can do that when you're moving you might be able to um i believe you can
make it seem a little bit blocked turned on it looked like it turned on the
four-wheel drive too did it i don't know i don't how do you tell we'll do that oh
maybe i turned it on here i know that you can't really hurt anything just still running and it
there's no telephone poles or anything that runs here so
see where we we're leaving some down there because it's up yeah so we'll come back and do we'll come
back have we been rolling our fields since we started pulse crops always i've never primed
oh
yep that's because of the type of fence you can see where i mean double low see where the edge
of that roller was yep that worked so we have we have that halfway again over there yes it's
being rolled twice and then you just that's what you do just go back and forth just turn
and we'll turn and do half of your last pass yeah so you really only do half passes with the roller
so you can roll everything twice it depends how much i have to do but i think it does a little
bit better if we don't do it twice and we have the time right now otherwise we'll catch up with them
yes very when you get farther up and he hasn't where he hasn't seated over there don't roll the
end that he hasn't seen it yet okay you know worry when he does the last two passes we'll get back
okay it probably makes it harder well you really need to take care of it and economically to
run a farm you have to run older machinery and use it longer once you get used to it
yeah you've got this side of the loader right on the edge is it ever hard to tell well
can you see the line yeah yeah sometimes it's hard to tell so slow down to about
well whatever you're comfortable with and make a wide corner because you don't want to get
you can't hit that thing you don't want to back up anything in general i mean these things i mean if
if the roller is backing up when you turn you're probably turning over
and it will hit the tire right if you turn too short and see how that that will back up
but you know just slow down and it's not any big deal there you go oh thank you let me put this
on really i'm gonna put that in part and are you gonna take a ride with me so we can
no no so you can do what well i don't know okay yeah you drove the baler there's no
big deal you just go you just go down that follow that line and slow down when you turn
and then go up about eight miles an hour eight and a half okay yeah your old old hand at this
well thank you uncle chris thank you so much for watching make sure to like and subscribe
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lesson on the roller uncle chris be sure and eat lots of hummus so you can buy chickpeas
okay bye
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