hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is another day on the farm in Montana and actually it's
the first day of 2022 spring seeding and that is incredibly exciting we only have one drill
going right now and that's our john deere drill that darcy drives and it also has our
john deere tractor pulling it
i usually drive the flexi coil drill so we are still preparing that and getting everything
ready for seeding right now we are seeding chickpeas in this field and darcy is filling
his drill so i'm going to walk over there and kind of see what's going on it is a beautiful
day here and the sky is just gorgeous this is our red tandem truck the first truck i
actually ever went driving in which is awesome so you can also look at that video on my youtube
channel as you can see the box lifts from the back here whereas a traditional semi truck
would be much longer and have funnels on the bottom where the wheat comes out to dump in
the elevator whereas the tandem truck lifts up
if you try to do it too easy it don't work
now darcy is checking the boots to make sure that there is seed and fertilizer coming out
of every single one and uncle chris is over here spooling them now what's different about
the john deere implement and the flex coil implement is i can spool the boots from inside
and here you have to do the outside and so you check each shank here and boot these are
the rollers that pack the dirt down after you put the seed in the ground so basically
what we do on the farm is just like gardening on a large scale so as you can see these are
the chickpeas with the fertilizer and you go around and you check every single individual
boot to make sure seed and fertilizer coming out and if seed and fertilizer aren't that
means one of them is probably plugged which i definitely did last year winter seeding
winter wheat seeding so it's never a fun experience and say just a couple of these on the end
aren't seeding and you notice it and you hadn't checked your boots in a while you won't know
where it stopped seeding or where you plugged them so you'll have to go back and either
re-seed all of that which is very costly because you can't just seed one portion you have to
reseed the whole 60 feet of the drill or you can wait to see what wheat comes up and what
doesn't although it's also costly to see later because you won't get as good of a crop or
you might not be able to get back in the field to re-seed that portion so there are a lot
of variables in farming that you can't control so that's why it's super important to check
everything you can and control the variables that you are able to so now we are folding
the auger and we're going to unhook it so this is our grain vac and the tractor that
has the pto to run the grain vac to take the grain out of the grain bin and
sell the semi truck which you've seen in a couple of my videos this is actually a new
one which is rather nice yes and this is the new tractor that you would have seen in my
new tractor video which is so awesome and it's just like the tractor i was using baling
and after we unhook this tractor from the grain vac we are going to hook it up to the
roller oh so these are lentils very cool you can actually push that up there huh okay
right there do we want to keep the all right right by the hose yeah oh and that's the cone
that we use to line up the truck to the green vac
it's it's rather nice yes so now austin is going to drive the tractor over to the schoolhouse
it's got a super cool monitor have you driven this tractor very much no will this be your
first time i think i may have moved it around uh a little bit but practically yeah i think
this is a first time i've actually i love driving tractors like this this was the type
i had when i was driving the baler yeah they're super fun i like the lock on this uh deal
here the other the massey somebody got in and they kicked it into drive while we were
pulling bin oh no yeah it was great i i could hardly believe that like that i i turned away
and i i ran not run nobody over or nothing that's really scary that was good so a great
updated safety feature i think so what are you waiting for right now okay do i need to
push this in yes okay there we go very well well you need it don't you need this up i
thought i thought it just moved see this is snail so you so you wanna well you have to
bring up the rpms to go a little bit more so this controls your speed so right now we're
in the lower and then once you bring your rpms all the way up which we will to move
yes and then so scroll back to slow down the speed and forward to move it
it's kind of interesting it's a lot different from the other tractors but it's really nice
to just be able to roll your thumb back and forth to control your speed i thought that
was neat too i took this up to great falls to uh put us a snow blade on and i noticed
that when you scroll this you can change the the speed value of one and range two yes so
at like uh and depending on how you set it up you can have a better like you can pull
it back and it slows you down easier or a little more aggressive like it's like riding
a bicycle you never forget but you do need a little update sometimes yeah a lot of the
time there's stuff that we're doing around here you do it just long enough to game on
yeah to get really good at it and then it's uh off to the next thing and that you already
forgot how to do so then you have to relearn it and once you get good at that it's a new
thing yeah it's always new that's kind of what i like about being out here yes and that's
a really fun part of farming yeah what would you say has been the most enjoyable experience
of working on a farm that's uh that that could not be narrowed down to a single uh single
adventure oh that's fantastic it's really nice generally people are a bit weird and
i i enjoy the solitude and then everybody that you run into around here they tend to
be pretty nice people yes that's nice in a very large community aspect yeah this road
was actually better before they graded yes it was they graded our road and put all the
big massive boulder type rocks in the middle and have you ever hooked the roller up to
a tractor before i no i haven't been involved in that operation oh okay so a new experience
for both of us and the reason we use a roller on the farm is after we seed any pulse crops
which are like chickpeas which we're seeding today lentils things like that is because
when you go to harvest them they don't grow very high off the ground so your combine header
has to be very very low and you use a header called a flex header to mold to the ground
but because you have to cut the crop so low there are a lot a lot of rocks that can break
your machinery and your cutter bar which is why we use the roller to push them into the
ground hopefully most of the big ones will be avoided next harvest it's kind of nicer
i think maybe to push them into the ground and pick them out of the field yeah well if
i pick rocks that's fine a lot less manual labor
that chains come up at the cradle oh and it doesn't go past well it holds it and holds
it up because you're pulled tight these chains come up and you pinch that hitch as a cradle
straight yeah it just it wouldn't it dropped to the ground
once I went down in the ditch and I didn't wreck at all
that's lucky well this part's the easier part the turns are a little bit challenging when
i feel like i should turn i wait like two seconds and then I turn
okay
well that's really good advice thank you
so austin is the spectacular camera person today thank you what would be your favorite
time of the year i mean do you enjoy seeding harvest when you're out in the field and stuff
it's nice you're doing like uh you're doing important things right yes i really enjoy
harvest because it's just the most fun time but i also really like seeding too because
it's a little more laid back than harvest um and you have i have auto steer on the tractor
for seeding so i enjoy that um but i don't know i think harvest is probably my favorite
driving combine there's just nothing like it although it feels like running a marathon
and after harvest time you completely need a you need the rest of the year to go slower
0.08 miles an hour so now i have to think about this probably park i would say and am
i in park where does it say that i'm not sure if it says it there but i i can tell you you're
in park at you oh it says it right here okay good i always like to check
see that arm yep when we back up so is it kind of like the harrow
okay
so the hydraulics turn the tires okay you back up and then the things swing out and
then you turn that and then you turn the hydraulics until they get straight again okay so the
wheel the travel wheels come up right or what they do well i think the back ones fold all
the way up in the air okay they do so we'll get in the tractor and we'll back this out
the first one does the wheels and the second one
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 turn the wheels okay and then you just creep forward and the wheels
are the first hydraulic yeah i knew it was i knew you had to pull forward the ranke you
have to back up oh and i see the bar it's going to catch too the rake can be challenging
sometimes it gets it back like that okay so we'll go backwards now you have to turn just
turn the wheel a little bit i turn the wheel that i'm going backwards
and is that the second hydraulic yeah to fold the wheels up okay yeah same thing
seating 2022 has officially begun and the skies are absolutely spectacular today thank
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