hello welcome to Kate's Ag right now we are fixing the drill because the hydraulic motor
on the grain auger for the green tank broke down so hopefully we can get it running and back in
the field today so the hydraulic motor runs the auger that's used to fill the tanks of the drill
yes that's darcy in his drill over there he runs the john deere one see this drills work another 50
rule 2k at any given time 50 or broken down just like combines right
this drill is a toe between so that means that the tank is between the tractor and the implement
the one darcy's running is a toe behind meaning the tank is behind the implement
do you think that everything's fixed dad you don't know
try and running kate look at the monitors and everything is this something you've had happen
before not that i'm aware of on this one i mean you get oil leaks you've got to fix them yes
now we are going to take a few passes and see if everything's working right which hopefully it is
my hands are dirty so i'm wearing gloves so i don't get the steering wheel that's a good idea
something's beeping but we're not sure what uncle chris just switched the fertilizer tanks
because we got a notification that one was low you have to miss the rock pile which can be
quite challenging when seeding outside passes are always the hardest so we're putting down
63 pounds of seed and 100 pounds of fertilizer an acre and it says that on that monitor right there
when seeding occasionally you have to cut out the coolies rather than going through coolies
no i go through them but the seed drops on the ground because the shanks won't go down in them
some drills have individual shanks and they'll go down with people otherwise it just drops it
on top of the ground and just grow and it used to be they used to be all wild oaks along the
draws if you double seated you didn't have many hopes but if you did more competition oh wow
that's very interesting there's more moisture so it supports a greater population the shanks are
the part of the drill that put the seed in the ground so this is the [ __ ] you can tell where
the barley didn't grow because of the stubble but it got nailed out it hailed out in the spring but
we it grew back so we cut some of it the next time we'll just see down through it and that's what you
mean by double seating yeah so we have more plant population and there's genetically more moisture
and in areas where you get a lot more moisture you can put more seed down per acre than we can
because it will grow in very field where they do the irrigated barley okay they actually
some people some of them seed it twice they see it in one direction and then they seeded another
direction wow they get their plant population up and also it serves to hold barley lodges really
well when when when you have a big heavy crop and if you're seeded opposite directions they hold
the stalks and hold each other up a little bit rather than leaning all the same way oh
wow that's very interesting they used to do some people used to do that i don't know if they still
do would that help with saw fly also with keeping the stem up i don't know they always got to see
twice on dry land anyway it might i don't know anything they see different varieties together
some they see solid stem and and a hollow stem together with the theory that the solid
stem will get the saw fly very badly will hold the other stuff up wow that's interesting have
we ever done that before no when you're selling grain in an elevator do they look at the variety
can it be mixed like that it depends on what the customer wants generally when are we 20 we
you can just see where it's not seated because it's too deep in there yes you
know some drills have individual shanks so they they would do that they would they would go down
individually into that little pothole these don't have individuals like that well they're
individuals so they move separately from each other yeah these aren't quite as independent
they are a little bit but not as much as the new ones they have a hydraulic cylinder on every shank
that puts it up and down oh wow they're a nice grill but they cost like
the moon yes and it's important to keep expenses down in farming where you can i would go back to
making the first round so replacing the hydraulic motor that fixed everything and now the fan speed
is not dropping on the corners so that's really great yes there's a part that's still not gotten
seated the shanks came out of the ground a bit there so that just drops the seat on top of the
ground as you can see this is the edge pass of the field and this one doesn't have an auto steer line
so you have to hand drive it well yeah because it goes in and out it's not a straight line yes
would you say doing the edge passes or cutting out the coily is the hardest part of seating neither
oh i never even thought about that how long have you been driving drill
for 50 years oh wow that's awesome that's incredible so you've seen a lot of
the progression of technology i suppose so not all of it's good the top of it's good this is nice
yes has your favorite part of farming always been seeding i've always liked seeding better than
anything there's two separate monitors whereas in the other tractor there isn't right because
the other tractor's all john deere stuff and then all interfaces this one isn't all john deere one's
electric coil so it doesn't interface with the john deere so it's a flex coil drill and a john
deere tractor is pulling it and our other drill is john deere and a john deere tractor pulls that
so it all goes together a lot each simpler oh those green weeds so they're trouble for the drill
they'll go through they're the neighbors they're outdoors
they're the neighbors weeds there's certainly a lot of them
some people do the end passes last yeah because they don't when you turn around they want they
don't want the track they don't want to look at the tracks do the tracks make a difference in
the yields of the crop probably not i mean because some people that's the argument between a toe
behind your toe between some people don't like the tracks in the field so they get the glue
this is a thorough drill so it's standing on top of the furrow so it's pushing the furrows down i
don't think it's pushing the wheat down because real wet makes great big deep cracks in this
conditions yeah definitely that's not a problem we have very often not at all so there are two types
of drills the ones we run and then one called a disc drill and the disc drill just slices the
ground and drops the seed in whereas this kind of drill creates furrows what is the main difference
the theory was the pearls catch a little bit of snow and it protects the seed sort of over the
winter when they invented the furrow grill i read somewhere where it pushed the winter wheat seeding
area 200 miles to the north because if the ground the seed was protected over the winter and did
winter kills oh wow when they first started breaking this up they didn't have to hold they
just have this drill to double check to see if we have any clutch boots the drill backs up once
so now uncle chris and i are going to check to see if there is any plugged boots
and you look by seeing if there's any seed and fertilizer dropped on the ground the white is
fertilizer and the red is seed and you track all of the boots some people have monitors
that will tell you if you have a plugged boot and we used to have those but we don't anymore
no plugged boots and our hoses are clear so that if they get plugged with seed will be
able to tell which is really fantastic whereas if you had ones that were black
you wouldn't be able to tell unless you had a monitor of course and now my uncle chris
is going to check to make sure there is seed and fertilizer in the ground where we've gone you can
see this is the part we haven't seated and this is the part we have oh yeah there it is very cool
that's awesome always lots of rocks in the field i just learned how to do this track zero we're gonna
get to the new screen so we're gonna do a plus heading so that's the one we're using that means
line a plus a heading and i'm gonna do 180 degrees which is north and south desired 180 degrees
okay and it should give us a whole bunch more lines see the new you have new lines now yes
see ya that's where we're gonna drive with that blue line and i'm probably gonna
overlap quite a little bit because this this goes in and out so now the new auto track is set
and now no hands on the steering wheel until the end when you have to make the turn but
other than that it completely drives itself and it even paints a blue line where you're seating
i have to overlap quite a little bit because the
side the edge hit the straight line so in order to cover that i don't know how much this is a
mile long strips you don't want to have any skips it could have probably been over a little bit but
you never know just that set a new a b and i did the two end walls on the end i'm just coming down
so the drill was not in the ground and we weren't seating and none of us noticed playing around
with the autos here oh my gosh that's funny well now we're driving back going seven miles an hour
7.5 now uncle chris is going to set a new av line for when we're really seeding i guess because
it looked like we were overlapping a little too much but we don't want to have any skips
so we'll still overlap a little bit because the field wasn't straight and there will be variations
in the edge of the feed and it's hard to tell how much you should overlap when the field's a mile
long as you can see that mark right there was a rock being dragged and uncle chris was explaining
the toe between so the tank between the implement and the tractor and the implement is that part
that puts the seeds in the ground and then the toe behind and the toe behind you can see the
middle of your implement or drill when you're seeding so that makes it a lot nicer to tell if
you're dragging a rock or anything like that now uncle chris is setting the new a b lines this time
we are definitely going to remember to put the drill in the ground and it was painting a line
on the screen because the drill and the tractor are separate because they're not both john deere
so can make it a little bit confusing well that's helpful if you want a seed oh that was the rock
that was making that huge wine wow that was big rock we're overlapping quite a bit here
as you can see that's how much the field changes in one mile you see you can see it down there
yeah and then it goes back in as you can see we're not seating too much new ground here but
when we get down there we'll be feeding less yes exactly changes quite a bit and this goes in so if
we would have been seeding the maximum amount we could up there we would have had a skip down here
looking at the field you wouldn't think that but when seeding it's such an integral part
that's a huge difference now we're using pretty much the whole drill it's right at the point where
if it moves anymore over there's going to be a skip
oh no we had a skip oh you can see on your screen
that's crazy you wouldn't think it by looking at it but yeah the grass is now very thin and
up there it was very long can you make your field straight by taking out some of that grass
well they piled rocks in that grass oh they picked rocks they get dumped on the side so in order to
move that got a big job of picking rocks wow and that's kind of a huge skip and at one point
during the field we were hardly seeding any ground that's crazy you know if we're going round round
it wouldn't make any difference because we just followed the leading edge or you can set it so it
just follows the edge but every then if you have a wobble it just keeps adding to it every time oh
that's not good we're gonna go and pick that up now because we've seen this sort of because we
yeah the edge is very close here and then way up there it's
extremely wide and then this is the skip right here you can tell the difference
between the color of the ground the the light color hasn't been seated and the dark color has
maybe we have a link somewhere does that have to do with the same thing you were fixing earlier
i don't know i have a low hydraulic pressure here
now we'll go pick up our
so all it was was a hose that popped out hydraulic hose in the back that runs everything [ __ ] up
probably when i turned and now we're back seating picking up the skip
skip just it keeps getting smaller and smaller and non-existent the first pass is always the
hardest and we are just making sure everything is straight because as uncle chris was telling
me if you have it on contour it'll follow the lines but you'll all of a sudden have really big
curves in the field because it just gets bigger each pass so it's good that we're getting this
all done right now we have one more skip and then the rest should be auto steer dad's got
the drone then darcy's way over there so this one's 57 feet long and then how long is darcy's