loading cart loading truck and once in a while this happens might as well do it
this way speeds things up a little bit now this
is nice in a low spot here running 70 80 bushel
wheat here sometimes pushing 90. yeah that that
could get used to this but no this is only a couple acres this
doesn't make up the whole farm it's just a low spot they got a little more water
that's what a water will do one another rain or two and we would have had 50 60
70 bushel wheat on the farm moving right along today about five and
a half miles an hour sometimes up to six this wheat's running i know it says 22
bushels an acre i bet that's pretty accurate
it's not the greatest land where we're at it's just amazing how it jumps around
it's 50 over there there's like seven over there
it was like 40 over there now it's 20 here
but i'm gonna be doing probably 26 acres an hour 27 acres an hour that's a lot
for one combine let's uh let's move around along so
let's see how much we can get done but we're getting close guys
to wrapping up wheat harvest we're really close just about
500 acres left 450 somewhere in that area
and we'll get a chunk of that done today it's midday we'll be able to go till
dark and then tomorrow hopefully wrap up wheat harvest because
they're talking a half inch of rain starting sunday night monday with
freezing temperatures it might even turn into snow
so we're gonna get our first freeze of the year isn't that crazy oh
but i actually kind of want to freeze because it would really help with our
kosha growing in our chem fella right now a
freeze right now would really stop those plants from growing
and possibly kill them so that'd be great i love opening a big field up
that's awesome we don't have as big of fields as we used to because we've
stripped things up a little differently but this is fun full 45 feet of header
right now rolling through this field that'll get the acres done
26.8 acres per hour yeah oh i ate a big lunch so my supper here is
looking mighty fine it's only about four o'clock in the afternoon
if i ate it all now i'll probably be hungry later tonight
but i'll feel really good right now is it better to feel good now
be hungry later or should i be hungry now
and feel good later i'm gonna eat it well it's after 20 bushels an acre but
my work rate is 28.1 acres per hour that's how fast it runs
through this stuff that's because it got hailed on and so a lot of it i just
going six six and a half miles an hour busting through it so yeah that's uh
that's a good way to get this done quick i think we're definitely gonna finish
tomorrow
vince bull he's moving the truck out of the way which means we got to get this
auger all buttoned up and head back to the
main yard and finish filling that big massive bin that we have
all right let's get back to work
those bins got to be getting close um i would say i'm just
estimating from all the truckloads we put into it
maybe three truckloads left two truckloads left
i don't know i guess i'll find out i gotta be getting close
i mean each truck we're looking at like a thousand bushels to 1200 bushels each
so it's hard to say but uh spins kind of up here i don't know about
you guys but it's kind of freaky up here we're getting close yeah maybe one to
two we'll see we'll dump that next load
coming in and see what it looks like
are you guys behaving yourselves are you getting along
all right just checking on you guys
getting close to lunchtime so i'm gonna reach back here
and grab a few carrots left i've been nibbling on them uh for the last half
hour he's been sleeping and every time i pull
the package he wakes up and looks at me so
anyway i'm going to uh grab the package again and then
we'll see what happens
i think he likes carrots because he chases something that likes
carrots so i have an idea there's a connection
there somewhere i'm still trying to figure it out but uh
anyway uh he loves carrots
so if you can't chase them join them i was going to show you some of the hail
stuff that i'm cutting yeah this is making summer around 12 to
15. uh it got hammered fairly well in this
area and you know it's
kind of tough to see the straw there the had still somewhat there but uh
it was small hail and it shattered um about a month and a half ago so
uh but this is the last of the hail stuff that we're
harvesting and then we'll move on to some that isn't hailed and we're just
about ready to wrap up the spring wheat harvest uh still have chickpeas left
or beating our garbs to harvest but anyway yeah in reading some of the
comments of course many of you saw that we have the new
grain bins plus we have also a bagger that we put grain in bags and
many of you asked well why were you doing that
why did you do it in the bins we filled the bins
um the first two are filled with yellow bees the second one
or the third one we're actually filling right now
the last little bit there was a little bit left in it we moved over to another
area where some bids come back with the auger
in and this is actually going into that finish and filling that big bin and we
have about two other bins left um bigger ones and then a couple small
ones and that should take care of the rest of
the spring wheat that
do you see something is
i can't let you out you can't chase antelope
anyway i uh was fixing some parts from the header
and we're right next to a reservoir and kobe jumped out so
i took the parts i don't need put them in the service truck
and then kobe showed up you're not going with me
until you clean up your act
i'm pushing it i'm just about full my got my egg cam here on top of the hopper
and you can see the gps receiver it's right
above the cab here's the front the cab is right over here
yeah it's just about there there's a little room right there and i've got
about 150 yards left to the end of the field so the question is can i make it
it's running about 30 to 35 bushels an acre in this spot
let's keep going oh boy maybe i was wrong on this
it's up against the edge but there's the edge of the field right here
i'm gonna have to be really careful really slow turns
let's go and get my auger out chattel mcdonald's got the quad track right
behind me so uh he's gonna dump me so it's already
going over the cab oh yeah oh there it goes
nice and slow nice and slow start turning
oh there's grain going over the side oh it jumped
so close oh it's covered the camera go ah there that's like running to the
bathroom and you're just not sure you're gonna
make it we did whoo that was close that's a good 350 bushels
there she goes i knew it was going to fit all along
yeah carefully calculated pretty simple that window is dirty
i have not cleaned that in a while still unloading i think this combine does
four bushels a second something like that i don't remember the exact numbers
but probably not 100 there because it's probably got some wear in the flighting
but i just put like 20 000 pounds in that cart just
about maybe 17 18 000 pounds i don't know
whatever 350 times uh 60 is there we go done and done okay
let's go back to harvesting and i'm right back to where i was before
end of the field grain cart's fortunately right there and
the tank's just about to overfill and this is the last of the wheat in
this area if we finish this tonight we can road these things home and then it's
just finishing up a couple patches here and there
we're close guys we are close to finishing spring wheat uh it's
so good all right let's get to that carton dump there we go this is it
last of the field my dad's finishing up a little strip i'm dumping this
and i'm gonna fold the tank and drive this thing home man this piece here
yielded really good oh i wish the whole farm was like this
some really good ground here it was planted early got good moisture from
being early planted and it's just good soil and it was
running 50s 60s i saw 70s at time that would be
something else to have the whole farm run
everything seems extra fast at night time there goes blow off
come on all that there is not that my reel is out of adjustment
that's me combining at six to seven miles an hour in
seven bushel grain so yeah it just starts throwing it up top there
but i was getting almost 30 acres an hour so that's what matters
oh boy so they're cutting out the old water hole we call it bird crab pond
the whole basic lake bed down here that has no drainage
there's no way to make drainage in it and usually it's under water and this
year it wasn't so we see it but there was a lot of weeds in it i
could feel the humidity i don't know if it's ready yet that's
pretty nasty stuff let's see but uh yeah a printer on that all right
i got a game plan figured out it's on the radio there for a little bit
um grain coming off that field is looking really nice
but when i say really nice test weights high probably 62
maybe 63 pounds it's it's big big plum kernels they look awesome
so we like that kind of seed to use for well
see so what we're gonna do is we're gonna we've got one bin that can almost
hold this truck we're just gonna dump the rest of that in that bin
and then there's only about 30 acres left out there from there on
we'll use the grain car and the trucks to
hold all that's left of the spring wheat that's good seed
and then we'll figure out a bin to put it in and we'll use that for seed for
probably next year got it that's the plan
that's it guys done with spring wheat 5 000 acres
in the bag some bags a couple bit three bags dressed in bins and then some in a
green card still cause we gotta fair what to do with it
but isn't that great so 1100 acres of chickpeas to go
we're probably gonna convert the combines over got to put some different
modules in get them set up for the large beans and
then probably start a little bit of that
today a little bit tomorrow weather come in probably two or three
days of being down because we're talking a half inch of rain
and then back at it and then done with harvest 20 20.
we're not out of the woods yet though this good storm could put a bunch of
snow on the ground could hurt the chickpeas who knows
things can happen hail storms can happen fire's gonna happen we're not done yet
but spring wheat is done and that's a big push
and it was it was a good spring rate crop we'll know the final yields when we
crunch the numbers but we're probably looking at 35 bushels an
acre average that to us is is good it's not excellent
it's not superb it's definitely not a bumper crop
but it should hopefully pay the bills if we can sell it at a good price
so let's figure out the next plan it's always about a plan or you just do it
and then decide later if you should have made a plan because it didn't count the
way you probably should have that happens too but you know what we've
been farming for over 100 years i haven't my family has
and we keep going so something's working
right
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