hello welcome to Kate's Ag today I'm in the combine with Dad and our new grain cart driver
arrived at the farm today and our grain cart came yesterday so my dad did a little bit
of grain cart training and is in the combine practice doing practice grain cart dumps with
him so he hopefully gets a feel for it yeah hopefully everybody will get a feel for it
he's doing good though so and cart it's hard to do yes I've actually never driven grain
cart so I have no idea I enjoy taking rides in the combine with Dad because it's like
old times when I was young
okay the combine guys should do most of the speed adjustments when you guys get set it's
easier for us to adjust as long as it's not going too fast and don't let them wander out
or in on you you know getting too far out either shut the auger off or just tell him
to drift back in or something I know I always um do my left turn and then I'll sometimes
I do a left turn and you know when the rows are way far in well that's the reason you
look at the end of the row and see which way you turn when you get here it gets pretty
dusty this past is your combine pretty much the same as mine just with duals
pretty much oh and it has big headers or tilt right it
has a header tilt
see this one's already you push on these buttons the lock Kate on these gotta keep checking
that you can bring it back now oh yeah you just uh you don't want to be brain dead and
for get about that okay I won't this thing tends to let one side of that this float thing
or the wind guard go in the morning to want to raise it up lower it all the way down a
couple times to get it squared up again
oh isn't that with all the combines no with this one anyway
well we got big swaths you can't have it as far down like this and there's places when
they raked this last time Kate where they left big piles of old straw you know you don't
want to eat more of that because you don't know if there's rocks in them or what to stand
up your header a little bit if you're gonna cross see if you picked up his stuff because
these are good rows here though and they start out good Arvid will too and then you go dump
in the truck and then we're going to take a big run around the outside of this thing
don't hurry this you know I tell these other guys not to hurry so don't you do it either
oh are we dumping in grain cart yes okay that gets a nicer dump for the truck right oh yeah
it's way easier than the truck 3-6 is probably three seven and probably faster than the belt
feet yep where's our next field it's here oh the other part the other two parts, three
parts or whatever's left Taylor looks like you are doing good we'll
go out here to the edge of this field and start around on this next piece so I think
we should be able to make it but I can't guarantee it great I'll meet you out there as soon as
we're done unloading yeah I'd probably just come up to this corner and I should be able
to read well well whether we're going to make it or not and if we're not there's a little
kind of procedure we use to get dumped on the first go around Roger that oh I know the
procedure but it's been four years if I didn't by now it'd be kind of sad wouldn't it why
yeah yeah watch me do it every first round of my life hahaha in my life I'm wearing my
side arm logo Kate's Ag shirt that's made and grown in the USA so that's super cool
dad's wearing his two under his sweatshirt and how do you like it Dad oh it's really
wonderful wait wait you gotta go higher there you go the Kate's Ag logo okay this is probably
gonna go down to this big coulee here Kate and then it will probably
go across the road I think I want to ride with him around just to give him some pointers
for the cart guy or something yep so I'll let you take this and go with him oh right
now yeah yeah okay so pay attention to where this breaks and the one when he decided to
turn it'll probably just roll out into the fast of the road Arvid I'm gonna come go for
just a little ride with you how's that what did he say oh man okay this is yours that's
cute you're coming back after no it will probably be lunch time before anything else happens
oh after this round you think well two rounds at least
so my dad just got out of the combine now I'm going to put the back of the combine on
the header and do rabbit speed I just set my number two button and now I'm ready to
go in my swath I actually might wanna set it a little bit lower to get a good picking
up I'm gonna go about 3.2 miles per hour my dad is going for a ride in the combine with
Arvid Arvid said when my dad radioed and told him that Arvid's like hop in so that's really
cute oh this is a little low so I'm picking my header up and resetting the button so when
I press button number two at the beginning of my next row my header immediately steps
to this predetermined height and then these headers are supposed to have a feature called
Auto float which basically means it floats to the ground at that header height that you
had set after two passes it should be lunch hopefully we'll make it all the way around
this field without having to dump we just dumped in the grain cart but my dad will let
me know and if we're not able to make it all the way around what happens is I stop pick
up my header back into the in between of this next row and my row and then the grain cart
driver can pull up beside me into my row and then we'll just do a stop dump so my dad was
telling our grain cart driver Taylor who you'll meet at lunch about how he will explain the
procedures if we're not able to go a full round without dumping we are right by the
homestead right now actually I'll turn the camera around and you'll be able to see there's
my great-grandfather's Homestead and elevator that he had built so now I'm continuing making
my round I've seen a lot of grasshoppers lately at lunch and in the field so we still have
a grasshopper issue so I just saw a plastic cup lying in the field and I'm getting out
of the combine because I don't want to run it over and it's right in my line of header
and I don't want the combine to eat it so I'm getting out to grab it and I'll just put
it in my cab and throw it out at lunch that's kind of disgusting but you have to do it and
my dad over there now that I'm back in the cab I'll get going now I'm back running again
there was a plastic cup in my swath and the combine kept wanting to run it over so I had
to go out and get it my head is now a bit low so I'm going to pick it up and when you
pick up your header and you have Auto float on it turns off the auto floating header so
now I'm going back to 3.2 miles per hour and I see Darcy's truck over there I'm on a pass
headed I have to think about this North oh yeah I'm on a pass headed north there we go
my grain tank is about half full I think it's hard to tell because the window is so dirty
but I think that my combine cleans the grain a little bit better than this one and my combine
actually has a large grain concave which means it's made more to harvest peas and things
like that whereas this combine can't Harvest that it's small grain only for example wheat
and barley right now we are picking up winter wheat so it is interesting that the small
grain concave isn't cleaning the grain as good as the large grain concave the sieves
on this combine are set at 18 and five the fan is running 820 the moisture reader in
my dad's combine does work and it says eight percent so that's good we usually wouldn't
pick up or cut wheat above a 12 moisture that means it's too green and not ripe enough even
if the wheat doesn't look green it can still have a high moisture and we can't put wet
wheat in the bins or else it will get really moldy and it also can start on fire so we
can put it in a bin with a fan but we're limited with the amount of grain bins we have with
fans so if it's too early to start Harvest you usually just don't start we wouldn't put
anything higher than 14 moisture in a bin with a fan probably I think we've gone as
high as 16 but that's not very good at all oh something else just went through the combine
there I didn't catch that in time that was some sort of sheet of some sort I'm not really
sure it wasn't very big though so I think it should be okay I'm going through a little
bit of a water hole right here so there's not much wheat there are three passes that
go all the way around the field because we have three combine even though one is broken
down we didn't know that when we were swathing I'm now going 3.4, 3.5 miles per hour and
the wheat says it's doing 11 bushels per acre which my dad's is usually higher than my bushel
per acre meter read so I would say mine oh now it says 18.
so maybe that water area confused it they're a little kind of wind tornadoes that come
through here just little ones that spread the wheat out of its swath and then you have
to direct the combine over here to get some of that wheat and then you're good to go again
up here there's a water spigot that goes around so my dad wants to make sure I'm doing those
passes and the passes with the power lines also just because Arvid is very new to combine
you don't want to make any mistakes and and it's quite challenging to maneuver around
these things so because I've this is my fourth year running combine full-time at Harvest
I have a little bit more experience with stuff like that but it's interesting Darcy says
to be a veteran combine driver you have to be doing it at least 15 years so I've got
11 more to go