hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is another day on the farm in the winter and i'm going
to show you what that looks like
is this the grain cart tractor oh no this is the the new tractor the new old one and
this is Darcy our wonderful employee who's been with us since before i was born just
about i think you were was the hose on that already no i put one on just tractor maintenance
yeah the tractor is pretty muddy right now go in the cab here
we have the shop cat over here and the cat's name is cat she's a little shy though they
got to be flexible where that plate could move they got a collar on there
yeah how has winter farm maintenance been going Darcy well when i'm here not bad i've
already worked six seven days this year oh really i only come out when there's something
to do what is your favorite type of farm maintenance which i like to track yes you're by yourself
that's very nice and it's probably very rewarding to maintenance the tractor now and then get
to drive it the rest of the year yeah i should go do the other one right right i do drive
this one more and this one pulls one of the drills which is we're getting ready for seating
yeah that's coming up though yes it's all weather dependent though and farming has a
lot of variables and that's one that we can't control but the one we can control is making
sure the tractors run yeah so you don't want to break it down when you're no that would
be very bad hi grandpa you know when we had them little model e's on there that tracked
that tire is bigger than the tractor used to be really about that high just two two
wheels to push it look how big that thing is it's crazy this is the one i drove for
seeding did ya lots of horsepower there yes there is
oh is that the filter yeah what are they doing changing the oil yes well you never know what'll
come with this they have them bigger than that now yes they do what are you working
on dad i just forgot how many gallons of oil this thing takes in the big tractor book yeah
14.8 gallons 38 gallons in the transmission this tractor pulls our flex coil drill and
then the other tractor pulls our john deere drill so it has to have an extra screen to
control the drill so this is the tractor monitor and then that is the implements monitor or
the drill how many horsepower is this dad 530 maybe hard to say that's a big tractor
it takes 14.8 gallons of oil yes that's a lot of oil
do we want to blow that out with the old filter
this don't even look dirty yeah i don't know when they change the stuff in this last time
oh yeah what happened to our ladders anyway
now dad and i are headed to town because we ran out of oil for the big tractor and we
have to go pick some up 55 gallon barrel of it so quite a bit of oil
now i am outside in the wheat field that was planted this last fall and i actually didn't
seed this by myself but it was when i was taking lessons in the tractor with uncle chris
this is what the wheat looks like so it is starting to come up as you can see because
it's winter wheat and it needs to freeze in order to produce heads later on in its life
you can see it's kind of brown here's green so you can kind of see the rows you can especially
see them here and like i said it's brown right now because it froze but it will produce hopefully
a good crop here's some more wheat this is the half of the field darcy seeded and then
the other half i seeded with uncle chris some areas it's not coming up like right here but
overall it looks like we're gonna have a wheat crop this year so that is just fantastic and
i'm very excited to show you the whole growing process of the wheat and got to see it planted
soon you'll be able to see it harvested it's so amazing to be in the field harrowing and
then eventually seeding the next fall and planting the seed going and purchasing it
deciding what fields you want to seed with what crops depending on how much moisture
that particular field has and the composition of the soil because different crops provide
different nutrients to the soil so if you do a soil test to notice that your soil is
very deficient in a particular nutrient you might want to plant a crop that will replenish
the soil of that nutrient and that's what fascinates me about soil and farming is there's
so many different variables and lots you can't control for example the weather there are
many variables you can control with enough research and the technology we have today
is just incredible we've had very dry years and if you plant wheat every single year it
just sucks the moisture out of the ground so you'll have to then do a crop rotation
and plant something else that has a deeper root system so because wheat has a very short
root system so it will take all of the moisture from the top of the soil but if you plant
something that goes down a bit further then you might have moisture so there's different
layers of soil and your top layer might have no moisture and your bottom layers might have
moisture now we're going back in the pickup to go and get oil our excursion out in the
field is over for now what is the difference between a high speed disc and a normal disc
it bombs a lot you go faster with it look at all the combines we're now at john deere
to get some parts
you know what i should do is being how we're not ready to go yet is i should probably pop
one of these off and bring it in thank you for your help i'm here with tim from Frontline
Ag Solutions and you have been so wonderful helping us find our parts so thank you very
much yep
why don't you take that other one without the plastic
it's like roll the coil oh we don't take that one
easy now you know what i mean and i drove on to the pavement so it'll be nice for you
you're gonna run into that thing easy now wow wow let me get up here
well i have a thing on the back
just keep coming a little more more let me see if i can slide this off
and then i'll give you a little uh lift to get out with how's that
you just get it slid back on the rubber and it'll stay there
thank you that's a cool forklift that's a nice fork lift yeah beats manually doing it
bye see you here's the flex coil drill that the tractor inside pulls and actually the
drill that i was pulling when i went seeding and we just made it back to the farm what
are you up to now Darcy
okay pull it back
oh got it that's got a little number thing somewhere oh on the edge of the gauge you
want to go get that very cool
what did you used to have to do
two and a half gallon jugs and carried it over to the ladder because it laid on a stand
flat and you had to open the valve on here and fill the jug and then carry the jack over
and put it in the thing and oh wow so this is deluxe yeah it is deluxe for us how long
have we had this for what half a year a year yeah i just got it this spring or last spring
you know but we didn't ever really set up
maybe we ought to put it back in the barrel until you're probably good now huh
i know we did the black truck out here and we just left it sitting at the door and run
this go out to the black truck because you got quite a bit of hose though yeah yeah oh
yeah
thank you so much for watching i really hope you enjoyed and learned a little bit more
about all the hard work that goes into maintenancing your equipment so you can get it out in the
field running and raising crops that will eventually end up on your table make sure
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