hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i am learning how to run my dad's
new combine and i'm going to try it out yeah gary isn't it no it's not
so this one's pretty much identical to the one i've been driving except it has dual wheels on
the outside which my dad thinks makes the combine a little bit rougher to drive because you hit more
of the bumps all right i'm taking the reins with the new combine i had to grab the radio
because this combine wasn't here before we started harvest we didn't have it equipped
with a new radio which we usually have new radios in all of our equipment before
harvest it's our way of communication here on the farm this drives and rides exactly like mine
it just has the duals on the outside if you haven't watched my new combine to the farm
video definitely go check it out i think that this row is going the right way we'll see when
i get up here well actually we want to get whatever's closest over here first
idle the combine down put the back in the inside of the combine then put the header
on let it catch rev it up with the rabbit speed button drop the header to the ground
and go in the wheat swath sort of slow to start out and then you can add speed as you progress
these are very small wheat swaths in this field it was re-crop on lentils so that's
why you're seeing that my dad and uncle chris adjusted the wheels at dinner to put this header
a little bit lower because you can lower it with this button but it'll really only go as
low as the wheels are this combine was leaving a little bit of wheat behind it on the ground
because it wasn't set low enough even though there's not much wheat here you still have to go
3.3 or pretty slow because it's hard to get the weed off right on the ground so by going slower
it allows the combine more time to pick up the wheat that's really stuck on the ground we want
to maximize the wheat we can pick up here because this field isn't going to be very profitable
occasionally you can stop the combine pick up your header back up look to see how well
the combine is picking up the wheat but it seems to be doing a lot better now
it's super exciting to be driving my dad's new combine i'm thrilled it is absolutely amazing
it's a lot similar to the one i'm driving now but it's always very fun to drive the new equipment
that comes to the farm and try it out my dad's mostly been driving it because he wants to
figure everything out and all of the buttons and details about it before he puts anyone else on it
my grain tank looks full here and if you can tell my green tank looks like it has a lot of
straw and chaff in it but it really doesn't and the only way you know how much straw and chap
is actually in your green tank which is everything that's not the kernels
is when you unload into the grain cart because all of the chaff which you're going to have
some because the combines aren't perfect they have a lot of wheat that go through them
all the chaff for some reason builds up right by the window and on the window so you can
only really tell if you have clean wheat when you're unloading into the grain cart or truck
the wheat right here says six bushels an acre but this is not calibrated and it's not correct
so it's probably doing around maybe 20 bushels an acre here realistically which is not very good
um an average crop i would say would be around 50 bushels an acre and then a really great crop
would be about 70 bushels an acre or more 40 bushels per acre that could be on the verge of
average we usually get more than that and we've had some good years but you also have
to recognize that with good years there also has to come bad years and that's kind of what we're
experiencing this year with having the drought i'm noticing that the steering wheel is a lot
easier to move on this it's not quite as stiff and also the hydrostat is a lot more sensitive than on
my combine so that's a couple things i'm noticing right now off the bat we're just finishing up this
part of the field and then we'll be moving into the next field over there jim is running our other
combine the one that i usually drive and then when our 9670 sts gets fixed jim will run that combined
has been our swather this year so he'll be running our third combine when it is ready to go
john deere has one day air shipped the last seal that's needed but it hasn't arrived yet
and one day air isn't always one day air there seems to be some rocks right here which is never
good for the fingers which is what you call the little things that help bring the weed in so i'm
just going to lift my header up a little bit here for these rocks i don't want to
break anything on the combine that's always horrible and rocks are usually the cause of that
i think there's some more rows back here jim's rolling back my row finishes right
here in the middle of the field and then all road back as well to go
and get some of those last rows that other combine is looking a little bit full but
he'll have room i mean there's not very much wheat here i'll probably have room also
i'll just go ahead and let my combine clean out a little bit which means let the rest of that rose
grain process before i shut the internal part of the combine off the back and then the header
then i'm just going to road back down here and get the last rose my dad's got the drone out right now
it's really hard to see these tiny wheat rose and half wheat swash when there's hardly any wheat to
begin with so you really have to be looking out for them i'm going about 8.3 miles an hour in the
field i'm maxed out on speed in second gear rabbit speed so full throttle pulling up to this very
small row idle my machine down by pressing turtle speed button turn the back of the machine on
let it kick in turn the header on let the header catch up and then wrap it come down here
are you sure that rose headed that direction i was looking at it and it looked like
it's headed the right direction the way i'm at you're probably right go ahead
i set my header on the ground by pressing the programmed button number two yeah this
is going the right direction that was hard to tell but i think it's going the right direction
this wheat is just tiny i'm staying at the very edge of my swath and not feeding the wheat in the
middle it doesn't really need to be right here because it's not so huge that it matters but
we've got jim right here and i don't want to hit his combine
oh and then this row he was probably thinking it's this row to the right of me
which is going the right direction when i get down here and head north again wow our neighbor
was harrowing his field and it really made a cloud of dust we've got darcy parked right here in front
i'm going to spin around and grab this little tiny row right here and i've said all these rows here
are tiny but this is really really small there's a lot of these ginormous grasshoppers in the field
it's pretty crazy i'm still going around 3.3 miles an hour this is just really hard wheat to pick up
because it falls right to the ground and there's really none of it i'm gonna go get this little
wheat bit here that jim left i think that's it for this part of the field i'll go dump in the green
card is what i'll do sometimes i don't know where i'm going i was just i thought that i had to line
up this different way with the cart but i really have to line up this way so that's what i'm going
to do i do agree with my dad though you definitely feel more of the bumps with the double tires
jim and i are both going to dump right now i think well where's the grain cart driver headed
oh it looks like i don't know is he gonna go around
i don't understand what's happening here i mean the green car driver could just stay apart
we're dumping on the okay we're dumping on the go with
not even picking up we that just doesn't make any sense to me
i mean we're going four miles an hour that's saving our car driver and really no time to get to
the car that's not saving us very much time either it's just causing more risk by dumping on the go
to lose green while this is an interesting green card experience gym in front of me is unloading on
the go without picking up wheat and so i'm just following behind driving straight well kind of
straight we're going at a bit of an angle that was the oddest dump on the go i've ever experienced
now this has a lot longer of an auger so i have to really pay attention on lining this up and get it
really right oh my gosh that's exciting i lined it up perfectly i really paid attention and tried to
line up bright dead center and i did it so that's really makes me happy because it's super hard when
you've got a really long auger because of the duals and you're driving a different combine
it's also just really hard to line up to things in general as you can see the grain's starting
to come out of my tank it's actually looking like it's really clean in there but it does
look like it has a lot more straw and chaff than migraine tank does so that has to do with the
sieves which you can close up inside and your concave but you can't process the wheat if you
close it too far so it's really just a matter of trying to figure out what that perfect spacing is
i'm going to shut the button off now and put my auger back
and then our green car driver just took off and i'm taking off too
wow i got that lined up oh gosh that was exciting that's the first time i've ever tried it in this
combine so i'm really pleased with that now we're going to get this other half of the field
we swapped in two parts i'm just lining up to my next wheat swath behind jim here slow down always
remember to put in turtle speed and idle your machine down because it's easier on all of the
moving parts to put them in at the turtle speed now we're trying to collect this non-existent
wheat it's also really hard to stop the wheat from trying to roll in when you don't have as
much wheat the more we you have the kind of easier it flows into the combine to an extent if you have
huge swaths you have to go really slow but it's always easier when you have more of the kind of
hooks together in the swath and comes in nicely when you have very little it rolls on the front of
your header like this so you have to adjust belt speed which is what brings the wii in you have to
adjust your actual speed you have to adjust the height of your header with the wheels like my dad
and uncle chris did at dinner we're going around 3.3 3.4 miles an hour harvest is going by really
fast for that reason there's not much weep i'm going to stop my combine pick up the header with
the programmed button number one and back up just to see how well i'm picking up this weed i don't
know it's not picking it up as well as i'd like it to as my dad says you need tweezers for some of it
and only lay your head around the ground so much without hurting it and digging the fingers into
the ground oh this field was cut into numerous sections so we're going to go right up this way i
see what we're doing although there are two passes that go all the way around the field break or what
my dad asked our grain cart driver if a sheer pin broke because there must not be any rain coming
out of the auger nobody answered because i don't think anyone's in the cabs they're outside
probably trying to fix it still really smoky here in montana this is what the new combine to our
montana farm looks like here are the controls over here i just have to press a check mark on that
it's not correct and it's bushels per acre this is probably around 20 per acre but it's
not great weed anyway i've got my k-tag tote bag riding in my passenger seat here's what the wheat
swath looks like i'm driving 3.5 miles an hour right now as you can see my return auger which is
the top one is not even close to maximum capacity oh no i think my dad might have lost the drone
it should be fairly close to this area though he doesn't know where it went yikes that's not good
i don't think it's in the air anymore my dad's getting his pickup to come and look for it it's
never good to lose your drone in a montana wheat field because as you can see they are massive and
extraordinarily huge so it would take forever to find it and especially the gray being kind
of a similar color to the dirt put my auger out i'm unloading in the green cart right now there's
my dad way out there that tiny little speck looking for his drone in the field i'm headed
over to park the combine right now in the summer fall just parked the combine i'm going to idle it
down for the evening i've got my radio right here i'm getting ready to get out of the combine right
now i just turned it off and we're going to head home for the evening oh no it's okay i thank you
thank you thank you so much for watching today's video i really hope you enjoyed me learning
how to drive our new combine and driving it for the first time ever it's super exciting
i'll give you a little walk around tour of it it's parked in the summer fallow field so just in case
we get lightning it doesn't start on fire here are the dual wheels it has the tires are a little bit
smaller but there are two of them here we've never had a combine like that before so it's pretty cool
it's a 9870 scs with a bullet rotor here's what the back looks like where the straw comes out
the john deere logo we love john deere here on our montana farm and then the ladder to get in the cab
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