hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is another morning during Harvest Time and we are just
getting the combines ready to get going today
well actually my dad's combine and I just turned it on to lift the headers so that I
can wash the windows
it is very windy out
I guess so yeah
okay I'm back inside from washing windows and I started my combine up and I'm going
to head out my windows are a lot cleaner now which is nice oh I don't have a radio I don't
have a radio I don't know that okay you'll just have to swing your auger out and Austin
will come by.
okay and then are we still in the middle of this field okay okay thank you I don't have
a radio but Uncle Chris just said swing your auger out when you're ready to dump and we're
in the middle of this field so that is all I needed to know oh I found the wheat my dad
took the plane today and flew to Glasgow, Montana to get a part for the other combine
so that we can get it back up and running press button two set my header on the ground
and I'm started we'll probably make it two rounds before having to dump in the grain
cart so this is another day of Montana Wheat Harvest we are picking up winter wheat which
is planted in the fall so right after harvest time it's planted and winter wheat has to
freeze in order to produce a head which what's in the head is the grain kernels that we're
looking to harvest otherwise the wheat will just grow up like grass and then we also sometimes
plant spring wheat and it can't freeze and it's planted in April for the most part we
plant winter wheat because the majority of our moisture comes from snowfall although
we haven't had any moisture this year so I remember one pass in this field with my dad
yesterday there was nothing there we couldn't even see which way to go with the pass because
no wheat grew now Austin has gone to dump in the truck after he had two unloads from
the combine I think three unloads fills them up we could hardly stay on our seats at lunch
and I think my watermelon had more of the field in it than watermelon
family and baby pheasants was just in my swath and they flew over there the most adorable
thing ever oh my goodness I hope none are left they're all over there now you can tell
how windy it is by how much wheat is being blown out of the swath it is insanely windy
oh my goodness I almost blew to North Dakota at lunch which usually happen during Harvest
Time Montana is always pretty windy but yeah when the wheat swath is really light it's
like half of it's being blown away it is so windy Austin's saying the wheat will be a
little extra oh clean because the wind Arvid and I are dumping because we just completed
this field which is awesome and then we're moving to the next field a lot of people are
stopping harvesting because of how dry it is and if there was a fire then you wouldn't
be able to put it out we are not stopping Harvest we're keeping the water truck very
close and the discs and we're also not cutting barley we probably wouldn't cut barley in
these kind of conditions just because of how dangerous it is I'm dumping in the grain cart
right now and as you can see I'm dumping over the wheel of the grain cart because that's
the strongest point and you always want to fill up the strongest point of the cart before
you or any truck before you fill up anything else and then the grain always looks a little
dirtier here dirtier meaning with chaff and the grain covering in the window but when
you look inside the middle of the grain tank it usually is a lot cleaner so after lunch
was over we were able to finish the field with just this one dump which is pretty good
and we weren't even full but you want to dump in between Fields so you can tell how much
each field produced now we're just heading to the field across this Field Road
it looks like Arvid is waiting for me to go first it looks like the Kate's Ag flag is
stuck and okay so I'm now driving across the field here we should make it one whole round
without dumping going to stop the combine idle it down put the back of it in and then
the header because that's the order you always do it in it's easier on the Machinery rev
it up and then press button number two to lower my header at the preset height.
boy it's windy the crop is yielding about zero bushels per acre right now so it's a
really rough year for farmers in our area anyway my header is pushing a lot of dirt
right now so I'm picking it up moving forward and just briefly setting it down and then
it almost pushed a rock too but I don't want to plug it up either and it's also got a lot
of green wheat here as you can see there's a ton of dirt and I could tell the combine
was about to plug up because the auger here was not turning the wheat I might have dirt
in my header actually because it doesn't seem to be feeding very well as you can tell right
here so we'll see how it goes when I get out of the dirt I'm gonna have to stop Chris do
you have a copy I so have a copy I took the first swath on this kind of on the next field
and it had a lot of dirt in it and I had my header almost off the ground so it was barely
picking up the wheat but then it still seemed to push dirt and now the headers kind of some
wheat's still going through but it's back feeding a little bit also so I'm wondering
yeah I don't know I'll come down and check it out thank you do you want me to just pull
out of the swath Yeah why don't you your on the one heading north or south
rather North just started it we're all that kind of loose dirt was I'll come down and
check yeah pull out Arvid just keep on the swath you're on so I think my header was back
feeding and it definitely was and that's very problematic that probably means it's plugged
there's no wheat stuck in it but it is plugging up fairly fast so I'm wondering if there's
something going on there's also quite a bit of green wheat in that swath here's a look
at where I am in the field Arvid's well over this hill it goes a mile down and then half
a mile over I believe or either that or half a mile down in a mile over I can't remember
Uncle Chris should be coming soon now Uncle Chris is coming down the road there's no wheat
stuck in the header right now but whenever I put it in the swath it starts to backfeed
oh it does look clogged actually do we need do I need to get okay
go get my gloves do you want me to lower it
see the problem was is that I couldn't lift my header high enough to get the wheat and
not be in the dirt maybe you just skip the wheat Yeah just skip it
how do you get out I guess over these over there see there's one spike missing
oh yeah definitely not the day to do that the number two yep one brings the header up
at the end of the row and two puts it back on the ground that's not what I wanted to
do I want to speed the belt up a little bit oh then um reel control it's this one I believe
I probably don't have to but I didn't this is a cylinder speed that's the fan not one
you have to click a button for you just roll the dial
Oh one of them you have to push the button and roll the dial oh there we go yeah I just
set it up a little bit because I'm going faster yes that's not right though you think its
more yeah yeah none of those bushel things are right they're all wrong because they didn't
calibrate any of them and one of them except for soybeans a sometimes thing on that on
the screen so I don't know which one that was oh really yeah that little doodad is because
we're at the end of the field and I think he was going this way he don't want to drive
over my swath I'm going to zoom over that's how I got good combine backing up girls just
trying to maneuver between between the swaths that's not I think that actually should be
lowered a little bit because to me like it's not picking it all up the only thing that
I can accurately back up is a combine yeah and combines shouldn't be backed up generally
nothing should be backed up generally I have a stash of cookies if you'd ever like some
no I'm just gonna have to turn around or something that's what Austin's doing you think the wind
will come down eventually oh eventually see all that stuff that's being left oh yeah in
our row yeah I see I think they need I need I think it actually needs to be set down I
think the things are too high he's not square or straight to with anything notice yes like
angle parking hahaha
angle car keeps the one kind of parking I can't do I can do parallel parking looks the
grain looks pretty clean though oh it's coming down in the window a little bit it's leaking
oh no what we weren't very full all right when did they wash those windows uh at lunch
um two days ago
I was very sad I really enjoyed our combine ride for today goodbye and you go down the
other one it just
well I have been watching you know and you can't watch the head I mean we'd go down but
this this is a little bit much here but you know this is uh you drive around 90% of this
there's little to pick up
you know you know it's hard to pick up things like this
I know but still you know if you don't get it kind of punched
pushing it's yeah I don't know
it's not like joining together but I can see a high point right right about here you know
if them wheels run on a high point it just you know it's in trying to do a perfect thing
in an imperfect world because that is down a little bit now we're seeing how much wheat
the combines are leaving behind
well this is kind of yeah he needs thank you so much for watching today's video make sure
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