hello welcome to Kate's Ag
my dad and chad are working on the new tractor that we got to the farm
which is awesome because i'm going to drive it today and it will be
my first time ever so stay tuned for that i'm here with jed fulbright from frontline egg
solutions and he's going to be explaining what he did to our tractor that's out at our farm
so basically we put a case drain filtered case drain into the hydraulic sump
so that going to the air seeder this tractor was purchased uh recently by the customer and it
didn't have this option and without this option um if anything was to happen to the fan motor on the
um air seeder then debris can go throughout the whole hydraulic system so this ensures
that that doesn't happen and also um it relieves the pressure off of the hydraulic motor so that
you do not blow the seals out and um so it was a pretty quick install pretty simple
um and that's about it wow thank you how many years have you been working on equipment uh 16.
wow that's awesome and we love john deere so thank you yup you're welcome he's a
good guy kate i mean so now i'm going to attempt to climb the tire
today is super exciting because it's going to be the first ever time i drive our new tractor
at the farm so if you watch my new tractor video that's the tractor i'm driving today and i'm just
absolutely excited we're going to be disking and it's going to be so fun and i'm going to learn
so much so i hope you enjoy my dad is driving the disc to the field which is awesome and i'm
following in the car behind right now my dad just pulled off the road because there's a semi truck
coming by which you can see and it's really important to watch out for these things
when you're driving big machinery that takes up more than the room than the lane it's in
and this is also very similar for combines as well i have to do that if we have cars coming
behind us or even oncoming lane of traffic push the clutch in all the way bring the gear shift
out put it up and just let it be in here you're in seventh gear bring on the rpm a little bit use
the clutch slowly out now let it go now push the disc in okay drive drive that wide wheel
on this side of it over here follow know where you're going for one now just stay on your side
of this and then towards the end of this kate bring up your rpm a little bit with the throttle
more right there probably stay stay a little bit over but we want to go into the the hole
here a little bit see i plowed over the top of it a little bit but follow up here drive for up there
today we are disking the washouts in the field and that's caused by water runoff we dip both sides
of the washout and it really helps to make them smaller and less apparent so that when seating
and combining and everything like that it's a lot easier to use the equipment in the field now you
got a good line you see where it is yeah okay now straight now more drive the front end not the back
so we're right where we should be and then up here we want to be out turn out a little bit
follow that the deep part of that bring your outside wheel just on the outside
now straighten it out drive the front end the back end falls where you want it to
it's a certain distance of your wheel from that hole look back see what you're doing
is that getting too cold no just letting go let it go
but drift out a little more what happens kate is we're not getting enough dirt to turn that disc
i'll stay about right here on this edge and when we get up here we got to go that way okay it
drifts a little bit in now straighten it again you have to drive do a lot of steering with the front
end to make the back end follow nicely and you see you're right where you want to be there kind of
stay on your side and then we'll just lift it up do a nice soft turn around come back
turn straight for a little while okay about now we'll just lift it up pull it all the way hold
it we're either in or out okay nice turn to the right turn oh lower rpm well i would it's good
to see we got a little bit of a rut here but i should probably go up and do that one of his
back to the edge over here by the ground easy now not too sharp
get wound up in that thing behind you because this thing bends in the middle
no no go back over here let's catch it right at the edge of that beyond this brown thing
here because there's nothing here to plow really snug up to the edge there a little
get ready not yet your thing is now all the way just let it go okay now get back to your driving
dave where are you going you're okay but come back now stay where you need to be here you can see
where the real valley is right yeah okay that's where you want that thing in you better get over
there a little bit okay now it's straight straight okay little deep gate straighten out again
along the edge hold it right here distance from that hole now look back where your disc is see
it's about where it needs to be bring up the rpn a little bit you're running a little low
get a set distance and check where the implement is it's pretty close to right it's not perfect but
it's pretty cool okay now look where the cooley's going i didn't do it perfect either so you want
to not be as deep as you are now you're right on the edge of that with that wheel it's okay but
it depends sometimes you gotta drift closer to it and out it depends on what kind of a turn you got
if it's a turn to the left you'd have to get closer on that pay attention to where you're going
look back see what you're doing this is about right isn't it okay look at where you're going
here a little far out yes you you've got to pay attention to where this is pointed because this is
going to go where it's pointed if you don't keep it pointed correctly it's gonna go not correct
hey you can see this is white up here right so we're not gonna be really deep because it
might be soft and wet we don't know okay when we get up here we got to go left with the cooling
you see oh we're going up there yeah i'll just kind of drive straight over there but
drive over there okay and we're going to follow this up and lift up right right right turn right
we got to come back down that because we went up and we're just going to plow a little
oh this is pretty damp looking so we're not going to plow there i'm going to
lift the plow dan we just let it walk through here because this is still damp cave i mean really damn
so we're gonna go up here and tear drop back in on that a little bit
so there's a lot of mud on the tires so i got to drive the tractor my dad wanted to teach me how
to do the disking it's a little bit of challenging we don't do a lot of it so i'm super excited and
that was a very fun tractor it's a 96 30 it has 4 600 hours on it and it's a 2011. i forgot to say
that in my new tractor video today i'm giving you a wheat update it's super exciting and the wheat
is doing so well we received about three inches of rain so that's a huge amount for the area and
we hardly ever get rain so the crops really needed it and they look super great in this field is war
horse winter wheat so winter wheat is the type of wheat and war horse is the variety it looks
a lot like grass when it first starts growing but as you can see it's super tall and so much taller
than it was last time i showed it to you it is crazy and it looks super good as you can see if
you look this way you can kind of see the rose maybe there we go but it will get a lot taller
and it's doing super well so i definitely wanted to give you a weed update the montana skies
are beautiful and it's actually a gorgeous day today so that's super exciting sometimes i get
questions about what the most type of common crop is in montana and that is wheat for sure and the
area we are in is called the golden triangle so it's the best place in the country for producing
wheat it's phenomenal we get very windy days and dry weather so we can't grow anything like
corn or crops that need a lot of moisture my uncle chris actually grew corn once as an experimental
crop and it just doesn't turn out as it does in other places so our best use of our land
is for wheat but we're also starting to get into pulse crops like chickpeas and lentils and that's
also sometimes common around the area but those are the most crops we kind of grow around here
you don't see a huge variety most of the fields will be either wheat or pulse crops as you can
see this is a really big field i'm standing in and we've got three grain bins over here so it's green
for days and days and days you should definitely subscribe and like this video because you'll get
to see me harvest this exact field when the wheat is all grown up and ready to be harvested which
is so exciting i can't believe it and i absolutely love driving combine so i'm extremely excited okay
now i'm over at the 13 bins part of the original homestead that my great-grandfather homesteaded
when he immigrated from denmark in 1912 and here is planted lentils so they do kind of look
a little bit like weeds but they are not their lentils and as you can see they're so cute they
are absolutely adorable and they're just coming up right now so that is amazing i'm so excited
and in my second trucking lesson they were just barely breaking through the ground and look how
much they grew with this wonderful rain we had so i'm so happy that we got the rain and this
is what they look like my great grandfather was from copenhagen in denmark so that's awesome and
i'm so glad that he homesteaded our family farm i'm fourth generation here are the lentils here's
a better view i'm kind of walking through the field here i definitely don't want to step on
them because that would be so sad and then there's the grain elevator way over there in the distance
so i'll give you a zoom in and then those are the grain bins and then that's the school house
that one is now on our property but it used to be for the schoolhouse and all of the kids of the
people who homesteaded would go to school there they'd either ride horses or walk to school so
that's pretty amazing and also the elevator was built and i think around 1930 and it was also
built my by my great grandfather so that's awesome and i actually have a video about that so you'll
have to check it out and this is so exciting as you can see this is the little pattern the lentils
are in it's kind of harder when by the road and edges we won't be harvesting these because they
don't grow very tall there it's not like wheat you need to have something called a flex header
to harvest them so that your header lays flat on the ground and doesn't get a lot of rocks in it
and kind of ruin but i will show you the process of harvesting them we just don't have that type of
headers because we mostly do we and we're very new to lentils all right i'm just walking now and i
see an antelope which i'm going to show you right now my dad actually drove by the road
and saw a little tiny baby antelope so he took a picture of it and i'll have to insert that here
because it is just adorable it's a complete newborn and the mother was standing right
there and it's very cool here i'll zoom in and see if you can see them we have wildlife all
around here in montana okay there he is ah this is an example of an old homestead right here and that
would have been where people who were originally home studying this land would have lived and
they built that place so that is your wheat and lentil update so basically all the crops that's
your update i hope you enjoyed my video and thank you so much for watching make sure to like this
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else okay bye here are some of our grain bins as you can see these are just three of them
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