quick stop at the post office while the tractor's warming up
i'm gonna drop off my fingerprints to go to the fbi so they can make sure i'm not a criminal
so i can get approved to grow a little bit of hemp this year we're gonna try a little bit
just a little bit see if you like it or not i don't know something or not we'll find out
all right next day
come on girl she'll start
give it a second
okay well that's warming up let's fill it up with some peas
a little muddy from yesterday as you can see take care of that when i get back in the yard all right
okay well we have um a unit outside that's that color that needs
that oil in it it's a little low on hydraulic oil so i'm going to roll this cart out
yeah when you know what you're doing you can be on a roll
okay i got it filled i guess we're ready to head to the field
kobe you want to go want to go on this that's the way he gets on the mud sometimes
there is no way to get over across from there to there he's gonna have to do the stairs
or i'm gonna have to do the stairs with you all right kobe let's see what happens here
next one
all right let's get in the field what do you think kobe
new experience all right there just wrapped up about 400 acres in this area
so i got to wing it up we got to go down the road a little ways the next field i'm going
to go to is one of our bigger fields like 300 acres so that'll be a lot better plus
toolbar the issue we've been running into with it is well won it's awesome
that's a good issue a bad issue is well our fields aren't coming out quite right as far as the amount
of swaps it takes passes 57 feet came out pretty good on our in our spacing our field so usually
you didn't have a whole lot of waste in other words you weren't double seating over yourself
to finish up that last strip well at 70 feet there's less passes but it changes the final pass
so some fields have come out okay some fields i'm overlapping 50 of the 70 feet which kind of stinks
then obviously we don't have uh sectional control and this isn't a disc drill so it's not like you
just go over the top of your previously seated crop so but that's okay we're figuring it out
as we go ah beautiful though beautiful weather really nice day one thing i've been learning is
setting the depth on that thing uh i thought i had it set pretty good and then i went out and checked
a couple hours later and it was seating about an inch deeper than i wanted to be i was putting peas
in three inches deep they'll come up it's soft but that's a little on the deep end i don't like to
do that i'd rather be route two or a little less than two because when the land roller goes across
it's gonna mash it down and push these ridges over it adds more soil for it to push out of so
um i just adjusted it now it's a little too shallow so i'm going to set her back
but i'm just checking over here otherwise looks good 12 inch spacing is going to be kind of fun
to see how it works out too it's a little rougher to drive across but honestly it's not terrible
we'll see i think pulsa's like a little wider spacing all right let's go down the road
see all this nasty stuff this is russian thistle it's terrible it's got these little spikes all
over it and they stick in like needles a little porcupine not fun to get on your skin do you feel
it it sticks to your clothes and there is a lot of it out there from last year i sprayed it all out
killed it all but there's still plants that are uh here and when i'm getting on
my knees working around stuff i feel those things it's really fun i don't recommend it
when we moved all the tubing to the front to make it a toe between we kept the original hoses
but the distance that the hoses have to go to connect increased and we thought there was
enough hose length but there's really not it's a little tight when you wing it out so when i
actually go to wing it out i take them out of the cradle so that way when i'm in the field it's got
play but when i'm driving down the road i pop back up in there we got to order a roll of a
two inch hose then we'll throw it on there take a little longer we'll deal with that oh look at that
i'm getting low on fuel probably only 100 gallons left in there so i've burned about
400 gallons and i've done about 500 and over 500 acres all right i got the depth i think correct
at least i'm going to check it and when i get up the other end we'll see
is what i've set it at but i've got the gps signal dialed in and uh it seems to be working well
um getting used to the cvx transmission uh it's awesome um you don't worry about the
engine you just draw put this throttle all the way up this one here i have set at a minimum
but it just in case the fan if you slow it down so the fan doesn't slow down so much
but actually it keeps the fan running right at the speed whether this engine's going
uh higher rpm or lower rpm it just seeps it at a at the solid uh setting that i am around 30 3500
uh actually it bounces around because the sensor is bad but you can hear the sound out there that
it's just constant you've got this dial right here and if you want to change the speed a
tenth or a half a mile or whatever you want to do you just rotate that speed one direction and
it will speed up so i'll just go ahead a little so i'm doing five 5.1 i do it a couple clicks
it will sense the load and then adjust the engine accordingly so you uh you have a constant speed
and then the engine will adjust to the power it needs so awesome it's just uh yeah it's a
lot of fun experiencing uh this new technology do you remember rabbits
it's locked in his brain i hope we get to see some and i get to show that on the channel check it out
seat belt i guess i'm like a hundred thousand pounds going uh 22 miles an hour down the field
it would be bad i'd have a seatbelt on so i don't hit this yeah cool
it's day two of seating for me uh nick's been seating with the other tractor for a couple
more days but uh we got to go and got this going yesterday and uh so my first experience driving
a cvt tractor and uh i'm telling you kch really got it right on the cvt uh if you're looking for
roughly this is uh 540 horsepower has a bump up when you need it but uh as far as if you're
looking in that uh horsepower range i definitely look at a cvt transmission tractor uh it is
awesome just a number of things that i've learned to use um is the three settings here on the
uh programmable ranges and so all you got to do to flick between the two is just
toggle that switch and it automatic downshifts into the next one or up shifts
into the different programming ranges that you want so i have a low one that i only want to go
you know let's say 2.3 miles an hour so i need to itch up to something it won't go over that
with that rage i can just slide this all the way forward and it will only go up to that
speed and the engine will correspondably run at the level needed this is a very sweet machine
i love it um really enjoyed running the controls learning it a lot of flexibility
that kci has put into this machine well i got the call i was just kind of cleaning up
around the shop putting stuff away fixing a few things that needed to be fixed and the call was
i need seed okay i'll i'll go get your seat all right on my way
what is it boy get it get it get it
made em look
and just like that he's good to go for a while okay back to the shop and
find little stuff for me to do trust me it's not hard for me to find stuff to do
don't wake the baby oh i don't know if you guys have heard of the past i've talked
about how we've had wind lately a lot of wind last year and a half
who knows where this barrel came from but it is in the field i'm getting out of the way
nick called he needs seed but i gotta go get a little bit of seed in the truck
i got some time but let's fill the truck full of seed bring it down to him fill him up go
back keep cleaning the shop or whatever i'm doing today i'm all over the place
well we go pretty good i uh off-boarded the child so we're good there um but
i've almost had a seat so leg arms is here at the truck yeah we're gonna fill up and
keep me rolling so i get this this uh field all knocked out 300 some acres this one it's a big one
there we go just knocked out 300 acre field the better part of today
all today pretty much i'd love to jump across the road get to another
80 acre piece and we'll knock that one out everything's running really good so far so
good got about 860 acres seated so far with this rig my dad's at the stagger and he's got probably
150 so far so we're getting about a thousand acre mark yellow peas exciting
there done with that whole area uh uh 450 acres or so i had a good day today
really good day today well over a thousand acres of this drill in
two and a half days and my dad's probably got about 300 on his so we're getting these
uh he's knocked out pretty quick that's what we wanted i think we had about oh second oh
that's for the camera uh i think we have about 200 acres going in a piece so
it's not going to be long we'll have this wrapped up and then i get to start spraying because we
got to start spraying ahead of the cereal crops i've already seen some of it up so that's good
that charm that
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