now lunch is here so we're about to finish which is great
turn around and go to the red truck up there yeah do you want me to do another pass or
just rode to lunch I want you to pass now
so I'll be doing another pass headed back down rather than going to lunch straight away
but then the grain cart still has to unload in the truck so there's quite a few steps
I need to happen before we're all ready to have lunch so now I'm roding over to my next
pass just pull straight ahead and line up so that I can dump in you
copy that you've got to pull in a little bit more to
the field because I can't go on the other side of you there so you've got to pull the
grain cart more into the field because I can't bring the combine on the other side of you
and now just pull a head straight so now I'm going to dump in the grain cart let's go ahead
and stop there a little bit having issues lining up to things today where are you going
you've got you've you've got to just stay there so I can I can unload in you no I was
just lining up again I didn't even turn it on our grain cart driver started taking off
and I'm like oh my gosh where are you going okay this should be better
there we go and Trevor also has to unload so you've just got to stay here for a second
he's taking off on us and headed to lunch gosh that's funny the grain's looking fairly
clean in the tank so that's a good thing it looks like our sieve setting which um determines
how much chaff is separated from from the wheat is good so now I'll line up to where
my dad is my dad's parked very very close to lunch oh my goodness so I'll park here
idle my machine down let it rest for a moment now here at lunch with Dad what's happening
everything everything's happening today going good so far could be worse we got all three
combines going it's a miracle it is a miracle we just finished lunch and we're headed back
to the combine how do you feel about your first official day as a combine driver I'm
getting better so you're enjoying it
I like it it's fun and straight true and you wore your Kate's Ag shirt
now I'm headed back in the combine poor Trevor because his air conditioning isn't
working but there should be people out to fix it very shortly I just turned the combine
on raise the header a little bit watch my dad go through I brought a cookie and a muffin
from lunch so I'm going to stash that away in my Kate's egg tote now we have to head
back to the other end of the field where we started from waving at Grandpa driving by
no what you are going to do before you go up to that end we're going to put it in this
other red truck down there in the field What truck?
that one the red one copy
so now I am just finishing my first pass after lunch my dad just turned around and taken
his pass back right there
I'm waving and waving and waving at my dad he doesn't even wave back he just goes like
this oh my gosh so now I'll put out my auger here in a second
fast faster faster faster no you gotta keep going I was outrunning you faster
I'm now dumping in the truck because our grain cart isn't quite keeping up so he's still
got grain in him Trevor seems to be getting the hang of harvest super super fast obviously
because smart he's picked it up right away which has been awesome because it's just a
relief to have someone else who's um really good at Combininb and can just figure things
out now because as you can see we have some new people here on our Harvest crew and it
always makes it tough for training and when people don't understand so when you have that
one person who catches on so fast it makes it wonderful such a nice guy too that makes
Harvest super fun woah woah on the cart you got plenty on it
just pull up and dump the rest of that in the truck
Look in your mirror ease into that wheat he's in the other mirror copy this
I've got some birds in my wheat swath again and they're always just the cutest now I'm
on the last pass of this field which is quite exciting my dad and Trevor are going to go
by almost simultaneously here in a minute with nearly full tanks
very full actually Trevor's combine has a bigger grain tank because it has these little
tiny extensions on the top so it maybe holds 10 more bushels so it doesn't fill up quite
as fast excited to be on the last pass of this field and get on to the next because
we've got a lot of fields to get through in a short period of time so I've just finished
the last pass of this field and it looks like the combines are just waiting to unload so
I'll get in the back of the lineup and then we'll be roding to a new field so I'm interested
to see which field we'll be going to next I might kick it in the third gear just to
drive over here faster but I'm already going nine miles an hour and any faster would probably
be too fast to drive over the furrow I don't know if my dad's out of the combine right
now or not we might be waiting for another truck or the grain cart driver I'm not totally
sure I haven't heard anyone talk on the radio yet so do you want me to just unload in the
cart
Yeah we're going to have you put it in the cart Just wait a minute Kate
oh my dad's in the uh cart with our cart driver to help him out a little bit to show him what
to do he's having a little bit of trouble lining up with the truck so he needs some
more lessons understandably so though now that the cart's lined up with the truck I'll
go ahead and unload in it I don't have that much grain anyways I could have waited a little
bit longer until they were done unloading in the truck but I didn't really find any
use to that and I'll extra unload my tank here just because we're going into a new field
to get all of the grain from this field out and I'll fold in my auger and go and line
up here with Trevor who's also just waiting idle it down so that I'm not running in rabbit
speed while I'm just sitting and there's my dad in the cart right now my dad's pretty
good with lessons he's a very good at explaining things and he taught me how to combine Trevor
and every single employee we've had as well okay it's not super super but yeah we want
to be empty do you want me to dust off my header No go put the rest in that white truck
There's Trevor with his combine now we're going to be roding to a new field are we going
into third I don't know if we're going into third at all yet and we're roding to a new
field first field of harvest is complete oh it looks like we're starting this field right
here okay I'm Third combine it looks like Trevor will wait a little while after my dad
what did you say and then I'll wait a little while I'm doing good this field looks like
it's swathed all the way around I'm not sure Chris you have a copy?
yeah I'm doing good no problems yet so you must be at about 80 percent done yeah
I'm just getting to the uh the old missile site so now Turtle speed put the back in the
back is the part of the machine that separates the wheat and the header just brings it in
so now I've revved it back up and I'll start harvesting so now we're very close to the
grain elevator actually we're right on the Homestead Property so this field should not
take too long at all the wheat's a little bit Greener here so I'm going to go ahead
and take it a little bit slower through this pass and it's pretty heavy yeah my return
auger was nearly full there in fact it's still staying full so I'm just going to give it
a second definitely watching my return auger closely here it seems to be filling up quite
fast it's always difficult these small little Fields with three combines because you go
through them so fast like we'll definitely finish this today we're now just passing the
grain elevator that my great grandfather built in the 1920s so that's pretty cool so I'll
pick up my header
just see some extra wheat here on the ground I'm gonna pick up another field done although
this one wasn't that big it went by super super fast now my dad and Trevor are going
to unload their grain and we'll be on to the next and dinner actually is soon we don't
have much left the here's the thing about you Cornell guys I don't know if you're just
really good students or I'm just a really good teacher
very funny dad I think it's the teaching for sure
Trevor thinks it's the teaching that's hilarious but yeah I cannot believe it Trevor picked
it up like immediately he is like Star combine driver I might say he can even give me tips
on how to better my combine driving which is crazy because this is my fourth year so
now I'm roding up over the hill to start in the other half of this field and we might
even get this done tonight actually maybe not though because it's a little bit bigger
than the last one we were in Mark can I get a copy I got a copy should I unload in the
tandem in the white truck yes yeah we might have it might take this
guy a while to get another truck here the little tracks are back moving to fill now
I've started my header again and going into this next field right behind my dad I should
have probably given him a little bit more space so I'm gonna slow down here what kind
of numbers are you reading on this row Kate?
67 right now 67?
Yeah no it's been reading really high lately Well
these outside rows are probably heavier but yeah
You might want to go extra slow in this extra green looking wheat here Kate
yeah my return auger's filling up and your combine looks like it left a really big trail
who mine did?
yeah it's not right now but it did for a little bit
Do any of the moisture reading work on the combines?
right down this bottom is 11.3 right now
I'm sure it might have got a little damp there now it's down to 9.2 again
it was getting really green so I had to slow down substantially you want to shut your gate
off and empty the auger I think that gate don't shut very good in that thing it kind
of leans a lot of grain into the deal you have the auger empty Luc?
Yes its empty
a lot of radio convos happening right now even now I'm only going two miles an hour
in my return auger is almost maxed so now the tandem truck is on the road headed to
the bins right now we're unloading the wheat at the 15 bins I'm now at dinner with Grandpa
and you've got a Cornell Bee Club hat on that you are yeah you're a part of Cornell B Club
very nice well the hat looks good on you does that look good yes good how do you think Harvest
is going so far well I think it's going all right considering you only got two days in
it but you should have shared it what it should have hadn't done than three combines should
have been sitting at the strip ready to roll yes not sitting over there by the shop waiting
for the air conditioner and waiting for this and waiting for that yeah because they had
11 months to get that done yes and they didn't touch a thing yeah you're very right I expect
park a combine down there I just work on it all summer I'd have a combine sitting down
there and I had to go down to work something wrong with this
these guys just throw them over and pick them up when they are ready to go yeah
no it's too bad well it's too easy for him now too easy they got all these fancy things
as cabs they shut a machine down for air conditioning what did they do if there was no air conditioning
I never run a tractor yeah Cabs are a luxury for you right not sure you've never even heard
of one you brought there and did 100 degrees especially with the wind I'm liking the cab
right now it's too simple yeah nice to have air conditioning
hot rod he used a TV in his then you have pretty soon you're gonna have to have courses
in these colleges how to run this farm equipment yes no we're taking courses of how to run
the farm machinery we're gonna Trevor and I are taking a tractor driving class next
year who is?
Trevor and I at Cornell there's a tractor driving class well tell me what you do when
you drive a tractor I spent uh oh 70 80 years of doing this tell me what you do well if
I was going to go to that school tell me what they'd teach me I don't know yet I haven't
taken the class well you have to run all this computerized stuff
we didn't have anything no we are happy I know the computers are quite complicated now
it's been primary years
got your degree from the School of Hard Knocks well I wanted the first tractor I learned
how to run the guy had to tell me how to crank it crank it wow that must have been an old
tractor no it wasn't old it was new for that time
you had a crank there was no starter on it wow
otherwise they kicked I don't get it you pull up on it all the way through it fired and
when you crank you could hurt your arm and I was always afraid that would happen to me
that sound's scare and if you had a John Deere you had a big
round wheel yes and you had to turn that thing yeah and that's how you started them wow that's
neat wow what do you have to say Dad Not much Kate
Now I'm taking a pass with Trevor in the combine and he's going to take over mine so I can
have the evening off I'd rather drive mine and hold more grain
mine's better though now this one has AC it's way too cold
yeah so that must have been so hard during the day with no AC
It wasn't I wouldn't pay to do it I didn't enjoy it um it wasn't that bad it wasn't super
hot today what was it about 80?
yeah it wasn't too too bad but I'm sure it was really really not nice you're just playing
it down
it's actually worse at like four really the sun was over here earlier it was at the top
got me in the shade really okay
hopefully the John Deere person comes out and fixes here
how do you like your Kate's Ag shirt it is tough very comfortable one of the best shirts
I've ever owned oh I think you gotta buy one thank you how was your first official day
combining everything go well oh I was going faster than you
you were going faster than me that's the truth no it was fun it was a good time very good
we're talking about a Cornell Bee Club hat, and we're actually Cornell Bee Club together
that's true so how do you like bee Club yeah I love it great honey and merch with
a bee on it it's sick yes exactly so my dad's phrase is Bee Club takes on Montana Harvest
yeah I guess so well we're going to I'm going to stop for the evening Trevor still got a
little more to go about an hour and a half or so to do yeah yeah thank you so much for
watching and be sure to like And subscribe okay bye bye