my dad is starting to pick wheat ah this is exciting i cannot wait oh my goodness
take parking break out need to move it into second gear there we go there my dad goes okay rev it
up again gonna move it in the field here raise my header a bit and drive into this spot my dad wants
me to park in there's not much wheat that grew at all here so this is a good place to park idle down
lower my header steering wheel up this is your top sieve 19. the bottom one on this is eight
yours is six or something i think i i don't remember okay but you got large wire concave
so you might have to heat it up a little more to get it to thrash what type of concaves do you have
oh because mine was made for like bigger crops right well you can cut peas with it you can't
cut peas with this you're gonna get into these spots that don't hardly have anything okay we
were registering 28 11 two points you don't have moisture and i didn't want to put any heat in
your combine though but you have to have your belt going just a little faster than you are normally
yes so it'll start that roll now we've got this whole area down here if we pull a couple more rows
apart now see it's starting to feed in yes this looks a little better a little better but its
totally horrible this combine is cleaning the wheat fairly well considering it doesn't have
a lot to work with it's better when it's thick yeah thats the way these rotors work
it's the yeah satisfying when you have a thick crop too yes it is
it's irritating when you don't because you get that little bit of wheat rolling so if we
get this set kate and i'm happy we're gonna pull go down here and like to that that first ridge
hill and we're going to pull these passes off of here to give trucks you know room to turn around
okay i need to add a little more something to my seat but i don't remember how to do it
oh there we go seat down yeah back in front in rev it up i'm still in second gear so i'm
only going nine miles an hour which is probably fast enough in this field right now oh it looks
like dad started in the middle of this row so i'll do the same here been a while since i've
done any backing up in a combine but i am a little bit better of a combine backer upper
so idle it down put the back in put the front in then bring the rpm up put my header down and go
oh gosh this feels weird driving 2.7 miles an hour 10 bushels an acre this is awful
and let's see my thrashing meter is good so i can go a little bit faster you know the height of the
header to by looking at how much silver stuff is floating on the side kind of arm of the combine i
always drive a little bit under the combines limit at first because you're just getting used to it
you don't know how much it can handle you don't remember the noises of the combine and things
like that i take it easy and then once i get comfortable with it i like to start to push the
limit a bit more dad just gave me the thumbs up this wheat is probably what it would be like in
a really really bad section of a field normally i mean it wouldn't even be this bad six bushels
an acre is absolutely horrific an average crop would probably be around 60 70 bushels 75 a really
bumper crop would be you know anywhere from 80 to 90 100 bushels per acre so to have a crop that's
not even 10 bushels per acre is is a sad thought for farmers in our area and i couldn't even pick
up that last piece so my dad's working on the next part i'm just gonna leave my header
running because i don't think there's any point in turning it off once i'm just gonna start again
we're making some room for the trucks to come and be able to park um so the combines always have to
like not go a full round and just peel off an area in the field our grain cart that broke down last
year so if you've been watching my channel since last harvest you would know it did break down
it is not fixed so we at this point do not have a grain cart so we'll probably just have
to dump in the trucks which is not ideal but my uncle chris specifically swathed our fields
in 80 acre segments so that we would not have to be on at a bad place when we filled up in
the combine although we won't be filling up very much until we don't have that good of a crop and
then when i get a little ways down here i'm going to stop to see that i'm picking up most of the
crop so i'll just stop pick my header up back up a ways and i'm picking up as much as it can
i mean you really can't do better than that my dad didn't have to take a lesson with me this year
in the combine but actually this is my second year running this combine the only reason you gave me
combine lessons last year was because this was a whole new machine to me um because that prior
for the prior two years i had been running the 9610 there's nothing to these swaths i'm
just going to go around this side so i don't have to drive on the wheat swath of my dad
let's see where my other swaths start
oh looks like down here a little ways it looks like this is the last row we're taking here
hello hello yep you're on my watch so i'll just follow you all right bye so my dad just called
me and i answered on my watch um because he doesn't have a radio in his combine yet
that we're gonna move to the west side and start taking some rows as well so that would
be this side so now i'm roding over to where my dad is and i'll just give him some time
and then all start in this area and because i got off of the seat my head are disengaged
i didn't even put much weight off the seat i just picked my leg up so then idle it down put
the back in put the header in rev it up now i'll take this next row it looks like we're
still getting about nine bushels per acre even though the swaths maybe look a little bit bigger
bigger doesn't always mean better however after all of these passes my window is almost filling up
so once we're full we have to stop because we don't have any trucks or anything out here
now i'm going through a bit of a coulee up with the header because this header this side of the
header is not picking up anything but this side was way in the ground and then you immediately
have to put it back down as you come back up and then you have to bring it back up again
it's a little bit of a science i remember how to do it um but it does freak you out that first time
you go through a little coulee and a coulee is a draw in the field where water runs off
now i'm on a little bit of a hill oh it looks like my dad's stopping oh probably just to see
how good he's picking it up so i'll back up a bit mine's doing a fairly good job considering there's
not a lot of wheat here combines pick up wheat not as well when there's not as much in the row
because what happens to wheat is the little almost hairs on the top of it that are attached to the
grain kernel covering attach to each other so then the wheat swath just comes in in one big piece
and when you don't have as much wheat then more falls out on the ground because it doesn't all
attach as well i just made my turn around to start my next pass we swath our fields going around and
around and around some people swath back and forth that works out really well if you have one combine
but when you have more than one or more than two it makes it a lot tougher to find out which row
you're in so we swath all the way around now i'm headed through a bit of a bigger coulee
harvest time is my favorite time of year by far i just love it i feel so fortunate to be able
to be in the combine again and run it these are amazing machines and you also get to be a part of
growing and harvesting food that will one day be on someone's table it's just an amazing thought
oh i see a grasshopper there that's the first one i've seen today we're not going very long today
and it looks like my dad's tank is almost full so then we'll probably head back to the pickup and
take a ride home because we don't have anything out here we need to have a disc
here just in case of fire we need to have water trucks there are many things that you need
to make harvest happen and especially in case of an accident this is what the combine looks
like harvesting and that's my dad way over there he's got a very very full grain thank
and i'll show you over here we're getting 12 13 bushels per acre right now
which is really a catastrophe here are some of my buttons and my panel
i've got my Kate's Ag tote bag right here it looks like my dad's making his corner right now or maybe
he's just gonna turn around probably turn around because he looks quite full just realized i'm
picking the wrong row so i do not understand this because there couldn't have been another row on
the other side of this so my dad's buzzer had gone off and that's why he ended up stopping um but i
still have a little bit of room i have a window out here that still has a little bit of room
so i'm going to put my header down start moving forward and as you can see this black thing on the
left is what i look for float in trying to make it to the end without the grain tank completely
overloading and grain raining on the roof like i've done before i also have a moisture sensor
problem so i'm not able to see from my screen what the moisture is then i've got grain tank
full and i think we're finished for the evening raise my header up and go super fast what i'll
do is i'll let my header and my sieves and the back of the combine clean out for a little while
before i shut them off so then you always shut your header off first so i'll shut the header off
and then i'm going to let the back clean out a little bit more and i'll shut it off as well
gosh my dad is ultra full of wheat that is insane he really ran it close way closer than i did
i'll turn the back off now this was a very fun first day of harvest i don't know if it's the
first official day it's just trying out the wheat while my combine is cooling down i'll say goodbye
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