hi grandpa
burning another straw pile i see
hello welcome to kate's aid today i'm
here with grandpa and grandpa's burning
a straw pile which is just awesome just
in case we seed this
field and i'm now officially seating
again this is my first time
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needs to be burnt before it rains
otherwise we won't get it burnt yes
a little bit east of here it was snowing
um quite a bit of wet snow what was that
yes how do you know well i was just over
there oh
but we haven't got any
it spit a little bit this morning you
know we don't have any snow on the
ground but it was just it was really
starting to come down
let's see this wind has blowed the dirt
up against that saw pile
and that won't burn very good it'll have
to burn underneath it but he'll get it
yes eventually i don't know if he's
going to see this or not
i thought i better
the wind is blowing the right way
it's smoky yes it is
very look where the dirt
blowed up against the sap up against the
straw
wow
still a lot to burn underneath to get
that putting a little bit of smoke out
the way yeah quite a bit
it was worse than a while ago
wow
how long did it take to burn
oh i've been here about an hour
is today the right conditions to burn
straw piles i don't know
i just
decided i'd burn the key i didn't know
if he was going to see that so
the wind was blowing the right way there
is quite a lot of smoke oh it was really
smoky a little while ago couldn't hardly
see nothing
it's cold out you know it might
right there vomit it says 36 degrees i
bet it would be
kind of feels that cold
well thank you grandpa it was wonderful
to see you this morning all right thanks
now i'm in the tractor and uh dad has
stepped out so i'm going to try it by
myself i'm going to increase the rpms
step on the clutch
and release the clutch and i'm off so
now that i've come to my guidance
line inside
i hit guidance
now i'm seeking the plow
and i'm now officially seating again
this is my first time
dad's just walking me through it the
first time because this is my first time
ever spring seating so we are planting
barley right now i did do winter seeding
which was in last fall in 2021 so and
i'm just so
excited to be back in the drill again it
looks like there's quite a lot of straw
in this field it was cut pretty high
because there's a lot of hills so it was
hard for the swather to do and now the
drill has to go through all of that i'm
going 4.2 miles an hour so i can speed
up to about 4.8 to 5. i'm in eighth gear
my
motor is running
2000 rpm
and my fan is running which is super
important to always look out for because
this is an air drill and it uses air to
push the seed and fertilizer into the
ground so if the fan is not running you
completely plug your whole drill and
that's very bad i have done that before
so this is my first pass back in the
driver's seat and i couldn't be happier
darcy's just right over here so we're
seating this field back to back because
i actually harvested it this last
harvest so i'll insert some footage
it's super scary we're on the seat part
right now i'm a little bit nervous to go
down it i did this field my first year
ever harvesting full-time when i was 15
which was two years ago you have to just
be really careful my dad had made sure
to radio to me to put it in first gear
it's the scary part is you become so
tilted in the combine feels like your
whole combine's going to topple over i
don't know if you can tell but the angle
i'm at is really steep it's where i
found all the hawk feathers and this was
the big hill field so darcy has the big
hill passes and i have the other half
which is further east that's what i'm
doing right now and part of the reason
why we're
keeping our fields in a continuous crop
rotation is so that we don't
is so that we don't have to spray them
because of how expensive spray is now
say that again i couldn't hear you pay
attention at the corners
you know what i mean yes i will thank
you
dad was just telling me to pay attention
at my corners and make sure that i click
the implement fully in and also when i
come to the end of my corner i click it
fully out and i make sure that i'm not
backing the drill up and what that means
is the boots are
are going backwards rather than forwards
and that fills them with dirt and when
they're filled with dirt the seed and
fertilizer aren't able to come out and
then we have to completely unplug all of
the plugged ones and it takes quite a
bit of time and since we only have two
drills and it takes one of the drills
out of the field which is really not
great i don't have much further to go
and then i have my corner so that's very
exciting it's going to be my first turn
since i got back in the drill so now
i've officially done all of the
processes on the farm from winter
seeding to harvest so that's just
incredible rolling harrowing disking
driving truck lots of different things
so i'm waiting for this corner to finish
plowing and notice that it's out here
now i lift up the plow i turn around
i make sure to click it up
and i make sure that i don't wind the
drill up too much
and then i straighten out i hit guidance
which i basically lined it up perfectly
so i'm pretty proud of myself and then i
oh i don't think i put the drill in soon
enough i definitely should have put the
drill in a little bit sooner but i
wanted to make sure it was straight and
wasn't backing up so i might go over
that little part again just to make sure
it's seated i'm going to speed back up
to 5 miles an hour and continue
seating
now darcy's headed up this way on the
hill passes he's almost finished with
the very steep portion
and i'm on a bit more of a rolling hill
area
the shifting lever is right here
and i pull it back to come all the way
in park only when
i'm fully stopped though i have a clutch
and i do use the clutch in this tractor
you don't have to but i always use it
whereas i really don't use it in
the new john deere tractor we have
that's hooked up to the roller these
other three are my hydraulics the second
one
lifts the wings of the drill
as well as
the third one and then the fourth is the
fan
and you can see hydraulics running here
so the back one always needs to be on
because that's your fan and you always
need that air pressure to push the seed
and fertilizer out the second one's the
wings you want to make sure that's not
on and then this front one here is your
implement in the ground and if you hear
that click noise the hydraulic turns on
and it's fully still trying to push that
implement further into the ground when
it's already as far as it can go so i
just do one more tap and it shuts that
hydraulic off so it's not continuously
running there was a wet snow a little
bit east of here so i'm really hoping
that that snow will kind of move here
and we can get some moisture
after we've seeded this field i often
look back just to check to make sure all
of the pods are intact which is what all
the hoses are attached to and then make
sure all of the hoses are still
connected to the shank which is
connected to the boot so basically just
check that everything's still working
and seating properly i have what's
called a tow between which means the
tank is between the implement and the
tractor so i can't see
the portion of
shanks that are directly behind the tank
whereas darcy has to pull behind so he
can see his whole implement so i've now
completely made it through the seated i
pick up my drill and i start to turn
when i pick it up because it won't have
backed up yet now i'm turning and i'm
just making sure not to wind it up too
much and i'm lining up with my next pass
here i'm gonna hook up to gaiden which
i'm now set to
and now i watch this inside part of the
implement to make sure it's going
straight which it is and that's when i
sink the plow in and again i did it a
little bit late there and i actually
have i think
possibly even three passes on this side
so i should have been a lot more precise
with where i put the plow in the ground
and it's not really a plow it's a drill
but
it the words a little bit
interchangeable i didn't really pull
back my rpms on that turn but i was at
4.8 so i'm going to go back up to 5.
darcy's now headed down the hill again
so that's pretty cool
even though these tractors have auto
steer and drive themselves i think it's
a big misconception that farmers can
really do anything while in the tractor
cab because it's so important to spend
the majority of your time looking back
at your drill
making sure if you see rocks watch them
go through
making sure all the shanks are attached
and everything is cohesive and running
well
because these are very expensive
machines and
with the cost of everything going up on
a farm it's very hard to keep the farm
going so you really have to save where
you can and a lot of that is just
trying to
make your equipment last longer and work
well as well as making good financial
decisions on the good years so that you
still have something in the bank for the
bad years to me everything looks good
again i can't see those
shanks behind the implement but you look
at them when you turn around so you not
only have everything going on when
you're making your turn but you also
want to make sure to check your drill
because if i seated all of this and five
or six feet weren't seeding we'd have to
go over it again and that's
really costly especially with the price
of fertilizer right now thank you so
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