00:00 hello welcome to Kate's Ag we're out
00:01 at the drills right now this is Darcy's
00:04 john deere drill that he runs good
00:07 morning darcy morning are you very
00:09 excited for seeding today no i'm not i'm
00:12 excited but not really
00:13 jumping with joy
00:15 you know i'm glad to go but not really
00:16 excited yes
00:18 well have a wonderful day darcy thank
00:21 you
00:23 [Music]
00:38 sometimes the hoses come off the boots
00:40 Kate
00:41 so check and make sure that jackets
00:48 these are called the packer wheels but
00:50 every morning you should check your pods
00:52 visually
00:55 these are things you want to know before
00:57 you take off the tires got air in them
00:59 so you don't drag it down the road and
01:02 ruin the rim at the time well this is
01:04 2021 winter wheat seeding
01:10 these are the wings of the drill and
01:12 they fold up so that you can move fields
01:17 [Music]
01:21 dad's pushing the clutch in right now
01:23 and he's going to start moving
01:32 hi darcy
01:34 you're filling your seed tank
01:38 how many bushels can each tank hold
01:42 two others
01:44 so 200 bushels 200 bushels
01:47 and 150
01:50 this drill is a toe behind meaning the
01:52 seed tank is behind the implement and
01:55 that makes it so you can see everything
01:57 that's going on which is really nice but
01:58 some people don't like them because it
02:00 leaves tracks in the field and the flex
02:02 coil is a toe between and you can't see
02:05 the middle part of your implement but
02:08 you don't leave any track after you shut
02:10 the auger off more grain still comes out
02:13 because there's some left in the hopper
02:15 i love the platform you have up here
02:17 it's really nice
02:20 yes you can wonderful views oh this is
02:23 the camera oh my goodness so you can see
02:25 if vehicles are behind you
02:29 wow that's really incredible
02:33 bring that back out there
02:36 i'll probably lead the way down there
02:38 okay okay i rode these drills at about
02:40 12 miles an hour and i'm going to take
02:42 this approach angle like this kate so i
02:45 don't have so much movement because it's
02:48 wide enough for me to do it and there's
02:49 less turn for the drill so it's less
02:52 likely to go in the ditch yeah i mean
02:54 remember these are really long so you
02:56 have to go to the far sides of the road
02:58 you know and then stay there until your
03:01 drill gets totally on the road then you
03:03 can re-center what did darcy just
03:05 turn on the fan oh back there he doesn't
03:08 have that lever to spool when he wants
03:11 to spool these drills he has to do it
03:13 from back here we can do it in the cab
03:15 the lever out here to drop the seed
03:18 while it's sitting is out here
03:20 in that one it's in the cab it's more
03:22 convenient when you pull a hydraulic
03:24 lever it opens a valve up and allows
03:26 that pump to move the fluid through the
03:28 drill whether it's raising these wings
03:31 like that silver part is it going
03:32 through there yeah starting at next to
03:35 the silver part and blowing up the
03:37 cylinder so it's sucking that thing out
03:40 it's just the fluid that gets pumped
03:42 through the things to move things it's
03:43 made for heavy-duty high pressure stuff
03:46 all all this stuff is 2 000 pounds a
03:49 square inch 2 000 pounds a square inch
03:52 wow the hydraulic pumps on these run
03:54 about 48 gallons a minute oh wow yeah so
03:58 it's filling a 50 gallon barrel every
04:00 minute of fluid that runs through it it
04:02 runs the fan and helps with the meter
04:04 rollers too the hydraulics these are all
04:07 hydraulic hoses all the runs through
04:09 here here's a hydraulic motor to turn
04:11 the roller see the little
04:14 oh yeah and they're electric hydraulic
04:16 motors austin's tarping the trucks to
04:18 move them dad's getting the flex coil
04:20 drill i'm getting in the pickup and
04:22 we're all heading to a new field
04:30 if you're doing three passes you'll
04:31 sweep the second corner so you don't
04:33 have corners
04:35 on the edges that you have to dive into
04:38 and get and turn sharp and plug your
04:40 boot because a lot of times somebody
04:42 will have something seeded next to you
04:44 you can't you can't seed into their
04:46 stuff okay
04:48 so you'll have to lift it out maybe
04:50 if you're using their stuff which you
04:52 shouldn't you might have to loop around
04:54 with an out and then sinking in but you
04:57 can't see their ground you shouldn't see
04:59 too much okay this is all where the fire
05:01 burns some stubble's left
05:04 in other places there isn't any
05:07 but if the fire hadn't gone through here
05:09 it would have been all stubble
05:11 darcy he said he was running about five
05:13 four hours
05:16 we're gonna run at about five two and
05:18 stuff when things get complicated this
05:20 has got all kinds of power just slow it
05:22 down a little bit
05:24 because it doesn't really change your
05:26 fan speed right right it just gives you
05:28 more time to think about what what you
05:30 need to do to get this right okay i've
05:32 seeded about half the row not quite
05:35 that's the way it is
05:38 things you don't see are going to get
05:40 filled up with weeds
05:49 okay
05:50 we're looking for a little better than a
05:52 bushel and acre this holds about 180
05:54 bushel
05:56 if it was set perfect you should be
05:58 able to do about 168 acres you know what I
mean 06:02
or not quite but if you're getting 150 06:05
or 145 that's okay we're probably not 06:08
getting that but we seeded 06:10
everything else this way so that's what 06:12
we're going to do 06:13
what are these humps for 06:14
uh the when the field used to be smaller 06:17
from the dust bowl days 06:19
what happened here kate is the same 06:21
thing that happened where they sprayed 06:23
my wheat out 06:24
the summer fallow came into the stubble 06:27
and this was the edge of the field and 06:29
it just kept building up these 06:31
big humps you know what i mean from 30 years of blowing
06:42 that was a bee. no it wasn't 06:43 a bee is a honey bee
06:45 a wasp no it wasn't a wasp 06:46
they're long and skinny they serve no 06:48
purpose in life as far as I'm concerned 06:50
[Music] 07:05
remember when you're doing edges kate 07:08
when you come down you got to drive the 07:10
tractor deeper than it needs to be when 07:13
you're actually pulling that edge get 07:15
the drill up to the edge 07:17
and then you drive that tractor back out 07:19
and straighten out 07:21
but you got to do that on a nice slow 07:23
thing 07:24
because if you turn this sharp 07:27
the shank backs up 07:29
there could be enough moisture in this 07:30
Kate 07:31
that it'll plug all the boots on the 07:33
outside well the way you keep that from 07:35
happening is to not do it 07:37
right always have your drill moving 07:40
forward 07:41
that's why you close the doors 07:44
you don't get all these bugs in here 07:46
i just have this feeling i need to go 07:48
faster because i'm in my sprayer when i 07:50
get it lined up 07:52
off i go 07:55
[Music] 08:07
like i told him we are here for seeding 08:09
and then he shows up thursday wondering 08:12
if he still has a job 08:13
no does he know how to run this no he 08:16
knows less than you you know the reason 08:18
i spray on the weekends is because of 08:20
the job the job needs to get done you 08:23
know i know people need time off but my 08:26
job is to make sure this gets done it 08:28
isn't to do the work it's make sure the 08:30
work gets done 08:32
yes and if people don't show up that's 08:35
another job i gotta do 08:37
and that i don't care it doesn't matter 08:39
to me 08:40
i know how to do all these jobs 08:42
he asked do i 08:44
am i working today and i said no because 08:47
you didn't call no you didn't show up 08:49
and you didn't call and i got about a 08:51
week left i'm not bringing them back on 08:54
this actually looks like it has some 08:56
moisture it probably does I don't know 08:58
it's just soft 09:00
you can see how deep the tracks cut you 09:03
know that other stuff you were seeding 09:04
yesterday was like a rock hard 09:07
this is not like that 09:09
well it's messy here because this is 09:10
where that fire was 09:13
oh yeah 09:15
Darcy and our grain car driver were just on 09:17
the radio i guess there's a really big 09:19
fire east of here i can definitely see 09:22
flames definitely burning one of our 09:24
fields it is already past the coulee this 09:26
is a huge crisis and we might have to 09:28
move fields right now 09:30
yikes that's bad 09:36
[Music] 09:42
this was all burned here where this 09:44
grass is green really yes 09:47
you can see it all black yeah was this 09:49
the big fire yes 09:52
oh my gosh 09:54
where you know chris went in and 09:58
you know it makes it hard for me to know 09:59
where the edge is to 10:01
the actor's right here where that cobweb is 10:04
yes so i'm going to try and follow the 10:06
original edge because this should be 10:08
grass it's growing and i can't tell if 10:11
the edge is over here or right there 10:14
but i'm doing the best i can with what i 10:16
got to work with 10:17
i'll probably have to make this pass 10:19
again 10:21
to bring it back where it was because i 10:24
wasn't up here when they did this and i 10:25
can't remember because there's so many 10:27
edges of my life 10:31
yes 10:32
pretty much everything in here burned up i'm 10:34
pretty sure it burned all the way over 10:36
there 10:37
you know 10:38
this is at least a thousand acre burn 10:40
chris said this is a hundred acres in 10:42
here that burned 10:43
oh so this was burned here 100 acres 10:47
of this field 10:49
not the other guy's field 10:51
and not all just of our field 10:55
maybe into the grass a little bit 10:58
because i don't know where the grass was 10:59
anymore around here but that don't look 11:02
like there was any stubble in here i 11:04
can't see rows 11:06
i can see rows here right yes burned off 11:10
this is where the really big fire burn 11:12
you'll have to go and watch my massive 11:14
field fire video and then it started in 11:17
this coulee right here and burned the 11:19
whole coulee actually it started over 11:21
there somewhere okay yes on the other 11:23
side of that coulee came through this 11:25
whole entire cooley 11:27
and burned 100 acres of our summer 11:29
fallow that we are now seeding with the 11:32
drill it probably burned 11:34
a thousand acres by only a hundred acres 11:37
of our field so that's good 11:39
up here was all wheat that burned in the 11:41
fire 11:42
yeah which is really sad this is not our 11:45
field but very sad the farmer whose 11:47
field it was you can even see the wheat 11:50
that the fire missed what's sad about 11:52
this is that 11:53
there's no stubble so when the wind 11:56
blows the dirt's going to move a lot 11:58
that's why we're planning this right now 12:01
we have some plant stuff to 12:04
hopefully hold the dirt 12:06
look at that 12:07
perfect how perfect was that super perfect 12:18
[Music] 12:23
you know so next time i'll drag it 12:25
through with the 12:26
shanks full 12:27
i got a copy so you probably mentioned 12:30
that i didn't really ask um 12:32
how far down do i want to go down this 12:34
little road go down till you find the 12:36
pickups down here austin my pickup's 12:38
parked just 12:40
on the left side of wherever we're 12:42
seeding 12:42
all right 12:44
okay now i'm gonna put the drill in 12:46
about now are you putting it in all the 12:48
way or just yes i'm putting it in all 12:49
the way because i've dragged part of this out
12:51 [Music]
12:55 and then we're going to circle around
12:56 make sure we're not plugged any big
12:58 piles of stuff kate you've got to know
13:00 that it went through the drill because
13:02 if it didn't it's dragging dirt making a
13:05 bigger pile
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