hello welcome to kate sagg this morning
we are filling the drills because we
didn't last night and we're going to
finish this field
this is a disaster
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i probably did around 300 acres in it
last night so there's only an hour and a
half left and darcy also spent quite a
bit of time in this field too so that's
pretty exciting we also probably have to
fuel the tractor i'm going to grab my
glove so i can go up and help it's
really important to wear gloves for
safety
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you can really tell right here which
area burned that black part up there so
we're still in the burn field darcy is
filling up over there with seed we just
filled with seeds so now we're filling
with fertilizer we've put a hundred
hours on this tractor since my dad got
it so that's really awesome it's a john
deere 9630
and if you haven't seen my new tractor
to the farm video definitely go check it
out and it's pulling a 4350
flex coil implement which in implement
is the drill
that puts the seeds in the ground it's
basically like gardening on a big scale
because we have seed and fertilizer and
we're just planting it in the ground so
this is the fertilizer and we have two
fertilizer kinks because we put on 100
pounds of fertilizer an acre and only 63
pounds of wheat these are the two
biggest tanks the front and back ones
and then the middle one holds a little
bit left this is a half a tank of sea
my dad has him shut it off a little
early because there's still seed left in
the auger and in the hopper which is
that bucket right there so we want to
make sure we don't overflow the tank but
it doesn't matter as much on fertilizer
because we could just shut the auger off
for a second with that handle and move
it over here whereas seed we just have
this one seed tank and we usually don't
want to put any seed in the fertilizer
tank so austin just shut the little door
at the bottom of the truck so
no more fertilizer goes into the hopper
and then he's going to shake the bucket
a little bit to get the rest out after
we fill this tank
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i'm going to shut the seed tank lid now
you have to make sure to put weight on
the front of the tank so it seals and
pressurizes otherwise the air won't push
the seed through these hoses into the
ground now i make sure that it's fully
closed because if it isn't there will be
no seed going into the ground and it may
or may not notify you so i always double
check
all the tanks we want the fertilizer to
flow out of the truck evenly so that
there's not a lot on the front and none
on the bottom or none at the top and a
lot on the bottom so we can tell how
full it is well you can't dip it up too
much more than it'll blow out
so my center tank i'll get 60 acres out
of when it's full well that's what you
got last time because we're in the
center
how many acres do you think i would get
out of that tank
barely enough to get your feet out well
i don't know i mean you're gonna get
about a hundred out of this one oh wow
my dad just indicated to austin that he
should move the box of the truck up a
little bit more so that it levels out
and that makes it a lot easier so we can
tell what's easier on the front end of
the truck because it's not carrying all
the weight in front of the box yeah so
when you get in there zero your acres
out again yep i will there's no point
because i think we had one more pass but
if we could have brought it to about
154 so it finally wiggled itself into
where it'll stay down on the bottom oh
that's good go ahead
is that full or not yeah i'd say that's
full you get all the fertilizer off the
seal so it will close
step on the edge of the tank has to fit
in that little holder right there oh wow
the auger
the little thing that sets in the ground
made a huge hole right there and then we
usually like to spread that fertilizer
out now we're going to check if any
boots are plugged so i go in here right
now this shows what hydraulics are on
i'm going to turn the auger off and i'm
going to turn the fan on you can see
that there rev it up a bit that's my fan
rpm i want to make sure it's there then
i'm going to spool it so let some seed
and fertilizer out one two
three
four then turn that off then idle the
tractor back down now i'm going to see
if any boots are plugged so you usually
start in the middle here these hoses
come from the seed and fertilizer tank
and go up to there and then get taken by
these hoses through each individual
shank this part of the drill is the
shank and this is the boot so it looks
like all those are good you want to make
sure to check every single one because
they're all very important uncle chris
says a great way to remember the boot
the difference between the boot and the
shank is the boot is on the bottom and
the shank is like your leg do i have a
plugged one oh a hose came off most of
the time your plug boots gonna be on the
end where you back your grills up
because it's a mistake somehow is this
count as the end
i don't see any seat out of all these
are plugged kate
so you must have turned around i think i
know exactly the turn i did it i know
but you need to run this the problem is
you don't know how many passes in you
work you cannot do this okay because you
might have a whole section of drill that
didn't get seated throughout this whole
field i think it was no it wasn't it
would have been these two passes within
these two what happened was i turned
around and i thought i had brought the
hydraulic all the way up and i didn't
have to look them up and look them down
that's the whole deal with this because
this is a disaster is what this is we
don't seem to be getting any air
okay it's this pod right here the whole
pod okay if you look you see that this
is your end chain and this is your next
pod and that starts there okay i don't
know if it's this or or something in the
drill we have to look
yeah so do i just pick it out with the
with the screwdriver dig it out so you
can't get anything else
seed came out of that one but not that
one it might not even be your fault
i think i got it all out of them is that
from my turn
so how did
how does that happen you stop the air
from coming out of the boots it keeps
dumping in the holes you can't get out
fills up the hose and nothing comes out
it's gonna happen way back
i just hope it only happened down here i
never shut the fan off though it was
always running i know but if you plug
the boots and it can't push air out
anymore then it can't move seed but the
seed keeps coming in until it you know
it fills up the tube you gotta go get
the little motor
find the vacuum get some long hose to
tape on it
40 feet uh plowing up good wheat which
is sweet ain't growing yet that would be
the time to to fix it but we don't know
when
that's the problem
i hope it was on that one turn yeah i
hope it was too but we don't know
and that's why from now on
when you lift that drill you look
when you put it back in
i look right and i do look every time i
made a mistake this
is my spray time cool mornings the wind
not blowing real hard you know
i loaded up my spare so i could just
leave but now i gotta go get the vacuum
and the motor and the hose and the duct
tape to tape those to the hose
yeah but it isn't like i couldn't have
chris couldn't have done it you know
it's why you turn yourself into a robot
when you're driving these things
it becomes natural yes automatic
you really don't have any flat tip
screwdrivers
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this is the part that takes the seed
from the tank into these hoses that run
down to the pods with the smaller hoses
that go into the shank and drop out the
boot
so
you're coming up this side
but when you were going down it was this
side so right here if you don't got
seeding
but seed and fertilizer are hard to find
on its best day
so this is probably your next pass here
i don't know
that oh yay okay
we've got a seed and
fertilizer geyser that's exactly right
so i plugged one of the big
hoses you plug the pod get in there and
dig that out
okay
we need a
yeah they made this door
now go underneath the bottom
i think it's out great you got a hose
clamp okay let me see if i got one we
might have to cut a longer hose for this
now i have to crawl back out of here
i look at the hoses every single time i
mean these here yeah those hoses
i think we had to just drive back and
dig a little bit and see
she thinks it wasn't very far but
well that one turn i don't know when if
it plugged up before that
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this is your first pass yesterday
this is the end of the drill right here
there was one extra one to pick up after
the three
i had to turn around to do one part this
way
i'll go down and see if i can figure
this out down here but i'm just i was
more worried about this
because i don't think you probably you
didn't have any turnaround problems here
do you think
where in the
yeah you thought it was on this yeah i
know i had a turnaround problem here but
obviously it wasn't here it was over
there well no i didn't have on this side
i know i didn't have any turn that i
noticed but on the ends it could have
happened i
mean you left them in the ground when
you turned around sometimes right no
well yeah if there's poles pulls take
precedence over everything
we would have already been done with the
field if i hadn't done this
stop get out crawl around and make sure
all these cows came running in to drink
water at the reservoir so that's kind of
crazy we don't know whose cows they are
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