hello welcome to Kate's Ag
lots of birds in the field now which i love birds so that's always fun i'm coming up to
my next corner so i'll be slowing down just a little bit i feel pretty comfortable at this
speed but you always want to make sure it's nicer to have additional time rather than to
to scare yourself by having too little oh looks like it backed up a little bit that was not good
so that's what i did with the drill last time and plugged it up
so i'm really just gonna take a good look at my roller right now
to make sure everything's still okay on it seems to be working well although i really
need to watch that i don't back it up next time now i'm increasing my speed back to about nine
miles an hour uncle chris said i could probably go eight to ten so i thought a good in between
of nine would be nice i kind of straightened my pass out a little bit more this time so that's
good unfortunately i'll have to be stopping a little bit when i catch up to darcy he's only got
maybe four more passes down in the drill away from me but i would say that would probably be close
to 10 laps for me so i still have a little while but i definitely will be catching him
because he has to stop and refill with seed and fertilizer and i am going a little bit faster
than him which a couple miles an hour doesn't you don't really notice that when you're just
driving a car but as a tractor in the field it makes a substantial difference hopefully
most of the rocks get pressed down Darcy's back going again so he must be all filled up
that was a little bit of a bump the truck does seem to be parked pretty close to the road here so
i'm going to make sure that i don't hit it that would be very bad and that's the tandem truck
that we used to fill the drills for seed oh some more birds it's really starting to
become springtime which is nice although it was 70 degrees one day here in montana
and then it was snowing the neck so the weather really can change in an instant
it's very crazy i'm gonna go a little bit further to make sure i get this part rolled
and then probably start my turn now the truck's on the other side of the road so i'll be good
so i did better that time now i've got to the point where i've rolled this part i believe yes
i've had to take a couple little detours in the field because i've seen some big
rocks that weren't fully pressed down by the roller that i wanted to re-roll
but other than that i've been doing pretty good and i keep missing like a little sliver on my
corner kind of like i did in harrowing at the very end passes so i also took a detour and just went
straight across that to make sure there wasn't any rocks in there that i didn't properly roll
those were some big rocks right there you can kind of see where you've rolled i find it gets a little
more challenging though i seem to be getting the hang of rolling i've only backed up the roller
on one turn so that's pretty good even though you don't want to back up on any corners one's
all right as long as you don't do it again and again and again ooh there's a massive rock here
so that got kind of rolled under it almost backed up but it didn't
and i don't even think i missed any seeded area there no i would say i did a pretty good job on
that one it's a lot easier going this direction to see the row for whatever reason than coming the
other way so right now i'm headed south and i was just headed north Darcy's stopped again he must be
getting more seed i'm really bad at driving in straight lines is what i found out today
and it's interesting to see that these really big rocks don't get pushed down even after two
passes with the rollers so i definitely am looking throughout the field to make sure that there's not
a big rock that needs to be rolled down for example coming up on this last pass i did a
little detour in the middle of the field and then you just come back to your pass because it's not
like seeding where oh i missed this spot go seed over there i don't have guidance and i'm just kind
of eyeballing it so if you see something you're not going to be able to find that rock again um
so i just do it now it's actually a fairly nice day in Montana today it's pretty windy but it's
nothing compared to yesterday when we had 50 mile per hour winds and actually the mountains
are just over here west of us and it was 90 per mile hour winds there so it's just astronomical
i and usually seeding isn't as intense as harvest so we'll go until about 7 pm whereas harvest we
usually go until 9 00 to 10 pm or really until it gets dark because bad things happen in the dark
like those were a little bit smaller of rocks but it seemed to push them in well it is a little bit
bumpy probably because the implement in the back is trying to push down all the rocks and going
over them i've got it in the second gear right now which is rabbit um and i have it fully in
that one and then the next one is snail and then this thumb part controls my speed so i'm going
about 8.6 miles per hour this is a fairly flat field it looks like there is a coulee coming up
so i suppose i'll have to i'll go through the coulee straight just like i would seeding
but i'll also cut it out with the roller to make sure that any rocks in the coolies
are pushed down as well and a coulee is just a natural draw in the field where water runs off
i guess that's a term that's not used many other places another big rock there that didn't seem to
get rolled down i hope we have a beautiful sunset tonight that would be very nice i don't know that
i have a really good feeling for this tractor like i did when i was baling using a tractor like this
but i'm getting better at it so i'm hoping in maybe a couple more days i'll be
right on the ball again so there is a little piece from doing my corner last time here i missed
so i'm going to pick that up although there's not any rocks there
and i'm probably going to miss a little bit here too oh that was a little bumpy i'm not
really slowing down for the corners anymore because i don't feel a need to i kind of have
my system down lining up to where i harrow i keep calling this harrowing i'm not harrowing
i'm rolling but harrowing was the last job i did on the farm so i'm sure when the next job comes
i'll be calling it rolling because the minute i realize what i'm doing i'm on to the next thing
some big rocks there that just went down so now i'm getting deeper into this coulee and i'm going
to actually turn my display here and watch to make sure the roller doesn't come off the ground i'll
be able to tell here it can bend a little bit so it might be okay i'll just slow down a little bit
because coulees are always hard on equipment it looks like it made it through fine so i won't
have to come back for that part anyway seeding it doesn't it pulls the top shanks out and leaves the
bottom ones in or the bottom shanks come out and the top are too deep so it can be a little bit
challenging when you're going through coulees although it looks like the roller handled it
perfectly fine it's a lot harder to tell the line going this direction there's quite a lot happening
on my screen i have all the hydraulics it looks like my speed transmission what i'm in oh okay so
it says speed here so forward in first gear goes to eight miles an hour forward in second gear
um i'm not it probably goes a lot faster than that i'm going 8.8 right now i'm going to slow
down a little bit and start my turn i probably could start my turn a little bit earlier in order
to fully get these corners i'm lined up again guidance is definitely not a necessity but it is
a luxury really doesn't look like it's been rolled right here so i probably need to come in a little
bit this is why my rolling lines are all messed up because i'm like oh gosh this doesn't look like
it's been rolled and then i go this direction i'm also looking forward to seeding this here but i'm
not capable yet anyway of doing edge passes on the field and going around power lines so i can
really only do the inside back through the coulee again everything was rolled there my roller did
not back up this time which is great gonna find kind of the area that i haven't rolled yet and
go back to it i don't know it kind of looks like i maybe have rolled this now i'm going to increase
my speed again i just got out of the tractor so we are done for the day darcy's still doing a little
bit more seeding but i'll be back in the roller tomorrow thank you so much for watching make sure
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