hello welcome to Kate's Ag I'm rolling again today and i hope you enjoy the video i don't see as many
massive rocks on this part of the field so that's a good thing
i'm going to slow down to go through this coulee again and then i'll increase my speed a little bit
there is so many oh as i am driving way over here the world lines all the way back here
so now that i'm back on my track there is so much to look at here it's overwhelming at times
and it's just incredible what this monitor is capable of and can do
waving at the drone but i think the drone's flying away there's another really giant rock over there
another coulee this is much more challenging in the drill than in the roller so i'm happy to not
be doing these quillies in the drill these aren't super bad ones but they're still not that great
so now i'm following my zigzag line again the dirt almost looks like a little bit of a lighter color
where i have rolled and it looks more dark and kind of fluffy where i haven't rolled but it's
just a tiny difference going 9.2 miles an hour right now i love just being able to roll my
finger to control speed but my uncle chris said it's super challenging for him because
he always thinks of pulling this back which you don't want to do um because that's how it works
in the air drill oh now we've got a big rock and that rock will definitely be troublesome
for the combine drivers who pick up the chickpeas in this field we're hoping to get some rain to
get a really good crop this year although it's looking like we're going to have a drought again
which is not very good at all because we had a drought last year we actually had a
good rain to begin with for our spring wheat crop but when it was time to fill the head
which means create the grain kernel that we are then going to harvest we didn't get rain so our
spring wheat crop dried up and we got very little yield from it and then it also got hit hard by the
sawfly because our spring wheat crops don't get moisture from snow we do need to have a little
a little bit of rain and most of our moisture in montana comes from our snowfall
so it's definitely a gamble planting spring wheat crops or i shouldn't say spring wheat because
these are chickpeas so spring crops in general getting ready to make another turn here which
i missed this little portion over here in my last corner so i'm just going to pick that up right now
i missed it again oh my goodness i'm not able to turn super sharp with this roller
so i have to be careful i'm going 10.4 right now and i'm back on my line it looks like
it's maybe a little bit straighter this time at least to begin i haven't gotten all the way
down the field this field's a mile long so these are the fields i talk about when you can never
get to the end in a combine because you're going like two miles an hour so i've just been driving
in the tractor as usual and then all of a sudden i see all of this smoke come out of
nowhere pretty much i think that there's a big fire it's actually quite a bit south of us so
we're really not sure if it's controlled or not but it's so far south that we probably couldn't
help much with it but crazy i hope everything's okay if we do need to help we for sure will i'm
going by the fire again and it kind of looks like it's getting bigger so i'm not sure i hope
everything's okay darcy is also turning around up here he's way over there Darcy is doing his
end pass right now as you can see right there so he's going all the way around the field
and then my dad's going by with the sprayer as well at the same time and i'm here on the tractor
so i gotta slow down really quickly because i'm about to go through this coolly so it's one big
operation all happening in the same field darcy's now doing end passes so i slowed the tractor down
so that he can get by without problem and i just do this with my thumb to slow it down
i'm still harrowing i've done this whole part of the field i seem to be catching up to darcy
slowly but not fast enough to worry about um there has been some really big rocks and
i'm really enjoying myself so far i'll do a little in the tractor tour so this right
here is my rpm this is kind of like my gear shift lever that i can pull back into first
or all the way into low and then my speed is this little knob i have this right here
which controls the loader and there's a lock on it that has a little light to make so that
you're not accidentally bumping this and moving the loader up and down that would be very bad
and then i have this whole screen which has a menu on it and controls lots of different things
i'll show you that in a moment and i there's even a sunroof in this tractor that is how cool it is
there's let's see there's a little compartment here oh that has paper towel so that's pretty cool
there seems to be a compartment behind the seats as well and there's also a passenger seat
this is going to be my second to the last lap for the day right here i have my blinkers oh i think
yeah and here i have some other things my lights are right here for in the evening
my family always says bad things happen at night when you can't see and then you spend the whole
next day fixing all the problems and breakdowns that happened at night so it's better just to
get sleep so this is what my dashboard looks like i'm currently going 9.2 miles an hour
and these are all the hydraulics here oh as i completely drive off of my line
that's okay because i drove into the already rolled stuff so it's not that big of a deal
then this is for the pto right here this is temperature control in the cab and you can all
you also have lights here your hazards are here this is what i was talking about with snail speed
but there is a turtle on the rpm then here's the screen we have this menu option
so you can also control the suspension on the tractor which is pretty cool
and that was crucial to baling the fire had gone away for a little while but it seems to be back
again so i'm not sure if it's controlled or not um it did stop there for a minute
so hopefully everything's okay there this is what it looks like when i'm driving the tractor oh i'll
move my speed up a little bit more as you can see a little icon pops up when i'm changing my speed
and then you can also see it here where it says transmission then you can look at the engine power
your rear pto which is called short for power takeoff is on zero because it's not on i'm getting
3.3 gallons per hour in the tractor and then i don't we don't have auto track so that's a second
piece you have to get for this tractor you you have to get the receiver and the globe which we
did not um we can always add that on after but we don't use this tractor for a lot of field work so
we mostly use it for the grain vac and to load trucks so we don't really need that and there's
just lots of stuff that's going on here so it's kind of interesting to look at these
are my two hydraulics the first one moves the wheels and the second one kind of un latches
the roller together and i'm not even sure what all of these buttons do it's a completely new
experience to me this tractor is so modern that i have no idea what everything does
you can also go reverse the same speed you can go forward so that's quite concerning i don't
think i would be capable of driving in reverse at nine miles an hour at least safely that is
there are lots of mirrors in the tractor so i can always look at my roller and you really can't hurt
the roller so it's not like seeding where you want to spend at least 50 or 60 percent of your time
watching the drill because the tractor is driving itself whereas this it's not driving itself so you
want to look forward and you can really only see your line looking forward whereas seeding you can
see it looking backwards as well if you have to hand drive the edges for seating Darcy did
all of the edges on this field so the edges will also have to be rolled because i only
roll where darcy is seated so when i go to the end i turn before the very end of the
field and now that darcy's has seated there i'll have to go back and go over that portion well
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looks like that thank you again for watching bye well i've just made it to the end and stopped the
tractor so it was another wonderful day rolling and i'm very excited to roll again tomorrow!