hi everyone welcome to Kate's Ag today we are hauling wheat which is
amazing so we're going to have so much fun and if you watch my grain bin tour video you'll know
where we are we're at the grain bins by the schoolhouse and this machine can fill a semi
in 10 minutes isn't that amazing we're going to wait for a semi to come back and take a ride
this is the greenback vrx it fills the semi in 10 minutes out of a full bin now look at all the
snow we still have we got snow about a week ago and kind of a lot of it and there's still snow
all around and so it's a little bit chilly but not too cold this is the grain bin we're
filling out right now we're at the 15 bins now it was 13 and here's kind of what it looks like
in the hole that the grain back sucks the grain out of so this is kind of in the grain bin
and it's a little system where if the grain gets sucked out of here more comes down kind
of as you can tell in my harvest videos this is the exact same field i was picking
up whedon and you actually also saw a clip of it being swathed at the end of the video
and so it's super amazing i mean can you believe this that this is what it looks like now all of
the wheat is picked up obviously and it's pretty incredible now this is what the field looks like
beautiful views today
and then there's the schoolhouse right there
and we have another kind of cool tractor it's really old but i think it's really cool
it's this john deere one over here now this red tractor right here is a massey ferguson 8450 and
we use it because it has a pto to run the grain vaculator and put all the wheat into the semi
but let's take a look inside we'll do a little cab tour
right here we have a lot of our controls as you can see
and our radio sits over here it has its own spot we have our mirror and this is our steering wheel
and then this is what the back looks like and that's the vaculator it's called a grain vac and
all it's basically like a big auger all the wheat goes up that long red auger into the semi
the truck and it even has a second person seat
now the grain comes from the grain bin right here and it gets sucked into this container
and then there's an auger in here that runs the wheat up the auger and into the truck yes exactly
what my dad said so here's the kind of leftover wheat that's in here right now and this is what
the inside of it looks like it's pretty cool and we really like it because it works super well
safer than a grain auger oh and that's a great bonus too
because we always want to make sure we're super safe on the farm because it's
very important with all the big machinery around here this thing's very loud yes it gets super loud
now we're going to look at the inside of the bin after there's no more wheat left inside isn't this
crazy and it's very echoey and this tube is for blowing air in after you put grain in it to cool
it off and to dry it down after it's cut that's an aeration tube and there's a fan on the other side
wow that is cool and there's the very top and that's how we fill the grain bin
sometimes the grain bin likes a little bit of weed out as we're trying to transfer it so this is the
wheat we've lost in this particular grain bin which if you think about how big it is it's not
a huge amount but it's still a little bit of weight loss and i thought it'd be great to include
because there's all sorts of things that happen on a farm that aren't expected and i think that a lot
of people don't realize so it's pretty fun to get to watch that the deer will come and eat some of
this and the antelopes you know oh yeah the deer and the antelope come and eat it as well so that's
also great because it's so fun to see the deer around and then we also have a lot of antelope
but if you notice when you're driving the antelope don't like to usually move off of the road
whereas deer like to kind of run off the road so they're a little bit different and if you go to
kate's egg k-a-t-e-s underscore a g on instagram you would have seen a picture of the antelope
running through a field so it's very beautiful pictures you'll have to go and check it out
and look at the mud here so we don't know how much longer we'll be able to haul today
because it's so muddy out and it's going to get too soft to haul
we and have the huge semis here we don't want them to get stuck so if it gets too soft we have
to stop hauling so we'll definitely stop early today but we don't know what time it's monday
so we don't haul on the weekends because we haul to an elevator and it's not like the elevator
over here at that my great grandpa built but it's the elevator where farmers sell their wheat at so
that's where we're going look at all this water here oh my gosh
and then the mud is insane but the fields are so beautiful and actually in the field some of
them that we planted you can see the green coming up so you can see the bits of wheat
so i'll have to show you that too if you look here they're wheat kernels but they're frozen
over so there's a whole layer of ice and then the wheat's right under that isn't that crazy
that's so cool so i just wanted to show you that i mean even here the ice is kind of melting a bit
but it's all under a layer of ice so you have to be super careful when you walk on it so you don't
slip here we're in a field that we planted this year and i'm going to show you the little wheat
growing it's really cute and it's winter wheat so it has to freeze in order to grow
or else they'll kind of grow up like grass and here's some of the wheat in the rows
isn't that pretty cool
planted this fall and the type of wheat it is is winter wheat so that means it has to
freeze in order to create a head and the head is what has the little grain kernels in it
and this variety of wheat that we planted here is warhorse so it has a super cool name
and it has fantastic baking qualities as well so that's really amazing and then this
some of the wheat is growing a little bit more in some places but as you can see it's just
starting to come up here we're just passing the nuclear missile base we have a field around it
so i thought that that's pretty cool it's right there here we have steve wall coming in and
he has a trucking business so we hire him to help us haul our wheat
and he's going to pull up to the evacuator there i'm here with steve wall and he has
a business steve wall trucking so he comes and helps us with grain hauling which is absolutely
amazing so he has lots of great information to share so we'll be taking a ride in his amazing
truck
we got a drone to get better footage so that's kind of cool there it is my dad likes to
fly now steve wahl's going to start the tractor up and put the green in his truck
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we're going to have so much fun in the truck and you're going to learn all about semis and trucking
and what it takes to haul your grain to the elevator where you sell it oh my gosh the drone
that is crazy and then my dad's over there fine
let me know how much strong footage you want me to include in the videos
and what parts you want to see from the drone so that i know exactly what to film
now they've moved the truck from the front all the way to the back so you don't you don't fill
in front middle back you feel the front and then you feel the back of the truck and that's because
those are the strongest points of the truck and then you feel the middle so the most weight goes
on the front and the back our c-130 airplanes flying above the farm oh my gosh isn't that cool
look at that
here's the back side of the green bins you saw me on the other side and look at all the snowdrifts
isn't that crazy
my dad plowed the snow out on the other side so that we could haul wheat and the ground didn't
get too wet it's darcy down the road and he's our other truck driver he met him in the seating video
here we are with darcy again and he drives the red truck which is awesome so thank you for being
on video darcy what's your favorite thing about driving trucker how how how much do you usually
call us 850 bushels yeah and oh and there's a limit on how much you can legally haul as well
okay well do you we're always what's your favorite part about driving trucks oh good driving
that's awesome thank you yeah except for the mud and stuff yes the mud isn't always fun no
but there's dirt on that side of that yeah
right now steve and i are on the road and we're hauling the grains of the elevator
now steve is really cool he uh had a custom putting business too and now he hauls grain
and what kind of props do you hold mostly well i usually haul small grain crops wheat barley and
post crops like peas and beans in this area yeah that's a lot of what's grown in this area as well
that's pretty awesome what's kind of like your history in the agriculture industry
well like i grew up in pepe montana on a family farm and the family farm is still in business and
then i got into uh custom grain hauling actually using my dad's trucks back when i was 18 years old
that's awesome yeah i left the farm when i was 25 and i uh invested well actually
i was 24 and i invested in harvesting business with a partner out of colorado
and we did the custom harvest running from texas all the way to montana wow that's awesome mostly
in the summer and then we'd go back in the fall and we'd harvest corn and pineapple
and edible beans down there and even go back to texas and cut water down there in december so
oh wow that is just really cool then after 20 years of doing that
my business partner and i just split up and sold our inventory in 2005
and then i kept the semi that year and i just stay home now and harvest grain
that's awesome thank you steve's wife also owns the best coffee shop in dunton it's called lily
bean and it is so delicious and they make the best sandwiches and coffee and they have donuts and
just everything you can think of so it's absolutely amazing so if you're ever in
montana you'll have to stop by because it's just
delicious