all right now we are roading combines to the next field here we go I've got
it Full Throttle right now and I'm going 19. 20. 21.8 miles an hour
hopefully Arvid feels comfortable this was one of the hardest parts for me of learning
about the combine is it's just so difficult to drive it on the road at 20 miles per hour
you would think that's very slow but with this type of steering is something that's
steers from the back it's very fast I slowed it down from 21 to 20.3 because I believe my
dad's combine only goes 21 or only goes 20 so I didn't want to catch up with him
I'll let him get some space in front of me and then I'll keep going
the reason my dad had Austin pull to the corner of the road is because this is not a ditch that
we can drive off of in the equipment to let someone pass us so the road has to be clear
and there's no passing area or room on the side of this road just because it is a gravel Side Road
so we have to be very careful and if there is traffic we let them go through and then
we'll get on the road and then Austin will do the same thing for the next Corner as well
that's just a lighting system there so everything's going good
we made it to the first place head all the way to the little blue shed
and just sit there tell me what's happening people are coming or what
I enjoy roading combines it's a lot especially with the pickup headers because they're only
around 17 16 feet the big headers however are much more difficult and challenging to maneuver around
every little sign or post they're 40 feet long mine last year was actually 35 feet and mine for
the 9610 which is what I the combine I started on was 30 feet I believe to my right we have spring
wheat and I can tell that because it's very green and since spring wheat is planted in April it's
usually not ripe at the same time winter wheat is we have a pick up coming down here
so Austin just radiant said there's a pickup so we'll have to pull off the road somewhere
or the pickup will one of the two so I'm pulling off the road a little bit now
for the pickup that's coming by I always wave at them it looks like we have another something
way up there but I'm not sure if that's just Austin either this is a very steep ditch here
so I definitely don't want to drive off the road Austin take a left go down a half a mile then
take that field road in there barley looks a lot fluffier than wheat and that's how you can
tell the difference it lays over a little bit more with lots of stringy things on the top and
it looks really hairy whereas wheat doesn't so on the left here is barley and on the right is wheat
but it's spring wheat so it's fairly green all right now I'm making a turn here this
turn would be hard with a 40 foot header because of the mailbox but it's pretty
simple with the pickup headers this Road's a little bit wider so I feel more comfortable
on it and the ditches are not nearly as steep either Austin back up100 yards or so
where we're gonna go all right we made it to the field I'm going to take it out of third rate
so I just took it out of third gear turn off my hazards a lot of times I'll forget
to turn off my hazards or blinker and what happens is I leave it going throughout the
whole field and then someone has to radio to me to tell me what happened
sort of hilarious my dad's just starting now I'll wait for him a little bit because it is
a downhill slope and I don't want to run into his combine when you have large Machinery you want to
keep them fairly separate Kate take that second row were going to pull up about half of this
field and then come back and get a couple more and so forth
this wheat does not really look any better but I hope it is so I'm going to idle it down put
the back in put the header in and rev it up I'll put my header down and just join midway through
this row this wheat does not look good it looks in my opinion worse than the last field so that
is really sad were you able to get it back into second gear Arvid I shifted back to second do you
want me to grab this first row then yeah go ahead and grab it we're gonna go up as I am as I am get
another three in and get enough room for trucks in the water truck thing so now I'm turning around
to go and pick up another row behind him Kate I'm just pulling these corners off so they're
not in our way because we can't pick them up backwards okay that makes sense thank you
we've just now parked the combines my dad has to move water trucks and discs and stuff over here
cut it off or leave it running okay so I'm going with my dad right now and Grandpa's coming to
the field to help us move stuff as well which is really kind of him hi Austin How's it going good
thank you how are you not bad it's really warm out today yeah its a bit toasty isn't it
yeah here's wheat out this window so Austin when you were driving the little red truck
out of the field yesterday did you let it roll back when you were trying to get on the road
ah yeah Darcy mentioned I didn't make the approach I started
slipping yeah you can't let them roll back on their mud flaps tears them right off so
now you gotta but the mount is still there right probably but we got we gotta put the things on if
it didn't tear them out off I didn't see anything I asked Darcy and he said the mount was there yeah
for future reference okay my radio is about dead so when I wanted you to come up here I wanted
you to come up and say nobody's on the road and I don't see anybody coming hurry with your combines
you know not go up here and sit and not talk
I did I didn't hear it I think Darcy got on the radio right as I said something oh you want this
big emphasis I let off the button and I heard Darcy ah yeah so I think that's what happened
okay because that's why I send you up here is for things I can't see
if I got to the corner I'll let you know that we were all clear
okay well none of that came through the radio did it Kate no what was Darcy saying anyways
yeah I don't know what was he saying
my dad just roaded the drill here and then Austin took the water truck and
I took the pickup to flag hi Grandpa what are you doing I I have missed you
me too you go and run away for a couple of months and then you run away again
I know what's the matter with you I don't know probably many things
she was my leader today was she I followed her all around
I don't know if that's a good thing or not yeah that's a good thing
are you tired now super tired you've been having quite an escapade
for the last two weeks yes trying to get home and then you get on this thing yes
That's a little bit too much but you go to bed early and sleep I'm trying to we did we
got home late last night though yeah I know and I gave him hell for it too
well thank you did you see my
Kate's Ag shirt I designed this you did yeah because I Isn't that cool that's cool
yeah ok I'm gonna take Austin over to get a truck so you guys can get back to work
all right love you grandpa love you too well we're
just go an pick up so wheat don't run over us
so we're just gonna go up and grab the first three rows here until Chris split this and we'll end up
here I don't know is it a duck foot shovel put it in your cab no no you hold it it's hot yeah well
I don't know what that is time to combine again break is over wasn't even really a break I brought
my Kate's Ag tote bag with me too there's Dave oh my goodness how cool Dave's our neighbor and my
dad's very good friend from school where our shop is is actually where I believe Dave's grandfather
homesteaded which is so cool so we have been harvesting this field for a little while and
grandpa has been taking Austin back and forth to the other field to get the fuel pick up the
tandem truck and some things like that so we won't have to do that tonight which is so nice
and it was great to catch up with my grandpa on Long Harvest days I don't always get to see them
every day this field seems to be yielding a little bit better the last field average may be around
six bushels per acre which is just a catastrophe this is maybe 10 12 15. um I'm not completely sure
it still still says close to eight bushels on mine but my dad's meter is a little bit higher my dad
is very full right now as you can see he is about to dump in Steve Wall Steve Wahl just got back out
to the field so we wanted to fill our tanks for him so we had these half rows to make room for
the trucks to park and I was taking one up because I still had room in my grain tank and I wanted to
fill completely so that Steve Wahl would be able to get back on the road and because I'm on the
other side of the hill and Dad can't see me when I finished that row and he's waiting here full
he said Kate you are coming back right and I said no I'm just taking a joyride in the combine so we
thought that was pretty funny I can't put my auger out yet or else I'd hit Arvids combine Kate change
the front off just a touch your off you need to get
a little bit you need to get closer I think shut it off and reposition
do you still want me to reposition well you're kind of on the inside towards the driver's door
but you're okay bring your auger uh yeah and I'll go to the second build up that pile a little bit
then go to the second set of bows with that rest of it in there probably I don't know there's
Steve out there watching the weight no he's not but he's full on the front come to the back and
start dumping and build that pile from the back to the center we leave the center it's kind of empty
on the not so much his but yeah just finished my dump with Steve Wahl and now we're getting back
in the field it's 4:38 so dinner should be around 5:36. I'm really looking forward to it actually
to get out of the combine and do a little bit of stretching about 400 more bushes and that will
be full but you gotta take that full row here we go again to go around actually
take this half row no take the full row are you sure yeah you gotta take the first row
I'll go ahead and take the first row are you sure
when you get up to where it's split too so you have to figure that one out
why don't I just swap rows when I get to wear yours is I didn't catch that yeah just keep
going all the way to the back no I know I'm going to swap rows with your half row so that I'm on an
outside pass and it's not all mixed up okay Kate be quiet I'm trying to watch the dump thing here
for a minute I get what you're doing Dad's going back to watch Arvid's dump because Arvid is Arvid
you got your left blinker on just like you know Arvin keeps dumping in the middle of the trucks
and that's not where we want to dump you only dump in the big semi trucks you start at the very front
where it has axles and it can hold the most weight Arvid if you have more weight just fill
that pile up to the top of the post and then move it towards the center and then
you move all the way to the back and fill the back up where the axles are and you barely fill the
center if not sometimes we put a little bit in the center so you don't move from the front all the
way to the back and I think it's just something he's not completely understanding yet it is a
tough concept to conceptualized it was hard for me too when I first started so I fully understand
him struggling with that my dad just radioed to me and asked me if I shut his pickup off which I
remember shutting it off but I did see a weird light coming from over there so I think I'll
probably be the last dump in Steve Wahl unless my dad wants to top him off I'm not completely sure
Darcy when you go in why don't we send Austin with you
so he can help you move that loader okay do you want me to dump on Wahl yes
so I'll shut my header off and I'll also shut the back off put my auger out and try
and line up properly I don't know if this is lined up or not but I guess we'll see
no I'm over here that looks better it is so hard to line up to the truck it's insane
my wheat looks fairly clean though which is good Darcy are you parked behind Steve yeah
all right now I'll start my next row which should be over here somewhere I'll stop
idle it down to Turtle speed put the back in the header rev It Up press my button down and start
picking up wheat again I just parked my combine next to my dad's and now we're ready for dinner
I am so tired so I'm definitely ready to get outside and stretch Arvid's lining up right now
we're at dinner now right Dad probably
wouldn't you say with the crew dessert is very good today we just finished dinner and
now we're getting back to combining my dad has a super full grain tank we were
just talking yeah Arvid you'll be able to make it cause you got and extra lip on your tip top
we were just talking about how my dad may not make it that's pretty
full my bet is that you're going to make it it'll be close but it really
does look like you will oh well Dad make it so close well I lost that bet my dad
didn't make it he's plumb full I just received a handbag order going to Australia which I think is
very neat so thank you very much I would say that was a pretty good load right down the middle I got
the rock pile around so I go all the way around the rock pile I ended up with the rock pile round
I guess Lucky Draw yeah we'll have to dump this Kate cause I don't think you got 3 laps in you
oh there's a massive Rock here I'm gonna have to slow down for there was a big boulder I
had to pick up my header for Chris you got a copy yeah I do oh are you headed down north
yeah I'm three quarters down here okay I'll be right here
my dad radioed a few minutes ago and said this is our last lap which I am so excited for I'm very
tired and we did end a bit late last night so I'm going to be happy to catch up on some sleep and
some of our employees actually have an hour drive home so it'll be good that we end early tonight
it's around 7:30 right now so we'll probably for sure be home at about 8:30 after we move
all the equipment and get everything done this is what it looks like my front view out of the
combine here's my control panel I just press this check mark button oh as I drive away from
the wheat swath you try and keep it centered down the middle here because this is where it goes in
this is my control panel the screen it's normally on looks like we're averaging nine bushels an acre
10 bushels which is awful but a little bit better than the last field where would you like me to go
Dad why don't you finish filling Darcy Kate or I mean the red truck let's put it that way
yeah Darcy's not in the red truck so it doesn't quite count as Darcy I have to get this on camera
dead center I couldn't have lined up any better which absolutely shocked me it must have been a
fluke but wow I'm pretty proud of this for my last dump of the day except I wasn't supposed
to put it over those are the line things said because then it's hard to get the tarp over
so then I click this yellow button off put my auger back in and you
can see it go back in the mirror there Kate move your combine so I can get in there
yes I said where so I'm
guessing here might be a good parking spot Arvid I'll probably have you put your load
in this little silver ah red truck over here
this one's pretty full Turtle speed to idle it down oh good where I picked my dad's going for
I picked the parking spot tonight I feel pretty good about that obviously I just shut my combine
down and now I'm getting out with all of my Kate's Ag tote bags my water jug my backpack
and my tripod I'm now getting Steve Wall's dinner it was left
in Austin's truck Steve Wall Trucking Dutton Montana hello here's your dinner thank you
look at this combine still harvesting so what what model do you think it is I don't know its a 7700
how many years ago did we have those? We never had one of them
that thing when it came out Kate was the coolest thing since apple pie
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