so this is my first time ever driving the drill and my first ever seeding lesson
oh wait i touched the steering wheel so did it
oh good and actually that does throw it out yes and then that's the resume button
so you hit this button forward yeah this button forward oh awesome those all four have to be green
before it's auto steering and this this raises it in and out of the ground you can see that
you can see if your hydraulics are running yes that means they're running so like if i
i'm pushing it in see so we're driving you we're pushing it in the ground it's already
in the ground so it's still trying to push it in deeper so then you flip it back just a little bit
you see what i'm doing you can see it's running but it's in the ground so you just
give it a little flip and then it shuts it off so the hydraulic that one has to be going all
the time because the fan is on interesting okay we have enough for a couple passes
well of course are you going to wave no i'm not waiting i had a shotgun
can it ever hurt the drill to go through the cooling well it's a real real wash
out you wouldn't want to do it but these little things only seating is that deep
in like an inch or an inch and a half so you don't have to have a very big wash out
work just to drop it on the ground so this first one if you lift it up that lifts the implement off
and then pushing it down pushes it down it raises the drill out of the ground so it stops seating
and then you push it back down in and it starts again once it goes down so far
and then you give it one click back so it's off yeah you always like see like if you're
putting it in the ground you go like that yeah and once they get in the ground then you just
tap it back so the hydraulic stops okay crazy not to have your hands on the steering wheel
and be in a moving tractor but also if you bump it it takes it off which is scary
press the button again i have it set for 100 and it's seating a little bit more oh
yeah we're only going but well five miles an hour is a lot faster than i went in combine
so you can't see anything behind the tank behind the tank if people don't like any tracks in their
field at all and they have the toe between because when you look over there you don't see any cracks
but if you look at dorsey's you do always see it there's always there's always that cartridge but
it's riding up on top of the furrow so it doesn't unless it's really wet you wouldn't even notice it
after a while we're not that meticulous though yeah we're lucky to get it done yes yes exactly
and whatever drills the most reasonably priced well we used all used equipment and we're not
always but once we buy something majority i bought that dark that tractor the darcy and that drilled
in darcy's thing i bought that brand new i bought both of them brand new at the same time oh wow
and now hit that not yet
your hand on that thing again and when we get we have to start going down a little bit beforehand
not yet and everything's going thank you for the drill lesson uncle chris
oh and one gear a little bit i always slow down on the corners
yes and i i used to slow down with the throttle but it keeps the band steadier if you don't
mess with the throttle tank one has seed tank two is switched off because
it doesn't really have any fertilizer left in it and then tank three is fertilizer and it
even has images of how full your tanks are yeah they're guesstimates it's a sonar type thing
so it's not real accurate it'll tell you before you run out it's important well that's
helpful we only have two bars of seed left on our image now we're about to go through
the [ __ ] which will be double seeding oh my gosh it did it just added another bar of seed
oh that's hilarious would you shift down now yeah click it down here click your thing back
here did it go
no oh there we go it
now we've got lost our extra bar
do rocks in the field ever effect they'll knock the hose off
you see a big rock or you can slow down or go around it occasionally we have great big bucks
it will give you the alarm that you're close to empty we'll give you another alarm when you
are fully empty oh i don't know give me a low tank if you have some leeway
because obviously you want to be able to go down to the end of the strip you know
no but it would probably make it to the end of this trip and that's all based upon how much you
proceed oh yes is 63 pounds an acre would that be average for the area or what we usually do
well usually about a bushel it's a little bit it's a little bit
and a bushel is 60 pounds yeah they always say a bushel and a peck
you know i don't want to protect bushel in a pack it depends sort of on the side of the seed i mean
some people see it from population you know so they figure out the size of the seed and how much
how many plants you want per square foot yes and they seed according to that there's formulas for
that but we always just eat about a bushel a little bit over a bushel a bushel in a pack
do you ever do the formulas to figure out how much quantum population per square foot
i have in the past and you've been doing it so long too it's second nature we're not on
everyone you know not everyone if you have really expensive seed in a foundation scene or something
you don't see that much because most people see it around the bushel you know 55 pounds or 65 pounds
some varieties don't stool as much so you have to see a little bit more like durham during the pasta
meat it doesn't stool as much as winter you have a plant and it grows little plants off the side
oh okay you know instead of just one plant for one seed
we'll give you two or three little plants oh interesting herb got
so you get your plant population where you have a nice stand
so we filled the tanks of the drill now we're back in the tractor cab seating
where does it say you're seeding that about an inch and a half
does it stay on the screen no you set that on the implement it doesn't say anywhere
the boot is what's bolted of the shank it's the curvy thing yep and the boot is like your shoe
goes under your foot yes grilled shoes they call them boot for the drill shoe
that's a wonderful wonderful and now i can remember girl shoes
wow that makes so much more sense now well thank you uncle chris for the wonderful
excellence awesome expression well if you have to walk while you have to shake it
you're on your chain changing it that's an old expression really oh my gosh wow
oh my goodness wow i never knew that that's incredible see this far like it
totally hailed out last year it was really early they wouldn't adjust it because it was too early
it actually grew back and that wasn't
a lot better than i thought it would ever be i'm rather surprised that's great then
tell him that Darcy this is the last pass we're gonna do one more darcy this is the last pass
that's a tough one well i got it
you want to keep that drill you don't want it backing up if you can avoid it okay and that
if it's backing up you're pretty close to the thing you see now go ahead and push your button
oh should i put it down now yep
i don't know what button you push for you didn't push the autos here
how many acres can each drill do per day what's the maximum
i don't know that just if you have no breakdowns i suppose about 200 acres a day per drill so 400
and if we got 300 done today then that's really a wonderful day first one a breakdown all the time
yeah each drill should do over 200 acres a day we have seed and fertilizer to them and they run all
the time probably more by the time you move and stop and fill and trucks you get four to five
hundred dollars pay for the day how old were you when you started driving the drill for seating
maybe i don't know maybe younger that's awesome what were the first types of drills you remember
running john deere lz grills and used to have to shovel the fertilizer in and shuttle the seed in
you had a truck little seed and truckload of fertilizer and you had a slide and then you
drive it along real close to the press wheels put the slide over and shovel them full and
then we eventually got augers on the trucks oh awesome that must have been exciting when that
first started they used to use bagged fertilizer oh really 50 pound bags you cut slide them slide
them open and put them in the drills but then i used to slice them open and put them in the truck
because it was easier to shovel than to handle the bags all the time wow how many drills did
you use to have to run we used to have 32 foot and 40 foot oh wow then we had yeah so so just
two yeah two sets of drills we have always also two sets of drills used to take longer to seed too
how long would seating have been normally oh two three weeks a month i don't know depends how much
you seated and what would be the average time it takes for seating now ten days two weeks maybe
just depends how much you're seeding you don't often get to see though all at one time a lot
of times we used to have rains you have to wait a little bit which is a good thing it's a good thing
any time it rains it's a good thing especially for seeding we had what about an inch and a half
about what a week ago or so a rain otherwise it would be really dry this is oh it would be
terrible horrible so but even though we got the rain and we weren't happy to stop harvest it made
it great for seeding yeah but it's not very much and it'll go away real quickly that's why it's
important to get it in the ground while there's moisture yeah last year i think we missed the
window it got hot and dry again and we the early seeding was better and almost always is we're
about out of fertilizer too see yeah we only have two bars left and we're almost halfway through
our seeds no not really it just goes down funny it'll stay there for a long time oh really yeah
i'm driving the tractor without driving the tractor no hands on the steering wheel see and
then when all this stuff breaks down you you want to stop seeding you get spoiled now me when i just
if it breaks down i just keep as long as the drill goes i just keep going it doesn't matter
i'm not too fussy about the street you get more seat in the ground in a curve than you do in the
street i very much enjoy the auto steer it's a great luxury i can't imagine just having to
watch and drive the whole straight line for a mile and then another mile and then many many many many
miles and acres some people are really good at straight lines i never was i never worried about
it too much if you weren't no tilling you'd have to have smaller fields because if you were plowing
the reason they had smaller fields then give dirt blue yes and now you have the stubble to hold it
no till but no till uh you have the stubble but if you till you don't right
and you notice the old when you're combining the
the ridges yes in the field that's every 20 rods where the old field used to end
and the summer following the wind in the winter would fill the first
five ten feet of stubble right up to the height of the stubble whether it was
two inches or four inches or six inches and over the years you have those humps and it takes a
long long time to well you don't move much soil even when you're plowing or seeding you don't move
very much dirt so it takes a long time for them to smooth out if they ever will be smoothed out
i hope we have enough seat i think we should at 400 and something filled twice it's our last pass
for the day thank you so much for the lesson in the drill and letting me drive uncle chris
and also all of the great knowledge well hopefully i'll be able to get out of here
you're just learning a new job yes i am but this has been fantastic so thank you
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