hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is very exciting because i am going to be trucking
wheat to the elevator in order to sell it
i'm going to be driving this red tandem truck which is the first ever truck i drove you can
actually see that video it was not very long ago so it feels so awesome to be back
in the same truck it's also very cold out today and as you can see there's frost everywhere
it's the first day it hasn't been so incredibly windy in Montana this week here is the wheat
field i helped seed and i actually helped harvest it two years ago so you can see
the 2020 harvest videos in this field that's the elevator
dad just moved the truck back a little bit
so this is what we found in the truck we picked this out of the field so it doesn't get the tires
of the vehicles but it was just sitting here in the truck when i got in so that's pretty cool
okay can you go to the floor or the floor yep
darcy just went by i just set my cruise control and now we're on the highway
heading to the elevator we're hauling green to united grain which i actually did a video
touring the elevator so you'll have to check that out it's called how farmers make money
so it's just a short little trip did you tell them why we're not using the other truck we are
not using the other truck because right at the end of my last load yesterday an engine light came on
an engine protection light came on so we have to take it in to get it looked at and so now we're
using this one which is this is actually the first tandem truck i'd ever driven and how i learned how
to drive i guess truck which wasn't very long ago actually why didn't we use the other white truck
oh and then we were going to use the other white truck but it didn't start because the battery is
dead so that's just a typical day on the farm this truck doesn't work so you got to go try this truck
that truck didn't start so now we ended up in this truck my dad has trucks work on the 50 rule like
combines and drills for seating at any given time 50 of them are broken down so you need about four
to make sure a couple are going we are hauling hard red winter wheat today and there's two
types of wheat there's spring wheat and winter wheat spring wheat you plant in the spring
and winter wheat you plant in the fall the main difference between these two types of wheat is
winter wheat has to freeze in order to produce a head which is the wheat kernel and spring wheat
can't freeze and then there's different types of spring wheat and winter wheat you have for
the most part on the farm we don't grow any hard white we just grow hard red we also sometimes
grow barley or pulse crops which are chickpeas lentils things like that durham occasionally
as well durham is used for pasta and i love pasta oh here comes austin in the black truck
the work for farmers does not stop in the winter although you're not planting crops
or harvesting them or tending to your fields you still have to work on all of your equipment and
haul wheat to the elevator in order to pay all of the bills you have for the year all
of the parts of the farm operation are equally important and crucial to a family farm's success
these hater words dude yes that's the most important part especially
when it's this cool bloody very cold yeah what carry you in seven no more it has four
okay that's hilarious oh my goodness we can't have those kinds of things in the fields because
they're really hard on equipment yeah on the tires this is also the same truck i drove
nearly to the Canadian border to a town called Sunburst and i was hauling malt barley
and i stalled it right over the pit and we couldn't get it started again so
that was a very bad situation i'm going to try not to do that again because that would be very bad
this elevator is a lot busier and would have a whole lineup behind me
let it coast this is a really bad turn on thing so you really have
to pay a lot of attention to this you know somebody comes you can use
because that's the process with big trucks
these aren't big but you can't get used to doing something one way and then getting
yeah that is a tough turn well it's this far you can't see what's coming
so you slow down to the point where you could stop and still make the corner without locking
the brakes up and all sorts of weird stuff i'm feeling kind of comfortable okay so this
35. we're coming up to the elevator now we're just on the road before you turn off
and i can see it right over there
but do not get into that
okay now let it roll
okay and you need to learn uh elevator etiquette when you can put in when you
can elevator etiquette by dad when you can butt in and when you can
you don't want a bunch of confrontations going on at the elevator some people might not be normal
so if there's nobody coming out when you get your truck rolled you go on to the
scale if they are then you wait and let them go first because they get gone just keep an eye
i got someone behind me okay you got a truck behind us
okay
now we're getting out to roll the tarp we park here
here and you let it come down remember look towards the way you're rolling
okay let's get in there remember that stop with your truck body next to the probe
don't drive on the scale when you got another truck on
easy
now just idle around okay they're kind of done probing they'll probably get my light you can do
this and not have to stop if you think that you can't pull onto the scale with him on it so just
let it idle okay he's supposed to leave now so you'll just idle your truck in the middle of the
thing up to the probe right yeah see what he did or i don't know so go on okay that's Tyler yeah
just keep going okay and don't and when you get on to the scale of your day just let it idle okay
i thought that we're gonna do a red light thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed
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