hello welcome to kate's ag right now i'm standing on my combine platform and we're
just blowing off the combines and getting the field up for the day so this what happens in
the morning during harvest and we're going to finish this 160 acre field make sure to
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my uncle chris kindly gave me the evening off last night so they must have finished
that 160 acre piece which is why we're on the next one now we're going to open up a
few passes so that the green car and trucks can get in see the second slot starts over here kate
just followed me around a little bit and it starts right over by this little shack here oh okay i see
it thank you we're starting the first row of the field right now first pass of the new field i just
set my header down oh i didn't know you were out there so i i yeah i think about 20 put 20 in him
there's a fuel pickup right there yeah we're gonna do it we're just gonna let them dump so we
get away from that truck you know what i mean i'm going 2.6 miles an hour and
i'm two bars under being maxed out so i could probably push it a little harder
my uncle chris just said on the radio he doesn't know how these huge swaths because they really are
huge can have such little wheat in them uncle chris was saying yesterday at lunch that they
have half the amount of wheat they should which is really bad big mormon quickest every one of them
yes i do there's tons of grasshoppers how about those big fat warm and crickets
they're gigantic there's some huge cricket in these wheat swaths but there's also some
normal-sized grasshoppers and my uncle chris and i were just talking about how
there is so many grasshoppers this year a lot more compared to last year right now the combine
grain tanks are getting full and our green car is getting some pressure added to its tires so
it's not following us around and we'll probably make it to the end of this row but we'll need to
dump in a semi truck and it looks like darcy's not in the cab my uncle just radioed for him
probably helping fill up the tires so it'll be interesting to see what we end up doing up here
window is full but the green tank buzzer hasn't gone off
i can definitely see the wheat piling up at the top of your combine for a little bit longer
so uncle chris's buzzer has gone off but mine hasn't yet anyone listened to the radios over
there looks like they're all out helping the grain cart and not anyone in the radios we
have to get we could move this truck that sounds good my green tank buzzer just went off no one's
listening to the radios over there so you don't have anyone to drive the truck over
there so they don't have to chase us sounds good thank you
my grain tank full buzzer just came on and it says on a signal down here
so i'm going to stop my combine right here a good distance behind uncle chris's back up it looks
like we're stopping here and putting our augers out maybe uncle chris thinks that'll signify to
the truck people that we need to dump i'm gonna go and hook that red tractor and run it to town that
the case ih red tractor that i had in one of my videos
over there to put that thing on that's what my dad's talking about i'll pick up that other tire
yeah okay that tire thing you guys said was kind of broken off i pushed on a little bit
and it broke right off and dumped all the air out of it do you want me to wait for you to finish
unload or do you want me to head back to the field go ahead head back i'll be there in just a second
you're farther a little bit farther back anyway sounds good i'm unloading right now and then my
uncle chris will unload and we'll go back to the field it looks like the green cart is ready to go
for the day so that's really good and i also get a notification that says my unloading auger's on
that little building falling down right there is an old granary so that's
used to be grain storage for farmers in the olden days it was a little wood building and they
were a lot smaller than they are today jim just radiated and said the truck is stuck in the room
and spin that's right you put it in park
and then you engage it you don't switch it when you're when it's spinning here's what it means
okay i'll try that then handle that shifter paddle there's a manual switch on it you know
you might want to switch it in and out of auto and you could have got bumped over it manual
jim no it'll start it's just stuck in the middle of the road to do
uh each one of the duels went in the rut and it's just spinning oh yeah
my dad just said the red tractor bombs down the highway
i think this is the
my dad just said the red tractor he just sold as the fastest tractor on the farm by far
oh my gosh that's funny been a pretty good day of harvest so far
there's been no breakdowns which is really awesome i'm going to put my
auger out right now because the grain cart should be coming to dump soon
i'm going three miles an hour and i don't even have my gauges maxed out but i want to make sure
i don't pass uncle chris or get too close to his combine i just got a notification that said my
unloading auger is out it looks like the grain carts lining up right now he's been driving a
little bit too fast for the combines today it's okay if you drive too slow as a green car because
the combines can always slow down but if you drive too fast the combines will plug up if they
go fast you lined up pretty well this time you should be able to see the green in my green tank
getting lower i just shut the grain off and i'm going to swing my auger back that was my dump
on the go for today i think it was the second third maybe fourth i can't even remember anymore
my dad just pulled out of the field because i think he thought he saw something smoking
which is really bad i can't remember what he said the problem was but it happened last
year so he pulled it out of the field i think they might have to take it back to the shop
uncle chris came over the water truck was brought over a fire is the last thing we
need in a field so hopefully everything works out i'm yet again the only combine running
it looks like the combine has left the field i think something has to be adjusted in it
i hope it's okay feels really slow to be the only combine in the field today
i'm running pretty much at capacity which is around three miles an hour
actually let's dump headed west
just because the end of my row is coming up my grain tank buzzer hasn't gone off it'd be a little
bit easier for me i wouldn't have to stop the combine that'd be a big loss of efficiency because
we already have one combine down that means this running at its max capacity is extremely important
the amount of soft lies on my window is incredible i'm gonna wipe them off again
grain's coming out of the window i'll probably finish jumping before the end here
now i'm picking my header up making my turn and slowly straightening out
so i'm starting my pass headed north now i guess the green card just followed me all around because
i thought i'd have to dump on this pass and then i didn't and then i thought i'd have to
dump headed this way and i didn't but now i have to dump headed this way i have three semi trucks
one tandem and a grain cart all to myself and my dad just said i'll take over your job means how
i don't have one anymore and my uncle chris said yeah why don't we just break down your combine too
it was absolutely hilarious i finished this half of the field so i'm moving on to the other half
i don't even know if it's a quarter of the field i finished or a half i can't tell
so i'm getting ready to dump in the green cart right now and then he'll take this load back to
the semi truck three semi trucks one combine so my dad may or may not be coming to run combine
and giving me a little bit of a combine break which is well needed during harvest
i'm finishing the last part of this field which we started first thing this morning i will definitely
not get anywhere close to being done with the other half this evening because there's only
one combine although i am pushing max capacity i'm being as efficient as possible without pushing it
so far over the limit that i'm risking plugging the machine up and having to use our employees
and me to help dig it out because these things are hard to dig out then there's no combines going in
the field so it's really important i keep this one running i'm almost at the end of this path headed
north and there isn't one headed back up south unless i move to that other part of the field
what would you like me to do doesn't look like my dad or uncle chris has a coffee because that's who
i was speaking to i'm just dumping the last bit of weed i have left so our car driver can send steve
wall down the road with a full truck of grain and then my dad's giving me the afternoon off because
he doesn't have a job anymore because his combines broke down i just got out of the combine because
my dad offered to run it for the afternoon thank you dad the other combine is broke down right and
i need a job and kate needs time to head out yes so i'm going to go run the combine hopefully i'll
run as good as kate hers is the only one that ain't broke down what happened to the other one
something to do with the variable speed uh drive for the header or something i don't even know
get it started again well i got the john deere guy on it kate so he's going to send somebody out
tomorrow if he can they think they might have one so maybe we'll get it fixed that's awesome well
thank you dad okay see you bye grandpa's taking me home now from the combine thank you grandpa
i'm here with jed from frontline egg solutions the best john deere mechanic ever and we always
love having him come out because he gets the problem solved so what happened to our combine
um basically a failure of the feeder house drive it's a variable speed high torque drive and um
is what happened here is uh the the hub broke out of the the shiv and so we're gonna install
a new hub and we're installing um new seals and everything grease seals oh that's great put it
back together adjust the belt and we should be going again that's wonderful thank you so much
so over here is where the failure happened and so basically we just had to pull it down and
drain oil um luckily uh the customer caught it before all the oil drained out because it
did take the seal out from the heat due to a good operator we have a lot less to fix this time yes
and that's when my dad said wow it really smells like it's burning oil and it was thank you yup
you're welcome anytime i'd like to give you a tote bag darcy here do you want to try it on it'll look
fabulous it's great for carrying snacks how do you like it well i will chop try it out and see how
it's like well thank you i think you look great in it just fabulous and it's wonderful for carrying
snacks they probably put my tablet in there oh that would be awesome that's a super good idea
take that with me when i go somewhere and then like if nothing to do i'll just turn on uh amazon
prime and watch buoys oh that's awesome i think you should get a designer dog and carry around
another one oh yeah put it right inside that'd look good maybe that cat would write it oh that
would be so cute darcy we have to see a picture of that that would be adorable i don't think i can
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