hello welcome to Kate's Ag uncle chris just got out of the tractor
and i am going to be seating for the first time ever by myself i'm so excited
what did i do i don't know what's happened
oh my gosh that was so nerve-wracking oh my goodness okay so light i think i got everything
i'm seating by myself now i have to see it in entire gear so i'm in seventh gear right now
and i'll go seating in eighth gear but i did it now this field has power lines so i have
to really watch out for that when i get to the top i've got all my buttons everything i don't
have my hydraulics running like for example if i press and hold it'll stay running and
that's not good for it so i have to tap it off i have to make sure my seed and fertilizer are
coming out that these lights aren't blinking my recording light is blinking so that means i
am on gps tracking in auto steer my full thing is here i've got the clutch
let's see i did that i did it oh my goodness i'm running drone by myself this is really
really cool i am just so so excited and thank you so much uncle chris if you're watching this
for the wonderful lessons in the drill i had lessons yesterday and today so now i feel so
thankful that i have the opportunity to run this piece of machinery by myself i've really
only ever run combine i mean i've run a couple of tractors i've done disking but never drills
it's really amazing to see the process start from the beginning if you don't do this step correctly
you won't have a crop to harvest in august oh my gosh this is so cool i can't get over it i'm
driving the tractor and the drill all by myself well can you really call it driving it's auto
steer but i mean i still have to make the corners at the end and watch everything i have to watch my
coverage make sure it's correct a hundred pounds an acre of fertilizer 63 pounds an acre of seed i
have to watch my fan speed which is at 2010 right now i'm going 5.5 miles an hour i'm overlapping
about a foot on what i've already seated and everything else is good the drones even watching
oh my goodness it's just so cool i cannot even contain my excitement for driving this drill alone
so i'm basically just continuing to watch my rpm my speed which is 5.4 miles an hour right now
i'm watching the drill making sure everything's going well i'm about halfway through this field
it's a mile strip so a mile up and a mile back it's not quite as wide as the other field we were
in our last field was 320 acres so that's half a section and that's what we go by in farming a
full section is 640 acres half is 320 and then a quarter section is 160 acres which is what this
field is so it's the same length it's a mile long just not quite as wide it would be a half section
if we were seating our field actually that's right next to it but it's just in a different
crop cycle than this field so although we own the bull they're farmed in different years i'm
coming up to my head wall and then i'll be turning around again this is where i really have to watch
with the power lines and everything turns are the hardest because i can smash the drill into this
tire here it's extremely important that i don't hit the drill when i turn when i get a little bit
closer i'm going to shift down twice usually you would just bring the rpm down but since we had fan
issues we're shifting down and i'll do that right about now just to give myself a little more time
on the corner i shift down from gear eight to gear six and then i'm getting ready for my corner here
sometimes it helps to talk yourself through it as well but it's a really cool process that i'm
so happy to be a part of now and very thankful for this opportunity i'll pull the drill off
as soon as the drill reaches the head while it will beep when my tractor passes the head wall
and the head wall is the part that's already been seated and darcy did those first three
end passes and that is going to give me a little more room pick the drill up turn out
and then turn around and then i have to get ready to set my oh and then shift down
clutch in put it in a park wait what did i do i don't know what's happening
i don't know what's happening why the tractor is moving
oh gosh that was bad there's like a rock stuck in the front that rock we went over two passes
ago it's stuck between the rolling stop are you driving down the field and not seen no i tried
to stop but then it went into the n and it wasn't stopping and then i figured it out has to be in
the f i didn't mean to not stop i was trying to stop and i couldn't figure out what happened okay
it came out big though it was that one we drove over here on that side no i'm yeah i have to go
back i wasn't seating the problem was you know the f and n when i went to idle it down and put
it in the clutching and park i hit n and then it wouldn't stop moving it was on that side that same
big gray rock it was in between the two packers and i noticed on my turn when i was checking it
but i did not put it looks like you have a skip well if i have a skip i'll go and get that then
the rock came out oh my gosh that was scary i hadn't end rolling downhill
well that was not a very good experience for my first ever pass so i saw a rock between my
two packer wheels which is what packs the ground down after the boot puts it in the ground which
is the thing that drops the seat in the ground and it was a big rock and i i think it was from
a couple passes ago when i was with uncle chris i was trying to stop and then i accidentally put
it in n rather than f which is neutral rather than forward do you don't have your gps yes
well that was a scary experience well i'm maybe not the most talented operator for drill but i'm
going to learn i've never had an experience like that in combine or really anything when i've been
left alone to operate it that made me a bit nervous i have a little f up here you have
f and then if you accidentally bump this little knob here down it puts it in n and then you start
rolling you can't stop rolling i'm going downhill picking up speed it absolutely frightened me and
my dad saw it all from drone i'm so glad that i'm planting sea in the ground got the gps on i
guess everyone needs to have those experiences but the first pass oh my goodness i noticed
a rock and i was just trying to do the right thing and stop and that didn't go over so well
i'm okay now though i'm in the red tandem okay i'll pick you up at the field i still feel it it's
the adrenaline of not knowing what to do and lots of things are happening the tractor's going on
a full joyride without me knowing how to stop it or doing anything so i'm going super fast down the
field i'm not seating um i'm glad everything went okay and i figured out how to use this a little
bit more now my dad's going to take a few passes with me well needed go ahead and turn that often
and then out and then follow me in my pickup and to stop you have to push to clutch remember and
then after it stops moving then you can put it in park you know where that's at right yes now my dad
thinks i don't know how to stop the tractor which is kind of partly true i have a little bit of an
understanding but not a very good one obviously keep pulling your drill all the way out you know
into the seated stuff all the way in now put it in part so what happened was i noticed the rock right
so i decided but i i accidentally when moving it down here hit the f the n like hit down and
it wasn't being responsive to anything down it's faster anyway let's let's go so what's the clutch
push the glide channel yeah take it out put it in forward you know where your gears are they're
right there bring up your rpm about halfway might be in now yeah it's in okay now wait look back
okay now now go back bring on your throttle a little bit easy now slow down a little bit with
your throttle either running seven you should be running somewhere around five you don't want to be
passing darcy up five is plenty fast because you go too fast kate what's being plowed up covers up
the stuff that was plowed up from the back shanks the back chains are covering up the front chains
and i'm sorry i did my corner right and everything and i saw that rock and i knew i needed to stop
it can't that that's the thing about these and i just couldn't get it stopped doesn't happen much
but it does sometimes you gotta jerk them out with a chain if you can't get them out sometimes you
can back back up a little bit a couple feet you know with the packers on the ground or kick them
out and that must have been what happened you must have had a rollers and so this thing works
with a clutch it you can you can do this without kate but you're you're headed down you know where
the full tank uh seated it probably ain't gonna stop very easily i don't know what you're doing
when you wanna stop it's always clutch wait until the machine quits then put it in park
okay i wanted darcy to do a couple laps he needed free hand behind him so i could show you how these
turn and and where they're gonna be i can't do it on these these automated guide passes the thing
is is you're trying and that's all you need to do here is try yeah i don't know anything about this
i've never run these at all darcy swim it's like nothing this one doesn't do that you have to work
at it oh wow do you want it go through your ponds individually see if any hoses are sticking up
and then look at your shades kinda he's going pretty deep but that's okay
get used to a certain speed of how the dirt is coming over your things that tells you a
little bit about depth but really you got to go dig it and you look at this side now you can't
see the center two pods the only time you can do that is if you're smart enough to think about it
when you're turning yes where's your rate 63 pounds and 100 pounds yeah that's the right rate
whether it's putting it on or not no one knows okay wide open kate it's five five and and it's
2000 rpm on this motor you know this thing's a 500 horse thing you could draw it off to five too you
know what i mean yeah and i'd run these at about five not over five two problems you know the pods
you can see there's not a lot of excuse for that how you ever spotted the rock in your packer wheel
was it dragging a big pile of dirt up here no it wasn't i saw it in the past when i when i lift
it up i made sure to check and i saw a gray rock in the package well i probably wouldn't even
have done that well any rocks okay they're not good to run into packers and five miles an hour
seems to be the the magic number one faster than five stuff starts bending on your combine header
probably in the drills because they're so heavy if this thing starts lugging down other than what
you have it set at yeah you know i wouldn't run it under 17 for sure and i wouldn't run it down
these are made to run at their speed kind of you know i want to be a little nice to them
i slow them down to shift sometimes you know what i mean so they're not wham
yeah but every corner every time you do anything and that's you got to put all your attention
into making this corner perfect make sure you plow out don't leave them tear dropped non-seated
places you know when you make bad turns that's when you have to come back and do another end
pass leaving a bunch you have to get exacting on your corners you know it's a science yes nothing
is guaranteed here you just do everything in your power to make sure that nothing bad happens
that you did you know all these other bad things like the rock and the packer wheel it isn't your
fault it's not it would be your fault if you had a big gouging dirt thing happening here
that uh you just lucked out hey nobody because you can't see the packers behind this um
4 000 rpm so by is that part of the air pressure in the tank that's the fan blowing the weed out
you know how much wheat strawberry and fertilizer it has to blow super hard to blow them if you
roll in and don't turn your fan on and about from here to the bottom of that thing you're going to
plug every hose here and then it's going to take you about half a day to suck them out
and that's your stuff okay you're in forward eighth gear run along at 5-2
your rpm is 18-90 okay now we we're getting up to our head so we're going to start looking around
we're taking a look at this mountain back into the big tires make sure they haven't gone flat we're
dragging around the car with flat tires like an idiot along the highway start your turn turn 90.
turn exactly this way and then just for a second drive this way now turn oh
my gosh that's literally the okay come back out don't wind it up too much okay
tank three is fertilizer take one seed and then take two's fertilizer too
and winting yeah when tank three runs out you just switch this off quickly and switch two on
you want me to drive down
right okay lift up oh here you are
okay we're gonna i want you to steer it around this post no no no no keep it coming
learn where your edge is you know you could turn in you don't want to be way out here
we might even have to slide in the other way because we're so right on the post you know what
i mean yeah start coming in slow down a little bit so it's not a race think about this angle with the
front end steer it out come on hold it more out more out because you're going to be looking can i
hook up to guidance no you've got to get you look over here this is the thing we're watching now
because we don't hook that now hook guidance quick there's darcy next to us
okay you want to drive to the far end of the approach and then as soon as you can keep it right
and then look where this is coming off see that barely makes the edge of that approach you see
what i mean now because we forgot to turn the fan on which is the fan for the air cart and the tanks
to basically push the seed out because we forgot to turn that on that can really easily plug
the boots so one two three four and basically that dropped seed and fertilizer out so we're gonna
going to go and check every single boot to make sure none of them are plugged for example this
is a boot that's not plugged because the seed and fertilizer came out and you just check them all
and look over them and you also do this every time you fill your tank to check to make sure
you don't have any plugged boots because there's no way to tell other than doing this i don't see
any so far i don't think we have any plug boots a coulee is a draw in the field where water runs off
it's where the low spots of the hills kind of meet together and we just can't seed through that
this is a pretty washed out [ __ ] here it was too wet to do much disking in this field when
we did our disking with this tractor thank you so much for watching today's video it was so exciting
you got to see me for the first time ever drive a drill for seating on our montana farm make sure
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