I'll put my hazards on pretty soon this time it's a lighting system Hazard there's five
million hazards my meter was mostly saying nine bushels per acre on the west part of
that field
these are just nice cotton work shirts I actually love wearing them they do get quite dirty
but they're easily washable and I think it's always nicer when your shirts are dirty during
Harvest time because it means you're working and having a great time
How far is he behind you Kate?
right behind me I'll put my hazards on now I'm climbing onto the approach your hazards
are probably a switch on the top right Arvid Get going I don't need you right there in
front of me That's what my Dad said to Grandpa
oh the button yes it has a triangle and mine flashes when it's on there are two flies in
my combine cab and I actually saw Welker's post the other day about how hard it is having
a fly in your combine cab and I totally felt that I don't think my dad put his hazards
on and we're on our way the field to the right I saw our neighbors harvesting the let's see
actually yesterday so Harvest is in full swing here in the Golden Triangle region of Montana
and the Golden Triangle region is the highest and best producing area in the U.S area in
the U.S for wheat and barley so that's what the Golden Triangle is and we we our farm
is a part of that I love watching all of the other harvesting operations going while I'm
driving down the road it's really neat oh my goodness a deer running through that field
I'm going to have to slow down a little bit because my combine drives slower than my dad's
Right on the other side of this coulee Kate is a post on the right make sure that you
don't hit it You can see where they mowed out next to it kind of
ok I'll look for it thank you for the heads up
so my dad said there's a post coming up after this coulee that we're going into and a coulee
is basically a draw in the field so it's a big down and up on the road oh I see the post
I'll be good if I had the 40-foot header I might need to be a little bit more careful
right here okay I see it oh that's cool these are our neighbors who are farming this
I could be wrong about that I don't know this crop to our left here is wheat is wheat
but you could hardly tell there's so much kosher and Wild Oats in it so that's definitely
not something you want to do it's hard to kill those weeds though once they get that
big now we're going around a slight turn in the road we have another one up here so we're
getting closer to the field it's 5:34 so we won't have too long in this next field we're
starting we've been ending around eight because a lot of our employees have about an hour
drive home and it's important to get good rest we're also moving through Harvest at
a really fast pace because there's no crop now we're coming up to where the pavement
of the road begins so we take a left here Looks like he's got your combine pointed toward
the field Kate that's hilarious very funny there's a combine
up here that doesn't have a cab and my dad take that one on the right down there haha
it doesn't have a cab and my dad wants me to experience running for that for the day
this farmer uses that combine to harvest his crop so I think it's really interesting and
I'd love to try it for at least one day I would appreciate my cab a lot more I'm sure
after running the cab-less combine there's another operation to our right that seems
to be going they've got a semi truck and a combine out there and it's interesting because
all of the farms in this area have farming practices that are different and a lot of
that is because originally the farm originally the farmers that homesteaded these farms and
the lands here are all from different areas so for example my great grandfather is from
Denmark so he probably picked up some farming practices in Denmark from the little farming
area he grew up in and those have just been passed down through many generations something
that my great-grandfather started in our family that's just been passed down even now to me
as you run old Machinery or you work for the equipment dealer and and also and there's
other practices of farming That Vary between operations so we can all be farming very similar
ground but in completely different ways and I think that's so unique I have to slow down
again I'm catching my dad now we are making our turn onto the road that will lead us to
our new field it will almost be dinner time by the time we get there it's 5:47 right now
so we may be able to pull one path but we also have to move actually we might not we
might Park combines and go get pick-offs and the disc and water truck and everything like
that I'm not sure Darcy and Austin and grandpa might be able to do that as well and Uncle
Chris there's a barley crop to my right it looks really fluffy and barley is actually
not quite as golden as wheat You want to get ahead of me
I feel a little bit more comfortable roding combines now than I did the very first day
I roded it the combine so that's a good thing
Mark do you want do you want to pull in there by Katrina's yard or you want to go down to
the field Pull in to Katrina's
that's my Uncle Chris who answered that question the swather is still swathing I guess now
this field I helped seed which is very exciting to harvest the wheat that I seeded I can't
believe it actually it's so unbelievable this is the first time that I've been involved
in every single operation on the farm for a field so I just can't wait to harvest it
hopefully it's really good wheat too and then maybe my dad will want me to seed more so
I'm slowing down now and I'll have to remember to take my combine out of third gear before
I go Harvest maybe I'll just do that now I know because we still have to Rode a little
bit to get to the field this looks like wheat that hasn't been swathed yet in this field
my grandpa's just right over there I heard dinner on the radio so we're probably just
going to park maybe get some pickups right now or just eat depending on how fast dinner
gets out here I'm lining my combine up next to my dad's right now
oh actually I just leave it in third and idle it down
well we made it to where our next field is or very close to our next field so that's
definitely an accomplishment and we made it in one piece with the combines also not being
completely wrecked I'm now getting out of the combine.
sorry?
um no well we'll probably come back and I would say after dinner but we have to move
trucks and stuff in the disc over so I'm not completely sure I don't think so not right
now we'll be able to come back and I forgot to turn my flashers off so I'm headed back
up the ladder Sorry?
oh no really there we go yes it is confusing how do you like roding the combines
I love it combine up to 70.
I wish I could go 70 too.
dinner time right now Grandpa just drove all of us out to the field and now we're driving
all the equipment back so Arvid is driving the tandem truck Darcy's driving the semi
truck Brian is driving the pickup truck I drove out I'm driving my dad's pickup Uncle
Chris is driving the water truck and my dad's driving disc wow that was a lot to remember
and then their grandpa goes to take Darcy and Arvid to the trucks
Go ahead Kate and that way you can go over the bridge by Van Horns in case somebody's
coming put my flashers on and it looks like I'm flagging
today there's a white vehicle coming up on the road right in front of me well I just
made it to the yard and it looks like Austin is servicing the combines dad is coming down
the road right there with the disc and then Uncle Chris is behind him in the water truck
Ryan is behind Uncle Chris in the pickup and then Arvid is driving the Tandem and Darcy
should be coming with the semi soon too
Dad's going by in the disc there's Uncle Chris in the water truck now I'm going into my combine
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