we're now on the West part of this Fields will for sure finish it today Arvid's going
to dump next I've not seen any hawk feathers which is interesting and also the only Wildlife
I've seen in the field other than hawks and birds is one Antelope standing in the middle
of this field
right now I'm going to go into the middle of these swaths and just drive down to where
I left off at but I'll go on the opposite side of my row so that I don't run into dad
who's combining and finishing his row right now we swath the wheat or put it into windrows
due to a bug we have called sawfly that burrows into the wheat and makes it fall over if you're
able to swath before the wheat starts falling over then you're doing a lot better because
you can pick up all of your crop then this crop is doing it was doing pretty good in
the east side of this field about maybe 20 bushels per acre but my bushel per acre meter
is saying maybe around nine in this half it's interesting where more of the water stays
even in the same field just making my turn here stop put it in Turtle speed put the back
of the combine in the front press button number two to lower my header to the ground oh and
then rabbit speed for fast harvesting and then I'm good to go the way a combine works
is it brings the wheat into the machine and then it thrashes it so basically what that
means is it takes the whole wheat with the stem and the top of it which is called the
head that has grain kernels in it and it goes like this and all of the grain kernels fall
out of the chaff or what's surrounding them the covering and then the grain kernels come
to the grain tank in the back and everything else gets chopped up and sent out the back
so that's basically a really simplified definition of how a combine works the mission of the
combine is to get the grain kernels it looks like Arvid is just finishing up his dump it's
around 3:40.
we usually have dinner at six and we're getting pretty close to completing this field which
will be so we will probably rode the combines over to the new field today if you watched
my roding combines to 2022 Harvest video you would know how far we had to drive to to get
them out to these fields a good 15-20 minutes in a pickup truck going in decent speed so
it takes a while and a combine going 20 miles per hour my return auger is about halfway
and I'm going 3.5, 3.6 but sometimes when I'm going around 3.2 miles an hour it's almost
all the way I still haven't seen hawk feathers but I've seen so many hawks all of our combines
were very very full when we were dumping in Steve Wahl yeah maybe needs I would say two
more combined dumps at least one for sure I probably drove a little fast to my row but
that makes life fun so it's okay as long as you don't drive too fast in the wheat and
ruin your combine really crucial to pay very close attention and listen to your machine
also I know a lot of people have earbuds or different things when they drive combine but
I don't believe in that because I think if there's a major issue happening you have to
be able to hear it your combine will let you know if it's not doing well if it's taking
in too much wheat at a time not as much as the 9610 though when the 9610 was being overloaded
with wheat to the point where it couldn't process it fast enough and it would plug up
you'd hear big grunting noises these you won't so you really have to watch your return auger
and they'll plug up a lot easier than the 9610 will but they still make noises and if
something goes wrong you'll hear a noise or many different things I love my Kat'es Ag
shirt it's so comfortable and it's just really neat to be able to wear a Kate's Ag shirt
driving the combine I love it and I can't believe that I was able to make this happen
so I feel very thankful for everyone who has supported me through this process it's been
truly incredible well I finally see some hawk feathers so I'm going to go out and grab them
I see hawk feathers which is so awesome right over there my dad said he saw a hawk in my
wheat swath so I might see some feathers and he was right I fall off the combine here they
are
oh no Arvid had to stop because of me here all the hawk feathers are that I picked up
I hope you enjoyed my little Excursion out of the combine it was a very dusty one now
I'm getting back in the combine and the hawk feathers going the little pouch so now take
parking brake off engage my header full RPM and move forward now officially finished all
of the fields out east so that's so exciting and a huge thank you to Arvid for roding down
and taking the last half of my row so I didn't have to stay out in the field a little bit
longer that is really big plus to combine etiquette thank you Arvid for taking part
of my row now I'm dumping in the truck and we're heading to a new field even if you're
not full you always dump in the truck after you finish the field when you put it in the
grain bins that's how you calculate how many bushels you get per each field so you want
to make sure you're not transferring grain from one field to another Field's truckload
soon we'll be roding to a new field which is exciting Kate anybody ever tell you should
be smooth with things like that
no never thanks for the tip though
now my don't hold your auger like that around Wahl's truck he's got bigger pipes Kate and
you could catch them
Mark are you guys about ready to move that's my grandpa we're ready to move right now I'm
on my way over there I'll find you home it's followed the leader in combines you don't
go three next to each other are you done with that 160 yeah we just finished coming off
the hill now might as well take everything over to Wilson's yard
and now we're moving combines you know I want to know if you're coming out the West side
of that field we are going off the west its shorter I know that I am coming out that way
before we fall off this field Kate we're gonna get so we're downwind with these combines
and kicked uh header thing off you know what I mean I'll wait down here at the road
okay I know what you mean thank you we're going to kick the wheat off of our header
just in case this field's wheat is carrying any bad things we wouldn't want to move into
the other field right here behind you so we move our header all the way up possible put
it in Turtle speed I always put parking brake on because I don't want my combine to go for
a joy ride while I'm standing on the header do you have paper towels do you have paper
towels
now I'm back inside I tried to see if there was a window wipe but there wasn't now I'm
taking Park break off revving it up and going forward
can I put it in third dad that's what I normally rode in Kate
and we're in third I'm going to slowly move on to this road it is a dirt road I'm just
getting a moisture sensor I'm just getting a moisture sensor problem there are crops
on either side of me so I don't want to drive in them they're already bad yielding enough
this should be a good speed it's about 16 miles an hour I cleared off the front of my
oh this might be too fast the front of my header Grandpa should be waiting for us at
the end of this road he's going to flag us these are some sort of peas on the right side
they might be lentils or they might be chickpeas I'm not totally sure I'm not super familiar
with pulse crops yet we just recently started growing them and then there's wheat to my
left hey Kate what's this crop to the right of us?
Chickpeas I think They're harvesting it actually right now in order to harvest Combine cutting
on that field costs over $1 million dollars
the combine cutting on this field my grandpa just said cost over one million dollars it's
uh probably a John Deere X9 I went over a rock there chickpeas require a special header
so not pick up you don't swath them or anything like we're doing now they require a flex header
which is basically a straight cutting header that will mold to the ground we actually don't
own those so we always have our peas custom cut Watch out for that badger hole on the
right it's kind of a big problem
yeah I think that's the bump I just went through thank you though this is pretty fast 21 miles
per hour thank you so much for watching today's video I hope you enjoyed and learned a little
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