hello welcome to kate saying today is
another day of spring seating 2022 on
our montana farm
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fairly yeah it just did it across the
top
we've got a shank broken
do i
yeah
where in the middle
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i'm giving me more room to turn around
here is basically what i'm doing
these things are big
yes you two passes
enough and so
you know when you get on doing your own
thing it'll paint you out but we have to
reset this
because it's set east and west
so we got to figure that out
wherever i decided to split this okay so
it's a really small field so it's pretty
much all turns and putting the plow in
and out
you see how darcy goes and that line
goes up and around yes
okay i'm just gonna leave it this is the
closed head so we're putting it in now
get this thing
in gear it started out in seven this
time
just for fun
okay we wanna put our plow in before we
come up to this edge here
okay when you got these angled things
kate the reason we did three passes was
to give us plenty of room to turn around
because you got to let this plow stay in
until the far end of this
not be getting brain dead
whoa what do you think happened
oh i hit the wrong lever so we gotta go
back and catch it again
the two sides of the wings started
folding up back in gear
okay we're gonna pick this flower and
not seed this twice
got to be careful about what buttons
you're pushing sometimes it's nice to
put the cover over the hydraulics so you
don't push the wrong one right but you
got to keep checking your fan always you
know this is something you're looking at
all the time and seed rate
and then go to look at the plow when
it's running its own past if you're
lucky enough to have the hose that come
off beyond the ends you can see it
otherwise you can okay the plow would be
just lifted up now
so you gotta let it carry out a little
bit
and it carries out a little bit when you
turn for a minute okay i know where the
edge of this pass is so i'm gonna drift
over here before i dump in the
autopilot and
guide it okay as soon as this plow comes
around i'll put it in the dirt okay you
should get your numbers then check your
plow again check to make sure that this
thing's on
it doesn't seem to want to set right if
you don't do it that way you know so i
just click it down click it up okay
that's all i know
you want to make sure it wasn't running
no that you made sure this one wasn't
running because this ain't really
running because it's down you know it
can't it can't go anywhere i don't know
why you know and you might be able to
pop it off like this and have it be okay
but you know if you touch the upper part
of that click anywhere
it's gonna
this will quit painting did it raise the
plow up and not be seating i don't know
well uncle chris said that when it's
running it's like continuously trying to
push it further into the ground when it
can't go any further so you want it not
running it's well that's well you
probably don't but if you're not super
careful about this you'll pick it up
you'll have passes you didn't see check
your numbers every time you turn look
back check your plow every time because
the one time you don't do it is the one
time it happens and then when it's run
at the dome passes look at your
manifolds to make sure you don't see any
loose hoses on them and you got to stop
look at each one look at the shank see
if you see anything going on with okay
this is the end that you got to make
sure that you clear and you got to give
it a little extra room because you're
coming in on a high side there so this
is the end you watch come out of the
stuff the shanks once you get out you
can lift it up but you might as well
just let it run for a while because this
is moving in on you if you turn too
quick you won't be able to get that
other end in okay so i'm just gonna turn
now okay i know where this tractor
almost needs to be here but i'm watching
this thing too because i don't want to
get it wound up you know it's got to
back up for you to come into this nice
as soon as you got a shot on it
get your guidance going let it do this
you run that you can't put these in
until that comes clean forward right
otherwise because this is already in the
thing that's why you got to carry it out
oh wow
right so you got to keep watching this
all the time check your numbers you know
see that you're painting you know make
sure it goes down that's why i left it
in i mean you can take it out by just
bringing it back but if you touch that
click and it quits painting
you know if if you have numbers it's
probably seeding
but right
this kind of works together somehow even
though they're not the same thing any
time you got black going on these you
got flow going or trying to yes this is
your first lever second third and that's
your fan which is here okay you want to
keep this thing simple do it the same
every time check it every time because
if you don't oh i'm going the wrong way
i should have went that way that's my
end
so
anyway it'll be okay
how long is this drill 57 or something
wide
darcy's is 61. yeah and you're going to
have gray areas if it's seated you know
that's where darcy went and it didn't
get painted for you so right i mean you
got to use some intelligence going on
here
are we out of the thing yeah we are okay
okay put your guidance in
let your thing find its little track
that it wants to turn in let the drill
come straight before you put it in the
ground so leave yourself enough room but
all these fields change but the way you
do them has got to remain the same
right plow out
lift it up
you better get turned here quick because
you got to go a long way around so we
just keep an eye on that keep your
corner going once you get it look up
here and look for your where your lines
got to be get it straightened out a
little bit push the guidance in okay
you got a little while here kate because
this line's moving away from you this is
the end you gotta make sure that you get
in in time because it's the uphill land
or whatever you want to call it okay i'm
putting it in okay the seeds running
it's zooming through the hoses and it
might be at the booths maybe i can't
believe you only get to do this twice a
year this is so fun
if you click that down again it doesn't
turn that off you have to tap it back
it's just telling you
no it does
it doesn't
i just did it
watch kate
you can and you can tap it down without
clutching it too and it'll do it
like you don't have to have the click
you can just push it down without it
okay okay see i told you
look at the shanks where the hoses are
look at the manifolds that's where all
the hoses come from look for anything
going on that doesn't look right look
over here to see if you got any weird
plow things going are we planting barley
here yeah okay we're out of the thing
and we're square so oh no
lift it up
i'm covering this up
you keep pressing the wrong one
yeah well let me tell you what kate why
do you think i'm here i've been doing
this for about
three hours i'm sure you will okay get
your guidance in out here give yourself
enough room for the wheat to get to the
manifold or the pods or whatever press
it they're in the dirt the seeds moving
that should be okay that one okay you
got a lot of action and a steep edge
here so as soon as you're out of this
get this up okay we're out get it up now
look at how close you are okay i'm not
gonna try and turn into that and drop
this so you're gonna tear drop this
right
come back in underneath it because there
wasn't enough room to turn this drill
around there really because i cut this
corner short i didn't bring it up enough
when i did around here because i went i
left this hole the same
and so there wasn't three good passes
right there
pretty close but not exactly
so i'm coming over here because i want
enough room for this thing to get
squared up but i don't want to run my
drill off the edge of this clip in the
ditch that would be very bad
okay get your guidance in
okay this is gonna be the closed edge so
we're looking it's going straight let's
sink it
okay
look for your next deal
put your hand down on the guidance
activator
whatever
get the tractor on the line straight
okay let your tips come forward
okay sink the
thing okay it's down you heard it yes
take the hydraulic out i guess
that's why you almost got to have three
passes on something with a heavy angle
on it gate to give you time to turn
on the short end of this you know what i
mean
oh
okay this is barely enough room right
here
to do this
you want to be careful because you're
trying to make that back up uphill you
know what i mean look your pods over
good now
okay get in line hook your guidance up
okay as soon as your guidance your tips
are forward
you're gonna catch there so we're gonna
put this in
take the power off the hydraulic
over and over same thing
don't get caught
not paying attention to what's gonna
happen
two or three passes from now look around
that's why you're one step above the
apes because if we had good apes that
could do this we wouldn't need you
but there's a bunch of stuff going on
check your numbers you know you can't
remember all this all the time but it's
way too easy to get daydreaming and not
you know if you're running mile passes
on straight fields that's different
no but these ones where you have these
are not like that quite a lot of turns
it can be challenging
get straightened out a little bit so
your tractor don't have a bunch of
jerking going on to get online how many
acres was this this wasn't too big
50 some i don't know darcy you're going
to have enough to do a lap on the other
field
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this is close here kate to you probably
should not cut things that close
what was the second hydraulic core that
you were using i wasn't using this it's
the wings and i wasn't trying to use it
i just got my finger on the wrong
don't love kate you're going to be doing
a bunch of stupid and if you don't do
what i told you i'm going to be very
upset
because you're probably going to do
something to these you don't know
these are the only ones we got of these
no it's super critical that they will
stay working yes that you don't do
anything to them i'll probably only have
enough for one or two more passes here
so you're not going to be able to finish
this finishes
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i'm not sure but i don't think i was
only going to make one or two more
passes well maybe you ought to just head
up there i'm kind of
screwed into this thing here
and then um i'll just go up to the
corner and come back in okay
yeah that's what i do and i'll just
finish that so i'm about to hop in the
tractor with dad i've got my kate's egg
tote bag which can be found on
k-a-t-e-s-a-g-dot-com
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nothing will probably grow here anyway
but that's besides
you think it's that bad
it ain't rained in months and months
creating rain since last fall
we haven't even had a good winter snow
grandpa said the winter wheat's looking
kind of rough
it's more than rough
okay we're not gonna bomb off of this
today so you don't want any sort of
extra exertion on them like this is
going to be
when you get up here you're going to
want to watch your drill come off if you
can you're going to go over to the other
side right start getting it to go a
little sideways here
okay when you're roading this this thing
has a tendency to settle when it's on uh
hold it up so you'll just pull it back a
little bit you know what i mean
to make sure
and if the trip is long you'll do that
every five ten minutes going down the
road just make sure your packers hasn't
settled onto the pavement you know what
i mean right
think about what you're where you're
putting your hands what levers you're
pulling
these are the dinosaurs of the farm you
know they are the biggest
easiest direct things with
you know you need them to work
you need to check your numbers you know
all that other stuff really the most
important part of the operation if you
don't feed the crop well everything is
yeah you know is pretty important okay
you want to watch out for these low wire
sets too especially in darcy's drill
because his drill staller
we're gonna sneak a little bit over to
this side
giant gets the high side of this see
what i mean
not hang out over there
actually i should have went through
there
that is but that's risky too
darcy did go through there see
oh yeah
oh
barely yeah
it just did it across the top yeah
lucky
but if it would have been darcy's drill
i wouldn't have made it
yikes
so that just tells you if we go back
this way you got to go around that thing
but that's hard to do too kate because
this seems really long that would have
been you can't back it up you can't make
mistakes with these
are we feeling too we will but i'm going
to uh
make one round here
you don't want to bond through that hole
there with this drill
now sometime you take a look at the
things you can see then when you start
new fields you always spin the thing a
little bit
go look and make sure you got c coming
out all your boots
so you don't see
ten fields with broken hoses or
plugged up foods
are we going to spoil them now
yeah
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not very much but just a little bit
so as you can see the barley seed and
the fertilizer are coming out of the
boot so this one's good so are all of
these
oh we've got a shank broken
we've got a shank broken
do i
yeah
where in the middle
oh yeah
yikes
okay well i guess i'm gonna have to fix
that that's not good at all no we have
to fix it so i got to get in there and
put it up on something do you have to
weld it back together or
no we
got to go get a new one
or one that we had rebuilt
how do they usually break off
just like that so broke off right here
as you can see this is how they're
attached
go get that uh
ratchet thingy from austin all right
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i need your racket for that a shank
broke off
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okay thank you
oh here it is
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that looks heavy oh my gosh that's
really heavy
way heavier than i had expected so can
you get those from john deere
there's probably one at the house i
don't know what look that's interesting
so you have to unscrew the bolts and
then remount one the new one back in yes
oh wow
yeah wow
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when you say that usually happens not
very frequently it just depends on how
hard the ground is if there's rocks
and the ground's really dry right now so
could that have been a contributor
probably what did you find in the field
dad it's an old pickup guard it goes on
the front of your combine scrapes up all
the laying down wheat oh that's pretty
cool why don't we use those anymore so
we don't use them because they scrape up
rocks and they're miserable that's what
dad said so we ended up having an extra
shank at the farm which was super lucky
and we put that new one on so we're good
to go seating again which is just
awesome we just finished for the day and
i'm about to head home thank you so much
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