2 Broken Corn Heads and a Drone Crash

good morning everyone it's like a super foggy morning all in all things are not going great this morning everything is broken yeah uh the best part of the day so far has been cinnamon toast crunch i mean cinnamon toast everything else everything else is broken no problem [Applause] so we're starting off the morning um at grant's combine so here's where we're starting our morning off grant you want to do a little um explanation for yourself explain this situation just after dark six in the morning um so this corn is really falling down and kind of got oh my goodness oh it got balled up and it broke the cross agar off off so that's an inch and an eighth shaft so this auger you can see this auger that runs along here this that's out right now uh it's supposed to be right here but it just i mean clean an absolute clean break um so this means that harvest is going to be paused at wilson farms for a while so i'm gonna go head over to my farm where i can actually run the combine back in the red combine the combine i was going to say nothing's broken but honestly there are some things broken we're just kind of rolling with it i'm having dad clean off my windows so i have a clean vision for all the corn i'll be harvesting today and hopefully he can clean all this kind of stuff off too [Music] so today the moisture on the corn is about anywhere from 20 to 22 percent i'm almost full here so i'm going to kick my auger out it takes three full combine loads it's which is about 20 000 pounds to fill the grain cart so now the grain cart is filled with about 60 to 70 000 pounds and then that fills one semi truck trailer so there's your conversions for you um i had some questions on my last video about um crop rotation so this field is corn right now obviously um that's what we're combining today and then next year this will be a soybean field um so depending on what field it is and how far away it is from the farm we rotate between corn and beans or corn beans and seafood [Music] commercial corn kernels are considerably bigger than soybeans and so the combine fills up a lot faster so i can't even make it i can make it about half a pass i can make it about quarter mile before i'm totally full and uh there's not much forgiveness when it comes to the combine being full with corn when you get the little alert that your combine is full harvest for two or five more seconds and you'll have a lot of corn most operations that we do when it comes to row crop like root slicing or cultivating or planting all of those involve auto steer so we have auto steer on all the tractors the only operation that we do in the field uh that doesn't have auto steer is the combine we just have the case monitor and then the ipad that's running climate fuel view to show us our planting maps and then compare it with our harvest data so i am totally driving the combine manually here and so is the grain cart everything is done by hand so this is where it really comes in handy to have ridged rows because the combine kind of drives itself it kind of sits in those ridges i think ridges are like the auto steer before auto steer well i just plugged the head you can see that little pile up down there i'm guessing there's something wrong so we're gonna go check it out uh yeah definitely a problem see that chain is supposed to be on that i'm looking over here yup need to get that taken care of [Music] and there we go fixed i have dad come out and help me with these things because since i've never operated combine before i don't know about these little fixes but honestly that wasn't so bad i think i could do it by myself next time it's kind of nice picking corn right next to the road because i know that people who drive this road daily are going to be so thankful that this corn is gone and that they can finally see the intersection i know that because i'm so happy when fields are harvested and your visibility across the countryside just increases tenfold here's a nice satisfying final pass this field isn't done and we're not drawn with corn either but we're also not done with beans we switched over to corn because we had trucks available and we could start filling bins with corn but i think we're ready to switch back over to beans so now onto a bean field [Music] made it safely back to the farm now we just have to trade out this head for the bean head since we're here and between fields we are just going to take the opportunity to fuel up the combine and fuel up the tractor and refill both with diesel exhaust fluid it's also a great excuse to have lunch [Music] while we're waiting on the auger to get the new shaft put in the back of it i'm just getting things ready so when it gets here we could just toss it in and fire the combine up and go uh i'll show you why the corn is so wrapped up in there you can see how the corn is leaned over so it doesn't go through the head real nice and so usually it'll go and then as it gets to the ear it'll break off that's something as it gets the ear it breaks off and then so all of this has to go through the combine which normally doesn't and then this is it just gets wrapped around the auger and that's what caused it to over pull and break you can see that's where i got to and stopped last night so the combine actually broke right across the road from my shop so that's kind of handy because i have all my tools here and can just run across the road uh i didn't pull it in the shop because i didn't want this floor to be covered in uh corn stocks but i'm thinking we probably should have just brought it over here because i think i've walked across the road about 20 times now but also i was supposed to be here this morning to help service everything and get stuff going and then my mom was actually going to drive the grain cart for me today and i was going to go run laura's combine at their farm and she was going to run the 8rx so we could film and have fun but with this being broken i have to be here to help fix that and with laura's grandpa in the hospital they're a little short-handed over there so it makes it really tough for laura to film things outside of the combine because she's constantly going so we're sorry there might not be any er x footage today but it'll be coming soon thank you for understanding [Music] [Music] do [Music] man what a doozy honestly it's like probably one o'clock so really didn't lose that much time today it was really due this morning so it couldn't go on too long so we're gonna get going here so you can't do it again totally joking don't want to do that again got my lunch though that's good so uh laura packed my lunch for me today and left me the sweetest note thanks dear it's been it's been a while since i've filmed but it's going now as you can see it really doesn't look like rose the corn is just kind of coming in here like it's just there's a pivot track i mean look at that stuff just not not good the roller coasters are doing their job perfectly uh the reel is helping a little bit cutting a new land couldn't make it to the end filling her up oh boy i'm filling the gaps on this one to the rails that's a full one filler up he said uh this stuff is just pure chaos but on a bright note i have no cap corn no cap corn for the year that's gonna be my goal keep my cab clean all year let me know if you can do that so after that little bit of cab come on i got kicked out actually the combine driver just showed up and he is way better at driving that thing than i am so i'm just backing the green card [Music] so [Music] so i have a little mayday situation i was flying the drone and i was getting into the shot all of a sudden it's out of power so i'm frantically flying it towards the road and i hit the semi truck i found it look at that still alive i think along the road almost made it back to the shop [Music] time for a little transformation we're going from the farm to the field much better let's cut some beans [Music] wow that is a beautiful background that is lovely that is a wrap on combine operating for me tonight got about 30 acres knocked out of beans so feeling pretty good about that um i'm gonna go home make some supper for grant and hear all about his day he's always up to some adventure ah goodness i'm sure something crazy

Channel: Laura Farms

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Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021