Hail Damaged Some of the Crops!

morning windmill hi I'm Tony fast's daughter I'm Tony fast's daughter I'm Tony fast's daughter our family has been blessed to farm in Montana for over a hundred years now and it wouldn't be possible without the great tea we have and blessings from our Savior Jesus Christ now it is time for combine number one because we do our we work our entire fleet from the largest to the smallest number so this is number one this is the Finish Line pretty much same thing hopefully video is better this time but anyway the feeder house changed so this is coming off feeder house drive sprocket so the feeder house is coming off plus then we can get into the transition cone check the rotor some wiring to do to adapt to the Prairie system on the air reels on the headers and oil changes fluid changes there's a leaking motor that drives the spreaders so hopefully we show you how all we're doing what we're doing [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] house is gutted pull out the rock Feeder first that rock Peter goes in right here as the crop comes up it's spinning to pull the grain through into the rotor and it'll drop the Rocks down into this this door is open but this is the rock trap so we got out get out and dump it once in a while and they're picking up lots of rocks um that's what the beater does and that's why it's got all these big dents in there different rocks feed a dry sprocket and feeder chain pulled see how cups those are you're actually chaining stretches so much that it'll run on this side here and like this side over here so it's wearing those and they're gonna start hooking in there and damage a new chain here's space of the new one versus the old one what a difference so I'm gonna put the new stripper plates on he's running over here and they take off any of the grain that wraps up around that sprocket so that's the next step well we are not pulling the rotor out on Dad's combine the veins on his seem to be in okay shape there's a lot of life left in them and not a ton of rock damage except for right back in there that one's kind of smashed but figured we're going to change rasp bars on both combines this winter anyways so we'll just wait to do it then finishing a few gearbox oil changes on that I worked on got this all ready to go that's where you go back in it would have got it put back on yesterday except these bushings in here are metal on metal on the front side here while the weight pulls on it so gonna change those out this morning we gotta set of those picked up late last night I don't know where you're at girls brought them out to the shop but yeah getting closer and closer uh my combine need to put it onto my header yet and run everything set that clutch on the curry fan sub clutch as well as cross auger that's still sitting here for the pulse crops and canola so getting a little bit closer yeah that's uh not something we usually see and Late July it's actually August Now isn't it yeah early August in Montana but yeah she came down hard dad said 64 inches an hour rain rate on his digital gauge which I've never seen anything near that heavy but it did a lot of damage we got a half section that got clipped of wheat a couple 80s of Durham that are toast and uh chickpeas around here got beat up pretty good the field corn and yellow peas so let's go check it out area everybody lost some here anyways we're right right next to the yard I'm gonna go uh make sure neighbor's horse is still where they're supposed to be it did do a pretty good number to him out here though at the edge of the pasture uh the fields go another probably half mile further west yet around the south side of the pasture but it rained hard washed a bunch of the chickpea pods off the field it's always hard to get the big crops in the bin if it's wet and you got good growing crops it uh doesn't always tend to stay standing until Harvest but still wouldn't have Justified hail insurance yet from the anchors are damaged so that's good still ahead of the game there costs about 10 bucks an acre to put a hundred dollars of coverage on the crop which is pretty expensive because we do attend up getting quite a bit of hail here so that means you'd have to have like 1300 Acres or 100 hailed off for to pay so we're definitely not there yet but there's more dollars damage done but the hail would have taken a lot of hail coverage to cover that deal so it's a crop entrances for we'll see where we end up let's keep looking there's our uh snowmobile across the water area filled back up a little bit looks okay out here a little damaged not horrible most of this drain and water again hey guess what grasshoppers are back in according this year I'd say some of this is grasshopper damage some of its hail damage but I did pick a cob it was 14 Round 30 some long 34 long something like that there's lots of cobs out here I'm gonna get it sprayed for Hoppers though I mean obviously should have some fungicide or something on it but I don't know if it's worth putting it into it see what it looks like in a day [Music] there's not many leaves left there luckily the pollination is done kernels are starting to fill so the rain helped out but I don't know what's gonna do with any leaves now we'll tell and here are the bees these were all over knee high yesterday morning difference though how bees can handle it compared to chickpeas [Music] 100 loss maybe 50 so I'm glad this whole farm at home here was chickpeas except for this pea field and not all peas east side of the farm looks pretty good maybe 10 percent tail here we'll go over now and look at the west side down this road so yeah we're quarter section of chickpeas up there barely got hit that storm really tracked more south we'll go check that out and then keep heading west and here's the worst of it on the West side all right auger number two this one came out and Tony's combine this is how we're getting it started sliding tapers off for good reason so you do have to trim the first one we found best to just start here you're gonna have this hole which is a little bit of a thin spot but that's just how it happens that way you have enough meat for the second bowl because they do send other Bolt like a flat head that can go into here to help hold this up tight so that's how we get this started [Music] [Music] um [Music] all right come on [Music] [Music] the instructions do say you leave this end one loose because this is beveled down and the next one's still some Joker has to kind of go under and then that lays back on top of it [Music] come on [Music] [Music] that's done so now we can just put it back in and I'm pretty sure that's the last to do on the number two combine can we think of something else do we think of something else yes thank you let's not think no more thinking well these new fd-250s with a query fan on them we have interference here so our thoughts are we're gonna spread the axles apart a little bit further so that there's a hole for that fan to sit in at least that's what we're thinking so got the other header in the shop let me build some new brackets to make this happen [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you thank you foreign [Music] well both headers are sitting on the trailers I think this is going to work out all right so I gotta strap them down but with that axle move back we got all sorts of clearance there so that's what we're looking for I think we're ready to take off with the headers now not sure if we're heading east for the winter wheat or west for the Durham first so I guess tomorrow morning I'll go check out the winner wheat one more time I looked at the Durham yesterday took out some green spots but we'll find out tomorrow or we're gonna start cutting thanks for watching Farm hard pray harder and we'll see you next video [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 17min 11sec (1031 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 05 2023