SEWING FERTILISER WITH KRM M35 GPS DRILL

the box to our video hope you've enjoyed the last three our fourth video is going to be on [Music] [Music] ah so um we spread our own fertilizer here at Clark and Hill and popping my dad what our dad does the bulk a bit and then pops um does it too so she's on it today [Music] thank you [Music] baby I was blind on you forever while I tried to defend this lights are on to help the Grass Grows that our cows have something to eat and for us it's quite an important part of our system so today we're going to be talking all things specializer how she puts it on how much she puts on and we're gonna go out the field with her what she put it on my dad's gonna do a little talk bit a bit later as well and yeah enjoy you won't be seeing much of me again because I don't I try to stay well away as far away from talk to work as I possibly can so you can hear the calves ball in the hungry so that's what me and Dari are going to be getting up to is the rest of the farm work we won't be doing much with that at all so I'm still lies the dress address so it's a krm I'm not 100 sure how to pronounce this but I am going to go with bog ball I'm sure someone will tell me that's wrong but you can read it um and I'm 35 so we found this drill now for I think it's about five years I've personally never sewn fertilizer with Anna canals but our dad has and he absolutely loves the straw and his GPS it was really easy and effective and efficient and yeah it's a really good drill so our dad is still very much the leader man with regards to fertilizer I'm still trying to learn as much as I can but as JC said he'll be in the video a bit later on to go into the specifics I am wearing his jumper today to try and like Channel a bit of his energy he got a bit of his knowledge so yeah this is our Trail so with regards to First lies with them we try and keep track of when we do it each month so this year we've kind of been doing it in the first week of every month and then ideally you do at the same time each month but it's very very much depends on the weather so there's absolutely no point sewing fertilizer if it's not going to rain soon after because it needs rain to work otherwise it will just be sitting in the grass and if it's too high well eventually just being out so you can risk just wasting it so today now we've got a dry day today and tomorrow so if it takes us two days we've got two days to do it and then it is due to rain on Saturday so it's ideal rather than to do it so this drill can hold a maximum of five fertilized bags so each fertilizer bag is 650 kilograms so it can hold five of those but you would only put five in if it was a really dry weather and you were going on a nice flat field to start and then you can put five in quite comfortably so yeah let's get it falling let's get going so the first thing I've done is I've lowered the drill down a bit just to be able to put the fertilizer in and we don't lower it too low just because the PTO is obviously plugged in and there is a risk you could like band if you put it down too low so it's on about 24 percent so to be able to put fertilizer anymore it's got to open it so we pull these steps out like that there's a little button here which price I am pull the sleeve down and that opens the lid [Music] to pull that stuff out and it's ready obviously the truck is off everything like that so it's nice and safe [Music] so as you might remember from the intro I said that each bag was 650 kilos and they're actually 600 kilos each so I'm going to put that down to just like the pressure of the situation you know being in charge and all that foreign [Music] I can't lift that with my hands so we use the JCB which is just up there ready to roll and so we just put the two palette Forks on and they will literally go into the handles of the fertilized bags which you'll see in a minute and lift them up so that's what I'm gonna do next here's the box of fertilizer the weight quite clear on the bottom ah and then this is where she'll be grabbing them so yeah [Music] I saw the city passing by my window I was in the crowd but I felt so long looked at my phone like every other second Okay so my Barn's not in place ready so I don't think I need to say it again but there are 600 kilos each so they're obviously really quite actually quite dangerous so um as you can probably hear I've turned the JSP off the tractor's off they're in position ready to go so one really really good thing about this Trail is the stats are on the side so you literally can stand on them and there's absolutely no reason at all for you to ever have to be in between the drill and the tracks or in between the JCB and the drill so it is all really safe um so yeah that's a really good thing about this Trail so yeah you just step up on the step like that um it's really important that you've got a nice sharp knife to make it really easy to slide through the bag and that is all you do is I'm going to go right underneath slice across and I usually do another slice this way and then the fertilizer will just drop out at a nice um paste table to control that and foreign [Music] now if there's one lesson I've been drilled into from my dad is do not leave even the teeniest tiniest ball of fertilizer behind so he turns to spend the next half an hour no it's not half an hour but it does feel it sometimes I'm just turning it all inside out get out every last bit I mean it's pretty expensive so you can't really blame them so now obviously I'm over here and it is quite tempting just a zoom past there but again that's a big No-No um because sometimes if the weight adjusted in the drill and it like tipped or the JCB handbrake failed Like Anything Could Happen and yeah obviously the Boomers out and everything like that so it's uneven anyway um so I would never walk through there just in case something did happen I would get crushed so gonna go for a lot of jog around to save some time keep my fitness up [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign S I didn't touch any really but it's just to get off any like residue that I have on there just in case I put my hands in my mouth for any reason I didn't want to eat it maybe Jesse will bring me a snack okay so the drill is not far I decided to put four bags in today five months ago so I'm now gonna close up so I've shut this up on that side same on the side just give it a little kick to lock it in and then close the ledge close nice and tight which it is and then we can start setting up [Music] okay so we're now in the tractor so I turn this computer on like first thing just because it takes a little bit of time so this is a the screen after it's turned on so I'm gonna press these three little rectangles down here so that brings up this page so I'm going to press enter because I'm basically now putting in the amounts I want to put on the field so under quantity So today we're spreading out 125 kilos per hectare so I base oh so I basically just change that and then Tech that's what we want and then basically with the fertilizer you get a little book and it will tell you like the calibration values depending on what you're putting on the quantities and so on so for this particular um what we're doing today is the calibration value is going to be 28 so again I just go in and change that so the calibration value is something that will adjust itself as we go in if it's slightly out it will just put that right um but that's just basically roughly what we want to add so that's that done so now I go home and this little man is working and that's what we're going to be doing so I'm pressing work and that's the page then ready for me getting to the field so I'm going to go home and then when we get to the field we'll start a new job and then we can get cracking I knew all of this is hi everyone um sisters and weddings have asked me to uh explain a little bit about fertilizer and and kind of why we use fertilizer on a farm so it's a really complicated um subject really and I could go into straight depth on it but I I'm sure you won't hear too much uh depth about it um so what I'm going to try and do is explain quite simply what fertilizer is we put fertilizer on to help the grass grow quicker because we have cows which eat a lot of silage in the wintertime we have to make our silage Fields grow quicker and by applying fertilizers at the right time the right fertilizer that will achieve that aim we also do that to our grazing Fields because when cows graze the grass off we needed to grow back quickly and again we apply fertilizer to help the grass grow back quickly um grazing Fields can be treated slightly different to silage Fields because cows go into into grazing Fields uh they do a lot of pooing and in their poo they contain a lot of nutrients they contain nitrogen phosphorus potash and other nutrients and so they are kind of fertilizing the fields themselves so we can use different fertilizers when it comes to silage fields we take a big crop of grass off and we take it away and we need to reapply all the energy that's been taken from the soil from that big crop of grass yeah so the main difference is there's no animals on silage ground to help with the fertilizer yeah that's right so generally what we do on the farm we test our soil every four years um four to five years something like that so we try we try to test around quarter of the farm every year so by doing a test it tells us um what we need what type of fertilizer we need to sort of maintain the right levels of um well it's phosphorus potash sulfur and lime they are they are kind of the main products that we need to look after in our soil so when we do a test it will tell us if our phosphorus is low or if our potash is low if our lime is low and we can address those products so we may use different fertilizers for instance if our phosphorus is low we can use a fertilizer Which is higher in phosphorus so those products have to be correct for the nitrogen to work well and if we just throw nitrogen on fields that haven't been looked after properly and I haven't got the right phosphorus and potash um in the soil they're not going to perform properly because nitrogen makes the leaf grow phosphorus looks after the roots and potash just makes a healthy strong plant and line um if you put lime on it stops the ground being too acid so all of them are very very important for the grass growth but lime goes on in a different way to the fit the rest of them yeah you can use a product I think it's called Casey fertile calcium or something like that which we have used um if your lime levels are really low and you want a quick fix you can put it in a fertilizer drill you spread it on but it literally is a Europe it lasts for about a year and it wears out um if you use a a ground Limestone and you have a a proper contractor to come in with a spreader he will spread that product and that will last for for a number of years um some ground needs more lime than others some Fields you find your line in more often you might be lying every four or five years something seem to go a lot longer a lot depends on how much you've cut in them for silage and how much grass they're growing um that can depend a lot on how much lime they need so that's why you keep on top of the test and keep on top of parts that's why we keep testing to try and make sure we're maintaining the correct levels um so as long as we do that properly we know we're getting the most efficient use out of our fertilizer nice so here we've got a bag of nitrogen and on there it says 34.5 nitrogen so that is um a strong dose of nitrogen um we could put that on whatever rate we think is is the correct rate we would probably sow a little bit more than 34 percent uh per acre so we'd be up around the 50 Mark and that would depend on the time of year how much rain we get um you know and how much grass growth is already on the field so that is straight nitrogen so if all your phosphorus and your pot Dash and your lime is all correct you can just use straight nitrogen so that 34 5 is the amount of nitrogen in that bag there 35 of that bag is nitrogen so as much as it's pure nitrogen the sources it's also got a buffet in it for the way you spread it and everything like that yeah okay so we move around the corner [Applause] so this product here it's your nitrogen is 27 percent Portage po is six percent oh your phosphorus sorry is um six percent your potash which is called K is six percent and we've also about software which I think is five percent so that is a really good broad product which we would use on fields just to maintain the levels of the pot Dash um on the phosphorus and this and the sulfur so we'll also putting nitrogen on so that's a really good product if we kept if we knew our layers a little bit low we kept using that all year it would maintain it and possibly build the levels back up so you'd be more likely to use that fertilizer on Silas ground uh depending I could use that on silage ground but we generally when you take silage off you do need a lot of potash so you could use a fertilizer which might be um 20 of nitrogen and 10 15 something like that so you can order different first slices you can get all sorts of fertilizers you're gonna have a 15 15 15. um there are lots of different types of fertilizers generally if you look at the prices of fertilizer buy according to what the best deals are but you can basically get most different types of fertilizer you can buy fertilizer with no nitrogen at all um 30 percent potash and thirty percent um phosphorus um so you know if you if you need a real boost of phosphorus and potash you could do it that way so the girls have asked me to point out where the receiver is the transmitted receiver on a track there so this thing up here picks the signal up from a satellite it tells this computer exactly where the tractor is and that's what does the guidance um for poppy to sort of fertilize there it also then gives that signal to the fertilizer spreader and helps it judge how much fertilizer to be put on at different speeds so you can so fertilize at any speed because of that on a computer it'll adjust itself so it's a lot simpler than what I used to have to do yeah so that's a question we're going to ask um obviously I've never seen facializer with anything else but you have do you find a massive difference between this drill and the drill you used to have a massive difference yeah because the old drill used to have to use your eye to see the last tracks that you drove on and you'd have to try and keep this right distance apart and you'd also have to set the drill up by calibrating it which took quite a lot a lot of work and then you would um well it was just nowhere near as accurate as what this is you know also have a lot of overlapping which this drill shuts back automatically so you do you do sort of put your fertilizer on so much more efficient and therefore I think we do definitely say fertilizer because we're sewn it more efficiently and we get more even fields of grass and corn as well so there is a big difference um especially when you go back in the really old days we used to open the drill with a lever like that and then shut it off for the lever which worked fine but this is a big difference yeah [Music] oh foreign [Music] [Music] so we click yes because you can like name each of your Fields um but we just don't do that it's done it will just load and this is my field so that's the first page you come to so the first job in the field will be to go around the border which is basically um the outline of the field so to do that that's brother has to go on to a different satin so we click our three little blue buttons there and then there's that half a drill there and that's where it comes so it's got tradline as the title and then that's the different ways in which you can spread so to go around the board we want to pass two border and it's just loading so it's now sat in the drill onto that [Music] so yeah the main reason and the Border Saturn is different because um in the normal field driving the fertilizer will overlap when you go back and forth but because you only go around the Border once it just goes on um like a pickle Saturn so it's basically going over twice but only going over once so we go around the Headland on that session we don't go as much PTO so the PTO will be sat slightly lower so again it's not like throwing it out too fast so now back onto the fields so now this little green button is really quite important so I press this and the external boundary will be mapped at default location continue using this location so we pass yes and basically what that means is it's going to map my border so you'll see it in action now but it will mean how far out I go it physically won't spread any fertilizer past that line um which is really good because that just means I can't throw it like past where I've gone so onto the road or into the head as long as I don't go too far to start with but you'll see it now in action hopefully everything will start to make sense okay so we're ready to go so I'm going to put my PTO on put my video on and it's just kicking in like normal then in this truck so I've actually got two Saturns so I've got my number one set for the border and number two Sat for the normal field so I'm gonna pass number one and it kicks into 4 30 you can see there so that's all ready to go so now I'm gonna press start so it won't actually start until I start driving so I can get myself ready so our drill spans at 21 meters so basically you need to predict to be about ten and a half meters from the head and then that's how far I'll be spuding so it's up to me really to make sure I'm about the right distance away so we're wrong [Music] so yeah it's completely up to me for this bit to decide what I want my boundary to be the time I'm going to the hedge or to the fence line and you can see it's drawn a little line and that's what it's doing is it's mapping my boundary for me so if you can see the computer you can probably see it says Mark a so basically this whole thing is working off GPS and it's helping me to map out my Fields so I can spot my fertilizer as efficiently as possible so what that's asking me to do is make a straight line that I can follow them for the rest of the field so I'm driving pretty straight now so I'm going to pass my arrow there's the a so I'm passing that and as you can see it's just made a little Mark there so because I'm driving nice and straight I can press B would you like to name it no thank you and as you can see now I've got a really nice straight line going down my field and so once I finish doing my border I can follow that then and it will keep my fertilizer and basically just spreading really evenly and yeah it means I can't go too little too much in any spots which again you'll see now in a minute [Music] but you have to do that when you're marking the boundary um because it's been a few times where I'm like concentrating so hard on the boundary I forgot to do it and then I got to the end and I'm like I don't have a line everywhere everyone but you can do it then after it's just as well we learn these things the hard way another thing you can do as well is if we go back to this page with all the things going on it's like I'm Press Start and that will just stop the first lines are coming out so when I'm getting to this corner because it's a proper corner I can't really just drive around on a curve so I press stop it stopped coming out and then I can just turn around and start it up again then and it just means I'm getting the first slides the right across the field [Music] it's now I'm ready to go I press start and it knows it's already spared there so it'll just wait now until I'm on a flashlight and then we'll start again [Music] so now I'm coming up to the end of where I've marked the Border and he's like and now it will ask me if I want to save it there we are area bounded would you like to save so I just press save and then that is my boundary marks then okay so now we've saved our boundary so we have to turn the PTO off so I'm just going to turn my speed down and turn it off um and we already pressed start so we have to turn it off to put it onto the next satin so as I said for the Border it's too border whereas now because we're going to be spreading in fields we just turn it back to normal so we just pass that button and just loads that so now we're ready just to spread um in the field so now I can see my a b lines so we're now going to find our line this is where it all gets a bit nerve-wracking for me because basically you have to line up on this line so you can see here numbers are going red green like all sorts of places so that's telling me I'm 1.4 meters off from where I need to be so I need to go to the left that amount um and that's just to spread the fertilizer exactly where it should be so there is like an overlap like it will spread and then spread on top of itself again so if you are out by a little bit it doesn't actually it's not the end of the world but obviously the aim is to be bang on so I'm gonna start my PTO now then I've got the main field setting on number two so I'm going to press that and it clicks straight into 5 40. then you've got to press start over here so it won't go if you don't pass start here and then we just got going so hopefully I'm going to get online now as I take off the one that's on green two zeros that is what you want so it's always a bit risky because basically you are relying on this line um so it's very easy just to stare at your computer and like drive and for example that pole by there [Music] but yeah you're basically driving with the screen which is a bit of a weird feeling but it's quite easy once you get on the line it's fairly easy to stay on it but if you go over a bump or like just lose your way a little bit all of a sudden you'll be like 1.8 meters [Music] and yeah that's basically it so the really clever thing with it is as you can see because I haven't done any of the fields yet all of my food like that's basically the whole drill that's the 21 meters that white line so when it's all white that means it's all coming out and it's all being used and the blue van is what I've put fertilizer on so you'll see now I'm coming up to where I marked my boundary and as soon as I hit this blue I've already put fertilizer they've shut off so I'm not putting first slides of back where I've already been now I'm going to drive right to the head as you can see I've gone over my boundary and there's nothing coming out so that is what the boundary is for otherwise I'd be spraying fertilizer now over the hatch onto the trail which we don't want and so that is why you mark boundaries now I'm going back find my line again where are so wait for it once I get onto the green so it comes on as it is that way to so fertilizer so then if I did completely lose my lines or whatever reason if I had to go around the poll for example um if I went on to the blue it won't just switch off it wouldn't just carry on spading over what's really been on and then I can always fill it in if I need to I can go to any green bits so if we go to this picture here it's harder for me to follow but I think I can do it you can see the whole field so I'll do that after so usually at the end I'll click the big picture check I've got it all and if you've missed any big bits you can always just go back to them but yeah that's the basics of it [Music] so rad obviously means Danger but like it's nowhere near as bad as it looks there that is where like it has just basically overlapped a little bit so like if say there was like halfway that one would still be on and then it would be an overlap but um it's minor but like it's what you can't really avoid it but it is just letting you know that there's been gone twice yeah so another thing to keep an eye on is in this um bit here is this up there it tells you how much you've got left in your bin so at the minute I've got 234 kilos which we all know now is just over a bar and so you don't want to run the drill empty completely so it will actually beep at you when it gets to 250 and that's when it's a good time to top up because it just basically will start coming out a little bit uneven if there's more on one side than the other and unless you're finished and obviously and that's when you're going to be for the drills so you do just have to keep an eye on that as well so that's not feel done like I said earlier when I get to the end I do just click on the small zoomed out picture and I just double check that I have an accidentally missed like a big chunk it was like a big green bit there I know I've missed some um so that shows the field is finished so then I can just press stop stop my wraps turn the PTO off and then wait for it to stop here because it doesn't like it if I try and do something oh man it's job done so I'm going home I wish and then it just tells me all the information about that field so um bounded area is the boundary that I marked and then it's telling me that's how much fertilizer I put on the rights of single that's a little bit of overlap by dad so it's literally North Point North Southern and then total coverage and it took me 14 minutes on that sauce and I'm just going to close the job and I'm ready to go on to my next feels [Music] [Music] outside your door my heart in my hands here I am again like with nothing more defense or Falls pretends [Music] I'm gonna get through I like to take my drums off because I felt unbearably hot but now I've just thought this deep dark fear that I'm gonna be cast with bad luck [Music] here we are again take a good look around the same place we always end up you are my friends so I can't stay makes a space [Music] without being afraid thank you oh still okay so we're officially finished um for this round of fertilizer so first thing I'm going to do is put my drill down nice and low just the same as when I would um put fertilizer in so about there and now I'm gonna set it up to wash it out so this little button here with the arrows I just click that and basically now the shutters are open in which means when I now wash out the water will run out so I'm gonna press start and they're open so off I go to wash it out [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] everything places that gets happy to film now we're having a great time [Music] the world [Music] [Music] [Music] come on [Music] you are [Music] a basketball no no return baby on the timer [Music] left to be start for Latin and the month I'm not burned like the ground I believe I will leave it on an extreme baby I do believe come on let's ride this train [Music] come on [Music] ready to go for next time so washing Israel is actually really important because if fertilizer sits on like a machine or like any steel or anything and within time it will Rust it so that's why it's really important to wash it off nice and clean when you're finished [Music] and just like that another video watched thanks for watching hope you enjoyed hope you don't miss me too much I don't feel about the next one oh heck yeah um yeah don't forget to like And subscribe to our Channel and we'll see you in two weeks bye thank you

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Length: 43min 35sec (2615 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 03 2023