Steep hills and harvesters sliding on soft ground
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Farming wheat in the palouse in the pacific northwest on steep terrain. Multiple John Deere combines are cutting on very steep hillsides in this video. Kinze Grain Carts being pulled by 9 Series John Deere quad tracks as well as CAT Caterpillar tractors in the skyrocket hills of washington state USA. Like, comment and subscribe! Have a good one
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wow - that's a pretty epic landscape - compared to where I see wheat growing here in the UK...! Great commentary by the way - very interesting
Hi from Australia...😊
This is simply amazing, it's a world of it's own..... These guys are doing an amazing job and the danger risk level is 💯%...😮
This is farming on a whole new level, I showed this video to my husband and he was just simply amazed at the operation...
We farm here in Western Australia and our country is flat as a pancake, these guys have our greatest admiration and respect...🌾❤
Stay safe guys...🙏
Thanks for your comment.
When do you folk start your wheat harvest and whereabouts is western Auz are you located-?
@@John-nc4bl we kick off the harvest season starting usually the begining of October... Our farm is located in Esperance... About 700km out from Perth our capital city..
I will pass it along. There aren't many spots that we would call flat in this area. They call my dad's place flat, but he has some edges that are surely not flat. That is awesome! I love hearing about farmers from across the planet enjoying the videos. Cool cool!
Awesome footage Trevor, I could watch this drone footage all day. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for that!
Those are some ace operators there!
Thank you Trevor for the excellent drone footage. The drone definitely gives the realization of the terrain you are farming on.
Well said! that was my hope with the drone. There is some cool topography here and it is a unique area for sure. The drone can get some idea of the pitch of the hills, but it still looks steeper with your two eyes.
My daughter is living in Walla Walla. Her Boyfriend works for Carlton farms driving truck during harvest. Very impressed with the hills!! this is another excellent video, full of great drone work, fantastic hillsides, and knowledge. More of this please!!
Small world. Yeah they have some stuff out in the skyrockets by Prescott that is steeper than this. Thanks for the comment Rick. I was told I had to ask before recording them, so I don't even attempt it.
Awesome footage
Capsize, now that's a term I never heard on any farming channel!
Lol. Yeah, we do it a but different than them flatland boys.
We had field like that in the UK.
Excellent work well done I am going to watch again consider doing a DVD about farming and harvest in that part of the US we lots of grain belt custom harvesting programs but your area is forgotten about.
Yeah that'd be cool! We wanna make a show like gold rush, but with the farming out here. Everyones always saying something about someone doing something, and that would add to the whole thing. This is aside from of course this being dangerous work on the margins of farming.
Another fabulous video, excellent commentary, and some great drone work - thank you Trevor! It makes us feel like we're actually there. The only time I get 'confused' is when I hear a truck or some other machine go by where you're recording and don't see one on the screen. 😂 Great stuff!
Thank you! Yeah i was close to the road. I should have set up a second camera for me standing there.
Beautiful country !
I appreciate the commentary over the drone shots.
It is helpful I think. Better if it's real time as opposed to dubbing it in later. I have a good soundcard and microphone at my desk though, but it feels rehearsed. Thanks for stopping in!
@@TrevorStruthers it is quite helpful and also having the knowledge of what's going on... you pretty much know what the operators are thinking and planning.
I want a hillside combine. Would make combining my hills way easier.
Great video sir.
Right on. Thank you! Yeah theyre fun
@TrevorStruthers unbelievable footage mate it really shows how steep that country is. I honestly cannot think of anywhere here in Australia that farms cereals on country like that. I’ve shared your videos with cousins who lived on cereal farms and they couldn’t believe it. Your explanation about the procedures is excellent.
Thanks Peter! I am glad some more farmers in similar climates are seeing how we dryland. Just a bit hillier here.
You sure got some good footage
Thanks, Trevor! You did a really nice job on this one! I like the commentary too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching this from the UK, that is mega IMPRESSIVE!
I am glad you enjoyed it from across the pond! The hills here are full of deep soil, I dunno how we could not attempt to farm it.
I thought I had hills wow steap hills
Trevor, I enjoy watching combine drone footage and you by far have the best drone footage I’ve ever seen!
Aw thank you! Im just trying to get the good shots and not be too jerky in between.
Bet that's more fun than just going back n forth on flat ground! For me, in any driving task I'm doing, the harder and more challenging it is, the more i love it & excel.
Definitely need to learn to do this by hand and then keep doing it that way.
Great drone work, footage and narration of the happenings!!
Thank you kindly!
I used to deer hunt on wheat fields similar to this that belonged to a friend's family near Touchet. Spent a lot of time walking up and down stuff like this. Cool footage and Go Cougs!
Amazing video thanks for sharing
Thanks for visiting
Trevor I think these hills are much steeper in reality than they appear in your video.
Great insights into the palouse fieldwork 👍👏
Greetings from a german farmer 🇩🇪
It never looks as steep as it really is. Especially when you are in the cab, leaning beyond maximum level and sliding down a hill in an expensive piece of machinery.
Got home tonight and had to watch the new show really good.
Thought they didn't level like the old ones, bigger machines also.
They still send it, small or big! The headers are still pretty small, but they could technically be bigger but it would be a pain unless its one of the new john deere heads that flex so much.
Very nice video Trevor. Great work. Thanks for all your work making these.
Yeah Bruce! We're doing it! We can't wait for october.
Some great "Pucker Factor Footage" !
That’s some awesome footage!
Hy Trevor i am a new subscriber and i get amazed by watching that you are in idaho I Know about it i like rhis video the performance of machine is awesome i really like this video thank you i could not imagine the view this is stunning and blissful i love it very much thank you for effort Good luck
Thank you!
One crazy awesome video love every minute of it 👍👍😀
Appreciate you saying that!
Very nice video! Would spikes on tires be useful or would they just increase the risk of tipping over? In the past there where spikes mounted in the rim and you could unfold them on the field.
It might? I know people used to run chains on the old machines with smaller tires. These tires have the best rating for sidewall pressure and John Deere won't sell you a leveling combine without them on it. I doubt they'd want you doing that, but i am not sure it would help. maybe?
Very nice place .
I see these combines have different tire treads on them, I guess they are trying something different to gain traction on the hillsides. Great video!
They don't tear up the soil as badly on the hills. We have some really soft and fine soils that are delicate and can ridge up on us. We don't disk anymore, so it is hard to ever get the ruts out.
Beautiful country !!!!
Thanks
No problem! I love sharing the videos.
Excellent video!
Thank you Greg!
I have harvested wheat from way back in 1952 from texas to canada but never in hills like that. That would be a challenge
Thanks Trevor. I believe there was a European combine that would level itself in two planes, ie the wheels would stay vertical and the combine would remain level fore and aft!
We ran them out here once upon a time, but they were much smaller than the current ones we all run. I don't think a single hydraulic ram would or should lift one of these combines like those other ones.
That’s some crazy terrain
it is!
Awesome video 🎉 Is harvest over in the Palouse? Your drone footage is incredible!
Thank you! No, theres still some people cutting. Some of us finished but others still have a bit left
Some years back i did a lot of work on steep hills and had some bad moments,including one roll.We didnt have huge machines like these though! It would be an impressively terrible experience rolling a combine.
Yeah, gotta keep on top of the inspections for sure. These big girls are heavy.
@@TrevorStruthers how do they determine what's a safe angle and what's not?
Hopefully not learned by experience only😄
Great video 🙂
Thank you 😁
Hello! Crazy job...
Very!
@@TrevorStruthers 👌
As a young farmer I fill off into a hole next to a ditch shelling corn when the combine started to roll over I opened the door and jumped my dad came up behind me in his combine and got out and asked what happened I told him it started to roll over he looked at me and said it didn't roll so get back in there and drive out so tuff love makes a stronger man and yes I made it and 45 years more
I always plan on going down with my ship. The new ROPS are better than they used to be. If i had time to get out and jump off uphill…i might. Ive driven a combine on fire and threw out my lunchbox but didnt jump out.
Im glad you got back in.
What kind of yields do they get on them side hills do they continious crop or every other year
One year wheat, then one year fallow. Rain in averages vary around here from 7-19. Horse heaven hills is dryest, but all of us true drylanders do one year of fallow where the soil rests...followed by a year of winter wheat and rarely do spring wheat. Not enough moisture for spring wheat to do that well. Thanks for all the comments!
Nice Footage, but I have a Question. Why do the Combines have these soft profiled Tires and not the normal ones you know? Are these Tires just better on the hills or what is the Purpise? Greetings from Germany.
Yeah, they help on the soft and steep stuff. Help you not rip the dirt up and make big burms we cant deal with. No plowing to smooth anything out, so it is extra important now not to disturb the soil to badly.
better tyre life running at lower pressure too...@@TrevorStruthers
Word !
Word. Thanks for the comment!
just curious if you have ever seen silver saucers in the sky at night while you work🤣. brilliant video
My sister saw some strange aircraft last night actually, but we think its the government doing testing.
@@TrevorStruthers 🤣
There is not enough money to make me combine your "hills", Stay safe.
It's good times. You would get used to it! Thanks for the comment!
Combining on that even with the leveling system would pucker every bit of my butthole. I come from fairly flat area in south east Alberta. Not my kinda farming thats for sure
Aw, you'd get used to it.
I'm guessing that metal tracks wouldn't help the sliding situation.
Maybe metal tire chains, that used to be a thing. These tires are as good as it gets. Tracks are worse, except when on an articulating quad track. Then tracks are good.
Man Trevor, that is one impressive video that you made for us and it needs to go viral.
I am going to recommend it for viewing on other video sites for ya.
There has to be thousands of acres in that massive wheat field.
Where exactly is is located-?
Thank you John! Please do! It is doing well so far. 5600 views in 8 hours is good in my books. More would help! Prescott, WA. South of the skyrockets, across the touchet river.
@@TrevorStruthers Trevor, sorry to bug you again.
Is that at Pykes Place Farm-?
@@John-nc4bl it is on a field with a part called dirty shorts but i havent released that video yet. Im not sure they want their farm name out there.
@@John-nc4bl its not what you named tho
@@TrevorStruthers Ok, I understand.
Great video. I really like the commentary on it. Do they use auto steer or is everything done manually?
Manual for sure. They may paint when seeding and spraying on GPS screens, but the operator needs to drive when its steep. A steering error could kill you id imagine. Have a good one!
Lots of puker power going on 😂
The guys with these machines and another set of green ones are cool with me recording. I have another group of people with red ones who are also cool. The rest of the boys with the red machines leave me on read, so it is what it is.
So do the combines level on there own or is it controlled with computer. Man I love your drone shots and your comments. Have a daughter in Portland might need to visit your area sometime. Thought the other day I saw a hill side combine that the wheels tilted. Maybe it was in another country. So approx cost the install the hillco kit.
It's a computer system that controls it. The older ones were more hurky jerky that wasn't smooth.
Nice Video Trevor, how did you guys harvest go this year?
Thx. It was a very good year for bushels to the acre. Price is still very low though compared to the rise of everythings cost.
@@TrevorStrutherspozdrawiam z Polski u nas zbiory średnie ani dobre ani złe, cena też nie zadowala. Super się ogląda Twoje filmy
This Inflation is killing all of us. Do you guys have silo space to put some up to wait for better market conditions?
@@zacharbert6604 Yeah it is, and no. Washington state laws restrict access to confined spaces and that means no hired hands in the grain bins without massive insurance costs. Not worth it. Family famers are storing some up though that I know of. Most will pay storage and have the local grain growers to hold it and hope the price goes up before the storage fees increase too high. No fun.
why wouldn't they go uphill or at an angle? looks dangerous....
Going uphill there’s not enough momentum or sometimes the soil is just too loose and soft. Sometimes at an angle is possible, depends on the field.
What crop rotation do they do. When I farmed I would go to corn the next year then 2 years of soybeans then wheat again.
Lambton Shores. Southern Ontario Canada
It goes fallow and rests for a year. Then we will plant wheat right back into it. The moisture just isnt there for much else than maybe canola and it doesnt fix nitrogen the way beans or legumes rather would
We dont recrop often. It leads to terrible yields most years
@@TrevorStruthers Ok. That makes sense. That’s why in the background I see worked up fields that as you say are fallow.
My wife asked if I would like to combine on those hills!! I told her one of the farms we rented had a small side hill, and I was very very careful combining it!!
My days behind a wheel of a combine are long gone. 🥺
@@va3kbc thats too bad! At least youve cut on a hill. Some of these hills out here are just a bit too steep to be fun. Exciting is not the same as fun! I am glad you tuned in. Have a good one!
@@TrevorStruthers We are watching another of your drone videos and my wife was wondering if they have ever lost a combine?
NO NO NO hillside combining for me !!!!
Can we see how they seed them hills
When seeding comes around I will be sure to send the drone up after work.
Wouldnt just pick a guy up off the stteet to do that job requires some very good operating skills or you got a 900000 dollar combine rolled into a ball
Trevor what is your bushels an acre
Averaged 90 this year at my work. My dad was above 100. Others lower some higher. A good year though and above average for the area.
It's the new cultivars like Shine and Hulk. These new wheat varieties are really good producers but very short and dwarf like in straw size.
Where is this in the world just curious
North of Walla Walla in Walla Walla County, Washington.
There are big John Deere combines with HillMaster technology. The included HillMaster leveling technology can compensate for inclines up to 22% for consistent performance while on slopes. The technology uses hydraulic to level one side of the machine.
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We unload on the go up to a 27 degree slope, there are 45 degree slopes out here. We run HillCo's and they don't level enough either. King of the hill by HillCo for CASE still doesn't level enough. Thats why we use the uphill brake to slow down the uphill tires. They wanna slip because no weight on them. Beyond maximum level, or so I call it. Cool video though. I will watch it more closely again.
Tap uphill brake - uh no.
yes! It really does help you stay on the hill, but at the risk of tearing it up a bit. You can see a bit of that going on in one of the shots.
@@TrevorStruthers back in the day we would tap the downhill brake to pull the back end up the hill. Taping the uphill brake would cause the back end to move downhill
Perhaps that was the case. Here we are holding pressure slightly on the top hill brake to stop it from spinning and bringing the combine back up the hill.
Trevor is correct about tapping the uphill brake. The current combines don't level so far so without diff lock you need to keep the uphill wheel from breaking loose. We now have RWA to hold the rear end up that the old full leveling combines didn't have other than the 1470/1670 series. In the old days we put log skidder tire chains on to hold the combines with single drive wheels on the hills.
wrong profile on the tires
What profile tires should he have?
@@glennwarren4996 Combines with tracks and/or 4WD would be better. Also, there are special combines for steep hills.
@snowfighter62 I farm in the same area as the videos. The tires on the combines in the video are the best there are for those soft conditions. I was just wondering what would be better than the best tires there are. Our ground is hard closer to the Blue Mountains that Trevor mentions. The tractor tires are a better option there. Tractor tires aren't allowed on the new JD combines because they don't have enough load rating like the Alliance tires pictured and the R-3 tires.
On the old school hillside combines we ran log skidder tire chains to keep those single front wheel combines on the hills.
Thanks for the videos Trevor.
The tires are the correct tires I believe as well Christian. They don't rip up the ground and have good flotation out here in the soft hills as well. Especially with no till going on and nothing ever getting smoothed out. The tires sitting sideways like they do need strong sidewalls as well. Makes sense to me and thank you Glenn!
@@glennwarren4996 thank you very much for your explanations 😃