Thank you! It still looked crazier sitting in the truck at the base of it, let alone in the cab. I would have ridden along if time allowed, but I got a farming gig of my own to do and the editing of these videos. Appreciate you.
Years ago in Walla Walla I drove a 6602 combine. Before that John Deere 95 on steep ground. Your butt would tighten up because your combine would slide on the steep ground especially the barley. 9u cat on that same land and your cat would be going in One direction and your implement would be dragging down the side of the Hill below you. Learned a lot from an old man by the name of John Cato Buchanan ranch
It was hard flying the drone from underneath the combine, i wasnt used to panning up so theres a few missteps in the filming. Still a good time though. Thanks for the comment!
@@TrevorStruthers Hey Trevor, I wonder to myself if the real steep slopes will ever be farmed if someone could come up with an idea of keeping machinery on these steeper areas. I wonder how much topsoil is on these steeper slopes that are unable to be farmed now.
@@John-nc4bl farming it would maybe run a lot of dirt down the hill also and make it steeper. Id like to fill it in with more topsoil and make it less severe in places and add to maybe rocky soil
Wow, that is some terrific looking wheat! Love the name given to the hill. I know a farmer in the Dufur, Oregon area that farmed a hill that was affectionately referred to as "the widow maker" on account of how steep it was, and how frequently it caused combines to slide out of their cuts.
Wouha tellement différent de nos moisson en France. L'immensité du paysage me fait rêver et peur en même temps. Super vidéo 👍 un grand plaisir de regarder l'agriculture de l'autre côté du monde.
@@mikedaniel5067 inthought it was woodby my whole life until i went there last october to see where my sweetheart worked. She did research near the airbase. I saw some of the jets taking off there. Very cool
I wouldn't want to be seeding that country at night. I grew up in the wheatbelt of Western Australia and we never worked night shift in the hilly country. Love the scenery though.
No, not at night. No one really does because most can't and the place we take wheat closes each night. I'd like to see an Australian hill harvest one day.
Thank you for the comment! It is averaging near 100 bushels to the acre this year! Very good year, but very low prices on wheat though. Have a good day!
I imagine those seats get swapped out every so often cuz the constant holes getting pinched in them 🤣🤣 Going to vintage harvest tomorrow, I'll find your email so i can connect with ya if you're going then and not today.
I hope you made it! I am at home today. I had enough running around in the heat for one day. I saw the 55H running and got that on video. Tell them hi for me!
@TrevorStruthers yeah after hearing that it was only gunna go until noon I opted to go to Puyallup fair instead. 9 hours round trip driving for 2.5 hours of events, nope. Gunna plan for it in advance next year. Just gunna wait for your videos on it this year 🤣🤣
The farm im at runs a gleaner in the hills. I got video of it but it hasnt made it to youtube yet. I agree they do take well to the hills. The weight on the downhill tires must be tremendous tho.
Anyway you can get a look at the monitor. I know our NH combines gives us the slope percentage. I am curious to see. I know I get real nervous once I get over 18% steepest I’ve ever had a combine I think is 23%
I've heard of a window device that would tell you slope side to side when you passed maximum level. These John deere's go down some things that would put a newer CASE up on its front wheels only. Different weighting. I need a device I can take out to the field and measure the slope with. Some surveying device or something. Thank you for the comment and I will look into it.
@@TrevorStruthers You can by a simple slope gauge thats a curved clear tube with slope numbers along it and a ball inside rolls to whatever the slope is. If you slide off the hill it's too steep. Anything less don't need a gauge,lol . Yes JD combines put more weight to the back axle than Case . Some of that stuff makes this flatlander from the Midwest nervous just watching. Mowing roadside ditches is as steep as we get.
@@lynwessel2471 Just as a matter of interest, an aircraft has an instrument called a turn coordinator which indicates the amount of turn as well as the amount of bank that the aircraft is doing. For the banking part which is the lateral angle that the wings make with the horizon, there is a ball that floats in a liquid which is contained in a curved, clear tube. By using a liquid there is less friction for the ball to roll and due to gravity it always rolls to the lowest area.
We farm the pancake flat land of the Red River Valley (MN/ND boarder) and we freak out if we have to drive into a field without a flat approach or if we have to farm around a grove of trees.
Horscht hoe drills are the most common for one pass (seeding and fertilizing). Most dryland wheat farms in our area mostly practicing no-till techniques to prevent erosion on the soft soil of the hilly land, so there isn’t much traditional plowing.
Dryland wheat is grown on multiple continents. It takes advantage of the natural tendency of grasses to go through their life cycle in the early growing season when there is rain, completing the life cycle and senescing by the late growing season drought period. It gets very dry here by mid and late summer, so dryland grass crops allow us to grow using the rain we naturally have without depleting our local water reserves through artificial irrigation.
Irrigated wheat may have higher yield, but how much higher can vary depending on the wheat variety (cultivar) and on many environmental factors and inputs. It’s hard to give an exact number, but maybe on average 50% to 70% lower yield for dryland compared to irrigated wheat. It’s a bigger gamble with dryland wheat. Where I’ve been farming we might get 80 bushels per acre on average for dryland, but irrigated land could produce 160 bushels per acre on average. Yield here for dryland wheat is affected by a lot of factors. We can have a bountiful harvest if the rainfall amount and timing are ideal. However, if the rainfall is poor or timed in an unlucky way, the yield can be very low. We have friends a couple hours north of us who have much lower dryland yields than we have this year because they had unlucky timing with rainfall.
Been following all your video's on the hills... But for some reason this video shocks me..😬😰🫣 That's not a hill, it's a bloody small mountain...😂😂😂 I see the open bulk ground rings at the end of the video, same system we use here... Stay safe .
Bulk ground rings! Interesting name. We call them groundpiles and I want to do a video about them. My cousin was working covering them, and she was supposed to get video of that. They're all covered now here. Do they cover them there as well? They used to not here but they started to in recent years.
Usually photos and vids don't do a hill justice but these shots sure do! Nice work sir!!
Thank you! It still looked crazier sitting in the truck at the base of it, let alone in the cab. I would have ridden along if time allowed, but I got a farming gig of my own to do and the editing of these videos. Appreciate you.
Great Video Trevor, A very sobering story, but it's a story of safety, thanks for sharing
Thank you Tony!
Super Job Trevor!
Thank you Kevin!
Years ago in Walla Walla I drove a 6602 combine. Before that John Deere 95 on steep ground. Your butt would tighten up because your combine would slide on the steep ground especially the barley. 9u cat on that same land and your cat would be going in One direction and your implement would be dragging down the side of the Hill below you. Learned a lot from an old man by the name of John Cato Buchanan ranch
Very interesting and cool. Sounds about right to me. Walla walla county has some pretty steep areas.
Best farming channel on UA-cam!
Lol. 7 likes and counting joel. I am glad theres some at the TV that agree.
Noch einer der sich das anschaut
Thanks Trevor, quite a hill! Imaginative filming too!
It was hard flying the drone from underneath the combine, i wasnt used to panning up so theres a few missteps in the filming. Still a good time though. Thanks for the comment!
@@TrevorStruthers Hey Trevor, I wonder to myself if the real steep slopes will ever be farmed if someone could come up with an idea of keeping machinery on these steeper areas. I wonder how much topsoil is on these steeper slopes that are unable to be farmed now.
@@John-nc4bl i was thinking of smaller autonomous combines could stay on the hills. Like roombas or something. Haha.
@@John-nc4bl farming it would maybe run a lot of dirt down the hill also and make it steeper. Id like to fill it in with more topsoil and make it less severe in places and add to maybe rocky soil
Wow, that is some terrific looking wheat! Love the name given to the hill. I know a farmer in the Dufur, Oregon area that farmed a hill that was affectionately referred to as "the widow maker" on account of how steep it was, and how frequently it caused combines to slide out of their cuts.
I just ran into a mechanic im dufur that had commented on my videos! He was really cool, there is some steep areas over there as well.
Wouha tellement différent de nos moisson en France. L'immensité du paysage me fait rêver et peur en même temps. Super vidéo 👍 un grand plaisir de regarder l'agriculture de l'autre côté du monde.
Thank you for your comment! I too like watching farming in other parts of the world, and try to do my part in showing our little corner of it. Merci!
Fantastic videos Trevor! Your UA-cam channel is awesome 🎉
Thanks!
Trevor, thank you for another impressive video.
Thank you john. I am happy to oblige!
I have seen videos of harvesters cutting "tilted" but never knew how was possible! Mega job on the explanation! Awesome videos! Keep it up
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Awesome video...great explanation in the beginning.
Thank you!
Oh man, that looks scary.
I'm frum the flat lands.
Respect for you guys.
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing. Greetings from sunny Scotland. Toby
Thank you!
nice illustration of farming both sides of the dirt
yes sir! all the sides of it.
Great videos! Thanks 😊
Glad you like them! Thanks for the comment!
Amazing and gorgeous video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow good story enjoyed😊😊
Thank youu Willis.
Nice piece of work young man!
Thank you for the comment!
Flew A-6's out of Whitbey Island in the '70's and flew below the crest of the hills that y'all were harvesting
Thats badass. Ive seen f-somethings in the 90s and early 2000s buzz over our cabs. Strafing runs it felt like
I did an orbit around Mt Baker once in my Cessna and there were a couple of A-6s that zoomed past me.
Misspelled Whidbey - Oh, well I'm an old dude now
@@mikedaniel5067 inthought it was woodby my whole life until i went there last october to see where my sweetheart worked. She did research near the airbase. I saw some of the jets taking off there. Very cool
Always liked the A6. What a bomb load. I worked on the bombing/recon systems of its big brother.....RA5C.
All this discipline and integration with science and technology and respect for the earth is amazing, be sustainable and healthy🎉🎉🥰🥰
Thank you for the comment!
Gnarly! Great video!
Yeaa! Totally gnar gnar bro! hehe. first time I heard narnar, or however you spell it...i was definitely living in southern california.
👍👍👍👍👍 Trevor
Thanks for the visit Johann!
As a flat land farmer it's been a dream of mine to come experience this. I'd probably scream like a school girl but it'd be so much fun.
You would get used to most of it. Even I hesitate when going over a dropoff you can't see down until you are on it.
I wouldn't want to be seeding that country at night. I grew up in the wheatbelt of Western Australia and we never worked night shift in the hilly country. Love the scenery though.
No, not at night. No one really does because most can't and the place we take wheat closes each night. I'd like to see an Australian hill harvest one day.
What a catchy and blissful view anyhow drown footage are awesome 👍 thank you for struggle and how much it's average in this first per acre
Love the skyrockets videos
Thank you for the comment! It is averaging near 100 bushels to the acre this year! Very good year, but very low prices on wheat though. Have a good day!
Hello Trevor 👍🍻🇮🇹
Hello there Francesco! Thank you for the comment!
@@TrevorStruthers 🤝😉
Nice
Thanks
Belas imagens mostrando topografia terreno
Indeed!
I imagine those seats get swapped out every so often cuz the constant holes getting pinched in them 🤣🤣
Going to vintage harvest tomorrow, I'll find your email so i can connect with ya if you're going then and not today.
I hope you made it! I am at home today. I had enough running around in the heat for one day. I saw the 55H running and got that on video. Tell them hi for me!
@TrevorStruthers yeah after hearing that it was only gunna go until noon I opted to go to Puyallup fair instead. 9 hours round trip driving for 2.5 hours of events, nope. Gunna plan for it in advance next year. Just gunna wait for your videos on it this year 🤣🤣
@@TheBiggRiggz copy that. Yeah i will be posting a lot from it. It was pretty neat
always great vids ty trevor for share those vids ☺
My pleasure!
The Gleaners shine in these hills without hillco, just let em eat.
The farm im at runs a gleaner in the hills. I got video of it but it hasnt made it to youtube yet. I agree they do take well to the hills. The weight on the downhill tires must be tremendous tho.
Anyway you can get a look at the monitor. I know our NH combines gives us the slope percentage. I am curious to see. I know I get real nervous once I get over 18% steepest I’ve ever had a combine I think is 23%
The combines self- level to about 22% then they tilt them further until they start to slide.
The older machines would level to 45%. Then a light and buzzer would go off. Everyone disabled the buzzers.
I've heard of a window device that would tell you slope side to side when you passed maximum level. These John deere's go down some things that would put a newer CASE up on its front wheels only. Different weighting. I need a device I can take out to the field and measure the slope with. Some surveying device or something. Thank you for the comment and I will look into it.
@@TrevorStruthers You can by a simple slope gauge thats a curved clear tube with slope numbers along it and a ball inside rolls to whatever the slope is. If you slide off the hill it's too steep. Anything less don't need a gauge,lol . Yes JD combines put more weight to the back axle than Case . Some of that stuff makes this flatlander from the Midwest nervous just watching. Mowing roadside ditches is as steep as we get.
@@lynwessel2471 Just as a matter of interest, an aircraft has an instrument called a turn coordinator which indicates the amount of turn as well as the amount of bank that the aircraft is doing. For the banking part which is the lateral angle that the wings make with the horizon, there is a ball that floats in a liquid which is contained in a curved, clear tube. By using a liquid there is less friction for the ball to roll and due to gravity it always rolls to the lowest area.
damm dude i love it 😊
Yeaa! Thanks Bel for the comment.
We farm the pancake flat land of the Red River Valley (MN/ND boarder) and we freak out if we have to drive into a field without a flat approach or if we have to farm around a grove of trees.
lol. I have been through that area and if not for the trees, you couldn't imagine there was hills.
Planting those steep hills must require some specialized planting machinery, what do you use for planting and plowing the area?
Horscht hoe drills are the most common for one pass (seeding and fertilizing). Most dryland wheat farms in our area mostly practicing no-till techniques to prevent erosion on the soft soil of the hilly land, so there isn’t much traditional plowing.
Need a exhaust brake on thr combine. Looks like you need to pick and choose for spot to unload combine
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I bet the camera doesn't do justice ro just how steep those slopes are.
You are right! It’s hard to do it justice
😎😎
Go Cougs!
Why dryland🤔
Dryland wheat is grown on multiple continents. It takes advantage of the natural tendency of grasses to go through their life cycle in the early growing season when there is rain, completing the life cycle and senescing by the late growing season drought period. It gets very dry here by mid and late summer, so dryland grass crops allow us to grow using the rain we naturally have without depleting our local water reserves through artificial irrigation.
@@TrevorStruthers never heard of that in europe 😅 thanka for answer
@stefantriller7598 Sure thing! China grows dryland wheat, as one other example
@@TrevorStruthers how much its grows? Half the normal or🤔
Irrigated wheat may have higher yield, but how much higher can vary depending on the wheat variety (cultivar) and on many environmental factors and inputs. It’s hard to give an exact number, but maybe on average 50% to 70% lower yield for dryland compared to irrigated wheat. It’s a bigger gamble with dryland wheat. Where I’ve been farming we might get 80 bushels per acre on average for dryland, but irrigated land could produce 160 bushels per acre on average. Yield here for dryland wheat is affected by a lot of factors. We can have a bountiful harvest if the rainfall amount and timing are ideal. However, if the rainfall is poor or timed in an unlucky way, the yield can be very low. We have friends a couple hours north of us who have much lower dryland yields than we have this year because they had unlucky timing with rainfall.
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Yes! Thank you for the comment mr. Uzbek.
How many pairs of "Clean" underwear/pants do you guys keep on hand? I damn near filled mine just watching the video.
I used to be prepared with always one set of extra clothes. That was for chemicals though, and not because of leakage.
How does one kill the engine on a Cat going downhill?
It’s more that it died, rather than being intentionally killed, from what I remember
Yup, great name for that spot. I'd have to pack a clean pair of underwear just in case.
lol.
would be better with grass ...
Wheat is a type of grass. Genetically manipulated for millennia by humans. What kinda grass we talking here?
@@TrevorStruthers meadow ...
@ interesting idea if we were a race of horses and not people
@@TrevorStruthers there is not breeding in your area ?
Been following all your video's on the hills... But for some reason this video shocks me..😬😰🫣
That's not a hill, it's a bloody small mountain...😂😂😂
I see the open bulk ground rings at the end of the video, same system we use here...
Stay safe .
Bulk ground rings! Interesting name. We call them groundpiles and I want to do a video about them. My cousin was working covering them, and she was supposed to get video of that. They're all covered now here. Do they cover them there as well? They used to not here but they started to in recent years.
Are there any Gleaners with the side hill axles?
I dont believe so. Ive never seen one. Always a john deere or a case with the leveling systems around here.
Gleaners dont need side hill axles since their cleaning system design compensates for hillsides.
Thanks good to know that’s a plus for Gleaner