Good morning Tracy ❤ As a fellow farm girl, I know that once a farm girl, always a farm girl. I miss the exciting days that harvest would bring! Have a great day today and I'll be watching!
Your videos are so calming too watch. Very well done. I find that crop of wheat mesmerizing too watch, it’s so incredible!! I dream to have a crop like that again some year. We are in a four year drought again. Maybe next year. That operation is run smoothly, lots of behind the scenes organizing. Great job to all of you guys! 👍🏽👍🏽
There must be lots to learn about each grain farmer no matter if you are a custom operator or a "hired hand". It looks to me like both of you are doing great! ENJOY THE OPPORTUNITY!
Another day of watching the wheat flow into that machine. You do a great job of narrating your videos. Looks like you have plenty of work. Looking forward to seeing the next edition of Wheat Harvest 2023CYA
It is amazing to see the abundant earth and man's technology in harvesting that bounty. 100 years ago a good threshing crew could thresh 300-400 bushels in a day's work. (and that didn't count cutting, shocking and hauling the wheat to the place where it would be processed - as my dad always joked "it seemed like they always threshed behind a shelter belt where there was zero wind on the hottest days of the year). If you look at old photos of threshing crews, the men wore wool clothing with their shirts buttoned up. These combines hold at least that much and fill within 20min or less.
Great video, very enjoyable, there's always one Muppet who's late to the party & that's me, only just found the channel but NOW SUBSCRIBED and looking forward to the rest of Harvest. Great Work..
I am glad to see you back doing you love doing and must be easier on you and Jim not worry about breakdowns and have to fix it. There isn’t too many people left in this world that want to do what you’re doing and care about Feeding the world
I've always found at least with Macdon draper headers, not sure about JD headers, is that if your reel up down limits and fore/aft adjustments are set right on the header, you should be able to put it almost all the way out and down just to where the teeth are almost scratching the ground. The pickup teeth should lift it up the mat and fluff it and pull it back towards the sickle. That's basically the reason for having "pickup teeth" on a reel. I always let the reel do the work and you find that you are actually cutting a couple inches off the ground which is higher in some cases than cutting soybeans. If there's a lot of downed wheat, I've been known to unlock the header and put in float mode as you do in beans and that works well too because the header will follow the contour of the ground better. But like you said it seems to always do better going against the way its laying. But I know when its someone else's machine they have it set the way they want it and you just go with the flow and do the best you can. I always liked cutting downed wheat, especially if you are dropping straw. Perhaps that makes me a little bit psycho and sometimes its a little nerve wracking. That and your sample seems like its always a little bit trashier because you are processing all that straw. I just like watching the carpet roll in and generally its really good wheat when its lodged like that.
Less stress but when you own your own, you’re also your own boss. And when you own your own, you can experience the pride of something you have that you worked so hard for.
Your reels should be adjusted ahead and lower to help pick up the flat crop. The way you have it now done nothing for lifting the downed crop up onto the cutter bar. The combines have hydraulic adjustments for that on the joystick
WOW a Sea of Wheat! With all the gloom and doom being put out on UA-cam, about the drought and bad weather going on, this has got to be the Greatest Harvesting Video out there Tracy. I don't think there are many who have experienced standing on top of a combine and turning 360 degrees to such a beautiful crop of wheat! By the way lady, with no disrespect to the New Holland brand, but you two are in the "Cream of the Crop" so to speak of harvesters ........ Be careful that Green and Yellow will rub off on you ....... Thank You to yourself and Jim for sharing such a great experience.
Well, I really feel the NH is a good combine. I’m really missing a few of their features that this machine doesn’t have. Otherwise, it feels like I’m in the cab of The Beast (except the NH cab is quieter).
Any of you subscriber's I'd like your comments on when you were ask by dad to run the combine. For me it was around 1966 11 yrs old on a JD 95 no cab..I hated the barley dust don't remember any mistakes that were serious just little things that were normal ...miss the smell of the wheat harvest and watching the storms clouds
I have followed you and Jim for a few years surprised when you showed up in Highwood any way hello I'm retired from mt just across the river from denniscand Brett's my son was working on his last field of wheat yesterday Sunday and had a combine fire jhe lost a combine semi and trailer pickup and fuel trailer and about a hundred acres of good wheat
Wow .. Beautiful Big Sky scenery and wheat fields out there in Montana. I don't know why they chop up all the straw and waste it?? That's like blowing $$$ on the ground. We custom harvest 2000 acres of wheat here in Western New York every year - two John Deere 680's and and a 780. The straw is always in VERY high demand .. and is sold months before the wheat is even harvested. They make a KILLING on it!!
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Hi, Thank you for the reply .. have always enjoyed viewing you're terrific videos of the harvest seasons over the years. Montana is such a beautiful state! I worked in the railroad industry for many years and was stationed in Western Montana for a time. Incredible sights and scenery! As for the straw question? There are A LOT of BIG dairy farms here in New York state. Straw is always in high demand and fetches a premo price!! The square balers are always right behind us in the combines. They bale it and load it up on tractor trailers as fast as our 3 combines can harvest the 2000 acres and get out of their way!
Good morning Tracy I have been following your videos good to see you guys combining again I was just wondering how many acres of wheat you guys have to combine
Good day Tracy thanks for taking the time to take us along with you on your daily journey. If you don’t mind me asking how big of crew is it # of trucks,tractors,combines and people are on this crew and don’t forget the support people in the background that feed you and work on equipment thanks. Enjoy and be safe. How long could you be working up there also.
The farmer’s wife is in the tractor/grain cart. And now we have another female in the other cart. No, this straw is being chopped and spread on the field.
Cutting down wheat is very tedious, you cannot see the ground or the rocks. You proceed with prayer and hope. And there is nothing worse than hearing a rock hit the header auger or run up the feeder.
Good morning, Jim and Tracy, I've been thinking of how many bushels of seed wheat it takes to plant all of these acres. I've also been wondering how many drills it takes to sow all these fields.
Hey tracy so glad you guys found ways to get back into harvest. I do have a few questions I was wondering if this harvest crew is hiring, and if they are do they have a website. Thanks and love the videos.
It was time to trade machines. Jim was just over the stress of finding enough wheat acres to make it all work. All expenses were making the margin of profit less and less.
Love that green paint in a field of gold !!!!!!❤
Nothing better than a wheat field and a combine!!
People can say what they want, but nothing better than green and yellow paint at sunset!
No matter what combine you are operating, you always have great harvest videos!
Good morning Tracy ❤ As a fellow farm girl, I know that once a farm girl, always a farm girl. I miss the exciting days that harvest would bring! Have a great day today and I'll be watching!
Your bossman knew he was getting 2, A#1 top hands. It is fantastic to see you and Jim back in the field Enjoy the 23 harvest run.
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Nothing like harvest time hang in their guys you got this ❤😊😊😊
Green Machine , yes getting the job done , congratulations, stay safe , working hard , enjoy !!
This video was a blast to watch. Keep creating awesome content!
Thank you!
Your videos are so calming too watch. Very well done.
I find that crop of wheat mesmerizing too watch, it’s so incredible!! I dream to have a crop like that again some year. We are in a four year drought again. Maybe next year.
That operation is run smoothly, lots of behind the scenes organizing. Great job to all of you guys! 👍🏽👍🏽
Tracy and Jim, it's good to see you back harvesting. As always, amazing sights and videos. Thanks!
Thanks!
Lovely again Tracey. It must be quite different not operating your own combines but you and Jim have no worries, just keep on operating 👍
GOD BLESS OUR FARMERS!!!
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Great to see you both back in the seat of the combines ❤
Thank you Tracy.....great footage and beautiful countryside 👍🏻
Thanks, Mike!
Love the harvest and road trip videos. Running combine was always my favorite time. Haven’t done it in 3 years and do miss it.
I was missing it pretty bad before we got the call.
There must be lots to learn about each grain farmer
no matter if you are a custom operator or a "hired hand".
It looks to me like both of you are doing great!
ENJOY THE OPPORTUNITY!
We are enjoying being a part of the team!
Always smile when I hear the stories😄 Thanks for taking us along Tracy👍
This made my day!
AS always Tracy nice video I really enjoyed the drone shots as far as I can tell you guys are in farm heaven thanks for taking us along
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BEAUTIFUL WHEAT
Always a thumbs up. Like the drone footage.
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
More awesome videos Tracy! Thanks for showing that part of the US to the rest of us.
My pleasure!!
Another day of watching the wheat flow into that machine. You do a great job of narrating your videos. Looks like you have plenty of work. Looking forward to seeing the next edition of Wheat Harvest 2023CYA
Why thank you!
Enjoy seeing you and Jim harvesting again . And maybe with a lot less stress than owning the equipment and finding and sheduling harvest.
Absolutely. But no longer our own boss either.
Good Point !
I would definitely love to do that harvest one time in my life looks like a great experience 💯✌🏻💚🌱
Great to see Y’all harvesting again! Beautiful country in Montana.
I love MT so much! So thankful we were able to make it back.
Good to see you are enjoying yourselves
Thanks!
Good video as always! Hope and pray the air quality doesn't get bad for you all.
You will have to find a Claas dealer that will let you log some time in it so you can it to your resume.
Colour is only skin deep Tracy and Jim it’s the operator that makes a machine work have fun and keep up the good work.
It is amazing to see the abundant earth and man's technology in harvesting that bounty. 100 years ago a good threshing crew could thresh 300-400 bushels in a day's work. (and that didn't count cutting, shocking and hauling the wheat to the place where it would be processed - as my dad always joked "it seemed like they always threshed behind a shelter belt where there was zero wind on the hottest days of the year). If you look at old photos of threshing crews, the men wore wool clothing with their shirts buttoned up. These combines hold at least that much and fill within 20min or less.
Each combine holds 400 bushels in their bins. Thanks for sharing these awesome memories!
Love the green and yellow, nothing runs like a 🦌
Great video, very enjoyable, there's always one Muppet who's late to the party & that's me, only just found the channel but NOW SUBSCRIBED and looking forward to the rest of Harvest. Great Work..
Well, you’ve got LOTS of videos to catch up on!
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Will be a pleasurable watch.
You guys are great! I figured Jim would rather be driving the truck.
He might be.
I am glad to see you back doing you love doing and must be easier on you and Jim not worry about breakdowns and have to fix it. There isn’t too many people left in this world that want to do what you’re doing and care about Feeding the world
That was the fun of your chann. When you had your own combine.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
Those green combine are built in East Moline, Illinois, 50 miles from my house. BE SAFE AND HAVE FUN
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I've always found at least with Macdon draper headers, not sure about JD headers, is that if your reel up down limits and fore/aft adjustments are set right on the header, you should be able to put it almost all the way out and down just to where the teeth are almost scratching the ground. The pickup teeth should lift it up the mat and fluff it and pull it back towards the sickle. That's basically the reason for having "pickup teeth" on a reel. I always let the reel do the work and you find that you are actually cutting a couple inches off the ground which is higher in some cases than cutting soybeans. If there's a lot of downed wheat, I've been known to unlock the header and put in float mode as you do in beans and that works well too because the header will follow the contour of the ground better. But like you said it seems to always do better going against the way its laying. But I know when its someone else's machine they have it set the way they want it and you just go with the flow and do the best you can. I always liked cutting downed wheat, especially if you are dropping straw. Perhaps that makes me a little bit psycho and sometimes its a little nerve wracking. That and your sample seems like its always a little bit trashier because you are processing all that straw. I just like watching the carpet roll in and generally its really good wheat when its lodged like that.
Getting caught up on videos. They have some really nice wheat there, unlike the weedy stuff I saw in Kansas. John T.
That’s for sure. The weeds had the perfect growing conditions down south. Droughted wheat and lots of rain.
Thank you Tracy a pleasure to watch
I was hoping you would get to do this when I saw the video saying you sold your combine. Easier to be a hired hand than an owner. Lot less stress.
Less stress but when you own your own, you’re also your own boss. And when you own your own, you can experience the pride of something you have that you worked so hard for.
good to see you all back that is good looking wheat how many acres can 4 combines cut in those big fields
Depends on the field and the crop.
This is awesome video. How Synchronized you all are !!!
Your reels should be adjusted ahead and lower to help pick up the flat crop. The way you have it now done nothing for lifting the downed crop up onto the cutter bar. The combines have hydraulic adjustments for that on the joystick
Glad to see you back cuttin wheat
Does my heart good!
Nice looking wheat
It is beautiful!
Thanks for the video 👍
Another good one,thanks for the ride along!
Good morning from Scotland. That's a lot of green there. Good job there's a few yellow bits on them. 😂
WOW a Sea of Wheat! With all the gloom and doom being put out on UA-cam, about the drought and bad weather going on, this has got to be the Greatest Harvesting Video out there Tracy. I don't think there are many who have experienced standing on top of a combine and turning 360 degrees to such a beautiful crop of wheat! By the way lady, with no disrespect to the New Holland brand, but you two are in the "Cream of the Crop" so to speak of harvesters ........ Be careful that Green and Yellow will rub off on you ....... Thank You to yourself and Jim for sharing such a great experience.
Well, I really feel the NH is a good combine. I’m really missing a few of their features that this machine doesn’t have. Otherwise, it feels like I’m in the cab of The Beast (except the NH cab is quieter).
Tracy, have you seen Murphy's Romance with Sally Field and James Garner? Sally says it was the best movie kiss she ever had!
Any of you subscriber's I'd like your comments on when you were ask by dad to run the combine. For me it was around 1966 11 yrs old on a JD 95 no cab..I hated the barley dust don't remember any mistakes that were serious just little things that were normal ...miss the smell of the wheat harvest and watching the storms clouds
Thanks so much for sharing! I was 12 when I learned to drive a Massey 750. My grandpa taught me.
Wrong color? You look good in green. Quite a mesmerizing ballet of machines there. Thanks.
Best regards from Indiana.
Beautiful sunset
I love your videos. You selection of music is well placed. I love combine videos. I love Gleaner R65s too. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
Day three as good or better than two. Liked the conversion.
Thank you!
👍👍another great video keep them coming
I have followed you and Jim for a few years surprised when you showed up in Highwood any way hello I'm retired from mt just across the river from denniscand Brett's my son was working on his last field of wheat yesterday Sunday and had a combine fire jhe lost a combine semi and trailer pickup and fuel trailer and about a hundred acres of good wheat
We watched that fire. I’m so very sorry!!!!!
great video is the crew from rush center ks. you look real good in that combine have fun and be safe
No. That fuel trailer was purchased from their previous harvester. This equipment is all owned by the farmer we’re helping.
Wow .. Beautiful Big Sky scenery and wheat fields out there in Montana.
I don't know why they chop up all the straw and waste it?? That's like blowing $$$ on the ground.
We custom harvest 2000 acres of wheat here in Western New York every year - two John Deere 680's and and a 780. The straw is always in VERY high demand .. and is sold months before the wheat is even harvested. They make a KILLING on it!!
I don’t know. Maybe it doesn’t pay to save it and bale it here. They cut it so there’s less residue when it’s time to plant in it.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Hi, Thank you for the reply .. have always enjoyed viewing you're terrific videos of the harvest seasons over the years.
Montana is such a beautiful state!
I worked in the railroad industry for many years and was stationed in Western Montana for a time.
Incredible sights and scenery!
As for the straw question?
There are A LOT of BIG dairy farms here in New York state. Straw is always in high demand and fetches a premo price!! The square balers are always right behind us in the combines. They bale it and load it up on tractor trailers as fast as our 3 combines can harvest the 2000 acres and get out of their way!
@@bmwelch320 I guess no two locations do things the same.
Very good Video 👍 👍
That wheat looks very good
Hi there kitty I’m just checking in
Good morning Tracy I have been following your videos good to see you guys combining again I was just wondering how many acres of wheat you guys have to combine
I honestly don’t know. However, even if I did, I wouldn’t feel like I could share that info out of respect for our farmer.
Ok you guys have a sage harvest
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking have a safe harvest
@@robertonoraro7441 thank you!
Hello zeorian 👍👍🌾👨🌾🍻🇮🇹
Good video
Great video
Thank you!
Jim waits till the end of harvest to get crabby? 😂
Good day Tracy thanks for taking the time to take us along with you on your daily journey. If you don’t mind me asking how big of crew is it # of trucks,tractors,combines and people are on this crew and don’t forget the support people in the background that feed you and work on equipment thanks. Enjoy and be safe. How long could you be working up there also.
I haven’t taken the time to add everyone up but there’s approx 15-20 people.
I presume by the yields, this part of Montana has avoidable the drought.
They have this year.
Surprised those combines dont have the fine cut choppers on them. Cause if they did the straw wouldn’t look like a mat on top of the stubble.
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Sunsets are beautiful but that means you’ve been out there 15-16 hours.
We put in approx 13-14 hours.
Good morning from germany
And the first comment! Good morning as I head to bed!
Who shot the drone videos? Must have rained there to get that heavy a crop, a lot different than the pictures in Kansas.
The farmer’s sister did these drone shots. I’ve been too busy to get mine out.
America the Beautiful...
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Thanks Tracey , do those combines have “ rock traps “ ? Another wonderful video !
Tracy stops talking and listens to her boss while filming,,,shes a very respectful professional.
Thank you.
Great video , Tracy. Too bad Jim doesn’t seem to enjoy your taking up the cameras.
He’s much better now than he was three years ago. 😉
Tracy you have not run a combine till you get some seat time in Fendt
Well, maybe someone who has one would hire us to run it. I’d love to drive a CLAAS.
Did I see another gal in one of those rigs? Will you folks return later and bale the stubble? As usual another amazing video. Thanks!!
The farmer’s wife is in the tractor/grain cart. And now we have another female in the other cart. No, this straw is being chopped and spread on the field.
Cutting down wheat is very tedious, you cannot see the ground or the rocks. You proceed with prayer and hope. And there is nothing worse than hearing a rock hit the header auger or run up the feeder.
Yes!
Good morning, Jim and Tracy, I've been thinking of how many bushels of seed wheat it takes to plant all of these acres. I've also been wondering how many drills it takes to sow all these fields.
there are 100 ft air drills now.
I don’t know the answer to either of these questions Alva.
Hey tracy so glad you guys found ways to get back into harvest. I do have a few questions I was wondering if this harvest crew is hiring, and if they are do they have a website. Thanks and love the videos.
This isn’t a harvest crew. It’s a farmer.
Do they typically have that good of a wheat 🌾 crop in that area or is this a exceptional year?
This is an exceptional year. But, their average is 60 bpa which is darn good.
How come no one wants to be the "SNOWMAN"
Good one!
Looks like a good crop! What kind of yeild?
Hi Tracy what it like driving a wheel tractor to a tractor on tracks can you ask someone for me please
Unfortunately, I’m not around any of those who were driving the tractors anymore.
That is a lot of wheat what crops do they rotate with ?
We will also cut barley and spring wheat.
Is wheat their only crop. Fall and spring wheat ?
fall or mostly called winter , spring is not ripe yet
I just wonder how many acers do you need to pay for all that equipment?
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Is thier a grass hopper problem in the area were you harvesting
Not yet
Are your moves close enough to leave the headers attached?
We do.
Always great videos Maybe change the date on this?
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Whose Sally Fields?
Great videos! Beautiful Scenery!!
No one.
How many tonnes per acre do you get ?
I’m not sure. I know it’s anywhere from 80-120 bushels per acre.
Why did you guys sell your combine??
It was time to trade machines. Jim was just over the stress of finding enough wheat acres to make it all work. All expenses were making the margin of profit less and less.
Does he have a Trans-Am?