The 2-hour-tour (to Big Sandy) / Day 14 Highwood Montana Wheat Harvest (August 2)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- We finished with the barley around the home place.
This means a trip to Big Sandy.
That was the longest road trip in a combine I’ve ever made. Driving through Ft. Benton was a challenge. If I had been thinking, I would have put on my best parade wave.
Supper in the field - just like the old days.
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I miss the harvest run. I went with Scott and Linda Payne for two years and loved it. Started my own crew but recently sold out. Miss it everyday.
It’s definitely something that never goes away, isn’t it! I know Scott and Linda well. Great people!
Been watching your videos for a few years now. Though, I miss seeing the New Holland I'm in love with all this Montana scenery. Doing a great job filming and you are lifting my spirits.
If it makes you feel any better, I miss The Beast, as well. Thank you for your kind words, Charlie!
There's something calming about watching a kid play in the dirt unencumbered by life's worries. 11:40 Thanks for the video.
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Thanks for the ride along,God bless all of you!
Thank you!
Brett has the best help in the world because you and jim take such good care of the machines keep having fun
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Everyone taking care of one another. God bless all
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I would love to work with you and Jim on a large scale operation like this
Geez Jimbo should be called Mr. Grumpy pants.
He’s actually earned the nickname of Mr. Sunshine. 😊
I remember "roading" the combines too. I was the pickup driver pulling the fuel tank. I didn't have a license yet, so my dad put me in between him and my brother on the combines and down the road we would go. We didn't have to go 45 miles, but we farmed my grandpas place and it was about 15 miles. We had to take all the back roads so we wouldn't be on the highway. The combines didn't go as fast as probably the ones you are driving, so it took us 2 hours or maybe more to get there. Plus we didn't unhook headers back then either. We had John Deere 55's and then 95's. The 55's had no cabs and were about as basic as you could get. The 95's had cabs, but the air conditioners didn't work all the time, so none of the comforts you have. We did lunch and supper in the field every day on harvest. My mom made the best fried chicken and peach pie. She would fix that of a morning while we were getting the combines fueled and ready for the day. Harvest was about a 2 week affair and then on to other things like hauling hay and chopping cotton. Life as a farm kid.
Ohhhhhhhh, I LOVE your memories of harvest! Thank you so much for sharing, Albert!
Running a well oiled machine, your move was well organized. Lovely scenery and the camera operator does a super job of explaining what you are doing. Another great looking Wheat field. Looking forward to another day of Wheat Harvest 2023.::CYA
I think both You and Jim would be considered more of well qualified Operators than drivers of a combine !! Keep up the Great Videos !!
Thank you so much!
You CAN turn your squelch up Tracy! Haha!
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Hello to both of you. A lot less of a hassle now not having to worry about the New Holland breaking down. I hope that you and Jim are enjoying your new harvest adventure.
We were fortunate, it rarely broke down. It was the payments that were stressful.
Your struggle was the most entertaining thing on utube today. Thanks for all your goodness.
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hello Tracy, all the team appear to be working in perfect harmony, on day 14. Thank you for taking the time, to make another excellent video. God bless all involved in making it such a 2023 harvesting success.
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The team is genuinely a team.
Your videos sure are full of beautiful scenery. And so soothing to listen to and watch. Thank you
Thank you!
I am changing the names to give the guilty credit… a day without Jim an Tracy is a day without sunshine. I know producing these daily videos an editing for length is WORK…thank you for your efforts an, Jim your lack of an outward smile is just fine.
I would be lying if I said it wasn’t sometimes the last thing I wanted to do at the end of a 12-13 hour day. However, once I begin pulling the day’s story together, it’s well worth it. (Much like exercise, I guess). It usually takes me an additional 2 hours at the end of the day. I’m so glad people are finding them worthy to watch!
Well welcome to Big Sandy and you are so right. Flat land with no Mountains in sight. Continue with your videos, Be safe.
I love it here!
I know you were getting annoyed with the business band during your opening but it was one of the funniest things you've done. Your expressions were priceless! 🤣🤣🤣
😉 thanks!
Hi Tracey, Hope your Montana harvest is going as well as ours, From the Static on the radio at the beginning, Thanks for the great videos,
🤣 it’s going pretty quickly.
Patients is a virtue
Yes, absolutely!
Keep up the great videos, really enjoy watching the Montana landscape
Thanks Tracy I totally enjoy watching your videos.
Glad you like them!
What a beautiful sunset ending again. Thanks.
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Thanks miss Tracy for my daily doss!
You’re welcome!
Great stuff guys, y’all stay safe and God Bless🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸
Good to see ya! Thanks!!
I really enjoy watching your videos and look forward to them every day. I can't imagine the vastness of your countryside and I grew up on a farm in southern Germany. All the best to you
Great hearing from someone in Germany! The internet has certainly made our world even smaller than it is. So glad you enjoy the videos!
I have been following you since a documentary on German television years ago ;-)
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Awesome. Back in 1998 I was in big sandy with Fredrick Harvesting. One of my favorite stops of the year.
I love your videos! I live in Iowa, but my soul is in Montana. Thank you so much for letting me join you!
It’s a beautiful state!
👍👍 if I was closer I’d come and have a ride to experience those beautiful yealds😀
As you should!!
Great to watch! I looked at the map to see exactly where Highwood is in Montana, it looks like a small town. I think it is not far away from Great Falls, I heard this is a very nice city. Although I live in the Netherlands, I think the American towns and cities and the landscapes are really great to see. Due to health reasons I can't travel anymore, but by watching the videos I am able to see something of America! The combines are great to watch! Many greetings from the Netherlands.
WELCOME!!! The world is a much smaller place with the internet. So glad you’re able to follow our journey. ❤️❤️
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Not a bad place a bit cold windy and cloudy 9 months of the year.
That is some beautiful country thanks for taking us along
Thanks for joining us!
Thanks again Tracy great video lI always love the shots you get of the little ones they are so cute thanks for the ride
GOOD VIDEOS THANK YOU!!! Takes me back to the late 60s! Working for Katzenbergers! GREAT PEOPLE!
Glad you enjoy them!
Good job God bless all of you! I'm from Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil🇧🇷
Very cool! Thanks for the well wishes and glad to have you along with us!
Really enjoying your videos. Could you show more of the food, cooks are the real heroes of a harvest crew..
I will
Excellent! Good stuff crew!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good to see you getting on we in u k have not turn wheel for two weeks it just keeps raining ,the wheat is loosing its grade😩 Big sandy is the home off Big Bud 747 i think. thanks for the update terry
Darn weather!
Great video see Montana at home great job 😊
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Another wonderful day to "join" your crew and I love it! Again, look at how you captured that sun setting between the stalks of grain -- quite professional!
Getting quality sunsets out here is a very easy thing to do. ❤️
"the pleasure of driving it" with none of the expenses of driving it.....
in "retirement" you & Jim are "hired guns"" & it sure sounds like they are taking
real good care of you!
Looking forward to learning how many days harvest will take
at BigSandy and how the commute will work out each day!
Great video Tracy-- --very enjoyable being with you & Jim this season!
Why thank you! Glad you’re along with us for the journey!
Bear paw mountain to you easy. I grew up, farmed northwest of Sandy
It looks like a fantastic fit for you and Jim.
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Great video's!! Love the big fields and the mountains!! Big Green always looks good when its out in those gold fields !! My favorite tractor is the 8R.
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Great video again Tracy. I'm a proud Englishman but wow the good old US of A sure has some wonderful scenery and people and the weather well it's done nothing but rain here for weeks 😂😂
Rain. It’s always a good thing. But not at harvest time!
Thank you, finally got to see a Hen pheasant escaping, was curious when I asked the question earlier 😅
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Does this happen often?
@@josephdemoor9680 - chasing the pheasants from the crop? Yes. But I haven’t seen very many.
Your 2 hour tour turned out better than the USS Mino L o l.
Thank you for another awesome video.
" AMER1CA "
Yes, it did!! 😉
If you see about 7 gleaners around havre, left the air out of their tires
Why would we do that?
I think Jim is thinking about about buying a new green combine.
Nope. No more combine purchases for the ZCrew.
My lord kids being kids, getting dirty and everything . Good for them!
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Thanks Guys
Our pleasure!
Bringing home the bacon in Big Sandy MT
Yes. I've understoodyou sold your combine to finally have more time for yourselves. I know equipment was not your decisions, but you turned to the dark side. LOL. Have a great day. God Bless.
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We sold our combine because it was time to trade and Jim was tired of the stress of making payments and finding acres. So, this fills the deep-rooted desire to drive equipment. And come to Montana. ❤️
Must be getting cold, Jim had a jacket on.
The mornings have been cool - mid 50’s to low 60’s. But hot in the afternoon.
Tracy on day 13 lots viewers ask how many acres that landowner had in wheat an barley ,grew up on grain an livestock farm in 60s , 70s, 80s an can do math with pencil an paper no calculator 4 combines 40 ft headers can cut 7 to 10 acres hour down wheat maybe 6 if you dont slug it an have dig it out , you cant make there personal farm business public knowledge acres at farm before make move to big sandy 4700 to 5000 acres just an ballpark guess , enjoy scenery an green iron haha!!
Really like riding along with you guys! Also enjoy your background music. Would like the audio.
The music comes from the UA-cam library. Copywrite issues doesn’t allow for anything but what they allow.
Tracy , it doesn’t seem that there’s an area you show us that’s not beautiful, I’m glad the road trip went safe for all
And I’m glad you’re enjoying the countryside!
What a impressive fleet of equipment these people have ! I am thankful for your video' . I wonder how many acres the five combines can cut in a day . Thank you for sharing your lives with the rest of us .
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Remember the Flip Wilson character GERALDINE? (ref: road sign). Two fairly successful authors of early 20th century; B.M. Bower and Dan Cushman are claimed by Big Sandy. Bower was a ranch lady and wrote about late 19th century cowboy life (eg. The ship of the Flying U). Cushman wrote similar novels (eg. Stay away, Joe)
I will have to look this tidbit of info up! Thank you for sharing.
another krchhhhhhhh lovely krchhhhhhhhhh video krchhhhhhhhhhhh 😁😁
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This is the best harvest I've ever seen as far as breakdowns or your just not showing that part of it or they have a great maintenance program !!!
Good maintenance! We have had very little breakdowns - sickle sections, guards, etc. when we do, you will see it. Harvest is all about the good times and the bad ones.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Those are consumable/wear and tear items. I'll bet you have lots of spares!
Good video
Thanks for the visit
That looks like fun. I wish I could be part of what you guys are doing but I live in Florida just to far away to be involved.
Yes, Florida is a ways away.
Another great video, Wow what a move to new site, you guys make it look so easy and straight forward (sure it isn't). Think the 9RX looks better with the crew than Big Red.
The pit crew now their jobs well!!!
Well, are you adapting to the green machine? It looks like Jim is right at home with everything green, even the Gator.
I am. I’m still missing some of the NH features. But a combine is a combine. They all do the job they are intended to do.
Awesome videos. How many acres have the crew combined so far.
I honestly don’t know. But even if I did, I wouldn’t share that info out of respect for our farmer’s privacy. It’s BIG country!
(Hope you understand)
Did you and Jim know Brett before this journey?
No. Only through a mutual friend.
I go on harvest and the radio will be silent for an hour or two biy as soon as I get a phone cal everyone is on the radio.
ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!
You'll need to do the Grand when in FB and a vid of crossing the bridge! Plenty horse power for the grain cart in Big Sandy - you going to hook up the 747??
What do you do at the Grand? Just visit it? I’ll do a video, for sure, when we go to FB! 😉
Another notorious hotel! Quite the history!!
@@ianmuncaster8203 will read up on it before we visit.
Beautiful scenery out there and a great crop do you know an approximate acreage of that family farm?
It is really beautiful! I honestly don’t know. But even if I did, I wouldn’t share that info out of respect for our farmer’s privacy. It’s BIG country!
I love these videos! I teach and would love to use one of these videos--just a few minutes! Also I would like to know what camera you are using as well as what gimbal... The video quality is so good this year. I need to make some videos for my soil classes. Just asking
I would LOVE to have you use them for education! The camera is just my iPhone. If it’s the drone, I would have to ask Katie. If you need to contact me, you can email zcrew82@gmail.com.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTruckingdo you use a gimbal because they aren't bouncy! Or jiggly. Perfect. Not nauseating like a lot of them (like Blair witch!). Thanks. I will email you
It may have been said already but how many acres of wheat are you and the crew harvesting? Sorry if inappropriate.
I honestly don’t know. If I did, I wouldn’t share that information out of respect for the farmer’s privacy. It’s BIG country!
Thanks for your understanding!!
I have probably a dumb question but from the midwest we plant and harvest are own crops who plants the wheat you cutting? I travel out that way its neat to see how other farmers farm. Good luck and be safe.
The same farmers involved with the harvest have done the planting. Just Dennis (dad) and Brett (son).
So far, except for the one tractor, no major breakdowns?
No. And I hope I didn’t just jinx us.
Tracy, are there quite a few harvest contractors working that big triangle of wheat and oats area? Have you ever met the welkers?
There are custom harvesters in the area. I’m just not sure how many. No, I’ve never met the Welkers.
Sorry for the misspelling of patience
Both spellings make sense!
Would anyone like to put a value on all that machinery ?
What is the name of a town by you thats on the map. So I can see where you are
Right now - Big Sandy.
Homebase - Highwood
Tracy how are you. How many acres does that guy have . Hope you are all well. Sam
Hello, Sam!!
I am doing well, thanks! Much better now that I get to spend some time in the cab of a combine.
As far as farm size, I honestly don’t know. But even if I did, I wouldn’t share that info out of respect for our farmer’s privacy. It’s BIG country!
Do they grow any peas or anything else besides wheat n barley
Winter and spring wheat. And barley.
What happen to the kitten should have in cab withyou
I SHOULD! Everyone has their dogs with them…
She’s enjoying life in the trailer house.
What was the name of that burger please
The Loma Burger.
Thank you very much
Tracy, any idea how many acres you have harvested so far?
I do know what my machine has done. But out of respect for the farmer’s privacy, I’m going to decline reporting. Hope you understand.
Tracy what was the big gun Jim was suppose to surprise us with??
It’s yet to be shown. 😉
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Ok!! keeping us in suspense!! :)
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Tracy, when we cut in WY, it was LONG strips. How long are the fields you are cutting? Also, how many acres are you cutting totally each day?
Typically, we aren’t cutting strips. Just here in the Big Sandy area are we cutting strips. All previous fields have been boundaries determined by the ground. As far as acres go, it just depends on the crop, the ground conditions and the truck turn around.
how hard is it to change from wheat to barley
Just make a couple of pokes on the computer screen.
How are the yields at Big Sandy? Did the fire truck go up too?
The fire truck is shortly shown carrying one of the headers to big sandy.
Yes, the firetruck came, as well. The yields aren’t the phenomenal ones we’ve seen but nothing to be disappointed with!!
Millions in farm equipment.. but can’t afford a couple folding tables & some chairs for field dinners 😢 Somebody’s getting fired…🤔😉😂
Field meals are better without tables and chairs. Part of the experience!