Who Needs A Gator? / Day 23 Highwood Montana Wheat Harvest (August 11)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Pretty much the same today as the previous few - we cut wheat.
And went through a deep coulee with the combines.
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Getting those combines through the ravine was a real trick at about 6 minutes in! Glad you videoed that Tracy!
Operating a machine, feeling the power, listening to the sounds and with a view like that to top it all off. Wow, I miss those days! Thanks for another great video. Stay safe everyone!
Thank you for your kind words.
What a blessing to enjoy such scenery while performing a job you love. Love your videos!
It is the best!
Two days in a row he has waved. Is he on a new medication?😀
And talking to Tracy to video 😅
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There’s a John Deere promotional video right there!! 👍🏽👍🏽 Great job.
Too everyone
That's right, I'm John Deere. Through-and-through.
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Tracy, you are more than brave to be going down into that "gorge" -- I would not have been a team member at that point. But then that's why you are and I'm just watching!! And what is it with those Montana sunsets? This one is more than mesmerizing! Thank you for your videos, especially on this run!
I’m so glad you enjoy them!!! ❤️
The coulee crossing was crazy! Yet another awesome video Tracy. Thanks for sharing. 😊
It truly was!
What an experience! Love the views!
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Tracy, how does anyone ever not gain 100 lbs. That food that is prepared for the crew looks so good .I think I gained weight just looking at the food on the table.Great videos and beautiful country.
I’m certain we have ALL gained a few extra lbs!!
Combines climbing a wall..Hell of a ride! You did good Tracy
Uhhhh, yeah!!! It was a heck of a ride, for sure!
Another beautiful Montana morning!
Man, I want to be in Montana!! So beautiful!
I love this state!
4 wheeling in the combine and a wildlife in the shot also and more food-- --what a life!
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What a ride and the view of the other combines too. Holding my breath
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Beautiful just Beautiful!!!
Thanks Jim and Tracey for sharing again
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I don't know if I could have done that crossing, but you did a fantastic job. Another great video! Thank you Ms. Tracy!!!
Thank you so much. I figured if three of the four made it, I could too. I was a bit nervous.
I’m grateful that you and Jim are bringing us along for your adventure. I know how hard it must be to change from custom cutting to being employed by someone. I really appreciate your hard work. Jerome Manhattan Ks.
Thank you so much, Jerome!
Tracy you Jim and the crew do a great job in the combine and a great job videoing all those beautiful sunsets its a pleasure to watch all that you do and see everyday thanks for the ride
Thanks for watching!!!!
Awesome day. Kinda of a slow start, but then things was running on an even keel. When you were going through them hills and valleys, couldn’t have been fun, then on to a better day. What an Amazing sunset. Then a couple hours after supper. Lookin forward to tomorrow. CYA
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Go ahead. Make my day..... Thank you.
Great scenery😊
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It was really sad to see you guys business go down, but man did you really strike a goldmine as for something to do. What a beautiful area,farm and family you have met. I have watched all your videos from there
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It’s been a tough spring (for me). I was so thankful when I found out we were coming here! Truly was all God.
Food looks good,enjoyed your video ❤️👍
Thank you!
Nice country up there. Been there hauling fall calves out.
Beautiful!
Great video. I was puckering up when you traveled thru the gorge. Beautiful country.
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Great to watch! It looks pretty scary to me going with the combines through that deep coulee! It is fun to see other people too wearing your 'Zeorian Harvesting T shirt'!
The sunset is amazing in the end of the video! Thanks for uploading the video. I think it is really great you make those videos, these are great memories for you too. Greetings, Marco
They’ll be a lot of fun to sit and watch over the winter months! Thanks for your kind words, Marco!
I love indian tacos!! Compliments to the chef, she whips up pretty good meals. Looks like another good field. Clean wheat
She truly outdoes herself with each meal!
Fort Benton where we loaded lot of wheat out peas few other specialty crops.
I hope we can get back during the day and explore.
Well done on the drive through that rough terrain Tracy and thanks to Jim for waving......I nearly fell off my chair 😂😂😂😂😂
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I hope you guys have a good weekend !!!
Thanks! We’ll be cutting wheat.
Thank You for another amazing video, and there is no sunset like a Montana sunset just breathtaking
100% agree!
He loves that gator lol😁
I do love green paint. Cause its.john Deere an I love green.combines
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beautiful country. God Bless You All
It’s gorgeous!
VERY NICE CROSSING WE LOVE IT THANK YOU FOR LETTING COME ALONG
Glad you’re along!!
That's some farming operation they have and look after everyone very well, that was a good bit of off roading you did
Indian tacos looked awesome, Coulee crossing very cool, sunset Montana style! 😊
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my favorite parts of these are the early evening sun, the shadows and the magnificent sunsets
Agree with you!
Wow what hills
Amazing!! Well done!!
Thank you!
I have really enjoyed these video's. I did the harvest run for a few years with my brother around 1980. By the time we got our crops in in ND, we would start cutting in Medford , Ok. These video's bring back wonderful memories. I think you have had better meals than we did😢
We haven’t had one bad meal. And have added a few extra lbs to go with it. Thanks for sharing your memories!!!
They definitely take care of their people, definitely a good place to work
They definitely do! ❤️
That was quite a coulee to climb into and out of. Did they take loaded grain carts back thru there to fill the semis? Surely they didn't take their semi's in through that path. Thanks for the great video and photography again!
PS, that food served by the ladies looks superb. Never has seen a simple sandwich, chips, and drink. Always all this other breads, veggies, etc, ... I would work for those folks for their food only!
The trucks took the road. We had finished cutting the field on the other side and for quick travel to the next one, we crossed the coulee. No grain was hauled through it.
We have sandwiches and chips for lunch.
Goot stuff!
Looking forward to a ferry crossing!
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Many years ago in our area they had to back the combines up Peck & Lacy Rd - not REAL far from where you are now.......
Interesting. Why did they back them up? Ok know my grandpa used to load his combine on the truck using a ditch.
Them combines cuttin at sun down sure are pretty👌👌.
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Wow you should get hazard pay for that one lol😂😂 all that fantastic food makes up for it 😊😊
The food does help. But I had to question what the heck they were doing!
You and Jim are have an awesome experience in the Highwood area!
Awesome camera work by all!
Thank you!
Tracy this was one of the very best videos I’ve seen Thank you
Why thank you so very much!
Great video tracy growing wheat on top of a mountain un real
It wasn’t on a mountain. We just had to cross the deep coulee (ravine) to get to the next one.
Another awesome video Tracy, you can’t beat a combine sunset! 😊
Nope!
As always such a beautiful video , you always save the best for last . THE SUNSETS are incredible . Thank you for sharing with everyone . I am certain that when you switched fields is was a little white nuckle time .
And sweaty palms!
a wonderful ride, thanks
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Great video. Watching from Dundalk, Ireland....
Very cool!! Thanks for checking in!
Bet you had your legs crossed going down that hill. Great looking supper spread
Well, it was going up the steep side that had me more concerned!
You need to tell Jim if he walked with you he could have an extra slice of pie or a couple extra cookies 😂 another great video Tracy.
I think Jim would have his pie and cookies anyway. 😁😁
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That crossing reminded me of a field I used to harvest. I was driving a JD 6600 ( telling on my age here.) and had to keep the header low because it was so steep. More steep than this crossing. Fine job Tracy, fine job. Oh by the way, that was a great shot of the Mule deer too.
I can’t imagine doing anything steeper!
Jim turning into a big teddy bear! 😉
He always has been.
that was one deep draw the food looks good
Yes, it was!
Crossing that coulee was amazing! Don’t think I could have done it! Loved seeing the deer! GREAT job!! I think this day is mislabeled as day 22? Should be day 23??
Great job on dinner Carol! Looked so good!
Absolutely LOVING all these videos! Thank you Tracy so much for doing and sharing them they are so very special to me. I wish I could have met you when I was there! 🎉🎉🎉
I’m so glad you’re enjoying them! Yes, you’re right! It was supposed to be 23.
Combines are 4wd😂.Never seen that .I have To go there in Montana.Philippe from France
These are we’re not 4WD. However, our last NH combine was.
Just 1 moment where the brilliance of Tracy is noted by an witness....who was also proud on his wife...
"I watched her coming over the crossing and she was not slipping and digging like we did" we don't need to say more.
The way all was filmed: Spielberg eat your hart out.....
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Thank you.
Like a Hurd of Deere crossing the coulee
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Most expesive off road machines they did good the old saying holds true you get what you pay for
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👍👍always a awesome video 😀
Thanks, Jhan!
Super videos. I would love to be able to run one of the combines for a day there, the same S780's we use in Alberta
Wide open spaces. Except when climbing coulees. 🤣
Yes and yes amen to all the other comments ! Was there an estimate of how many bushels in that outside storage pile you showed? I’ve seen corn but was surprised to see wheat , gotta do etc..
Again thanks to you especially but everyone .
I don’t know the answer to that question. I’ll ask Bret and see what he says.
Tracy is there a big difference in a John Deere combine and a new Holland as far as power and efficiency they both look very comparable thank you
i did that change shorts lol. hi jessie james.
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Thank you!
Sometimes when harvesting corn at night, sparrows are roosting on the cornstalks and they get them jerked out from under them by the corn head. Don’t think have ever run one through the machine though.
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Tracy I would rather drive the combine through the cooley then a loaded grain cart.
The grain cart wasn’t loaded. Everyone was empty when we made the crossing.
That would have been a daunting task even after seeing the 3 combines in front of you make it. We don't have anything close to that here.
Ohhhhh, it had my palms sweaty and that typically doesn’t happen. I worried about it stalling out about half way up.
Really love watching you this year but for us old fans that can’t hear please use close caption
I don’t know why it doesn’t do it. It’s supposed to automatically have closed caption.
Understand sometimes technology sucks
Great Sunset, I wonder about what year that country was first farmed ? Thanks for Sharing 😊
Early 1900’s
I was going to say,, there should be some deer popping out of that cooly
Yep! 😉
I bet the crossing of the coulee would raise your heart beat a little. AFG
Ohhhh, it did!
Y’all went mountain climbing in the combine yesterday huh 😂
We did Hayden! I thought they were crazy. But we all made it just fine.
So how many acres of wheat has been harvested and how many acres remain to be harvested? Keep the videos coming. Thanks!
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!
Did you have to pry your fingers loose from the steering wheel after that coulee crossing? You would've had to pry my butt off the seat too.😳
Almost!
another great hiilclimb do they combines feel a little light going down that steep slope ? got a new nickname for jim gatorjim
No. It went down easy. It was taking it up that I got concerned.
Did the tractors/carts and trucks take a road route to the field, a route that had an obstacle that the header would not fit? I'm assuming the choice was remove headers and trailer them, or to keep them mounted and traverse through the coulee. Is this what happened? Good job navigating the terrain!
Trucks took the road. We had just finished cutting the field on the other side of the coulee and this was the shortest route to the next.
My grandpa and uncle had hill they would back down with the bin almost full otherwise the header would be too heavy and would bottom out or tip forward, for the farmers that don’t use the grain to feed is most it railed out?
Hauled to the elevator. And then a train takes it to the west coast.
It keeps getting better! How many more harvests days have you got there to get it all in?
Not sure. Maybe 5 or 6.
Hi Tracy what is your favourite machine to drive a John Deere or a new Holland harvesting
A New Holland, of course! 😉
Will you be able to finish harvest with them before you have to head back to nebraska for fall harvest? East central il i think we will be able to cut our esrly 2.9 maturity beans first week of September way they are atarting to turn yellow
Yes, we will. However, Jim just found out the early corn in Eastern Nebraska will be ready for harvest the end of the month. Guess no vacation this year…
I used to haul all that farm equipment up in the dakotas and eastern mt and always wondered how they could manage using such big equipment when all I saw was little fields from the interstate. It’s overwhelming how massive the layout. You probably mentioned it earlier in videos but how many acres do they have or are they doing custom harvesting also? Looks like thousands of acres through your camera. Again thanks for sharing your experience with us
There are no custom cutters here. Strictly family-owned farm and equipment. There are thousands but 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!!
Tracy, did you ever find out how long it took to plant all of this wheat when it takes you this many days to harvest
I have not. Seems like I may have overheard them tell Jim 10 days. But I’m not sure.
Lots of skips leaving small amounts of crop, is the auto steer off or the human setting it?
Seriously?
How many miles has Jim put on that gator? Great video!
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Do you guys grow anything other than Winter and spring wheat??
We are working for this family-owned farm. Yes, they grow barley.
How many acres are you going to cut altogether? With the four machines.
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!!
How many acres of crop land does this family have?
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!!
Where are they hauling the grain to?
On farm storage and various elevators.
What was the animal down by the water hole?
A deer
I would much rather skip supper and quit a hour earlier
I like the break!