Harvesters Cutting Steep Land in Washington USA
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- John Deere combines are shown here in action cutting a steep dryland winter wheat field in Walla Walla County, WA. Prescott, WA USA. This is basically the Palouse and harvest just started. 2024 bankout and combine videos in the cabs are incoming. Have a good one!
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Sliding in a near million dollar machine would freak me out big time! You guys have some big stones doing that job.
@@joelg8004 if its not your own machine and its insured, as long as the mechanical end holds up..should be a little less stressful.
@@TrevorStruthers I think I’d be more stressed if it wasn’t mine. Having to explain to the boss why it’s down a hill and upside down. 😂
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The first time a person swaps ends with a combine on a hill will cause you to fill your knickers really quick. I haven't had it happen on hills like the Skyrockets and I am very thankful. Respect to the farmers that grew up farming there.
Yeah theres some special moments when the transition happens. Thats for sure! Thanks Mike.
Love this knickers comment so much!
We were in Idaho driving around and the terrain was very similar to this and I was thinking to myself how do they plant and harvest this , it’s so steep . Now I know , thanks for sharing. Very cool
That closeup of the downhill turn had my butt puckered through the screen. Big respect from this flatland farmer 👍🏻
Definitely one of those moments for the driver as well. Real gentle on the hydro or youll be regretting the nose stand.
Only place I ever remembered to wear a seat belt
That separates the men from the boys!! Lol
Very impressive in the great Palouse Skyrockets wheat country.
There is only one thing that I would like to see and that is 50 foot hinged draper heads on those combines.
Again, thanks Trevor.
I will look for someone for you
@@TrevorStruthers Thanks. There are probably a few 50 footers around the Palouse now.
@@John-nc4bl i will talk to the JTI people who are demoing them in our area. I will message her now
Thanks so much for the videos looks like good crop and would be a thrill to harvest it 👍👍😀
It surely can be out in the steep stuff!
Great vid.
Anyone can work the easy paddocks but you guys are next level.
Loved the music.
Thank you!
@@TrevorStruthersis that land very rocky?
@@susanbarss477 No, not near Prescott. Theres talk of 800 feet deep dirt here before bedrock.
@@TrevorStruthers thanks , it looks like the soil is quite productive.
The old john deere's I ran you stayed way ahead on the leveling and hard on the brake so when the rear came off the ground the combine would pivot fast enough as to not roll over. The gleaners were to front heavy to turn downhill if steep, so would turn uphill until you couldnt go no more then let it spin the tires to dig holes to hold you while you leaned over and turn rear tires sharp the other way, then back out of your holes and let it slide down and around and head the other way.
Sounds like you should be a logger instead haha
Excellent!
Thank you papa. 😂
Wow! What beautiful countryside!
Thanks again Trevor, I bet there were some lights flashing and alarms buzzing in those cabs? Lovely filming and scenery.
No doubt. Especially if one were to leave it in 4wd going down a hill. Bouncing and beeping and your everything to the window!
Guitar music. I like it. Thanks
Thanks for the comment! Appreciate you.
Must be hard work getting up and down the ladder with the big nuts it takes to drive in those hills 😂
Lol
Impressive Video Trevor 🤩
I'd like to see how there fancy self-drive self-steer machines work on those hills. Only true operators could do what you guys do.
There is a limit to what auto-steer can do, and that is until you slide...then it kicks out and you gotta steer. AI isn't taking this job anytime soon!
I wouldn't be working after dark either
No we do not. Too easy to get turned around and go off an eyebrow or something
Reminds me of my years at Pullman. I didn't go to summer school so saw only 3 seasons.
Impressive Video Trevor, thank you
Thanks Tony! This one is gaining some traction it seems
wow, look at that view. These golden hills. Beautyful. Deutz Fahr makes such combines too, but they compensate lenght wise, not from side to side.
We talk about those little combines here as well. There was four way leveling in on really old massey ferguson combines. That little hydraulic ram holding up the rear of the combine is sketchy
Hey there hand,
So I've driven damn near all over this state, I've lived over here in Renton since 2001. I've always thoughy that those golden rolling hills were simply prairie grass like in south central Commifornia. So it's rather impressive that a farmer not only planted something up there, but those combine harvesters are fucking LEGIT!!
I've been wanting to try my hand at some this stuff after playing Farming Simulator with my kids, but there's no goddamn way I'm even suggesting to someone that i try my hand at harvesting in one of those harvesters on a hill like that?
Nope.
I'd be down with chasing grain with the cart though. I watch another farmer up in Canada-A (Farming And Easy) and another one in Minnesota (Millennial Farmer) and one more in the UK (Pemberton Farms) and now you. Really interesting watching how there needs to be farmers growing all these different crops for any number of uses.
It would be cool if next year i could bring my boys out to watch some fields being worked, yall ain't but a couple hours from me. I think just watching machinery being prepped for work would be sufficient as I'm not gunna try and chase anything thru those hills.
Keep on keepin on bro, stay safe and I'll keep watching
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For sure! You can email me at struthersfarming@gmail.com so we can talk some more. Mention you commented and i will remember
@TrevorStruthers so I'm guessing that the whole leveling system on those harvesters are all automatic? What a bitch it would be to have to do all that manually. That's some impressive stuff though. Most I've ever seen is the draper tilting one direction to the next to stay level with the ground. But they're not farming hills that weren't really meant to be farmed 🤣
Magnifique vidéo et les moissonneuse batteuse 780i et les pentes sont bien équipés et bien intéressante 😂😮😅😊
Thank you Frederic. A lot of people are tuning in, so it must be pretty good. Have a good one!
Thats ordinary harvesting here in central/south Italy. We have special combines that can harvest in much steeper terrain than whats shown here, and they are almost exclusive to Italy. Still, amazing video and equipement.
Trevor, I was wondering what is the preferred crop rotation for that area or is it not necessary for disease control. I farm grass seed and row crops in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and we have another farm division around the Boardman/Pendleton area also raising grass seed. When I was younger and my father was still with us farming I would try convincing him we should go into the Palouse area and farm the hills.. he thought that was a dumb idea 😂 I love that country, so scenic and I’d imagine a bit of a thrill ride in the various farm equipment.
Ideally a guy will plant legumes or peas between the wheat rotation. The moisture is so low though in parts of the area that youre going to grow crummy wheat because no water. It is and can be quite thrilling at times.
Its one thing combining on relatively flat ground but you need a lot more HP to pull up those hills while working.
They have adjustable struts that go into the ground attached to the wheels used in muddy soils like rice fsrming wonder if they would work in that application to help keep from sliding
I wonder as well. Someone else just said that in another video. We used to run chains on the really steep stuff, but that was smaller machines with smaller tires. I don't think the warranty covers damage done to the tires by tire chains these days. Maybe the struts as you say though. I;ve seen wheels made of metal from India. all things are possible.
Our yields here vary, and they say we farm three sides of an acre. We are on the edge of good rainfall, so our average is somewhere in the 70s to 80s...but 10 miles towards the mountains and the rainfall doubles and their getting 100 plus bushels to the acre. Where I work, we get rainfall in the teens and mostly sage brush grows but this year the farm averaged near 90. Good year! And no, you gotta be a good operator before you attempt this. That or a child and you don't know any better or different. We had hills growing up about 10 miles away from this field, but the skyrockets have some of the steepest land of the steepest lands in the state. Not everyones land is this steep. I hope that covers it and thanks for the watch! My brother in law custom cut from Texas to Colorado, so did my sister for a while. I just work around here, so I never realized it was that crazy.
Great birds eye view Trevor,.would be it be wise not to run full grain bins in such extreme field conditions and makes sense to have a safe park spot with disc harrows, we use to hitch up our trailing 18' grader and a water tanker ready as fire fighting units. It's interesting to see the farmer's homes as it does look like a nice location. Regards,..Bill.
Living in the middle if a wheat field has its advantages when it comes to the view for sure. Yeah, you try not to overfill the combine or the bankouts. Shifting grain can roll a bankout or a combine over the front. Best to stay empty. These things are already so heavy these days
That last step is a big one when the ladder is on the low side. 😳
How Washington farmers are more profitable then those in Kansas - in Washington, they farm both sides of the dirt ;)
and I live kind of nearby in the tri-cities..
Yeah, we’re farming 3 sides of an acre. Air measured acres are actually more in real life. Makes yields seem higher as well! 😂
My dad lives in Richland and farms in Prescott
@@TrevorStruthers because internet I won't say where, but I'm pretty sure I know where you're at - I go by there during the winter when I ski at Bluewood. Also do Search and Rescue in Columbia and Walla Walla County. I do 4x4 stuff and think it's nuts how steep of hills you farm.... and amazed. Good luck with the channel.
Good vid. Not too far from me. I remember having to put calcium in the rear tires of our 9610s to keep the rear tires on the ground with our corn header. Only being able to steer with the brakes is not the best feeling in the world.
it is definitely a different way to drive a combine!
Most people would never need to unhook the brakes from eachother.
Been waiting trevor.
Amazing video , as a retired farmer I wish that the public would watch video's like this . Could you space the duals out further for better stability ? Or would it be too much strain on the drivetrain ? Just curious , how many combines tip over on terrain like that ?
I havent seen one tip over in 4 years and that one went over because it came out of gear when transporting it without a header on it. More likely still to be a fire than a rollover that takes a machine.
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how come these combines are on tyres that would otherwise be on tractors used primarily on roads? do they have better side to side grip?
Better to slide with. Soft sandy and silty soil here so Ag tires rut it up and can cause rollovers from the piles building up. Thanks for the comment!
@@TrevorStruthers This would be an interesting video topic in its own right. (Types of tires/tracks for different terrain.)
@@LRFtheLion lots of people asking this question
@@TrevorStruthersseems like a lot of sidewall pressure on the tires. How they don’t roll off the bead?
@@TrevorStruthers would tracks work better? Greetz from Belgium 😊 Awesome location yo have fields... I guess the field is as big as Belgium lol! And Belgium is way flatter 😅
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What keeps those hillsides from washing out when it does rain?
Go Cougs!!!!!
Hi, interesting about the turf tyres, now am wondering if rubber tracks can be used? 😊
Yes you can! They arent worth much on a sidehill though. Mostly good in mud, but soft dirt on steep terrain makes the tracks not great. The tractors do well with them only when the tractor articulates. My t track john deere is not great for turning on hills loaded.
Go Cougs!
lol. you are on brand.
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You would grow accustomed to the hills eventually, but never lose your fear or you will get hurt.
How come the combines doesn't run with regular Deep Lug Tyre AG tyres? Non-directional tyres usualy used on trailers and such seems to be very common on combines in Orgeon/Washington/Idaho but I hardly ever see it elsewhere!
I always figured they were standard combine tires. We run them on all the combines and my vector. Its for the hills. We go backwards up hills as well as forwards
Those aren’t the normal combine tires. Are the designed specifically for steep terrain?
Theyre meant to let the combine slide a bit and not mound up the sidehills with ruts. A bit of sliding is better than pushing a pile and dogging a hole that may send you into a rollover.
Percentage wise, how much cost does the Hillco conversion add vs a level land combine?
Theyre about 50k for the extreme leveling ones like we run. A bit cheaper (40k for the ones that dont level as much. This is 2012 prices though, it may have gone up
What's the yield in the Prescott area these days Trevor??
Great shots of home.
This year is a good year. Prescott is getting reports of 100+ bushels an acre. The new varieties like shine and jefe just produce some massive heads with the right rain. They are dwarf (short) plants but big heads and not as prone to lodging. I am glad to give you a look at the old home on the range.
@TrevorStruthers Thanks 😊 100 bu. that almost doubles what we harvested in the skyrockets when I was young,so kool.
@@williskinder7794 new varieties specially tailored to our environment here are doing well when we get rain. Selective breeding has culminated in shine, thats going near 200 bushels to the acre near walla walla in irrigated stuff though.
@@williskinder7794 got double the population now, so the yields need to be better.
Great driving skills, do you cut on the hills after dark or do you drop down to more flat fields in the dark?
No, the grain growers close at 7 pm or some would run in the dark. Once you open the piece up and have gps navigation, its not so bad.
I would turn differently. First go up a little and then go down backwards. So it will never lift your rear axle.
But i'm sure here are professionals at work and know what they're doing. Nice work!
That would probably work but it would take too long! Gotta just letter rip. They been power sliding in combines out here since the combines had power. Lol. I will pass it slong though. Thanks for the comment!
@@TrevorStruthers that would work 100٪. I turn for 20 year like i wrote in my comment. So i guess my suggestion is: safe but slow than fast and (hope not) sorry? :-)
Can someone tell me why the combines are running “turf tires”. Here we farm some feet steep ground. It is common to be cutting wheat at a 45 slope because the becase the combine sliding. We have ground so steep our SP case patriot sprayers can’t make it up them in dry conditions but we run very aggressive cleats on our tires. Are we missing something?
Our ground is soft and steep. You wanna slide, if you didnt it would pile up and roll you. These diamond tread are designed to slide a bit. Youll see them on the combines k in the skyrockets.
Where you guys farming? Out in Wasco county? They were saying our hills arent as steep as theirs. They eventually conceded
@@TrevorStruthers no we’re in north central Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna river valley. We have to watch how much we slide small fields and lots of trees. You guys may be steeper. Videos don’t do ground justice on slopes. We farm a lot 8-12% but have quite a bit of 15-22
@@TrevorStruthers it’s my goal to make it to that country and see the land. I have been fascinated with the Palouse for many years now.
at 2:53-2:60 that is about one of the most scariest maneuvers that is made on these steep hill, separate the men from the boys.
Yessir. The downhill turn gets the blood pumping for sure.
@@TrevorStruthers it's no picnic usually followed by cold sweat.
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I need to show and explain how exciting this farming is compared to normal farming. You are right. Most people would not understand
Kinda makes you pucker up.
Iv harvested some steep hills we are talking maxing out the leveler and the combine is not level
These new ones don't level nearly as much as the old ones. They hit maximum level so quickly that its kinda stupid. It helps, but you still lean out. The older ones leveled a lot more, like the 1470's
@@TrevorStruthers our neighbor has 2 9870sts’s and one has a hillco leveler and one has a rohco leveler and the rohco levels out a lot more
We drove through that Hill Country a number of years ago. It's spectacular! But I wondered, and I still wonder, why doesn't the rain wash ruts down those hills?
It did quite often when we used to pound the dirt with plows and rodweeders. Now with no til one pass its more rare to see. Ive seen hundreds of yards of soil moved to flats on the highly erodible places
Turn up hill to loop around on the end would be better and safer. That way you're not nose down on a slope. Or turn up and back up to line up. The way you guys are doing it is hard on the finals.
Im sure all of this isnt easy on these machinea
How would the X9 work in hills?
Good question. There is probably one or two running around out here somewhere. Its the weight and the cost of the damn things that make me wary. Lol
@@TrevorStruthers ya like putting an aircraft carrier in a lake
What is the first song
The poor by jesse welles
The video is great but drop the "song"
Noted.
Harvesters in full funembulism mode
Can I ask what music track that is ? Great video.
The first song is Jesse Welles “The Poor” and you can find him on youtube, and the rest are doctor turtle
Impressive I take it they spray with planes???
Ground rigs behind a tractor. Usually a quad track because they make less tracks. Much is sprayed with a plane though when the time runs short
U not driving a combine this year ?
No im in bankout for a different farm. I will be in combines of other peoples but not driving them
Great video. Nasty music
I like it
I always thought you should turn uphill, seems turning downhill you would lose ability to turn.
Turning uphill on these hills is impossible most times. Too soft, you will just dig a hole
A SHAME THAT LAND IS MEANT FOR HORSES
Ha ha maybe you should buy it and put horses on it then…….
You mean mules? Or maybe you mean pasture? Bill gates may agree
@@TrevorStruthers NAH ! I MEAN HORSE POWER/DRAWN LIKE 3 SPAN OF 6 LIKE THE DAYS OF MY ANCESTORS
@@StephenMortimer i thought so. Yeah the machines drug by mules(horses) could go where it is too steep for us to go today
Looks like that land should be pasture with livestock. Should have never been turned into farmland. So wrong
I'm glad you stimulated the algorithm with your opinions. Have a good one!
@@TrevorStruthers nothing like a hard rain to wash all the topsoil and cut gullies
@@bobf1174 whens that happening ? It rains 14 inches a year here
@@bobf1174 did you see a lot of these washouts in my videos in the field? There are none
@@TrevorStruthers you have never in the last 75 years had a 3-4” hard rain
Turn off that shity music
Youre the one with the volume knob
Shitty has two Ts.
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I like the music! Was curious who it is
Thank you
@@johnlund1464 Jesse Welles "The Poor" is the first song. He is a rising youtube star. He hasn't hit me yet for the copyright. lol.
the other is doctor turtle. I will put them in the description
@@johnlund1464 Jesse Welles - The Poor
Doctor Turtle - Last Slate of the Roof
Doctor Turtle - Rocinantes Lament