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00:00Today I have my tractor out in the field. We're a long ways from home and after this field is done
00:05we're moving even further away. I do not have time to drive all the way home and back considering
00:11that we have rain on the horizon. So tonight I'm going to be camping in a cornfield. You ready?
00:17You know how much we love camping but recently we've just been so busy we have not had a chance
00:23to. So we're up in the attic and I think I found what we're looking for. A little dusty
00:28but should have everything we need. Six person instant cabin tent. There's just two of us so
00:34we should have plenty of room to spread out. Got it? Okay don't fall. I think we're also gonna need
00:42this right here. A little camp stove. I don't know if this is proper ladder etiquette here
00:50maintaining like one point of contact at all times. I got the rest of our supplies. I think
00:57we're ready to have the tractor. How are we gonna fit all this in the cab? I have not figured that
01:00out yet. This right here is what we're getting rid of. Cultivator will come through, slice, and
01:07overturn. Ripping all of these out by the ruts. And we can do this a lot cheaper. So the neighbor is
01:16actually having his field sprayed. But we can just do it with a tractor. Look at this Grant.
01:22Oh we missed that. See where these seeds are coming from? This right here. Harvest is very important for
01:30several reasons. It's the culmination of our entire year. So you want to do your best to obviously get
01:35all the grain through the combine in the truck and then sold to market. But it's not just important
01:40because of the money. If we lose crops on the ground it creates more problems for us next year.
01:46And we're paying for that now. We're going for the least amount of weeds possible in our fields. But
01:53also the least amount of chemical use. We don't really want to be spraying our fields any more than we
01:58have to. We also don't own a sprayer. Which means we have to hire someone else to spray our fields for us.
02:04Meaning it is even more expensive. We own a tractor and a cultivator. So this is something that we can
02:11do by ourselves. It doesn't use any chemicals. And it's cheaper. Well this might be a first.
02:18Tracking my tent to get into the tractor. Oh there's room for it. Did we have to use a six person tent?
02:27Well this is all we had. You know I like to spread out a little bit. Okay that's not so bad.
02:34I can still see all my screens. I think we can do this. Oh we got a raindrop.
02:42Hopefully that doesn't interfere with our damping plans. That's not good. Well we better get to work.
02:49We better get to work.
02:53The tent blocks the view just a little bit. But all in all it's not bad. Luckily our tractor is even
02:59equipped with a refrigerator. So we're able to carry all of our food for the day. Drinks.
03:06Enough to stay hydrated. And then some dinner to put on the grill later tonight. Provided we're not
03:12rained out. Watching in between these wheel wells super closely because I do not want to run over any
03:20corn. Just plug and ride along. I have about a half tank of fuel and depth. That should be plenty to
03:33get me through the day. This tractor only has 579.6 hours on it. Each row unit attached to the bar
03:42is equipped with a set of springs. So they move independently of each other. The bar sits rigid
03:49but the row units have a little bit of play to them. I can control the depth by moving the three
03:55point. The rear hitch here I have it set at about 28%. But also by adjusting that top length. That's
04:03that cylinder right here. And that's how I can pitch the bar forwards and back. It looks kind of
04:09complicated. But all in all this is a very simple operation. Getting to the end of the pass. I use
04:18this throttle to slow down and pick up with one of my fingers so I don't run over any corn. Now I'm in
04:26the end rows. As you can see it's a lot drier over here. I take over for the auto steer and turn the
04:33wheel as hard as it can go. I'm waiting for my auto steer line to line up on that second monitor there.
04:40I'm just going to speed up just a tad bit. I'm looking down the rows. You can see where I've been
04:44and where I haven't been. That's my auto steer and it locks in on this screen right here. And I'm all
04:51lined up. Then as soon as I'm out of these end rows here, press my three point down and get back to work.
04:59If you rode with me for just a couple rounds, don't worry. Right here I would teach how to do this
05:10and I bet you'd pick it up in no time. When I am driving on the end rows for long periods of time,
05:16they're planted the opposite direction that the main field rows are. I just keep that little silver tip
05:23on the end of the hood. My little hood ornament aligned with the middle of the row so I don't run
05:28over any more corn than necessary. That is why we went to all the trouble of taking our front duals off.
05:34So that's two less tires running over corn. Ultimately, when turning around though, it is
05:42inevitable. We just run over some corn, but it's worth it. Those plants are sacrificing their lives for
05:49the greater good of the whole field health. Keeping weeds out. The fertilizer tip tanks are still out
05:57in this field from when we fertilized a couple weeks ago. This pivot is slowly but surely moving
06:05from this west side of the field over to the east side of the field so we can cultivate under it.
06:09It looks like they're in the distance. There's another tractor working, probably doing the exact same job.
06:15If anyone drives by or wonder what they'll think this thing in the cab is with me.
06:20It has been a long time since I have been camping in a tent. Grant, I love camping and the last time we
06:27went together was last summer. It rained like four inches and we woke up, hooked the camper up, and took
06:35off to South Dakota. The last time I was tent camping, if my memory serves me correctly, is when Grant and
06:42I got engaged in South Dakota and this is the tent we were camping in. That was over five years ago.
06:51Can you believe that? Grant proposed to me at the most beautiful spot in the Black Hills while we were
06:58on a dirt biking trip and I have such great memories so I am excited to hopefully relive those tonight.
07:05Getting out of the cab to stretch my legs a little bit and I thought I'd show you what we're actually doing.
07:10Right here, this is the end result. Beautiful hill spots right up by the base of the corn. Getting rid of
07:17any weeds. Making sure that these green things have the best life possible. Spend a lot of time and effort
07:23and money to do that. But you know what? That reminds me, it's probably about time I take care of myself
07:30with some other little green things. Just like we give these plants everything they need to thrive, not just survive.
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08:55on the road or in the field. I seem to have collected a bit of a pile. Let's go check it out. First, let's lift up.
09:05Oh my goodness gracious. Now how did this happen?
09:19Look at this. So this right here, the corn plants are supposed to be planted over here,
09:27but it looks like the planter just fell off the row. So we have a guest row here. As you can see,
09:33it is much wider than the rows next to it. And it looks like we just started collecting all the trash
09:41from this row right here. The combine must have gotten plugged, leaving behind these long strands
09:50that get caught and collect the rest. Man, harvest mistakes. You pay for them for the rest of the year.
09:57I will say it is a beautiful day outside of the cap though. Looks like the corn over there experienced just a little bit of cultivator blight.
10:08That would be an old farmer thing. Cultivator blight is not a disease.
10:13It just means I accidentally ran over some corn. Oops. Can you see that lighter green corn there
10:22compared to this dark green stuff right here? That stuff is the beginning of our dry land corners.
10:29So that is not under the pivot. It is planted at a lower population and usually doesn't even do
10:37half as well as the stuff in the fields. Unless of course we actually get rain, which fingers crossed.
10:47I try to stay plenty hydrated while I'm in the cab all day because even though I'm in the AC and I have
10:53a roof over me, I'm still getting sunshine from all angles and I just like to, you know, stay hydrated,
10:59drink plenty of water. But that means that I regularly have to use the restroom and there's not exactly a
11:08port-a-potty sitting at the edge of the field. And as we've already established, I cannot go home,
11:13which means I think I'm going to be making a pit stop in that tree line over there very soon.
11:18And you know what? It's a good excuse to get out of the cab, peel the weather, stretch my legs a little bit,
11:24and check everything over. I want to make sure we're not missing any bolts or anything.
11:29Definitely smells like fresh-turned dirt out here, but it also smells like corn.
11:41Yep, definitely corn.
11:43Pretty soon our little ears are going to be growing out of this.
11:51Doesn't taste like corn yet. We moved fields. The sun is about
11:59six fingers from the horizon. You know, I don't know what that means time-wise,
12:05but the sun's starting to go down. And over the course of the day, I have consumed a certain
12:11amount of snacks will be unnamed and a certain amount of drinks, just finishing up a Celsius,
12:19even though the evening is winding down, and have developed two pimples. I don't know how that's
12:23possible, but we are still out here. I'm getting hungry. What we really need to do is determine how
12:35long are we going to go before we stop. Not because we're tired of being out here or the job is done,
12:43but because we need enough daylight to set up our tent.
12:49It's been a while since I've set up this tent, and we also still need to build a fire and cook
12:53ourselves dinner.
12:54Let's ponder these things together, shall we? This might sound crazy, but I actually think
13:03that the corn has gotten taller since we've been out here today. Maybe I'm going crazy. I've just been
13:10staring at corn since I woke up this morning. I think it's growing.
13:16The sun is behind a cloud now, so I can no longer do, oh, four, three fingers above the horizon.
13:31Anybody know what time that is? Die, weeds, die.
13:38Did it get them?
13:39Oh, pretty good. Oh, that is not good. Look, dark blue clouds in the sky. We're supposed to camp tonight.
13:51Oh, oh yeah, that. How did that happen? I'm going along on an auto steer line.
14:02That's it just kicking off right there. I don't, it's something messed up with the planter.
14:09It's a good thing I know how to just manually drive a tractor. So I'm driving down and it says my line
14:24is nine inches, 10 inches off. That would definitely explain it. Looks like we're doing things manually
14:32for a little while. Computers are excellent, but there is very much still human error involved.
14:38That's why you have to stay vigilant. Well alert. Do you think cultivator neck is a thing?
14:44Because I've just been turned around looking like this most of today and I'm realizing that's
14:50probably where a lot of my neck and back pain come from.
14:56I cannot imagine trying to do this without auto steer.
15:01I have so much respect for people who farmed on a cabless tractor with no auto steer.
15:14How? How?
15:18Calling her in the field, headed to the tree line.
15:22We are losing daylight quickly and it's been a very long time since I have set up a tent.
15:28So I'm going to start constructing that. Grant is going to start building a fire.
15:34I'm on fire duty. I love building fires.
15:37We'll see how this goes.
15:38We may have a new hole in the tent.
15:45Uh oh.
15:49This might have sat in the bag for a few too many years.
15:51Like the hole just appeared?
15:55Forcefully appeared.
15:57If you put a hole in the tent.
15:59Uh, let's rotate the tent.
16:01Oh man, that was an easy tent set up over.
16:14Okay.
16:16Oh my goodness, there's goodies in here.
16:18Goodies?
16:20From the last camp it's done?
16:22Yeah, I don't even know when.
16:27I just can't believe a mouse hasn't gotten in here.
16:29By the...
16:34I found a patch for our hole.
16:36Oh nice.
16:37That's convenient.
16:38By the looks of the skies, we should probably put the rain flyer.
16:41Definitely.
16:55Got some paper towels from the cab here.
16:59There's all these corn huts that blew off the fields from last fall.
17:20They're pretty good.
17:22They're pretty good.
17:35Look, I got fire.
17:37That looks great.
17:47I got fire.
18:01Has anyone ever successfully put a rain fly on by themselves?
18:05This feels impossible.
18:13That fire smells good.
18:16Building it on wet grass does not work very good.
18:23Did you see that lightning bug, Grant?
18:24A lightning bug.
18:25That's probably the first of the year.
18:30You're right.
18:30Rain fly is on.
18:33Hopefully we don't need it.
18:35Gotta keep the bugs out of the tent.
18:37Ah, check this out.
18:55Okay.
18:56Okay.
18:56Just need to position the chair out of the smoke.
19:06I think my wood's a little wet.
19:09Have you gotten some corn stalks from the field?
19:11Is that what you've been gathering?
19:13Yeah, I've had a grass there.
19:14More proper kindling.
19:21I don't want to set my hair on fire.
19:26Wow.
19:27How'd that go?
19:28I think you gotta keep doing that.
19:30Master fire builder.
19:35Some of these are wet.
19:36You gotta get one on top.
19:41And don't touch the fire.
19:42Is that lighting?
19:45Oh no.
19:46I think that was bigger than a lightning bug, Grant.
19:57Stick with the plan.
19:57Let's stay the course.
19:58You read my mind.
20:02What's the saying?
20:02Adapt and overcome.
20:04We got the rain fly and we have a fire.
20:06That's what you need to survive in the wild, right?
20:08What could go wrong?
20:09I guess we got the hot dogs in the cooler in the cab.
20:11We got the hot dogs.
20:13And I've got a surprise.
20:15A can of beans.
20:17All right, now we're getting some.
20:18Has the wood caught yet?
20:19I think it has.
20:22Yeah, let me see that.
20:24Sorry.
20:25It's good.
20:25I try and put them in the middle a little bit.
20:27Like stick them in.
20:29Last year's harvest is providing in one way than one.
20:32There we go.
20:37Is it ripping?
20:38I don't know about ripping, but.
20:40We're getting somewhere.
20:48If it doesn't, I've got some paper towels in the cab that might catch.
20:51Yeah, that's what I used to start it.
20:53You can get this good and hot so we can cook hot dogs over the colts.
20:56That's what I'm thinking.
20:57And that can of beans, maybe we should start those now.
21:00I'm going to find a way to open it or open it into a ball.
21:04Cans explode and fires?
21:06Yes.
21:08Did you bring a blanket to the tractor?
21:11I did.
21:14Recover from the tent.
21:17Okay.
21:20Good night, surprise tractor.
21:22It's been a long day's work.
21:25This fire's keeping the bugs away.
21:26Yeah, it's coming nice.
21:33What do you think about one other log on that side there?
21:35Oh, I was thinking over here.
21:36Let's put two on.
21:40I'm going to do this kind of small.
21:42Just hold on here or something here.
21:45Were you in the boy scouts?
21:47Nope.
21:50We're going to have boy scouts around here.
21:52Just let it cook down a little bit, then we can put it hot.
21:55Perfect.
22:05This lightning storm is crazy.
22:14Video does not do it justice.
22:16I think the beans are done.
22:31You going for a scoop?
22:32They look scoop.
22:33Is that good?
22:34Good.
22:37Oh my!
22:38Oh, there's grass here.
22:39Let's go to the top out.
22:40Let's go to the top out.
22:58Okay.
22:58We're good.
23:08Oh my god.
23:09Hurry.
23:19We're going to get to the top out.
23:20I bet we can escape the top.
23:22Oh man, we got to be in the top.
23:23Okay.
23:24We need to get the bottom out.
23:26We need to get the bottom out.
23:27All right, you can just let that open the fire up.
23:31Okay.
23:43Okay, maybe we should just go home.
23:50We probably should have made sure that the tent had stakes.
23:56Or check the weather.
23:58But you know what? Either way, my darn sleeping bag is in this tent.
24:02And I'm going to give it the old college try.
24:06Are we going to hold out?
24:10I have faith.
24:11Are you sure?
24:18Maybe we should back it up and go home.
24:23I don't think I can move.
24:27You got yourself a sail.
24:33What have we gotten ourselves into?
24:37I don't know.
24:38I don't know.
24:52Are you okay?
24:53I don't know where the top is.
24:54Hold on.
24:55Come this way.
24:56I don't know where the top is.
24:57Hold on.
24:58Come this way.
24:59You have to put it on your back head.
25:00I don't know where the top is.
25:01Hold on.
25:02Come this way.
25:03You have to put it on your back head.
25:04I don't know where the top is.
25:05Hold on.
25:06Come this way.
25:07Hold on.
25:08Hold on.
25:09Come this way.
25:10You have to put it on your back head.
25:14You have to put it on the track test for you.
25:32This is Laura Farms reporting to you live
25:35from the farm slash field.
25:37It is pouring rain, but we're going to stick it out.
25:42I'm here for the long haul.
25:44No, we're not.
25:45We're taking the tractor home.
25:48This is a disaster.
25:51Okay.
25:52Well, we'll check back with you guys in the morning.
25:55This is going terribly.
25:57Good morning, everybody.
26:00What a storm last night.
26:03We managed to get the tractor parked inside,
26:06and now we are just surveying the aftermath.
26:09Where did that wind come from?
26:12Oh, my goodness.
26:14I checked the rain gauge.
26:16We ended up with three whole inches of rain last night,
26:21which is just unbelievable.
26:23So we're settling in for a day in the shop
26:26instead of out in the field.
26:28What a ride.
26:29I'm sorry that we didn't get to actually camp,
26:32but I guess this means we're just going to have to try again next time.
26:36And who knows?
26:37Maybe camping is just the way to make it rain around here.
26:40I feel like that's how camping trips always go, though, right?
26:44Like you get all your stuff set up,
26:46and that's the one time that it rains?
26:48I mean, what in the world?
26:49Anyways, we're so thankful to have you along on the adventure with us
26:53because, my goodness, you just never know what is going to happen around here.
26:58So thank you so much for watching, and we will see you in the next one.
27:01Bye!
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