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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 🇺🇸🤘😎🤘🇺🇸
@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 🤣
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!
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 😅
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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
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
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.
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? :-)
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
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.
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
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