One of my favorite things about the aesthetics of this video is the close-up wheat in the foreground with the combines on the hillsides in the background. As I'm always telling you, you have a great natural eye for a cinematographic shot!

@TrevorStruthers

15 күн бұрын

TY honey.

Cool video. Y'all are about like us here in Virginia, plant and grow crops on any type of terrain and every bit of ground you can get the equipment in and out of. Sad thing is it's only going to get worse as more and more people move out of the city and into the country to build their homes. Its just going to take up more and more farm ground and make it harder on us farmers to produce and do what we have to do. Not only does it take away Farm ground it also drives the price per acre through the roof and make it to where you can't buy the ground and farm it because it's not justifiable as if that's not bad enough the people that moved out here usually are the ones that complain about the smells and the ways of farming. They try to bring the city life out to the country and tell us how to live and try and change us to suit them. The way I see it stay in the big cities or in the towns and learn to build up and not out.

@animenut69

Жыл бұрын

Not just housing but city sized warehouses as well.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

So true. Good write and i cant agree more. Here the wineries are taking all the land up for grapes

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

It messes with the cost of living here too. All the dang wineries

@josephharris1323

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the wineries kind of take over here to. And the breweries are just unreal on how they popped up everywhere causing traffic issues and just a whole lot of mess trying to work around. All that just brings the high class living into the area and makes it harder on everybody else. And I'm two and a half hours from DC which we're getting a lot of those folks moving south to get away from all that mess and the traffic so that just kills it far as keeping the prices reasonable for land or keeping halfway decent Neighbors that don't complain about every smell or every piece of dirt that's on the road that a tractor brings into the road. Well good luck with the rest of your Harvest and good luck with those Hillside.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

@@josephharris1323 i hate how many people react to equipment on the road slowing down their trip. They left late and are now mad at us for using the roads

Incredible footage!!!! Please please keep your videos going!! Thanks

Man this is unreal What the idea of the tyres on the combine

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

To absorb the flex and bounce these headers have. And you can set the bottom height as not to dig into the ground sometimes. Dirt will plug you up quick

Dude I live in walla walla. Cool to see someone else making videos on the crazy hills we have!

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. We got some stuff out here that many would not think you could farm.

@nighthawksim6675

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers well it always amazes me how the machines can go around the hills. Epically the newer ones. Also glad ur combine didn't burn. That would have sucked.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

@@nighthawksim6675 the newer ones are actually as good if not better at climbing and sticking to sidehills than the old ones. They slide more often than they roll, thank god

@nighthawksim6675

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers that's good that they do a better job! And also good they don't roll. That would really be bad.

I’m sorry if you’ve already answered this but where bouts are y’all? Around 2003 I went out with a wheat harvest crew. We was running the ol 9750s 😝 but anyways we started at Woodward Oklahoma and went north. I’m sure happy I went that summer still some of my best memories come from that adventure seen some awesome scenery but never nothing like those hillsides!! I got on some stuff where I had to watch how full I got my hopper but NOTHING like some of this!

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

I did windfarm work in woodward and my sisters husband is from oklahoma. She met him when she was a custom cutter down there. Small world. We are all in south eastern washington now. Walla walla area

Wondering if you guys wear seat belts in case of a failure on the combine in case of rollover, also I'm guessing you never fill the hoppers as full as the more level ground to keep the stress off the machine as much as possible.. Great yields and great video.. Keep on Farming and God Bless

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

Yes on all those points. Seat belts can slow you if you needa jump out real quick. I wear belts them most times tho

@joescheller6680

Жыл бұрын

Drive the back roads on southern Washington state you'll see an occasional combine that got out of control on a hillside. And grain cart operates need to be on their toes or you got a pile of metal that is no longer useful

If your dad is named George, I think I went to WSU with him.... (in the 70s)

@TrevorStruthers

24 күн бұрын

I see! That sounds about the right time for him to have been in school. The family used to farm out in the skyrockets in Prescott. Now the family farm is mostly out on the flats.

Hello, another Virginian here, nice work, just Subscribed, Take Care and Stay Safe 👍🏼🚜🪵🇺🇸

Unbelievable terrain!! 👍🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Didn't know hillside combined were still being made

@florearazvan93

Жыл бұрын

I thought they were made in the last few years.

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Bad time for leveling sensor to fail. Oh Deere.

I’m guessing that at some point the side of the header lower than the center has trouble getting the plants into the feeder.

@jamesbarbour8400

7 ай бұрын

It's a MacDon Draper Header, so the floor of the table is not simply a flat piece of steel but a continuosly running rubber belt, that powers the crop to the centre of the table. A conventional table would certainly have issues at such an angle though.

Do they no till this ground? Planting might be even more challenging.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

We used to do conventional but its all no tilled now. The soil here is known to erode heavily

Great wheat country and thanks for the video. Any problems with the cut crop sliding along the belt towards the lowest end on the low belt-? Have you seen or know of and 50 or 60 foot heads in the Palouse-? Any bad slides or rollovers lately-?

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

With the reel set correctly and the back auger to go with the belts, theres not really any issues with that. More of an issue feeding in the center on a downhill slope

@John-nc4bl

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers Thanks for the reply. I read your other video post about the 45 head size being about all youd want. The day will come when 50 and 60 footers will be in the Palouse. Just need a good levelling head system like triple split heads on the wider ones and combines with power and guts for the heavy Palouse wheat crops.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

@@John-nc4bl yeah thats what my boss said. We always say we wouldnt want it any bigger and then we have the bigger one

The land around here would wash to bad plant slopes like this

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How do you plant and spray on those slopes?

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

The way that works. Which usually is contouring a lot of slopes when it comes to seeding and cutting. Lots of A-B lines with the self propelled sprayers.

When it rains, the water which flows downhill doesn't bend the wheat ?

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

We had some wheat that was down, but that was more due to the heavy winds combined with heavy heads of wheat. We rarely get enough rain out here for it to run anywhere.

@florearazvan93

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers i live in an area where is flat plain many square kilometers, in Constanța, Dobruja, Romania. Here, when it rains much, the wheat goes down, even if the ground has no slopes.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

@@florearazvan93 right. The wheat has no issue growing on the hill. Its just hard to keep the soil from washing down the hill.

About how much % or degrees are your steepest hills that you farm?

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

We unload on the go up to a 25 degree slope. Im not sure how steep is the steepest that is still farmed. Stuff people would consider straight drop offs basically

@tjakko4659

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers wow that would be 45% (45 cm difference per meter)! Here in the Netherlands the fields are flat, 5 degrees in a field would be a very hilly field for us, most are under 1

@ChevyConQueso

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers More than enough for me. I watched some videos of hillside harvesting in the Alps a while back. 25° is a lot... screw that mountain stuff. Cool videos man, keep 'em coming. Love the scenery.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

@@ChevyConQueso We farm up to 40 degrees or something like that in places. I was on some today. You just slide around

Skyrocket Hills of the Palouse...

How’s your yields this year?

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

Bumper crop this year. Well above average mostly

70 million more people to feed in the country than the last 25 years. Ridiculous growth last two years.

@jamesbarbour8400

7 ай бұрын

Probably due to 'foriegn imports'....

What kind of yields do you get on the hills

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

Not sure what the average was. Around 100 bushels an acre or more this year

@florearazvan93

Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers this is a good production for these kind of hills.

Mike hand?

@chuck6602JD

Жыл бұрын

what about mike hand ? I know him

@Meatsquatch69420

Жыл бұрын

@@chuck6602JD I was wondering those combines were his.

@TrevorStruthers

5 ай бұрын

Mike Hand farms the land my father personally owns. My dad says hes the best farmer in the county. My dad is doing his own thing on his own leases. These are Jesse and Guy McCaws combines though. I work for other farmers. Currently Randy James in Dayton.

@TrevorStruthers

5 ай бұрын

He's a good guy and a good farmer I hear.

@Meatsquatch69420

5 ай бұрын

@@TrevorStruthers oh nice. I worked for Mr Beechinor last year and while the schedule sucked I did enjoy it and towards the end of harvest Mike Hand loaned us some staff and combines to help us get there before fall. We did rape seed, wheat and beans.

Se mira muy feo,,, saludos a esos conductores

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

Gracias hermano

Heelll No

i posted a link to your channel on another hilly farm in wisconsin, maybe someone else will come around and sub here. many many of the really great channels YT shut down because of child labor laws or better known as You Tube Law. every teen age farm boy who helps out on their farm then showed in a channel are all gone now. so if u have any under 16 on ur farm don't post them doing any work.

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up. I think the median age of our guys is about 40. The youngest is 21 and he is gunna become an instagram farmer, i just know it. Lol

@TrevorStruthers

Жыл бұрын

I have been on KZread since 2007 on another account with only 500 subs but it has been years since i posted farming content though