Organized CHAOS!!! / Day 12 Highwood Montana Wheat Harvest (July 31)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2023
- Holy SMOKES!!
That was a bit on the wild side! Keeping five combines in constant motion and unloaded in 125 bushel wheat was an experience this ‘ole Wheatie has never experienced!!!
The constant chatter on the two-way radio was quite intense for a while.
Wow!
Things calmed down just before supper.
No rain shower, although it was predicted.
The smoke from wildfires created an amazing sunset.
Thanks for adding to the story with your pictures, Whitney!!
All drone footage kudos go to Katy (Brett’s sister). Thanks, Katie!!!!
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I lived in Montana for 7 years and NOT to many things are prettier than a Montana sunset! Thanks Tracy for showing them!
Unbelievably stunning!
Beautiful Peterbilt
I love them John Deere combines
I can't tell you how much I love your videos!❤ What great teamwork in keeping this harvesting going. I would love to be a part of it. Great job!😊
Thank you so much!
As always a great post Tracy 👍🏻
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Tracy its just amazing the scenery, sunset and the scale of the land scape and crew. Thank you for taking the time to do this for us. Tell Jim we all love him 😂 👍
I will tell him!
OUTSTANDING WE LOVE IT AND THANK YOU
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Attach a 3-4 foot piece of log chain to the frame of the combine and let it drag on the ground. It will get rid of the static electricity and allow the dust to fall off the windows and the machine
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I really enjoyed the harvest in 2022. Loved traveling with you and Jim.
This year is a new experience for me. Have always dreamed about seeing a string of combines going through the fields.
Your videos put me right there. You do a great job Tracy. This is better than anything on TV and very educational. Thanks so much, Tracy!!
This does my heart good! It’s been my mission to help tell the story for quite some time. Video is an exceptional tool!!
Thanks Again Tracy.
I am constantly amazed at the yield. Hard to imagine 135 bu. wheat.
And it’s all dry land!
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking in England here 4 tons to the acre is often normal but we get a lot of rainfall and they shove some bag muck at it but a 30 acre field is a big field !!
@@davecatton8773 that’s crazy!! You would enjoy seeing these big fields then.
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All summer fallow wheat? Any other crops ?
@rainturtle5956 most places in the usa is wheat wheat wheat or soybeans corn soybeans corn. Thats it
Having run a combine as a youth for 6 summers, I feel there is nothing more “beautiful “ than a cut wheat field. At the family I worked for, the best dry land yield was about 70 bushels/acre. 100-150 is insane. Happy for the farmer.
I, too, am happy for them! It seems so many have suffered multiple years in a row from drought. Something like this just provides hope. At least it should.
We continue to be amazed at the new and different experiences, scenery, machinery, people, and everything on this Montana farm. We use the word "fascinating " alot and you're doing a terrific job as tour guide, Tracy!!!
❤️ thanks!!
I find this operation and harvest just amazing. The vastness of it all.
Agreed 100%!
You are awesome
Thank you 😉
You call that 50' the wheat hog, imagine how big those 60' headers look in a field.
Don’t see many of those here in the states. 😉
I'd like to see you get a day in the X-9. It'd be interesting to hear your impression of the big boy.
Picture postcard perfect red sunset. I have never seen a sunset so perfectly red before. Must be a folklore tale about red sunsets bring good wheat crops////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////1
It truly was RED!
With the amount of acres planted it would be interesting to see the planting operation. It's always good to get a gold star Traci.
It was!!! And, I agree, it would be a very interesting piece of the puzzle to watch.
The view from your office is exceptional. Thank you.
Isn’t it?!? I’m very blessed!
Beautiful Country In Montana! I’ve been there numerous times. Love the videos, keep them coming.
Thanks! Will do!
"drive themselves"
give yourselves more credit!
it couldn't be done without that "human" touch!
the entire team seems to be doing a great job....
quite the change from your previous years Traci
You and Jim are doing a great job!
Yes, quite a bit different for us!
What a magnificent wheat yield. As of 2020 I'm been a retired farmer here in Australia and in my time farming we grew some top crops of wheat when the weather would cooperate but even so, and I'll admit it, I don't think we ever had dryland wheat yield quite as good as that...close, but not quite as good as that. Congratulations to the farmers who planted it. Wonderful to watch. Excellent footage Tracy.
Australia…this is on my bucket list. And to make it even better, run a combine there! Thanks for your kind words!
@@ZeorianHarvestingTruckingI hope you do both get to visit and harvest in Australia 🇦🇺 Tracy. I remember watching a show from America on television here back in the mid seventies. I think it was was called "The Yellow Trail From Texas" and it was about a harvesting crew with MF 750s and 760s harvesting from Texas and then all the way to the northern states as the wheat ripened. I would have loved to have done some harvesting over in the USA back then but our on our 1243 acre mixed farming operation we ran a dairy herd, beef cattle, a piggery, a hay operation, irrigation and of course, grain growing. I simply never had the time. Now that I'm retired I have the time but not the good health needed to do a season's harvest. So if you and Jim are able to come to Australia do it before it's too late as it is in my case. Good luck.
@@jeffweier4824 the years are going too fast!! Starting to feel like I have a deadline now.
New words for today… sorta, kinda!! Thanks for the great shots!
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Another lovely day for wheat harvest. I am surprised at the size of this crop, I can’t imagine 135 bu/acre. Beautiful landscape. Lovely sunset I liked the red. Will be looking forward to another chapter in the Wheat Harvest 2023. CYA
Looks like you guys are enjoying this as much as going solo farm life what a great life fresh vegetables in back yard doesn't get any better than that❤❤❤
Picture Perfect Harvest! Good Yield, Great People to work with. No other scenery in the world like that! The drone shots are to die for ........ Thank You both for sharing.
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Thank you!!
In the future...I see more loading into the semis, larger grain carts, another grain cart/tractor, 50'/60' headers with trailers, additional X9's, Some might call it progress. I count 13 workerbees plus drone operators, childcare, support staff! All hands on deck! Oh! More bin space...
Years like this one always seems to challenge the “normal”!
I can't imagine cutting wheat that yields as much as that does. Here in west Tennessee,100 bushels is very good. I have always enjoyed your videos. I've often thought about going somewhere and running combines for someone like ya'll are doing. I love Montana. Be safe and God Bless.
It’s not often you see 100 bushel dry land wheat. Not in the areas that we’ve cut, anyways. Irrigated wheat will produce more bushels and I have seen that more often than this.
Red sky. Beautiful! Full moon the 1st.
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What a beautiful farm!!!
It really is!
We drove through the Highwood area 14 June and had heavy rain, wind and smoke. Fields in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota went on forever; similar to Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Calgary
Small world!
I love the pictures of the family in the garden and playing in the grain!! It would be amazing if you showed a harvest meal!! I don’t think people know how special those are! So much food and so many stories and such a special time!!😃😃
I have shared a couple in past videos. Carol is the BEST cook I know. Seriously.
thanks for another great video, this is just so wonderful that you and Jim can help such a nice family, i do believe there is a higher reason for everything that happens and this is no exception!!!!!! thanks for sharing your adventure with us!!!!!! see ya tomorrow!!!!!!!
I agree with you 100%!
Love your videos they’re always great
Thank you!
Big sky country - the beauty of Montana
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Nicest wheat I have ever seen.
It IS beautiful!
You know Tracy this is some of the most beautiful views of the country the sunsets the drone footage the capture of the crew you are amazing the eye you have with the camera the people on this crew the kids the family this is such quality videos thank you for sharing this with us
I love telling the story! Thanks for your kind words!!❤️
Tracy , I am curious how they get grain out of the domed metal grain bins
Doug
You are going to get green with envy soon.
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🥰your vids!
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I really enjoy this Tracy God bless!
Thank you so much!
We’re going to start calling you the drone lady such good pictures you do a great job with it you need a full time job doing it Your Friend In TEXAS
I can’t take any credit for the drones in these videos. I’ve had awesome help with getting that footage - thanks to Katie and Nick! I have fun telling the story!
👍👍 all I can say is awesome 😀
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New to your channel, really enjoy it. I am from Quebec Canada. .
Thank you so much!
What a beatiful yard and abundant garden they have! That alone keeps somebody busy. Makes my little gsrden look pretty sick! Lol!
It’s so pretty!
Very Very good Video 👍 👍
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Oh I don't like to see the smoky skies. But hooray for the strawberries!
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tracy you looked like you were having to much fun in the combine it makes me jealous keep having fun
I do have an addiction to combines and harvest. It’s my “happy place”.
These combines amaze me. The ones we had were pull behind a tractor. Back in Missouri in the 40s. Seems to me like 20-30 bushels per acre was a good yield. What is it today?
Wow! Those would have been something to see! The averages would vary depending on what part of the country you’re in.
Good video I’m a horse shoer from Michigan I’ve been shoeing for 30 years but it’s in my bucket list to do the harvest someday
Do it!
Hi all i made a remark a few days, how clean the crops arenot a weed in sight and i cant believe not a even a weed in the veg garden . Wheat yields are amazing at 37 bushel two ton in u k is 3.70 ton to acre which is good for us ,but we would not get %10 we struggle to get %15 keep at it everyone thanks
A clean garden is a sign of a good gardener. Same goes with the clean fields. However, sometimes Mother Nature plays a cruel joke and no matter how good of a farmer you are, the weeds are gonna come. Much like we’ve seen this summer in the southern states.
Tracy I’m really enjoying these harvest videos! I find this area of Montana fascinating, much different than southeastern Illinois. Stay safe, keep making great videos.
Glad you like them! ❤️
Did you ever find out what variety of winter wheat it is that they are planting would like to know thanks and really like the videos
Have not.
Those little bugs are called "no see 'ems". They are in the wheat and when you drive through the field you kick them up. We have them in Iowa.
Much larger than the “no see ums” I’m used to in Eastern NE. These look more like flying ants.
@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I suppose they have different names for different places. They crawl through screens here. Very annoying. They don't last long, the swallows take care of them.
Tracy, do you fly your drone from inside the combine? I'm very impressed! I'm glad the bugs are on the OUTSIDE of the window.
I’m not using my drone while up here. I’ve had great help with getting the footage (Katie and Nick). I’m a bit busy. 😉
Another great Harvest video Tracy. You said that Wheat was doing around 125 bushels, what is the highest yielding crop that you have ever cut?.
Probably this one.
I can’t believe 120 to 150 bushel wheat!!! Here Kansas if you had 100 bushel wheat it was a fantastic year for irrigated wheat! I would love to cut 150 bushel wheat just to say I did it once! Most years in Kansas you lucky to get 50 bushel wheat.
I know this well! Although, one year around Garden City, we did cut 100 bpa dry land.
It’s hard to imagine yields like that in Montana
Sorry for all the questions- you guys are doing custom harvesting to an art and that’s the reason for the all the questions- it’s a sight to behold- plus we went from the green side here in Ireland this year to the red side - a 2188 ih
We’re not in the road doing custom harvesting any longer. Last summer was our last. We were hired by this family to help with their harvest. They own all of the equipment.
We still do it the old way, we got a john deere 7720... no auto steer there...lol..
Nothing wrong with that!!!
Heavy wheat makes for a fun day for the combine driver not so much for grain buggy and trucks lol 🤣. Great video Tracy thanks ❤️❤️
Those poor guys have worked their butts off! And it isn’t cool temps.
Talk about your amber waves of grain!!!!
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Speaking of your window bugs, the first day I watched you, I tried getting one of those off my screen, then I realized it was on your window! Still trying to learn, is the straw you're leaving behind going to be bailed? And I'm assuming that it is straw being blown out the back of the machine. OMG, another undescribeable sunset!
No, this straw will not be baked. It is being chopped on the way out of the combine and spread on the ground.
Wow 😯 how many acres do y’all have to cut ?
Lots
Very isolated, but beautiful farmstead. Have you ridden the ferry yet?
Haven’t had any time to tour yet. Intend on doing it though.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking The grub at the bars in Carter and Highwood is pretty good...I hear...never been there!
@@louispaparella5766 thanks
Is there s “sync” button on screen or elsewhere to coordinate speed between combine and grain cart ? Or is it all up to the operators to make that work smoothly?
Thanks for the video!
It’s all up to the operators. We can all connect to the auto steer.
They look kind like chitchbugs.
Not sure if that spelled, right?
Haven't had time to watch You lately. But did you get rid of the New Holland? Love your videos I farm in nebraska
Yes, it was time to trade machines and Jim decided he’d had enough fun on the road. 😉
Hi Treacy, what has been your favourite combine while you had your own. Great videos. Ger, Ireland.
The New Holland!!!
Wow! +/-150bbl per acre! Back in the olden days, the irrigated wheat in the Texas panhandle we cut made about 120 bbl per acre. The best dry land wheat we cut in NE Montana made 40 bbl per acre. What a difference 48 years make.
Science and new varieties.
Jim's a grumpy old git how can you stick to a old grumpy old git 😂
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Hey from Ireland Tracy, how long do you guys let the combine engine warm up in the morning before ye head out ?
About 10-15 mins
i miss the gator encounter already
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Closed captioning is working,yippee!
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No doubt Montana is aptly named "BIG SKY COUNTRY"
No doubt!
How are 4 or 5 trucks staying up 8n that goor 9t a crop
On farm storage being close.
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Are those kind of yields normal for this area of Montana?
No. Normal is approx 60 bpa.
Are you guys staying at a campgrounds or at the farm ??
On the farm.
So Tracie which one is your pick. The Deere or the New Holland????
I will always be a New Holland gal.
Do you ever catch animals in the combine?
Not on purpose
how big is the farm that you are working at
Pretty big. Lots of country here.
Maybe the bugs are Deere ticks. Sounds good to me.
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They look like some sort of flying ant
And sorry for another question- when did Zeorian harvesting start- ‘80’s I believe but please correct me - and how many combines,secondhand and new, have ye bought since setting up the company??? My apologies for all the questions!!!!
Sorta a long story. But will try to keep it short.
My grandpa started taking his custom cutting business over the road in 1950. Until then, he did it locally (Kansas).
Gpa and Gma asked me to go along with them in 1974 (I was 12). Gpa taught me to drive combine. I was hooked.
Jim was a hired man for my grandparents. We married in 1982 with no intentions of being custom cutters. We bought our first combine fall of 1982 - a 1979 MF 760. Jim went with my parents and grandparents without me until 1990. That’s when we decided to go on our own - because my dad and grandpa had decided to hang it up. It was tough in the early to mid 80’s.
We took off the summer of 1990 with our equipment and two little girls. We added to the family in 1994 and 1997. The rest is history. So the lifestyle runs deep in my veins.
This is the list of combines we owned throughout the years.
Combines owned
1977/a79 MF 760
1983/84 MF 850
1991 1660 Case
1994 1666 Case
1996 2166 Case
1998 2366 Case
1999 2366 Case
Started buying used
2000 2388 Case
2002 2388 Case
2006 2388 Case
2008 2588 Case
2010 (new) 9065 NH
2012 8080 NH
2014 8090 NH
2018 8.90 NH
Tracy thanks for the reply - u guys have had some history and experience with custom harvest! I’m interested in do you guys replace 1 combine every year or more than that?? We are case ih people and love the red or yellow rotary! Only messing 🤣🤣
So how come this year, ye are working in JD combines ? I’m confused - I assume cnh did not look after you guys ????? Enjoy your dry harvest compared to Ireland
@@doyler7960 - we sold our combine. We are working for these farmers driving their green combines. We are no longer on the road with equipment.
Keep those videos coming and why isn't there at least One American Flag flying on a combine or tractor???
I didn’t bring our along or it would be on my combine. 😉
How many acres are you guys harvesting at this farm ?
I honestly don’t know. But even if I did, I wouldn’t share that info out of respect for our farmer. It’s BIG country!
I’m going off a limb but I’m guessing this isn’t their operation? Like the videos though. Just seen the last couple videos
Nope, it’s not our “operation”. Our operation consisted of one combine on the road for 40+ years. We sold our combine rather than trading it off and called it “quits”. This is the first summer off the road. We got the call to come to Montana to help with this family-owned farm. So, we hired out our services.
There’s a whole slug of past videos if you want to learn more about who we are.
Wondering is this a traveling harvest crew or is this all privately owned land and their own equipment
This is a family-owned farm.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking that is great. New meaning to amber waves of grain
How many acres was that field?
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Sorry for another comment from Ireland😂 why are you guys running DEAR combines when your intro shows CNH logos? Sorry again only a new sub
We owned a NH combine until this spring. Jim opted to sell our equipment rather than making a trade. Therefore, our days on the road with the custom harvest is over. We were contacted by this farm about running combines for them. They own the equipment.
MADE IN THE SHADE YOU TWO!!Get to play but dont even have to bring your own toys! JUST CANT TAKE THE FARM OUT OF THE FARMER S HEY???
Or the harvester away from the harvest (we’re not farmers) 😉
Awesome video
Thanks for the visit
So why are the combines so far apart? I know more about running an operation like this then most, thats why Im critical!
At jon green4893 why run combines close to one another so they can suck up all the dust doesn't make sense
Definition of humble:
: not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive
How many acres do you do in one day?
Depends on crop, ground conditions and how fast the truck turn around.
Slow the reel down too! No use throwing it out the back end!
Walk a mile in my shoes before you are so critical.
Is the wheat spring wheat or winter
Winter.
Thank you for sharing another awesome video.
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How many acres combined so far?
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We just go back and forth. There’s no reason for us to know acres.
Or in the fields?
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I mean inadvertently see or catch them,if so what happens
@@josephdemoor9680 I’m guessing this was part of another comment? I’m not sure what you mean.