Plugged Up Combine and Wildlife!!! Montana Wheat Harvest 2021
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Plugged Up Combine and Wildlife!!! Montana Wheat Harvest 2021
In today's video, I take you on the combine with me harvesting wheat on our Montana farm. The wheat is pretty moist and we have to go really slow. Uncle Chris has to stop and unplug his combine. I see hawks and the cutest little bunny rabbit. I think I see three bunnies but Dad thinks I see the same one three times! LOL I have to harvest through the coulee, which means I have to line my combine up to the wheat swath across the coulee first. The swather guy swathed our field and the neighbor's field together and that presents its own problems figuring out where to run the combine. My Dad leaves a little present for me in one of the wheat swaths!!!! I hope you enjoy my video. Thank you for watching!
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Hello. My name is Kate Stephens, and I am a 17-year-old 4th generation Montana farmer. My family has been farming wheat in north-central Montana since my great grandfather immigrated from Denmark in 1912 and homesteaded our land. My family has been teaching me about farming since I was two years old. I run one of the combines on the farm at harvest. I believe that it is important for everyone to know where their food comes from and the families who produce it. I love our farm, and I hope that my Farm to Fashion and Farm to Table products can help educate people about where their food comes from in a fun way. That is how Kate's Ag - Farm to Fashion became a reality. I hope you love my products as much as I do because this is an extension of our farm and the grains we have been growing to feed other families for over one hundred years.
It is amazing how positive Kate is after a 12 hour day, love the videos .
Thank you for your kind words and great encouragement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve never seen anyone being constantly overwhelmed by wildlife😂 Puts a smile on my face.
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!
Yes, over in the UK rabbits used to be so common that people would use harvest as a sporting opportunity. As long as you were safe and not shooting towards the combine or anything else, you were generally quite OK.
Earlier though, when combines weren't in use wheat was cut into sheaves, and these were stacked in farm yards. A threshing machine used to then tour round all the farms in an area, threshing the grain from the crop at each time. This started off with stationary steam engines (horse drawn) to provide power, then moved on to steam traction engines, and finally early oil-powered tractors were used.
Threshing day was always a bit of an occasion, since when you harvested all the mice and rats that had been out living in the crop generally tended to move inwards towards the farms, and take up temporary residence in the stacks of wheat. The time-honoured practice was for everyone not involved with the actual threshing to turn up with sticks and any local dogs capable of killing rats and trustworthy enough not to attack other livestock. The farm chickens were also let out for the occasion for a very special purpose.
Then the threshing machine would be lined up next to the stack or stacks, so sheaves could be thrown over onto the top of the machine. Feeding a threshing machine was an art, to prevent it jamming or overloading, so that was one man's job; another was there to catch and untie sheaves. Two men on top of the stack to throw sheaves over (generally using pitchforks to do this). At the start, nothing too exciting but as you worked down the stack the wildlife in the stack would get agitated. It was usual to always make sure the bottoms of trousers were firmly tied, to stop rats running up them. This wasn't all that dangerous but the tale tended to get told down the pub forever afterwards. Then rats and mice would start leaving the stack, and generally getting nabbed by dogs, or people with sticks. The hens, previously let out were there mostly on mousing duties; chickens are fairly efficient predators of anything up and including mouse-sized animals, and not too many pests escaped all of this (although the eggs tasted a bit strange for a while afterwards, apparently).
The very first combines were a revelation, and revolutionised harvest over here; you went from very labour-intensive to very efficient indeed.
Another awesome video keep the great content coming 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻your doing and awesome job👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻God Bless and Stay Safe
Nice tradition to collect those feathers
Thank you! I totally agree!!!!
It amazes me how pleasant and polite you are! Keep up the great videos!
Thank you for your kindness!!! I really appreciate it.
Not sure how this came up in my feed , but I am hooked.
Great work ethic and attitude 👍
I believe I have binge watched about 9 videos 😂
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!!!! You made my day!!!!
Just discovered your channel & I love it. Thanks❤️
Thank you for your kind words!!! I really appreciate them!!!!
Well Kate you made my night picking up the feathers and seeing the rabbits it was great to watch you
Thank you so much for your kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another great video. I always collected arrowheads when younger. Love watching 🚜 farming videos.
Thank you for your kind words and great story! There are a lot of arrowheads in Montana!
It is always nice seeing the wildlife.
Yes I agree! Thank you.
Hi Kate I am a bit particular to your Uncle Chris. Uncle Chris is what my nieces and nephews call me. I love it when they address me that way. I feel respected.
Godspeed to your Uncle Chris. I hope he enjoys his niece as much as I enjoy my nieces and nephews..
Happy subscriber 😀!
Thank you for your wonderful story! Uncle Chris is terrific!!!!!!
That’s so nice that your dad still picks feathers for you. He’s an awesome man. 🇦🇺
Thank you for your kind words!!!
I love how hawk feathers are a special thing between you and your dad. :)
Thank you for your wonderful comment!!!
It is so cool to take the harvest adventure with you you get to see amazing things like the rabbit and the Hawks and the heart feathers and I'm learning so much about combines and what to do when they break down or what to do when they get jammed up and I'm learning different parts about them and I thank you so amazing bye-bye
Thank you so much for your great and kind comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@KatesAg you so welcome
Hi Kate, with you working so many continuous long days no one will ever be able to think of you or any member of your family of being lazy. With your youthful beauty, your high intelligence and your never ending enthusiasm you're like a pretty pearl amongst a bunch of rough and tough hard working farm hands. How is it possible for you or anyone to spot one of those tiny hawk feathers in a huge pile of straw and wheat? I'm sure you must know that Mr and Mrs Hawk would love to invite one of those cute little bunny rabbits home for supper. Everyone loves your politeness and good manners, they're very refreshing to see in todays world. Love you, Keep up the good work.....
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!! I really appreciate them.
You are just so darn cute. Seeing you get excited over feathers and bunnies and all is just so darn fun. You just barely weigh enough to register in the seat. Just one more thing that just screams "cuteness overload." I just love you kiddo. You are so darn fun. My face is sore after watching you, I am smiling so hard. Thanks for being on CZcams and making a sad world so much brighter.
Thank you for your kindness!!! You made my day!!!
^This X 100! :-)
Good morning precious I'm just setting out on my patio enjoying a cup of coffee watching my favorite little girl and her combine and feeding my pet 🐿️🐿️ aww that is a cute bird 🕊️ cute 🐇🐰
Thank you for your kind words!
@@KatesAg your welcome precious 🌹
New sub enjoying the videos don't know how you spotted that little white feather you have the vision of a hawk. Take care Kate!
Thank you for your kind words! Thank you for subscribing! I really appreciate it.
Good to see a western jack rabbit! I lived in Wyoming as a teenager and remember seeing them! Your happy and bubbly spirit is infectious! Keep smiling and God bless your harvest!
Thank you for your great story and kind words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome video! They’re very informative and you do such a great job in putting each one together. Yes, harvest is a very special time of year. I always looked forward to it at my family’s rice farm in Southeast Texas. I can remember being your age and getting promoted to a combine (7700 John Deere- showing my age) from a Rice Cart. It was a very special time and have many fond memories of working on the family farm. Enjoy every time you’re in the field with family and friends. Those are moments that you will always cherish. Keep up the great work!!
Thank you so much for your wonderful story and kind words!!!!! You made my day!
@@KatesAg You’re welcome and thank you!!
You are so very nice and great family. Very hardworking 💕💕💕May God's grace be with your entire family.
Thank you for your kindness!
@@KatesAg you are welcome my dear friend💕💕💕
Time to do some art work featuring hawk feathers. Kate, your videos always make me smile. I truly look forward to seeing you out and about. Hope your Monday is a wonderful day.
Thank you for your kindness and wonderful suggestion!!!! You made my day!
Just looked up Billie Lou's obit and it gave me chills. What a wonderful full life she led. And a regular globe trotter with her travels. I'm sure a lot of the viewers might imagine a cloistered life tied to the farm, but she bird watched on the Orinoco river in South America, skied in Switzerland, and had winter getaways with her husband (here known as Grandpa), to Roratonga, Fiji, and Mexico among many others. To paraphrase a popular you tube creator, your Grandma was "a w s o m e".
Thank you. My grandmother was pretty neat. I was very young when she died. I wish she was still here!!!!!!
A beautiful hardworking girl , Greetings from Romania 👍🚜
Hello from Montana! Thank you for your kind words!
You make me smile Kate 🙂
Thank you!!
40k yayyyy 🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉 many many congratulations kate...
Thank you for your kindness!!! I am very, very grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your gesture and simplicity of your vlogs. Promise me to never change it..
Thank you for your kindness! You made my day!
You put a smile on my face every time I watch one of your videos! Thank you
Thank you for your kindness!!! You made my day!
You are doing a good job!
lovely to hear that you take al the safety very serious and idle the combine before you turn it off
Thank you for your kind words!!!
You seem to be the most pleasant person, I would find it hard to believe that anyone close to you could have a bad day just because of you being you, I pray that your heart is never broken,
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words! You made my day!
You have the most amazing life and I hope you and your family will continue to share good memories like this for many years to come.
Thank you for your videos that always make me smile and brighten up my day ^^
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!!! You made my day!
Thanks for your time Kate love from England 🇬🇧💟🇬🇧
Hi Mr. Glover! Thank you for your kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Kate. I was here. Thanks for the video. I have a bad cold so I'm late watching but I enjoyed it.
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@@KatesAg you're welcome
Thanks Kate, that was so nice, I watched it twice.
Thank you so much for your kindness!!!! You made my day!
I remember back in the day, I was the smallest and youngest so if they plugged the combine guess who went inside. Kate you need to pit a few rocks in your pockets, love your enthusiasm it makes for a great videos.
Thank you for your great story and kindness!
Rabbits and hawks can be a tough situation...usually it's tough for the rabbits. I always felt bad during harvest...the rabbits didn't stand a chance. But I guess that's Mother Nature ensuring only the fittest survive and by doing so, the future of the animal is strengthened. Thanks for the video Kate. Take care and be safe.
Thank you for your comment!!!
Kate, I 💓 Ya Little Lady, you amuse, entertain, & inform, with your all encompassing, Beautiful Spirit/Smile & Passion.
You are destined for great things, my Little Friend, and I couldn't be Happier for you. And your Dad, I wouldn't change ah
thing about him, he made you, and that's as good as it gets. Thanks for the video, Please keep them coming.
Bless you each and every day Kate, and The Family !!!! & friends 🐰🐇🦅👈(well, call it ah Hawk---------after Me) ❣
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!!! You made my day!
You always make me put on a smile whenever you show such enthusiasm towards wildlife! Looks like you feel right at home with your new combine.
Thank you so much for your kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So nice to see you enjoying working on your farm and I hope everyone farming has as much fun too
Thank you for your kindness!!! I think we all have fun!
Really enjoy your enthusiasm for the Montana wildlife. So many hawks maybe attracted by the bunny’s. Thanks for sharing and have a great evening.
Thank you so much for your kindness!
This great, you are amazing and doing an excellent job. I love it. Thank you for sharing what you do. Cheers.
Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Kate. The rabbit button is your throttle control. Thanks for sharing and feeding America.
Thank you for your kind words!
You will be the 1st lady & 3rd most popular personal in your town!! Kate! Now guess who those two popular person before you!!
LOL! Thank you for your comment
Denmark is the happiest country on the planet
That is wonderful to know!
You seem to have pretty good eyes when you can see feathers
from this far! 😃
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
Thank you for your great comment and kindness!!!
@4:20 For lifting up your legs while not loosing velocity, you should take a suitcase with lead in it to place it ovr the pedal.
Thank you for your suggestion.
I love this job. I am a driver and a mechanic. I used to work on the Gondir harvester in Syria before the war. Now I am waiting to go to Canada. I finished everything, only the medical examination I hope to find a job I want to rely on myself.
Thank you for your story! Best wishes for success in Canada.
@@KatesAg Thank you very much. I hope to get to know you. You are wonderful and women are great for this work. I hope you will explain a little of your time to me.
Really enjoy the videos. Don't need a fashion tote lol, but ordered one because of all the effort put into these videos! Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate your kindness and support!!! You made my day!!!! Thank you for your order.
OK thanks you already explained about the custom swathing.have a great day
Thank you!
Definitely not first today. 12 hours in a combine is a looooooooonnnnnnnggggggg day!! I couldn't do it. I'm glad you see wildlife to break up the monotony. I hope your combine never jams. Just take it nice and slow. Listen to it and you'll be fine. Harvest is so exciting!! Great video, Kate! 🐇 🦅
Hi Mr. Koblitz! Thank you for your kind words and great story!!!!!
Hi Kate, You have the eyes of a hawk, to spot so many things while driving. Like to see the rabbits. I often find and keep cool feathers while out hunting in the woods. Good video. Stay safe & more please !
Thank you for your kind words!!! I love finding feathers wherever I go too!!!!
Kate, your videos are really good!
I'm from Brazil.
Thank you for your kind words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how positively joyful.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!
Love your reactions to the wildlife.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Great to watch again Kate! I always watch the videos on my smart TV with big screen. Funny story about the wrong combine! Hope you can find some time to relax too! Greets from the Netherlands.
Hello from Montana!! Thank you for your kindness!! I really appreciate it.
It's fun to listen to you. Yours sincerely from Polish 😉
Thank you so much for your kindness!
Kate, I‘m watching from Germany, I like you and your videos pretty much. In Germany, such a big landscape is unthinkable, so for me it‘s very interesting, how you do that in Montana. I hope I can watch many more Videos in the future 😉
Hello from Montana! Thank you for your wonderful and kind words!!! I appreciate your great encouragement! You made my day!!!
@@KatesAg you‘re welcome! And you deserve it! 😉
Interesting for me to see such a late sunset. Here in Sub-tropical Qld. Aust. midsummer sunset is at the latest 6pm.
Wow! Thank you for the interesting information!!!
DENMARK mentality mixed with WILD WEST courage, it is the definition of you
LOL! Thank you for your great comment!!!!
Next time paper plugs up in my printer I'll try to relax, not stress, thinking 'don't worry, this is juuust a piece of cake compared to a plugged up combine' ;)
LOL! Thank you for your great comment!
Kate loves her bunnies as much as her pheasants!
Awww-AAH! :-)
Thank you for your kind words!!
My beautiful hard working farmer.i am proud of you baby ❤️
Thank you for your kindness!!!
Welcome baby beautiful ❤️❤️
Whenever I see your John Deere My Mind Automatically Play The Song "John Deere Green" By "JOE DIFFIE". 😀😀😀
LOL! Thank you!!!!
I'm impressed with your eyesight to spot those feathers, geeeezzzeee.
Thank you for your kind words!
Thank you for your videos they are the best
Thank you for your kind words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
เป็นวีดิโอที่สนุกมาก เหยี่ยวต้องมาคอยจับหนูแน่ๆเลย เป็นวงจรธรรมชาติที่เยี่ยมมาก
ใช่ ฉันคิดว่าคุณพูดถูก ขอบคุณสำหรับความคิดเห็นที่ยอดเยี่ยมของคุณ
Well I have never clogged a combine but I have clogged hay balers on a few occasions and have broke a few sheer pins or sheer bolts. It always makes for an interesting experience cleaning up the mess.
LOL! Yes I bet it does. Thank you for your story!
When I'm driving my truck, I enjoy the wildlife myself. I see alot of hawks, bald eagles, deer, turkey, but what startles me the most, is when I'm driving at night, and an owl will zoom by. Just fooom, out of nowhere.
Oh wow that is really neat!!! I just love owls!!!! We have one in the barn and it is beautiful! It just stares at us!
@@KatesAg when I stop for fuel, or for the day, it's fun to watch the birds pull the bugs out of the truck grills. It's funny when the sparrows pull the moths out, they will smack them on the pavement to knock the wings off.
Oh yes!! we have tons of grasshoppers on the grills of our vehicles and the little birds love them! Thank you for your great story!!!!
Bonjour quand j'entends la voix de ton papa dans la CB on dirait un acteur de cinéma 🎥... Je pratique la photographie animalière et j'adore les rapaces merci. Trop cool les plumes 👍👍
Je vous remercie pour vos aimables paroles!!! j'adore les rapaces aussi!!!
Go for 7 videos in a row this week Kate. Just love your videos. What a brillant mind on such young shoulders...
Hi Mr. Tynan! Thank you for your kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is so cool you found hock fethers and bunny rabbits
Hahahah hock
Thank you Kate. Have a beautiful day ❤️
Thank you for your kindness!
I agree the tail end of harvest is always bitter sweet
Yes I agree! Thank you.
You are looking as beautiful as a bright sunny day today! Being tired but still doing the harvesting is very impressive beautiful girl!
Thank you for your kind words!!
Kate, you might be able to disconnect the weight sensor in your seat. Discuss it with Dad. As long as you know, I cannot see that it would be a safety issue to allow you the comfort of stretching your leg every now and then.
Thank you for your suggestion!!
Yes, Kate, there is a so-called dead man's switch in your seat. If the driver falls off the seat for whatever reason, you want that juge thing to not drive into something. You have that in forklifts and all kinds of heavy machinery. It's an OSHA thing. :)
I just love it! Hawk fur, and bunny feathers. lol
LOL! Thank you for your kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting watching you grow as a great combine operator. So nice and kind Kate is👍
Thank you for your kind words and great encouragement!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is so neat your father and you are so busy harvesting and he still takes time to stop and find you a feather and your love of Wildlife is a beautiful thing thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for your kind words!!!!! I really appreciate them.
This was nice to see. Funn to see al the animals! Thanks for you nice face, god smile!
Thank you for your kind words!
Love tour movies.
Greetings from Sweden.
Thank you so much!!!! I really appreciate your kindness!!!!!!!!
Hi Kate your such a Bubbly Farmer
Thank you for your great comment!
Hola Kate cada día cautivas con tus videos que Dios te bendiga por siempre un saludo desde acá de Chile 🇨🇱 desde el fin del mundo.
Gracias por tus maravillosas y amables palabras !!!
Combain combain rabbit hawk! :) thank you for sharing nice channel to learn about harvesting & goodluck!
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Hello Kate, nice and interesting video again. A Deere meets bunnies and hawks, lol.😄😄😄 Take care and God bless you. Kind regards from Bavaria, Germany.
LOL! Thank you for your great and hilarious comment!!!!
muy interesante, felicidades tan creativa y expresiva como siempre. Saludos....
¡Gracias por sus maravillosas y amables palabras!
Another great episode!!!
Thank you for your kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Kate another great video watch that Hawk doesn’t come back for his feather lol 😂💚
LOL! Thank you for your great and kind words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kate the effort you put in to it is outstanding and your family as well and info and videos thanks 😊
Thank you for your kind words!
Wooooo muchos conejos 🐰 saludos Kate muy buen trabajo 👍 saludos para tu familia dios los bendiga 🤗👍🤗🤗😁❤
¡Gracias por sus maravillosas y amables palabras!
Guessing John Deere didn’t consider having someone so lightweight driving the combine:)
Yes, I think you might be correct!!! Thank you!
Lol she needs to eat more biscuits...
@@painsme2 with gravy.....
,,,,,,,,,,, Lightweight,,,,,,, Lighthearted,,,,,,,,, and a true Beam of Light,,,
Dean is always graceful his alive...lol
Thank you for your comment.
Hey Kate great 👍 video keep em coming
Thank you for your kindness and great encouragement!!!
Hi little Kate, how are you? The hardwest will end soon, but becomes more difficult with the rain and humidity have more problems to deal with. Aways attracted by the animals, it's nice and there is no shortage. Good luck to the whole family. Take care of you, i hope you will continue to see a lot of animals.
Thank you for your kind words!
Kate, that's amazing that you are so excited at work! Isn't it boring if you are sitting a lot of time in combine doing routine work???
Nice to hear about your Denmark granndads, love to hear a spoon of history from you. 😀🤠✌️
Just taking a guess that there is way to much going on in Kate's head for her to ever get bored. Add in some wildlife to see and she just bubbles over!!
Thank you for your kind words and question. Like Mr. Soper said in his response I have a lot going through my head, so I never get bored!!!! LOL
Krásná ukázka! Děkuji :)
Děkujeme za vaše milá a úžasná slova!
So I was wondering do you have any siblings? You don’t mention any so I didn’t know. I was raised on a farm but dad quit doing the major part before I was able to help. I guess he decided 3 girls wouldn’t work out. Lol I did help with the sheep and had a 4H dairy cow. Such wonderful memories. Baling hay and turning around to see the wagon unload itself on a hill🙄. Hubby and I enjoy your channel.
Thank you for your great story!!!!
Imagine how excited you will be seeing your first Jackalope and Bigfoot. Jackalope more common to South Dakota and Bigfoot more common to areas with lots of tree cover and protein to hunt down.
LOL!!! Wouldn't it be fun to see Bigfoot?? LOL We have Jackalopes all over the place!!! LOL Thank you for your great comment.
I LOVE hawks!!
Thank you!!! The are wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That sounds like it would be hard Job digging out the Header anyway your doing a great job on your Videos Kate
Yes it is a real messy job and it takes a while. Thank you for your kind words!
Dad is so cool 😎
Thank you so much! I agree!