Harvest 2021 | Started Wheat | How To Drive The Combine! | John Deere T670i

All right welcome back guys, it is Saturday the 14th of August, put you on my head as you can probably tell, and we're going to do a bit of a how to drive the combine video. So we're going to put the header on and then we'll start from scratch, we'll turn the combine off and start it up and start from there. I'm just going to put it in first gear so I can hook this header on. So yeah it's just gone midday, we've been having very damp mornings, so we're sort of just cutting in the afternoons at the moment, letting the moisture drop a bit in the mornings. We'll get that back up and then we'll get her hooked up. Yeah we only started on the wheat yesterday, yesterday afternoon, most of the week has just been sort of drizzly and the weather's been a bit naff really. So we haven't got a lot of combining done this week, but yeah I cut one 16 hectare field yesterday afternoon and now I've got another 16 hectare field to cut this afternoon at farm one. Right we'll go and hook up the header, let me try out my new gloves, shiny new gloves, better put the heart brake on, we'll turn the engine off. All right, dividers are already out, left the dividers out last night, so get in here. Right so we'll start by turning the key on, just like in a car, start her up, header's all hooked on now, broke my sunglasses this morning. They're only cheap ones off ebay for like five quid, but they only last a few months and then I break them, so that's why I buy cheap ones. Also we've got stickers as well now, ordered a load of new stickers, so if you want one of them there's a link in the video description below. Yeah you can go to ebay and buy some stickers. So what I'm going to do is take the part break off on that one, we'll lift the header right up, because we've got to travel down to the field. The joystick is for forward and reverse, basically I just move it across, this is neutral, I move it to there look and we start going backwards, I also have to look in my mirrors, so go backwards look and then I'll go back to neutral and then forwards, we go forwards. We've also got, this is, what is the transmission called on this combine? It is pro drive and we've basically got range one and range two, if we move it up to range two we'll get along a bit quicker. We're only running on tick over right now, on the joystick that we've got controls for the reel, here up and down on the header, that yellow one there is emergency stop, what we'll have to do is, oh normally it asks me to put in a code to unlock the receiver on the roof, but because I've already done that about 15 minutes ago it's not asking me to do that now. So this wheat out here, the variety was Graham, it didn't yield overly well, well it didn't yield that well at all to be honest, it's done about eight ton, it's a short of eight ton to the hectare over the whole field, it was drilled late, it laid very wet all winter, it had some black grass in it, black grass brings down the yield and then to top it all off we had a crap, sort of, we didn't really have enough sun in May when winter wheat loves sunshine, so we're having quite small grains, but I'll show you that in a bit. We've got to try and squeeze through this gap, I'll be right to put the lids up actually, so to put the bin lids up I'll press this button here, I'll put the bin lids up, see that they're going up, I was telling me off because I'm in second gear and I'm putting the lids up, I'll put it back in first gear, we've got to cross over this bridge, Eric's here, so yeah we've only got this field to cut this afternoon and then we're going to move up to farm two. Oh dear, this looks like it's going to be a bit tight and you see the edge of the bridge right there look, we really don't want to fall down there, yeah it's a long way down, yeah we'll get this wheat finished here this afternoon and then we're going to move up to farm two in the morning or this evening if we get done in really good time, but what I'm planning on doing is moving the trailers and the header up to farm two this afternoon or this evening and then we'll move the combine in the morning when nobody else is, you know, cutting grain on the roads so then I shouldn't meet any grain carters on the road with the combine. So right we're in the field, we'll go back to that, we've got a bit like in the tractor here, rear pto and front pto in the tractor but that one turns the combine on, the separator which starts up the drum and the straw walkers and the sieves and everything and then this one is to turn the header on, it's now going to want us to do a header calibration because we put the header on, it's basically going to put the reel right up and right down, I think that's about it to be honest, we've got our revs here look, we've got tick over mid revs and high revs, yeah so it's just put the header back down and it's past the test, I've got our settings as winter wheat, we'll rev it up, we've got our drum speed at 940 rpm, we will speed that up to 950 and then we've got our concave set on 15, we've got wind speed 1100, top sieve 17 which I'm probably sure I had that on 16 yesterday, we just switched that down to 16 and then bottom sieve on six, so to drop the header down to its preset height, I just press number two and the header will drop down to the height that it's been set to and I can use this little knob here to adjust, if I twist the knob it changes on there, it goes up that that green one is where it's set to, I have it like down there, all right let's go for it, pushing the stick forward in first gear, we've got it, we've got it set to wind row, so we're rowing up the straw that comes out the back, we could turn on our hill master which is there, that keeps the combine level and then it keeps the sieves level and the straw walkers level, it works on each side, it hydraulically levels the combine basically and that's it, it's very simple, it looks complicated but it's actually very simple, yeah we're traveling at just over about four and a half kilometers an hour, we've got engine revs at 2000, normally runs at about 2200, I need to watch where I'm going, yeah speed, engine rpm, fuel and add blue, we've got engine temperature, engine power that we're using there, at the bottom here this measures our losses, so on the right there is straw walker losses, where you've got four bars there, on the left is sieve losses, we never get any sieve losses on this combine, never and then on the right is returns, which is what's coming off the back of the bottom sieve and then returns back up into the main drum, but I can adjust the sensitivity on the losses and I've got them set pretty sensitive, I think I've set it to number 20 and basically the lower the number the more sensitive that is, so yeah what we want to do is drop that stubble height down a little bit because