Three John Deere Harvesters Cut Hillsides of Wheat

[@susandailylife]

The way you nurture the land is so inspiring

[@TrevorStruthers]

We gotta harvest a lot of grain to feed the world! America has 6x more farmable land than China for example. China and east asia buy a lot of our wheat.

[@LRFtheLion]

I think this is one of the most cinematographically beautiful videos you’ve made, and it also does a good job of portraying what it feels like to be out on these fields. It’s hard to capture in video how steep they actually are, but it’s apparent in this video.

[@combinelover8988]

I agree, completely!!!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks you honey!

[@Ericmwangii]

On the contrary, I'm dismayed by the fact that even on the uncultivated edges, this farmer so no need to plant a single tree.

[@TrevorStruthers]

@@Ericmwangii average rainfall is 10-16 inches annually. It all happens in the spring. There were never trees here smart guy

[@Ericmwangii]

@@TrevorStruthers the point was, can they plant?

[@AJ67901]

Wow. I'm always impressed at you hillside farmers!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Most of us never knew any different than hills. Kinda all some people have if dont have a flat field. Maybe a few flat spots but thats about it out in Prescott Washington. Thanks for the comment!

[@steigerpower]

It seems like the larger the combines, the greater production and the lower the price of wheat to farmer's tend,.thanks Trevor, for another brilliant video.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Very true! To have a new combine, you better have a lot of wheat to cut, or someone to custom cut for when you are done.

[@steigerpower]

@@TrevorStruthers Nice to see a change of color from the CASE/IH to the big green combines, had you move to another farm and how's Jamie?

[@TrevorStruthers]

@@steigerpower Jamie is still working for the last farm. He will be returning to the place he was before working for the ones last harvest. An unexpected death of the boss had us all laid off and i found a new place before harvest started. Very sad and a great loss of a great man.

[@steigerpower]

@@TrevorStruthers I am sorry to hear this news,.our prayers for your Boss's family and loyal staff,.God Bless.

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video Trevor, It's good to see these Drone only Video's because you get a better idea of the protocols between the harvesters, aka drivers, thanks for sharing

[@TrevorStruthers]

It was a worthwhile investment for the channel. Thank you Tony for all your commenting and positive vibes!

[@WheelingDairyFarmer]

Great drone work. Really shows just how steep the fields are. Keep up the good work.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks Bruce! Will do! I will hop over to your channel and see how things are going. Our harvest ended last friday so all week I will be going to different harvests and sending up the drone and maybe asking a few questions.

[@WheelingDairyFarmer]

@@TrevorStruthers Not much new on my channel. Life has gotten in the way of new videos. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow I'll have a new video. Good luck on the drone work. Keep it out of the wires and the dirt. I almost hit the chopper on Sunday.

[@SPR-777]

Great video. I enjoyed the commentary at the beginning. Whoever thought back in the day, that, we should farm these mountains, I bet they will be productive!! I wish our hills would grow wheat like that. Lol

[@TrevorStruthers]

There is some deep dirt on these hills in this video. Hundreds of feet deep soil. The rain is hit or miss, but if we got a lot of it, these hills would have some serious rivers running down them

[@joelg8004]

When I first started watching your videos I was actually surprised of the size of combined and headers you guys use. I was thinking it would be smaller European style ones. Amazing drone work on this one!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Everytime they get bigger, we say they cant get any bigger. I've heard of 45s but it really gives you hell in the draws and on top of the hills. Digging in the middle and not cutting wheat at the ends.

[@charlestibbey2666]

Excellent, professional filming, Trevor, a great pleasure to watch!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you Charles! This one is headed in a good direction for views as well. I am glad you enjoyed it!

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

I love the ideal way of working and the fields, I really love it

[@TrevorStruthers]

Big fields out here!

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

@@TrevorStruthers close nature

[@TT-qo9dv]

Great video 👍

[@rickdavidson3534]

What great drone work again, the angles, the slow, smooth camera rotation. Another great harvest video!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks! I am working on making people forget it is drone shots.

[@peternewman958]

TREVOR that is NOT hillsides of wheat , here in Australia we would call that cropping on the side of a mountain (we don’t have MOUNTAINS like the USA🤪🤪) I’ve never seen anything like this. Excellent video work and thank you very much for the time taken to film and edit.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you!

[@johannbuer1727]

Big, big moments Trevor !!! 👏 greatings from a german farmer 🇩🇪

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you Johann. This one turned out pretty cool for sure. The farmer was a big help in making it happen. The dad even gave me a ride out onto the hilltops to watch them.

[@williskinder7794]

Trevor nice shots of the combines and how you cut the eye browse and field dividers . Looks like some of those places our grandparents farmed are in grass , started to see in the early 60s oh well great shots😊😊.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Yep, bigger machines are bringing the field edges in at places. You just cant or shouldn't put one out there.

[@christianhollauer881]

great pictures 😃

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you my Austrian friend! 😃

[@jerrybennett2404]

I bet those combine seats have a butt pucker crease in them.

[@patwalgamott4867]

Like a fine choreographed dance! WOW!

[@charlestibbey2666]

Indeed!

[@royanderson6315]

Above my pay grade.You folks must have brass balls

[@TrevorStruthers]

I was thinking it looked like synchronized swimming, but a dance would be a better description. Thank you!

[@johnmoenster9995]

Excellent video! Just watching without narration was perfect for this footage. I would love to see some in cab and maybe in grain bin footage of the combines when they are on slopes that exceed their ability to self-level. Keep up the great work and God bless!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Great suggestion! Working on it!

[@Bepositive-0i0]

thanks for making another impressive video 😊

[@TrevorStruthers]

My pleasure 😊

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello! Breathtaking scenery...

[@jerryfischer3988]

Wow what a picture

[@John-nc4bl]

Trevor, thanks for making another impressive video for us all to enjoy.

[@TrevorStruthers]

My pleasure and thank you for all your help with the channel John!

[@John-nc4bl]

@@TrevorStruthers Trevor, youre welcome and I will continue to promote your site.

[@MattMetcalf-m1o]

Great video, Trevor. I was fortunate enough to have driven truck in the mid 80's for a farmer in Colton while going to WSU. Love that country and watching your videos takes me back there. Good to see Ol' Crimson flying there, too!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Lots of WSU fans out on this side of the state. My girlfriend went to UW but we all forgive her for it.

[@jameskelley8839]

If you can have Olympic medals for surfers riding waves( highly skilled, don't be offended), these guys should be awarded medals on their performance on these hills!

[@darrelpatzner9926]

Great video. Have a wonderful and safe harvest

[@peterbilt9644]

That looks like some pretty amazing country!….even with a hillside combine my ass couldn’t grip the seat tight enough lol! When that’s what you’re used to though it’s probably just another day of harvest. Very cool video!

[@TrevorStruthers]

It is just another day for us, but even a skilled combine driver would be a bit hesitant on doing some of this until they got used to it.

[@RJJ6129]

Those hills have to be pretty hard on those combine’s, more so than flat ground. Awesome drone footage!

[@TrevorStruthers]

It is a bit rough on them! Ive had a rear axle break one year and a hub rip off my machinr before. Seperate events and both to do with the hills. Itll roll a track off a tractor as well if it loses too many blocks

[@greglester7666]

Excellent video. Job well done! that

[@jhanlarosh6620]

Awesome video looks like a good harvest 👍👍

[@TrevorStruthers]

Its a good year for sure. Sucks the price of wheat is the same as in the 70s

[@GringoBaggins]

Just Can't Get Over How Smooth The Footage is! LOVE You Content Dude! (and i've only watched ONE Video!)

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you! Funny name you have as well Mr Baggins.

[@rodneycody8746]

Gotta love it

[@udo5479]

Great and impressive Video Greets from Germany

[@mentholman3201]

LOVE YOUR VIDS MAN!! Keep up the good work and be safe. 💪🏻

[@fredericdelage1542]

Magnifique vidéo et les moissonneuse batteuse et les coupes pour les pentes et bien intéressante et bien équipés 😂😮😅😊

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you for the comment and watching!

[@gabrieleamurri9640]

Fantastico 👍👍💯💯💯🔝🔝 buon lavoro e un grazie dall'Italia 🇮🇹

[@TrevorStruthers]

Grazie!

[@marcvalliant8131]

Cool video, i dont think this captures how steep these fields really are though...!

[@TrevorStruthers]

Me neither

[@Dhillon4488Dhillon-hi7bu]

Nice ❤

[@zacharbert6604]

Great video Trevor, how much ground do these folks farm? Three machines it must be 10-12K acres?

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thats about right. Most ive worked for are 10k acres. Seems about normal

[@rodkinzler9275]

Balls of steel

[@xxwoytec23xx]

Mega :-)

[@teko7462]

Have you heard of any rollovers combining these hills.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Bankout wagons (grain carts) are more often the ones who roll. I've not seen a combine upside down in about 4 years, nor heard of one around here doing it.

[@darrelpatzner9926]

We run Hillco side hill kits here in western Wisconsin. Can you please explain the soil that you mentioned

[@TrevorStruthers]

Its basically baby powder in spots. Super fine silt type soil. Its white as well. Alkali patches we call them. All the soil out here is a a silty sandy soil. Some of it is sandy loam but all our soil here came from elsewhere. Missoula floods and all that ice age stuff

[@darrelpatzner9926]

@TrevorStruthers ok. Thank you for explaining that. That is interesting and now I can see why the equipment slides on the hills so easy

[@edkauffman4808]

I am guessing all 4 wheel drives

[@TrevorStruthers]

Yeah, its 4WD. Rear wheel assist with hydraulic motors turning the rear wheels when needed. It's a necessity to climb some of these hills and to stay on them.

[@edkauffman4808]

@@TrevorStruthers I figured that would be the case. Growing up in PA I never dreamed that hills that steep were farmed. Thanks for the videos

[@TrevorStruthers]

@@edkauffman4808 NP! Wait til the next video. The farmers dad/grandpa named it dirty shorts. Youll see why

[@bobnistler]

😎😎

[@IdenticXP]

Whats the reason behind you guys stripping the combines of the protective shields under the hoods?

[@TrevorStruthers]

The side of the engine bay can be opened up to let more air flow and so chaff doesnt build up with a tailwind going downhill. Physics throws the chaff onto the top of the engine and not onto the ground. Maybe it helps with the heat too, who knows. We all have ours off near the auger side though. If i find out more, I will reply with more.

[@AnthonyJonas-eh4fu]

What size headers do you run. Looks about 35 40

[@nathanhastings9366]

We run 2 JD HD45R's and one Macdon 45 foot on JD 780's in the hills. I am beggin for a 50 footer for next harvest :)

[@itsaRiot]

Are you guys able to use gps on those side hills?

[@TrevorStruthers]

Technically, yes. GPS can see your yaw, and therefor your line is pretty close. Autosteer cant so what we do in the hills though. It would kick out from going off line. We go offline a lot to make it up down and across hills. Grain cart slave linking would be nice tho.

[@randykovalenko1236]

Combine Ballet

[@darenholzinger4587]

One thing for sure, they are experienced drivers not using any GPS auto steering on those machines

[@TrevorStruthers]

Nope

[@Ericmwangii]

Looks like a desert, Such a huge field and no single tree, even on the uncultivated edges? 😢Sad.

[@TrevorStruthers]

It is a desert

[@mikewood3203]

Here's a question...Has the land been kept in the hands of the "old families" or is it being sold to outside interests?

[@LRFtheLion]

Trevor knows more on the history, but I was surprised to learn when I first moved here in 2019 that in Walla Walla and Columbia Counties (where Trevor films these videos) there are still a lot of “old” farming families working the land, some of which have sometimes lost and then later repurchased some of their family land over the decades and generations. I meet a lot of fourth- and fifth-generation wheat farmers here. Some also seem to acquire scattered fields across these counties or may contract to do custom farming on them, so you’ll see parades of combines and bankout wagons driving down the roads to get to their more distant fields.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Some investor groups out there have bought some of the land, but a majority is still in the hands of the old families, but fewer and fewer of those families are still farming the land. Someone else is custom cutting, or custom farming it, or simply leasing it from them for a share of the crop.

[@mikewood3203]

@@TrevorStruthers I feared that is the case.

[@mentholman3201]

HILLCO should sponser you

[@TrevorStruthers]

They came to the channel once, commented and then didnt even subscribe. :(

[@googleuser4009]

Haha what a horrible way to farm. And no don't go to honeybee, get macdon if anything

[@TrevorStruthers]

Lots of small pieces. Inefficient but its what we got to work with. Thanks for the comment!

[@brucebaker4462]

Trevor why are running those green junk of a combines .

[@Donald-r5i]

we used to run all case combines, the last 3 were 8240s good combines but always fixing on them so 4 years ago we switched to 3 john deere S780 combines and they are way more reliable alot less down time, they just seem like the quality is better

[@TrevorStruthers]

I work for everyone, despite the color of their machines! I don't discriminate. Our Gleaner and the John Deere all did great this year. No breakdowns for weeks and weeks.