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Alright, we're here at Temple Roads Farm in Maryland, and one of the main features of this fent Ideal eight T combine is auto dock.
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We've got some really cool demonstrations going on. TJ Hamilton explained to me what happens when this comes up to the, uh, grain head cart
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and now it saves a lot of labor for him. A lot of potential fights he doesn't have to have because this all does this mechanically.
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And you don't have to get out here and handle putting a shaft together. These hydraulics, these electronics.
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Yep. So you're gonna roll up to your header, you're gonna raise up your feeder house. It's gonna hook on here. Once it's up off the cart,
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you push the button in there for the auto dock to happen. This cylinder right here is going to extend out.
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It's gonna push your drive shaft over to connect to the drive shaft on the head, as well as move your single point over.
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So all of your electronics and hydraulics are all hooked up from that point. Uh, once that is sensed that it's all connected,
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it will run the head very slowly in a creep mode. Just for a second for everything to latch on in here. Mm-Hmm. Once That's good.
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You get the check mark. You're good to go. I saw this right here, which is where your, your PTO, if you will, comes over the hammer on both sides.
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That simple. I can easily understand how it works. Hooking up a hydraulic, uh, line without doing it by hand seems a little bit more difficult for me to believe.
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Well, they, a lot of the combines now, they have a single point and it's made so two connections just run
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right together and you clamp 'em down. But you have to physically get outta the combine and clamp 'em down.
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This is all done doing it hydraulically and doing it ahead of time. This whole procedure is tj, what is it?
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Less than 30 seconds? Yes. Yep. It works fast. It works efficiently. And the best thing about it is it's safe.
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You don't have to have a guy in here getting ready to hook you up. We've dropped these headers multiple times.
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If you drop this header, nobody's gonna be standing here. Understood. tj, what else do I need to know?
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This is a new feature. You guys are really excited about it. It matters to me as a farmer. If
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I'm temple, it saves me time. I'm taking the head on and off a lot when I'm in farm Ground where you are.
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Yeah. Um, it's a time saver. It's a safety issue. Is there anything else? Just enjoy it. Enjoy. TJ Hamilton.
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I'm Damien Mason with temp roads coming at you from Maryland. It's harvest time. Well, we're a little held up
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