Farming Video | Layne Miles Walks Through Smart Combine Features
Layne Miles is back in the cab, giving a boots-on-the-floor take on the fully automated John Deere S7 800 combine. From predicting incoming yields to adjusting concaves, fan speed, and auger spout positions, this thing’s loaded with smart tech.
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00:00:00 What's up guys? Lane miles here. Miles Farms and Extreme Ag. Uh, we're back on the S seven 800 and, and, 00:00:06 and guys, this is a, this is a pretty cool machine. Um, you know, it's a, this is what they, this is their full automation, uh, combine. 00:00:15 This is, this is the one that's got all of our cameras and yield predictions and, and where, where we need to be set, 00:00:21 where this is the combine that's predicting, you know, where we need to be in the future. The next few seconds this combine has, 00:00:29 has cameras and computers. That's, that's saying, alright, well we're, we're, we got 240 bushel corn coming in. 00:00:36 My concaves need to be set here. My screens need to be set here. My fan needs to speed up, my fan needs to slow down. 00:00:42 We're gonna, we're trying to maximize all the grain that we can get in this combine and this and this combine has the computers and stuff to do it. 00:00:49 Um, cool thing is, you know, we're sitting here, we're getting in the field and we're monitoring our grain loss. 00:00:54 The four material, the brokens, how fast we're going, how, how much, uh, engine power that we have. 00:00:59 We're, we're trying to keep it running at that a hundred to 105% to where if we were, 00:01:05 if we were doing all this ourselves, we're just striving for that, you know, 90 to a hundred through having all of the, 00:01:11 the computer that's generating all the information that we're gathering, all the information that the combine sees ahead of it. 00:01:19 We're getting, we're getting so much information on what this combine needs to be and where it needs to be. That's just, that's just right here. 00:01:26 That's just what we're seeing as far as the computers and on our screens and what the combine seeing ahead. This thing's also, you know, got a awesome unload power. 00:01:35 It's pretty cool. 'cause we throw, we throw out our auger. It's got a, it's got a adjustable spout to where it's, it's, 00:01:41 uh, memorizing where we have our spout the last time. We can adjust that here on our hydrostat. If we wanna be thrown to the other side of the cart 00:01:48 or throw to this side of the cart, whichever, you know, we're able to do that. Um, it has the active yield in it as well. 00:01:55 So it as it's as, as it's getting loads inside the, uh, inside the combine, it's weighing what's in there through those load cells 00:02:04 and it's adjusting our yield to where it should be through, you know, every time it thinks it's a little heavy, 00:02:10 it thinks it's a little low, it's gonna adjust, add or subtract to where it needs to be there. But when you're actually have been in the field 00:02:15 for a few days and you're running and you're looking and, and like, I get to walk around 00:02:20 and look behind all the combines. When you look behind this machine, man, it's clean. Like you wonder, is a computer really gonna gonna do 00:02:28 what we think it's gonna do? Or looking up there, you know, a few, few seconds ahead and it's adjusting this combine to 00:02:36 that, how that's really gonna work. And you get out and look behind this combine and there's next to nothing behind it. 00:02:41 It looks really good. It looks really clean. Um, honestly it's Harvest Smart on steroids. 'cause you know, as farmers, the first first thing we got 00:02:51 as far as Harvest's automation was, was Harvest Smart. You set your combine and you say, okay, keep it here. And that's what the combine does. It 00:02:58 Adjusts it by speed. Uh, then we got the auto maintained. I want my combine to set kind of at this performance. 00:03:05 Well then it would just kind of adjust a little bit and adjust the speed. Well, with the harvest automation, man, 00:03:12 it is adjusting speed. It's looking ahead. It's, it's adjusting what's coming out. There's so many sensors, so many, uh, 00:03:19 cameras on this thing in the grain tank in the, in the inside, the combine actually what's going on and, and what's really happening. 00:03:28 Uh, it's a, it's looking at how clean the grain is. Can we put a little more trash in it? Is it too clean? Is it too trashy? 00:03:35 Uh, are we throwing too much out of the back? What yield do we got coming up that, that this combine can do? 00:03:41 Man, it's, it's really impressive. Um, I, I've enjoyed running it. I've enjoyed having it 00:03:49 and look forward to cutting more acres with it. 00:03:51.205 --> 00:03:52.765