Transcript of Video Clip 2
[Mr. Danner gets down from the tractor after driving it across the field.]
TEACHER: That was cool, wasn't it? Did you see it move? Did you see the teeth move?
[The children talk. Mr. Danner explains the operation of the combine. The children gather around buckets of corn.]
TEACHER: Take a big step back so we can explain what it is. Big step back.
TEACHER: Eso es que se llama maiz blanco.
(That's what's called white corn.)
That's what you just looked for?
MR. DANNER: That's what was in those pods. And that's yellow corn for livestock.
TEACHER: Eso no se come la gente. No se come la gente. Se comen los animales esto.
(People don't eat that. People don't eat it. Animals eat that.)
CHILD: I want to eat this.
TEACHER: We're not going to eat it. We're just feeling it right now.
TEACHER: Ya contaron todas las ruedas? Que mas van a contar?
(Did you count all the wheels? What else are you going to count?)
CHILD: Las luces.
(The lights.)
TEACHER: … contar la luz despues?
(…counting the lights after?)
MR. DANNER: You guys want to look inside?
[The children count the parts of the combine: wheels, headlights, etc.]
CHILD: Una …
One, two…
I made eight of them.
TEACHER: Muy bien. Donde estás? (Very good. Where are you?) Oh, there you are. Y las luces? (And the lights?)
CHILD: Now do we get to count the lights?
[Children take notes and make drawings.]
Que ???? adentro?
MR. DANNER: These lights going out to the side show you where your last mark has been when you're doing spring work out in the field. That's the benefit of them. Then there's the light at the end of the auger up there that helps you when you're unloading into the trucks.
TEACHER: There's the lights flashing.
MR. DANNER: It lights up and lets you know how full the truck is.
OTHER FARMER: Did he explain how you drive along side and pick up the beans?
MR. DANNER: No, not really.
TEACHER: Do you know what this tractor is for?
CHILD: Yeah.
TEACHER: What?
[Child answers.]
TEACHER: That's right, in the back wagon, right?
OTHER FARMER: The combine doesn't have to stop moving. This cart can pull along side while the combine is going through the field, and the combine dumps his load onto this cart here. And then this'll take it to the truck.
TEACHER: Did you know that? That's how they did it? You want to get down so somebody else can get up?
CHILD: I found all of them.
OTHER FARMER: Show them where the horn's at. They can each honk the horn.