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North Dakota State College of science? That's where I went. I did the John Deere program their

Ha, thanks. Hope 25 treats you well!

Thank you. You as well May 25 be a blessing year!

@Davefromrollinghillsfarms she hates running tractor.

your portraying yourself in a way I don't know if that's how you want to come across. That horrible corn was way above APH. And some of the better corn in the area. You really have no complaint. There is nothing poor about the corn,.clearly you have a grudge. I would suggest moving on. You are more than welcome to come rent a field in the area and give it a try I'm sorry that the truck is not up to your standards. I'm very proud of that old truck and it worked very well.

You talk a lot of s*** as a keyboard Warrior I can remember when I was farming and my parents were buying me on my Ertl toys to play in the carpet with just like you are now but someday you have to do it on your own

The corn was sprayed and taken care of. Calm down there Sally

Ted ! Glad to see you. Yes, they are fun to watch grow

Thanks

But they have great marketing.

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 I wouldn't use the stuff if they gave it to me now..... They change the rules of the guarantee when it don't perform from what they told you when they were selling it to you

Massey, 2k hours of minimal issues. JD has played copy cat catchup and their new ivt is OK. But the agco cvt is the one to have. If your brand can't have 670 hp cvt then you have the wrong brand. Ha. Have never seen such an efficient tractor. Can move bales all day on 2-3 gph. Not bad for 270 hp. Strip till all day at 1/2gpa Has some quirks, but the new S Series would be a dream. I will push a Massey or Fendt before driving a new deere.

Yes it does. Dry alfalfa might lose some leaves, but they are still in the windrow. The cows find them!

Ha, someday.

Great conversation. Everyone's numbers are a little different. The cost of the land would be the same whether you're grazing it row cropping it or using it as a hay field. And that would go for a lot of your fixed costs. All my numbers are out of the book that universities put together. The manure out of the cow is the same whether they're in the feedlot or out grazing. The only difference is that in the feedlot, you lose nutrient value, and then you have the cost to haul it and spread it It takes the same amount of feed per year to feed that pair, whether there in confinement or grazing part of the year. For part of the year to feed them cows, we don't start a tractor daily, that many bales not made, bedding and hauling manure... The value to the soil is also huge in a grazing rotating with a row crop system vs a normal run a hay field dead plow it for row crops. Look at how much fertilizer you have to haul on that hay field Period You could be hauling manure back but you still have that cost involved. And then a typical old Hayfield doesn't have much value to the soil. In a rotational grazing system where your row crop is part of the rotation you have a green manure

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Do the math again with both row cropland and pasture purchased and the numbers are totally different. Again, your scenario is you own the dry lot and you rent the grazing. Grazing land is too expensive to purchase, by far. All the subsidies for cropland and availability of winter corn stalks has driven up pasture prices and rent. As far as the manure value, if you own cropland, the manure is on your own farm, whereas leased grazing the manure is on someone else's farm. Not the same value. It unequivocally does not take the same feed whether cattle are on pasture or confinement. Confinement cattle take far less feed, as University of Nebraska research shows: th-cam.com/video/YIME6gwQe4g/w-d-xo.html. Per Dr. Karla Jenkins, who feeds her own cattle on dry lots. The cheapest way to raise cattle on planet earth is grazing on the Pampas -- no winter feeding, reliable rainfall, low labor costs. In the US, Gulf Coast pasture would be hard to beat, but there are hurricanes to contend with. In the North Plains, Nebraska Sandhills is probably the best thing going. If you don't have 30M laying around to buy a sandhill ranch or happen to have inherited one, need to be creative if you want to be in livestock. None of them are for lease at those rates, as far as I know. Dry lots also allow you to preserve whatever pasture resources you may have during a drought. I drive around and see pastures grazed into the ground because cattlemen haven't invested in dry lots -- because they don't own, but lease. On a chalkboard, manure on grazing land is this wonderful, wholistic thing......In reality when the ground is leased, it often gets RAPED for short term gain.

@MrJimsonweed67 My math for my farm shows grazing is by far more profitable than bringing the cows home for the summer. 6 months of the year we are "confinement" because of my region I love feeding cows and hauling manure, if there was money in it I would do that.

@MrJimsonweed67 I would imagine numbers to be very regional. 300 bushel of corn is going to cash flow a lot different than somebody with a 100 bushel corn for them cows to rent that pasture. Somebody with limited Acres or more cows than their Acres can support cash flow different Like I said all my numbers are directly out of the farm business management book for my region

Ha, Well actually if I did just the bottom of the cylinder and top of case, drop the heads and just debur the port windows it would still have a big gain

@ and put an xlt hood on it and no one would know right lol.

@dustinadams9136 ha. We were at a race, and a guy came up mad, he said everyone in the 600 class is cheating. I asked how would he know. He said he has an 800 big bore kit and is in 4th place.

​@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 "they are cheating!" "How do you know?" "Because I was cheating and they beat me" 😂😂

​@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Now THAT is hilarious. Jon, I've followed your Mad Cow stuff for years. I had a 2003 800 XCR. Something similar happened once. When we were registering at a 1000ft drag race on a lake in Michigan, I left my XCR and walked around seeing who was in my class. I overheard a guy on a ZRT 800 (My class, obviously, and I saw he was the only other 800 there-small town) saying "I'm running 800 stock......but I've got some clutching and gearing done.......also running chisels. Not supposed to do that in stock, but what the Hell?! He saw me, and asked what class I was in. When I said same one as you, guys face got red in his "Oh shit" moment. He woulda really had a bad day if he'd known that, A: I was running mechanical reverse! B: I had installed electric start! It can be done by mounting a gel battery, elevated near the chaincase. But I had one advantage-I had the 4 suspension mounting holes location altered, moved down about an inch, raising the sled for better weight transfer. Dealer had done this for other guys, with great results. Of course I didn't blabber about it like he did. It was best of 3 runs wins. I won first and last of the 3. I actually was beating him on the second run, but my sled torque steered badly on all 3 runs, and on that run I would've eventually crossed into his lane. I needed a torque strap. Oh well......😅😅😅😅

@@farawayfarm2520 diversity!

Thanks.

Thanks you as well

Just polaris. At some point it's just another port. Toss a degree wheel on it to see where timing is at. A basic clean up with no real Port work on some engines you can actually hear them idle a little different

Still can't break 130 mph and 1,000 ft. Been a few years since I tried but one of these years I'll get back out on the ice

Ugh, always with the farming. A guy never gets a day off. Ha I'll do a summary video of the year and we got some big changes

AMF products like the biocoat have shown some pretty good results. Not sure on amplify D. With any products do some tests. Soil test, plant test and maybe yield.

Good mention. Our splitting stands hold the front from rocking. Works nice, on a dirty tractor we can roll front end outside to wash it off, and then scrub the floor.

Ha, thanks. Your to kind.

@ihatered3177 yes. I have several good dealers, and there has been a few things that I took care of.

Leak past the needle and guide, or a crack in housing, cover plate under 3 pt piston.

Split at clutch housing, change seal.

You can do it while it's in the tractor. You'll see two plugs. The left hand plug comes out and you put in the little plug with the screw on it

@Dialyser only if the pump had a destroke fitting. Then it was just a matter of turning it in. Or you get the electric coil and valve from a tractor that had it and put that on.

We rebuild them. Main shaft is not bad, if you had the feere tech manual for specs it's pretty easy

do you think there is enough room to remove the hydralic pump drive shaft while its still mounted on the pump is still mounted to the tractor? then i could just replace main seal without pulling the pump?

@trissiherbst1440 the seal that is allowing oil out the shaft is internal. Good chance shaft is grooved where seals ride, possibly worm on the eccentric part as well. You will see pitting or flaking

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 thank you. great videos

We had about the worst bean crop of my life. That was one of the better fields

​@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 so will you be doing more next year? What was your chemical/weed control from this year? What would you change for next year?

@AJ3488 I want to do a test plot with them to see if they have other hybrids. I used a pre-emergent product, and then the goal was at 10 days after the pre-emergent to do a second pass. But then we got into that rainy season, so by the time I was able to do a second pass, we were at 30 almost 40 days. At that point there was a lot of big thistle. So, I ran a mix of Cobra Bassagran Warrant . Then, I cultivated the field three times to try to help clean it up. It works very well. If I was going to do non-GMO beans again, I would definitely have winter Rye ahead of it. Do a pre-emergent program. And then I would rather cultivate and learn how to do in season covers versus several passes of chemicals The row crop cultivating along with a residual herbicide worked really well

If it is a Synchro range transmission It could be the transmission input shaft seal If it's a late model the PTO operating Pistons can leak oil into the clutch housing If it is a power shift it's also an input shaft seal

No. 4 of them have now broke. And to replace them you now clip the wire to the Post because your not going to cut your lines to thread in a new post. Ground has to be soft to put them in without drilling a hole. The one end of the pasture we have to move that wire next spring. Them posts will be returned. Have had much better luck with the Gallagher t post insulators and metal t post.

@@ndrancher4041 up to you. We have a local clutch repair shop. All he does is rebuild dry clutch discs and brake pads so we just have him do the riveting for us

Yes. The brake material usually plugs the suction screen. But many times I have seen where the pad is gone and then you have steel on steel. All that dust gets into the oil and will plug the filter. When I do a brake job I have an air nozzle that can blast parts cleaner, I try to rinse the transmission case the best I can

@@dalecain3253 that's awesome The guy I bought it from got into a field that was a little more soft than he thought. Put it in low low and flick the locker on . Loaded it heavy to the back and walked out of that field and he was 100% impressed

You mean the piston for the clutch? I put bearings and races on it and the pto. If doing clutch work might as well do rear engine seal.

@ tractor has 3k hours our neighbor bought it new and we bought it from him in the 90s it’s mainly just an auger and brush hog tractor. It lost odd gears. So I removed the planetary and little clutch packs. The apply piston for the smaller clutches had a bad seal and bad frictions and steels. Would you worry about getting into the clutch or resetting it? I plan to rebearing the clutch and pto controller and update the lube dump valve and stuff. Just wondering if I should be on the look out for any other common issues.

@083_mac so you pulled the two-speed out With that few of hours theoretically you shouldn't have to worry about the Perma clutch but since you're there nothing wrong with pulling it apart and inspecting it and then just have your dealer reset it

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 thanks for the insight I may see if the dealer is competent enough. Our dealer support for Deere sucks here. I would do it myself but can’t justify the tooling for one job. May just see if they would lend me the tool. I’ve been trying to watch as many videos as I can you give a lot of good info keep up the good work!

@083_mac good luck

I have a C9 cat in that burned up combine, otherwise a 24 valve 5.9 Cummins. Ugh, you imagine a 404 , I would never get over 20 mph

@@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer Neighbors weed lines have good prices!