About to do some drain fixing myself, thanks for the ideas. My 6 yr old daughter told me to let you know she just lost her 2nd tooth. Thanks for being a channel i can watch with my kids. Many blessings, Ed
@@Alejandro-vb2fx huh, you're right. I pulled up the msds for it, stuff is more toxic than we were led to believe. There goes a myth I've believed in since the seventies.
Gotta love kids. Dad "blah blah blah work work work grilling..." Daughter "I lost my tooth." Kids measure getting older by tooth loss and height gain. I measure getting older by tooth loss and weight gain...kinda the same.
AMEN Frank. I got a call trying to sell me dental insurance. I asked, "If I have less than half of my teeth left, will my rate be less than half price?" They hung up.
I think everyone in Central Mn is off to a slow start getting into their fields, it has been such a snowy winter, cold and rainy spring, just when the fields start to dry off more heavy rain comes in. Here's hoping you have a great year!
And no Big Bud tractors. Really no need for the giants we use out west, Montana. Havre MT, home of once upin a time Northern Manufacturing. The creators of the Big Bud tractors. Best engineered on earth.
If I lived in America I'd love to be a farm hand on your farm. I have zero experience, no knowledge and I'm accident prone 👌But I'm enthusiastic and I make a good cup of tea and you guys don't drink tea so pretty useless. Guess I'll just keep watching your awesome videos then.
Reply to Brad not Landa Dirt is soil without healthy soil probiotics. Petro At poisons kill probiotics. Tilling is actually worse most of the time - depending on your poisons. About 2 years ago it was found that 30% of your human messenger molecules are soil probiotics.
Hey Zach, have you been considering implementing any of the soil conservation practices that you were talking about in your field work podcast like strip till? Love the podcast by the way 👍
You are a good neighbor to have. Our neighbor objected to everything we did on OUR property, delaying everything and costing lawyer fees. Our projects didn't affect him at all. Apparently everyone in the neighborhood had problem with this guy, cause after he moved, everyone started on new projects, not bothering anyone..
Is that Jim’s ditch? That was really flowing water. Nice fix & nice. way to deal with it. If you fill it in that will be a lot of dirt. Keep up the good work.
In my fathers' day, they would terrace the field down to the tracks to help prevent erosion and to maintain soil moisture. Today they will probably use a land plane.
When I worked on fleet truck we put an air nipple on the tanks for draining so we could air the truck tanks with the truck broken or locked out, I would suggest it for you because it would make trouble shooting cheaper, quieter and “safer” 👍👍
Great video. That ending was great. My 7 year old granddaughter came running in the other day and said papa I pulled my tooth myself. Stay safe and God bless.
I clicked on the video because I love learning about farming; I subscribed because of your dry and dirty sense of humor! You make me crack up every video!
You have a wonderful family there Mr. Johnson. I had hoped that you'd make a video of how the tiles work, thanks! Too bad about the weather, I hope you get all of your crops in, and I guess good luck on the crop yield! I'll be pulling for you.
Ox AO I was moving one of our 8270's to the cart and didn't know it had a battery disconnect......... Wondered why nothing lit up when I turned the key to the on position.
Dude,, no finish ending of the Oil Filter job, did ya order a new housing and put it on? No finish shot of excavating job or tree ending, no debrushing of you hunting stand down in the trees, no finish ending of your sample 2 acre plot to hold back weeds. Killing me dude by leaving me hanging. lol, Love to know if you ever get to fish at the lake? I love your property line marker cause you showed the end!! lol Take that new brushhog down to the lake and whack a new path!!! lol Ya crack me up bud! Lets see if you can BBQ ! lol Lets see the finished product.lol Just tweekin ya, youre awesome
A little advice when limbing trees, start from the tip and work back to the trunk. Actually the best way to have taken that tree down would have been to dig around it with the excavator and push it over.That way the stump comes with it.
glad too see you tossing back the coors light ... from a montana barley grower here might be some of our barley in those cans .. if got a headache was the neighbors barley ... lol ... good luck too getting planting
ya'll are really good at farming, power sawing sort of sucky. fun to improve the land though. Not sure how to make use of all that water, probably stops just the time you would need to irrigate with it.
Hey, trees a tree! But I will agree, cottonwoods are annoying, especially in the spring with all those dang cotton balls blowing everywhere, egads. Sometimes get frickin dust devil made from them here in the Detroit area.
logpile13 as long as you have a shop and you’re able to work that’s a huge win in my book.... failure is when you have a shop and can work but don’t or won’t that’s what makes a failure not the size of a shop.. and I bet everyone brings a ski doo to you when it needs repairs don’t they?
I understand why the Cottonwood had to go, but it would be mildly interesting to learn how big it would have eventually gotten with so much water available. One near where I grew up was measured at 70 feet. Amazingly for all the cottonwood seeds that came from it, I never remember seeing any new Cottonwood trees grow. The early pioneers were drawn to the huge cottonwood trees as they arrived in the Midwest prairies - a place to water their horses and rest in the shade.
The bigger they get the more lightning likes them. We had one well over 120 feet tall and had an eyewitness who claimed (RIP) it was a mere sapling when he debated hand sawing it down pre1910. Massive excavator project when it got fatally struck. 8 foot wide limbs 40 feet high. When the 2/3 of the tree hit the ground the operator said the trampoline effect jumped the 40k lb excavator off the ground. A lot of regret no one got pictures of it going down. I somewhere have pictures where it made a 1000 bu cart and 300 hp tractor look comically small. I have never seen another tree in the Midwest close to how big this fenceline weed got.
Often in farms that were here for many years, there will be a tree in the middle of a field. We would rest the horses there and even ourselves. Often we would find water or lemonade waiting for us.
As far as dead batteries in your vehicles. Install a high amp hour battery in a rolling cart, make a set of custom length 0 gauge copper jumper cables with high-grade clamps..When not in use, keep a trickle charge on the battery cart.Love the channel
Try getting some large lime stone or cobblestone to put around the tile inlet and it will keep erosion to a minimum as well as trap grass and silt from clogging the cage to the pipe.
Looks like that cage, you need a deep hole around it, that way the grass stops much lower, or the water in doesn’t draw it all into the cage drain plugging it. The berm will help also
Zach you need a red intake top from runnings! They have a wider gap in the rods on them and they don't plug nearly as easy! Not sure if you have a runnings store near you, but they are worth it!
Hi I live in kentucky mountains I love your videos they are educational and very informative and interesting! Besides your very good looking country boy.
I'm liking the way your fixing up that ditch. That will be so much nicer for farming over rather than around! Especially row crop! But I do have a question.... How do you pronounce that four letter word on the side of that excavator????
@@MillennialFarmer Okay good advise thanks, that was bothering me cause Mama always said don't be reading, writing or saying any FOUR letter words! And I'm pretty sure that was one of em!
My uncle always had a few sticks of dynamite stashed for periodic tree and stump removal/relocation. Neighbor: Dang! You barely missed dropping that stump in your pickup bed. Tough luck on the truck roof. Uncle: ya, but was trying to land it on the wood pile on the other side of the chicken coop.
Man it must be nice to not have to worry about salmon migration when hogging into a stream. We generally use HDPE plastic pipe for underground water utilities. It can be plastic welded and strung out along the edge of the trench and then dropped in and back filled. It's nice to see how you flatlanders get it done.
Nice to improve the land and getting rid of that massive tree. A big job, even with a large excavator to help you. I used to help my neighbour cutting trees on his property many years ago, but never came across such a huge trunk. Cut mostly pine or spruce trees in those days. Congratulations on the first tooth loss for your girl.
A very interesting channel. A chainsaw secret, always have 2 chainsaws when cutting, if 1 gets stuck use the other one to get it out. No 2 cuts at once on a large tree especially a softwood. I can admit to learning this the hard way, just like in your video...
LOL the ending of the video! Priceless!!!!
oh the herd of beer drinkers, that's Minnesota for ya right there!
Awesome having a railroad running through your farm! Gotta love watching the trains. I always cut up under the logs to prevent the pinching .
instablaster.
About to do some drain fixing myself, thanks for the ideas. My 6 yr old daughter told me to let you know she just lost her 2nd tooth. Thanks for being a channel i can watch with my kids. Many blessings, Ed
Wow!, I guess you do have some clay underneath there. I could see it when the excavator was taking a scoop by your old pipe.
I find WD-40 sprayed on the grill keeps the steaks from sticking and imparts a delightful flavor
🤣🤣 make sure the beer is strong when you do that!!
MN Millennial Farmer I use chainsaw oil on my Mine or lawnmower oil
Since wd40 is made from fish oil it won't hurt you any. 😂 When I was younger we used to spray it on lures to attract the fish.
@@jerrystott7780 I hope you know that's a complete and total myth, even the WD-40 company itself has debunked that along with many others.
@@Alejandro-vb2fx huh, you're right. I pulled up the msds for it, stuff is more toxic than we were led to believe. There goes a myth I've believed in since the seventies.
"TJ is not used to working with a 6 inch pipe"
Thumbs Up immediately on this video
Christian Guffy you know TJ works for a Master Pipe Layer
I wouldn't think he could see a 6 incher Evan if it was attached to him
Gotta love kids. Dad "blah blah blah work work work grilling..." Daughter "I lost my tooth." Kids measure getting older by tooth loss and height gain. I measure getting older by tooth loss and weight gain...kinda the same.
AMEN Frank. I got a call trying to sell me dental insurance. I asked, "If I have less than half of my teeth left, will my rate be less than half price?" They hung up.
Height's just going horiztonal.
the farm life .. having family around you , is always great
What a great family we continue to see. Keep it up, Dad.
The time lapse and banjo music is a really nice touch.
Letsdig18 needed to show you guys how to take that tree down.
We won't claim to be professionals!!
The depth and quality of the soil is amazing.
I think everyone in Central Mn is off to a slow start getting into their fields, it has been such a snowy winter, cold and rainy spring, just when the fields start to dry off more heavy rain comes in. Here's hoping you have a great year!
Thank you for finally explaining the etymology of the term "drain tile". I have been wondering about that ever since I started watching your channel.
You let a Case on land you own? Pretty risky.
What the heck is that thing 😃
Risky to fall in Love?
If it all goes wrong it’s because of that
And no Big Bud tractors. Really no need for the giants we use out west, Montana. Havre MT, home of once upin a time Northern Manufacturing. The creators of the Big Bud tractors. Best engineered on earth.
He needed to get the job done... :D
Neat to see topsoil that deep; we're lucky to see it much deeper than plow depth.
Nothing better than corn on corn action. I would pay to see that anybody else?
Too corny for me.
@@kleinisfijn haha
If I lived in America I'd love to be a farm hand on your farm. I have zero experience, no knowledge and I'm accident prone 👌But I'm enthusiastic and I make a good cup of tea and you guys don't drink tea so pretty useless. Guess I'll just keep watching your awesome videos then.
Dirt is what someone else owned but if it is yours then you call it soil. My old Ag teacher would get after us for saying dirt.
Reply to Brad not Landa
Dirt is soil without healthy soil probiotics. Petro At poisons kill probiotics. Tilling is actually worse most of the time - depending on your poisons. About 2 years ago it was found that 30% of your human messenger molecules are soil probiotics.
My soils teacher would not let us use word dirt
When it's in the field, it's soil. When it's on the kitchen floor, it's dirt. ☺
@@jimbrew3058 That is correct!
My soils teacher said dirt is whats under your fingernails, soil is what you grow plants with.
Hey Zach, have you been considering implementing any of the soil conservation practices that you were talking about in your field work podcast like strip till? Love the podcast by the way 👍
That s a crawdad ! At least that's what we call em ?
Just drank a couple of cans of WD40.
Hope it helps the channel!
Lol, hope they went down well, I'd suggest getting to a toilet!
@@MillennialFarmer Or a doctor
Considering I had to show my id to buy a can of wd40 at my local wallmart folks probably are actually drinking it
Or a Poison Control Center..
@@MillennialFarmer one of my favorite youtubers watches your chanel
You are a good neighbor to have.
Our neighbor objected to everything we did on OUR property, delaying everything and costing lawyer fees.
Our projects didn't affect him at all.
Apparently everyone in the neighborhood had problem with this guy, cause after he moved, everyone started on new projects, not bothering anyone..
Is that Jim’s ditch?
That was really flowing water.
Nice fix & nice. way to deal with it.
If you fill it in that will be a lot of dirt.
Keep up the good work.
In my fathers' day, they would terrace the field down to the tracks to help prevent erosion and to maintain soil moisture. Today they will probably use a land plane.
I see your problem laying that tree down. It was one of those red things hiding under a different color paint.
When I worked on fleet truck we put an air nipple on the tanks for draining so we could air the truck tanks with the truck broken or locked out, I would suggest it for you because it would make trouble shooting cheaper, quieter and “safer” 👍👍
Good idea feeding them. Keeps them on the job.
Great video. That ending was great. My 7 year old granddaughter came running in the other day and said papa I pulled my tooth myself. Stay safe and God bless.
All that fancy equipment and not one operator in the bunch!..lol ....thanks for the video's.... Jack
That Polaris is awesome
Said no one ever. Lol
I was able to find this field on google maps, and seeing the satellite image, agree it will be a lot easier to work after this. 👍
Nice to see.the farmer looking after the contractor with lunch.
Gotta keep the boys happy!
What charming daughters. Thankyou for their humor.
I can't believe you let a Case on your property!!!!
It was a little painful lol
@@MillennialFarmer what's wrong with case? is it just family preference or has there been bad experiences?
It’s not a case it’s a sumitomo link belts n cases are just repainted sumitomos
@@brawler4456 I don't actually hate Case at all. We owned a couple back in the day and they were good. I just gotta give crap to the other color!
@@MillennialFarmer I see, now you just gotta walk up to a broken case tractor in a scrap yard or something and say "hey,...are you okay??"
Weird seeing a digger being used for something other than ripping cash machines out of walls like where I’m from
Ireland is some place🍀🇮🇪😅
Can't bate Ireland
U love to see it
It’s wetter than Ireland there at the moment
Go on Ireland, best country in the world, certainly the greenest !
I clicked on the video because I love learning about farming; I subscribed because of your dry and dirty sense of humor! You make me crack up every video!
You have a wonderful family there Mr. Johnson. I had hoped that you'd make a video of how the tiles work, thanks! Too bad about the weather, I hope you get all of your crops in, and I guess good luck on the crop yield! I'll be pulling for you.
John Day...."how the tiles work" ?? Place the pipe running downhill and watch it flow. The "instructions" for drain laying are pretty short.
@@paulcopeland9035 mr. Copeland. Is this intended as humor? Otherwise I don't understand why you would comment this way.
Hydraulic oil is my choice for roller chain. Oil them when there hot.
You should ask the tree if it okay😂
🤣🤣
19:37 "You know you don't get dead batteries"
You disconnected the ground wire to the battery?
Ox AO I was moving one of our 8270's to the cart and didn't know it had a battery disconnect.........
Wondered why nothing lit up when I turned the key to the on position.
Very nice video guys!
Dude,, no finish ending of the Oil Filter job, did ya order a new housing and put it on? No finish shot of excavating job or tree ending, no debrushing of you hunting stand down in the trees, no finish ending of your sample 2 acre plot to hold back weeds. Killing me dude by leaving me hanging. lol, Love to know if you ever get to fish at the lake? I love your property line marker cause you showed the end!! lol Take that new brushhog down to the lake and whack a new path!!! lol
Ya crack me up bud! Lets see if you can BBQ ! lol Lets see the finished product.lol Just tweekin ya, youre awesome
Wonderful video!
Crawfish living in road ditches is more common than you think, in West Virginia we even have some blue crawfish, blue crawfish... it’s a real thing
A little advice when limbing trees, start from the tip and work back to the trunk. Actually the best way to have taken that tree down would have been to dig around it with the excavator and push it over.That way the stump comes with it.
glad too see you tossing back the coors light ... from a montana barley grower here might be some of our barley in those cans .. if got a headache was the neighbors barley ... lol ... good luck too getting planting
You have a good attitude with your neighbours
I love trains, and I love farming, your in my paradise
We fished for Sockeye salmon out west using a bare red hook sprayed with Wd-40.
This is like an episode from Andrew Camarata (property maintenance in NY)
I live the john deere monitor on the ranger
Your friend Randy sure comes in handy
don't tell him that!
09:06
ya'll are really good at farming, power sawing sort of sucky. fun to improve the land though. Not sure how to make use of all that water, probably stops just the time you would need to irrigate with it.
Do you put stone ontop of the tile? To keep the drain holes open or just backfill it with dirt?
Can we get a 2021 update on this piece? I know it’s Jim’s favorite piece!
Man, sucks to see trees like that taken down. Totally understand why it had to though. Hope you plant plenty of replacements for wind control.
It was just 1 lousy cottonwood. they're a weed around here
Hey, trees a tree! But I will agree, cottonwoods are annoying, especially in the spring with all those dang cotton balls blowing everywhere, egads. Sometimes get frickin dust devil made from them here in the Detroit area.
Really enjoy, your get it done down home vids, real life and honest...........thanks Zach.
Thank you!!
Sure thing, hope you keep makin' vids, I am sure I am not the only one that really enjoys watching!!!!! Have a good one!!
Put some rip rap stone around that inlet. Will keep the debris out but the water draining 💧😎🍺
Was going to post the same comment, you beat me to it..!
Yeah, I'm not used to dealing with 6" pipe either! That would be frustrating. Lol
Lol
The size of your shop makes me feel like I've been a failure in life restoring old ski-doos in a 14x20 garage, but I don't farm.
logpile13 as long as you have a shop and you’re able to work that’s a huge win in my book.... failure is when you have a shop and can work but don’t or won’t that’s what makes a failure not the size of a shop.. and I bet everyone brings a ski doo to you when it needs repairs don’t they?
It's the farmer in you my grandpa was same way make sure guys are well fed and always bring them drinks beer when day done
Their precious little farmers.
Soil looks rich in loam. Nice.
That's because all the soil washed off the top of their hills.
I understand why the Cottonwood had to go, but it would be mildly interesting to learn how big it would have eventually gotten with so much water available. One near where I grew up was measured at 70 feet. Amazingly for all the cottonwood seeds that came from it, I never remember seeing any new Cottonwood trees grow. The early pioneers were drawn to the huge cottonwood trees as they arrived in the Midwest prairies - a place to water their horses and rest in the shade.
The bigger they get the more lightning likes them. We had one well over 120 feet tall and had an eyewitness who claimed (RIP) it was a mere sapling when he debated hand sawing it down pre1910. Massive excavator project when it got fatally struck. 8 foot wide limbs 40 feet high. When the 2/3 of the tree hit the ground the operator said the trampoline effect jumped the 40k lb excavator off the ground. A lot of regret no one got pictures of it going down. I somewhere have pictures where it made a 1000 bu cart and 300 hp tractor look comically small. I have never seen another tree in the Midwest close to how big this fenceline weed got.
Off to the hatchery to grab some ingredients. Did lots of repair work there over the years
Often in farms that were here for many years, there will be a tree in the middle of a field. We would rest the horses there and even ourselves. Often we would find water or lemonade waiting for us.
Hi from New Zealand love your videos 👍🚜
As far as dead batteries in your vehicles. Install a high amp hour battery in a rolling cart, make a set of custom length 0 gauge copper jumper cables with high-grade clamps..When not in use, keep a trickle charge on the battery cart.Love the channel
Try getting some large lime stone or cobblestone to put around the tile inlet and it will keep erosion to a minimum as well as trap grass and silt from clogging the cage to the pipe.
Looks like that cage, you need a deep hole around it, that way the grass stops much lower, or the water in doesn’t draw it all into the cage drain plugging it.
The berm will help also
First time in construction history gets scoop one day and work starts the next.
Lol that's what I was thinking
Zach you need a red intake top from runnings! They have a wider gap in the rods on them and they don't plug nearly as easy! Not sure if you have a runnings store near you, but they are worth it!
Cool operation. Funny girls so cute. Found this channel..LOVE IT
Oofta lots of holding wood left on that tree. Love the channel!
Damn I miss that type of work.
Hi I live in kentucky mountains I love your videos they are educational and very informative and interesting! Besides your very good looking country boy.
That should be a Kinze planter they are the best I use to run 8.5 mph and it never missed a beat
In Saskatchewan we call it a seeder not a “planter”.
MrDonnyt that’s because they are different types, a seeder is different than a planter
I'm liking the way your fixing up that ditch. That will be so much nicer for farming over rather than around! Especially row crop! But I do have a question.... How do you pronounce that four letter word on the side of that excavator????
You don't. Just ignore it...
@@MillennialFarmer Okay good advise thanks, that was bothering me cause Mama always said don't be reading, writing or saying any FOUR letter words! And I'm pretty sure that was one of em!
Some corn on corn 😏😏😏
I’ve always wondered why it was called tile!
I found the best thing to use on chains where the oil will not work its way off or sling off chains is garage door track lube. The stuff is awesome 👍
My uncle always had a few sticks of dynamite stashed for periodic tree and stump removal/relocation.
Neighbor: Dang! You barely missed dropping that stump in your pickup bed. Tough luck on the truck roof.
Uncle: ya, but was trying to land it on the wood pile on the other side of the chicken coop.
Man it must be nice to not have to worry about salmon migration when hogging into a stream. We generally use HDPE plastic pipe for underground water utilities. It can be plastic welded and strung out along the edge of the trench and then dropped in and back filled. It's nice to see how you flatlanders get it done.
Really like that banjo music.
Your neighbours going to love you.
it continues under the road and across my land for 400 feet before going into a river. also, water flows down hill whether in a pipe or not lol
Coors Light - Pee in a can
look at all that unregulated water!!! oh the humanity!
good thing you guys are farmers and not in the forestry business!
Master pipe layer fixing Zach's pipe
You need post 10 for your drain inlets. If not familiar search the tube for him.
Great kids.
That tree is a baby compared to what we had in East Tennessee!
Nice to improve the land and getting rid of that massive tree. A big job, even with a large excavator to help you. I used to help my neighbour cutting trees on his property many years ago, but never came across such a huge trunk. Cut mostly pine or spruce trees in those days. Congratulations on the first tooth loss for your girl.
Looks like a lot of Round Up coming out of that culvert.
purebred glyphosate!
I personally use Howes Lubricant instead of WD-40. Ive found with dealing with 40-50 year old classic cars that Howes is the best for Rusty junk!!
Finest farm follies on the youtubes.
A very interesting channel. A chainsaw secret, always have 2 chainsaws when cutting, if 1 gets stuck use the other one to get it out. No 2 cuts at once on a large tree especially a softwood. I can admit to learning this the hard way, just like in your video...
New to the channel bro Good stuff Farmers are the back bone .
nice .. soon it's a new one. tooth in place .. and she is even happier when it has grown out ..