Back in the day we were also the pickers. They just put a limit on girls working in the cucumbers. The buckets were deemed too heavy. Good. We had other things to pick anyway...beans, berries, then cold storage working on the processing lines. Corn, beans, fish, crab, carrots, cucumbers... Ah, the good ole days of manual labor.
You are a wonderful gentleman imparting responsibility to young people. How different out lives would be if the young punks from intercities could work under your supervision even for on season. You not only grow beautiful vegetables but generations of quality people. Blessings and thanks from PJ Vichi in north Idaho.
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years.
Believe me there are plenty of unorganized messes around the farm that don’t always get shown in the videos….special thanks to my wife for helping with the beautification of our farm and property.
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years. nahwus
Its been a real pleasure following you through this season, id like to commend you on the excellent videos youve produced and the knowledge youve shared!
Great video! I'm a farmer in nys. And have work with several large snap bean growers around here. Ya those machines work great! I ran the big self propelled ones
Do the green bean plants grow back for multiple harvests from the same plants? I love how you employ young folks to help out. Great skills and teamwork they are learning. I would have loved to work for you doing this kind of work. Do any of the kids go on to farm themselves?
No, the bean vareties that we grow are specifically for machine harvest, they set higher up on the plant for easier picking and have a more concentrated fruit set that way a majority of them are ready all at the same time. I have not had any kids go into farming that I can think of. I have hired over 300 kids in the past 28 years and some of them now have kids that have worked here.
Looks like the crew is doing a good job. I believe you mention it was $75/bushel, so at farmer's market you sell only by the bushel or also break a bushel and sell by the lb?
I am impressed with you hard work you are doing, good work! You are blessed! And I am also just amazed how this machine is designed to do this work of harvesting 😊
Fascinating. Please remind me - do you irrigate your beans and corn? I know you use drip tape under your crops planted under plastic but can’t remember what you do for direct planted crops. Thank you.
Thank you! I do not irrigate my corn and beans and I definitely pay for it on about 1/3 of my bean crop each season. The corn can get by a little better with less rain and does very well 8 out of 10 years.
My God I love your videos... please...keep going...I already watched them more than three times.. each of them... good videos...I'm a farmer in the wrong place 😂😂😂
WOW Thank the Lord for inspiring the idea's of these machines to whoever they were 😀 when i see how far we have come with machinery and technologies it amazes me 😀 especially with a.i now and soon to be quantum computers 😕 i like how you keep your farming operations "old school" (hard work and labor) with the help of some modern day technologies 💪🖥️ wise and thanks for another interesting video 🙏
Love this !!! You had mentioned about showing the commercial kitchen. How long down the road on that video? Not trying to push, just don't want to miss it.
good tip, but normally if the tubs are centered they all go right in, plus we double stack the tubs and anything hanging lower from the outlets would get in the way.
I guess I should have explained that a little better, we sell 99% of them by the pound for three dollars which makes a bushel come out to $75 worth of beans, but when someone wants to buy a bushel, we sell them for $40.
I love that tractor, I learned to drive on this tractor when I was 7! My dad gave it to me if I agreed to pay for the engine overhaul about 15 years ago and she's my baby...we also have an old 4010 from the late 60's and a 4230 from the early 80's.
Well, I believe an average yield for green beans is around 250 bushel per acre, but that can definitely be less and can definitely be more but based on that number at the wholesale rate of $28 a bushel, which is what it is today, that is $7000 per acre, but if you’re retailing all of them at $3 per pound like we are and able to move that many you can make up to $18,000 an acre with that yield.
Have you ever tried harvesting bush snap peas with this? Any particular variety you know of that works? And what about bean varieties that are well suited to mechanical harvesting? I recently acquired an old version of this machine. Worked pretty great with Jade green beans. Thanks!
Yes and it didn’t work very well for me, it damaged the pods and picked up too much dirt and left half of them on the plant. We planted Jade about 15 years ago before we had the picker. There are numerous varieties well suited for machine harvesting that the seed companies can recommend
Awesome video. Where does your waste water go from these washing processes. Do u have a holding pond that u can irrigate out of, that us plumbed to the drain outlet in your wash pack area? Seems like an awesome opportunity to use thw water more that once and cycle it back into a pond to use as irrigation for feilds that r still producing. Or even to recycle to use as wash water again. Only reason I ask is that water seems like the most important input on a farm, essentially on drought years, which seem like they will b more common going forward. Always having that surplus of water on hand in the pond would mean not having to tax the well water as much. Same idea as a power plant utilizing its input fuel up to 3x to get the most efficient output of a single unit of fuel compared to a vehicle that only burns once. Thx for the video. This was a great one
Thanks Eric, we don’t reuse any of the water, it’s only about 150 gallons per week so not even worth the effort. If we were harvesting and packing every day it would be a different story. Large operations are absolutely reusing the water, we’re just simple small potatoes in the bean picking world.
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@wishwellfarms ok thanks a lot 🙏. Im from algeria here we harvest manually since labor is cheap we do up to 8 times, i though about buying such a machine to help farmers. But i don't think they would accept that .
Not needed for that small of an area, we used to hand pick an area four times larger. Probably anything more than 8000m2 it might pay off in the long run.
No, picked once and move on. A good crop can produce nearly 200 bushels per acre so can potentially be very profitable and no need to pick more than once. The varieties for machine harvest are more concentrated fruit set for one picking.
A moment of silence for all that blossom which wasn't destined to become a pod ,but hey,that harvester's performance is worth of that potential money loss.
I tried using it on edamame one year and it didn’t work too well. We picked a few bushels and it was half dirt. If you had healthy plants that had their pods up high and the soil was rolled flat before or after planting it might work ok, but I can’t really know for sure with my very limited experience.
We’ve planted about 15 or 20 different varieties over the years, but I have settled on Valentino as our all-time favorite but another one we like this year was called dark horse.
About a bushel per minute. The only thing that slows that down is unloading and turning around at the end of the rows. Of course it has to be a good yielding patch and weed free. I bet you could get 500-1000 bushels a day if you kept it rolling for 10-12 hours.
Yes, it strips all the leaves off and leaves nothing behind but an empty stock, green bean seed is cheap and it’s better to go into a new patch weekly when you’re picking this many beans for the fresh market.
About 45 minutes south of Findlay. The beans don’t really come back because the leaves are all stripped off the plant and it’s just a bare stalk left behind.
If they choose, but it’s not loud in the back of the machine, only the sound of the belt and fan…camera definitely makes it sound much louder than it really is. On the tractor is where it’s really loud.
I hope you are going to put oil on that chain you showed on the sprockets as it looks pretty dry. I don't mean to insult you because maybe you already do that before the start of harvest but I don't know what you know so trying to help if you didn't already know. I was raised on a Farm/Ranch years ago. I always look to help a fellow farmer. This is my second time watching.
Thanks I appreciate you looking out for a Farmers best interest. However, there are no chains visible on that picker. It only has two chains and they are covered up completely by guards, so I think what you saw was the belt that runs on three or four sprockets on the outside by the wheel. Thanks for watching!
It's actually a bit on the low side...we sell them by the quart at farmers' markets, $3 per quart, each quart weighs 1 lb and our bushels are 25 lb, so $75 per bu.
@@odessa3186 We also sell them by the bushel for $40 so big savings when buying in bulk, but a majority of ours our sold in small quantity for fresh eating
Where do you see waste? Are you referring to the few bushels of broken beans on the floor after packing? After a 60 bushel harvest there is only about 2 bushel of broken pieces, that's pretty good if you ask me. What's the alternative?? Hand picking? This is happening on thousands of acres around the world to feed humans.
There’s hardly any waste at all, a few beans every few feet is all, I would say the machine pics at least 95% of all the beans. I think the row that I showed I didn’t have things set properly and it was missing some.
When using a mechanical harvester, you pick one time and move on, the beans we grow are designed to all come on at once for machine harvest. We plant green beans once a week for 14 weeks so we’re always in a new patch weekly.
They try to come back to life a little bit, but they look like junk and it’s not worth messing with it because there’s a new patch coming on every week so it’s all one pic and done. The variety I grow produce a concentrated fruit set so they all come on at once.
So many young people are getting some excellent education in farming and agriculture.
The way you combine content and images is so professional
Thanks I appreciate that!
Your hard work is paying off! 💪
Good to see hard working kids. Keep up the great work
Back in the day we were also the pickers. They just put a limit on girls working in the cucumbers. The buckets were deemed too heavy. Good. We had other things to pick anyway...beans, berries, then cold storage working on the processing lines. Corn, beans, fish, crab, carrots, cucumbers... Ah, the good ole days of manual labor.
that washing and packing is such well orchestrated operation with everybody knowing what to do and Jason pushing the buttons behind the bench.
We have a great crew that can get er done!
You are a wonderful gentleman imparting responsibility to young people. How different out lives would be if the young punks from intercities could work under your supervision even for on season. You not only grow beautiful vegetables but generations of quality people. Blessings and thanks from PJ Vichi in north Idaho.
The connection you have with nature is beautiful.
fascinating machine! I have always been fascinated with all the different harvest machines they have out there for vegetables! They are all amazing!
I love watching unique harvest machines on TH-cam that I’ve never seen before, definitely fascinating stuff
That bean picker is amazing. Betting a farmer designed that beauty. Great to see you getting good yields.
I bet you’re right! Thanks!
another great vid - so glad I found your channel!
Thanks so much Brad. I really appreciate that!
I love green beans thanks for the video
You are welcome
Quite a great cash flow. Thanks for letting us learn about your farm operations 👍👍👍
My pleasure, thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years.
We watch the Veggie Boys also. Amazing how organized and clean Jason keeps his farm.
Believe me there are plenty of unorganized messes around the farm that don’t always get shown in the videos….special thanks to my wife for helping with the beautification of our farm and property.
Very thankful for this machine, one of my best investments I’ve ever made.
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years. nahwus
That's pretty cool. It's amazing that machine can pic so fast and separate without damage. Quite an operation post picking.
Thanks, this setup works pretty well for our small operation.
Its been a real pleasure following you through this season, id like to commend you on the excellent videos youve produced and the knowledge youve shared!
Great video! I'm a farmer in nys. And have work with several large snap bean growers around here. Ya those machines work great! I ran the big self propelled ones
3020 sounds great!! Thanks 😊.
Selling at the market provides a special and joyful atmosphere.
What a hard working people u have.
They do a really good job for us!
Do the green bean plants grow back for multiple harvests from the same plants?
I love how you employ young folks to help out. Great skills and teamwork they are learning. I would have loved to work for you doing this kind of work. Do any of the kids go on to farm themselves?
No, the bean vareties that we grow are specifically for machine harvest, they set higher up on the plant for easier picking and have a more concentrated fruit set that way a majority of them are ready all at the same time. I have not had any kids go into farming that I can think of. I have hired over 300 kids in the past 28 years and some of them now have kids that have worked here.
Thanks for sharing!
Great video!
This green bean harvester is amazing. I would love to try driving it one.
EXCELLENT VIDEO. 💯👍. From an old Famer. 🤠🇺🇸
Very interesting. Thanks!
Super interesting! How do you decide your ground travel speed? Thanks for sharing.
Kool BEANZ MAN!!!😊
Yes!
Looks like the crew is doing a good job. I believe you mention it was $75/bushel, so at farmer's market you sell only by the bushel or also break a bushel and sell by the lb?
I'll always rather see child labor than Mexican labor. The harvester is awesome.
I am impressed with you hard work you are doing, good work! You are blessed! And I am also just amazed how this machine is designed to do this work of harvesting 😊
Fascinating. Please remind me - do you irrigate your beans and corn? I know you use drip tape under your crops planted under plastic but can’t remember what you do for direct planted crops. Thank you.
Thank you! I do not irrigate my corn and beans and I definitely pay for it on about 1/3 of my bean crop each season. The corn can get by a little better with less rain and does very well 8 out of 10 years.
My God I love your videos... please...keep going...I already watched them more than three times.. each of them... good videos...I'm a farmer in the wrong place 😂😂😂
Wow, thank you so much! I’m planning to continue on for another season to see how it goes!
Get up the good work God bless the farmers.
Thank you!
WOW Thank the Lord for inspiring the idea's of these machines to whoever they were 😀 when i see how far we have come with machinery and technologies it amazes me 😀 especially with a.i now and soon to be quantum computers 😕 i like how you keep your farming operations "old school" (hard work and labor) with the help of some modern day technologies 💪🖥️ wise and thanks for another interesting video 🙏
Thanks Elijah, you’re right, a little old school and a little modern technology.
I always wondered how beans were picked in large quantities. Thanks for sharing 👍 ❤
No problem! You should see the 4 row harvesters that look like combines!
Love this !!! You had mentioned about showing the commercial kitchen. How long down the road on that video? Not trying to push, just don't want to miss it.
Hoping to film it when we make our sweet pepper relish in mid to late August. Thanks!
😊interesting. Welcome with all your heart
To improve you could add some length of flexible duct to the end of those 2 outlets so it can direct the beans more into the boxes.
good tip, but normally if the tubs are centered they all go right in, plus we double stack the tubs and anything hanging lower from the outlets would get in the way.
Good Work
I guess I should have explained that a little better, we sell 99% of them by the pound for three dollars which makes a bushel come out to $75 worth of beans, but when someone wants to buy a bushel, we sell them for $40.
What do you do with the stuff that falls on the floor and the leaves etc.? Animal feed?
Wow amazing I want a version of that at my garden I love green beans but I don’t like picking them lol
A mini version for a lawn tractor would be sweet!
New pinoy fans ...i love farming
I like to see the per 1970 3020 John Deere tractors. i drove one for years and it is still on the original farm. Great tractor.
I love that tractor, I learned to drive on this tractor when I was 7! My dad gave it to me if I agreed to pay for the engine overhaul about 15 years ago and she's my baby...we also have an old 4010 from the late 60's and a 4230 from the early 80's.
I need 1 of these machines in my life! Not sure what I'm gonna do with I just want it...
shout out to all hard working guys❤❤❤
I have always farmed barley and wheat here in Canada. What would you say beans earn per acre?
Well, I believe an average yield for green beans is around 250 bushel per acre, but that can definitely be less and can definitely be more but based on that number at the wholesale rate of $28 a bushel, which is what it is today, that is $7000 per acre, but if you’re retailing all of them at $3 per pound like we are and able to move that many you can make up to $18,000 an acre with that yield.
Have you ever tried harvesting bush snap peas with this? Any particular variety you know of that works? And what about bean varieties that are well suited to mechanical harvesting? I recently acquired an old version of this machine. Worked pretty great with Jade green beans. Thanks!
Yes and it didn’t work very well for me, it damaged the pods and picked up too much dirt and left half of them on the plant. We planted Jade about 15 years ago before we had the picker. There are numerous varieties well suited for machine harvesting that the seed companies can recommend
Awesome video. Where does your waste water go from these washing processes. Do u have a holding pond that u can irrigate out of, that us plumbed to the drain outlet in your wash pack area?
Seems like an awesome opportunity to use thw water more that once and cycle it back into a pond to use as irrigation for feilds that r still producing. Or even to recycle to use as wash water again.
Only reason I ask is that water seems like the most important input on a farm, essentially on drought years, which seem like they will b more common going forward. Always having that surplus of water on hand in the pond would mean not having to tax the well water as much. Same idea as a power plant utilizing its input fuel up to 3x to get the most efficient output of a single unit of fuel compared to a vehicle that only burns once.
Thx for the video. This was a great one
Thanks Eric, we don’t reuse any of the water, it’s only about 150 gallons per week so not even worth the effort. If we were harvesting and packing every day it would be a different story. Large operations are absolutely reusing the water, we’re just simple small potatoes in the bean picking world.
How about putting a mat or blanket under the boxes to easily pick up the spilled beans?
Those are broken and damaged beans that get thrown out, it’s usually only about 2 bushels out of a 50 bushel pic
Sometimes the employees will take them home
What do you feed those beans? I told my dad it would take a couple years to pick them all by hand. Good thing you have that machine. 🎉
I really don’t do anything special just spread a little bit of dry fertilizer, MAP and some potash
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Очень интересный Харвестр -- комбайн у вас ...!!!
Очень жаль что у нас такие не производят...
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Почему вы не сеете Фасоль для уборки c использованием Валкообрaзователя Харвестер
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I picked an hour and got a 5 gallon bucket of beans. It would be nice to get one of these.
How do you prevent crushing the other rows of beans as you travel through the field?
Amazing video
Thanks!
I'm curious how many times you harvest the same bushes compared to manually harvesting
Maybe two or three times but makes no difference when you machine harvest, once and done and move on to the next one, a new one comes on each week
@wishwellfarms ok thanks a lot 🙏.
Im from algeria here we harvest manually since labor is cheap we do up to 8 times, i though about buying such a machine to help farmers. But i don't think they would accept that .
The finger spring thing look like the ones on peanut pickers and the Barber Surf Rake that cleans trash off of beaches.
Interesting
If you can pick beans green and yellow.. can peas 🫛 be used by the same machine
It works on edamame and purple hull beans too but not too well on peas, it dings them up too much and misses half of them.
Great video 🇳🇿🙏🏼
Thanks, I appreciate that!
The video is amazing. I have a question: with an area of about 1000m2, will this machine work effectively?
Not needed for that small of an area, we used to hand pick an area four times larger. Probably anything more than 8000m2 it might pay off in the long run.
After you pick the beans will the plant give more beans ?
No, picked once and move on. A good crop can produce nearly 200 bushels per acre so can potentially be very profitable and no need to pick more than once. The varieties for machine harvest are more concentrated fruit set for one picking.
A moment of silence for all that blossom which wasn't destined to become a pod ,but hey,that harvester's performance is worth of that potential money loss.
Lol, normally that is not the case, I think the heat wave earlier this summer may have played a part in the uneven ripening.
does the machine kill the plant or do you get more yeilds?
Picked once and move on to the next planting
Is edamame ( green soybeans ) a possible crop with that picker?
I tried using it on edamame one year and it didn’t work too well. We picked a few bushels and it was half dirt. If you had healthy plants that had their pods up high and the soil was rolled flat before or after planting it might work ok, but I can’t really know for sure with my very limited experience.
How do you keep the grasshoppers off of your green beans?
Don’t really have any problems with the grasshoppers. Sometimes little mini leaf hoppers will chew on them, but not very often.
Cant find any single row harvesters for sale in Australia, it seems they use multi row threshers to do it.
Wow, I never would’ve guessed that, maybe since they’re so high priced for new ones now that all the used ones are getting gobbled up
What variety of cultivar are the beans?
We’ve planted about 15 or 20 different varieties over the years, but I have settled on Valentino as our all-time favorite but another one we like this year was called dark horse.
What varieties did you plant?
My all-time favorite variety is Valentino and also added dark horse this year, which was really nice
What type of soil do you use for green beans
We have pretty fine soils, a mixture of heavy clay and loam
How many bushels of beans can you harvest in a day with the oxbo
About a bushel per minute. The only thing that slows that down is unloading and turning around at the end of the rows. Of course it has to be a good yielding patch and weed free. I bet you could get 500-1000 bushels a day if you kept it rolling for 10-12 hours.
I see some waste do you get a second growth and pick
Nope only one and done and move on to the next one
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Well kept. I thought it was new😅
It’s definitely got its wear and tear scratches and dents but from a distance it looks pretty nice That’s for sure.
Where is this machine produced and how much does it cost?🤔
I believe Oxbo is in Wisconsin. They currently cost 58,000 USD but were only 33,000 USD when I bought this one 15 years ago.
Picking with the machine does it kill the plant, you having only one harvest?
Yes, it strips all the leaves off and leaves nothing behind but an empty stock, green bean seed is cheap and it’s better to go into a new patch weekly when you’re picking this many beans for the fresh market.
So you’re somewhere around Toledo Findlay Ohio. Will the beans come back or not I mean bloom. Regardless thank you
About 45 minutes south of Findlay. The beans don’t really come back because the leaves are all stripped off the plant and it’s just a bare stalk left behind.
Hi do your workers havw ear protection
If they choose, but it’s not loud in the back of the machine, only the sound of the belt and fan…camera definitely makes it sound much louder than it really is. On the tractor is where it’s really loud.
Ya hand picking has got so expensive! Any way you can save labor in this business is the key!
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I hope you are going to put oil on that chain you showed on the sprockets as it looks pretty dry. I don't mean to insult you because maybe you already do that before the start of harvest but I don't know what you know so trying to help if you didn't already know. I was raised on a Farm/Ranch years ago. I always look to help a fellow farmer. This is my second time watching.
Thanks I appreciate you looking out for a Farmers best interest. However, there are no chains visible on that picker. It only has two chains and they are covered up completely by guards, so I think what you saw was the belt that runs on three or four sprockets on the outside by the wheel. Thanks for watching!
Your machine looks almost new. Oxbow must use good paint.
Put a sock on the chute to cut down on waste
$5,000 divided by 77 bushels is $65 a bushel. Can that be right?
It's actually a bit on the low side...we sell them by the quart at farmers' markets, $3 per quart, each quart weighs 1 lb and our bushels are 25 lb, so $75 per bu.
@ so if I canned a bushel in quarts u r saying it would be more than $7 a jar?
@@odessa3186 We also sell them by the bushel for $40 so big savings when buying in bulk, but a majority of ours our sold in small quantity for fresh eating
@@wishwellfarms great TH-cam site. I subscribed
$21 AUD kg here in Oz or $13.78 USD kg
pretty sure blowing leaf's on the road is illegal in most places, it is considered causing a road hazard and can kill people on motorcycle's very easy
Oh my goodness give me a break, those blow right off after a couple cars go by… of all the things to make a comment about from a video, unbelievable
Alot of waste looks like
Where do you see waste? Are you referring to the few bushels of broken beans on the floor after packing? After a 60 bushel harvest there is only about 2 bushel of broken pieces, that's pretty good if you ask me. What's the alternative?? Hand picking? This is happening on thousands of acres around the world to feed humans.
@@wishwellfarms I was talking about what was on the ground it look like a lot of beans
Seems like a lot of waste. 🤷♂️
There’s hardly any waste at all, a few beans every few feet is all, I would say the machine pics at least 95% of all the beans. I think the row that I showed I didn’t have things set properly and it was missing some.
How many times can you pick a single field. Our small garden produces beens for weeks.
When using a mechanical harvester, you pick one time and move on, the beans we grow are designed to all come on at once for machine harvest. We plant green beans once a week for 14 weeks so we’re always in a new patch weekly.
Would the beans plants produce more beans after running through the machine?
They try to come back to life a little bit, but they look like junk and it’s not worth messing with it because there’s a new patch coming on every week so it’s all one pic and done. The variety I grow produce a concentrated fruit set so they all come on at once.