Hold button down for glow plugs and don't release start switch all the way till running on the compressor. Stupid set up because crap gets under plastic dash and guys can't read full instructions to start it
@@MillennialFarmer I am 70 years old and I ❤ watching your videos! Zach you are a Groovy guy and funny as heck! Stay safe and Merry Christmas to you and your whole family! 🎄❤️
Zack Thank You for all the hard work you and Becky are doing. I am an old farmer and have been watching your videos since 2020. I'm in my early 80's and enjoy the modern farming techniques that you show compared to the way we used to do farming in east central Minnesota 60 plus years ago. Again, Thank You and keep them coming.
Compressed air noise is the quickest way to impaired hearing and eventual deafness. Ear plugs are better than nothing, but 10 ohm / class 5 or higher rated earmuffs are the best. End of season clean up / maintenance is very satisfying watching.
I went from using a backpack blower or small compressor, to the tow type 185cfm for cleaning the combine. It was a game changer. One pro-tip I learned was to get a full faced respirator. Keeps crap out of your eyes and out of your lungs.
You are wise to protect your ears. . . . take it from a retired person who thought he was invincible. Trust me. I used to get laughed at for using ear plugs when I worked summers at Flexi-Coil in Saskatoon using the punch press. Then I worked on my uncle's farm driving the tractor. I had hearing fatigue at the end of the day. I could hear the tractor run all night. Next morning, repeat. Did I mention using hearing protection at the gun range? Now I live with my hearing aids. 😮
Just wanted to add that it is never too late to save what is left of your hearing. Easy to convince yourself that it is already damaged so too late now. Take it from an older guy. Ear plugs!!!
Done the same thing running heavy equipment most had a cab I would laugh at some of the older guys in a cab wearing earplugs I would say you’re in a cab you sissy and now I can’t hear a elephant fart and my head buried in it’s butt I’ll be doing something or just sitting around my ears will just start ringing or roaring drives me crazy
Need to find a excavation company with a vac truck. They wash it and suck up the mess at the same time. Plus they hold enough and normally have long enough hose on board to go around the dryer area with out moving.
That corn waste would make great filler in a raised garden bed. Good project for the sisters. Leaves, grass, mud, and plant in the spring. Load in tree branches, fence row cleanups.
WOW . . that was a busy day . . I could swear I heard that cold combine say, "I Think I Can, I Think I Can" - Have a Happy Christmas, Johnson family !!!
That mud is what we have here in Houston, Texas. We call it black gumbo. If you try to dig a hole you need t wo shovels. One to dig and the other one to scrape the gumbo off.
I feel your pain with the bees wings ( red dog ) cleaning. I see Larsons have an air compressor and a vacuum that attaches to their skidsteer. Works very well from what I see from their videos. Really enjoy your videos and wish the mini was in more .
Couple days before Christmas Day mom got the two sweatshirts in a shirt Christmas Day open my Christmas gift and I love them thank you for so much of your videos and everyday life keep it between the rows
Zach, your work ethic is incredible. Your videos should be required watching by the youth in America. They should see what it's really like to work for a living, and provide for not only your family, but families who use the products you produce. You're a good man!
When you do end up buying a compressor, get a good 185cfm model. Not one of those pos copco’s. We have a couple for irrigation blow outs. An 80 something sullair 185 with a deere engine that runs like a top and an almost new sullair 185 with a cat engine. Easially run for 12 straight hours on both units without getting hot.
Zach, watching you motivates me to patrol the grounds of my 3/4’s of an acre and see what needs to be done. Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year to you and the family. Becky thanks for being the brains behind the operation. It’s cool you let Zach think he’s in charge, good for his fragile ego
Hope the family has a wonderful Xmas. Love the videos! Take a fall protection course and buy a harness. Use a paper mask when blowing down the dryer. These can be the gifts you give your family keeping you safe. I know you'll get cranky with me for that comment, but I work in OHS and see a lot of accidents. Talk to the OHS guy/gal at you local big grainery, they will back up my advice. Merry Xmas to all.
They do work great. We use ours everyday to blow off the combines especially the engine area and radiator to help reduce the risk of fires. Good luck and get a pair of welding gloves, that air hose gets hot after awhile
I’m glad you mentioned the spot on the screen, I thought I had another floater. For those of you who know, you know what I’m talking about. A real pain in the butt. Great video. Merry Christmas to all.
Great video, I enjoyed seeing the trusty Minneapolis Moline out and about. I do wish you would fix the exhaust, the old girl deserves some respect. I couldn't tell for sure, but it looked like Onyx was out hunting with a Remington 1100. Those are nice shotguns. I let someone talk me into selling them mine a long time ago. I'm still well equipped for hunting though. I can grab my Belgium Browning A-5, or my favorite shotgun, the Winchester model 12, 20 ga. dad bought me when I was about the same age as Onyx.
We have one of those for cleaning equipment and around grain bins and warehouses. They are very handy but they have very fine radiator fins and stop up easily. Be sure to have enough hose to be able to park it well away from where you are cleaning
You gave me a good chuckle complaining about it being dark by 5pm, starts getting dark just after 3pm and is dark around 4pm and daylight just after 8am for me
If you love the air “pressure cleaner”, you could setup a some of 1 1/4” piping with switches/couplers on the dryer. Then you setup the compressor, couple to the pipe system. You could setup the system to each bin,easy cleaning the spout…
Need to keep that air compressor further away from your work area. That fan will suck that stuff in the radiator and overheat. We use one every year to clean the cotton picker off and have to park it 50 feet away to keep it from overheating
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to your whole family and friends. Thank you for feeding the World and providing family friendly entertainment. No pressure, right? You're all doing great.
I think i agree. I see a portable air compressor in your future....... i do suggest you consider a guard-air "force 5" air lance. It has 2 safety features. The dead man switch, so if for any reason it comes out of your hand, it shuts off. Secondly it has the safety tip on it that reduces the air pressure at the tip of it in case it ended up next to someone's skin when it's pressurized, it won't inject air into their body, which could possibly ruin an otherwise perfect day. However, it still has plenty of cleaning force....... no. I'm not a paid endorser.....
@@MillennialFarmer Always over spec on a compressor as duty cycle is important for one they run "hot" and running like you was open for a long time makes unit run really hard also remember to spec air dryers as cold air and hot compressor = moisture so need to drain tanks often just like Semi's tanks. Plumb airlines in like up top of on gantry and other places you need air?. Then wheel compressor to where you want it connect line at bottom then when climbed up there just plug line in rather than the high risks of falling/tripping dragging heavy airlines around!.
@@buckrogers2828 An electric one with a tank would be better, that way when the pressure is reached it shuts down until it drops again and also I absolutely hate generator noise but that could be just me. A lot cheaper to buy less money to maintain em, plus if you got solar power you're also saving on fuel.
Hi Zach--I've been enjoying your videos for some 3 years. The last time I visited a grain farm on the Prairies I was 8 years old. It was my grandfather's farm some 10 miles south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. That was in 1944 and in looking back it was suffering the poverty of the Great Depression. A "stone boat" pulled by 1 horse was used to haul rocks off the fields. It needed a full team of horses to pull a huge wagon mounded up with hay. Maybe one horse to pull the swather. Maybe two to pull the binder. This created bundles of wheat that were then stacked against each other. Called stooks they awaited a threshing crew to come through. Suffering the great drought of the time, Uncle Frank was lowered down the well to clear out the silt and to dig it deeper. Down about 30 feet I was lowered standing in the bucket. My Mom called the region the "Buckle of the Wheat Belt". Sigh
Stihl, echo, several other companies make "backpack" portable leaf blowers that work, too. With a little engineering to make reducer for end of the blower, tape, screw a funnel, and it is portable.
Thank you for another year of Videos! I like your dry sense of humor. Merry Christmas to you and your family! You are blessed to be able to live and work on a farm.
everyone needs that air compressor for cleaning out grain bins. i am glad to see you grabbing ear plugs. i keep those out in my shop , for anyone that enters my shop. hearing loss is real in us farmers
Like seeing the safety glasses on your face! You're a great example for the masses that follow you. And you're living my dream. My wife always says I missed my true calling and should have been a farmer. I was a successful small business man but didn't have as much fun as you do. I'm snowbirding in Tucson warmth for winters but miss my little Deeres in Minnesota.
Should have had you for a Dad, mine made me do everything you did today and we were raised on a dairy farm. Your son is a lucky boy, hope he is ambitious enough to take over for you like you are doing for your Dad. Thx for the video !!
When we’re in peanut harvest we kick a lot of dust up and it settles everywhere on the peanut combine so every morning I clean off my combine with one of those diesel air compressors and yes they are awesome
Use code FARMER50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/47y8qpp!
Hold button down for glow plugs and don't release start switch all the way till running on the compressor. Stupid set up because crap gets under plastic dash and guys can't read full instructions to start it
Love my factor meals, especially for when I’m working at the firehouse!
*Just wanted to say Thank you Zack for putting these videos out. My grandfather is 70 years old and loves watching your videos.*
Tell him I said thank you!
@@MillennialFarmer I am 70 years old and I ❤ watching your videos! Zach you are a Groovy guy and funny as heck! Stay safe and Merry Christmas to you and your whole family! 🎄❤️
70 here as well
I’m a 74-year-old city girl! I enjoy your videos, your sense of humor, your work ethic, and I’m learning from you! Merry Christmas to all!
72 year old farmer here watchIng for 5 years or so😉
Zack Thank You for all the hard work you and Becky are doing. I am an old farmer and have been watching your videos since 2020. I'm in my early 80's and enjoy the modern farming techniques that you show compared to the way we used to do farming in east central Minnesota 60 plus years ago. Again, Thank You and keep them coming.
Zach & Becky & Family, Nate, Jim, and all the other “actors”, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Watching you doing manual labor is jut fine. Reinforces the fact that work doesn't bother me I can sit a watch it all day.
Merry Christmas to you all!
It's satisfying to see the cold start of the harvester on the outside
Merry Christmas Zack and family
When he said cool I was literally thinking cool in my mind haha gotta love when shit like that happens
Merry Christmas to all.
Hopefully this finds Jim doing well. Stay warm and take care !!!
One thing you need to do this winter is to replace the muffler on the MM tractor!!
"yeah, yeah, yeah! Thunder." Sometimes keeping up on all your tag-lines can be a pain. lol! Merry Christmas to you and the whole crew!!
Zach, just want to thank you for sharing a little bit of your life with us. I really enjoy your videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family
Compressed air noise is the quickest way to impaired hearing and eventual deafness. Ear plugs are better than nothing, but 10 ohm / class 5 or higher rated earmuffs are the best. End of season clean up / maintenance is very satisfying watching.
The Moline still sounds great Zach, arguably the best sounding of the bunch. Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to you Becky and family.
The smile on your face for the air compressor said it all.
Try taking a shop vac
Place it over the lens
Zoom it in and out
It’s worked for me when I got dust in a lens from Atv riding
I went from using a backpack blower or small compressor, to the tow type 185cfm for cleaning the combine. It was a game changer. One pro-tip I learned was to get a full faced respirator. Keeps crap out of your eyes and out of your lungs.
You are wise to protect your ears. . . . take it from a retired person who thought he was invincible. Trust me. I used to get laughed at for using ear plugs when I worked summers at Flexi-Coil in Saskatoon using the punch press. Then I worked on my uncle's farm driving the tractor. I had hearing fatigue at the end of the day. I could hear the tractor run all night. Next morning, repeat. Did I mention using hearing protection at the gun range? Now I live with my hearing aids. 😮
Add a mask to that set up please. I'm still coughing bean/ corn dust 10 yrs later.
And safety glasses for a lot of tasks.
Eye abrasions suck, much less anything worse.
Amen to your comments...61 yr old retired guy. Tinnitus and hearing loss are real.
Just wanted to add that it is never too late to save what is left of your hearing. Easy to convince yourself that it is already damaged so too late now. Take it from an older guy. Ear plugs!!!
Done the same thing running heavy equipment most had a cab I would laugh at some of the older guys in a cab wearing earplugs I would say you’re in a cab you sissy and now I can’t hear a elephant fart and my head buried in it’s butt I’ll be doing something or just sitting around my ears will just start ringing or roaring drives me crazy
Need to find a excavation company with a vac truck. They wash it and suck up the mess at the same time. Plus they hold enough and normally have long enough hose on board to go around the dryer area with out moving.
I am a 78 year old retired farmer 👩🌾 from Australia 🇦🇺 and I am impressed with your operation
Happy Christmas and New Year
That corn waste would make great filler in a raised garden bed. Good project for the sisters. Leaves, grass, mud, and plant in the spring. Load in tree branches, fence row cleanups.
A 5 pm sunset! 10:59 AM & 2:41 PM - sunrise and sunset today in Fairbanks, Ak, my home.
WOW . . that was a busy day . . I could swear I heard that cold combine say, "I Think I Can, I Think I Can" - Have a Happy Christmas, Johnson family !!!
That mud is what we have here in Houston, Texas. We call it black gumbo. If you try to dig a hole you need t wo shovels. One to dig and the other one to scrape the gumbo off.
I feel your pain with the bees wings ( red dog ) cleaning. I see Larsons have an air compressor and a vacuum that attaches to their skidsteer. Works very well from what I see from their videos. Really enjoy your videos and wish the mini was in more .
Big compressor a must have! And the mini mo I’m torn about wanting to see it back to its former glory but dang that looks nice for its age!!
Couple days before Christmas Day mom got the two sweatshirts in a shirt Christmas Day open my Christmas gift and I love them thank you for so much of your videos and everyday life keep it between the rows
Zach, your work ethic is incredible. Your videos should be required watching by the youth in America. They should see what it's really like to work for a living, and provide for not only your family, but families who use the products you produce. You're a good man!
Merry Christmas Zack and all of the Millennial Farmer family from much warmer AZ!
The care you give the farm and all the equipment is great and it shows on everything.
When you do end up buying a compressor, get a good 185cfm model. Not one of those pos copco’s. We have a couple for irrigation blow outs. An 80 something sullair 185 with a deere engine that runs like a top and an almost new sullair 185 with a cat engine. Easially run for 12 straight hours on both units without getting hot.
I don't know what's more fun watching the combine cold start or how it starts the shepherd! 😂 Yes and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too.
And a Happy New Year too.
How satisfying. The harvest is done and the equiptment is cleaned and put away.
Another great video. Can't wait to watch you move snow... We only get a dusting every couple years. Have a Merry Christmas
Zach, watching you motivates me to patrol the grounds of my 3/4’s of an acre and see what needs to be done. Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year to you and the family. Becky thanks for being the brains behind the operation. It’s cool you let Zach think he’s in charge, good for his fragile ego
It's clear you still have the summer tracks on that tractor. Change them out for winter tracks & it will be much better. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅
Hey zack i would love to see you at the farm machinery show in Kentucky for the 2024 season
Amazing what you can do, during the day.
Here in the UK it doesn't get light till after 8am. Gets dark by 4pm. All the best 🇬🇧.
Hope the family has a wonderful Xmas. Love the videos! Take a fall protection course and buy a harness. Use a paper mask when blowing down the dryer. These can be the gifts you give your family keeping you safe. I know you'll get cranky with me for that comment, but I work in OHS and see a lot of accidents. Talk to the OHS guy/gal at you local big grainery, they will back up my advice. Merry Xmas to all.
Merry Christmas not Xmas
@Albertapraries2023 the X comes from the Chi Rho, which is a symbol for Christ...
@@karlrovey Like that Then there's people who've told me it means the x represents x Jesus
Jesus was born in the beginning of June, read the gospel of Luke.
@@EricCarlson-bz2pt well I won't argue against that where in Luke did you read that
Merry Christmas to Y'all n all a your family!
Wishing you God's Blessings♥️!
i was sitting here hollering "get some ear plugs".....you must have heard me, cause you went and got some..!!!haha
We love the spec. It gives it character.
Merry Christmas Zach and family and tell Randy "The master pipe layer", Merry Christmas from your TH-cam Family!
Zach I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas & a Blessed New Year.
They do work great. We use ours everyday to blow off the combines especially the engine area and radiator to help reduce the risk of fires. Good luck and get a pair of welding gloves, that air hose gets hot after awhile
I’m glad you mentioned the spot on the screen, I thought I had another floater. For those of you who know, you know what I’m talking about. A real pain in the butt. Great video. Merry Christmas to all.
Great video, I enjoyed seeing the trusty Minneapolis Moline out and about. I do wish you would fix the exhaust, the old girl deserves some respect.
I couldn't tell for sure, but it looked like Onyx was out hunting with a Remington 1100. Those are nice shotguns. I let someone talk me into selling them mine a long time ago. I'm still well equipped for hunting though. I can grab my Belgium Browning A-5, or my favorite shotgun, the Winchester model 12, 20 ga. dad bought me when I was about the same age as Onyx.
you hit my funny bone when you touched the lens/ MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE WHOLE FAMILY GOD BLESS😂😂😂
Merry Christmas Johnson family! Thanks for the video!
Spots on lens is ok I have floaters in my vision so it blends right in
Merry Christmas Zach and family and the very best in 2024
Happy Holidays to you and your family! 🎄
We use this type of air compressor to clean our machines. Works great on combines
Trying to imagine how much you have in equipment! Kudo's for staying sane and calm!! Merry Christmas!!!
Tha snap trap 😂 Zack's sense of humor resonates with mine. It's the little things 😂
Merry Christmas!!! Stay safe hope Jim is recovering well
Thanks Becky
We have one of those for cleaning equipment and around grain bins and warehouses. They are very handy but they have very fine radiator fins and stop up easily.
Be sure to have enough hose to be able to park it well away from where you are cleaning
You gave me a good chuckle complaining about it being dark by 5pm, starts getting dark just after 3pm and is dark around 4pm and daylight just after 8am for me
I love hard work.. i could watch it all day.
Wow I am getting exhausted watching all this work !!😳. I enjoy this web site. 👍👍👍🇺🇸
If you love the air “pressure cleaner”, you could setup a some of 1 1/4” piping with switches/couplers on the dryer. Then you setup the compressor, couple to the pipe system. You could setup the system to each bin,easy cleaning the spout…
I would put the bin /leg/pit lights on photo eyes with an Hand Off Auto 3 position selector switch. It just takes one less step out of your night!
Need to keep that air compressor further away from your work area. That fan will suck that stuff in the radiator and overheat. We use one every year to clean the cotton picker off and have to park it 50 feet away to keep it from overheating
Merry christmas zack to you and entire johnson family
Have a happy merry Christmas and have great new year to you and your family and friends
Merry Christmas and happy new year to the family!
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thunder." LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had me rolling!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to your whole family and friends. Thank you for feeding the World and providing family friendly entertainment. No pressure, right? You're all doing great.
Merry Christmas to you all.
I think i agree. I see a portable air compressor in your future....... i do suggest you consider a guard-air "force 5" air lance. It has 2 safety features. The dead man switch, so if for any reason it comes out of your hand, it shuts off. Secondly it has the safety tip on it that reduces the air pressure at the tip of it in case it ended up next to someone's skin when it's pressurized, it won't inject air into their body, which could possibly ruin an otherwise perfect day. However, it still has plenty of cleaning force....... no. I'm not a paid endorser.....
I'll look into that, thanks!
@@MillennialFarmer Always over spec on a compressor as duty cycle is important for one they run "hot" and running like you was open for a long time makes unit run really hard also remember to spec air dryers as cold air and hot compressor = moisture so need to drain tanks often just like Semi's tanks.
Plumb airlines in like up top of on gantry and other places you need air?.
Then wheel compressor to where you want it connect line at bottom then when climbed up there just plug line in rather than the high risks of falling/tripping dragging heavy airlines around!.
We used a air compressor like that to blow off the combines and the quad tracks and edible bean combine
@@MillennialFarmer AW SUCKS WITH CAM GETTING MUD IN IT MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR'S
@@buckrogers2828 An electric one with a tank would be better, that way when the pressure is reached it shuts down until it drops again and also I absolutely hate generator noise but that could be just me. A lot cheaper to buy less money to maintain em, plus if you got solar power you're also saving on fuel.
Hi Zach--I've been enjoying your videos for some 3 years. The last time I visited a grain farm on the Prairies I was 8 years old. It was my grandfather's farm some 10 miles south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. That was in 1944 and in looking back it was suffering the poverty of the Great Depression. A "stone boat" pulled by 1 horse was used to haul rocks off the fields. It needed a full team of horses to pull a huge wagon mounded up with hay. Maybe one horse to pull the swather. Maybe two to pull the binder. This created bundles of wheat that were then stacked against each other. Called stooks they awaited a threshing crew to come through. Suffering the great drought of the time, Uncle Frank was lowered down the well to clear out the silt and to dig it deeper. Down about 30 feet I was lowered standing in the bucket. My Mom called the region the "Buckle of the Wheat Belt". Sigh
Merry Christmas!! I am sending a wish for a peaceful, joyous and merry Christmas to you, Zack and your family. Dave Plocher, Illinois.
Lots of stuff cleaned up today. Wishing you and your family a blessed and Merry Christmas from Oklahoma.
We never get sick of watching you shovel
Stihl, echo, several other companies make "backpack" portable leaf blowers that work, too. With a little engineering to make reducer for end of the blower, tape, screw a funnel, and it is portable.
Merry Christmas Zach and family. May you and your family be safe and healthy. Keep up the great work. Cheers from Star, Idaho.
Merry Christmas, to all the Millennial Farmer cast of characters and associated families.
Thank you for another year of Videos! I like your dry sense of humor. Merry Christmas to you and your family! You are blessed to be able to live and work on a farm.
everyone needs that air compressor for cleaning out grain bins. i am glad to see you grabbing ear plugs. i keep those out in my shop , for anyone that enters my shop. hearing loss is real in us farmers
Mud, Glorious Mud! We in the UK cambridgeshire fens we call it "Slub". Merry Christms to you and all!
Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Wishing you and your family a happy and safe xmas and new year Zac always enjoy watching you
Like seeing the safety glasses on your face! You're a great example for the masses that follow you. And you're living my dream. My wife always says I missed my true calling and should have been a farmer. I was a successful small business man but didn't have as much fun as you do. I'm snowbirding in Tucson warmth for winters but miss my little Deeres in Minnesota.
Now you just need a bump-cap to protect your head!
Excellent work!!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us 😊
GREAT STUFF AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR POWERFUL CREATING IN 2023.....FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.... MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎁🎁🎁🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR
Merry Christmas Zack Becky Nate and family
Should have had you for a Dad, mine made me do everything you did today and we were raised on a dairy farm. Your son is a lucky boy, hope he is ambitious enough to take over for you like you are doing for your Dad. Thx for the video !!
All good!
When we’re in peanut harvest we kick a lot of dust up and it settles everywhere on the peanut combine so every morning I clean off my combine with one of those diesel air compressors and yes they are awesome
I could watch you shovel all day! lol!
You need a vacuum/suction unit. No more shoveling. MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year to your family!
" i am sorry, didnt want to tickle your spec" had me crying for 5 mins i did not expect that one lol
Merry Christmas Johnson Family! 🎄
Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year.
Hi 👋 Zach Johnson aka the millennial farmer.
Merry Christmas! and Happy New Year 2024!