Dad: ""I've been in some places, I know some people, I've done some things!" Great line, Dad! And good team work getting the combine door open. Good luck with the rest of harvest.
I love, love, love that you get your hands dirty and fix the problems that come up while you're working. YOU are an inspiration to all the young folks out there today Laura...Keep up the great work!
When I was a kid, my uncle owned a farm down the road that had a lone barn on it. We called it the Burke barn. I have no idea who the Burke family was or how long they had been gone but there was never a house on that property in my recollection.
Thanks Laura For Bringing Us All Along! I Understand It Is not Always Easy To Take The Time To Record For All Of Us !! Thank You Much!! Keep Smiling On!! 😀👍👊
Hey Miss Laura, if you pry the door open just a wee bit, a mouse can squeeze through and open the door from the inside. But you have to be really nice to the mouse to get his help. 🙂
If you get it open a bit more, one of my cats can squeeze thru, sit in the operators seat and stare at you while you try to open it. Maybe curl up and go to sleep.
Glad to see it was simple to clear the clog in the combine. I've spent a little time INSIDE them! When I was young, I got the job of crawling inside and cleaning out the straw-walkers between corn and oat harvests. I hope the rest of harvest goes smoothly for you.
Laura, you are still learning from dad, and we are learning from you. I am only into TH-cam, so I am happy to view a bit later than others. Two things you learnt, one how to unplug the combine, two how to fit a new lock, we all never stop learning. Stay safe, love from Mike. ❤
Laura, I loved watching you and dad problem solve. Way to diagnose problems and intuit solutions! Rating of 10 on the bean dust sneeze and the warm Nebraska sunset light on your skin - beautiful ending to a gorgeous harvest day. Thanks for the informative video.
I'm a farmer at heart and I listen to the Ag-PhD podcast daily. I love to learn about the Ag industry from Brian and Darren's excellent programs but I learn best by watching it being done. Young lady you are the most competent, informative, natural and no nonsense host I've ever seen. I've learned more of the day to day operations and the specifics of operations in the past few hours of binge watching your videos than months of listening. You are a phenomenal person to the core and I wish you and yours nothing but the best in life!
tbf, the grinding noise sounded like the slip-clutch - which is there to prevent damage by disconnecting the power from any moving parts that are stuck. You do need to shut it down and clean out the clog, but the machine has a lot of safeties to keep it from breaking. Only when something does break, all you can do is try to avoid complete disaster
Hands down the most popular name that I've seen for a field is "home field". I sprayed several dozen with that name, to the point that I have to check the customer's name to be sure I'm looking at the right map. Another one that seems to be common is the "back 40" or substituted with whatever acreage it actually is. Those ram mounts are great! I use them for several devices as well as my phone in the plane, and I've never had one let go even in rough weather and hard landings. I use a solid panel mount for my ipad though, the ram mounts don't work as well on such a big device. Also, cotton farmers run into the same issue harvesting with varying levels of plant dryness. It's really a difficult situation, as the longer the boll is open, the more the cotton degrades and the less per bale you get for it. However, if you try to pick while some of the field is still green, those leaves become a big problem and can actually stain the cotton, lowering the price per bale. Some farmers wait until a hard freeze to kill the entire field, but if the bolls open way before a freeze is predicted, defoliating is the best solution. Even then, if you don't do a perfect job, you might still get a streak or two in the field where you didn't get good coverage. Puts a lot of weight on my shoulders as an ag pilot because if I'm off just a tiny bit I can cause this same problem for them.
Laura you are the brightest person I know!! Not just intelligence but you are so full of positive energy it’s mind blowing!! You will go very far in life no matter if you keep farming or branch out into something else. Radiant personality absolutely beautiful!! 👍🏾💪🏾🔥
Laura, It just amazes me watching you grow so much in farming knowledge over the course of your time farming to be able to know just how much loss of beans you lose per harvest just by checking a square foot every few feet. Truly a learning experience for us as well. May God bless your families farms. P.S: I'm sure that by the time you retire, you will know how to take a combine apart and put it back together.
Its so great to see you working with your dad on the farm ' my grandfather had a small dairy farm about 70 years ago i remember it from when i was little ,he put me on the back of one of the cows i remember i was terrified i was maybe 5 or 6 years old then , enjoy your youth .
I am not a farmer, but i would like to let you know i have learned a lot about your farming . and enjoy watching your videos of the farm, my grand father was a farmer in south Mississippi.
The same thing happens to my grandfather on a JD 4460 door handle, the first thing he tried was to push a same sized socket in the hole pushing the rest of the button down and presto! The socket size was 10mm or 3/8ln.
Great video Laura. Glad you were able to get the door handle replaced. I just watched your dad's sept. 27 video where he was walking behind the mother bin. That thing is amazing! What a time saver!!
I got locked out of my truck and had to go through the sliding rear window to get in I was in the middle of the woods deer hunting, great video keep up the good work God bless from GA
I went to a donut shoppe near me for some coffee, got out and locked the door...when I was ready to leave, I went back to my auto...and saw my key on the seat!!! I could have called my dad...but I was SO embarassed, I went across the street to a petrol station and they came and helped me out. I eventually told my dad...and he was like "you could have called!" (He was home at the time and it was only a couple of miles away, but I was REALLY embarassed).
This was the greatest video!!!! I loved the field names. Laura Farms Laura farm if you get a field named after you. The part about the farm names was absolutely awesome. Occasionally I'll meet a farmer on an airplane and that would make wonderful conversation! Something I would not have known anything about without your video. I also LOVED the way you showed how to evaluate the effectiveness of the combine by looking at a square foot and looking for beans, and then evaluating how good of a job it was doing. FANTASTIC VIDEO! I'll mention it again. I have daughters your age and LOVE seeing you working with your Dad. Thanks for everything!
In your last video, you asked what I learned about farming from you. The answer is almost everything. I also follow Cole the Cornstar. I knew very little about farming before I watched you and Cole. Thank you for teaching me so much about farming. The most surprising thing I learned was how much maintenance is required on the farm equipment. So much of your time in the winter is spend maintaining the farm equipment. Wow. So much to do. Thank you Laura for your videos.
There are entirely different heads. There's also 'bean' mode and 'corn' mode for the combine. There's a bunch of levers that get adjusted and literally have corn icons and bean icons.
We live in what our neighborhood refers to as the Johnson house although we raised our daughter in this house, and my wife and I have made this place our home for almost 27 years, and our name is not Johnson. The Johnson family built the house in 1970 but haven't lived here since at least 1992.
I saw a program on making moonshine. The distiller could tell proof by shaking the bottle and watching the bubbles. You will become good at the bean test with time.
Farmers improvise, adapt and overcome problems. My family were all farmers and they couldn't afford to call in and pay people to repair things for them nor did they have the time to wait for it to get done.Speaking of named fields/farms, Cole The Cornstar's family has all of theirs named.
We used to plug the harvesters occasionally. The trick is to speed up the internals and slow your ground speed. This gives the screens and separators time to process the wet material before it jams.
Gary, electric fence usually run on 12 volts DC and are pulsed so you can release if you come in contact with it. Animals can sense the electric voltage and stay back or they bump into once and learn. Fence keeps the cows were they want them so they don't over graze an area. Hope this helps.
@@jeffmarsh6363 I might've given the impression I didn't know about electric fences. In my youth I lived in farming communities in western Illinois and worked on farms during my High school years. My comment was for the benefit of those who may not understand how that wire that Laura avoided touching keeps a cow away.
I'm glad I grew up when I did, none of our stuff had locks, and most didn't use ignition keys. Although, the trade off is most didn't have cabs either, lol.
my family own 2 Dairy farms in NZ one milke 500 the other milks 1200, both use padock numbers for each field and theres a map on the farm office door in the milk shed so you can find where you heards are and its also where we mark what field is on rotation
Always some excitement in each and every day on the farm. You guys seem to handle every challenge in stride, with the knowledge of experience, and the patience of a Godly family working together. Love your explanations and examples….so helpful in helping all of us understand what it takes to run and maintain all that massive equipment. Grateful for your hard work and happy family life. I love ❤️ you so much! Grammy
Naming of fields really takes me back to my misspent youth working on farms (I'm 70 years old). Everybody did it back then and I guess we never thought a thing about it. Seemed natural. Two that I remember were "The Goeke Place" (family name) and "The Funk 80" (Funk Nebraska). Good memories.
Might be your best episode yet. You're teaching your audience lots of good stuff. I've already picked up on the fact (in earlier videos) that today's farms need to be mechanized to run. And even the fanciest equipment doesn't work right all the time so ingenuity is a must! Smart move to resist the temptation of closing the door the rest of the way, and slick work by Dad to get that door open without damaging anything. Then there's the background that, even living in an area where soybeans and corn are both farmed, I wasn't aware that harvesting beans releases a dust that probably has an allergen in it. (In a previous video you told us that the stalks are scratchy so walking though the rows in shorts wasn't recommended, you did it because it was such a hot day). Then there's the names for fields, that was priceless. My wife has lettered the pastures on her horse farm. I can only connect A thru D with the plots of ground they represent, although there are several more. I think names are better!
Not to complain but shortly after you sneezed we felt a breeze here in Illinois!! Thank you for all the videos and the knowledge you share. God Bless You and Grant and your families!
That place is FLAT!! Great fun to watch your operation and equipment. So not like I grew up with years ago. I am over 70. Never operater a machine (other than an airplane with autopilot) with auto stear!! LOL
Glad to see you put another video today I enjoy your video very much more than you'll ever know I hope it Grant's doing good and everything and glad to see you got back into your combine so you can do your beans stay safe young lady
Slowing the reel down on the header might help a little with loss. If the beans are dry enough, a reel that is running to fast will shell the pods. Really no need to have it running that fast when they are standing well
I understand what you're saying about generational farm names there Laura. About a third of our place here in Western PA bears the family name yet of the family my great-grandfather and his two brothers bought it from back in the late teens early twenties. The place is all under one deed but it bears within our family the family name of the previous owners who haven't owned it for generations
Your statement @10:28 about harvesting in any direction is almost correct. Soybeans cannot be harvested if the sickle is parallel to the soybean row. It might be possible with the smaller stemmed beans in 7.5 inch rows.
By time you'll gain experience and know what's inside the combine and how it all works. At least you are that far that you hear(!) that something is wrong. In the previous video you mentioned the absence of radio etc. in the cabin, well here is why. Good work, Laura👊😎
Enjoyed your video Laura. So other combines have issues right? When I was young cabs were a new thing. No problems locking yourself out then! Them beans they do itch! Keep posting! Brings back days of joy and sorrow. Do you get mesmerized watching the auger? Those beans coming out? I used too! I don't farm anymore but it was a joy!
Names of past owners is very popular around here in Arkansas we have been cutting rice for about a month and finished our corn a week ago and just started our beans yesterday good luck with harvest we all need it this year.
🤣😂 The only thing Cale left out was, “I can neither confirm or deny that I possess certain knowledge to gain access to areas which are locked & secured.” 😂🤣
Your insight is awesome ! When your talking about the field names that has always been very interesting to me on my family’s farm . Especially when you think of the history of the the people who farmed or owned it in the past. Great job again Laura!
I only found out in the last 6 years, after seeing an allergist. I'm allergic to Corn smut and a few certain weeds in my yard. So I wear a filtered mask during certain seasons when mowing my yard. and keep my windows up during the fall when the corn fields get there tassels.
I guess you could mow it and bail it for cow feed depending how much "green stalk beans" you have. At least the crop won't go to waste if you don't have time for waiting to dry out.
Good job Laura and Dad. I noticed one thing. When going down stairs of equipment turn around and face the stairs. Keep 3 points of contact. This will save you from a injury someday. Love your Videos.
I just thought that beans had more dust clinging to them than other grains, I hadn't made the connection to the dust to the bean fuzz. So now I am inclined to think that it is a combination of both the fuzz and regular dust: the dust blows around on the wind, and the bean fuzz catches the dust and gives the dust a place to cling to. I still don't like it because it is such an irritant; eyes, nose, ears, everywhere.
I grew up on a farm in UK and some of the field names were very old, going back hundreds of years. Names like Nut grove, The Close, Stockhay were pretty obvious but others were more interesting. Riddings meant waste ground which was accurate for a steep almost useless field. Hardle meant Hurdle in the local dialect (Sheep were hurdled in the area many years ago) Inchen meant close, which made no sense at all until old documents showed that it was close to where the original farmhouse was, 350 years ago. Finally a land sale document dated to 1490 referred to a field called Selcombe. A combe is a short steep sided valley and Sel meant dry in middle English- and that field which is on limestone is dry to this day.
Is there some chance the extra seeds cast out by the combine will come up next season by volunteer? Your corn crop will smother the bean plants right? Is some of the planting wet because the field is high in some places and wet in low places?
I thought you were just listening to the quiet of the evening when you were stopped and eyes closed, AND YOU HAVE A BIG SNEEZE! God bless you Laura! Until next time!🙂
This was 40 years ago; The "Back 40" was a 43 acre row crop field that was used for FFA corn competition as it was the richest soil on the farm. It was also partially used for the garden and melon or bean patch to keep up crop rotation. The "Back Yard" was an 18 acre Coastal Bermuda hay field behind the house. The "Orchard" was a 125 acre row crop field next to a 70 acre Pecan Orchard. "The Hill" was a 85 acre row crop field with 10 acres of pecan trees that was a big sloping hill, The "Runway" was the 50 acre row crop field that had a Coastal Bermuda grass runway with a two plane hanger at one end splitting the other side was a 49 Coastal Bermuda hayfield that was called the "Hellfield" as that was 3 and a half 14-15 hour days cutting every 4 weeks from the end of March till October. The 5 acre field next to the animal barn was called "The Lot" and it had the chicken coop and deep well in it.
You are an impressive woman. You just are. Love these. Almost should just be called Laura's life of farming. "Family encounters" These are very interesting.. I drove a bulb cart in a field as a teen. Flower bulbs. We broke down constantly.
If I understand this correctly, the door was not actually locked, just the push button portion was missing therefore not allowing the door to open? If that was the case, I would have used a deepwell socket to push in and activate the latch.
Omg a long long time ago I was working on a horse farm and I would take my horse out to the field and just stop look and listen it was amazing what made me laugh was the sneeze at the end I also did that pollen 😂
Names of fields, corners are interesting. I was in search and rescue for 28+ years. Loved going to places we're not familiar with and dealing with names that don't appear on any map. We had to have a local tell us where it was and we'd add it to our maps.
The engineering is fascinating. How the combine can shred the plants and sort the beans from the chaff. And not loose a bushel per acre. The chaff is as small as the beans..
We have a New Holland tractor that the lock cylinder fell out of it had a small bar in the push button where the cylinder locked the door it would lock from vibration had to have a paper clip to slide the bar to unlock the door. New lock cylinder took 15 minutes to install and no more locked out of the running tractor in the middle of the field!
if you're 'throwing over' a bushel per acre, something in the combine needs tweaking; if it can't be tweaked, maybe it needs replacing or repairing? (lots of metal-on-metal in a mobile thrasher, things get ground down enough that you can't adjust tolerances anymore)
It's not the field name but an area, Snuff Hollow. It has been called that for as long as my dad can remember. In the northwest corner there is an old foundation for the Snuff Hollow school.
Took me a minute ... .the last shot inside the combine threw me for a loop. Was gonna say Laura needs to shave her legs. Then I thought, that would be rude, maybe Grant prefers .... never mind. Turns out it was Laura's Dad. You can tell by his hands. Unless of course, he wears pink nail polish too and decided not to in this video. LMAO !!! Just messin' whitchya. Great video Laura !! Love to see you and your Dad working together.
An interesting fact about soybeans! Soybeans would not grow north of Essex county or parts of Kent County,Chatham ontario,and any area across the lands north of the 44th latitude,or Detroit ,windsor,latitude! So,the Harrow research center,or some research center,put soybeans in a field north of Chatham Ontario,in an Alva ontario farm field. Which yrs later,I visited with a freind it turned out to be his relatives farm,life's funny quirks! Beans: The ones that survived the early cold that came off lake huron,were picked,then planted to repeat this process,until the beans were genetically picked to grow farther north in Canada,or the US, and other areas north of the 44th latitude,or just north of a line drawn across the lower portion of Lake st Clair. Now,soybeans are planted in colder climates,and shorter summers,and they survive! This all started back in 1978! Just thought you'd like to know that's why your farming beans in North Dakota or other northern states or Canadian provinces!
How does the bushels per acre for soybeans compare drilled-in versus planted? Any differences in field prep? Does Drilled have fewer weed issues since the bean rows are closer together? How about pest control, are drilled fields buggier? There must be some advantages both ways.
Get and carry some type of eye drops (check with your Dr or eye Dr) and put them in your eyes a couple times a day. I live in Alabama and we have Pine pollen bad here (it covers everything with yellow pollen) They come in individual use packets, Buy them in bulk.
A friend of mine brought me with him on a family trip to southern Illinois where his family had a soy bean farm when I was 13 and all remember is that it was hotter and more humid than anything I had ever experienced in my life and that there was nothing whatsoever to do.
Dad: ""I've been in some places, I know some people, I've done some things!" Great line, Dad! And good team work getting the combine door open. Good luck with the rest of harvest.
THAT"S MY STORY AN I"M STICKIN TO IT """
Interesting, back in '90 there was an notorious gang nicknamed "Combine Fairies", they never got caught.
Dr Who said, "Places to go, things to do, people to see"", and I think that was in the '80's.
I love, love, love that you get your hands dirty and fix the problems that come up while you're working. YOU are an inspiration to all the young folks out there today Laura...Keep up the great work!
When I was a kid, my uncle owned a farm down the road that had a lone barn on it. We called it the Burke barn. I have no idea who the Burke family was or how long they had been gone but there was never a house on that property in my recollection.
20:20 Gesundheit!
20:34 That is a ton of pretty sky. Excellent day on the farm Laura. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Laura For Bringing Us All Along! I Understand It Is not Always Easy To Take The Time To Record For All Of Us !! Thank You Much!!
Keep Smiling On!!
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Hey Miss Laura, if you pry the door open just a wee bit, a mouse can squeeze through and open the door from the inside. But you have to be really nice to the mouse to get his help. 🙂
If you get it open a bit more, one of my cats can squeeze thru, sit in the operators seat and stare at you while you try to open it. Maybe curl up and go to sleep.
Glad to see it was simple to clear the clog in the combine. I've spent a little time INSIDE them! When I was young, I got the job of crawling inside and cleaning out the straw-walkers between corn and oat harvests. I hope the rest of harvest goes smoothly for you.
Im a new teen farmer and Ive learned so much from your videos! Not only about farming but being a hard working, driven person.
What crops do your family grow?
Best of luck to you Ms. Violet.
Your dad is a true farmer. Able to find a solution instead of complaining about the problem. He's a good man.
Laura, you are still learning from dad, and we are learning from you.
I am only into TH-cam, so I am happy to view a bit later than others.
Two things you learnt, one how to unplug the combine, two how to fit a new lock, we all never stop learning.
Stay safe, love from Mike. ❤
Laura, I loved watching you and dad problem solve. Way to diagnose problems and intuit solutions! Rating of 10 on the bean dust sneeze and the warm Nebraska sunset light on your skin - beautiful ending to a gorgeous harvest day. Thanks for the informative video.
Thanks Laura. It is truly inspirational to see you so excited about what you do. Your happy, smiling face makes me smile!!!!!
I'm a farmer at heart and I listen to the Ag-PhD podcast daily. I love to learn about the Ag industry from Brian and Darren's excellent programs but I learn best by watching it being done. Young lady you are the most competent, informative, natural and no nonsense host I've ever seen. I've learned more of the day to day operations and the specifics of operations in the past few hours of binge watching your videos than months of listening. You are a phenomenal person to the core and I wish you and yours nothing but the best in life!
Your Dad has the patience of Job, you're so lucky that you can learn from him. Love the videos, be safe, always.
Your quick actions saved the day with the Combine. Great upload Laura. I really enjoy your channel. Sending love from the UK 🇬🇧
tbf, the grinding noise sounded like the slip-clutch - which is there to prevent damage by disconnecting the power from any moving parts that are stuck. You do need to shut it down and clean out the clog, but the machine has a lot of safeties to keep it from breaking. Only when something does break, all you can do is try to avoid complete disaster
Hands down the most popular name that I've seen for a field is "home field". I sprayed several dozen with that name, to the point that I have to check the customer's name to be sure I'm looking at the right map. Another one that seems to be common is the "back 40" or substituted with whatever acreage it actually is.
Those ram mounts are great! I use them for several devices as well as my phone in the plane, and I've never had one let go even in rough weather and hard landings. I use a solid panel mount for my ipad though, the ram mounts don't work as well on such a big device.
Also, cotton farmers run into the same issue harvesting with varying levels of plant dryness. It's really a difficult situation, as the longer the boll is open, the more the cotton degrades and the less per bale you get for it. However, if you try to pick while some of the field is still green, those leaves become a big problem and can actually stain the cotton, lowering the price per bale. Some farmers wait until a hard freeze to kill the entire field, but if the bolls open way before a freeze is predicted, defoliating is the best solution. Even then, if you don't do a perfect job, you might still get a streak or two in the field where you didn't get good coverage. Puts a lot of weight on my shoulders as an ag pilot because if I'm off just a tiny bit I can cause this same problem for them.
Laura you are the brightest person I know!! Not just intelligence but you are so full of positive energy it’s mind blowing!! You will go very far in life no matter if you keep farming or branch out into something else. Radiant personality absolutely beautiful!! 👍🏾💪🏾🔥
Laura, It just amazes me watching you grow so much in farming knowledge over the course of your time farming to be able to know just how much loss of beans you lose per harvest just by checking a square foot every few feet. Truly a learning experience for us as well. May God bless your families farms.
P.S: I'm sure that by the time you retire, you will know how to take a combine apart and put it back together.
Its so great to see you working with your dad on the farm ' my grandfather had a small dairy farm about 70 years ago i remember it from when i was little ,he put me on the back of one of the cows i remember i was terrified i was maybe 5 or 6 years old then , enjoy your youth .
Well said.
I am not a farmer, but i would like to let you know i have learned a lot about your farming .
and enjoy watching your videos of the farm, my grand father was a farmer in south Mississippi.
Thank God for Dads.!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It is so valuable for you to know a wrong sound when it comes to the combine. It can save a lot on the life of the machine.
That sneeze at the end was hilarious, I thought you were doing some sort of peaceful meditation. Need some more Grant content 😀
Have to say I like Laura content more.
The same thing happens to my grandfather on a JD 4460 door handle, the first thing he tried was to push a same sized socket in the hole pushing the rest of the button down and presto! The socket size was 10mm or 3/8ln.
Your beans look good . Sure glad that your dad got you back in your combine. Stay safe and positive see ya in the next video
Beautiful................... So's the scenery.............
Would love to see more of your dad and have him share his knowledge of farming.
Laura's fathers channel = th-cam.com/users/LEAADFarmsvideos
Great video Laura. Glad you were able to get the door handle replaced. I just watched your dad's sept. 27 video where he was walking behind the mother bin. That thing is amazing! What a time saver!!
Nice fix on the door lock - your Dad rocks.
I got locked out of my truck and had to go through the sliding rear window to get in I was in the middle of the woods deer hunting, great video keep up the good work God bless from GA
I went to a donut shoppe near me for some coffee, got out and locked the door...when I was ready to leave, I went back to my auto...and saw my key on the seat!!! I could have called my dad...but I was SO embarassed, I went across the street to a petrol station and they came and helped me out. I eventually told my dad...and he was like "you could have called!" (He was home at the time and it was only a couple of miles away, but I was REALLY embarassed).
This was the greatest video!!!! I loved the field names. Laura Farms Laura farm if you get a field named after you. The part about the farm names was absolutely awesome. Occasionally I'll meet a farmer on an airplane and that would make wonderful conversation! Something I would not have known anything about without your video. I also LOVED the way you showed how to evaluate the effectiveness of the combine by looking at a square foot and looking for beans, and then evaluating how good of a job it was doing. FANTASTIC VIDEO! I'll mention it again. I have daughters your age and LOVE seeing you working with your Dad. Thanks for everything!
In your last video, you asked what I learned about farming from you. The answer is almost everything. I also follow Cole the Cornstar. I knew very little about farming before I watched you and Cole. Thank you for teaching me so much about farming. The most surprising thing I learned was how much maintenance is required on the farm equipment. So much of your time in the winter is spend maintaining the farm equipment. Wow. So much to do. Thank you Laura for your videos.
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Very interesting!!! My grandparents were farmers, & they retired when I was a kid. Both farms now sold, & grandparents gone. 😞
When you change over from soy to corn do you need to change anything to the header or combine separators? or can you just continue?
There are entirely different heads. There's also 'bean' mode and 'corn' mode for the combine. There's a bunch of levers that get adjusted and literally have corn icons and bean icons.
We live in what our neighborhood refers to as the Johnson house although we raised our daughter in this house, and my wife and I have made this place our home for almost 27 years, and our name is not Johnson. The Johnson family built the house in 1970 but haven't lived here since at least 1992.
I saw a program on making moonshine. The distiller could tell proof by shaking the bottle and watching the bubbles. You will become good at the bean test with time.
Farmers improvise, adapt and overcome problems. My family were all farmers and they couldn't afford to call in and pay people to repair things for them nor did they have the time to wait for it to get done.Speaking of named fields/farms, Cole The Cornstar's family has all of theirs named.
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We used to plug the harvesters occasionally. The trick is to speed up the internals and slow your ground speed. This gives the screens and separators time to process the wet material before it jams.
Have you explained the electric fence (why you don't touch it) and how it keeps the cows in the field?
Gary, electric fence usually run on 12 volts DC and are pulsed so you can release if you come in contact with it. Animals can sense the electric voltage and stay back or they bump into once and learn. Fence keeps the cows were they want them so they don't over graze an area. Hope this helps.
@@jeffmarsh6363 I might've given the impression I didn't know about electric fences. In my youth I lived in farming communities in western Illinois and worked on farms during my High school years. My comment was for the benefit of those who may not understand how that wire that Laura avoided touching keeps a cow away.
I'm glad I grew up when I did, none of our stuff had locks, and most didn't use ignition keys.
Although, the trade off is most didn't have cabs either, lol.
Bless you for the sneeze Laura, hope its just dust and not allergies
You just showed everyone how to break into a combine!!!!!
my family own 2 Dairy farms in NZ one milke 500 the other milks 1200, both use padock numbers for each field and theres a map on the farm office door in the milk shed so you can find where you heards are and its also where we mark what field is on rotation
Always some excitement in each and every day on the farm. You guys seem to handle every challenge in stride, with the knowledge of experience, and the patience of a Godly family working together. Love your explanations and examples….so helpful in helping all of us understand what it takes to run and maintain all that massive equipment. Grateful for your hard work and happy family life. I love ❤️ you so much! Grammy
Hiya Grammy! Hope you have been doing well! :-)
Naming of fields really takes me back to my misspent youth working on farms (I'm 70 years old). Everybody did it back then and I guess we never thought a thing about it. Seemed natural. Two that I remember were "The Goeke Place" (family name) and "The Funk 80" (Funk Nebraska). Good memories.
Might be your best episode yet. You're teaching your audience lots of good stuff. I've already picked up on the fact (in earlier videos) that today's farms need to be mechanized to run. And even the fanciest equipment doesn't work right all the time so ingenuity is a must! Smart move to resist the temptation of closing the door the rest of the way, and slick work by Dad to get that door open without damaging anything. Then there's the background that, even living in an area where soybeans and corn are both farmed, I wasn't aware that harvesting beans releases a dust that probably has an allergen in it. (In a previous video you told us that the stalks are scratchy so walking though the rows in shorts wasn't recommended, you did it because it was such a hot day).
Then there's the names for fields, that was priceless. My wife has lettered the pastures on her horse farm. I can only connect A thru D with the plots of ground they represent, although there are several more. I think names are better!
Not to complain but shortly after you sneezed we felt a breeze here in Illinois!! Thank you for all the videos and the knowledge you share. God Bless You and Grant and your families!
Love the realities of farm life. No sugar coating. But would love a full open the hood on the combine and how it works
You do such a great job explaining
Thank You for being so down to earth and genuine
That place is FLAT!! Great fun to watch your operation and equipment. So not like I grew up with years ago. I am over 70. Never operater a machine (other than an airplane with autopilot) with auto stear!! LOL
Glad to see you put another video today I enjoy your video very much more than you'll ever know I hope it Grant's doing good and everything and glad to see you got back into your combine so you can do your beans stay safe young lady
Slowing the reel down on the header might help a little with loss. If the beans are dry enough, a reel that is running to fast will shell the pods. Really no need to have it running that fast when they are standing well
Farmers are always working on things thank God for Farmers to keep us feed thank you Laura and all the Farmers great work 💪
it’s almost harvesting time here in Western Australia 🇦🇺 Barley, Canola, Lupins etc
Dad saves the day. Keep up the good work. I like you use Anderson as an example it's a good name.
I understand what you're saying about generational farm names there Laura. About a third of our place here in Western PA bears the family name yet of the family my great-grandfather and his two brothers bought it from back in the late teens early twenties. The place is all under one deed but it bears within our family the family name of the previous owners who haven't owned it for generations
Your statement @10:28 about harvesting in any direction is almost correct. Soybeans cannot be harvested if the sickle is parallel to the soybean row. It might be possible with the smaller stemmed beans in 7.5 inch rows.
So damn happy! Note to self, be more like her!
By time you'll gain experience and know what's inside the combine and how it all works. At least you are that far that you hear(!) that something is wrong. In the previous video you mentioned the absence of radio etc. in the cabin, well here is why. Good work, Laura👊😎
And to think when I was a kid that cartoons were funny 😁 sixty years later no change!!!
Enjoyed your video Laura. So other combines have issues right? When I was young cabs were a new thing. No problems locking yourself out then! Them beans they do itch! Keep posting! Brings back days of joy and sorrow. Do you get mesmerized watching the auger? Those beans coming out? I used too! I don't farm anymore but it was a joy!
Hahaha 20:15 you sneeze because of the sun in your eyes or the dust maybe ? 😊🤗
Names of past owners is very popular around here in Arkansas we have been cutting rice for about a month and finished our corn a week ago and just started our beans yesterday good luck with harvest we all need it this year.
Wow! Things happen, I guess!
I am glad you were able getter done!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
One of my favorite channels!🙂
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Your insight is awesome ! When your talking about the field names that has always been very interesting to me on my family’s farm . Especially when you think of the history of the the people who farmed or owned it in the past. Great job again Laura!
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A little oil in their and in all the linkages is indicated. GOod work Dad!
I only found out in the last 6 years, after seeing an allergist. I'm allergic to Corn smut and a few certain weeds in my yard. So I wear a filtered mask during certain seasons when mowing my yard. and keep my windows up during the fall when the corn fields get there tassels.
I totally agree with you on the field names. I always notice it when our contractor for harvest has a new employee.😄
Love working/watching the harvest. Hours of solitude interrupted by moments of panic! 😁
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I guess you could mow it and bail it for cow feed depending how much "green stalk beans" you have. At least the crop won't go to waste if you don't have time for waiting to dry out.
Good job Laura and Dad. I noticed one thing. When going down stairs of equipment turn around and face the stairs. Keep 3 points of contact. This will save you from a injury someday. Love your Videos.
I just thought that beans had more dust clinging to them than other grains, I hadn't made the connection to the dust to the bean fuzz.
So now I am inclined to think that it is a combination of both the fuzz and regular dust: the dust blows around on the wind, and the bean fuzz catches the dust and gives the dust a place to cling to.
I still don't like it because it is such an irritant; eyes, nose, ears, everywhere.
I grew up on a farm in UK and some of the field names were very old, going back hundreds of years. Names like Nut grove, The Close, Stockhay were pretty obvious but others were more interesting. Riddings meant waste ground which was accurate for a steep almost useless field. Hardle meant Hurdle in the local dialect (Sheep were hurdled in the area many years ago) Inchen meant close, which made no sense at all until old documents showed that it was close to where the original farmhouse was, 350 years ago. Finally a land sale document dated to 1490 referred to a field called Selcombe. A combe is a short steep sided valley and Sel meant dry in middle English- and that field which is on limestone is dry to this day.
Is there some chance the extra seeds cast out by the combine will come up next season by volunteer? Your corn crop will smother the bean plants right? Is some of the planting wet because the field is high in some places and wet in low places?
I thought you were just listening to the quiet of the evening when you were stopped and eyes closed, AND YOU HAVE A BIG SNEEZE! God bless you Laura! Until next time!🙂
I thought that you were stopping to take in the beautiful sunset...then you sneezed.
It was still a magnificent sunset.
Good first stage bean harvest
This was 40 years ago; The "Back 40" was a 43 acre row crop field that was used for FFA corn competition as it was the richest soil on the farm. It was also partially used for the garden and melon or bean patch to keep up crop rotation. The "Back Yard" was an 18 acre Coastal Bermuda hay field behind the house. The "Orchard" was a 125 acre row crop field next to a 70 acre Pecan Orchard. "The Hill" was a 85 acre row crop field with 10 acres of pecan trees that was a big sloping hill, The "Runway" was the 50 acre row crop field that had a Coastal Bermuda grass runway with a two plane hanger at one end splitting the other side was a 49 Coastal Bermuda hayfield that was called the "Hellfield" as that was 3 and a half 14-15 hour days cutting every 4 weeks from the end of March till October. The 5 acre field next to the animal barn was called "The Lot" and it had the chicken coop and deep well in it.
That exact same thing happened to me last year on our 7230. The door lock and the wet plugging in the rethresher. Bless you Laura!!
You are an impressive woman. You just are. Love these. Almost should just be called Laura's life of farming. "Family encounters" These are very interesting.. I drove a bulb cart in a field as a teen. Flower bulbs. We broke down constantly.
I admire you as a farmers. :)
Flocking Awesome !
If I understand this correctly, the door was not actually locked, just the push button portion was missing therefore not allowing the door to open? If that was the case, I would have used a deepwell socket to push in and activate the latch.
Omg a long long time ago I was working on a horse farm and I would take my horse out to the field and just stop look and listen it was amazing what made me laugh was the sneeze at the end I also did that pollen 😂
Names of fields, corners are interesting. I was in search and rescue for 28+ years. Loved going to places we're not familiar with and dealing with names that don't appear on any map. We had to have a local tell us where it was and we'd add it to our maps.
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The engineering is fascinating. How the combine can shred the plants and sort the beans from the chaff. And not loose a bushel per acre. The chaff is as small as the beans..
We have a New Holland tractor that the lock cylinder fell out of it had a small bar in the push button where the cylinder locked the door it would lock from vibration had to have a paper clip to slide the bar to unlock the door. New lock cylinder took 15 minutes to install and no more locked out of the running tractor in the middle of the field!
Awesome video Laura Farms and have a great day Laura.
6:28 we had field named 90's it doesnt have anything from 90's but we named it 90's
if you're 'throwing over' a bushel per acre, something in the combine needs tweaking; if it can't be tweaked, maybe it needs replacing or repairing? (lots of metal-on-metal in a mobile thrasher, things get ground down enough that you can't adjust tolerances anymore)
It's not the field name but an area, Snuff Hollow. It has been called that for as long as my dad can remember. In the northwest corner there is an old foundation for the Snuff Hollow school.
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Took me a minute ... .the last shot inside the combine threw me for a loop. Was gonna say Laura needs to shave her legs. Then I thought, that would be rude, maybe Grant prefers .... never mind. Turns out it was Laura's Dad. You can tell by his hands. Unless of course, he wears pink nail polish too and decided not to in this video. LMAO !!! Just messin' whitchya. Great video Laura !! Love to see you and your Dad working together.
An interesting fact about soybeans!
Soybeans would not grow north of Essex county or parts of Kent County,Chatham ontario,and any area across the lands north of the 44th latitude,or Detroit ,windsor,latitude!
So,the Harrow research center,or some research center,put soybeans in a field north of Chatham Ontario,in an Alva ontario farm field. Which yrs later,I visited with a freind it turned out to be his relatives farm,life's funny quirks!
Beans:
The ones that survived the early cold that came off lake huron,were picked,then planted to repeat this process,until the beans were genetically picked to grow farther north in Canada,or the US, and other areas north of the 44th latitude,or just north of a line drawn across the lower portion of Lake st Clair.
Now,soybeans are planted in colder climates,and shorter summers,and they survive!
This all started back in 1978!
Just thought you'd like to know that's why your farming beans in North Dakota or other northern states or Canadian provinces!
That was interesting. Thanks for the videos ☺️
How does the bushels per acre for soybeans compare drilled-in versus planted? Any differences in field prep? Does Drilled have fewer weed issues since the bean rows are closer together? How about pest control, are drilled fields buggier? There must be some advantages both ways.
Love seeing the red 7210 running look great in it Laura!!!!!👍👍👍👍😀😀😀😀👌
Get and carry some type of eye drops (check with your Dr or eye Dr) and put them in your eyes a couple times a day. I live in Alabama and we have Pine pollen bad here (it covers everything with yellow pollen) They come in individual use packets, Buy them in bulk.
A friend of mine brought me with him on a family trip to southern Illinois where his family had a soy bean farm when I was 13 and all remember is that it was hotter and more humid than anything I had ever experienced in my life and that there was nothing whatsoever to do.
One thing about us dads, there’s not much we can’t fix with a couple metal scraps and some duct tape! Nice entry! Love your channel Laura 👍🏻🇺🇸