I'm from just north of Dubuque and two weeks ago I hosted a tractor ride . We started in Sherrill went through Dubuque and to Dickeyville then down along the Mississippi river east of Potosi up through Potosi then got onto North main street went up and around until we ended up in Caseville. We had lunch there,then took the Ferry back to Iowa than along the great river road back to where we started. We had around 30 tractors and many of them said that it was the most scenic ride they have ever been on. Most of them said that Potosi was the best part of the ride.
I remember learning about the glacier and glacial lake Agassi that formed from it, covering much of North America; forming the Pembina Escarpment, in eastern North Dakota. I lived at Grand Forks Air Force Base, and went to high school in Grand Forks, ND.
I’d like to take a moment to thank you for all of these videos! This really is so amazing for somebody like me who didn’t grow up on a farm but loves the farming lifestyle to learn & get educated. Who knows, maybe I’ll have my own farm one day 💪🏻🤞🏻
We mow on the rolling hills, yours look really nice to be flat. Looks like the county needs to repave the roads up there! My husband is still fussing because the mower left hay in the yard 😁😁
Some of these places like "The Valley" are becoming quite familiar to the longterm subscribers like me. The 8235R video was not the only one I recall from this area. That being said, what's far more important is that you guys get to make plenty of feed for your growing cattle herds. Potosi is a scenic town from the riverside, that's true.
Hello, from central Illinois! I hope you can get that hay dried & baled before it rains. This brings back a lot of memories of growing up on the family farm. I'll never forget my mom coming home from work as a receptionist at Memorial Hospital in Springfield. She told how a lady was complaining about how "easy the farmers have it". (This was back in 1994, because my mom passed away in 1995.) This ignorant lady said, "Well, yeah! They get FREE gas. . . those gas trucks haul fuel out to them and fill those big fuel tanks up." She actually thought that farmers get all of their gas & diesel fuels for FREE!!! SMH.
Roger Quarton my Mom was a nurse there and must have talked to the same person! I grew up on the family, Dad still lives there, enjoy going back north of Spfld to visit and help with harvest.
Hi Ryan I live in a small town it have farm land around it every summer and fall I see them on road going to the field or other field I know the tractor don't go that fast so went I get behind I hit my flasher. So hat off to all the farmers because they so hard.
Such a beautiful video, Ryan! Love those awesome aerial shots to! Glad to see that the corn is turning out to be very nice inspite of the late start to the growing season! God bless you guys! Thanks so much for sharing these very knowledgeable videos to! Such gorgeous backcountry and lovely scenery to! God's wonderful backyard!
Holla Ryan, my first time seen the 4640 in action, is the most awesome ridge also loved the roller of the hay is amazing, I used a small John deer for my yard, Blessing!!!
Wow awesome scenery love the rolling hills , almost as flat as a board around here, Theirs usually 157- 159 tillable acres in a 1/4 section around here. From SE ND
We’ve got a lot of bluffs like those on all our farms. We are in Rice Lake Wisconsin about 3 hours north of you guys, we have some carvings from when the red cedar river was bigger
You guys need a 4230 or a 4430 or something for smaller "chore" stuff like raking/baling hay, hauling feed, etc. Maybe even give the 4020 a break from running the grain auger too lol
I bought a couple of compost thermometers, about 14” or so long. They’d work great for checking bale temps if there’s any concern. I wish I had them when we had hay on the farm.. I live in N.M. where we have dairies, and every year it seems we have hay fires due to internal combustion.. it’s pretty sad because it’s usually a couple hundred grand in losses. Thanks for the videos. Ps. I love that hay rake!
Would it help to have couple of 'rotating yellow lights' on top of the cab to help warn motorists...? AND ..watching you 'turn your head 1000 times' to check out the raking behind you, would big mirrors on each side or tv cam in back help? Just wondering...
I like your videos (being a fellow Wisconsinite) I had a suggestion for ya concerning the raking thing - did you ever consider when raking with a wheel rake to leave the outside say 4 -6 swaths and do the inner part of the field first and then finish up with the outside part of the field?
Farm use diesel-- you can buy it with a federal excise tax number ID for farm use, it is dyed red to distinguish it from road diesel which is green, because farm diesel is sold WITHOUT the added fuel tax or "road tax" on regular "road diesel" which, depending on your state, can have upwards of 46 cents of tax added per gallon. Since farm diesel is to be used in farm machinery to produce crops, it doesn't have the added "road tax" tacked on to the price per gallon. It's legal to drive farm machinery down the road from farm-to-farm with it, BUT if you get caught burning farm diesel in a highway vehicle (pickup truck, semi, straight truck, etc) you will get a very hefty fine for "tax evasion"... Hence why it's dyed red-- troopers and DOT inspectors periodically and randomly "stick" diesel tanks on highway vehicles to determine if they're burning farm diesel without the tax on it in a highway vehicle, in order to ticket offenders breaking the law. Even a little of the red farm diesel in a road vehicle tank will make the fuel appear red/pink as it overpowers the green color of "highway diesel" that has had the proper taxes collected... Later! OL J R :)
If there was a semi coming around that corner and you had pulled out already and if another vehicle was going in the opposite direction where would the semi go?
That's why there's always a fistfull of twine in each tractor for hose/wires emergencies. Now if we could just get you lads a demo with McHale for a season it would save you n Travis n dad so much stress.
Much cheaper to buy than rotaries, much wider working widths available, and MUCH less maintenance and repairs, plus longer working life compared to a rotary... Also they're much more forgiving of rough ground, rolling ground irregularities, and can adapt to follow undulating ground better. The rotary rakes make a somewhat taller, fluffier windrow, which helps with curing/drying of the hay, compared to a wheel rake which makes a slightly lower, rounder, tighter, and somewhat "twisted" windrow in certain conditions (particularly long stemmy grasses). The rotaries are also generally credited with putting less "ash" in the hay, meaning dirt or other contaminants that remain after a hay sample is burned in the laboratory as part of the forage testing process (for hay that is tested for nutrition/digestibility/etc) compared to wheel rakes, but a lot of that depends on how it's operated (how low the wheels are run, etc). The biggest difference is that the wheel rakes fold much easier and more compactly than rotaries for transport, and the fact that rotaries are powered by PTO shafts where the wheel rakes are "unpowered" and strictly get the power to turn from being pulled through the hay, as the hay pushes against the wheels to turn them, plus lightly touching the ground (when set properly). Later! OL J R :)
If its me or you need make adjustments to the raker? I see leftower hey. i allways rake same side as grass was cutted. And i rake 1-2 rounds around the field.
The only places it left hay were on the rolling hills or on short passes where there isn’t ample space to turn around, and that’s due to the limitations of the length and width of the rake.
Well on rolling ground you WILL leave a little hay behind... either that or do like a lot of goofy guys do and run the rake SO down in the dirt that they're using it for a tillage implement... and that's AWFUL hard on the rake and puts a lot of dirt and crap into the hay... NOT a good thing. Better to leave a little hay here and there behind rather than tear up the rake and put a bunch of dirt and dead duff off the ground into the windrow with the hay... Later! OL J R :)
Yes if you look at certain points in the video, you'll see a little silver "brake disk" up on top of the dolly wheel fork pivots, with a small spring-loaded brake pad-- those are "wobble brakes" that essentially keep enough resistance on the wheel fork pivots to prevent the wheels from wobbling going down the road at transport speed, while still allowing the wheels to pivot follow along in a turn, or swing around backwards for backing up... Pretty nifty little things... :) OL J R :)
Around here farmers use to do one pass with the rake all around grass fields before tedding so the tedder won't throw grass in fences and other fields, I know it's time consuming but you can try using half rake to do that.
with these kinds of rake it´s pretty hard to do something like that way easier with a rotor rake like a poettinger "TOP" which is more common in europe, here we dont use the kind of rake from the video
Not really worth the effort most of the time I'd say... if you're doing a ton of little fields with a lot more borderline lengths compared to the number of acres actually raked, then yeah I could see it... but a single large acreage field what little gets tossed into the fence or trees or adjoining crop and not recovered by the rake when raking is inconsequential... Later! OL J R :)
@@lucatorchio4665 Where are you at, Luca?? Always interested in seeing and hearing about farming in other parts of the world... :) They DO sell the Krone tedders here with the steering capability to aim the baskets away from fences and field borders to toss the hay inward away from the edges, but Krone is sort of a new brand in the US, and with a lot of other manufacturers selling equipment, most of them for a lot longer than Krone has had major presence in the US, not many guys have tedders with that capability... Later and have a good one! OL J R :)
Another awesome video as usual. The more you drive around and the more land you show the more jealous I get. We are in a city here in NJ and getting more and more frustrated by the clutter. What is it like in your area and surrounding towns to live and wondering how much it costs to rent a house or something? Just so curious to see the more beautiful areas in our great Country. Thanks. Never Forget 9/11
I'm from just north of Dubuque and two weeks ago I hosted a tractor ride . We started in Sherrill went through Dubuque and to Dickeyville then down along the Mississippi river east of Potosi up through Potosi then got onto North main street went up and around until we ended up in Caseville. We had lunch there,then took the Ferry back to Iowa than along the great river road back to where we started. We had around 30 tractors and many of them said that it was the most scenic ride they have ever been on. Most of them said that Potosi was the best part of the ride.
that is a massive hay field... awesomely calming to watch the windrowers work...
I remember learning about the glacier and glacial lake Agassi that formed from it, covering much of North America; forming the Pembina Escarpment, in eastern North Dakota. I lived at Grand Forks Air Force Base, and went to high school in Grand Forks, ND.
I’d like to take a moment to thank you for all of these videos!
This really is so amazing for somebody like me who didn’t grow up on a farm but loves the farming lifestyle to learn & get educated.
Who knows, maybe I’ll have my own farm one day 💪🏻🤞🏻
Hola Ryan me dió mucho gusto escucharlo en éste video decir dos palabras en español, Bendiciones un abrazo.
We mow on the rolling hills, yours look really nice to be flat.
Looks like the county needs to repave the roads up there!
My husband is still fussing because the mower left hay in the yard 😁😁
Some of these places like "The Valley" are becoming quite familiar to the longterm subscribers like me. The 8235R video was not the only one I recall from this area. That being said, what's far more important is that you guys get to make plenty of feed for your growing cattle herds. Potosi is a scenic town from the riverside, that's true.
One of your better videos. I really like the JD smoking going up the hill and the fast ride back home. Love Wisconsin!
Drone footage is exceptional!
Greetings from California. Spent many summers in 70s and 80s in Winona Minnesota and across the river in Wisconsin. Gramps worked on the dredge.
Hello, from central Illinois! I hope you can get that hay dried & baled before it rains. This brings back a lot of memories of growing up on the family farm. I'll never forget my mom coming home from work as a receptionist at Memorial Hospital in Springfield. She told how a lady was complaining about how "easy the farmers have it". (This was back in 1994, because my mom passed away in 1995.) This ignorant lady said, "Well, yeah! They get FREE gas. . . those gas trucks haul fuel out to them and fill those big fuel tanks up." She actually thought that farmers get all of their gas & diesel fuels for FREE!!! SMH.
Roger Quarton my Mom was a nurse there and must have talked to the same person! I grew up on the family, Dad still lives there, enjoy going back north of Spfld to visit and help with harvest.
That’s why fake news is fake news , for that lady anyway.
Really good drone shots , that big rake really showing its stuff today hope ya getter done before the rain ! Thanks for the video!
That 4640 is the best looking tractor on your side of the Mississippi. NEVER STOP FARMING🇺🇸🚜
The bluffs there remind me of W Central Illinois, where I have family. Beautiful country. It's like a vacation for me when I get to go there.
its very cathartic watching those rakes work... one of those oddly satisfying things
Hi Ryan I live in a small town it have farm land around it every summer and fall I see them on road going to the field or other field I know the tractor don't go that fast so went I get behind I hit my flasher. So hat off to all the farmers because they so hard.
beautiful shots from the drone
Such a beautiful video, Ryan! Love those awesome aerial shots to! Glad to see that the corn is turning out to be very nice inspite of the late start to the growing season! God bless you guys! Thanks so much for sharing these very knowledgeable videos to! Such gorgeous backcountry and lovely scenery to! God's wonderful backyard!
Nice choice of music! And awesome as always to see the 4640 out working!
Can't think of a better way to end a day than a tractor ride/drive through the country side!
That rake is doing a fine job
great views and the music was good too. thanks for the time yo put in to these Ryan.
Holla Ryan, my first time seen the 4640 in action, is the most awesome ridge also loved the roller of the hay is amazing, I used a small John deer for my yard, Blessing!!!
Great video Ryan I love tractor and raking and mowing baling videos tedding I love all of them have a great rest of your week!
Wow awesome scenery love the rolling hills , almost as flat as a board around here, Theirs usually 157- 159 tillable acres in a 1/4 section around here. From SE ND
Wow! Way to go with the casually amazing video. What a blindside. The rubber really hits the road with this one.
We’ve got a lot of bluffs like those on all our farms. We are in Rice Lake Wisconsin about 3 hours north of you guys, we have some carvings from when the red cedar river was bigger
That’s some beautiful country! Those are some big hills there, be careful on the side hills
Great video, Ryan. Thanks, as always for your Channel.
You guys need a 4230 or a 4430 or something for smaller "chore" stuff like raking/baling hay, hauling feed, etc. Maybe even give the 4020 a break from running the grain auger too lol
The valley are is an awesome piece of farm land!
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In Mississippi most of the corn is either being harvested or already harvested
Great vid Ryan thanks for sharing..
Ryan's havin a *hayday*
You guise should get another baler for that valley field
Nice.. I didnt know you could hydraulically change the end space on those rakes
Depends if they're set up to do it... some are some aren't... later! OL J R :)
Thanks Ryan for the video 🎥
Great video! Why do you put your mirrors backwards?
I saw the skid hold those two bales gust fine
Idk if you’re already doing this or thought of it, you should leave one skid loader at the farm where you’re stacking the hay and use one in the field
"it" is on the same side as your watch. So, if you wear your watch on your left hand, point to the upper left. (I hope that helps.)
Man, that is a pretty good sized field!!
That Valley amazing view, I'm assuming that is Kuster's largest hay field. Perfect hunting grounds.
Good video Ryan always like the drone footage pretty cool ! Be safe
Legal ele falou em brasileiro!!!!
Great content and quality as always ryan!
Thanks Ryan love the video , keep up doing thems .
Kicking up plenty of dust. Get the baler out before it gets wet again. 👍
Whoever has to bale that is going to have a hell of a time. A lot of those rows look like Ray Charles was driving 😂🤣
Beautiful!!
Was that a cotontop3 shirt your dad was rocking?
Yes it was.
I bought a couple of compost thermometers, about 14” or so long. They’d work great for checking bale temps if there’s any concern. I wish I had them when we had hay on the farm.. I live in N.M. where we have dairies, and every year it seems we have hay fires due to internal combustion.. it’s pretty sad because it’s usually a couple hundred grand in losses.
Thanks for the videos.
Ps. I love that hay rake!
Hey Ryan
Was this planned to bale or a surprise
Would it help to have couple of 'rotating yellow lights' on top of the cab to help warn motorists...? AND ..watching you 'turn your head 1000 times' to check out the raking behind you, would big mirrors on each side or tv cam in back help? Just wondering...
Reminds me of the days when I got a lot of custom work to do...just run run run until the sun goes down
Simply awesome video 🤠👍
Siempre veo tus videos pero no los entiendo porque no hablo bien inglés pero siempre me gustan
Wow now that’s good old fashion gods country
What plug that hangs outside the window at 4:39 for?
Rtk globe.
@@dwightkuster8249 Are you realted to Ryan or is it another Kuster family you are from?
@@chrssondergaard That's his Dad... OL J R :)
That looks like fun.
2nd favorite chore on a farm second to trucking anything
I like your videos (being a fellow Wisconsinite) I had a suggestion for ya concerning the raking thing - did you ever consider when raking with a wheel rake to leave the outside say 4 -6 swaths and do the inner part of the field first and then finish up with the outside part of the field?
Why is the go-go juce red??
Legal diesel.
Farm use diesel-- you can buy it with a federal excise tax number ID for farm use, it is dyed red to distinguish it from road diesel which is green, because farm diesel is sold WITHOUT the added fuel tax or "road tax" on regular "road diesel" which, depending on your state, can have upwards of 46 cents of tax added per gallon. Since farm diesel is to be used in farm machinery to produce crops, it doesn't have the added "road tax" tacked on to the price per gallon. It's legal to drive farm machinery down the road from farm-to-farm with it, BUT if you get caught burning farm diesel in a highway vehicle (pickup truck, semi, straight truck, etc) you will get a very hefty fine for "tax evasion"... Hence why it's dyed red-- troopers and DOT inspectors periodically and randomly "stick" diesel tanks on highway vehicles to determine if they're burning farm diesel without the tax on it in a highway vehicle, in order to ticket offenders breaking the law. Even a little of the red farm diesel in a road vehicle tank will make the fuel appear red/pink as it overpowers the green color of "highway diesel" that has had the proper taxes collected... Later! OL J R :)
rocket does an excellent cameo
Rake hitting corn:
Ryan: ope, ope, ope! I didn’t see anything 😄
Olá amigo um abraço do Brasil para todos .
Ryan your one round baler will be working it's butt off baling it all.
Was the ground previous pasture or what where y’all using it for
I always watch your videos but I don't understand them because I don't speak English well but I always like them
I saw it kicking up some dust should bale fine.
So how many cows do you have of your own
45
@@HowFarmsWork I am 17 and I have 5 cows and calvs out the the pasture and 5 bottle calvs at the house
Well done sb
Can you please make a layout of what your family farms and your land
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Olá amigos top.🤣🤣👍🏽
If there was a semi coming around that corner and you had pulled out already and if another vehicle was going in the opposite direction where would the semi go?
Let’s just hope the semi isn’t speeding and has properly functioning brakes
Hola! Desde Argentina! 👍
A new post morning 08.00 AM
Olá amigo manda um salve para o Brasil... (Cascavel, Parana, Brasil)
Did you already finish the video when you was in North Judson, Indiana
That's why there's always a fistfull of twine in each tractor for hose/wires emergencies. Now if we could just get you lads a demo with McHale for a season it would save you n Travis n dad so much stress.
Not many McHale dealers or balers in the US... Later! OL J R :)
How do wheel rackes compare with the rotary ones?
Much cheaper to buy than rotaries, much wider working widths available, and MUCH less maintenance and repairs, plus longer working life compared to a rotary... Also they're much more forgiving of rough ground, rolling ground irregularities, and can adapt to follow undulating ground better. The rotary rakes make a somewhat taller, fluffier windrow, which helps with curing/drying of the hay, compared to a wheel rake which makes a slightly lower, rounder, tighter, and somewhat "twisted" windrow in certain conditions (particularly long stemmy grasses). The rotaries are also generally credited with putting less "ash" in the hay, meaning dirt or other contaminants that remain after a hay sample is burned in the laboratory as part of the forage testing process (for hay that is tested for nutrition/digestibility/etc) compared to wheel rakes, but a lot of that depends on how it's operated (how low the wheels are run, etc). The biggest difference is that the wheel rakes fold much easier and more compactly than rotaries for transport, and the fact that rotaries are powered by PTO shafts where the wheel rakes are "unpowered" and strictly get the power to turn from being pulled through the hay, as the hay pushes against the wheels to turn them, plus lightly touching the ground (when set properly). Later! OL J R :)
hey ryan what drone do you use
How does one good rain like that affect feed value?
Increases spoilage and higher leaf loss
He said moisture. Don’t think that’s PC anymore. 😂😂
unusual contours in the valley field, almost looks manmade, like waves.
Ryan, why were raking that outside row of corn?? ;x I know, we didn't see a thing.
Your dad seems like the type that mostly only speaks only when spoken to. Which is never a bad thing.
If its me or you need make adjustments to the raker? I see leftower hey. i allways rake same side as grass was cutted. And i rake 1-2 rounds around the field.
The only places it left hay were on the rolling hills or on short passes where there isn’t ample space to turn around, and that’s due to the limitations of the length and width of the rake.
Well on rolling ground you WILL leave a little hay behind... either that or do like a lot of goofy guys do and run the rake SO down in the dirt that they're using it for a tillage implement... and that's AWFUL hard on the rake and puts a lot of dirt and crap into the hay... NOT a good thing. Better to leave a little hay here and there behind rather than tear up the rake and put a bunch of dirt and dead duff off the ground into the windrow with the hay...
Later! OL J R :)
What is the most enjoyable job on the farm?
It ways surprises me how that 4020 still keeps going. This is coming from a J I Case fan.
mmmmmm! Red n' Foamy fuel! Heeey Calvin!!
Can you run full speed in the tractor going down the road without the dolly wheels shaking like crazy?
Yes if you look at certain points in the video, you'll see a little silver "brake disk" up on top of the dolly wheel fork pivots, with a small spring-loaded brake pad-- those are "wobble brakes" that essentially keep enough resistance on the wheel fork pivots to prevent the wheels from wobbling going down the road at transport speed, while still allowing the wheels to pivot follow along in a turn, or swing around backwards for backing up... Pretty nifty little things... :) OL J R :)
Por fin dijiste algo en español algo es algo vas aprendiendo 😂😂
Do you have a 4440?
They used to; they sold it to upgrade to the 4640
Around here farmers use to do one pass with the rake all around grass fields before tedding so the tedder won't throw grass in fences and other fields, I know it's time consuming but you can try using half rake to do that.
with these kinds of rake it´s pretty hard to do something like that
way easier with a rotor rake like a poettinger "TOP" which is more common in europe, here we dont use the kind of rake from the video
@@DJGSonik I know what you're saying, I'm from Europe too!
Not really worth the effort most of the time I'd say... if you're doing a ton of little fields with a lot more borderline lengths compared to the number of acres actually raked, then yeah I could see it... but a single large acreage field what little gets tossed into the fence or trees or adjoining crop and not recovered by the rake when raking is inconsequential... Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker yeah, you're right! Here most fields are smaller than some American courtyards, lol
@@lucatorchio4665 Where are you at, Luca?? Always interested in seeing and hearing about farming in other parts of the world... :)
They DO sell the Krone tedders here with the steering capability to aim the baskets away from fences and field borders to toss the hay inward away from the edges, but Krone is sort of a new brand in the US, and with a lot of other manufacturers selling equipment, most of them for a lot longer than Krone has had major presence in the US, not many guys have tedders with that capability... Later and have a good one! OL J R :)
Ola amigo! Greetings from Russia!
Muy buen video
Another awesome video as usual. The more you drive around and the more land you show the more jealous I get. We are in a city here in NJ and getting more and more frustrated by the clutter. What is it like in your area and surrounding towns to live and wondering how much it costs to rent a house or something? Just so curious to see the more beautiful areas in our great Country. Thanks. Never Forget 9/11