My son Nathan who is two years old loves farm tractors. We happened to come across your videos and watch them almost every night. Keep up the videos very educational to those watching.
I've been with you on this channel from day one. You keep making them and I'll keep watching. You have a great way of weaving the educational with the entertainment.
Thank you for always explaining the work you do. It's foreign to me because I've always lived in suburbs and have only seen what'd you would probably consider "tiny" farms.
The best part of the Vid is " You can never get enough big green machines"! :-)) I m a Dairyfarmer from Bavaria (Germany) an grow up with Deere. Greets Thomas
Another great video, Zach. Love the mix of the explanation of how the implement works in conjunction with the action shots. Looks like the 9560 is handling it well. Congratulations on being done with combining!
I work for the green team. Made in Valley City, North Dakota. Similar models produced were the 2700 (Des Moines), 2720, and 2730. Updated/redesigned frame to handle the weight. In order to make room for the 2730, production of the 2720 was moved to a small factory in Iowa (Paton). Also where the "DB**'s" are made. Your options on the 2730 are 7Std, 9Std, 11Std, and 13Std. You can get rigid frame options but only on the smaller 7 and 9 standards. 11 and 13 are wing fold only.
This is the only TH-cam channel that I can watch the whole video without having to skip through boring parts! My uncle operates a 1,000-acre dairy farm in Marshfield, WI. You will only see green equipment there! ;)
Gavin Wateski Thanks! I have really been trying to concentrate on keeping the videos moving and not letting them stop being interesting. It takes time to edit, but it's fun to see how they turn out.
I've been binge-watching your videos from the first one on this week, and man, you have gotten so much better at it. Your explanations were always good, but your camera work is 1000 times better, and I love the action shots set to a perfect musical selection here.
I love watching the big green machines work and the john deere you mentioned in the video has 6 foot tall tracks and its a awesome machine. My brother sent me a pic from his work he works at a john deere dealer. I love going to his work and seeing all the john deere tractors and equipment
Thanks for the videos I’m a fairly new subscriber (about a week ago) they are very informative. I’m a farmer in the Uk nice to see how you do things there
Great video. Down here we plant as early as possible as well. Not so we worry the corn won't dry before harvest, but so we can hit pollination before it get's really hot. We're in mid 30s for CEC, and high calcium/pH soils.
TwoHappyChildrenFarm Are your CEC numbers all that high?? We get in the 30s but more numbers are mid 20s. Our calcium numbers are big also and pH averages low 8s
They are all nice, the issue usually becomes after 12-18 hours straight for multiple days, they get in a hurry. I have drinks every series from 9630 up and they all get old...
Does this machine put a compaction layer just below the points? Down south here we disk only wet bottom ground and the disks create a compaction layer below the blades. We every few years run a subsoiler in a dry year to break it up which we sink a good bit down. You can physically see the ground bulging up several inches
Any thoughts on the newer high speed tillage equipment like the Pro-till and Speedtiller? Do you see something like that potentially fitting in your operation for exposing dirt and mixing in residue?
So I take it you finished the corn harvest and straight in preparation for the next crop before it snows to much? Did you get a work to clean down your combine?
HI Zac, Why do you run only a 18 Foot implement? Is it due to your ground type? Here in Australia (Mallee Area of Victoria) we use a 36 foot Scaribar ( single Wing Fold)/Air Seeder and that is a small machine, being pulled my John Deere 9300, In clay/Soil Ground. In the Sandy type ground they are using 42+ foot
MrJimsparky On our corn stubble, we probably wouldn't have enough power to pull anything wider than about 22 feet, and the wider ones are a lot more expensive because they have folding wings for road travel.
An 18' disk chisel is the same width as a 12 bottom plow with 18" moldboards. Both take lots of power as they are primary tillage. Obviously an air seeder would need a lot less power because of the shallow operation. In my area most air seeders are 60'.
nice rig there. it is designed for the mid west farmer though. we use to raise a lot of irrigated wheat. i think the disc would plug, and drag piles.great video Zack.
We both live in an area where the darn glaciers melted and just dropped all the rocks they picked up in Canada. I bet they don't have any rocky soil left up there. Maybe we can sue them! LOL
That is funny “This use to be straight but we won’t get into that today”. I remember in your vid a couple day ago you said “it’s hard to find good workers around here”. Thats some expensive equipment damn workers. Haha love your vids good thing I have your post notifications on or I would miss them all. 😬
Hey Zach forgot to ask what’s the slip showing on the tractor just curious. I’ve got a Cat challenger and was going to see how well it handles the Disc Chisel tomorrow and see what the radar show for slippage compared to the Tired tractor.
Just curious what you thought of the new j.d. quad track. The farm where I help out with field work just got the 9620 this year and it was just awesome plowing with it this fall.
Sweet I’ve got a Sunflower 4510 disc chisel 18ft with hydraulic front and rear disc it’s 15 shank you can put in the ground from 6-15 inches and it does a great job on corn or bean ground just gotta have enough power if you go really deep it’ll make the 9330 Deere talk in heavy soil. Like always awesome Video
Is there a reason why your working slightly skewed across the maize crop rows? I was under the impression you were trying to practice a controlled traffic policy with this heavy soil? Have you tried strip tillage in this situation?
We’ve got a 16 ft offset disk we run and I double skip and then go back in and grab the skips as it’s much easier to turn I’ve found with that rig that way instead of single skipping.
Love this shit. You’ve definitely found your passion. Between farming and video editing...you do a great job explaining things to the lay person. Keep up the good work and can’t wait to see you next year in the Big RX ;). Do it. Life is too short!
Can't wait to see it! Thanks. Love all your videos! I worked on my great uncles dairy farm from 1976 until 1986 here in Pennsylvania and we used a John Deere 55 combine open station, a little dusty to say the least, until '78. Again thanks for the great videos and letting us ride along.
Greetings from Finland! Really like watching your videos, I´ve been watching your TH-cam channel past days while ploughing in the field with Case IH Magnum and New Holland T8040. It´s interesting to see how things work out on the other side of the world and see that we struggle with same kind of issues like problems with combine and mud :-)
That looks like a good piece of equipment there. I like the 4 wheels on the ripper. We run a Case 870 ripper & it only has 2 wheels & there gets to be a lot of weight on those wheels. In soft ground they really sink in when you lift the ripper. We run both red & green tractors. Our main tillage tractor is a Case 485 & we run a John Deere 8320 on the planter & grain cart & we also have a 4555 that we use on the grain drill & the roller. Did you go drive the 9620?
Why do you prefer using a ripper compared to using a cultivator with spikes? We just put spikes on our cultivator in the spring and go ahead of the drill and it works awesome. We’re in black soil too up in north east Saskatchewan, so I’m just curious what the advantage of using a ripper is
MN Millennial Farmer yup a field cultivator. No we aren’t going through corn residue the heaviest residue we go through is oat stubble. If it’s because of the heavier residue it makes sense as to why you’d use a ripper
Great videos Zach, My question is, why are you running your rear levelers in the fall? Wouldnt you want your ground mounded up so it could frost out and dry better for spring tillage? Just asking cause we found in our heavy soils in upstate NY that it seems to work better. I see you work your ground on a kidder too good man lol!! Oh are you going to the no till conference in Louisville in Jan?
Chad win The soil definitely does dry a little nicer when it's not so smooth but we've found that it's harder to get a smooth seed bed in the spring. Each has their advantages and disadvantages I guess...
I read your comment on some other guys channel that you were going to try the music over the video every now and then ..seems to work pretty well for ya
Zach`s parents did a great job with that kid - or maybe he straightened out after spending time in prison :) - pleasant articulated tons of sweet information - I want to be a farmer next life .....GREAT channel !!!!
allen schmitz I have never looked for any, but I have a rock that I found in our woods years ago that I have always kept because it look like an arrow head.
your grand pa would be more likely to have run across a few, modern farming is more like high speed dirt freeway driving in a a.c. cab...maybe the injuns only left big rocks in your fields as a token of there love for the great deal they got from uncle sam...wink!
Excellent video! You're really comin' into your own Zac with your videos. Give it time and you'll be one of the top TH-cam farming channels. I really like your style, content and personality. Is that a new camera you're using?
We tried an RX. Don't get me wrong they're a super nice tractor but we'll stick with are red ones. Center pivot is a lot simpler and reliable than the deere. Our 435 seemed to pull harder and better than that 9620rx. Our 540 just straight walked away from it. Also, for what it's worth, we run all Krause tillage equipment. We could never get the deere to stand up to the heavy use. Your dealer situation may be different. Aside from our tillage and two red quads all the rest of our equipment is green.
I agree 100% about the rolling basket. We pull one behind our disc and I have to stop all the time and clear it from mud and rocks will sometimes slip in and stop the basket from turning. If I was the boss I'd get rid of it lol
Ive seen some other guys videos talking about how corn silage bales are worth pretty good money. Do you folks ever bale any of your corn or do you like to use the corn to build up your ground or to keep it loose? This was a great video and I hope you had fun on the other Big Green Tractor!!!
Your videos are very interesting. I am comes from germany and I life on an Farm with only 150 acres. I know that' s not much for you. My english is not the best sorry. :)
You guys do much no till? I read an article in one of the many farm magazines we get, and it was talking about how much faster water drains into the soil when it is no tilled it is very interesting. They did test to see the difference when one inch was rained on then another inch right on top of that and no till was the winner by far deep tillage was the worst. Just something I read and was curious about your thoughts
A lot of that stuff is half BS. In my opinion. Deep till, tickle till, no till, cover crops... It all depends on where your at and the soil type you are dealing with. We have had mixed results with all types. This year we no tilled and one field had record yield and another flooded due to the corn residue clogging up all drainage in the area and led to a lot of water standing. Had we of tilled that field and incorporated some of that residue into the soil it may not have floated off the field and caused the issues it did. Moral of the story is you never know how or what will work until you read the results on the monitor.
Yea I agree we do no till almost all of our beans and there are certain fields that when it floods the trash floats and gathers on one side of the flooded area. It can be a real pain trying to get rid of a foot of corn stalks that cover an acre or two
While there is not much corn grown in my area (Thief River Falls), that is the type of machine they are using whether it be John Deere, Case IH, Summers, etc. if they have a chopping head. If they don't have a chopping head they have to run a stalk chopper over the field first or disk it before chisel plowing. A few farmers are even using those machines on wheat stubble now instead of a conventional chisel plow because it really blackens the soil in a one pass operation. I am surprised you can still bust the frost. Tillage in my area came to an end early last week when the temperature dropped below zero. While I did see a farmer out ditching today with his Case IH Quadtrac, he was having to bust the frost first with a D-8 CAT. Be sure to save some rocks for seed for next year.................
My son Nathan who is two years old loves farm tractors. We happened to come across your videos and watch them almost every night. Keep up the videos very educational to those watching.
I've been with you on this channel from day one. You keep making them and I'll keep watching. You have a great way of weaving the educational with the entertainment.
Dale Braun thank you!
Thank you for always explaining the work you do. It's foreign to me because I've always lived in suburbs and have only seen what'd you would probably consider "tiny" farms.
there's something addicting about that music and watching the ripper at work.
Totally
You know ur machinery, & more importantly, your conditions, everchanging and you are adaptable and prepared for
The best part of the Vid is " You can never get enough big green machines"! :-))
I m a Dairyfarmer from Bavaria (Germany) an grow up with Deere.
Greets Thomas
Another great video, Zach. Love the mix of the explanation of how the implement works in conjunction with the action shots. Looks like the 9560 is handling it well. Congratulations on being done with combining!
I work for the green team. Made in Valley City, North Dakota. Similar models produced were the 2700 (Des Moines), 2720, and 2730. Updated/redesigned frame to handle the weight. In order to make room for the 2730, production of the 2720 was moved to a small factory in Iowa (Paton). Also where the "DB**'s" are made. Your options on the 2730 are 7Std, 9Std, 11Std, and 13Std. You can get rigid frame options but only on the smaller 7 and 9 standards. 11 and 13 are wing fold only.
This is the only TH-cam channel that I can watch the whole video without having to skip through boring parts! My uncle operates a 1,000-acre dairy farm in Marshfield, WI. You will only see green equipment there! ;)
Gavin Wateski Thanks! I have really been trying to concentrate on keeping the videos moving and not letting them stop being interesting. It takes time to edit, but it's fun to see how they turn out.
I've been binge-watching your videos from the first one on this week, and man, you have gotten so much better at it. Your explanations were always good, but your camera work is 1000 times better, and I love the action shots set to a perfect musical selection here.
The john Deere parts (verterlisers, sowers, plowers aswell as the gater’s are very good
I love watching the big green machines work and the john deere you mentioned in the video has 6 foot tall tracks and its a awesome machine. My brother sent me a pic from his work he works at a john deere dealer. I love going to his work and seeing all the john deere tractors and equipment
Ok, just wondering...we farm some...our operation is Ranching here in South Dakota. Just had to ask, thanks for the response!!
Awesome music Zack, I am 61 and Love your Choice of Music on this Vid !
Exodus? Really?
Just ran a similar setup last weekend. The 9560 RT is a great tractor. That ripper looks a lot better than the 9 shank case we run
Drew L we really like this ripper
Thanks for the videos I’m a fairly new subscriber (about a week ago) they are very informative. I’m a farmer in the Uk nice to see how you do things there
Great video. Down here we plant as early as possible as well. Not so we worry the corn won't dry before harvest, but so we can hit pollination before it get's really hot. We're in mid 30s for CEC, and high calcium/pH soils.
TwoHappyChildrenFarm Are your CEC numbers all that high?? We get in the 30s but more numbers are mid 20s. Our calcium numbers are big also and pH averages low 8s
Amen man never enough Dig Green Machines for sure and Nothing Runs Like A Deere ! ! ! 🦌
I live in Moline, the home of John Deere. It warms my heart to see people around the world love green :) Great video!
I don't know anything better than a GREEN machine!
Drove a John Deere 9620RX last fall. They are sweet tractors, a big upgrade over the 9560r series...
Kevin Friesen yeah, I didn't like coming back to our 9560!
They are all nice, the issue usually becomes after 12-18 hours straight for multiple days, they get in a hurry. I have drinks every series from 9630 up and they all get old...
Looks like that ripper does a heck of a job! Very nice piece of equipment there. Excellent videography as well!
I was wondering why you were leaving strips literally the second you explained it.
Does this machine put a compaction layer just below the points? Down south here we disk only wet bottom ground and the disks create a compaction layer below the blades. We every few years run a subsoiler in a dry year to break it up which we sink a good bit down. You can physically see the ground bulging up several inches
Your cinematography has really improved. Keep it up dude!
Thats what I was thinking, lots of trips in and out of the tractor tho! hahaha
I agree with your comments about "big green machines" . If it is red leave it in the shed.
todd Brewer I really don't mind red, but our local Deere dealer is really awesome with service
Did you run the demo on the 9620rx??
Any thoughts on the newer high speed tillage equipment like the Pro-till and Speedtiller? Do you see something like that potentially fitting in your operation for exposing dirt and mixing in residue?
Nice step up from the 7 shank 510 john deere pulled by a 9300 4wd i ran right after high school. Great video
Derek Adams thanks!
So I take it you finished the corn harvest and straight in preparation for the next crop before it snows to much? Did you get a work to clean down your combine?
Kevin Kenny Wash day is Monday! Gonna be a long day!
HI Zac,
Why do you run only a 18 Foot implement? Is it due to your ground type?
Here in Australia (Mallee Area of Victoria) we use a 36 foot Scaribar ( single Wing Fold)/Air Seeder and that is a small machine, being pulled my John Deere 9300, In clay/Soil Ground. In the Sandy type ground they are using 42+ foot
MrJimsparky On our corn stubble, we probably wouldn't have enough power to pull anything wider than about 22 feet, and the wider ones are a lot more expensive because they have folding wings for road travel.
An 18' disk chisel is the same width as a 12 bottom plow with 18" moldboards. Both take lots of power as they are primary tillage. Obviously an air seeder would need a lot less power because of the shallow operation. In my area most air seeders are 60'.
Zach - will you plant directly into that the following year or will you have to work the ground once more first?
nice rig there. it is designed for the mid west farmer though. we use to raise a lot of irrigated wheat. i think the disc would plug, and drag piles.great video Zack.
We have that problem ourselves when plowing wheat stubble so we just always run a disk first otherwise our chisel plow will ball up
What about the working depth of the loosening tines ?
Hey Zack, we have a 2720 John Deere Ripper and we love it.
How many hectares land of farming that you have Mr. Zach?
We both live in an area where the darn glaciers melted and just dropped all the rocks they picked up in Canada. I bet they don't have any rocky soil left up there. Maybe we can sue them! LOL
Couldn't you foam fill the tires to prevent flats???
That is funny “This use to be straight but we won’t get into that today”. I remember in your vid a couple day ago you said “it’s hard to find good workers around here”. Thats some expensive equipment damn workers. Haha love your vids good thing I have your post notifications on or I would miss them all. 😬
That's a good way to break up the frozen tundra, will you need much spring field prep?
Banjo Benson 1 pass with the field cultivator
great explanation of the different equipment
I do hope there is a "review" coming for that RX!!!
I'm hoping I can over come my camera shyness and make a video. I'm headed over there shortly
I just tried one out on my channel, he beat me to it tho!
Hey Zach forgot to ask what’s the slip showing on the tractor just curious. I’ve got a Cat challenger and was going to see how well it handles the Disc Chisel tomorrow and see what the radar show for slippage compared to the Tired tractor.
Keenan Kelley usually 2-4 percent
MN Millennial Farmer Thx for the reply
Do you have to pull a ripper on the headlands in front of the 2730 or are you able to pull it through at a slower speed?
We have the same problem on our harrow on the field cultivator
Just curious what you thought of the new j.d. quad track. The farm where I help out with field work just got the 9620 this year and it was just awesome plowing with it this fall.
Mark Littfin I loved it. Probably too much.
Sweet I’ve got a Sunflower 4510 disc chisel 18ft with hydraulic front and rear disc it’s 15 shank you can put in the ground from 6-15 inches and it does a great job on corn or bean ground just gotta have enough power if you go really deep it’ll make the 9330 Deere talk in heavy soil. Like always awesome Video
Keenan Kelley Thanks!
I was hoping for some ac/DC back in black when you opened up the door.
pro tip: watch series at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.
@Finnegan Jaime yup, have been watching on flixzone for since december myself :D
Is there a reason why your working slightly skewed across the maize crop rows? I was under the impression you were trying to practice a controlled traffic policy with this heavy soil?
Have you tried strip tillage in this situation?
Dan Whiteford it does a much better job of upsetting the roots at an angle. We have never done strip till but I would really like to try
We’ve got a 16 ft offset disk we run and I double skip and then go back in and grab the skips as it’s much easier to turn I’ve found with that rig that way instead of single skipping.
great over view. what crop produces more residue than corn.... :)
Is that a true ripper? Looks more like a spring tooth chisel behind the offset discs in the front???
D. Loud I believe they call it a combination ripper
Love this shit. You’ve definitely found your passion. Between farming and video editing...you do a great job explaining things to the lay person. Keep up the good work and can’t wait to see you next year in the Big RX ;). Do it. Life is too short!
Joe Hebeler It will be more than a year for sure, but maybe some day!!
Great video's! Love the content and music.. watch out for those rocks tho. Haha. GO GREEN!!
I hope you video your test ride of the RX. I was at the John Deere plant and watched one being built. Awesome tractor!!
Bobby P I got some video of it! Awesome machine
Can't wait to see it! Thanks. Love all your videos! I worked on my great uncles dairy farm from 1976 until 1986 here in Pennsylvania and we used a John Deere 55 combine open station, a little dusty to say the least, until '78. Again thanks for the great videos and letting us ride along.
Enjoyed the detailed description of how it works from front to back. And do u still conventional plow or rip and cultivate
Jason Norris just rip and cultivate
awesome footage, and bad ass equipment choices! kudos M.F. family.
Greetings from Finland! Really like watching your videos, I´ve been watching your TH-cam channel past days while ploughing in the field with Case IH Magnum and New Holland T8040. It´s interesting to see how things work out on the other side of the world and see that we struggle with same kind of issues like problems with combine and mud :-)
how fast are you driving with disc ?
How deep do you run the ripper points? Do you ever run a deep ripper to get below the level the 2730 works at?
Ace Decade this is as deep as we get with our tillage. 7-8"
Do you use yield monitoring software (GPS) to track the tillage? Any variables to track?
heyerstandards we don't track the tillage at all. Just use it for auto steer
MN Millennial Farmer what’s speed do you guys go with that thing?
Would you consider this ripper a vertical tillage tool?
I agree, " You can never have enough BIG GREEN Machines"!!!
That looks like a good piece of equipment there. I like the 4 wheels on the ripper. We run a Case 870 ripper & it only has 2 wheels & there gets to be a lot of weight on those wheels. In soft ground they really sink in when you lift the ripper. We run both red & green tractors. Our main tillage tractor is a Case 485 & we run a John Deere 8320 on the planter & grain cart & we also have a 4555 that we use on the grain drill & the roller. Did you go drive the 9620?
thedonleroy I sure did, I'll have a quick video about it posted soon!
Love all the camera shots
How was the RX vs your RT? Awesome video!
Why do you prefer using a ripper compared to using a cultivator with spikes? We just put spikes on our cultivator in the spring and go ahead of the drill and it works awesome. We’re in black soil too up in north east Saskatchewan, so I’m just curious what the advantage of using a ripper is
Kris Cipywnyk honestly I'm not even sure what you mean. Like a field cultivator? Are you working corn stubble with it?
MN Millennial Farmer yup a field cultivator. No we aren’t going through corn residue the heaviest residue we go through is oat stubble. If it’s because of the heavier residue it makes sense as to why you’d use a ripper
These older videos are gold!!!!
or are they green??????
Do you have to have guidance and gps for auto steer or can you just have the feelers on the corn head
CornMartini this auto steer uses GPS, no row sensors
MN Millennial Farmer no I meant on your combine when your doing corn
CornMartini we use row sensors when doing corn
What MPH ? Is the tractor limited in power, for speed, or can you go fast than you want?
The tractor is limited to 26mph. He is more than likely pulling it around 5-7mph
Klug Farms Klug it would probably pull it at 9 mph, but if I hooked a rock at that speed.... !
Great videos Zach, My question is, why are you running your rear levelers in the fall? Wouldnt you want your ground mounded up so it could frost out and dry better for spring tillage? Just asking cause we found in our heavy soils in upstate NY that it seems to work better. I see you work your ground on a kidder too good man lol!! Oh are you going to the no till conference in Louisville in Jan?
Chad win The soil definitely does dry a little nicer when it's not so smooth but we've found that it's harder to get a smooth seed bed in the spring. Each has their advantages and disadvantages I guess...
this was great, perfect soundtrack!!
about how much is the ripper and tractor worth?
Moving along pretty good how deep and how fast are you goin
Keenan Kelley 5.8 mph at about 7-8"
I read your comment on some other guys channel that you were going to try the music over the video every now and then ..seems to work pretty well for ya
William Kenny you liked it?!
I liked it, I'm close to the same age as you (31), so our taste in music is probably similar.
Zach`s parents did a great job with that kid - or maybe he straightened out after spending time in prison :) - pleasant articulated tons of sweet information - I want to be a farmer next life .....GREAT channel !!!!
Did you chop those stocks first?
Is there much, if any, difference in a tractor with tracks versus tires?
Keith Brettell the big difference is less compaction with tracks. They don't turn as well though and depending on conditions they can ride rougher.
Have fun driving the RX. Take an extra lap for all is that will never get to run one.
mirrorimage cattleco I did! I got some video too!
Pro-level video. Looks like your 2730 comes close to vertical tillage. How's that working out with your heavy clay soil and corn stalks?
Can you post some video and opinion of the tractor?
johndeereman65279 I will try to do that after we wrap up this week
lol; I was raised in Moline, one question, did you ever find any indian arrow heads in your fields?
allen schmitz I have never looked for any, but I have a rock that I found in our woods years ago that I have always kept because it look like an arrow head.
your grand pa would be more likely to have run across a few, modern farming is more like high speed dirt freeway driving in a a.c. cab...maybe the injuns only left big rocks in your fields as a token of there love for the great deal they got from uncle sam...wink!
Excellent video! You're really comin' into your own Zac with your videos. Give it time and you'll be one of the top TH-cam farming channels. I really like your style, content and personality. Is that a new camera you're using?
Keith Brettell same GoPro I bought last spring!
Tires look similar to whats on the Whisek Discs
Northern farmer probably are I bet
So the 8360rt wont pull this?
We tried an RX. Don't get me wrong they're a super nice tractor but we'll stick with are red ones. Center pivot is a lot simpler and reliable than the deere. Our 435 seemed to pull harder and better than that 9620rx. Our 540 just straight walked away from it. Also, for what it's worth, we run all Krause tillage equipment. We could never get the deere to stand up to the heavy use. Your dealer situation may be different. Aside from our tillage and two red quads all the rest of our equipment is green.
sodbuster jr. Interesting
MN Millennial Farmer that's just my personal experience though. Like you've said though, the RX is so pricey, even the used ones!
How deep do the shanks go in the ground?
We run them about 6-7"
I agree 100% about the rolling basket. We pull one behind our disc and I have to stop all the time and clear it from mud and rocks will sometimes slip in and stop the basket from turning. If I was the boss I'd get rid of it lol
Always a Great Video. Learned a lot. Thanks
Ive seen some other guys videos talking about how corn silage bales are worth pretty good money. Do you folks ever bale any of your corn or do you like to use the corn to build up your ground or to keep it loose? This was a great video and I hope you had fun on the other Big Green Tractor!!!
Mark Mortensen we prefer to keep the corn residue on the fields so we're not mining the soil as much
My neighbor tried a harrow with rolling baskets. One round of the field, they were full of rocks.
PA Farms OH that would SUCK!
Enjoy all of the info- VERY INFORMATIVE!!!
Your videos are very interesting. I am comes from germany and I life on an Farm with only 150 acres. I know that' s not much for you.
My english is not the best sorry. :)
Yeah but your land is much better than his! 100 acres of German land is worth 1000 acres of American one
Totally awesome. Bigtime. Great edit 👍👍
Jeff Kleemeyer thank you!
Have you ever looked at the Case IH Ecolo-Tiger 875 ? But that is a nice Ripper
Indiana Malt I demoed one 2 years ago and I will say it was really nice. Definitely better than the 2700 but this 2730 is miles ahead of the 2700 now
MN Millennial Farmer We have a 1700 Earthmaster . I will say that ripper you guys have does a great job.
You do a great job on your videos keep it going
I've seen almost all your videos, i dont remember hearing your name , hi zack great videos
Jesus Ernesto Angulo first time I've used it!
His wife let the cat out of the bag on the live video.
Matt Jones hahaha she did!!
You guys do much no till? I read an article in one of the many farm magazines we get, and it was talking about how much faster water drains into the soil when it is no tilled it is very interesting. They did test to see the difference when one inch was rained on then another inch right on top of that and no till was the winner by far deep tillage was the worst. Just something I read and was curious about your thoughts
I think it is entirely based on the soil type and moisture etc
No till in northern Minnesota would be no plant in the spring. It would never dry out and the land would have to be summer fallowed.
A lot of that stuff is half BS. In my opinion. Deep till, tickle till, no till, cover crops... It all depends on where your at and the soil type you are dealing with. We have had mixed results with all types. This year we no tilled and one field had record yield and another flooded due to the corn residue clogging up all drainage in the area and led to a lot of water standing. Had we of tilled that field and incorporated some of that residue into the soil it may not have floated off the field and caused the issues it did. Moral of the story is you never know how or what will work until you read the results on the monitor.
AASparkChaser That's our issue here. I might have asked already but are you in the valley up there?
Yea I agree we do no till almost all of our beans and there are certain fields that when it floods the trash floats and gathers on one side of the flooded area. It can be a real pain trying to get rid of a foot of corn stalks that cover an acre or two
While there is not much corn grown in my area (Thief River Falls), that is the type of machine they are using whether it be John Deere, Case IH, Summers, etc. if they have a chopping head. If they don't have a chopping head they have to run a stalk chopper over the field first or disk it before chisel plowing. A few farmers are even using those machines on wheat stubble now instead of a conventional chisel plow because it really blackens the soil in a one pass operation.
I am surprised you can still bust the frost. Tillage in my area came to an end early last week when the temperature dropped below zero. While I did see a farmer out ditching today with his Case IH Quadtrac, he was having to bust the frost first with a D-8 CAT.
Be sure to save some rocks for seed for next year.................
AASparkChaser we had 3" of frost a week ago and it went out again
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Budd 56 thank you!
Damn right you can never have too much green my neighbor has a 9RX those things are beast
Nolan Mosher they're beautiful. I drove one 2 hours ago!