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The look on Chet's face when the door handle broke was priceless!
Been there ! 😂
Larson Farms: The only channel on TH-cam where I hit the Thumbs Up button *before* I watch the video.
I am so far behind watching your videos.... but I am binge watching now.. and it took me at least ten minutes to stop laughing after Chet broke the door handle.. OMG that was priceless..
I love watching you guy's.yal do a lot of work and have fun also 🥰
That look on your face when the handle broke.....too funny
Merlin sounds like one mean ombre! I'm impressed that he still carries weight around there. That's called respect. Good on you Chet.
Merlins fine, he's been in other videos
That was what we would say about my grandpa when something broke on the farm. “Wait till grandpa sees that, your going to be in trouble “🤣
Dougos reactions are priceless. My favorite was still the man lift stuck in the floor drain
The door knob was funny. I almost soiled myself on that one I laughed so hard.
Nothing funny
And one more thing, for the hydraulic over head door, there is a heat tape (heat trace) you can buy at home depot or lowes you could wrap around and insulate the tank plug that tape in (its 120v) and keep the fluid warm. Just use ducting tin tape to hold it onto the resevoir
Could not stop laughing when door handle came off and into your hand. The look you gave priceless! It happens! Great videos.
It’s so much fun just listening to Dougo and Chet talk to each other. 😂 They are hilarious. Cool video. 👍❤️
Off cam they my fuss at each but they come down and each is good at the end
Chet appears to have reached his full potential. Only a raging Dougo with the strength to rip the steering wheel off a combine could pull the door handle off like that
That one was such a good one.
use a pallet puller...a L shaped hook and a long chain - pull em out
hillyard has alot of good brush
The door knob was priceless
Chet, look for a brush at a R V dealership. Long handle and soft bristles.
Glad to see Dougo got Merlin going again. I hate those hard to get spots, that is why I let the more agile young bucks do that job. Once again Chet awesome video. Catch you on the next one
You want to get a hold of a Harper Brush dealer & purchase some of their wash brushes, They have been around forever & are awesome. I have used them for over 40 years.Harper also makes excellent brooms in many styles of bristles for sweeping of floors. You will not be disappointed with their products..
You guys should look into an air greaser for the shop, so nice not having to change tubes all the time, they take I believe 25-30 gallon tubs of grease, looks like mini 55 gallon drums, but get a long grease gun hose so you can leave the grease drum in on spot and just drag the gun around
The struggle bus makes a quick stop at LF. When that door knob came off in your hand Chet, the only thing better than the look of absolute disbelief on your face was your immediate denial of being the one who broke it. I laughed as much at that as I did when Douggo asked how many LF employees does it take to remove the seal from the door of the chem truck. Keep up the good work and thanks for carrying us along. God bless!
At Hydroswing we recommend using transmission fluid or aviation fluid in our hydraulic pumps. We also offered a 12v. back up pump for power outages. Then you don’t have to be concerned about mixing tractor fluid.
... reminds me ... Teamster's drive the trucks ... they don't un-load them too ...
just hook a chain to the pallets and pull them out to the door. no issues then.
and with rgards the door hydraulics surely it's easier to just use a generator to run the door motor, a newer ford has enough electrical power to make it work complete with a standard electrical socket.. 7000watts should handle the door motor easily i would never hook a tractor to it with the dirty oil in a tractor hydraulic system. could also put in solar panel and a couple batteries to run the doors.
Awesome to see everyone working together and enjoying it!
Always so fun to Watch explaining everything y’all do never a dull moment keep the awesome videos coming
Good thing it's winter so you can fix all the broken shit. Hope your arm heals up quick Big Sweede
Glad to see you got a handle on things! You guys are awesome! Love your videos!
Truck stop in Sauk Center has a good selection of wash brushes
Hey man you need to wrap all the hyd. lines on that slow door with that mobile home electric wrap tape that you use to keep the pluming from freezing.
Thanks for another great video.
It was interesting and enjoyable.
Lots of jobs to do after harvest. All of you are busy busy with jobs to fix or repair something. Always busy you are. Lots of machinery to maintain.
That was a chore getting that semi unloaded of all the chemicals. Lots of weight there to deal with.
Dougo is glad Martin is back. Clean those floors.
When that door handle came off you looked so funny at it. Another repair job.
All for now. You all take care and be safe.
Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks for everything Chet.
The Iowa Farm Boy.
Chet - you can put lowvis hygaurd in your door , it’s a lighter oil then hygaurd but can be mixed and won’t harm your tractors if your using Deere oil , just spitballing here for you
@Larsonfarmsi sounds awesome!!!!
high pressure water pump and the plumbing to handle it, some power-washer nozzles - and you can even DIY plumb it!
had a load of ams on an aluminum deck trailer. the floor was ridged and what a pain making the spin with floor jack was!!
The feed and farm store that I drive truck for one day a week had one of those manual jacks on my truck and on the truck that we use three or four days a week we had an electric one oh here lately they bought me an electric one too. I love it you guys are going to be doing much of that I would encourage you to invest in one it is so much easier on the feet the legs in the back
very nice video. thank you guys
the little utility room is a great idea, the handle breaking off was the can opener
I'm surprised there isn't just a heated reservoir for the hydraulic fluid.
Watching yall try and move those pallets made me laugh shaking my head haha
Chet, nice idea there at the end about building a small insulated room for that door pump, motor and fluid.
One small problem is the oil in the rest of the lines.
That oil will still be frezzing cocl and the second some hits that pump things will go downhill real fast.
You'd have to add in a heat exchanger to pre heat the oil before it gets to the pump.
Anyways, another really nice episode of Larson Farms on the Frozen Struggle Bus on a wonderful Minnesota snowy day.
We prefer our South Florida snow on a cone covered with raspberry syrup.
Dougo's wash bay is bigger than most guys' cold storage equipment sheds.
It's easier to take apart the shifter boot and plate to get to the fittings on top of the transmission
In the potato wash plants we use 220 electric water pumps to pressure wash taters. As long as you have enough water to feed the pump they are capable of high pressures with the right fittings. Could be a good solution to the underbody washing idea
A tip for you. Get yourself a extendable paint roller handle and put that on your scrub brush. You will be able to do so much more from ground level.
You guys talking about a truck wash… my uncle actually just put one in for his trucks and for hire! There’s 5 towers you drive through and can wash a truck in under 3 minutes top to bottom and underneath too. Works pretty slick!
Bend the end of the seal back and forth until it breaks. Do it everyday when i deliver loads.
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As an owner of cargo in the trailer you are allowed to remove the security clip, drivers have a new security clip if there is more cargo in the trailer...
Tip i learned as a yard driver for the little stamped steel trailer locks (thin guys). You just grab one end of the loop, pull down so it stretches everything tight, then use your free hand to grab that tab looking bit and wiggle the heck outta it, it will give out pretty quick. Same principle as removing the pop tabs from a soda can.
I use to break them by getting your fingers inside the loop then yank really hard. They do break but if your not carful, you can slice for fingers
Or take it swing the top the bracket swing it to the top of the seal pull handle out clear of the bottom bracket then yank the handle down hard pops them right off use to do 50 plus a night yarding
@@dennispalmer6007 i tried that a few times then went to the wiggle method. Also watched my coworker slice the dickens out of his hand once, luckily we had a roll of towels in his truck so it didn’t look like a murder😂
Driver is supposed to take seals of and document the number on the seal on the manigest if it's noy on there already and if so the load is at the correct drop off.
Taking a handle of a hammer and then sticking it in-between the loop works too
we used to just take the metal seals like was on the trailer door handle and take one side and bend it back and forth real fast and within about 30 seconds it will break in half just be careful it will get hot enough too burn your fingers where it breaks similar too how you can break off a piece of wire off the spool if you don’t have a wire cutter handy
Dougo - as far back as the late 1960s when I was doing military service, we drove our convoy trucks over a bed of nozzles which sprayed pressured water on to the underside of the trucks to clean dirt etc away. The water nozzles were powered by a single (mains) electric pump, probably three-phase, but I have no idea what its other details were. Dirty water was sluiced away to nearby drains. Certainly doable in your present situation.
Put a magnetic block heater on that oil tank
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Get a magnet mount block heater for equipment and put that on your hydraulic tank, also insulate it.
We have done that with one power wash. But we hook are air compressor to it works great 10 foot wide.
Use a heat trace cable to keep the hydraulics warm!
Hi Guys. A water powered /driven rotary washing brush on a telescopic pole would make light work of that job Chet. I'm sure you would find one to buy in America. You can buy these sort of things in Australia. Keep up the good work, and God bless. Greg.
Great job washing the trucks Chet and Brody
As always informative and fun - thks
Thanks for sharing your work, a far cry from summers 50 years ago on my Aunt’s farm in Indiana. Like night and day. Also you guys are a hoot. Thanks for the smiles.
The shop I work at in Minnesota we have a truck wash with a under body wash that runs on one pump and does a great job
the wash brush.. i have only used a cheep house broom as it works well
You could probably skip all the power washers for your under carrage wash but drilling another well and butting in the biggest wall pump you can find starting with like a 2 inch water line and keep reducing it tell its coming out of 3/16 inch holes at the wash head that would build some pressure but it would cost a fortune to get set up
Chet- look at ULINE model H-127. Might help with unloading trucks. That and a logging chain or yankum. I used to put a 4x4 at the back of the forks on the pallet jack as well. Those that know- know.
Harvest is the most fun time of the year for you, offseason is the funniest time of the year for me. 😂
Hi Chet we put an electric magnet heater on our reservoir and that helped a lot😊
For the salt/dirt/mud on the undercarriage, we always used high volume low pressure.
Look into a spray bar that has wheels on it that plugs into where the spray nozzles go. They usually have two to four upward facing jets for washing under carriages.
you guys make work fun just amazing
Hey Chet Im not sure if you get them in the US but we have started to use a product called "ImprovR" this year to replace ams. Its a 1 Litre bottle to replace 2 bags of ams. So far we see no issues vs traditional ams but it works so much better than all those bags that are heavy, take up space and struggle to dissolve. Maybe if you can find something like that it would make mixing alot more pleasant
Chet seen u guys struggling with to dolly down or up the hopper trailer just giving a pointer what I use Milwaukee 1/2" drill with 1 1/2" socket works great PS put drill on low setting 👍 😀
Chet, as winter rolls in you are the prince of farmers and the best story teller
Truck world Walcott Iowa you can order wash brush from there keep up the great work love the videos Chet
My neighbor has a drive thru set up with a bracket up each side hooked up to his irrigation motor. Turn that on and drive the semi through to quick wash the road grime off. I used it once and it worked really well.
Put a small magnet heater on the side of oil resivor.
Hey Chet that line that’s running to the top of the transmission is for the clutch. The air powers your actuator pins for when your shifting and splitting gears. You’ll see if you lay underneath the driver side in between the Frame and the clutch right at the top you’ll have a line on the side and then a line on the top. That’s what those are for.
I have ran a hose under the vehicle and used one of those self propelled yard sprinklers that follows the hose to rinse off the salt and some dirt on the bottom side. Not only that but the sprinkler looks like a tractor so it will fit right on the farm!
Got an idea on next investment for the farm!
Outside loading dock with a dock leveler. You already have a nice supply warehouse. Might as well get a dock to go with it. Beats the heck out of pallet jacks with all the different size pallets they make now adays.
Brings back memories of going out and making pickups at my customers. I usually had a 53' trailer, and yeah, those pallets can be a bitch to find the sweet spot where the pallet jack will fit under so it will roll. The best pallets we had were heavy duty plastic ones with legs on each corner. They were USPS but somehow they got into our UPS system. They were sooooo easy to roll around, your tax dollars at work!
Of all the farm shows you guys rule when it comes to a wash bay and putting the shine on, Nice!
You learned something valuable today, burglary of semi trucks is not your profession! 😆 Ag Chem Solutions... never use the word "cheapest", always sell using the words Least Expensive! LOL. And we caught that shot of all the boys' boots stacked and lined up neatly just as Mom taught ya to do! Great idea to embroider your own name on your leather belt, if you ever lose it while visiting the ladies of the night, they can mail it back along with everything else you dropped when the husband arrived unexpectedly.
Sometimes you can pull the shifter boot and reach those air lines.
Tell Dougo about undercarriage power washer attachments for your existing power washer there are rotating ones and power broom looking devices. The rotating ones are on three wheeled carts. You just push it underneath your vehicle back-and-forth.
That's what we did to our cold storage shed w/ a similar hydraulic door. It works great. The added benefit is when you have to stand there for awhile, you got a place to stand which is warm!
Not saying we get as cold as you do. But here in North Idaho we had a car left that we worked on that sometimes was outside we always put a cat heater on it a magnetic one like to go on the bombing oil pan work great
Hook an open padlock on that trailer tag and pop it down hard. Not sure how many trucks you have come every year, but a mobile dock would be pretty cool. Might be something to look into if you'd use it enough.
i always used a yellow sponge for the visors and chrome and than hit it with a hand mit
Another fantastic video. Best you tube ever.. The way you all interact is fantastic and show a side that is genuine, friendly and respectful of each other and how everyone works together to make the farm and life run well. Inspiring people.
"Boars Hair" brush is supposed to be the best, non scratch. Draw back some of the brushes loose the hairs, not crimped properly?
I hope that fellow east of you guys gets a wash bay, its pleasing to the eye.
There is a device you can get for pallets that are ornery, its basically a preassure clamp that a guy clamps onto the centre of the pallet then you drag it out with a chain attached to the fork lift, works slick but i forget the proper name for it.....
And then throw a little sand on the semi floor, the skids pull off a lot easier
It is called a pallet puller or pallet claw.
Magnifique camion et la neige
you guys should try pulling the shifter cover off when doing stuff on top of the trans, Sometimes it makes life a bit easier or at least you can usually see what your working on
Wrap heat tape around it and some insulation
Good ol Super Ego Logistics.. thats what you get with a broker movin the freight. My drivers would of jumped right in and helped out. Sooner we get done the better for everyone! Need any truckin Chet give me a shout! 👍
Great content Dougo and Chet and Larson crew👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great job getting the truck unloaded so fast. Doug's idea is on point, the under wash dealyoh. High flow of wather through a bunch of large tips should do the trick.
Nice belt BigSweed, be sure to thank your mom from all of us.😜👍
Don't know why BigSweed didn't unload that trailer by hand.
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Oh Chet, you crack me up.
Looks like Brody needs to sharpen his pliers.🤦🏼♂️🤣
You trying to boost engagement numbers on this video or something? 🤔
Obviously 😜
May want to put down camera down to use brush.i got a good brush with a 16 foot fiberglass telescoping pole at truck stop. The big truck stop in Walcott Iowa has on line store I believe. Truck will be much better with some Elbow grease.
you need pallet claw and a long chain and just pull them out with ease, and a good wash brush is your auto parts stores or body shop stores sell ones that dont hurt your paint and you can get a certain kind of brissel you want
That valve on top of Trans is the Syncronizer lock out valve.
Kicks out the Diff lock when trans goes into high range ! Get a new Synconizer valve at your local Peterbilt dealer , Bendix part I believe !
Chet, that door handle: As my grandad said after he hit the wooden pole in the middle of the field, with the combine divider; 'metal fatigue' 😄
Home Depot sells window washing supplies from Unger. Brushes, squeegees, and extension poles. Also Unger window washing soap cleans and doesn't streak.
The brush works well, but the extension pole is the cats PJ's.