the thing that amazes me is a farmer doesnt only have to know soil comps, and how to tend em , manage finances grants leases and payroll, but he also has to know how to run maintain and fix his equipment. its 4 or 5 jobs all rolled into 1 so all farmers have my respect for the amount of work and knowledge they have
The nerves in your hand get much more sensitive when they're cold. Also, your veins constrict, and blood runs less to your extremities and more to your vital organs to preserve heat. This makes your skin more rigid, which causes pressure to be applied to these already sensitive nerves. So everything is getting less blood flow, which also makes it harder to make precise or repetitive movements (texting when it's cold).
I am from the old school. When we turned around 9 or 10, we were taught how to work...run the tractors, drive the the pickups. It builds character, physical and mental strength. When you were ready, you spent the day, dawn to dusk, catching hay from the bailer and stacking it on the cart. Then you had to catch it from the cart and stack the bails in the barn / hay loft. I was the one who had to climb the silo and shovel the silage down for the cows. That was fun! I love all the new equipment, and you definitely need it all for what you do, but good memories of doing a lot of manual labor. Edit: figured I would add I am from up here in N.E. Pa ( Lake Ariel ).
Same but thankfully we had a bale thrower on the baler by the time I was old enough to help. However I was the 1st one up the elevator at the barn though.
Me too, Bud. Only I did it even a little older style. I remember loading and hauling loose hay! Lay down ropes, spread a layer of hay, more ropes, more hay, till full. We weren't that old though, we used a tractor to pull the hay up into the mow. Good times in northern Minnesota (Nevis), back in the 60's!!
Sounds a lot like farming in the UK as well 😊 Not sure stacking bales in the top of a tin roofed barn in the middle of summer was my happiest childhood task 😂. As an adult went to a sauna when on holiday and was..wow .. just like old times 😂
I absolutely love seeing onyx working on the farm I bet a lot of people don't even know how too work and don't care appreciate the way you treat onyx God bless you
I love my Simplisafe system. We had a fire alarm a few weeks ago while I wasn't home. When the monitoring people called me they said that 2 kids ran out the side door. I knew my kids were safe right away. Get yourself a system. Allow them to access your cameras during an alarm event. Worth every penny.
The best answer I've seen is, Cold weather increases the pressure inside our joints and extremities and our pain receptors become more sensitive in the cold. But, it's seems to be more complex than that, but I like this explanation.
Taking care of landlords is an underrated skill that farmers need to have to be successful. Whether it be stopping by to chat or stopping by with an excavator to dig a pond on their land, we always try to be good tenants.
@@jeeperken87 I dunno why you have to talk about cost and revenue with the landlord, after all you're just renting the land and he's not your business partner. You'd be in awe with the ammount of money you'd have to burn just to farm that piece of land by yourself. It's cheaper for Zack because he already has all the equipment and expertise so the costs are not so huge for his operation. I mean... farming is a complex business so it's easier to rent the land and pocket the money without having to worry about with rain, sun, wind, tornadoes, pests, cost of oil, cost of repair, workforce and so on.
@@jeeperken87I believe there are many variables... and ultimately depends upon how the contract is written up... if it be flat rate per year or set amount of years... or much more complex with the landowner getting a cut in the "profits" of the grains produced ... having a good attorney and accountant is beneficial and underrated but it's to help everyone because no one does anything for free... also as mundane and seemingly boring as record keeping is its a pretty important part of everyone's lives...
@@FalconXE302 Even farmers that have farmed for generations have rented land, going back generations. Sometimes, a section next to them, or down the road. People rent their land due to a variety of reasons. Getting to old to farm. They don't have the money to risk in planting. The farmer died and the family will rent the land for a few years until probate, wills, heirs, jobs allow them to formulate a new plan. Just for a for instance, my family farmed in Nebraska 100 years ago. They farmed their own land, and they rented the land from a widow lady next door as her husband died and she couldn't farm it. She took a percent of the crop.
I was surprised these are hydraulically powered. Maybe that is the best choice over electric. One worry I would have is leaks and would for sure test this unit before the bin gets filled to be sure.
I used to help out on my granddads farm when I was a kid, he had a couple old IH 715, 815, and 1440 combines and I don't remember that old stuff jamming up or breaking as much as this new stuff does. Makes me wonder if the new stuff is a little too smart for its own good.
Josh!! I am the same age as your Dad!! He is a very hardworking cool dude!! With you and your son, ONYZE!! The 3 generation will rule the day!! Thrilled to rule the day with 3 generations of hard working dudes!! Greetings from Canada!! GIDDYUP!!
Wow, a cliffhanger like in any top level tv series finale. It was a good move to hire a professional actor with stunt double included. Jokes aside, I hope the problem with the combine wasn't too serious. Stay safe everyone.
The editor is very good. I think a lot of TH-camrs could learn from you guys and your budget ways compared to the multiple layers of staff they have and the results they get.
I know when I was a kid there were very few times we would have a service call where we would have a tech come to the site. Simpler times, fewer people were willing to go into debt on things. When Zach broke the shaft on the auger earlier this year I muttered to myself "Dad would have had the thing pulled, jigged and trued it up as best he could with whatever was handy and welded it back together with the old Lincoln arc welder set on nuclear. I remember one year we were cutting hay and one of us pulled a rock into the 469 Haybine and actually broke the stub shaft off the one of the upper crusher/roller on a Saturday. This was one of those older machines that the hub was actually part of the roller and not a bolt on deal. So the proper fix was to pull the rollers and install different rollers. I remember how dad fixed it without replacing the rollers or even pulling them. Dad used carbide bur to cut a V into what was left of the stub on the roller and cut a V into what was left of the shaft with a grinder. Left the rest of it alone so the break would act as a lock and center it. Then used a couple of magnetic triangles and a sacrificial hose clamp to hold the stub in place while he got it tacked. Then once he had it tacked in 3-4 places burned it in with the welder. Obviously had to pull alot of stuff off the machine to get access but he was back in the field mowing hay again Sunday afternoon. Was only supposed to be a temp fix. Well, we all know how those go. Ended up running the machine about 3 more years like that till he ended up wearing the rest of the machine out and junking it.
The dust is always a vision problem with so much glass in the cab. Especially with combines. Makes me think a DIY ceramic coat on the glass might be worthwhile.
Dust on the cab windows might be due to the way you clean the windows, we always cleaned it with windows washer and scott towels but this year we cleaned it simply with a water hose and a window scrubber and it was still clean for the whole harvest
Good work on the beans and corn. I'm sorry that you are having trouble with the combines. Just keep up the good work and you will get it done. I love watching the videos about the harvest.
A microfiber duster on a telescoping handle does wonders for knocking the worse of the dust off the windows quickly. Note, don't use it if moisure is in the air. Also, an air 'broom' or air 'sweeper' ( I've seen them by both names) works great for blowing out filters.
I have a motorhome...so I'm very tuned into every little sound I hear. An RV trip without something breaking is a welcome treat....sort of like your machines here lately.
There are some cool sump savers out there the ones that Larson farms installed stay in the bin and replace part of the sweep and use the sweep motor and gear box.
That clunking is probably the chopper. When you raise it you remove the tension from the belt that drives it. It's probably just catching enough to throw the chopper and make that noise. The discharge better belt is on the left side under a square green panel.
So far this year the grain cart gear box, the slip clutch fire, the grain auger failure, the gathering chain gear box, and now the beater assembly. Staying in the field sure gets expensive some years.
That’s what people don’t realize, all they see or want to know is the yield so they can get a quick number on what they think you profited that year but they don’t see all the repair bills, maintenance, fuel, spray and fertilizer bills that cut into that profit they think we made🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
That was not good Zach and Becky that was fantastic loved it thank you for sharing and your time was really great never miss a video and can't wait for next video to see how much this is going to cost and parts so hard to find is a cost to rent one .
Dear millennial farmer, I am a 15 year old boy who is inspired by you. I live in Illinois and we farm about 7,000 acres. I love watching your videos I want to be like you and strive to be like you to show the world we live in today to show what people are working hard to do for the world. I work for the family business and I am a all time combine driver. I am going to get my go pro set up in about a week and I am going to strive to be like you and film stuff that people don’t see everyday I appreciate you and your time. Sincerely, kaden Entwistle
Coming from a farmer with no grain bins of my own, I’m wondering if you’ve ever run a truckload of corn on top of beans or vice versa? Seems like it’d be easy to do, especially with all the switching back and forth this year. Edit: And then halfway through you climbed in to check on this exact thing lol.
A couple things. First, have you ever had beans or corn go into the wrong silo? What does it take to fix that? Second. When working on the header and removing bolts, put your tool box under the area you are working on, that way if you drop a bolt it goes into the box. I have spent my time searching the ground for a nut or washer that escaped. Third, love the content.
Ugh I spend a pile. It gets old when our local dealer empire charges close to 200 an hr for service trucks. It's definitely made me learn to work on my stuff more . Have a great harvest!
I’d try to strap a battery powered leaf blower somewhere on the steps so you can use it to blow all the debris off the header connections for when you need to trailer the header.
Great video!!!!! Love the tease at the end leaving is in suspense. Ughhhhh!! Will the combine catch fire? Can Zach figure whats broken? Does Deere have the parts on hand? Will Dad take over the Honey Bee header? Stay tuned folks.
Check the debris filter on the left hand side right under the augur drive system. We found that one to cause us problems as well as the engine filter up top.
God has a special place in his heart for farmers. Our founding fathers were farmers and they wrote the constitution, and Declaration of Independence. How smart are they.
Man, there are so many things about a combine to stay on top of. That is one complex machine. I don't see how you know it all. I know you call John Deere for their help but man, so many parts and things to check before you even start that bad boy up. Wow!!!!!!!!!!! As you can tell, I know nothing about a combine but love the farm videos. I am from south central Florida and all we have is orange trees and a lot of John Deere tractors in the groves.
Just a thought but maybe someone like Simolisafe should provide like an emergency wrist band for farmers - many of you spend ling hours working alone away from home/yard - say you left your cell phone in the cab when fixing something and suffer an injury? Hit the emergncy button on you watch/wristband and noties sent to emergency services with a location . Sure someones done something like this for cell phones for the elderly
Ya know, one of those simply safe cameras mounted up in the top of each one of your bins would help minimize the need to climb and check how full they are. Or a solar powered one that you mount the solar panel on the roof/cap overhang and mount the camera inside and run the powercord to the solar panel through the bin wall. Seal it with silicone. Be sure to use a plastic or rubber grommet for the bin wall.
Next time you have that problem just take it to Midwest machinery in glenwood and tell them to fix it so you can have better access to that area of your combine
Have you taken the 8 hour test regarding the first 6 pages in the manual? The next 8 hour test only takes 3 hours if you are a qualified Bohemian mechanic. Apon completion of the second test you can then pull those 2 pins to empty the drain connected to the fluegefelter drain. If you havent passed the test, ( score >98%), then go back to the trash pile that you originally and place the trash back into the Fluegefelter drain. Upon completion go back to the barn and cry.
For all you farmers out there. . . What with Zack switching back and forth between corn and beans this year, it brought to mind a question. Has anyone ever forgotten to switch the bins being loaded after changing from one to the other? In other words, has anyone ever unloaded beans on top of corn (or vise-versa) in the same bin??? Just curious.
@@dubious6718my father was a cabinet maker. He had a nail box with all the different sizes of nails he used, around 5 or 6 and 3 or 4 different screws. Every now and then it would get dropped or knocked off a table. As the oldest kid and his helper it was my job to clean it up and sort all the nails and screws correctly. It could easily take an hour or more. I couldn’t imagine thousands of bushels of beans and corn to sort.
Reason for extra pain, In the cold the BP changes and p cells, the receptors in nerve systems that regulate pain and sense changes to the environment, are overdriving to adapt to the change which means pain signals intensify. Also the capillaries open to increase bloood flow and that’s can also be painful in trauma. That’s what my Doc explained to me, I had a orchidectomy and they damaged some nerves, treatment for the pain was to overdose p receptors with capcatium cream to overload the system and dull my responses over time. Now check this, rubbing chilli cream on your sack was one of the most insane things I have ever done and I found that it didn’t really help but it did test my sense of humour as I would 😂 at the fact that I had done this. The doctor then reminded me that he said it was meant to be rubbed into my mid back at the nerve branch to overload the system at the spinal nerve branch. I swear that he said rub it where you have the source of pain. Anyway that’s an explanation as good as any I have been given! Happy days and lads please check monthly and don’t be shy if you find a lump! 9 year survivor of Testicular Cancer and I will admit I waited a little too long to get to doctor. Trust me in O-1 but being honest I don’t miss the left one!
I had a rasp bar bolt break. I had a high speed tick and discovered filler plates were worn and put noise down to that. Was noisier when no product goung thru. Then it went bang! Broke rasp bar and it then flew out due to centrifugal force and wiped out everything it hit. Accelerator beater, rear beater feeding straw on to workers and main subframe under engine took a beating. Took me 8 days to repair. Some of the damage I could only see with a mirror. This was on a mf 760 1977 so no bits available. Was a successful repair but very disappointing to loose a new bolt that had only run 60 hrs since we put on new rasp bars. I knew it was a bolt failure because we found it minus head and there was no head damage on rasp bar. Grrrr.
My balers run me close to 10k this year from a new drive roller, bearings, and a net wrap actuator that went bad and cooked the monitor. I feel your pain. Mother Deere doesn't mess around
Really enjoy your video's many years ago i drive a new Holland it was that long ago it had no cab it was terrible. We cut from 1200 pm ut till 0200 am😮
Thanks for another great video Zach. It was interesting. The machine your dad is using does not sound good at all. You inspected a lot of areas and it looked ok. Will be Anxious to see the next video to see what you found out as to what broke or not working. Boy did it make a loud clunky noise. Hope it is not too serious. The first part of the video was interesting as to all the equipment you must keep going at harvest time. Lots of equipment to check and fix and get ready for the field. Same goes for your bin system. Lots to keep going there. You mentioned in the video you were hoping with some real good corn that onyx can do the combine again. And his sister in the grain cart. Well, we know from a Facebook post that in fact onyx ran the combine and his sister did the grain cart. Extremely Proud of both of them for going that. Another farm generation running the family farm operation. My compliments to Zach and Becky for raising great young people to run the farm operation and do well at it. Like I said, extremely proud of both of them!!!!! Fine young people!!!!!!!! About it I guess. Hope Dad ‘s combine breakdown is not too bad. You all take care and be safe. Thanks. The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
No shortage of loose ends to tie up. Rent re-negotiations with landlords is an important part of utilizing rented ground. Seems like bumps in the harvest road are a given for farmers. Not hard to spend money on parts and repairs!!!
You dont have to go into the screen everytime to open your tops. Theres a button right under the monitor in that button row thatll take you right to it👍not a big deal but quicker and more convenient to me
Hey whats up guys!! I'm a 88baby my self & been following yall sense 2018. I'm from the "Eastern Shore" Maryland. Just wanted to thank you for all you do, the time and effort sharing ur farming journey with us! Be safe out there guys! Ps. Love the dumb n dumber quotes 😂 👍🏻
How did we go from drought to mud and the perfectly wrong time. Supposed to get 3-4” more in east iowa this week. Best of luck finishing out the season.
the thing that amazes me is a farmer doesnt only have to know soil comps, and how to tend em , manage finances grants leases and payroll, but he also has to know how to run maintain and fix his equipment. its 4 or 5 jobs all rolled into 1 so all farmers have my respect for the amount of work and knowledge they have
Farm operations 💪,.... Science with 🤝, technology and brains 💓
The nerves in your hand get much more sensitive when they're cold. Also, your veins constrict, and blood runs less to your extremities and more to your vital organs to preserve heat. This makes your skin more rigid, which causes pressure to be applied to these already sensitive nerves. So everything is getting less blood flow, which also makes it harder to make precise or repetitive movements (texting when it's cold).
I like your Dad. Positive attitude, level easy way with things, and happy to have his boy working with him.
I am from the old school. When we turned around 9 or 10, we were taught how to work...run the tractors, drive the the pickups. It builds character, physical and mental strength. When you were ready, you spent the day, dawn to dusk, catching hay from the bailer and stacking it on the cart. Then you had to catch it from the cart and stack the bails in the barn / hay loft. I was the one who had to climb the silo and shovel the silage down for the cows. That was fun! I love all the new equipment, and you definitely need it all for what you do, but good memories of doing a lot of manual labor. Edit: figured I would add I am from up here in N.E. Pa ( Lake Ariel ).
Same but thankfully we had a bale thrower on the baler by the time I was old enough to help. However I was the 1st one up the elevator at the barn though.
Nothing like picking up a bale of hay that is 75% of your body weight and throwing it around all day to make you stronger.
Me too, Bud. Only I did it even a little older style. I remember loading and hauling loose hay! Lay down ropes, spread a layer of hay, more ropes, more hay, till full. We weren't that old though, we used a tractor to pull the hay up into the mow. Good times in northern Minnesota (Nevis), back in the 60's!!
@@davelindgren5245 for sure!
Sounds a lot like farming in the UK as well 😊 Not sure stacking bales in the top of a tin roofed barn in the middle of summer was my happiest childhood task 😂. As an adult went to a sauna when on holiday and was..wow .. just like old times 😂
Man, the costume department even made sure Zack was covered in bean dust after the stunt double had to climb into the bin. Such attention to detail.
Good writing on this episode too.
The cliff hanger ending had me. 😂
The stunt double may not he the brightest, but sure is willing to get into the role...
The show didn’t suffer one bit while the Hollywood writers were on strike either
That's the Continuity Department, gettin' it done.
All I know is your old man has to be the most patient kind man to teach you so you could teach your kids how to be a good person and farmer
I absolutely love seeing onyx working on the farm I bet a lot of people don't even know how too work and don't care appreciate the way you treat onyx God bless you
I love my Simplisafe system. We had a fire alarm a few weeks ago while I wasn't home. When the monitoring people called me they said that 2 kids ran out the side door. I knew my kids were safe right away. Get yourself a system. Allow them to access your cameras during an alarm event. Worth every penny.
Happy to hear it!
The best answer I've seen is, Cold weather increases the pressure inside our joints and extremities and our pain receptors become more sensitive in the cold. But, it's seems to be more complex than that, but I like this explanation.
Everyone needs a stunt double!!!!! He was an agreeable fella.
Taking care of landlords is an underrated skill that farmers need to have to be successful. Whether it be stopping by to chat or stopping by with an excavator to dig a pond on their land, we always try to be good tenants.
How transparent are you about what you’re costs and revenue are with the landlords? Or do you just set a flat rate and hope it works out?
@@jeeperken87 I dunno why you have to talk about cost and revenue with the landlord, after all you're just renting the land and he's not your business partner. You'd be in awe with the ammount of money you'd have to burn just to farm that piece of land by yourself. It's cheaper for Zack because he already has all the equipment and expertise so the costs are not so huge for his operation. I mean... farming is a complex business so it's easier to rent the land and pocket the money without having to worry about with rain, sun, wind, tornadoes, pests, cost of oil, cost of repair, workforce and so on.
@@jeeperken87I believe there are many variables... and ultimately depends upon how the contract is written up... if it be flat rate per year or set amount of years... or much more complex with the landowner getting a cut in the "profits" of the grains produced ... having a good attorney and accountant is beneficial and underrated but it's to help everyone because no one does anything for free... also as mundane and seemingly boring as record keeping is its a pretty important part of everyone's lives...
@@jeeperken87how do you know the georunner has a landlord?
@@FalconXE302 Even farmers that have farmed for generations have rented land, going back generations. Sometimes, a section next to them, or down the road.
People rent their land due to a variety of reasons. Getting to old to farm. They don't have the money to risk in planting. The farmer died and the family will rent the land for a few years until probate, wills, heirs, jobs allow them to formulate a new plan.
Just for a for instance, my family farmed in Nebraska 100 years ago. They farmed their own land, and they rented the land from a widow lady next door as her husband died and she couldn't farm it. She took a percent of the crop.
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The sump savers are amazing. We have had them for ten years. We use one or two every year and have never had to get into a bin in ten years.
I was surprised these are hydraulically powered. Maybe that is the best choice over electric. One worry I would have is leaks and would for sure test this unit before the bin gets filled to be sure.
@@eeengineer8851that was my thought as well. Hydraulic fluid in the grain would be a nightmare loss cause it'll be in your sumps for ever won't it?
I used to help out on my granddads farm when I was a kid, he had a couple old IH 715, 815, and 1440 combines and I don't remember that old stuff jamming up or breaking as much as this new stuff does. Makes me wonder if the new stuff is a little too smart for its own good.
Josh!! I am the same age as your Dad!! He is a very hardworking cool dude!! With you and your son, ONYZE!! The 3 generation will rule the day!! Thrilled to rule the day with 3 generations of hard working dudes!! Greetings from Canada!! GIDDYUP!!
"we just unplugged the safety mechanism"
- every farmer on planet earth
Also every mechanically inclined person who doesn't freak out and call for service every time something doesn't work correctly.
Wow, a cliffhanger like in any top level tv series finale. It was a good move to hire a professional actor with stunt double included. Jokes aside, I hope the problem with the combine wasn't too serious. Stay safe everyone.
Hm-m-m, you might want to get ahold of your stunt wallet for this one!
Click bait crap.
Bearings. It's always bearings.
@@MrJoeycrackersif you watch Mike Mitchell from Canada he had an issue I believe just like this.
@@martingibbs9975 He just posted the follow-up. I was right. Bearings.
I appreciate the one washed window! Thank You!
I absolutely LOVE this channel. Becky's Editing is TOP NOTCH!!! Zach, you're HILARIOUS!!! I'm STILL laughing from the Stunt Double!!!!🤣😂🤣😂
The editor is very good. I think a lot of TH-camrs could learn from you guys and your budget ways compared to the multiple layers of staff they have and the results they get.
Becky is the hottest editor around
I know when I was a kid there were very few times we would have a service call where we would have a tech come to the site. Simpler times, fewer people were willing to go into debt on things. When Zach broke the shaft on the auger earlier this year I muttered to myself "Dad would have had the thing pulled, jigged and trued it up as best he could with whatever was handy and welded it back together with the old Lincoln arc welder set on nuclear.
I remember one year we were cutting hay and one of us pulled a rock into the 469 Haybine and actually broke the stub shaft off the one of the upper crusher/roller on a Saturday. This was one of those older machines that the hub was actually part of the roller and not a bolt on deal. So the proper fix was to pull the rollers and install different rollers. I remember how dad fixed it without replacing the rollers or even pulling them. Dad used carbide bur to cut a V into what was left of the stub on the roller and cut a V into what was left of the shaft with a grinder. Left the rest of it alone so the break would act as a lock and center it. Then used a couple of magnetic triangles and a sacrificial hose clamp to hold the stub in place while he got it tacked. Then once he had it tacked in 3-4 places burned it in with the welder. Obviously had to pull alot of stuff off the machine to get access but he was back in the field mowing hay again Sunday afternoon.
Was only supposed to be a temp fix. Well, we all know how those go. Ended up running the machine about 3 more years like that till he ended up wearing the rest of the machine out and junking it.
Do u watch sma
@@jdjd962 quite a bit.
It's only temporary unless it works!
Great video hope that's not an expensive fix it's a pity when the weather starts to cooperate and then break downs happen
Your Parents must be proud to see you all work together 😊
I always found that morning-glory weeds choked up the combine the best. Never fails!
Onyx reminds me when i was his age running tractors combines and semi trucks from the fields to dump in the grain bins.
The dust is always a vision problem with so much glass in the cab. Especially with combines. Makes me think a DIY ceramic coat on the glass might be worthwhile.
Dust on the cab windows might be due to the way you clean the windows, we always cleaned it with windows washer and scott towels but this year we cleaned it simply with a water hose and a window scrubber and it was still clean for the whole harvest
Good work on the beans and corn. I'm sorry that you are having trouble with the combines. Just keep up the good work and you will get it done. I love watching the videos about the harvest.
Not sure if you read all you comments.
But can you have a Q&A with your Dad?
Great comment. I would love that as well. His Dad is such a great guy
Always nice when trucks take a big dump. Bet they feel very relieved
Who else saw the TikTok of him falling through the ripper in the yard 😂
Man, that still hurts!!
It could have been worse. You could have landed one leg either side of one of the frame members.
Luckily that was just his stunt double
@@MillennialFarmerI've done that and you will feel that for a while 😂😂
@@MillennialFarmerI’m hurting from just seeing it!😬
A microfiber duster on a telescoping handle does wonders for knocking the worse of the dust off the windows quickly. Note, don't use it if moisure is in the air. Also, an air 'broom' or air 'sweeper' ( I've seen them by both names) works great for blowing out filters.
I have a motorhome...so I'm very tuned into every little sound I hear. An RV trip without something breaking is a welcome treat....sort of like your machines here lately.
There are some cool sump savers out there the ones that Larson farms installed stay in the bin and replace part of the sweep and use the sweep motor and gear box.
after the introduction of the stunt double, the truck wasnt the only thing full of beans!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That clunking is probably the chopper. When you raise it you remove the tension from the belt that drives it. It's probably just catching enough to throw the chopper and make that noise. The discharge better belt is on the left side under a square green panel.
We have a sump saver in a 220,000 bushel bin. We pretty much run it anytime we pull out of it. But especially with a tractor you just let it idle.
Millennium farmer .... praying for you ❤ and farms, Ps 91 and Ephesians 6...Amen.
Cut the end out of a pair of socks and zip tie them over ur hydro connections laying on the floor
Might help keep them clean
awesome video Zack. Sorry your dad is having trouble. Hope its doesn't cost too much
Thanks for the show Zach 🍻 🇦🇺
So far this year the grain cart gear box, the slip clutch fire, the grain auger failure, the gathering chain gear box, and now the beater assembly. Staying in the field sure gets expensive some years.
That’s what people don’t realize, all they see or want to know is the yield so they can get a quick number on what they think you profited that year but they don’t see all the repair bills, maintenance, fuel, spray and fertilizer bills that cut into that profit they think we made🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
That was not good Zach and Becky that was fantastic loved it thank you for sharing and your time was really great never miss a video and can't wait for next video to see how much this is going to cost and parts so hard to find is a cost to rent one .
Dear millennial farmer, I am a 15 year old boy who is inspired by you. I live in Illinois and we farm about 7,000 acres. I love watching your videos I want to be like you and strive to be like you to show the world we live in today to show what people are working hard to do for the world. I work for the family business and I am a all time combine driver. I am going to get my go pro set up in about a week and I am going to strive to be like you and film stuff that people don’t see everyday I appreciate you and your time.
Sincerely, kaden Entwistle
Awesome job.
subscribed and looking foward to your content. good luck to you!
Zak it might help if you keep a magnet in the tool box in case you drop another bolt or nut on the ground when fixing the machinery.
Coming from a farmer with no grain bins of my own, I’m wondering if you’ve ever run a truckload of corn on top of beans or vice versa? Seems like it’d be easy to do, especially with all the switching back and forth this year.
Edit: And then halfway through you climbed in to check on this exact thing lol.
That’s why we double and triple check where the auger moves next so it doesn’t happen. Would not be fun
I agree about working close to home. There’s always just a little bit less stress.
You can park in the field for the night
A couple things. First, have you ever had beans or corn go into the wrong silo? What does it take to fix that?
Second. When working on the header and removing bolts, put your tool box under the area you are working on, that way if you drop a bolt it goes into the box. I have spent my time searching the ground for a nut or washer that escaped.
Third, love the content.
Love the videos
Have you thought of putting simply safe cameras in the tops of bins that way you can check them was just curious
If you know how to set up, you're combined. And get no pods in the bin you don't need that In the grain bin Red ones do a lot better clean Job
I wish I had a stunt double, I love your stunt double because it makes it look like your work is so easy . 👍
Ugh I spend a pile. It gets old when our local dealer empire charges close to 200 an hr for service trucks. It's definitely made me learn to work on my stuff more . Have a great harvest!
If I remember correctly my local JD dealers rate is like 165 an hr cuz I called a couple years ago about getting some work done on my lawn mower
I’d try to strap a battery powered leaf blower somewhere on the steps so you can use it to blow all the debris off the header connections for when you need to trailer the header.
Great video!!!!! Love the tease at the end leaving is in suspense. Ughhhhh!! Will the combine catch fire? Can Zach figure whats broken? Does Deere have the parts on hand? Will Dad take over the Honey Bee header? Stay tuned folks.
Been so busy the past year that I haven’t had time to watch your channel.
Love to see you still have that amazing sense of humor 🤣
Check the debris filter on the left hand side right under the augur drive system. We found that one to cause us problems as well as the engine filter up top.
"These engineers really thought of it all" that's the first time I've heard that before 😂
God has a special place in his heart for farmers. Our founding fathers were farmers and they wrote the constitution, and Declaration of Independence. How smart are they.
Man, there are so many things about a combine to stay on top of. That is one complex machine. I don't see how you know it all. I know you call John Deere for their help but man, so many parts and things to check before you even start that bad boy up. Wow!!!!!!!!!!! As you can tell, I know nothing about a combine but love the farm videos. I am from south central Florida and all we have is orange trees and a lot of John Deere tractors in the groves.
What a place to leave us! On the next episode we learn what happened! Talk about cliffhangers!
Zach, you reminded me of a song, Down by the swamp where the soils always wet. I thought that you were going to start singing!😊
Glad you didn’t go on strike with the rest of the actors! Stay safe.🇺🇸🍻
It's amazing how the dogs sound just like Zach!
Just a thought but maybe someone like Simolisafe should provide like an emergency wrist band for farmers - many of you spend ling hours working alone away from home/yard - say you left your cell phone in the cab when fixing something and suffer an injury? Hit the emergncy button on you watch/wristband and noties sent to emergency services with a location . Sure someones done something like this for cell phones for the elderly
i work for a company that makes that housing where that camera was hooked to. it was cool to see our parts and what they do
Ya know, one of those simply safe cameras mounted up in the top of each one of your bins would help minimize the need to climb and check how full they are. Or a solar powered one that you mount the solar panel on the roof/cap overhang and mount the camera inside and run the powercord to the solar panel through the bin wall. Seal it with silicone. Be sure to use a plastic or rubber grommet for the bin wall.
The cameras would run a foul of the inherent dust in the bins and end having the same problem as Zack has with the windows on the combine.
@@peterhaan9068 And we and we all know what happens with Zack if you even put "window" and "cleaning" together in the same sentence... Jack L.
Nice Plano Molding tackle box you have there. Manufactured in my hometown in Illinois.
Right under the screen, there is a button you can press that takes you right to the hopper to open it. The top right one.
How much what time or money?
Time? Probably 1/3 of the time they'd be harvesting the crop.
Awesome video Zach, stay safe out and about. 🚜🚜🚜
Never a dull moment thats for sure
Ouch dude!! Any clunking is not good, but on new machines it's gonna hurt!!Good luck with it!
Installed 2sump savers last year worth twice the money
Next time you have that problem just take it to Midwest machinery in glenwood and tell them to fix it so you can have better access to that area of your combine
Hey man, proud of you for cleaning that window.
Have you taken the 8 hour test regarding the first 6 pages in the manual? The next 8 hour test only takes 3 hours if you are a qualified Bohemian mechanic. Apon completion of the second test you can then pull those 2 pins to empty the drain connected to the fluegefelter drain. If you havent passed the test, ( score >98%), then go back to the trash pile that you originally and place the trash back into the Fluegefelter drain. Upon completion go back to the barn and cry.
Good show
For all you farmers out there. . . What with Zack switching back and forth between corn and beans this year, it brought to mind a question. Has anyone ever forgotten to switch the bins being loaded after changing from one to the other? In other words, has anyone ever unloaded beans on top of corn (or vise-versa) in the same bin???
Just curious.
It happens. We get very worried about it when switching because it could be a huge problem. I'm honestly not sure what we would do
That's why you get kids, to sort the corn from the beans.
I had the exact same thought at the beginning of this video.
@@dubious6718 one bucket at a time, that'll keep 'em busy 😁
@@dubious6718my father was a cabinet maker. He had a nail box with all the different sizes of nails he used, around 5 or 6 and 3 or 4 different screws. Every now and then it would get dropped or knocked off a table. As the oldest kid and his helper it was my job to clean it up and sort all the nails and screws correctly. It could easily take an hour or more. I couldn’t imagine thousands of bushels of beans and corn to sort.
Reason for extra pain, In the cold the BP changes and p cells, the receptors in nerve systems that regulate pain and sense changes to the environment, are overdriving to adapt to the change which means pain signals intensify. Also the capillaries open to increase bloood flow and that’s can also be painful in trauma. That’s what my Doc explained to me, I had a orchidectomy and they damaged some nerves, treatment for the pain was to overdose p receptors with capcatium cream to overload the system and dull my responses over time. Now check this, rubbing chilli cream on your sack was one of the most insane things I have ever done and I found that it didn’t really help but it did test my sense of humour as I would 😂 at the fact that I had done this. The doctor then reminded me that he said it was meant to be rubbed into my mid back at the nerve branch to overload the system at the spinal nerve branch. I swear that he said rub it where you have the source of pain. Anyway that’s an explanation as good as any I have been given! Happy days and lads please check monthly and don’t be shy if you find a lump! 9 year survivor of Testicular Cancer and I will admit I waited a little too long to get to doctor. Trust me in O-1 but being honest I don’t miss the left one!
I had a rasp bar bolt break. I had a high speed tick and discovered filler plates were worn and put noise down to that. Was noisier when no product goung thru. Then it went bang! Broke rasp bar and it then flew out due to centrifugal force and wiped out everything it hit. Accelerator beater, rear beater feeding straw on to workers and main subframe under engine took a beating. Took me 8 days to repair. Some of the damage I could only see with a mirror. This was on a mf 760 1977 so no bits available. Was a successful repair but very disappointing to loose a new bolt that had only run 60 hrs since we put on new rasp bars. I knew it was a bolt failure because we found it minus head and there was no head damage on rasp bar. Grrrr.
Stay safe guys!
My balers run me close to 10k this year from a new drive roller, bearings, and a net wrap actuator that went bad and cooked the monitor. I feel your pain. Mother Deere doesn't mess around
With the hoses for the sump sweep... if you figure 8 them when putting them up you won't end up with kinks in them. Same with any hose, cord, or rope.
Really enjoy your video's many years ago i drive a new Holland it was that long ago it had no cab it was terrible. We cut from 1200 pm ut till 0200 am😮
Love Dad's shirt...Canadian version of Farmers First (FBN)!!
Hmmm bearing out or something, good luck guys thanks for sharing.
Top teir episode. The "Ta-Da" had me giggling, love these longer ones like a little TV episode i get to sitdown and watch with a cold one.
Thanks for another great video Zach. It was interesting.
The machine your dad is using does not sound good at all. You inspected a lot of areas and it looked ok. Will be Anxious to see the next video to see what you found out as to what broke or not working. Boy did it make a loud clunky noise. Hope it is not too serious.
The first part of the video was interesting as to all the equipment you must keep going at harvest time. Lots of equipment to check and fix and get ready for the field. Same goes for your bin system. Lots to keep going there.
You mentioned in the video you were hoping with some real good corn that onyx can do the combine again. And his sister in the grain cart. Well, we know from a Facebook post that in fact onyx ran the combine and his sister did the grain cart. Extremely Proud of both of them for going that. Another farm generation running the family farm operation. My compliments to Zach and Becky for raising great young people to run the farm operation and do well at it. Like I said, extremely proud of both of them!!!!! Fine young people!!!!!!!!
About it I guess. Hope Dad ‘s combine breakdown is not too bad.
You all take care and be safe. Thanks.
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Man, these cliffhangers! Dang..
The little air filter is mostly just a fail safe if the big main one gets a tear/hole in it so you don't dust an engine.
It always excites me when you upload Zack
No shortage of loose ends to tie up. Rent re-negotiations with landlords is an important part of utilizing rented ground. Seems like bumps in the harvest road are a given for farmers. Not hard to spend money on parts and repairs!!!
You dont have to go into the screen everytime to open your tops. Theres a button right under the monitor in that button row thatll take you right to it👍not a big deal but quicker and more convenient to me
That tote in the back of the header is SO handy. Never seen that.
My Sunday is complete!
Hey whats up guys!! I'm a 88baby my self & been following yall sense 2018. I'm from the "Eastern Shore" Maryland. Just wanted to thank you for all you do, the time and effort sharing ur farming journey with us! Be safe out there guys! Ps. Love the dumb n dumber quotes 😂 👍🏻
Good video good to see y'all
Have you looked into a portable hydraulic unit you could move from bin to bin when you needed the sump savers?
Hey Zach! It's 7am here, and this eas posted an hour ago. Always on the grid ic
Sounds like the Gremlins are having a drunken brawl in there.
Widen the trees through the front area. 21:02
How did we go from drought to mud and the perfectly wrong time. Supposed to get 3-4” more in east iowa this week. Best of luck finishing out the season.