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Feeder house bearings are soooo much fun!The age of your combine is showing.You use what you got when grain prices are down.Bearings are cheap,it is the down time that can hurt.Happy she did not burn.Good catch!
Don't know if you thought about it, but you might want to throw a leaf blower in the back of one of your work trucks, so at the end of the day or when something malfunctions you can clean it and see whats going on a little better. Might help.
I love watching your videos Ryan. I learn a lot from them. I’ve been following How Farms Work for quite a while and love getting notifications every time you upload a video. Good luck to you guys on getting the Combine fixed.
Thank you for doing these videos. THE inspiration for why we started doing videos on TH-cam too, just a collection of lessons, memories, etc. Thank you for being that inspiration. It's been such a valuable tool to learn from you :)
Great video. I can never say it enough, get a leaf blower or get a gas powered air compressor to keep on your truck. When you shut down for the day, blow all the chaff off the machine and grease it while it's cooling down. Bearings fail, it happens. But never walk away from hot equipment covered in dry plant material.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The quality of these videos and the work you put into them is amazing. I'm watching in the default 480P and the picture quality is outstanding.
Great harvesting video. Bearing failures happen / all brands of equipment, even new stuff. Goes with the territory using machines. Glad you guys are back running after this hiccup. Stay safe.
Hi mate, thanks for that very detailed description on how the difference that you have to sow your corn on different terrain and the rows that you grow your corn in is all so different to us down here, but i really appreciate your info as it has made me understand more about what you guys have to do for a living, i appreciate this, thanks, Ian.
Thank God you noticed the smell before you had flames tickling your rushes! Back when I was a younger some 45+ years ago I saw my great uncles combine burn I must have been 7 or 8 years old maybe and I will be 53 next month but not only did the come by and burn my uncle Rip lost the rest of the field cuz it burned to the ground along with the combine. I was scared to death because I was fresh from the city when it happened and it was several years before I would even get close to a combine after that...We moved back to the city before I was old enough to get into farming for a career because of my dad's job forced us to move closer....I regret that to this very day! So I am living my farming dream vicariously through your videos. Glad everyone safe take care and God bless
You know, you guys are having combine problems in fall harvest like we had combine problems in wheat harvest... we even thought that maybe there was a fire on ours twice, as well, and we run an identical combine to you, a 9500 with a 9510 engine upgrade. Wish you luck for the rest of your harvest!
Other then that hicup glad you had a good day running. We did too until we realize when we put everything away we lost the crank for the pre-cleaner adjustment
Man, don't set the combine on fire to make a few passes. I also thought the stalks on the feeder house should have been removed. Nothing but opinion from someone your Dad's age. Glad you got it worked out!
Should get yourselves a little infrared temp gun. Use it all the time for checking temps on all sorts of parts daily. Touching works good too, but some things are hard to get access to. Could've gone out at anytime too I suppose, unless it was getting dry and causing extra heat buildup over the past day or two. Luckily you did catch it in time.
You had the other end burn up from what the BIL had on the 9600... the reverser planetary header drive box that the drive belt turns down at the bottom end of the feederhouse went out on his... $$$$ repair. You have to be real careful when you check the oil on those because the dipstick will break off and drop down into the box, then you have to take it apart to get it out. The reverser quit on his at the end of 2016 and he had to rebuild it during the off-season. We had to make do with no reverser for the last half or third of the 2016 season. Thank goodness harvest conditions weren't too bad. Later! OL J R :)
Thanks for the 4K experience, Ryan. Now I can find this particular farm on the map! Hope you don't have any more hiccups between now and the end of harvest. What's going on with your forehead around the 18 minute mark?
On Wednesday, I’m supposed to go a farm and work shadow someone because where I live it’s bring a kid to work day, but it’s gonna be raining a bit, so I don’t think they will be harvesting which I’m a bit disappointed. But they are building a barn so I’ll be able to see that.
I want to work there! So busy, fun and enjoy. :/ would be difficult because I'm deaf. Hard to get job. Grrr. I like to try tractor or transport or sowing or plowing or whatever as farmer can do.
Hi guys, need help. Why is that I can only see the video in 1080? is that something related to my computer capabilities or my connection's speed maybe?... Thanks for the videos Ryan
Hi Ryan, i have always wondered why the head for harvesting the corn is so small, as im a farmer in australia but i dont grow corn but our headers are really big, is there a difference in harvesting corn than harvestinf wheat and oats and barley, let me no please, ian.
There are two factors to consider here. First, corn yields quite a bit more than wheat on good farm ground in the upper midwest of the United States. It is not uncommon to see yields between 200-300 bushels per acre ( 12-18T/ha), which means you have a lot of material running through the machine, even with a smaller head. Second, heads for corn harvest can be rather heavy. Each row unit on a corn head has a number of large, metal components, like the snapping rollers, gearbox, sprockets and chains. A brand new 6 row corn head with a 30 inch (76.2cm) row spacing weighs 4051lbs (1837kg). For comparison a 620F flexible cutting platform weighs 3942lbs (1788kg).
Thank you so much for telling me this,i now see why you do what you do, and i love your videos mate, keep them coming, my whole family watch how you run your properties. also we wear your shirts with pride, Ian.
Another thing is, the combine can only handle SO much grain and material in a given amount of time... SO, you can either run a faster ground speed with a narrower head, OR, you can run a slower ground speed with a wider head. Both bring the same amount of material into the combine in a given amount of time, and both will take *broadly* similar amount of time to get the field done. Now, a larger combine can of course take a wider head. BUT, if you're farming on contours with sharp curves and stuff, the wider the head the more it wants to knock the crop over on the inside rows when going around those sharp curves. A narrower head works better for that application. On a big ol' rectangular field, it doesn't matter because you're not going around sharp curves. Then there's flotation. The wider the head, the heavier it is. If you're harvesting in soft or muddy conditions, the extra weight can sink you and get you stuck. We used to harvest some muck ground in Indiana for the nephew, and it was a task keeping a JD 9600 combine with duals up on top even with a 6 row head like this one! The BIL/nephew went to an 8 row head, and they soon found out they had to swap to wider dual tires to keep the combine from sinking in the mud due to the additional weight of the head (which is transferred off the rear axle as well, basically doubling the load on the front axle versus a lighter head). Then there's the fact that newer, wider heads are a lot more expensive, and more expensive parts to keep up. An 8 row head has 25% more moving parts than a 6 row head. Granted, covering 8 rows means each row unit is doing 25% less work than those on a 6 row head, but parts wear out together and that's a lot of parts (like snapping rolls, gathering chains, etc) to have to buy at one time. Again, the wider head in rolling ground runs a higher risk of damage-- like dropping the end of the head down into a waterway and mangling a snoot. Then there's the fact that basically you want the header matched to the planter... The header should either be the same width as the planter (number of rows) OR the planter should be an even multiple of the number of rows of the header... IOW, a 6 row head is half the width of a 12 row planter. An 8 row head is matched to a 16 row planter. Now, you CAN harvest corn planted with a 12 row planter with an 8 row head, BUT, it means that half of each round in the field, you're harvesting rows that the right 4 rows were planted on one pass of the planter, and the other 4 rows were planted on the NEXT pass of the planter-- IOW, they are not "mated rows" and therefore they can be a little too narrow or too wide where the two different planter passes abut each other, which means the head is leaning all the stalks on ALL the rows a little to one side or to the other (to the inside toward the center of the head if they're a little too far apart, or toward the outside ends of the head if they're a little too close together in the center). This can lead to higher header losses as ears get tossed around as the stalks are picked and can cause plug-ups if the stalks don't go smoothly down between the deck plates. Similarly, a 6 row head would be a poor match for a 16 row planter for the same reason-- only this time the outside two rows on every third pass would be non-mated rows from the next pass of the planter (1,2,3,4,5,6--one combine pass, 7,8,9,10,11,12-- next combine pass, 13,14,15, 16, 1, 2-- third pass; 3,4,5,6,7,8-- fourth pass, 9,10,11,12,13,14-- fifth pass, 15,16, 1,2,3,4-- sixth pass, 5,6,7,8,9,10--seventh pass; 11,12,13,14,15,16-- eighth pass, then the cycle repeats again). Later! OL J R :)
Hi I love your videos they are so cool and fun ..... GOOD JOB !!!! #HowFarmsWork and GOOD JOB for making this videos for us ;)
Feeder house bearings are soooo much fun!The age of your combine is showing.You use what you got when grain prices are down.Bearings are cheap,it is the down time that can hurt.Happy she did not burn.Good catch!
I have a 4020, a 4440, and a 4620 John Deere and they all are awesome and never let us down. Great travtors
I’m a city guy and loving learning about farming and the hard work you all do to supply our homes. Thanks for the hard work.
I just love watching your old videos there so good and I like all the new ones too. It’s just great to see how farming goes
Don't know if you thought about it, but you might want to throw a leaf blower in the back of one of your work trucks, so at the end of the day or when something malfunctions you can clean it and see whats going on a little better. Might help.
I love watching your videos Ryan. I learn a lot from them. I’ve been following How Farms Work for quite a while and love getting notifications every time you upload a video. Good luck to you guys on getting the Combine fixed.
Thank you for doing these videos. THE inspiration for why we started doing videos on TH-cam too, just a collection of lessons, memories, etc. Thank you for being that inspiration. It's been such a valuable tool to learn from you :)
I'm from Barcelona and I really like to see your farming videos :D
Great video. I can never say it enough, get a leaf blower or get a gas powered air compressor to keep on your truck. When you shut down for the day, blow all the chaff off the machine and grease it while it's cooling down. Bearings fail, it happens. But never walk away from hot equipment covered in dry plant material.
Ryan, Wow. Very good video from start to finish. Good luck with repairs.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The quality of these videos and the work you put into them is amazing. I'm watching in the default 480P and the picture quality is outstanding.
Great harvesting video. Bearing failures happen / all brands of equipment, even new stuff. Goes with the territory using machines. Glad you guys are back running after this hiccup. Stay safe.
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Hi mate, thanks for that very detailed description on how the difference that you have to sow your corn on different terrain and the rows that you grow your corn in is all so different to us down here, but i really appreciate your info as it has made me understand more about what you guys have to do for a living, i appreciate this, thanks, Ian.
Congratulations on finishing the first field at Upper Farm, a good feeling I bet!
I feel with you, a break down is always inconvenient. Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family
Nice vid . It's nice to see how all the modern equipment works . Plus some of the older equipment
I like farming and farming videos. I love seeing what you people do. It’s so cool.
Oh good. The 4640 is finally seeing some action. Great video! Love the long ones! :)
Great video Ryan. Looking forward to seeing repairs completed on the combine.
We had a few bearings go out in our John Deere 6600 also keep up the good work on your videos and from a farmer to a farmer thank you for farming
Thank God you noticed the smell before you had flames tickling your rushes! Back when I was a younger some 45+ years ago I saw my great uncles combine burn I must have been 7 or 8 years old maybe and I will be 53 next month but not only did the come by and burn my uncle Rip lost the rest of the field cuz it burned to the ground along with the combine. I was scared to death because I was fresh from the city when it happened and it was several years before I would even get close to a combine after that...We moved back to the city before I was old enough to get into farming for a career because of my dad's job forced us to move closer....I regret that to this very day! So I am living my farming dream vicariously through your videos. Glad everyone safe take care and God bless
You and your dad are great Ryan
AUSTIN Kerns so are travis
My stomach took a few leaps climbing up there with ya. LOL
Such professional quality in your farming and your videos... 👍🏻 Jim ~Olympia, WA
Yowsa. Good job in catching the issue. Excellent video once again Ryan.
Fires can happen far to easy at harvest, I know you will be on it anyway but just be carefull Ryan 👍
Tom Pemberton Farm Life Love your videos mate, has the new bull got you yet?
Tommy's hand Cheers mate. Not yet, Gone to next door for winter
Yeah I probably wouldn't let that much debris build up on the feeder house. Too many moving parts and too flammable of debris for me..
Jesse Klaus Same, combines can go up in flames far to easy. I'm sure he will blow it down every morning hopefully
Yep a good leaf blower is your best friend... OL J R :)
Nice long video with great content!!
Love it!!!
Nice video guys I like the camera quality. Nice to see the older tractors working! Just be safe with the combine 😀👍
*4K is so nice...* Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
You know, you guys are having combine problems in fall harvest like we had combine problems in wheat harvest... we even thought that maybe there was a fire on ours twice, as well, and we run an identical combine to you, a 9500 with a 9510 engine upgrade. Wish you luck for the rest of your harvest!
Love the footage of filling the grain bin and the length of the video. Also, how many bushels of corn can that bin hold?
I watch your videos every hour of every day
This job seems to be so satisfying
Other then that hicup glad you had a good day running. We did too until we realize when we put everything away we lost the crank for the pre-cleaner adjustment
Always something when your operating equipment!🚜
For anyone that wants to get into farming, ask yourself what you would do?
Great Video! Shame about the Bearing, great job on preventing a fire, thanks for sharing
You need to make a “You never want to set the combined on fire” meme. Glad you caught it before it burned up the combined.
To be continued... Thanks for the video!
Camera quality looking good!
Awesome is the only word to describe this .
Loving the vids! Keep up the good work. Sucks with the combine.
stunning video quality
very good harvesting video!
Man, don't set the combine on fire to make a few passes. I also thought the stalks on the feeder house should have been removed. Nothing but opinion from someone your Dad's age. Glad you got it worked out!
Should get yourselves a little infrared temp gun. Use it all the time for checking temps on all sorts of parts daily. Touching works good too, but some things are hard to get access to.
Could've gone out at anytime too I suppose, unless it was getting dry and causing extra heat buildup over the past day or two. Luckily you did catch it in time.
Thats why we have 2 combines... and now 3.. at least always one is going,
after seeing your vid,the new rollers and brushes are the trick.
Great vid Ryan God Bless Stay Safe Kusters 👍
Well done!
Had one catch on fire when i was just leaning to run it 9500 . Then had to rewire it what a job .
Man that camera is awesome!
Cool video!
Excellent video Ryan thanks sorry for equipment misfortune
We had that upper bearing go out this fall and we had to replace more than the bearing. cost lots more than bearings.
Only time your combine won’t break is during the growing season
great video
You the man Ryan, great vid, pity about ye're little hiccup and ye going so well:)
Question: Will you purchase a new combine after you sell all your grain or will you stick to the machinery you currently have?
Another great video Ryan, Enjoyed it. 4K doesn't make much difference to me when your making great content, its interesting though!
This is like a fun version of Farming Simulator 17
I loved the vid ryan
Sorry to say that in my 27 years being on the fire department I’ve been to 36 combine fires and 32 where JD.
I love your videos I work on a farm and I'm 13 I rake and Ted the hay
Ryan u should buy a semi and trailer to haul grain and cornstraw
Your Dad will be remembered and thanked for the stairs on the new bin, each trip up and down. You guys can sure move grain.
You had the other end burn up from what the BIL had on the 9600... the reverser planetary header drive box that the drive belt turns down at the bottom end of the feederhouse went out on his... $$$$ repair. You have to be real careful when you check the oil on those because the dipstick will break off and drop down into the box, then you have to take it apart to get it out. The reverser quit on his at the end of 2016 and he had to rebuild it during the off-season. We had to make do with no reverser for the last half or third of the 2016 season. Thank goodness harvest conditions weren't too bad.
Later! OL J R :)
My grandpa's combine seized up like that and wouldn't start, didn't smell smoke though. It was something under one of those noses.
Strange that house looks like the one I stayed in when I went to Illinois
good job, I missed it did you say yields were 30 bu less when you did corn on corn ?? thanks
I would love to see you wash all or some of tractors and or harvesters idk why I want too
Love from punjab Pakistan
Time for some shop lights.
It snowed in northern Wisconsin
Never fails it's always something...
Thanks for the 4K experience, Ryan. Now I can find this particular farm on the map! Hope you don't have any more hiccups between now and the end of harvest. What's going on with your forehead around the 18 minute mark?
the radio's that you are now using are they different then a regular cb radio? are you able to talk to the truck drivers as they pull in to the yard?
I think its about time for a new auger
Was there a Grease Fitting in there hidden?
On Wednesday, I’m supposed to go a farm and work shadow someone because where I live it’s bring a kid to work day, but it’s gonna be raining a bit, so I don’t think they will be harvesting which I’m a bit disappointed. But they are building a barn so I’ll be able to see that.
I want to work there! So busy, fun and enjoy. :/ would be difficult because I'm deaf. Hard to get job. Grrr. I like to try tractor or transport or sowing or plowing or whatever as farmer can do.
I hope you get your combines fix
Good video lucky you guys smelt it before it cot on fire.
How & who cleans the 9510 after your combining?
21:10 Ive been waiting for you to say that for too long
Ryan are you guys planning to upgrade to a bigger combine in the near future
We had that exact bearing to our last year and caught soybean dust chaffe on fire so it is probably that bearing.
I see that you cut with the direction of the rows can you cut across the rows of corn?
Ryan do you guys plan on getting a bigger combine
When do you have a regular big rig come
About how long does it take for the combine to get full of corn?
you should have test drove a combine this fall like you have with other equipment.
I think the bearing is bent pull the cover and turn the head on and see if it's hitting
Looks like the combine needed some adjustments because there is a good bit t of trash in the corn
Just a normal harvest “ things just break” ...u all we’re lucky no fire...👍👍
Hi guys, need help. Why is that I can only see the video in 1080? is that something related to my computer capabilities or my connection's speed maybe?... Thanks for the videos Ryan
Whats the capacity of the combine and auger wagon
You ever had any close calls climbing them grain bins
Hi Ryan, i have always wondered why the head for harvesting the corn is so small, as im a farmer in australia but i dont grow corn but our headers are really big, is there a difference in harvesting corn than harvestinf wheat and oats and barley, let me no please, ian.
There are two factors to consider here. First, corn yields quite a bit more than wheat on good farm ground in the upper midwest of the United States. It is not uncommon to see yields between 200-300 bushels per acre ( 12-18T/ha), which means you have a lot of material running through the machine, even with a smaller head. Second, heads for corn harvest can be rather heavy. Each row unit on a corn head has a number of large, metal components, like the snapping rollers, gearbox, sprockets and chains. A brand new 6 row corn head with a 30 inch (76.2cm) row spacing weighs 4051lbs (1837kg). For comparison a 620F flexible cutting platform weighs 3942lbs (1788kg).
Thank you so much for telling me this,i now see why you do what you do, and i love your videos mate, keep them coming, my whole family watch how you run your properties. also we wear your shirts with pride, Ian.
Another thing is, the combine can only handle SO much grain and material in a given amount of time... SO, you can either run a faster ground speed with a narrower head, OR, you can run a slower ground speed with a wider head. Both bring the same amount of material into the combine in a given amount of time, and both will take *broadly* similar amount of time to get the field done. Now, a larger combine can of course take a wider head. BUT, if you're farming on contours with sharp curves and stuff, the wider the head the more it wants to knock the crop over on the inside rows when going around those sharp curves. A narrower head works better for that application. On a big ol' rectangular field, it doesn't matter because you're not going around sharp curves.
Then there's flotation. The wider the head, the heavier it is. If you're harvesting in soft or muddy conditions, the extra weight can sink you and get you stuck. We used to harvest some muck ground in Indiana for the nephew, and it was a task keeping a JD 9600 combine with duals up on top even with a 6 row head like this one! The BIL/nephew went to an 8 row head, and they soon found out they had to swap to wider dual tires to keep the combine from sinking in the mud due to the additional weight of the head (which is transferred off the rear axle as well, basically doubling the load on the front axle versus a lighter head).
Then there's the fact that newer, wider heads are a lot more expensive, and more expensive parts to keep up. An 8 row head has 25% more moving parts than a 6 row head. Granted, covering 8 rows means each row unit is doing 25% less work than those on a 6 row head, but parts wear out together and that's a lot of parts (like snapping rolls, gathering chains, etc) to have to buy at one time. Again, the wider head in rolling ground runs a higher risk of damage-- like dropping the end of the head down into a waterway and mangling a snoot.
Then there's the fact that basically you want the header matched to the planter... The header should either be the same width as the planter (number of rows) OR the planter should be an even multiple of the number of rows of the header... IOW, a 6 row head is half the width of a 12 row planter. An 8 row head is matched to a 16 row planter. Now, you CAN harvest corn planted with a 12 row planter with an 8 row head, BUT, it means that half of each round in the field, you're harvesting rows that the right 4 rows were planted on one pass of the planter, and the other 4 rows were planted on the NEXT pass of the planter-- IOW, they are not "mated rows" and therefore they can be a little too narrow or too wide where the two different planter passes abut each other, which means the head is leaning all the stalks on ALL the rows a little to one side or to the other (to the inside toward the center of the head if they're a little too far apart, or toward the outside ends of the head if they're a little too close together in the center). This can lead to higher header losses as ears get tossed around as the stalks are picked and can cause plug-ups if the stalks don't go smoothly down between the deck plates. Similarly, a 6 row head would be a poor match for a 16 row planter for the same reason-- only this time the outside two rows on every third pass would be non-mated rows from the next pass of the planter (1,2,3,4,5,6--one combine pass, 7,8,9,10,11,12-- next combine pass,
13,14,15, 16, 1, 2-- third pass; 3,4,5,6,7,8-- fourth pass, 9,10,11,12,13,14-- fifth pass, 15,16, 1,2,3,4-- sixth pass, 5,6,7,8,9,10--seventh pass; 11,12,13,14,15,16-- eighth pass, then the cycle repeats again).
Later! OL J R :)