Corn Harvest Begins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- While waiting for soybeans to dry out, I decided to start running corn and get the dryer going. Video features the Massey Ferguson 8570 combine, White 6125, Oliver 2050 and Oliver 1755 tractors as well as my GSI Grain Dryer.
I really like your dryer setup, very simple and efficient. I think that a good dryer is the best investment a farmer can make.
Thnx for taking the time to show it to us. 👍
Up here (Alberta) we have to be able to dry canola. Is that dryer capable of doing small grains crops?
Wheat would work, but I think the perforation holes are too big for canola. We had a neighbor grow some this year, and he said it's a great way to find leaks in your grain setup.
Dang I guess I missed this video somehow! Another classic Losey video! Excellent explanation and footage. Superb. Thanks for sharing!
I know how it is, hard to keep up with all of them at times. Thanks for watching!
17/18 percent corn probably moves threw the dryer rather fast! A one man operation its tough to keep it moving smoothly, you need a couple nephews to run tractor's and the combine. I really like that set up. Thanks Chris
Hey Chris another great video! I really enjoy watching your corn drying operation. Can't wait to watch the rest of your corn harvest, good luck...
Thanks
Informative and entertaining as always! Thanks, Chris.
Like the drier setup you got there Chris. I got to ware my new Herman hoodie yesterday, liked it a lot.
Thank you!
Holy moly theres another person in the world with almost as many Olivers as me. Granted all ur run but none the less i got em from the 88 all the way to 2150 and many of each not just 1 here and there. If ur in need of something gauruntee i prob have 8 of what it is
Got the wheatland tin for a 1950 with fender tanks?
@@ThatOliverGuyChris im not sure what u mean by wheat land tin. But 1950s i think theres something like 4 of them plus some extra motors around here. Im 3rd generation to run our farm in 15 years. My dad would of known exactly what we have but i am not so intuned. He passed away so i lost all that and was just kinda thrown in with the fish. If your ever near SW pa let me know i bet ur the guy that could come through and point out what goes with what. My great uncle was one of those tear it down put all the bolts in the same bucket and go back 5 years later and know where it all goes and came from. He had a lot of partial projects when he passed away too. A lot of death in my family left it all up to me to keep going. Where u from roundabout if you dont want specifically to answer that. If not crazy far away set something up one day to stop through if i have them im sure something could be worked out, prob close to 20 Olivers all at different stages of rebuilds and some even run. Lol
I'm in southern Michigan. The Wheatland tin work is basically dust shields that wrap from the dash around to the fenders, with the left side having a door to let the operator in and out. They were found more on tractors out west to keep the wind and dust down in the operator platform. My 1900 has them, but they are different for regular fenders. My 1950 came from the factory with them, it has fender tanks so they are different than the ones on my 1900. Of course they are long gone, so I'd like to find a set to get it back to original.
Just subscribed, like to see old Olivers in action. Do you dry overnight too?
No, the dryer can typically keep up with the combine, so I shut it down at night.
Thanks for showing that.I enjoy learning.Not familiar that equipment and process.Cattle and tobacco back ground. The only corn I raise is picked to be ground into feed. Always wondered how a dryer worked.
Thanks for watching!
Glad you’ve finally started corn harvest
Thanks
Had a customer who powered his grain dryer with a MM UB. We would service it every year, deal with any problems during the drying season. He ran it on natural gas using a simple gas valve used in the oil fields to finely regulate wellhead gas into the engines powering the pump jacks. After a season's work, the oil in that MM looked as clean as when we had put it in. Did you ever think about building a phase converter? Actually not that hard. I can smell that drying corn all the way down here. Sweet smell. Do you blow heated air thru your bins?
Keep up the great videos.
When I bought this generator, the salesman was thinking phase converter, but once he added everything up, he agreed that the generator was the way to go. Plus my single phase service at the time wasn't good enough for that kind of draw. That has since been upgraded.
I dump my corn into the bin hot, and use the bin fan to cool it. None of my bins have heaters on them.
We don't farm corn here up north. Wheat, barley, oats and canola for the most part is what we do. It's neat to see the cobs going in the head like that.
Hi Chris, how has the corn harvest been progressing? I have been getting some footage of the plowing that I have been doing. That way you'll be able to see all the fun you missed out on lol! Think I still have about 2 days left.
Harvest is all done. We had a couple weeks of great weather and almost no breakdowns so it went fast. I've got more harvest footage to share, but was really busy for awhile there.
I'm looking forward to seeing your plowing videos. I was catching up on videos last night and enjoyed your history session. That's great that your family helps each other out so much. Too bad you have to explain that to some armchair farmers.
Very interesting bro I have never had anything to do with that side of farming so was enjoyable for me.
Hi Chris, Great job as always. I hope everything is going well for your harvest and your combine is working well since the fire. I was wondering, what kind of grain spreader you are using in your dry bins. Do they really spread the grain level. ( We have a variable speed spreader in our CMC grain bin and you have to pay attention to it so you don't have too much grain on one side or the other.) Good luck on your fall field work and stay safe.
I can't remember the brand of spreader in that bin, but it does a decent job, as long as the auger is dropping it just right. I like that it is mechanical, I've had some electric ones and it seems like that just added an extra thing to cause problems.
We just finished corn harvest. Yield was ok considering.
Happy with your yield?
I'm happy with it. I came up a little shy of my yield goal, but after the 2 hot, dry spells we had, I was impressed with how well it did.
The dryer in the world that requires front-wheel assist. ;-) Another great video, thank you.
My dryer has TRACTION! Lol.
Love seeing your videos!
Thanks so much!
Nice video, thanks for sharing. Do u have much trouble with corn breakage moving it with all those augers?
I do get some, but never enough to get docked when I sell it.
That red color corn head hurt my eyes. 😁 Eaglegards...
G'day Chris
Hello Murphy!
I am guessing you discharge the corn hot and cool in the bin ?? I Run a Sukup and we usually check the output every 2 hours and just input the numbers and its all automatic and adjusts which is nice i can look at it on my phone and keep track when busy then . I am surprised you just don't run a phase convertor for the 3 phase since here in IL the Utility company would give us a convertor free . I am Maxed on on my true 3 phase and on my secondary as well on a convertor so if we do anymore most likely a Cummins Genset .
Yep, dump hot and cool in the bin. Everything in the grain drying setup is 3 phase, (except bin fans) the fan on the dryer is 40 hp by itself.
I can run mine through my phone as well. Really nice to be able to check on things while getting other things done. The automatic settings do a great job of keeping the moisture in the target area.
I looked into bringing 3 phase in about 5 years ago. Initial estimate was 90k, and that was going to be on the cheap because they were already moving part of the line at that time.
Is the drying process continuous, or do you have to load, dry, dump manually?
It's continuous flow, supposed to dry 1,000 bushels per hour at 5 percentage points of removal.
Do you have an Oliver combine if you do can you make a video on it
I do, but it developed an engine knock a few years ago. I plan on making more collection tour videos and it will be in eventually.
does the moisture content equalize throughout the silo over time?
It can if you run the aeration fans on a regular basis, but there are limits. If you have a wet layer, that can mold or rot with the rest of the grain staying in good condition, but it will attract bugs and ruin the good grain.
So do you farm all this ground by yourself? How much ground do you have in production?
I do have a friend that helps run wagons, other days I work by myself. I have about 900 tillable acres.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris That is pretty awesome. It’s cool to see what can be done with modest equipment (at least by today’s standards). I work for Deere and see the huge money in equipment. We have lost to many farms to big AG and development.
Looking at a Cockshutt 1955 to be my first tractor.
Well.. about time..lol.
Hope corn is going good! Love the inside shots of the dryer
I know! I didn't think I'd ever start! Lol
@@ThatOliverGuyChris been there.. until this year, never thought we wouldn't finish 😪
is there a reason you don’t use a grain elevator to all your bins and drier
Dad had set it up with augers. When I put up the newest bin, I had a guy come out and measure to give me a quote on a grain leg. He never got back with me. I was still going to have to have a roof top auger to get to the new bin, or a freaky tall leg. That was back when corn was $7 a bushel and these salesmen didn't have to mess with 'small' guys like me. So I stayed with augers, and don't have any complaints.
Love seeing that 2050 FWA, is it going to get the same pistons as the 2-155 in the future?
I was recently thinking about buying a set of high compression pistons for the 2050, to have on hand. That 2-155 starts better than any of my Cummins powered tractors.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris That's awesome! Where do you get the pistons from? I might have to get a set for my 2-135.
Hercano Propulsion. The guy is very knowledgeable and has great prices. I should have made a cold start video Thursday. We got down in the mid 20s, that 2-155 fired up and ran like it had been shut off 10 minutes ago. I'll make a video on one of these cold mornings to show how good it does.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I can't wait, and thank you Chris!
6125 has an 8.3 Cummins right?
No, it has a 5.9
We should set up a go fund me page so u can get new tyires for this white tractor 1:03
Lol. I just need to get them replaced.
Yeah
Does anybody know how to time the injection pump on an 88 diesel
I've done it, but it's been awhile. You can get a copy of the original service manual from the Floyd County Museum in Iowa. Their contact info is on their website at floydcountymuseum.org/
@@ThatOliverGuyChris thanks
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Is the generator pretty competitive with the regular cost of electricity off the pole ? At least you never have an outage !!! Do you run everything off the generator or just the heavier drawing 3 phase stuff ? I like your analogy of the yeild monitors , good tool but they still use scales at the delivery point !!
It's hard to say, I don't have a meter to keep track of kilowatt hours from the generator to see how much it really used. This year the corn dried out well in the field, so everything was going through as fast as the augers could handle it. I bet I only burned 2-300 gallons of fuel. Everything in the grain setup runs off the generator while it is running, fans, augers, the whole 9 yards, so my electric bill is typically small during harvest. Some years ago, we we finished a field, and I stopped at home to fuel up on the way to the next field. We didn't know the power was out until I tried to fuel up. I threw another switch to put the barn on the generator and away we went.
It's certainly more expensive than power from the electric grid, but like he said his farm doesn't have 3-phase service and that can be stupid expensive to get run (like tens of thousands of dollars) so that would take a looooong time to pay off versus the cost of diesel plus wear and tear.
I looked into getting 3 phase brought in about 5 years ago. Initial estimate was 90k. Plus I still have to pay for the electricity once installed. For only needing 3 phase for a couple weeks a year, this seems to be a good solution for me.
Ya h my son looked into it also told him $ 100,000 a mile
I like your solution !!
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Thanks, Scruffy!
How many vehicles do you have?
You mean cars and trucks?
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Yep, every vehicle
I've got a 1 ton dually and 2 cars.
Thanks....!!
Can you share a link if the Herman decal/stickers are still available? Thanks for the videos!
Sure can! teespring.com/get-herman-sticker?tsmac=store&tsmic=chris-losey&pid=794&cid=103544