Yeah, back in the 70's when we could make a living in the hog/cattle business! My BTO neighbor had a similar Mix Mill set up back then. Small coil type delivery augers to the finishing house feeders. Only draw back was keeping it all working. Me, I finally got an Owattona mixer mill for my small operation, I kept my W9 IHC on it full time. After Tyson put all us small farms under with forcing the live hog price to undern$10/ hundred weight, and closing all the stock yards, we just gave up on livestock. Sometimes I do miss the indepence of being a full time farmer. But still do cash crops. Still have the Owattona out in the shed, no one wants them anymore. It was such a big addition to us back then, I just keep it. We had a late start here with the spring floods. Just finished bens and was going to get into the corn, but it decided to do a rain / snow mix today. My corn isn't near as good as what your getting, but the weather here in Southern ILL don't often cooperate too well.
I can definitely see the mix setup being a pain to keep up and going there is alot of moving parts there. It's pretty sickening what the big livestock yard have done to the small guys, all you see are small dairies and hog farms sitting dormant. They were nice places ran by proud families one day and now they are falling apart 😢. It's terrible
W ow...There are a lotta wows in here. The first one. Wow! What a great video! I grew up on a small family farm in ND back in the early and mid 70's. My dad raised small grains. Wheat, oats, and flax, and ran 100 cow calf pairs. We also grew corn, but that went into silage for the cows in the winter. So I can definitely relate to the equipment in your video. What great times those were! Farmers could make a good living on a small family farm. My dad owned four sections of land. That was a pretty good sized operation back then. A farmer could equip their entire farming operation with up to date equipment for about half the money of what one piece costs today. And it all worked and lasted. And they could work on it and repair it themselves. I only remember my dad having a mechanic from a dealership out on the farm once in all those years. The hydraulics didn't work on one tractor. It ended up needing a new hydraulic pump. And guess what tractor it was? An Allis Chalmers XT190! He seeded with a 16" field cultivator and Melroe press drills. Anyone remember Melroe? And, they could get it all paid for before they retired! That's another wow! My dad had an L2 Gleaner and a two ton Ford truck that he bought from a local custom harvester when he retired. Wow! That was a big combine back then! I remember him setting the chaffer just like you. He had bear paws for hands so he used his ring finger to set the chaffet cuz his index finger was to big and that opened the chaffer too far and let too much crap in the "hopper", as they called it back then. And then opened the chaffer extension a little more, and the bottom seive just far enough so a kernnel of wheat could fit through and then a hair more. He added 2 x 6's to the top of the box on that Ford truck, and he could get about 370 bushels of wheat on it. Just a little overloaded if you were on the highway in the spring and summer! Lol! He stored all his grain at home, and hauled it all to town, about 21 miles away, in the winter. Had to get it all hauled before load restrictions went on in the spring! He hauled it all, all by himself, with that truck. No semi's. He definitely didn't have a grain facility like you are using there. Just a row of bins and an 8" auger. That grain facility that guy is letting you use was definitely as state of the art as it got back then man! That's another wow! Good for you! That's gotta be fun! Thanks for posting this video. Brings back a lot of great memories of a time when farms were smaller, and there were a lot more of them. They all worked hard for what they had, but in my opinion, lived a slower, simpler, but better lifestyle. My dad is gone, God bless his soul, and my sister and I now have the land that my grandfather homesteaded back in the 20's, and my dad kept farming. Thank you grandpa and dad. I wanted to take over the farm, but it was right at the time when farming started going to hell back in the 80's. Farmers were going broke just one after another all over the country. No matter how we tried to pencil out, if we were honest with the numbers, it just was not in the cards. I was not going to take a chance on losing everything my dad and grandad worked their asses off for. So, I got a job at the local John Deere dealer. That kept me very close to farming. I've been working in the equipmet business for 44 years now. My oh my. How things have changed. The guy that rents our land farms 19,000 acres and runs 400 cow calf pairs. He's a working fool. He works hard as hell, and he is a damn good farmer, but I sure as hell wouldn't want his headaches and stress. He's 50 years old and looks like he is 70. I don't know how he does it. To all those out there that think your food comes from the grocey store, take another look. You better thank the next farmer you see, and all the other farmers and ranchers and small dairy farmers that are still left out there, for the food uou eat and the milk your kids drink. God bless all of our farmers! We need you and we depend on you. And many of us, but not enough do appreciate you!!
Farming sure was a lot different back then, wasn't it? I'm glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane! I love hearing stories like this, from guys life you that have lived this way of farming. I love all my old equipment. It's easy to work on and mostly reliable. But the best part is that it's affordable. If something breaks down that I can't fix, I don't have to break the bank to replace it. And we have a whole fleet of old allis tractors. If one of them decides to act up, it's like a game picking the next one to use until we can fix the other one, lol. Thank you for watching and taking the time to type this. Like I said, I enjoy hearing old farm stories. Most of the big farmers around here don't even farm in my eyes. They just have their computers drive then over the land while they sit in a luxury tractor that the bank owns. They don't take care of fence lines and waterways. They dont seem to care about erosion or soil health. Just pump enough chemicals on it so it will grow this year and forget about years to come. Ask this notill, no cover crop farming is killing the dirt, and then to top it off, most of them still use anhydraus 🤦♂️.
Blast from the past. I used to run a L model with a 6 row wide header. Combined a lot of corn and wheat and beans with it. Like you hauled it all in gravity flow wagons and a couple Chevy C60 trucks. I remember once I got the dump hung up while dumping under the pit at the co op. It had a shelter with a tin top on it. God that was a lifetime ago. It was back in the late seventies. Just think a combine with no payments and no electronics and no def you can repair with a handful of wrenches still getting the job done...
This old equipment was built to last and, be able to fix easily like you said. I can't say that I've ever seen a6 row wide you just taught me something, cause I didn't even know they made one lol. Yaks for watching and commenting jonhny!!
Thankyou Chris, I bet that mix set up was the best back then. Right when they were getting into automation on the farms, on a sense it's part of what killed the small fan being able to do things with less time and effort just allowed the big farms to pop up everywhere. But that's progress I suppose.
You got that right Kelly. And when it doesn't work I can fix it. They can keep the electronics as far as I'm concerned 😆 thankyou for watching and commenting!!!
Thanks for the memories Tim. This just goes to show that you don’t have to spend money on brand new equipment to get the job done. Those old bins and transfers work just as good today as they did back in the seventies. This just goes to show what a little effort and time can do. Nice job guys!
Thankyou for your kind words, watching, and commenting!!! I figure if so many guys before me kept this stuff running and working before we had electric tools..... I don't think any of us have an excuse not, to be able to keep them running today lol. An electric impact alone takes so much time out of things. And most of the parts are not appropriately parts, common bearing and shafts for the most part. Just simplistic and easy to work on, they can keep their electronics if you ask me. 😆
Great video you really lucked out getting the bin setup and everything pretty much working l will be waiting for more AC footage from the Frankie fan club lol
Thankyou Gary!!! I'm pretty excited about the bin site, it might not make me rich this year but for future reference is really going to be a great asset. I'm still looking for a set of shoes for Franky. I thought I had a nice set bought but the guy sold them on me.
Thankyou Robert, that means alot. It's been alot of work being everything to this point but I knew one day it would pay off..... I still waiting for that day to come but I know it's right around the corner 😆, all jokes aside the corn market won't stay like this for long, and the soybean market seems to be pretty steady. And next year everything will be organic finally.
😆 my brother said the same thing this year. It's been a long process of trial and error to get here but it's finally paying off. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
I'm doing my best to bring it back with hard work and some outside of the box thinking. One is all organic I'll be doing pretty good with only 150 acres. Thanks for watching and commenting!!!!
Heck yeah Tim! I hope the storage works out well for you! It's pretty awesome that you were able to get all that going again. How long did the grain take to dry down in the first bin? Glad the corn is running well too! I don't know about the organic price but I do know the conventional price sucks. Boy they did throw some bracing at that auger didn't they LOL! When Grandpa still farmed, he had an old pto grain dryer that he put the WD45 on, he actually converted the tractor to propane and he hooked up the tractor fuel tank to the big fuel tank for the burners so he never had to worry about fuel in the tractor. He said it ran 24 hours a day all through harvest like that. I hope the weather will cooperate to get you finished up. Thanks for sharing, I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving!
Thankyou Evan!!! It took 18 hours to dry the corn from 17.7 to 13.9, I was looking for 14.5, I'm gonna run this 2nd batch for 16 hours and see what that does. It's tricky because it drops moisture as it cools I knew it was going to do some, but it's over 2 points, I wasn't expecting that much. As soon as I seen that auger I immediately thought about our conversation on the last video. 😆. That's awesome about the 45, farmer ingenuity at it's finest. Just have the gas man come and that's all you got to worry about. 😆. Thanks for watching and commenting Evan!!
Well this was a great video Tim, the crops look great, you don’t have any snow there yet? We got some here and it’s plenty cold 🥶 the Glen looks like it is an unstoppable combine🚜🌾🌾🌾hope you had a great thanksgiving 🦃
We've got a few dustings of snow so far but nothing to stick luckily. Glen has been doing great. Except for yesterday. It got down to 0 degrees over night and the fuel gelled. After solving that problem the starter decided to take a crap...... i had one on the shelf so we changed that. Then the hydraulic line that runs to the steering blew 🙄 this was all before i made it to the field 😆 and it was 10 degrees all day while we were doing all this..... hopefully today is a better day
Thankyou William. I'm glad you enjoy the videos. As far as the mice I didn't have any activity in my combine cab this off season. The mint definitely helped. I must have planned it in a bad spot because it died off over winter last year. So I've got some pots and I brought them in the shop this fall 😆
If you want a little adventure and maybe less cultivating, try inter-seeding soybeans with white mustard next year and build a little inter-row crimper like I did. I got some videos if you're interested. I guess you got that zapper, but my beans were pretty clean. they love a companion out there early on aggregating soil and then after smashing the mustard between the beans you get a bunch of sulphur rich fertility for the beans at the perfect time grain fill
@rustyrelicsfarm2406 right at 400 tried buying more a couple times as it comes up in the area but the big farmers are so greedy any more that they literally go to funerals and make offers on the land. 🤦♂️
No the L is bigger. M holds around 150 in the hopper and the L holds around 200 bushels. The l has a 426ci engine and the m has a 301ci, and I couldn't tell ya off hand how much bigger the thrashing part of the L is but it's bigger lol. Thanks for watching and commenting!!!
Just found your channel glad I did great to see the old stuff still getting it done I hope y’all have a very merry Christmas from Tunnel Hill Georgia
Yeah, back in the 70's when we could make a living in the hog/cattle business! My BTO neighbor had a similar Mix Mill set up back then. Small coil type delivery augers to the finishing house feeders. Only draw back was keeping it all working. Me, I finally got an Owattona mixer mill for my small operation, I kept my W9 IHC on it full time. After Tyson put all us small farms under with forcing the live hog price to undern$10/ hundred weight, and closing all the stock yards, we just gave up on livestock. Sometimes I do miss the indepence of being a full time farmer. But still do cash crops. Still have the Owattona out in the shed, no one wants them anymore. It was such a big addition to us back then, I just keep it. We had a late start here with the spring floods. Just finished bens and was going to get into the corn, but it decided to do a rain / snow mix today. My corn isn't near as good as what your getting, but the weather here in Southern ILL don't often cooperate too well.
I can definitely see the mix setup being a pain to keep up and going there is alot of moving parts there. It's pretty sickening what the big livestock yard have done to the small guys, all you see are small dairies and hog farms sitting dormant. They were nice places ran by proud families one day and now they are falling apart 😢. It's terrible
W ow...There are a lotta wows in here. The first one. Wow! What a great video! I grew up on a small family farm in ND back in the early and mid 70's. My dad raised small grains. Wheat, oats, and flax, and ran 100 cow calf pairs. We also grew corn, but that went into silage for the cows in the winter. So I can definitely relate to the equipment in your video. What great times those were! Farmers could make a good living on a small family farm. My dad owned four sections of land. That was a pretty good sized operation back then. A farmer could equip their entire farming operation with up to date equipment for about half the money of what one piece costs today. And it all worked and lasted. And they could work on it and repair it themselves. I only remember my dad having a mechanic from a dealership out on the farm once in all those years. The hydraulics didn't work on one tractor. It ended up needing a new hydraulic pump. And guess what tractor it was? An Allis Chalmers XT190! He seeded with a 16" field cultivator and Melroe press drills. Anyone remember Melroe? And, they could get it all paid for before they retired! That's another wow! My dad had an L2 Gleaner and a two ton Ford truck that he bought from a local custom harvester when he retired. Wow! That was a big combine back then! I remember him setting the chaffer just like you. He had bear paws for hands so he used his ring finger to set the chaffet cuz his index finger was to big and that opened the chaffer too far and let too much crap in the "hopper", as they called it back then. And then opened the chaffer extension a little more, and the bottom seive just far enough so a kernnel of wheat could fit through and then a hair more. He added 2 x 6's to the top of the box on that Ford truck, and he could get about 370 bushels of wheat on it. Just a little overloaded if you were on the highway in the spring and summer! Lol! He stored all his grain at home, and hauled it all to town, about 21 miles away, in the winter. Had to get it all hauled before load restrictions went on in the spring! He hauled it all, all by himself, with that truck. No semi's. He definitely didn't have a grain facility like you are using there. Just a row of bins and an 8" auger. That grain facility that guy is letting you use was definitely as state of the art as it got back then man! That's another wow! Good for you! That's gotta be fun! Thanks for posting this video. Brings back a lot of great memories of a time when farms were smaller, and there were a lot more of them. They all worked hard for what they had, but in my opinion, lived a slower, simpler, but better lifestyle. My dad is gone, God bless his soul, and my sister and I now have the land that my grandfather homesteaded back in the 20's, and my dad kept farming. Thank you grandpa and dad. I wanted to take over the farm, but it was right at the time when farming started going to hell back in the 80's. Farmers were going broke just one after another all over the country. No matter how we tried to pencil out, if we were honest with the numbers, it just was not in the cards. I was not going to take a chance on losing everything my dad and grandad worked their asses off for. So, I got a job at the local John Deere dealer. That kept me very close to farming. I've been working in the equipmet business for 44 years now. My oh my. How things have changed. The guy that rents our land farms 19,000 acres and runs 400 cow calf pairs. He's a working fool. He works hard as hell, and he is a damn good farmer, but I sure as hell wouldn't want his headaches and stress. He's 50 years old and looks like he is 70. I don't know how he does it. To all those out there that think your food comes from the grocey store, take another look. You better thank the next farmer you see, and all the other farmers and ranchers and small dairy farmers that are still left out there, for the food uou eat and the milk your kids drink. God bless all of our farmers! We need you and we depend on you. And many of us, but not enough do appreciate you!!
Farming sure was a lot different back then, wasn't it? I'm glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane! I love hearing stories like this, from guys life you that have lived this way of farming. I love all my old equipment. It's easy to work on and mostly reliable. But the best part is that it's affordable. If something breaks down that I can't fix, I don't have to break the bank to replace it. And we have a whole fleet of old allis tractors. If one of them decides to act up, it's like a game picking the next one to use until we can fix the other one, lol. Thank you for watching and taking the time to type this. Like I said, I enjoy hearing old farm stories.
Most of the big farmers around here don't even farm in my eyes. They just have their computers drive then over the land while they sit in a luxury tractor that the bank owns. They don't take care of fence lines and waterways. They dont seem to care about erosion or soil health. Just pump enough chemicals on it so it will grow this year and forget about years to come. Ask this notill, no cover crop farming is killing the dirt, and then to top it off, most of them still use anhydraus 🤦♂️.
Blast from the past. I used to run a L model with a 6 row wide header. Combined a lot of corn and wheat and beans with it. Like you hauled it all in gravity flow wagons and a couple Chevy C60 trucks. I remember once I got the dump hung up while dumping under the pit at the co op. It had a shelter with a tin top on it. God that was a lifetime ago. It was back in the late seventies. Just think a combine with no payments and no electronics and no def you can repair with a handful of wrenches still getting the job done...
This old equipment was built to last and, be able to fix easily like you said. I can't say that I've ever seen a6 row wide you just taught me something, cause I didn't even know they made one lol. Yaks for watching and commenting jonhny!!
Great flash back to the 70's. The Mix Mill was quite the time saver back then. Nice Video.
Thankyou Chris, I bet that mix set up was the best back then. Right when they were getting into automation on the farms, on a sense it's part of what killed the small fan being able to do things with less time and effort just allowed the big farms to pop up everywhere. But that's progress I suppose.
The old stuff still works just fine.
Love it!!!
You got that right Kelly. And when it doesn't work I can fix it. They can keep the electronics as far as I'm concerned 😆 thankyou for watching and commenting!!!
Thanks for the memories Tim. This just goes to show that you don’t have to spend money on brand new equipment to get the job done. Those old bins and transfers work just as good today as they did back in the seventies. This just goes to show what a little effort and time can do. Nice job guys!
Thankyou for your kind words, watching, and commenting!!! I figure if so many guys before me kept this stuff running and working before we had electric tools..... I don't think any of us have an excuse not, to be able to keep them running today lol. An electric impact alone takes so much time out of things. And most of the parts are not appropriately parts, common bearing and shafts for the most part. Just simplistic and easy to work on, they can keep their electronics if you ask me. 😆
@@TimothyFluegel my thoughts exactly!
As always appreciate the videos. Looking for the next one
Your welcome, and thankyou for always watching and commenting!!
Great video you really lucked out getting the bin setup and everything pretty much working l will be waiting for more AC footage from the Frankie fan club lol
Thankyou Gary!!! I'm pretty excited about the bin site, it might not make me rich this year but for future reference is really going to be a great asset.
I'm still looking for a set of shoes for Franky. I thought I had a nice set bought but the guy sold them on me.
Again a nice video to look at . Regards from germany
Thankyou so much for watching and commenting. I'm glad you enjoy the videos!!
@@TimothyFluegel Please i like farm videos with older machines .
Nice corn!
Thankyou I was lucky this year with rain, it grew so fast that the cultivation I did get done between the rain spells really did the trick.
Things are coming together for you. Patience pays off.
Thankyou Robert, that means alot. It's been alot of work being everything to this point but I knew one day it would pay off..... I still waiting for that day to come but I know it's right around the corner 😆, all jokes aside the corn market won't stay like this for long, and the soybean market seems to be pretty steady. And next year everything will be organic finally.
you got some good bones there to make a nice bin site again.
Thanks Andy. I thinks so too everybody has continued to work got my 2nd batch drying now, it's definitely a new adventure for me.
Hell you grow better organic corn than I do conventional! 😂
😆 my brother said the same thing this year. It's been a long process of trial and error to get here but it's finally paying off. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
Back when you could actually make a living at a small family farm those days are long gone now
I'm doing my best to bring it back with hard work and some outside of the box thinking. One is all organic I'll be doing pretty good with only 150 acres. Thanks for watching and commenting!!!!
Nice auger tractor
I like it to... but don't tell all my orange tractors 😆
Thanks for watching and commenting Robert!!
Heck yeah Tim! I hope the storage works out well for you! It's pretty awesome that you were able to get all that going again. How long did the grain take to dry down in the first bin? Glad the corn is running well too! I don't know about the organic price but I do know the conventional price sucks. Boy they did throw some bracing at that auger didn't they LOL! When Grandpa still farmed, he had an old pto grain dryer that he put the WD45 on, he actually converted the tractor to propane and he hooked up the tractor fuel tank to the big fuel tank for the burners so he never had to worry about fuel in the tractor. He said it ran 24 hours a day all through harvest like that. I hope the weather will cooperate to get you finished up. Thanks for sharing, I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving!
Thankyou Evan!!!
It took 18 hours to dry the corn from 17.7 to 13.9, I was looking for 14.5, I'm gonna run this 2nd batch for 16 hours and see what that does. It's tricky because it drops moisture as it cools I knew it was going to do some, but it's over 2 points, I wasn't expecting that much. As soon as I seen that auger I immediately thought about our conversation on the last video. 😆.
That's awesome about the 45, farmer ingenuity at it's finest. Just have the gas man come and that's all you got to worry about. 😆. Thanks for watching and commenting Evan!!
Well this was a great video Tim, the crops look great, you don’t have any snow there yet? We got some here and it’s plenty cold 🥶 the Glen looks like it is an unstoppable combine🚜🌾🌾🌾hope you had a great thanksgiving 🦃
We've got a few dustings of snow so far but nothing to stick luckily. Glen has been doing great. Except for yesterday. It got down to 0 degrees over night and the fuel gelled. After solving that problem the starter decided to take a crap...... i had one on the shelf so we changed that. Then the hydraulic line that runs to the steering blew 🙄 this was all before i made it to the field 😆 and it was 10 degrees all day while we were doing all this..... hopefully today is a better day
Brings back so many memories for me, keep up the great work!
By the way do you notice any difference in mice with the mint?
Thankyou William. I'm glad you enjoy the videos.
As far as the mice I didn't have any activity in my combine cab this off season. The mint definitely helped. I must have planned it in a bad spot because it died off over winter last year. So I've got some pots and I brought them in the shop this fall 😆
What kind of combine is that?
If you want a little adventure and maybe less cultivating, try inter-seeding soybeans with white mustard next year and build a little inter-row crimper like I did. I got some videos if you're interested. I guess you got that zapper, but my beans were pretty clean. they love a companion out there early on aggregating soil and then after smashing the mustard between the beans you get a bunch of sulphur rich fertility for the beans at the perfect time grain fill
Drop a link for me to your video if you could. My phone is not letting me click your name and go to your page for what ever reason.🤦♂️
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How many acres does your family farm?
@rustyrelicsfarm2406 right at 400 tried buying more a couple times as it comes up in the area but the big farmers are so greedy any more that they literally go to funerals and make offers on the land. 🤦♂️
@TimothyFluegel 400 Acres is still a descent sized operation. At least your equipment is paid for.
You got that right.
The m bigger than an l
No the L is bigger. M holds around 150 in the hopper and the L holds around 200 bushels. The l has a 426ci engine and the m has a 301ci, and I couldn't tell ya off hand how much bigger the thrashing part of the L is but it's bigger lol. Thanks for watching and commenting!!!
Omg now days it’s 16 to 20 rows you are not going to make a million views