Thx for the ride along Brian. Brought back memories from 1964 when I was 11yrs of age. My first summer spent on a 2 section farm out in west Texas. I wasn't old enough to operate, so the owner made me a grease monkey,,hehe! Did put me on an old popping Johnny to move irrigation pipe, but did start my passion of equipment, cars & trucks. Stay well & safe over the Holidays, Bear.
Thanks Brian great vid ... Boy you weren't joking when you see dusty. 🤫 whisper quiet cab too ... well for 1980 🤣😂🤣Or with 1975's Fine Corinthian Leather
We always added a piece of chain that would just touch the ground from the belly of the combine. It served as a grounding device to discharge the static electricity build-up from the cylinder and other moving parts. That helped keep the windows from attracting dust and etc. from building up. A piece of leather belt would also have worked but we needed them to keep our pants from falling off so a piece of load binding chain that had been replaced on the equipment hauling trailer was used. Recycling at its best. You need to hang a video monitor to play Looney Tunes Cartoons while you are driving down the field and a bicycle horn to simulate the end of the field to warn you that you need to take over from the auto steer and make your turn. TEE HEE, YEE HAW!!! It is great to watch a combine or tractor in which the operator's brain, eyes, ears, hands, and feet are all working in a coordinated fashion to control the machines. Thanks for letting us ride with you.
I have a chain maybe it is defective. LOL Also the head is physically on the ground shouldn't that work too? When it hasn't rained for like 90 days it gets pretty bad dusty.
I remember trying the chain deal on combines if it made any difference it wasn't noticeable. windows got dirty with the chain dragging or the chain not dragging
Nice video Brian. After farming, every other job I've done seems like a vacation in comparison. No cab on our John Deere, just a shabby umbrella and Utah alfalfa dust in every sweaty crevice imaginable. I'd do it all again in a second though.
Hey Brian. I just learned that Baily was no longer with us. I'm really sorry man, a good dog is a real treasure. I've had to let a few go through the years and it's never easy.
Grew up riding on an open station 95b. Never rode it in beans though. Oats were most common crop we harvested and they were itchy enough. It’s amazing the technology of walker combines didn’t change much for 60-80 years. If you ever ran an old one, most things on a newer one are easily understandable. Just need to know where all the grease fittings and oil fills and gearbox check plugs are. The best thing on the newer ones is the reverser on the feederhouse! I haven’t made the jump to a rotary yet and don’t plan to any time soon. Combines are a very maintainable machine, just keep replacing what’s worn out and she goes and goes.
Brian, I cut many acres of beans back in the 80’s with a 7700 and a 220 head. Now use a 9770 and a 35 foot Draper. Both get the job done. Keep that old iron running!
Long ago paid for and it has some electronics but none of it controls anything so a failure is just a loss of info it does not effect the actual operation.
Thanks for sharing your farming at home... Do you ever get told by agriculture/guberment to turn your crops under like many did in Nebraska and New York?
Not a particularly good year. Best year ever I averaged about 68bu/ac over the whole farm. This year I think it will be about 45 avg. I have had years that didn't make but one truck load too so could have been better and could have been worse. This is probably close to the 20 year average. We have had really good years mostly over the last 10 years so a bit spoiled.
I used to haul the same weight in sawmill slabs and firewood on a C60 Chevy with a 366 and a five over two. It worked just fine, gobs of power and road gears to boot. I still love your Dodge, when it comes to trucks I am definitely NOT a fan boy. All trucks are cool, I know because I have worked the stinky sweat out of them all Ford, Dodge, Chevy, GMC and International. Art from Ohio PS: Loved the new content. Keep in mind, we are here to see YOU, that means anything you happen to be doing, like mowing the lawn on that cool old John Deere garden tractor.
I farmed in the late 50's early 60's and loved all of it except combining (the dust was HARD on my allergies) and hay baling (loading the wagons and unloading them.) Plowing, discing, harrowing, planting, fertilizing, and cultivating were all great fun - hard but fun. We didn't have all the big fancy stuff with electronics and cabs and engines built in. All run with tractor PTOs or else. Combines were all PTO and pulled. There were no combines with motors and cabs built in. The wagons for the beans, oats, wheat or corn were usually pulled by horses because the tractor was busy pulling the combines. Same with the hay bales. Horses were the "other" power equipment. I'd spend more time these days cleaning the windows...and the filters.
Horse farming was well before my time. As a kid a lot of the old neighbors talked about it. Seems back then most every farm around here was about 100 acres or less as that seemed to be about the limit for one family to be able to take care of. Things sure have changed!
Great Harvest video in advance of Thanksgiving!!! Need to run the ole machine down to the local car wash and get those windows cleaned up so you can see where you're going... . Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Brian!
I use two AC all crops pull behinds with a little 30 hp John Deere, one grain head the other two row corn heads. So I am farming in the 1950’s but it is all serviceable by me.
my harvesting experience was cutting milo with a (now) tiny Allis Chalmers pull type. tiny being relative ... at 13 years old, it seemed like a behemoth
@@vendter, By the looks of how dusty beans are, I hope you wore a mask or respirator. Maybe wheat isn’t as dusty as beans are but it still has to be hard on the lungs!
@@vendter Those who have never harvested crops from an open station combine do not know the experience of standing up and looking down at how the crop is feeding into the feeder raddle chains. Today they worry about how the sound system is in their encapsulated and automated operating station.
34 is a good load. 13 tons here is a good one on a single axle with a 366 and a KW with a little Cummins and a 9-speed UP a ways. That's where you can see the road below in 3 different levels GBWYall!
@@bcbloc02 I wondered about that. I know that most of the farmers out in Pennsylvania where i vacation in the warm months rotate their fields between corn and soybeans. This year a lot of the corn was still standing in the fields when I left at the end of October.
Think about those poor soybeans seeing that combine coming and thinking "Run away! Run away!" But realizing they have roots. Those poor things. Too bad I like tofu...
If somebody could invent glass that bean and corn dust wouldn't stick to, they would be billionaires. One of dad's combines he used for corn (JD 45 or 55, I don't recall which), didn't have a cab. They harvested corn some time between December and March up in Minnesota.
According to my napkin math 23,440lbs / 60lb per bushel is 390.67 390.67 bushels x 0.035 for cubic meter of soybeans is 13.67 13.67 x going rate of cubic meter of soybeans $420.09 = grand total of $5,744 Does that sound about right? I never work with agricultural commodities. How much did the seed cost? Or do you save some from last years yield for next year?
Herbicide resistant varieties are illegal to save for replant. Your math is about right but what you get paid actually depends on where you sell to the board of trade price is just a starting point the elevator or feedlot or whoever you sell to can offer any price they want.
I could go faster but you get done too fast like that.... lol I love your sense of humor and there is still money to be made with the old gear if they can stay somewhat reliable... cheers
That is about right for my little truck loads this year. A semi load worth twice as much!! Of course license and insurance for the Kw is $1000/year versus $150 for the Dodge
Grew up riding on an open station 95b. Never rode it in beans though. Oats were most common crop we harvested and they were itchy enough. It’s amazing the technology of walker combines didn’t change much for 60-80 years. If you ever ran an old one, most things on a newer one are easily understandable. Just need to know where all the grease fittings and oil fills and gearbox check plugs are. The best thing on the newer ones is the reverser on the feederhouse! I haven’t made the jump to a rotary yet and don’t plan to any time soon. Combines are a very maintainable machine, just keep replacing what’s worn out and she goes and goes.
BB's videos are like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get but they are always good. Thanks for the ride it was fun.
You got that right!
I always love watching these videos of Brian’s. It justifies the cost of a new iPad after I sat on the old one.
Thats what I call old school farming!!
Always nice to spend time with you Brian.
Definitely different ! Good to see.
Thx for the ride along Brian. Brought back memories from 1964 when I was 11yrs of age. My first summer spent on a 2 section farm out in west Texas. I wasn't old enough to operate, so the owner made me a grease monkey,,hehe! Did put me on an old popping Johnny to move irrigation pipe, but did start my passion of equipment, cars & trucks. Stay well & safe over the Holidays, Bear.
Morning. 🤣😂🤣 I'm getting ready to go to bed an you popped up 😁 I got time for you.😴
Sweet dreams!
Thanks Brian great vid ... Boy you weren't joking when you see dusty.
🤫 whisper quiet cab too ... well for 1980 🤣😂🤣Or with 1975's Fine Corinthian Leather
It’s hard to tell the crop from the dirt on the windshield lol 😂
Yeah and I had just cleaned it the truck load before.
I was going to say the same thing! 🤣👍
How many acres Brian?
I'm with you Brian .. Hayrake, Baler, Combine ... as long as you've got a good seat ... very relaxing!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
We always added a piece of chain that would just touch the ground from the belly of the combine. It served as a grounding device to discharge the static electricity build-up from the cylinder and other moving parts. That helped keep the windows from attracting dust and etc. from building up. A piece of leather belt would also have worked but we needed them to keep our pants from falling off so a piece of load binding chain that had been replaced on the equipment hauling trailer was used. Recycling at its best.
You need to hang a video monitor to play Looney Tunes Cartoons while you are driving down the field and a bicycle horn to simulate the end of the field to warn you that you need to take over from the auto steer and make your turn. TEE HEE, YEE HAW!!!
It is great to watch a combine or tractor in which the operator's brain, eyes, ears, hands, and feet are all working in a coordinated fashion to control the machines. Thanks for letting us ride with you.
I have a chain maybe it is defective. LOL Also the head is physically on the ground shouldn't that work too? When it hasn't rained for like 90 days it gets pretty bad dusty.
@@bcbloc02 You probably used a JD chain, you should have been using an AGCO chain.... Keep up the great videos.
I remember trying the chain deal on combines if it made any difference it wasn't noticeable. windows got dirty with the chain dragging or the chain not dragging
Nice video Brian. After farming, every other job I've done seems like a vacation in comparison. No cab on our John Deere, just a shabby umbrella and Utah alfalfa dust in every sweaty crevice imaginable. I'd do it all again in a second though.
Thanks for the ride along! Looks like fun to me.
Quote of the day: “…I find it peaceful “, Brian 1982.
Awesome!
Good job Brian Block take care
Thanks, you too!
looks like fun Brian......cheers, Paul
I agree Brian - I find this type of work peaceful also. Thanks for the video.
Hey Brian. I just learned that Baily was no longer with us. I'm really sorry man, a good dog is a real treasure. I've had to let a few go through the years and it's never easy.
👍👍 thanks for anothher video feller and bringing us along 👊
Grew up riding on an open station 95b. Never rode it in beans though. Oats were most common crop we harvested and they were itchy enough.
It’s amazing the technology of walker combines didn’t change much for 60-80 years. If you ever ran an old one, most things on a newer one are easily understandable. Just need to know where all the grease fittings and oil fills and gearbox check plugs are.
The best thing on the newer ones is the reverser on the feederhouse!
I haven’t made the jump to a rotary yet and don’t plan to any time soon. Combines are a very maintainable machine, just keep replacing what’s worn out and she goes and goes.
I do like watching Millennial Farmer out of MN. Yes, that's a huge operation there. A lot of new Green equipment always.
Yep they do it big time and it is interesting to watch. :-)
And in reality the biggest farmers aren’t on TH-cam. The guys running 20000 acres or more don’t advertise it
Brian, I cut many acres of beans back in the 80’s with a 7700 and a 220 head. Now use a 9770 and a 35 foot Draper. Both get the job done. Keep that old iron running!
good video brian
Looks like a good crop
What you can see of it!
best thing about that combine is I bet it's paid for & not so many electronics to cause problems
Long ago paid for and it has some electronics but none of it controls anything so a failure is just a loss of info it does not effect the actual operation.
Thanks for sharing your farming at home...
Do you ever get told by agriculture/guberment to turn your crops under like many did in Nebraska and New York?
How many bushel of beans do you get per acre? Was this a good year? Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Not a particularly good year. Best year ever I averaged about 68bu/ac over the whole farm. This year I think it will be about 45 avg. I have had years that didn't make but one truck load too so could have been better and could have been worse. This is probably close to the 20 year average. We have had really good years mostly over the last 10 years so a bit spoiled.
I'm very much an old school farmer and would prefer farming on a similar scale. The old technology makes you have to think about what you're doing.
I have to agree. nothing better that cutting beans or picking corn. I work in town but have had the chance to run a few machines
I used to haul the same weight in sawmill slabs and firewood on a C60 Chevy with a 366 and a five over two. It worked just fine, gobs of power and road gears to boot. I still love your Dodge, when it comes to trucks I am definitely NOT a fan boy. All trucks are cool, I know because I have worked the stinky sweat out of them all Ford, Dodge, Chevy, GMC and International.
Art from Ohio
PS: Loved the new content. Keep in mind, we are here to see YOU, that means anything you happen to be doing, like mowing the lawn on that cool old John Deere garden tractor.
Thanks! Many hate the non machining related content but my channel has always been very varied so no one gets too used to one style of video here. Lol
I farmed in the late 50's early 60's and loved all of it except combining (the dust was HARD on my allergies) and hay baling (loading the wagons and unloading them.) Plowing, discing, harrowing, planting, fertilizing, and cultivating were all great fun - hard but fun. We didn't have all the big fancy stuff with electronics and cabs and engines built in. All run with tractor PTOs or else. Combines were all PTO and pulled. There were no combines with motors and cabs built in. The wagons for the beans, oats, wheat or corn were usually pulled by horses because the tractor was busy pulling the combines. Same with the hay bales. Horses were the "other" power equipment. I'd spend more time these days cleaning the windows...and the filters.
Horse farming was well before my time. As a kid a lot of the old neighbors talked about it. Seems back then most every farm around here was about 100 acres or less as that seemed to be about the limit for one family to be able to take care of. Things sure have changed!
I used to get 5 cents a bale picking up 80 pound bales and 10 cents for 120 pound bales. This was the early 70's. I was 14 years old at the time.
That looks like fun!
I mostly did not hear what you said but I am sure it was informative. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.
Sorry about that, yeah its a loud environment to film in.
Great Harvest video in advance of Thanksgiving!!! Need to run the ole machine down to the local car wash and get those windows cleaned up so you can see where you're going... . Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Brian!
Y’all must have bigger car washes in Canada!!
@@bcbloc02 For the Zambonis.
I have lots of hrs in one of them. Good machines.
Dad never had auto header height on his 1979 7720. Was happy to have a cab, heat and a/c.
I use two AC all crops pull behinds with a little 30 hp John Deere, one grain head the other two row corn heads. So I am farming in the 1950’s but it is all serviceable by me.
You should video it!
RainX and a duster helps a lot to keep dust from collecting on the window.
I've spent a lot of time in the seat of 8820's. I can still hear the tailings return hitting the door down by your feet
scheck scheck scheck
That was the first systems monitor. When the noise quit you knew something went wrong
Have some pride man, clean that thing up
She would be a long day out in the open without a cab thats for sure. People were just tougher back then.
my harvesting experience was cutting milo with a (now) tiny Allis Chalmers pull type. tiny being relative ... at 13 years old, it seemed like a behemoth
Good
Being able to repair something as it needs it is good
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Looks like the windshield hasn't been cleaned since the combine was new.
It was cleaned the previous truck load when I started that field at lunch time. So that much dirt was accumulated in about 3 hours.
@@bcbloc02 As recently as 5 years ago I was helping my aunt harvest her wheat with a 1955 JD model 45. It didn't have any windshield to get dirty.
@@vendter, By the looks of how dusty beans are, I hope you wore a mask or respirator. Maybe wheat isn’t as dusty as beans are but it still has to be hard on the lungs!
@@vendter Those who have never harvested crops from an open station combine do not know the experience of standing up and looking down at how the crop is feeding into the feeder raddle chains. Today they worry about how the sound system is in their encapsulated and automated operating station.
34 is a good load. 13 tons here is a good one on a single axle with a 366 and a KW with a little Cummins and a 9-speed UP a ways. That's where you can see the road below in 3 different levels GBWYall!
What happened to the whisky corn this year?
Somebody else raised it. I alternate crops every year to prevent disease so corn will be back next year.
@@bcbloc02 I wondered about that. I know that most of the farmers out in Pennsylvania where i vacation in the warm months rotate their fields between corn and soybeans. This year a lot of the corn was still standing in the fields when I left at the end of October.
Makes Sense never over farm your field otherwise you end up with dust not worth anything
@@bcbloc02 You can add - beans fix nitrogen & corn strips it (just amazing how many things work better with a little nitrogen)
Hiya Brian
Think about those poor soybeans seeing that combine coming and thinking "Run away! Run away!" But realizing they have roots. Those poor things. Too bad I like tofu...
It would sure help the video if you washed the windows so we could see the crop.
You guys are a dry as we are. Most ponds are dry around here :(
If somebody could invent glass that bean and corn dust wouldn't stick to, they would be billionaires. One of dad's combines he used for corn (JD 45 or 55, I don't recall which), didn't have a cab. They harvested corn some time between December and March up in Minnesota.
Where do your beans go out in your parts? I know you aren’t too far from my sisters place
According to my napkin math 23,440lbs / 60lb per bushel is 390.67
390.67 bushels x 0.035 for cubic meter of soybeans is 13.67
13.67 x going rate of cubic meter of soybeans $420.09 = grand total of $5,744
Does that sound about right? I never work with agricultural commodities. How much did the seed cost? Or do you save some from last years yield for next year?
Herbicide resistant varieties are illegal to save for replant. Your math is about right but what you get paid actually depends on where you sell to the board of trade price is just a starting point the elevator or feedlot or whoever you sell to can offer any price they want.
I could go faster but you get done too fast like that.... lol I love your sense of humor and there is still money to be made with the old gear if they can stay somewhat reliable... cheers
Never saw the orange ball. 🤣
How would I contact you about lathe questions in terms of oil suggestion in the carriage. I have Keith Rucker address??
Thanks John
You can email me. It’s listed under the about section on my channel or it’s bcbloc02 at yahoo
What is your soybean row spacing? I subscribed
15"
Come on Brian,we will build you a X9..
$5,500 per truck?
That is about right for my little truck loads this year. A semi load worth twice as much!! Of course license and insurance for the Kw is $1000/year versus $150 for the Dodge
I remember when they were just babies…….
tare looks high?
The Dodge is double framed and tandem axle so it’s not light.
You did not show outside view.
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Yup these million-dollar farmers are always having break downs and some can't even keep their new equipment operational long enough to do anything.
Don’t need a computer to work on that one.
290th!
Sorry Brian, but that was boring, couldn't see anything and couldn't hear you so I cut this one short
See ya next time fella
Content not good if you can’t see anything
Grew up riding on an open station 95b. Never rode it in beans though. Oats were most common crop we harvested and they were itchy enough.
It’s amazing the technology of walker combines didn’t change much for 60-80 years. If you ever ran an old one, most things on a newer one are easily understandable. Just need to know where all the grease fittings and oil fills and gearbox check plugs are.
The best thing on the newer ones is the reverser on the feederhouse!
I haven’t made the jump to a rotary yet and don’t plan to any time soon. Combines are a very maintainable machine, just keep replacing what’s worn out and she goes and goes.
Where do your beans go out in your parts? I know you aren’t too far from my sisters place
Where do your beans go out in your parts? I know you aren’t too far from my sisters place
They eventually go down the Mississippi River as far as I know. I sell to the local elevator and they resell them down the river.