Dirty Jobs Gen Z Farm Kid Edition
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- I would say cleaning the dryer out is the first real step to any good farm hands initiation. Does Onyx have what it takes?!
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Don't move too fast Onyx or else you will have a dangerous fall like your dad did while walking on the cultivator.
Too soon!
@@MillennialFarmerwe haven’t had a chat about that yet,so no not too soon 🧐
I've lived my older years with only one rule. Don't fall down.
Onyx must think he has a union job.
@MillennialFarmer , our dryer guy years ago told us to open those small access doors every few days while the dryer is running and a lot of that will blow right out, just don't put your face in front of the hole when you open it!
Knee pads are an amazing invention. Some think not wearing them toughens up your knees, it doesn't. You just wear out your knees, something you regret later as you get older.
Exactly what I posted as well. Said to Zach to take it from a concrete guy who told the “old timers” they should wear them like me. They always laughed and called me a… well, you know. By the time they retired they could barely walk. Me, I can still run!
Yup! Construction wears body parts out fast. Tile and flooring guys will tell you how bad it gets too. Pads on my knees, ear plugs, and gloves are how I roll now. Being a carpenter (framing) did my back, shoulders, and hearing in years ago. Use more tools to do the work and padding where it counts
@@uberuser1999 I have heard something similar from one of grandpa's old colleagues.
That guy is still athletic at like 70, because he always used knee pads and soft padding when on the ground for a long time.
Yes, knee pads help. Trust me, . . . I am waiting for knee replacement surgery. That surgery requires exercises that are not fun if a person wants to regain a functioning knee. My wife just had knee surgery a month ago. I am her "gopher". She is a retired Physiotherapist. She knows what she has to do. However, when one is younger, a person believes that aging is something that old people "endure". 😮
Well Onyx is getting older and more self conscious which is part of life. It is nice to see him participating in farm chores and taking on those tasks like the fine young man he is becoming . I love when next generation steps up to help out it gives me hope for the future and I am sure helps him feel some pride as well.
Crazy when kids hit their teen years, it's as if they suddenly get replaced overnight with a much bigger and much moodier version.
I grew up cleaning horse stalls everyday before and after school. It's character building and I developed a work ethic very early as well as a dark twisted sense of humor. Child labor is awesome.
BTDT, try adding chicken coops as well.
Zach, I was watching you your dad and son shoveling around the dryer and I thought about Chet and his dad Dougo at Larson Farms they were having the same problem. They came across a company that provided them with a very strong vacuum system….it picks up everything…. It wouldn’t hurt to ask them, just a suggestion from a fan!
Zach needs a central vac system installed for his grain bins & storage area.
A vac system or some sort of dragline.
Or one of those tractor-pulled corn vacuums like one of the other farming channels has. That would have vacuumed the dryer out in no time.
Exactly! Or even some sort of powerful portable system. Anything would best pushing that junk out and all over the ground - making twice the amount of work.
@@uberuser1999 Maybe like a vacuum hose with a spinning broom attachment? Ever seen the power broom that railroads use to clear ballast off the ties?
Maybe a hose and connection spot to use the one 3ft from the door? Seems it could be used to suck it up and it they had a point where they switch witch of the bins it goes to, they could blow it out where they could use a loader to clean it up.
I think Onyx was astounded by how fast his father and grandfather was working and he knew it was better to not get in the way of progress. Great video! God Bless.
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I miss watching Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. Thankfully he has a new program that is very similar.
dirty jobs with millenium farmers... smiles... its a dirty job and zach just love it
Mike Rowe is the man. Everybody knows it
@@MillennialFarmer when are you going to start off the husk again
@@MillennialFarmer get him booked for off the husk yet?
He has a podcast and tells interesting stories about people we may not have heard. Can't recall off the top of my head the name of it is, though.@@MillennialFarmer
I believe a dirty jobs episode with you and Mike Rowe would be quite comical.
You should look into construction chutes for debris. They are about $150 for a 10-foot section and would work perfectly with the dryer cleaning and also keep all the dust from going everywhere.
Very good idea, no question it would work great and feed the skid bucked nice.
I can’t say enough about your closing comments: “do the whole family thing.” Thank you for that! That’s what all this is for!
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@@MillennialFarmer That's what we did when we farmed!
For the clean-out, what about using a relatively high strength vacuum system with a long hose. I'm sure it would be expensive, but it sure would make all your clean-out jobs easier.
Leaf vacuum
I do a lot of industrial/ refinery work and this has me thinking of "borrowing" a vac truck and making a trip out west. Even one of the smaller ones would turn that into an hour long job.
@@Jerseydoosh it is a good idea and you could probably sell what you get out of all those dryers as cheap chicken feed.
Yes I was thinking how nice it would be if Zach had a skid steer mounted vacuum like Larson Farms
Yes I was thinking how nice it would be if Zach had a skid steer mounted vacuum like Larson Farms
“Pull it out like a half inch.” That’s what she said 😬
Next year Onyx will be able to clean the entire dryer himself while you sip on a mojito on the porch.
If you layed down some old tarps you could pull it out to the field. Old tote tank bottoms would also work. Even a wood slip form.
How is Jim been doing still recovering from his surgery
Glad to see you take the time to check on your dad several times during the day. You never know what can happen when your working alone.
Good job we didn't see Onyx move in a slow motion replay, ( I think he would have stopped completely). 🤣🤣
Have you thought about knee pads Zach? Take it from someone who knows. You need to preserve your knees as best you can as long as you can. Replacement joints work okay but they're only good for about 10 years on someone who is fairly active. If you're a senior and don't move around too much the joints may last somewhat longer but you're a ways away from that age. I have one bad knee, osteoarthritis, and it's been with me for over 25 years now. I last had checked out probably close to 20 years ago. I find that for me, the glucosamine sulphate, MSM, and confronting combo pills 500-400-400 work pretty well, I take three of them a day. They 'really huge like horse pills but I can swallow them okay. The only possible bad side effect I see is that they have some calcium content and this may upset the body balance for that a bit. Most everyone knows that a lack of sufficient calcium in a diet can cause painful muscle cramps, among other things. But most people don't realize too much calcium in the body can also cause muscle cramps. Like most things with our bodies it is a balance. The stuff I take to help with my knee pain from osteoarthritis can upset the balance and be a real issue for some people, to the point they may not be able to take it. So this is why you need to take care of those knees now. I know knee pads are a pain to work with but they do help. Otherwise try a homemade kneeling pad, just cut a two inch thick piece of quite dense foam to a suitable size. That was what I used for my plumbing work. Again, it's a pain in the behind working with such preventative stuff and I do know something about working in tight spaces myself. But if thirty something you puts up with a bit of inconvenience now, sixty plus you will be really thankful years down the road. I still haven't had a knee replacement yet but I'm lucky since the pills seem to work for me. These pills aren't painkillers, they just seem to help the body repair the damaged cartilage in the knee joints. My specialists words of advice all those years ago still ring in my ears. If you can get by reasonably well without replacement surgery then don't have the surgery. Every surgery always carries a certain amount of risk and the replacement joints may themselves have to be replaced one or more times during the remainder of your life. Take care of those knees please.
I applaud your work ethic and your commitment to checking on your father as well. You're a well rounded and dedicated family man brother.
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Way to go Onyx. I m sure your dad really appreciates your fine help. Wish I had one like you.
not gonna lie. as a farm kid and now a dad. if i saw my son working like molasses id be like ok...heres ur shovel and this is all yours now. ima go do something else. no hate just how i was raised
Get your grain vac suck it out , need be make a lighter pickup hose. MIND OVER MATTER.
Just a thought I donno if it would work or not but couldn’t you use the leaf blower inside the dryer to blow all the loose stuff out the door?
Zack it would never be an easy job cleaning out the driers, but a big sawdust vacuum would make a huge difference and a lot less dust 😎
Somebody needs to figure out a way, to turn that air handling system into a giant vacuum, for cleaning the dryer out. 🤔
Zack you were on your butt just like your Minnesota Vikings were when the da bears ran past them. To beat your Minnesota Vikings
My question about the dryer is WHY DONT YOU HAVE A VAC TRUCK COME CLEAN IT OUT?!?!? I’ve said that a thousand times. It would take that a quarter of the time to do than what it takes you guys. It comes down to what your time is worth. If I lived closer I’d bring my vac truck over and show you how quickly and easy it would be. Shovels are dumb! Also you could recover that corn that is in the dryer and have the vac truck dump it in your pit. Stop wasting your time shoveling it
Would a shop vac with a long hose make it any easier?
Is that grits, corn meal, or Fritos Corn 🌽 Chips yall are cleaning out the Corn dryer ?
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Zach, have you gotten the message yet?!!! Knee pads and a vacuum!!! Hahaha
That must be Jim's new totterhome in the shed. Good for Jim.
Could a grain vacuum be used to clean out under and inside of the dryer? Could the crud be blown straight into a truck?
Look like some sort of industrial vac would be very useful and justified for around the ben and dryer sight.
If you open those bottom clean out doors periodically through the season with the fan on and dryer full or corn wouldn’t most of that blow out.
Dang I didn’t know that you were 6,3 233 pounds??
I have too bribe my kids to do anything, great to see Onyx chipping in with his old man
Honest question. Why don't you use a vacuum device to clean out the dryer? I know there are different types of vacuums.
I understand that the stuff in the dryer gets wet and will stick together. Why can't you build a portable vac system to suck it up and have it deposit into a trailer or the skid loader? It might not be 100%, but would you be able to get most of it out of the way and reduce the hand cleaning inside? You could use the same system to clean up underneath the unit.
Some friends of mine just invested in a portable grain vac. They use it to clean out dryers, bins, the ground around the dryer and bins, etc as well as using it before putting grain in bins or dryers to pull a lot of the dust and chaff from the crop.
I would figure out a way to use a 2 hp woodworking dust collector and the needed flexible 4" dust hose and the right suction fitting to work all that effluent. Get the impeller to discharge into a bag and you'd make that job much less onerous.
Hey Zach, Goofy idea, I know you have a lot of shoveling to do around the bins, but what if you were to build a pitched surface underneath the whole length of the dryer so anything falling out of the dryer would automatically slide to either the inside or the outside? Or possibly both if you pitch it two ways?
wear a bicycle helmet inside the dryer....headbangerpreventer
I can see Zach showing these videos to Oynx's son as Onyx is complaining about the help he is getting. Lol. I know I would
12:40 Try a mask and battery powered leaf blower. Dirty dusty mess, but works if not overly caked.
How about a commercial vacuum to clean the corn dryer.?
If ur grain bin is a pain in the neck then you better start using grain bags lol
Time for an official dryer hard hat! and knee pads!
To clean out Dryer, I get a helper and one at fan control to turn the fan on. Then I’m in the plenum with a blower and compressor hose to blow 90% of fines out. Like any cleaning project start at the top and work down. Daily cleaning around Dryer will aide in cleaning at the end of the year.
Would it be possible to get something like a pool vacuum type of machine to make cleaning the dryer easier?
Zach I’m sure that lower plenum is split in half so if you wanted to dump cool you could run your lower fan without heat… or a lot less heat…. obviously it would do less per hour and you’d loose that steeping in the bin but that’s why they do that.
Zack do I need to get you some knee pads buddy
Perfect thing to get me through the rest of the afternoon!
I would have just used that DeWalt leaf blower on the inside of that. I realize it would make a mess but I would just keep blowing it until it was clean.
I watch a lot of farmers & all of them hate to clean the dryers out. I’ve seen them use small leaf blowers trying to make it go faster up top.
An idea for next year, look into renting a vac trailer and vacuum out all the stuff in & around the dryer
why don't you use a grain vac for that?
Zack, I love seeing the three generations of the family working together. As for the knees, I feel your pain just the same, old age sucks why not go to Harbor Freight and pick yourself up some knee pads so you can work more comfortably they have several types.
You need a vacuum system for your dryer. How obvious was that😊
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Zack is the next Mike Rowe of dirty jobs.
Question why dont you invest in an skid steer vac like Larson farms it would help a lot?
Forgive my stupidity, but could an industrial vacuum take care of the dryer cleanup? Is that even a thing? 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: turns out I wasn’t the first to mention this 😂
A tower dryer will burn 🔥 the inside fines
the dogs would help, if they could
Zach, Zach, Zack... you should catch the Borderview Farm video where he uses a commercial compressor to clean their combine and drier. So easy it was a joke. Something to think about.
Great video. Always great to see Onyx as he grows up! Good that he not only gets to do the fun part of farming but also helps with the “dirty jobs”. I’m 72 and remember shoveling bins without a sweep auger. Teaches you that some jobs just are work. And that eventually they get finished. Those are valuable character building tools. Onyx is going to be a wonderful young man and pass along those lessons to his kids I presume.
Thanks also for all the explanations of how equipment works. From the outside it all looks automatic and trouble free!!
Just guessing but is the top and middle plenums blowing hot air and the bottom cool air to cool the grain?
Pool Noodle for sharp edges. Knee pads
Do your safety glasses have a foam seal around them the edges. If so where did you get them. Good for the races!
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zach, next year you can be the actor who plays onyx
Silly question but could you open those doors on the drier and turn the fan on and blow most of that stuff out?
You guys need a big portable air compressor like Larson Farms uses. You could blow that dryer out in no time!
I hope you guys lock out motor disconnects when working near those augers... Happy Holidays, MMFer! :)
You need to buy Onyx some gloves and a Stick. Gloves to protect his hands and a stick to beat the girls off with. lol
Love all your content and Becky is very good at editing it all. Great stuff !!!
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Is it possible..... Set your VACTOR up so you can use it to clean the DRYER...
Then it would exit into a trailer or dump truck and skip the clean - up on the ground and would be efficient. Merry Christmas to POWERFUL CREATOR S.
Don't know if it would work for you or not, but when we clean out the crematory, we use long skinny brushes or scrapers. That may keep you from crawling in the bottom of the dryer.
For cleaning under and inside the dryer, I wonder if there is some kind of cyclone vacuum you could use. 🤔
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DIRTY JOBS,,,,, You should ask Mike Rowe to come out and help with dirty jobs
Zach, there's been many times that I couldn't help but think, you need one of those large tractor-powered vacuum cleaners. I'm sure you would find heaps of uses for it.
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Get a skid loader with door
I was going to tell you I will help you out until you said at 6’3” and you dont do well….I am 6’8” sooo looks like I won’t be there to help!
Good thing he was excited about standing around.
Lol. Kids..lol..
Hey was wondering why no vacuum, even leaf blower woulda worked nicely.
Just a bit confused here....why don't you have a small vacuum truck....in a Ford 250 to do all of the work...even better.
Is it possible to use a grain vac to clean out the dryer and suck up the mess underneath?
Seems to me you could use a used 185 CFM diesel powered air compressor like the ones used for jack hammering asphalt. Great for cleaning out combines, grain dryers and the crud by the legs of grain dryers. Its the volume that saves time. And yes, like a face mask knee pads will save knee joints too.
Dude, knee pads lol..I dont have to crawl around like you but I can tell you on a day of ice fishing where we couldnt even get the shanty set up on the ice my knee were toast! Fish were hammering everything we put down the holes for hours. Ever since that day. KNEE PADS! I hurt for 3 days after that day without pads. That also ruined my knees probably for life. Strap them babies over your coveralls and good to go. Also, Onyx moves like my son 🤣..(same age) Onyx seems to move alittle faster after a bit. Mine just disspaears into thin air after about 10 minutes
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It is great to see 3 generations working together. Thanks for the great vids.
1- leave plenum full of corn
2- block doors open
3- start fans at max RPM
4- run fans 20min. and enjoy clean dryer...
I'm trying to word this so as to not come across as obnoxious. Be that as it is. Plumb your dryer for compressed air at each level. Have a drop at the bottom to hook up 'Thunder'. Along with a vac system. I'm thinking something along a leaf collection concept, but larger collection box. Yes the expense, and the extra work for install. But the time saving YOY would make it worth it to save your knees. And the obnoxious part, Work smarter not harder. You've heard about the farmer who drove around a large rock for years thinking it was too big to move. Finally decided to move it, and was only a sliver thick. That's my two cents. Or I can go fly a kite. Either way. Stay safe.
I think you guys need more masks... Ive seen people blowing off combines with masks and working in the dryer without a mask probably isnt the best for your lungs...
A couple of 1/4''thick by 4"x6"steel tubes slid on the skid steer forks about 12' long with a 1/4'' 6''x6'' angle iron about 30'' wide bolted across the end of the tubes, ratchet strapped or chained back to the pallet fork mast. Carefully drive it under the dry between the legs drop it down and back drag the fines out. Our dryers sit on flat concrete I pull the fines out and switch to bucket and scoop them away, been doing it for a few years with ours. I see you have a pretty good step down...but you could get it back drug to that step and not be shoveling as much under and towards the bin side it would all be out front and loose .... lots easier scooping;)
As a Dad of Two, I can understand the frustrated training going on. But if Grandpa was working harder than me. Dad would have clobbered me. Just saying.
Onyx wants to be hunting. Can't blame him. We grew up on a far, 6 (4 boys 2 girls). By the time we graduated High School we.had all had enough of farming by then. We all moved away. Mom and Dad sold the farm when he turned 60 and moved to Florida to open a beach bar and semi retire. All 6 of us kids are now in Florida and drink alot. :)