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". 😮
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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!
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.
You should look into QED Dryer out of Rockford Ill. The fines are kept in the corn & the bees wings are drawn into the burners. Very little to clean up off the ground.
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!
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.
They make a yard vacuum mounts on the back of your riding lawnmower and it holds about it. 5 bushel love leaves and it has a long hose for vacuuming leaves and hard to get spots. It would be good for cleaning out your dryer.
You need a Bump cap for when your cleaning our the bins, As a 6'3" bald guy I feel your pain, you can get them in a sock hat for when its cold or a ball cap, basically a plastic insert that will become your best friend.
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.
You should add a vacuum port to your grain conveyor with a 3-4” hose to suck the dry junk out, divert it to grain dump with grain cart, then put it in field…most don’t have a vac/blower system…work smarter not harder!
Build a big airtight box and hook a big shop vac to it. Works like a hot damn on grain dryers. Stick the box onto the deere with the loader. Very clean very fast. Cheers.
12:05 what you need is a small dump trailer and a tarp to use as a chute that will guide the waste past those beams and relatively where you want it - dust is still going to fly, but it won't be into your cab
You need to create an 4” vacuum system that draws into a trailer you can dump. What a job using that little sweep. The trailer could clean up all your messes.
Cleaning out the dryer looks like a great job for a large vacuum & cyclone separator on top of a 55 gallon drum. instead of touching that dust what, 4-5 times to push it down each level & then shovel it. If you wanna do it cheap compared to most farm sized bills several 3d printed cyclone separators could probably do the job if run in parallel for that kind of volume.
Zach I work at a quarry in southern Indiana. We made metal trays with 3 sides slide them under hard to shovel places. When they get full pull them out dump them slide then back in they work great.
vacuum cleaner will easy you with rod king of problem in the bin (5:20 min on clip) ... an industrial vacuum cleaner or something that will move dust and corn beans away and you can see clearly what seems to be the problem ( not any kind of blower because you know why)
Knee pads make all the difference to saving your knees and making a difficult job easier. Don't buy the cheapest ones but you don't have to break the bank either. Menards has a excellent selection. Buy some for everyone.
Look at a long bucket like they use to clean under rock crushers. You could pull all that material out from under the dryer and scoop it up with the skid loader bucker.
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!!
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.
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.
Make boxes with sides that fit under dryer. And in between legs. Put 2x4 skids on bottom so you can reach in with fork lift . Lift and pull out. Dump in field.
Zach I had 2 bovs they would move in slow motion when the work was going on but I would always take them with me to do the work thats what good dads do they just keep teaching them then one day they start working like you do its just the way life is but is all worth it
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.
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.
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.
Our dryer has a similar layout, we have found it useful to have a diy tarp shoot which we attached to the small doors where we dump the trash out. It helps.
I fixed up an empty tote and a 2 inch water transfer pump. Then use a garden hose and a fire fighting nozzle to hose down my combine and harvest equipment. It really works well to get the majority of stuff off and it doesn't smear it all over. Really works great on grain tanks and grain carts.
10:59: WE HAD A SIMILAR SCHEME FOR KIDS, IN LONDON, IN THE OLD DAYS. EXCEPT WE USED TO MAKE THE LITTLE RASCALS CLIMB UP THE INSIDE OF THE CHIMNEYS THEY WERE A' CLEANING. HAPPY DAYS
Zach what you really need is a billy goat vacuum with a hose attachment. It will make all those jobs a breeze. Not to mention it will make cleaning up the shop when you make a mess in there, beside having to sweep and shovel you just run the billy goat around a few minutes then your done.
Love seeing the kids doing their part on the farm. A farm is loaded with never-ending tasks. The area you guys were cleaning out at 3:33, if you guys are not wearing hearing protection there, you really should be; it's not just the sound level, but they piercing type of sound it is.
One of favorite memories from working on the farm is when my dad would bring me lunch. Sometimes, it would be a whole rotisserie chicken or rack of ribs, loaf of bread and two Dr. Peppers. We would sit on his tailgate of his truck and make sandwiches. The meat would come from the small meat market in town perfectly seasoned and cook to perfection. The meat would just fall off the bone. We would sit and chit chat and make short work of what ever meat we were working with. Good times.
Get you some clean chute like they use in the unload chute in a cement silo for cleaning that dryer. You can attach it to the dryer at the access door and run it right into the skid loader bucket.
Just finished watching Harvest 2023, awesome to see the kids reaching an age they can and want to be a part of the family business. A question though, I recon the farm isn't big enough to support all your kids families, have you ever put thought in that? Expanding the farm to facilitate in that or asking them whether they see a future in farming? Sorry if this is too personal.
Handlelair has a sale on grain vac, or clamp a 6 inch rubber flex hose, Handlelair has a sale on this too, but anyway clamp your rubber flex hose to the intake of your grain pump, and use vacuum to clean out the inside of the grain dryer, and around the bins, or the center of your bins to access the auger gearbox. Just some ideas for you.
I have a nephew like Onyx on an apprenticeship working for me now, manual work tarmac paving, very smart and hard working he is. But very smart I have to say. Uncle Pat is always in the dirt first.
Love to see a farm boy working. If you don't understand how a farm works quite making stupid comments. Farming is a job you will never forget and make you a man
Brandon Hall ( Wataga, Knox County ), Illinois Farm Bureau and Illinois Certified Crop Advisor CCA of the year ! ( Millennium Farmer is ' increase awareness for the relationship between farmers and crop Advisors ... more economical and environmentally sound decisions '(wqad tv 8 Moline, Illinois)
Zach, you need a skid-loader mounted vacumm pump for that big dryer clean-up job, Chet Larson has one and made a lousy dirty job much much easier. Useful for a lot more. Bin holds a lot junk before emptying !
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;)
I have never worker with or on a grain drier. So if these suggestions are halfa$$ed my apologies. Bicycle helmet for your head protection. Light weight but protective from sharp tins. And a vacuume trailer for cleaning out the bins. And as long as I am spending your money how about a new truck.
Zach need to invest in some equipment that make it easier to clean things up at least in the three levels of the grain dryer. Might still need to climb in the bins obviously. Don't know how you solve the problem with crap under the bins though! Maybe just a big vaccum, like a shop vac, but obviously much bigger and powerful. Some one has to make something that would work. Even with wet, crudy stuff if you just break it up a little at first it. Good invest, protect your equipment, save your back, brain and knees. Coming from some who has had 2 knee replacements and turns 77 in a few weeks! Love your channel!
I'm very sensitive for an 81 year old duffer. I could not only see the pain in your knees, I could feel it. I totally sympathize. Lets not even try to talk about the shape my back is in. That would take several hours with suitable sympathy noises from someone as youthful as you are.
Get a big vacuum cleaner that mounts to front of skid steer for corn cleanup. Do a neater job. 17:00 add a little hook to the end of the air nozzle to help dig stuff out.
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.
for the bottom area have a long lenght of pipe with a hinged flap on end, push into drier flap folds flat, pull back flap goes 90' and drags rubbish out .
Need a bitchin shop vac with a long hose to clean that dryer, and two operators. One to vacum each area and then one to start/stop the vac and dump the bucket.
Ya know if I was a young man, I am 70 now, I think I would set up a business as a grain storage Maintenace co. It would be worth it as a business and for the client. Really millions of dollars of equipment to store, let's keep it maintained all year.
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". 😮
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.
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!
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.
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.
Onix is young. He will learn. You where just as green. At his age. Great video. Thanks.
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.
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.
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!
Oh the joys of cleaning in the fall
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.
You should look into QED Dryer out of Rockford Ill. The fines are kept in the corn & the bees wings are drawn into the burners. Very little to clean up off the ground.
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!
Way to go Onyx. I m sure your dad really appreciates your fine help. Wish I had one like you.
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.
They make a yard vacuum mounts on the back of your riding lawnmower and it holds about it. 5 bushel love leaves and it has a long hose for vacuuming leaves and hard to get spots. It would be good for cleaning out your dryer.
You need a Bump cap for when your cleaning our the bins, As a 6'3" bald guy I feel your pain, you can get them in a sock hat for when its cold or a ball cap, basically a plastic insert that will become your best friend.
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.
You should add a vacuum port to your grain conveyor with a 3-4” hose to suck the dry junk out, divert it to grain dump with grain cart, then put it in field…most don’t have a vac/blower system…work smarter not harder!
Build a big airtight box and hook a big shop vac to it. Works like a hot damn on grain dryers. Stick the box onto the deere with the loader. Very clean very fast. Cheers.
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.
12:05 what you need is a small dump trailer and a tarp to use as a chute that will guide the waste past those beams and relatively where you want it - dust is still going to fly, but it won't be into your cab
You need to create an 4” vacuum system that draws into a trailer you can dump. What a job using that little sweep. The trailer could clean up all your messes.
An idea for next year, look into renting a vac trailer and vacuum out all the stuff in & around the dryer
I may not be able to see the pain in your knees, but I can feel it. I hurt when I crawl around on my knees, too.
Cleaning out the dryer looks like a great job for a large vacuum & cyclone separator on top of a 55 gallon drum. instead of touching that dust what, 4-5 times to push it down each level & then shovel it. If you wanna do it cheap compared to most farm sized bills several 3d printed cyclone separators could probably do the job if run in parallel for that kind of volume.
I spy a nice toter at 18:26! Can’t wait to see that!
Zach, have you gotten the message yet?!!! Knee pads and a vacuum!!! Hahaha
Zach I work at a quarry in southern Indiana. We made metal trays with 3 sides slide them under hard to shovel places. When they get full pull them out dump them slide then back in they work great.
vacuum cleaner will easy you with rod king of problem in the bin (5:20 min on clip) ... an industrial vacuum cleaner or something that will move dust and corn beans away and you can see clearly what seems to be the problem ( not any kind of blower because you know why)
Knee pads make all the difference to saving your knees and making a difficult job easier. Don't buy the cheapest ones but you don't have to break the bank either. Menards has a excellent selection. Buy some for everyone.
Look like some sort of industrial vac would be very useful and justified for around the ben and dryer sight.
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.
👍
Look at a long bucket like they use to clean under rock crushers. You could pull all that material out from under the dryer and scoop it up with the skid loader bucker.
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!!
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.
Make boxes with sides that fit under dryer. And in between legs. Put 2x4 skids on bottom so you can reach in with fork lift . Lift and pull out. Dump in field.
I urge anyone with kids to try farm life. I learned responsibility at like age 12 running these machines and was the highlight of my childhood
Zach I had 2 bovs they would move in slow motion when the work was going on but I would always take them with me to do the work thats what good dads do they just keep teaching them then one day they start working like you do its just the way life is but is all worth it
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.
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.
12:40 Try a mask and battery powered leaf blower. Dirty dusty mess, but works if not overly caked.
Leaf blower, Dewalt. And the white insulation suit. For cleaning the air drier
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
Our dryer has a similar layout, we have found it useful to have a diy tarp shoot which we attached to the small doors where we dump the trash out. It helps.
Leaf vacuum that is pulled behind a ride mower. Adapted down to a smaller hose.
You should put some plastic trash cans below the access panels of the dryer to catch most of it without the mess in the cab.
What do you need is a skid vacuum for your skid loader so you can vacuum all that up and you won’t have to work so hard
Really enjoyed seeing how the dryer works from the inside
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 😎
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.
I fixed up an empty tote and a 2 inch water transfer pump. Then use a garden hose and a fire fighting nozzle to hose down my combine and harvest equipment. It really works well to get the majority of stuff off and it doesn't smear it all over. Really works great on grain tanks and grain carts.
10:59: WE HAD A SIMILAR SCHEME FOR KIDS, IN LONDON, IN THE OLD DAYS. EXCEPT WE USED TO MAKE THE LITTLE RASCALS CLIMB UP THE INSIDE OF THE CHIMNEYS THEY WERE A' CLEANING. HAPPY DAYS
hook a vac hose to ur blower system ,run a tube out back for cleanup
Zach what you really need is a billy goat vacuum with a hose attachment. It will make all those jobs a breeze. Not to mention it will make cleaning up the shop when you make a mess in there, beside having to sweep and shovel you just run the billy goat around a few minutes then your done.
Love seeing the kids doing their part on the farm. A farm is loaded with never-ending tasks.
The area you guys were cleaning out at 3:33, if you guys are not wearing hearing protection there, you really should be; it's not just the sound level, but they piercing type of sound it is.
I bet you all are so proud to see three generations working together. Now that is cool.
One of favorite memories from working on the farm is when my dad would bring me lunch. Sometimes, it would be a whole rotisserie chicken or rack of ribs, loaf of bread and two Dr. Peppers. We would sit on his tailgate of his truck and make sandwiches. The meat would come from the small meat market in town perfectly seasoned and cook to perfection. The meat would just fall off the bone. We would sit and chit chat and make short work of what ever meat we were working with. Good times.
It is great to see 3 generations working together. Thanks for the great vids.
Nice job Onyx… love to see the family work together
Get you some clean chute like they use in the unload chute in a cement silo for cleaning that dryer. You can attach it to the dryer at the access door and run it right into the skid loader bucket.
Thank for explaining the dryer. I always wondered how that worked watching the videos.
Get a tough material tarp and put underneath the dryer.. and pull it out and drag it whenever.. need more than one.. save a lot of work and time.
Thanks for showing the "struggle" with young help. It helps to put some perspective on the help I get from my own young teen.
Just finished watching Harvest 2023, awesome to see the kids reaching an age they can and want to be a part of the family business.
A question though, I recon the farm isn't big enough to support all your kids families, have you ever put thought in that? Expanding the farm to facilitate in that or asking them whether they see a future in farming? Sorry if this is too personal.
Handlelair has a sale on grain vac, or clamp a 6 inch rubber flex hose, Handlelair has a sale on this too, but anyway clamp your rubber flex hose to the intake of your grain pump, and use vacuum to clean out the inside of the grain dryer, and around the bins, or the center of your bins to access the auger gearbox. Just some ideas for you.
I have a nephew like Onyx on an apprenticeship working for me now, manual work tarmac paving, very smart and hard working he is. But very smart I have to say. Uncle Pat is always in the dirt first.
You oughta rent that big vacuum the Larson's have that goes on the skid steer. Might turn that dryer cleanup into a much simpler task.
Great job with pictures and explanation on Grain Bins ! ( From Canada )
Pool Noodle for sharp edges. Knee pads
Love to see a farm boy working. If you don't understand how a farm works quite making stupid comments. Farming is a job you will never forget and make you a man
The bottom plenum is there if you want to cool the grain some before it goes to the bins.
Brandon Hall ( Wataga, Knox County ), Illinois Farm Bureau and Illinois Certified Crop Advisor CCA of the year ! ( Millennium Farmer is ' increase awareness for the relationship between farmers and crop Advisors ... more economical and environmentally sound decisions '(wqad tv 8 Moline, Illinois)
Zach, you need a skid-loader mounted vacumm pump for that big dryer clean-up job, Chet Larson has one and made a lousy dirty job much much easier. Useful for a lot more. Bin holds a lot junk before emptying !
Good thing he was excited about standing around.
Lol. Kids..lol..
Hey was wondering why no vacuum, even leaf blower woulda worked nicely.
That cleaning the dryer is where an industrial sized wet dry vacuum truck comes in handy.
Use a big toilet bowl brush to help clean out the dryer or a chimney sweep brush. Maybe?
Also, great video, one of the funnier ones.
1- leave plenum full of corn
2- block doors open
3- start fans at max RPM
4- run fans 20min. and enjoy clean dryer...
🤔perhaps make a custom rake/scraper tool. Use pool poles with detachable extensions, would be a time saver, plus safer. Good Video👍Thx
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;)
You need an old manure spreader to spread all that you have to clean up in the field. Saves trips with skidster
I have never worker with or on a grain drier. So if these suggestions are halfa$$ed my apologies. Bicycle helmet for your head protection. Light weight but protective from sharp tins. And a vacuume trailer for cleaning out the bins. And as long as I am spending your money how about a new truck.
Zach need to invest in some equipment that make it easier to clean things up at least in the three levels of the grain dryer. Might still need to climb in the bins obviously. Don't know how you solve the problem with crap under the bins though! Maybe just a big vaccum, like a shop vac, but obviously much bigger and powerful. Some one has to make something that would work. Even with wet, crudy stuff if you just break it up a little at first it. Good invest, protect your equipment, save your back, brain and knees. Coming from some who has had 2 knee replacements and turns 77 in a few weeks! Love your channel!
I'm very sensitive for an 81 year old duffer. I could not only see the pain in your knees, I could feel it. I totally sympathize. Lets not even try to talk about the shape my back is in. That would take several hours with suitable sympathy noises from someone as youthful as you are.
That must be Jim's new totterhome in the shed. Good for Jim.
I think I would use a shop vac. Maybe with a 55 gallon drum as a collection drum.
Get a big vacuum cleaner that mounts to front of skid steer for corn cleanup. Do a neater job. 17:00 add a little hook to the end of the air nozzle to help dig stuff out.
I really enjoy watching Onyx's coming of age and the 3 generations working together.
Next year Onyx will be able to clean the entire dryer himself while you sip on a mojito on the porch.
I bet your dad was a good dad and i can see you are. Wish my dad was like you or your dad. Real Mens Men.
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.
Omg that takes a bit of time. Great job. Thank you.
for the bottom area have a long lenght of pipe with a hinged flap on end, push into drier flap folds flat, pull back flap goes 90' and drags rubbish out .
Onyx One up the old man! Build a big shop vac to clean out the dryer. How about a leaf vacuum and a long hose.
glad your looking well
Need a bitchin shop vac with a long hose to clean that dryer, and two operators. One to vacum each area and then one to start/stop the vac and dump the bucket.
Time for an official dryer hard hat! and knee pads!
A skid-vac is a little bit expensive but sooooo handy.
Man I'm glad our Esma mobil dryer doesn't need this much cleaning. Though it doesn't work as fast neither and it's under a roof, that helps too.
Ya know if I was a young man, I am 70 now, I think I would set up a business as a grain storage Maintenace co. It would be worth it as a business and for the client.
Really millions of dollars of equipment to store, let's keep it maintained all year.