My hope is this bin law suit is settled quickly because I remember how enthusiastic Cole was about adding “million dollar bin site” to the operation. He deserves that enthusiasm back!
They will ware a person down those big companies and the lawyers keep it going to and in the end a judge will decide that doesn’t even know about farming or the stress you went through . Stress will take time and days of your life and income .
Hopefully the find ALL the problems before it's settled or have a clause in the settlement for future issues. It seems they are constantly finding more issues as time goes.
@@kevink4914I was gonna say something like don’t take more then 5 or 6 of them. There prices are crazy. Even crazier are the interest rates some of the guys I work with are paying snapon. Paying 146$ over years to buy a wrench their selling for 36)
Hey, I hope you guys see this, with the belts, you have 2 massively different pulley sizes. Try using an AX belt, basically it is a belt that instead of being continuous it has a little more flexibility to allow the difference in pulley size, another thing, feel the inside of those pulleys, see if they are worn. Due to the amount of belts it has run through. And one last thing, if it is wearing through them that fast, check the tightness and alignment of the belts. Use a long straight edge and put it the long pulley, the gap between the belt and the straight edge should be equal throughout the whole travel of the belt. Make adjustments as needed. The angle of the motor can also play a factor in eating up belts. I'm in commercial Hvac, I have deal with motor replacements all the time and have to do this.
Just a note on the auger bolt. That was a special bolt, long shank with a short threaded end. Putting in standard hardware bolts will most likely move the rotating force from the shank to the threads, a much small and weaker part of the bolt. They will fail prematurely. Order the correct bolts. If the correct bolts are grade 5 so be it. Use red thread locker on them. Yes, you will need to heat them with a torch to remove the nuts when you want to.
My dad would have killed me if I didn't stop the combine immediately as soon as that much corn was coming out the back end. It was bad enough that he made my and my brothers memorize our tractors', combine's, and cotton pickers' manuals and specs, but he volunteered us to work at our local John Deere dealership's repair shop during our Christmas break and spring break. What he didn't count on was that our old machinery wasn't what we mostly worked on, but newer machinery instead. Keep up the great work, and tell your parents that they did a great job raising their family. All of you should be very proud of yourselves.
There is something you can do to make your dryer more efficient if you are not doing it already, and that is set it up for all heat, then cool your corn in the bins. It can come out of the dryer at 17%, make a layer of hot corn, use bin fans to finish drying on residual heat and cool. I have not seen this mentioned but maybe you're already doing this. Put a hot layer in a bin, then switch to another bin and cool the first bin, when cool you can put in another layer.
Just a though. But your motors are being driven by drives. That means you can adjust the properties of the motors almost infinitely. Biased on what your saying it’s possible you could increase the torque of your motors and also have them do soft starts. Basically, rather then the motor going full force and burning the belts it will start off really slow and work up to the speed. Saving your belts and giving you a chance to catch issues before they burn up.
The transmission in the red freightliner is called a super 10 speed. Ps usually if you only pull one brake , you pull the tractor because it takes less time and less air then the trailor brakes.
If you are allowed to modify the wet bin legs, could you add square tubing from leg to leg around the perimeter of the support legs? It would spread the load to the entire pad perimeter instead of just where the legs set. Maybe run some iron across the pad as well ?Just curious does the pit lift auger start before the bottom cross auger on start up and the opposite when shut down to let the lift auger empty? Kind of like the grain cart auger unload procedure. And you are right, you need a larger capacity dryer.
Thank you for explaining everything about the farm. I now understand a little of it. Not all of it but a little more than I did yesterday. Thank you thank you thank you.
Youll want to put grade 5 bolts in the augers again. What they're doing is being "sheer bolts" meaning the bolts break instead of destroying the auger bore it goes into when somerhing plugs the auger.
I was amazed the wear in just a few years. Plus one broken, 2nd lost? *possibly broken?* If tight they should not. But there is a lot not right with that site.
As far as Grade of Bolts, you want a bolt that’s softer than the shafts you’re connecting - it’s easier to replace bolts as they wear than it is to replace shafts. The softer metal gets the vast majority of the wear, so harder bolts will just wear your round holes into ovals.
What’s crazy is this company knew they were being filmed and knew they would be under a microscope. Regardless of any other details you would think they would want to stand behind the work. It’s such a shame.
the company did what they had to do in order to get the job done they build this in the middle of the plandemic when all the skilled labor was home iv been dealing with this foer the past two years no one wanted to wait so they hired what was there guys that had to be working that didnt know what they where doing
I commented before on Daddy Corn star's channel about this, but you cannot choke feed an auger unless you are running a shaft mounted reducer. The tiny pulley motor setup doesn't have the torque to handle it so if it didn't burn the belt, then it would burn out the motor. Shaft mounted screw conveyor reducer will fix this immediately, then you can put a variable speed on it.
Cole and Sir Daddy Cornstar, at 14:40 I could just see the frustration in your face and mannerisms. I have been in your position before on projects (not nearly as costly) but keep your chin up. I know things will work out in the long run for you guys. Keep up the good work and I can’t wait to see it all work wonderfully for you guys in the future!
Our pit augers have a heavy duty gear box for gear reduction. We still burn off belts but it’s usually because of grain leg problems, plugging. Your motor needs more torque. Will run a little slower but will not fail as much.
Keep those bolts for your warranty (Lawsuit). Get copies of the Specs of the Head Markings on what you took out and compare with Grade 8 Bolts head Markings. After the season is over, take out the four NEW Bolts and get pictures. Give all this to your counselor to make an exhibit in your case.
On the red Volvo auto shutoff, turn on cruise control and push the acceleration button as if you were rolling down the road to turn up rpm. Do not touch the clutch or accelerator. You are trying to fool the computer that you are driving down the road with cruise control on. On cold days in Coruptifornia 34•f😂 I would turn on cruise control to warm up my garbage truck and hydraulics faster. The Volvos we drove had that auto shutdown if the accelerator was not used for 5 minutes. Yes I know 34•f a cold day.😂 I also lived in Alaska -32•f the coldest I ever saw. Happy harvest
According to what our millwrights told me on our fertilizer leg/conveyors. You need to switch to cogged v-belts not smooth side v-belts and you won’t burn beats as fast on the grain system.
To fixs your v belts burning out all the time you need a pretension idler pulley it will give more belt circumference on the small motor pulleys, less slipping and will make it easier to change belts with a bar . Hope this helps.
Cole, One of your best videos ! Sure be glad when you guys get the law suit settled and get what you paid for. Sad the kind of job they did, for all the effort you and family put into project. Good luck.
Cole if you read the Transmission placard it tells you to "pre select " the high/low shifts. That means move the grey switch before you move the shift lever into neutral.
Those grade 5 bolts are what you want in the auger ,the grade 8 will tear up your shaft .you will need to replace them once a year as maintenance. The visual diagram of the combine in operation reminds one of a gold mining operation , i guess in a way it is . I hope you get your bins fixed soon
The slow air going to your trailer is caused from grass bugs and bees getting into the gladhands when unhooked. Check them first then trace the emergency (red) line to the valve attached to the air tank on the trailer. Probably the most rear tank. Take the cover off the top and clean the debris out. May have to take every cover off one at a time and clean, even the ones that have air lines on them because they have valves behind the air line fitting attached to the valve that will most likely have to small bolts attaching the air line fitting cap to the valve.
At 22:50, the fact that all the beacons on the turbines are synched is wild. I’m sure there’s a legitimate point, but that really caught my attention for some reason
Great vids, you explain so much!! But I would be wary of the grade 8 bolts. Although they are stronger they are more brittle. Something to put on your checklist to look at every year. I wonder if the grade 5 bolts had a lock washer on the nut, they are built for the wear and shock. I assume there is a soft starter for such a powerful auger. Keep up the awesome videos, you and your family are my favs, I follow a few farmers, but yours is the best!
Use a high temp automobile belt. Equipment belts are not as heat and rpm tolerant. I had a belt that would burn threw in 3-5 hrs, switched out to a truck belt last year and no issues
DC is properly angry in this one. Rightly so. You have been rinsed on the bin site. It will come good in the end. Just a pain to operate in the interim, a cost to you to be added to the bill. I'm not a farmer, but I was thinking about field patterns for next year based on what you have shown this year. Plant intercrop to the widths of your existing corn and bean heads. Populate the corn as you did in the test, high density outside, and low density inside. Plant the margins and wonky bits with alfalfa or similar and see what you get. I don't even think you will need high management to do well. Concentrate on improving the soil as you have discussed. I added worms to my allotment, for example, and they are now tilling the soil and improving its structure. Safe harvest. Regards, Stephen.
You inspire me with your disciplines...learning a language, consistent exercise, desire to learn more about crops and caring for your fam. God bless...love the channel
Seems like nothing is made right these days. So many simple errors. It's like the chain of assembly is broken and no one cares about the whole thing. Seems to apply to combines to security lights to vacuum cleaner to cars..... Thanks again for the great videos, how you harvest and film at the same time is a skill!
The correct term for digging up a grave is "Exhumation" or "Exhume". "We have to exhume a grave tomorrow." or "We have never performed an Exhumation before but tomorrow we will figure it out." Hopefully it is simply for relocation purposes, not so the coroner can look for more clues.
Interesting that all the aviation clearance lights on all of the wind generators are ganged. Dozens of 'em, all blinking in unison. Weird. But the harvest goes on despite broken bolts and belts, wonky combines and the sinking sun. Keep at it Cole.
Two things to check. Is your elevator in high speed? And some guys open the pre seive too far open. Lay a corn kernal on it and open it until it falls through. On the pit auger. My neighbor was constantly plugging his new auger. Turns out the flighting didn"t go all the way to the top. It was trying to push it just to far and plugged the auger all the time
The reason your belts keep burning out is because you have a monsterous (10HP?) motor with a TINY drive pulley. All that force is being concentrated in an extremely tiny area, and even if the belt doesn't slip, the shear force on the belt (shear is a direction of force, not an adjective) will cause them to fail every time. The fix? Use a bigger drive pulley. The problem with just going from a 3" drive pulley to a 10" drive pulley is: 1. Your auger would spin faster. 2. Your auger would have less torque, meaning grain could stall it out. The best fix I can think of is this: 1. Measure the drive and driven pulley diameters. 2. Figure out the ratio (say drive is 3", driven is 18". That's a 1:9 ratio) 3. Create 2 or more stages of pulley that sum to that 1:9 ratio. Meaning, say we use 4 pulleys: 1) 10" drive Pulley connects to 2) 24" driven pull connected to 3) 10" secondary pulley which belts to a 4) 24" driven pulley attached to the auger shaft. For the math to be prefect it'd need to be like a 25 1/8" driven pulley, but 24" is close enough. The bigger the driven pulleys are, the more torque and less rotation speed the auger will have. Note: High school students and freshman engineers in college learn about gear/pulley ratios. Anyone with a professional engineering license or credential should be able to do this. Meaning your lawsuit should make mincemeat of whatever fool failed to do BASIC BLOOD MATH on the pulleys!
The trailer brakes sticking in the morning sounds like a fun challenge. My initial thought was the SR5 valve / spring brake valve / abs valve (whichever type you actually have) sticking, but that sounds too easy. One time we had a yard truck at work that was trapping enough air in the service line to not let the brakes release after letting off the pedal. After disconnecting the glad hand it would release until you stepped on the pedal again. The craziest part is you really didn't hear any air coming out when you disconnected it, but there was just enough to keep the valves on the trailer from fully releasing.
Driving from Des Moines going east towards Davenport along I80 in the dark with all those red lights flashing at the same time can hypnotize you. I have almost been put under multiple times doing that drive at night from those lights !
The bolts you replaced in that auger were coupling bolts. Extra long shank with a short threaded section. You put normal bolts in which will make one side of the auger work on the threaded section of the bolt and they will fail early. Also, that pit auger needs a gearbox on top. Gearing it down with such different sized pulleys is cutting corners and is why you're burning belts off so bad.
Cole, that transmission is what they call a super 10 speed, you are splitting each hole. The trailer not releasing quickly is maybe because the tractor has an ABS brake system and the trailer probably doesn't, if the trailer is older than 1997 it probably doesn't. Also not sure if your trailers are air ride, with ABS you need a minimum of 90lbs of for everything to release, not like older equipment that only needs 60lbs to release. Patience. I've been driving 18 wheeler for 27 years professionally, so I hope this helps you. 😊
Cole, the red Freightliner has what is called a super 10 transmission. i drove a '93 freightlner with a super-10 and absolutely hated it. i don't mind 9 speed or 10 speed straight shifts transmissions but the super-10s are for the birds.
Throttle the flow of corn down to that auger, too much (wet) corn for its capacity. Have a safe harvest (from Cen. Il.). Support "Save The Belts Fund"!
The transmission in the red Freightliner is a super 10. Many of the super 10 transmissions when in the 9/10 gear position would shift automatic between high and low. This is why it was a super 10. Depending on the truck you could be doing about 45-50mph and never have to touch the shifter again. The transmission and engine would work together and shift as needed. I believe the automatic shifting was only when the transmission was behind a 60 series Detroit.
at 14:50, looking at 8" maybe 10" down spout that takes corn away from 12"+ ? pit auger, wondering if down spout into leg were bigger then the auger feeding it since auger is force feeding a gravity down spout , should down spout tube be bigger then what is trying to force grain in ??
My hope is this bin law suit is settled quickly because I remember how enthusiastic Cole was about adding “million dollar bin site” to the operation. He deserves that enthusiasm back!
Cole. Not Coke the drug.
Even if the get law suit settle then they got to redo the bin site.
@@geraldmiller5260 he means that Cole was high on coke when he built it
They will ware a person down those big companies and the lawyers keep it going to and in the end a judge will decide that doesn’t even know about farming or the stress you went through . Stress will take time and days of your life and income .
Hopefully the find ALL the problems before it's settled or have a clause in the settlement for future issues. It seems they are constantly finding more issues as time goes.
“Service call is $600, so I’m gonna load up on these Snapon tools” literally laughed out loud! Great work guys. Love your channel.
😂 sad thing you don’t get many tools for $600 when it’s snap-on 😅😂
Do you all accept me as A subscriber
Just take the truck and even trade for his work lol
@@kevink4914I was gonna say something like don’t take more then 5 or 6 of them. There prices are crazy. Even crazier are the interest rates some of the guys I work with are paying snapon. Paying 146$ over years to buy a wrench their selling for 36)
@@benbusfield6498 I would love too slap her taco
You know it's aggravating when you see DC worked up like that. Hang in there!
Hey, I hope you guys see this, with the belts, you have 2 massively different pulley sizes. Try using an AX belt, basically it is a belt that instead of being continuous it has a little more flexibility to allow the difference in pulley size, another thing, feel the inside of those pulleys, see if they are worn. Due to the amount of belts it has run through. And one last thing, if it is wearing through them that fast, check the tightness and alignment of the belts. Use a long straight edge and put it the long pulley, the gap between the belt and the straight edge should be equal throughout the whole travel of the belt. Make adjustments as needed. The angle of the motor can also play a factor in eating up belts.
I'm in commercial Hvac, I have deal with motor replacements all the time and have to do this.
Just a note on the auger bolt. That was a special bolt, long shank with a short threaded end. Putting in standard hardware bolts will most likely move the rotating force from the shank to the threads, a much small and weaker part of the bolt. They will fail prematurely. Order the correct bolts. If the correct bolts are grade 5 so be it. Use red thread locker on them. Yes, you will need to heat them with a torch to remove the nuts when you want to.
Me learning about corn from Cole so my 4 little rows will thrive next year!
Seeing your dad frustrated is hartbreaking man, good luck to you all and go get them bastards in court!!!!
My dad would have killed me if I didn't stop the combine immediately as soon as that much corn was coming out the back end. It was bad enough that he made my and my brothers memorize our tractors', combine's, and cotton pickers' manuals and specs, but he volunteered us to work at our local John Deere dealership's repair shop during our Christmas break and spring break. What he didn't count on was that our old machinery wasn't what we mostly worked on, but newer machinery instead.
Keep up the great work, and tell your parents that they did a great job raising their family. All of you should be very proud of yourselves.
Nice diagrams about how the combine works for those of us city folks. 👍
It was fascinating. Damn, a lot goes on inside that machine!
And aa lot of components to fail. That is why it seems something always breaks on. Well, yep lots of pieces in action.
Cole, what an awesome attitude! Blessings to you &YOURS from Bonney Lake, Washington
I didn’t understand a word you said but I love hearing your enthusiasm.
There is something you can do to make your dryer more efficient if you are not doing it already, and that is set it up for all heat, then cool your corn in the bins. It can come out of the dryer at 17%, make a layer of hot corn, use bin fans to finish drying on residual heat and cool. I have not seen this mentioned but maybe you're already doing this. Put a hot layer in a bin, then switch to another bin and cool the first bin, when cool you can put in another layer.
Thank you Cole! God Bless your family!
Another good video Cole, thanks for sharing them with us
Just a though.
But your motors are being driven by drives. That means you can adjust the properties of the motors almost infinitely. Biased on what your saying it’s possible you could increase the torque of your motors and also have them do soft starts. Basically, rather then the motor going full force and burning the belts it will start off really slow and work up to the speed.
Saving your belts and giving you a chance to catch issues before they burn up.
You did a great job explaining how the combine worked and what was going on with it
The transmission in the red freightliner is called a super 10 speed. Ps usually if you only pull one brake , you pull the tractor because it takes less time and less air then the trailor brakes.
On the red trailer knob, it says not for parking, take to good truck shop , they should be able to take that shut off system out of the computer!!
@@kevinsiedschlag429that or bump the cruise up a little while in park
I absolutely love a super 10 transmission. Alot guys didnt but its my personal favorite
If you are allowed to modify the wet bin legs, could you add square tubing from leg to leg around the perimeter of the support legs? It would spread the load to the entire pad perimeter instead of just where the legs set. Maybe run some iron across the pad as well ?Just curious does the pit lift auger start before the bottom cross auger on start up and the opposite when shut down to let the lift auger empty? Kind of like the grain cart auger unload procedure. And you are right, you need a larger capacity dryer.
Thank you for explaining everything about the farm. I now understand a little of it. Not all of it but a little more than I did yesterday. Thank you thank you thank you.
loved seeing how the combine works on the inside!
Youll want to put grade 5 bolts in the augers again. What they're doing is being "sheer bolts" meaning the bolts break instead of destroying the auger bore it goes into when somerhing plugs the auger.
That was my thaughts as well
Or the fail safe could just be burning more belts.
I was amazed the wear in just a few years. Plus one broken, 2nd lost? *possibly broken?* If tight they should not. But there is a lot not right with that site.
@@larsharristhe bolts are probably supposed to be checked every season but the contractor didn’t give them any maintenance plan.
That or a contractor used inferior parts because they were cheaper. A 3/4" diameter bolt is a hell of a shear bolt.
As far as Grade of Bolts, you want a bolt that’s softer than the shafts you’re connecting - it’s easier to replace bolts as they wear than it is to replace shafts. The softer metal gets the vast majority of the wear, so harder bolts will just wear your round holes into ovals.
Nooo a softer metal bolt will wear thin. Allowing the hole to oblongate due to the play between the hole and soft bolt.
Are you talking"shear bolts" or regular vs grade 8?
What’s crazy is this company knew they were being filmed and knew they would be under a microscope. Regardless of any other details you would think they would want to stand behind the work. It’s such a shame.
the company did what they had to do in order to get the job done they build this in the middle of the plandemic when all the skilled labor was home iv been dealing with this foer the past two years no one wanted to wait so they hired what was there guys that had to be working that didnt know what they where doing
Those grade 5 bolts are probably a wear part or sacrificial part to save the screw
Thank you for sharing during this extremely challenging time of the season; I look forward to your videos.
Thanks Cole ,for all you and all the farmers do for us.
Good thing you made your farm $500k this season!
I commented before on Daddy Corn star's channel about this, but you cannot choke feed an auger unless you are running a shaft mounted reducer. The tiny pulley motor setup doesn't have the torque to handle it so if it didn't burn the belt, then it would burn out the motor. Shaft mounted screw conveyor reducer will fix this immediately, then you can put a variable speed on it.
Cole and Sir Daddy Cornstar, at 14:40 I could just see the frustration in your face and mannerisms. I have been in your position before on projects (not nearly as costly) but keep your chin up. I know things will work out in the long run for you guys. Keep up the good work and I can’t wait to see it all work wonderfully for you guys in the future!
Our pit augers have a heavy duty gear box for gear reduction. We still burn off belts but it’s usually because of grain leg problems, plugging. Your motor needs more torque. Will run a little slower but will not fail as much.
Thanks for educating, entertaining and encouraging. You are indeed inspiring.
Keep those bolts for your warranty (Lawsuit). Get copies of the Specs of the Head Markings on what you took out and compare with Grade 8 Bolts head Markings. After the season is over, take out the four NEW Bolts and get pictures. Give all this to your counselor to make an exhibit in your case.
Great video Guys. Cooper is your go to man. He does an amazing job. Thank you cornstar family
Can you switch to a double-chain drive and gears instead of burning belts?
It’s probably burning belts due to misalignment. Could be better to fix the misalignment issue first.
Belts are a safety item on the augers. They break before you tear other things up. Chain if something happens you tear a lot of things up.
@@johnunsicker7440the motors have overloads on that system…if there is too much of a draw they will get shut off. Chain is the way to go
@@johnunsicker7440 Not in my experience . a correctly adjusted Motor Protection switch cuts the power before it tears itself apart
I really enjoy your videos because honest thoughts, ideas, struggles, victories and defeats. Your organized, motivated and working hard.
On the red Volvo auto shutoff, turn on cruise control and push the acceleration button as if you were rolling down the road to turn up rpm. Do not touch the clutch or accelerator. You are trying to fool the computer that you are driving down the road with cruise control on. On cold days in Coruptifornia 34•f😂 I would turn on cruise control to warm up my garbage truck and hydraulics faster. The Volvos we drove had that auto shutdown if the accelerator was not used for 5 minutes.
Yes I know 34•f a cold day.😂 I also lived in Alaska -32•f the coldest I ever saw.
Happy harvest
According to what our millwrights told me on our fertilizer leg/conveyors. You need to switch to cogged v-belts not smooth side v-belts and you won’t burn beats as fast on the grain system.
Loving your photoshop diagrams but it actually gets the point across really well.
To fixs your v belts burning out all the time you need a pretension idler pulley it will give more belt circumference on the small motor pulleys, less slipping and will make it easier to change belts with a bar . Hope this helps.
Nice call Matt. I was wondering about a third belt too.
Cole, One of your best videos ! Sure be glad when you guys get the law suit settled and get what you paid for. Sad the kind of job they did, for all the effort you and family put into project. Good luck.
I love watching, makes us appreciate your hard work
Good explanation Cole
Pheasant Farm winter feed, nice flock crop next year!!
Cooper deserves a raise!
He would get a stiff one then
For not daily checking the clean grain elevator on the combine??🧐🤔
Cole if you read the Transmission placard it tells you to "pre select " the high/low shifts. That means move the grey switch before you move the shift lever into neutral.
Those grade 5 bolts are what you want in the auger ,the grade 8 will tear up your shaft .you will need to replace them once a year as maintenance. The visual diagram of the combine in operation reminds one of a gold mining operation , i guess in a way it is . I hope you get your bins fixed soon
Looks like the 3 of u ,,all working together ,,will figure it out ,,U fellows have a good crew ,,, it will work out ,,
The slow air going to your trailer is caused from grass bugs and bees getting into the gladhands when unhooked. Check them first then trace the emergency (red) line to the valve attached to the air tank on the trailer. Probably the most rear tank. Take the cover off the top and clean the debris out. May have to take every cover off one at a time and clean, even the ones that have air lines on them because they have valves behind the air line fitting attached to the valve that will most likely have to small bolts attaching the air line fitting cap to the valve.
Talk about holy h*lll of a way to farm, I'm praying things go better to complete your harvest.
At 22:50, the fact that all the beacons on the turbines are synched is wild. I’m sure there’s a legitimate point, but that really caught my attention for some reason
Great harvest video. I know it is frustrating. I feel your pain but you will work through the grain facility problems. You have a fantastic facility.
I loved your corn conveyer chain demonstration. Lol
Everything was so well explained
That trans is a super 10!!
Great vids, you explain so much!! But I would be wary of the grade 8 bolts. Although they are stronger they are more brittle. Something to put on your checklist to look at every year. I wonder if the grade 5 bolts had a lock washer on the nut, they are built for the wear and shock. I assume there is a soft starter for such a powerful auger. Keep up the awesome videos, you and your family are my favs, I follow a few farmers, but yours is the best!
Use a high temp automobile belt. Equipment belts are not as heat and rpm tolerant. I had a belt that would burn threw in 3-5 hrs, switched out to a truck belt last year and no issues
DC is properly angry in this one. Rightly so. You have been rinsed on the bin site. It will come good in the end. Just a pain to operate in the interim, a cost to you to be added to the bill. I'm not a farmer, but I was thinking about field patterns for next year based on what you have shown this year. Plant intercrop to the widths of your existing corn and bean heads. Populate the corn as you did in the test, high density outside, and low density inside. Plant the margins and wonky bits with alfalfa or similar and see what you get. I don't even think you will need high management to do well. Concentrate on improving the soil as you have discussed. I added worms to my allotment, for example, and they are now tilling the soil and improving its structure. Safe harvest. Regards, Stephen.
You inspire me with your disciplines...learning a language, consistent exercise, desire to learn more about crops and caring for your fam. God bless...love the channel
I would love too hug 🫂 u
Hello jello
21:40 how are all those safety lights synced? Amazing.
It just drives me mad to see what u have to deal with this new grain bin set up
Seems like nothing is made right these days. So many simple errors. It's like the chain of assembly is broken and no one cares about the whole thing. Seems to apply to combines to security lights to vacuum cleaner to cars.....
Thanks again for the great videos, how you harvest and film at the same time is a skill!
Good explanation on the combine!
Sorry to see all that corn on the ground but glad you got the problem fixed before you harvested even more.
Super 10 Transmission. You spilt every gear.
Crazy how all the windmill lights blink at the exact same, time cool looking!
You couldn’t tell there was two different sieves unbelievable!
DC was about to loose his temper, Can’t friggin blame him. 👍🏻🇨🇦🤟🏻
The correct term for digging up a grave is "Exhumation" or "Exhume". "We have to exhume a grave tomorrow." or "We have never performed an Exhumation before but tomorrow we will figure it out." Hopefully it is simply for relocation purposes, not so the coroner can look for more clues.
Great video today, Cole ! 👍
That transmission is called a super 10 it splits every gear, if u get used to it it’s really easy to drive!
Interesting that all the aviation clearance lights on all of the wind generators are ganged. Dozens of 'em, all blinking in unison. Weird. But the harvest goes on despite broken bolts and belts, wonky combines and the sinking sun. Keep at it Cole.
Your visual aids explain things very visually. It helps my understanding
Two things to check. Is your elevator in high speed? And some guys open the pre seive too far open. Lay a corn kernal on it and open it until it falls through. On the pit auger. My neighbor was constantly plugging his new auger. Turns out the flighting didn"t go all the way to the top. It was trying to push it just to far and plugged the auger all the time
The reason your belts keep burning out is because you have a monsterous (10HP?) motor with a TINY drive pulley. All that force is being concentrated in an extremely tiny area, and even if the belt doesn't slip, the shear force on the belt (shear is a direction of force, not an adjective) will cause them to fail every time. The fix? Use a bigger drive pulley. The problem with just going from a 3" drive pulley to a 10" drive pulley is:
1. Your auger would spin faster.
2. Your auger would have less torque, meaning grain could stall it out.
The best fix I can think of is this:
1. Measure the drive and driven pulley diameters.
2. Figure out the ratio (say drive is 3", driven is 18". That's a 1:9 ratio)
3. Create 2 or more stages of pulley that sum to that 1:9 ratio. Meaning, say we use 4 pulleys: 1) 10" drive Pulley connects to 2) 24" driven pull connected to 3) 10" secondary pulley which belts to a 4) 24" driven pulley attached to the auger shaft.
For the math to be prefect it'd need to be like a 25 1/8" driven pulley, but 24" is close enough. The bigger the driven pulleys are, the more torque and less rotation speed the auger will have.
Note: High school students and freshman engineers in college learn about gear/pulley ratios. Anyone with a professional engineering license or credential should be able to do this. Meaning your lawsuit should make mincemeat of whatever fool failed to do BASIC BLOOD MATH on the pulleys!
The trailer brakes sticking in the morning sounds like a fun challenge. My initial thought was the SR5 valve / spring brake valve / abs valve (whichever type you actually have) sticking, but that sounds too easy. One time we had a yard truck at work that was trapping enough air in the service line to not let the brakes release after letting off the pedal. After disconnecting the glad hand it would release until you stepped on the pedal again. The craziest part is you really didn't hear any air coming out when you disconnected it, but there was just enough to keep the valves on the trailer from fully releasing.
20:22 it's a super 10 the gears are split while the other 10 spd is a direct 10
So many things to take care of but it looks like you're keeping up with it okay. 👍
Your patience is impressive.
Ambiguity is the only way to face reality. I just noticed those wind turbines all blink in sync, so trippy.
Driving from Des Moines going east towards Davenport along I80 in the dark with all those red lights flashing at the same time can hypnotize you. I have almost been put under multiple times doing that drive at night from those lights !
Really like the blue shades❤
The bolts you replaced in that auger were coupling bolts. Extra long shank with a short threaded section. You put normal bolts in which will make one side of the auger work on the threaded section of the bolt and they will fail early. Also, that pit auger needs a gearbox on top. Gearing it down with such different sized pulleys is cutting corners and is why you're burning belts off so bad.
I think you need to switch from belts to chains for your bin...atleast then they wont burn off! lol that might fix the whole issue!! :O
Cole, that transmission is what they call a super 10 speed, you are splitting each hole. The trailer not releasing quickly is maybe because the tractor has an ABS brake system and the trailer probably doesn't, if the trailer is older than 1997 it probably doesn't. Also not sure if your trailers are air ride, with ABS you need a minimum of 90lbs of for everything to release, not like older equipment that only needs 60lbs to release. Patience. I've been driving 18 wheeler for 27 years professionally, so I hope this helps you. 😊
Cole, the red Freightliner has what is called a super 10 transmission. i drove a '93 freightlner with a super-10 and absolutely hated it. i don't mind 9 speed or 10 speed straight shifts transmissions but the super-10s are for the birds.
We are really enjoying your harvest videos.
I hope and pray this bin setup debocal gets corrected for yall soon.
Call that transmission a super ten. I like that transmission. Just split every gear less shifting
Throttle the flow of corn down to that auger, too much (wet) corn for its capacity. Have a safe harvest (from Cen. Il.). Support "Save The Belts Fund"!
The transmission in the red Freightliner is a super 10. Many of the super 10 transmissions when in the 9/10 gear position would shift automatic between high and low. This is why it was a super 10. Depending on the truck you could be doing about 45-50mph and never have to touch the shifter again. The transmission and engine would work together and shift as needed. I believe the automatic shifting was only when the transmission was behind a 60 series Detroit.
Inconsistencies of frost? Sounds up your alley, as thought involved! Lol..
Augers typically use grade 5 bolts rather than grade 8 so the bolt breaks before the auger does.
Got to love daddy corn star
He made Cole
I can feel the frustration that DC is dealing with. I hope they get that settled soon.
at 14:50, looking at 8" maybe 10" down spout that takes corn away from 12"+ ? pit auger, wondering if down spout into leg were bigger then the auger feeding it since auger is force feeding a gravity down spout , should down spout tube be bigger then what is trying to force grain in ??
Glad that by the time we see this, that day is history.
Grey selector is a 10 speed, blue selector is 15 speed, red selector is an 18 speed. Great video.
That red freightliner has what is called a Super 10 Transmission. They are good on the highway
God bless all the farmers.
"Clean Grain Elevator Chain" you said that a number of times and made me laugh each time,