Good review and video. Straight to the point with interesting footage and information and good quality camera and drone views and best of all, NO DRAMA. That's why you're the best in my opinion. Thank you
Well Andy I think you have a great future if you ever decide to retire in selling machinery and trucks. You know you're way around this stuff and you learn your way around this stuff very interesting watching you show off the features of that loader, and it does look like one of those deals is sometimes we just can't walk away from had a few of them over my career too. Sometimes I don't think that the general public in this country the 98% of the population of this country that we the 2% that are farming, feed. Realize the expense the time and the risks we take to feed them, I'm an old FFA member and a member of the Pennsylvania farm bureau in Butler county farm bureau and it's one of the things we wrestle with all the time is how we get that message out. You do a great job and I really enjoy watching your channel.
Thanks for taking the time to go into detail when you show us your tractors and implements. For you, it's an every day thing. For many of the rest of us, it's out of the ordinary and we appreciate your going in-depth. I drove Rescues, Engines and Ladder Trucks for 32 years. I don't watch fire service videos because I lived it every day. Now a days, I'd rather watch cows and corn - tractors and loaders...
We’ve struggled over the years finding employees that treat our equipment like they pay to fix it and that’s typically what sends guys in search of a new job. In 2007 we bought a new 644J High lift and in the first week one of the cowboys we had working was plowing snow around the milk tanks(we load directly into semi tanks after cooling these days)and he caught the concrete approach in 3rd gear and snapped both loader arms off about 8” behind the lower pins. He went down the road and we spent almost $50k to put a new loader assembly on it. Loader also left after that because my dad figured it would happen again with the extra long arms. Since then we have also only used roll out buckets for feed handling along with handling sawdust for our dry cows, heifers and feeders.
Thanks for posting the video. I love to see them and just the plain honest straight forward evaluation of the loaders and the equipment - you talk about the good stuff and the stuff that doesn't work and its a good watch Thanks for posting.
I can't imagine they'd give you much for that 544 with 21,000 hours on it, I say keep it. 😄 We have a 928 , 2x 930s and a 938 all cat loaders we use mostly for pushing snow, 2 load dirt all summer. The 2 that only push snow look brand new, we wash them religiously. 21,258 hrs on the 544 vs 21,316 on the 644 that's pretty close.
Andy you have all the coolest toys!!!! Here I was feeling all excited that I just went out today and bought a 2018 Vermeer mc3300 MOCO, and come home to see you playing with really big iron... LOL Congrats!
Seems a little risky to have a front line machine that is critical to the operation, with more than 20K hours. You have to think a serious issue can't be too far away, although you make repairs seem manageable no matter what happens. Great video!
I remember when the 544 was practically brand new, and when you guys were still defacing with the JD tele handler and loading sand with the 325. Nice to see the 544 beside the 624, it’s plain to see how much larger of a machine it is.
I bought 524K -ll 2 years ago with 10hrs on it. I got almost 3000hrs on it now, not one problem yet. Love the loader , I use it at our concrete plant.Them gave me a great deal, couldn’t pass it up.lm sure they will give you a good for it.the ride control is great,love it when busy and got run fast.
Andy just for giggles. Check out a Clark 675 wheel loader They run a 20 yard bucket to load and carry blasted rock to a crusher. I'm sure they could fit a bucket to fill your truck with one scoop!
Spot on video Andy. Enjoyed 😉 we used what we called a toe tip bucket on a Bobcat skid steer in the late 80s early 90s to load poultry muck onto Tractor trailer combinations and it worked really well (no shaking the bucket to empty) always got a good load on the Trailer. Keep em coming. Catch the next 👍
Not shure about the years but my work has three 624 loaders for winter plowing. One J, K, and K-ll. Good size machines. Those 624k-ll's are super quiet.
Andy I run a 844k 2 in a gravel pit that loader has been dam good I think I have almost 7000 hours it has a good machine compared to my other loaders which is a Volvo 220G and 220E wished I could run all Deere loaders.
Just watching your video and thinking of the amount of money you guys spend on tires per year!!! Wow I will keep buy dairy products. Have a great day keep up the great videos!!!
About 50 years ago the neighbor had this for loading silage. It was an old car minus body. At angle a conveyor run from rear to front of the car frame. To the rear of the car frame on a hydraulic controlled arm their. was a auger that cut the silage off the end of the pile. A local welder built this. He made several of them I think. Wished I had a picture to send you. .
Do what we do Andy tell ur sales guy that ya want a full warranty with it plus the first three oil changes is on them. The last two 333 skids we bought we told them that’s what we wanted and they jumped on it.
Excellent video it's about impossible to beat a payloader when handling heavy material and feed they are built for steady heavy work i would keep the old high houred loaders for back up if you have a breakdown
That’s a big investment. But sometimes good iron is hard to pass. I don’t think the new L’s are as good is the K and older models. And unless your going after a 950 or bigger cat I would stick with the Deere. But I have some friends with Case and Komatsu and they have gotten good luck out of them.
That’s a sweet machine. The chrome stack really pops. Need a pair like the W9. The way you take care of your equipment with servicing and addressing issues quickly, the 21K hours don’t bother me for reliability. However it would be great to have an extra machine for breakdowns. That way you aren’t scrambling like last winter. Thankfully it wasn’t during harvest. The man hours if you used a telehandler or skid steer would kill you I’m sure. Enough rambling. Thanks for sharing a great video Andy. I always enjoy the drone footage. Who’s Louisville dump bucket is in the bin. That is a pretty old truck. Sarah could really have fun in that. Lol.
I'm pretty no nonsense if it's not broken y replace it I would tell them no thanks I have 2 good ones maybe in few years now not good time haha another used one will come up they always do .your videos are the best andy
We have 3 Cat loaders at the dairy I work at here in Indiana. Absolutely love our cats smooth running machines. Thing I like most is that the auxiliary hydraulic lever is built in with the main joystick so you don’t have 2 levers to work with. Definitely demo a cat if you can!
No kidding lol the last "new" cat I was around was the 980g with the weird half moon steering and then some time later my father told me all the new new stuff was all joystick control no steering wheel which is odd but I get it basically means your loader guys basically familiarized to the hoe controls
One thing to keep in mind, with 300 hrs on it, most of the glitches with a new machine should have showed up. Like a loose plug in the wiring harness, ect.
That's a nice loader. It would be handy to keep both old ones but could get expensive if you lose an engine on the 544 and only use it occasionally. Think I'd trade it and keep the 624, you have the 2 telehandlers as back up.
Hi Andy . Great video . Should look at AMI attachments at the kick-box Ejector bucket . We run a Case 621GXR pay-loader and we haven’t had any problems so far . Have a good day
@@FarmingFixingFabricating We used a dymax push out bucket at the feedlot I worked at. It was really slick. We had two of those 624k loaders with right close to 20k hours too. They’re good machines.
If that dealer has 3 of those loaders identical that came in on lease return, I certainly would trade both of those 20,000 hr old girls you have for 2 of them immediately!
You probably couldn't hear me Andy,.....but I was yelling that I would give you a quarter, if you flew the drone over Nate's head and knocked his hat off. Probably would have scared him also. (Ha!Ha!)
I think you should check out a 972 cat,they are comparable in size. Have you had any trouble with the joy stick? We replaced ours twice in 4 thousand hours on the L series
Looks like a nice machine, ever thought about tryinga a Volvo loader? or if you have them over there a Ljungby? either way it would be nice to see you try them out even a cat or a jcb loader
@@centralvalleycaliforniafarming I'd rate Liebherr and Case above Jcb for the type of work Andy does,Jcb make an excellent high power to weight ratio shovel that's excellent for silage clamp work
@@rescuecow90 I would beg to differ for the Liebherr side of things. We have one and it costs us the most money per hour to run just on repairs alone. Our guys hate that machine so much that they will use our smaller loader before they will use the Liebherr. The hydrostatic transmission absolutely sucks in it compared to the smaller Cat and Komatsu machines. The only benefit that the Deere has over the Liebherr is the powershift transmission. Case makes a great machine, but a lot of these loaders have one thing in common, which is the transmission. Hyundai, Hitachi, Case, LiuGong, JCB, and Doosan all use ZF Transmissions. A lot more manufacturers use their axles, but not on all models. Many of these companies use cummins motors as well. Anymore, it all comes down to dealer service for these machines because almost all of them use the same components.
Just a heads up, you shouldn’t dive into piles of anything without having ride stability equipped. It should be disengaged because you can damage components
Good review and video. Straight to the point with interesting footage and information and good quality camera and drone views and best of all, NO DRAMA. That's why you're the best in my opinion. Thank you
Thanks
Well Andy I think you have a great future if you ever decide to retire in selling machinery and trucks. You know you're way around this stuff and you learn your way around this stuff very interesting watching you show off the features of that loader, and it does look like one of those deals is sometimes we just can't walk away from had a few of them over my career too. Sometimes I don't think that the general public in this country the 98% of the population of this country that we the 2% that are farming, feed. Realize the expense the time and the risks we take to feed them, I'm an old FFA member and a member of the Pennsylvania farm bureau in Butler county farm bureau and it's one of the things we wrestle with all the time is how we get that message out. You do a great job and I really enjoy watching your channel.
Thanks for taking the time to go into detail when you show us your tractors and implements. For you, it's an every day thing. For many of the rest of us, it's out of the ordinary and we appreciate your going in-depth. I drove Rescues, Engines and Ladder Trucks for 32 years. I don't watch fire service videos because I lived it every day. Now a days, I'd rather watch cows and corn - tractors and loaders...
I work 12 he shifts just to come home and watch people do the same work I do hahaha. Great video!
Thanks for taking the time to share your operation Andy. Wish I could smell that corn silage 👃 👍
We’ve struggled over the years finding employees that treat our equipment like they pay to fix it and that’s typically what sends guys in search of a new job. In 2007 we bought a new 644J High lift and in the first week one of the cowboys we had working was plowing snow around the milk tanks(we load directly into semi tanks after cooling these days)and he caught the concrete approach in 3rd gear and snapped both loader arms off about 8” behind the lower pins. He went down the road and we spent almost $50k to put a new loader assembly on it. Loader also left after that because my dad figured it would happen again with the extra long arms. Since then we have also only used roll out buckets for feed handling along with handling sawdust for our dry cows, heifers and feeders.
Machinery is a real good drug....all kinds of fun and no hangovers until something breaks.
Always appreciate how well you explain the good and the bad of each piece of equipment always so informative and spot on
I'd keep the other 2 loaders just in case you have some of those emission issues. Can't go wrong with keeping that J series.
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Thanks for posting the video. I love to see them and just the plain honest straight forward evaluation of the loaders and the equipment - you talk about the good stuff and the stuff that doesn't work and its a good watch Thanks for posting.
I can't imagine they'd give you much for that 544 with 21,000 hours on it, I say keep it. 😄
We have a 928 , 2x 930s and a 938 all cat loaders we use mostly for pushing snow, 2 load dirt all summer. The 2 that only push snow look brand new, we wash them religiously.
21,258 hrs on the 544 vs 21,316 on the 644 that's pretty close.
Great video Andy, glad for the upgrades!! Jim.
Andy you have all the coolest toys!!!! Here I was feeling all excited that I just went out today and bought a 2018 Vermeer mc3300 MOCO, and come home to see you playing with really big iron... LOL Congrats!
Seems a little risky to have a front line machine that is critical to the operation, with more than 20K hours. You have to think a serious issue can't be too far away, although you make repairs seem manageable no matter what happens.
Great video!
I remember when the 544 was practically brand new, and when you guys were still defacing with the JD tele handler and loading sand with the 325. Nice to see the 544 beside the 624, it’s plain to see how much larger of a machine it is.
Nice video Andy. Very informative as always.
Great video 👍 thanks for teiking the Time to make it.
I'm a diesel mechanic, take care now 👍🤝
I bought 524K -ll 2 years ago with 10hrs on it. I got almost 3000hrs on it now, not one problem yet. Love the loader , I use it at our concrete plant.Them gave me a great deal, couldn’t pass it up.lm sure they will give you a good for it.the ride control is great,love it when busy and got run fast.
Andy just for giggles. Check out a Clark 675 wheel loader They run a 20 yard bucket to load and carry blasted rock to a crusher. I'm sure they could fit a bucket to fill your truck with one scoop!
Boy very nice loader for a 3 years old machine, looks brand new 🤙🤙👍👍
Spot on video Andy. Enjoyed 😉 we used what we called a toe tip bucket on a Bobcat skid steer in the late 80s early 90s to load poultry muck onto Tractor trailer combinations and it worked really well (no shaking the bucket to empty) always got a good load on the Trailer. Keep em coming. Catch the next 👍
that payloader does look good for three years old enjoyed the video thanks andy
Nice looking new payloader Andy
Not shure about the years but my work has three 624 loaders for winter plowing. One J, K, and K-ll. Good size machines. Those 624k-ll's are super quiet.
I love the green ford dump truck and the beautiful red ford dump truck, don't sell them you'll regret it, ford dump trucks like that are special.
Keep them all! 😂 Won't hurt for a spare. Very impressive kit. Brilliant video 💪🏻🏴
Thanks for your time Andy very informative thanks 🚜🚛🚜🚛🚜🚛🚜🚛
Nice machine, I’ve driven Komatsu, Volvo, Doosan and JCB front shovels. I love driving them. 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Nice loader Andy. It looks like it is going to do a great job for you and the dairy
Great video hope u end up buying the loader love seeing the feed bunks
Interesting video Andy, I enjoyed it thanks! Stay safe!🙏❤️🇺🇸
Just like old farmers they might break but they keep going.
Andy u deserve a few new toys hard as u work
Thanks for nother great video
My boss rented one of those 624s when we emptied his manure pit. Man was that nice compared to his older 544g. Way better but he wouldn't buy it 😂
Nice machine. Makes me sick to think how many like it were abandoned when sleepy joe abandoned the base in Afghanistan
Don't worry, The terrorists will make use of them!🙄
I know not a jd fan but there good
You always have the coolest toys.
Andy I run a 844k 2 in a gravel pit that loader has been dam good I think I have almost 7000 hours it has a good machine compared to my other loaders which is a Volvo 220G and 220E wished I could run all Deere loaders.
Another quality vid Andy. That loader is mint 👌👍
Just watching your video and thinking of the amount of money you guys spend on tires per year!!! Wow I will keep buy dairy products. Have a great day keep up the great videos!!!
damn now I wish Zach blew up that motor!! We could have sent him Happy Anniversary cards every year to never let him forget it 🤣🤣
It takes a fine touch to control 16 foot from your mast. Ive run loaders for 30 years and that boy has old scholl skills
Awesome drone footage Andy
About 50 years ago the neighbor had this for loading silage. It was an old car minus body. At angle a conveyor run from rear to front of the car frame. To the rear of the car frame on a hydraulic controlled arm their. was a auger that cut the silage off the end of the pile. A local welder built this. He made several of them I think. Wished I had a picture to send you. .
😎☕🤨🙄😮😉👍🚜🚍 Another great video!
Do what we do Andy tell ur sales guy that ya want a full warranty with it plus the first three oil changes is on them. The last two 333 skids we bought we told them that’s what we wanted and they jumped on it.
Excellent video it's about impossible to beat a payloader when handling heavy material and feed they are built for steady heavy work i would keep the old high houred loaders for back up if you have a breakdown
Great video, I might be bias but we have 95 percent of our fleet John Deere 5 percent Caterpillar Loaders.
Big operation requires Big Toys for Big Boys and Jr he is a big Man...must be keepin Jr busy🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 it's almost chompin time
You should look at ufo high tilt buckets. Never any problems with stuff getting stuck anymore.
I used to run heavy equipment back in the eighties and nineties these new ones I wouldn't even know how to start it
Very interesting, shaving the feed from the pile.
So computized, different technology
Great video Andy
Thanks
Nice looking silage Andy
With the breakaway bucket, have you considered adding 3’ to the sides of the John Deere truck? Looks like it could reach and add much % to the load
That would over load the truck
@@FarmingFixingFabricating 624 loader is a good loader we have to
That’s a big investment. But sometimes good iron is hard to pass. I don’t think the new L’s are as good is the K and older models. And unless your going after a 950 or bigger cat I would stick with the Deere. But I have some friends with Case and Komatsu and they have gotten good luck out of them.
Nice looking loader. Always a plus when someone takes the big financial hit then trades it in
That’s a sweet machine. The chrome stack really pops. Need a pair like the W9.
The way you take care of your equipment with servicing and addressing issues quickly, the 21K hours don’t bother me for reliability. However it would be great to have an extra machine for breakdowns. That way you aren’t scrambling like last winter. Thankfully it wasn’t during harvest. The man hours if you used a telehandler or skid steer would kill you I’m sure. Enough rambling. Thanks for sharing a great video Andy. I always enjoy the drone footage. Who’s Louisville dump bucket is in the bin. That is a pretty old truck. Sarah could really have fun in that. Lol.
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I'm pretty no nonsense if it's not broken y replace it I would tell them no thanks I have 2 good ones maybe in few years now not good time haha another used one will come up they always do .your videos are the best andy
Thanks
We have 3 Cat loaders at the dairy I work at here in Indiana. Absolutely love our cats smooth running machines. Thing I like most is that the auxiliary hydraulic lever is built in with the main joystick so you don’t have 2 levers to work with. Definitely demo a cat if you can!
Cats aren't twin stick anymore? Last one I ran was a 972g series 2
@@anthonypoquette8018 no sir they aren’t. They have a roller toggle switch on top of the joystick
No kidding lol the last "new" cat I was around was the 980g with the weird half moon steering and then some time later my father told me all the new new stuff was all joystick control no steering wheel which is odd but I get it basically means your loader guys basically familiarized to the hoe controls
With all the work needed there keep it for spair. You never how and you never in a need if they break. No emergency need for a part to repair.
FARM LIFE IS HARD ON SHIT . AND YOU GOT A LOT OF BIGGER STUFF THEN WE EVER HAD . ..
The more loaders you have the better!! No such thing a to many! 👍👍
Very true
One thing to keep in mind, with 300 hrs on it, most of the glitches with a new machine should have showed up. Like a loose plug in the wiring harness, ect.
Very informative... great stuff!
I have tip outs and am also interested in a push out bucket. Please do a review if you try one
G'day Andy. Just buy it. Great video.
Thanks for the video I enjoyed it as always 👍
That's a nice loader. It would be handy to keep both old ones but could get expensive if you lose an engine on the 544 and only use it occasionally. Think I'd trade it and keep the 624, you have the 2 telehandlers as back up.
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Hi Andy . Great video . Should look at AMI attachments at the kick-box Ejector bucket . We run a Case 621GXR pay-loader and we haven’t had any problems so far . Have a good day
Do you have a kick box bucket
@@FarmingFixingFabricating No , we use a 3 yd feed lot bucket with grapple .
@@FarmingFixingFabricating
We used a dymax push out bucket at the feedlot I worked at. It was really slick.
We had two of those 624k loaders with right close to 20k hours too. They’re good machines.
Great Video!!!
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Lot of jcb and volvo loaders here in Ireland
nice machine and the chrome tip :D
If that dealer has 3 of those loaders identical that came in on lease return, I certainly would trade both of those 20,000 hr old girls you have for 2 of them immediately!
Not a bad idea to have a spare loader in case of an unexpected breakdown. IMO
Better coax a few more gallons out of the ladies and get that loader! Just tell them it’ll be getting them their meals and I’m sure they’ll oblige.
Keep the oldest for field work and snow plowing and bale colection
is that a self level system that dont dump the load on you??
Yeah
some times you have to take the deals when they come along. Might not hurt to have a spare, old loader.
I'm fairly certain the center pins were replaced on the 544J a few years after you bought the 624
I think your right
Greta will approve of the DEF on that new loader......
How dare you!
Could we see your milking barn some time please looks really nice from outside
So interesting. Fermented feed. Wander if it make beer?
You probably couldn't hear me Andy,.....but I was yelling that I would give you a quarter, if you flew the drone over Nate's head and knocked his hat off. Probably would have scared him also. (Ha!Ha!)
2 Deere's with 21k hours, think I'd stick with deere. I'd get that def system checked thoroughly before buying it
Crome exhaust…. Buy it
We have a 544J too
Hey Nate, if it’s not too much trouble could you not throw the hydraulic couplers in the dirt
Beautiful loader
That's a pretty sweet machine. Only 300 hours? Do eeeeetttt!!!
Also, why did you do conventional corn silage? If I am to understand correctly, the BMR corn is easier to digest for the cows. Is it a cost thing?
Andy Ask if was used to load salt
Could be issue in a few years
It plowed snow
I think you should check out a 972 cat,they are comparable in size.
Have you had any trouble with the joy stick? We replaced ours twice in 4 thousand hours on the L series
We had to replace the one on the 544j
Looks like a nice machine, ever thought about tryinga a Volvo loader? or if you have them over there a Ljungby? either way it would be nice to see you try them out even a cat or a jcb loader
No I haven’t
How big are them bunks I love deere commercial equipment dependable
That bucket is sweet... never thought that was a thing, but useful. Is there a weight capacity for those cylinders?
There doesn’t seem to be
Great video ! Andy
Deere makes the best loaders hands down
I would beg to differ there
Over here in the UK,Volvo would be considered the best.
@@rescuecow90 It would be both Volvo and JCB I would assume
@@centralvalleycaliforniafarming I'd rate Liebherr and Case above Jcb for the type of work Andy does,Jcb make an excellent high power to weight ratio shovel that's excellent for silage clamp work
@@rescuecow90 I would beg to differ for the Liebherr side of things. We have one and it costs us the most money per hour to run just on repairs alone. Our guys hate that machine so much that they will use our smaller loader before they will use the Liebherr. The hydrostatic transmission absolutely sucks in it compared to the smaller Cat and Komatsu machines. The only benefit that the Deere has over the Liebherr is the powershift transmission. Case makes a great machine, but a lot of these loaders have one thing in common, which is the transmission. Hyundai, Hitachi, Case, LiuGong, JCB, and Doosan all use ZF Transmissions. A lot more manufacturers use their axles, but not on all models. Many of these companies use cummins motors as well. Anymore, it all comes down to dealer service for these machines because almost all of them use the same components.
Sometimes got to take the the deal when it presents itself
wow..that many tires would have our EPA up our butts....anything oil brings 'em out like hornets.
Nice loader Andy
Try a Volvo L70/90 with 20k hrs their only just run in.I’ve a push out bucket and it’s great.👍
What kind of push out bucket do you have
@@FarmingFixingFabricating mines made by a company over here in the UK,its very similar to this th-cam.com/video/TYRFjE--y5c/w-d-xo.html
Just a heads up, you shouldn’t dive into piles of anything without having ride stability equipped. It should be disengaged because you can damage components
What?