What sets your videos apart from all the other "farmer" videos is Becky's superb editing skills. So many of the other vids are disjointed, filled with obnoxious cover music and just not edited very well. Way to go Becky!
@@pinwizz69 Agree! Mike Mitchell is fun to watch. And the Welkers do a nice job. Ivers Farms in Southern IN is good too. But MF is the one I watch when I only have time for one. 💪
At this point it's just a matter of time before the two dogs and cat dog hijack the ranger, and ride off in to the sunset, they really do love to get ride alongs :D
Wow! That performance brought a tear to my eye. Amazing vocals, perfect pitch. Just amazing!! It's a good thing for you if farming doesn't work out you can always launch your vocal career.
There should be a disclaimer on this video that reads, if you are watching this video while dining in at Culvers eating supper, and Zach randomly says our pets heads are falling off, expect people to look at you weird when it looks like you are crying because you are laughing that hard. Keep up the great job and happy harvest
Spacers are there to increase the bolt length enough to get a "stretch" on the bolt when you torque it. The stretch is what keeps the bolt from coming loose! I actually designed the tooling that makes the bolts and spacers! Made in the USA! Made in Wisconsin actually!
I'm not even a farmer but I watch everyone of you're videos. You're day to day routines and quirks of everything going wrong and right somehow relate to my life. But great to see how you guys all pull together to get things done. Keep making the great and entertaining videos.
almost, ALMOST. Almost had the scene where the wheels came off!! Good thing there are so dang many there. WOW, you had a LOT of machinery working out there. Amazing!! Thanks Zack, for showing us how it works there. Great video. (thanks Becky)
Zack the reason for long bolts and spacers is at spec torque the longer bolt will stretch more and provide a higher clamping force learned that in Cat service training.
Regarding the wheel spacer on the wheel bolts... that so the bolt can be 1.5” longer than needed to stretch and provide more clamp load on the rim. (When properly torqued)
Just a thought. If you mounted an air jet, operated from below, pointed at the camera from the side, you could blow off the dust when you need to see in your bin.
For those of us watching in Celsius zones, 15F is near -10C. Becky if were bored with nothing much on a splash comment with the conversion would be cool. Oh and another top tip for you, tie a broom to your back and you could sweep as you rush around doing all the other jobs 😁
Amazing to see what goes on in the field and behind the scenes, when the harvester is out in the field. Thank you for sharing what you do, truly have enjoyed watching these.
Thank you for explaining everything in laymen’s terms. None of my relatives farm any longer and I miss that type of life. Your videos and others that post give me my fix. Thanks Zach Becky Dad Kids, dogs and cat/dog for sharing your lives with us.
I had both left tires fall off the same combine a couple years ago. All the bolts loosened up and sheared off. It's a know defect on those S series combines. Got some crazy pictures from that incident.
Had a dual fall off my combine this harvest and dealer had to come out and put it back on, sheared all the Bolts off and they said it was likely that the wheel studs were loose from the paint on the mating surface of the wheel chipping away. They said they always grind the paint off on new machines or new wheels and they don't have any issues after that. Just something to take into consideration!
Heard you say cameras would dust over with in minuets in the grain bins. They'll come a time where you kids will have to climb the ladders. You and your Dad will be grounded! Before that, could you install a compresser near the bin's and put a manifold on it with 1/4" lines running to each bin to where you would put a camera? Control each line with a solenoid on each leg on the manifold. Have them controled where ever you would watch a screen. Push a button to blast the lens clear of the dust enough to see what is going on. It would be a much easier step to take.
We had hopes of being done with corn this week. We only got about 20 acres picked today, and the bearing in the bottom of the vertical part of the unloading auger shelled out. wrenching and hammering in the morning and I hope the bearing is readily available.
The Millennial is finally available in 4k, it should be hashtagged! I always enjoy all the work you, dad, and Jim along with others put into the farm...let's not forget your wife Becky who's doing all that editing!
We also used to buy our grease by 55 gallon drums as well as the 3 different oils we used (Petrol engine, Diesel engine and old Kero burner tractors/windmill pumps etc.
the spacers on your combine wheel studs are to increase the effective clamping load of each bolt. in applications where short bolts are required, using a spacer and a longer bolt allows the bolt to stretch/flex more before before breaking. great videos, keep them coming.
Hey man I’m from the north east and we get pretty cold winters but 15 degrees in October is freaking cold brotha you don’t have to sugar coat it.. you guys are the toughest working class around.. props to your family farm
It amazes you how they can build folding corn headers... And I'm amazed how there are still fixed corn headers around, cause in Italy I've never seen one. We only have folding headers.
Well, I hope you yield improves and those nasty Arctic temps go up to where you need them to be. As well as that darn struggle bus goes to the scrap yard soyou have a nice hassle free remaining harvest season. I watch your channel and Larson Farms channel and having grown up in the small Michigan farm town in the 60's and 70's it absolutely amazes me how big and complex tractors and combines have become. I can remember when farm equipment always had the right ofcway when moving equipment during planting and harvest season. 14 and farm kids got passes to work on the farm at those times. It's why they had the neatest home built 4 wheelers with a bed to haul parts and tools to do emergency repairs and deliver lunch and dinner nice and hot. My first Boy Scout Scoutmaster had a large farm and once you were 14 he'd hire kids tohelp with the permission of their parents part time after school. Especially harvesting hay. Did that one summer never again. Those darn bales were heavy to sing around.
Hey Zach, a little tip for future you to tell the difference for a standard and a metric bolt a standard has those lines that you have on top a metric will have a number on top usually like 5.5 6.5 something like that.
Just install lense wipers like a car windshield wiper duh!!! So simple!! Gets the blood pumping during harvest!! Love the stairs on our bins too way better than going up and down ladders!!!
The spacer is there to create extra length for a longer bolt. The longer the bolt the more stretch under torque the bolt will have. The more stretch it has under load the less likely it will back off and run loose. But for some reason Deere struggles with combine duals staying on 🤦♂️
In the heavy logging equipment program I went through we only ever used high temperature grease because there was one machine that required it on its cutting blade and we didn’t want to risk someone using the wrong grease in that one machine.
We have the same tarp and hopper door setup on one of our semis, I have found that if you hold the open and close buttons at the same time until the red light shows, then do the same for one on the hoppers, and the green light and system works. It the un plug and re plug for that lol
Great videos. I enjoy that it is not scripted and that cat dog,formerly known as Ray, gets some screen time. I appreciate all the hard work you and the world’s farmers do. Eve 6 - Inside Out.
So crazy that you guys are not too far from us up here in North Dakota, and yet our yields were pretty good. We had one of the best years for wheat at our place we've had in years.
Great content as always, thank you. You mentioned video cameras in the grain bins do not work because the dust would settle on them. Would it be worth setting up an airline to blow the dust off? A connector in the control room to each camera, quick blow with the airline and you should have the view, without all the climbing.
Between Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska and areas to the south I manage land in, we had corn anywhere from 25 to 54 bushel beans and corn that ranged from 94 to 217 bushel. All dryland, around 10" or more less than last year. Hail storms hit some of the area in june around V4 in corn after it dried we didnt' see much of anything for rainfall. The cracks in the ground are wide enough to put your hand in and go down feet plural. A garden hose in our hard will go down at least 18" and run for multiple minutes without ever seeing the water. Crop scout in late August said we had little to no moisture at the 3 foot level.
On the farm, it seems like we always had at least one helper kitty that liked to hang out with the people...and demand petting while we were trying to get work done😂
The reason for the spacers on the wheel bolts is so that the 450 lbs of torque stretches the bolt enough to keep the joint tight. A shorter bolt would loosen up more often. Really appreciate the content and the editing. Every video flows well. Nice to see all the help also!
Zac you should look into ultrasonic sensors to measure the bins. As a controls eng. we’ve used them in water tower tanks before. Appreciate the content.
We use Mystik grease in every machine we have. The high temp/high pressure full synthetic is our flavor. We have ovens, melters, shakers, etc in the foundry and the stuff just works.
Zack, Try sticking a zip tie in the electrical socket on the trailer with the plug in it. Make a loop, stick the power cable thru that and shove the tip into the trailer plug. That should keep it steady in the plug.
These videos are top class so professional everything on yere farm is ran so well the best youtuber in the american farming videos you would never get bored watching well done from cork ireland
Mount the camera up top with an air hose near the lens with a valve near the control. Need to see in the bin open the valve on the air hose and blow the lens off and you got a good sight down. Think it would work?
Run a set of jumper cables or a boost pack straight to the motor on your tarp if the control box won't run the motor. This will bypass the control box and will also diagnose if the motor is bad. Correct polarity will open tarp. Reverse polarity will close
We did a test section of our corn with the combine..41%...we hand roll at 28%...so in the very good corn there is a 2nd cob that the plant shut down prematurely and then got hit with early frost... it's rubber...and bringing the whole sample moisture up...the last time we had this was 2014 in one small field. We will have 1000ac of this stuff to do...
I just can't believe that you're not at a million subscribers right now I kind of like to see Anna get a ride and some of that equipment that'd be great you guys take care of God bless great videos Zach
What sets your videos apart from all the other "farmer" videos is Becky's superb editing skills. So many of the other vids are disjointed, filled with obnoxious cover music and just not edited very well. Way to go Becky!
Adding my vote to this comment. Your videos are always "top shelf" product. Thank you!
Larson Farms is on par with Millinial farmer's.
The only 2 I watch.
Hear! hear! Well said
w/o his wife he would just be a babbling fool... :)
@@pinwizz69 Agree! Mike Mitchell is fun to watch. And the Welkers do a nice job. Ivers Farms in Southern IN is good too. But MF is the one I watch when I only have time for one. 💪
come on folks..Anna needs a ride in the combine...lets get this channel to 1 million!!
The cat-dog must get into the cab. It is a warrior at heart.
Thank you Becky! You do a great job editing these videos. Much appreciated.🎃
Yuuup Becky, you do a GREAT job editing Zach's videos - thank you !!,,
At this point it's just a matter of time before the two dogs and cat dog hijack the ranger, and ride off in to the sunset, they really do love to get ride alongs :D
LOLed
A remake of The Incredible Journey / Homeward Bound
I like your name Jim Dupont.
Will the dogs be using guns?
T- shirt idea😂
Wow! That performance brought a tear to my eye. Amazing vocals, perfect pitch. Just amazing!! It's a good thing for you if farming doesn't work out you can always launch your vocal career.
There should be a disclaimer on this video that reads, if you are watching this video while dining in at Culvers eating supper, and Zach randomly says our pets heads are falling off, expect people to look at you weird when it looks like you are crying because you are laughing that hard. Keep up the great job and happy harvest
🤣🤣 my work is complete!
"I mean what are we doing here Harry?"
Best part of the video!!! I found myself laughing!
Spacers are there to increase the bolt length enough to get a "stretch" on the bolt when you torque it. The stretch is what keeps the bolt from coming loose! I actually designed the tooling that makes the bolts and spacers! Made in the USA! Made in Wisconsin actually!
Pressure regulators will frost over also
High usage of grain dryers will use more vapor than what liquid is making
So great, the sheer amount of content you guys are pushing out. I love popping onto YT and seeing a new upload from you guys!
I love your dogs and their willingness to be with you.
Eve 6 - Inside Out! Love that song
Thank you Mrs Millennial for editing these videos. You’re awesome and I love watching the videos.
I'm not even a farmer but I watch everyone of you're videos. You're day to day routines and quirks of everything going wrong and right somehow relate to my life. But great to see how you guys all pull together to get things done. Keep making the great and entertaining videos.
almost, ALMOST. Almost had the scene where the wheels came off!! Good thing there are so dang many there. WOW, you had a LOT of machinery working out there. Amazing!! Thanks Zack, for showing us how it works there. Great video. (thanks Becky)
2:23 The look that Ditch gives you. 😁
Good catch by your grain cart driver to notice those bolts!
Zack the reason for long bolts and spacers is at spec torque the longer bolt will stretch more and provide a higher clamping force learned that in Cat service training.
I CANNOT believe how much quieter the new blower setup is holy cow. Good deal👍
You can actually carry a conversation there on video no less and have it still be intelligible.
It's SO MUCH quieter! And the tone of it doesn't hurt my ears
Regarding the wheel spacer on the wheel bolts... that so the bolt can be 1.5” longer than needed to stretch and provide more clamp load on the rim. (When properly torqued)
Plus adding camera's inside of the grain bin introduces another ignition source up in the area of floating dust.
Just a thought. If you mounted an air jet, operated from below, pointed at the camera from the side, you could blow off the dust when you need to see in your bin.
I like your dad a lot Zac. Your whole family is alright too!
For those of us watching in Celsius zones, 15F is near -10C. Becky if were bored with nothing much on a splash comment with the conversion would be cool. Oh and another top tip for you, tie a broom to your back and you could sweep as you rush around doing all the other jobs 😁
Amazing to see what goes on in the field and behind the scenes, when the harvester is out in the field. Thank you for sharing what you do, truly have enjoyed watching these.
Great editing Becky, kudos from Chatham Kent Ontario Canada!
About the cameras in the grain bins. Build a little plexiglass box for them to sit in? Keep the dust off the cameras
Your dad is amazing - Jim too. Makes you a v lucky person ...
Thank you for explaining everything in laymen’s terms. None of my relatives farm any longer and I miss that type of life. Your videos and others that post give me my fix. Thanks Zach Becky Dad Kids, dogs and cat/dog for sharing your lives with us.
The spacer on the wheel bolts allows more length between the threaded hole and the head so the bolt can stretch more and hopefully stay tight longer
FYI SAE bolts have hashes on the head to indicate grade whereas Metric bolts have numbers stamped on the head to indicate class.
I had both left tires fall off the same combine a couple years ago. All the bolts loosened up and sheared off. It's a know defect on those S series combines. Got some crazy pictures from that incident.
The happiness you bring to people who are sad is fundamental thank you
Best farming channel I have ever found on TH-cam🎉🎉🎉🎉
Zack, you are a great guy on that camera I Enjoy your content ,you have great tapping Skill ! Happy holloween 👻
the spacer on the bolts is to allow the bolts to flex a little
Spacers are used so a longer bolt can be used so there is more stretch length for more tension.
Finally the combining footage I have been waiting for! Great stuff! Thank you so much for the coverage!
Had a dual fall off my combine this harvest and dealer had to come out and put it back on, sheared all the Bolts off and they said it was likely that the wheel studs were loose from the paint on the mating surface of the wheel chipping away. They said they always grind the paint off on new machines or new wheels and they don't have any issues after that. Just something to take into consideration!
Really like your videos.. between u and mike mitchell in canada keeps my night busy
Always enjoy your videos. You are one of the reasons I started my channel
Heard you say cameras would dust over with in minuets in the grain bins. They'll come a time where you kids will have to climb the ladders. You and your Dad will be grounded! Before that, could you install a compresser near the bin's and put a manifold on it with 1/4" lines running to each bin to where you would put a camera? Control each line with a solenoid on each leg on the manifold. Have them controled where ever you would watch a screen. Push a button to blast the lens clear of the dust enough to see what is going on. It would be a much easier step to take.
Thanks!
Key pad for tarp is shot we have had 2 go out now on our trailers same thing. New ones have little box that encloses em.
We had hopes of being done with corn this week. We only got about 20 acres picked today, and the bearing in the bottom of the vertical part of the unloading auger shelled out.
wrenching and hammering in the morning and I hope the bearing is readily available.
The Millennial is finally available in 4k, it should be hashtagged!
I always enjoy all the work you, dad, and Jim along with others put into the farm...let's not forget your wife Becky who's doing all that editing!
We also used to buy our grease by 55 gallon drums as well as the 3 different oils we used (Petrol engine, Diesel engine and old Kero burner tractors/windmill pumps etc.
We had wheel bolts get loose this season too. Local tire shop apparently didn't tighten them enough when they put them on last...
Y’all are right this is so good videos. I’m sure it is hard to keep up Becky does a great job and Zack does a good job videoing. Stay safe and warm
Zack, your dad is getting along great after his knee surgery last year. Thought about it in the last video as he got out of the combine.
the spacers on your combine wheel studs are to increase the effective clamping load of each bolt. in applications where short bolts are required, using a spacer and a longer bolt allows the bolt to stretch/flex more before before breaking. great videos, keep them coming.
Combine has bolts? Not mounted studs? I'm asking
Great video again . The 780 we run can have the same problem with wheel studs so we tighten them once a week.
Hey man I’m from the north east and we get pretty cold winters but 15 degrees in October is freaking cold brotha you don’t have to sugar coat it.. you guys are the toughest working class around.. props to your family farm
Standard bolts have lines or markings on them. Metric have numbers on the head.
It amazes you how they can build folding corn headers... And I'm amazed how there are still fixed corn headers around, cause in Italy I've never seen one. We only have folding headers.
Well, I hope you yield improves and those nasty Arctic temps go up to where you need them to be.
As well as that darn struggle bus goes to the scrap yard soyou have a nice hassle free remaining harvest season.
I watch your channel and Larson Farms channel and having grown up in the small Michigan farm town in the 60's and 70's it absolutely amazes me how big and complex tractors and combines have become.
I can remember when farm equipment always had the right ofcway when moving equipment during planting and harvest season.
14 and farm kids got passes to work on the farm at those times.
It's why they had the neatest home built 4 wheelers with a bed to haul parts and tools to do emergency repairs and deliver lunch and dinner nice and hot.
My first Boy Scout Scoutmaster had a large farm and once you were 14 he'd hire kids tohelp with the permission of their parents part time after school.
Especially harvesting hay.
Did that one summer never again.
Those darn bales were heavy to sing around.
Hey Zach, a little tip for future you to tell the difference for a standard and a metric bolt a standard has those lines that you have on top a metric will have a number on top usually like 5.5 6.5 something like that.
Zach.... It's amazing how much your son looks like your father... I love to see those two generations hanging out together on the farm!!
Just install lense wipers like a car windshield wiper duh!!! So simple!! Gets the blood pumping during harvest!! Love the stairs on our bins too way better than going up and down ladders!!!
New subscriber here. Love the videos. Farm equipment operation is something I always loved. I am a truck driver and love see all these videos.
The spacer is there to create extra length for a longer bolt.
The longer the bolt the more stretch under torque the bolt will have. The more stretch it has under load the less likely it will back off and run loose.
But for some reason Deere struggles with combine duals staying on 🤦♂️
In the heavy logging equipment program I went through we only ever used high temperature grease because there was one machine that required it on its cutting blade and we didn’t want to risk someone using the wrong grease in that one machine.
Love watching your videos on TH-cam Zach! They are fun too watch
Sure do appreciate what you do and show us.
We have the same tarp and hopper door setup on one of our semis, I have found that if you hold the open and close buttons at the same time until the red light shows, then do the same for one on the hoppers, and the green light and system works. It the un plug and re plug for that lol
Thank u for the Celsius to make it easier boiling point of water 100C freezing 0C at sea level
Love the content ad always. I miss farming. 😞
Song was Eve Six, Inside Out.
Great videos. I enjoy that it is not scripted and that cat dog,formerly known as Ray, gets some screen time. I appreciate all the hard work you and the world’s farmers do.
Eve 6 - Inside Out.
So crazy that you guys are not too far from us up here in North Dakota, and yet our yields were pretty good. We had one of the best years for wheat at our place we've had in years.
they make cameras with tiny windshield wipers... and separate enclosures with windshield wipers...
The throwback songs are better then anything on the radio today.
Great content as always, thank you. You mentioned video cameras in the grain bins do not work because the dust would settle on them. Would it be worth setting up an airline to blow the dust off? A connector in the control room to each camera, quick blow with the airline and you should have the view, without all the climbing.
Thank you for explaining what your doing the whole time..I appreciate it!
Long day but rewarding.👍❤️🇨🇦
Between Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska and areas to the south I manage land in, we had corn anywhere from 25 to 54 bushel beans and corn that ranged from 94 to 217 bushel. All dryland, around 10" or more less than last year. Hail storms hit some of the area in june around V4 in corn after it dried we didnt' see much of anything for rainfall. The cracks in the ground are wide enough to put your hand in and go down feet plural. A garden hose in our hard will go down at least 18" and run for multiple minutes without ever seeing the water. Crop scout in late August said we had little to no moisture at the 3 foot level.
FYI Standard thread bolts have the dashes 3 for grade 5 and 6 for grade 8. Metric have a 8.8 10.8 or 12.8 stamped on the head.
Its amazing how great you sound singing with no volume
Keep up the good hard work I got to drive a case it 8250 with down spot and it was hard to unload on the go
Just noticed you are up to 950k! Mabey Anna can get that ride soon. 🐕🚜😁
On the farm, it seems like we always had at least one helper kitty that liked to hang out with the people...and demand petting while we were trying to get work done😂
First real video showing how hilly your land is - great video Zach
I'm so glad catdog got in the show today. 🤣
The reason for the spacers on the wheel bolts is so that the 450 lbs of torque stretches the bolt enough to keep the joint tight. A shorter bolt would loosen up more often. Really appreciate the content and the editing. Every video flows well. Nice to see all the help also!
I dig the look of the new corn head when it's folded...looks intimidating, in a mutant kind of way.
Zac you should look into ultrasonic sensors to measure the bins. As a controls eng. we’ve used them in water tower tanks before. Appreciate the content.
Eve 6 inside out !! The song of the day !!
We use Mystik grease in every machine we have. The high temp/high pressure full synthetic is our flavor. We have ovens, melters, shakers, etc in the foundry and the stuff just works.
Great video. I must have missed a video. Who are the 2 new guys helping you? Thanks
Zack, The bolts are metric and the spacers are so the bolt has little stretch when it is torqued proper. (JD Harvester worker)
What an operation you have out there! Really enjoy your vlogs! Very informative what you and your family goes through to make a living farming.
Zack, Try sticking a zip tie in the electrical socket on the trailer with the plug in it. Make a loop, stick the power cable thru that and shove the tip into the trailer plug. That should keep it steady in the plug.
These videos are top class so professional everything on yere farm is ran so well the best youtuber in the american farming videos you would never get bored watching well done from cork ireland
Ditch. What a random great name for that dog. It fits that dog lol
I have been in the equipment service sinse the 70s and Mystic JT6 has been the best for me and most all equipment manufacturers...
Mount the camera up top with an air hose near the lens with a valve near the control. Need to see in the bin open the valve on the air hose and blow the lens off and you got a good sight down. Think it would work?
If the propane lines freezing is a recurring problem, you could consider adding heat trace to the lines
Yea for Ray making an appearance!
Run a set of jumper cables or a boost pack straight to the motor on your tarp if the control box won't run the motor. This will bypass the control box and will also diagnose if the motor is bad. Correct polarity will open tarp. Reverse polarity will close
We did a test section of our corn with the combine..41%...we hand roll at 28%...so in the very good corn there is a 2nd cob that the plant shut down prematurely and then got hit with early frost... it's rubber...and bringing the whole sample moisture up...the last time we had this was 2014 in one small field. We will have 1000ac of this stuff to do...
I just can't believe that you're not at a million subscribers right now I kind of like to see Anna get a ride and some of that equipment that'd be great you guys take care of God bless great videos Zach
Jim is an awesome farm hand... I'd love to know his back story, awesome person!!