I always used to watch this video, maybe 5 years ago, and I forgot how bad that year was. IN Kansas, we actually had a AWFULLY muddy wheat harvest. What a vidoe. I CAN ACTUALLY LIKE THIS VIDEO NOW!!!
1973 was pretty much like this vid. Neighbor bought a new combine, put steel tracks on it and picked corn in almost 3 feet of water. Parked combine when they got thru and it hasn't moved since. Monument to determination and what it takes sometimes to slug it out with the weather.
they are mooring lines used for tieing ships to a pier. You can get lines rated for 10k upward of 200k pounds. They stretch about 30 percent when under load so you can yank the hell out of them to get a slingshot effect. But you have to figure the weight of the towed AND towing vehicle AND pull strength exerted to get the right stuff for the application.
Yes, mild winter in 2012 as well, dad has stories on how they put a tarp building in their t shirts one day in january, but they had space heaters down their the next day, with it snowing like a s.o.b. , the snowy day kinda argues my point, but my point is that they put up a tarp building with t shirts in the middle of january...
Great Video. Harvest sucked this year because it was so wet. I burried my grain cart this year. We weren't near as wet as you guys though. We farm around the Mellette, Northville, Ashton, Brenford area in South Dakota.
Just crazy too see!! We could never get away with that in our soil. We have heavy clay here in Ontario Canada, if we made that big of a mess in a field it take years to bring it back from all the compaction and ruts. If its that bad we have to leave it until freeze up and hope it doesn't snow. Hats of for getting the job done, it sucks playing in the mud!!!
haha that reminds me of our corn harvest last fall. We went everywhere with a tractor to pull ud out. Pulling the combines out sideways is the only way to get them out sometimes liamlightmx if you try to pull them out straight you will just get more things stuck you learn that from experience lol. Great video though keep em coming.
If I remember right that was a really strange year. Down here in Nebraska also. It was cool and wet and towards fall it just wouldn't dry out and got cold. We got the combine stuck several times and had to put a JD 9630 track tractor on the auger wagon. Two months later had the worst snow storm in over twenty years.
These conditions and - maybe - running minimum tillage; tough job getting fields kind of level again. We did custom harvesting in late -09 starting at at 4-5 am after frost and run until 9'ish am. when the frost didn't support any more. And we finished 16'th of Dec. But what can you do - gotta get the harvest done. Great video. Thanks.
God that looks like fun! Sorry I missed that harvest. What you needed was a freeze. Takes so long for the ground to dry out in the fall. Luckily corn can wait, unfortunately beans won't... What did you do to deal with the ruts and compaction issues in the spring?
thats some pretty narly stuff. ive cut alot of rice out here in california with similar conditions, but when it gets that muddy we bust out the tracks and the self propelled grain carts. how do you guys get rid of the ruts in spring?
Is there no tile drainage in any of these fields or was it just that bad? In which case there would be a lot of tile runs that need to be fixed from being crushed...
holy shit!! that seemed a lil' wet. ya? lol i agree tracks might have worked? but at least u had a good time by the looks of it. hows the weather out there this year? well great slide show,
@SgtUberGrunt Not just the one. I for one have worked for one of these crews and it is not easy work. from July 12- Aug 19th not a day off, and 14-16hr days most of the time, with the occasional 10-12hr if the dew sets in early. If theres no rain you go, and if its a crop that can be cut wet, like corn, you go. simple as that Wheat Barley and Canola you cannot cut when it is that wet because the chaff sticks to the rotor and sieves. However the corn ears can separate decently when it is wet.
we had a tracked grain cart with a cat mt865 pulling it, and a john deere 9760 that we put ati super tracks on, and shit we still got stuck in north east sd this year
@Dragotec you don't get it you migth buy tracks and only use them 1 year. In South Dakota we have been super wet and 4 years ago we went through a drought. In South Dakota we mostly run green paint. Green paint and peterbilts make a farm.
By the way idk exatly why your hydrostats got so hot but ig i took a wild guess i would say u had too much straw and stubble build up on it and made it get hot or you were really pushin it through the mud. we blow our combine of every mornin and air filter during harvest and it makes a difference on keeping it cool.
looks familiar :D, our main farm is by mina sd, but we have a few sections right by columbia, tough harvest last fall, lets pray for better luck this year. And some heat right now! Do you work for jensen harvesting or did you hire them?
When it's harvest time you HARVEST. rain or shine, you are out there getting the crop off. If the ground is wet, you just deal with it. That's how farming is.
it was just that wet last fall we could not get a break it would start to dry then it would rain even more we had the same problem but we had a combine on tracks along with a grain cart on tracks
lmao in SD we had the same problems. in one field the mud was so deep that we buried a atv. I ran a brent 1000 bushel grain cart pulled by a 9230 and we ran 4 9770sts's.
2:16 Co-worker of mine did the same thing to our 8440 on the Grain Cart in Oklahoma. I had to take a pickaxe and clean the duals out.. then drove down an asphalt road with the tires still half packed. That was quite comical watching the chunks of mud pass me.
when there is that good of corn out there. even in the low ground u just got to take the chance to pay the bills. and pulling a combine out isnt too big of deal. a full grain cart on the other hand...
oh yes, the year from hell. 30 moist corn, 24 moist beans that all went through the dryer, the elevators could only take corn for 2 hrs in the morning because thats all they could dry in a day, some elevators never even took corn because they were drying beans til the end of december. Thanksgiving was the first nice day we had to cut beans all year, I don't think there was a farmer in SE North Dakota who didn't eat his Thanksgiving dinner out of a cooler that day. Finished the corn in a blizzard
acres and take care of it and our equipment. we got some of the worst blue gumbo around and run floatation tires on our combine and grain buggies and run caterpillar challenger tractors with 32 in tracks.we have had our combine stuck once years ago. if u wanna know more just ask i like comparein and learnin how yall farm different.
@350groomer And based on the equipment used in this video this guy is a VERY large farmer and ruins his soil profile and consequently his yield because he has to rush and leave huge ruts to get done before the snow. If he was smaller farmer he could just wait till its dry
I am in AR and we farm rice beans and corn and we got a newholland cr 960 and we averaged 230 bu/ac corn and 85/90 bu/ac beans and 180 b/ac rice last year . we farm only 1, 200
@clkclkboom04 You're right I don't know anything. It's better for a custom crew to have to do a small farm job. I mean who has the time to work their own land anymore? I've been working on our family farm for 25 plus years. I stated the facts you can't dredge out the soil like this without having an impact on it. If you set your digger depth too low it does the same thing.
Sometimes you have to harvest in poor conditions. having a couple thousand acres requires a different approach. You can't just stop and wait for the ground to dry.
some people are impatient when it comes to harvesting they are excitied because they get to bring in the money, but when its that wet just wait until it dries it will save yourselves alot of time and anger
when you have a million bucks in the field waiting there, if the crops dry get it off. I dont know how it works in the states but in canada we got some insurance but never enough. its worse if you do that in spring which is what last year was for us. You do whatever you can to get your investment back. If that happened to me tho id (painfully) trade that 9000 series in for a quadtrac steiger and slap tracks on that combine hahaha. Good on you guys for given er like that.
I watched this video as a 4567 yearold kid boy the memories!!
awesome videos!!! I worked for a harvester from MN.. Best time I ever had!!! Love farming!!! Awesome!!
I always used to watch this video, maybe 5 years ago, and I forgot how bad that year was. IN Kansas, we actually had a AWFULLY muddy wheat harvest. What a vidoe. I CAN ACTUALLY LIKE THIS VIDEO NOW!!!
It sure was a brutal year for mud! We never seemed to get ahead of it. We were lucky to finish just before Christmas with the snow flying!
1973 was pretty much like this vid. Neighbor bought a new combine, put steel tracks on it and picked corn in almost 3 feet of water. Parked combine when they got thru and it hasn't moved since. Monument to determination and what it takes sometimes to slug it out with the weather.
they are mooring lines used for tieing ships to a pier. You can get lines rated for 10k upward of 200k pounds. They stretch about 30 percent when under load so you can yank the hell out of them to get a slingshot effect. But you have to figure the weight of the towed AND towing vehicle AND pull strength exerted to get the right stuff for the application.
I love the song with it!
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Never seen sow many stuck pictures from one harvesting team! its real crazy work! But nice made movie!! Keep up the good work! JD 4ever!
2012 was so dry you didn't have to worry about getting stuck! It's one thing or another.
Yes, mild winter in 2012 as well, dad has stories on how they put a tarp building in their t shirts one day in january, but they had space heaters down their the next day, with it snowing like a s.o.b. , the snowy day kinda argues my point, but my point is that they put up a tarp building with t shirts in the middle of january...
Still my favorite video on TH-cam.
wonderful equipment and video!
Have yall ever looked into getting tracks?
Would love to know how you repair those ruts and wheelings before the following crop. What ort of yields do you achieve from your corn crops?
Great Video. Harvest sucked this year because it was so wet. I burried my grain cart this year. We weren't near as wet as you guys though. We farm around the Mellette, Northville, Ashton, Brenford area in South Dakota.
wow reminds me of our every fall harvest. i like the summer harvest way better
Just crazy too see!! We could never get away with that in our soil. We have heavy clay here in Ontario Canada, if we made that big of a mess in a field it take years to bring it back from all the compaction and ruts. If its that bad we have to leave it until freeze up and hope it doesn't snow. Hats of for getting the job done, it sucks playing in the mud!!!
haha that reminds me of our corn harvest last fall. We went everywhere with a tractor to pull ud out. Pulling the combines out sideways is the only way to get them out sometimes liamlightmx if you try to pull them out straight you will just get more things stuck you learn that from experience lol. Great video though keep em coming.
If I remember right that was a really strange year. Down here in Nebraska also. It was cool and wet and towards fall it just wouldn't dry out and got cold. We got the combine stuck several times and had to put a JD 9630 track tractor on the auger wagon. Two months later had the worst snow storm in over twenty years.
Have fun dealing with all those ruts. :)
i grew up farming some good times i sure do miss it
All I have to say is tracks!
Been running them for a few years! they work great
These conditions and - maybe - running minimum tillage; tough job getting fields kind of level again. We did custom harvesting in late -09 starting at at 4-5 am after frost and run until 9'ish am. when the frost didn't support any more. And we finished 16'th of Dec. But what can you do - gotta get the harvest done. Great video. Thanks.
God that looks like fun! Sorry I missed that harvest. What you needed was a freeze. Takes so long for the ground to dry out in the fall. Luckily corn can wait, unfortunately beans won't...
What did you do to deal with the ruts and compaction issues in the spring?
Dude that's sick :D
JD The best equipment!!
Nice video and good song
thats some pretty narly stuff. ive cut alot of rice out here in california with similar conditions, but when it gets that muddy we bust out the tracks and the self propelled grain carts. how do you guys get rid of the ruts in spring?
impressive, and an awesome song pick, also looks like ya'll farm a swamp, what type of yields do you see out there in that mud?
our golden rule... unhook pull forward, chain it to it, drive. works everytime
Is there no tile drainage in any of these fields or was it just that bad? In which case there would be a lot of tile runs that need to be fixed from being crushed...
Big muddd!!!! Amazing harvest, and machines!
holy shit!! that seemed a lil' wet. ya? lol i agree tracks might have worked? but at least u had a good time by the looks of it. hows the weather out there this year? well great slide show,
@SgtUberGrunt Not just the one. I for one have worked for one of these crews and it is not easy work. from July 12- Aug 19th not a day off, and 14-16hr days most of the time, with the occasional 10-12hr if the dew sets in early. If theres no rain you go, and if its a crop that can be cut wet, like corn, you go. simple as that Wheat Barley and Canola you cannot cut when it is that wet because the chaff sticks to the rotor and sieves. However the corn ears can separate decently when it is wet.
we had a tracked grain cart with a cat mt865 pulling it, and a john deere 9760 that we put ati super tracks on, and shit we still got stuck in north east sd this year
Been there, Done that, finally put 'Saucy' tracks on the combine and a Quadrack on the cart.... could damn near combine through a lake now.
@Dragotec you don't get it you migth buy tracks and only use them 1 year. In South Dakota we have been super wet and 4 years ago we went through a drought. In South Dakota we mostly run green paint.
Green paint and peterbilts make a farm.
2:33 anyone know the series of that steiger tractor?
Definitely a bad day or days! thats definitely a farmers nightmare, but i got to take my hat off to you for sticking it out.
harvesting in the snow??? sorry dont speak inglish very beatiful video space!!! fantastic!!!!
By the way idk exatly why your hydrostats got so hot but ig i took a wild guess i would say u had too much straw and stubble build up on it and made it get hot or you were really pushin it through the mud. we blow our combine of every mornin and air filter during harvest and it makes a difference on keeping it cool.
looks familiar :D, our main farm is by mina sd, but we have a few sections right by columbia, tough harvest last fall, lets pray for better luck this year. And some heat right now! Do you work for jensen harvesting or did you hire them?
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When it's harvest time you HARVEST. rain or shine, you are out there getting the crop off. If the ground is wet, you just deal with it. That's how farming is.
at 3:17 what is that in the sieves? mudd or snow?
Looks like mix of frozen mud and snow
Brillant vid. Very good
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i wonder do they make tracks for combines...?
what is that blue rope they used for recovery, i know what its used for and why just dont know the name of it.
fantastic
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it was just that wet last fall we could not get a break it would start to dry then it would rain even more we had the same problem but we had a combine on tracks along with a grain cart on tracks
What type of rope were you guys using to pull the combines out? Any links to the website?
We had a pretty shitty spring this year. we had 2 quadtrac stuck up to headlights. running salfords over corn ground.
Is the land tile drained or not?
what happens with the case combine??
lmao in SD we had the same problems.
in one field the mud was so deep that we buried a atv. I ran a brent 1000 bushel grain cart pulled by a 9230 and we ran 4 9770sts's.
I think I heard the combine frame crack at 1.44. Thats hard on a combine :(
hows yours guys harvest going this year?
I bet y'all had fun plowing that the next spring!
2:16
Co-worker of mine did the same thing to our 8440 on the Grain Cart in Oklahoma. I had to take a pickaxe and clean the duals out.. then drove down an asphalt road with the tires still half packed. That was quite comical watching the chunks of mud pass me.
when there is that good of corn out there. even in the low ground u just got to take the chance to pay the bills. and pulling a combine out isnt too big of deal. a full grain cart on the other hand...
incredible!
Name this song????
Nice video....thx!!!
Very good video.
that makes work alot more fun
do you guys have any tile out in your fields?
@ignarski13 never seen a skidder tire?!
oh yes, the year from hell. 30 moist corn, 24 moist beans that all went through the dryer, the elevators could only take corn for 2 hrs in the morning because thats all they could dry in a day, some elevators never even took corn because they were drying beans til the end of december. Thanksgiving was the first nice day we had to cut beans all year, I don't think there was a farmer in SE North Dakota who didn't eat his Thanksgiving dinner out of a cooler that day. Finished the corn in a blizzard
we just run a lexion 485 for crap like this. Its got rear wheel assist too, never had it stuck and dont want to find out what it takes.
very good work and big machines XD
At 2:24 how in the name of all that is holy did that happen
We've Got tracks for the front of our combine that we can put on instead of the duels and they work wonders
@excelhuntexcel by the way they don't make a power take off for a 9630 or 9530 so u must be running a 9430 sorry to hurt ur feelings :(.
gosh how frustrating was that?? great set up equipment wise just a wet field! keep doin what your doin!
@Joniarts Same but do you mean tractors not Tracter
u guys worked through it goof job
acres and take care of it and our equipment. we got some of the worst blue gumbo around and run floatation tires on our combine and grain buggies and run caterpillar challenger tractors with 32 in tracks.we have had our combine stuck once years ago. if u wanna know more just ask i like comparein and learnin how yall farm different.
Funny how people comment that dont know shyt about how to get it done.. Nice work Boys we delt with the same thing get in and get it done nuff said..
@350groomer And based on the equipment used in this video this guy is a VERY large farmer and ruins his soil profile and consequently his yield because he has to rush and leave huge ruts to get done before the snow. If he was smaller farmer he could just wait till its dry
1:45 the red titan did it's work so easily!
did the grownd freez up for u guys
Where is Columbia SD... haha I'm from Reliance SD wich is about 17 mi from Chamberlain.
Some of those ruts look deep enough you could just lay tile in them and cover it up and be good to go.
I am in AR and we farm rice beans and corn and we got a newholland cr 960 and we averaged 230 bu/ac corn and 85/90 bu/ac beans and 180 b/ac rice last year . we farm only 1, 200
@clkclkboom04
You're right I don't know anything. It's better for a custom crew to have to do a small farm job. I mean who has the time to work their own land anymore? I've been working on our family farm for 25 plus years. I stated the facts you can't dredge out the soil like this without having an impact on it. If you set your digger depth too low it does the same thing.
Great video.
Just out of interest, but wouldn't it be better to have the flotaion tires on the brent's?
I live in Columbia and trust me, it's wet and rutty a lot!
do work! we get some pretty stuck machinery in beets but i have never seen anything like this.
i thought i had mud issues!!
Sometimes you have to harvest in poor conditions. having a couple thousand acres requires a different approach. You can't just stop and wait for the ground to dry.
yea well i know quite a bit. lol i aint from holland if your wondering that stands for New Holland. were r u from?
we were doing corn and the mud was just like in the video We are going to be trying out a cr 9060 this week in wheat
Looks like a typical day for a new england farmer
How deep is your topsoil?
some people are impatient when it comes to harvesting they are excitied because they get to bring in the money, but when its that wet just wait until it dries it will save yourselves alot of time and anger
was fleming and jasper there?
looks like you guy had a hell of a time durring harvest
haha at 2:26 the ladder on that combine is bent! bummer!, but Great vid!
Looks like you could use some tile. We own our own buisness doing farm drainage in Michigan. We'd be happy to dry up your ground.
when you have a million bucks in the field waiting there, if the crops dry get it off. I dont know how it works in the states but in canada we got some insurance but never enough. its worse if you do that in spring which is what last year was for us. You do whatever you can to get your investment back. If that happened to me tho id (painfully) trade that 9000 series in for a quadtrac steiger and slap tracks on that combine hahaha. Good on you guys for given er like that.
corn harvest job is awesome :D