Great to hear Granpa Henry still out there giving a hand 👏👏👏 Happy Birthday to him when it comes 🎉🎂🎉 good to see the crops coming in in good order👌 great family effort 👍
"why.....wont.....you......let......me.....die................." ya she was a slow drive back from Carnduff with a hunk of iron hooked to the back of the ol Ram-page
By golly there Nick, riding with you is just so exicting that Mia dropped off to sleep! Of course Keegan is picking up his camera operator game, and learning valuable pointers riding with Ivan! Then Amanda out cruising around about there with the 96, and how did she keep Sofia so quiet and camera shy today too? Come On Sofia, grab your sister with your Mom and show some of that Family Farm Girl Power!! May your bins fill so full with high yielding grains! -Bob...
LOL! Good friend of mine told me one time and I was complaining about something breaking, funny how it'sat in the shed all winter and didn't break then so I kind of put me right in my place
Nick, your Grandpa Henry must appreciate seeing you putting in so much effort on the 860 to preserve it and keep it working. To not let the 860 fall to the wayside because some may consider it to be beyond its useful lifespan and not appreciate it. To know you live by a creed that one deficiency does not make the entire combine irrelevant. In the literature world, this may be known as metaphor, analogy, or euphemism. Great to see your Grandpa Henry up and active at 91. Happy belated birthday!
Awesome to see the whole family out working together. Great to see the older equipment still getting it done too. Good luck with the rest of harvest Nick. Giver hell!!!
I have changed a few of those bearings on the back beater . No fun but two guys can do the job in about 4/5 hrs after the first one . The first one will take some time . Once it’s all apart . To get what’s left of the bearing off the shaft is no fun . A skilled man on a cutting torch can do it fast but watch the shaft . Good luck with that job .
Good decision Nick to outsource the bearing replacement in behind all those drives ! Mechanic may have done it before and have specialized tools or knowledge . Your machinery is all very well maintained from what we see & hear . Harvest rolls on . Will we see the JD pto as well sometime ?
Haven’t turned a wheel on either of my 1682s yet. All of my canola and barley is swathed though. Not sure if I’m going to try swathing oats next or combining the barley. Didn’t rain all fuckin year ip here but decided to do it now. I hear ya on the older equipment. The newest thing I have is my FC 67 sprayer, everything else is 90s or 80s vintage. I go through everything good beforehand and try to fix most things myself but sometimes you just need one of those guys who know how to fix everything. Way off the road, way she fuckin goes. Or it just doesn’t go.
Nick that was a great video and very cool to see from each combine keegan and grandpa, you and moma going like hell. Keep up the great work on the farm. Super channel
Ughhh, I've helped change that beater bearing before, very nasty job! Those pullies are heavy as hell and you pretty much need two guys to take them off and put them back on, fun squeezing in there to do that! Sure hope it didn't bugger up the flange on the inside that shields the end of the beater, crawling down on top of the straw walkers to pull that beater and replace it is even a worse job! I would hire someone to do it too if I ever have another one go. Good luck!
Make sure that grease line is free and clear when it’s apart. Done 2 of them on our 850 around 1500 hours each time. It’s not a fun job lifting that big pulley in and out of there.
That bearing and chain really suck to work on I've worked on a few of them we had alot of them in our area as they where built 5minutes away from us neighbor still has 3 of them
You probably have it all back together. But we would put a new grease line to the beater bearing and grease it down below every morning. So many bearings to go yet 😕.
If you can believe I spent 6 weeks of evening and weekends on one 860. Changed 90percent of the bearings. Replaced cross augers and paddle chains. Rebuilt the cylinder drive. Replaced all the paddle belts in the feeder house. Replaced the shoe and sieves. It ran 2 seasons only before it started falling apart again. Ended up replacing the grain pan. Transmission and hydro drives. Took 200ac off with it. Never skipped a beat. Last time I used it.
When you guys want that weed do you lose a lot of it or don’t you before you combine it by Schwary I know it dries down faster. That way or better or combine.
Hi guys for us thick'O's here in. The UK. Why do you cut so many times like now yr picking up the wheat why didn't you just cut normal y . Surely it saves running over the land so many times. 😮😊
