Hi Mike, We use to cut with 12 old 95 John Deere combines and we would cut to the center of the field and cut a circle from the inside out and it worked really good. You guys should give it a try and see how it works. It made it easy for grain carts and trucks to get to all the machines too. You could kind of tell the center of the field by the low spot from mold board plowing but with GPS now you could find it easy.
@kenhofer8063 These were mostly 1968, 1969 full hillside models, 16' headers and diesel engines. Later John Deere came out with the 9500 sidehill models and we had two of them with 30' headers.
I just can't imagine how you can survive of three years of drought and using the most updated equipment available..and with the highest input costs of production that we have ever experienced.
Red loc-tite for steel bolts into steel. Green loc-tite can migrate into the threads, blue loc-tite for bolts going into aluminum. I would be trying a long neck Milwaukee cordless ratchet for access. Set all the combines up and go thru and hit them with loc-tite so it can set up overnight. Have a safe harvest !!
I like how Mike is scared of a mouse like I am towards a snake the dang snakes terrified me I can’t even watch them on tv but mike cracks me up when he sees a mouse he gets gone quick
Dear Michael, I am astounded that you are always so positive, when one considers the multi millions dollars you have in machinery alone, then combining such low yields, what's your secret. Best Wishes
Mark is in the S690 combine, he's Dutch, that flag is half Canadian half Dutch ( the Netherlands / Red - White - Blue flag ). His brother Rick is also on the South farm.
Flag is half Canadian half Dutch ( the Netherlands / Red - White - Blue flag ), ...... Mark is driving the S690 combine, he's Dutch, His brother Rick is also on the South farm.
I remember cutting dry land wheat in western Kansas. I bet it was around 5 bushels an acre. I think the guy was getting it cut so they could figure out the crop insurance.
As a non farmer, I’m having a hard time figuring out how you guys pay for all that equipment with seemingly consistent poor crops. I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever seen 10+ combines working the same field.
10 combines over 40-45,000 acres is not that crazy as each one is covering 4-4.5k so your cost per acre is no higher that anyone else. Part of farming is having a reserve fund available or at least access to credit for bad years and you hope things are better next year. That said obviously there is limit to the number of bad years you can carry but this is not their first rodeo, they have been farming that land for many years.
@@clearskiesranch1362... For starters it's not plowed it's direct seeded, secondly what gives you the right to say what should be farmed? And thirdly where do think your food comes from?
@@chucklesx My food comes from my garden in my backyard and the 2500 cows I run on native pasture. These soils are too poor to reliably grow a crop. “Farming” in that area is nothing but environmental destruction at its finest.
Its fantastic that you are so positive after three years of terrible crops that’s really stimulating and an example for us all when we whine over one year of losing 30-40 % of the crops to rain. Keep your good mood you have your wonderful family and the Lord. Next year it’s going to be a record good harvest. 🙏✌️
Hi Mike! Enjoy your videos a lot! It would seem to me the John Deere pays huge amounts of money designing their equipment. The engineers they hire to design said equipment paid exorbitant tuition to become engineers. Very intelligent people. So why didn’t they understand how a header is used? Any shade tree mechanic know the vibration and bouncing of a header would loosen those bolts. There no locking mechanism.
Ah, you are asking the million dollar question! When I was working at Caltech and Princeton, the newly minted “engineers” had a head full of knowledge, but none of it was practical knowledge. Things like jamb nuts or using the common thread sizes vs the hard to find ones were simply not taught, I spent a large part of my time explaining what makes something easy to make or easy to maintain vs what they were proposing. Got a little frustrated when they didn’t listen or acknowledge this…. My other grump is the using of really exotic threads like Wentworth to keep users from maintaining our own equipment
I was taught early in my. Combine years to always go round and around. Your wasting way ti much time and acres turning around when you could be full all the time combine is way more efficient full with that big of headers everytime turn on the headland with that amount of combines and heade size you lose an acre of wheat cut.
Honking horns is a constant means of communication in some countries like India, Ecuador & Peru. The most important feature of a vehicle that comes in all sorts of sizes, volumes & tones 🎺🎷
Very nice sample. We finished durum Sat night. Not a big crop but thankful for what we got. Around 60% of normal. Starting canola today, let’s just say I’m glad I took 80% crop insurance. Will have some that will be “ok” but the majority isn’t good. You must have a ton down by now?
3/4 done and durum tested dry north but I am needed south for 3 more days, then we ll be breaking away for the rest of Harvest. Risky to leave dry durum sitting north 😬😆
Jou are the best mike. Hope for a good harvest for the rest of 2023 i live in south africa, i turned 15 the 19 august. You are the best farm youtuber, the x9 is the best harvester for me and jou made me see it even better. I have not see it in reel live but me and my father and mother are going to a big farm expo the 14 of september and i hope it will be there. We farm smal and only have one small trakter but i love the big traktors like the 8r 9r 9rx. Thanks a lot for all jour great vidoes and hope jou have a good harvest.
Question for ya Mike-? Would auto reel speed be of any benefit-? Running the reel a tad too fast and hitting the wheat heads too hard causes shatter loss, also if the wheat is too ripe.
The further from the score producing the vibration, the more harmonics. I.E. the more "Locktite" to use on the fasteners. In your case Mike, I'd guess 'by the case'.
Will ya go an buy a drone for a nice big over view when yer all together, surely one of the grain cart drivers could fly it when there sitting doin nothing 😂😂
Hello Mike how many combine harvesters do you have? you could not start all together with all your combine harvester on the longest possible fields and filmed by a drone it will make a beautiful image for all your family and your employees, surely some of your guys have drones, right?
Is this milling wheat for breadmaking or wheat for animal-feed? I ask because I want to know if we will have enough bread after this year of bad weather. UK
