Equipment Tour w/Mike 

My father-in-law was in charge of the Agricultural Engineering section at the Swift Current Research Station before he retired. He built a plot harvester for their needs. We stopped there a few years ago and they took out some equipment that he had built. (I was showing my daughter some of the machines that her grandpa had built.) My claim to fame is that I taught school in Swift Current for two years at Central Public School and Oman Public School. By the way, Swift Current has changed quite a bit since living there in 1967.

That 314 with a high tip bucket would be a great bagger tractor, the agco (sisu) engine is produced in Finland and it does start in the cold

Hello Mike Vaderstad uses high-quality steel to build its machines, which makes them look lighter externally

A plot combine harvester is designed for harvesting small seed breeding and experimental fields. Its small size is ideal for research plots and helps to improve research and efficiency.

I was eating supper while watching this. I almost blew my food out laughing when Mike took his own key out and opened jd door

Never leave home without your Deere key when window shopping.😂

Mike, that little Fendt at the end would be a perfect bagger tractor. You could put a high lift bucket on it and still clear the side of a semi.

Epic moment - Mike pulls up to the Fendt Ideal9 combine "OH THE MEMORIES...yeah.....fair enough......MOVING ON FROM THAT" LOL Happy New Years Mike and if you read this....Brian's Farm Videos RU-vid channel just purchased a 2023 Ideal9 t without a steering wheel....During his reveal your name was mentioned and Brian was asking for tips on setting up the ideal9. Hit him up if you have time.

Happy New Year Mike, Ashton and to all of your family and your farming team.

Thanks Mike, you too a happy new year.😃

Mike spent the next hour ordering a new tractor as soon as he finished filming.

Merry Christmas Mike and a very Happy New Year to you and your family.

Happy Christmas and a fabulous new year Mike and family 👍👍

Merry Christmas and a great farming New Year! I really liked the small loader tractor!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks. Merry Christmas to you and your family

Happy New Year Mike! See you in 24!

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Denmark

As a former custom applictor, I ran an RG1300B highflow systems 120' in a lot of terraces in Eastern Nebraska. We goobed a lot of grease on the boom slides and in 3 years no problems but then I left for a different job. I still had the old school joystick with all the section switches on it. We ran so many terraces with no auto height control that I wore out 3 sets of boom tilt switches and one board.

Nice video Mike! Especially the Fendt dealership part. The Agcopower motors are pretty good. They are made in Finland and where formerly known as Sisu. Good starters in cold 🥶weather as the are designed and produced in the cold.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas God Bless you and your family.

This… should get a ton of views. 👍🏽

Merry Christmas 🎄 and Happy New Year 🥳 Mike Ashtyn and Chapel

Happy new year Mike

Agreed, nothing like kicking tires.

our cooperative was producing wheat trial and canola in our fields, I saw this type of mini combine and an old modified John Deere. for the fendt 300, you will need to take the lifting bucket and a large rear weight on 3 points.

MERRY CHRISTMAS MIKE.👍👍

Hey Mike, The Agco Power engines are actually SISU from Finnland...I guess they should start well ain cold conditions:-) The old Air Cooled DEUTZ engines back then where supposed to be the best starting in cold and one of the best Diesel Engines ever made. What a pitty the did not manage to save that heritage.

Can you do a updated version of your equipment tour for both north and south farm

We put DD 6.5-inch subs integrated into the fibreglass reinforced buddy seat with sound deadener and little 1000w 5ch class D Amplifiers. Sounds great 👌🏻😂 along with better components. Edit: I seen the Ideal and thought oh, Mike is going to have a flashback 😂 and it happened.

Great video Mike

Love the video keep up the great work

Yes the zürn is a German from 2015 it's made for either seed production or testing new seed. The 300 series fendt is actually old it's been built longer than fendt has been bought by Aco. I think a jd 3140 with a loader would probably do the trick if you put in diesel heater it will start even at minus 20 degrees Celsius except if the diesel is still too cold it will die. It's dead nuts reliable on our, witch has been worked hard because it was our biggest tractor on the farm, had to be done one headgasket a new seat and some hoses and some minur electrical stuff primarily wiring.

Great video

Cool window shopping! We (I) do that over here in Norway as well ;D I didn´t know you had Väderstad seeders that big. Over here, anything built by them would last through at least two world wars, those things are SOLID! They actually test their equipment in a quarry for the endurance tests, running through piles of coarse rocks at 15 kph. I think the ground penetration will be good on these even if they aren´t very heavy - the teeth look really narrow, so they might go down easier than you´d think. It´s a shame they don´t have any bigger tanks though - that seems like the smallest problem in the world to make...

Hi, great and exciting video❤

Agcopower engine is a Sisu engine made in Finland, really good engines and good starters in cold weather.

Great engine in that 3series. Sisu Power from Finland.🚜

Speaking from experience in Europe vaderstad kit is some of the best built and best quality

I grew up on a small farm in Wisconsin, where our fields were 40 acres at best so it is a blast to watch your operation, from planting to the harvest and your decisions along the way !! Just a thought...Your broadcast would progress greatly if you were to fold in the Hunting population ( show more deer, etc)

I live not far from where Väderstad have their main factory and if there is one thing Väderstad is all about is high quality they have really tuff tests on everything..😊

Hopeful you will do your own farm equipment tour

Merry Christmas, Mike!

Mike, thanks for the tour. I dont mean to detract from your excellent videos but take a look at the impressive Trevor Struthers hillside farming videos.

Air guard drier helped during a misty spring with dusty urea. Still have the system around. Waiting for a year I need it again.

That little fent at the end would make an awesome haying tractor 🚜

With the lack of snow also in the Saskatoon area Ashtyn, Chapel & yourself won't be making any snow angels. 😂❄️❄️❄️🤣

Love those little Fendts

Swedish steel!

Haha Mike, if it wasn’t for that pesky missing cupholder, I bet you were seriously considering the Zürn as an X9 replacement 😂

Mike's thinking of a Fendt sprayer demo & a new front loading grain bag tractor, decisions decisions, sometimes too much choice is an actual problem!

Front fert. Back is seed. And you can crank the down pressure. No problem in hard ground

Great Post Xmas tour video thanks 😅

in the netherlands the 314 are hot cookies, it would be my main tractor on my 90 acres farm, haha now its a Claas Arion with 120 hp, saving for a newer one..

You would save a lot of fuel going to the vaderstand seeders. We went from 76 ft bourgault mid rows to a 84 ft seedhawk and went down 4 US gallons a hour. And better placement. But your right you have to be a little more tender with it.

The universal plot combine harvester ZÜRN 150 is a reliable and well-proven machine. Despite its compact design the ZÜRN 150 convinces with its harvest performance even at highest plot yields.

Zürn is a german john deere dealer who took over the seed plot combines from hege, Seed firms want to have good results from their work too…

The university came out to our place and cut a test plot. I took some video of it. It is pretty cool.

I’m not a farmer and I still love driving through dealerships

Vaderstad steel is something else than what you get in the industry. The only implements we didn’t brake were vaderstad.

Better here than sitting with family.

The Plot combine was build in 2015 Baujahr is the year of production in German greetings from Germany Mike

we used to have deere powered tractor that were poor cold starter and would knock as if throwing a rod when cold, i went back to fendt in 2006 cold never caused trouble as long as the fuel was proper and the battery delivered... i guess canada cold is something else... i wish MWM was still around those were bulletproof engines...

We have 1400s with psi air systems on 620s for planters and cart tractors it will pull a 13 shank ripper at 8 inches easily

Sound bombed by an Air Tindi Dash7. Rare airplane

Happy new year from Nort DakoTA . I wonder if that plot combine can be upgraded with an air reel?🧐. Best wishes, spring only 78 days away!!

that 9R is thick! I think Chapel needs one of those little combines

The company Zürn that makes the plot combines also build headers for John Deere

🔥heck ya Mike , I love touring round checking out the dealerships 🔥👊🔥🏍🔨⚙️🚜

When you are looking for a Lader Tractor maybe have a look on the new 6hundred Series of Fendt. Only 4 Zylinder but maybe huge enough to get on the Semi. They say it is the the AGCO Engine. Possibly there is no knowledge yet how good it starts or does not start at -20°C or lower.

Pretty fun to see a Swedish machine. I dont know how wide that one is. On our farm here in Sweden we use a Väderstad Rapid and that is about 6 meters 😂😂

I’ve not been around a Case combine either, but lots of people run them. They have choppers and spreaders here. In rice you couldn’t not have it spread.

Always plan travel route to go past maximum amount of dealers along with adding enough time to atleast do drive thrus

The smol things adress is an hour and a half away from me xD greeting from Stuttgart 🇩🇪

mike we're waiting for the 620 review, especially cold starts ;)

get a Tip Toe bucket for the front loader and would improve the height you can load into

Can't you get som sort of extender or something for the loader? That little Fendt 3 seems like a good bagger tractor. 🤷‍♂️

great 👌👌

So Mike, Happy New Year to you, Ashton and Chapel by the way! so I was going to ask what you think of Bourgault being bought out by Linimar Corp and what that might mean for you guys in the future?

Mike, you had a new year 2019 fendt. Did you think nothing would go wrong. Lol.

Thanks for verry funny and educational contet! I want a video of you talking about how you run the farm with cooperation wit your family. I am just curious about how you coordinate the operation..

LSW will give you more soil compaction compared to dualls with the same total with (two small cones compared to one large cone in the underground)

Coolness aside, wonder if the Big Buds pencil out, especially the one with the duals that you mentioned

Family yayy Kristen James here

Those Agco power engines are from Finland, part of former Valtra. They should start decent in the cold

"Doin somethin with somethin"!

Mike magnifique vidéo et tracteur et les matériel agricole et les moissonneuse batteuse sont bien intéressante et la petite moissonneuse batteuse et bien intéressante 😂😮😅😊

Mike, I’m glad you noticed that the new Deere cabs have a garbage sound system compared to the older ones. I complain to deere and my dealer all the time and the just look at me like I’m crazy.

Hey Mike if you'd like to check out research equipment in action I could check with my boss about it as I work at a private research company. And I'm sure we could work something out for some sort of tour or in field depending on the season.

Time will tell how Fendt has improved their combines since you had the first series that they produced. Brian Brown & his dad traded off their two combines & went with a Fendt 9T with no steering wheel that had previously been a demo unit matched up with a 50' Honey Bee header. They are glad for larger combine capacity and feel it should suit their operation better while at the same time using one less operator.

Fertilizer front knife and seed second

BTP just had a vid of a 640 with 1400's pulling a riper, spun like crazy... same farm had a quad, no comparison....

Fendt RGS actually have the 8.4 SISU. What is different from the 1300 c series is they now run a single turbo, and no egr. New cabs will revealed for them soon.

I was expecting all of ur equipment haha

Zürn is from Germany they build headers for John Deere combines which are probably not available in the US. You can maybe compare it to MacDon or Honey Bee but way smaller and they mostly build for JD if i'm right.

The baby combine is made in Germany and apparently can hold 8-10 bushel and cost around 250k for the basic model. At least that's the info I could find, I couldn't find any other price info.

Like to see you try out a NH CR11...

I have seen a couple of those Zuern's in action but neither had a cab.

Those small combines are made in Wesernhausen Germany :)