I've thought about how difficult it is to do the farm work (including taking all the financial risks) when the RU-vid business provides five times the income the farm work does. But, no farm work, no video income. Strange business model, but God bless him and I hope it continues to work out.
@@68motovator6 DEF might hit the cost a little bit but it offers much cleaner air for you and your children. Lung cancer incidents in big cities started to fall in UK the last 2-3 years. If that doesn't make any sense to you, I can't change your mind. About electric, I cut my expenses for my car to 1/3rd last two years, since I bought an electric car. Now I save that money for solar panels so I can cut them even more with FREE fuel-power. I don't want to pay my fuel double price when Vladimir or Sadam had a bad day. I want to be indepentent, I want to be free and for me that's the way to do it.
Farmers should not be burdened with the thought of electric tractors and combines. DEF does help cut down on pollution though. We farmed from 1973 to 1993, it was so much simpler during those years!
I watch a lot of farmers. I can report that the wheels are pretty much flying off on most farms. The excitement of harvest has passed from breakdowns, mud, elbowed corn, drought damage, weather holdups, pry bars going through the combine…Chet, questioning their life choices & ready for it to end. Farming is hard work & we can’t live without them. Thank you.
As I was watching this, I thought about how incredibly blessed we are that there are farmers that are willing to work so hard growing and harvesting crops for the benefit of people who often don’t give it a second thought. Thank you for being a necessary and extremely important part of the bountiful foods I eat every day! 💕💕💕
Awesome video Zach. It's amazing that you can still keep your sanity with all that takes place over the few weeks as you harvest the crops. Job well done mister. 🚜🚜🚜
Zach, you really do have a thing for Dumb & Dumber. Every video some sort of D&D reference. "We've got no FOOD, we've got no JOBS, and our pets HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!"
Send some moisture to your friends in Kansas Zach. Terrible fall harvest yields and the newly seeded winter wheat came up and is already turning yellow. Got a lot of wheat acres that got put in because guys are short on cash and interest rates are high. Keep grinding farmer!
Hello Zack you have to be the greatest farmer I’ve ever watched I’m from rep of Ireland but I live in uk Liverpool I watch how ur dad and your family help out just amazing to watch
Zach, I wish more of my Y/T creators could develop humorous content like you do. I always enjoy what you post. Thank you my dear friend. You can’t help being Swede.
Hi Zach. Hope Jim is doing okey and i hope that he comes back soon so we can enjoy content even more. Hello from Serbia by the way 🖐 I love watching your videos because farming here and there are too worlds apart. So its a nice thing to compare 😃 Have a great day 🖐
Zach, Thanks for all your videos. Really enjoy them, farmed as a youngster and young man on the family farm and a large dairy operation while in Jr. College. Really like to see how things have progressed, your humor and all you go through.....
Thanks for another great video Zach and Dad. It was interesting. Wow. Busy day you all had. Sorry about the breakdowns but everything got going again except for the truck antifreeze leak. Save that for the truck mechanic. You got good service from your bin company. They came right away with the big boom to fix the clamp and all that. Great. Take a lot to keep everything going and working and harvesting going good. Makes for long days. Thanks for everything. Glad to hear Jim will be back soon. Very nice. You all take care and be safe. The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
You know what would be a good idea? If companies had ……like sales people were, they could notice some unknown farmer with like 40 acres that keeps to himself. Maybe they could know that they could ask him if he needs their product to help sell it more. I’m thinking maybe the grain bin sensor sales people need to be sent back to school since even his dog got to ride in the tractor this year He has so many viewers.
Zach and Becky that was great .Great explanations everyone is breaking down standards for farming at least 3 a day they say proper servicing and it wont happen but that is not so and old or new machines it is not so but at least there are plenty of expensive parts to make repairs.
That's what I love about Zach. With him and his Dad and Jim whenever he comes back. There's never a dull moment on this farm. Kinda like the Larsons and Brian farming videos and the welkers. Just when you think, oh, it's going to be another boring farming video. Nope, something comes along that makes it interesting. Other farming youtube channels should take notes.
hey zack having studied agricultural mechanics I was also able to study the prototypes of electric tractors and there is still a lot of progress to be made before replacing our good diesel engines, hydrogen would probably be a good candidate to replace diesel instead of putting everything electric
Renewable ammonia is probably the best bet for the future. The infrastructure already exists for ammonia and farmers are generally used to handling it. Advances in ammonia engines needed but it’s being worked on.
I ABSOLUTELY agree with you regarding electric vehicles. When I have had discussions with people regarding electric vehicles, I too use the farm equipment question, the silence is deafening. There are usually no comments or ideas. Just a blind stares!!!
not the same to compare. not like that equipment is used every day. they are now making electric locomotives and semi's that are saving a ton on fuel costs. a 60,000 dollar gas tank on a combine may never make any sense since it sits idle so much.
That’s because you haven’t talked to the guys in the ag industry working on electric vehicles for use in the fields. There’s a size limit to them for now so a guy in Minnesota planting corn or beans won’t have much use for it. Smaller utility sized tractors are a different story. We’re finding several applications where they should work pretty well in the US. Farmers in India are begging for them, they have surprisingly good access to 3 phase power in rural India, better access to electricity than they have for diesel.
I sense the question was somewhat rhetorical but regardless, you are in luck. I'm not a farmer but I am one of those electrical guys. To kind of answer your question realizing there are many variables involved to make a finite answer, here is a very basic idea. Five hundred horsepower is equal to 372.85kWh of power per hour. Running the harvester on electric for 16 hours would consume 5,965.6 kWh of electrical power. To replace that power in the battery pack (that doesn't yet exist) would take a 220 volt 50 amp charger 543 hours of charge time. If you had the electrical infastructure that could support a Telse Level 3 Supercharger (it needs 480 volt feed), you could recharge the imaginary battery in 15 hours. It doesn't seem you have the hours in a day to pull this off. Since the power needs to be generated somewhere, the best solution is to simply use diesel in your farming machinery and skip the middle guy. It is a shame the politicians who pushed electrification didn't consult with engineers first. I've been involved in several electric vehicles programs during my automotive career and every project, albeit successful, was shelved because 1. making more than one EV was going to be difficult and 2. no recharging infastructure. Then EVs became political and we can all see the mess that made.
Spot on. Politicizing it all doesn't do anything to change the physics of it. It's all about how much power can you store in a cubic foot, how long does it take to get it there, and what are the energy losses involved in doing it. A tank of diesel carries MUCH more power per cubic foot than any battery pack out there today. Batteries and chargers may get there someday, but they aren't there yet.
Hey I worked 38 years for General Mills. I have seen those turns wear out more than one time. The thing to do for a temp repair is to use a really heavy tape, not duct tape. The tape cost is about 100 a roll but it will last a solid week. The couple we used was the four bolt kind. Love the content best wishes
With regard to going electric, the answer is how do you eat an elephant. One bite at a time. The same is true for going electric. You just slowly get there.
@@Mazel_Tov_888 if you expect John Deere to come out with a x9 with a 50ft head replacement, it's not going to happen. Mike expectation is we will see autonomous drones, running from mapping from planting, that might be electric powered with a 12 ft head. You might need two maintenance workers instead of three drivers. And the technology will get one maintenance worker to look at the three of them. And instead of a massive tractor putting an 80 ft air drill, we will get smaller tractors pulling smaller air drills, and maintenance workers look after them. The replacement won't be a one for one it will be a one for many, but the total number of workers will keep decreasing.
@@andypreston6899I would have thought that was where it's heading, but it doesn't seems to be that way. The use cases are rarely getting to farms, and farmers are just getting bigger and bigger equipment. For example, there is drone spraying but it costs double and more for the application rate and requires significant investment in meeting the regulations to operate. It's way easier and cheaper to hire a crop duster or high boy (and many farmers now own their high boy).
See about using HammerTek elbows or ceramic lined elbows for the blower pipe. Both last longer than standard stainless elbows. Putting some shim stock under the duct tape gets a few more days if needed.
Was griping about disel usage until I talked to a guy in south Texas that owns 3 shrimp boats. His smallest boat holds 15k gallons and the largest is 21k. Only positive he can normally get 20-25 days run time out of that. I guess someone always has a bigger fuel bill yikes 😢😂😮
Having been an electrician for over 30 years (now retired) I can tell you that solar panels and wind turbines won't be supplying the power to charge any electric farm equipment. We simply do not have the infrastructure to go all electric without relying on power generation that uses oil, gas or coal.
Zach would you be willing to do a farm cost break down? Not highlighting your money but referencing what to expect for anyone looking to start farming. How the yearly financing works, running cost for machinery, grain sales. Etc.
Egr valve will put coolant in the cylinder. Which will ruin an engine. You need to get that Pete checked on where your coolant is going before major engine damage occurs, Zack.
Diesel engines will be around for a long time. The EV market is tanking because people don't want them. Battery or hydrogen technology is not for every application.
You just need a very long extension cord to keep a charge on when your 5 miles from home in ya lectrick trakter. Or add some million dollar charging stations out in your fields. The use of electric transportation is limited to just a narrow bunch of rich folk in specific environmental friendly areas. Wishes for you all to have a successful harvest season and Happy Holidays to come.
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Hey Zach! Regarding electrical farm equipment: Its bogus, but check out what JCB in the UK is doing. They have hybrid engines that stem of their diesel line but run on hydrogen, without the complicated fuel cell system. Just a big tank, some high-pressure lines and a reworked engine head and injection system. They say it works incredibly well, delivers the same amount of power for the same amount of time with, and refilling is super easy. The channel Harrys Farm did a couple of videos about it.
Wondering about grain cart repair J&M. Last video the bottom auger of cart had lost connecting bolt for front/back belly augers. I had been watching for a continuation of that problem.
Ah those lovely plastic fittings on the back of the head that I believe go to the DEF tank to heat it. They can be a royal pain to repair. Best to replace those with brass fittings. I believe that there are 2 on the block on the passenger’s side for the cab heater I haven’t seen an EPA 10 engine in a while. I would replace them all at the same time since the coolant will be drained.
I notice this season Zack seems to be taking more charge of the day to day operations on the farm. Johnson farm is good hands for the next generation and god willing beyond that w Onyx now stepping in to help more.
A company in Canada named Edison Motors has built a fully electric logging truck that has a diesel engine (not connected to the drive at all) making it similar to a locomotive. I can see a setup like that working for tractors and combines where a less powerful diesel motor being used at its most efficient rpm full time as a generator to charge the batteries that run the machine can come out to added efficiency.
To put the following comment in context. I am your Dad's age. My standard comment for electric, battery vehicles is: When the president gets into a battery helicopter to fly to airport, Air Force 1 is battery, all the limousines are battery, all the Congress members fly all around the country in battery jets, etc, then and only then will I consider a battery vehicle. I use battery operated tools for around the house and in the yard. Read about a discussion between Deere and some grain farmers about electric, battery, combines. The farmer stated that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his combine, and uses it 3 - 4 weeks a year. He said when it is being used it goes 24/7 till crop is harvested or weather prevents harvest. He basically said when a battery combine can do that, come back and we will talk. Personally, I will wait till all the leaders drive strictly battery.
If you start seeing coolant in the oil when you check in the morning, you might have an oil cooler going out if you’re losing antifreeze or maybe a loose hose fitting cracked hose or head gasket. See if you have a leak on the ground external is way better than internal and easier to find a leak. If it was a cracked liner you would see it in the oil and if it was a head gasket you would be pushing coolant out of the radiator overflow with engine compression. I am very familiar with 3406 cats and series 60 Detroits and all the older big cam Cummins. If it’s a paccar i chose not to ever familiarize myself with boat anchors or junk . I’m not downing your truck. I just know they have a million problems with those engines. 😎
Check your freeze plugs. Could be ones leakin a little bit on that pete. Edit: okay, seein where its at, looks like a heater core line. ya know, back in the day, we used to have shut off valves for those lines... I really miss those lol
