Mike, with the distances you have to travel for parts the airplane is a real time saver. You just saved at least four hours that you can now be spraying a lot of acres! You take care.
If you could hook a trailer up to that Trident you could carry twice the amount of product, when one tank runs empty switch over to the other and keep going.
Mike, thanks for interesting look over the weeds. On your spray rubbish - how about two frames with the bags on them - attached to the trailer then you have a large hole to shoot bags or plastic in?
Sir, thank you for the videos you share. I appreciate it. You have very nice equipment and I love that you appear to maintain it all very well. Preventative maintenance is the key! I wish I could come up and work for you. It would be swell to work on such a nice operation. Best wishes and God Bless.
They also are easy on the equipment when operating. They keep their operating speeds down to where they don't damage things. I have seen too many people try to pull the crap out of equipment, and all they end up doing is destroying it.
Man you guys have an awesome system up there in sask, you guys know how to get er done, hey what's the since in driving places when you can flyyyy, awesome, thanks for sharing mike, look forward to the next video. 💪💪💪
"Drain your boats"!! 😜 How far from the US border before you get to enough water to use a boat! Perhaps that warning is for Canadians who went south to a river? 🎣
Watching you spray as I’m spraying my screen beeps I look your screen beeps I start scratching my head hoping I don’t have a problem then I realize oh it’s just the video beeping me 😂
Have you ever thought about getting a dump trailer or using some kind of trailer with a hopper on it to put all your plastic in then you can transport it back to the farm to then bag up latter that way you get it all in one place ?
When you makea your duram spaghetti ,use garlic and oil not sugar laden sauce .When I had to get parts from far away I would just hire a taxi and get him to bring parts and pizza while I kept working. Taxies are cheap.
Why don't they sell the 24d in bigger containers. It's almost like the company is trying to make more trash so they can get more breaks in the long run.
@@dfro7159 the suppliers make that price per jug higher or lower on purpose. Not all companies are dirty an evil taxes does fuel a bunch of environmental damages. A case of water is worse then a gallon jug, pallet of gallons vs a 500 gal tank ect.... An I'm not being a dick an saying he needs to change how he dose his op was just a thing I was asking myself in my head. We
They are simply so much more convenient to use no need for pumps or meters that you have to calibrate all the time. toats are also very hard to move by hand when there’s no equipment where you need it to move
You got that right about cleaning up weeds. Even tho you spray it you dont get all of them, some sprout later, some dont get burnt off and you miss some that get to seed. Then there is nature beeing equally productive for all plants, birds and wind spread seeds and you spread the seeds with a combine at harvest. So yeah, there are allways some weeds and if not taken care of you get alot of weeds next season. You can cultivate for weeds, but not in Mike's climate, losing too much moisture with that.
@@notpoliticallycorrect4774 I was investigating a little and it is as you say, there is a version that is less volatile and that is allowed, but specifically in my city, both are forbbiden, but it is not like that in other cities or towns where you can use the low volatility version
Hi Mike, Quick question - You have mentioned in a couple of videos taking over organic/dirty ground in the past few of years - how does the organic farmer "make it work" or make a living on dirty ground?
from what i have seen here in germany its pretty much heavy mechanical weed clearing so heavy tillage before seeding while useing cover crops and a denser population to cover the weeds faster to choke them from the sun and before the canopy closes you often see some form of harrow in use, theire even computer controlled implants that can move independed from the tractor to just work between the rows so pretty much all things that cant work for the ground mike is showing, especialy considering the size of the fields here i see it only on smaller fields, all the bigger fields are conventional (bigger fields in my region are 1x1km or bigger) just think about the man and machine houres needed for big fields without accounting for wear and erosion problems
The idea is that organic has lower input costs and higher valued crop. But they have lower yields and have a greater impact on the soil. Like Mike said, it must be losing its appeal if people are getting out of it. Generally it is the older traditional type farmers that are organic, so it might be that they are getting to the age to retire, and sell out, even if they were profitable.
Geez, The numbers for your farm are probably hard to comprehend. For instance, I wonder how much fuel it takes to operate for a year! Or, how much your chemical costs are? Just thinking about it makes me kinda nervous.
@@bahnsteigkantee5937 That is just for the in crop weed control. They likely average 3 sprayer passes per field per year, and more if they have disease pressure in the pulses.
Man I farm 1200 acres, I literally tremble watching you take the time out in the field to explain things in a classroom setting. I only stop to relax when I have my crop sprayed with a 50 foot boom. Which is more than adequate for me. I also have cattle so my haying is your down time, wait you have no down time. Lol., I do have relaxation time. I’m big enough I find watching you guys.
At 15:47, you can see a big ring around the sun, and there are high cirrus clouds. whenever you see that, you can almost for certain bet that it is going to rain within 24-48hrs. you can almost set your watch to it. I dont know if bad to spray before a rain or how long it is ok to spray before a rain, but i do know, it is going to rain within 48hrs after this vid was taken.
mike do uyou have herbicide resistant weeds ,we do here in the uk , and do not have many ways of dealing with them now so you either have to min till or plough
Soooo..Mike. how can you do all these upgrades to your sprayer without showing us a walk-around lol, especially the tank. We know it's not a 1600 gallon. It's actually a 2400 gallon from Max Cap. I've seen their latest mod that they did on a trident. Might have even been Mike's.
It is likely a prototype, and they don't want to say too much about it until they are confident on how it will work. Sort of like the 60' Honeybee header that they couldn't talk about.
You have your greatest weed pressure in your wheel tracks. And where you are showing was where the Fendt seeded that pass didn't it Mike? Not knocking the Fendt. It's an excellent tractor. But it shows the difference between wheels and tracks.
Don't tear the trees out. They still do more good then you give them credit for. We notill here and it still isn't enough at times to keep the ground down.
The trees cost in operation overlaps and they rob nutrients and moisture from the crops. The also generate shade which stunts the crop growing next to them. I would guess that they are on the long term to do list to be removed.
@@notpoliticallycorrect4774 they also catch snow for moisture and breakup the wind by pushing it up. Those trees don't cast enough shade to make a difference. There is some give and take, but the good out weighs the bad in my opinion. We plant tree rows here. Wind erosion is the biggest enemy.
Question Mike well two questions one do you have to have a applicators license to spray chemicals in Canada two have you ever considered tow behind sprayers cause you can run longer with a 2500 gallon tank. ???
They would seed later. Wait for the flush of weeds to come, and then till before seeding. One of the reasons for summer fallow was to reduce the weeds.
The video shows that they are spraying 10 gallons per acre, so 1600 gallons would do 160 acres. They would spray that out in just under an hour. That is not taking into account the top secret bonus capacity of the tank.
I don’t know why,but it bugs the living crap out of me whenever other people, in the same business that the RU-vidr is in,have to leave comments about the way they do things! As if the RU-vidr,in this case Mike,is going to stop what he’s doing and go running around in circles,screaming in ecstasy because some farmer in Kansas or something posts that he uses the same spray nozzles as Mike,or something. No one cares,dude! If we wanted to know how cool you are on YOUR farm,then we’d be watching YOUR RU-vid channel! But we don’t! So we don’t! Grow up,people! Grow the hen up!
Why do I think if Tony was just on the other side of the boarder you'd be having a boarder party or moon each other at least until boarder patrol came along without you noticing
Good Morning! I have show Maltese Dogs, and one of my pro handlers lives in Victoria. I take my dogs to her via the Ferry from Port Angeles. Yes, these border agents are EASY to P..is OFF! You BEST have ALL your paper work and records in order, or you don't get into Canada! I love to show my dogs in Canada. Our friends there are so warm and friendly and they really appreciate what many of us have to go through just to get into Canada! I watch your videos every day, and I really appreciate your commentary, and what big farming is all about, and the 10's of millions that you have invested in equipment, land ownership, and rental. Also you must have a degree in computer programing and agommeny. I was born and raised on a dry land farm Eastern Washington, ... and my grandparents homesteaded in 1909 10 miles north of Moose Jaw. They had 1600 acres. Farming is in my blood! The very BEST WISHES, And GOD BLESS! Gary
That’s awesome you live in Port Angeles I have a cabin on Lake Crescent and also own the biggest piece of property right by the mouth of the Elwha River on Dike Road at the end of Place Road. Love that area wouldn’t wanna live there year around but love to vacation up there. Love visiting Victoria it’s an awesome city.
