A lot of people have asked me what is involved in switching between corn and soy beans. That’s a great question! Today I will show you the whole process of converting the combine from one crab to another. Let’s go do it!
So ironic you made this video. It was a wonderful visit Carl! Got stuck behind a combine going down a road this week. Instead of trying to figure out how to get past him, (because of you) I wondered what head he had been running for harvest. My best guess was a draper as I think with the corn head he would have fit down the road. Then tonight I see a video on the vary subject I was thinking about. Way to go!
Thanks! Many of the larger combines run 12 or 16 row corn heads that don’t fit down the road. The exception to that is folding heads. Our neighbor has a 12 row folding head that is really nice for road travel.
That has been the real bummer of COVID. Fulton County Ohio has a decent Fair and all the "toys" are always on display. The harvesters seem to get bigger and more complicated each year. Even though I don't farm, I do enjoy seeing the technology that has blossomed. I believe a young AG student would need a good share of computing technology education along with traditional subjects.
Carl I try to follow many of our considered and detailed replies to all of the questions posted here. I learn even more that way. Others think of questions that I didn't so there is so much more information to digest. Thanks for you effort in answering everyone's questions. Not many RU-vidrs are so good
Hey I appreciate it. I will say thought that it’s almost more than I can keep up with at times. Don’t be too hard on the people that can’t do it. If I had 100K people watching every video I guarantee I couldn’t keep up with the questions. I’m thinking about doing a special video every so often where I just answer questions in my easy chair. Would that appeal to you?
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Yeah, I'd find that interesting. End a video by just soliciting questions of an "ask me anything" (within reason) nature. Maybe suggest topics for questions. It might be interesting if the questioner shared their town, county, state or country. I think you might like to see where questions come from. Maybe if they farm or are wannabees. I think that change of pace could take the channel in a different direction. On a side note, I like that you do not have clickbait titles, silly video gimmicks or loud background music. Just to let you know, my wife is always asking if I have heard from Carl (like you are a pen pal of mine!). She loves videos that have animals, kids and farm scenery. Not so much Zerk fittings and hydraulic hoses! We often rerun the video on the big TV on the wall if there is something she likes. Thanks for asking my thoughts! Have a great week shoveling. Does heavy snow reduce yield on beans?
Robert Pautsch thanks! I’m always glad to hear from people who are enjoying our farm. The heavy snow on beans is bad news because some of the beans get knocked down and can’t be harvested.
This is more complex than the preflight checklist for an aircraft! I don't think you'd have any problem learning to fly if you ever choose to. Perhaps all farmers should be yelling "clear prop!" like a pilot does before engaging the dangerous spinny things up front? Man, I love these videos that show what goes into producing those things we take for granted in the grocery store. I often find myself wondering if Carl harvested any of the corn or soybeans in the various things we buy.
Carl, do you and your brother own all of the farming equipment (combines, tractors, etc.) and then contract with the local farmers to do the farming, or do the other farmers own it and you do all of the work using their equipment?
Gotta question I know you said you set the sieve in. 5. What about the Shaffer if you don’t mind I am having trouble to keep my beans clean getting to the bin
When switching crops, do you use a checklist or do it by memory? What will happen if you forget to do something? If you fail to do something, will the electronic system alert you?
I do it all from memory now. There are 5 things I have to change on the outside of the machine and everything else is just settings that I manage electronically
Nice video Carl, informative as usual. I notice at least one other commenter asked the same thing I was going to ask ... which crop takes more fuel and work, both human and machine?
Thanks David! The combine burns about 1 gallon per acre in corn and 1.4 in soybeans. The human labor requirement is greater in corn though because there are four times as many bushels to get hauled away. Great question!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Yeah, more complicated than I thought also. If there's 4 times the hauling work, certainly that's a lot more fuel expense as well as labor. It's complicated, LoL.
Always great videos one other question I had, would that same combine do wheat and all kind of other crops? Are they pre-configured or when you buy those things you buy it for only corn and beans?
Done all the switching witb the old combines took us half a day with with removing bolts, chains pto and sieves our harvest here in the UK is well and truly over we're planting now winter wheat, and barley along with winter rape
Hi. Another great instructional video. If I were driving down your road n saw you in that thing, I assume I need to somehow pull over for you to pass me? What were you cleaning that first piece of machinery with? All I saw was dust flying. When in the cab n you have the computer up, is the computer driving the machine or you to cut the beans? Did the beans take a bad of a hit as the corn? The rows seem straighter. How did your barn do ? I can't remember if you repaired it before or after the storm. Does the owner of those machines cut other farm fields not his own also? I'm trying to send all these hurricane storms your way to rain on your crops. We, down south n along the coast are getting enough. Where I live, we got Sally n today we got just the rain tail of Delta. Be safe on those big things. Peace to you and yours
If you see a combine coming at you duck into a driveway as far off the road you can and let him pass. He won't have the same ability to do that. He was cleaning the combine with a leaf blower. All the fields they harvest are GPS mapped so the combines and tractors are mostly driven by auto pilot. They also do custom harvesting and planting for other farmers in the area.
Thanks for jumping in and helping me out here Joel! It’s been getting difficult to keep up with the editing and replying to questions in a timely fashion during the busy season.
I've been playing a lot of Farming Simulator 19 and all you have to do there is hit 'Q'. :) Seriously though, do you have a checklist that you follow or do you just remember all the steps?
It’s just like anything you learn how to do. Pretty simple after you’ve been around it for awhile. If you forget a step you would probably notice that the machine would he having trouble doing a good job of threshing or cleaning or spreading chaff. The only damage that could be done is forgetting the cob deflector when going back to corn and damaging the fingers on the cleaning sieves.
We used to lower it for beans, but when we went from the 25 foot bean head to the 35 foot draper they told us to leave it up because there is so much material coming in at once.
Yes actually there is a camera on the unload auger that shows what’s behind you when you back up and it also shows a birds eye view of the grain cart while you are dumping.
I used to think that, but our neighbor has had so much trouble with gearboxes and drivelines on his red combine I think I’ll keep the belts and pulleys 😂
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 for close to a million dollars you need to have that machine moving not changeing belts etc should be done with in the cab but then again these new combines won,t last that long anyway because electronics will kill them dead in there tracks
Most of the material you harvest in the field is easily flammable, (soybeans, dry corn, dust). Combines get very hot in alot of places, but you can't really protect those spot 100% so some dust/material gets into and could cause a fire. Cleaning the combine off with a blower/ with you hand after you use your combine you diminish your chances of a fire happening greatly! In conclusion, CLEAN YOUR COMBINE :O
