How NOT to unload corn. Already blew my repair budget by day 9 of harvest! 

Whenever I come across farming, it takes me down memory lane. Losing my farm to the hurricane Florence on September 2018 here in North Carolina dealth a huge jab. But with an influx of $125k monthly made my family happy one more time

Nuh...Your not bad farmers. It's just machines....your either in them or under them. I really admire what you do. Your a GREAT Farmer🤗

Every farmer has bad days if they say they dont they are lying,so dont beat yourself up about it even the best maintained equipment can fail just glad to see your back up and running again🎉

The editor did a great job. That's the way farming goes somedays . Thanks for sharing with us

Wow Zoe! I stated on your last video that you work very hard, what a understatement that was! Hard working just doesn't cover your devotion to your farm, not at all. I really like your sense of humor, very cool. Love your videos, thank you for making them. Harvest will get better in the days to come, I'm sure of it.

You aren't bad, machines only break down when you're using them. You can't always tell when something is getting worn out and ready to break.

You never know what's going to break when it's in the shop.

Broken equipment and giant repair bills sound familiar! 😂 good luck!

Zoe I sure don’t miss days like that ! It brings back memories for sure ! Looks like a Great job by your John Deere dealer 👍 it’s Good to see your up and running again . I think you guys do a great job maintaining your equipment , you’re just going to have those days 😞 they just don’t make things like they used to ! Be Safe Out There . Oh should I send you a couple pairs of new jeans 👖 without holes in them ! lol 👍🇺🇸

Good customer service from John Deere. I am impressed.

I commend your persistence!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

Just started watching you a few weeks ago! Great content. Remember back in the spring seemed like you guys around Bucyrus were always getting hammered with rain thus the drowned out areas. Stay positive,you’re doing great!

What a bummer!! Hope your harvest is going better today!

Lifting the snouts gets you closer to the feeder house!

It is great to hear you are running again ! Best of luck to you for the remaining harvest (crossing fingers)

You are not bad farmers. You keep your equipment well maintained. When running farm equipment over time things are going to eventually wear out and break. It usually happens during harvest season when you're busy. You're lucky to have found a replacement auger. We had to replace the bubble up auger in our New Holland TR96. Found one in the middwest.A man who worked for another person we farmed with drove his truck to go pick it up.

Equipment breaks down. Keep 💪🏾

Some days are rough, lets hope things get better.

New subscriber here! Loving your video ❤ Excellent customer service and patience and perseverance on your part 😊

C'est incroyable de voir de telles machines en panne... Ces machines ont des prix de dingue...et ca manque vraiment de fiabilité. Sans compter les pertes de temps sur les chantiers ni même les prises de têtes, je connais tout cela croyez moi...

Zoe, you made a comment about suggestions other people have said about how to have dealt with a loaded combine. No matter what never road a loaded combine in road gear. The final drives are not designed to be loaded in road gear. The final drives could snap and cause a serious accident. Let alone the load that the hydrostat would go through. What you did was FINE! Make do with what you have and get the job going again. Too many arm chair quarterbacks that probably dont even farm in the first place.

There are days it doesn't matter 🎉you do things break.

Good service by your dealership, my luck were usually waiting on parts for at least a day, nice to see you were up and running the next day. Just by looking at your equipment I can see it's well maintained. In the end there's only so much you can prevent ahead of time, somethings just happen. All you can do is deal with it and move on. Seeing that broken auger makes me wonder if there's a weak spot in the construction of these parts by Deere. We broke a transmission input shaft in our 6310 almost just like that auger, picked a roundbale up shifted into gear and was letting the clutch out at an idle and it let loose. Ripped the tube right off the back of the yoke.

Good video

Farming is fixing ,happens to everyone.

That’s an area on the combine that you wouldn’t see all the time. You would have to be tearing down the auger every season to catch that. I don’t know any farmer who would be tearing down the unloading auger if there wasn’t something wrong with it, that made me have to tear it down. I don’t think that makes you look like a bad farmer, and anybody else who knows anything about that kind of machinery knows better! Keep up the good work girl, you are an amazing young woman.

Thanks for the video

You can take the absolute best care of your equipment, do al the maintenance as scheduled, and unexpected and expensive breakdowns will still happen,. You deal with it as best you can and move on.

When something breaks in a hidden area. it's impossible to see a fine line crack with fatigue. Sounds pathetic but your lucky that's all that's broken. Keep looking forward.

Next time you could pick up the tarp with the backhoe on the back of the backhoe and place it in the truck.

I know everyone is a expert on what you should have done but in the time it would have taken to set all those other options up you can just shovel up the corn in the same time.

1600 hrs not good for John deer but you have now educated the other owners.

Next time you might check on getting a seed tender and catching your hopper as you dump it out the bottom.

Might help to fold up roll dividers to get closer

I replaced my auger 2 years ago 1500$ broke the same way yours did, I think from driving around with auger out and full of corn is hard on unload auger

No need to apologize about your equipment that's farming things break constantly

Repair budgets are a pipe dream in our world. Sorry kiddo it’s always gonna be expensive and frustrating. Just be happy you don’t feed cattle in 3 feed of snow and single digit weather always a fun time when something breaks.

I'm sorry this happened, and I'm sure it cost you an arm and a leg.1600 separator hours doesn't seem like all that many. I know everyone uses bin extensions, but maybe the extra stress over time causes issues. Who knows, right? I feel for you. Sometimes it pays to have a few feeder pigs around for messes like this (LOL).

Been there done something similar last fall! We stripped the drive teeth off the vertical unload auger which also did the same to the gear box shaft. Not a fun or cheap repair at all!

i am watching y From Bangladesh

You need to get the clutch system for your auger it shuts off the cross auger to your spot is empty and when you overload it then I'll just starting when you put it back together is your cross auger not your unload auger

Nothing breaks like Deere

Like they say, it’s not as glamorous as they make it out to be in the movies……boy that sucks…..is that Truland out of Napoleon?

Don’t know if you have your combine inspected yearly if you do the tech should have caught that. I have about the same about hours on my s660 and I replaced the exact same auger that you did by the tech recommendation after the inspection. I thought oh know don’t use a tarp the combine will clean the dirt and debris out of the spilled corn.

it doesn't look like bad maintenance, it looks like something got used and wore out, not like there's a regularly serviced component in that auger tube. And besides accidents are called accidents because there NOT pruposessss

... Ten Ten ...!!!

cab computer confused w/dble count corn?

How is harvest going? And hope you have good yields

Whoa I don’t know if John Deere has a mod for your combine I like spending others money oh the mod is when you shut down the unload function it shuts off the main bin auger and allows the external auger to clear the unload tube so there’s no load on that auger on the next unload cycle it’s supposed to save the shear pins and belts . I don’t know if that was the cause of the failure might have contributed maybe talk to Zach the millennial farmer u tuber he had one installed bye

1600 hrs = 200 days IF it’s a 8 hr work day. Nothing should break in less than year of 8’s

Why can't you have some rest

Wow how does that work do you try and put money back for repairs that's cost has to be really expensive

Oh Zoe what have you done ???😢😢

What happened with big trimmers tractor

Sorry for ur misfortune. What was the total cost of parts and labor. Again sorry what happened

Too bad ya didn’t have a grain vac, could’ve just taken the corn right out of the hopper from the top Lot of trash in that corn.

that some cheap metal that there using for that

But no matter what... You still go beautiful girl... Because you can do anything you set your mind too

if you need a pilot for crop dusting, i mightttt know a guy🥸