Hannah impresses me more every time I see her and its always the little things. When she helped hook up the spreader she told Ryan which way to move the wheel of the tractor to get the proper alignment. That's cool.
Yes sir that totally was the best part of the video, she didn’t even hesitate and didn’t tell him to pull up and move over, she knew what it would take.
Heres a suggestion for the barn yard, I have been in excavating for 40 years and I would use what we call RCA its recycled concrete that has gone thru a crusher its cheap and once you grade it off and go over it with a good sized dirt roller ( compactor) it becomes hard as a rock!
Yeah that's a good idea... I've used ash out of coal power plants, there's bottom ash and top ash (don't remember which is which ATM-- one is white powdery ash and the other is black glassy ash almost like sandblasting medium) and when that stuff is spread, packed, and gets rained on a few times it sets up like concrete. Local concrete places sell "washout" which is literally the stuff they wash out of the trucks when they're done hauling concrete, and it sets up and they run a crawler over it and break it up into fine stuff and sell to dump on driveways and stuff like that. Works great and it's cheap... OL J R :)
Just found your channel...We rent a farm house in Durant Iowa but we are by no means farmers. Needless you say we have a couple family farms located around us. One family farms as well has raises hogs so my wife has had to get used to that smell, I tell her that it smells like money. Your channel has helped me to understand farming life. We most definitely learned to respect farmers more living around them. Thanks for the education and be safe.
Somehow I could tell Hannah wasn’t planning to help you move manure since she was wearing sandals to hook up the spreader. However, the test would be if she changed shoes when she brought out the JCB to rescue you 😉. She packed you the lunch so she wouldn’t have to deal with manure. Oh well! She is a great sport about it!
Glad you're OK Ryan w/ no equipment damage. I've slid down hills before w/ a 15' bat wing mower. No fun at all. People don't realize how scary it is until it happens to them. It's also amazing how fast you pick up speed once you break traction.
Ryan, Oh my Gosh- that looked bad. I had the same thing happen to me hauling Large Bales, I was coming down a small hill that had dew on the grass. The trailer pushed me down the hill and jack knifed the trailer almost flipping my tractor. I was shaky the rest of the day. I am glad you are ok, machines can be fixed/replaced, but you can't my friend. Be Safe and God Bless.
New tires would help, loading them would help even more... with the spreader half empty or more on that style spreader the weight is lifting up on the draw bar... a V bottom slinger style spreader does not
VERY happy to see you didn't get hurt, you are very lucky. The 4020 isn't heavy enough for that work with that weight. Safety FIRST !!! New tyres are indeed an extra bill but you do need them now. Thx for sharing and have a nice day! Greetings from Belgium
Hello good video. Easy for me to say since I'm sitting here at the kitchen table watching. Speaking from experience go back down that hill again. Learn what happens so you can control the slide. Dont panic Somtimes pushing in the clutch helps then your tires are not sliding continue rolling and steer it under control just a thought. I've been there headed down a hill towards the creek just steered it under control. Have a great day.
I am glad you’re fine and there was no damage to tractor or the spreader. I just took a ride similar to yours yesterday. I was backing down a very small slope sideways and I was pulling a trailer with gravel on it and it pulled the tractor so quickly and jackknifed the trailer. I was surprised on how fast it happened. I thought the load I had was very light because it was less than half of what the trailer can handle but it sure pulled me down the slope. The worst part is that the tractor didn’t had a rollover bar it’s an old 1981 Ford 6600 and since it’s only 2WD it only has breaks on the big wheels. After it pulled me backwards I was able to get out of there driving forward with no help. So I turned around to go down on the slope facing forward this time on a low gear trying to use the gear to go down the slope but the trailer pushed me back again since the slope was sideways a d down the wheel on the higher side slide on the grass like butter but it was safer than backing like I did before. I went for a second load of gravel with the trailer almost full (around 3 tons of gravel) but I went down the slope only facing down straight on first gear and I didn’t need the breaks, a combination of the low gear and low rpms slowed the tractor and load beautifully. I was putting gravel on the side of a handling corral that just got concrete and stone floor and I was leveling a step on one of the gates of it. Thanks for sharing Stay safe !
Box spreaders. That’s what happened. As the load moves back, it creates Negative tongue weight, which takes traction away from the drive tires. Couple that with a down slope, and maybe dewy grass, and you got the right conditions to go for a ride. Bigger tractor or more weight, or a better styl le spreader will do more than new rubber Also, lock the differential if your 4020 has it when going downhill. The tractor only needs to lose traction on one tire to start sliding. Locking the diff will greatly reduce the likelihood of taking a ride
Glad your safe, the yards are looking great. Check on the resale values of the barn timbers. Like eating an elephant, dismantle one board at a time. A hay mow above the cattle would also be nice. This could be the year to invest. At least in dismantle time, reselling and concrete. Good luck on the regrowth buying more grazing time.
Hi Ryan. Good organic fertiliser. Love the drone footage. You have beautiful countryside there. Not sure what to say about your yard and shed issues. It's all money at the end of the day one thing at a time. Hows your new bull. Keep living the dream.
We need to clean out our cow pasture but we don't have anywhere to go wit it, but since all that strong stroms in north east Wisconsin we might have to chop our corn early due to crop damages
The amount of angle there going down hill the weight would transfer to the front anyway. A 2wd tractor I guess would have issues downhill with any weight behind.
RIGHT, we had a tractor get stuck in mud with a doall on nocking down hipped rolles BUT the back tires were off the ground by 1 foot. new tractor . it took wheel weights and fluid about 4 ton to keep the rear wheels on ground . spray tank on front 300 gl.
Angel on your shoulder. New sneakers on the the tractor not bad idea. What about a modern version of the good ol pole barn, one inch bank run rock several inches, Item 4 then concrete all one pour if price is good.
The lugs were not your biggest issue here... all that weight behind the trailer axles lifted your tractor tires... No lugs + negative tongue weight = fun ride. Glad your safe
Looks like the new steel floor on the spreader is working good. Love watching your videos. My friends keep giving me crap when they call me and I say your Interrupting my farming. I tell them I was spreading manure today 😊
It was always our goal to get the manure hauled in the spring and worked into the crop ground before planting. Never spread much on pasture/hay ground a lot of the value of it is lost there.
I was reading an older study...I believe it was 10% nitrogen off gased per week if you don’t plow/disk in. I guess the nitrogen needs the C-carbon to stabilize it. I understand it’s why some guys around here add in gypsum as well. That sulfur binds it as well. The chemistry behind soil science is interesting.
To build or redoing a faderm lot manure and feed lot you might look at grading to a slope of 2 to 3 percent. Then place Geo-Textile fabric on your grade then put what Arkansas calls class7 or Tennessee they call CR610 its crush and run limestone roughly 1&1/2 inch material down to 1/4 plus and 1/4 minus material
Thanks for the update! Glad your ok after that slide. Love watching you guys work. Re: The JCB skid steer: It’s got an interesting arm. Has this tool replaced any tasks you would have done with a tele-handler? Keep up the good work. 🤙🏽
Yes all of them. Teleskids really aren't that popular on the farms in the US, compared to Europe... much more of a construction machine here... OL J R :)
We always had the same yard u got, mud dirt etc, etc. Im slowly doing sections of cement in the yard. Used to put fill in to get by, but all that happens is that fill goes in the spreader. I would suggest to do it right and cement it. In the long run it is cheaper.
ALWAYS A GREAT VIDEO ABOUT "HOW FARMS WORK". NICE DRONE SHOTS. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR BUDGET. SOMETHING IS NICE BUT YOUR BUDGET COMES FIRST AFTER YOURSELF.
You need to get that wreck down.i think you should fence the entryway off and keep the cows out.i think you should do the concrete in sections.they can grade it any way you want.just get a professional crew to do the dirt work and you won't regret that later.
Awesome video Ryan good things there's no damage to the tractor and the manure spreader glad your ok lol now you know to only drive a 4wd in that area lol thumbs up and shared
If you want a good foundation for your feedlot put about a 6 inch layer of #3's then a lighter layer of dense grade then a sheet of Geo-textile with around a foot of class I sand packed on top .
Glad you’re okay! This is why farmers obsess over tractor weight. MFWD is also very nice. Last tractor we bought we were shopping around and checked the major brands. Deere, New Holland, Case and Kubota (all MFWD). We bought an 85HP Deere for a number of reasons and one of them was weight. Ryan for our steer lot we have put down wash out. It’s the stuff they washout of cement trucks. It provides a stable base and is cheap. Basically you’re just paying for trucking a lot of the time.
Glad your OK. Better get that trousers in the wash. 👍. Problem with four wheel drive tractors ect is that you tend to take bigger risks or get stuck more spectaculary. 😉😂. Done it myself 👍. Stay safe 🏴 😉
Hi there back in the 1960s my Uncle was speaking the man. going down a large hill on wet grass with the Tractor and the speaker. the Wheels slipping down and the jack knife flip over he was pin down. he broke his back and he lived thule it.😎🚜🚜🚜🍵
At the quarries on my side of the river across from you fill lime is a bargain. $2.75 per ton. Gravel road base with fines is like $9 a ton. I would just go with the fill lime. Get it done now so it has a chance to get some rain and get packed in. Pouring flat cattle yard concrete yourself is also pretty easy. Do a section every year to spread out the cost. If I can get a good base I have poured a lot of yards only 4" thick. If you are willing to get it ready I could help pour / finish it for you.
Yes clean up the barnyeard flat, but instead of putting the slab first. Get the same contractor to demolish and crush your stone and use it as fill for underneath the concrete pour. Tom pemberton just did the same. You don't have to haul it, bury it, and if you have extra you can fill in the culvert. Then put in the pad, then consider plans on a barn or wait. I was going to say use pac. Actully lime is a good soil stabilizer, and there is a huge machine for road building. Use it as a hard base for the concrete. I was wondering if you went the other way would it be better with the spreader and the 4020. Then climb that hill.
Opportunity to compare price, traction, and durability on radial vs bias ply tires on utility tractors. I already figured out radials pull more and last much longer. Also you might explain where RimGuard comes from and score a couple hundred gallons.
I think that it might be better to take the barn down and put up a pole barn a place for the cows to be in when it to cold in the winter time and you have a section for hay and feed and if the cows come in with a calf then they will be safe.It might be better if it was concrete in the corner to put hay out and a place to put troughs in there for mixed feed
If you don’t want to put Balis in the tires I had a 2840 I had 500 pounds of weights on each tire five 100 pound weights but I also ran a front and loader on it to make a totally different tractor out of it and putting all those weights Grace and peace
This doesn't make me miss it, I was always the spreader driver and man people would be surprised how far that shit will fly. We didn't have a gate that raised on ours it was an old Deere spreader from idk when.
Hard to believe that little pin broke, usually they pop out and the drawbar comes out! YOU NEED TO WAD UP SOME RAGS AND WEDGE THEN IN ON TOP OF THE PIN, it won't pop out that way!
The reason it was so light on the rear wheels was because the spreader only had weight on back...picking up on rear end making it light....just look at spreader with tounge up high
For a base think about a fabric layer, rule of thumb is that it has the same carrying capacity of 4 inches of breaker run. But if you ever need to tear it out it is not a fun job.
