Thank you so much for the free advertising for my little dutch company at 2.41 on the bin. "Transport" you might think behind it. Yeah, that"s very generous of you. Defenitely appriciate it. You"re a good man :) I owe you a nice tray of beer.
Love your videos. My dad use to work for a guy on his family’s farm. Worked there for 20 some years. I remember when I was a kid I’d use to ride in the combine/tractor with my dad or the owner. I’d also skip homework to do it lol. Once time I got to drive a grain cart full of corn in the field back to the truck to unload it. Once I went to put it in higher gear, the tractor died on me. Turns out it ran out of gas 🤣
Hey Zack! You sure know how to multi-task. Loading trucks, fixing auger equipment, giving speeches to high schoolers...your talents are varied never-ending.You put in a full day and are still going strong. It'd be nice for your land to dry up so you could stick some seed in the ground. It'll come. Thanks for sharing your day with us Zack...take care.
I have some advice for you dead battery's. Park close to outlets so it's easier to hook up the charger. I worked for a farmer we had the same problem we tried different things like you have but that's the only thing that worked. Love the videos and thanks for feeding my family.
That was quite the storm we had. I think we must have had about 8-10 inches of snow here. It sure was fun to try to move it. That was some wet snow. Sounds like warmer weather & a littl rain coming mid week. Hopefully winter is done & we can get going with spring planting. Thanks for the video.
I think you’ll love the row cleaners. We run only no-till and dad and I won’t have another planter without them. We’ve found our emergence is faster where we run the cleaners just barely skimming and let’s just that little area of the row to warm up better.
i never thought green could look any better......or the sunrise either. selling grain and gettin ready for planting....YESSSSS! Glad to see you didnt get covered up in snow this past weekend and hopefully you wont anymore. No more snow....No more snow....
I'm sure you know this and yetter told you about row cleaners... We have run them for years and learned quick not to set them deep. Just enough for them to scratch away the residue from the dirt. If you set it deeper water will run down through the little trench you just cut and wash out all your seed. It will be an expensive lesson.
That’s crazy how I’ve met Zack at races and met him in person,and been at his farm to get his racing trailer we bought,you are doing really great Zach! Keep up the good work! Proud of you
Batteries lose a net charge when they start an engine. It takes a good while of the engine running (fast enough to engage the alternator) to charge the batteries back up. Even longer if it's cold. Starting a car/truck to move it across the yard and turning it back off in less than a few minutes leads to dead batteries.
You should put shut off switches on your hot battery cable, I always had the same problem with our trucks, put them on an shut them off at night, never have any trouble any more
Love your videos. Keep them coming. I work in commodity handling at an ethanol plant so i work with farmers and truck drivers all day. I love working in the agricultural industry
I run into dead batteries quite a bit due to the cold weather. It is just a problem I have learned to planned for. Great content! Keep up the good work! You gained a subscriber this week.
Next time if you want, spray with the ether directly to the air filter of the engine. I don't know if you tried that already but it works perfectly with my tractors and truck, usually when it's cold outside and most of the times I have them outside, cuz I don't have a garage or shed. Greetings from Greece !!
It might help to have shut off switches to disconnect from rest of vehicle so the radio or anything that might have a slow drain on them. Also some of the newer diesels with def have a heater in the def tank to keep the def from jelling up in cold weather. Looking at his older semis he doesn't use def so that's not the issue. The guy is right about the bad cell in the battery, maybe you need a better brand like interstate. Also there might be a short that is slowly draining the battery, cb or radio cause they have two power cables to run them, one for main power and one for memory.
So on that sump pump that drains the diesel barrel pond... if you had a float on the switch that wasn't filled with air but rather something less dense than water yet more dense than diesel, then it would turn on for water but not for diesel... If you were super bored and had tons of free time (which I'm sure you're not, and don't.. lol) you could even use a second "normal" float switch, and hook them up to an alarm such that a triggered second switch *without* a triggered first switch would mean diesel had leaked and it could alert you to it.
I don't know if it's been said or not, I know people have talked about battery tenders and starting them often with no luck. But maybe you should look into NOCO Genius Boost lithium jump starters, beats dragging out a long cord and hauling around a big charger and waiting for enough juice.
We farm out in Ontario and run almost 100% no-till farm and we love it. We run no-till on winter wheat and Soybeans and strip till for our corn. Love your vids can’t wait for planting
Got to love mother nature with a mid April snow dump, at least most of the snow storm split and went around us here in Rice Lake ,WI leaving only 5 inches of the pure white joy.
The military has problems with batteries too. They use a high current plug-in connector so they can 'jumper' any different vehicle batteries together. So rather than putting a battery charger/booster, you could just have a portable battery pack that you could bring to anything that didn't start.(you could build onto the back of one of your little all terrain quads) Then once running, the equipment would charge itself. It could be a way to save time. Also, it sounds like you may be getting voltage drops from poor terminal connections.
*Zach, I made you a song:* Ole McZachy had a farm, EIEIO And on his farm he had dead batteries, EIEIO With a no start here and a no start there Here a charger there a charger Everywhere there's anger Ole McZachy had a farm, EIEIO
What would you recommend for a first time shop... Battery Grease Gun and 1/2" Battery and/or Air Impact Wrench for the trucks and implements of all sizes.
You could consider a jump box instead of the charger, if you don't want to wait an hour or so. I have a JNC660. I used it when i was hauling cars, on the recommendation of a good friend who had tried many different ones. I had mine with me one day when a guy whose w900 wouldn't start was stringing a long extension cord out to his truck. Mine hadn't been charged for a couple weeks but started his truck just fine. Mine is the plain one. No air compressor built in. Works great. Makes a really good parking brake in a pinch too! (Im a non paid endorser)
HI Zack, I am amazed at the knowledge you have about farming and the equipment that you run. Looks like you got it under control and when something goes wrong does not take long for you to figure it out. Love of family and farming you've got it down pat. I no you are tired of snow but being from lower part of nc we don't have much or any at all. I always did like snow when we got it , but usually just a few inches. Down here if we get a heavy frost they close schools. Don't work too hard and be safe.
There is a farmer down in Texas who has a 24 row planter,plants 300 acres a day with it,plants 8,200 acres in total,cotton,sunflowers,wheat,corn and makes 2,000 bales of hay.
I want to thank you for your explanation of row cleaners. I’ve heard of others trying them in the past but they’re better designed now and people are trying them again. It makes sense; sort of a final soil prep before the seed goes down. Now be very careful around that GMO dust! 🤣😂😆😅🧐
Cold weather will ruin batteries, and once a battery has been completely dead for an extended period it will never hold a constant charge. We deal with the same problem, disconects, un hooking them, don't matter. If only one cell is lacking the batteries CCA are ruduced by half.
The batteries probably aren't the problem, they are only as good as the charging system allows. Have you checked the output of the alternators, wire connections and condition of the wires on them there trucks? A little spray grease on alternator/battery connections goes along way.
Great video. I know you don't believe in covers/shields for your electric motors but I would design something to protect them from the elements. I couldn't let them just sit there and get hammered 24/7/365.
You've got to love that GMO DUST. It makes things grow bigger and be more productive. We got six inches of snow in Grand Rapids Michigan but a little north of here they got 10-12 inches.
Diodes in alternators can draw power from your battery when not in use alternators are very easily wrecked from boosting battery charging so you can install new batteries but if you're alternator is no good you're done the same thing happens to us all the time my only suggestion would be Deadman swithes
I've been wondering what those little 'saw blade' thingys did. Thanks for the explanation. Try giving Didgie, your camera shy dog, (sp?) a treat when ever she can see the camera. She'll come to like it soon enough I'll bet. ,
Have you thought about installing a master battery switch? This switch will completely isolate the batteries from the rest of the vehicle. I'm guessing that you have deep cycle batteries.
I feel so bad watching these knowing i'm not doing anything to help the world, these vids are so entertaining but I just sit at home and can't even do anything to benefit society like you. Keep it up though, great stuff.
@@MillennialFarmer haha sorry I'm not good at expressing my thoughts in one comment meant it more as a compliment to you having your life figured out haha
Is the ethanol plant your best market or are you under contract with them ? Do you reuse those 500 gal. Totes ? Do you use organic ferts. Or man made ? And when is the last video of you and your dad coming out ?
You need a good quality smart charger and fully charge those batteries. Also if they went dead over winter and froze their is no saving them. They may work for a while but will never fully recover.
Have you ever thought about using rubber hoses for the airlines on the trucks instead of the plastic pig tails? I would never go back. Tangling, dry cracking, busting off going down the road from getting brittle...grrr!
Since your trying no till. What are thinking of doing for deep tillage. Deep rip or cover crops. Deep rip (rental equipment) the first year got my change over to have less bumps in transition. Then switched to cover crops. Good luck
Hey Zack, another great video brother! Just a thought, how about installing cctv cameras in the top of your grain bins.... that would save you a lot of climbing. - Dave
Yeah, I guess I didn't think about that? Maybe ask your local cctv supplier for their thoughts in regards to dust getting on the lenses. Many modern cameras have an auto dust removal tool you can turn on to help minimize or eliminate dust on your camera’s sensor. These can be configured in various ways; you can set these to automatically run as soon as you turn on the camera, and to run again whenever I turn the camera off. Some cameras only offer options to clean the sensor on command. Whatever options you select, your goal should be to make sure that the anti-dust routine is run regularly. If you can, set the camera to do this automatically and forget about it, at least until your regular checks of your sensor show a problem with dust. When you see a problem, you can trigger the auto-sensor shaking dust removal routine and test again.
I did mention you....the kid taking care of me wasn’t sure what I was talking about, but appreciated the business...I said you were kind of a big deal...he was even a millennial! It was at the Circle Pines store, I think that’s the headquarters too?? Take care
I don’t technically live or work on a farm but me grandpa owns a hop and tree farm by the NJ/PA border by the Delaware river and I go up and help out a lot
Love your videos man great work. We farm about 4500 acres in central Missouri. We have the active row cleaners on our 1790 and absolutely love them. I think you will be very impressed with them. Keep on spreading the good word. Not very many people know what happens on a farm on a daily basis. If you have any questions about your row cleaners hit me up.
If the truck started after a week of not running,chances are you could have a power draw when the truck is running and one day was not enough time for the batteries to recover! I would put a battery tester on it when running to make sure your hitting the mark on running voltage! Not sure what 24 volt is? On 12 volt most vehicles is 14.4 volts is running! I hate buying batteries to find out it's a bad alternator, starter or connection problems!!!!
MN Farmer, My wife and I love your channel! I have a question for you. If daylight savings was revoked, would that impact today's farners in regards to current farming tech? JB CALI
