We got to try a Brand New Mandako Land Roller | I hope this works 

I've heard those are great for telephone poles .... 😅

My cat looked like he was going to put his paw on my hat bill but he accidentally scratched my face very very close to my eye. Dax was lucky. My kitty got past the eye lid slightly. 😌 he didn’t mean to hurt me tho. He’s a good kitty. God Bless you Little Nephew Dax please remember you have to completely protect your eyes okay Bud. Thanks 😊❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸

I put the tiger lights all the way around on my 8400,easy to do and so bright at night u cant even look at it

The farm I worked on growing up had a 4650. When we got a 7800, I thought those were the brightest lights ever!

That 8400 sounds like a real tractor. Like it.

Old school eyeballing it! Glad Dax is okay

good to hear he is ok. i enjoy all your videos.

We roll all our beans but we have a lot of rocks. We just go back and forth without doing headlands Leaves a triangle on headland that doesn’t get rolled but we found that doing headlands after will pack it down and you’ll see some emergence issues. Just what we do. I think you’ll like it

I was told by a farmer that I trust, if you roll the beans at 2 to 3 leaf stage that it will improve the yield. I guess beans like to be stressed 🤷🤷

Hey Brian, hope your having A Great Day, SONNE FARMS is running ONE of those Rollers in South Dakota this year for the MAIN PURPOSE to Make SURE that the ground is ALOT smoother during harvest for the HEADER, like you were talking about, so I guess they don't think there going to have any issues with emergence of the plants, so it should be pretty good 👍✌️, CYA SOON NEXT TIME 👍✌️🚜🚜🌞😎

Glad to hear that your son is doing good.

We had a farm in south westland nz. I started my engineering apprenticeship and made a roller for Dad..Was made from a big sheet of plate. Was 8' wide, 6'6" tall and with heavy frame and filled with water. 22,000 lbs. We pulled with 2wd 72hp David brown tractor with duals. We had very stoney country and what a God send. Made cutting hay and silage much "safer" and new development much easier. DAD passed June 2nd. Reminded me of the adventures we had pulling the beast. Built an inverted V frame that mounted on three pount linkage. Had a pin mounted above top link hook up. From the pin a chain ran back to the roller frame. When you towed roller normally the chain was loose. If you were struggling for traction you simply lifted the three point linkage and it transferred weigh from roller and lighten front wheels of tractor and solved the problem. Only problem was you couldn't turn very well with diff lock in! Built it 50 years ago and its still working on another farm.

Brian, definitely help with harvest, we have never tried one but I’m sure it would be nice it just takes another trip across the fields definitely helpful if you have some rocks I’m sure, we chisel plow our corn stalks in the fall and there’s a lot of root balls get into the sickle causing extra wear and dirt getting in to the soybeans so it would be nice for that can’t wait to see you harvest after the roller I’m sure you love it specially with that big 50 footer, yes we used to do our planting with 8400 I even cultivated with it they were good tractors👍

Thank you Brian for your videos

thank you

5:59 the thing about land rollers is they push down the rocks so when you Harvest Soybeans you can cut close to the ground with less damaging rocks going through the system or the cutter bar. Mike Mitchell has a couple videos Brother Brian you should check out your know he should have been a Teacher 😏❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸

Good to see the old girl getting some field time!

Awesome as always Brian. Looks like it is doing a great job.

*Oooh, almost hit the neighbor's mailbox. That'd do a number on it.* That's some excellent unintentional foreshadowing.

The 8400 was a good tractor and very dependable. You should have a nice seed bed this year.

Thanks for another great video Brian. It was interesting and informative and entertaining for sure. Busy busy time for all of you with planting and tillage and land rolling. Glad to hear you speak well of the land roller. Very nice demo unit you have. The 50 footer seems to fit your operation well. Others have a 60 or 80 footer. You having smaller fields I can see where the 50 footer is better for you to use. So far you are speaking well of the Land Roller. Watching you run it has been a pleasure. The field looks nice where you have been. Might be a land roller in the future for Brown Farms. You are using the 8400 Deere tractor. The lights are not the best and the A/C is so so and no auto steering. Oh my I am sorry your features are not the best- - obviously I am teasing you. My days were without a cab and not such a thing like auto steer. Those were the days. Farm equipment now days is much easier on the farmer himself that is for sure!!!!!!!!! I can remember plowing, yes plowing, at night, yes at night, with a heat houser on the tractor and thinking we were doing pretty good. Oh my. Oh yes, two small headlights up front and one small light on the back. This was on a 880 Oliver and later a 1850 Oliver. We thought we were kings with the 1850, memories!!!!!!!!! Will leave you along now-ha!!!! So glad to hear that your son is okay. An eye injury is a hard one. Just glad to hear he and his eye are fine and he is up and around riding with grandpa in the tractor!!! Guess that is about it. You mentioned doing wheat soon. Will be anxious to see the Fendt combine in the field working. You all take care and be safe. The Iowa farm boy. Steve. PS: Just a little teasing about the tractors of today and those years ago. Bit of humor to lighten the day.

Nice seeing the older iron doing work again!

Enjoyable.....

My friends rolled there double crop beans one year to help seal in the moisture. All they had was a 14 foot homemade roller.

If you are looking to up grade the light on the JD you could take a look at Larsen lights. They should have a kit to fit the tractor. I have been happy with them. If you have a question you can call or text and they will do what they can to help.

Awesome video guys

The field sure look good

Cant beat the sound of the 8.1liter jd motor

Like to remember me and out there with an open tractor rolling with one of brilliant roars and it’s 87° and not near as big as what you’ve got 68 years old remember a lot of them days I give anything to get back up retirement is so much fun

Glad Zack. Ok. TYJ!!!

great video

I'm waiting for brian to try a set of heavy harrows! 70-80ft like most guys up here in Alberta! And if you get to try the new degalman heavy harrows it'll be with your fendt or the jd 4wd lol

Glad Dax is going to be okay. I saw on Fast Ag, that its supposedly pronounced Mand-aco, for what its worth. Keep up the great work and videos!

I drove an 8400 for the first time ever today actually. Merged hay for the neighbor farm. Not a bad tractor… didn’t have to go after dark though 😂

Good video.

Where we live we grow a lot of peas for the Canning factory.. over the years we rolled a lot of peas if you roll over the same pee twice it'll take 3 days longer to come out of the ground... We do know headlands we just start at one side of the field and work over to the other side and get out but you'll have like triangles where you turn around and go back but it's better than having them three or four days behind the rest of them... If you roll them once or leave them they seem to come up together..

For some reason, my mother thought headlights were the worst things anyone put on tractors. Maybe it was because I would run until midnight, and woke her up when I came in for the "night", and went to the barn to milk a few hours later. LED's are great, but HID are AMAZING!

I’ve taken one of those hydraulic oil baths before. All you can do is look around 😂

I always roll my ground before I plant for several reasons and I even do this for corn mostly because it really helps with controlling the depth and getting even emergence. The second thing is with the slight grooves in the top soil left by the planter it helps keep the ground from blowing in the hot windy days in the spring. And the other reason is when you get a rain on ground that you've rolled after you've planted you get really bad crusting issues.

Ive ran combine behind a roller before definitely alot less rocks to worry about but still caught it dragging just the same with heavy residue and dew

Nothing against rolling at all but there’s a couple of things you have to be mindful of depending on your soil type and climate. It makes the soil finer and more prone to blowing. And if you catch a heavy rainfall the soil could possibly cap and prevent the beans from coming up. Quite possibly neither will be a problem but if you were worried about either you can mitigate both by waiting until the beans come up. Limited window to do it but risk adverse.

I put Larsen Lights on my equipment….. fantastic LED conversion for a very reasonable price. I see they have a set for the 8000 series for about $700

Roll'em all! I think you can roll them at V1-3 if you dare, helps them to branch. That would be a test! Once again I am not a farmer but I have slept at Holiday Inn Express.😏

Great Video Brian, We always used a cambridge (ring) roller following spring sowing, the rings helped break any clods left and left a corrugated which is less likely to blow, thanks for sharing

Man-da-co,,,, the old boy that owns the company apparently gets pissy when it isn’t pronounced correctly. That’s second hand by the way. You look good in the bell of the ball 8400! Deere green is your color Brian.

We use one before seeding our alfalfa and after seeding made a big difference on soil to seed contact plus alot smoother for harvesting

The main advantage to rolling is it pushes the rocks down and levels the ground for combining every thing that I've heard is that it does nothing for the bean itself we have rolled for years here in South Dakota

ive got a 45 ft riteway roller, i roll everything cearels to beans to canola, even corn its great

I think you’re really going to like the results of using the roller.

Landrollers pay for themselves, might not be this year or next year but if you can save a header or a combine from rocks. That land roller has paid for itself and will continue to do that . We land roll all our Peas and all our cereals and sometimes we roll a couple 1/4s of canola incase we straight cut it

Do you have alot of rocks in your fields? That's why most folks use rollers in fields.

Interesting. Thanks for trying rolling. Please keep us updated

Thanks

The advances in technology are quickly evident comparing the Deere 8400 to your current tractors. ER visits and children seem to go hand-in-hand at times. At least they bounce back quickly compared to us older folks!!!

I don't think I've ever heard of a land roller in Ohio for farm fields. The winter wheat around me in NW Ohio is starting to get closer and closer to harvest. Can't wait to see some wheat harvest videos of that new Ideal combine.

Rollers. Work. Make seed to soil contact And push’s stone down Plus header lose

i tried a roller omn 26 acres of soybeans and i ran a drag on 34 acres beans. after we got a heavy rain had a crust on the rolled bean ground.

Add some refrigerant to the A/C system for more cooling.

Very cool. We only have air conditioning in one tractor out of 6 and it isn’t very cold. I like using one of the tractors without a cab so I have fresh air 😂

Great video Brian cool old Iron

Brian, it will be interesting to see if the roller makes a difference in yield. I never thought about using a roller where there isn’t any rocks.

Thanks for the video.

a lot of older farmers both in mid western ohio (which i am from orginally) and most of indiana ran culterpackers to level fields out, i have meant russ thomas at farm equipment show here in louisville, not a bad guy !!!

It's more fun to roll them when they are up, just do it on a hot humid day

Two thumbs up.

That’s the way the one that Larson Farm sale that way that one up

Every body uses a landroller on soybeans in minnesota. Some use on cornfield to. Some guys landfill first then plant.

Interesting to see if there a difference. Might make you a roller fan. Anyway good stuff

Good video

If I remember correctly, the main advantage of rolling is to make it easier to harvest in the fall.

Use the roller on the new lawn around the house. Any lawn really.

It was 96 degrees today in southwest Louisiana

I think you'll like the results of the roller Brian. The soil to seed contact is improved but the real advantage is combining in the fall. Nothing beats smooth with a grain table.

Watch out for the hydro poles

thomas farms down in tenn runs a roller , yea i never saw a field roller in ohio maybe in indiana

It seems that every farmer in Minnesota rolls their bean crop! Some farmers are rolling before they plant beans! Better get another bin for the beans!

When I was a younger boy growing up on the farm we had a 4630 and I thought I was king of the world

It would be good for header,but when you get a hard rain and dries, will be like concrete!!

I have an old 7230.....bought an LED upgrade kit, helped a lot

On the 8400 AC problem, check the cab air filter behind your seat. If it is really dirty affects the ac capabilities. Happened to us on a 8100

Mount a saddle for your globe can transfer easily from other tractors or combine i believe ours are all interchangeable on all equipment plug or unplug and go.

Hey Brian, add some LED light

😳😳😳 you're going to have half your beans in that field early and half your beans late😢😢😢😢😢

Replace them with brighter lights.

Slick set of rollers. 👍👍

We have to role all the beans because of small stones everywhere .

Hope planting season is go good frist time for frist commemt

8400 sounds great ! Yes all those 8000 fuel gauges can't be trusted

Will be interesting come Fall to see if you pick up ground speed on the rolled fields. That and catching more beans from the bottom of the plant.

You will love cutting those beans come fall with it rolled.

Good video good to see y'all

Curios how its gonna be during harvest, if its a keeper or not,thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

You need a fj dynamics auto steer unit for the 8400. Tony Fast got one for his old triple tractor to pull his roller.

once you harvest a rolled field vs a non rolled field you will roll everything

Watch out for the guide wire to that pole. lmao

Like to remember me and out there with an open tractor rolling with one of brilliant roars and it’s 87° and not near as big as what you’ve got 68 years old remember a lot of them days I give anything to get back up retirement is so much fun Matt back when you were young girl snap Ray

You don't need auto steering

You could pull about anything. Stopings the problem😊. Florida Joe

Should bean harvest be not as dirty? You should have less dirt going thru the combine

I hate to say it Brian but I think you need to run an open station for a few hours so you can appreciate the air you have and you must be spoiled, to have young eyes and can't see what you need to do at night with those bright lights !!! Honestly they probably don't shine out to the end of the wide roller , oh and don't forget you have to steer !! 😄 Glad Dax is ok !!! 😊