Kurt, you hit the nail on the head. I burned out in two other careers before finding my way back to the farm and finally realizing it was the right place to be.
Hey Ken! Thank you sir. We don’t have a machine shed, so the weather is pretty hard on all of them as they sit outside. We’re hoping to fix that before too many more years. As for the lights, it’s funny you say that. About five years ago NONE of them had working lights. I finally got so fed up with it that I went through them all and fixed every damn light on all the tractors, lol. The 4020 got all new LEDs and wiring. The 686 used to blow fuses one after another, so I converted the whole system to relays with the right size wires and fuses. And the others just needed lots of old wiring replaced. I felt a lot better after that was all done.
When I was a boy my dad picked all his corn with a 3row uni system.... I miss it alot! I been looking for a New Idea 1row picker to just pick enough to grind for cattle feed.... we actually still have one crib that's pretty good shape yet or I would just setup wood rail fencing and make temporary crib
Oh man, I hear ya. Our Kewanee needs a lot of TLC. It’s on my list of equipment to be completely gone through. One of the drive sprockets is broken, and offset about 1/8 turn on the shaft, so everything runs at a goofy angle. That’s the biggest issue to fix. Straighten paddles, fix a chain tensioner, and the bearings on the fold-down section are going out. That won’t be fun to mess with. Never a dull moment!
Nice to see you getting a great corn yield,I never saw a corn crib till I started travelling down to your state,corn pickers and shellers are foreign to me as corn was not grown up here when those machines where built. Always wondered how you emptied a crib until I saw your video of shelling corn a couple years ago. Subscribed and looking forward to more videos!
Thanks Westlake! Gotta love those, "Aha! So that's how they do it!" moments. I'm glad we could shed a little light on the subject. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Good thing you had a hill to park on. Our old 656 had glow plugs for cold starting. We used to have some winter side panels for our IH tractors. They channeled the engine heat onto the platforms. At least kept the wind off you. Check out the 55 combine with duals! The money shot was the sunset with the picker rolling through...
It's a year behind but who really cares it's neat to watch its rare to see picking going on anymore so people shut up with your comments and just watch at least he's trying!
First off, I love watching you all pick corn. However, I would love to know more about the ear corn silos that you store your corn in as we don’t have them down here in East Tennessee. I’ve seen some small ones in Western Virginia and Northern Kentucky. What’s the center structure for? Air circulation? I realize that the recession in the base is for a gathering conveyor. Do you know the brand name? On my farm we have a corn crib building with a parking area on the side for equipment. Some of my neighbors, have a concrete slab inside a tool shed that they dump the corn harvest onto. By the way, I raise beef cattle a grow a small amount of corn. . Respectfully, James from East Tennessee
Hey James! Thanks for watching. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. The center structure in the cribs is a vent for air circulation. Where it sits on top of the planking that covers the conveyor trench, there is a square hole the same size as the inside of the vent chimney. If everything is working correctly, that allows the air to flow from the trench under the crib, up through the vent. The corn always settles a bit, so the top of the vent ends up exposed to allow an exit point for the air. It does a FAIRLY good job of drying the corn in the center of the crib, as long as the moisture level is about 19% or less. There's no substitute for picking it dry though! In 2019 we had a rough year and ended up cribbing the corn at about 25%. A good chunk of it got moldy in the middle - you can see it in one of my older videos about shelling corn. That was a rough one. I'm not sure what brand our cribs are. Dad put them up in the late 1970s. I know that Behlen was a common manufacturer. Rumor has it that even though they don't advertise wire cribs any more, if you contact Behlen Manufacturing and request one, they'll still do a custom order and make a brand new crib. Given how many of them stand around unused, it would be a lot cheaper to find one standing around and offer to remove it. They were VERY popular here in southern MN, and large portions of Iowa. Beyond that I'm not sure where else they were common. If I had to build a new one, I'd consider doing a pole crib. Those were long, narrow, and tall. Some had roofs and some didn't. They dried the corn really well, and were skinny enough that they didn't need internal ventilation.
Thanks Paul! Yes indeed, I'm posting old footage. I took a lot of care to get all the clips, and then life got crazy and I couldn't find the time to edit everything, so now I'm a year behind. It'll be confusing for a bit, but I'll get caught up this winter.
Hey Jim! We typically run it through a Minneapolis Moline sheller in the spring and send it to the elevator. In the last couple of years I started cleaning it, bagging it up and selling it for wildlife feed, along with whole cob corn. That took off a lot better than I was expecting, so we’re working on expanding that little business and making it a larger proportion of our sales.
During the really tough winter days, they will congregate around the cribs in the mornings and evenings. It used to bother us quite a bit, but we've basically learned to live with it at this point. Sometimes we have a dozen or more deer hanging around just outside the farm yard! It's actually gotten a lot better since we switched to no-till and started planting cover crops. Now they forage in the fields a lot more, and only come to the cribs after the snow pack has gotten thick and crusty, or when the weather gets really bitter cold.
I just put a bucket on my h do you have a shut off valve on that M so the bucket won’t go up and down when your using your three point ? I thought about adding a another hand valve for the loader not sure which route to go I also pull a John Deere corn planter behind the H
Hey Chris. Our M has the live hydraulic pump between the governor and distributor. I’m not exactly sure how Dad plumbed everything in, but there are two separate control levers - one for the bucket and one for the 3 point, so each one functions independently. The tractor also has power steering added on, and that uses the same reservoir, so it’s all pretty convoluted. Hoses running everywhere.
@@ravenviewfarm thanks for responding I never seen it up close enough to realize your m had the live hydraulics I will figure something out it’s to much of a chore to take the loader on and off thanks for responding
Oooh, that’s a good question. This year it was Brevant B02V87, but the video is from last year. Without digging into my records from the Co-op, all I can say is that it was a Mycogen variety in the 100 day range. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
I think we can only assume that the universe implodes on itself and all existence ends with a quiet sort of “plort” noise. In the past, when we had more corn acres, we would run the extra through our corn sheller and send it off to the elevator. Now we would set the combine up for corn and tackle it that way, but we’ve diversified our acres in recent years and grow a little less corn than we used to, so it’s rare to fill all the cribs.
Not quite! It is the direct successor to the 656, but they swapped engines around and eliminated the glow plugs. Ours has a D312 with an ether-shot system, but it doesn’t even like to start with ether in the cold. It doesn’t help that the engine has about 12,000 hours on it and is getting tired. She needs a rebuild, but still keeps ticking along.
Good question Jackson! For the last four years or so it was part time - just helping my Dad during my weekends and off hours as he gets older and has a harder time doing everything. The problem is I kept getting more and more into it, studying soil biology and setting up new marketing ventures, fixing and buying equipment and making improvements. So this past year I started transitioning away from my main business as a carpenter/general contractor and farmed full time all summer. I’ll probably do a few winter construction jobs for the next couple of years, and then hoping to farm full time year round after that.
Welcome, and thanks for watching! It’s footage from last year. I meant to get it uploaded, but life happened and now I’m 12 months behind schedule. Seemed a shame to waste it, so now I’m playing catch-up!
Imagine that, a red tractor that doesn't start lol. Only joking. Nice to see a fellow Minnesotan getting after it. You guys get much rain with that soaker on Wednesday? Drought all summer, then a monsoon fall. Go figure.
Bahaha! I should’ve seen that one coming! I haven’t checked the rain gauge, but I’d say we got just the right amount. Not a deluge, but a really nice soak to get the winter rye cover crops going.
@@ravenviewfarm lol I had to. Yea, it was a nice slow soak. Shut down the sugarbeet harvest in west central MN for a couple days though. On a different note, is this footage from last year's harvest? Just wondering why the title is 2020 harvest.
@@c0untryf1sh3r Are you up in West Central? We’ve got family up by Fergus, and get up that way pretty regularly. It is last year’s harvest footage. When I started the channel I had this goal of keeping everything in order. Then life got overly busy and CZcams had to take a back seat for awhile. But it seemed a shame not to edit and upload the old footage.
Sure! I've been out that way quite a few times. I'm a mentor for the MN Soil Health Coalition, and they've done quite a few clinics and farm field days over in Renville County.
Wait so do you do the old way of picking corn for a reason or are u able to buy a bigger combine not trying to be rude about it I’m interested in this what I mean is do you like it the old fashion way or are u guys planning on buying bigger things
Hey Minnesota Railfan! No worries, I didn’t take it as rude at all. We’re a pretty small farm, and we don’t have any grain bins or a drying system to handle and store the shelled grain. While we DO have a combine with a corn head, if we wanted to use it we would have to wait until the crop is at 15% moisture in the field, then harvest and get it right on a truck and off to the elevator. With picking, we already own the equipment and the infrastructure. We can harvest the corn at any moisture level below about 20% and it will air dry naturally in the cribs. Then we can shell it out and sell it in the spring, when prices are sometimes better. Maybe more importantly, in recent years I’ve started selling cob corn and bagged shelled corn direct to customers as wildlife feed. If I do that all winter long, we can really get a premium price on anything I sell, because we’re cutting out the middle man. That’s been picking up steam each year. With only about 4,000 bushels of corn in any given year, it just doesn’t make sense to spend money on bins and such unless we’re planning to expand. For the moment, we don’t have any grand ambitions. Though I would like to find 10-15 more acres nearby to rent. That’d be manageable with our current system.
@@ravenviewfarm I love all types of farming vids small farms big farms your videos are amazing keep up the great work my mad I gotta start watching your operations more are you from Minnesota
@@minnesotarailfan11 Yep! Or maybe I should say Yaaaah you betcha. We’re just a little south of the Twin Cities. Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel!
@@minnesotarailfan11 The whole farm is 100 acres, with about 64 acres of crop land. In any given year we grow about 25 acres of corn, 25 acres of beans, and the rest is either in alfalfa or some kind of wacky experiment, or both, lol. How about yourself?
It does! A Behlen unit. The old M is pretty tricked out with live hydraulics, power steering, and a 3 point. And I never realized it until this year, but it has a Schwartz throttle lever as well. We use that tractor almost every day.
Nope! We've done it before, many years ago when we still had cattle. Since we switched to no-till and using cover crops, I like to leave as much residue in the field as possible. It helps protect the soil surface from erosion and temperature swings, holds in the moisture, and gets broken down by earthworms and microbes to help cycle nutrients back into the ground.
I'm not sure I understand the question, because that's pretty much exactly what I did. At least for 2020. There's a video for each day of harvest, from start to finish (some of them encompass multiple days, if things weren't super eventful). If you look under the "videos" tab for my channel they should all be there in chronological order.
These older diesels are notoriously hard starting in the cold. My understanding is the starters they were designed with often don’t spin very fast, so they don’t build cylinder pressure for combustion or pressure for the injectors when everything is cold and doesn’t want to flow. Plus they don’t have glow plugs or pre-heaters for the intake air. The 686 has a particularly slow starter. Putting a tractor in road gear, rolling it and popping the clutch spins the whole motor considerably faster than the starter, so you get snappier compression and better injector pressure and thus easier combustion. It doesn’t help when you’ve got 12,000 hours on the engine and everything is tired and ready for a rebuild.
Nice show of the older equipment getting it done, and no drying bill to pay!
Great video. The machinery keeps going when it's looked after . Dog supervisor doing well . 👍
Oh the old days of MTV cribs and pimp my ride hehe. Thanks for the laughs
Man, look at those cribs. Beautiful harvest, and some very nice shots. Thanks so much.
Very enjoyable video to watch. You’re having fun, making money, and doing it with family. Most people yearn for that.
Kurt, you hit the nail on the head. I burned out in two other careers before finding my way back to the farm and finally realizing it was the right place to be.
I'm impressed with how well kept your tractors are, and all the lights work thats impressive, now I need to fix the lights on my tractors.
Hey Ken! Thank you sir. We don’t have a machine shed, so the weather is pretty hard on all of them as they sit outside. We’re hoping to fix that before too many more years.
As for the lights, it’s funny you say that. About five years ago NONE of them had working lights. I finally got so fed up with it that I went through them all and fixed every damn light on all the tractors, lol. The 4020 got all new LEDs and wiring. The 686 used to blow fuses one after another, so I converted the whole system to relays with the right size wires and fuses. And the others just needed lots of old wiring replaced. I felt a lot better after that was all done.
What a perfect day. Thank you for sharing.
WOW , Golden sky and golden corn 🌽
Love your farm and work ethic. Your Dad is a beast!
Nice looking corn 🌽and nice set up of cribs 👍
Loved to pick corn years ago. We had two cribs like that
MTV cribs.....Now Known as MTV Farm Cribs!! ! LOL! Love it!
Perfect harvesting weather 👌
Very well made video ,we used to pick corn here about 30 yrs ago
When I was a boy my dad picked all his corn with a 3row uni system.... I miss it alot! I been looking for a New Idea 1row picker to just pick enough to grind for cattle feed.... we actually still have one crib that's pretty good shape yet or I would just setup wood rail fencing and make temporary crib
Beautiful 🙂👍🏻👍🏻. I finally broke down and took the time to straighten all my paddles on the Kewanee. Hanging on a bin roof 😉👌to get last bit!
Oh man, I hear ya. Our Kewanee needs a lot of TLC. It’s on my list of equipment to be completely gone through. One of the drive sprockets is broken, and offset about 1/8 turn on the shaft, so everything runs at a goofy angle. That’s the biggest issue to fix. Straighten paddles, fix a chain tensioner, and the bearings on the fold-down section are going out. That won’t be fun to mess with.
Never a dull moment!
Great video, thanks for sharing
Nice to see you getting a great corn yield,I never saw a corn crib till I started travelling down to your state,corn pickers and shellers are foreign to me as corn was not grown up here when those machines where built. Always wondered how you emptied a crib until I saw your video of shelling corn a couple years ago. Subscribed and looking forward to more videos!
Thanks Westlake! Gotta love those, "Aha! So that's how they do it!" moments. I'm glad we could shed a little light on the subject. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
That was pretty cool seeing the steam come off the tractor
Good thing you had a hill to park on. Our old 656 had glow plugs for cold starting. We used to have some winter side panels for our IH tractors. They channeled the engine heat onto the platforms. At least kept the wind off you. Check out the 55 combine with duals! The money shot was the sunset with the picker rolling through...
Thanks Johnny!
It's a year behind but who really cares it's neat to watch its rare to see picking going on anymore so people shut up with your comments and just watch at least he's trying!
I can remember when MTV played music videos
That's great ... Now ya got to get us some cows 😁 ... That would make a feed for em 😉
THE CRIBMASTER!
Man,you are cool, qood luck
First off, I love watching you all pick corn. However, I would love to know more about the ear corn silos that you store your corn in as we don’t have them down here in East Tennessee. I’ve seen some small ones in Western Virginia and Northern Kentucky. What’s the center structure for? Air circulation? I realize that the recession in the base is for a gathering conveyor. Do you know the brand name? On my farm we have a corn crib building with a parking area on the side for equipment. Some of my neighbors, have a concrete slab inside a tool shed that they dump the corn harvest onto. By the way, I raise beef cattle a grow a small amount of corn. .
Respectfully,
James from East Tennessee
Hey James! Thanks for watching. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. The center structure in the cribs is a vent for air circulation. Where it sits on top of the planking that covers the conveyor trench, there is a square hole the same size as the inside of the vent chimney. If everything is working correctly, that allows the air to flow from the trench under the crib, up through the vent. The corn always settles a bit, so the top of the vent ends up exposed to allow an exit point for the air. It does a FAIRLY good job of drying the corn in the center of the crib, as long as the moisture level is about 19% or less.
There's no substitute for picking it dry though! In 2019 we had a rough year and ended up cribbing the corn at about 25%. A good chunk of it got moldy in the middle - you can see it in one of my older videos about shelling corn. That was a rough one.
I'm not sure what brand our cribs are. Dad put them up in the late 1970s. I know that Behlen was a common manufacturer. Rumor has it that even though they don't advertise wire cribs any more, if you contact Behlen Manufacturing and request one, they'll still do a custom order and make a brand new crib. Given how many of them stand around unused, it would be a lot cheaper to find one standing around and offer to remove it. They were VERY popular here in southern MN, and large portions of Iowa. Beyond that I'm not sure where else they were common.
If I had to build a new one, I'd consider doing a pole crib. Those were long, narrow, and tall. Some had roofs and some didn't. They dried the corn really well, and were skinny enough that they didn't need internal ventilation.
If you fill all 4 cribs befire you finish would you tylry the 55 in corn?
Like your videos. Are you really posting videos from 2020 harvest after 2021 harvest ? I cant keep a device that long let alone a video!
Thanks Paul! Yes indeed, I'm posting old footage. I took a lot of care to get all the clips, and then life got crazy and I couldn't find the time to edit everything, so now I'm a year behind. It'll be confusing for a bit, but I'll get caught up this winter.
Love your video's
I picked with NI 323 for yrs.
Seams like those pickers never ware out.
What do you do with your corn?
Hey Jim! We typically run it through a Minneapolis Moline sheller in the spring and send it to the elevator. In the last couple of years I started cleaning it, bagging it up and selling it for wildlife feed, along with whole cob corn. That took off a lot better than I was expecting, so we’re working on expanding that little business and making it a larger proportion of our sales.
I bought 16 gathering chains for our John Deere corn head for .32 each from Rural King. They were on clearance.
Do the deer give you problems coming and picking off some corn off the cob from the crib? Thanks for the video!
During the really tough winter days, they will congregate around the cribs in the mornings and evenings. It used to bother us quite a bit, but we've basically learned to live with it at this point. Sometimes we have a dozen or more deer hanging around just outside the farm yard!
It's actually gotten a lot better since we switched to no-till and started planting cover crops. Now they forage in the fields a lot more, and only come to the cribs after the snow pack has gotten thick and crusty, or when the weather gets really bitter cold.
I just put a bucket on my h do you have a shut off valve on that M so the bucket won’t go up and down when your using your three point ? I thought about adding a another hand valve for the loader not sure which route to go I also pull a John Deere corn planter behind the H
Hey Chris. Our M has the live hydraulic pump between the governor and distributor. I’m not exactly sure how Dad plumbed everything in, but there are two separate control levers - one for the bucket and one for the 3 point, so each one functions independently.
The tractor also has power steering added on, and that uses the same reservoir, so it’s all pretty convoluted. Hoses running everywhere.
@@ravenviewfarm thanks for responding I never seen it up close enough to realize your m had the live hydraulics I will figure something out it’s to much of a chore to take the loader on and off thanks for responding
Looks like nice cobs, what corn hybrid do you plant?
Oooh, that’s a good question. This year it was Brevant B02V87, but the video is from last year. Without digging into my records from the Co-op, all I can say is that it was a Mycogen variety in the 100 day range. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
@@ravenviewfarm was the corn all the same variety that year ? I'm in central MN lots of dekalb, LG and Croplan in my county..
What happens if you get more corn than you have cribs to store it?
I think we can only assume that the universe implodes on itself and all existence ends with a quiet sort of “plort” noise.
In the past, when we had more corn acres, we would run the extra through our corn sheller and send it off to the elevator. Now we would set the combine up for corn and tackle it that way, but we’ve diversified our acres in recent years and grow a little less corn than we used to, so it’s rare to fill all the cribs.
Is that the same engine as the 560 diesel with glow plugs?
Not quite! It is the direct successor to the 656, but they swapped engines around and eliminated the glow plugs. Ours has a D312 with an ether-shot system, but it doesn’t even like to start with ether in the cold.
It doesn’t help that the engine has about 12,000 hours on it and is getting tired. She needs a rebuild, but still keeps ticking along.
I’m just curious because I’m a new viewer is the farming a hobby or full time
Good question Jackson! For the last four years or so it was part time - just helping my Dad during my weekends and off hours as he gets older and has a harder time doing everything.
The problem is I kept getting more and more into it, studying soil biology and setting up new marketing ventures, fixing and buying equipment and making improvements. So this past year I started transitioning away from my main business as a carpenter/general contractor and farmed full time all summer. I’ll probably do a few winter construction jobs for the next couple of years, and then hoping to farm full time year round after that.
Why does it say 2020 harvest? Just found your channel great video and countryside! 👍🏻 🇺🇸
Welcome, and thanks for watching! It’s footage from last year. I meant to get it uploaded, but life happened and now I’m 12 months behind schedule. Seemed a shame to waste it, so now I’m playing catch-up!
@@ravenviewfarm gotcha!
Imagine that, a red tractor that doesn't start lol. Only joking. Nice to see a fellow Minnesotan getting after it. You guys get much rain with that soaker on Wednesday? Drought all summer, then a monsoon fall. Go figure.
Bahaha! I should’ve seen that one coming!
I haven’t checked the rain gauge, but I’d say we got just the right amount. Not a deluge, but a really nice soak to get the winter rye cover crops going.
@@ravenviewfarm lol I had to. Yea, it was a nice slow soak. Shut down the sugarbeet harvest in west central MN for a couple days though.
On a different note, is this footage from last year's harvest? Just wondering why the title is 2020 harvest.
@@c0untryf1sh3r Are you up in West Central? We’ve got family up by Fergus, and get up that way pretty regularly.
It is last year’s harvest footage. When I started the channel I had this goal of keeping everything in order. Then life got overly busy and CZcams had to take a back seat for awhile. But it seemed a shame not to edit and upload the old footage.
@@ravenviewfarm No, not quite that far north. Should have said south central. Renville county specifically. About 20 minutes south of Willmar.
Sure! I've been out that way quite a few times. I'm a mentor for the MN Soil Health Coalition, and they've done quite a few clinics and farm field days over in Renville County.
Wait so do you do the old way of picking corn for a reason or are u able to buy a bigger combine not trying to be rude about it I’m interested in this what I mean is do you like it the old fashion way or are u guys planning on buying bigger things
Hey Minnesota Railfan! No worries, I didn’t take it as rude at all.
We’re a pretty small farm, and we don’t have any grain bins or a drying system to handle and store the shelled grain. While we DO have a combine with a corn head, if we wanted to use it we would have to wait until the crop is at 15% moisture in the field, then harvest and get it right on a truck and off to the elevator.
With picking, we already own the equipment and the infrastructure. We can harvest the corn at any moisture level below about 20% and it will air dry naturally in the cribs. Then we can shell it out and sell it in the spring, when prices are sometimes better.
Maybe more importantly, in recent years I’ve started selling cob corn and bagged shelled corn direct to customers as wildlife feed. If I do that all winter long, we can really get a premium price on anything I sell, because we’re cutting out the middle man. That’s been picking up steam each year.
With only about 4,000 bushels of corn in any given year, it just doesn’t make sense to spend money on bins and such unless we’re planning to expand. For the moment, we don’t have any grand ambitions. Though I would like to find 10-15 more acres nearby to rent. That’d be manageable with our current system.
@@ravenviewfarm I love all types of farming vids small farms big farms your videos are amazing keep up the great work my mad I gotta start watching your operations more are you from Minnesota
@@minnesotarailfan11 Yep! Or maybe I should say Yaaaah you betcha.
We’re just a little south of the Twin Cities.
Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel!
@@ravenviewfarm yeah my farm is up by fargo how many acres do you farm
@@minnesotarailfan11 The whole farm is 100 acres, with about 64 acres of crop land. In any given year we grow about 25 acres of corn, 25 acres of beans, and the rest is either in alfalfa or some kind of wacky experiment, or both, lol.
How about yourself?
Looks like your M has a power steering unit on it
It does! A Behlen unit. The old M is pretty tricked out with live hydraulics, power steering, and a 3 point. And I never realized it until this year, but it has a Schwartz throttle lever as well.
We use that tractor almost every day.
Is this videos from last year or do you mean 2021
It’s from last year. I’m way behind on my editing and uploading.
WIll you bale corn stocks for cattle beding ??
Nope! We've done it before, many years ago when we still had cattle. Since we switched to no-till and using cover crops, I like to leave as much residue in the field as possible. It helps protect the soil surface from erosion and temperature swings, holds in the moisture, and gets broken down by earthworms and microbes to help cycle nutrients back into the ground.
Just curious why don't you guys put videos up from the first day to harvest until the last day of harvest?
I'm not sure I understand the question, because that's pretty much exactly what I did. At least for 2020. There's a video for each day of harvest, from start to finish (some of them encompass multiple days, if things weren't super eventful).
If you look under the "videos" tab for my channel they should all be there in chronological order.
@@ravenviewfarm oh ok
Why does pop starting easier then the starter 🤔???
These older diesels are notoriously hard starting in the cold. My understanding is the starters they were designed with often don’t spin very fast, so they don’t build cylinder pressure for combustion or pressure for the injectors when everything is cold and doesn’t want to flow. Plus they don’t have glow plugs or pre-heaters for the intake air. The 686 has a particularly slow starter.
Putting a tractor in road gear, rolling it and popping the clutch spins the whole motor considerably faster than the starter, so you get snappier compression and better injector pressure and thus easier combustion.
It doesn’t help when you’ve got 12,000 hours on the engine and everything is tired and ready for a rebuild.
👍👌🇨🇦❤
What year is the harvest?
As the title says, this is from fall of 2020. I got way behind on my editing and uploading.
Thats one way to avoid using ether
Where is this farm at?
Minnesota, just south of the Twin Cities.
Anyone realize that he’s a year behind?
He is!?!?!?!
Yep. It was a busy year. I’m only now getting caught up on editing and uploading.