Harvesting Corn
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- We're back to harvesting corn. Things aren't going great... The amount of downed corn we have is a nightmare. It's still muddy with SNOW and RAIN on the way.
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With growing consumer awareness about where their food comes from, Zach has identified the need for an independent voice from the front lines of agriculture. Zach actively promotes agriculture by sharing his day-to-day experiences in the agriculture world while providing farmer-to-farmer education to help facilitate a collaborative conversation between farmers and the public.
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Mike Dillon go watch smarter everydays channel about farming... he realized the same thing... they’re botanists, biologists, engineers, mechanics, mathematicians, accountants, business managers, and more!
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I think its media's fault for portraying farmers that way. Farming takes a lot some even take up meteorology to read weather better.
Mad respect here too! Thanks for all you guys and gals do to put food on our tables and more 😉
@@stludachris And if you are a farmer with irrigation systems in Texas you need to have studied engineering and geology...plus being an agronomist with degrees in science helps.
"I'm so excited for 2020". Oh, if only he knew...
Corona, swine flu, now the bubonic plague
What else is China gonna throw at us
Aged like milk
Yeah I laughed when he said that lol
That's funny
If only
17:34 you sure you’re exited for 2020 oh boy just wait
Statements that aged poorly, exhibit a
I was looking in the comments for this I knew someone would say it
😂😂
it gets even worse...
Your videos are excellent. Well produced. Nicely paced. I really appreciate your sense of humor, and how you stay cheerful even as the never-ending challenges keep coming at you.
“Ah perfect it’s starting to rain I was getting worried it was getting dry” lol so true this year
It is amazing to me how much the technology has changed. When I was farming, if a field had standing water or was really muddy and soft, we were up a creek without a paddle. I am 67 years old. I wish I was able to spend a day with you, just for the experience of using the new tech.
We always used the term grease zerks and some called them grease fittings. Did not matter as long as you kept them filled with the grease. I really miss the farm work, but can't do it any more due to health problems. My military days have caught up with me now. I really enjoy watching your video's. Keep up the good work! God bless you and your family!
Dennis Koenemann I’m only 35 and even I’m amazed at the technology these days. I test drove one of the new self nailing cotton strippers... those things are really cool!
thank you for serving our country
If it wasn't for hard working farmers like you the tech wouldn't be where it is today
I have to admire the positive attitude in the face of adversity. Keep swinging!
3:15
Cob deflector in the corn position.
I'm going to use that phrase daily.
I AM LOVING THESE HARVEST VIDS SO FAR! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND HAVE A SAFE HARVEST!
Cummins gang
Just got to love the o-rings blowing in the remotes on a tractor making them leak like yours are. "Grease fittings " is all I've ever heard.
Zach I'm a 'wanna be' farmer and really enjoy your videos and humor! It's great to learn about your business keep up the great work, you have a lot of fans out here!!
Camera is a brilliant idea. My son's best description without a camera is, "Back up until you hear something expensive."
Too often the truth.
They are zerks.
In "the old country" (Iowa), they're headlands.
In my new home (wet, snowy, down corn MN) they're end rows.
Keep plugging away and look down the road for the LP truck. Hope he comes today.
The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929, and the assignee was the Alemite Manufacturing Corporation
This guy wins. I still call it a nipple though.
Should I change?
“Christmas morning face” hahaha
Always been zerks always will be
HI Zack.
I am not a farmer but my grandparents were in Pa.
I follow you because you explain what you are doing.
I like big machines and like to see how they work for our farmers.
Thank You for feeding us.
I have a very high respect for military people and slightly below that I hold in honor the hard-working farmers who feed us Thank you to all of you
Loved “Nathan’s Christmas morning face”
7:57
I really like these agricultural videos, very nice and interesting.
That comment about your dad’s expression was priceless
If it were boring, I wouldn't have made it to the end,, but I did. I love to learn new stuff and that's what kept my attention.
I am 69, from Illinois, grew up and worked in a farm community when I was young and always wanted to be a farmer. I just never had the money to get started. I flew helicopters in the United States Army for 6 1/2 years. Work as an Air Traffic Controller for 30 years. Retired now, I live in Kentucky. the "Z" words I have used. I have always called them grease zerks and dzus fasteners.
Grease zerk. I used to deal with them alot in the "parts and tools" cage.
I miss having an wind system. Had a crary setup on our old combine and head.
lost the family farm a few years ago when my uncle passed away in a accident, was only 62. love watching your videos.Really missing the farm life, this is a kind of therapy maybe.?
We made a tire scraper for our skid steer out of a old AG tire that makes moving grain a lot easier. It's just a quarter of a tire on a frame and its stiff enough to clean make of the grain yet flexible enough to make it hard to damage stuff. It also conforms to most surfaces cutting way down on using the grain vac.
Looks like Zach is getting on to the trend of saying "and don't forget to smash that like button" 😂😂 don't worry I always do
Angel Jimenez that’s a Tom pemberton line
@@aaronwilton8738 I just noticed that
7:57 lol. Always good to please and impress your dad on the farm.
Woow, what life you live! with the incredible work you do so we all get food on our tables Tack!
Kudos to Becky for her superior editing!
Love the video watching from Australia Queensland and john Deere farmer .
My parents: he be up all night playing video games
Me: *casually watching this video at 5am*
You looks like British singer David Gray👍
Depending how there put in a sentence, fitting or zerks is how I was brought up. And I would like to thank you for your time to make these videos and also a little advise keep your feeder house from building up with cornstalks and debris to keep from a fire starting underneath the cab from the hydraulic fluid being hot and starting a fire as we had one the 2nd yr. Deere came out with the 9500 and we had a total loss of a combine and luckily we had a 4wd disking in the same field and we had him circle the combine while we were waiting for the fire department to come and we went through 3 fire extinguishers also.
Grease zerks. How many times do you use a word with the letter "z" in a day?
close to a zillion
I hope Millennial farmer will get all this harvesting done with one combine
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Called “ Grease Nipples” over here in Australia.
You just like to say nipples, yah wankers
I am livening on a coastal farm and we have 1000 grease nipples
Same here across the ditch
Australia I am in
I call them grease fittings
watching this at 3 in the morning... video works better than a sleeping pill.
Zert fitting is what we call them in southern California. I live in the Imperial valley and work at the ag commissioner office. Our local crops are mainly hay and we export a lots overseas. I have just stumbled on to your channel. I am enjoying it. Completely different farming then I know. We get all our water from gravity feed canals. We get on average 306 sunny days a year. We don’t get rain. Keep up the good job. Having a good time watching the whole back catalogue.
My dad always called them "grease fittings" so that's what I call them
From what I know, they are called grease "there" . As my dad always said, " put the damn grease in there" . Ha good times.
Too true, I’ve also heard it called that many times
when we look back in 50 years the world will blame you MR. "Im so excited for 2020" then laughs. Timing was impeccable
So nice to see that we still have farmers with tegrity
When I was farming we called them grease fittings same now that I'm trucking
"I'm so excited for 2020"
So you're the one who started all this...
A little mud on the window ,I remember helping my neighbor picking corn with a new idea two row pulled by a super c ,nice video farmers feed the world
Went back and watched some episodes we hadn’t seen before we found your channel found it interesting that you mentioned how much you were looking forward to 2020..... 🤦♂️😂🙏🙏
" The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929,..."
Interesting stuff! Fun channel
Who tf
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I come from a farmer family too, nothing worse than crop getting affected by weather before harvesting. I might be wrong here but looks like you guys got a little late harvesting it, we always tried harvesting when the corn stem is not too too dry and standing somewhat straight so it can withstand the combine's blade a bit better, if it makes sense, there are other factors as well as we farming in a whole different weather condition and continent. Still Amazing job. Good luck for next year.
Here in the northwest we called them grease “zerts” , now we are being told it’s “zerks”. Zerks abbreviation of the last name of the inventor “Zerkowitz“ .
Zerts in western MD too so it's coast to coast ignorance. Haha
Yeah I've heard some people say that before too. I think it's just people mishearing/mispronouncing it.
In the Columbia Basin in Washington State we have always called them grease zerks. In Montana I heard them called zerks and zerts. 👍
@@Kabel717 always assumed it was called zerts as a shortened slang for INsert. As in grease insert.
I live in North Central Iowa and we have always called them Zerks
It's awesome to see that Crary wind system on your header, my dad is one of the guys that assembles them, along with the tile plows, trailers, and potato harvesters in Fargo ND! I actually helped assemble a tile plow that got sent to Africa, and welded my initials on the bottom of it lol!
Laying the feeder front back helps in down corn, reels help too. The same kind of way mom holding your hand when you got shots as a kid helped lol.
That sounds like some famous last words right there, "Hold up! Hold up! ..."
The waterfowl hunting must be amazing in those water holes
We just chopped 30 acres of our corn that got hit bad by the hurricane we had 2 months ago. The rest of our corn was in good fields that didn’t get the wind as bud. Our corn is still 34% and green stocks. Gonna take it all off for high moisture for a dairy farm. Stuff we chopped will be for our beef cattle
I used to use lifters that clipped into the snout and this extends up to 30 inches . The other adjustment was we opened the snapping rollers at the front and left the back untouched. this helped to pull a larger amount of the trash out early without too many cobs being lost
When laying down that bad and that brittle of stalks, we have run bean head. Opening up feeder.
Shouldn't let Anna eat people, she could choke on the bones.
Isn't it Hannah?
@@Stasiek_Zabojca I hear Anna, no H lol
My dad is a farmer and I like helping him a lot.l like your vidoes
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You might try tall tomato stakes to hold the corn up.
Lol
Been watching all your stuff brother. I appreciate the time spent behind the screen to make it happen.
North Carolina, south side of Pilot Mountain. Had 90 acres as a kid up until graduation. I'm 34 now. Had a 1989 2555 with a cab and 4wd; a 1963, 3010 tricycle to keep tobacco straight; and a 1937 JD, AR unstyled frontend to take to pulls. Point I'm making is the three 45eb John Deere's we had to get corn and soybeans was the highlight..one for parts. I'd like to see y'all grab some older equipment to take out for fun. It would be a great series for you sir. Thank you for what your doing. Hats off.
"i´m so excited for 2020", man if you knew
....
love your videos, ty for sharing your work with us
OLF made a video a while back where he used a bean head for downed corn and had pretty good results
Tough on the reel though??
I grease “zerks” on my farm, but as long as they get grease, doses it matter?
my son wants to be a farmer so bad, thank you for sharing!! very cool.
We were surprised when we had a field of 21% corn. Unfortunately we also had some of the downed corn also. Not as bad as yours though. Our neighbor had some like that also. He had 2 combines with the corn reels on them. We were finally able to park the trucks in the field & load them today. Hopefully the snow will hold off until everybody's done with harvest. Thanks for the video.
You need to be an IT engineer to operate a combine these days.🤓
Sadly.
It's pretty much common sense based
If you can operate a smart phone you can operate any of these machines
You are such an inspiration to me because I like watching you and welker farms Because I like John Deere tractors and I like the buds
Nothing better
adjustments on my 1976 John Deere 3300 let you get out of the cab climb down the ladder and turn knobs and use wrenches. ok you can adjust the concave by hand cranking a knob in the cab but you better go outside and take a look at the index pointer. back in 2004 an October hurricane laid my beans over and I had to deadhead back to the end of the field I could get the beans to go into the grain head on. those were long days that year. not picking yet down here in North Carolina still waiting on a hard frost to arrive. that feature you got where someone brings you lunch to the field makes me jealous.
We run narrow rows now because of this. Seems to help hold the stalks up. Also headers with short snouts seem to work better. Some years have been so bad though, we have to walk beside with a rake.
"I was starting to worry it was getting a little dry out here" Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Love your vids but can you make more farming time laps? Maybe on the grain cart?
Great video,great sense of humor
IDK how well this would work in your area, but here in SE Nebraska, we were able to go the season without changing anything on the feeder-house between corn and beans, leaving the drum up and on the high speed sprocket for the chain. It's supposed to be easier on the beans and lead to less cracks showing up by leaving the feeder-house up. Saving time switching over is only a bonus, I swear.
Edit: Also, it only ever rains just enough to get you out of the field you are in during harvest. Never a drop more. Unless you have everything ready and are about to leave for the field, then it gives you an inch or two.
Hey Zach if you’re looking for another employee let me know. I’m a young farmer going to school but I’ve been looking for a really good farm job to start and I’ve noticed you guys are short handed a few times.
Bobby Chavez give the man a chance!
Here in southern wisconsin, ive heard them refered to only as zerks.
A reel really helps. A lot.
Snow! Hope your sleds are ready!
GREASE NIPPLES IS A VHS MY DAD OWNED IN THE 90'S
Can you discuss the real world implications of day light savings time for a real farmer in a way Millennials understand!
Harvesting modern corn. I used to harvest corn but it was manual and very few people knew it.
I looked up the US national average corn acreage for 2019, and it was 168 bushels per acre. So you Millennial farmers are WAY AHEAD of the US national average!! Just shows how superior you all are!!!
Usually it's grease zerks out west here.
Zerks, unless you want to call them something else!
Steve Adams ya like the thingamajigg that the dohicky hooks onto too put that stuff in there out of the whatchamacallit lol
@@mikebonnett7730 you forgot whatzit, thingamabob, and connecting the bull wheel to the heffer shaft and checking the tail light fluid with a killywacker tester. LOL
Really interesting and awesome content, makes me appreciate farmers more than they are credited for.
Nice work in snow storm
Grease fittings is what I have always heard them called down here in Arkansas
Pretty much. I’ve heard people here call them alemites after the old brand name. Nobody down here says zerk. Think that’s a midwestern thing.
Corn laying down and the Vikings lost to my Chiefs. You're just having a tough day all around.
Too true.
@@MillennialFarmer hi
Try taking off the rubber ear savers, that helped us a lot when running in tangled up corn. It fed in a lot better and slid over the snoots so much better.
Try a medium depth impact swivel socket on the separator grate spacers(nut side). Then you can fit a impact in there. I usually use a 3/8’s. All except the ones behind the worm gear.
Mr.millineal do you recomend farming and what is you favorite tractor
"I am so excited for 2020"....(laughter)..."you can't make this stuff up"
Sad, but true. If only you knew how true it would be, esp the latter part of that statement.
Here in the Caribbean we call them grease nipples.
I've always called them zerks. No idea why but it goes back to my heavy equipment days in the SeaBees.
Zach maybe rent that field out for a herd of cattle for the winter they would love it🤠🐮🐮🌽🌽🌽🌽