Abandoning The Crop?
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- What should have been two weeks worth of pea harvest turned into just a few days. Once we hit the hailed ground it was apparent attempting to harvest what was left didn't make sense. Beastbine had a potential nasty breakdown but thankfully it was caught and repaired in time!
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Definition of Farmer: A mechanic with a serious gardening hobby.
Farmer is alot more then just those two
@@mesh1248 Duh. Not much on jokes, huh?
@@oldad6207 LoL
I worked in Agriculture my whole life but I’m retired now and whining about my lawn burning up! I’d send you guys every drop of moisture we’ve had if I could! Remember the farmers mantra! “NEXT YEAR WILL BE BETTER!” Farmers everywhere are amazing people.
We have you in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you for the expensive demonstration of why most farmers avoid casinos and scratch - offs at the convenience stores; they gamble every day they put seeds in the ground!!
Your family will come back better and stronger for this. This is just a bump in the road of life. God is with you and watching over you. God bless the Welker family.
I was raised on an irrigated farm in New Mexico and understand how heartbreaking it can be to be hailed out. It's so frustrating to work so damn hard and then......My heart is going out to y'all tight now. Also, if we needed a part for our Combine or Peanut Thresher to keep running through the night we could call the dealer and somebody from the parts department would meet us there to give us the parts we needed to keep running. Harvest was always such a hectic time and everybody was involved, even the girls. At 67 I find myself missing the farm. Not enough to volunteer during harvest, but I still visit. And I sure hope you get a decent settlement from the insurance.
When I was a little feller We had a Hurricane hit a field of Sweet corn and laid it flat, After the storm had passed Me Mom and Dad were looking over the field and that is the first time I ever saw My Daddy cry so I feel for You good People.
Guys I feel so bad for y'all. You worked so hard all year only to have your crop destroyed a couple of weeks before harvest. Good luck moving forward and look forward to watching you and thank you for taking us along
No matter what happens, you are still loved, and you do have your health. I know it's not much, but at least you are still here to try again next year. The weather has been crazy all over the world, with massive fires, floods, landslides, mudslides, etc. There has been drought in Canada, as well as the US. We have one province on fire, basically, and that smoke hasn't helped anyone one bit. Just remember that your subs still love you all, even if you have had a crappy year for crops. Thank you for sharing your good years and your bad years. Most people don't realize the blood, sweat and tears that are shed to grow these crops, and how much it costs to run the equipment needed to plant and harvest. I applaud you for being optimistic, even when you haven't much to be optimistic about. Best part of this year for you will be the arrival of your baby. Keep that chin up, and that smile plastered on, and we'll keep on supporting you too. Hugs!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🐸
I can’t even begin to imagine how hard and tough it must be on all of you especially Dad and Nick and foghorn because of what you guys do. May God blessing be on your entire family and may you be blessed in all that you touch and for all of mankind! thank you so much for everything your entire family does! God bless you all🇺🇸😎🎶🙏🙏
All of you in the drought are in my prayers 🙏❤🇺🇸
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I'm not a farmer but grew up helping bale square bales for local families. We pray for your (region's) families. Between this year's weather and last year's politics its not been an easy decade for America's hardest-working and most forgotten population. Keep doing what you're doing!
Great vid. 7120 and now 7230 owner. Did chopper bearings in both. Would highly recommend replacing all the chopper bearings. Had both of my failures start fires. Plus my when I went to get my new bearing from the dealer they had the one out that I needed and a box next to it with all three bearings. Said the single bearing was like the same price as the whole kit with all 3 updated bearings.
Tried just doing the bearings on one side before on a combine then the other side flew apart. Would 10/10 recommend doing all the bearings at once.
But for some reason they always wait for something to fail instead of being proactive when it comes to maintenance. I don't understand why they are like that but it would save them a lot of time during harvest not having to deal with things like this and a lot of money and quite possibly from losing a machine or worse
@@cntslesfabrication Could it be because they're harvesting and can't just stop to do a rebuild on the combine?... This isn't farm sim.
As someone who knows nothing about farming, I'm really sorry to see you guys have to cope with this crop loss. I guess as seasoned farmers you just keep calm and carry on. Good luck and thanks for the videos.
Hurts to see you guys suffer a rough year, but you guys have grown so much since I've been watching, so I'll take the bad with the good!
I second that motion!
Bad with good - called farming!!
Holy Father Bless the Welkers and all other farmers that the drought and bad weather hit !
Amen.
Here in MI it seems like we have gotten rain every day. That has drowned a lot of crops. I'm sure it will cause issues come harvest with muddy fields.
We were at our farm pond fishing just before evening when I heard my young grandson making a lot of noise. I turned around and saw him chasing a skunk through the field. I had to yell at him to get him to stop. I asked him why he was chasing a skunk and he told me he thought it was a squirrel. I sure am glad he didn't catch that skunk.
Love it 😀
Technology advances are amazing. I have a vision of 7th generation Welkers farming from the lake house just watching it all on a monitor. Self driving equipment does it all on their own, even self driving to the shop where robots do repairs. Big looser might be the dogs. No more rides in tractors and combines. 😎 500k subscribers just around the corner. 👍
Sounds like it will really suck to be a farmer in the future.
Y’all keep your heads up. This too shall pass. Great content!!
Jeez this is the year of no luck at all for you guys crop and equipment wise. Thank God for the strong family. If the tool works it is a good tool.
Thank you for pointing out the possible blessing with the sensor bringing to your attention to the bearing problem, and saving the combined from a potential fire. God works in mysterious ways!
Good video guys. Hard times on the farm is nothing new. Your grand parents and great grand parents endured it. Keep spirits up and God Bless.
Seems like we barely get any moisture here in the flathead, and here you guys are out east with even less rain. God bless you guys!
You are dry. Praying for good fall rains and deep snows
Keep the faith guys .keep keeping on. Thanks for sharing your ups and downs. You have family and we allways on your side.
It's never a good time when you can't get crops out of the field. Hopefully next year will be a record year!
Good luck
It’s real sad to see all those damaged crops sorry for your loss
Claas is working on solid mass detecting radar for combine headers. You probably can't afford it right now. Its still highly prototype as it can't tell the difference between a rock and gravel yet, so I'd probably skip 99.44% of Mike Mitchell's fields.
Definitely been a rough year. Sorry to see the hail hit you guys hard. I don't even want to see how the drought here has effected our yields. We haven't had a drop of rain in about 3 weeks. It's not going to be pretty.
0:45 Nick, buddy, you just described a pull-type combine. We ran an International 914 behind a Farmall 1206 for almost 30 years. Super reliable, cheap to run, and it was indeed easy to see what was going into the header. Modern machines of course would run circles around it, and you don't get the data, but it was great for what it was.
I drove through ND and MT and am now in Kalispell, and it is crazy to see how dry all the crops are and I drove by an uncut wheat field and the grass was taller than the wheat (crazy)
I was just in Kalispell! Smoke is gone, enjoy your stay! And yes super dry.
We are cutting our spring wheat in North Central Montana and not a good crop😔 I love being able to watch you and Tony Fast to see how the crops are doing throughout the state
Yea I feel really sorry for Montana but I am from Saskatchewan Canada and we’re cutting our field peas right now and they are running 35 bushels to the acer we are very thank full
Praying for you guys!
That sucks about the acres you left behind, hopefully the insurance works for you. People don't give Farmers enough credit, they don't realize how much their life depends on those crops, especially with a bad harvest.
Hope the spring wheat is much better than the peas!
My cousin from Bow Island Alberrta which from my understanding isnt all that far from Shelby his dry land wheat did really bad. To be honest my crops here in Manitoba look amazing compare to those in the western praries and this is one of the dryest years that i can ever remember. It humbles me. God Bless.
Been through Bow many times
I love you Guy’s! Keep your head up and your Heart full of love! It’s all going to work out! God has Blessings for you and you have a great opportunity to get a break, and maybe working on one of those projects soon. Remember too that you Guy’s got lucky and didn’t have too many grasshoppers like Tony Fast and others had they would wreck more on top of the weather damage! God Bless! ❤️🙈🇺🇸
I feel for you guys. Sorry for the losses.
God bless you guys sorry for your losses.. 🙏🙏Maybe next year will be better 👍
Weight and balance and the structural logistics of having the cab that far forward is a cludge at best, a monstrocity at worst. There is equipment that can extend cabs about a foot or so forward, but that's added complexity where it may not be needed. That said camera's and laser/radar tracking a few feet ahead of the header is something that might help.
Mount a camera forward over the header!
@@jgardner2508 Yep. It isn't fool proof, but a good hi-def with good lighting could give you enough yards to pull up. Proximal radar could give a bit more, but will be pricier.
I almost had a stroke reading this post.
Sorry for the loss
Gleaner combines sit a lot closer to the header you can see good but makes it hard too hook and unhook
Sorry about the peas. Hoping the rest of the harvest goes better. Love the attitudes for sure.
Sorry to see your crop gone.. :( we had so dry summer that for the most part had half the yield from normal, and some fields nothing. This was a shitty year...
Great job fixing the combine guys
Thanks for the video which was most interesting and kind of hard to watch since so much pea ground was not worth combining. Hard to give up on a crop. Been there done that. Our soybeans got hit real bad but we tried to get them off the ground but did more damage to combine than it was worth. Took our insurance adjustment and forgot about it. Sorry you had to give up some of the pea fields. Like you say gives to you time to tune and repair equipment for the wheat. Sorry about the shredder bearing. Looks to be big job to replace but you and leg arms got it. All of you are excellent at repairing things. Have all the right tools to get it done. Ya!!! Next up is wheat I guess. Sincerely trusting wheat production will be better. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to the next video. Am sorry your crop production in the peas was not good. Truly understand. Hang in there. God bless all of you and will watch over all of you!!!!! Take care and be safe. Thanks. The Iowa farm boy from years ago.
I don't like peas. I like watching you fix the combine. 🤗🤗
Northamptonshire, UK. Winter wheat harvest has started, but in damp conditions.
Western North America would gladly accept a donation of moisture after harvest is done.
It’s currently raining here in Shelby and the 70 year old breaker panel in my garage/shop died so I guess the Lord’s day is also now a lazy day. Even though the yields were low getting that particular harvest completed is a great accomplishment! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! 2 Corinthians 9:10-11
You could have a cab over like a 70's Brockway.
Instead maybe there is a kit that runs wires for lights and 4 or 6 cameras for that head. It would have to be raised so product does not block it. Good idea.
Helluva year for farming..... Yields were WAY down here (Eastern WA), and so dry many are wondering whether to seed or not. I noticed some dragged the drills thru the powder, others are waiting. We didn't get any hail at least, but at least that'd be some moisture. Fingers crossed for next year.
I thought it was good out your way mate?
WA as in Washington, not Western Aussieland! We're dry as King Tut's "coin purse".
@@UncleBildo hahahahahahahahahahah, yeh makes sense, thinking of you all over there, its so wet here at the moment we cant get on paddocks to spray etc, but its looking a good year, but we have our bad ones to, all the mate🍻
we haven't had but a couple sprinkles of rain since March or so, high desert area. Dryland wheat, canola etc. Yields were under 50% this year, due to combined weather fun. Typical year we only get between 9 and 11 inches of moisture a year, I think we're well under half that. Snowpack in our mountains was 175% typical tho...... rivers are still running high.
I'm about 150 miles West of these guys' operation. Some similarities in terrain, but a few differences too.
Thats a real shame guys,,,,hope it gets better,,,glad you have insurance,,🇺🇸,,stay safe,,😇
I’m very sorry you all work so hard 🙂 and you are so positive
It’s tough on farmers when they loose crops to weather, insects, or anything else. When I was 17 we lost our entire silage crop for our dairy operation to army worms. They moved across our farm so fast that by the time we noticed them it was already too late to save any of the crop. I’m sure we didn’t have crop insurance. I don’t know if there was even such a thing as crop insurance back in the 1970’s. Needless to say we had to sell out. That was a very tough period in my life. We were able to keep the land but everything that wasn’t tied down was sold. It was a disgrace to see what our cattle and equipment sold for.
It's really sad to hear about all this drought and and stuff and hail damage hopefully next year you boys will have a better year take care God bless
Thank you for all your videos Welker Farms
Glad you like them!
God bless the Welker family! I hope you guys have a good harvest season!
Not looking good 🤦♂️
Great video Welkers good luck fixing your combine
The Welkers are solid Christian Folks y’all got this. Run the drills another year, it’s all good. It’s gonna take more than a bad year to put y’all under. 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
Bless you all!
I'm sorry for your loss of crop. When the drought hit and you didn't get very much rain, I could tell it wasn't going to be a good harvest. And then you got that hailstorm into went from bad to worse.
Remember digging out an 815 combine when the straw chopper belt broke and plugged it up tight on long rows at night. Full of corn husks, packed in.
Keep your head's up guys. It's a rough situation, I went through it a few times when I was farming. It's terribly frustrating but tomorrow will be better.
I have been watching your videos for a while and love the country you live in. There is a song by Ian Tyson about Charlie Russell. Charlie was a painter and sculptor. Most of his art was inspired by Montana. I think if you haven't already you would enjoy his work and the the son Ian wrote about him
Please keep up the good work
Been a bad year for crops all over, in Canada too. What impacts the farmer trickles eventually to everyone with higher food costs. In BC the drought conditions are forecast to last another month at least. Been a hot, dry year.
I work for Claas in Germany and 90% of what we do is combines. Especially now during harvest were doing a lot of bearings. Would love to work on a Case at some point
Sad to say it was a crapy year in Ontario too it been so dry around here too i hope spring wheat be better
So sorry for the crop loss as well and yes many others are suffering as well due to crop loss I hope Heavenly Father will look out for and bless all the farmers and ranchers that have suffered loss this season,God Speed to all of America's farmers and ranchers and God Bless America 🇺🇸
If you cut bolts you can grind a litte 45° edge so the nut goes on like a new bolt.
it's still easier to thread the nut off after cutting.
Wish the Welker Family 👪 all the best
We have 3 years of drought behind us. This year we had a very cold spring but besides canola everything should be really good.
Dry up north to . Some of the wheat and canola looks ok but peas are not worth a dam . Saw some canola cut still in bloom , I think it was to try to get rid of weeds and the crop wasn't worth harvesting . Lots of poor weedy crop going into a silage pit
Well said matthew hunter .keep the faith Walkers
Nick I've often wondered that too, about having the cab closer to the header. I have a tendency to lean forward, especially when cutting soybeans, but I do it shelling corn too, just out of habit, and its not easy on the back doing that, especially in my case with having back issues. Back when I first started running the combine, the grain heads didn't float as well as they do now days, matter fact we didn't even have automated header control, so you really had to worry about picking up a rock cutting beans back in those days, but the grain tables weren't near as big back when I was a kid. I remember going from a 20ft grain head to a 30 ft, and thinking wow that thing is huge, now days a 30ft head looks small, lol.
Like someone else said. Cameras and laser detectors out front and some LCD screens might keep you comfortably in the seat. I'm not a farmer but spent many hrs leaning forward looking down deep trenches digging sewer mains, I feel your pain. My backs totally Fd up and not fixable, from that and other whipping, bouncing and vibration. had to take early retirement.
@@digger105337 even if there were cameras in the cab of the combine it wouldn't matter for me, I'd still be leaning forward, just out of habit, I'm not a auto steering fan either, I prefer doing the driving. When some guys first started no-tilling, my Grampa called it the lazy mans way of farming, if only he was around to see the auto steering come about, lol. For spraying and putting anhydrous on pre-plant, and spreading fertilizer, auto steering definitely pays to have. But for tillage and running the combine, I prefer doing it myself, and I've always been able to drive straight, that if you drive by a field I was planting, you'd think I was using auto steering. Even moldboard plowing, I can keep it pretty straight. Half the fun is seeing how straight you can keep it. 1 reason why my Grampa started having me run the planter when I was only about 9-10 yrs old is because I drive straighter than he could, lol.
Here is a safety tip for Leg Arms. Please, please , please don’t leave the chuck key in the lathe chuck like you often do. Always keep your hand on the key from the time you pick it up from the top of the headstock casing till the time that you put it back there. Those keys fly if you accidentally turn the lathe on. Not only will there be guaranteed damage to the lathe but very likely to Leg Arm’s head, chest or shoulder.
Please take heed.
Or don't turn the lathe on when you're putting parts in it... Thats pretty simple too.
I’m up in sask, and our crops look pretty bad this year, but our peas are averaging 25/ acre, witch really makes you see how bad you guys have got it this year
Our peas would have averaged close to 15 if wasn't for the hail
Wow... Glad some of your prep paid off. Sorry you guys are taking a hit. Some of that is already starting to affect us in the transportation industry. A lot of my mileage drop right now is from last year, but it definitely gives me the forecast for this winter and next year. Gonna get tight.
Safety tip never leave t-handle in lathe chuck. Accidents can happen.
500,500! Almost there!
Welker Family, I am sure you would rather harvest it than claim your insurance, but your doing the right thing by pulling the plug on the peas. It is a hard year with a lack of rain for everyone. Keep the faith. God will provide for all your needs. You guys work way more acres than I did as a kid. You machines are so big.. you could not even turn around in one of our old fields. Hey be safe out there. Tell your Canadians friends to put those fires out. It's so thick with smoke around here you can't see 1/2 mile here in Minnesota.
We don't like the smoke in Canada either.... I wish we could get the fires out too!
Check your electrical cables by your battery. When our straw chopper bearings went out, the vibration broke the cables
It’s tough to see all the hard work that we’ve seen, not to mention the stuff you did off camera. For Mother Nature to take out the crops and not give you more water. Yet there will be better years to come!
i feel for you guys, all that time, effort for crops that were just destroyed. better luck next year, and really enjoy the videos
Those old style chopper bearings caused a lot of combine fires. Including one of ours and a neighbor as well. Both of us got them put out quickly with no other damage to the machine luckily. Our local dealer did somewhat of a “recall” on them and replaced them with the updated bearings
Consider yourself lucky, a combine fire can escalate extremely quickly and in some cases you may just have enough time to abandon the cab.
The fact you even managed to save the combine is a miracle in it's own right.
@@CMDRSweeper oh I know we are very lucky. Machine was cutting soybeans, combine operator turned around at the end and there was actually a couple small circles burning in the field. Was dropping smoldering dust as he went. Saved the machine and field both. Very fortunate.
Nick, maybe that wouldn't have happened if it was (GREEN!) You all have a bodaciously blessed new day! Chuck
Good JOB guys 👏
it sucks with all the hard work and money you spent on seeding that it came down to losing that much crop but atleast you have something and have the equipment to help not have any big breakdowns.... ppl nowadays think that wal mart and places like that grow the produce they dont think that farmers and truckers like my family move the produce across the USA.... may GOD bless your family in health and in finance and yall will get through this year ive been watching this channel since you had around 50k subs i think and yall have grown ALOT and have made alot of good choices for the family and company you have... have a blessed day and agian GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY some people take that for granted and dont appreciate who helped them get to where they are and you just have to look up bc GOD is the one watching over you he made that storm wipe out most of your crops bc it was to much this year weve all had a rough year and HE is showing you that there is more to happiness than money GOD BLESS
Looking over the cutting head would be nice, but watching for rocks is a job for something that can watch all the time across the entire head without blinking. That is really a job for a good camera system and some video processing looking for shapes ...close, medium and far...just a thought.
Dang that is a kick in the pants about your pea crop. Good luck with the rest of your crops.
Great video guy's, it really sucks that you guys lost so much crop. But God is good and He will bless you in ways you never imagined. You mentioned it would be nice to have the cab out over the header, I'm actually surprised that is not being done already. CLAAS has that tractor with the hydraulic turning cab that spins both directions. I don't see why they couldn't do that with a combine. Anyway God bless you guys and farm on.
“I wasn’t driving the combine when it broke” haha nice
So sorry for the loss o ur crops🙄☹️ but as always a very entertaining video 👍
I wish you would talk about how your crop strategy may change in the future because of the reality of drought and extreme heat. Looks like your subscriber number has plateaued. Hope that picks up soon as well because you should be rewarded for the generous quality of your channel.
@Wayne Creek Land and Cattle Co. So many people think this drought is something new.... 1937, 1961, 1988, 2000-2001 and now 2021. Smart cattle guys here are putting up extra silage this year because if we don't get rain this fall and next spring, the herds will disappear.
Sorry the hail took so much from you guys. Hopefully the wheat and canola will do much better for you. best of luck
I'm so sorry you all have had such a bad year. Maybe next year will be better.
Leg Arms there is clearly the Employee of the Month as his shirt looks newer/less faded lol
Nick, when you were taking about being able to see the cutter bar better, you should sit in a gleaner.
Can't wait to see you guys hit 500k
Good tip about putting a nut on before you cut a threaded bolt.
You guys are gonna be on holidays before we even start harvest over here in Australia! And the prices are really high and still going up at the moment cause of your countries drought and big hail storm you had so our lentils and lipids and other crops are all growing nicely at the moment but you guys will probably have a good year over there next year I reckon.
Hey Nick do you have a patent on your rebar chisel thing 😂. Thanks for the update guys hope you guys have a great week 👍
Our new holland cr8.90 has a considerably shorter feeder house so you can see your center canvas, far greater visability than our case