Flagship Combine Stranded Along The Highway

[@markmeister5767]

Love your videos. Really like watching Illinois farming. I grew up in Fairbury. Need to get Katy in the videos more.

[@bryanhubner9848]

Crazy seeing you in the Tower Hill area as I grew up north of there a few miles.

[@D11_tracks]

Just started following you last few weeks - an excellent job with videos and especially outstanding narrative

[@paulprigge1209]

Yes, I gave him a hard time. Just be prepared for some big words and they’re not too mechanically inclined lol gentlemen farmers I call them. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

[@Brian-ov1rj]

Trippy, your dad is a gem! Lost a nut, fixed the hole in the belt with zip ties and continued to get the job done thanks to Sloans. On to the next one👍

[@Dan-u7l7z]

I bet her back hurts from carrying the crew by herself . rock star

[@BigfyjjfyCvghhufd4-jc9yj]

I can't believe you don't have a bean humidifier corn dryer combo yet lol .I just made that up.

[@oldman6346]

I have been watching your videos for a long time. I enjoy seeing the difference in farming between the Texas panhandle and where you are. Katy seems to be very involved in your operation and pretty camera shy. Keep bringing the good videos.

[@Marshall_Weber]

Much Love as Always, Andy!!!

[@dldarby73]

So glad you're back running! BTW, we need to see more of Katie and the other folks. Best of luck going forward!

[@vancrawford4064]

Great video.

[@davedammitt7691]

30:42 even though that s670 is a decade old, it's still an impressive looking machine. There are a lot of smaller farms that only dream of having a combine like that. And I think your spot on with the 500 hour mark telling you whether you're going to have a machine that lasts 20 years, or it's time to get rid of it. I guess that 500 hours on a tractor or combined is about equivalent to 20,000 mi on a car or truck. If they've been maintained well, I would think that any problems would show up by then. Obviously, if you've got farms that only keep a combine for a year or two and don't really do any maintenance, then it's a roll of the dice.

[@cl9133]

True about the s670. I think it's the modern design. In 2030, it will still look modern

[@JDB43]

That’s a long trip for most…. I work for the largest custom farmer in my area. I’m their applicator running a 2023 John Deere 612R. We farm in 7 counties in PA, 2 counties in MD and 2 counties in VA. When it’s time to spray in VA, it takes me 5 hours to commute there in my JD. 35 mph the whole way. I take back roads , highways and interstates to get there. I get some pretty good looks/hand signals on Interstate 70 ( a 70 mph road )!! I just smile and wave!! Remember it’s guys like us that feed the world!!! Be safe out there! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@lostinlox]

Born and raised around the Tolono/Pesotum/Sadorus area. My dad farmed Lo’s ground with Allis Chalmers equipment until they decided to run their own circus in the late 70’s.

[@olliealltheway3954]

It depends on who and how it was cared for!! JD 9500 running strong

[@EvanC8]

Nice part of doing the winter wheat with beans is it spreads out the harvest and risk

[@Melting_Fireman]

Brown Family Farms or Hartung can probably attest to that. Think they're about the only two farmtubers that I see doing double crop winter wheat after soybeans. I've never farmed that way in ND & here in Arizona it's multiple crops on a field. September they start growing winter lettuce and veggies and then they go to cotton or wheat but hay goes year round here in Southern parts of Arizona.

[@EvanC8]

@@Melting_Fireman border view farms does it as well and they are pretty successful. You definitely need precipitation and or snow. Irrigation is even better to do this otherwise it’s not a great idea to do double cropping. We grow winter wheat but we don’t double crop cause we spread and work in multiple passes of manure. So there’s no time to seed anything after we are done. We love getting a lot of manure applied to our land.

[@allenwalters9068]

We do double crops here I'm 40 miles from andy

[@DDA40Xman]

Train guy here. Firstly thanks for all the other trains in the previous videos. Thanks much for the one here as the Union Pacific is my favorite railroad! Watching the rest of the video to see what was up with the 1100. God bless your family. Looking forward to the corn harvest.

[@peteparker7396]

I was taken a back for a moment seeing Marty wearing a hoodie that wasn’t red! I wasn’t sure it was him! It doesn’t matter how many hours Andy. They all have problems that can strike at any time. Lost an engine in our first baler cotton stripper with 300hrs. It was a known problem with water pump. Things happen! Trust me I know plenty about oil field shenanigans living I west Texas.I’ll tell you a little trick if you know you have a mud pit from an old oil well that’s salted the ground, or they didn’t operate the topsoil when trenching. Plant barley as a cover and let someone cut and bale it. Barley pulls salt out. Takes a couple of years but it works.

[@Melting_Fireman]

Larsons dropped an engine with 320 hours on it. They finally put a video out on it. Dougo posted about it on IG a few weeks ago. 🤦🏼

[@paulprigge1209]

Ivers had brand new machine not even pretty sure less than 300 hours issues. I’m thinking something in the header. Actually fire last week.

[@ronkeking97]

@@Melting_Firemanwe bought 6 brand spanking new Fendt 728 this year, 3 of them had engine literally blow up before 150 hours lol.

[@alexfife8414]

Last year the farm i work at we had a 9r 440 blow the motor at 8 hours and then a 8r 370 blew a tranny with 52 hours on it

[@ronkeking97]

@@alexfife8414 those are the days you reconsider everything

[@D11_tracks]

Enjoyed, How about interviews with your dad and sister. Your sister is one of the few women operating combines - her perspective would be interesting. Great to see women taking a more active role in operations

[@mikegozdziewski3289]

Like your idea. I agree

[@johnnylindsey5808]

Good job guys and girls

[@steveanderson2095]

Enjoy your videos.Steve in New Zealand

[@johnpourciau1735]

Yes they all break!! But we run Case IH combines. Just like you said it’s where you have good service when you need your combine running!! But JD is moving a tractor plant to Mexico but Trump is going to put a stop to that I hope. Keep our home people to work!! Good luck with y’all harvest!! From La!!🙋🏼‍♂️😁👍

[@vincemccormick6273]

Great show ,thank you for sharing :)

[@TheRange7]

Andy, thanks for the great coverage of harvest. It's been enjoyable as heck to watch as you and your family get things done. If I take one thing out of this harvest overall(based on watching several Ag channels) it's this. If I owned a farm that was big enough for multiple machines, there's zero chance I'd be loyal to one brand. There's a huge operation down the road from me and that family runs every color out there. They've set records of the number of bushels harvested in a 24 period with one combine. I won't mention their name because I don't have permission to. I think the best plan (looking in from the outside) is to have a nice mix of equipment. Hopefully it all comes from good dealers with strong service as well. I've seen too many John Deere issues this harvest across the channels I watch. That's just me though, an old, retired grain and options trader who never owned a farm. LOL

[@jbbrown7907]

We always referred to bean harvest as " separating dust from beans.

[@Jdudg112]

23:37 we all have been there

[@StephenFranzen-z2n]

Go over to Larson farms. Their Deere Combine dropped a piston Through the bottom of the engine with 360 engine hours.

[@donmedford2563]

A farmer in my hometown of Van Wert, Ohio was towing his grain header with his X1100 and caught a guy wire for a power pole with the header. It almost unloaded the header for him.

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see y'all

[@mikedowell8978]

Way go guys. Katy

[@farmingfanatic9786]

Atleast he wasn't on a hill when the return pump went out. Hydraulic pump went out on ours a couple years ago 3 quarters of the way up a steep hill and I went rolling down backwards.

[@tomnugent845]

Andy, our beans were much like yours, looked better than they yielded. Our high field averaged in the upper sixties, last year our farm average was 72, including double crop.

[@ericpercy9956]

We plant cereal rye on most all of our Bean ground for cover

[@PingEagle333]

Think of the guys that use to combine without a cab. Am sure your dad remembers those who did

[@jclo6387]

Maybe would cut better at an angle to the rows? Looks like Dad leaves about 3 feet of header not cutting. And we'd like to officially meet Katie!

[@PgP736]

❤ from Norway

[@giriquero]

I'm from Brazil and I work with crops here with a 35-foot s760, I would like to go harvest in the USA one year

[@sche0707]

Did you check out the monorail in Shelbyville

[@agger838]

U guys should get ur 780 back 😂. If I was gonna run 2 machines I'd want the heads to work on both

[@Scott-h7v]

"Should involve slowing down" great commentary!

[@real_sNOwPANTS]

cutting at an angle also helps the cutting bar wear evenly. I cut 5-10* angle but have gone up to 25 in extreme conditions.

[@John-nc4bl]

Great video and thank you for it. Katie could do with a wider head on her combine.

[@bm4751]

From your comments on yield, seems you may need to look at other farming systems, bio dynamics, is one system, there are others too.

[@ryangroen1697]

👍👍

[@P_Rund1952]

WC Indiana beans on high ground made 66-68, low ground 80-84. Another rain or two in August would have made a big difference, 1.2" from July 16 to now. the low yielding fields were harvested at 8% moisture.

[@scottinniger5128]

We have tried 15" 20" 30" and 30" beans year after year out yield other width beans

[@KevinDircksen-dt6gg]

They could make a grain tank on a combine that holds 1000 bushels...and the farmer would still try to fit 1100 bushels in the tank.

[@jtea84]

9:32 7 degree

[@danslawncare8594]

Larson farms had an engine blow up at 300 hours on a JD

[@stakman78]

I am John Deere through and through for tractors. Since I could walk. However I have always run claas harvesters, I can not fault the claas harvesters for reliability, build quality, efficiency, serviceability.. howevervi look at the x9s with love eyes. It's a shame I'm seeing all the breakdowns on you tube. Hope they treat ya right after this situation. I will stick to our lexions and Jaguars tho. And yes our Claas dealer is se one to none just like your JD dealer. They deserve a beer for sure. Shout out to Sloan Matoon.

[@rugerfarming5387]

I know you guys know you system better than me. But it looks like a way to haul some fuel would be very produtive. Good video.

[@loganlawrencefarms8356]

In parts of Kansas here we are struggling to get 15bu an ac

[@WilliamVincik]

we had a gasline laid across our farm in the '70s, we hauled caTTLE MANURE hauled on that strip for 10 years, no longer can you tell where it was trenched in, our neighbor had no manure to haul on it, you can still see that old trenched line, so raise cattle?!

[@Melting_Fireman]

Whats the term for the cab bean sensors, beanies? 😂 So stealing parts off the broken machine thats yours to fix the one youre renting that used to be your in-laws, is like robbing Peter to pay Paul 😅

[@KNJensen]

Have you guys not considered any strategies with blending off beans or rehydrating with a moisture sensor and fan system? :)

[@i.f.colville2497]

Nothing breaks down like a Deere! Only way to go is CLAAS !

[@butterbeanfarmer7952]

They all Break Jojosnow will show you

[@anzacday4141]

As a trial, you could have planted a few acres at 15inch rows, just to compare any difference..............And try 9 degrees instead 6 degrees.

[@russellpitney278]

nothing runs like a deere or is that a new dead deere HMMMM can't wait for JD to be made in Mexico you wanna talk quality that's where you go for sure LOL

[@mattphillips4260]

not sure what size unnit it is but larson's had a combine shit the rods out the side of it with some where around that 300 engine hrs mark

[@deanfrancis6474]

Larson farms, have an x9 combine 1yr old 380 engine hours. Engine just blew up spit number 1 cylinder right out the block. Check out their podcast

[@chadjustice8560]

Larson's have an s790

[@thomasbritten7216]

Anytime you purchase used equipment, plan for something to go wrong. Personally I would try to buy used combines in the 500-1500 seperator hour range

[@jbbrown7907]

Not as much dust as beans sometimes produce.

[@tompunch]

Andy, I'm curious to know if you've been keep track of the harvest for the Larson Farms channel. Specifically how one of their combines when down when it's engine destroyed itself. Any experience with that sort of thing in your circles? Curious to know how common or uncommon it might be and just how much of a blow that would be to an operation like yours.

[@roblonsdale8927]

That would be a blow to any operation ...

[@xj1716]

I like to think that all farmers / people are good natured, but from some of what other farm tubers i've watched have said / experienced, it seems like a lot of farmers are very jealous people. I just don't understand how that giant piece of iron had gotten in the middle of your field. After how many years of tillage and other things? I just wonder if the jealous neighbor threw it in your field. Hope not... Glad you have ingestion insurance. Is that something they only offer on a new / In warranty combine? Once again, we thank you for being one of the most well spoken and detailed farm tubers out there. You explain everything with great detail and make it funny all the same. I wish you and your family a bountiful remainder of your harvest. 😃🌽🚜

[@dlquestell]

How many acres of corn and beans did you have to harvest when you started?

[@ronsweinhagen.3743]

Engine hours ?????Larson Farms in Minnesota , have a X9 ,360 hours second season , no. one cylinder knocked both sides of block out , Doug made the comment ,(along with a lot of unprintable words] ,, their 8820s had 8000 hrs. on when they got rid of them .Welcome to the NEW John Deere Corp. ,, ran by college educated children with computers ,,,,, OH I almost forgot , from Mexico

[@jeramy2398]

Larsons have 2 S790s, not an x9. Farming fixing Fabricating threw a rod thru the block of a john deere reman engine without hardly an hours on in a 9560R a year ago, too. It happens just looks like a tough year on farmtubers combines this year

[@volvojohn9036]

I believe "Bales Farms" (on KZbin) actually has a machine that adds moisture to hay as it's being baled. (Arizona being so dry). I'm sure you've explained it before but why can't you do the same to beans?

[@thomasburton5843]

Andy what is you factor code?

[@tarheelpatch3386]

Don't sound like Deere is having a good year .Thats about 7 combines that I have heard had major issues this fall.

[@lostinlox]

I’m sure Sloans are jumping through flaming hoops to keep that 2nd problematic X9 up and running for you.

[@GusTheBear-fx1rp]

Get Marty a cord so he can charge his phone in the combine.

[@EvanC8]

So how do you like the 1100 compared to your 1000 x9?

[@Cruisingthroughitall]

On the topic of reliability - although the start up does give you an idea to quality from factory in the first few hundred hours, but it isn’t always quality it could be design. JD are not know for the engine and really entire drive train reliability/design/quality/efficiency.

[@donaldberg7955]

CK Larson Farms Video…combine with about 300 hours Blew an Engine…literally blew a hole in the block.

[@robm3063]

"Blew a hole in the block" is being very generous on your part.

[@anzacday4141]

Jeeez, Once a week. That's a bit excessive. Only need to shower when your clothes stand up on their own.

[@Leefywood]

Andy. Every time you load a Draper on a trailer it looks to me like they are going to tip off. Never seen one up close. Hopefully it never happens.

[@bzs187]

That field is stupidly far away. Compared to our furthest field is like 5-7 minutes.

[@davedammitt7691]

I doubt that it would be easy to have three or four or five thousand contiguous acres of prime Midwest farmland, unless all that land was bought Pre-1990. Most of the families that have large acreage around other large farms either have family that farm them, or they rent them to other farmers.

[@MrJujubean]

You guys have a lot of road time don't you

[@tradergeo6047]

Doesn’t the X 9 have a usb charging port?

[@davedammitt7691]

I hadn't thought of that, but that's a great question. Even the lowest of low-end cars has a charging port. Can't imagine that a $700,000 combine wouldn't have one.

[@kbsportspix]

Do you know why either X9 was traded back so soon? Bad combine and some was offloading their problem child? I know ingestion is not gremlins but it was having problems before ingesting the rod

[@opiegm29]

You have to pay for use of auto steer?

[@jembe1342]

I don’t think you’ll ever find a set machine hour that every kink has been worked out. It should be reasonable to expect at least 1000 engine hours before driveline issues when maintained to book spec.

[@jef5482]

I never understood why folks say, "it's always in the last place you look" of course it is. Why would you continue to look for something you already found?? asking for a friend

[@chrissyfrancis8952]

I’ve been watching farmers a long time. Last year Ivers had one of their brand new Case combines out for its first field, something shot straight through the cast iron oil pan. Someone at the factory missed a bolt. Larson’s new JD combine had 360 hours on it & the engine blew up. Carnage under the hood.

[@danishpuma]

With how complex a modern Combine is and the conditions its used in, of course they break now and again. All you can do is have good service and a better insurance.

[@saint5345]

You should show more of your sister in your videos

[@cozdiver]

OMG did you see the Larson's JD Combine video where the engine broke a connecting rod and shot it out the side of the block? And to answer your question, although my experience is with diesel generators, we never had a problem with one after 1k hours. That's over 20 gens over 40 years!

[@GhostRider-dp2tc]

Roughly 350 engine hours on that unit....Made a really pretty hole when the rod cut the block

[@PingEagle333]

Sadly, the older stuff is built better and to last than the new things 🙃. Example transmission on a 2021 truck, worked on 5 times. Still not fixed. Sooooo frustrating!!!!

[@bladewiper]

What type of phone does Marty have ? It looks like a pager.

[@660stihl]

You know what happened with pagers in Libanon...

[@chuckbeam7898]

Why don’t you put beans in your bins?

[@richardbess2310]

a million dollar combine and you can't go to five below and get a charging cord

[@Tafs315]

Question one of the farmers on vids was talking about row widths. He said they run a wider row because of the white mold that sets in the tighter rows. He stated that the wind and heat keep this mold down or dead. Because the white mold kills the nutrients and makes the soybean smaller. LET me state this ( I GREW UP ON HAY FARM) we did not own the farm my uncle did. I just did as I was told.

[@rosshall641]

I think you're lying on the yield

[@aTrippyFarmer]

I am. They're actually 10 bushels better!

[@mikezollner4380]

1500housw

[@volvojohn9036]

I always told our (automotive) clients NEVER, EVER BUY THE NEW MODEL, WAIT UNTIL IT'S BEEN IN PRODUCTION 2.5 TO 3 YEARS. NEW always has issues. It doesn't matter Porsche, GM, Kia, Volvo, Ford. For the most part if it's going to break or have identifiable ongoing problems (Larson farms engine explosion S790) it will usually happen in the first 2.5 years.

[@paulmater901]

Tracks are garbage wheels better!*

[@danslawncare8594]

John Deere junk

[@jinan0014]

so much for John Deere.......time to move on from them......

[@nathanhalls6657]

First

[@benoitvaillancourt4845]

X9 are overrated , they are not that great and a bunch of them have engines blow ups