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[@rogerholloway8498]

Watching a harvest being completed is the most beautiful thing mankind can do. Ensuring sustenance for his kind, and ensuring a continued life cycle. Thanks for what you do Ryan and family! I'll think of your kind every time I enjoy a meal.

[@JimEstep12071]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop...hopefully, that will be the last of the problems...happy harvesting!

[@ChrisTessmer]

First day break downs, gotta love em. They always happen. And last day break downs. Our 9510 did that same exact thing, same drum too. I think it's from storing them with the parking break on during the off season.

[@Steelrailbearing]

Nice update and really awesome drone footage. Thanks for the effort posting these videos!

[@johnswartz6321]

I've watched so many of your videos it feels like I know you guys. Keep them coming.

[@patkelly7999]

Great drone footage, all the different colours from green to yellow to gold, hope ye have a good one Ryan

[@ontarioagguy2769]

We are probably starting harvest tomorrow hope for the best

[@robertreznik9330]

Ryan, When I had a 9600 I put a 1" angle iron ahead of the transmission shifter cable to protect the cable from corn stalks. Deere made two feeder house chains. The one with more bars feeds soybeans better, your combine cylinder speed seems to pull down as you harvest. Are you using the larger feeder house drive sprocket and letting the front drum down to the floor?

[@lukestrawwalker]

Tip the BIL taught me... shake her down before you tarp your truck, wagon, or grain cart. Grain always ends up "mounded up" when you're filling a cart, wagon, or truck. He'd always jump in the truck, pop it in gear, get rolling 2-5 mph, and then jab the brakes right quick... this shakes the grain enough that the mounds collapse into the corners, and then you can easily tarp the truck without having to "help" the tarp roll up and over big mounds of grain; saves wear and tear on the tarp and keeps the tarp tight on the bows and end caps, not held up by a mound of grain that will shake down once you hit a few bumps anyway which then leaves your tarp loose, which can damage it. Same thing with the grain cart... drive it around and pull out of the field, then tarp it... the grain will shake down as you cross the field, waterways, bumps, etc. and then you can tarp it up tight... Later! OL J R :)

[@peterdusenbury1661]

Another very good video Ryan thank you

[@jbellfarmer224]

Well now I know what to watch out for in our 9500! Checking that BEFORE we run milo!

[@cjpiper2420]

BEAUTIFUL FARM

[@jacksonhunterandfarmer2673]

Great vid Ryan Smile More God Bless stay safe Kusters 👍

[@birdsnestfishing698]

When you are going to the farther fields do you haul the bean head behind one of the trucks rather then using a tractor?

[@gdsteyr]

Really love all of your videos the drone footage is awesome. Why are your fields and crops planted in swooping curve shapes. Here in Wales our fields are relatively square and normally surrounded by hedges.

[@craigschofield64]

When all is said & done..equipment and be fixed or replaced & crops can be replanted, but the drivers of equipment can't be replaced .....Thank God it was caught before someone would have risked their life trying to save the equipment or the crop! I have seen it happen far to often that people risk everything for a stupid piece of equipment or a field of crops....I hope and pray all goes well from now on.😊

[@chrispound5130]

Our combine caught fire too this year

[@chriscardoza9714]

Sorry to hear that my friend hop all is well with it...

[@jrice1091]

Glad to hear the combine is fine. Try to wax your combine a little more often to keep it from breaking down.

[@whitewips1]

Why do you guys farm in different patterns? Seems like you have a lot of big loops and circles. Why not have a traditional square field?

[@kylewil12plays]

Yesterday we had a downpour out of nowhere my dad was combining beans had half a grain tank on the combine first time we have ever used the windshield wipers on the combine

[@marcrebal1864]

Take the drum off an clean them, same thing happened to our 9560. Either that or the e-brake linkage is sticking.

[@francoismalan8061]

Awesome video

[@libertyevanko1794]

Great video! What a cliffhanger yesterday! Please do a vid on how to attach a header ?

[@gusl2261]

Do you guys plan on getting a bigger combine ?

[@calebmouton479]

We just started cuttin corn here our moisture 18 and when will u guys start

[@eriksward6894]

I would love to hear a bit more about why you have your fields layed out the way you have. It looks great from the air but must also be a bit .... wonky.. to operate

[@kevinwillis9126]

That brake drum looked pretty heavy. How much do you think it weighs Ryan?

[@kadenwatt2033]

A metric butt ton.

[@mattnapier3695]

That's a cherry looking 9510. My 9600 brake drums locked up in wheat this year almost lost it.

[@toddsmith3388]

They handled that problem very well. I had a combine fire and it did.nt turn out that well.

[@Heimerviewfarm]

The gator at 8:15, was that planned looked kinda funny

[@Gigitygoo55]

What kinda drone do you use for your aerial footage? Looks really good!

[@keithbrettell2058]

I just saw it on Wes' Instagram that his Krone baler is on fire.

[@435now]

That's not good

[@palmettofarmer]

Great video, Ryan! What variety of beans are yielding the best? Enjoy your content.

[@Matt-jl6sx]

I had the same thing happened to me on a 7455 John Deere cotton stripper the parking brake stuck on it and there are some lent trash on top of the drums it got a little hot and I had to use the extinguisher

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yep never fails... seen it most of my life... stay dry for weeks on end, soon as you start doing something, it starts raining. I have developed a theory about that... I call it "Murphy's Law for Farmers"-- what happens is, raindrops form around "nuclei", that is, tiny particles of dust or smoke in the atmosphere... the air becomes cool and humid and wants to condense, so moisture forms around tiny particles of stuff floating in the atmosphere. As it starts to condense, more and more condenses onto the wet particle-- the bigger it gets from condensation, the more condenses on it, until it's finally too heavy to remain aloft in the air currents, so it falls out as rain... (Okay this is where Murphy's Law for Farmers comes into play)-- SO when we start working in the field, no matter what it is, we release dust from the combine, cotton picker, disk, whatever it is we're using, and a little bit of smoke and of course heat from the engine... that dust and smoke rises due to the heat high into the atmosphere into cool, moist air, and begins the condensation process... pretty soon you've got a full-fledged afternoon thunderstorm on your hands and you're soaking wet, rained out, back at the house... Think "cloud seeding" via farmer's dust versus silver nitrate... Later! OL J R :)

[@chrislee7392]

it sounds like O L F drag the rain back with him

[@waterskiingfool]

Glad the combine didn't go up in flames

[@Ptcountyfarmer]

The damn mother nature.

[@lukegadacz8574]

We had problems with our 9600 johndeer where it pushes brake fluid it was froze up

[@michaelellis5641]

when re u guys going to get an up dated combine that can handle bean stalks a little green but the beans are dry and ready for harvest

[@lukestrawwalker]

It's handling it just fine... beans were just like that this year. BIL in Indiana had the same thing-- stems green as a gourd and the beans bone dry... A little tough to harvest, but his 9600 Deere handled it just fine. Plenish beans are harder to cut even in a good year. Later! OL J R :)

[@Mason-gx9cg]

There property is a dream farm

[@omgbrother1234567890]

What tool was used to vibrate the shaft off. I have some stuck pto shafts I would like to try that on

[@bradsmith7106]

GregK air chisel

[@adamsteele9521]

We have a case ih 1680 and you can't use the brakes cause they get way to hot

[@d6joe]

You probably will be fine, but I bet $1 that the brake slave cylinder is a bit rusty inside the rubber boots and the pistons got a little sticky, and stuck on the out stroke. Buy pumping the brakes and working the pistons with the drum off you probably got some brake fluid to lube the rusty area and should be fine for a while. Might need a fresh slave cylinder down the road.

[@andreww.9939]

That seems to be how it works, about a month ago I decided to go bush hog it hadn’t rained in 3 weeks and it started pouring as soon as I turned on the PTO lol

[@tboss2.034]

Love farming

[@banjobenson9348]

rocket is living large

[@two-strokesmoke7289]

I never get notified when you put up a vid, subbed and bell clicked.

[@HowFarmsWork]

+George Oleson I’m finding that’s a problem a lot of people are having. I don’t get notified for things I’m subscribed to either.

[@two-strokesmoke7289]

You tube is CENSORING us, and they are censoring material that you wouldn't think would have a bearing on national security, and yet they allow some of the most moronic and dangerous stuff to go viral........upside down backward world we live in. (my opinion)

[@timothynewman8204]

Safety Sally alert haha

[@patrickbaitman8336]

Next time use that air hammer and rattle on the drum while someone is pumping the brakes. That should free up the stuck shoes next year without taking it apart again.

[@timothymiller4217]

Rocket doesn't like the thunder and lighting

[@clank4001]

Rocket likes the breeze from the fan at 2:47

[@Mr.Badger69]

We got some rain

[@tebfarms939]

What tool did they use to get the shaft off?

[@lukestrawwalker]

Air hammer... and a pry bar... :) OL J R :)

[@zeusmacafee5097]

The good Lord turned it off!!😀

[@Farm357]

Always something

[@ignacioassandri5992]

Hello! What is the yield of soybean per hectare?

[@ngnmech]

Cut the beans across from my house today. Test weight 56 moisture 8.2.

[@davidballard8424]

NgnMech

[@lukestrawwalker]

Sounds awfully light test weight (should be 60) and 8.2 is WAY dry... losing a lot of weight there due to excess dryness... Course sometimes that's just how it comes out. Sounds like they should have actually combined them much sooner... Gotta love how they dock you for too much moisture (understandable since they have to dry the beans to safely store them) but they don't pay you extra for grain being extra dry (since you're not selling them extra water... ) Later! OL J R :)

[@Collinsfarmingarchive]

If you put new snouts on that bean head it would look brand new

[@lukestrawwalker]

$$$$ and they'd just get bent up again most likely... run into something sooner or later LOL:) Spend the money on keeping the sickle and guards in good condition, new reel tine teeth, etc... other important moving part maintenance items... poly under the skid shoes... Later! OL J R :)

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Aaaa, breakdown gremlins!!!! Don't you just hate em???? Tippicle of equipment put in storage over a period of time, good idea to do a preharvest check!!!!

[@shaunagrexton1290]

Nice

[@raybuse8097]

this going to be an odd question but i noticed you have your bean planted in rows and not drilled like around here. why not drill them

[@jedimasterjesse]

ray buse because they have a lot of erosion in Wisconsin and they have to plant in strips for the least amount of erosion

[@lukestrawwalker]

He's covered this before, but to reiterate... studies have shown that basically there is VERY little yield difference between row widths in soybeans... IOW, 30 inch beans yield about as well as 15 inch beans, which are about as good as 7.5 inch drilled beans. There is *some* difference but not as much as in years past (there was a bigger difference when drilling beans became popular decades ago, but that was with the varieties available THEN-- new varieties show much less variability or sensitivity to population and row spacings than older varieties...) SO, with very little/no yield advantage to drilled beans versus row beans, why do it?? Then there's the DISADVANTAGES of drilled beans-- First, drilled beans are much closer together and have much less airflow through the crop canopy, which tends to increase problems with white mold and other diseases which better airflow and wider rows tends to alleviate because of better airflow. Second, spraying drilled beans means SOME are going to get run down by the sprayer (unless you're farming on tram lines, in which case the sprayer paths never get planted and produce no beans anyway in the tram lines) and while running beans down when they're small has little/no effect on yields, as they get over about 4-5 inches tall it starts reducing yield and it only gets worse the bigger they get. Third, a drill's "seed meters" are basically a "controlled spill" and drills generally have much less accurate openers, seed placement, seed spacing, planting depth, and seed covering or trench closing... so you have to plant higher populations (more money for seed) to ensure you hit your stand population target versus a planter, which meters seed out MUCH MUCH better, with better openers and closing systems which means that seed is placed into the soil in a much better spacing, depth, and is covered over and firmed into the soil much more consistently, meaning a better stand with less seed for a given plant population target. SO, WHY would they plant with a 15 foot drill when they have that shiny new 30 foot wide planter that can do a BETTER JOB, save on seed, and end up with comparable yields, with LESS disease or mold pressure in 30 inch rows versus drilled 7.5 inch rows??? It's a win/win/win for the planter. I'd leave the drill in the shed too... Most farmers in a corn/bean rotation are switching away from drills as their drills wear out or they buy newer, larger planters... the only real advantage to a drill is that you can have one guy planting beans with the drill while someone else is planting corn with the planter at the same time... BUT, most drills are MUCH smaller (narrower planting width) than modern planters, even older planters, and used planters are pretty reasonable, so in a lot of cases for larger farmers it makes sense to have an older planter set up specifically for soybeans and the newer, larger planter set up for corn, and plant both at the same time anyway. My BIL traded his 15 foot Case IH 5400 no-till drill/coulter cart combo that I used to run for him, he sold it and bought a 30 foot Deere 1780 12/23 row narrow row air planter, which has the interplant row units so you can either raise up every other unit and plant corn in 30 inch rows, or lower them and plant beans in 15 inch rows. He leaves it set up for beans, which he plants twice as fast (since the planter is double the width of the old drill) and uses less seed and gets a better stand and better yields due to better placement and more even emergence. He teams up with his son in law who uses the 1780 to plant his beans as well, and he uses the SIL's 16 row 7200 Deere corn planter to plant his corn in 30 inch rows. Later! OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

Some guys continue to drill beans because they have a substantial investment in large drills or air seeders and need to recoup those costs by using the machinery they have... plus, some guys are doing a lot of small grains and soybeans, versus corn and soybeans, and thus is makes sense for them to use the same drills or air seeders they use to plant their small grains crops (wheat, barley, rye, canola, or whatever) to plant their soybeans as well. OTOH, if you're mainly in a corn/bean rotation, it's kinda silly to keep and maintain and use a drill to plant the beans instead of the planter... Sure you COULD, but I already mentioned there ARE disadvantages to drilled beans... course this varies by location and climate as well... Later! OL J R :)

[@drakefalkner8046]

You might want to get a different belt them things year up and start on fire a lot how the chopper burned up

[@wademitch]

Love hfw

[@terrystearns9463]

Good thing you caught that.. For as you know nothing burns like a Deere..

[@williamsmith2804]

Why do your crop fields have suck unusual shapes? I always seen crops fields as square or rectangle shape.

[@0xFF48]

Following the contour of the land, to prevent rain water from running straight down the "hills", it's part of their strategy to prevent erosion and let the rain water soak into the ground instead of running off.

[@mattgrover9562]

Ya your lucky once the hydraulics start on fire its hard to put out

[@vinceking1142]

it is all ways scary when a combine is on fire!!!...

[@jaredwegner6397]

Please don't go underneath the feeder house without the safety stop in

[@thr8061]

Our "test runs" were simply called "the first couple days of harvest".

[@HowFarmsWork]

+thr8061 We would too if we knew things weren’t going to go wrong.

[@thr8061]

Gotta love this year's WI weather! It was real hard to make any dry hay over here in Fond du Lac area. The other night, we got 5" of rain, then 5 days of upper 80s/low 90s in late September while parts of this past August were in the 60s!

[@Ptcountyfarmer]

Isn't that how it always turns out?

[@frostgfx]

Ryan: I always wonder why you let a bunch of chaff accumulate on the front of the combine. I totally agree with you about pre-harvest maintenance.... grease, oil, fuel filter, brakes, belts, hoses, etc. Stuff happens.

[@whataboat5415]

I thought y'all had a JD9770.

[@christianf5226]

never clicked this fast

[@patrickdorman8120]

YEILDS?

[@LandonHarris.]

Ryan, why are your fields behind your main farm split up and oldy shaped in small patches? Not trying to sound ignorant, i'm just curious. Where we farm no one has fields split like that.

[@mjkulikow]

It's called contour/strip farming and the main goal is to prevent erosion by shaping the fields to the contours of the land.

[@wademitch]

*WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TECH MY FARM GIVEAWAY*

[@hudsoncoggeshall1649]

Ryan had the most votes but they did a raffle with the top 3 and the 3rd guy won

[@jasonernst5201]

get a bigger head for combine

[@billwright2063]

Actually, brake shoes...

[@ethanthompson681]

One of you need to do show on your assistance farm or your back seat 💺 drivers aka your 🐕

[@fredf3391]

Leave It to Beaver not how farms work 👍

[@thedeere1012]

We started soybeans today

[@jamesberry4438]

Were is Jamie

[@peterdusenbury1661]

At work she is a teacher now she does not have time much now

[@peterdusenbury1661]

Thanks for the information Jamie have good day and night

[@TheWilliamTW]

First Fire man here

[@ryanp6999]

I would pay to come tour your farm lol no bullshit

[@brodyknapp5265]

Why was Travis under federhouse without safety ram in, that's really dangerous

[@fraserwright.424]

Well nothing happened so y do u care

[@PAHerefords]

Actually if you look, the bar is down.

[@Gigitygoo55]

There was a shot of him putting it down if you go back and watch

[@lukestrawwalker]

Risks people take... When there's smoke coming from under your machine and you have to grab a garden hose and start watering it down, are you gonna stop and take the time to unlatch the safety lockup block and let the fire spread, or are you gonna crawl under there and start hosing stuff down right away?? Once they were back in the shop to work on it, he did the right thing and let the safety block down to lock the thing up. IMHO he did the right thing... yes being under the feederhouse with the head on is a risk, but he wasn't working under there all day, only long enough to hose everything down and make sure the entire machine didn't catch fire... Plus, the old machines didn't even have those lockups, and we still managed to survive (in the vast, vast majority of cases!) Later! OL J R :)

[@skydom1000]

Knocker loose

[@ryananderson6361]

Do you sell bigger shirts other than (L)

[@HowFarmsWork]

+Ryan Anderson All the way up to 5XL

[@JasonSmith-hx8px]

Kraft farms is making a farm sim mod map on your farm send him some overview pictures

[@laurawakeman8974]

I would like you to come to our farm

[@slipperyskittle5889]

Never happened with our case combines...

[@Sandra-yk6jx]

3rd

[@mateuszszczepanski2513]

Nice