Testing New Farm Equipment (We Have A Problem!)

In today's episode, we started our adventure at the Main Farm by getting equipment ready to work for the day, I met with a concrete engineer for the $1M Bin Site law-suit, we started testing a Degelman High Speed Disk (and discovered a small problem with it), the lime spreading crew arrived at Bill's Farm and started to spread crushed limestone, we completely emptied our first soybean bin, we completely emptied our second soybean bin, and we hooked the John Deere 4840 up to the moldboard plow.
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[@jasontom7278]

Cooper definitely needs to restore the Oliver and put it on his channel. Would be a great winter series.

[@chadjennings1416]

You should buy a plastic hopper for your auger to put under the bin augers. It makes clean up a lot easier.

[@Brewdiss]

I was thinking about a modified 55 gallon plastic drum, or writing off a kiddie pool. 🤘😎

[@jeffg6429]

That’s a no brainer… not sure why you wouldn’t

[@Awol991]

Or even just use a sheet of permeable membrane, so water goes through it. Garden store ground sheet membranes.

[@josephreagan7183]

Walmart kiddie pool would work plus they could use it in the summer for the little ones

[@seansquirrell]

They make tubs that fit sugars specifically

[@bsballer11]

Prayers for your family! Hope everyone stays healthy!

[@SaneNoMore]

Man things sure seem to be unloading more efficient this year, and areas look so much cleaner than the “early years”. Your hard work is really starting to make a difference.

[@ytubesuxshite4497]

You know i love the energy and enthusiasm. Its hard to make grueling work look somewhat fun, and unless shit hit the fan, you usually show 110% effort. Keep up the hard work and hope your days are rewarding.

[@wranther]

Good to see there young Cole the CornStar that you went back and returned to your opening monologue!! Hi Nave! Hope you and the youngsters are all well! And I hope that all these CornStar family members all have a Wonderfully Happy and Merry Christmas! -Bob...

[@pascaldelaquil8719]

Cole you could use a tarp against the ground easier to clean up

[@barrygrant2907]

Really! They make plastic bins to catch all that. Seeing them suck up all the dirt with the beans makes me want to avoid soybean products.

[@TonyRule]

Yeah, I'm surprised they don't have a canvas bag slung off the bin discharge auger for the mobile auger inlet. Then you wouldn't need the hole in the ground either - you could have it offset.

[@born2soon]

A farmer I worked for put a child's round blue plastic swimming pool under the auger to catch spillage. Cheap and efficient.

[@brylenesells7842]

Merry Christmas to the Cornstar Family, Roman, and all the truck drivers that work with you guys. XOXO from Michigan

[@andrewruble7706]

Merry Christmas to the entire Cornstar Family!! Enjoy the time with family and friends. Thanks for the awesome videos this past year. Looking forward to an even better 2024.

[@relevant.c5411]

love the editing and the music. love to see the higher speed in some areas too. ur getting good as this content production ;) MERRY CHRISTMAS CORNSTAR FAMILY!!!

[@dogcreek8547]

Hey that Hermit the Frog skit was sweet, please bring him in again.

[@dalegereaux1863]

That looks so busy I think I need a nap just from watching ! Good show and I'm glad to hear the family is back home and okay. 👍

[@herbertvasold8954]

Brings back memories of when I was younger, we had a dairy farm with 180 head. Milked at 5 am and 5 pm for 2.5 hours. But only 7 days a week!!

[@barrygrant2907]

35 hour week. What's to complain about?😁

[@jasonstclair6293]

@@barrygrant2907 Milking is only about half the work that needs done every day

[@barrygrant2907]

@@jasonstclair6293 Well duh.

[@jasonstclair6293]

Must have missed your joke...

[@anneyday3493]

I'm throwing lime in ye olde homestead gardens too...Loved seeing it happen on your farm on a mondo scale! Levi's Kermit was fun. Seeing you getting Edward involved in farm management from the beginning is so cute. Ya'll have an AWESOME Christmas and a Happy Productive New Year!

[@evelynharber6077]

Cole, thank you for including your viewers in a small view of the private and or technical discussion you have in relation to the large grain bins. Truly you don't even need to do that. Just surprise us when everything gets sorted and settled. Your viewers have to realise it is a long and tedious process requiring many hours of technical and legal information to be able to reach a logical and concisive result for both you and the contractor and having a fair and precise result.

[@connieverbeck1110]

Prayers for your families health. Merry Christmas to all!!

[@Aiko2-26-9]

I'm sorry to hear you have all been under the weather and I'm glad you are feeling better now. Merry Christmas to the whole Cornstar family. Merry first Christmas, Edward!

[@kimcrum4760]

Cole... if you have the other grain cart just sitting in the shop, why not bring that one out too? You could load up both carts while the drivers are gone... you have a full load there ready for when they pull in. Depending on the timing of how they arrive.. you could speed up your loads for them like that.

[@kathleenmuller306]

So glad the babies and your wife are well and at home! Merry Christmas to your entire family!!! K.

[@dennistapp9689]

Hope every one is doing well. Good bless you all.

[@peteparker7396]

If that moldboard is onland, take the sway blocks off the lift arms. Measure from center to center on the top and bottom pins that lift the lift arms of your 3-point and make sure they are both the same. And soak those bottoms in diesel to help get the rust off so they will start shedding.

[@naomialaniz373]

Such an entertaining channel 👏, love the wholesomeness and keeping it real 💯 😊❤

[@user-sr5tk8hb2u]

Hmmm maybe a rubber mat ( like they have under dishwasher machines)mounted under the auger would help capture beans that spill. Or maybe some sort of open topped funnel to push the beans into the auger . Got be a better way to capture the spill , you worked so hard for it . Zero waste a good goal 🥅.

[@oscarwindham6016]

No offense Cole but thank goodness for Daddy Cornstar! I mean..., shucks..., he does go behind you young'ns during all hours of the night redoing everything and making sure you and Roman don't burn the place down, and all of that..., right? Poor fellar, when does he ever get to rest?

[@johnfristoe4256]

Godspeed Cole, glad you guys are ok

[@DavidJohnson-ty8qz]

Merry Christmas Cole!!! Hope the new little one has arrived and doing well. God bless David from Seattle

[@74jojo]

Really good video today. 👌 Them old tractors have quite the charm. 😀 God bless all y'all 🌽⭐'s

[@allenjanzen3256]

😮when you check the oil in the tractor and its low most farmers add some cole the 26 year farmer don't know that yet

[@paulsanders1373]

Put the lime in the cornfield and you disc it all up. Yes my brother is on a tractor at disking the lime all up

[@BostrsBoy]

Called the doctor, woke him up!😂

[@cathiwim]

I-said Doctor, can you relieve this bellyache?

[@JohnMphs]

I love that the Oliver just keeps running. 😊

[@Marty1985class]

You should look up the Gatco Auger Hog to put at the bottom of your augers. You won't have much on the ground.

[@deanbrunner261]

Merry Christmas to all from Memphis

[@Brightleaf_Auto]

Why don't you get a poly "funnels" to go on the end of the auger to keep some of those beans off the ground?

[@patriciamontague6035]

Merry Christmas.Been watching you for years.😀Hi from Colorado Springs 😀

[@jasonschilling6120]

Glad things are running smooth in the field getting the soil ready for spring planting. You will get the bugs worked out of the new equipment.

[@davidcopperfield-notthemag397]

I ❤ the Oliver Tractor! In the day, they were cutting edge! 🚜🚜🚜

[@richardnott9587]

Cole. I see you digging cremations with the auger in the loader. That's fine but cut a hole in a sheet of plywood a little bit bigger than the auger and cleanup would be allot faster. Just slide the plywood out of the way and cover with a tarp and leave the dirt on the sheet of plywood. And it would be nice and clean. When you are filling the hole back up wouldn't it be easier to pour some water into it to help pack it and use ca concrete vibrator.

[@thenorthernhandyman]

You went from no-till to very much till in a very short time 😂

[@ssnyder1833]

Wow busy, busy times.....always love your and family's videos....Happy Holidays to you and whole family from COLD New Hampshire.

[@tmcarter3]

Merry Christmas!!

[@nancylagoyda5337]

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and light and love for the new year!

[@blanekopp7339]

Merry Christmas to the whole Cornstar family bsafe!!!

[@patricialynn5852]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ❤🎉😊

[@farmerlyric4019]

I saw you sign ready. I am deaf so that was cool!

[@rachealsmith5138]

Happy Holidays, and have a blessed Christmas!😊❤

[@kent571]

Thank you I find you very entertaining and you get lots of things done. I know it is over a long time not 22 minutes at a time. Thanks for occupying my time .

[@thomasstarr9011]

SEND,LOVE ALL,.

[@shephusted2714]

the ripping and discing should help quite a bit - you should purchase of fab one like you did with plow, the lime will help a bunch, compost and cow manure could help even more, offset chemical applications and more permanently solve compaction issues - your soil is still the same now is the issue but since it has no been ripped for so long you still should see some results - you need to do a/b tests to home in on optimal results

[@davidkimmel4216]

It is nice that you put all your toys away when you’re finished playing with them. Merry Christmas to You and Your Family also God Bless.

[@slowtwist]

If you add a few ounces of 2 cycle oil to the diesel on the old Oliver the Detroit will thank you.

[@dredogin]

HOLY loud start!

[@neilmiller9065]

I think i agree with everybody they went cheap on the silos and tried to do alot of work themselves

[@patcoffey7757]

You guys ever here of a hopper box for the end of augers. I wish I had the money you guys loose in grain .I'm all about feeding deer but you don't put deer in freezer.

[@digger5858]

Great video Cole!! Just want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year,and I hope your family member is doing better.

[@annettemiller1273]

Merry Christmas to the Cornstar family.God bless your whole family .🎄🥰

[@kenwoodfl]

Merry Christmas Cornstars! 🌲🎄🎁🇨🇽

[@HMccafferty-tg7es]

Baby time Congrats and Merry Christmas

[@sictoday]

6:17 oohh yeah. Thats the shot right there. Awesome sauce.

[@thenorthernhandyman]

A few things from a bystander. First if all SAFETY: BELT COVERS ON EVERYTHING WITH BELTS AND PULLEYS, so many people have lost their life and limbs from those. Concrete below all bins emptying augers makes you less messy and more efficient. All bins with the need for grain vac should be vacced to a large grain cart that can carry atleast one entire semi load. All the slow bins should also be emptied into the large grain cart, no one is making money from being loaded for 45 minutes. KEEP THOSE TRUCKS ROLLING!🤑

[@CSmith-oz4wp]

Great video, I’m tired just sitting here watching you work work work. Thanks for taking me along.

[@SunsetBayBonnie]

Merry Christmas Cornstar Family!

[@williamt5837]

You should look into pneumatic bin vibrators, we use them on our flour silos....everything goes into the feed auger, except when something goes wrong. I have to suit up and shovel 1000's of pounds of flour for the fix 😱 Also (just a suggestion) a tarp or catch pan at the base of your feed connections might save on cleanup times and waste 🙂 Humbly submitted, these work with industrial bakery product, I can only share what I know works for what I work with 😁

[@paulawynne6420]

Daddy Cornstar sounded like he had a cold. Hope he feels better soon!

[@sharonromer6606]

Have a Merry Christmas ❤

[@Legend-gi3zz]

if you want to make that end lighter what we did with commercial vac trucks was that hose or piping like you use for tiling drains duck tape in on those other hoses we had sleves to go in it from the truck then on the end we just had a cheap broom handle like you get for push brooms at lowes adn duck tape it on back and fourth twist it and cross with x's for a bit but its way lighter by the looks of it move around

[@reginap7688]

Don’t forget to like the video!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🥰

[@philwhite5815]

Love seeing the old tractors

[@JuliaJordan1]

Merry Christmas!

[@patriciasiefert7140]

You are the hardest working family!

[@sallyhenrie8150]

Nice that the weather is cooperating, although cold.

[@heuy1216]

No removable sweep for those bins? Seems like that would be less trouble than the grain vac.

[@tammyeich4493]

Merry Christmas from Grand Haven Michigan ❤

[@rstephe]

Great vid. Hope fam is all good. Prayers to ya's.

[@victoriabelle1]

Praying for your family. Being sick this time of year has a sadness that is unique. Praying for the newest cornstar also. Merry Christmas to all.

[@timothylepenven3637]

Merry Christmas Cornstar family!

[@knudriis8367]

we mostly grow wheat and barley and rapeseed with twice wheat, once barley and once rapeseed. who knows, it is a rule of thumb that we use approx. 1 ton of lime per year. so as a rule of thumb. if a man gives between 4.5 tonnes and 5.5 tonnes of lime for 5 years, then it is in balance. where soil is taken, try to be 5 years to see if it is one or the other lime amount, but as a rule it is 5 tons every 5 years, preferably after the rape field. since wheat pays the most for the lime bust.

[@sambecker7826]

A small tarp under the auger would make clean up easier

[@myytaccount7271]

🙏 Prayers 4 U Cole and family.

[@jokbru]

If you move the auger to the next bin when the center is empty. And vac straigt in to the graincart i guess it would save you som time🤷

[@charleskubiszak-sn5cr]

Growing up we had a 1800 Oliver and in 88 we completely rebuilt the motor and it had a two peice head way ahead of its time for 1969 was a good tractor we originally stated with 188 acres and it was used for everything but now we're at 5600 acres and the Oliver went to another farm years ago I miss the old iron!

[@davidorr8645]

The Kermit the frog impression was spot on😂

[@dennislamers986]

I hope all is well with the family Cole. Your getting loads out for sure. It's good to empty and clean every one out and shut them up until next year.

[@neilmiller9065]

They went cheap on the bins tried doing alot of work themselves backfired

[@jtelliso]

12:48 There is a man speaking from experience.

[@lucasstiles8012]

Woke up this morning excited for COOOOOORRRRNN, THE COOOOOLLEEEE STAAAAARRRR

[@dawnsutherland3461]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

[@hillbillyhicks8102]

Nice striper music while your vacuuming grain and loading semi's.

[@Blackearthexcavationandtiling]

You need a different hopper on your auger, those open cages are a mess ...plus i would buy a sweep auger (just a regular sweep auger - rhey are not that expensive) .. those vacs are slow and misserable ...plus use two carts, fill the semi within minutes

[@jrogertrudel6356]

Love watching your videos. Reminds me of how I had the same ambitions as you have. Be very thankful that you have excellent support and cooperation from your parents and your brother.

[@manleybrittain1296]

Cole, I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!

[@julien2912]

Cole, hearing you say that one of your family was sick and in the hospital getting antibiotics reminded me of something regarding your house finally getting the remodeling work done inside. In the video Nave showed a few days ago it seemed to me that you guys still plan on living in it while it's being demolished and remodeled. BUT I really disagree with that. You need to get those babies out of that house while the downstairs is being demolished and remodeled. Even If you have to pull one of your travel trailers into one of the heated shops and turn it into a temporary place to live until at least the downstairs demolition is done and cleaned up. Infant babies with brand new lungs should not be exposed to those kinds of dust particles during long project like that.

[@haroldtunich8809]

Why wouldn't you put some heavy plastic down under the augers so you don't get dirt in the beans and make cleanup easier?

[@betsybattles2696]

Merry Christmas to all!

[@lancelarson6710]

My dad has that exact same yellow auger

[@ryanduren2739]

Show more of the fields been worked

[@69dblcab]

Merry Christmas

[@scottm3130]

How come you do not use like a metal tub under the auger? That way you would not be putting all that dirt in the load. At least a piece of plywood.

[@patrickthomas3859]

Love the intro, seems like yesterday you were saying 21 years old. Dang time flies.

[@anthonydolezal6627]

Hope all is ok! Keep Smilin!!!!

[@selbyhulse6110]

Sammy’s semi is top two best looking trucks ever