Farming In 4K - Harvesting

[@josejulianrosales9772]

Hi I love your videos they are so cool and fun ..... GOOD JOB !!!! #HowFarmsWork and GOOD JOB for making this videos for us ;)

[@michaelyork6002]

I’m a city guy and loving learning about farming and the hard work you all do to supply our homes. Thanks for the hard work.

[@stanhensley3082]

Feeder house bearings are soooo much fun!The age of your combine is showing.You use what you got when grain prices are down.Bearings are cheap,it is the down time that can hurt.Happy she did not burn.Good catch!

[@kaledowns6106]

I have a 4020, a 4440, and a 4620 John Deere and they all are awesome and never let us down. Great travtors

[@paule7837]

Don't know if you thought about it, but you might want to throw a leaf blower in the back of one of your work trucks, so at the end of the day or when something malfunctions you can clean it and see whats going on a little better. Might help.

[@Steelrailbearing]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The quality of these videos and the work you put into them is amazing. I'm watching in the default 480P and the picture quality is outstanding.

[@Michael-fd8ob]

I just love watching your old videos there so good and I like all the new ones too. It’s just great to see how farming goes

[@craigschofield64]

Thank God you noticed the smell before you had flames tickling your rushes! Back when I was a younger some 45+ years ago I saw my great uncles combine burn I must have been 7 or 8 years old maybe and I will be 53 next month but not only did the come by and burn my uncle Rip lost the rest of the field cuz it burned to the ground along with the combine. I was scared to death because I was fresh from the city when it happened and it was several years before I would even get close to a combine after that...We moved back to the city before I was old enough to get into farming for a career because of my dad's job forced us to move closer....I regret that to this very day! So I am living my farming dream vicariously through your videos. Glad everyone safe take care and God bless

[@TB-yv7wu]

I'm from Barcelona and I really like to see your farming videos :D

[@gregbrandon1717]

I like farming and farming videos. I love seeing what you people do. It’s so cool.

[@hazellagriculturalservices3614]

Congratulations on finishing the first field at Upper Farm, a good feeling I bet!

[@jimmydeatherage9165]

Nice vid . It's nice to see how all the modern equipment works . Plus some of the older equipment

[@karlbrohammer9105]

Great harvesting video. Bearing failures happen / all brands of equipment, even new stuff. Goes with the territory using machines. Glad you guys are back running after this hiccup. Stay safe.

[@olaholen4136]

Karl Brohammer o

[@thompsoncreekfarms4616]

Thank you for doing these videos. THE inspiration for why we started doing videos on KZbin too, just a collection of lessons, memories, etc. Thank you for being that inspiration. It's been such a valuable tool to learn from you :)

[@austinkerns1513]

You and your dad are great Ryan

[@mr.wahlter7877]

AUSTIN Kerns so are travis

[@iangibson3719]

Hi mate, thanks for that very detailed description on how the difference that you have to sow your corn on different terrain and the rows that you grow your corn in is all so different to us down here, but i really appreciate your info as it has made me understand more about what you guys have to do for a living, i appreciate this, thanks, Ian.

[@bashirmaidama1340]

This job seems to be so satisfying

[@bearingthunder4593]

We had a few bearings go out in our John Deere 6600 also keep up the good work on your videos and from a farmer to a farmer thank you for farming

[@coltlarkin5551]

I watch your videos every hour of every day

[@rivervalleyfarm482]

Great video. I can never say it enough, get a leaf blower or get a gas powered air compressor to keep on your truck. When you shut down for the day, blow all the chaff off the machine and grease it while it's cooling down. Bearings fail, it happens. But never walk away from hot equipment covered in dry plant material.

[@donshetterly]

My stomach took a few leaps climbing up there with ya. LOL

[@tannerdewitt5267]

Love the footage of filling the grain bin and the length of the video. Also, how many bushels of corn can that bin hold?

[@29rosslyn]

Great video Ryan. Looking forward to seeing repairs completed on the combine.

[@WW-xv1oz]

Ryan, Wow. Very good video from start to finish. Good luck with repairs.

[@fynbo1007]

I feel with you, a break down is always inconvenient. Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family

[@shawngoeller]

I love watching your videos Ryan. I learn a lot from them. I’ve been following How Farms Work for quite a while and love getting notifications every time you upload a video. Good luck to you guys on getting the Combine fixed.

[@Rosso_Dabosso]

Oh good. The 4640 is finally seeing some action. Great video! Love the long ones! :)

[@George-wx9dj]

Always something when your operating equipment!🚜

[@MrGkoplitz]

You need to make a “You never want to set the combined on fire” meme. Glad you caught it before it burned up the combined.

[@swiftgreen]

stunning video quality

[@norbbread135]

Question: Will you purchase a new combine after you sell all your grain or will you stick to the machinery you currently have?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Fires can happen far to easy at harvest, I know you will be on it anyway but just be carefull Ryan 👍

[@b210wah3]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life Love your videos mate, has the new bull got you yet?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Tommy's hand Cheers mate. Not yet, Gone to next door for winter

[@JesseKlaus]

Yeah I probably wouldn't let that much debris build up on the feeder house. Too many moving parts and too flammable of debris for me..

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Jesse Klaus Same, combines can go up in flames far to easy. I'm sure he will blow it down every morning hopefully

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yep a good leaf blower is your best friend... OL J R :)

[@karspoelma7793]

Camera quality looking good!

[@johnrosehart8971]

*4K is so nice...* Keep up the good work. 👍🏻

[@jbellfarmer224]

You know, you guys are having combine problems in fall harvest like we had combine problems in wheat harvest... we even thought that maybe there was a fire on ours twice, as well, and we run an identical combine to you, a 9500 with a 9510 engine upgrade. Wish you luck for the rest of your harvest!

[@ThermalApple12]

Awesome is the only word to describe this .

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

very good harvesting video!

[@streetrodder2846]

Such professional quality in your farming and your videos... 👍🏻 Jim ~Olympia, WA

[@lidsman2221]

To be continued... Thanks for the video!

[@farming4g]

Should get yourselves a little infrared temp gun. Use it all the time for checking temps on all sorts of parts daily. Touching works good too, but some things are hard to get access to. Could've gone out at anytime too I suppose, unless it was getting dry and causing extra heat buildup over the past day or two. Luckily you did catch it in time.

[@mr.wahlter7877]

Nice long video with great content!! Love it!!!

[@austinnakaerts4453]

Other then that hicup glad you had a good day running. We did too until we realize when we put everything away we lost the crank for the pre-cleaner adjustment

[@bluemtnsman]

Yowsa. Good job in catching the issue. Excellent video once again Ryan.

[@shaunhilhorst8302]

Nice video guys I like the camera quality. Nice to see the older tractors working! Just be safe with the combine 😀👍

[@jackkc3nnimahala29]

the radio's that you are now using are they different then a regular cb radio? are you able to talk to the truck drivers as they pull in to the yard?

[@francesnieznay6623]

after seeing your vid,the new rollers and brushes are the trick.

[@MatthewHoag77]

Thanks for the 4K experience, Ryan. Now I can find this particular farm on the map! Hope you don't have any more hiccups between now and the end of harvest. What's going on with your forehead around the 18 minute mark?

[@lizj.elliott3431]

Well done!

[@peterdusenbury1661]

Excellent video Ryan thanks sorry for equipment misfortune

[@robertreznik9330]

We had that upper bearing go out this fall and we had to replace more than the bearing. cost lots more than bearings.

[@jbmbanter]

Man, don't set the combine on fire to make a few passes. I also thought the stalks on the feeder house should have been removed. Nothing but opinion from someone your Dad's age. Glad you got it worked out!

[@ethandifrancopujol622]

Hi guys, need help. Why is that I can only see the video in 1080? is that something related to my computer capabilities or my connection's speed maybe?... Thanks for the videos Ryan

[@Chevy-fh2sx]

Ryan are you guys planning to upgrade to a bigger combine in the near future

[@banjobenson9348]

good job, I missed it did you say yields were 30 bu less when you did corn on corn ?? thanks

[@coltlarkin5551]

I love your videos I work on a farm and I'm 13 I rake and Ted the hay

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video! Shame about the Bearing, great job on preventing a fire, thanks for sharing

[@nathanryan3961]

Man that camera is awesome!

[@paulc8581]

Had one catch on fire when i was just leaning to run it 9500 . Then had to rewire it what a job .

[@MrSea2river]

Great video. Love the 4K. How and when does all the extraneous material get eliminated from around the kernels and soy beans.

[@lukestrawwalker]

The combine removes the vast majority. After it's threshed in the cylinder and concave (behind the feederhouse right under/behind the cab inside the machine) (or by the rotor and concave in a rotary combine) the separated grain and chaff and small debris and dust falls down onto the grain pan, which depending on the combine make/model either shakes back and forth to sift the heavier grain to the bottom as it moves it back to the cleaning shoe, OR is equipped with augers (like John Deere combines) to move the grain back to the cleaning shoe. The cleaning shoe oscillates back and forth and consists of two cleaning trays-- a "chaffer" on top, and a "sieve" below it. The chaffer and sieve both have adjustable openings called "airfoils" or "foils" that can be closed down to create narrower openings, or opened up for wider opening, exactly how a venetian blind works over your window to let in more or less light. There is a large cross-wise fan (or series of fans running on a common shaft, depending on the combine design) that blows massive amounts of air through the grain as it drops through a comb (made of heavy wires, which allows the grain and dust and small chaff to drop through while holding up the larger bits like broken pieces of stalk, cobs, pods, shucks, etc. The blast of air blows the lighter material out of the grain as it pours onto the sieve, and air flowing from the fan under the chaffer also blows the dust and chaff away as the heavier grain falls through the chaffer and onto the sieve, which has smaller openings; as the grain falls through the sieve more air from the fan blowing underneath the sieve blows most of the dust and chaff away, so that mostly clean grain falls down out of the sieve onto the clean grain tray, where it slides down into the clean-grain cross-auger, which moves it across the combine and out of the cleaning shoe to the clean grain elevator, which then raises it up to the grain tank and the bubble-up auger inside the tank. The shaking of the chaffer and sieve moves any heavier pieces of stalk and cob, shucks and pods, back toward the chaff spreader or it drops out the back of the combine cleaning shoe onto the ground, along with the load of chaff blown out of the grain by the air from the fan discharging out the back of the combine. Unthreshed heads of grain that fell through the openings in the chaffer, but which are too large to fall through the smaller openings in the sieve, shake back and fall onto another pan below the clean grain tray, and slides down it to the tailings cross-auger and elevator, which then carries that material back up to the threshing cylinder intake for another pass through the thresher. Any grain stuck with the stalks, cobs, shucks, pods, and other large plant debris when it comes out of the threshing cylinder is shaken out in the straw walkers up above the cleaning shoe, as they oscillate and move that material to the back of the combine and drop it into the straw chopper on back. Grain shaken out (along with dust and other small debris) is shaken down trays under the walkers to the front, where they drop onto the chaffer and sieve. Rotary combines use a rotary separator section on the back half of the threshing rotor to separate trapped grain out of the straw, stalks, and debris. Grain is later cleaned again usually at the mill or end user, using a similar setup to the cleaning shoe in the combine-- oscillating or vibrating "screens" with various size holes to either allow grain to fall through but larger material to be separated out and shaken off for disposal, or smaller openings that keep the grain flowing over the screen and discharged off the end of it, but allowing smaller bits of weed seeds, dust, and other debris to fall through the small holes and be disposed of. Massive fans and airflow is usually used to help with the process on both types of cleaners... Separated out "fines" and other debris is usually sold for livestock feed. Later! OL J R :)

[@MrSea2river]

luke strawwalker Wow! I appreciate your thorough explanation. Thanks.

[@luisbeninca8697]

Hello Ryan, great video, can I ask you something? How long does the battery of the Walkie-Talkie last?

[@HowFarmsWork]

About a day.

[@luisbeninca8697]

How Farms Work Thank you

[@benklasen3989]

Ryan u should buy a semi and trailer to haul grain and cornstraw

[@Bounty6Gulf]

Only time your combine won’t break is during the growing season

[@gusl2261]

Ryan do you guys plan on getting a bigger combine

[@zilla2006able]

I hope you get your combines fix

[@klyonsden]

I understand grain haulers haul during the harvest. But, what do they do the rest of the year?

[@ISXCUMMINS565]

klyonsden .... They'll haul from storage bins on the farm to the grain elevator and sometimes from the grain elevator to the river barge or different grain mills And feed Mill's.

[@iangibson3719]

Hi Ryan, i have always wondered why the head for harvesting the corn is so small, as im a farmer in australia but i dont grow corn but our headers are really big, is there a difference in harvesting corn than harvestinf wheat and oats and barley, let me no please, ian.

[@nielsdybro9759]

There are two factors to consider here. First, corn yields quite a bit more than wheat on good farm ground in the upper midwest of the United States. It is not uncommon to see yields between 200-300 bushels per acre ( 12-18T/ha), which means you have a lot of material running through the machine, even with a smaller head. Second, heads for corn harvest can be rather heavy. Each row unit on a corn head has a number of large, metal components, like the snapping rollers, gearbox, sprockets and chains. A brand new 6 row corn head with a 30 inch (76.2cm) row spacing weighs 4051lbs (1837kg). For comparison a 620F flexible cutting platform weighs 3942lbs (1788kg).

[@iangibson3719]

Thank you so much for telling me this,i now see why you do what you do, and i love your videos mate, keep them coming, my whole family watch how you run your properties. also we wear your shirts with pride, Ian.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Another thing is, the combine can only handle SO much grain and material in a given amount of time... SO, you can either run a faster ground speed with a narrower head, OR, you can run a slower ground speed with a wider head. Both bring the same amount of material into the combine in a given amount of time, and both will take *broadly* similar amount of time to get the field done. Now, a larger combine can of course take a wider head. BUT, if you're farming on contours with sharp curves and stuff, the wider the head the more it wants to knock the crop over on the inside rows when going around those sharp curves. A narrower head works better for that application. On a big ol' rectangular field, it doesn't matter because you're not going around sharp curves. Then there's flotation. The wider the head, the heavier it is. If you're harvesting in soft or muddy conditions, the extra weight can sink you and get you stuck. We used to harvest some muck ground in Indiana for the nephew, and it was a task keeping a JD 9600 combine with duals up on top even with a 6 row head like this one! The BIL/nephew went to an 8 row head, and they soon found out they had to swap to wider dual tires to keep the combine from sinking in the mud due to the additional weight of the head (which is transferred off the rear axle as well, basically doubling the load on the front axle versus a lighter head). Then there's the fact that newer, wider heads are a lot more expensive, and more expensive parts to keep up. An 8 row head has 25% more moving parts than a 6 row head. Granted, covering 8 rows means each row unit is doing 25% less work than those on a 6 row head, but parts wear out together and that's a lot of parts (like snapping rolls, gathering chains, etc) to have to buy at one time. Again, the wider head in rolling ground runs a higher risk of damage-- like dropping the end of the head down into a waterway and mangling a snoot. Then there's the fact that basically you want the header matched to the planter... The header should either be the same width as the planter (number of rows) OR the planter should be an even multiple of the number of rows of the header... IOW, a 6 row head is half the width of a 12 row planter. An 8 row head is matched to a 16 row planter. Now, you CAN harvest corn planted with a 12 row planter with an 8 row head, BUT, it means that half of each round in the field, you're harvesting rows that the right 4 rows were planted on one pass of the planter, and the other 4 rows were planted on the NEXT pass of the planter-- IOW, they are not "mated rows" and therefore they can be a little too narrow or too wide where the two different planter passes abut each other, which means the head is leaning all the stalks on ALL the rows a little to one side or to the other (to the inside toward the center of the head if they're a little too far apart, or toward the outside ends of the head if they're a little too close together in the center). This can lead to higher header losses as ears get tossed around as the stalks are picked and can cause plug-ups if the stalks don't go smoothly down between the deck plates. Similarly, a 6 row head would be a poor match for a 16 row planter for the same reason-- only this time the outside two rows on every third pass would be non-mated rows from the next pass of the planter (1,2,3,4,5,6--one combine pass, 7,8,9,10,11,12-- next combine pass, 13,14,15, 16, 1, 2-- third pass; 3,4,5,6,7,8-- fourth pass, 9,10,11,12,13,14-- fifth pass, 15,16, 1,2,3,4-- sixth pass, 5,6,7,8,9,10--seventh pass; 11,12,13,14,15,16-- eighth pass, then the cycle repeats again). Later! OL J R :)

[@roni8049]

About how long does it take for the combine to get full of corn?

[@jebfuller7611]

Was there a Grease Fitting in there hidden?

[@generationll]

How & who cleans the 9510 after your combining?

[@farmingsimulatorrock]

Ryan do you leave your flow gate open? At 0:25 it looks like it is wide open and you are not over the truck

[@drewl4762]

BanditFarmer15 although I know that the new J&M's have the gate gauge there I think that gauge is for the auger angle but dont quote me.

[@Northern_Farmer]

Thats why we have 2 combines... and now 3.. at least always one is going,

[@jrszabo900]

Time for some shop lights.

[@frosethfarms3513]

great video

[@lukestrawwalker]

You had the other end burn up from what the BIL had on the 9600... the reverser planetary header drive box that the drive belt turns down at the bottom end of the feederhouse went out on his... $$$$ repair. You have to be real careful when you check the oil on those because the dipstick will break off and drop down into the box, then you have to take it apart to get it out. The reverser quit on his at the end of 2016 and he had to rebuild it during the off-season. We had to make do with no reverser for the last half or third of the 2016 season. Thank goodness harvest conditions weren't too bad. Later! OL J R :)

[@BillTheTractorMan]

Another great video Ryan, Enjoyed it. 4K doesn't make much difference to me when your making great content, its interesting though!

[@keaganlong4176]

My grandpa's combine seized up like that and wouldn't start, didn't smell smoke though. It was something under one of those noses.

[@weird1600]

I see that you cut with the direction of the rows can you cut across the rows of corn?

[@emilyhumphries5554]

When things happen to your equipment & tractors, how do y’all stay calm? It doesn’t really look like y’all stress much about it

[@nateamidon2370]

Loving the vids! Keep up the good work. Sucks with the combine.

[@abrarahmad8956]

Love from punjab Pakistan

[@ReverseProof]

Cool video!

[@austinkerns1513]

When do you have a regular big rig come

[@coleamick6665]

I would love to see you wash all or some of tractors and or harvesters idk why I want too

[@jacksonhunterandfarmer2673]

Great vid Ryan God Bless Stay Safe Kusters 👍

[@haydenrohrs2492]

I think the bearing is bent pull the cover and turn the head on and see if it's hitting

[@Dan21792]

This is like a fun version of Farming Simulator 17

[@sabastan2]

So around 17:04 of this video you have two wavy marks on your forehead. Is this form your camera or did you put your head up against something?

[@AirborneRenegade]

Strange that house looks like the one I stayed in when I went to Illinois

[@robhyde8067]

I want to work there! So busy, fun and enjoy. :/ would be difficult because I'm deaf. Hard to get job. Grrr. I like to try tractor or transport or sowing or plowing or whatever as farmer can do.

[@derekgoettl5559]

It snowed in northern Wisconsin

[@miltonhamptonii5441]

Never fails it's always something...

[@nicholass5405]

you should have test drove a combine this fall like you have with other equipment.

[@matthewwatkins9008]

Sorry to say that in my 27 years being on the fire department I’ve been to 36 combine fires and 32 where JD.

[@xFSUxnoregrets]

I think its about time for a new auger

[@Heimerviewfarm]

For anyone that wants to get into farming, ask yourself what you would do?

[@tallhooman8050]

Whats the capacity of the combine and auger wagon

[@zoefritz7117]

Will you put a spreader In the bin?

[@cartersouthwick8187]

can you do a video of all of your farms

[@canvids1]

go back in his videos and you will see all the farms

[@tlowevpnv]

Good video lucky you guys smelt it before it cot on fire.

[@m.savage8318]

What do you use for a drone?