First Corn Harvest TR70 Petrol

[@lukestrawwalker]

It'd be easy enough to rig up a switch and light in the cab for the rock trap... just a microswitch and some wiring and an LED indicator.... maybe even a horn switch that the lever or rock trap door comes down on and presses to an LED indicator in the cab... my old 640 Ford combine had a metal flap hanging down from the roof over the straw walkers so that if they started clogging up, the trash would push the flap up and it pressed on a horn button wired in to the combines actual road horn, so the horn would start blowing to alert you. Simple but it works! Heck tie some twine or a string to the lever that would raise or release a flag on top of the feederhouse when it trips... spring clothepins and a field flag would work easy for that... OL J R :)

[@samtalley791]

Love this video!! Can't get enough of the TR70. The High Tech repair reminds me of the ones we did on ours. And the contakerous starting gas burner reminded me of the 4400 gas burners we had. Love your channel its the only one I'll drop something to watch hope to see more from you guys this fall.

[@boehmfarm4276]

Thank you, and sadly, there's lots more still to go.

[@lukestrawwalker]

On my Ford 640, I found I could pretty much run the chaffer and sieve wide open, with full air from the cleaning fan. Unlike most combines, the air was controlled by a pair of shutters on either end of the fan, linked together with a rod across the machine, which you closed down with a quadrant lever on the side of the machine. Full air increases cleaning capacity and throughput, but you have to run the chaffer and sieve more open to let the grain get through faster so you don't ride or blow any out the back... close the chaffer and sieve down *just enough* to prevent junk from getting in the tank. I always did walk-arounds of the combine every couple hours or so and checked to see what it was doing-- header loss, thresher loss (grain still on heads or cobs), and cleaning shoe losses... never saw anything going out the back except the occasional broken kernels or really light immature kernels or bug-eaten kernels which aren't really worth anything anyway... certainly not worth putting more garbage in the grain tank to keep them from going out the back... We always had a REALLY clean sample, too... Claas sure knows how to make a combine! German engineering for the win! OL J R :)

[@boehmfarm4276]

I'd love to see one of the Ford combines up close.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@boehmfarm4276 There's some running on youtube. We quit row cropping long before I started YT. Still got her in the barn, but thanks to the hurricanes and the cheap green sawmill wood Grandpa built the barn for it out of, the barn has slowly caved in on top of it. If I ever grow grain again I'll have to extricate it from the barn, meaning tear the friggin' barn down off of it LOL:) Ford actually sold three different models. In the early 70's there was a loophole in the import tax laws-- Ford discovered that they could import Claas combines from Germany as "machine parts" and taxed as PARTS, so long as they were shipped without an engine! SO Ford and Claas struck a deal and started importing Claas combines without engines. Ford would get them and either install a 4 cylinder diesel (which IIRC is about the same as in a 5000 tractor) or a 300 inline six Ford gas engine (the industrial version with sleeves in the block, but it's pretty much identical to the old 300 sixes they put in the F-100 pickups). Then they painted them blue over the Claas sickly neon green and slapped FORD stickers on them and sold them. Funny to see as the paint wore off and the green started showing through underneath. The smallest was the 620, not much bigger than your old Gleaner. I never saw one of those-- they were too small for our area at that time. The middle one was the 630, which Claas called their "Mercator" (don't recall what they called the little one) which was a little smaller than the big one, the 640 (Claas "Senator" model). I bought a scrapped 630 for parts, which I took everything off of I could get then sold it when scrap iron was sky high a number of years ago. The 640 we have has an 18 foot rigid platform for grain sorghum and small grains, though we used it for soybeans just fine-- just gotta ride the header height to keep the knife close to the ground but not in it LOL:) The 18 foot was IIRC the biggest header they had back then. I converted a Gleaner "G" four row corn head for it, as I couldn't find a wide four row Claas cornhead (not that I could afford anyway). The Claas was weird in that they feederhouse stayed with the header, they were bolted together. You pulled a pair of pins and wedges out of the feederhouse pivot on the front of the combine under the cab, and unhooked the cylinders, and backed the machine away, pulled up to the other head, and then slowly drove in while someone guided you til the feederhouse pivots dropped into the clamp brackets, replace the clamps and pins and then hook up the cylinder pins to the feederhouse and hook up the drive belts. Needless to say NOT "quick tach" for header swaps! The thresher is a 48" (IIRC) six bar cylinder and concave, with about an 16-18 inch diameter IIRC. Claas always used a smaller diameter cylinder and concave than most other manufacturers, but it works great, because the smaller diameter cylinder is easier to turn, so less plugging up, and the tighter curvature "slings" the threshed grain out faster. With two variable speed pulleys on the left and a big cast iron reversing block on the right, the cylinder has plenty of momentum to get slugs through the cylinder unless they're monstrous. Four wide straw walkers move the straw to the rear discharge beater. The threshed grain falls onto a grain pan like a New Holland, rather than those silly "auger beds" that Deere and CIH have which just mix all the grain and chaff together into a huge mess for the cleaning shoe to straighten out. The grain pan shakes with the cleaning shoe to move the grain back, the heavier grain sinks to the bottom and lighter chaff floats to the top, and so as it goes over the rake onto the chaffer MOST of the chaff is blown out at that point! From there the cleaning fan blows the rest of the chaff out as the grain pours through the chaffer and sieve, returns coming off the sieve are elevated back to the cylinder for rethreshing. The clean grain tank was only 77 bushels, but we unloaded enough it wasn't much of a problem, and we had an old auger cart Dad had bought in like 74 or 75 for a long time til the gearbox finally bit the dust. The cab was not air conditioned (not good in the 100 degree heat of July when we're typically combining grain here in SE TX) but Dad got an old "under-dash" AC unit from a 60's car at the junkyard (add-on AC unit) and installed it on the combine, and it sorta worked. The cab was quite large for the time, though not very well sealed at all. Everything was easy to get to-- on your left were the three levers for engaging the combine-- the outermost for the unload elevator, the middle for the thresher, the one closest to the seat for the header. Steering wheel right in front with the clutch on the left and brakes on the right. Cylinder speed and ground speed indicator gauges right next to the steering wheel. Under the seat was the quadrant lever to set the concave-- which we typically ran in about notch 4 for most crops/conditions. Made adjusting the concave clearance simple and instantaneous. On your right, furthest forward was a hydraulic multi-valve which controlled all the combine adjustments through a rotary valve-- think of a loader joystick on steroids. It has several "slots" which you could push/pull the lever and rotate between them through a cross-slot in the center. Pulling back usually slowed things down, pushing forward sped things up. One slot had an offset "neutral" for the cylinder speed, that was rotated closest to the seat, then as you moved over, the next one to the right was for reel height, the one next to it was raise/lower the header, the next one to that was ground speed faster/slower through the variable speed pulleys turning the 3 speed manual transmission, and then there was a crank for the reel speed next to that. Behind the variable speed controller was the gearshift lever, and behind that the throttle with a catch for idle and released was full speed, and behind that was the choke lever. A buddy seat with a storage box underneath was on the right side of the cab against the wall. The grain tank was right behind the cab, with the engine on the deck behind it. The auger was manual fold, but had a helper spring so it was easily pulled up with a knob and rod arrangement and locked into place with a lock behind the knob that fit down over a pin on the side of the machine-- I often stepped out of the cab while combining, grabbed the knob and pulled the auger up and locked it, as my brother drove up on the tractor and auger cart, stepped back in the cab and corrected any steering drift, and then engaged the unload lever on-the-go and unloaded the combine into the cart... finished up and then stepped back out and put the auger back down and just kept right on combining-- who needs autosteer??!! LOL:) The hydrostatic steering was very good on the machine and would hold the row for long enough for me to do that without getting too far off. It's a good machine, Claas really knows how to build a combine and the German engineering really shows it's stuff... Ford did right by partnering with them. Unfortunately it didn't last but a few years, and I guess they closed the loophole in the laws or Ford decided to go a different direction or whatever, because the next Ford combine was the 642, and it was built by Long IIRC, and has basically NO compatibility with the Claas machines that preceded it. Ultimately Massey would sell a rebranded Claas in the 90's IIRC, don't remember the model number but in the sales brochure you can clearly see it has the same cylinder and ground speed gauges as my old Ford, and clearly see the "CLAAS" and baler billhook knotter symbol of the Claas company on the gauge face! The Long combines didn't last but a few years, either, as Ford dropped their combine line and simply sold the New Holland combines, as they had with their hay equipment. We had a Ford 632 small square baler (don't know who built those, it left the farm when I was 10, that was 40 years ago!) and we replaced it with a Ford 552 round baler (built by Gehl, their 1500 model). Ford had some interesting equipment and seems they bought stuff from just about everybody at some point LOL:) In the old days it was mostly Kelley and Dearborn implements, particularly in tillage stuff... Later! OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@boehmfarm4276 Lemme tell ya a story. When I was a kid and my Dad was about your age, he was a go-getter too. He bought this rusted out old Case 660 combine from some guy dirt cheap-- it was nearly rusted to the ground because they'd been combining grain sprayed with chlorate, which some farmers used back then as a desiccant to kill the stalks and dry them down with the grain, but the stuff is basically SALT and of course in our hot, humid environment it simply rotted those old combines to the ground... I remember he spent all winter in the shop patching holes in that thing with bondo and sheet metal cut and pop riveted into the header and underneath, and the whole shaker pan under the open straw walkers was completely rotted out, so he just riveted a couple sheets of tin on top of it to shake the grain down to the cleaning shoe. Well, he started doing custom combining with it and making money, pretty good money at that, plus harvesting his and Grandpa's own grain sorghum. One of the jobs he took on was a BTO they went to church with in the next lil town over. This guy farmed with all new Deere equipment, but he NEVER harvested his own crops-- NO WAY was he going to get all sweaty and dirty and itchy back then on a hot un-air-conditioned combine in the 100 degree July heat when the crops come out around here. He always hired it done (til decades later). Well, Mr. Bigshot got to talking with Dad and Grandpa because Grandpa bought an old rice auger cart for nearly nothing and they bought a 56 Ford grain truck rusted nearly to the ground from hauling fertilizer for its previous owner, and were their own two man harvest crew. Dad had the unloader bust one day on the combine with a full tank, and spent the afternoon dipping grain out of the tank into the truck with a five gallon bucket in the guy's yard while he watched... Dad had a heat stroke and spent the night in the Eagle Lake hospital. Well, Mr. Big started telling them, "Yall should buy a NEW combine, and you could cut my grain EVERY year! I'll buy a big 12 auger cart (which was new back then, biggest you could buy, now they're pitifully small and if you can find one they're cheap) I can pull it with my 4020 or 4230 or whatever big cab Deere he had back then..." SO during the off season, Dad and Grandpa started looking because the old Case was pretty much a basket case and had run its course. They looked at new Gleaners (a G or F IIRC) and the Ford, which were the only ones in their price range. They got a deal on the Ford because it'd been sitting on the dealer lot for about 2-3 years at that point. Paid $12,000 for it brand spanking new in Victoria, 90 miles from Needville, and they trucked it down there for them. Well, they started combining for Mr. Big the next summer and all was going well... Grandpa had a very dear friend, an older black gentleman named Mr. Grant, who had been a family friend and worked for my great-grandfather when he was just a kid. Mr. Grant, like a lot of guys back then, bought a used tandem truck and mounted a grain bed on it and hauled grain for the local farmers and custom cutters, because almost NOBODY had a semi back then... He had a nice twin-screw International Loadstar with a 400-500 bushel box on it, we still had the old '56 Ford inline six single axle with a 250-300 bushel box on it, so rusted you could see through the floor boards! Anyway, Grant hauled for Dad and Grandpa on their jobs and made money. Back then it was nothing to sit in line at the elevator for 2, 3, 4, even 5 hours at times waiting to unload, so it took a lot of trucks to keep up with a combine! Well, Mr. Big didn't like Grant and told Dad and Grandpa to "get rid of him". Next thing you know, Mr. Big comes down to the field and tells them to pull out, he's found someone else to harvest the crops. Evidently a bigshot neighbor of his up the road had MASSIVELY over-contracted on his grain crop at a good price, only problem was, he didn't have enough grain to fill the contract, and was going to lose his shirt having to buy out the contract. He came to Mr. Big and cut a deal, he'd buy his grain at the going rate across the scale, sell it under his contract, and harvest his entire crop FOR FREE. SO Mr. Big was only too happy to go back on his word and welch on the deal with my folks... leaving them in a lurch with a big bank note to make on a new combine and no custom job to pay for it... But this turd was ALWAYS like "it's only business" and his reputation was SO lousy in the town he lived in over there nobody would have anything to do with him-- as one guy commented one time in the coffee shop, "He'd slit his own mother's throat for another hundred acres!" Amen pew on Sunday morning in church, and do anything to anybody to screw them all week long, because it's "only business". More to come... OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

Continued... SO anyway after a bit of panic Dad and Grandpa started beating the bushes for custom jobs to pay for the combine note. As it turned out, the mid-70's was the "golden age" for grain sorghum and corn in our part of the world down in SE TX. Prices were high, it was a cheap crop to grow, and business was booming. By that point a lot of guys had jumped on the "get big or get out" train but didn't have all the big shiny new toys they'd have a few years later then-- back then a 1486 or 4230 or Ford 7700-8000 series or Case 2290 was a BIG tractor! Lotta guys still farming with 6 row and slowly moving up to 8 row. The TR combines and rotary CIH's and 00 series Deeres hadn't really come out yet or not many had them then because they were TOO new... Anyway, they found this guy who was aspiring BTO... he'd rented a BUNCH of river bottom land on the north side of the Brazos river on red clay soil and put it all in grain sorghum to make a killing because sorghum was cheap to grow then and grain prices were sky high (thanks to that IDIOT Jimmy Carter and his Soviet grain embargo that wouldn't last-- the grain embargo ended up collapsing grain prices across the country and set up the "perfect storm" of the 1980's farm crisis-- it was basically the opening shot of it anyway, which took about 15 years to dig out of before it was over... thanks lousy Dem president... Now we're about to see it ALL again...) Anyway, all was well and good, the guy had a terrific crop, BUT it was a hot, WET June that summer as the grain was filling and maturing. The morningglory vines had come in like gangbusters, and grew up and wound around the stalks and started running up and down the rows and then across the rows, sewing it all together into ONE HUGE GREEN MAT of vines and dry grain. He obviously couldn't harvest it all, and he put out the word to every custom cutter he could possibly get to come down to this riverbottom field and start cutting at so and so time and day, and basically they'd end up having all the grain they could possibly cut. Well, Dad and Grandpa drove the combine across the county and over the 20 foot wide river bridge to get there, with the header on of course, and pulled in. I was a little kid but I still remember that day, everybody gathered under a grove of pecan trees at the edge of the property. Combines of every make and model and type and kind were there, from old to brand new... Deere, International Harvester, Gleaner, Massey, Oliver, White, you name it... and our Ford. Well, everybody pulled in and started cutting... AND promptly were backing out again under the trees to unclog their machines... the sickle platforms would cut the stalks and vines off, but the auger was feeding huge wads of vines and crap into the combines, no matter HOW slow or carefully you tried to drive. Dad plugged up too a time or two, but the Ford had a BIG advantage-- NO combines had reversers back then, not invented yet. Claas HAD put a big cast-iron block with four holes in it on the end of the cylinder shaft sticking out over the RH drive tire... you could stick a big iron bar in there and ROLL THE ENTIRE COMBINE BACKWARDS, and with the header lever left engaged, roll the wad all the way down the feederhouse and right out the front under the auger. Most guys spent a half hour to an hour with knives in there on top of the feederhouse cutting vines and pulling wads of material out of the thresher to get the combines going again. The big iron block also gave the cylinder on the Ford more momentum to feed a wad through, and the smaller diameter but wider cylinder fed a thinner mat through the thresher and was easier to turn and keep turning. Deere and IH and most other combines used a narrower thresher but bigger diameter, which concentrated the wads and made them more likely to ball up. Dad discovered another trick that really saved the day. When he was combining, if he saw a wad get pulled under the auger and moving into the feederhouse, he'd reach down under the seat and throw the concave lever ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR, opening the concave WIDE OPEN, which created enough space for the wad to hit the cylinder and roll right on through... there'd be a loud BZZZZZ!!! as the wad hit the rasp bars but it would roll around and the engine would grunt and spin the cylinder back up to speed, toss it on the straw walkers, and out the back it'd go... fall right off the back end and onto the ground! Yeah, it'd be full of unthreshed heads, BUT the combine could keep going and didn't plug up, saving HUGE amounts of time. AS soon as the wad was through, he'd pull the lever right back up to slot 4 and keep right on combining til the next wad. Other combines of the time had primitive concave adjustments and couldn't do this trick at all... Deere used a crank wheel to lower and raise the concave-- crank it like mad for 2 minutes to open the concave, crank it like mad the other way to put it back. IH used adjuster bolts IIRC on the old conventionals back then, had to adjust it on either side under the operator cab or platform... Gleaner wasn't much better, and Gleaners back then put the thresher in the feederhouse and used a solid concave, throwing the grain and straw onto a "raddle chain" to feed it up to the straw walkers and do the separating. No bueno in those conditions... By about 2 pm, everybody else had quit and left. Dad and Grandpa were the only ones left, Dad running the Ford combine and Grandpa driving the 5200 row crop pulling the little rice auger cart, taking off grain on-the-go and hauling it out and unloading into waiting row of tandem grain trucks... At one point Dad and Grandpa were cutting 8 railroad cars of grain a day, running every minute of the day they possibly could. They paid for the combine in a single year doing that job for that guy.... Mr. Big would go on being a bigshot... his kid graduated A&M and came home, convinced him to switch to all ultra narrow row (UNR) corn, and they went broke a few years later. The kid went to work for the school teaching ag, and the old man retired, gubmint and the bank sold everything he had basically because he didn't own ANY of it, they did. Later! OL J R :)

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

kind of fun watching you figure out the quirks in your new to you combine. that has to feel really good watching that corn falling into that cart. yep, if I lived closer I be over there helping you pick those beans and learning something about corn. enjoyed your video.

[@boehmfarm4276]

At the current rate I'll need help with corn too.

[@daledenotter6398]

the small farmer is a true farmer. great video

[@boehmfarm4276]

Thank you.

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Steering seems to be very loose. Lots of wheel action I'd be exhausted by the end of the day. lol keep up the good work.

[@Joey966]

Good maiden voyage. She looks good!

[@boehmfarm4276]

Thank you

[@koryleague8833]

Had to watch that twice I enjoyed it. Love your repairs gotta love duct tape silicone works good too. Looks like u got a decent purchase there thanks for the video

[@boehmfarm4276]

Thank you!

[@MrGkoplitz]

very nice, hope it serves you long and well!

[@johnnyholland8765]

Might want to invest in a set of duals for your combine. You can also run lower air pressure in your drive wheels for soft ground. I had a 403 IH gas burner years ago I put duals on and it made a ton of difference.

[@boehmfarm4276]

I am really hoping to find 28L26 rice tires for it. But I just had a though about the duals because I know where a couple sets of 18.4x26 rice tires are close by.

[@ratrodbubba]

We always just wired the rock trap shut on our combine if we needed to open it up a simple snip of the wire and you could open it then quickly wire it back shut and get back to work

[@boehmfarm4276]

It hasn't popped open again, so I hope it was a one time fluke. I definitely want it to work for bean harvest. I don't want the combine to eat a rock.

[@ratrodbubba]

Ya for beans you would want it functioning we just did grain and corn so chance of gobbling up a rock are real low so wiring the randomly opening rock trap was benifishal

[@fredf3391]

Mike Less got video of BTO playing in the mud 😂 so don't feel alone 👍 We had wind yesterday from WSW and video wasn't coming in today 👌 and around 21° , ground is dry and finished up corn harvest this week Moisture of corn came down 👍

[@boehmfarm4276]

Good job on finishing!

[@dirtbiker6185]

I love the vids and I know you work hard to get these vids put out and keep up the good work I enjoy the vids

[@boehmfarm4276]

Thank you, we'll keep them coming.

[@whitewips1]

When are you going to have autosteer installed?! lol GreenStar works wonders! Gotta tighten up that stearing too, That looks like it gets to be a workout steering that thing! lol. have a good one

[@boehmfarm4276]

This was my first time out and only a little mud to fit.

[@anthonykorson7648]

wold be cool to see both combines in the same field

[@boehmfarm4276]

I think it would be awesome too!!!! But it might not happen this year.... :(

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

if you want to upgrade to an international 1420 to 1480 less moving parts in these machines. they are much lighter than a TR. More room inside for maintenance and some of these combines come with rear wheel assist.

[@boehmfarm4276]

What's less? only having one rotor? There isn't much to reduce for moving parts. As far as weight, I have never felt a TR70 was heavy. Now the 3208 could add excess weight.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

Boehm Farm Less moving parts not as wide and you can pretty much upgrade a 1480 to a 2388 mechanically and parts availability and they are all diesels and yours is abgasser and you talked getting rid of gas headaches. The foreheads perform better. If you buy a 1420 or 1440 you can run a 30 inch 4 row corn head if you want to narrow your rows more and they are great on fuel economy. my grandfather had a 1480 for 12 years and the current owners are still putting it to work.

[@NoTill1825]

How low is your stone roll and front drum set? Might be part of your issue with the door opening. Had the unload drive catch once and unload beans across the field on one of our 70's once and had to burn welds into our stone door because it lost its connection to the shaft and would push open in heavy corn. We never ran duals on our 70's, but the neighbor had an old set of drive tires off of a Gleaner that he made into duals for his 70's. I don't miss the old 962 corn head and its snap roll drive system.

[@boehmfarm4276]

The front drum I think is set high. I have not looked at the rock drum.

[@fergie35X]

Greetings from the UK. Love the video, particularly the commentary ! Where in the US are you? Thanks

[@boehmfarm4276]

Hello, thanks for watching. We are in Ohio.

[@markgamble8377]

Once u get all bugs worked out be decent machine. How u get gas.i have gas tractor.have 15 gal plastic container. They caught me filling in back of truck.put on ground. I said u goina help me pick up. Goina get perminate tank for back if truck.pain in but.years ago use to get bulk gas.no price advantage anymore if u could get it. Do have cumbys card 10 cents off gallon up to 150 gallons at the pump.

[@boehmfarm4276]

We have a semi permanent 55 gallon drum to fill in the back of the truck.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@boehmfarm4276 Yeah I did the same thing. My Ford 640 combine is too tall to fill from the leg tank; when I was a kid it was my job to pump about 40 gallons of gas into the thing every morning with one of them old push-pull hand pumps... HATED that thing seemed like it took an hour to pump all that gas in it and my arm was about to fall off when I got done. We didn't grow grains for about 15 years and when we got back into it, first thing I did was start pondering ways to pump gas into it without having one of those stupid hand pumps... I about passed out when I priced those fancy electric pumps that mount on bed tanks, and the tanks ain't cheap either... SO I did the next best thing-- bought a clean drum from a guy who sells them, and bought an aftermarket electric fuel pump meant to replace the old mechanical fuel pumps on an older car or truck... then I wired an extension cord replacement plug to the wires coming out of the pump, so I could run an extension cord up to the battery on the truck, and wired another extension cord end to a couple of battery charger clamps to hook everything up to the battery. Then I ran a hose down to the bottom of the barrel and another hose long enough to reach up to the filler neck of the combine. Plug it in and away she goes... I used to turn it on and then start greasing the combine and checking things over, and by the time I finished that and had a cup of coffee sitting in the truck, the combine was full of gas and ready to go to work... Later! OL J R :)

[@jonescountyperson4393]

I thought the whole reason you bought the gleaner was because of the ease of hauling it to your far away fields. But now you sold it for the TR?

[@boehmfarm4276]

I dropped that far away field. I didn't like the distance in general. It didn't have that homey feel. It was an area I knew nothing about.

[@jonescountyperson4393]

Gotcha

[@alancooper5386]

i have never worked on a gas powered combine, can u notice any differences in power or ?? are you using regular farm gas or higher octaine gas, or have you not tryed different gas yet, since its still new to your farm?

[@boehmfarm4276]

I have filled it twice. It uses fuel faster and I use 87 octane. Ever since the high gas prices, the price spread on 87 to 89 octane gas is rather prohibitive. Was only a dime a few years ago, now its about a quarter. Power wise, it's fine if the governor responds in a timely fashion.

[@alancooper5386]

i watch some Trucker Channels, the American fuel prices are half what drivers pay in Canada. but here every government adds their tax to every litre. currently 65cents from every litre goes for tax. that equal to about $2.95 per gallon is just tax, gallon equilvent here would be about $4.50 so american farmer have it real good. plus all those hidden subsidies states give to farmers is incredible. [never checked such in your state,] but have from illinois.

[@MrVictorc12345]

good videos. Do you and Brad have jobs off of the farm?

[@boehmfarm4276]

Nope

[@calebmakovec8391]

I have a gleaner K gas, exactly like the one you had except with power steering. I've love mine, is there something you didn't like about yours other than it's smaller stature?

[@boehmfarm4276]

I liked the small combine because I had good vision around it. No auto header height for cutting beans. I needed to check the break fluid, the breaks didn't work. I had trouble with wet corn, but I never checked the wear on the cylinder bars. And the variable speed lever in the cab needed attention. To go faster, the head would be lifting while trying to gain ground speed. If you saw our bead harvest video in the mud, I know the combine is lighter, but it'd need a tire upgrade. I loved driving it, and maybe I didn't own it long enough, but some machines just give the driver confidence. For example, In our 1086, I feel invincible, but the 1466 leaves me a little unsure. I don't have suggestions on how to change the Ks operator platform to change that feeling.

[@calebmakovec8391]

Boehm Farm Everybody is used to what they are used to. For lack of better words.

[@Masseydriver]

Looks like it’s working good for you. Did you finish soybeans yet?

[@boehmfarm4276]

At the time of the video, no, but in real time, they are done.

[@chrism1648]

Is there that much play in the steering? Seems like you are really working that steering wheel.

[@boehmfarm4276]

I don't think there is much play, maybe the back end was sliding around in a soft spot. The steering does seem a little stiff.

[@bradstroke]

The video will not load. Anyone else having this problem?

[@boehmfarm4276]

Somehow it's a common theme.

[@nicke1903]

U may have mentioned it but what size Motor is in it

[@boehmfarm4276]

363 cubic inch, turbo charged Ford (Dorset) 6 cylinder diesel.

[@makingithappen9722]

I like growling from a V8 engine.

[@Farmall450]

How's the gasser cost you on fuel vs your other one?

[@boehmfarm4276]

About an arm and a leg more, but we're getting it done.

[@Farmall450]

Boehm Farm Yeah I figured. Best of luck. Plus nice to have a plan B if one breaks.

[@dregenius]

@@boehmfarm4276 any idea why they made such big machines as gassers? Seems really silly to have such weak, asthmatic fuel guzzling engines in such applications...

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@dregenius This was probably the last of the gassers... guess there was still a market for them but I can't figure out why. Probably be worth it at some point to swap in a diesel engine. Friend of my brother's farmed with his grandpa, they had old 699 and 899 Deere cotton pickers powered by propane engines (which of course are just a gas engine with a different carburetor, called a "mixer" and a vaporizer to boil off the propane to feed it vapor. My grandpa had converted his NAA Ford and Golden Jubilee tractors to propane back in the 50's when he started farming, because farm gas was like 8 cents a gallon back then and butane was 4 cents a gallon... not quite as powerful but the engines last forever because they burn SO clean... BUT that was then, this is now. Butane (propane) isn't 4 cents a gallon anymore... now it's higher than gasoline, but only has like 4/5 of the energy content per gallon, meaning you burn more gallons to do the same work (with the same efficiency). Basically this means, very very roughly, that if a diesel engine takes 4 gallons of fuel to do the job, a gas engine will take like 5 gallons, and a propane engine more like 6 gallons. With all the fuels being so expensive, that lower efficiency of gas and propane, compared to diesel, that really adds up. Plus propane is a PITA to refuel because you basically have to have an LP gas tank on wheels and have to hook up the hose and valves and all that crap to transfer fuel. Only upside is you don't need a pump, just a bleeder and let the pressure difference between the tanks push the fuel over. He finally bought a diesel cotton picker and was saving SO much on fuel and time filling up that his grandparents finally sold off their old propane machines and bought some newer diesels (still 30+ years old-- cotton pickers are ridiculously expensive!) Natural gas (methane)is even lower energy density than propane/butane (LP gas, liquified petroleum gas). It takes a percentage more natural gas to do the same work as propane. Later! OL J R :)

[@dregenius]

@@lukestrawwalker Very good points! Ironically, I'm aware of a transportation authority that runs natural gas in their city buses... for years I've tried to find out if they're compression ignition or spark ignition. Obviously in smaller propane applications, they're spark ignition... but in such a HUGE vehicle, I'd be surprised if you can even GET spark igition engines big enough (and with the dimensions to fit) a bus that 99% of other fleet buyers just go for the diesel...

[@tylerspencer1148]

Why don’t you get a 6 row corn head and maybe upgrade to a TR.85

[@boehmfarm4276]

We have a four row wide planter that we get double use out of planting sweet corn. 30 inc sweet corn is a bear to pick by hand. I want a TR86, an eighty five isn't much of an upgrade, plus I dont want a 3208 Cat unless its properly matched to application. It is way overkill, and guzzles diesel for that size combine.

[@bwright4125]

I can't get the video to play ?

[@boehmfarm4276]

Ad issues are plaguing us on this one.

[@waylonrisa7105]

Same bwright

[@dness3673]

Sounds like she hittin on 7

[@boehmfarm4276]

Yeah, we have addressed that.

[@Philm88]

Alot of turning the wheel and not much reaction. Is that a 2 wheel drive thing or just sloppy worn out machine?

[@boehmfarm4276]

A little sloppy ground conditions and implement tires instead of ribbed steering tires.

[@michaelmurphy3567]

I can't get the video to play either

[@boehmfarm4276]

Hopefully that issue has stopped.

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌🇨🇦❤

[@nickwilliams4036]

Video want play

[@boehmfarm4276]

We were having ad issues.

[@joeslont7510]

Why are u going so slowww

[@boehmfarm4276]

It's my first time out with a new machine. And until this year, I hadn't run the combine much.

[@sergiotrueba5183]

Can’t play the video

[@boehmfarm4276]

We just got an advertising notice.......

[@gleanerk]

Oh well me too, circle thing goes round n round . I try again later! Because it will be interesting I know

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

come back and try again. our hero duct tape co-stars :)

[@fredf3391]

Jeff Reymond Is the rebuilding of Your combine moving on 👍 Think this New Holland TR 70 hasn't seemed as many sunsets as his dads 👍 All machines need going at sometime 👍