Going Over The Grain Trucks

[@Vintage4x4s_and_StreetRods]

Squarebody grain trucks and Oliver tractors, yup, I’m in the right place.

[@maddog3080]

Front wheel cylinders will run you about $60 a side, 2 per side. I just did mine last summer. Relining the front shoes cost me over $400 canadian, if I had to do it again I would probably skip the relining as there was still about 3/32 lining to the rivets. My 75 gmc loses fluid from the master cylinder from the push rod, it leaks down the firewall onto the floor.

[@michaelsheeder148]

Ethan, that's a good deal you got nearly everything ready for harvest. Thanks Michael

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@brettlamont4965]

crazy inflation you get it on supplies and then basis. Nice to live the farm life through your videos.

[@curtisowens4588]

Oh that’s cool you can drop the bed without the engine running I didn’t know that. Ethan, you have three shadows you know that right? Your own shadow and then Teeter and Lillie. By the God bless you for your sneeze. Nice video I enjoy watching if you are in the field or working on your equipment I find them very interesting and educational. Thank you for sharing.

[@KCIREDERF10]

Good advice at the end Ethan. Thanks for making us all aware. Take care. Fred.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks

[@Doobie2100]

Well said!

[@clinthochrein888]

Sweet sounding Chevy Ethan 👍🏾

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@clinthochrein888]

@@Oliver66FarmBoy you betcha!

[@dennislamers986]

Great advice Ethan. I wonder how many guy do a check list prior to harvest on their equipment. Very clean trucks.

[@dennisneel9788]

I thank you for all what you do

[@jerrymurphy6673]

All good videos thank you

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@jonathancrissinger2301]

Thanks for the video. Great advice at the end. There has already been a combine fire south of winamac just the other day. Stay safe and I'll see you later.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Been one here by Laporte to.

[@teebugg66]

Very nice trucks!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks

[@duanekabanuk3974]

On my trailers I used heat shrink connectors and then liquid black tape on top to cover the crimp spots.

[@jamesbreault5762]

Great stuff Ethan

[@richardmead9225]

Junkyards that have school buses have parts that often match. Our VFD went from split rim 20s to Budd 22.5s from junked school buses.

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see you

[@mathiggins4264]

Looking good buddy be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@harvestingharrolds1086]

I hope I can get my C60 looking as good as yours someday.

[@nilsgraham7978]

Started corn 2 weeks ago here in mid Missouri so far average is 225 bushel per acre soybeans Started yesterday and very dusty and moisture is at 12

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Can’t complain about that.

[@runyn5]

We had a tandem that had a service “kickstand” mounted on the bed. You could uncradle the stand then raise the bed and rest the stand on the frame.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That is what I would like to do.

[@runyn5]

@@Oliver66FarmBoy Wish I still had access to that truck, id send you pics to try and help you. But we sold that truck years ago.

[@larrydurdan]

I have harvesting corn around 17 to 18 % here about 90 miles southwest of Chicago

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Drying will be cheap this year.

[@45Deere9500]

Know a guy who'd use wire nuts on the trucks at the fertilizer plant. He'd fill them full of silicone, after installing them. Said they worked as well as anything, using them that way. Neighbor started beans today, here in Champaign County, IL. We took five loads of corn to the elevator, to take advantage of 1/2 price drying. May take some more tomorrow. Thanks for another video.

[@hvy1ton]

The wire nuts for tracer wire that gets buried with utilities come prefilled with dielectric silicone and have a butt cap to keep the dirt out. First time I saw one, my first thought was thank god most people don't know these exist.

[@45Deere9500]

@@hvy1ton Have seen those, and used them for direct burial, low voltage applications. Specifically accent lights around a house.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Don’t go advertising that on the internet. Those things are best kept a secret.

[@hvy1ton]

2012 was a rough year down here. Dry beans, green pods, and we had all the corn shelled by Labor Day.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

We were in a lucky spot that year. We kept getting all summer but all around us was in a drought for like 3 months.

[@marcbeebe]

Ah checking the hydraulic fluid! Memories of my '67 F600 that had a scissor lift - with the body of the cylinder being the reservoir. So you couldn't check/fill it unless the bed was up, and if the oil was low it wouldn't go up. You had to always check it before use because you did not want to go through unloading with a bed that wouldn't raise. No one likes shovelling that much!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I have a friend with a hoist like that. Stupid design but I guess it was cheap.

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

Here in NE Arkansas we got 5 inches in the span of a day basically (it rained for 3, but we got 5 on Thursday alone). Slowed harvest down quite a bit. However, it was so dang dry before that that its actually soaking in fairly well. Not fast, but better than you'd expect.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That’s a lot of water.

[@dylanhockaday9878]

Ever one around me has started picking corn I’m probably for to start next week and se how it goes around hear hope the best for y’all

[@teebugg66]

That hydraulic tank needs a dang sight glass tube thing on the side!

[@mattgeissler1814]

Had the same problems with the vacuum booster. Ended up converting the truck to a Bosch hydromax. Trucks are too handy to let brake problems shut them down.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Dad has talked about trying that.

[@rodder2046]

It might be more trouble than it is worth but a couple of 90 degree fittings and a piece of clear hose or tubing and you could make a sight glass for the hydraulic tank. I had the same problem with a Chevy C/30 loosing brake fluid. I never did find the leak.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I think that’s just something these trucks do.

[@Adam_Poirier]

Its crazy the difference a year makes huh? Even here in the northeast, fought through mud for weeks and weeks it was miserable. This year Im coughing up crap every morning from the dust haha

[@martinwaddell]

Be careful of that soybean dust. It will really mess up your lungs wear a respirator if you need to.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I’ll take hot and dry over cold and wet any day.

[@mikekahl4745]

Apparently NC was dry with low yields because they want corn hauled from MD to NC.

[@johnbeldon635]

The neighboring county had some ass wipe going around setting ditch banks and field on fire. Had about 6 different fire departments running around putting them out.

[@mikekenyon3322]

@Ethan, just use a tape measure to measure the hyd, oil level

[@realmongo7565]

Always enjoy your maintenance videos Ethan, especially the fabrication episodes. Have you tried NAPA for medium duty truck brake parts yet?

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

They don’t have anything.

[@paulletsinger4896]

Be interesting to see if there's a difference with knifing in or spreading dry over the top

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

This year urea would have done better with all the rain.

[@WilliamWebb-i4f]

Everything is south Ga is off this year

[@GenDiesel]

My town, we had a farmer killed when the had grain truck had bed raised up in the air like that and crushed him. So sad.

[@gordonbuss1476]

What town was this? I was 14 years old working at my father’s grain and feed business when a farmer hauling grain to our elevator was raising the box up that was loaded with corn. He leaned over the frame to do something and the box fell down on him and killed him.

[@jamesbreault5762]

5 wks straight of a 100 plus degrees here in west texas

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That’s hot enough

[@TracyWehmiller]

Just add oil if your bed doesn't raise all the way up

[@aaronb1300]

Cardone still remans the Hydrovacs

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Where are they at?

[@wayneepp5287]

Hate to even watch someone crawl under a truck with it raised.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It’s sketchy

[@ScottEwen-k2h]

The amount of equipment you grease im surprised you dont have a battery operated grease gun

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Hate them.

[@cwbyrdng-l1b]

i have a 1980 chevy c70 tandem grain truck with 20 ft grain bed the motor i think 427 but not sure, but any ways i replace all the park lights and tail lights with LED lights and the cab lights and put new iron head tires all around. I like the buckeye beds my dad had a 1972 chevy c60 with a buckeye bed and that truck was a tank and i wish it was still around any ways he sold it to buy a semi and grain trailer. But i hate my bed it is a omaha bed and it has the same lift cylinders as your truck and mine is going to need a rebuilt as well and when you find the seal kit let me know i wanna rebuild mine. It would be nice if you could post a photo of stuff to show the comments. Because why the guy before me painted the front body of the truck but not me i painted the bed 2 years ago and everyone though i painted the hole truck

[@jackoughton5661]

Please block the box on your truck before going under to check oil

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Na.