Harvest '22 - Getting After Some Soybeans

Spend a beautiful fall day with us, harvesting beans with the John Deere 4400 combine.

[@stephenrice4554]

Nice to see your combine working so well , your new employee , Rod , seems like a stand up character . The goats look good . Great video 👍🇬🇧

[@ravenviewfarm]

Thanks Stephen! Always good to hear from you!

[@douglasrusselljr7707]

Really happy to see a video from you again! Thanks for allowing us to be a part of your day!

[@sammuelmeger7996]

Brings back memories harvesting with the Oliver 7300

[@taylorsunderlage5176]

Seems like a great machine. Nice new employee too!

[@ravenviewfarm]

He does his job and never complains! But he does seem a little weak in the knees, especially when the ground is really hard, and I’ve had to straighten him out once or twice and give him a pep talk.

[@pagrainfarmer]

Your 4400 is really working well. I've had mine for 6 years now, and love it. Was having overheating problems, but last winter (video on my channel) I had the radiator re-cored and that solved the problem. They are really great machines for us smaller farmers - just the right size. And they clean well. Mine does an especially good job on corn. My friend Cory is amazed at how clean my sample is - he can't duplicate it with his JD 9500. In terms of your lights, I replaced all the lights on mine 2 years ago. This past fall I was putting in a new cab fan and noticed that my lights worked intermittently. Actually, just the ones mounted on the cab. Those that were not directly on the cab worked fine. I had grounded each light on the cab TO the cab directly and it turned out that whatever grounds the cab to the rest of the combine was not making good contact. I ran a new ground wire directly to the cab and no more light problems. Something to think about. I not an expert on automotive wiring, but this worked for me.

[@Budd56]

I'm glad you got some new help with the camera. Welcome aboard "Rod"😊😊😊😎 Thanks for the video 👍👍👍✌️

[@miguelangelvalderrama1808]

Woooowwww😲 that is a JD 4400 my favorite one when i used to be a child 🤗

[@GeigerFarm]

🙂👍🏻. We were dry as well 🤷‍♂️

[@j.jaeger9791]

Rod did a great job

[@ravenviewfarm]

And he doesn't talk back or complain!

[@davidhaubenstricker304]

Looks like the goats did a good job! I am thankful for the new video. I agree about folding the auger in, it is expensive and a pain in the butt to fix an oops.

[@claytoncuster6030]

Thanks for taking time to put this together. Well 👍

[@boe4448]

What a beautiful farm. Nice, very capable combines. Enjoyed watching your vireo. Thanks ,Boe

[@ravenviewfarm]

Thanks Boe! Our buildings and infrastructure need some TLC, but you're right, it is a beautiful place to live and work. We remind ourselves regularly how lucky we are.

[@leewoodhams8764]

Good to see some recent videos. Thanks. Keep up the positive attitude even when things don’t turn out as well as you might have liked.

[@ravenviewfarm]

I might be a little off base, but I can't recall ever meeting a successful farmer who was a die-hard pessimist! Thanks for watching!

[@calebperkins4268]

good to see the goats again

[@ArmpitStudios]

Ah, it's good to see Autumn again, although today is 34° and it's raining on all the snow. I never thought about the auger on that combine being manually positioned. It's motorized on my ol' 105-I just tap the O key on my keyboard. 🤓 But with last year's lack of rain and poor yield, you didn't have to worry about constantly extending/retracting it. Rod = bahaha! Did you end up selling any of your maple syrup?

[@ravenviewfarm]

Those computer combines are slick! Just a tap of a key and you're on your way! I ended up hanging on to quite a bit of my syrup, just because I wasn't putting in the effort to market it. But now I've made a deal with some neighbors to sell it in their on-farm store, so that's pretty exciting stuff!

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏