Kewanee & Mayrath

Someone asked me to dive a little bit further into the company history of the manufacturers of our two augers.
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[@waterskiingfool]

Nice history lesson on the companies

[@markallen3293]

You are a hard working lucky man. I miss farming with my father. We a small 350 acre dairy farm in southern Minnesota. I remember the milk cans and cleaned the barn with a fork and shovel. Dad eventually up graded the barn with milk pipeline, Patz barn cleaner, Patz silo unloader with conveyor and bunk feeder. I used to joke that I got callouses on my index finger from all the buttons I had to push. Those were the days, I miss them terribly. Stay safe my friend, yes I am a subscriber. M

[@dirtthunder1638]

Kewaunee was bought out by Allied. Allied also owned Brush Hog, Krause, New Idea and White Farm Equipment. AGCO the successor to the Alice Chalmers and Gleaner combine lines bought the New Idea and White lines but not the Brush Hog, Krause and Kewaunee lines. Allied sold it's stake in Krause back to the Krause family as Allied had run it in to the red. Kewaunee was absorbed in to Brush Hog and most of the line was slowly discontinued. AGCO was not interested in Kewaunee as it was in talks to buy Sunflower a competitor to Kewaunee in the ag. tillage market. We had a Kewaunee disk and totally used it up. It had the blades replaced twice and countless welds. We gave it away in a trade for a JD. Nice video Ryan.

[@AndersonFarms]

a grain cart is one of the best additions one can make to their machinery lineup

[@mostlyneutral]

Ryan can you do a video about the history of your farm?

[@dshutts4625]

CheeseOnion2 2 great idea... history of all farms and/or feilds you guys all have together

[@williamsmith1234]

CheeseOnion2 2 that would be cool.

[@mostlyneutral]

Yeah it would. Been wondering about it a while.

[@russellmoore943]

Would also be interested on the history of the farm if possible.And informative video

[@barrybeggs8543]

Thank you for the history lesson.. Our big disc was a 19.5 Kewanee .,pulled by a Oliver 1850 diesel.. Wisconsin Bear

[@kevinwillis9126]

Great video Ryan Thanks...

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yep same with their disks... Nephew had a Kewanee disk... did a pretty good job, but it was a rock flex and everybody who's run those know that periodically those "C-springs" that provide the rock-flex break... Good luck finding THOSE any more either! Really a shame, but it's just how it goes sometimes... Dad had a Mayrath pull-type sprayer when I was a kid... it was a long hemispherical-ended fiberglass tank that sat sideways on a small cart. He had welded some small hitches on that curved around behind the wheels so he could pull the rollers behind it, and used it to band the Cotoran on the planted cotton (back in those days we still used "blackland" type or "lister" planters, which had a single gauge wheel followed by a wide sweep that opened up the ground and shaved the top of the bed off, then a sword opener that placed the seed in the soil, and then a pair of offset covering shovels about 4 inches on either side of the sword opener and a ways behind it, to throw loose moist soil over the seed. There was no means of firming the soil over the seed as you planted, and in our sticky black clay it would gum up terribly anyway, so you let the ground dry off on top for about an hour or two after you planted, then followed up with the rollers to pack the ground over the seed so it didn't dry out completely, so the seed was firmed into moist soil...) and then pull the rollers to firm the soil over the seed. It also had a suspended boom on the back, which we kept folded up during planting season, but which he used to spray Treflan down in the spring ahead of the disk... Of course all these extra trips added up, and required another guy to do. In the late 70's he bought a 200 gallon tank and mounted it on the front of the tractor, and mounted booms the width of the implement under the belly of the tractor right behind the front axle, where it was easy to see. A broadcasting boom allowed him to spray Treflan down and disk it in immediately in a single trip with only one guy driving the tractor. A banding boom allowed him to spray a "stripe" of Cotoran or Caparol down the top of the bed after it had been planted, and pull the rollers at the same time (we had been using a banding boom under the tractor belly that way for years since he bought the Mayrath sprayer, by running a hose down to it from the spray controller on the front of the sprayer, and pulling the rollers directly behind the sprayer tank... Later I mounted the banding boom directly behind the planter on homemade brackets, to spray the band directly behind the press wheels on the 7100 Deere planter, saving another step, since rolling the planted land was no longer required... the front mount tank of the tractor also nicely offsets the weight of the loaded planter on the 3 point hitch (basically guys only use 3 point hitch mounted planters down in this part of the world-- you almost NEVER see pull-type planters here). The problem with the Mayrath sprayer was that the tires were mounted on these weird rims made of up of the ring for the tire to mount on, with centers made out of two interlocking triangles of steel with a pipe in between, which held a pair of ball bearings in with snap rings, which slid onto the axles and were retained with roll pins. Since there was no way to unbolt the rim for tire repairs, you had to pull them off the axles and dismount the tires by hand... So when we no longer used it it got parked in the fencerow for about 20 years and left to rot. Later I revived it and cut off the old straight steel axles and weird wheels and replaced them with trailer weld-on axle stubs and Ford hubs and pickup rims/tires. That made tire changes much easier. The old fiberglass tank was so old it looked like a giant Tylenol covered in cat hair, so I took the tank off and burned it and replaced it with the old front-mount tank and saddle off the tractor (by this time we had a new tractor and I'd bought a new tank and saddle for it since the old one was showing its age). I used it for some odd-jobs around the farm and it's still parked down at the other end of the place. The stupid steel pipe "wet boom" system (spray bodies clamped over holes drilled in a steel pipe with rubber seals, into which the spray filters and nozzles are screwed into) were all bent up and rusty and never worked very well so I just scrapped the entire boom assembly off it... Later! OL J R :)

[@waylondunkin3175]

Great video Ryan.

[@jackcarmichael3020]

I love your videos they give me advice for my farm One day I hope my farm will be like yours

[@smileyclownyloks9949]

Jack Carmichael me to

[@rodolphoferreira4315]

Também adoro trabalhar no campo...

[@schilmillerfarms240]

Thanks for all you do

[@stevemondal.]

Thank you Ryan.

[@louisnemick317]

Thanks for the information Ryan.

[@justincase2830]

Interesting history of the augers. The weak link on the Kewanee disks were the scrapers in less than ideal conditions.

[@andreww.9939]

Cool and I hope the Mayrath works for you. It sucks when you get something from an auction and it doesn’t work. Nice fun facts and video!

[@cuznjo1]

very interesting, thanks

[@jacksonhunterandfarmer2673]

Great vid Ryan

[@masonwoodward9758]

Great video

[@brianhrobsky9200]

I didn't know Kewanee made grain elevators. I knew they made elevators for hay, corn, and corn stalks (fodder) though. Plus one of the farms I helped out on had a Kewanee cultimulcher. Original color was like a olive green and a yellow/Orange paint job on the tire rims. They still use that to this day

[@bobsmith1814]

Very informative video

[@nolbtank]

I can see u guys using both of them to save time from bin to bin in harvest season

[@albertusmostert5418]

If you have time can you please make an video on how to operate the harvester

[@janmayes6578]

Keep an eye on the bottom gear box on mayrath. Top seal has a tendency to let dirt and moisture into gearbox.

[@kris7625]

Swing augers have two gearboxes, one at the bottom to turn the main auger then one in the top of the elbow to turn the swing. I think you guys would find it easier to empty bins with a 40x10 auger than using the swing, but each to their own

[@WorkingonFarms]

Great video Ryan very information. Thanks for filming and have a great day. Also first comment and first view

[@vinniewilson2165]

Interesting facts.

[@michaelcable1780]

very good video

[@superliner101hobbyfarming]

I like that you do videos based off of comments! could you do a video on trying out the gooseneck flatbed on your truck please

[@rodolphoferreira4315]

Muito bom seu canal, sou do Brasil e tenho uma pequena fazenda. Gostaria muito de um dia poder conhecer uma fazenda nos EUA...

[@MatthewHoag77]

Thanks for the update, Ryan. I hope it serves you well into the future. Your next elevating equipment might be something totally different, but this will get you through until that becomes something in need of more immediate consideration.

[@willcase1505]

nice video

[@robertreznik9330]

In the western plains few farmers store grain...farmer rather built co'ops to store and merchandise. Makes it nice to specialize and become very expert. Using augers is slow...just one combine can harvest over 3,000 bu/hr.

[@d0u6s]

Cue cards? ... Good info!

[@matthewbrehm4866]

What about setting one up at one farm and one at the other? That would keep travel wear down,and cut use time per down...stretch the long gevity out..

[@cooperlong8293]

What happened to the Denali?

[@Rick-rx1tv]

Hay Ryan, when do you plan on planting this year? By the end of this month or mid May?

[@prairiecreekfarm922]

Ryan could you do a video on the cameras you have

[@remcoscholtmeijer3044]

What happend to the planter video that should be uploaded last wednesday?

[@ImCIA]

is it possible for mold to grow from the left over material in the flighting from moisture?

[@rodolphoferreira4315]

Qual é sua região, que estado fica?

[@collinreckner3652]

On that gravity wagon thats says "Have a nice day" is that a sticker or was that painted on?

[@stephaniemiller4865]

I live in Kewanee

[@generationll]

Have you ever thought about getting a Westfield?

[@darthmurdoch]

Ryan being in central Ohio I see many concrete silos no longer in use why is that?

[@fredf3391]

Maybe a 30 '×10" load out auger be better then dragging that big thing around and you ain't running them bushels through it

[@karlbrohammer9105]

Good suggestion for a 10, 12 or 13" x 30' auger unit for bin unloading at off site farms. Ryan makes a great point for use of Grain Carts for field use loading trucks, trailers vs auger transfers , therefore increase efficiency of harvesting. They will add equipment as cash flow warrants, Kuster motto.

[@cdarting91]

I could have sworn that AGCO was an independent company.

[@mstr-farms257]

Anyone else get a how farms work commercial on this?

[@devandulin6073]

Mayrath and Hutchison merged at some point in time and make the same products but with Mayrath sticker or Hutchison sticker

[@nicolasgregg5435]

how big is your soybean header in feet?

[@smileyclownyloks9949]

What's the difference between Tillage and chiseling ?

[@brodykoenigs9006]

Tillage is a very broad term that really just means to work the soil. Chiseling is using a chisel plow to tear deep into the ground. Really chiseling is tillage, but not all tillage is chiseling

[@smileyclownyloks9949]

Brody Koenigs what does chiseling do?

[@brodykoenigs9006]

Tommy's Farms it digs roughly 6-14 inches in the ground. It is used to bring compaction out of the ground and brings up nutrients that have seeped down into the soil through the year.

[@smileyclownyloks9949]

Brody Koenigs what is tilage for?

[@mstr-farms257]

Tommy's Farms Tillage is a form of disturbing the soil to prepare the ground for the upcoming crop. And to dry the ground up as well as bring dormant nutrients up.

[@gregoryshaykett8899]

HOW IS JAMIE

[@isaacthomas1189]

my dad logs

[@prkrngr27]

Brush hog videos of the pasture

[@stevesadler3082]

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[@ztj-vv9zp]

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[@tdgreenbay]

Kewaunee is out of business dang hate it

[@jud719]

Great video