How Did That Come Apart??

[@paigebevier5124]

Would absolutely love for you your dad and grandpa to do a back history of how you all got started and what tractors you used ect. Just to see the progression of family farms and machines threw the years

[@thomasleonard1846]

They don’t answer questions!

[@denisonr]

Paige... go to vintage aerial, select Minnesota, select Bit stone county, select film roll 26 and go to picture #29

[@TheJimmybud]

I remember helping Grandpa dump seed and dry fertilizer in his 4 row JD pulled with a JD 730 diesel, and burning the bags on the end rows! You always threw a dirt clod on the bags to keep them from blowing away! Good old days!

[@jackwillie2729]

Long forgotten ,,dad did the same back in to 50s, 60's,,he passed away last year at 98 he was always amazed at modern today,,what stories to share

[@glennspreeman1634]

our first 4 row was a 494 with dry fertilizer. cost $400!!

[@ethanmoore8281]

My grandpa said he used to drive 40 miles in an old White straight truck, picked up 12,000lbs of fertilizer in bags on the side of a back road and thats all they had for the season. Now I drive to town and get 70,000lbs bulk blended in about 15 minutes. It's crazy how far we've come as an industry.

[@andyadelmann3158]

We had 100 acres of potatoes, , 80lb Howe fertilizer bags in the front hoppers and 100 lb of cut seed potatoes in the back hoppers then corn and bean planting all bags lol them were the good old days!

[@trucker1375]

I remember sitting on the fender, riding with my grandfather as he planted with the 4 row new idea planter. Loading the planter with dry fertilizer and bags of pioneer corn. My grandfather was also a pioneer seed salesman. Every spring 2 semis loaded with pallets of pioneer corn were delivered. I was allowed to skip school and help unload the trucks. Then grandpa and I would start the deliveries. I sure do miss those days and especially my grandfather, he passed in 2009.

[@roberthakeman9822]

My boss Dad was a Pioneer salesman and during Pioneer days we would go to town to the Morton building he had as his farm was on the north side of town and we would go to town and work on equipment and load trucks of farmers who would come and pay for the seed and take it home and we also would get a few games of horse in as my boss Dad had a forklift and we mounted a basketball hoop to a pallet and we put a big slab of concrete on the pallet and we could raise the pallet to whatever height we wanted and we would go to town also on rainy days and when we went to town we would eat dinner at the house with his Mom and Dad she was a great cook. My boss Dad was a War veteran and he sold Pioneer seed close to 40 years and maybe more but Pioneer fired him so they wouldn't have to pay him his retirement which was sad and he was well off but it's the thought of what he worked for and didn't get. Both my boss and his dad and mom have passed away in the last 15 years and my boss was hit from behind on his motorcycle down in the Ozarks and was killed instantly and his came up from behind and found his dad on the ground and the guy got off Scott free didn't serve any time at all.

[@gunfisher4661]

Reminds me of the olden days when the farming kids where more or less expected to miss certain days during the seasons.

[@Mikesdyna55]

Chet i love seeing your Mom in the Videos such a sweet lady

[@NeisenTransport]

Winter is so fun for grain farmers...just get to shop and spend money and buy shiny new toys.

[@buddhaboy10]

Best AG channel on KZbin.

[@kennethkeller2602]

Brody is a great asset to your team ( excellent machinists skills)

[@mikewarren9850]

Oh yes, I remember in the early 70's pulling a 6 row 30" JD 494A with dry box's and pulling it with a Oliver Diesel 770 row crop! We filled fertilizer box's with a scoop shovel out of the back of the grain truck, and had to fill the seed box's with bagged seed. Between listening to exhaust barking and the high pitched whine of the Oliver tranny (straight cut spur gears) and all of the screeching dry bushings and chains on the planter for 12 hrs. a day, you would be deaf, and mind numb. Talk about a "Struggle Bus"! I agree with paige bevier below, would love to hear a detailed back history about equipment and amount of acres and tillage, planting, harvesting methods.

[@vicinglis3736]

Good to see the back office stuff ...... and Mom .

[@dustinTruckNorris]

If you ever tour Hyland machine stop by north of town for a drink! Small time family farm here and love the content. Those guys at Hyland crank out those lateral arms!

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Awesome video. Good to see Amy pop in the video. She is awesome.

[@bradbrown9192]

K.I.S.S!!!!!! I knew exactly what you were going to say Dougo!!!!! i love it!

[@billfolty6302]

You do your research Kid's Been a Honda Guy all of my 50 out of my 63 years here!

[@ronshauling2000]

Family, Framly, thank you for your video today showing Mom at the end was a nice treat.

[@shanebeeson4123]

You’ll love the Honda. Can’t kill them.

[@SwitchRod]

Awesome video...Dougo's planter/tech reflections outstanding. In 1971, a senior in high school, I took much (everything?) for granted. I was youngest of eight...a "surprise." I was 17..Dad was 70. Yeah, I question the truth of me being a pleasant "surprise." Regardless, I've lived a Blessed life. I'll keep that in heart, mind, and PRAYER as we slip into as difficult a time as man has ever faced... I believe God has created us for this time...we are "The Chosen"(a must see media diamond). Lives of prayer, living the Great Commandment and working the Great Commission are the most important "work." My only brother Les is 21 years older than me...he was 38, working his tail of trying to feed his five young sons and wife. Dad had cattle, my brother had hogs (I hate hogs...except for bacon). My brother also had a custom hay swathing business, and I was the primary (very reasonably paid) equipment operator. However, when we were "making hay" the pace was frantic, days long. I'd try to be in the field no later than 06:00, swather serviced, and in the cut. I'd run 'til around 21:00...then my brother would take over. There were many mornings I'd arrive to find him still cutting. Stud... He and Dad had negotiated the purchase of the neighbor's farm, and bought a new tractor; my brother bought all the used implements he could afford...a well-used rod weeder. Thankfully the new farm was (is) contiguous with the home place, so equipment sharing was feasible. Back to Dougo's musings... My father was born in 1900, started farming with his older brother at age 13...my grandfather had died. My grandparents homesteaded the farm in 1879. My father finished school at the end of eigth grade...yet he could help me with algebra, geometry, even trigonometry?! It would seem one room schools were not a disadvantage. I came home from a date too late (actually early morning) and found him pacing the floor in his pajamas, looking pretty stressed. I was thinking, "I'm dead." Nothing was said to me?! Gulp... So I "gambled"...asked him what was wrong. I was stunned. He was fretting over the new mortgage on the home place, and questioning the purchase of the $60,000 (remember, 1970s dollars) tractor. He said he would prefer to return to the days of teams of horses. Chuckle, his older brother was nearly kicked off the farm by Grandma...for buying one of the first tractors in the area, in 1926. Dad described harvest in the Palouse Country of Southeastern Washington State...up at 04:00 to feed, water and harness up the horses; as many as six teams of two to six horses each. Then, a hearty breakfast before hitting the field. A quick, big "dinner" in the field...harvest 'til dusk, followed by feeding, watering and dressing down the horses. Rinse off the sweat and the grime, eat a "light" supper...asleep before your head hit the pillow. The workload wasn't much different for Spring and Fall cultivating and seeding...plus the chickens, hogs and cattle. Unbelievable... He made it clear hard work, and being debt free was far better than "modern" life. I felt pretty lazy... I tried to reassure him, "There's no way Les will fail...you've raised another 'you.'" Fail he didn't...my nephew and newly married grand-nephew still farm those two farms, and lease three neighbors places. Hmmm...two more studs. They've "married up" too. The equipment and technology has changed much...but for the better? Debatable... Not debatable is the heart and will of the farmer/rancher...the brainpower. Many people I trust and respect understand the "Great Reset"...the evil of the World Economic Forum, the Big Corporation, the Globalist-Communist "elites"...an odd mix of Communism and Fascism. "You'll own nothing, and be happy." Way sad so many compliant/asleep sheep plod along the trail of fear and lies...to the slaughterhouse. There is hope, Paul Harvey said it well, "So God made a farmer." Thank you Father. God doesn't win...HE'S WON. Time to "be STRONG and COURAGEOUS...FEARLESS (Isaiah 1:9) SAVED and JUSTIFIED... (Romans 10:9,10) BY FAITH... (Hebrews 11) ARMORED-UP... (Ephesians 6) Be HOT or COLD...lukewarm spittle doesn't cut it. My thoughts, love and prayers to all...even those criminals, the tyrants trying to destroy us. 🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏 ...in Christ

[@edsutherlin473]

I could not have ever said it better. I serve an awesome God.

[@welshcake2859]

I think that your MUM is Awesome she is always smiling xx

[@bradpogue3448]

Good video Dougo is confused enough with 4 monitors and add another monitor boy he will have nightmares lol. Thank goodness we have changed so over the years. Be safe and careful

[@MttubeDew]

YA ALL should shoot a video on it monitor control for dougo so he can rewatch it every year and remember the tricks to running the planter

[@larrybe2900]

A voice memo on the phone as thoughts or ideas come might be worth a try.

[@Manoffire260]

Love the color on your new Honda

[@jeromemiller5262]

Setup storage in the bed of the pioneer, you will have tools, spare parts/oils/grease as it will become to shop truck for soft fields.

[@joepercifield5017]

I have not heard KISS for years , Thanks for the memory

[@tomadelsberger6101]

Brody seems like a good fit and hard worker right at home working on the planter Mom doing great job keeping the Big Swede in line 👍

[@BuckWheat0591]

I watch Millennial, Welker's, Corn Star, and Larson regularly. I must say that your show is my favorite, however its a very close call. There seems to be less serious business and slightly more fun at the Larson's. Just keep Dougo on the scene as much as possible, I like his old school humor and is relative to my 71 yr age. Your new helper is helping you guys have more time to clown around. Lets face it we all need to have more fun. Keep it coming.

[@donaldeverette6498]

I'm 71 and could have written this. They are the same ones I watch👍

[@michaelmcdonald9179]

Ditto!

[@justincase2830]

@@donaldeverette6498 and Sonne farms for me too to get my livestock fix!

[@Ticdaniel]

Wouldnt watch cornstar even if i get payed 🤣🤣 cant stand that goofball

[@happycanayjian1582]

@@Ticdaniel Right you are. Kid needs some serious ADHD meds…

[@lannyfenster7461]

Retired now. I had one of the first auto steer JD , I have a great memory but it’s just Very short, so took videos of how to set up everything including how to reset codes,ie which fuse to remove and put back in. I phones video with voice worked great, can send to another unit operator that is having trouble. Have a GREAT planting season🚜✈️

[@wisconsinschmidtfarms6820]

I noticed it has custom offsets on dougos planter. And I remember planting with my grandpa with a 6 row 7000 series planter that had dry firtilizer.

[@pullimgsm]

Check out graphite impregnated plastics as a bushing replacement. Will outlast steel and even roller chain without lubrication . Was amazed by this stuff in a 24/7 industrial application .

[@richardbrown3956]

You're gonna live it. 15,000 miles on mine, zero problems

[@onefixitman]

Looking forward to planting season. Nice honda.

[@gerryhartung736]

Kudos to Brodie, joined the Larson Team!

[@kevinkelby94]

Dougo talking about using a six row corn planter. I still use a six row with dry fertilizer and use the marker to stay on roll with no auto steer

[@steveb6103]

And no cab, heat or AC. Maybe if you where lucky it wasn't to windy for the umbrella so you could have a little shade.

[@curtisowens4588]

Hi everyone keep up the good work. Hello Toby boy.

[@Jack-ne8vm]

2:40 You need 1 customizable rectangular screen you can connect multiple inputs to.. Move & size displays as needed.

[@redbeard4021]

You should make a video at the end of planting season to teach yourselves how to run the planter next year. Might save yourself some headaches at the beginning of the season.

[@davidpope4492]

THAT statue you showed in Brazil I was at the base of that statue when I was in the service.

[@peggyswander8222]

True story. I spent a few minutes looking around my house for that annoying ticking noise. And then Brodie turns it off. Thanks, Brodie!

[@robleask1449]

Hello there If you look up Iver's farmers they too had to change arms on there planter, but there new arms came with bearing in where the bolts went through.

[@ricklad129]

You are going to love having that side x side,it will get lots of use on the farm.

[@glenmurra2263]

I hear you. Dougo on keep it simple I work for a farmer back in the 80s and he had an eight row planter and went up to a 16 row I was the planter operator all we had back then was the monitor and the markers no GPS no electronics or computers no high-intensity headlights or LEDs for headlights the and when we got that 16 row planter we thought we really had something I always got comments from everybody on how straight my rows were it's just amazing our technology has come into farming whether that's good or bad I don't know but now when you can't get stuff it might be open for debate whether it's good anyhow you guys have a safe spring love your Channel Spring's coming to Southern Minnesota and Central Minnesota where you're in just a couple weeks Everybody Take Care

[@billwhitman1529]

Yep Doug, our goal was to do 80 acres a day. We had a White planter but the same Dickey-John monitor mounted on the fender of our John Deere 4020. Covered a lot of ground. That monitor was pretty good, it would scream at you if a row wasn't planting.

[@asmrhead1560]

My dad was also a disciple of the KISS principle. And he was a commercial printer and computer service engineer. When he retired he worked on steam engines as a hobby.

[@duanesorgaard2597]

Helped my dad with his 4 row JD Planter, cutting edge for his 80 acres in Montevideo, MN in the 70’s.

[@tomcleghorn4005]

He changed his mind quick when he remembered the lights!

[@sotaboys665]

Love the custom offsets sticker on the planter 😂😂

[@danshepler9933]

Hi Doug, when I was a kid our corn planter wasTWO row.

[@kylereimer9818]

Dougo talking about planters is interesting, because I operate a 6 row planter with dry fertilizer. And I’m only 18 years old, not one of those old timers!

[@jeannankeefe845]

I loved when you guys bought the equipment at the auction and the first thing out of your mouth was " we better call mom" seems like moms always have their hands in everything. 😆

[@liftbig03]

I love to hear Doug-o talk about the equipment that they've had over the years. I was most fascinated with his talking about harvesting with the John Deere 55's and a -what was it?- 4400? I'm old enough to remember those old planter monitors, too! LOL!!

[@kevinwilliams8662]

Enjoyed the show

[@dmorgan28]

We always enjoy you and your Dad going on about something. Lol. It was a good session in the shop. Your Mom and the whole gang was there today ….well…..almost. Cool video. 👍👍👍❤️

[@johnseverson6676]

That great when Doug talks about the old days

[@stevehammond7485]

It's always a great video when we get to see the lovely Amy...ok Erik, you're lovely too.

[@elizabethliska5377]

My father used an IH cyclo 6 row 36 spacing planting sunflowers starting in 78

[@michaelsurratt9593]

Good to see Mama Larson’s office. Of course you had to put Erik in there so she can keep him out of trouble.

[@vernshahan2913]

Hey guys I remember when out planter seed boxes had a rod that came out of the lid with a pad that set on top of the seed, you watched to make sure the rods went down even.

[@noelduffey2395]

Intersting listening to Dougo reminess about how he got the work done years ago. 👍

[@MrRF007]

You will never go wrong with a Honda I’ve been running them for 40 years! my motto about Honda…..they are not trouble free but they are way less trouble than everything else!

[@ndhonda1282]

All I will every buy! Either ATV or SxS I've had many Hondas with VERY little trouble. The 1000 was awesome. Not the fastest but very reliable.

[@jimcushman9198]

Love the Honda. Got a 700 myself and I retired from Honda here in Ohio.

[@spideybrent]

Hello from Canada

[@dwightdupy4156]

Chet, when it is cold out and you want to save some LP, you should set your BigAss Fans to run at a slow setting and have it push the warm air off the ceiling in the shop. This will reduce your energy bills. Especially, when the LP costs are going up.

[@TB-dw7yn]

I remember the dicky John monitors we lost a few of the orange covers so we had white and orange lights

[@kylefiebig]

Great Find on your Honda Chet!!

[@jtn-minn8105]

I'm one of the old "those that know" guys, dry fert on the planter, if it was a little muddy under the grayed off top soil the double opener fert disc pulled up enough mud to slide the row unit discs...good times.

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Like your skid loader Chet, now that you own one you will wonder how you ever got along without one some family members and my helper some of them pressured me to get one here a few years ago we have a Kawasaki mule it is as handy as a pair of pliers crescent wrench anything it is a machine that I'll never be with that one now I have one save so many steps the jobs we find for it innumerable

[@steveneal2706]

awesome video guys. thank you

[@larisimon5451]

I agree with Paige Bevier. I too would love to hear the family history of your farm!

[@3gasman]

It was a John Deere A pulling a 494 planter 4 rows 40” spacing for my start.

[@jamesbreault5762]

Good stuff guys

[@sallydunbar1683]

Love Dougo's trips down memory lane! Technology has come so far! I can remember my Dad's tractors years ago without cabs, his yellow/green square umbrella to shade him & he'd be covered in dust/dirt from working ground & the wind. Good times, maybe your Dad could secretly record Grandpa talking about the good old days? Good to see Toby & Mrs Dougo.

[@eddiejeselink2996]

Wow 8 rows, back in the day I rode the 4 row bean planter as a 10 year old to keep the hoppers full behind an ole 806.....yes 10 years old.

[@lynpostlethwait3083]

Very great new video on the farm again and shop work

[@daveswensen9627]

Dougo, I had a Dickey-John with the blinking yellow lights too. I liked to refer to it as the Exedrin monitor! After a few night time hours with those strobe lights, you needed some headache relief! :)

[@stevenicoson6670]

Thanks for another great video. Most enjoyable and interesting. Hey Chet, really like your Honda machine. That piece of equipment will get a lot of use. They are used on almost all farms. Honda is a super machine. Like that. You will enjoy that machine. Really enjoyed Dougo ‘s looking back in time running a planter. Time and technology have really changed farming and machinery. Thanks Dougo for doing that. Enjoyable. You and Brody and Eric are really coming along with getting the planters ready for spring work. You all are a super team and work great together. My compliments to each of you. Good teamwork!!!!! Now days the behind the scenes work with computer system takes a lot of time. Just a part of today’s farm operation. Good to see Toby dog. Sending a pat on the head for Toby. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything you do for us. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.

[@rustynail2205]

Broadie seems like a hard worker and has adjusted to the camera well. A great addition to the crew.

[@brucewatson1217]

Eric it’s great for your farm y’all or be blessed to have you sounds like he knows what he’s doing and I know you know what you’re doing I think you for what you doing y’all are awesome

[@steveengelbrecht7271]

Grandpa always had a four row JD planter. Usually relied on red tractors. It was said he planted some of the straightest rows in Appaloosa Township, Hancock County, Illinois. I remember he would hang his coat on a fence post, go to the other end of field to plant his first pass. He could watch the coat and not get his post mixed up..

[@ChevyC-hf6km]

Checking in to see what you bought this week.

[@IuriMenin]

Hello from Brazil guys

[@dougo5635]

you fellows ought to explore the various grades of plastics for use in situations like the one your showing in this video. I have used them in many high impact applications in sawmills, paper mills and oil refineries. You may also make the pins or bolts that go through the bushings so that they have a plastic sleeve over them to reduce the wear substantially but have good shear strength from the steel bolt.

[@micahharman1493]

Dougo you only had 4 screens in your tractor last year. That's based on plant 21 video 16 last day of planting. Hope that is helpful.

[@chrissalyer50]

I was in the army and we used the same acronym k i s s and it stood for the same thing

[@paulkuske1457]

You guys would be so nice to work for. Thanks for sharing your farm with us all

[@johnrodgers7633]

Dougo, I feel for you. It did seem to be easier back in the day pulling up to the fertilizer wagon and fill the boxes with a shovel. We shoveled tons of fertilizer every spring. All those monitors and stuff to watch probably tire you out more in a day. Bless you Larsen's

[@farmhandluke5182]

Congrats on the new to you Honda , your gonna wonder how you managed for so long without one! Can’t wait to see it with the tracks on later! And Hope you can teach Toby to like riding in it! 🐶 Thanks for the video! 🇺🇸✅

[@larrybe2900]

Tracks might need heftier steering.

[@AliciaGonzalez-bf3qq]

Love the hell out of these dudes and channel although I have never farmed I just haul grain. Looks like good ole fashioned fun hard work.

[@ericmurphy40]

My neighbors had the first 12 row planter in the neighborhood back in the mid 60s. They had two 6 row planters. They pulled them down the road with two 2010s and then hooked them together when they planted and pulled it with a 4010.

[@roberthakeman9822]

Hey Dougo those were the best days and we had a 12 row also and there were the days where the monitor wasn't working right during beans so what you did instead of quit working to get it fixed you would just pick the planter up slightly and when you turned on the ends look at the rows to see if there were beans on the ground behind each row to know if it was working right and you would plant around 4-6 quarters like that and those could be the best yielding beans around that you had .Chet you and Toby can go cruising around the section a few times !

[@wardfamily111]

Thank you to everyone of you guys that show us California guys what it’s like to run a very large farm and how it should operate. I see race cars that have Larson farms on the side. Is that you guys or another Larson?

[@farmerfuller87]

We little infront of you we are drilling (seeding ) and planting potatoes like mad here in Boston uk. Looking forward To seeing you lads in the fields.

[@mattm4239]

You forgot one of the best things about boundries is headland control!! Freekin awesome for planting, drilling, and strip tilling!!!! It's a must

[@tysonstout2276]

I have 3 pioneer 1000 and they work really well one has 13,000 miles on it and is still running really good

[@tysonstout2276]

you wont regret having that pioneer

[@dylanbartz6571]

Hey Larson farms custom offsets makes rims and tires for planters lmao 🤣 love the sticker, love the Minnesota farms!

[@TonyTheFlatlander]

Chet won't have anything to do at this pace. Maybe that's the plan? Happy to see spring field work slowly approaching.

[@schnakenberglloydsue7313]

Great video Chet! We really enjoyed it!! So glad you got the Honda!! It looks brand new. Good to see Toby for a minute!!!

[@stankompelien3706]

Anxious to hear see long range use of the Honda Pioneer. See how it works for you

[@elijames3041]

Grate video

[@jeremymann3746]

I still have a 6 row 7000 planter with a dickey John and plant with it

[@ericmurphy40]

Take a que from manufacturing. With the number of employees you have, it would be valuable to write operation standards. In addition to aiding in remembering how a piece of equipment operates year to year, it would also be valuable if someone has to step into a unfamiliar piece of equipment in an emergency. They wouldn't have to be as thorough as what manufacturers have, but it could include things like recommended safety protocols as well as the proper sequence for the screens and equipment.

[@tmfishingonabudget7486]

The utv's work great for mapping fields as well.

[@paulsmith8212]

KISS - Dougo , You are the smart head honcho running that entire show as far as I can tell. Keep it simple, stupid - I laughed so hard ! You sir I am sure would be a pleasure to work for and with . You have the right temperament and personality. I see Chet takes right after you . Eric is a huge help and hopefully Brody will be the same in time . Always interesting, you guys always make me smile. I can use as many smiles as possible these days . Thank you . Great Utube channel. Stay healthy and safe. Paul- St Petersburg, Fl