Let the fun begin!

[@djwheels66]

I love your channel because you just show it as it is. It’s not all, “Hey! We’re running. We’re having a great time. All is well.” It’s breakdowns, it’s figuring out things as they come up. It’s moving equipment. It’s a true harvest story. Love ya and what you do!!❤❤

[@minergate4066]

wow you edited in another video to show the work the boys were doing, what a milestone for this channel!

[@mikemitchell2554]

Blows my mind as well! 😆

[@John-nc4bl]

Men, not boys.

[@rdyardie]

A plugged combine is always a lot of "fun" to clean out. Thank you for showing somethings that can be frustrating.

[@vincegross7617]

Great show appreciate the combine information,I,m from mid Michigan we farm 2000 acres corn soys and wheat ,it’s cool to learn about different farming practices 🤠

[@gavinperry7237]

Chapel’s window toys are a “Great Stress Reliever” . Something VERY MUCH NEEDED with the issues you are having

[@halwilliams1682]

The best thing about the comments is to read all the experts opinions on which brand of machine should be used.

[@AlbertaBoy745]

Right, I bet lots of guys don't even know what they are talking about 😂😂😂# get a claas 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@petermolnar8667]

Yeah, like have they tried them all or something? We've had a Claas, contractors use Challenger and New Holland, so what? Just so many different variables...

[@AlbertaBoy745]

@@petermolnar8667 That's right ,the farm I work for had claas ,they definitely thresh pretty good but Claas just isn't big enough in America yet and and the dealer support isn't good enough,switched over s670s but they were to small ,now run New Hollands and are pretty happy with them

[@Stunningandbrave]

We run old Masseys at home. Love them because I'm familiar with them but the big Axial Flow my boss runs is hard to beat. Obviously everyone has their preferences. IMHO, Deere isn't that great...

[@richardbarnsley5782]

Surprised you leave the engine running when you are crawling around in its innards. Being a fellow who repaired combines for a living all my life I can imagine a clutch suddenly galling up or a pilot bearing seizing up and starting the threshing mechanism. You wouldn’t get me in there for any money. Have a safe harvest. Really enjoy your videos.

[@jamesclobes5703]

Your not the only one who won't unplug machines with the engine running, knew an older guy around here who passed away years ago, didn't know until reading his obituary that he was missing a foot and a half. Back in his younger days he was unplugging a pull type combine, left it running but shut the header off. As he was unplugging the feeder part a belt engaged, and the sickle cut off one of his feet at the ankle and half of his other foot. Fortunately he lived for many years after that but not something I'd want to have happen.

[@robincurwood]

@@jamesclobes5703 well said. My boss was too tight with money and he wouldn't buy a new battery for my combine. The health and safety inspector saw me cleaning the head out and gave me a rocket. I told him that I could only engage the drive clutch on the head and disengaged the threshing drum shut the throttle wait for the drum to wind down. He seemed happy with me that i was doing everything I could to remain safe short of stopping the engine. I know that he saw my boss later, but I didn't get any feedback. Combining is a dangerous machine,not to be taken for granted.

[@NeisenTransport]

Always a pleasure when Ron pays a visit. I like his content and pretty cut and dry like you Mike.

[@davidkimmel4216]

Really enjoy your truthfulness in your videos. Thank You

[@farming4g]

Those window spinners 🤣 Everyone should have some of those in all their combines.

[@stevenrudnicky2271]

Great action shots Mike! As always. Ron's video of your visit was great!

[@trevorkasas6520]

Mike all I have to say is 9.9 if you want combine tough straw.

[@aulasdedirecao]

Mike: Deere is on the phone again. They suspect the issue might be related to those spinning mechanisms on the window. It's intriguing how even the tiniest details can make such a difference in the functioning of these advanced agricultural machines. Every insight like this deepens our appreciation for the engineering marvels behind farming technology.

[@John-nc4bl]

Mike is this worlds #1 combine debugger, bar none-😊 Pay attention you combine manufacturers for more reliable machines.

[@chucklesx]

I have enough years around machinery to know that not everything can be on the outside and handy for maintenance but to all the manufacturers out there, if you design it to break (even if it's to save something else) it needs to be easy to replace in the field. Things seldom break when next to a nice shop filled with all of the nice stuff to make pulling a machine apart easy... 😂

[@John-nc4bl]

Gleaner Cleaner combines comes to mind when we think of easy fixin in the field.

[@philstahl997]

Hi Mike, we had to put wing knifes in our choppers after that we had no issues with doing lentils

[@farming4g]

Bumble bee! Bumble bee! Bumble bee! Bumble bee! If you haven't guessed, that means I hope you can try a New Holland and pair it with a MacDon some year soon... only issue it won't communicate with the rest of the Deeres. Man those lentils are something else, they almost seem worse than flax in tough conditions.. ooofff

[@ronaldluckie2834]

That's a clean looking harvest thru the window. I loved running a combine. (Without all the digitals. 1973 JD)

[@shoresharp8349]

Hey Mike Ron's a good dude , think about this his family farm is pretty RED!! Lol his channel is pretty cool , and yes I know they have a red dealer only a few miles away.

[@DraikoGR]

One thing is for sure, God bless the power tools! Imagine having to do all the job with hand tools!

[@Sicktrickintuner]

Not surprised that it plugged your chopper. Man thats some stringy stuff. Wouldn’t be surprised that it was wrapping around your rotor and slugging the chopper stopping it dead in the water.

[@MC-re2ry]

Mike: Deere is on the phone again. They think the problem might have something to do with those spinny things on the window.

[@trs8947]

They dissrupt the magnetic fields right😂

[@UniqueAerial]

We need a live view just watching the COBINE WORK, id watch it all day!!!!!!!!! So cool watchin them lentils go in.....

[@fredskorobohach9235]

Happy birthday yesterday

[@mikemitchell2554]

Thankyou! 🙂

[@roymills2564]

@@mikemitchell2554 happy birthday mike

[@glenlaughlin6547]

That was a good pun, almost as good as Bob, of Welker Farms.

[@crisgourley3653]

New Holland CR...... still want to see you run one head to head against the X9, as a CR Tech, I don't see near the problems your having, best part no shear coupler to break!

[@MeadowFarmer]

It's just like deja vu with the Ideal 9s all over again, except at least the Ideal 9s weren't repeatedly breaking expensive parts that took lots of man hours and downtime to repair. This does not look good for JD.

[@olepedersen2795]

There’s some claims out there that the S-series chopper knives is the solution for the chopper plugging issues.

[@brendenfunk1389]

That green paint adds another 50% of a markup vs any other color 🤣🤣

[@1mlindberg]

"Chapels toys" . Yeah right Mike :D

[@mikemitchell2554]

🤫🤫🤫😆

[@westmanguy01]

When a person gets into pulse crops it can be a struggle. Some years everything ripens evenly. Stands nice and is a easy harvest. Then you get a season like this where the wheat took forever to dry down even after a roundup treatment. Ours was 3 weeks compared to the usual 10 to 14. Canola stalks are still green in low spots, even after month of roundup application, grain was dry. At night straight cut canola is a struggle because you don't see those low green spots till your in them. And you have to understand that companies design equipment usually in pretty good conditions. Some years there is no "tough " conditions, everything goes smoothly. At the start they only produce a certain number of the machines for tests. It takes a lot of different conditions to make the perfect combine, which has never been made. Massey made 760 and 780 for years, but that after all those years that feeder house hated green flax, the flax straw woul wrap solid. Every make i know of has had rear ends plug up. Its not unique to the X series. They could have these X series for another 20 years and never run into conditions like this year.

[@johnk5577]

should demo a nh 10.90, worth trying

[@BillStecik]

This year you could probably bale the straw and sell for feed

[@John-nc4bl]

Header flex mode in full flex wears out the metal strips premarurely that the sections are bolted to when it is sliding in the slots between the fingers. As well, and in full flex mode, it takes more power to drive the sickle, (knife) A hinged draper head with three independently driven sickles, (knives) willl last longer and takes less power to drive.

[@Muffin_Masher]

JESUS! that was probably $170 worth of John Deere Brilliant Green on that rock :D

[@elizabethliska5377]

Crazy pick up trucks do not have cabin filters. Those are the vehicles that need it most.

[@andrewjohn7952]

Newholland CR

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

Build a wall at your US borders next time you are in that field to stop Ron coming back next year. He is obviously a jinx 😁

[@jacksonfirby4051]

Haha yeah I’ve done fusible links last year and this year.

[@jayfxdx]

Save a few hundred grand or mil and run older S series. The south farm does not require class 9 or 10 combines, ever. And if you swathed the lentils you could travel faster with the combine and keep it full.

[@NVMDSTEvil]

Ran an 8250 this year, could plug them solid but never had to get out of the cab to unplug. Just open the rotor all the way then engage deslug and run it forward and backward a few times until it unplugs. Straw spreaders are almost non-existant on them but at least they keep producing work comparred to the other color machines. The Yellow machines are far superior but are made of paper if you take in any rocks, and the returns blow apart as well due to the "rethrasher" doors if you use them. Also the lack of a deslug makes unplugging their rotors horrible. I have a fix for that with a worm drive gearbox though.

[@lance4394]

Hey Mike, sure makes you think back to the 8820's and it just fell straight down. Looking at the X, it looks like the "chute" does not have enough angle down to the ground, thus causing it to ball up and then backup into the machine. I would be interested to see if you could drop the back piece more and remove the black rubber side walls. Maybe suspend with chains ??

[@PETER-be1vs]

Hey Mike if you wanna save big$ on skid pads,we cnc cut our own,three times as heavy as jd.

[@opel1996]

case ih Block !!! open concaves and reverse out and often dont need to get out of cab . and no $400 us about $ 700 NZ coupler

[@nikphoenix]

Mike, could you pull a ground driven tedder to spread out your windrows? Not going to go full width be reduce the pile.

[@andrewjohn7952]

I’ve said for years that John deere are the master of making stuff look good on the outside to distract from what goes on inside.

[@possleaholsteinspossbrofar8429]

I think its time for the CR 10.90. The very first twin rotor instead of the knock offs😂😂😂😂. Best million you spent 😂😂😂.

[@edwardwalter1428]

CR10.9 New holland is the combine to own than you would have less problems. Been driving one for 10 years not half as much problems as the x9

[@westmanguy01]

All conditions can be different. The guy i work for had NH before i started and they actually ruined a NH when it plugged. Twisted the concave frame on one side.

[@jawick]

Do you harvest green lentils in these conditions in Canada?

[@ldtenenoff]

The mikey and ron show starring clogged combines brought to u buy non coperating lentals lol Always enjoy ur vids man wow

[@robm901]

Don't feel bad I plugged the chopper on a 9120 the other day in wheat

[@max-jc4wq]

keep the 9s down south and bring 2 or 3 more 6 and 7 90s up north.

[@jamesmccabe1702]

gotta love all the armchair expert comments

[@bobw222]

They ought to just make the units so the bottom pan in the outlet area can swing down from the point where they start to plug and drop all the way to the ground. Get a plug, stop forward motion, drop the pan, blow the crap out, raise the pan and continue.

[@bohemianford1165]

Mike I’m sure you can get those skid pads from May Wes

[@lucasdrummond-lk7xg]

Mike you might just have to sell all the X nines and get all 690s

[@Kornn66]

Yeah save a lot of money and have faster and less stressful harvest.

[@max-jc4wq]

or a different brand. Or put both the x down south and bring up 2 or 3 more 6 or 790s

[@DAVIDKHAINE]

Back in the day they use to make these cones with rubber belts that spin to break up the straw as it exited the combine. They were an after market item but they worked really well on dads Uni Harvester. Maybe you could fit them on your machine and show the hot shots at Deere what really works in the field. Do the S series and X series have different feeder houses? Why can't you just switch headers and use the S series?

[@stakman78]

I never ever blame conditions or my ignorance on a company or colour. Adverse conditions tend to bring out the worst in machines but you just take a deep breath. Get it sorted and carry on. If ya can't sort ya shit out with the best technology in the world at your fingertips then maybe spinning spinny things on windows is ya best job. You're trying to seperate a seed the size of a grain of rice from a plant with the consistency of gooey molasses...id say that machine is a bloody weapon.. keep it up John Deere

[@nate0901]

tell oh deer john he can have is million dollar combine back

[@jasonwilliams8016]

Maybe see if Lee can get you a demo unit thata a different shade of green?

[@flemmingnielsen5989]

You should listen to Aston and get a caseih combine

[@outdooring8187]

"Ideal" conditions! 😂

[@crandonborth]

I find it quite ironic that Ron is a John Deere Engineer but yet him and his family back in Iowa run all Case IH equipment. 🤨 Coincidence? I doubt it.

[@mikemitchell2554]

😆

[@jeffg6429]

I’ve run CaseIH, wasn’t impressed enough to make the switch

[@EvanC8]

He doesn’t make decisions on what equipment the farm makes. He has talked about it. Case oh makes alot of the best equipment. The combines are mediocre but the quads are amazing. Way better then Deere in every way

[@joeldist]

I guess that’s where Deere gets all the good ideas from lol

[@wildeyedcountryboy]

On one of the podcasts, he says that there isn’t a John Deere dealership in the area. So you need to buy equipment that has local support

[@59cummins06]

I feel you really need to try a different color Twin Rotor....cuz holy moly...

[@mlb3135]

This is what you need to clean a plugged combine with - Cyclone Rake SPS-10.

[@giligan6534]

have Ron bring a red one and see what happens

[@jamesleeder6809]

Number 1s are common out here in Aus

[@larsmoeller391]

All agriculture producers need to send the Equipment to Mike, if they survive Mikes tests. Then they are perfect

[@farming4g]

The Canadian and some northern states crops can be a pain in tough conditions. If machines can survive Flax, lentils, and durum it should be a stoudt combine

[@paulsmith4320]

2 questions: What do you do with the windrows? At what point does the harvesting issues make growing lentils not worth it?

[@davidlogel2350]

Spring of 2020, burned and tilled under 1900 acres of lentils that had been wrote off the previous fall. Hail and heavy rain.

[@CherubRoyce]

What are you gonna do about your route your wind roads?

[@evancalderongaming6574]

At 8:43 Mike let his impulsive thoughts takeover

[@alucarder]

Great video

[@jedadruled984]

I like lentils in the soup, but didn't know its such a pain to harvest them.

[@EvanC8]

They really are not worth the screwing around. It’s not like it’s a big payday crop

[@shoresharp8349]

Mike coukd you bale those windrows for cattle bedding? Or feed??

[@davidtraa2770]

Again pull out the old massey lol

[@0731bart]

I think mike needs to try a 9250…

[@crisgourley3653]

New Holland Cr10.90 or soon to be 11.90

[@fredericdelage1542]

Magnifique moissonneuse batteuse x9 1000 et le coupe est bien équipés et sa bore 😊😂😅😮

[@tmdavid1332]

X9's go bye bye over winter then. S790's incoming

[@georgedavidson1221]

Just window and. Then. Chop it later

[@max-jc4wq]

still was plugging

[@John-nc4bl]

Auto reel speed and optimum height would be a nice feature for the different crop conditions including ground speed. Figure that one out, you computer wizards-!

[@johnwurz8941]

Mike what are you going to do with the straw in the windrows

[@dennis2376]

This year looks like your toughest year so far. The window decoration makes the cab more colourful. Saline?

[@dougmcfee8351]

At JD you have to wear googles, hard hats, steel toe, steel shank over the tongue, ear protection, and heavy fiber lined leather gloves, how can you build anything dressed like that.

[@NickJones-n5y]

I think it’s time to look at the operator. Obviously you don’t have something set right if you’ are plugging two of the biggest combines made.

[@mikemitchell2554]

😆 But yet the Ole S series just goes... Haha but for real, equipment gets tested around this camp.

[@Harvest9650]

Need Loewen rasp bars on those rotors.

[@Rockyviewfarms]

Macdon FD2 giver a try

[@pietoosterhof5901]

I believe it whas your birthday oktober the 8, correct me if I'm wrong. But anyway happy birthday.🍰🎂

[@Jb-fp1mb]

Time to go back to old massey 860 combine

[@787Earl]

Ron can operate red and green machines

[@jameswilliams-rc9hj]

You should pull a grain vac so when you plug you can just suck it out 🤣

[@recklessbehaviour01]

Morning

[@delbutler885]

What are you going to do with the windrows? Harrow them out?

[@shealy265]

Interested in what the plans are for the windrows of thrashed lentil windrows. Is there any feed value where farmers with cattle would be willing to come bail it? If not will you have to burn the windrows or can a bush hog grind/spread them far enough not to plug the drill next spring. Just wondering. Never raised lentils.

[@claudreindl7275]

A different era back in the 60s, but we never ran JD equipment even though a close uncle worked at the JD research farm his entire career. We did get nearly free engines through him though. Cost $24 for engines that had set on the Hill and run for thousands of hours. Used them in a MF 2-row picker...diesel fuel was cheaper than gas..perhaps 10c back then. Gasoline was 30-33c. All my uncle had to pay was $24 labor to reassemble an engine once measurements were taken. Still had the second engine in the picker when the farm was sold in 1972.

[@59cummins06]

Get a MacDon header for the S and you're laughing

[@fredericducroquet6301]

Could you put the hinged header on the s690, or the MF 860?

[@Kornn66]

What you do with the windrows left on the field?

[@michaelstark703]

Are you going to have to clean up windrows, or can you leave them and seed through them next year?

[@Mygirlfriend3141]

He'll have to clean them 😢up

[@thomassunderland5728]

Case 9250

[@brianshouse5782]

Mike does the X9s have 124 chopper knives or 68?

[@kevinknoff9809]

Growing lentils, is it really worth all the hassle?