Let the seed cleaning begin

** So after it seemed winter set in during the beginning of October, here's what things look like now. This is just another day on the farm.
** Let's start cleaning up some seed for next year, first up is red lentils! Ps: I am not a fan of winter ❄️😂
** For those of you who enjoy staying up to speed with what's going on and what the heck is that crazy guy up too now?! 😳 🤷‍♂️ 😂
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[@Thatsoverrated]

Pretty impressed with Brian backing up like that.

[@travelocity1477]

Hey Mike, you should get a smaller drill for one of the berts and go seeding with it next spring. I really want a video of you driving one for a day. I think it would be very entertaining.

[@prjndigo]

Those old Jack Doees get anxious if you take them out of the farm yard, they start losing their oil and catching fire. Best to leave em there.

[@carloscordova1351]

excellent tractor, and you are a very hardworking and lucky person god bless you with that beautiful work greetings from burley idaho

[@petepage2076]

I always run the chord through the door handle, that way you HAVE TO unplug it to get inside. "....now yer thinkin with yer dipstick Jimmy."

[@mattklug9815]

That’s using your dipstick jimmy!

[@RICHIE87622]

I bet Engel work wear comes in handy with those temps ⛄👍

[@randaloopy]

Thank you for these longer videos. Sooo interesting!

[@zacharyprovance3128]

Hydraulic splitters come in real handy on those old 2 remote tractors. We put one on our old 4640 and it was particularly useful for spraying.

[@gryphonbt1010]

Work hard and play hard! This was interesting. Never knew seeds needed cleaning. Thanks for the videos Mike, really enjoying them 👍🏻😎

[@Northern_Farmer]

You don't actually clean the seed..it means to separate all the foreign material so you have just seed

[@RoisinT2]

And this way drills work better without plugging and for the more its no use to drill any shit, just what grows and gives you profit.

[@gryphonbt1010]

@@Northern_Farmer aha... thank you

[@gryphonbt1010]

@@RoisinT2 so pure seed, cool. I gather that the seed is purchased and then you need to seperate it? Or do the seeds go bad / break during storage?

[@andrewg.3434]

Yes! Truck tour, please! Great video, maybe you'll hit 100K by the end of the year!

[@frankliska4186]

Nice to see you support canadian companies, mostly manitoba grain handling,meridian and Westeel product storage.i drive a truck out of Winnipeg and go to both those plants regularly.

[@jdman8881]

Yes I’d love to see a truck tour of all your trucks

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Mike good luck cleaning your seed

[@gejrhovbrender308]

Equipment sellers that watch this trying to sell you stuff will be like: "This air drill comes standard with 4 train horns." Mike: "Can you deliver us 5 air drills before March?"

[@jondeer83]

Mike, Fasse valves makes great hydraulic boxes where you can get two extra outlets on the back of your tractor and you won't ever have to unhook those hoses to put your auger up. I have a extra one on my farm that came off my John Deere 4450. Sure we could work something out if you like me to send it up. Keep up with the awesome videos.

[@theyarddogs4100]

Awesome video Mike you guys are a very big farm for sure. Thanks for sharing. Carl

[@timkelley8775]

It’s obvious that everyone enjoys their job. Great group of people.

[@jeffmartin5108]

Easy on the jam mike! Hahaha

[@mikemitchell2554]

😂

[@alexmorris2947]

Love your videos bro.. your like “ Jarred HOWS IT GOING BUDDY..?!!!!” all excited af then all calm as hell like “ not bad” haha idk your hilarious to me bub love em keep em coming mate 👍🏻💪🏻 thanks buddy

[@aaseknudsen4322]

hi mike .greetings from denmark .thumbs up. stay young

[@Neighborly_Content]

Those augers would be prime for an ag cam or something so you could easily see where the spouts are in relation to the bin and when backing in.

[@offshorefishermanfreedoman9163]

Great idea

[@ajh2288]

Yes would like to see the fleet of trucks!

[@Spartan2155]

Gotta love the good ol cosby in a can

[@Somedude5767]

On the bright side, equipment doesn’t sink and get stuck when it’s -20 outside.

[@claudreindl7275]

Reminds me of the old fanning mill we used to clean seed beans, but it was only roughly 1 cu. meter in size.

[@eugenespreutels8305]

Cleaning that seed reminds me of cleaning oats when I was a kid back in the 70's in upstate New York. Always on the coldest day, sacking and shoveling bags of oats by hand. Not fun!

[@victor-emmanuel7485]

The longer the videos, the better 👌

[@bizlez4044]

haha. Hi mike, just saw the words seed cleaning and was hit with a serious amount of PTSD. I'm a farmer from western Australia and we farm about 50,000 acres. As you know with an operation like that, cleaning seed can be quite the grind. Hope it all goes quick, and not too painfully. Nice to see we aren't the only ones. love the content mike, keep it up.

[@mikemitchell2554]

Thanks good sir! 🙂 I know, its the job that won't end haha

[@pamelaglowczwski8904]

Florida is looking really good, after watching Mike’s video. I think Mike deserves 100,000 Subscribers or more if you compare to US Farmers on KZbin. Make sure everyone Likes and Subscribes!

[@loganlewis33]

Love you videos and seeing the farm keep up the good work

[@benburkholder7895]

Mike you should do a video of shop work working on equipment and do a shop tour

[@andycole366]

Frankles is a man of many words😂👌

[@reeseerickson4590]

He’s the man.

[@Bm-jb6li]

Love how u explain everything

[@jeffyoung2089]

Thanks Mike! Yall stay warm up there!

[@artm5294]

Are the bins numbered? I didn' t see any . How do you keep track of what's in what bin? With a big operation like that, who looks after all the book keeping and stuff. Reminds me of a sign I saw. " Do you want to speak to the manager in charge or the woman who knows what's going on".🇨🇦 👍

[@moemoney4604]

Frankles is a gem! Lol. More frankles!!!

[@koryleague8833]

Great video mike. I'd love to see a truck video. My first video of yours I watched was you cleaning seed.

[@madmaxfarms7980]

Welker Farms Used one of these seed cleaners last years drilling or this years drilling to clean their seed

[@johnrtrucker]

Super-b's arent too hard to back as long as you know how everything reacts because all youre doing is steering the rear trailer with the lead trailer instead of steering the rear with your truck it makes it easier to back to think of it like that lol now ups double with the dolly in the middle thats alot more difficult lmao

[@rachelt2482]

Great video! haha Love it! Showing your multi-tasking skills with that one handed auger back up. :)

[@jonpbarker]

Mike, It’s November 2nd....and I baled hay all afternoon....#Texas gulf coast

[@Northern_Farmer]

Seems like the farther south you were the colder it was..we got down to -16 for z couple nights...but it wasn't to bad

[@rust1n0ut7060]

If you want to keep your seed from crusting put a 2x4 under the top lid then strap it down. It lets the heat out so the roof won't sweat.

[@leesteele9290]

Many questions!! First how many bushels do those hopper bottom bins hold ,2nd how do you decide which grain you're going to clean for seed , 3rd how come all the augers and conveyers instead of a central leg and dump pit and overhead loadout bins , 4th did you say it was one and a half hours one way to the terminal 5th do you use any of the grain out of the bags for seed or are you emptying any of those yet sorry so many but inquiring minds need to know !! Sorry weather has sucked , not bad here harvest progressing fast !! Never out grow a snowball fight !!

[@mikemitchell2554]

#1 around 5000bu, #2 we just start cleaning what we think we might be seeding according to our crop rotations. #3 our augers prb cost 25,000 maybe.. Haha vs legs a few hundred grand.. #4 the terminal is near 100miles away, and we try for 3 or 4 loads per truck a day!... #5 we are hauling the bags out to the terminals and yes we can use what's in the bags for seed too

[@cw93711]

I grew farming in Wisconsin ether is very useful

[@igorkrempoha1071]

we have all the grain in the hangars already sifted from the garbage now shipped only corn for sale from the field, too, sifted through kzes.

[@barackobama8664]

Half of Canada’s economy comes from this guy

[@Grimskarr]

5:40 - "Malfunction at the junction" ... oh, that made me laugh.😊 Good ol' call out to Ed Whalen of Stampede Wrestling. 👍

[@Sixinthefield]

That's a fine W9!

[@jefferytschirhart9434]

Man I wish we had snow in south Texas, right now it's 77 degree's and clears skies.

[@scowell]

I hope that got straightened out for ya.

[@STONEDay]

Going to be double digits, high teens, Wed-Mon here in Toronto. Beaches will be busier than usual this time of year.

[@harpstone]

Those huge galvanized tanks with the spiral stairs would make awesome agri-loft condominiums! Just a thought.

[@tiffanyparrott6799]

I wound up here from Farming Simulator 19 videos and you know what? Not even mad

[@spideybrent]

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness." "The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer." "A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

[@cntslesfabrication]

I'm great at backing up trailers but super Bs are definitely the hardest trailers to back up cuz it doesn't take much to over steer while backing up to screw it all up

[@KNJensen]

I'd love to see a truck tour!

[@ethan.brossart3634]

Use a little Honda generator to plug in stuff far away from an outlet

[@bogthing1]

Classic Blue Jays cap, clean indeed.

[@andyknox9276]

How many bushels can a super bee haul on sask highways good videos

[@pietoosterhof5901]

Quiet scary how you walk on that of that trailer.😉

[@Myamericanlife61]

Nice looking cleaner set up most of the ones I have worked with have been truck mounted so ya outside the whole time I like what ya doing with the shed that set up is going to be awesome do you treat your own seed too or don’t you bother

[@mikemitchell2554]

Yes, come spring we do..

[@jakeholland5125]

Mike I’m sitting here day by day trying to figure out how this operation runs so efficiently I mean it’s just phenomenal

[@brianallam5545]

Steerable axle on auger works awesome if you have enough scv

[@2ToneWalt]

Mike, ya gotta one of the JD's Ernie cos Burt & Ernie were the best on Sesame St. 😁🤣

[@Jorrie86]

Mike you should've kept the camera close by the 4650's exhaust for a little while longer ... That old school turbo sound is music to my ears 😀👍

[@gavinperry7237]

The forecast on the radio this morning in West Central Saskatchewan is +20. We need windshield cleaner NOT ether as with our recent snow are roads are a MESS 🤣🌞🌞😂

[@esnoelsilva1353]

Snow is coming!!!!! nice!

[@nathankennedy4263]

the Ether bunny came early this year!

[@agirlandhercows501]

oh boy that is a lot of work

[@kraa281]

Wow, laughed for a minute straight. "Mike, what about safety first. I think he has his steel toe boots on so we are good". If you are as good at growing grain as your wit you will be very successful.

[@mikemitchell2554]

Ha! Thanks 😂

[@jacwilson2578]

what is your favorite tractor on your farm mike also whats your favorite combine on your farm.

[@toddrabideau5576]

YES on the truck tour Mike.👍 Looks like you have nice equipment! How many rigs on the farm? And do you keep drivers busy year round?

[@littlejason99]

Kind of have a craving for lentil soup now...

[@shawnclements14]

my grandfather always told me wd-40 was better for diesels than starting fluid. idk how true it is, but it might be something to try. This video is going to make Americans jealous, Monsanto doesn't appreciate cleaning and saving seed here in the states lol.

[@davidoleary2452]

same in Ireland get a lovely see you in court letter

[@shawnclements14]

@@davidoleary2452 wow Monsanto pulls the same bs across the pond?!?!

[@Northern_Farmer]

You can't save any Monsanto bayer seed anywhere

[@charlesdow4802]

How many bushels are your big bins and how many are the cone bins and how much storage all together

[@alexmikhael5061]

lol I jusrt laffed in my head.. saying they are BERTZ when only one is there.. then when 2 it's BERTz n EARNIEz lol and EnreZ n BertZ lol hahahahahahah rainin dogs and cats and all manner of

[@YouTube_Professor]

For some reason I thought farmers could not use the stuff grown for seed? How many acres do you need to grow just for next years seeding.

[@Justin_Buser]

How to destroy your diesel engines lol

[@philipottosson6233]

This is the time you wish you had money for legsystems for the bins😉

[@thomaspatterson5174]

How often do you buy a new variety of seed that might have better yield potential / disease resistance, etc?

[@roymills2564]

I take it you don't treat the seed because of the cold. in England we treat the seed at the same time, I worked for a seed cleaning company for 5 years we had cleaners and chemical treaters on the back of lorries to go to the farms. think the most I cleaned in one day was 160 UK tons (don't know what that is in bushels) all put in 1-ton bags. when I first started we use to bag it up in 50kg bags that was fun when the machine was running at 8 ton an hour. can you change the sieves in the cleaner for different crops?

[@mikemitchell2554]

We treat out of the bin and into the trucks in the spring, that way we don't contaminant the bin

[@roymills2564]

@@mikemitchell2554 that makes sense didn't think about that

[@shedhead]

Mike, with all the product/seed/fertilizer you put in bin's, how come you don't have a drive over hopper for your auger?

[@jayhuff4674]

Awesome video and setup. How many bushels per hour are capable of moving.

[@billsmith8739]

Why do have a connection between the intake and exhaust pipe of the tractor? Looks cold!!

[@catfischer86]

Exhaust has a venturi inside that sucks the dirty air out of the intake and ejects it out of the exhaust.

[@mattclark8436]

Interesting operation!

[@ryanneuendorf4006]

Mike do a pros and cons video of one of the berts

[@borderbrat]

Were the Burts once the farms primary tractors?

[@RoooSs0]

this yt channel is amazing

[@ATLS_gaming]

Nice video as always

[@billhackney2133]

Mike what is the closest town to you? Do you do much business in Montana? How come when you built all them new bins u did not put a leg and hook them all together with z pit? Also do you ever get to north platte nebraska? Here in nebraska farmers don't need a cdl as long they haul their own product and don't get 150 miles from home is it like it there? How many semi's to you have? Also ( last question) you ever hire usa people to work?

[@mkine]

2:10 jesus thats cold! We had +20 degree Celsius here today. We actually live at about the same latitude as you. Just a 8000 km east (South Germany).

[@howardmottershead343]

Hi Mike, Watching from Shropshire in England find your videos very interesting! Do you have to pay seed royalties back to the plant breeders on your home saved seed?

[@benjaminyoung2454]

Is the seed just part of the crop you harvest?

[@Washington-rf5id]

I run a seed mill as well as a farm, we can clean 300bu an hour

[@bassomatic1871]

The directions on the bags of lentils at the store say to check for stones.

[@rust1n0ut7060]

Why do you use conveyors to clean seed then run it through an auger to fill bins? Won't that break the seed? Check out a Brandt conveyor ,it's easy on grain.

[@gavinperry7237]

Russ snively I asked Mike a similar question and his response was that conveyor type augers were TOO EXPENSIVE

[@sljumbo9780]

lentils we call it "parippu" in Sri Lanka and we love parippu ( lentils )

[@casey5711]

How much seed do you need for entire operation , bushels , tonnes ? For the year ? Thanks Mike .😀👍🏾🇨🇦

[@farmguy2400]

Enough to seed a little more than 40-45k acres

[@justinchees]

How much payload weight do your trucks carry to town? We work in kgs /tonnes in NZ so a “b double” like what you have there would carry 27-29 tonne depending on the empty weight

[@tipsanders]

Mike, how many acres do you farm and what do you grow? Tip from Tennessee thanks! Enjoy your videos

[@gavinperry7237]

Why did you not use a conveyor type auger to load the clean seed back into the hopper bottom bins to reduce damage to the seed ?

[@mikemitchell2554]

We had one, but they are too expensive

[@gavinperry7237]

@@mikemitchell2554 It got so warm today down to short sleeve shirt when doing tin on shop roof. Bonfire & wine to relax at the end of the day 🍷🔥🔥🍷🌞🌞

[@mikemitchell2554]

@@gavinperry7237 haha we had fire too, it was awesome!

[@gavinperry7237]

@@mikemitchell2554 People sometimes think I am CRAZY because I will get into my snowmobile suit and have a fire in the middle of winter. Cheaper than theory. Slept one night in a hammock on the ice while ice fishing, had such a blaze melted over 6” of ice.🔥🔥🍷🍷🔥🔥🎣🤣😂