Lexion tire and track swap project begins. impossible project made possible!

[@mn-1381]

I might have missed it, but congrats on 10K subscribers!

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Ha thanks.

[@stevenstart8728]

"We need to get out of debt yeh" I've been trying since 97 but the debt gets bigger. The impact gun sound effects were very accurate. Hope all is well.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@@stevenstart8728 I don't know if I live long enough to get out of debt. Right now we're looking at probably one of the better crops in my life and don't know if it will pay the bills

[@stevenstart8728]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 we've got a bit of a drought going on here and I can tell you it won't pay the bills. Always less and less crop and more sheep nowadays. You won't outrun poor economic crop returns buy spending more money but I've got some neighbours trying.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

I thought even if you guys were wet, you would still be at what we would consider a drought level. I'd hate to see what your drought would look like The wife and I need to ramp up our marketing of the beef and increase food grade bean acres. Who knows, in the future I might not have much row crop?

[@danw6014]

My neighbor once said he has no trouble getting money from the bank because he owed so much they couldn't afford to let him go under.

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

At 5:33 That's the style plug we use in Europe for road lights

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Ugh, nice plugs, but this German wiring is beyond me.

[@evanaustin2636]

You don't have to crank the hell out of that hydraulic fitting, but many of us would anyway...That's a big project. You're making good progress! Hope you have a good one, Jon

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Thanks.

[@davidcopling1442]

Enjoyed it as always sir. Seems a little crazy or nerve racking to be pulling your combine apart just a few weeks from harvest though. But hey, I'm here for the show! Lol God Bless and stay safe.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Ha, never a dull moment here.

[@TheBnbonthebeach]

Another great video, always informative and entertaining

[@Dan.Whiteford]

You don't just do things by half Sir!! best wishes for a successful result. Dan

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@w056007568 thanks.

[@jvin248]

Great job promoting the message "we gotta keep out of debt/stop playing that game". All your work strip tilling and pulling back the amount of inputs needed is the same direction too. Farming needs to be out from under the Banks.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Thanks. Maybe someday I get there?!

[@davidmcgennity3182]

Wow , this is an exciting project Jon.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@@davidmcgennity3182 thanks

[@JamesMcnichol-ss2oc]

I hear ya on fixing an old combine. Mine is a 30 year old case ih 1688. It’s got 5800 hours so I’ve put lots of parts on it. I think your on right course tracks would be so nice

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Good luck this fall, maybe you can get another 1k hrs?!

[@M8Stealth]

That age thing is coming through and if it were mine, I'd get the tracked axle under there tomorrow. Something tells me a combine falling off the logs to the ground is something to be avoided.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Yeah. Wife asked what if the next morning it was on the ground. I said I guess I jack it back up.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Pretty much guaranteed that we won't have any more rain this fall by doing this project. But it wouldn't take my train to turn this fall into a muddy disaster

[@robmiller2919]

Im still running old Massey 850's , last one i gave $1700 for it , runs pretty good.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Nice.

[@danw6014]

Haha. Well i get laughed at for some of the things I do to avoid debt and be as self-sufficient as possible. Wonder what the neighbors will think next year when they see the AC 66 All Crop combine cutting oats and rye next year. Nobody wants to mess around doing any custom work for me due to the smsll acreage and those crops are not common in my area anymore.

[@farmingnodak]

Shoot, could you put a grease zerk on those splines going to the final drives from the transmission? Even though not much sliding action, but the constant vibration and torque load/unload... new holland has greasable splines on their machines. Really all splines and shafts should be greasable. Nervewrecking to me 😅 Hope it all works out and no big surprises. Crazy how heavy those tracks and axle are... but in hindsight they gotta carry a lotta weight around! Not sure how big your grain tank is, but adding in weight of the header too probably gets over 40,000 lbs on the front?

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Yeah, funny they didn't have a zero. Would be interesting to see the actual weight on the front axle. If a head is 8k lbs, 8 feet in front of the axle you need 8k behind the axle. Is the axle carrying 16k.

[@45deere]

Its been a few year now. But I had a guy call wondering what it would cost to buy the parts to go from a non HP to a HP feeder house. Its north of $50,000 in over the counter to buy all the parts.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@@45deere really. I guess I had a lot more value here than I thought. It was very easy to do

[@45deere]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Just the bear feeder house is $19,000 for a HP.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@45deere that's a lot more than what I paid for this combine. And I'm going to end up with an HP feeder house tracks and a longer auger

[@farawayfarm2520]

I like this project. Stuff always looks worse to take apart than it really is. If you see me buy a tractor with A/C then you know I'm doing good financially. 😂

[@Heimerviewfarm]

Unless it's winter ac

[@farawayfarm2520]

@@Heimerviewfarm I get plenty of that. A cab and heat is a big upgrade. 😁

[@Heimerviewfarm]

@@farawayfarm2520 one day I'll get there, for now I'll make memories of freezing on an open station.

[@farawayfarm2520]

@@Heimerviewfarm You're young yet. You can take it. 🤣

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@farawayfarm2520 I guess my perspectives are changing as we get older wasn't too many years a guy is always daydreaming about that next big thing. Now it's like how do I make this last for 20 more years