Mike's patience has run out! 😆🤷‍♂️

[@WilliamQuisno]

Makes me itch just watching you guys

[@s161a220g]

combining cattails--- way to keep the neighbors talking

[@markwade830]

Congratulations to both of you, hope all is well with the baby.

[@jdiggindirt]

Mike this is the first time I have seen someone using a combine as a bush hog lmao you Canada's never cease to amaze me lol

[@wigglz]

*Canadians :)

[@jdiggindirt]

Lol guess my auto spelling didn't work for me 🤣

[@kennethmorgan1465]

Mike is really really really very smart!

[@joescheller6680]

If we have the time you can open up your sieve and combine out all the weed spots as you are doing and it grinds it up so fine where a disk cant

[@erikligtenberg1256]

Lets be clear, this is not the normal way to do this, most canadians would use a bushhog. Wouldn't be my first choice to use a $800,000 combine and header to cut weeds. but I guess its not necessarily dumb if it works.

[@rayanderson4119]

A couple thoughts on this. 1) What's in the grain tank when you're done? 2) By sending the cattails through the chopper, aren't you helping spread the fuzzy seeds even more? 3) It seems risky to use such an expensive machine for this task. Wouldn't the swather be a better implement and allow you to burn it easier? I mean, you were talking about dropping a windrow if it was going to plug anyway.... Thanks for great videos. Enjoy them a lot.

[@rayanderson4119]

Never mind 1). You just answered it.

[@Henri-pp1nq]

That moment when your cattail harvest is better than your lentils

[@k.koster1008]

Mike and Ashtyn, congratulations with real start of your new familey.

[@mikefunk8992]

I cut and bale that stuff for cow bedding if I have time at the end of the year. And then I just sell some of my straw bales. Cattail bedding is terrible for in barns because it’s terrible dusty but for outside it’s fine as long as you know which way the wind is blowing.

[@mikeznel6048]

That's how it's done. Do what you gotta do to get what you want done. Great job Mike!

[@ludwigvanmulders1730]

Congrats Mike and Ashtyn and the baby and thx for the vids :-)

[@MF760]

Congratulations to both Mom & Dad. I pray that Mom & baby are healthy and fine!

[@davitm1]

Congratulations on the birth of your first child!

[@jonathanthompson9377]

Congrats Mike and Ashtyn

[@jason0870]

GOOD PEOPLE ARE AWESOME!!! You and Lee towards the end there you all are frigging funny as heck. Keep it going out there.

[@samcowart7564]

Congratulations Mike and Ashtyn on the birth of your little one great video I enjoy watching all of them

[@davidskiffington7039]

Congratulations on the baby, and to your wife also.

[@darkrevenger04]

Nice seeing your brother from another mother Lee! Wish him the best of luck with his farm he is starting

[@becukiss1973]

Congratulations to your Wife and the little owner! I wish you very good health!

[@jeffbute8431]

Rocks will be on the edge what ever previous farmer deemed edge.

[@Darius_Frost]

Congrats on the baby Mike and Ashton

[@TwoToneTuna]

Turns out Combines are just giant overpriced lawnmowers. Who knew?!

[@CMDRSweeper]

Now you have an excuse to "upgrade" your lawnmower and explain that to the misses... Why you want a big combine for lawn mowing :D

[@markunderwood1128]

Wow!!! Now that's a mower.

[@Jehty_]

I don't know. I would imagine combines get cranky if you only feed them grass. As far as I heard they like a somewhat varied diet.

[@Benozurman]

I did not expect to see this. Ever... And I'm open minded for a lot of crazy things. 😁

[@johnyoutsey5490]

Thats one nice looking lawnmower Mike!!!

[@davidbattensby2708]

Congratulations to both of you on the arrival of your little bundle of joy - hope all are doing well

[@MrHatcollector2000]

Congratulations to you both.

[@gerhardhablizel8401]

Congratulations from Germany to Ashtyn, Mike and Baby Mitchell ! Mike, you're a Dad now - so take care !! God bless !

[@robdavis331]

Congrats on the addition to the Family!!

[@kyleshores432]

Congratz on the new baby!!

[@crandonborth]

I would honestly be more concerned if the tank started to fill up... 😂😆

[@johnmilburn5715]

Congratulations both of you, such good news. God bless the three of you with health and prosperity. Now you will HAVE to take care, and less risks.....not even for the camera! 👍😉😀

[@richwielechowski5191]

How many of your neighbors are sitting on the road, wondering what the guy from the south is doing????😂😂

[@jonkreiser7757]

Hey Congrats Mike and Ashtyn That is super exciting and happy for you guys. With your energy and excitement as well as your love for life You will a great Dad and I have no doubt Ashtyn will be a great mom and you will have a wonderful family. A couple years back when our daughters were in there infant stages someone told us "The nights are long but the years are short" an its true it goes fast so remember that, cherish and enjoy the time you have. Take care and enjoy the new addition.

[@robertelmore3571]

Mad mike's cutting edge lawn care 😂😂

[@frblmtn8238]

And for the city folk, that is how corndogs are harvested!

[@vfnt]

You actually made me look up what corn dogs are made of. To my knowledge they aren’t a thing here in Europe. I just took them for some fried gas station food and now I have the urge of making some

[@frankhoff9463]

🤣

[@janvanleeuwen5212]

Congrats to both of you hope you are all doing well!! Great video btw.

[@roberttrains]

Mike I got some questions… 1. What is the correct settings for a combine to harvest cat tails and weeds. 2. What was the bushel an acre you where getting when harvesting 3. What is the current market of cat tails. Seems like it would be a good market little amount of competition

[@davidlogel2350]

Took on a quarter 5 years ago. First year seeded 78 acres on it. This year seeded 160. You can’t gain flooded out acres back if you don’t try to.

[@gail8494]

That was awesome! Congrats to both of you, hope everyone’s doing well! Great video thanks

[@-felix3161]

Haha super mower. I always wondered if you could do this. This man is an innovator!

[@mikefunk8992]

In manitoba people are selling big round cattail bales for $20. Because straw is so hard to find.

[@andrewmassey]

Congratulations to both of you,

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

Congratulations Daddy🎈🎉

[@crandonborth]

Lee : no mike tank is still empty 😂😂🤣🤣

[@brianrutherford3681]

Congrats on the baby coming into the world.i hope your wife had a easy birth.

[@edreisinger5757]

What would the grain terminal say if you pulled in with a semi load of cat tail seed

[@halwilliams1682]

Fifty years from now to the grandchildren...."2021 was the year I was born and that same year your Grandfather said he cut cattails with a combine. I really wonder about that but Mom says it's true".

[@notvaporlocked5479]

I admire your ability to think outside the box.

[@garrettnelson2293]

Glad to hear there’s another Mike running around!

[@uffedanielsen1265]

congratulations on your first child, greet the lady. You should have a tractor-mounted flail mower for that task, then you would not have to worry about ruining the combine.

[@garylarue6501]

Hi Mike: Condradulations to you , ashtyn, and the new addition! Excellent stand of cattails! Hmmm!.. Brush hogging with a $700,000 dollar combine??..... Running a swather through there may have made it easier to burn the wind rows! Best Wishes, AND GOD BLESS OUR FARMERS! Gary

[@connergillis1149]

Congratulations to you both

[@Budd56]

Most expensive"Bush Hog" on the planet 😂. Good job thinking outside the box 👍👍👍✌️

[@bitspieces3885]

Now if you just had the fast and efficient ProTill to hit those sloughs with before winter shuts you down. Great video today Mike. Many thanks for sharing your work day. A little bit of play is good to. 👍

[@mariojalsovec8207]

Highly efficient usage of a very expensive combine. !:-))))

[@mikemerrill175]

Big lawn mower 😋

[@chrisadams9903]

Congrats on the new baby!!!!!

[@TheGaggenau]

Hmm the Fendt lawnmower with mulcher!

[@markunderwood1128]

Congrats to you both, Hope all is well with everyone. Love the videos of what you do and how you do it. Appreciate all you and your farming does.

[@verlinswarey507]

You’d better HOPE there’s standing water in those sloughs next year! I also like how Lee was just standing there,burning to death until Mike told him he should stop doing that. Which reminds me of the old saying “friends don’t let friends burn up in sloughs”.

[@vrfarmerguy]

That's the most dust I have seen come out of the back of a combine this fall......beast of a machine. 👍. Now if you could only keep them running during harvest.

[@melissaluther3666]

Thanks Mike for making great videos, hope all is well

[@arthurferreira2937]

Mike love your love for farming

[@maquinaseaventuras]

the question is: what grain came out of the combine after this harvest. here in brazil we would never walk in the middle of the grass, snakes love fields with tall grass.

[@mikeznel6048]

None. The seeds are way too small and the machine needs to be set up for the small seeds.

[@syndicateleader6396]

@@mikeznel6048 as Mike Znel said none. He tells us in the video that he opens up the concaves by 50% which will just let everything go through the combine then get chopped up at the back by the knives and then shot out the back. Nothing gets threshed or sifted. Just goes straight through

[@allannantes8583]

@@syndicateleader6396 Mike must have had the chopper fixed, as it just rocked at handling the cattails.

[@glennsullivan4195]

Happy Birthday to baby Mitchell😃

[@vickykirkland6629]

Congratulations guys. 👏 😁😁🍻🥰

[@TheRealJesseStoltzfus]

Maybe a best case scenario, the combine helps burn the slews off?

[@markhoffert2685]

Congrads on the new baby. God is so good.

[@interman7715]

You obviously haven't read the Old Testament hahaha.

[@arendvoordepoorte3217]

Who knew an ideal 9 could double as a weedwacker.

[@SoerenBruunJensen]

I've got questions Mike: How the heck will you or Lee clean every single cattail-seed out off the combine??

[@tanyonholzer2741]

Congratulations on the new baby

[@zacharyiverson6206]

Need to go buy a old smaller swather for doing sloughs. Combine works until you find a old stone pile in a slough and write your header off.

[@squa_81]

I'm curious, does having a waterpond with a but of space around it help with biodiversity and maybe, maybe yeild around the pond?

[@douglasmayherjr.5733]

My luck I would have found a rock and damaged the $700,000 lawnmower. Hopefully everything goes good with your wife and baby. Thanks for taking us along on the adventures of Mike.

[@joelvandebruinhorst8827]

congrats Mike and Ashtyn

[@aidanbrennan7389]

Congratulations and greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@robertmarino2158]

Amazing what you guy's do , stay safe

[@joescheller6680]

Need a bigger header😅😅😅😅😅

[@bobbyhoffpauir8851]

Your smooth roller would work cheaper by smashing then burning. We use smooth rollers for stubble in rice to flatten and raise a ratoon crop of rice.

[@guyfuller1369]

Big Fendt straight combines cattails-what a load of bull(rushes). 😉

[@jarrodhunt3288]

Must be time to turn back in the leased unit?

[@farmer7962]

Good thing you traded the combine off after you were done with this!!!

[@Myamericanlife61]

What’s the moisture running Mike and how’s the grain loss lol 😂 that Lee is awesome man you need him in more videos he’s hilarious 😆 man

[@carlfalt174]

This video will go viral 😁. Love it!!!

[@Lukelins1]

What are cattail seeds going for. Or saving more seeds in the seed storage.

[@johnwarwick4105]

That had got to be the most expensive flail mower ever 🤣 very risky

[@dennisnissen4760]

That’s the biggest bat wing shredder that I’ve ever seen work🤪🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnc8112]

Excellent workmanship an extra 50 Acres of usable land.

[@oilersridersbluejays]

I just swath them. Then I run the cultivator around the slough a few times. Torch the cat tail swaths. Easy.

[@jonludens4180]

Mike, I was always going to ask you why you have the tape on your reel fingers.

[@sammurphy5454]

You guys should look at diamond harrows like Kelly tillage has. We use them alot here in Australia, and they would turn those cattails into a level seedbed in one pass, and they are very hard to block up. We usually run them at about 12km/hr, but I know people who run them at 14-15km/hr, and they make a 24.3metre model... You guys could cover some country fast with a few of these! They are a light shallow tillage too, so they have good moisture preservation and don't disrupt the soil structure at medium to deep depths, but get around a 90% kill rate at worst, and break up rodent nests as well

[@Oliver-kv2mm]

Mike I have a question, Do you check header loss in cattails?

[@jerryspangler6658]

I'm looking forward to you digging up those big rocks . Did you find any rocks in the slews ?

[@MidniteLiquid]

lol. What was going into the hopper when you were threshing the cattails? Y'know a brush hog might've been a bit safer for cutting down the cattails... Congratulations to you and Astyn on the new baby!!

[@mikeznel6048]

swathes. Brush hog is a joke compared to the cut width of a combine.

[@leroybullied7705]

Nothing, turn the fan up blow it all out the back.

[@tedlambert1988]

That's one expensive lawnmower 🤣🤣🤣

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Mike and Lee

[@steveknoche9557]

A brush cutter on the front of a Bobcat would have been a lower risk alternative. Maybe a batwing.

[@edwardkeck2464]

Been doing this for years, but my chopper does not plug on my 9690 massey

[@geoffspence4997]

Hmmmm. Fendt made a ride on mower......... Who knew????......... Oh that's right Mike did.......lmao

[@austinp8942]

Hey mike they have these things called bush hogs that work pretty good and they are pretty cheap compared to that combine 😂

[@rodneycure1810]

How is your child and mother doing. Congratulations to you and mom on your new child

[@dozerblade]

What about flattening it with a roller , then try burning it, that would bang down the stones as well .