Harvesting Corn

[@mikedillon6233]

I will say this. After watching this channel, and the other farming channels, being a farmer is way more complicated than I ever thought. It seems hard, expensive, trouble when you don't need it, dangerous a lot of the time, a high stress. Thank all you Farmers for doing this. I definitely don't take this for granted anymore. And all you all be safe no matter what part of the world you're in!

[@stludachris]

Mike Dillon go watch smarter everydays channel about farming... he realized the same thing... they’re botanists, biologists, engineers, mechanics, mathematicians, accountants, business managers, and more!

[@shummyrace4617]

@@stludachris awesome people, thank God for all of them.

[@MichaelMonka]

I think its media's fault for portraying farmers that way. Farming takes a lot some even take up meteorology to read weather better.

[@kevincollins8014]

Mad respect here too! Thanks for all you guys and gals do to put food on our tables and more 😉

[@robertreznik9330]

@@stludachris And if you are a farmer with irrigation systems in Texas you need to have studied engineering and geology...plus being an agronomist with degrees in science helps.

[@kylejones3900]

"I'm so excited for 2020". Oh, if only he knew...

[@aleutb0i478]

Corona, swine flu, now the bubonic plague What else is China gonna throw at us

[@Gwall-dd5fz]

Aged like milk

[@Richboyrich26]

Yeah I laughed when he said that lol

[@hartleycarver5287]

That's funny

[@carsonwilliams562]

If only

[@denniskoenemann3825]

It is amazing to me how much the technology has changed. When I was farming, if a field had standing water or was really muddy and soft, we were up a creek without a paddle. I am 67 years old. I wish I was able to spend a day with you, just for the experience of using the new tech. We always used the term grease zerks and some called them grease fittings. Did not matter as long as you kept them filled with the grease. I really miss the farm work, but can't do it any more due to health problems. My military days have caught up with me now. I really enjoy watching your video's. Keep up the good work! God bless you and your family!

[@angryreaper9336]

Dennis Koenemann I’m only 35 and even I’m amazed at the technology these days. I test drove one of the new self nailing cotton strippers... those things are really cool!

[@cuthrell24v22]

thank you for serving our country

[@charlespierce8347]

If it wasn't for hard working farmers like you the tech wouldn't be where it is today

[@willogrady7913]

17:34 you sure you’re exited for 2020 oh boy just wait

[@paulsilagi4783]

Statements that aged poorly, exhibit a

[@jacksonhoran2695]

I was looking in the comments for this I knew someone would say it

[@laurantbyfield1579]

😂😂

[@KaiGotIntoTheGenderJar]

it gets even worse...

[@Bhat-Bot]

3:15 Cob deflector in the corn position. I'm going to use that phrase daily.

[@GK-lw6gr]

“Ah perfect it’s starting to rain I was getting worried it was getting dry” lol so true this year

[@duramax3597]

I AM LOVING THESE HARVEST VIDS SO FAR! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND HAVE A SAFE HARVEST!

[@deklinoechsner8914]

Cummins gang

[@johnhumphrey7339]

The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929, and the assignee was the Alemite Manufacturing Corporation

[@benpattinson1]

This guy wins. I still call it a nipple though. Should I change?

[@patrickmerritt3663]

I have a very high respect for military people and slightly below that I hold in honor the hard-working farmers who feed us Thank you to all of you

[@artstewart1894]

Your videos are excellent. Well produced. Nicely paced. I really appreciate your sense of humor, and how you stay cheerful even as the never-ending challenges keep coming at you.

[@claudinhovas]

Loved “Nathan’s Christmas morning face”

[@itsmeagainmargret]

7:57

[@atmreview4713]

I really like these agricultural videos, very nice and interesting.

[@sharpshooter7127]

Just got to love the o-rings blowing in the remotes on a tractor making them leak like yours are. "Grease fittings " is all I've ever heard.

[@paulgimenez1846]

That comment about your dad’s expression was priceless

[@Mazel_Tov_888]

I have to admire the positive attitude in the face of adversity. Keep swinging!

[@patmancrowley8509]

Grease zerk. I used to deal with them alot in the "parts and tools" cage.

[@denaboersma6983]

“Christmas morning face” hahaha Always been zerks always will be

[@gprice121]

Grease zerks. How many times do you use a word with the letter "z" in a day?

[@jrhutchison89]

close to a zillion

[@ChrisTessmer]

I miss having an wind system. Had a crary setup on our old combine and head.

[@jeffreymain2829]

HI Zack. I am not a farmer but my grandparents were in Pa. I follow you because you explain what you are doing. I like big machines and like to see how they work for our farmers. Thank You for feeding us.

[@davidstewart1943]

Kudos to Becky for her superior editing!

[@jimlovesfarming6332]

Looks like Zach is getting on to the trend of saying "and don't forget to smash that like button" 😂😂 don't worry I always do

[@aaronwilton8738]

Angel Jimenez that’s a Tom pemberton line

[@jimlovesfarming6332]

@@aaronwilton8738 I just noticed that

[@Jlfarming]

Love the video watching from Australia Queensland and john Deere farmer .

[@zilla2006able]

I hope Millennial farmer will get all this harvesting done with one combine

[@southjerseysound7340]

We made a tire scraper for our skid steer out of a old AG tire that makes moving grain a lot easier. It's just a quarter of a tire on a frame and its stiff enough to clean make of the grain yet flexible enough to make it hard to damage stuff. It also conforms to most surfaces cutting way down on using the grain vac.

[@1234554321ep67890]

Zach I'm a 'wanna be' farmer and really enjoy your videos and humor! It's great to learn about your business keep up the great work, you have a lot of fans out here!!

[@lucasdobson8344]

When I was farming we called them grease fittings same now that I'm trucking

[@m.webber5118]

I grease “zerks” on my farm, but as long as they get grease, doses it matter?

[@jonathanschwartz1784]

My dad always called them "grease fittings" so that's what I call them

[@drdrisu31]

Camera is a brilliant idea. My son's best description without a camera is, "Back up until you hear something expensive." Too often the truth. They are zerks. In "the old country" (Iowa), they're headlands. In my new home (wet, snowy, down corn MN) they're end rows. Keep plugging away and look down the road for the LP truck. Hope he comes today.

[@dustinnelson2255]

lost the family farm a few years ago when my uncle passed away in a accident, was only 62. love watching your videos.Really missing the farm life, this is a kind of therapy maybe.?

[@ckg009]

When laying down that bad and that brittle of stalks, we have run bean head. Opening up feeder.

[@lloydgreenlives6434]

Here in the northwest we called them grease “zerts” , now we are being told it’s “zerks”. Zerks abbreviation of the last name of the inventor “Zerkowitz“ .

[@jfiery]

Zerts in western MD too so it's coast to coast ignorance. Haha

[@jamisgood21]

Yeah I've heard some people say that before too. I think it's just people mishearing/mispronouncing it.

[@Kabel717]

In the Columbia Basin in Washington State we have always called them grease zerks. In Montana I heard them called zerks and zerts. 👍

[@jfiery]

@@Kabel717 always assumed it was called zerts as a shortened slang for INsert. As in grease insert.

[@stevespatrol]

Called “ Grease Nipples” over here in Australia.

[@j_d1480]

You just like to say nipples, yah wankers

[@louiseskennar3039]

I am livening on a coastal farm and we have 1000 grease nipples

[@gkcl1]

Same here across the ditch

[@louiseskennar3039]

Australia I am in

[@blakejordan2694]

I call them grease fittings

[@robhakeman5873]

Depending how there put in a sentence, fitting or zerks is how I was brought up. And I would like to thank you for your time to make these videos and also a little advise keep your feeder house from building up with cornstalks and debris to keep from a fire starting underneath the cab from the hydraulic fluid being hot and starting a fire as we had one the 2nd yr. Deere came out with the 9500 and we had a total loss of a combine and luckily we had a 4wd disking in the same field and we had him circle the combine while we were waiting for the fire department to come and we went through 3 fire extinguishers also.

[@viklund2725]

Woow, what life you live! with the incredible work you do so we all get food on our tables Tack!

[@petenelson6654]

I live in North Central Iowa and we have always called them Zerks

[@Jack-ne8vm]

" The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929,..."

[@BMP_ShotIt]

My parents: he be up all night playing video games Me: *casually watching this video at 5am*

[@markfitzurka9995]

Zert fitting is what we call them in southern California. I live in the Imperial valley and work at the ag commissioner office. Our local crops are mainly hay and we export a lots overseas. I have just stumbled on to your channel. I am enjoying it. Completely different farming then I know. We get all our water from gravity feed canals. We get on average 306 sunny days a year. We don’t get rain. Keep up the good job. Having a good time watching the whole back catalogue.

[@seniormfwic]

If it were boring, I wouldn't have made it to the end,, but I did. I love to learn new stuff and that's what kept my attention.

[@timothyhowell7047]

From what I know, they are called grease "there" . As my dad always said, " put the damn grease in there" . Ha good times.

[@dangedde6147]

Too true, I’ve also heard it called that many times

[@firechief6686]

Down south aka: Dixie, the Zerks are called Allamites. This is due to different companies manufacturing the same product......Truth!

[@Snowykyle]

Live in Mississippi. Can confirm, all grease fittings are alemites.

[@firechief6686]

@@Snowykyle Philadelphia, MS is where I learned that factoid at. I lived there 4 years.

[@lowercherty]

Alamite is a name brand for a different grease fitting with a flat face about 1/2 inch in diameter. We also called them button fittings. You pump grease into a Zerk fitting.

[@eb17816]

I remember having to pick up an Allamite pump to lube the tracks on an old Cat D2.

[@firstname6208]

Lincoln makes zerk fittings, I always assumed alamites were a higher volume zerk fitting such as pushing a piston to adjust crawler tracks etc.

[@StevenCrothers]

"I'm so excited for 2020" So you're the one who started all this...

[@timlewis5096]

I used to use lifters that clipped into the snout and this extends up to 30 inches . The other adjustment was we opened the snapping rollers at the front and left the back untouched. this helped to pull a larger amount of the trash out early without too many cobs being lost

[@emerkamp1]

We run narrow rows now because of this. Seems to help hold the stalks up. Also headers with short snouts seem to work better. Some years have been so bad though, we have to walk beside with a rake.

[@michaelpeterson9016]

Shouldn't let Anna eat people, she could choke on the bones.

[@Stasiek_Zabojca]

Isn't it Hannah?

[@daniel_millican]

@@Stasiek_Zabojca I hear Anna, no H lol

[@AuthenTech]

Interesting stuff! Fun channel

[@donneh605]

Who tf

[@agentk3984]

That sounds like some famous last words right there, "Hold up! Hold up! ..."

[@lincolnreeves1047]

My dad is a farmer and I like helping him a lot.l like your vidoes

[@TheShachattack13]

So nice to see that we still have farmers with tegrity

[@steveadams99708]

Zerks, unless you want to call them something else!

[@mikebonnett7730]

Steve Adams ya like the thingamajigg that the dohicky hooks onto too put that stuff in there out of the whatchamacallit lol

[@steveadams99708]

@@mikebonnett7730 you forgot whatzit, thingamabob, and connecting the bull wheel to the heffer shaft and checking the tail light fluid with a killywacker tester. LOL

[@jocalafarms4051]

The waterfowl hunting must be amazing in those water holes

[@z3k3y2011]

GREASE NIPPLES IS A VHS MY DAD OWNED IN THE 90'S

[@jimmieferguson3120]

I am 69, from Illinois, grew up and worked in a farm community when I was young and always wanted to be a farmer. I just never had the money to get started. I flew helicopters in the United States Army for 6 1/2 years. Work as an Air Traffic Controller for 30 years. Retired now, I live in Kentucky. the "Z" words I have used. I have always called them grease zerks and dzus fasteners.

[@georgenetroe2670]

Please ask RTMPL to Consider bringing us along. You have allowed us to have a new star in American Farmer. I am not a Social Media Fan. You Tube is only. Thing I know. I really love watching RTMPL with the snippets I get to see thanks to you. Your Fan George Deltaville, Va

[@airgamer3659]

Mr.millineal do you recomend farming and what is you favorite tractor

[@1nm1]

"I am so excited for 2020"....(laughter)..."you can't make this stuff up" Sad, but true. If only you knew how true it would be, esp the latter part of that statement.

[@kamalabalkaran9272]

Here in the Caribbean we call them grease nipples.

[@northernillinoisdronephoto]

What another great video saw the notification and i immediately clicked on it

[@danonotinthelionsden]

Almost to 400,000 followers! Man, I been here since like the 20's... feeling old.

[@simonthefarmer1592]

I’ve never ran anything like a combine but I have harvested alfalfa and Bermuda grass. I’ve also baled, raked, and stacked both

[@kylerichardson8263]

Corn laying down and the Vikings lost to my Chiefs. You're just having a tough day all around.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Too true.

[@dawnmiller484]

@@MillennialFarmer hi

[@clarkvanderlee1476]

OLF made a video a while back where he used a bean head for downed corn and had pretty good results

[@benpattinson1]

Tough on the reel though??

[@craigsmith8217]

Can't believe you'd post this during a Viking game.

[@1DirtyMutt]

Craig Smith He’s trying to get everything done so he go in the house and watch the Packer game! 😎

[@logpile1318]

1DirtyMutt when are the packers on?

[@Budd56]

@@1DirtyMutt LMAO 😂 😂✌️

[@ronaldayers8985]

Been watching all your stuff brother. I appreciate the time spent behind the screen to make it happen. North Carolina, south side of Pilot Mountain. Had 90 acres as a kid up until graduation. I'm 34 now. Had a 1989 2555 with a cab and 4wd; a 1963, 3010 tricycle to keep tobacco straight; and a 1937 JD, AR unstyled frontend to take to pulls. Point I'm making is the three 45eb John Deere's we had to get corn and soybeans was the highlight..one for parts. I'd like to see y'all grab some older equipment to take out for fun. It would be a great series for you sir. Thank you for what your doing. Hats off.

[@aaronwilton8738]

We just chopped 30 acres of our corn that got hit bad by the hurricane we had 2 months ago. The rest of our corn was in good fields that didn’t get the wind as bud. Our corn is still 34% and green stocks. Gonna take it all off for high moisture for a dairy farm. Stuff we chopped will be for our beef cattle

[@kennethfeld6639]

"I was starting to worry it was getting a little dry out here" Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@sorinaverde9946]

You need to be an IT engineer to operate a combine these days.🤓

[@lorzon]

Sadly.

[@fowletm1992]

It's pretty much common sense based If you can operate a smart phone you can operate any of these machines

[@billdill6715]

At least you say “Greece” and not “greez” like ol Brian at brown farms. And they are zerks.

[@atmreview4713]

A fruitful harvest of corn.

[@mwnciboo]

You mean "Grease" surely?

[@dalecornelius4374]

Laying the feeder front back helps in down corn, reels help too. The same kind of way mom holding your hand when you got shots as a kid helped lol.

[@mitchellstadnik752]

A little mud on the window ,I remember helping my neighbor picking corn with a new idea two row pulled by a super c ,nice video farmers feed the world

[@raymondross3795]

Can you discuss the real world implications of day light savings time for a real farmer in a way Millennials understand!

[@eb17816]

You might try tall tomato stakes to hold the corn up.

[@rileyteel7845]

Lol

[@wolfgamer2445]

Love your vids but can you make more farming time laps? Maybe on the grain cart?

[@jackinthebox7172]

It's awesome to see that Crary wind system on your header, my dad is one of the guys that assembles them, along with the tile plows, trailers, and potato harvesters in Fargo ND! I actually helped assemble a tile plow that got sent to Africa, and welded my initials on the bottom of it lol!

[@rale6387]

Same situation. Harvested in one direction. Couldn't think of anything else.

[@zachashcraft6243]

Grease zerk is the on,y way I’ve heard it said.

[@noah3192]

Grease fittings is what I have always heard them called down here in Arkansas

[@dylanbland5993]

Pretty much. I’ve heard people here call them alemites after the old brand name. Nobody down here says zerk. Think that’s a midwestern thing.

[@hanvanbrakel]

In the Netherlands we say nippels but in Dutch.

[@joakimbergsten2597]

in Sweden we call it also nipple but in swedish :P

[@keithscritchfield2913]

I really enjoy your broadcast. It has been a few years for me farming but I am enjoying retirement. My day it was a lot different. More hands on type stuff and no computers.

[@bipandeep8131]

I come from a farmer family too, nothing worse than crop getting affected by weather before harvesting. I might be wrong here but looks like you guys got a little late harvesting it, we always tried harvesting when the corn stem is not too too dry and standing somewhat straight so it can withstand the combine's blade a bit better, if it makes sense, there are other factors as well as we farming in a whole different weather condition and continent. Still Amazing job. Good luck for next year.

[@steviemyles-eu4lf]

Grease Nipples where im from in the UK

[@lucasbrooks5177]

steviemyles2005 there taught that name for them at my school in stead of the actual engineering name for them

[@upnorth1807]

steviemyles2005 I’ve known them as the same since I can remember.

[@farmcentralohio]

can't call them grease nipples around here, to many people get the wrong idea and can't stop giggling :)

[@upnorth1807]

farm.central. ohio, who can stop giggling? I know I can’t.... it’s just to funny if you say it right.

[@andersfossen2337]

In Norway too

[@reesebemrich9325]

Here in southern wisconsin, ive heard them refered to only as zerks.

[@Overwatcher397]

Northern Ohio sticks to “Grease Zerks”

[@joannford5860]

Like seeing you run the different machine even through water in the bean rows. the corn that you are harvesting that is laying down is awesome to see as this is my first. i'm not a farmer but it is very interesting to see all that you do to feed america

[@levoncolvin]

Try a medium depth impact swivel socket on the separator grate spacers(nut side). Then you can fit a impact in there. I usually use a 3/8’s. All except the ones behind the worm gear.

[@TooEzBud]

Me: KZbin: You should watch Corn Videos

[@Max-yt6zb]

Me: My balls: u should watch porn videos

[@thecastbulletkid]

Time we had an interview with Jim. What's Jim's back story?

[@bobbychavez4642]

Hey Zach if you’re looking for another employee let me know. I’m a young farmer going to school but I’ve been looking for a really good farm job to start and I’ve noticed you guys are short handed a few times.

[@rollercoasterXYZ]

Bobby Chavez give the man a chance!

[@thedonleroy]

We were surprised when we had a field of 21% corn. Unfortunately we also had some of the downed corn also. Not as bad as yours though. Our neighbor had some like that also. He had 2 combines with the corn reels on them. We were finally able to park the trucks in the field & load them today. Hopefully the snow will hold off until everybody's done with harvest. Thanks for the video.

[@alexandercastro6903]

Really interesting and awesome content, makes me appreciate farmers more than they are credited for.

[@xamountkillsit96]

There actually called Zerk fitting or true name is Alemite fittings. yes I'm not a millennial

[@andymilligan8485]

I agree and my grandchildren are millenials

[@carsons6519]

I like greased nipples only in pairs though......

[@Whyohwhymybrain]

It’s like he’s speaking another language

[@MillennialFarmer]

It's mostly english!

[@bobbobbobbob1449]

@@MillennialFarmer doncha no

[@atmreview4713]

Harvesting modern corn. I used to harvest corn but it was manual and very few people knew it.

[@marcusgipson5376]

From southeastern Kentucky and running John Deere bulldozers and such, we always called them grease fittings.

[@jfiery]

Itchy soybean dust? Try Oats. You'll never complain about beans again Zach.

[@1DirtyMutt]

J Fiery X10!!!

[@steviemyles-eu4lf]

J Fiery Never done beans but can’t imagine anything worse than oats

[@LAWSON08]

@@steviemyles-eu4lf You haven't lived until you've got barley dust all over you while sweating at 90+ degrees!

[@adamkruskama8455]

steviemyles2005 burdock... way worse than oats. Done both and learned tyvek and duct tape was needed not to break out into a rash.

[@steviemyles-eu4lf]

Harold Lawson oh we’ve done many crops. Wheat, Barley, oSR/Canola, oats, rye

[@MarvinLStohs]

Zerk--- Not to be confused with an "Alemite"

[@dylanbland5993]

The ones they put on everything anymore with the ball tip are actually an alemite fitting based off the original zerk design. They still make the best ones...

[@markapple1369]

That's the proper term alemite🤣

[@liamgehring9572]

That beeping sound the 60 combine series makes drives me nuts

[@tysonfrank2105]

His is a 9870

[@liamgehring9572]

Tyson Frank I know but it’s the same series

[@americasdream1265]

buy a red combine and that won't happen. LOL

[@Zeldamarie1482]

Yeah! Me too, crazy right?!

[@liamgehring9572]

Americasdream12 greens better 😂

[@adrysmaug]

"i´m so excited for 2020", man if you knew .... love your videos, ty for sharing your work with us

[@bigfatace777]

Try taking off the rubber ear savers, that helped us a lot when running in tangled up corn. It fed in a lot better and slid over the snoots so much better.