On The Farm | Harvester Service - May 20

[@Jan-Boer]

I am glad that after all those American vloggers about corn and soybeans, I see a vlog about potatoes again. Keep it up.

[@JJ_MacLeod]

Thanks very much! Always good to have abit of variety 👍

[@richardl7161]

I love the workshop stuff. That looks to be a very complicated machine to service/repair, I was impressed. It must be expensive too with so many parts to replace - you need to lift a lot of spuds to cover that.

[@jordy757]

Oh the joy of drilling out the old rivets and replacing them with new ones... Definitely the most enjoyable job on any potato harvester! Have done to much on them on a Dewulf harvester, pain in the but it is! Good video JJ, keep them up!

[@JJ_MacLeod]

I had quite a few of them go during the season... it’s much easier when it’s laid out on the ground but it’s still a challenge. Have you discovered an easier way than bashing them out? Drill them out?

[@jordy757]

@@JJ_MacLeod We found out that (in our case) drill them out with a 5-6 mm bit works quite good. You just drill a few mm so that the head of the rivets comes loose and then you give it a good tap with the hammer. Just a challenge to be centered when drilling...

[@jtdug123]

Glad to see there are a few spuds up at last!😂 Have you had a fiddle with the windrow chute?

[@roberthiggins6401]

Fine video JJ. Do you irrigate any of the potatoes? Have you any earlies? Do they get any fertiliser? Do they get earthed up? Lot of questions but I've never been around a potato farm. Cheers

[@HenriGooch]

Nice one JJ! Won't be long till combing! You on cart again this year?

[@JJ_MacLeod]

Won’t be long at all! Not for much of it, usually just help with abit of wheat on the furthest farm 🚜

[@e.graves2783]

Good vid

[@JJ_MacLeod]

Thanks Ethan 👍

[@e.graves2783]

No worries

[@stuartpowell3976]

Nice dry looking field there 😁

[@JJ_MacLeod]

Should have got some footage of you doing the drainage! Fields worked down well after all the work you did 💪🏼

[@stuartpowell3976]

@@JJ_MacLeod I'm pretty sure I'll be back again

[@tonee4227]

How many staff on the farm,? And do you employ summer staff?

[@JJ_MacLeod]

Four/ five of us and yes employ two harvest staff

[@nickaf5262]

Why does everyone wear John Deere overalls even if they don’t drive John Deere I know fendt overalls aren’t cheap but they outlast John Deere overalls my 942 didn’t even come with any overalls

[@JJ_MacLeod]

There’s a good reason... I got them free! 🤣 We didn’t get any Fendt overalls with our new 724 either! I find the Claas overalls to be good and very reasonably priced up against other manufacturers!

[@henryellis154]

you should get snapchat jj!