Look at all that Dust! | We're repairing our Claas Harvest Combine in this Tractor Video

In this tractor video we are focusing on some harvester repairing. Our Claas Lexion harvest combine will get washed and cleaned before we take off the feeder house and change some internal wear-parts.
Equipment repairs, aside from field prep, are our main focus on the farm during winter. In this episode I focus on repairing our Claas Lexion 585R.
In previous episodes of Rice Farming TV I covered how we prepare our rice fields for winter:
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[@MrAJWorks]

👍👍👍

[@jesse_1278]

Who else loves the look of that 7520 ?

[@satnambawa0711]

Nice video brother

[@SemperFidelis_WS_3]

0:07 That sound

[@Ricefarmingtv]

I love it too. -M.

[@bobernst8826]

Osoblu: first ran into your channel when Juan Brown gave you a overhead view of the Orville Dam spillway repair and we got to see your “migratory bird sanctuaries” .... fantastic! Now I hear Tara from Beaver Vineyards got a shout from you to-day for her new channel ... she doesn’t know you but thanks you for the shout out. The farmer network is great! From Ontario, Canada!!!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Bob, thank you for the nice message. Yeah, I gave a talk at the annual California Women for Agriculture Conference. At the end I recommended that they check out Tara’s work on KZbin and Instagram. -Matthew

[@tucobenedicto109]

That's where i picked up Rice farming TV, Blancorillio! From February 2017!

[@harrypotter4309]

That's the best description of how the combine works that I've seen. Thanks.

[@johnneal7155]

Hey Matt, every job needs supervision, and you were doing an excellent job. The video you were filming makes for an excellent "educational " tool if Pop's or Jerry need a little coaching. Keep up the good work man.

[@patmancrowley8509]

WOOOO-HOOOO! Another Matt Sligar Rice Farming TV video!

[@KevinMichaelMichael]

very well written and narrated! Thanks Matt.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you very much, Kevin! Glad you enjoyed. -Matthew

[@peteparker7396]

Matt! I enjoy your videos for many reasons, one rice farming, two the challenges you face farming I California, and the most important is you love what you do and want to promote ag in a good light! That being said, you don’t need to borrow lines from someone who isn’t solely promoting ag challenges anymore. You’ve got the red beard and dark shades!!! Keep up the great work amigo!

[@SmallMartingale]

Very cool, it's less simpler that I was imagining! I mean it's still an incredibly complicated piece highly engineered equipment but at least I understand how it works now 👍 thanks Matt

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi David, and I didn’t even cover the grain elevators and auger systems-and I have no idea how all the electrical sensors work! There’s certainly a lot of detail. Glad you enjoyed the tour of the combine’s insides. -Matthew

[@ferremit]

@@Ricefarmingtv Your tour of the inside of a combine was certainly kinder to your camera than Matt Welkers effort!

[@patmancrowley8509]

Boy-howdy, that Lexion is gonna harvest like it was brand new!

[@tim-ber2606]

Wow a 11 minute video and a cup of coffee led me to some more knowledge of the rice industry . Gotta love it (LOL) Thanks Matt for the video and isn't it about time for a warm beach somewhere ?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Tim-ber, warm beach sounds good right now. This year we aren't going to Brazil. I haven't mentioned anything on social media yet but we just had our second daughter. So we're grounded! Glad you enjoyed the video. -M.

[@lykinsmark123]

@@Ricefarmingtv. Congratulations on the new responsibility. It's easier to work all day when you know why. Lol.

[@ericcole8628]

Still loving the channel. I’ve been blessed with a great job outside of farming. Miss rice farming but your channel keeps me into it. Thanks and God bless. Your Louisiana rice buddy.

[@mooorecowbell4222]

The combine gets "new teeth" and a heavy chain and lots of TLC . One of your best videos yet and i have only seen 117 other episodes to compare.

[@dhilowjawad8590]

I wish to visit your farm to get more helping tips for Rice. Because we hardly making 4000lb per acre

[@jankotze1959]

That was very a very nice learning video, thanks for the tutorial

[@nfavor]

Great video of the combine maintenance!

[@richardburguillos3118]

Amazing Technology and Engineering. I am always amazed watching the harvesting and can only imagine how log all of those fields would take doing it all by hand. Thanks for the education so we can better appreciate those hardworking harvesters.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Amazing indeed, Richard! Glad you enjoyed looking through the belly of the beast. That would take year to harvest all the rice by hand, I imagine. -M.

[@richardburguillos3118]

That would be an educational demo. Even for the kids. I can see it now... in black & white... 😁

[@scruffy6151]

Good information on the combine working parts.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you, Scruffy! Glad you enjoyed. -Matthew

[@Murphyslawfarm]

😁

[@scruffy6151]

@@Murphyslawfarm hey Murphy

[@jessegoucher8813]

Cool, Thanks Matt

[@michaelstern1945]

Very cool learned something about rice farming.

[@frnd7ocy6]

Repair of self-propelled threshers is of course very important and necessary. And how do you bring the rice to the conditions for durability and humidity? What cleaning machines do you use? What are dryers? And what dictates your choice of this technique?

[@paulgimenez1846]

Good information, great to see you back with another great video. Also great impression of Zack.

[@jacksonmcwhiney6174]

Great video Matt glad harvest went well this year

[@watermanone7567]

Very nice video. Many thanks.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thanks Waterman! Good to hear from you. -M.

[@AgriFarmModelsTV]

Great video Matt, all the best to you and yours for 2020 ! 👍

[@ohioplowboyhawk6738]

Good work Nice MP. A lot of guys just look of it Keep up the good video Matt

[@jasonzenner9649]

Nice video 👍🚜🇺🇲🇺🇲!.

[@SLCFarms]

Good to see ya Matt. Thanks for sharing. Happy new year to you sir.

[@wranther]

Happy New Year Matthew! May the start of this New Decade bring the start of a cycle of increased crop profitability for you and your family's ag operations. -Bob...

[@fletcher3913]

Yep, pretty cool.

[@HILLBILLYSFIREWOOD]

I had no idea you can Harvest dust with a combine. Haha. Have a good one buddy and take care.

[@maxthedogandfriends4812]

Enjoying your rice farming videos. The Cat/ claas seems like a good made harvester.. Happy new year Matthew.

[@markrandall1969]

Fantastic video, and I have seen a few good re-purposing of a DEF IBC but that ranks as one of the bests.

[@dhilowjawad8590]

Hey matt i am from pakistan we do rice farming here as well and i watch your videos, these are so interesting and agricultural educational as well. You are doing good job.

[@chriholt]

Happy New Year Matthew - that was a fascinating look inside the combine, which I have always wanted to see!

[@mitchattack5859]

Harvesting rice is not easy but cleaning machinery is not so simpler. when it comes to cleaning the harvesters it's a dirty job that's for sure an itchy one. After our 2019 rice harvest I had to clean up all the equipment from the harvest. I was put in charge of cleaning the equipment. Starting with the harvesters it takes a long time to clean one just because of how much chaff the harvester collects. But anyways after a few days of cleaning and servicing the equipment they are preped and ready to work on the fields for 2020. Hope for the best for you in the upcoming crops for 2020 Matthew.

[@robertpayne2717]

Here in Arkansas they use what is called a stubble roller. Usally pulled by a large rubber tired 4 wheel drive tractor normally when its raining with standing water less balling up and more residue soil incorporation, less rutting.

[@FarmTucker1]

Happy New Year to You too

[@robertsimmons3556]

New to your channel. Thanks for the up close and personal look into the belly of the beast..LOL As previously said, "Amazing Technology and Engineering"!

[@jonesy3089]

Ate a rice cake the other day thought of you. Lol

[@adilsongarcia4518]

Parabéns parceiro pelo vídeo tá top vc falou que ia traduzir em português

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Oi Adilson! Algumas meus videos tem tradução em português. E muito trabalhoso e não posso continuar fazendo pra todos. To feliz que voce gosto esse video. Obrigado! -Matthew

[@rcmartinfarm3512]

👍 jerry

[@hp2084]

That Johndeere couple really looked like a couple, Left one being male and right one being female. ;)

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Hiren, you’re right! I like it! -M.

[@tucobenedicto109]

Great video, cool to see in the combine in the front, I think one guy had a combine eat a go pro and it ended up in the rock trap. but now i saw the whole thing. Speaking of rice got any for sale?

[@umarsultan5754]

Hi dear Mathew I can do all this work because I brought up with machines my father is also a farmer he has his harvester of New Holland 86 model as I born in 86 I want to come there to work with you

[@aarongrabanski8431]

Where do you get your APS teeth from? I currently have one of my 585R’s feeder house off. Are they from Agco or what after market company. Thanks

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Aaron, we get them from Holt Ag Solutions-the local Claas dealership. -Matthew

[@sanfranciscobay]

Cocoa Krispies are a chocolate flavored cold breakfast cereal made of Rice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_Krispies

[@379insk]

Change you feeder chain drive sprockets while u were at it?

[@rickbrandt9559]

LIKE !!!

[@bradweber3238]

Instead of rivets on sickle bar why dont you use bolts instead? Bolts work great for in field replacement here.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Yeah, I believe MacDon headers take bolts. Are you using bolts on a Honey Bee header? I just don’t know if they’re designed for that? That is, I’ve never seen anyone using bolts on a HB. -Matthew

[@bradweber3238]

No on the honey bee header. Running a cnh here. Didnt know HB still used rivets. I thought the industry switched all over to bolts. Keep up the good work . Enjoy seeing how farming is done elsewhere in the u.s.

[@starks1414]

I havent seen rivets since the 80s. All headers in Canada use bolts. When I saw those rivets it brought lots of memory’s of my youth

[@pwayne3580]

“Heck”😂

[@drglitches5199]

hmmm

[@TheComander1234]

how come you dont just chop the chaff, then it would be easier to work into the soil afterwords?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

You mean chop the chaff as it’s coming out the combine-rather than straw spreaders? We do mow/chop the straw with a tractor/mower after harvest, before tillage. -Matthew

[@TheComander1234]

@@Ricefarmingtv Thats what i meant. But is it not waste of time and effort to go one more time, rather than just letting the combine do the work. The fewer time you have to go out with a tractor the better, right? But is it because the combine dont chop it as nice, cant handle the amount of straw or the type of straw that the rice has?

[@youtubeuser5320]

1:46 dont let greta know that, holy fck

[@ivycadle4117]

Are you ok?

[@KawaiiKamikaze1]

you didn't show how the dust was removed! 😭

[@PsychopataHL]

burning in XXI century? lol

[@GICK117]

Uhhh, This years crop.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Good point. Time flies! -M.

[@user-ph8fy6zz9s]

Why not install a straw chopper

[@ihguy2113]

how do you like the 585r i have a buddy here in ontario canada that has a 595r what a beast in corn he runs a 16 row 30 head on it eats corn like crazy

[@chadjustice8560]

No engine problems?

[@ihguy2113]

@@chadjustice8560 not that i know of

[@chadjustice8560]

@@ihguy2113 A friend of mine had one. On its 5th engine he finally had enough lol

[@koryleague8833]

So basically a lexion is similar in design to a new Holland

[@MrTrashmasterfx]

kory league I would believe that they are all similar in a way but have small differences like single versus twin rotors,.... .

[@cornfarmercolt8297]

Why do you need 3 combines for only 1200 acres where I live we do 3000 acres of corn and soybeans with one combine

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Good question, Colt. Well, we could do it with one. Some farmers do. We could definitely do it with two. For most of the harvest this year we actually only ran two and had the John Deere as a back up. This year we had such a tight harvest window and we were worried about falls rains cutting our time short. The quicker we can get the crop out of the field the better. Comparing corn and soybeans with rice isn't quite fair. The rice plant is tough, and threshing is slower. Our headers need to be smaller and our ground speed slower. -Matthew

[@cornfarmercolt8297]

@@Ricefarmingtv thanks I always Wondered about that

[@SkinnerBeeMan]

Replaced chain before it broke in field? Must be tryna not pay taxes lol.

[@stevecunningham2759]

SkinnerBeeMan if you watched the whole video you might have a clue! A failed chain going into or through the combine is a bad thing. In the real world of farming this is called routine maintenance.

[@SkinnerBeeMan]

@@stevecunningham2759 you should come hand to mouth with me in hurricane alley. My 3 year corn average is 24 bu. 2 hurricanes 3 tropical storms, 2 droughts and 2 wet ass springs. MFP can't solve mother nature. The joke is, they're making a little money. As to feeder house chains and rasp bars. Done that on 9500 for she burned. 3300 and 4400 ears before that. Fun balancing bars on the old girls. We ate a chain once. Lucky me the machines were less powerful then and would just lock up. The new sts stuff we got now would probably eat the chain and crap it out the chopper. So yea. Kinda aware RM is the bee's knees. So are sheds. And operators that put fires out. And tax accountants for work for the IRS. And county FSA employees out to get you paid and not the other way around. But county FSA culture is another discussion for another day. Sincerely. - Broke ass farmer.

[@dillonodom29]

Y’all even smoke weed?