Spring has sprung?

[@RemembranceFarmsLLC]

I was definitely interested to hear the update on the 9200. Thanks for sharing! I can imagine it will be painful, but hopefully it’ll give you many many years of good work

[@iafarmer]

Yeah i will probably do a video on it whenever i get it home. Looks like yours is earning its keep already 👍

[@onehappyfarmer3461]

It’s dry here too. All the BTO’s are putting on anhydrous like it’s mid May. Maybe by the time I get to it the rush will all be over and I won’t have to wait on tanks. Lol

[@iafarmer]

The organic bto's are putting oats in and theres alot of recreational tillage going on too. Maybe they will be bored when they get done and haul tanks for you lol. Im betting there will be quite a few replants later this spring because guys are gonna go stir crazy and plant way too early and it will freeze off

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

@@iafarmerthat’s what I like around here there’s no starting to early because we know Mother Nature will have some pms in April 😂

[@matthewdavis4081]

It felt great getting the field cultivator out in February. I worked some fertilizer in and just enjoyed my time back in the seat. Just a month away from planting corn and I am looking forward to it for sure

[@iafarmer]

Theres alot of people around here getting antsy already. Ive got about a month of machinery prep to do before im ready lol

[@TAHDAHFarm]

We have been dry for most of the winter, but for the last several weeks, it has turned wet. It's raining now, and we are to get an inch out of it.

[@404nitro]

Nice to get a new video from ya. Hope you all are doing well.

[@iafarmer]

Doing good. Hope all is well with you also

[@sweetfarmsllc8886]

1983 was just this dry, almost exact weather.. You haven't had great luck with used tractors.. If you own a 9000 series tractor you will do axle bearings at some point. We did both of ours. We were able to do them inhouse so the cost wasnt too bad.

[@iafarmer]

Thats the year i was born. I got unlucky as there was a piece of the one bearing that broke off and went through the gears and basically ruined the whole axle housing and all. I wish now i would've had jd inspect it before fall and checked the axle play. They did both sides so until the rear needs done it should last for awhile now atleast

[@samtalley791]

Good to see a video from you. Hope the pliers turn out useable lol. We’ve been spreading fertilizer may start killing cover crops tomorrow..last 2 times we got running hard in March it was one of the worst crops we raised.

[@iafarmer]

Yeah i think in about 20 years of soaking in oil theyll be as good as scrap iron lol. Its definitely gonna be a spring to remember

[@dmcg6074]

Can you explain how you mounted that monitor bar on the right side please?

[@iafarmer]

Its just a piece of metal i had laying around, cut it to fit between the window latches and bolted a couple angle pieces on each side, then bolted it to the slots in the window latches

[@EDBZ28]

I like what you had to say on the vise grips...we all have a tendency to get overly wrapped up in "the now". This winter I've been reading a lot on the history of my hometown and the railroads that used to be in it; I just find it fascinating...looking at the old pictures of the people in them from the mid 1800's, now dead and gone and forgotten in most cases, but in that picture that was their time making their mark in history. On your 9200, if you were buying that caliber of tractor again, what would you do different? Would you buy that model again? or what would you look for? I'm sorry that you've got all that against ya on it....& disappointed in all the work that you're having done to it; this is why I've always been leery buying a fwd...they get pricey to repair.

[@iafarmer]

Well i dont think id be afraid to buy another one, but if i could go back id probably insist the tractor be inspected by john deere before id agree to purchase and have them jack up both axles up and check them. I knew from research all this could be expected, but didn't think id be doing it all in the first year. It was definitely the wrong time to buy since the prices of everything was so inflated but i was in a bind so i settled on it and paid too much. The guy i bought it from turned out to be a real jerk and wouldn't return my calls even when the radiator was leaking a mile down the road from leaving his farm so it hasnt been a pleasant experience from the start. One of those deals you just eat the shit sandwich and move on lol. In a year from now it'll be like those vicegrips

[@EDBZ28]

@@iafarmer 🤣. Great way of looking at it! God Bless

[@fredf3391]

Glad to see you back Iafarmer. You could give cooking instructions like Iowa country girl , get some muriatic acid to clean up them vise grips .check out Locust Motor Works does research on JD equipment the good the bad and the ugly

[@iafarmer]

Scrap iron trailer is probably their destination haha. Its probably best i stick to fieldwork and pigs as my cooking is less than desireable lol

[@gleanerk]

Enjoyed watching! Hope your bill on 9200 don’t hurt to bad .

[@iafarmer]

I will probably do a video on it when it gets back but im expecting its gonna cost about half as much as i paid for the tractor. Just the front end repair is gonna be over 20,000. Its gonna owe me lol

[@AgWildNebraska]

Interesting the crap you find out in the field and once in a while. In college I planted a guys entire toolbox with a ripper. I wonder if he's ever found any of it.

[@iafarmer]

Yeah on that farm im not sure if all the rocks broke that much equipment or what but seems like im always finding pieces of some old machinery