Strip tilling cotton into wheat field

[@jeffmyers4680]

Great channel! Enjoy watching your operation and learning a lot ! Keep it up Patrick!

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks Jeff!

[@jeffcasey504]

You have got to be one of the best teachers ever, thanks!

[@k.p.1139]

I LIKE it! I have heard of strip tilling, but never looked into it. By cracky, I can see that working for beans, and field peas. I can also see why it would not work for corn. This was awesome. Thanks Patrick.

[@sugarcanemojo2475]

Another sure way to scare off the rain is to check the radar.

[@mythreesonsfarms]

Patrick, hook that frog to the versatile. The videos are really well done.

[@PatrickShivers]

I pulled it with the versatile last year…..it didn’t even know it was hooked back there. Supposedly same hp as the 8335R but Versatile somehow delivers it to the ground better 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@joshuakirby338]

Beautiful country

[@chrishobbs1652]

Good video.

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching

[@prestonrish5299]

I have scared a many a rain off in my day. Great rule of thumb to live by

[@PatrickShivers]

Several times I have started washing my truck when we have a few scattered summer t-storms moving through just to try and entice them 😂

[@prestonrish5299]

@@PatrickShivers daddy always said a truck washing was a way to attract a shower lol. keep up the good work brother.

[@madtater5948]

I would run a hot jumper wire from the battery straight to the electro clutch on the air conditioner and force that air conditioner compressor on. and manually open the plenum door open

[@bensalter1515]

Enjoyed the video! Just curious why you attached the board behind the strip till rig? Thanks from south GA!

[@PatrickShivers]

Where at in south Ga? We’ve run it with individual row baskets with and without tailing drag chains, a section of press wheels for each row unit, and most recently with that board. The goal is to have flat smooth planting surface free of clods.

[@bensalter1515]

@@PatrickShivers I gotcha and that’s a neat concept. I’ve switched back and forth several times between the press wheels and rolling baskets, both having their advantages, but never 100% committed to either. Appreciate the info though. And Tifton, GA

[@PatrickShivers]

My wife is from Ocilla, I pass through Tifton often. I think the press wheels do the best job but with our red clay buildup on them is an issue. The baskets were always a nightmare to me. A cotton stalk remnant would jam in one and keep it from spinning which would make it dig a ditch instead. We can’t get the board low enough to always be in contact with the furrows. It requires less maintenance but doesn’t always do what it was put there to do

[@MultiBaldEagle]

How do you do your cotton stalks? We were using an Amadas 6 row stalk lifter/chopper until 2019. We started using a 6 row KMC flail shredder in 2020 and then discing diagonally.

[@PatrickShivers]

@@MultiBaldEagle flail and deep disc in winter high moisture. If the moisture is high enough that you couldn’t disc unless there was cotton stubble in the field they will all but disappear. If moisture isn’t high they will be disced twice at opposite angles.

[@madtater5948]

John Deere air conditioners have a low pressure drop out switch make sure your refrigerant has the right charge

[@PatrickShivers]

It’s an electrical issue. “Cab voltage load low.” We think its a grounding problem but we haven’t found the culprit.

[@jackweeks8099]

And for you folks that don’t know about South Georgia red clay, it can get harder than woodpecker lips! I bet you can cover some ground in a days time running 12 row equipment. We always ran for row equipment.

[@PatrickShivers]

Ever shrinking labor force and ever growing number of acres needed to earn a living demand bigger and bigger equipment

[@jackweeks8099]

@@PatrickShivers the days of small farmers are over with. Cost of production put me out of business. I was tired of just breaking even.

[@PatrickShivers]

That’s why i started doing produce. Higher profit “potential” per acre. Can “potentially” make same profit on 60 acres as 2,000 acres of row crop

[@ClevelandBaldwin-w2n]

Think that becoming true

[@danmorgan8745]

Patrick why don't you use the versatile

[@PatrickShivers]

It’s hooked to the 637 disc right now

[@chrisfrench8511]

Patrick a couple of questions. Can you bale the straw and still have enough left to strip till? Is wheat straw a pain in the as to bale?

[@PatrickShivers]

We almost always bale it. We didn’t this year though. The problem with bailing it is in order to do so you have to cut the wheat low, which means running a lot more material through the combine. It slows down the wheat harvest and wears out the combine. On the other hand wheat straw can be sold for $15-$20 a role to mushroom farms. The straw in a field is usually worth more than the wheat.

[@karlrovey]

​@@PatrickShiversStraw bales aren't worth the fuel needed to make them in other areas (unless you need them for animal bedding). They seem viable in parts of Illinois and Missouri (I've even seen them baling it there). I think we would lose money doing straw bales in Oklahoma.

[@PatrickShivers]

@@karlrovey Florida mushroom farms buy them down south. Custom bailers will pay you $15-$20 a roll for them to roll and move out of field.

[@karlrovey]

@@PatrickShivers Looks like you're close enough to a market for straw to be viable. Custom baled straw isn't viable in Oklahoma. If you get a contract with a dairy (pretty much the only people who use straw out here), you might be able to get a small profit, and you would have to do your own baling and transport it yourself.

[@markisb3585]

There is a farmer here in Eastern North Carolina who actually no till his peanuts. This is his second year of no tilling peanuts.

[@PatrickShivers]

Different kind of dirt. I’d like to see his operation. It’s hard for us to get ours out of our red clay even with maximum deep tillage before planting.

[@markisb3585]

@@PatrickShivers The dirt is different here in Eastern North Carolina. It seems to work for him. Second year. Most peanut farmers here just disc and field cultivate and plant.

[@PatrickShivers]

We either disc or subsoil, followed by bottom plow, field cultivator, and then planter in optimal conditions. Sometimes disc, bottom plow, disc, cultivator then planter

[@markisb3585]

@@PatrickShivers Gotcha. I know y'all dirt probably gets hard so you have to do all of that tillage

[@w8stral]

Your bearing issue: The SHAFT the bearing sits on is WAAAAYYYY too small leaving lots of SLOP. Was probably worn out when first bearing on it died. You will continue to blow through bearings left right and center until the shaft is ~press fit onto the bearings. Trade off in costs on a wear item. Bearing replacement or new shafts.

[@PatrickShivers]

That particular bearing was completely shot, meaning all the balls had fallen out, creating slop in that disc. If you notice the replacement wavy disc had no slop when mounted on same shaft. We strip about 1,000 acres a year, usually 2-3 bearings go out over the coarse of that.

[@w8stral]

@@PatrickShivers Here is info to save you $$$/time/angst long term: You should have ZERO bearings go out during strip tilling 1000 acres. ZERO. Sure as Hell not 2 or 3~ That is insane! Your shafts are WORN OUT. They should be a PRESS fit. Press fit requires a press. Not slap it in like you did on camera for the whole world to see. This SLOP between the shaft and your inner bearing's raceway destroys your bearings quickly. Bearings MUST have a press fit on both their inner and outter raceways otherwise you will destroy them quickly as you just admit to doing every year + not making a good closing of the strip till + the stopping required and maintenance. This costs you money, time, angst, etc. Leave it with you; hope this helps.

[@PatrickShivers]

Both bearings were press fitted, as you will note i had a wavy disc with bearings already pressed in it ready to swap. As you can also see there was zero slop when i spun newly installed disc. All the bearings on the 24 wavy disc aren’t new at the start of the season so yes they do last way longer than 1,000 acres. When we set an aggressive angle on them or if it is pulled in excessively dry ground we have a few bearings go out. If set straight or ran in moist dirt there are little to no bearing issues

[@w8stral]

@@PatrickShivers I don't get it. Why post an obvious lie to a stranger on YT? No is so stupid as believe that shaft going through the bearing was a press fit when they saw you, on camera, slap the wavy disk onto it by hand without ANY difficulties. You do you, but please stop lying and embarassing yourself by acting ignorant/stupid. Or are you going to go with they, what is a "shaft" defense...

[@PatrickShivers]

Perhaps I’m not explaining the process adequately. Just so there is no confusion I’ll post a video later this week of the process up close and as detailed as possible. Sorry for any confusion that may have resulted in my attempts to explain the process.