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[@steveboxum6734]

A little copper anti seize on the spindle would sure make it easier to come out the next time it breaks.

[@gungadinn]

When Strikers get buried at the proving grounds, a 500 gallon tank with a fire tender pump using a 1 inch hose does the trick. The 2 inch hose has more water volume, but less pressure.

[@wallaceoconnor5585]

Sounds like Chet is not going to find out it will work or not. We have the same type of soil. And that how we do it. The other way is leave it to dry and then it breaks up so you can get it out.

[@alexdrake9931]

I know our soil might be a little different than yours, but we definitely have some major gumbo in spots too. It's always worked out well for us to do the 2 inch firehose. You have enough pressure to knock it off and enough volume to wash it away.

[@Aaron71304]

I thought the same as long as they get it washed off immediately when finished for the day. They are pretty sharp with most everything they show so there must be something with that soil that I don’t know.

[@leefrederickson5526]

Used fire trucks sell pretty cheap in my area. If it would leave 70-85% of soil in the field I would think it would be worth it.

[@josephcihlar5691]

I agree Alex. We have a well that will do 110 gpm and 2" hose. I farm east about an hour of Larson's and if you neck it down to 1" the volume makes up for it. If you could do 200 gpm at 1.25" or 1.5" it will cut it off. Either a used fire truck or in their case, probably the sprayer tender (assuming that they have one). We mainly use ours to cut the mud off the skidloader tracks but same idea. What used to take 45 minutes with a pressure washer is a 2-3 minute job.

[@MrTjulius]

I had an 870 and I couldn't keep it in one piece. I traded it after 10 days for a 2730 and have much better luck keeping it in one piece. And my old 2700 just keeps on working year after year.

[@craigmay8888]

A 2" water pump with an old fire nozzle on it works really good for doing that

[@m.newkirk887]

I was going to say talk to your local fire department. Maybe they need a training night.

[@unclebones2488]

yes volume and pressure start from the bottom it works Chet

[@watomb]

In the army we cleaned the mud off using a wash pond(didn’t have a name or can’t remember) an huge spray nozzles. It worked and used less water

[@elginfreeman5856]

I agree. Without a washing pond set up a sprinkler and let it soak slowly to soften the muck. Let time be your friend.

[@caseydman4651]

ahhh yes...the wash rack....not good times for an infantryman lol but I do agree he would need to get atleast a 2" hose with a big enough bump behind that 2" to move that mud....just gota be careful with civilian equipment that much water would rip stuff off lmao

[@brettwaters298]

Think it's called a bird bath concrete sides and bottom that soaks and spraying all at once

[@watomb]

@@brettwaters298 figures it’s something I should have remembered.

[@69dblcab]

Erik and Chet yall look so nice with the short haircuts. Keep up the videos. Be safe and have fun.

[@dougvinduska9593]

Thanks Amy for the Caring Bridge update your crew did lose one of the harvest hands and we miss her out here in UTUBE land keep trucking along.

[@stephenhill7997]

Hi Folks, When I was in Germany in the 3rd Armored Division, we cleaned our track vehicles with fire hoses. Worked great.

[@maxlimit18]

The look on Toby's face when Chet was on his couch...lol

[@ChrysanthsMum]

Ordered a hoodie for my daughter’s birthday. I can’t wait to give it to her! It makes her and my husband laugh when I talk about your videos! I’ll turn them into fans yet. I take my Garden State roots very seriously…even if I can’t get and airplant to grow…I leave the garden to the rest of the family! Thanks for the videos!

[@tedb.5707]

One of Chet's problems is the home farm has limited pumping capacity from the main well. Even filling a water tanker takes a awhile at five gallons(?) a minute.

[@dkryzer44]

Last week all my Larson Farm's clothing was delivered. Love it!!

[@masescranton9630]

Yep mud can put you on the struggle bus. Thanks for posting you all keep us sane in a challenging world. Makes working my few acres of hay field seem like a part of a bigger farming family than it is.

[@joshuadake2334]

Not a power washer, use a 2 inch line with a 1 inch nozzle. Sink a holding tank into the ground and a wash bay with a long water way so mud settles out before it hits the tank.. Or make a drive through water pit with water flowing in from the sides. Using a hi flow low pressure system

[@andywilkinson3792]

Nice one boys. That's one job I don't miss when I was farming. I feel for you. I no its all got to be done the way your doing it. From Andy in UK

[@jeffkuipers1030]

i so remember those days in the 80's farming in the mud too, just got the goose bumps.

[@BillSkidmoreoutside]

Finishing with your mom and Toby was awesome, love watching the struggles of a different part of the country, coming from Vermont, we have clay pot material lol

[@masescranton9630]

Yes Sir Bill. We all have our pass to the struggle bus.Here on my hill side in Connecticut we go around the big rocks so we can cultivate the little rocks. Afraid if we remove all the stones will only have bedrock left.

[@trwaintime]

Swine "finishing parlour" conversion to quad / tracked equipment splash pond/ soak pool idea....next pig parlor conversion plan should include connecting same to heated shop area so that after wadeing/wash(with high pressure recycled snow melt/rain water) tractor/equipment can be transferred directly to shop area for repair in heated area during winter down time. While equipment soaks...crew can put Larson Farms DGFK special self immolating steaks ( see previous video comments by M Murphy) on the grill/pit and either grab a few brewskis or a bourbon and branch and celebrate another end of harvest. Thank ya'll for farmin', feedin' and cleanin' and keeping Toby's tail a waggin'!👍🥩👀🤠🐕🍻🚜🌄🇺🇸🔜💤💤💤

[@scottb2712]

We have a 2" hose hooked up to our irrigation motor.. anything above an idol is hard to hold on to..it works great.. there is enough volume to carry all the mud and chaff away..

[@dmorgan28]

My goodness that’s a lot of mud. What a mess. I really feel for you guys. Enjoyed the video. Take care and have a good one. 👍👍👍❤️

[@jamesbreault5762]

Great stuff Chet 👍👍👍👍

[@busterqhorse4226]

Gotta love mud season in the fall! Does wonders for the axle and steering seals!

[@stevenicoson6670]

Thanks for another great video. It for sure was interesting. Seeing your mom and Toby at the end of the video was really great. Everyone listen up and get your orders in. Toby looks like he has put some weight on. Now to the subject of the mud-wow have you got the mud. I know everyone has there way to do things. When we had mud problems we did use the sprayer water setup with a fire hose and fire nozzle you can adjust. Have to really hold to it or it’s out of your hands. Now to be honest it might damage some paint, labels, etc. BUT, it will get that mud out of there and cleaned up. Does work good. You might Randy the Pipe Layer to see what he does. He is in mud a lot. Just trying to help not trying to boss you around. Mud is so trying on the patience’s. Hang in there you all. Big struggle bus item for sure. Chet you look like you had a haircut. ?? Toby was wanting his couch back-ha!!! Dougo appears tired of the mud and struggle bus mud. Hang in there. About it for now. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything Larson team. We appreciate all of you. The Iowa farm boy from years ago.

[@phillipdickinson8557]

That was so great Chet and Eric the mud is going down you to are fighting back you going to win or not mom and dougo looking great and so clean lol leave it to the mud boys thank you for sharing and your time.

[@smoochmcguire5291]

Great video thanks again

[@davidd2613]

I assume you guys are well into prepping for winter. I remember you saying your pickup had quite a bit of rust underneath. ( it’s a typical dodge HaHa!) I mentioned before using Fluid film. They have it on Amazon, now even in black to cover that dodge rust. I highly recommend it for anything that see’s road travel in the dreaded salty roads. You could def. apply it from your service pit. Great channel, you guys are top notch!.

[@tomkennedy5956]

I like your videos but when your mom is in them it just makes me smile I love hearing her voice

[@Seymp]

We have similar soil to you, just a deep copper red colour here in Australia. We have found that pressure is less important to volume of water. We use a 4inch fire hose and as many litres per minute we can get. We have also got really good results from a snow foam pre wash soak prior. However, the worst year we have had for mud, we pulled our track machine into the river and drove it around for 20 minutes, that got the tracks clean as new.

[@mikekleven8130]

Your mom and dad are down to earth and wow... they see how disconnected you are since Nikkis passing. Don't get me wrong I've had similar loss and it took me a long time as well... Its easy to be busy to avoid it but the slow days are hard 😪

[@maryannrose1329]

A sludge pump with a 2 inch hose choked gown to 1 inch pipe. I use about 6 feet of steel pipe with a ball valve for flow adjustments. The steel pipe gives you the ability to pry the big chunks out that need it.

[@rickrick7309]

That is a good to know about the rebar thank you

[@fergywurst]

On the farm in the deep south, we had a mud we called gumbo. It is just about like your mud. we could wash a lot of it off. There was always a layer on the metel that looke like a coat of ugly paint. It would not wash off. The biggest help we had was a "Steam Cleaner" The "hot" watery steam worked the best for us. As todays younger generation would say "Good luck wit dat"

[@paulsmith8212]

Nice segment

[@jamiestaniforth9474]

Chet we used to use a fire house connecter to a water bowser to wash the tracks out on a komatsu 1250, and thats clay mind. Worked great 👍

[@louisb229]

You were talking about grandparents who like your clothes and I just didn't care. All of a sudden I realized I am a grandparent. May the Lord continue to bless you. I miss Nicole! I hope your holidays are a joy.

[@mlm7598]

Love this channel, you guys are the best and so awesome. Surely can't blame anyone for not cleaning up messes..........man what a task you have on your hands. I think high pressure hoses would help as I have been hit by a well pump let loose and at 50 feet away it dang near or did knock me to the ground. It was unexpected and scared the dickens out of me but if it could knock me over the high pressure hose could do it I think.........as long as you give it a good soak first perhaps to loosen up a bit.........man I dunno but that is some kinda mud. Ugh Best of luck Blessings

[@brianhubbard6423]

I can tell you as a former heavy equipment operator you need a high pressure, high volume water system like a fire hose. It will get the job done. God bless.

[@glennrobichaux7490]

Yes, people underestimate the power that a 2" fore how with a straight bore nozel has. If youve never held one you couldn't imagine

[@gerrylarson3675]

Yep

[@jonathancranshaw985]

I would suggest a 2”-3” firehouse type pressure washer would take the mud off quickly BUT with that much pressure I think it would damage paint and seals also???

[@dansmith207]

When we did manure 28 degrees was the magic number. During the day couldn't go any where, wait till 28 degrees at night and run till it gets warm again

[@kg86788]

In Michigan where we have clay that resembles modeling clay we use a big garden hose basically a 1.5 inch hose with a spray nozzle on it before power washing key is high volume to dilute the mud

I hope there's some manufacturer out there who makes the perfect thing to clear that insane mud out. I'd like to see that.

[@ashlandgunclub1000]

Better watch out, Martin may quit when he sees what you’ve done to the shop.

[@nicktaylor3799]

I love all your videos Dougo and you make me laugh

[@philliphood5887]

You need to get setup with a hydro blast system. Certain pumps are used to help amplify the pressure of the water. Many companies around me use this technique to blast tar off roofs. Most likely it would work with your mud problems.

[@CGW116A]

Build a large water half wash pit outside to run one side of your tracks through it outside daily or return to farm after mud collects. I've seen a farmer do just that ... greatly helps cleaning and from mud freezing solid.

[@vivianzuniga8814]

Water ain’t gonna touch that! I think you’re doing it the right way. Tough job guys!

[@kadennoll4771]

We need a new equipment tour it has Been a lot of upgrades since then

[@thomasjuhl2796]

I’m with this guy

[@bstone6828]

use a 2" firehose necked down to a 1" garden hose, run it off of your pump that fills your sprayer trailers. That will blast everything out but the paint! this is how we used to clean out crawler tracks after muddy pipe jobs!

[@farmingbiker]

You have to do what you feel is best. Everyone has their own way that works best for them. What works for one person might not work for others. Keep doing what your doing. Another great video.

[@jjcactusandsucculents-open2156]

Had to laugh at myself! I thought spaying down the tracker with Pan No Stick Cooking Spay would help! Thank you for sharing:-) Stay safe and healthy:-)

[@SSchradle]

Love the videos guys! You should come out with a Struggle Bus cap. I'd wear it every day...

[@petrikokko1441]

50-50 stalks and mud is an excellent building material. You can open shop!

[@greenthumb6875]

Get one of those half tires that attach to skid steer so can push muck out the door and not scratch the concrete. Works slick.

[@portsoycrescent]

Hello from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

[@texgibson6236]

We use for hoses in the military the clean up tracks and equipment. I noticed had enough pressure to push you around.

[@harveystephens6115]

Enjoyed. Muddy mess for sure!

[@steveandermatt5668]

Maybe you guys need to make a cement pit that you can drive the tractors through to wash the tractors in .One you can fill with water and maybe have nozzles spraying the tractors on the way through, I hauled dry cement(rinsed off my tanker) and dirt and such and we watered the loads down by driving through an automated car wash type thing for semi's there were nozzles spraying our trucks from every direction always kept my truck spotless doing that system.

[@wthrmn654]

If you had access to a fire hose, and a fire nozzle, the combo of pressure and mass of water flowing may help to move that muck. We have done that with epic mud on our skidsteer here in ny... thing is you need either a fire hydrant, or a pump with big enough discharge and pressure to pull it off..

[@philipkimber6302]

hi gang. That talk about rippers highlights the same conversation in the uk about ground types. You have 'man' ground so have bigger issues with it than those of us with 'boys' ground (i.e. soft chalky ground). thinking about that 'cut-down' ripper: we used heavy duty versions with very few tines for wet heavy ground. so great idea!

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Have some friends in the northern part of our county here, and their farm has it great deal of clay on it their habit was always to go out and plow at night when the soil starts to freeze and crack a little bit nail plows early as it possibly can if they can get going right after corn harvest they go, or they'll wait till long towards spring when there's some nights you're getting Frozen yet no plow and hopefully they go through several freeze and thaw cycles and that way then it'll disk and harrow down to form a good seed bed then.

[@mikeanwender339]

We used to put spikes on our cultivator (you call it a digger) and do our sloughs in the fall.

[@johngrabbe824]

You guys farm in some pretty terrible conditions from time to time, but we are big fans of Great Plains tillage equipment, it tends to be over built and heavy. We have a Turbo Chisel which would be similar to your disc rippers and love it.

[@edwinhsingmaster9135]

Next season of Mud, before you go, spray (safe) areas with PAM cooking spray. You know what I mean by "safe", of course you do. Really enjoy you guys!

[@ronaldheit196]

Larson Farms needs to find and buy a used surveyed Field fire truck with plenty of fire hose then take it and those mud magnets down to a water source and use the high pressure function of that fire truck to blast that gunk off. That's what farmers did in my farm hometown. The guy who owned it rented it out to other farmers to recoup his costs. Sometimes doing good old swaps as part of the payment. Everyone came out happy.

[@bradpogue3448]

Wow when you said it was muck ground, I know what you mean. Dougo better get floor washer out and clean the floor. Stay safe and warm

[@kevinwilliams8662]

Enjoyed the show

[@Ham68229]

Chet, you're missing the point about the water and fire hose. It's NOT the pressure, it's the volume, huge difference. With the volume, mud, muck, trash won't stay long in those tracks. Give it a try, you will be surprised. Cheers :)

[@CuriousEarthMan]

thank you!

[@danasheets1774]

Great video 👏👏👏

[@brettbaumgarten]

Chet we farm up right outside of fargo and it’s heavy gumbo ground like yours and we have an 870 ripper and love it, never had any problems with it (knock on wood)

[@andrewtoews3171]

Different topic but do you have a chopping corn header? We farm in manitoba and seems nobody uses Rippers, not sure why

[@brettbaumgarten]

@@andrewtoews3171 yes sir we have a 612c 22 in chopping corn head

[@jamesphilli8464]

We use a 1 1/2 inch hose with a big nozzle to clean mud it’s uses a lot of water but it does clean mucky mud out

[@davidyansky6605]

Oh, Erik aka THE Big Swede learns quick alright. Next year is always a good answer when you have to clean up that muck.

[@steveneal2706]

great video. The mud looks like Alabama mud. It is very hard to get off. Good luck guys

[@richardsmith2713]

Shop clean idea: Old big square bale w Skidsteer bale forks really cleans the floor

[@louisduque2967]

Fire hose is the ticket, 1 3/4” hose will give you 1 gallon for every 1 pound of pressure. 100 lbs pressure = 100 psi. It will make short work of all the mud and chaff that’s built up. While firefighting we would use 125 lbs of pressure which gives you 125 psi, and did a lot of work with it.

[@hpc4839]

I’ve had good luck putting some antiseeze on the spindle shaft. They will come out much easier next time from what I’ve experienced.

[@nossyhot]

we normally use 482 degrees Fahrenheit water from diesel washer.. when we do cclay or mud.. always brings it off but takes time

[@finleylatham4753]

Great videos keep it up 👍

[@acarlX]

To keep the shop floor clean when removing mud from the tracks, place 10 X 10 tarps on the floor. Drive the tracked vehicle onto the tarps. Clean mud and debris from the tracks and it will fall onto the tarps. When finished drive the tracked vehicle from the taprs. Then 1 or 2 people should be able to fold the tarps and deliver the mud and debris to the field from which it came.

[@marshalloutdoors1791]

Need a military style pit with water drive our tracks in and out off. Then to firehose if needed further attention. Don't know how work on farm tracks lol.. You have some very interesting soil around your state.

[@TheSoloAsylum]

A pump next to a pond is the way to do this. Last time I did this on dozer tracks we used a fire truck...it work amazingly well.

[@erniezsigo3926]

True story thats it 100 per cent

[@stevekissel605]

Great video 👍👍

[@jamesmacdonald8375]

Chet my neighbour uses a old fire truck to pressure wash equipment it works well if uses in the field when done

[@rogerpetre3075]

What you need is @ 26 gpm and 600 psi. We put in these machines for construction equipment dealers and excavation companies. Work great for blowing mud out of tracks. The gun has adjustable fan to help narrow down to blast into tight spots better.

[@thomasedgar1932]

I work as a heavy equipment operator when we clean out bulldozers tracks for transport we always use a fire house the D6 takes about 45 minutes and a D8 would be about an hour

[@kevinmiller1625]

We have a 527b dmi ripper which is the smaller version of the 870 and has the same leveler and have broken a few this past year. We are going to try and lift them out of the ground to were they are still doing something but but not constantly putting pressure on the T bolts

[@coryklaassen4580]

Maybe check to see if you have the right amount of thrust washer or if installed right on the bottom of the t-bolt. We have a dmi too that use to break those t-bolts. Found out that the thrust washers were put on wrong. They help cushion the hit every time you lift it out of the ground.

[@sepresley1]

i use a 2 inch line with reducers so i can adjust the pressure and turn my water pressure up to 75psi so my pump stays on so it don;t burn up. Secret is volume and pressure. But i know you have thought about this too. Cuts my jobs down and not nearly as messy as high psi water

[@chadder19k]

You need a volume pump with a small tip and that will knock it right out with a big enough pump it would be like a 2.5 inch hose necked down to 1 inch at the tip and that will give you pressure that’s needed

[@stever3145]

OMG Now Dougo has on one of those cool hats. Looks great Dougo. Amy will have one on next. I want to shop but those hats are never available. where can I get one?

[@b.t.3780]

I think Dougo has the right idea, drive it up and down the boat ramp at the lake. LOL

[@jamjams690]

Chet i have a million dollar Dougo idea, Make a plate/hubcap for the tracks that bolts on using existing bolts at lease it will keep some of the mud out of the outside part of the track

[@randywright7433]

zThink I might check with Randy, the master pipe layer, and get his recommendation. Just thinkin' he may have some good experience at cleaning off mud.

[@asmrhead1560]

Randy would say "let the hired hands fight with that mess!"

[@robertknoll317]

That's the good minasota gumbo mud for sure

[@lukedesselle2491]

Chet, need to find you an old fire truck that's been decommissioned from the city, those things will put out enough water pressure to strip the paint off, that would blast the mud off for sure

[@icebabysnocain]

Winnie, you have been around Eric so long your hair is now the same colour as his. What will the neighbors think? Mud is a natural part of farming, you know that. Good video. Peace.

[@fbh31118]

Holy buckets! You've really got a mud bog there.

[@sherric73]

We dug a burrow pit and ran the tracks thru that back and forth. Clean with no physical effort!!

[@farmerfuller87]

Diesel powered hydrovain compressor blow it out? On the pea viners I use to run when wet and got keep going it use to build up around the wheels with pea horn and mud. 10bar of pressure soon moved a lot and really helped out digging out. Cuts through it like a knife.

[@kevinrobson7836]

The Case and john deere would look nice on big wheels 👌