What is it? And Where Did it Come From?

[@ke6gwf]

CLUTCH BRAKE!! Yes Virginia, it WILL make a truck VERY hard to get into gear. (the clutch brake stops the input shaft of the transmission spinning when you push the clutch pedal all the way down. When the engine is running and the transmission is out of gear, the input shaft and front gears are all spinning at engine speed, while the rear gears on the transmission are stationary, and when you push the clutch in, it can take a long time for the input shaft to coast down to a stop to be able to mesh with the rear gears, and if the clutch drags even a little bit, they never slow down, so the clutch brake squeezes between the clutch mechanism and the input shaft to slow it down, until the gears will mesh.) It helps to shut the engine off, slide it into gear as the engine slows down, then step on the clutch and restart the engine, until you can put the new clutch brake in!

[@mikeclemens5735]

Your explanation was better than mind.

[@tamiller84]

Jim - is a wise man well beyond his years. As he said, "Looks like have of something". Thank you, Becky, Jim and your father for the great videos. You have some outstanding actors in these roles.

[@hockey161616]

half*

[@MillennialFarmer]

It's been a lot of work to find the correct actors for every part but it seems to be paying off!

[@attaat]

@@MillennialFarmer 🤣

[@attaat]

Jim cracked me up when he said that. Absolutely spot on Jim.

[@briansmith8405]

You can tell it’s a clutch part because of the way it is…..how neat is that.

[@66block84]

Love your Count von Count laugh, it reminded me of when I was a sophmore at UMD & had a broken ankle, I would watch Sesame Street & laugh with my youngest brother who was 4 at the time. Mom would feed us lunch.

[@davebullock3517]

Zach, when you moved that first weight and said “one”, I did The Count laugh then I lost it when you did. My wife looked at me and said “what’s wrong with you guys” 😂

[@Jarhead1086]

LMAO I did it too

[@juliocruz1695]

My son and I rolled on the floor 🤣 we did the laugh count as well !!! Wife walked in and was confused, she’s not American so I explained who count is and she gets it now 🤣

[@randyogburn2498]

You're not alone. The way he said "one" made me think of The Count before Zach laughed too.

[@jerryglassmeyer2853]

DIDO. Lmao.

[@terryspohn7648]

My No

[@JamesKlyng1twofish]

Zach, "I'm not thinking much." Jim, "Well we all know that." Hahahahaha Roasted.

[@robertivanski3830]

Love ❤️ your German Shepard. I’m a fruit grower in southern Ontario Canada. We’re close to a populated area. From time to time we experienced theft of tools or chainsaws. That all stoped when we got our first German Shepard. Now we have four. Great dogs loyal awesome with the employees never wander away and have secured all our property.

[@wornoutwrench8128]

Ha ha. I looked at it when you were kicking it and thinking to myself, that looks like a clutch brake. Thanks for doing the Count. I'm 64 years old, my kids grew up watching Sesame Street. The count was one of my favorites. To this day I still do it. The amazing part is how many people will join in with the laugh once you get going.

[@DonVDBorgh]

Count Zackula! 🤣 Your not the only one behind in seading time. Praying for good growth and fall harvest time. 👍👍

[@robertquast9684]

Clutch brake disc. The split type was ones are nice to change. They go out if you ram the clutch to the floor while rolling in gear

[@jarrodolivier6317]

Anna wanted to take the broken part to the clinic. I'm surprised you didn't check on it?

[@jeffherdz]

I was so thinking about the Count, just as you started moving those weights.

[@glennspreeman1634]

kudos to you for being able to successfully farm under your challenges of weather.

[@thomaskirkpatrick4031]

I gotta say, you guys really have some nice, well maintained equipment.

[@Bealeguy1]

Zach, on a personal note, I really Appreciate all the Hard work you do as a Farmer. As a regular person out here in the USA, I never actually realized just how much work goes into farming. But from your Awesome videos I gain a huge perspective. Thank you Zach and your dad and Jim and your family.. Thank you all, really look forward to the next video, thanks.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Thanks Dean, I appreciate you watching!

[@hughmunro9101]

Lik ok ikkkkkikikkk lol

[@hughmunro9101]

Uluululullll

[@thedonleroy]

As I watch this on April 29th we have had a real good rain here south of Fergus Falls. It rained most of the afternoon. It is supposed to rain some tonight maybe & then rain tomorrow. We cleaned out our last 3 bins on the 26th & it was cold. Snow flurries off and on all morning. I am getting real tired of this weather. We are ready to start planting & getting anxious.

[@danw1030]

Yep, losing the clutch brake could cause some problems.

[@hughstephenson2957]

Ain't the first time I've seen clutch brakes laying on the ground. The old 15 speed Road Ranger transmission s would do it when it was least convenient..

[@2kbill846]

Interesting vid, Zach - keep 'em coming and I hope the weather gives you a break. You all in MN deserve one.

[@ginggur17]

Made a mighty fine job of levelling the yard. 🇬🇧🇺🇸👍

[@ChiefStones]

Who's ready for warm weather? THIS GUY!

[@jlnaturals4504]

Me

[@David-xl8zf]

Yeeep. 👈

[@SgtRudySmith31bRet]

F that it's 85⁰ here

[@ChiefStones]

@@SgtRudySmith31bRet I'm in alaska. We still have snow.

[@markpflugmacher2248]

That’s crazy! I count the same way when lifting tractor weights. Lol

[@mataiterapreha]

All this hard work just makes these dorritos taste that much better!

[@jimwashburn5659]

Thanks Zack, for insight of planting decisions 👏

[@duggydo]

Sesame street counting. I did that once at work. The boss got really annoyed when I was still doing it at around 20.

[@ryanc8188]

Frozen ruts in a skid loader show if you have any loose fillings, or any bad joints in your back, hips or neck.

[@melfallen6673]

👍It was good to see Didge with her game face on - locked & ready when you lifted the front bucket - probably halted a devastating field-mouse ambush! 🤣 Blessings to you, Johnsons! 😁🙏🏻💪🇺🇸🌽

[@TheDumpTrailerGuyLLC]

I dont know if i've ever seen the tractor your selling in any of your video's. Thanks for also explaining your start times and what happens now, I hope you guys stay in moisture this year

[@MultiTurbospeed]

It's a tractor that is always on the land roller. And was also used when Jim got the 9560RT stuck

[@DL541]

We finally go .40” of rain, hope to get the 1-2” over the next 36-48 hours.

[@bwwatson16]

It’s a CLUTCH BRAKE! It stops the transmission from spinning so you can put it in gear. Replacements come in two halves. Easy to put in but you’ll need it.

[@TractorandMX]

The tractors had a stare down when Zach was swapping the front weights.😂

[@billbaas1402]

Hahaha thank you for the count laugh. To be honest I did the same thing.

[@johnj.fitzpatrick7148]

Count Count made me laugh nostalgically. Thanks

[@paullittle4040]

Will say a prayer for you and your family. Thank God no one was hurt.

[@M8Stealth]

On the 8295R, go into the armrest screen to suspension settings and lower the ILS cylinders down all the way

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Keep up the great work - trying to feed us all! Love your channel, Thank you for sharing.

[@thomaskirkpatrick4031]

Just stumbled across your video, not a farmer, all though I do appreciate what you you guys do for all of us. I just wanted to say, you have a fantastic operation, looks like you have a very well maintained facilities and equipment. I'm gonna keep watching, I'm sure I'll learn something new today.

[@mitchellcline5738]

Also, check out Cole the Cornstar channel. Just as informative and also very entertaining.

[@johnnnny]

Funny, a few years ago "Cole the Cornstar" popped up in my suggested videos and I thought "What the heck is this?". Since then, I've gone back and watched all his videos, Millennial Farmer, Larson Farms, and Laura Farms. I don't farm either, but find all of this stuff pretty interesting, and all these channels are pretty entertaining.

[@dport7917]

The 2 halves are a clutch brake from a transmission input shaft.

[@bennetts-revenge_2]

I hope it starts warming up for y'all so you can get in the fields. I just watched Between the Rows and that video was awesome

[@winters_knight7840]

Got to watch that IFS. I worked on a farm that had a 8285 with the same setup and the suspension would lock the steering up. Kinda inconvenient when your in road gear trying to turn.

[@nikolaitownsend1239]

8:32 Ana: "Give it to me and I will show you where it goes" 🤣 Great video!

[@spideybrent]

Hello from Moosomin ,Saskatchewan, Canada Great videos thanks for sharing

[@nielsdybro9759]

Yep, always hand start bolts and nut to avoid cross threading.

[@stevenicoson6670]

Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. I am not for sure about this but believe what you found is a clutch brake out of one of your trucks. Is one of them hard to shift???? That’s the one. Your yard looks nice all leveled off. Off course you could blacktop it, only cost a dollar or two. Just saying. Seems with a bin system there is always something that needs fixing. Nature of the beast I guess on a farm. Busy time hauling corn and getting jobs done before planting season. Thanks for your outlook on the timeline of are we behind in planting. Interesting how your part of the country does it and of course you have a different soil type. Here in central Iowa a lot of corn in the ground already. Seems soil types is the governing factor. Hope you can get going soon. The tractor you have for sale should go quick. Nice unit with low hours. Good luck with the sale. About it for now. Will be quiet now. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything. Good to see your dad and Jim. The Iowa farm boy.

[@olegrumpy4519]

That is a clutch brake, it stops the transmission input shaft from turning when you put the clutch pedal all the way to the floor, only do this when the truck is stopped!

[@Dabaerr76]

Sweet waiting on more videos

[@2009rummell]

Next project you need to do is an overhead load out bin. Or use your grain cart

[@dhansel4835]

16:06 the video is reversed. Good luck in the spring planting. Here in South Texas the corn is about 8" high.

[@crashed9072]

The broken piece you found is the clutch brake from one of the trucks.

[@buddybresett8356]

I'll bet you are ready to get started planting. Especially with the new equipment you have.

[@deanoz9307]

Jim is awesome on your videos Zach, you guys definitely have an asset with his knowledge and humor. Time for a video a day Zach, we thoroughly enjoy watching the activities on the farm.

[@stevefielder1249]

That part is a clutch brake for semi

[@tommypittman3810]

Great job on the transfer of the tractor weights

[@kevinv9217]

Your impersonation of "The Count" brought back fond memories for me of watching S. S. with my kids 🤣

[@dwaynemoore1575]

A chain drag works good for smoothing out the gravel in your lot

[@justthings6405]

As a farmer we do talk to ourselves a lot. It wasn't so much about saying 1, it was the mental accomplishment about actually getting to the task at hand as "lists" in a farmer's head are so huge that accomplishing something is an "accomplishment" if that makes sense! After this job, the mind goes to different maturity seed orders, ordering fuel, hauling grain, getting filters on things when they were back ordered, getting fertilizer lined up on correct fields, crop insurance, work on machinery that was buried in the snow, etc, and then the worry of "what if" I can't get into that field because of being way too wet so I have to switch fields, and that one is not fertilized correctly, can I get the part I need at the time when something breaks, spend time with the kids and wife, get to my meetings, etc...........................lot on the plate to absorb with $100s of thousands of dollars already invested in something that isn't even in the ground yet. just a little stress don't you think? Faith is what farmers run on...

[@FrisianFront]

Or talk to the cows when we are alone🤣

[@The_pipeliner]

Love your dads Dekalb jacket. I grew up in the little town of waterman Illinois where their biggest plant is located…

[@charleslynch7274]

The yard is looking great good job getting those annoying ruts out

[@theformalpea4241]

I'm in Northwest Iowa and they're in full on plant mode here, but we're somewhere around 3" below normal on moisture and only had about 5" of snow this winter. We could be in for a rough season.

[@brettk5762]

We have not even received a full inch here in west texas yet.. keep praying for rain!

[@larrythompson8630]

I loaded semi before last nights rain. Took @ a hour. Bin auger pulling really heavy, or motor wearing out.

[@prezzle208]

Man if I had a use for it I'd be interested in that 8260. It's a nice looking machine.

[@TheMr9fingers]

Nice Tractor your Dad got love the IFS this tractors ride so nice. When you fix up your leveler/boxblade I would add a place to put a couple weights to help cut the ridges down had 4 100 lbs weights on leveler i used at Deere dealership to help maintain vravel lot

[@jasonthompson6255]

Would you ever consider an overhead hopper bin to load the trucks. ..you could transfer the last of each bin into it so you could load quicker like Larsens

[@MillennialFarmer]

It's been considered, but not invested in yet

[@jasonthompson6255]

@@MillennialFarmer ok cool...thanks for the reply

[@FreedomRock44]

Good one Zach & Becky!!!

[@chouc9816]

In my day, we had no bin sweep, we shoveled !!

[@hughstephenson2957]

We here in NE Wyoming got 19 inches of snow last weekend along with 50-60 mph winds made for closed roads and 6-7 foot drifts. Today was rain all day.. since we are in desperate need of moisture we aren't complaining!!!

[@wannabeitall2580]

That part you found laying on the ground is a clutch brake😳😳😳

[@dwaynemoore1575]

You should use a change drag to level the Ruts in the yard

[@Jayhawk226]

So glad you gave credit to the Count. If it moves and it's not, duct tape. If it doesn't move and you need it to, WD40.

[@caseytemaat4738]

The pieces in your hand is a 2 piece clutch brake from one of your trucks. Whichever truck that don't go into gear without grinding is the truck it came from. They are usually fairly easy to change. Just remove the inspection cover from the bottom of the bell housing and roll the new one in.

[@budafarms]

We had to put in some 80 something day corn last year due to replant

[@dustanthornton5532]

Don't tease us with more videos. Hope to see you guys in the fields soon

[@jeffdevries6508]

Between 14:07 and 14:08 you can see the difference the weight does on the front end.

[@scottnachtigal1616]

It's a two piece clutch brake. You can put them in with out pulling tran.

[@Koontzy.]

Good way to end a slow Friday at work!

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see y'all again

[@natef4543]

Your dad is right clutch break yes they come in two pieces with a roll pin now days!

[@SaigeRori]

Nice Jayco!!!!!!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Great content Zach👍👍👍👍

[@joshwilliams679]

Glad I'm not the only one that takes broken parts from the lot and ask people... Hey, do you know where this goes?

[@NoWay23548]

‘One…ah ah ah” totally cracked me up! That character from Family Guy rocks.

[@ronaldrankin9918]

I just drove from NJ to MN. I haven’t seen anyone planting. Some guy working ground in lower IN and Ohio going across I 70.

[@dfarmer_]

SW MN is planting

[@RealJohnWayne]

Hey there Zach, I hope this finds you all well and good! I won both of the dog bets, so you can go ahead and put my $200 check in the mail. With compaction being a major concern today, why do you add ballast to your tractors without weighing them? Too much ballast can have a detrimental effect on a variety of different factors, including the most important one........yield. Too little ballast can also have a detrimental effect on a variety of different factors, however it does not affect the most important one......yield. It's been estimated that a majority of the tractors in the US are either over ballasted, improperly ballasted, or both. In many instances, additional weight is not your friend. I hope y'all have a good one, and can start putting the seed in the ground, it's almost May. "Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸

[@Kolton_Wagner]

He has explained somewhat before, but our ground(we farm in NW MN) is very heavy so it gets deep tillage every year and the freeze-thaw cycles help to break that ground up. Compaction isn’t much of a concern because of those factors. We also seem to run out of traction quickly if they aren’t weighted down, the right tires or tracks will help but don’t fix it. Although you do make a very good point of proper weights and balance for a tractor.

[@RealJohnWayne]

@@Kolton_Wagner I grew up on a farm, owned a John Deere Dealership, and a farm, and have tried to educate farmers about their overweight tractors for decades, but they can be a stubborn bunch, especially when they reach the grey stage, like I'm in now. Once most farmers have ballasted their tractor to what they think it should be, it stays that way for life, when in fact the reason that Deere makes their weights as easy as possible to change, is that if you want to be as efficient as possible, ballast may need to be changed as the seasons and applications change. About 90% of farmers have no idea as to what the formula for calculating the proper amount of ballast for their tractors is, and probably 99% don't realize it's different for their Mechanical Front Wheel Drive (MFWD) Tractor, than it is for their 4 Wheel Drive Tractor. (Articulated)

[@charlesreid2286]

It is a clutch brake that rides on your input shaft of the transmission.

[@scott54660]

I enjoy the way you present what your days are like, it is important that people understand what a farmers day entails. Your days, like all farm days, never work out like you planned, but you always push through. If at any time you find your self in Tomah, WI ( like maybe for the NTPA Super Nationals) please look me up. I am part of making sure the pull goes as planned and would love to show you and your followers round.

[@georgechilcott859]

We put an iron bar through the holes at the top of the weights lift the hole lot in one with a chain. For when you do it next time

[@edcrego396]

boy oh boy that sure bring,s back old memories dust dirty sweep arm noisy I was always surprised the actual amount of corn left at the end ,,,a good thing thanks for the video your dog is amazing

[@edcrego396]

@@paulprigge1209 what's that we feed all of our corn once in a blue moon we hard to sell some because we didn't have the room to store it

[@lindsaytruscott3002]

I like the facts you give us about certain things

[@prestonkapsner3883]

Zach love the video keep up the great work

[@thomascooper5668]

Love watching your programs

[@troytuckwell3610]

Yes you can buy 2 peice clutch brakes. I use them all the time it should have had a hinge on one side. I don't like them but it save pulling the box off.

[@homermorrow8171]

Love your count

[@roywaite5793]

Zach, have you ever considered putting a roof or building over your pit’s? I noticed some farmers have completely inclosed their pits with a building with overhead doors at each end.

[@jchambers2586]

He needs more gravel there's better places to spend money than a roof over the pits. A thousand dollars would buy a lot of gravel but I'm not going to spend somebody else's money

[@Blasterxp]

Or tarmac?

[@HILLBILLYSFIREWOOD]

Inclosed grain dust go's boom!

[@rickdubbink]

@@jchambers2586 why do they put down gravel and don't just get a bunch of asphalt laid down?

[@jchambers2586]

@@rickdubbink I'm saying he's better off spending more money on gravel than putting a roof over his pits

[@LtdES7638]

Crazy you owe me a beer!!! For " The Count " laugh. Too funny. Keep up the great content.

[@ishouldgetalif3]

man i love that, finding weird parts that look important in the gravel.

[@viktortegelberg]

9:30 Jim is a genius 😂

[@pdmustgtd1013]

Factory clutch brake is 1 piece but when they wear out people cut them out. Put in 2 piece clutch brake so they don't have to removed trans to replace it. When we do clutches 1 piece are put back in because 2 piece are known to come apart. Either pins come out or break off bolts holding them together. Many mis-adjust the clutch causing them to drag so you're sitting there pushing hard on clutch pedal trying to stop clutch from turning to get it into gear

[@rickthompson4315]

Sonne Frames, brought me here. Your dog, keeps Me. Mine is named Chief. Enjoying life in Nicaragua, 22 yrs no Snow. LoL

[@rondavenport4512]

Every once in awhile, could you say what the date is? Just for reference. Awesome job Zach. Keep on truckin.....

[@rondavenport4512]

A then you said the date...

[@misterhipster9509]

Might be going w/food product as opposed to fuel pretty soon.

[@jasongaydos9883]

Nice clutch brake that you found sir.

[@jetegtmeier71]

that is an aftermarket clutch break, I've seen them before, they come in halfs like that so they can be installed without seperating the engine and trans :)

[@davidrollins4272]

True that. Made by Eaton. Worked there 35 years.