well it's a little wet out i just drove over by the bin site and checked and i think we can
get in and out of those green bins without making too many ruts and ripping up too much mud on the
trucks they're already dirty so i guess we might as well just keep them dirty and keep hauling so
i'm gonna get the truck started dad's getting his started his loaded he can go ahead and
take it to conrad and i'll get this going and then uh hopefully get some grain haul today
but i been wanting to wash this thing it's kind of dirty it's not looking as pretty as i like it but
why wash it if it's just gonna get dirty again so we'll get the work done and then i'll wash it and
i'm thinking of wax this thing has not been waxed since we painted it i think it's time to do that
it's like 100 rpm right there okay let's carefully dodge the wet spots we have that nice
little gravel dumps right here so this has been convenient we had about five more of these then
we could have it all the way in and around so i'm going to hug this little hill right here like this
and then i'm going to stay on the grass like that and i'll cut around this green bin a little
wet spot right here nothing too serious get in line double truck up this plastic wear sleeve
that rides on this scrolltech unfolding tarp was starting to wear through right here so i shifted
it over about two inches we'll make another wear spot then i'll shift it over again we'll
try to use as much as we can and then i think i'm going to switch it over to a rubber hose because
i think rubber would last a lot longer than that plastic oh boy whose gate was open that was not
me
so
16 pro team good deal today is a fantastic day just want to point that out uh and hopefully
you're having a fantastic day as well reason why i'm excited if you can't tell is because
this cast is coming off and this cast has been on for a month and a half and it has not had a bath
or a shower or any type of way of cleaning my arm and it is very achy and i'm gonna be honest
i feel pretty icky the fact that my arm is icky so i'm getting pretty stoked to have them take
this thing off and um on a side note my brother my dad were able to uh go on an adventure with me
the other day or i was on adventure with them one of the other two i don't know somebody
and we got to visit ron hartman and if you don't know who ron harmon is
ron harmon is the guy that made big buds well he didn't actually make him in the beginning
but he bought the business a few years afterwards and then he's the one that helped
build and design the 747 and all of our other big buds he's got a legacy that is pretty phenomenal
but we got to visit with him it was fun getting catch up on some stuff and uh he was very gracious
to take time out for us but he gave me a hat and the neatest thing about this hat is he signed it
and i am just ecstatic about it i i just think that's the coolest thing and i plan on putting
it in a lock box and probably burying it 18 feet down in the ground with probably a three feet um
concrete wall around the whole entire thing and maybe a couple smoke detectors because
i'll probably never wear it ever but that's pretty sweet though you know i sensed a slight
vibration earlier and i was under load and i didn't really like it but it didn't seem
to get a whole lot worse but now i can feel a clunk when i get on the gas light off but
something in the drivetrain is going on i don't know what it is but i'm probably gonna pull over
take a look it could be a universal joint it's kind of what i'm thinking i'm hoping
that's easy to fix but if it's something internally in the transmission or the rear ends
this truck might be down for a little bit so let's investigate i gotta get off the road here oh yeah
universal's going out in the back oh yeah let's take a closer look oh man it's gone that's hot
that's out and it's gonna beat that universal up if i keep going
i might have to try to take that thing apart unfortunately i'm
not a local town right here so i can back up and get some tools and stuff and can take care
of it i might have to make some phone calls so uh stay tuned i mean to take it apart you know
we'd have to take i think they're maybe nine sixteenths or five eights the bolts and then
gotta take the universal apart we gotta do both ends take one off the other side too all right
it's probably best i don't rode this thing back 30 miles with that it could come apart if that breaks
apart that universal joint and driveline is just gonna slap around in there and make a big mess
so i better just wait we'll try to take that short drive line off because i believe
if i'm correct the drive axle is the middle axle so if we take that off there'll still be power to
the middle axle which will get me back to the shop and then we can get a new universal joy and put it
back together again i'm getting it off and here we go this little crack right here no it didn't crack
it didn't i'm kind of disappointed so am i you got my hopes up and now they're just like hopes
and dreams are crushed sorry about that flip your hand over this way all right that's about
as much as i can twist it okay that'll work just perfect perfect because i can't twist it anymore
once i get this in there it'd only take a few seconds to get the cast off of you
there we go oh beautiful and there we go oh that just looks ugly i'm sorry look at this
oh yuck we're not gonna show you all that nasty hair on it ah i haven't done that in a while yeah
it's gonna take a while it's a little still it's a little bit stiff but that's okay now it's time to
go wash it anyways at least you guys watch that so sweet well to get access to that universal joint
it'd be much easier if this truck was unhooked so i think i'm gonna drop the trailer
pull over and see if we get access to that start taking apart when dad gets her tools
oh yeah it's discolored that baby is hot i think that yolk shot oh that's too bad it's gonna
be fun to take apart that might have been the original universal joint when we got this truck
we probably thought it was okay who knows who knows but we'll get a new one in there
get her fixed up i know we've been greasing these things we grease these things really well before
harvest i greased it after harvest this truck doesn't have a lot of miles on it so it was just
it was due okay well dad's on his way we'll get this thing fixed okay got some x-rays and
uh the doctor that actually did the surgery on my arm he came in and said hello very kind guy
and he didn't scold me too much except for one problem he says i saw the video what you do and
he's going to recommend putting a cast back on it he doesn't want it okay he did not want any
thing to happen to it and it needs to heal and so i get a cast back on they asked what color
cast i said you choose so we will find out i was really looking forward to like taking showers
without putting a plastic love on but it is what it is so you're coming out with dark blue today
dark blue wow you guys got my favorite color well any type of blue baby blue is probably my
favorite for sure come on you're professional we told you that so this stuff here reacts
with water or is it air air it reacts there and then water does what then the water will help it
um cure faster so that it gets hard faster and you can go oh that's perfect
oh i can't even touch my pinky i want you to be able to touch all your fingers once i'm done i can
that is awesome beautiful look at that
you just made my day well i made your day and then i unmade your day yes
isn't that just awesome i get another cast and how many weeks do i get this on again
two weeks so two months total of my arm being wrapped up
all right get your seat belt on get your seat belt on what you don't have one you don't
oh well you're begging for one huh what do you think you really want to go though
don't you yeah i think you could drive this time could you here's another cast
as much as i don't want it i will take it but i'm not going to be happy about it just you remember
that you do what you need to do right so god is good and this is fantastic and it's color
blue and i never even asked them for a color and they just gave me well they asked me what
color i wanted and i just told them whatever so all right let's get back to the farm oh
and before i get back to the farm you guys want to see it if you're if you're feeling nauseous
just thinking about the picture of my bones being broke maybe you should skip this part
isn't that something guys yeah it's healing there's still pieces of bone in there
they said the bone would will dissolve it's going to take a while um but it is starting
to build itself back together it's just gonna be quite a long process so i'm definitely
not going to be up to par for quite a while well this is unexpected you've got a blue cast now
i thought they cut the other one off they did and then the doctor watched our youtube
video and he realized that i needed another one because he didn't trust me
he figured i'd do something and break it he actually said it's fragile enough if the kids
happen to bounce on it wrong it'll break and fracture oh so he's like you could probably do
without it but after i saw a youtube video i'm not gonna we're gonna put one on yeah wow at least i
gotta watch it somewhat all right yeah there's the culprit i felt a vibration on the way here
and i noticed it was only when i was under power and so then when i got online i started coming
back that vibration got a lot louder i think the universal yoke might be shot i was just
gonna say i don't think you're gonna be able to say that so but to get this truck back we're
gonna try to take that whole drive light off i have some uh i have a 9 16 so you can take the
caps off i could start that dad's coming with some tools so hopefully we can get her all off
here's the damage it's uh as you can see this yolk's probably shot but i think i get
this other one apart right now i see it's slipping apart and i was beating on it the
caps are coming off so i'm gonna get another and i'm gonna finish taking that yoke off
yes and then we're gonna put universal drinks in all of them but i'll lock the differential
lock and take it real easy and this middle axle should drive this truck back with an empty trailer
all right let's see if there's much of a vibration shouldn't be now so i'm gonna take a little easier
because right now there's a different set of gears powering this truck because with the power divider
lock or like we like to call diff lock is engaged it's going to force power to that axle but through
a different way it'll be fine i'm empty i'll take it easy i won't lay on it hard i'll just
go so it should be should give me back i'm interstate driving should be fine so let's get
back let's get universe let's get this truck fixed if that yoke is salvageable we'll know that soon
onward
all right made it back good that's nice working at your shop and not at a random truck stop
so we got uh a baby shower and a bag
huh i think i know those guys i think they got us um a onesie that probably can't fit me
oh this is for you raleigh and uh a tractor that's also for raleigh and
suite of batman's cape no it's like a baby like blanket for showering or something it's a towel
it's we can go with the towel that works and then we've got some bibs oh that one's for me no it
could be raleigh i've got a couple other bibs i actually got a lot of them in here sweet look
at all the bibs well he's gonna make a mess he's like his dad um and then we have let's see another
another one man there's a lot of bibs he's really a messy guy isn't it odd sweet a little
teddy that says ksih he's gonna love that one thanks kcih appreciate it i think he's happy
you