hey guys welcome back to the channel we're getting ready for harvest farming
here in north central montana a lot happening it's a hot week this
week so you know what let's make good use of it
crops are turning as you can see in the background those are yellow peas
they're just a couple days out and we're just a couple days out from being ready
one of the things i gotta do is uh get this girl ready this is our custom built
big brute this is a sprayer that we built out of a cash titan
spreader truck combined with a s1070 new holland
field sprayer as well as an authentic 1970-ish big bud hood
actually you know probably like early 80s and uh it's a pretty awesome machine
good for spraying but we're not going to go spraying with it now
we turn it into a firefighter machine fire machine
fire truck what caught a fire truck is it a fire truck it's a big brute fire
truck and what's cool is we have a unit called
a fire tamer custom built by uh some uh great farmers up in
alberta and uh it goes on the front of here
unless it's remote control a fire nozzle from up in the cab so one man
can operate and fight fires because here in montana things get dry it hasn't
rained in four weeks and it's hot and there's no
rain in the forecast and 90 some degrees weather
means well just to say it's not a good time to light fireworks
so we're going to try to be ready for that the problem is during farming is
this machinery like those red combines over there
anytime you're in the ground cutting low you got metal near rocks scrapes rocks
great sparks got bearings that go out creates heat
starts fires it's uh it's just a fire hazard area so
we like to be ready and to be ready i need this machine
to be field ready so i've got something here we need to put on it
the fire tamer where do we put that thing i think it's up here somewhere
this is our one of our mini storage areas
where stuff gets put not too bad right now not too messy
i clean it once in a while so i need this hose there's a fire tamer right
there let's hold that thing out of here go down and hook them up
i almost forgot one thing i got to do before i put that unit on
this thing needs a new battery for whatever reason this one right here is
decided it doesn't want to hold the charge
anymore so i gotta put a new battery in there because
a fire tamer won't let this uh hood open when uh
when it's on so we'll wait a second but i'll do it soon on a side note
this tank has developed a crack right here i cleaned it up
um i think i'm gonna try to plastic weld it
i've got a plastic welder and i believe that's a polyurethane tank
uh but i need the right stuff to be able to weld that
so i gotta wait till it arrives i don't have it but i gotta get that crack fixed
because otherwise it's only gonna hold about 600 gallons and i prefer to have
it hold 600 gallons he's ready let's pray we don't have any
fires but if we do we will be ready for it been waiting on
filters for the last 8230 combine change engine oil on it
but we are practically out of 1540 so we've been using this bel ray stuff
here works pretty good i'm gonna go ahead and transfer it over
into one of these t2 services 90 gallon portable oil tanks
and then i'll bring the other combine over here and drain oil on it put new
filters pump oil in it that'll be good we're getting really
really close and so it's across
all right let's grab clifford drop the oil
fresh oil is always a good way to start hardest harvest season
yeah i know should have dropped it last fall when they were warm
it's okay i'll warm them up and then drop it now
hey john deere how many steps does it take to get in the back of your combine
only two for me you have to slide a ladder out
or open up a side compartment lots of room up here
maybe i'll get a lawn chair hang out here for a while tell me all reality uh
here's our two filters so i'll go get a tool and start pulling
them off get some buckets put them underneath the hose there's a drain hose
at the bottom of the combine i'll climb around the back side of this
engine turn the little valve open and let it slowly start draining down
so we marketed some of our peas back in these aeration bins
and there's a trucking company that's uh grabbing these and taking them off
let's see the process real quick it's kind of a mickey mouse process
but it works so all these bins are in a circle here
we got two augers are 10 inch augers so we got this black one right here
and we also have a red one right there the red one will go to the truck the
black one will go to the bin and then we have a electric motor going inside the
bin with a bin sweep inside there cleaning
it out so it goes from the bin to the center to over to the truck then
when you want to put grain in here is what we used to do is we used to take
that red auger put it at the top of the bins and the
black auger would go over to the trucks that were filling the bins but we don't
do it anymore because it doesn't it doesn't move as fast as a 13-inch
auger so let's take a look at the process
inside here yellow see the trick is to try to hold the
camera so he doesn't work right now he actually like
insists that he works i'm not gonna argue with him he wants to
work
this is our one-of-a-kind ditch witch with a honda twin in it
20 horse leg arms uh that's my brother if you don't know
he uh fabricated and machined some adapter plate
to hook this bad boy up to it so now the old wisconsin's gone the honda's in
i've maintenanced this thing it's got a lot of time on it we'll see
if it works but we got a job to do we're going to use this bad boy
to make some trenches so we can lay some secondary cable down for a grain bin
site to run our fans and unloading augers let's start her up
let's go for a spin join us it'll be fun wanna ride it i'll go with
you let's go
this is our bin site we call this the kwan set because that building right
there is called the quan set and that was one
of the first structures in this area so it got named the quantity this is the
quant set we got all kinds of bins got 8 000 bushels over here a couple 4
000 bushels over here a couple hoppers and now these two
awesome 25 000 bushel each west steel bins that
don't have power yet they need power because it have been
that big you got to have aeration and they unload with a power sweep
now there's no power to this yard the nearest power single phase a single
phase is a half mile that way so we're going
to have the local power company bring in single phase power
they're going to put poles in in a couple weeks run single phase in so we
got a trench from the county road over here to the bin
where they brought bring the primary in then they'll drop a transformer
where the stake is right in this area somewhere and then from there we're
going to run secondary number six and trench around the back
side of this bin to the fans as well as the front side to run the
sweeps and the unloading augers there's gonna be a third bin put in line
here there's only two right now there's gonna be a third so we're gonna run
trench they're laying up cable for three someday we might have to do four down
the road but for now it's only three and then we'll tie in all these so i'm
going to take this trencher and i'm going to trench
up into around both sides of this these bins here
and uh see if we can get two feet they say 18 to 24 inches is a good depth for
what we're going to do so i'll try for 24 inches
they range great over here so let's see how well it works
we bought it really cheap put a free engine that we own already in it
and uh yeah let's go let's trench
all right well a few hiccups along the way but as you can see
we've got a trench so we're halfway done uh
engine runs great just enough power in lowest gear for the chain which i
think is probably one you're supposed to run it in
and uh not aggressively trying to go full speed i was playing it that i was
cranking at full power just to see how fast it could dig and what it could
do the chaining's tightened uh the digger chain it's definitely it's
it's catching rocks it's popping real bad
um you can see the main seal on the drive
line here that powers the gearbox which turns the chain it's just puking out
gear oil we filled it up about to fill it up again here just i
guess just keep adding oil till we get that seal fixed
uh it's not priming itself we got a hand pump here
as you saw my dad was standing next to it pumping it for me but uh
it's uh this engine didn't have enough suction to keep pulling fuel from the
fuel tank back there so we'll have to put a little
electric pump on it a little gas gas pump lifter pump um or just uh put a
gas can sitting off this hood like that i left the hood open too not only to
prime it but kind of it was getting hot under there so that way the air
can blow out easier otherwise though i mean honestly for
i think we paid 500 bucks for that thing plus throwing an engine and
you know days worth of time modifying that engine to fit in there
not too bad yeah look at this chain look how bad that is it just needs a little
tighter i think so we got a couple rocks to dig out uh
that corner there where i had the transition i couldn't
i tried to turn as sharp as i could yeah that blade in the ground you can't turn
very sharp uh so i've pulled forward backed up set
the blade back down and start digging again here but uh it
leaves a mound here around to dig out on your
side for the for the six number six to lay in and turn and then
i'll have to take the trencher we gotta hang these fans as you can see they're
not attached to the bin yet we got cables we don't have yet we're gonna
that's where i'm going to go tomorrow actually we'll pick up some cables
and turn buckles we'll hang the fans bolt into this so that way they're
suspended and as they're suspended then
we can then take the trencher and finish trenching up to the fan
so there's a nice trench to lay the six number six cable right into the fan
same with that side over there so we'll leave that unit parked there for now
when this is all done then we'll go to the other side and transfer the other
side the other side isn't as important because
we're not gonna be pulling any product out of these bins for at least two
months possibly more so cool all right
you learned something i learned something you hit a big rock with that
thing man think about throwing out of your seat
about buck me once that's fun okay all right let's grab the can-am defender
max here and uh head back to the farm yard we're
down here for now um that's one more step done okay
uh let's move on to the next thing let's listen to this thing per for a second
ready
that engine were in that trencher man we'd be ripping but it's not
so instead i'm gonna rip with some tires and go probably about as fast as i can
go before my hat blows off and then i'll
listen to my good old buddy trevor bales down in arizona who deals with 120
degree weather which i don't understand how a human
being could stay on that and he told me that's what this thing's for you zip it
up like that and you look all cute like your kids you wear hats like this
ours and it keeps the hat on so it doesn't
blow off going 40 miles an hour down the county road
all right let's roll
there's some fun happening over here by these bins see all this gravel right
here on the ground we did it we're getting another bin
which means we need this guy over here to start doing
some dirt work and then form up the ground around it
and pour some i don't know we'll just let him do his thing
but this is exciting okay it's six o'clock in the morning
isn't that when everybody's supposed to be
getting their best times in the third bin has arrived
most all of it there is some sheets that are coming later
but uh we're going ahead and uh i've got leg arms on the
tonka and uh he's uh gonna stack these in an area right
across near where we're putting the third bin
and that way we can get it uh get it together
here probably in another two weeks so it'll probably
it will be available for harvest uh spirit spur of the moment uh the spin
came available and uh we said go ahead and let's
just do it so that'll give us uh 25 k each 75 000
bushels extra capacity that we didn't have last year and as you've seen some
of the videos we've been filing great on the ground
um and this way we won't have to do that um and then when a really big harvest
comes which will be next year right then uh then we'll make sure that we
have plenty of storage so but i think everything's going to be
full filled and then we'll probably have a little bit of something we're going to
do with uh but anyway it's a great morning it's
cool it's been in the middle 90s
i think it's supposed to cool down to a way down to about 91 so that's not bad
no humidity anyway let's get leg arms unloading we don't want to stop progress
so we got it all unloaded now
get the concrete work done and then we'll go ahead get the boys
with the toys that put the bins up and they can glue them together
there we have it there goes the trucker and we have another bin sitting here in
pilots and pieces and pallets pallets pallets not pilots we
have a whole entire bin here to be assembled there's going to be
three massive bins here to the to us these bins are very big but uh i'm
sure these are like tiny itty bitty little things compared to some others