hey everyone so the guys are on the field and the combines and they are getting hungry so i am
going to be making some food let's face it food is pretty important right that's why we're farmers so
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okay i got my little helper here so she's gonna help me stir
and we're just getting things finished up so we gotta start getting packed up and get ready
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hey where are we going guys to the big bud tracker to the combines yeah are you guys ready
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hello fresh pretty delicious so delicious you bit his nose
like i said we gotta get time to play hi daddy yeah i can do it
oh
he's just like a fun guy
oh that's right because you gotta take off
no you don't like that you don't like the combine yeah you don't like driving the combo
just heard a clunk clunk bang and uh now my feeder house is not running it's weird i have no alarms
that tell me it's not functioning but nothing's going up the feeder house hey the header works
so i'm gonna run the combine back to the shop i think we have to drop the header
two things i can only think of there's a rock in there and it's jammed up the
feeder chain and it just can't turn right now and the alarm for some reason aren't telling me it's
not working or two the spline shaft that powers the feeder chain stripped out because we've never
changed it on this combo the other column we just changed not this one so i'm gonna find out shortly
but let's dump this combine get everything out of it so it's lighter and rhoda back yeah yeah
it's a little windy today too anyways firehouse it's really high today good chance of fire so
i suppose probably shouldn't be cutting this wind anyways
that looks like his flag came off yeah that's not good
all right let's go take a closer look just pulled the header off
and uh i'm sure i'm not gonna see much from here except for as you can see it's a pack full straw
so
why are we turning i'm pretty sure i know why i'm gonna run it though and see what happens here
well i heard an interesting squealing sound it wasn't like a grinding sound so
i think it's just jammed up for the rock in there
i gotta start taking covers off so you can find that rock no rock
so that tells think it's this thing right here the shaft right there i think it's stripped out
i'll wait the leg arms gets back here and then he can help tag take it with me and i can run that up
there and he get to be down here and listen to it because it doesn't let you do both the same time
one person so we'll figure this out and then i get it figured out first thing in the morning call the
parts and uh get one of those ordered if that is our problem well verdict's in shaft's twisted
leg arms lying up there and the rock beater spinning but nothing else is so we're going
to pull off cover on the side there's a big bolt we've actually just did this like a couple days
ago so we're pretty familiar take this cover off there's a big bolt in there you can put a big
socket on it you can turn it which will then give you access to turn the whole feeder chain so we
can crank the feeder chain to where the links are to take links out to then disconnect feeder chain
to pull the feeder chain out then we'll start the process of getting the drive sprockets off
and then disconnect the drive lines and taking this whole gearbox off like we did the other one
i didn't do all that part that was leg arm so i'm gonna attempt it so we'll get to it
all right you ready
she uh cheered right off gone you know i yeah i don't know so
that is interesting all right so the other half is in there and uh we're probably gonna try
welding something to it maybe the slide hammer or something and see if we can just yank it out
inspect the slides and see if the swines are still good
and not that war we can just get a new shaft and put it together if the splines are war then we're
gonna need a whole new drive sprocket shaft and yeah it's a big thing to take out it's a pain
oh there you go
wow those are not in bad shape so those are good splines that's the rock beater
and those are bad splines see how sharp sharp they are though they're about ready to twist off
but the shaft twisted instead of that so we know what we need now
let's rip into it let's see what we can find hopefully not horrible news but um
yeah not really excited to get at it but let's do it okay
i almost have the head off but there's something that's stopping it from coming off
this cab overhangs the front of the motor or the back of the motor and all those push rods
on the back of the motor cannot go out of the engine to get the head off that's the only thing
that's stopping this head from coming off but i did lift it off the engine just a little bit
and i put a scope inside each cylinder i went through one through five they look okay i don't
see anything wrong with the heads but number six doesn't look very good um we got a melted piston
fried scorched cooked it ain't looking very good let's just put it that way so that being said
i'm gonna have to pull this motor out and the only reason why i know it's got a scorch
piston is because well this camera is kind of showing something not so healthy you want to see
yeah it doesn't look very good
yeah that that kind of uh you know explains why i was missing a little
bit and puffing out blue smoke and um huh okay all right let's pull the motor
oh yeah you're back okay yep just read some of the comments um on one of the uh previous videos
um especially the one on the hail that we the two hail and uh just appreciate all of those all of
those of you who uh commented you know that's you know had empathy and uh just said while we're
praying for you some are asking well how come it hasn't worked and uh my my thoughts on that
because i'm not the lord his ways are higher and different than mine um is that uh maybe he hasn't
uh fully answered it yet um maybe you know there's this is a time of testing uh and it tests our
resolve it tests our faith so i think it's coming um you know we have faith that uh you know there's
hard times there's plenty of people going through way worse situations than we have uh we're facing
um so i think we're going to see god working uh in in the direction that people are praying for it's
just uh you know missed opportunities is maybe not a missed opportunity if uh if you leave it to him
so but if we want to just say i appreciate um all the prayers that you guys have been um
saying you've been given to us we thank you for that i believe god's hearing it
god has a timing we'll move on and see what else he has for us but you have to always look at at
situations in life as a testing if you have faith then i believe that you have to expect there's
going to be some testing of that otherwise how do you know you have faith without testing you don't
back in business like arms make good work of it so let's go put the header back on it
and grab a bite to eat and head back up the field we're down about one day with this thing so
wait took a little bit to go get parts and get all together but you know what
that's not bad at least we had parts available nearby let's go
oh oh oh hi no i know i i know i know i know owie owie
that hurts so much to me you want to get out there huh yeah i picked the ones he can run after
because the those that he can run after he can't catch there's no way they just play with them
little big jacks but that wasn't a big jack that was a smaller one and uh i just don't care
to have any uh less hair out there than than need to not be so anyway i will
probably have another excited dog here on the return when that little bunny pops back out again
well my sickle just got all bent up so it's got a big bow in it at least this thrashed anything
we got gotta put new sickles in really bad end guards and we have them on order they're there
we gotta go get them we're just hoping to pound through the peas with what's on there and beat
that up then put some nice sickle and guards on it and then go into the other crops the sickle if you
don't know is the knives that cut back and forth which does all the work in the front of the header
so it's dark it's late i'm gonna shut down deals in the morning
i mean a 300 acre piece here this place got he hailed really bad last year barely put any
peas on it this year it looked like it's just droughted that bad i mean it got hailed as well
but i've been harvesting for three acres so far and i have averaged zero bushels an acre i did
a perimeter around that side and now i'm going diagonally across the square and we're gonna see
if i can get above a bushel an acre if not it's just not we're driving the combine in this it just
it's not worth it better just abandon it honestly because i'm wasting time fuel and possibly set
me up for a rock in the combine just driving around looking to see if i see a bunch of pods
see if it's worth it we did find a spot where we got about three or four bushel an acre
probably about 15 acres we were able to cut out of the 300 acre piece maybe 20 acres but i just
not seen any area that's probably worth running the combine around so i'm just gonna cruise
zigzag back and forth a couple times in here maybe drop the header to a couple test cuts
i think we're gonna move on to the next field because this one is not good well that does it
that's what it looks like on amps connect as you can see we did some uh searching but excuse me
we're gonna call it we're gonna go to the next field let's have a move on let's pull the motor
maybe if i look at it long enough it'll just magically appear out of the truck
that's called procrastinating it's not doing me any good all right let's get busy
well we finished up another field now where um where got hailed and uh
well i haven't seen it go above one bushel an acre and it's been zero most of the time so
it's too dark to really see we i don't want to just keep cutting for no reason so when it gets
light out the morning we'll come out we'll get a better look at the field and kind of see if
we can see these mirrors that are thicker taller might have some bushels in it but as of right now
i think our pea harvest is gonna be a lot shorter than we were expecting all right
well i'm almost out of fuel too so i better get this thing back shut her down pick it up tomorrow
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