so
all right another day let's see if this gearbox has some water in it
i'm just a little suspicious after that raid we had all the hail and everything all along
i was sitting in the grain tank it's cooling right there this thing likes to get water in it
i'm gonna pull that bottom frame plug out just a little bit it's probably gonna make a mess
but if it's white milky then i'll get some oil we'll flush it if it looks
good i'm just gonna leave it we're gonna run the season we'll find out right now
white milky
yep all right i didn't bring any oil so next we're gonna go back to shop chasing that
it's got water in it you saw a rabbit all right go get em
okay uh yeah when i told him to go get him it's because that rabbit's playing with him
he ran up uh you know he was kobe was within well 30 feet of them but then the rabbit just put it in
second gear and it was rapid fire or rabbit fire and off uh was no contest race and he went ahead
a couple hundred yards and then kind of slowed up and then seeing if he was catching up those
kind of rabbits there's no way no way that kobe can catch him so he has a lot of fun
uh with them i i can judge which kind of rabbits are that and uh that was a jack so anyway but yeah
what you saw here when i found the rabbit is all these weedy patches with a little bit of grain
and uh this is not normally our land and this is not normally our harvest this year what this is
is uh some old seabed clay as you can see it's kind of dark or black
and there is no top soil on most of this just little teeny hump humps of topsoil
so wherever you see the green weeds and then a little bit of wheat
those are just little mounds of what's left of the topsoil in this bottom
area i have an idea that we're not going to farm this anymore it was in the crp for a while um
it didn't get back in again and we were hoping that uh you know being in that for the length of
time it was 25 years that you know maybe it would get some organic matter you know some
of the grass growing but i'll tell you in these dry years there is no water for any kind of crop
so uh we'll probably just take this whole bottom out and uh i might see it into some alfalfa
um and then a little bit of grass and then we're just gonna let it go
where did you guys get the crackers how did you get crackers
grandpa grandpa's got crackers in his combine yeah i want a cracker
you guys get crackers yep none for you
pretty remand pump for the magnum hopefully this fixes our problem so we got the old on here we're
gonna rip her off it's uh who knows could be the original it's been on there a long time
never touched it so we'll pull that old thing off send it as a core exchange put the new one
on it and hopefully uh the hydraulics thing will be back to where they should be it's hard to see
how long it's been like this we just don't use the hydraulics and it's very much just a couple
cylinders here and there not a lot of high demand but something's failing so it's probably bad
so
all right old free man so new but used but new specs old new got an o-ring or i mean a gasket
i got to take off a couple of rings that i set aside i got to put back in a couple fittings got
to take off this unit put on that unit get them all lined up exactly where these howl and that
and then try to put that back up in there and man there is some
bolts on here i get literally not even a quarter eighth of a turn at a time like
dink dink so i cleaned up the threads because i could so hopefully i can hand thread them in
hopefully usually doesn't work out that way to where they're just about snug and then use those
eighth of an inch turns to finish tightening it up and hopefully this works because this was over two
grand about 2 500 bucks after shipping get this remand and if it works it's probably gonna be good
for another 5 000 hours but that tractor's got a lot of hours on it and this probably
is one of the first pumps i was in it so if not the only one that's ever been in it does work
so i've got kind of a problem this is a little fitting leg arms made
um to use the loader system to make sure it's got the pressure comp that it needs that's one
of the stencil or sensor sensing lines to the pump and the problem is is some reason
the threads on this new pump are just a little different and so when i turn it in it's got
an o-ring that squishes tight when it turns in well it has to stop at one point there's only a
there's only one position it can be in when it finally deadens out and uh blocks the flow from
leaking out around that o-ring it's in the wrong spot the threads are different on this new pump
i don't have a lot of options so what i'm going to do is put this in the lathe and i'm going to
lathe off just a teeny bit where the o-ring sits put the o-ring on it and screw it back up in
there and see if i can get enough of it to turn 180 degrees or even a quarter turn just enough
so then this line faces the correct position hook their line up i have no idea how much to take off
because there's no way to measure that but i'm going to go trial by error error by trial and
just keep going until i get to the position i need put the o-ring on it tighten it up and i
think i think it'll work leg arms is in here so he can't tell me it won't work so let's just do it
it's kind of war a little bit
okay let's go try it let's see if that worked
okay did i do anything maybe a little bit i don't know it needs to turn well
that helped some let's take a little more off try it again hydraulic oil everywhere
can't hardly check that thing up there very well it doesn't doesn't work very good in that i have
a four jaw but it takes a while to get that set up blast with some air and put it back in there
oh oh i'm getting somewhere i just got like 40 50 degrees of rotation but is that enough
oh i think it'll work we're in business boys and girls yes that is what i wanted
now a little seal is a question
just barely
huh a couple hours later i think i got it in there turning tight
didn't go in as easy as it came out but that's typically what happens but i think it's in there
i'm gonna fire it up hopefully no oil just dumps over the ground hopefully that pump
i tried to keep things as clean as i could wiped everything down blew everything out
so hopefully nothing gets in the intake of that pump because that can really be bad on them
let's fire it up see what happens foil runs everywhere calling in a night bringing leg
arms in tomorrow if no oil runs anywhere i don't need light arms i got a beard
i can do hydraulics you guys saw it so yeah his value is going down quick
no leaks yet let's pressure it up and raise the bucket see what happens
nothing's dripping all right thanks guys and you guys are swell i kind of asked for a better team
i want to work with you guys all the time you make things easy so much easier i just hope that
fixes the auger problem conveyor on the swing out of the auger just you just can't run with
that thing you know something i love about you guys is there's enough of you out there
that some of you are experts on some of the things that we do here on the farm
and you guys let us know when there's things that we need to be aware of and it's awesome
i just got up with that pump on this tractor and i put a post up on all the instagrams and
facebooks and all that good stuff and the whole whole bunch of comments possible pop up saying um
hey uh you should really change that shaft and the bearings that drive that pump because
they are known to go out when they go out they can take a transmission out with them
oh okay well the pump's already on so after harvest i'll pull it all off and change all
that out because i'm sure it's due to knowing the hours of the tractor so thanks guys i really
do appreciate it i mean it's superior i mean it sometimes there's things that's like okay that's
a no-brainer yeah we know and then other times it's like oh wow i had no idea we're not perfect
we don't do everything right on the farm here so um i wouldn't know that that tends to go out until
it failed so thank you for letting me know so far the tractor's running we're gonna go hook up the
auger and see if the conveyor spins like it should and if it does then the pump fixed the problem
we're back in business the crops are right being still barley's getting ready to go even though
there's not a lot of it left now but uh we're gonna be going here real soon so stay tuned
take us over to the vinsight let's get her hooked up find out what's going on with the guys and
go play a little bits machines that's what we do
all right that's whipping now i fixed it okay it was a pump it was a pump
good 4500 bucks wasn't wasted all right we're back in business i gotta go get some green in the bill
and i'm back in the driver's seat so after getting the magnum fixed
get all the barley situated with the auger and the bin dad's fueling up over here we
just got done doing a little bit of work to the combines pulled those crop lifters off
i think we're ready to do some barley harvest the barley's gonna be ready before the spring
wheat there is a little bit of spring wheat that's ready but the majority of the barley
that didn't get hailed is pretty much ready to go there might be a little bit of green in it i think
it'll blend out okay then we don't know about the hailed stuff it's stripped we'll just as the
columbine goes in and i'll be able to look at and see if this is worth running the columbine through
or not but let's just head to the field it's just right behind the farm yard over here and uh
let's see what happens um yeah this is actually my first time harvesting barley because last year dad
did it all i didn't even do it because there was like hardly anything to harvest last year but this
year we got a little bit still i think it hailed there's a little bit so we'll run through it
which i hear it's easy i hear it's really easy to harvest so looking forward to that
this feels so good oh yes doing six miles an hour it's just flowing in the header
i'm not worried about rubbing the ground because the stuff's tall enough so the header's up
and i'm throwing a little bit over my sip so i gotta slow down a little bit
but this is awesome oh yeah i could i could harvest grain like this all day man this is good
okay we're back in the saddle again well at least me kobe's uh at the house he'll be put
back with me tomorrow um we stopped our harvesting of our winter wheat we didn't quite get it all
harvested because it was too green uh so we brought the combines back to shop did a few
maintenance getting ready and then uh we looked at the barley and
yep the barley's ready to go so we're cutting barley right now
and of course with the drought this bar barley is barley making oh
up to 13 to 20. um it's probably a little light
but it could be 47 48 pounds we haven't weighed it yet but anyway we're
got about 800 acres of barley seeded cut back this year because of the dry spring but
some of those acres now are been hailed about a week and a half ago so
there's not going to be any production on some of that so i'm not sure how much
acres we're going to actually have production on so everything's down but uh it's good to be
back in the combine again it's going to be cut and barley um it's a easy crop to cut
easy crop to to feed into the combine and uh you know it's great uh makes the combine uh run smooth
uh hardly any loss and it's easy to separate just uh it's a fun crop to cut a little
shortened places but that's the short message i give to you today barley got that out didn't i
well this is pretty nice i'm liking harvesting barley the yields though are not there but now
when i was open we were hoping for 25 maybe up to 30 just from the way it looked to the eye but
it's a half that we're we're getting an average of well nine right here the last fuel that was
in was probably about 12 to 14 bushels an acre it doesn't look like when you look at it but
it's just not yielding well so it's hard to say if it was drought this got the first round of
hail from earlier this year so maybe that's done in it um the areas that might not have got the
first round of hail we're up to 16 17 bushels an acre but for barley i guess just droughted that's
just all i could do this year with the amount of moisture was available so we'll see when we
get out of this area to another spot that didn't get the most recent hail see how that does and
then we're going to start getting into the stuff that got the most recent hail
and that might get depressing so we'll see but it's still nice to harvest it's tall i like that
it's been a while since i've harvested a tall crop didn't have it last year first off this year
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