good morning it's a little chilly this morning but uh making things happen he's getting set up
to the bin it's kind of a shame we have these in a circle because it's kind of a hop and a hard time
getting close to the bin but we'll make it work i've got the blue truck running i got the red
truck running the side by side's running with the pup he's ready but we're gonna get set up and then
let's start cleaning grain
you know it's funny how things work out you know all the dirt work that i just did
here which wasn't a lot but when i removed that electrical line filled that hole smooth this all
out then the next day literally the next day get a call hey i'm up in your area let's clean some
wheat all right we don't have to work around that big pit that's sweet so it worked out pretty well
it just broke through
it just just wore out apparently huh i don't think we ran that many bushels to uh
destroy like that okay well let's get a new belt for it eventually
interesting new to us but thankfully we have a spare auger that 13 inch right there and
actually that 13 inch will work very well with this john deere tractor and the reason why i'm
going to say that is this is mechanical it's got a gearbox to the auger so the pto runs it but you
need to have hydraulics to run this conveyor well that john deere doesn't have very great hydraulics
the nice thing about that auger over there is it's all mechanical so the pto will run the pan
which means you'll be able to unload faster than the conveyor on this one
well he just opened the door to the bin and he's getting inside
we'll be using a bin sweep pretty soon i'm just going to make sure that this is empty
put into this truck so that way i can help them clean out the inside of the bin and then when
we're done with this bin we've decided to go over to the quantity there's a bin that's got like
3 000 bushels in it we're gonna have that clean too it's gonna be clean
seating eventually and the weather is nice right now so we're just gonna get it done
but uh we'll get this bin cleaned out call it and then tomorrow we'll start working on the other one
and just like that we're done good enough okay let's move to the next bin
so you guys have seen we've been using this truck pretty hard last couple weeks
and we've also managed to damage two airbags in the back the brake lights
have bolts that stick out in the back of them and when you back into a pile of rock and gravel
to dump your load it shoves those brake lights in a little further and it poked the air bag
on one side and the other side's got a big gouge out of it too so it needs new airbags so we want
to get that done before winter comes so when the time comes users truck again it'll be good to go
now we bought these bins for fertilizer the idea is in the fall we buy fertilizer when it's
typically cheaper load these things up but then we use it in the spring and we've actually paid
for the bins in the savings the last couple years this year is not going to be one of those years
um fertilizer because of the craziness in the world right now
is skyrocketing skyrocketing like four times the cost three times the cost it was last year
right now i think it's at eight hundred and sixty dollars a ton and they're talking it's going up
to over a thousand by next year so we've got peas in this one we've got wheat in that one i
don't know if we're gonna have any fertilizer in these but it's not looking good i don't know what
we're gonna do we're just gonna go light on our fertilizer use and just deal with a lesser crop
and lower protein because you just at some point can't pencil the fertilizer numbers in but there's
a chance we'll feel a couple of these west steels up maybe with some because we gotta have some
we're putting spring wind in next year we gotta have some fertilizer it's just a bummer oh just
to give you a heads up one of these bins full of urea right now is a hundred thousand dollars
we would like to do four of them every year 400 grand and that nuts we're not gonna do that this
year but still it's gotta change it can't be like this forever hopefully it's just a couple years of
some uh labor pains before we finally get you know back on track to normal reality anyways at least
have a nice truck drive does have 140 000 miles but i'll keep turning ranches it's a good one
you know what on second thought let's do a quick run down to the winter wheat i'll
show you guys how it's setting we'll go to the first planning and the last planting
seeding we can see how well it's grown uh as far as i know uh some of it's up looks great
some of it's questionable so we'll find out but we'll be right there one second
so this is some of our first planning and that's how much growth we got out of the ground with the
five or six inches so this isn't bad that looks good kind of hard probably tell the camera but
there is green going down these rows and i can see it across the whole field it looks good looks
really good this is definitely going to be a field that we're going to harvest next year no problem
so this is like the middle of the time frame when we see the winter wheat and i'm looking
down the roads and i see a lot of green but i look this way on this kind of hilltop
and there's not a lot of green and that's a sign that this ground was very dry
in some spots and just enough wet in other spots for it to sprout and it is windy
sorry pick up here but looking at it i'll get back i'm
i think we are going to have
we're going to have some patchy spots it might it might still germinate it might still sprout
uh coming in the winter maybe sometime during the winter we'll get some warm spell and it'll cause
it to wake up and grow a little bit and uh come out of dormancy but as of right now yeah it's
not a it's not the most elegant here so we'll move on to the last planted so this is kind of
mid so this is kind of what i expected it looks good at the beginning middle the seeding time you
know it was getting a little drier and it's kind of a little patchy and then as we get to the end
here we'll see what that looks like so this was the last field i seeded of winter wheat of 2021
ah there's not much happening here
you know i never got moisture after i seeded it and we were kind of seed into the dust this was
september mid-september later september we were hoping and praying that we'd get a rain on it
we always do seems like it but i mean there's the kernel right there it is drier than dry didn't
even attempt to germinate yet so this field might need to be replanted we'll see i'm sure there's
some areas down below that you know might grow but as of right now it's gonna be interesting to
see there's still a chance that it could make it through the winter and then some snow on it melts
moisture in the ground starts to germinate and then the spring comes up and we're good
but i'm a little skeptical we'll see we were told that there's still a good chance it can
mature and become a crop but um you know time will tell so just kind of judging from that
like i said in the past i think we have about a third of the winter wheat crops gonna be great
a third of it's gonna be good but could be patchy and a third of it might need to be reseeded to
spring wheat but you don't know we took a chance and that's just how it is it's just so dry so dry
all right i'm gonna go to the shop get some work done so we have a little bit of a issue it's not
horrendous but this bin here that we're pulling out of it's uh about a 300 bushel bin um the floor
is cracked in it so what happened is the water when we get water i know right it'll ooze itself
away through the cracks and then get underneath on the grain and start to spoil it so underneath here
we have a hard pan of moldy grain so there's all the good stuff on top and then they start to kind
of hit a shelf so what we're going to do is we don't want to here's the thing this right here
we don't want to put that in the ground because what's going to happen is that will
not germinate and you won't have a crop so we're literally going to just clean off the top of this
leave a little bit of a cushion so we don't disturb that underneath that way we have good
clean seed and then the rest of it we'll clean up probably go to feed or something we'll kind of
decide what we want to do on that just a negative thing about it but the fact that we're addressing
this now is a good thing because who knows if we get a really rainy or snowy weather next spring
it'll leach through and then we can have more of a mess in this bin so we're getting this taken
care of which is good and uh yeah getting close to being done oh well things happen
that's nice six foot defender bed
grain back tubes are long i don't think any other sideways i would carry them like this thing does
how does this keep happening
all right whatever
that's why somebody built a bully volcano on the farm
all right we are done cleaning out the wheat out of that bin the vr 12 we're not gonna put it away
just yet um the vr 12 is that grain back that's the model number if you guys don't know anyways
we're going to use it to clean out chickpeas so we're done with the wheat we can't haul the weed
in today they're loading a train so we'll probably do it tomorrow but anyways nick's moving the
back co conveyor it makes it look so easy if you didn't notice we're gonna pull a little bit out
of this pup because it's so full and the wind's supposed to blow pretty bad and as you can tell
the wind took a little bit of uh weed off the pup when it's on the ground here we don't want to
waste a lot of it we'll put it in the trailer a little bit haul it all down good deal
so
out here all in grain and it only makes sense but
kobe's coming along dad's gone went on a trip to wisconsin for a couple weeks and uh
well kobe's so lonely his buddy's missing so we're taking care of him
truck rides we really didn't eat all the grain but kobe needed a ride so why not
so
i forgot the dog i i had something in my seat and um well i just there wasn't i
forgot to take you i'm sorry oh he's mad he's mad all right i gotta go pet him oh
buddy don't walk away from me oh he is not happy
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