welcome back to the rest of the story well guys it is time for fieldwork and
as you guys can all see that's pretty well self explanatory Ryan is getting this
ground worked down so dad can go through and get it seeded the field
worked up really nice almost too nice I almost have to say because the soy-
bean stubble we hit that with the disk twice and for how soft it got it
was almost too much but it worked down or seeded down really well and well I
have a video coming out also that'll show me harrowing it or getting it
smoothed out after dad seeded it but we are using the 630 the 630 does not have
the rolling basket or any harrow on the back of it to smooth out the ground
behind the disc blades or to kind of take some of the air out of the soil
because that is one trait of this machine or this implement and that is
that it likes to leave the soil kind of fluffy almost like a pillowcase I'm
gonna you go through and step on it or walk through it after it's been hit like
this you sink in a couple inches and you're packing the soil back down the
VT not taking anything away from the 630 here but the vt earthmaster
with the spiked disc gang that it has on it
including with that large rolling basket because that VT the earthmaster
really does have a larger rolling basket on it compared to some other implements
i've seen i think john deere their basket is fairly fairly small it's not
as well it's not as large and i've heard that they like to pack with mud or dirt
better than that earthmaster does that earthmaster hasn't packed up with dirt
at all for us those rolling baskets are known for if you get into muddy
conditions there known for packing full of dirt which a
lot of people are gonna say that all if it was muddy you probably shouldn't have
been out there in the first place that is true that is very true but sometimes
you have a low spot in a field that is dry like if you can see to the right of
the screen that is a waterway we went through when we tore them all up but the
grass waterways tended to be a little softer because it is kind of like down
in a down on the bottom it is at the bottom of the field and the whole reason
why Ryan went through and worked all the waterways up that's what he's doing
right here and tearing them up is so dad could go through and reseed them
properly years of tillage like two three four or five years of chisel plowing
it's just the nature of that job you go to pick the implement up I mean every
every time you do that pulling it into a waterway you're depositing just a little
bit of dirt at the end of the strip and that's kind of what happens is you
gradually end up migrating the grass waterway to either side of it and back
when we were doing a yearly rotation where every few years our hay ground got
shifted on every farm it really wasn't that big of an issue it really isn't
that big of an issue now this farm in particular the waterways have always
been kind of a kind of off so what we did here Ryan went through
and he hit a few of them a few times and you're gonna see him he's gonna fold the
disk up to put all the weight on the main frame so he can really dig in he's
doing his best to work up any these soil sod clumps as well what they
really are and those root balls in grass really don't like to work up that nice
even when you chisel plow when you go through and chisel plow sod or alfalfa
ground typically you always have to hit it twice maybe some of my viewers know
some some other people around here don't hit
Sod ground more than once we typically do when we when we work it up
we have no-tilled into sod ground before that does work with proper management
we've had issues before with getting it sprayed down and the spraying didn't take
or we've also heard of guys that have sprayed down their alfalfa in the fall
and the problem is is that by spring that ground gets so dried out and we all
know that alfalfa ground is you know it's driven over numerous times
throughout the year and you look at alfalfa field that's been in been
alfalfa for what five years if you're lucky all in a good in in good
management five years of alfalfa is is what you really should expect but that
ground get really compacted and then guys that were spraying alfalfa down in
the fall by spring get dried out that surface so much that it without that
moisture that the alfalfa plant was keeping in the soil the ground got as
hard as concrete and guys were having problems getting a planner to penetrate
being able to plant the seed properly and here is Ryan he's picking the the
wings up that's putting more weight onto the mainframe and it's allowing him to
dig in and really break up these waterways he's right now he's disking
where this is actually going to be planted to corn on either side of him and it's just we're
getting the waterways put in where they need to be because let's be honest we
may not after we get this ground seeded down this would be the last time we work
it for hopefully up to five years so you want to get it done right the first time
and that's purely what he's doing it's kind of a trick most farmers I imagine all
farmers are aware of you get more weight on the mainframe and than it will really
cut in this 8235R what can i really say about this tractor
it's been a really nice tractor other than a busted window it has been
really reliable I do have an oil leak on the front of the radiator that looks to
be it's just like an old ring so I'll have to look at that
but I cleaned it all off and that's why Ryan ran it today for the simple fact
that he runs it for a little bit I'll be able to get a better idea where it's
where it's leaking from and definitely get it figured out before we go through
and start using the 82 heavily for planting corn and beans because the 82
does a hundred percent of our spring seed prep work when it comes to our row
crops that tractor does run pretty well around the clock when it is needed to I
mean I've said it in the past last fall I put all of our anhydrous on
in 28 hours straight I stopped basically just long enough to
change the tanks I started at 6 o'clock one night and I ran until it was at 10
or 11 o'clock the next night and yeah it's I wanted to get it done because it
was what the 1st or 2nd of December and I was really pushing to get all of our
anhydrous on because I wanted to go through and chisel plow the next day
because I got done chiseling the next day and I believe that's when the ground
pretty well froze up tight so we did really good going into 2018 all of our
fall work was done that we had available I do have some chisel plowing to do and
honestly I don't know I may just put the 82 on it on the chisel plow I have
people who were looking forward to hearing the 4640 bark when it was on the
chisel but it's probably six to seven hours of chiseling that we have to do
and the 82 it can go another mile or two faster than the 4640 can plus the front
wheel assist it pulls the chisel better that's no way to sugarcoat it it pulls
the chisel better it's a heavier tractor it's roughly around the same horsepower
give or take I mean the 46 is turned up to 225 the 82's 235 but we never did
dyno it it would be interesting to know what this tractors putting out at the PTO
but yeah if I don't know how many laps Ryan's made right now was this the
second or third the 630 throws a lot more soil sideways than the VT which the
630 is really meant to they say you know people say it causes compaction it's
terrible for the soil but we're raising quality crops I mean it's not like we're
raising 150 bushel acre corn and 30 bushel to the acre beans we must know what we're
doing to a certain degree because the yields were getting are showing it so I
mean if it works don't fix it I think is the best way to say it people have been
threatening challenging us to try no-till we have tried no-till we are
doing no-till and the no-till ground is more of a problem child than our
conventional till ground I honestly believe that if I could have at least
hit it with the VT just once and mellowed that top of the ground out in the
spring and planted into that I wouldn't have had the issues I had with it the
last couple of years but no-till is no-till and I'm not it's rented ground
so I'm not really allowed to do much soil movement to it other than really
plant it but I knew that when I took the ground on and no I'm just different
management for conventional till and for for no till but that concludes our
spring oat seeding, tillage work video I have a couple more videos you guys can look
forward to seeding is tomorrow night and then harrowing should be the
following night so until tomorrow night Take Care, Take It Easy, Keep In Touch
guys I appreciate you watching