i don't think i have any patience let's do this
oh fall time is awesome you want to know why it's so awesome because the weather's just so awesome
it's just like beautiful i'm in a t-shirt i'm not hot but i'm not cold it's comfortable the wind's
still the major farm work is done so what do we possibly do with ourselves when it's awesome out
well you know normal people would take off and go to a lake house you know if they owned one
but we're not normal instead we're gonna shingle a roof because this is the time that you do this
kind of work because we don't have time to do it any other time of the year farmers have time
it's just always consumed by work which is good keeps us limbal keeps our joints moving and uh
lets us use things like that so let's fire up the 844 i'm gonna crush the side of my dad's
house with this thing no let's not do that but i'm gonna get close to it and use this bucket to throw
the shingles in and then uh i made a makeshift shingle remover by welding a piece of angle iron
to the bottom of the shovel that'll later cut off and grind smooth again and then we will get my
dad's house all worked up and i got a nice pair of agi gloves here thanks agi my dad worked his tail
off helping with the lake house during the winter last winter so it's only fitting that i help him
do work to his house when he needs it that's what family does we just help each other out
and it's not a you scratch my back i'll scratch your back it's uh we'll always scratch your back
but if you're available you can come scratch my back that makes sense
absolutely
three days later okay we had a couple interruptions but the rain is coming
tonight tomorrow so it's good to get this done it's been a few years since uh
this roof seen a nice shingle job done this these things look really good but uh yeah good
good after harvest job check that off the list of 1 000 items i need done and it's always growing
always but that's okay that's we're here for get the job done oh this poor truck it's only got a
427 in it and it's not running at 100 anyways the cart's only supposed to be pulled 20 miles an hour
now looking for that cart i can only go 20 miles an hour this truck but we're getting there we
would have pulled it with a different tractor if we had but our magnum's got a nasty crack at
one of the wheels so we got to get that fixed we have a new tire coming for it for one of the tires
our big blood drawbar is still broke so we got to fix that on the bud and the other big bud's got a
tire that needs to replace too all of things that are on our list of things to do this fall which
we haven't done yet so this truck is the next step to pull this cart that's doing it i only got about
15 miles to go we're making it card's dropped off but we're not leaving empty-handed now we hooked
on to something else and uh let's just say it's gonna be awesome so we'll find out soon enough
but i'm gonna drive this thing back a lot lighter though a lot lighter in that cart a lot lighter
harvest is finished and we had time to just kind of breathe a little bit relax spend time with our
families and that was very much needed and uh it was awesome it was great not enough time to do
that but since it's so beautiful outside i kind of figure we need to do something and one of the
things on the to you know to check off on the list is uh clean up around the place and uh i thought
why not uh go start a backhoe and dig a hole these batteries are charged i don't know we'll find out
i've got a lot of memories on this backhoe we've had it for many many years and uh it
just keeps on chugging along and keeps running surprisingly but it does need a little air in
the tire needs a little bit of radiator fluid i check the oil that's good on it and we're going
to start it up run it over to the shop check a few things grease things and then let's go dig holes
this big massive concrete slab has just been a nuisance to farm around well not
farm around but work around because if you look at it all these nice bins in a row
we can set up the auger we can pull grain from it but the trucks always have to drive around these
three bins and this slab right here so we're going to try if this little backhoe can do it it's like
a little caboose i could i think i can i think i can come on john deere you think you can let's
go ahead and just rip out as much as we can but these big pillars on here are really massive and
they go way down so the idea is we'll dig holes next to the pillars and we'll take the front end
loader and we'll try to push them in the holes and we'll just bury those things underneath the ground
because we're not going to ever do anything in this area anyways it's just going to be driving
semis back and forth so buckets over here literally he's using a bucket and uh he's going
to just kind of mess around dig a trench we'll reposition the backhoe pull that concrete in keep
breaking it up move it out of the way and i'm just going to clean up the slab and get it ready so
that we can keep on moving one direction okay well i'm gonna run over and see what the boys are doing
and what do you want to do toby huh then we'll get in no not on my seat you can't drive this time
no no you go over there yeah you just got your permit for training you got to be on that side
okay i'm gonna find out what's going on maybe get a bird's-eye view hey
cubby can you get up here come on you know this is the first time i've been up here on this bin
so i should show you around that's north there's the three sweet grass hills right over this hill
just over it is where the homestead is that's where uh this all started that's through the
midwest and of course southwest and you can see the rocky mountains barely in the distance
he's doing a fantastic job he's digging down it's probably a five foot wall
uh more like a four and a half but if you can remove all this then the wall can push forward and
break out this thing is kind of a behemoth it's unnecessary to have it this big but they
did things in the back or back in the day that we're overkill and i think it's a lot
yeah that loader makes quick work um i dug this out a little bit
i'll probably have to dig more you can tell there's a little bit of a hole there now
but uh we need to get this wall taken care of and i've got to start on that side over there uh
keep peeling the wall over with the front end loader when you get that trench to
get to this point and then kind of peel this over and remove it love to see this farm
cleaner and more organized and uh seeing this here is just a trash eyesore and um i think it's gonna
be really nice when we get this done if we can get it done if that old girl keeps on running
poor thing just keeps on well putting away i guess from my understanding that could be like a 1964
ish that's the year so it's got some gears on it but it keeps running
as you notice uh there's no squeaking
they must have listened to you guys and put some grease in the pins
as you can tell nick has not been cleaning the shop very
much i think he needs to get on that a little bit
yeah that's not very clean anyways i've got a couple things to do
for one see the 600 big bud we got plans for the girl some big plans which means this thing
needs to be operational for the plans we got going on we cannot use it because that draw bar
right there is cracking out and ready to break off so for me to fix it i'm going to remove the
draw bar pull that whole bracket assembly off and fix these two cracks on each side
they're pretty nasty for me to fix them correctly i believe it's going to be best for me to have
that off so i can fix it correctly instead of welding it up on there so let's get to work
let's pull it off because well this tractor has some work ahead of it so yeah let's get to work
as you could tell there was quite a smile on that uh
it's like a two inch by four inch beam that goes across and what i was hoping is using the back of
the tractor as the weight and basically making a press to try to press that straight or get
it kind of straight and it's working but now i'm just lifting the tractor so i'm kind of thinking
either two things i leave it overnight maybe the weight of the tractor will start bending it
to where it needs to go and then i can take it all off and go weld it all up nick tomorrow
or i apply heat and get that thing a little warm so it can start bending a little faster now you
have to understand this is a 1979 big butt that's a lot of years and a lot of stress that's taken
i'm amazed it's held up as good as it has but it didn't help hold up good enough so gotta fix it
i don't think i have any patience
let's do this
so
well that worked a lot easier than just letting it sit overnight
it's straighter like it's pretty wore out to be honest
the two inch actually probably narrows down to inch and three quarter because it's that war um
but after i beef it up i think it'll be fine it'll get us by until we decide to do something else or
like i said maybe we'll just keep it that way for a very very long time
but that's a farmer fix if it doesn't break again you're good harvest is done and then
a lot of jobs that get put off during the summer need to be started and so i joined the
asphalt pavement crew and uh we're gonna steal a few cracks a few cracks have developed in
our armor so we need to fill those so that the water won't run in and what i'm showing you is
i have in front of my house uh this area was asphalted pavement and what happens with it of
course it's gonna shrink so as you can see here it is what it's cracked up to be we're gonna fill
those and we're gonna try this product um it's a liquid asphalt filler right here and it's got a
little bottle you screw revert put on the top cut the tip off and then you can just pour the asphalt
down in the cracks so what i'm doing is i'm taking the air that we have in our service truck
and i'm going to be blowing out the dirt out of these cracks so that asphalt filler
can fall into the crack so i'll show you how it's done for all you professionals out there
i'm not a professional so you can comment but this is the way i know
so we got to find all the cracks blow all the dirt
and loose debris out so that the filler can run in and the purpose of that is
asphalt does not like to have moisture underneath cracks open up allows the rain when it rains
snowmelt whatever to run down into the cracks into the substructure of the of the driveway
or roadbed and uh softens it well then without a sperm base that asphalt moves and then you start
tearing it apart so we're gonna try to save this i know sometime in about another couple years three
years i'll need to resurface the top of this to put another little chip coat on sealer but
right now we'll just go ahead and do the cracks it's not my fault that this asphalt is cracked
okay five jugs later we blew out and got the cracks all filled my thoughts after this is
boy let it rain
this grain bagger that we got to use this year thank you lofness i really appreciate
the opportunity it was fantastic we had absolutely no problems it was fantastic to use
and thank you so much for not having us put 30 to 40 000 bushels on the ground that was such
a blessing we look forward to the time that we can unload those bags and see what it's like to
use the unloader um but no this is this has been fun i i hope you guys have been able to enjoy a
little bit of this and see how they do the baggers because well i've always been curious too so okay
we're heading to the lake house got a wonderful uh little gift here those aren't cows
they're actually buffalo uh bison is really the probably the correct term and uh coming over the
hill i'd say they probably have somewhere around five six hundred or plus maybe 800
and uh got some big bulls and a bunch of calves uh but uh yeah it's cool you