Brian have you tried to clean the inside of the down spout with a chimney cleaning brush. I have done that on our down pipes before. The set I have has round brushes in different sizes with pusher rods that thread together. I bought two sets to get over a hundred feet of rods. My trouble spout was the drop into my old cooling bin. I had a batch drier at the time so the spout would not be used 20-30% of the time while drying. During those times the wet/hot air would go up that spout with bees wings. That combination made the inside sticky and corn would start building up on the inside. I had to clean the spout every other day.
If you keep plugging the auger on the head all geringhoff heads come with a plastic box from the factory and inside that box should be a set of “fingers” “claws” that bolt onto the center of the auger to help pull clumps in the feeder house!
Ours had the same problem. Someone told us to take a grinder around the flighting and kinda square off the edge and make it sharp. Took us about 20 minutes to do so and it was incredible how much it changed and would grab the material and feed. All you gotta do is just run it around the edge of your flighting where it gets dull and smooth. Just giving it that new edge will make it a corn eating beast.
All corn here in Eastern Iowa was fluffy, everyone had trouble feeding. Try pounding 3/4” lock washers on to your auger flighting. Put a couple at every row. It worked for me.
Our old masseys had an 18' power flow heads. Four flat belts running over 2 3/4" rollers. About 18" between rollers. If you could get crop past the finger bolts you never lost it. It fed the crop up to the cross auger. We were picking up ryegrass dried for a week or so and with lifters worked a treat. Took lifters off and lifted knife up a bit of course for cereals. We has pretty flat ground but it was stoney. When you cut the ryegrass you were left with a lawn like surface underneath about 2" tall. If we had rain on it after cutting and seed was too wet to harvest the ryegrass regrew thru the swarths and was a problem. It would hang onto the swarth. Required patience. The joys of dealing with less than ideal conditions. Ofcouse thats what sorts the men from the boys.
I still like that old music you used during the introduction which is the new music you are using now for the introduction. Just has a nice sound and beat. It definitely has that Brian’s Farming Video’s feel.
We have a Geringhoff RotaDisc folding head and sometimes the cross auger becomes "untimed" where the flighting doesn't line up well with the center portion of the auger, probably from coincidence from where the flighting lands when it is unfolded and it locks in, and it can plug where the folds join at the center. Usually this only causes problems in the morning when the stalks are wet or if corn is down and staks will wrap around the flighting at the joint instead of feeding in to the center. We found that if we barely fold the head to where it unlocks the flighting joints and try to time the flighting on the folding portions where it aligns better and then fold it back down to lock it in place with the center portion of the auger it usually helps.
On the corn head plugging up, we have had trouble this year too. Our seed guys say it is because the ear robbed the nutrients out of the stalk. So instead of snapping the ear off and the header just having to handle the ear, the stalk breaks at the base of the ear and the header has to handle the entire ear plus the top of the stalk. 12 and 16 row headers were not designed to handle that much fodder. We slowed the snapping rolls down on all varieties and had to adjust our ground speed slower in some, to get the fodder to feed better. This is with a reel too.
Thanks for another great video Brian. It had good content and was interesting to watch. Surprised you had comments about your corn head. My thoughts are it may need some more adjustments. The other corn heads like yours that I watch are doing good. Just some thoughts. You are knocking down the corn acres pretty fast it seems. Everything is running good. No breakdowns today so that is good. Nice you can unload a little faster now at the bin site. About it for now. Thanks. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I've never ran a corn header. With that said. Does the header have a slip clutch on the auger? It maybe out of adjustment. The clutch discs could be worn out. Or maybe tighten it up.
Good progress despite challenging conditions. At least you weren't fighting mud along with the down corn...makes for a miserable situation. My son was shelling at his place and commented that the ear shanks must've been weakened...making for a considerable amount of ear loss. Don't think the auto insurance companies would cry about a great reduction in the deer herd. The yearly payout has to be substantial. Plenty of dead deer along the roads up in our area.
I watch a lot of farmers, I’ve noticed several having the same issue with the head plugging, esp in field with a lot of fodder. Can’t remember who it was, but they got ahold of Geringhoff & figured out their settings were off. But, yes, a lot of plugging the combine in fluffy corn.
Brian can you a generic budget on corn production for this year. Leave land costs out and low equipment costs. I just don’t know if there is any money to be made to pay mortgages
Disagree, you have to have a good big reliable combine to get the trucks you do have filled quickly. The quicker the seeds get on the truck and roll tarped, the less it is vulnerable to the elements--wind, hail, rain... this is so true when you are a solo farmer--get the trucks loaded. If you have a junk lemon combine, the trucks wont have any grain in them!
Well done Dax!!! Do you have any sausage made? Sausage is my fav use of venison. For burger I grind venison & bacon ends. We like burger at about 80-20 fat. Plus the bacon curbs the gamey taste. I do can a lot of things, haven’t canned venison but I’ve heard it’s extremely tender.
I did notice a difference in the quality of the vid & sound...but couldnt put my finger on it until you said that...soooo. Honestly not that much under normal conditions, but it might shine in the wind, or difficult lighting, etc
Camera: Resolution looked clearer to me, the focus on varying depths also - the end shot, both you and the sunset were clearer. Maybe more focus on the sunset next time!😂(the ladies may appreciate more Brian focus though!)
By the time this video came out you should have been done. Hope the last few days went as well as today. Glad to see you having a good field. Have a great week and stay safe.
I'm a millwright and work with a lot of farmers in Ohio. We did a bunch of work for a farmer south of Zanesville back in August. We got more rain here up north than you guys did but not much.
Its weird that you have so much trouble with the gerinhoff. Our corn here is always harvested way dry and in the demos its usually only the geringhoff that doesnt plug. Do you have the "rake fingers" or wathever its called installed on the auger centre? Its basically pieces of 3/4" roundbar that bolts on to the auger in front of the feederhouse
40% less yield is quite something. we had -60% this year in taters cause of flooding and too much humidity cuppled with the fact that its organic and no fungicized are allowed
The corn in the bin says it all. Way too much foreign material. I would be ashamed to haul it to our local food grade processor. Not to mention they might discount or refuse to take it. We run Lexion combines. Never had anything remotely like that in our bins.
I’ve never harvested corn. But just thinking about it, wouldn’t corn stocks be really hard on the knife drive and the sickle sections being that the stocks are so thick? And if the reel would cause more head loss, couldn’t you just have the reel all the way up and slow or is that not enough?
Corn heads don't have sickle sections, they have snapping rollers that pull the stalk down, then deck plates and gathering chains to pull the cobs off the stalk and then bring them into the cross auger to bring them to the feeder house
I feel like 1 large combine is the perfect solution to your problem as you have streamlined the rest of the operation. Now, if you had 2-3 truck drivers all the time during your 2 combine years, maybe you could get some more acres covered. Man power can really be a deciding factor in efficiency. But 1 large combine is your operations' best bet at being productive day in and day out. Now we just need to get a 300 bushel/acre field to really stress test the whole operation. 😉
Brian a old timer i used to hunt with would carry his 270 on the combine with him he got a bunch lol. Part of Ohio you can't rifle hunt in or maybe it's seasonal can't recall sometimer's lol.
@@glenfredrickson2881saw a video, maybe even one of Brian’s, said they were allowed to shoot from combine. Could be whoever the game warden is kinda thing
On your bin sit the one thing would have done different is i would have put a 1500to 2000 bushel pit so you could dump a truck and send them back to the field while the pit is emptying it self and your not holding up your trucks.
Brian have you tried to clean the inside of the down spout with a chimney cleaning brush. I have done that on our down pipes before. The set I have has round brushes in different sizes with pusher rods that thread together. I bought two sets to get over a hundred feet of rods.
My trouble spout was the drop into my old cooling bin. I had a batch drier at the time so the spout would not be used 20-30% of the time while drying. During those times the wet/hot air would go up that spout with bees wings. That combination made the inside sticky and corn would start building up on the inside. I had to clean the spout every other day.
If you keep plugging the auger on the head all geringhoff heads come with a plastic box from the factory and inside that box should be a set of “fingers” “claws” that bolt onto the center of the auger to help pull clumps in the feeder house!
Ours had the same problem. Someone told us to take a grinder around the flighting and kinda square off the edge and make it sharp. Took us about 20 minutes to do so and it was incredible how much it changed and would grab the material and feed. All you gotta do is just run it around the edge of your flighting where it gets dull and smooth. Just giving it that new edge will make it a corn eating beast.
All corn here in Eastern Iowa was fluffy, everyone had trouble feeding. Try pounding 3/4” lock washers on to your auger flighting. Put a couple at every row. It worked for me.
Our old masseys had an 18' power flow heads. Four flat belts running over 2 3/4" rollers. About 18" between rollers. If you could get crop past the finger bolts you never lost it. It fed the crop up to the cross auger. We were picking up ryegrass dried for a week or so and with lifters worked a treat. Took lifters off and lifted knife up a bit of course for cereals. We has pretty flat ground but it was stoney. When you cut the ryegrass you were left with a lawn like surface underneath about 2" tall. If we had rain on it after cutting and seed was too wet to harvest the ryegrass regrew thru the swarths and was a problem. It would hang onto the swarth. Required patience. The joys of dealing with less than ideal conditions. Ofcouse thats what sorts the men from the boys.
Great. Video,enjoy ur commentary has your harvesting and working ,So is the Fendt better then the Gleaner?
I still like that old music you used during the introduction which is the new music you are using now for the introduction. Just has a nice sound and beat. It definitely has that Brian’s Farming Video’s feel.
We have a Geringhoff RotaDisc folding head and sometimes the cross auger becomes "untimed" where the flighting doesn't line up well with the center portion of the auger, probably from coincidence from where the flighting lands when it is unfolded and it locks in, and it can plug where the folds join at the center. Usually this only causes problems in the morning when the stalks are wet or if corn is down and staks will wrap around the flighting at the joint instead of feeding in to the center. We found that if we barely fold the head to where it unlocks the flighting joints and try to time the flighting on the folding portions where it aligns better and then fold it back down to lock it in place with the center portion of the auger it usually helps.
Glad the combine is working well for you.
These are good combines and thats from a engineers perspective.
Love the lays BBQ chip cab decorations . Perfect shelf sitters!😅
Another great video Brian. I find it very interesting how some things are changing for the good after the election 🤔
Takes me back winding down harvest, always a good feeling.
For a very dry growing season crop yield is remarkable !
On the corn head plugging up, we have had trouble this year too. Our seed guys say it is because the ear robbed the nutrients out of the stalk. So instead of snapping the ear off and the header just having to handle the ear, the stalk breaks at the base of the ear and the header has to handle the entire ear plus the top of the stalk. 12 and 16 row headers were not designed to handle that much fodder. We slowed the snapping rolls down on all varieties and had to adjust our ground speed slower in some, to get the fodder to feed better. This is with a reel too.
Thanks for another great video Brian.
It had good content and was interesting to watch.
Surprised you had comments about your corn head. My thoughts are it may need some more adjustments. The other corn heads like yours that I watch are doing good. Just some thoughts.
You are knocking down the corn acres pretty fast it seems. Everything is running good. No breakdowns today so that is good.
Nice you can unload a little faster now at the bin site.
About it for now. Thanks.
The Iowa farm boy.
Steve.
Good to see a more positive Brian today. 😀
I've never ran a corn header. With that said. Does the header have a slip clutch on the auger? It maybe out of adjustment. The clutch discs could be worn out. Or maybe tighten it up.
Good progress despite challenging conditions. At least you weren't fighting mud along with the down corn...makes for a miserable situation. My son was shelling at his place and commented that the ear shanks must've been weakened...making for a considerable amount of ear loss. Don't think the auto insurance companies would cry about a great reduction in the deer herd. The yearly payout has to be substantial. Plenty of dead deer along the roads up in our area.
Surprising how good yields are with not much rain genetics in seed do you think or something else?
I watch a lot of farmers, I’ve noticed several having the same issue with the head plugging, esp in field with a lot of fodder.
Can’t remember who it was, but they got ahold of Geringhoff & figured out their settings were off. But, yes, a lot of plugging the combine in fluffy corn.
Thanks for sharing
Those Layes BBQ chips behind you are giving me the munchies 😂
Lays
Great video. Thank you
Brian can you a generic budget on corn production for this year. Leave land costs out and low equipment costs. I just don’t know if there is any money to be made to pay mortgages
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Doesn't matter what combine you have , without trucks and drivers you're limited
Disagree, you have to have a good big reliable combine to get the trucks you do have filled quickly. The quicker the seeds get on the truck and roll tarped, the less it is vulnerable to the elements--wind, hail, rain... this is so true when you are a solo farmer--get the trucks loaded. If you have a junk lemon combine, the trucks wont have any grain in them!
I personally didn't see no noticeable difference in video quality. Keep the great work!
Well done Dax!!! Do you have any sausage made? Sausage is my fav use of venison. For burger I grind venison & bacon ends. We like burger at about 80-20 fat. Plus the bacon curbs the gamey taste. I do can a lot of things, haven’t canned venison but I’ve heard it’s extremely tender.
Can the feeder chain speed be adjusted
I did notice a difference in the quality of the vid & sound...but couldnt put my finger on it until you said that...soooo. Honestly not that much under normal conditions, but it might shine in the wind, or difficult lighting, etc
I would like to see what the combine will do in consistent 200 plus bushels an acre
Camera: Resolution looked clearer to me, the focus on varying depths also - the end shot, both you and the sunset were clearer. Maybe more focus on the sunset next time!😂(the ladies may appreciate more Brian focus though!)
Great video Brian do you guys get Dax deer mounted.
By the time this video came out you should have been done. Hope the last few days went as well as today. Glad to see you having a good field. Have a great week and stay safe.
I'm a millwright and work with a lot of farmers in Ohio. We did a bunch of work for a farmer south of Zanesville back in August. We got more rain here up north than you guys did but not much.
I like the way you run down the steps must get good exercise that way how’s your day at working?😊😊
Its weird that you have so much trouble with the gerinhoff. Our corn here is always harvested way dry and in the demos its usually only the geringhoff that doesnt plug. Do you have the "rake fingers" or wathever its called installed on the auger centre? Its basically pieces of 3/4" roundbar that bolts on to the auger in front of the feederhouse
At your ground speed, I would be inclined to consider a bigger header (16 row)🤔
I don't know what that means but it looked good. Good sharp picture.
Thanks
40% less yield is quite something. we had -60% this year in taters cause of flooding and too much humidity cuppled with the fact that its organic and no fungicized are allowed
For me this is the best family farm video
The corn in the bin says it all. Way too much foreign material. I would be ashamed to haul it to our local food grade processor. Not to mention they might discount or refuse to take it.
We run Lexion combines. Never had anything remotely like that in our bins.
How long are the rows
I’ve never harvested corn. But just thinking about it, wouldn’t corn stocks be really hard on the knife drive and the sickle sections being that the stocks are so thick? And if the reel would cause more head loss, couldn’t you just have the reel all the way up and slow or is that not enough?
Corn heads don't have sickle sections, they have snapping rollers that pull the stalk down, then deck plates and gathering chains to pull the cobs off the stalk and then bring them into the cross auger to bring them to the feeder house
@ ya I know that. Sorry I was referring to id a Draper head was being used
Do you keep a log of which variety yields best in each area of the field?
Yes we do
Good job guys
Wonder how that new Fendt air blaster option works for the feeder house ?
Got to have a compressor on combine
@@steveforrest6720I would assume this combine has a onboard compressor
Great buck buddy
Lot of people here in il had problems with heads building up with fluff too.
Really hope to see that combine in s0ome great crops next year.
Best of luck as you finish corn harvest!
I would suggest putting Dax in the cab for the deer, but we have seen he does not need that 😂
I feel like 1 large combine is the perfect solution to your problem as you have streamlined the rest of the operation. Now, if you had 2-3 truck drivers all the time during your 2 combine years, maybe you could get some more acres covered. Man power can really be a deciding factor in efficiency.
But 1 large combine is your operations' best bet at being productive day in and day out. Now we just need to get a 300 bushel/acre field to really stress test the whole operation. 😉
thanks for the video .
I can't do the carnivore diet...I love beer too much!! So I do the seafood diet...I see food I eat it...cool vidja brian
no difference if you would of not said that you got a new camera NO ONE would of said there was a difference. STILL a very good video.
What do those yellow spinners do?
Brian a old timer i used to hunt with would carry his 270 on the combine with him he got a bunch lol. Part of Ohio you can't rifle hunt in or maybe it's seasonal can't recall sometimer's lol.
In our part of the country the DNR will confiscate your vehicle if you shoot deer from it. I would hate to risk that with an expensive machine😮
Ohio only allows straight walled cartridge , think .357, .44 Mag, 350 Legend
@@glenfredrickson2881saw a video, maybe even one of Brian’s, said they were allowed to shoot from combine. Could be whoever the game warden is kinda thing
@@tOSUStevedepends on the state. I always carried in the tractor or combine.
The loss on a straight head is the knife not the reel.
Brian bro its been a minute since ive watched you channel looks like youve done alot of upgrading
at 2.14 is the corn grey or moley?
One way to know who watched til the very end.....i noticed a little better sound and stabilization with the new camera!
On your bin sit the one thing would have done different is i would have put a 1500to 2000 bushel pit so you could dump a truck and send them back to the field while the pit is emptying it self and your not holding up your trucks.
Hello from Siesta Key Florida
We are running an ideal 9 T with 12 row Ziegler corn master header blimey this combine eats it
You will have to hit up the Master pipe layer. I believe he said they are a dealer for those heads
Brian this maybe a Dumb question but what is the purpose of them yellow fingers spinning on the head
It’s a corn head reel to help pull in down/lodged corn.
I noticed right off. 😀😉
Brian i’d do the de-struction book instead of instruction see what the feeding section says and causes you’re on your own.
Good video good to see y'all
Hydraulic oil gets to Hot. Thats the reason
What are the yellow spinners on the header for?
I'm not trying to be mean, but did you watch the video? Because he literally explained what they do!
Close your being done hip hip hooray. It is always good to finish up, right? 😊
Wondering if you ever talked about the soybeans that you rolled after you planted. Did I miss the video. Did you like it?
They really liked the results. He mentioned it a time or two. I think it will be used more next year.
Dax is providing nice
You need a sure stop set tells you exactly when to stop we have one on are drive over hopper Sure Stop is the brand name
The fendt has an air hose.
good video , but being in Horticulture for 62 years you farm in soil not dirt , dirt is in your new shop that you have to keep clean
I couldn’t tell a difference between the two cameras.
Yummy Deer bacon burger 🍔
Smoked deer sausage!
At least it’s just deer instead of bears
Not knowing much about anything. But could all that build up be from the speed your running?
Mornin’
Didn’t notice any difference in the video because I mostly listen unless there’s some carnage… then I’ll watch. lol
Did someone take over agco dealership from Ohio ag
How does BJ Feel about the Bengals constantly losing these games that they should be winning
great video
Good video.
Brian you’ve got to get away from the seed oils if you want this diet to work best!
What seed oil
No more wag bars?
I bought bought a box of them and love them
Ran out a while back. Dax eats them like they are candy
U could try checking in with larsons. They have two heads. 🤷♂️
Someone needs to pack something other than BBQ Lays for Dad.
Yeah I saw those two bags sitting up there on the top shelf
Good video
Contact Chet Larson, they are running 2 Gerringhoff heads
Mornin 👋🏻
How's those lays on the carnivore diet?
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Surprised you haven't called youre friend, Master Pipe Layer. He sells or does something with Gearinghoff.
I swear you posted the middle section of this video last year and maybe the year before too
What part is that?