Hey Zac, I’ve been watching your vlogs from New Zealand for a couple of years and absolutely love them. Just a query, how long has Jim been with you? He’s a great bloke by the looks of things and a great worker. Don’t know if he’d be interested but would be great to do a vlog on him and his history. He might have reasons why he doesn’t want to and that’s fine but he almost seems part of the furniture and would be keen to learn a little more about him. Hope I’m not offending by asking because that was not what I’d want to do at all. Thanks
Hey Zach, I'm discovering through your videos (posts) that farming is really quite high-tech and certainly computerized compared to just a few years ago - especially in the good old USA !! I'm truly impressed with your technical know-how of all the tractors and their respective implements !! I truly enjoy following you along and watch how you get 'er done interspersed with your GREAT sense of humor !! Love your interaction with your family - including those two dogs of yours !! Lord Bless you ALL !!
...and taking up much of the trunk in the process. Although, if you were a lady or gentleman who owned a Packard in 1939 and could afford the (IIRC) $5,000 (in modern dollars, of course) to fit one's Packard with air conditioning, then it would be no difficulty to own another automobile for the servants to use to haul one's luggage. :) In all seriousness, in 1939 a person would be much more likely to take a train when traveling for some distance and time, so losing most of the trunk wasn't the worst of problems. Also IIRC, those Packard systems were basically running all the time- you could shut off the blower, but the compressor was still fully engaged. Been many years since I saw one.
@@YeahJustMe don’t forget to acknowledge Wikipedia at the end of your post when you use them for source material, 👍🏻 could have just posted a link would have saved all the typing
Hi brother all I can say is hang in there, being on the outside looking in I would say that the system needs to have a recyling feed from the delivery back to the hoppers constantly blowing the product thru the pipes and back to the hopper to prevent cake from forming. and on the anhydrous tubes seems they need to tip back to stop the mud. like the wake of a boat and the stern being dry then the furrow fold over .
My folks owned a white 1977 Silverado. It had the 350 small block that would dead heat with a 440. Only because the air conditioning compressor was running! Or so dad told it. Seeing your kids in the Scottsdale brings back memories.
Gotta love those older square bodies. Though my favorites go back to the 50s. I miss trucks that didn't try to pretend to be luxury cars, just honest working vehicles with character.
We call that soil "GUMBO". We have that here in Houston. If you use a shovel to dig a hole you need another shovel to pry the dirt off of your digging shovel. You walk around and the gumbo soil sticks to your shoes. You will gain 4" in height in a few steps.
Fun fact I work for the railroad and regularly run potash trains. Potash is one of the heaviest things we haul. For example regular 14 thousand foot container trains weight around 13500-14000 tons. A potash train at 8000 feet (almost half the length of a container train) weights 28,000 tons double the weight half the length
Seat belts in the old truck, I did not think they had them. back when that was new the seat belt was the parents hand held out to keep us from bouncing our heads off the metal dash
Nice truck!! I bought an 84' K10 shortbox chevy when I was 16, tore it all apart and restored it from the ground up. She's a bare bones ride but that "old truck feel" just can't be beat in my opinion. Enjoy it!
As always, great video. Also your production skills are amazing, doing your own singing, Becky's voice over was top notch and you left us with a cliff hanger. Making an anhydrous connection a cliff hanger takes real skill. I am in awe.
Thanks for sharing the new ride. Reminds me of the truck my grandfather had. He was a farm service worker for FS in Illinois. I grew up in Southern California, so when I would go back to Illinois I would love driving his pick up. Yours looks a "little" less rusty that his did (I think the rust held it together actually)......three kids across the bench seat it classic too. Your going to enjoy that truck. Be sure to include it now and then in your videos......Oh and it does have AC, you just roll the windows down....LOL, thanks for what you do Zack and family.
I have sooooooo been there. Seemed like I dicked around all day just to go out after seeding to drag a roller around all night (yeah, we have to do that around here!) Ah! the memories!!
We have a salford 9620 air boom. Learning curve on dry fertilizer is huge. We use plastic pellets from a local tile manufacturer in the off season to calibrate. Beats spinner spreaders hands down. Getting the Deere computer to cooperate with the isobus miller controller is like cats and dogs some days. We still find it very worthwhile. I couldn't imagine also doing anhydrous at the same time. Goodluck!
I have never seen a winch used to pull the anhydrous tank into place... I was anxiously waiting to see how you were going to back that train up to the tanks. The rig is looking awesome! Cannot wait to see more of it.
Thank you Zach for sharing your family farm, the technology, your thoughts and experiences as you work the land. It brings back great memories from my childhood in north east Iowa, minus the technology. There were no computers in the 60's. Every member of our family was involved with farming in one way or another. We lived a few miles from the John Deer factory. My dad ran an electric motor sales and repair shop, and there's lots of electric motors on a farm. The best times for me were when I was able to tag along with dad, or one of my uncles on the weekly motor repair route. We drove through many many towns stopping at businesses to pick up or deliver motors. Sometimes we would go to to a farm and fix an electrical issue, or repair a motor on site. For me it was always an adventure. Many of dad's friends were engineers with John Deer, and they would stop by the motor shop, usually to get dad's help with something they were tinkering with. Some of my uncles farmed, one worked at the grain elevator and my grandpa owned a farm implement store. Good times and with a big family, there was always something to do.
I saw a contraption on “ 10th generation dairyman “ vlog that might interest you ! It’s on their last vlog “ soybean harvest 2021 “ at the time 1:59 it will take you one second to understand.. Eliminate waste.
Zach randy here the technology you have is amazing! As a farmer myself I strive to Implement the things I learn from your channel into my own farm. You are hands-down the smartest farmer out of all farmers in my opinion
That's what I was 🤔 thinking and then you need to be able to talk in code (4306, 2550,1787, etc.) It reminded me of when I worked at Shell/BP in Rhodesia when referring to the different fuel delivery vehicles we used !! Ha, Ha !!
Thank you Zach, I've been binge watching some of these older episodes while trying to stay calm waiting on the election results. Looks like it Worked Well.
My first vehicle I ever owned was the 79 Chevy Bonanza it had all green interior dark green and when I got it it had around 40,000 miles on it. I miss that old truck it was the best truck I ever owned. It's when trucks were still made out of metal not all this plastic and fiberglass. So you enjoy it and take care of it real closely
"I can teach anybody to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes corn...the information economy is fundamentally different...You have to have a lot more gray matter.” - Mike Bloomberg 2020 Mike would've quit as soon as his designer shoes got dirty.
Bloomberg and way too many people, urban and otherwise, have what I call"office intelligence." I ran into the construction version with architects and engineers who would be told of design issues not working in the real world. They'd usually get a little bent (the standard AIA -Amer institute of architects - contract literally forbids builder/owner discussions and makes this an adversarial relationship). Then they hop on their computer and click in their software for a few minutes and the wall is moved. They check and it's not done yet in the real world, so they are upset. Yes, you pull the studs and plates, but what about the wiring? Maybe plumbing? Load bearing? Hell, I've worked on houses with a 3 story window wall and they forgot the the header over the center window. I've fixed a miscarried ELEVEN TON - 22,000# ton/pound point load. I found the buried problem, figured how I'd fix it within literally a minute of exposure, and watched the engineer walk around for TWO DAYS looking at it. Told him what I thought, he looked another 2 minutes, and drew that solution up - then I spent 4 days fixing what WOULD HAVE BEEN a guaranteed catastrophic failure of 75% of the 3,000 sq ft house when snows hit. They have theory. They don't KNOW until they have gotten down and dirty and actually wrestled with it. Any building trades, mechanical work, anyplace you have to use your hands. And to do that at all well, you have to use your mind, and do so over a wider band of knowledge...
Getting dirty is the least of it. Look at all the equipment he has and has to know how to operate it, fix it, remember how to work it from year to year. I couldn't do it...Hats off to Zach and all the others doing the same.
The variable rate you are doing here I do the same thing but do it from my AG plane. We do variable rate potash, dap, and Mez. Along with a lot of urea at constant rate.
I’m a busy guy but some days you get more done before supper than I do in two days. Great setup on that machine. Eager to see how it all come together.
Outstanding video. Retired from farming about 30 yrs ago prior to all this new technology. Just absolutely amazing tools. Now that winch hitch - could have used that.
Your pumped about that set up, I'm pumped about your set and I'm not even a farmer. Thanks for explaining how this field train works, I've been waiting to see it in action.
Good job building the horse battery. Especially in the conditions your in this year good to be able to just hook up everything and try to beat the weather. 👍🐎🐎🐎🐎
Spray can of grease for 5th wheel would be handy. Tubes of grease always open up from the vibrations in semi. Or maybe grease tube with sealed end both ends.
I hauled liquid Anhydrous in Canada for a couple years. Good product but can kick ya in the chest if you let your guard down. I got a good fright one calm cold night, out to a tank that had a small leak that I couldn’t see or smell(because of the respirator we had to use) took it off when I was done unloading, walked to my truck and the stuff had settled in a little dip in the land. When I walked through it it was like someone punched me in the chest, took my breath away. (Came back a few minutes later) couldn’t speak couldn’t breath. I gained a lot more respect for it after that. Good luck with it all.
Watching you flip the meter to see product flow brings flashbacks of Mike Mitchell walking his 80’ going 3-3-3-3 lol. Awesome you got that setup working I know it’s been a labor of love.
What is your normal frost depth where you are? These fall uglies should be disappeared by spring. You have wet heavy sticky black soil, here in southern Northeast Wisconsin (Fox River Valley) we have this heavy bright red clay. Back in the moldboard plow days, 4/14s everyone had 80 horses in front. Our fields got 2 ft. of frost some years. 👨🏻🦳 🐄 🚜
Hey Zach love that hitch behind the fertilizer buggy. Back in the 80's we put anyhdrous on with our disk on the back side the same time we were putting chemicals on in the front of the disk and it sometimes took a few tries to hook up the anyhdrous to the back of the disk, backup camera would of been really nice and saved alot of time. Be Safe and have your goggles and gloves on when messing around with the fertilizer and anyhdrous. It sounds like a good idea to have your own chemicals and fertilizer pre ordered and stored on the farm. Because of the situation going on of prices and availability of product. Any chance you can get manure from cattle,hog, confinements or chicken buildings, layers or broilers. Good Luck and hope you get your field work done this fall.
I said on a comment to Harmless Farmer, I wish we had those new fangled computers back in the 60-70s. 10fingers/10toes was ours. Love the pickup.Thanks mate for another great vid.
Gotta love the old square bodies I had a new 79 k15 best truck I ever had except for the gas mileage it was very poor at best and now my 2011 Chevy is my best truck at double the mileage of the 79
Hey Zach, a guy could look at a conveyer. I have a few growers now that use hopper trailers and conveyers to fill air carts. It’s supper fast and clean, Welkers were doing the same with the Case Demo.
My only comment on that feature is that the hydraulics should be slower. I don't think that cable is going to last very long if it keeps moving that fast.
Interesting video Zach. So very different from here in the UK, but we do do variable PK, seed and liquid fertiliser and from my experience the precision/tech side always causes me problems and slows the job down, when it all works its great. I think you need to sit Onyx on the combine next year so you can get that rig moving early as the system looks vulnerable to poor round conditions and is slow compared to traditional cultivation’s. I would also highly recommend screen shooting all your in cab screen setting’s which would make getting going again after a year of not using the machine a lot quicker, and watch out for software updates, they seem to have a habit of defaulting stuff on 4600 screen which can catch you out!! Great videos, always enjoy watching and seeing what you guys in the states get up to. Best wishes. Al
NOw you need to get some y-dops for the sprayer and give your corn 28 on the root at 12v stage and at the flag leaf stage for over 300 bu corn avg. We do 40,000 plants, split 2 rows 4" apart 20 "centers fert up front 2 passes with 28 -00-00 with y-drop last three years over 300 year avg. We hear guys south of us are getting 450 to 500 years. (Gods country)
Used to fill anhydrous tanks and deliver them when I worked at the elevator right out of high school….stuff is wicked if not handled correctly. Also made a good weed killer, just froze them
@Kevin S. Did you ever have any anhydrous dip onto your arms and burn it I used to custom apply it for a couple of years . The fumes make it impossible to breathe when they get into the cab
@@kennethcarlton2860 no, can’t say I had that happen. But when a valve went bad and needed replaced, you’d have to bleed the tank down, and we would do this into a cattle water trough, so the water would collect the fumes. Well, tried to tip it over and it came back in us. Fumes out of the water hit the eyes, yeah.. was not good
@Kevin S. Unfortunately all my mishaps happened in the field first no water in the tank to try and rinse it off and when fumes came into the cab it was a little too wet to apply anhydrous . It was great when it was good running I put 5 tanks on it 4 hours and had to wait for the next delivery
I had a hose connection uncouple and the wind was blowing right at the tractor. I quickly turned the tractor towards the he wind. That was the last year we used anhydrous. Yup it’s not if butbwhen it will hurt you!
God damn I know last year you promoted the donation for grain bin rescue. I joined my local fire department 6 months ago and tonight was my first grain bin rescue but sadly the guy was gone before we got there. Crazy how I didn’t realize the safety of grain bins until today and been around them my whole life. I know this video wasn’t about that but made me think. Thank you guys for what you do. We all love the Johnson family!
Zach I feel for ya as the weather is coming. Luckily I only had to move my New 2022 Glacier Ice House 8' Wide 17RD closer to the Gull Lake for the day. Good luck in finishing safe this season 🍀
Had to give credit where it's due. Thanks to Zack's overwhelming high marks towards the Wilkerson Quadtrac. We tried out and bought a 450 this year. Nice machine and yes the auto steer is exhausting.
Great awesome video Zach ,Jim,Nate,onyx, happy to seee the strip tiller is working great , since from a year ago had all the issues . Soil looks very clumpy yet .
Love the truck and getting the rig all set up broadcasting as needed. What no Billy Ray Estes's ? He was a guy that ran anhydrous tanks in west Texas some full some empty and some with some. He did hard time for that trick. West Texas Cotton.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Zach, I give all the credit around to you for getting all these fertilizer machines setup and working. Wow. What a long process this is. I am following you but if I told you I understand all of this I would be fooling you. I hope all this work is worth it. From what I see it should all work. I hope so because you need a reward for putts all this together and working. Hang in there. Your old pickup is a nice one. Enjoy that gem. I love the trailer hookup device you got for the fertilizer tank wagon. How neat is that. Somebody was thinking. Never heard about the sugar beets thing in your area. Neat. Good to see Jim and your dad and Becky and the kids trying out the old pickup. Hi everyone. Onyx riding with grandpa is neat. Keepsake times. Dad said no but Zach is pushing ahead anyway. Okay. Enough said. About it I guess. Looking forward to hearing more on your fertilizer setup. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything you do for us. The Iowa farm boy from years ago. Almost forgot. Thanks to Becky for editing.
I love that winch hook up deal on the air cart, genius idea. Also pleased to see everything coming together so well, I especially enjoy the look of puzzlement on your face at how well this project is working out. Lol!
Technology is freaking amazing. Hasn’t been back 50 years since they were planning with Foro planters and picking corn with three row pickers on the cob
Please be careful with NH3. And make sure your dogs stay in the yard. It’s a cheaper source on N but too many people have been injured with it. I never thought you would be able to pull that strip till machine with how wet it is this fall. Great channel.
I have been watching your channel for about two years and in joy it the only thing i don't know is who is Jim a uncle or just work for you and your Dad
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Was I not paying attention? What was the mistake?
All right, you convinced me. Where do I get that solid charder for the outdoor camera? I didn’t see that on their website.
Out of all that high dollar machinery and technology I was most impressed by the winch.
agree, the winch won top honors..
A lot of viewers are thinking how they can install one of these into their hitches.
Is the assembly strong enough to pull the tractor if stuck?
Hey Zac, I’ve been watching your vlogs from New Zealand for a couple of years and absolutely love them. Just a query, how long has Jim been with you? He’s a great bloke by the looks of things and a great worker. Don’t know if he’d be interested but would be great to do a vlog on him and his history. He might have reasons why he doesn’t want to and that’s fine but he almost seems part of the furniture and would be keen to learn a little more about him. Hope I’m not offending by asking because that was not what I’d want to do at all. Thanks
I agree, Jim seems like a switched on bloke and a hard worker to boot. We need more "Jim's" out there !!
Hey Zach, I'm discovering through your videos (posts) that farming is really quite high-tech and certainly computerized compared to just a few years ago - especially in the good old USA !! I'm truly impressed with your technical know-how of all the tractors and their respective implements !! I truly enjoy following you along and watch how you get 'er done interspersed with your GREAT sense of humor !! Love your interaction with your family - including those two dogs of yours !! Lord Bless you ALL !!
Yayyyy fellow New Zealander 😊
Jim is a legend!
They did talk about trying to get him to do an episode of Off The Husk! Hopefully it comes to fruition!
to answer Becky's question 1939 Packard is when the A/C first came to the automobile
Was available as a retro fit in 1933, Packard was the first to offer it as a manufacturer optional extra
...and taking up much of the trunk in the process. Although, if you were a lady or gentleman who owned a Packard in 1939 and could afford the (IIRC) $5,000 (in modern dollars, of course) to fit one's Packard with air conditioning, then it would be no difficulty to own another automobile for the servants to use to haul one's luggage. :) In all seriousness, in 1939 a person would be much more likely to take a train when traveling for some distance and time, so losing most of the trunk wasn't the worst of problems.
Also IIRC, those Packard systems were basically running all the time- you could shut off the blower, but the compressor was still fully engaged. Been many years since I saw one.
@@YeahJustMe don’t forget to acknowledge Wikipedia at the end of your post when you use them for source material, 👍🏻 could have just posted a link would have saved all the typing
It is pretty satisfying to finally get all that tech equipment working, especially when things are a little vague. Good job.
Hi brother all I can say is hang in there, being on the outside looking in I would say that the system needs to have a recyling feed from the delivery back to the hoppers constantly blowing the product thru the pipes and back to the hopper to prevent cake from forming. and on the anhydrous tubes seems they need to tip back to stop the mud. like the wake of a boat and the stern being dry then the furrow fold over .
Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
My folks owned a white 1977 Silverado. It had the 350 small block that would dead heat with a 440. Only because the air conditioning compressor was running! Or so dad told it. Seeing your kids in the Scottsdale brings back memories.
Gotta love those older square bodies. Though my favorites go back to the 50s. I miss trucks that didn't try to pretend to be luxury cars, just honest working vehicles with character.
I always knew I was too lazy to be a farmer. You have proven that I am also not smart enough to be a farmer. Glad you guys are out there feeding us.
We call that soil "GUMBO". We have that here in Houston. If you use a shovel to dig a hole you need another shovel to pry the dirt off of your digging shovel.
You walk around and the gumbo soil sticks to your shoes. You will gain 4" in height in a few steps.
That winch hitch is so awesome !!!
Fun fact I work for the railroad and regularly run potash trains. Potash is one of the heaviest things we haul. For example regular 14 thousand foot container trains weight around 13500-14000 tons. A potash train at 8000 feet (almost half the length of a container train) weights 28,000 tons double the weight half the length
Seat belts in the old truck, I did not think they had them. back when that was new the seat belt was the parents hand held out to keep us from bouncing our heads off the metal dash
Nice truck!! I bought an 84' K10 shortbox chevy when I was 16, tore it all apart and restored it from the ground up. She's a bare bones ride but that "old truck feel" just can't be beat in my opinion. Enjoy it!
I miss my 77 c20 and my 79 k10, but last month I ended up with a an 88 r30, glad to have another squarebody
Onyx is going to be pretty cool showing up to school in that rig when he gets a license I know that
As always, great video. Also your production skills are amazing, doing your own singing, Becky's voice over was top notch and you left us with a cliff hanger. Making an anhydrous connection a cliff hanger takes real skill. I am in awe.
Need to get a conveyall, keeps our 3 drills up and running 24/7, best thing we’ve bought for springs work
My first truck was a 1974 Chevy K10 Super Cheyenne Blue and White. Loved that truck
Thanks for sharing the new ride. Reminds me of the truck my grandfather had. He was a farm service worker for FS in Illinois. I grew up in Southern California, so when I would go back to Illinois I would love driving his pick up. Yours looks a "little" less rusty that his did (I think the rust held it together actually)......three kids across the bench seat it classic too. Your going to enjoy that truck. Be sure to include it now and then in your videos......Oh and it does have AC, you just roll the windows down....LOL, thanks for what you do Zack and family.
I am loving the truck man, my dad had one when I was a young young boy. So many memories.
I have sooooooo been there. Seemed like I dicked around all day just to go out after seeding to drag a roller around all night (yeah, we have to do that around here!) Ah! the memories!!
OMG!! Love the square body Chevy!!!! Had one just like it. Looks like its in great shape which is very rare due to northern salted roads. NICE!!!
You did it Harry, you really did it!!! Nice when a plan comes together.
We have a salford 9620 air boom. Learning curve on dry fertilizer is huge. We use plastic pellets from a local tile manufacturer in the off season to calibrate. Beats spinner spreaders hands down. Getting the Deere computer to cooperate with the isobus miller controller is like cats and dogs some days. We still find it very worthwhile. I couldn't imagine also doing anhydrous at the same time. Goodluck!
I had a 76 3/4 ton with 4 speed and the 454 I loved that truck, wish I had it back.
I have never seen a winch used to pull the anhydrous tank into place... I was anxiously waiting to see how you were going to back that train up to the tanks. The rig is looking awesome! Cannot wait to see more of it.
Thank you Zach for sharing your family farm, the technology, your thoughts and experiences as you work the land. It brings back great memories from my childhood in north east Iowa, minus the technology. There were no computers in the 60's. Every member of our family was involved with farming in one way or another. We lived a few miles from the John Deer factory. My dad ran an electric motor sales and repair shop, and there's lots of electric motors on a farm. The best times for me were when I was able to tag along with dad, or one of my uncles on the weekly motor repair route. We drove through many many towns stopping at businesses to pick up or deliver motors. Sometimes we would go to to a farm and fix an electrical issue, or repair a motor on site. For me it was always an adventure. Many of dad's friends were engineers with John Deer, and they would stop by the motor shop, usually to get dad's help with something they were tinkering with. Some of my uncles farmed, one worked at the grain elevator and my grandpa owned a farm implement store. Good times and with a big family, there was always something to do.
I have a 79 Chevy Bonanza that I use alot. Full time 4wd which means it gets crappy fuel mileage but it'll tow, push and go anywhere!!
I saw a contraption on “ 10th generation dairyman “ vlog that might interest you !
It’s on their last vlog “ soybean harvest 2021 “ at the time 1:59 it will take you one second to understand..
Eliminate waste.
Zach randy here the technology you have is amazing! As a farmer myself I strive to Implement the things I learn from your channel into my own farm. You are hands-down the smartest farmer out of all farmers in my opinion
You don’t need a farmhand….You need an IT guy. Man the complexity of that setup is mind boggling. Good luck.
That's what I was 🤔 thinking and then you need to be able to talk in code (4306, 2550,1787, etc.) It reminded me of when I worked at Shell/BP in Rhodesia when referring to the different fuel delivery vehicles we used !!
Ha, Ha !!
Thank you Zach, I've been binge watching some of these older episodes while trying to stay calm waiting on the election results. Looks like it Worked Well.
My first vehicle I ever owned was the 79 Chevy Bonanza it had all green interior dark green and when I got it it had around 40,000 miles on it. I miss that old truck it was the best truck I ever owned. It's when trucks were still made out of metal not all this plastic and fiberglass. So you enjoy it and take care of it real closely
Hello again.. Greetings and appreciation for your good work and good manners as well, dear Zack.. be fine
Love the truck. Grew up with my great grandpas 87 Scottsdale 20. Favorite truck
Hi you two, I you a your family and workers all the best for the weekend, Your wife is a good cook. From Ianwood ❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️
Cool setup, no worries about anyone laughing, they all had to start at one point.
The winch is a cool feature, makes hooking up easier.
"I can teach anybody to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes corn...the information economy is fundamentally different...You have to have a lot more gray matter.” - Mike Bloomberg 2020
Mike would've quit as soon as his designer shoes got dirty.
Mike B. Has a pointed head.
Bloomberg and way too many people, urban and otherwise, have what I call"office intelligence." I ran into the construction version with architects and engineers who would be told of design issues not working in the real world. They'd usually get a little bent (the standard AIA -Amer institute of architects - contract literally forbids builder/owner discussions and makes this an adversarial relationship).
Then they hop on their computer and click in their software for a few minutes and the wall is moved. They check and it's not done yet in the real world, so they are upset. Yes, you pull the studs and plates, but what about the wiring? Maybe plumbing? Load bearing? Hell, I've worked on houses with a 3 story window wall and they forgot the the header over the center window. I've fixed a miscarried ELEVEN TON - 22,000# ton/pound point load. I found the buried problem, figured how I'd fix it within literally a minute of exposure, and watched the engineer walk around for TWO DAYS looking at it. Told him what I thought, he looked another 2 minutes, and drew that solution up - then I spent 4 days fixing what WOULD HAVE BEEN a guaranteed catastrophic failure of 75% of the 3,000 sq ft house when snows hit.
They have theory. They don't KNOW until they have gotten down and dirty and actually wrestled with it. Any building trades, mechanical work, anyplace you have to use your hands. And to do that at all well, you have to use your mind, and do so over a wider band of knowledge...
Getting dirty is the least of it. Look at all the equipment he has and has to know how to operate it, fix it, remember how to work it from year to year. I couldn't do it...Hats off to Zach and all the others doing the same.
@@ericwalstrand3512 the amount of infostructure and equipment required to do it all is crazy
The variable rate you are doing here I do the same thing but do it from my AG plane. We do variable rate potash, dap, and Mez. Along with a lot of urea at constant rate.
Hope you saved the settings before powering off !!!!!
I’m a busy guy but some days you get more done before supper than I do in two days. Great setup on that machine. Eager to see how it all come together.
Outstanding video. Retired from farming about 30 yrs ago prior to all this new technology. Just absolutely amazing tools. Now that winch hitch - could have used that.
Boy y’all were busier than a one arm paper hanger. Good luck with the tilling up the fields god bless and stay safe
PS One thing I love about you Zach, you are humble enough to say that you are not confident at what you are doing sometimes. Good on ya buddy.
Good Figuring...didn't give up, got to done .
Your pumped about that set up, I'm pumped about your set and I'm not even a farmer. Thanks for explaining how this field train works, I've been waiting to see it in action.
My old man had one like that. His was a 4x4 that kept shelling the front drive shaft ….from the factory driveshaft installed backwards
Good job building the horse battery. Especially in the conditions your in this year good to be able to just hook up everything and try to beat the weather. 👍🐎🐎🐎🐎
I just checked your channel to see if you posted a new vid I missed and then loaded back to my subscriptions and I see you posted
Spray can of grease for 5th wheel would be handy. Tubes of grease always open up from the vibrations in semi. Or maybe grease tube with sealed end both ends.
@@rihannas1549 LEAVE US ALONE!! More you post more of us will report you.
Zach. video was just AWESOME. thank you so much for letting us tag along
I hauled liquid Anhydrous in Canada for a couple years. Good product but can kick ya in the chest if you let your guard down. I got a good fright one calm cold night, out to a tank that had a small leak that I couldn’t see or smell(because of the respirator we had to use) took it off when I was done unloading, walked to my truck and the stuff had settled in a little dip in the land. When I walked through it it was like someone punched me in the chest, took my breath away. (Came back a few minutes later) couldn’t speak couldn’t breath. I gained a lot more respect for it after that. Good luck with it all.
Watching you flip the meter to see product flow brings flashbacks of Mike Mitchell walking his 80’ going 3-3-3-3 lol. Awesome you got that setup working I know it’s been a labor of love.
What is your normal frost depth where you are? These fall uglies should be disappeared by spring. You have wet heavy sticky black soil, here in southern Northeast Wisconsin (Fox River Valley) we have this heavy bright red clay. Back in the moldboard plow days, 4/14s everyone had 80 horses in front. Our fields got 2 ft. of frost some years. 👨🏻🦳 🐄 🚜
Hey Zach love that hitch behind the fertilizer buggy. Back in the 80's we put anyhdrous on with our disk on the back side the same time we were putting chemicals on in the front of the disk and it sometimes took a few tries to hook up the anyhdrous to the back of the disk, backup camera would of been really nice and saved alot of time. Be Safe and have your goggles and gloves on when messing around with the fertilizer and anyhdrous. It sounds like a good idea to have your own chemicals and fertilizer pre ordered and stored on the farm. Because of the situation going on of prices and availability of product. Any chance you can get manure from cattle,hog, confinements or chicken buildings, layers or broilers. Good Luck and hope you get your field work done this fall.
I said on a comment to Harmless Farmer, I wish we had those new fangled computers back in the 60-70s. 10fingers/10toes was ours. Love the pickup.Thanks mate for another great vid.
As long as you learn something. That winch hitch is great
Gotta love the old square bodies I had a new 79 k15 best truck I ever had except for the gas mileage it was very poor at best and now my 2011 Chevy is my best truck at double the mileage of the 79
So happy it all fell in place. Lots of understanding. I get it. I'm just glad it all worked for you.
my trucks black now but it was originally two tone like yours, i love the round headlights!!!
"Supper was satisfactory". I''m sure the Mrs. was thrilled to hear that! 😆
That's a pretty good compliment for upper Midwest Scandanavians
Hey Zach, a guy could look at a conveyer. I have a few growers now that use hopper trailers and conveyers to fill air carts. It’s supper fast and clean, Welkers were doing the same with the Case Demo.
Man that winch for the anhydrous tank is pretty sweet!
Yep, I was impressed.
What a great idea!
My only comment on that feature is that the hydraulics should be slower. I don't think that cable is going to last very long if it keeps moving that fast.
I applaud your commitment Zach!! I pray everything goes full steam for you all up North to get things wrapped up for the year.
Dad's always told me that "A bad job in the fall is always better than a good job in the spring"
Interesting video Zach. So very different from here in the UK, but we do do variable PK, seed and liquid fertiliser and from my experience the precision/tech side always causes me problems and slows the job down, when it all works its great. I think you need to sit Onyx on the combine next year so you can get that rig moving early as the system looks vulnerable to poor round conditions and is slow compared to traditional cultivation’s. I would also highly recommend screen shooting all your in cab screen setting’s which would make getting going again after a year of not using the machine a lot quicker, and watch out for software updates, they seem to have a habit of defaulting stuff on 4600 screen which can catch you out!! Great videos, always enjoy watching and seeing what you guys in the states get up to. Best wishes. Al
this was the video ive been waiting for, really interested on how that setup would act this year
Wow my hats off to ya. You set that whole thing up without losing your cool. I’m sure that’s going to be a awesome outfit when it works.
You know it is edited right?
Should back the winch off a touch after your suck it in or it pulls on the cable and causes excessive wear on it
should apply your product about an inch and half to two inches below your seed level you want to seed
NOw you need to get some y-dops for the sprayer and give your corn 28 on the root at 12v stage and at the flag leaf stage for over 300 bu corn avg.
We do 40,000 plants, split 2 rows 4" apart 20 "centers fert up front 2 passes with 28 -00-00 with y-drop last three years over 300 year avg. We hear guys south of us are getting 450 to 500 years. (Gods country)
Used to fill anhydrous tanks and deliver them when I worked at the elevator right out of high school….stuff is wicked if not handled correctly. Also made a good weed killer, just froze them
@Kevin S. Did you ever have any anhydrous dip onto your arms and burn it
I used to custom apply it for a couple of years . The fumes make it impossible to breathe when they get into the cab
@@kennethcarlton2860 no, can’t say I had that happen. But when a valve went bad and needed replaced, you’d have to bleed the tank down, and we would do this into a cattle water trough, so the water would collect the fumes. Well, tried to tip it over and it came back in us. Fumes out of the water hit the eyes, yeah.. was not good
@Kevin S. Unfortunately all my mishaps happened in the field first no water in the tank to try and rinse it off and when fumes came into the cab it was a little too wet to apply anhydrous . It was great when it was good running I put 5 tanks on it 4 hours and had to wait for the next delivery
I had a hose connection uncouple and the wind was blowing right at the tractor. I quickly turned the tractor towards the he wind. That was the last year we used anhydrous. Yup it’s not if butbwhen it will hurt you!
Ever shrink any money with it? The Coop I’d worked at had a nurse tank that one customer would flat out refuse to take out… #13.
Back in the day my best friend had that same pickup with three on the tree... LOL,, but it was only 5 years old then...
Hitch hook up is sweet, just need to change lever direction so when lever is pushed forward cable goes that direction
I really enjoy watching farm channels, I often wonder where I would be if I had stayed on the farm. I left when I was 18 in 1963
@sese... 💕💕 go away
No time like the present to get back in! The only time it's too late is the day YOU get planted!
Glad all working good with the fertilizer. Awesome 1975 Chevy.
I legit love the square body. My favorite addition to the farm!
God damn I know last year you promoted the donation for grain bin rescue. I joined my local fire department 6 months ago and tonight was my first grain bin rescue but sadly the guy was gone before we got there. Crazy how I didn’t realize the safety of grain bins until today and been around them my whole life. I know this video wasn’t about that but made me think. Thank you guys for what you do. We all love the Johnson family!
I'm really sorry to hear that. Thank you for volunteering on your local department. I hope you and the community are doing alright.
1940 Packard was the first car available with AC factory-installed. Late 70s early 80s AC became standard option. Awesome pickup.
Wasn't it the same as a swamp cooler. Block of dry ice an as you drove it blows the air across the ice blows cool air on you ?
It was withdrawn by Packard due to engine overheating and reappeared in the 50's
@@ronniewilliz153 that was popular out west. They called it a swamp cooler. I believe the ice lasted about 4 hours.
Hope you stocked up on beer before running that machine again. That new pickup is sweet
Zach I feel for ya as the weather is coming. Luckily I only had to move my New 2022 Glacier Ice House 8' Wide 17RD closer to the Gull Lake for the day. Good luck in finishing safe this season 🍀
Squarbody goodness, I have an 85 C10 and an 87 V20 they are great trucks.
Had to give credit where it's due. Thanks to Zack's overwhelming high marks towards the Wilkerson Quadtrac. We tried out and bought a 450 this year. Nice machine and yes the auto steer is exhausting.
Great awesome video Zach ,Jim,Nate,onyx, happy to seee the strip tiller is working great , since from a year ago had all the issues . Soil looks very clumpy yet .
Reverse the hoses on the winch control so the handle moves in the direction of travel
Love the truck and getting the rig all set up broadcasting as needed. What no Billy Ray Estes's ? He was a guy that ran anhydrous tanks in west Texas some full some empty and some with some. He did hard time for that trick. West Texas Cotton.
Your so smart it makes your videos so much better vary cool thank you for all you and your family does so all of us
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
Zach, I give all the credit around to you for getting all these fertilizer machines setup and working. Wow. What a long process this is. I am following you but if I told you I understand all of this I would be fooling you. I hope all this work is worth it. From what I see it should all work. I hope so because you need a reward for putts all this together and working. Hang in there.
Your old pickup is a nice one. Enjoy that gem.
I love the trailer hookup device you got for the fertilizer tank wagon. How neat is that. Somebody was thinking.
Never heard about the sugar beets thing in your area. Neat.
Good to see Jim and your dad and Becky and the kids trying out the old pickup. Hi everyone.
Onyx riding with grandpa is neat. Keepsake times.
Dad said no but Zach is pushing ahead anyway. Okay. Enough said.
About it I guess. Looking forward to hearing more on your fertilizer setup. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything you do for us.
The Iowa farm boy from years ago.
Almost forgot. Thanks to Becky for editing.
I love that winch hook up deal on the air cart, genius idea. Also pleased to see everything coming together so well, I especially enjoy the look of puzzlement on your face at how well this project is working out. Lol!
A damn sight easier to set up that whole rig than on Farm Sim 19 ;)
My dad had the same pickup, same color, but 454 camper special (GMC). I miss that truck.
Nice job figuring out how to get everything working correctly. Great video. Thanks
I used a simonsen fertilizer truck to deliver wood heating pellets here in Ketchikan… cool to see zack just learn it 5 min.
Technology is freaking amazing. Hasn’t been back 50 years since they were planning with Foro planters and picking corn with three row pickers on the cob
Awesome truck Zach! Can't beat them old trucks!
That winch hook-up to the tank is very cool, I like it!
Please be careful with NH3. And make sure your dogs stay in the yard. It’s a cheaper source on N but too many people have been injured with it. I never thought you would be able to pull that strip till machine with how wet it is this fall. Great channel.
That’s a slick setup for hookup of the tank 👍 Hey Jim hasn’t gotten stuck so looking like a productive day in the life of farming 🤷🏻♂️😉😂
I have been watching your channel for about two years and in joy it the only thing i don't know is who is Jim a uncle or just work for you and your Dad
😂😂😂 you crack me up dude. Installing the simply safe outdoor camera the look on your face. It looks so easy to install I might just have to get one