9520RX John Deere-2660VT Vertical Tillage Demo
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Midwest Machinery sent us a 9520RX John Deere and 2660VT Disc to demo and try our hand at some vertical tillage. I was really hoping this would be our opportunity to try out some no-till. Unfortunately it's just too muddy.
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I really appreciate it when you explain the pros & cons and features of these demos you get to play with. Some “farmtubers” just take aerial videos with dance music and never really explain the tractor or provide a good review. This is what separates you from all the rest. Keep up the good work!
Being as detailed as you are about what your doing, why your doing it, and any changes you make are what keeps me coming back. Keep up the good work!
“I almost pulled a Jim” 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
I was so gonna say,, Jim's gonna fire you before you finish that field!😂😂
He actually said “just about pulled a Jim” not what you said
@@nathanbrown130 thanks for letting me know Einstein
"Almost pulled a Jim" - our family's new favorite phrase of exclamation is "Holy Buckets!" Thanks for the authenticity in the video.
Lol! I recently learned that holy buckets is a MN thing!
@@MillennialFarmer You hear it in your neighbor state to the west a lot too.
Millennial Farmer Very common saying in the U.P also
Good idea with the sign. Don't need any idiots bugging you or your family. I appreciate the videos.
Hi Zach, I'm sorry you could not work the last 40 acres. The corn residue sure kept the moisture in and makes it impossible to work the soil and get the crop in. I hope insurance covers the situation as it seems very obvious you can't get the crop in. Please keep us posted on this specific piece of land. Dean from Edina
This is reality in farming. Thank you for showing the hard parts of farming where you don't got good conditions!
Worked on the farm for a family full time for years......great to see somebody thats honest
It IS what it is bro!!!... I just had a similar situation, in an entirely different industry...was lent some gear.. ( GOOD GEAR)... but it just didn't work out for me in my particular situation....we suck it up, we regroup, and we overcome... and get ready for the next set of challenges... it's what hard working folks do... Power on Zach.... you're a good man..
That smile killed me hahahaha I was the same way when I ran a 9570RX
I hate commercials. However now learning that you only get paid if I watch the complete commercial; I now take one for the team. I'm a retired Ag teacher here, and love the fact that you support the FFA.
this is why i love your channel..you show the good the bad and the ugly of everyday farming..
Don't be sorry, that was a great vid. It's good to see what doesn't work too!
I was thinkin that must have been a pretty fancy vertical tillage tool to be able to adjust the disk gang angle and roller basket pressure on the fly like that
That's one wicked tractor Zach,that "disk"looks like a pain in the "---".
You could turn that 40 acres into a dirt track...just sayin'.😎👍
Right now it would be a mud track.
Zach, Thanks for not sugarcoating the demo, as you say, it is what it is. Different soil make up, moisture content, overburden all make farming a trial and error kind of deal. You certainly have had an interesting spring. Good luck getting that 40 under control.
I know you work your tail off and long hours too. John Deere must love the way you push their equipment and show what each piece is capable of. Great vids, THANX
Poor Jim he was just trying to play in the mud and he will never hear the end of it... 😂
Looks to me like the last Family farming that land knew %100 that they would not be back the following year. They didn't want to waste the money on the fuel knowing this. I'm thinking they were TOLD they would not returning. In the end it appears you may have signed the lease a smidge late this year with the amount of rain you've been receiving. That 40 acres is going to need a solid week of sunshine to form up. Good luck Zach.
the jagged discs are just for chopping, you need smooth discs with scrapers for running them at an angle and prevent blocking
I think we demoed that same tractor. Nice tractor minus they have the hydraulic lever labels messed up lol there's no 3 pt hitch on that thing
As a hay farmer, that’s the attitude I have towards sickle mowers!
Good video anyway! 👍🏻
P.S. If I lived closer to Minnesota I’d make you an offer on those Horizontal Tillage tools!
"I won't knock him, he's actually getting work done"
I laughed out loud!!
Maybe they should borrow his
VT's are great in the right conditions and with the right soil types.
Please add a no experience option with the no till survey. Would be interesting😁
Plant RICE!!!! You have a rice patty out their! Do it by hand, hire Malenials for 1 meg of data stream each!
Entertaining & Informative as ever zach. I think we all chuckled softly inside when you revealed the new code term , for getting stuck. almost pulled a jim.
We like our VT. Interested to see your take on it. Edit* we run a traditional no till planter over that seed bed then again we dont run it that wet. We have black soil but you must have black soil with glue.
We bought a tractor from Sauk centre and I can confirm that they have black soil with glue
Definitely still an interesting video. Like you said, this is the real world and how things go sometimes. Thanks for all the videos!
My fav: “....sure is colorful out this morning.”
🤣😂lol
I'm from MN, too. Once again the statement stands, "Needs more tile."
It's one of those years here in Minnesota! Oh well .... Hey I've got a diagonal till machine that would do the trick...priced Right!
Yall need to try out a Kelly diamond harrow!
Would've been perfect for that field.
Hook up to a Salford! We used ours for our last 150 acres of more wet ground. It dried out quick and left a good seed bed with the rolling baskets!
I did that 2 worked pretty good but I hit it quite a few times
@@jder-ip7jx I hit most of our fields once and they were good to go. Only had to do two of our smaller fields twice. They didn't get worked last fall
Oh ya forgot 2 mention none of mine where worked last fall
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Yes the John Deere 9rx is my favorite John Deere tractor
Never stopped so quick to watch a video.
Should try some Horizontal Tillage!!! I no tilled everything this year... but it was pretty wet under some of that heavy straw... fall tillage for sure this FALL!
"Just about pulled a Jim" LOL poor Jim he isn't going to be left alone about that
This year has just been challenge after challenge. Thanks for the good laugh though
Being a farmer is just a long series of challenges and misery.
100%
We had to replant 600 acres of cotton. Worried about the corn, went too long without rain. Hope the best for y’all!!
Zha Zha Binks Luckily we had a good slow rain. Everything looks much better. Now I need rain to wait till about Tuesday before it comes. Louisiana needs to send me humidity! I can still breathe easily so it’s not cotton humid. 😂
My late PawPaw wouldn’t allow fussin about humidity! Happy cotton is more important than happy kids. I guess it’s so apart of me now I want the Bama summer/fall everyone hates. Thank You for asking about us!
Bass Trammel exactly, that’s what it’s been like for me and my family with our dairy farm
0:07 That look on your face when you just got away with something.
still awesome to see that beast work. sorry it didnt work out brother. keep up the great content
Guess you know why that 40 was available.
its because it wasn't worked last fall... did u not hear him??
@@carterspies3587 You kinda sound like a jerk
Not worked last fall well gee wonder why it was available the land owners new it was too wet
Floreypottery do you understand how renting land works?...
@@Floreypottery It was land that was rented. That said the former renter let it go for a reason.
Down here in southern MN we usually disc whatever stalks are left before running a digger across the top (if we do corn) sucks to see it couldn't help you out in your neck of the woods crazy to see how much soil type and conditions can change in just a few hundred miles
It would be interesting to try the John Deere 2680H High-Performance Disk.
I see that rock picker in almost every one of your videos... :) Great Video as always..very educational.
Looks like an exact copy of a 520 case qaudtrac and 330 Turbo till
Might be a field for winter wheat after it dries out. Late season corn for silage to a local dairy farmer...
Dang that's a mess. Hope she drys out for ya. Definitely none of that ground on my farm. All sand round here
Here we are in Saskatchewan and it is so dry are soil has turned to sand
Horizontal tillage! That's a good one. Better copyright that phrase !
Lol gotta love American terminology 😂😂
pottinger 10001 t terradisc would do it. it did great job on our fields (had on demo 6001t model)
Oh thats a big tractor when in my deere its only 120 hp ;D
It's just to darn wet man your going to have to wait and pray for the best
Forget about buying lottery tickets for awhile, seems to me like your outta luck (well good luck anyway). Good video! Keep 'em coming.
BTW, I am really enjoying the FieldWork Podcast.
up here in Manitoba we would consider spreading on canola and heavy harrow after. Especially with Rain coming!!!
Mightyunit what a lot of Michigan farmers seemed to do this year lots of yellow fields I think they knew it was gonna be wet all year
Why is your quadtrac green? 🤔
Another great video buddy! Loving the content
A better question is why does it have yellow on it? It should be Red and Green!
Try a great plains turbo-till or turbo-max
With the VT you have to go at least 6.5 mph to do a good job I didn’t look like you were going that fast
I had it up to 9 a few times but usually I couldn't get going that fast before hitting mud
We run a VT in heavy clay as well for us it just depends on the moisture
We have a GP Turbo Till VT. We weren't sure we liked it when we first demo'd it years ago when we tried it because we didn't pull it fast enough and the ground was still pretty wet. Once we got up and over 9 mph and on dry ground...the dirt and all the cover starts flying, and then it actually does a pretty nice job.
Ya that’s true and it doesn’t help that all of the trash was left over from the corn making it worse
That machine is built to handle that much trash no problem the only problem there was the moisture and when it plugs like that its game over man
Thanks for cheering me up I had a bad day(1st)
A brotherly hug from Sweden.
June 8th. “Dang near the middle of June!” Lol lol lol 🤣🤣🤣
You should go park that Deere in your Case neighbors driveway
Great idea I bet the parking area is open all the case equipment is in the field hahahaha
What is that green space ship? it looks like it's trying to mimic the Case Quadtrac! lol ;)
They made them better! New and improved!!
The burning of the corn stock would of made good content and probably would of helped the soil
Slash and Char is a thing even the eco-nazis like and it is reported to improve yields 30 - 60%
Hope your arm feels better!
I’m watching a John Deere demo when I’m taking my lunch break at a John Deere dealer 😂😂
You mean the "Horizontal tillage soil compaction modifying tool" ;)
Zach:
Really nice try. It is what it is.... We had to file an insurance claim on my dad’s Iowa farm corn ground becuz too wet and too late to plant.
Time to jus go fishin’.
Captain Al from Tampa. 😎
Nice machine but don't pull a Jim!!! LOL
Private drive that's what's happens when you become semi famous . I only look on Google earth 😎
Oh the Joy's of farming. Thanks for the day in the life and keeping it real.
I am glad you show the good, bad and the things that don't work no matter how you we try.
Thanks for sharing.
Whenever I use a disc implement when it's wet it just sends the ground hard
my man you gotta run a regular disk through it then follow with the VT
Looks to me like a regular disc would plug just as bad on his mud. Not sure
I know it's frustrated with wet spots and wishing for dry weather to get planting done. I've always frustrated with my field wet spots when I have to cross the creek but my friend of mine was telling me about a beaver dam was building up that causes the high rise water on the creek. I like the no til grain drill and it's done very good job to knock down pollen weeds for 12 years as a small farmer of myself. Best luck with your planting
Lots of PP acres all over this year. Looks like guys are fortunate to only have 40 acres. We have a mess down here in the MidSouth. Enjoy you videos. I'm retired from 30 years in Ag Business, so enjoy you prospective on what's going on in Agriculture.
ohh you did have a 9rx to try and work those 40 acers
Faster Zack. 9mph would look so much better
That was unbelievable, I really appreciate you giving that a try. In Ontario we do exactly that for all our bean ground so that we can leave our soil undisturbed for the winter but man o man now I can see now why u do fall tillage
Hello from Norway 👍 i am a farmer tho i have horses and corn and som grass 👍 Fun to see how you run an American farm. I love Amerika 🇺🇲🇺🇲
Greetings Norway from just south of Zach in northern Iowa!
Deere copied case with the quadtrac
Case copied Deere's corn head and planter units. That's just how competition work
@@jacobgoering3864 no i think you're wrong especially on planter units
Zach almost copied Jim.
Jacob Goering if case copied Deere on the head, case heads wouldn’t suck so bad.
I thought the Deere 2 Track was so great," Wth they doing with a 4-Track machine🤔😂🤣 Same as there Combines with the Rotor.. They wanted to follow the Leader I guess..🤷♂️
I hate bugs when driving a cabless tractor lol
I am in awe at the machinery I am seeing here, the costs that must be involved and the work and knowledge. My hat is off to you man.
Happy to hear you mention zero-till and cover crops for building healthy soil !!!
Just heavy harrow it move the trash to help dry the ground.
Our experience with a harrow on corn ground is not good at all. Bunches up in the harrows and you've got a real mess. We just bought a degelman protill for this very reason saved us on about 2800 acres this year.
Great video. Don’t apologize. The candid way you present both the good and bad of your own business is refreshing. Also, nice sign. Mine says “If you can read this you’re in range.” I turned it around backwards and put a .308 hole through it before mounting for effect. Keep up the good work.
That's awesome!! I REALLY like that idea!
It's a little refreshing to see honesty in a product review
We farmed about 60 miles south of your location in Chippewa County. Knowledge of the soil type and measurement of the soil temperature at the time of tillage was critical to effective planting of corn and soybeans. The concepts of No Till and minimum tillage has been around since the 1960's. I think your experience reinforces some of the real world constraints on effective use of those concepts. I would be interested to know the measured soil temperature in depth through the tillage zone in that field.
It is nice that you are able to try new tools out
Hats off to you for keeping your cool during a very stressful situation.
I enjoy bigtractorpower a lot. As do my kids. Seeing the equipment working flawlessly is entertaining. But I enjoy watching another millennial working his butt off, even when the outcome isn't perfect. That's why I watch: you keep it real.
Even in our sandy soil here the VT doesn't do so good when it's wet. We VT all of our bean ground (pintos) and it works awesome....our main goal is chopping up the residue and leaving a nice flat field to plant into. We raise the trash cleaners on the planter as high as we can and it leaves a great smooth field for harvest in the fall.
Just want to say that you are a man of great honor.
That is amazing that you just said that, I was just talking to my wife saying I'd like to send him a message about that cover crop and no till that with work of course seems to work out for the better and environmentally better as well which like i told her I'm sure he knows about, you don't do that that long and not know or hear about this, there is a 10 or so series on it which was very awesome and eye opening, God bless brother
In the wetter(?) Northern Alberta heavy clays we use a chisel plow (heavy cultivator) with 3 inch twisted spikes for this condition. They break the sub-pan and cover the trash. Working a second time at an angle allows zero tillage seeders to work as advertised. About 40 percent bury.
Fred from Materthorpe AB CA
I've been binging on your videos all weekend. I really like how you take us through everything you do to keep the farm running. Being a farmer has to be frustrating at times, due to all the things outside of your control..cough...weather...cough. The fact that you keep on going made a believer (and a subscriber) out of me!!!
Very great video! I really enjoy the way you describe the actual situation, without bashing the equipment. There sure are places where it does excellent work, just not in these conditions. - Thanks for the real life videos !!!
Most farmers up here in SE North Dakota have just finished planting however there's still a few rushing to finish. This has probably been the most challenging planting season for them that I can remember.
Speed is key we run ours at 9-10mph and about 4-6degress and it works great!
We are from the north western part of Oh and we have the same problem. But we changed to notill 100% to get it in . 600 ac Corn, 1500 ac Beans, 700 ac Wheat. Got it all in June 18. Hardest year I have ever see planting. My Dad always told me (A wet year will starve you to death and a dry year will scare you to death) I believe it.
I can understand your frustration. There are times and conditions where you have just got to wait each farm is a little different and all you can do is farm accordingly one of our neighbours used to be out 4-5 days after heavy rains farming on black basaltic soils. We had the same type of soils and couldn't get on it for two to three weeks.