Having the hitch pin be the weak link sounds like the best thing to do.// I can recall working on highway grading projects. Those were the days when Cat came out with the twin-engine push/pull units. Didn't need to use a push cat then.
I really enjoy the way you make videos! I keep these things going often times in the background on my computer at work. I am in LE and its a great destresser while I am typing. Thanks for sharing with us!
Man I wished I had one of those when I ran scraper the farm I worked for had an old cable type before fancy hydraulics really makes you respect the old timers had to do things before new equipment
When I was younger & working for the DNR at Sask Landing, my boss informed & showed me the proper way to use a “crescent wrench”. When you were using it, you were opening the jaws on the wrench vs flipping it over & when you pull on the wrench, you are pulling into the jaws, creating a better grip or tightening of the jaws. ‘Now you know the rest of the story’ 😁
Farming requires dedication, passion, and a bit of luck. It's one of the most rewarding jobs you can find though. There's no doubt that farming is challenging and tough, but someone has to do it😉
Most of all it requires separating between spending money, saving and investing. Realizing what investing (= spending profitably) and return on capital and compounding of said return can do to your business in 30 years is the key to success. I see too much shiny iron too often.
Actually it requires planning and lots of money in the bank, as well as getting all or most of your land from family for little or nothing or marrying into it. Taking weights off or taking duals off? I guess I grew up on another planet. Mike, you don't know much about ditching. You make me laugh with your top soil ideas, you want to keep that on the field. You made a place to drop your soil? We used 100hp tractor with our scraper, which was smaller, but in the end on a farm you don't take a foot at a time. You should spend some time with old timers rather than make this stuff up as you go.
We have a pair of scrapers that you pull together. I believe that they hold 12 or 14 yards . We pull them with a 580 quadtrac that is a scraper special. It has a stronger heavier hitch and more lugging torque . We move alot of dirt for waterways and ditches .
Ha, I didn't hear him talk about anything being dirty and needing a wash either. We used to have a scraper for ditching too, and we should have just rented it as my dad was a good neighbor and let every neighbor use the crap out of it. I remember more than once having to go to someone farmyard to pick it up. Handy things.
What’s the capacity of those pull-type scrapers compared with the twin engined, self-propelled types? Handy as heck to have one of those (pull-type) for jobs just like these. 👍🏼 Poor Mike, tractor covered in hydraulic oil. 😂 Get that man some anxiety meds, STAT!!!!
Years a neighbor and I converted a 12 cu. yd cable operated LE Tourneu scraper to hydraulic , and used it behind a JD 8850 for years , the whole bowl tipped up nearly 90 deg after you opened the front apron , as we fitted a sequence ,priority valve in the circuit, worked great ....built roads ,shed pads ,..... dams etc ....was a great tool :)
Awesome video Mike, as usual. :) Thanks for sharing it. The push is actually called an ejector. The area where the dirt piles into is the bowl. You have it right, the piece at the front is called the apron. I had a grandfather and great grandfather that were in road construction all their lives... I grew up around it. Both grandfathers put lots and lots of hours in operating scrapers, and I put in lots of hours riding with them, and operating them myself when I was older. :) Does you farm have a grader for getting everything finalized?
Mike: I would hang on to that topsoil under you have things further developed. Dunno if you need some sort of a windbreak later on, or want to do some extensive landscaping. Dirt is far cheaper than bldg materials, if you can make use of it. Not much maintenance, and won't deteriorate over time.
@Dean Zinter yeah, sad right... I own some land next to my house and it used to be house ground but when I wanted to sell it to some people for them to build their house on the government went nope and changed it to farm land for no reason and didn't compensate me or anything... I fought them for a bit to try and change it back but that led to nowhere...
You need to pick up a nice used Terex TS14 or TS24 scraper. Would make life easier. Ritchie Bros had 3 nice rebuilt TS14’s at their auction in Grande Prairie this summer.
A lot of the old moldboard plows had a spring loaded breakaway in the hitch to reduce breakage when you hit a deadhead at 2 mi/hr. They also had a trip rope to lower them into the ground and raise them. Tractor seats had a nice little hole at the back that was the natural place to fasten the rope. Operators who did too good a job fastening the rope risked the seat spring launching them over the steering wheel when the plow disconnected.
Mike I have a question. Lol. At the beginning of the video you showed us that grassy area where you had to move some equipment out of the way, so I assumed that's where the new pad was going. So why are you putting the pad in a field where it looks like you have crops? Just wondering. Keep up the good work.
Perhaps it's an old bldg site and the crops are not so good here, or in Mike's master plan it is simply a good bin location that coordinates well with everything else planned.
Do not use cast galvanized water pipe fittings for hydraulic systems. They are not rated for the pressure. It's a recipe for leaks at best, injury at worst.
Next year Deere 640rx or asf 620 quads ? They say the 640 has the pulling power of a case 620 but I don't Think they changed the slow shifting. Better view and more HP is all .
Good work Mike!!!! "Let's Go Brandon!!" That's illegal to say in Canada. Wonder how you would actually cheer for someone named Brandon. It'd be a bummer if your name was Brandon and you were really good at sports.
you guys should go full John Deere with tractors I know this opinion doesn't mater but just saying lol. also I don't know how you edit but time lapse would be cool.
Have you seen a scraper come in 2? Farmers seem to think construction equipment and farm equipment if engineered with the same level of toughness. That scraper would pull that tractor in 2 before breaking in 2. Also you don't need a knife to cut soil. Looks like someone actually used a grinder to out an edge on it.
Nothing to do with the video,but i work at a shop that sells dryed and painted wheat,the entire plant,without the leafs(100-150 grames) for 2.80 USD,idk lol
You can pick up a decent grade laser for about 600 bucks. If you're doing drainage, you're gonna want one that does slope so probably closer to 1,000. Get a nice Spectra or Topcon. They are worth it.
@@mikeznel6048 At work we are still old school with string line level and tape measure. So we still need engineers designs and a surveyor to shoot hubs in. Any models in particular that you'd recommend? I was looking at machine mounted receivers too that would be nice so a guy doesn't have to get out of the machine to check grade. Would've saved me a few hundred bucks hiring someone.
Hello from Friesland Are you going to live in the north or are you going to take over your father-in-law's company It seems to me a slightly better climate to grow food there,👍
I don't mean to laugh at your misfortune but as a fellow dirtologist I completely sympathize with covering the rig with oil. If it was easy everyone would do.
If your like me, as soon as you let someone talk you into selling it, a friend or family member will call and say " hey all that top soil you scraped off, would you mind if the wife and I came and got some for a garden . Even though it was your you end up feeling bad and trying to take care of them in some other way. Often costing you the MONEYS. maybe not but that's usually how it seems to go around hear
We are not leaving the south farm, that is where my main farm is.. This is myself and Ashtyn's own hobby farm/ risk management for a our main farm back home.. My family has no interest in this nor do they assist us
Why don’t you use the soil on the got to On your Wife Fields Turn the level off some of the areas cut down the tree areas where is the trees and use the topsoil on top
No they are diversifying their farms to best protect themselves in the future. So they are expanding the family farming overall. This way they will have multiple crops so to have a buffer in questionable times.
Keep in mind Mike is a farmer who had a tug of war between a couple of 300k tractors. So when he says he doesn't want to break stuff, he's fibbing, he lives for it. And I bet he used auto steer in that tug or war. ruclips.net/video/dGp24jagGt4/видео.html
No... That was completely different and a tug, when Don properly, is not hard on the equipment in soft dirt... An old worn out and tired scraper is a whole different beast than tugging two tractors... If you knew equivalent, you would know why.
It took 6 min say something that was wrong with the JD. I know that you will say it's not a negative but just a preference. It's your money, your channel do as you please. On our farm it was the other brands that broke, the down time cost were great. It just bugs me that you nitpick every time you sit in a JD. I'll unsubscribe & you will not hear from me again. "They have never built a monument to a critic."
Mike I love the positivity even when things go sideways. It’s refreshing.
Having the hitch pin be the weak link sounds like the best thing to do.// I can recall working on highway grading projects. Those were the days when Cat came out with the twin-engine push/pull units.
Didn't need to use a push cat then.
It´s nice to see you keep the mood up and even invest in the future even though it has been a terrible year for farmers
Almost every year is a bad year. They thrive in challenge
Good to know the expression "Drier than a popcorn fart" is not just something my old man from Oldham County, Texas says.
Your videos are awesome to Mike.👍
I really enjoy the way you make videos! I keep these things going often times in the background on my computer at work. I am in LE and its a great destresser while I am typing. Thanks for sharing with us!
"Dryer than a popcorn fart" haven't heard that in years since my Grandpa died ---over 40 thanks for the memory!
You must be new to the channel. If you took a shot for every time he said it we'd all be dead from alcohol poisoning lol
That is a nice size sand box to play in with your tonka toys
😂🚜🤣
Man I wished I had one of those when I ran scraper the farm I worked for had an old cable type before fancy hydraulics really makes you respect the old timers had to do things before new equipment
That topsoil depth is crazy! We have 18 inches of topsoil, give or take an inch or two!
I want to hear an update on the Fendt combines. Are you looking forward to getting rid of them?
When I was younger & working for the DNR at Sask Landing, my boss informed & showed me the proper way to use a “crescent wrench”. When you were using it, you were opening the jaws on the wrench vs flipping it over & when you pull on the wrench, you are pulling into the jaws, creating a better grip or tightening of the jaws. ‘Now you know the rest of the story’ 😁
Did you listen to Paul Harvey??😂😂
They debunked that myth. It doesn't actually make a difference.
Crescent wrenches are the devil
Here in the Netherlands we are using a scraper for the cheese.
Nice scraper.
@Howard Whats wrong with it? It needs a new blade but other than that it works perfect..
Dirt moving is the best
Agreed.
Farming requires dedication, passion, and a bit of luck. It's one of the most rewarding jobs you can find though. There's no doubt that farming is challenging and tough, but someone has to do it😉
Most of all it requires separating between spending money, saving and investing. Realizing what investing (= spending profitably) and return on capital and compounding of said return can do to your business in 30 years is the key to success. I see too much shiny iron too often.
Actually it requires planning and lots of money in the bank, as well as getting all or most of your land from family for little or nothing or marrying into it. Taking weights off or taking duals off? I guess I grew up on another planet. Mike, you don't know much about ditching. You make me laugh with your top soil ideas, you want to keep that on the field. You made a place to drop your soil? We used 100hp tractor with our scraper, which was smaller, but in the end on a farm you don't take a foot at a time. You should spend some time with old timers rather than make this stuff up as you go.
@@heatmoon lol, no chill huh 😂
Wind in Saskatchewan - who knew.
Your father in law sounds as cool as mine was before his passing. Guy would let you use any equipment and then help you out. He was my best friend.
We have a pair of scrapers that you pull together. I believe that they hold 12 or 14 yards . We pull them with a 580 quadtrac that is a scraper special. It has a stronger heavier hitch and more lugging torque . We move alot of dirt for waterways and ditches .
You mean a level lol..a transit is for straight lines and turning angles
This is exactly how i feel with my 5ft box blade 🤣
Mike! Are Ashton and yours plans to build a house and have your farm up north instead of down at your families place??
In other comments mike said they are going to farm up north and at home
Great video Mike!
get er done bud
Funny! A project where Mike isn't advocating for even more power or going even faster like a NASCAR driver! I hope he isn't getting sick... :D
Ha, I didn't hear him talk about anything being dirty and needing a wash either. We used to have a scraper for ditching too, and we should have just rented it as my dad was a good neighbor and let every neighbor use the crap out of it. I remember more than once having to go to someone farmyard to pick it up. Handy things.
Let's go Brandon! Fjb.
This was an interesting video. I never understood how a scraper works. Maine here.
I believe the arms of the apron are called something in the lines of widdowmakers. Can't imagine why :P
What’s the capacity of those pull-type scrapers compared with the twin engined, self-propelled types? Handy as heck to have one of those (pull-type) for jobs just like these. 👍🏼
Poor Mike, tractor covered in hydraulic oil. 😂 Get that man some anxiety meds, STAT!!!!
Years a neighbor and I converted a 12 cu. yd cable operated LE Tourneu scraper to hydraulic , and used it behind a JD 8850 for years , the whole bowl tipped up nearly 90 deg after you opened the front apron , as we fitted a sequence ,priority valve in the circuit, worked great ....built roads ,shed pads ,..... dams etc ....was a great tool :)
Hi, oily is good to prevent rusted 😉
You need to yell, Fulllll Pulllllll! When you get that puppy loaded up LOL
Need more Ernie!
Awesome video Mike, as usual. :) Thanks for sharing it.
The push is actually called an ejector. The area where the dirt piles into is the bowl.
You have it right, the piece at the front is called the apron.
I had a grandfather and great grandfather that were in road construction all their lives... I grew up around it.
Both grandfathers put lots and lots of hours in operating scrapers, and I put in lots of hours riding with them, and operating them myself when I was older. :)
Does you farm have a grader for getting everything finalized?
They have a grader at the home farm.
We witnessed it .Mike turned from an independent farmer to the dreaded "equipment borrower"
I'm sure he'll be giving back too. Nothing like having a son in law with a couple big tractors next door.
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The north better beware ... Mike Mitchell is moving in. 🤣🤣
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My uncle back in the day pulled a scraper behind his D7 Cat dozer building ditches.
4 to 5 inches topsoil dam that's not much, round me in Scotland I am used to 2foot to 15feet of usable topsoil before we hit red clay
Mike: I would hang on to that topsoil under you have things further developed. Dunno if you need some sort of a windbreak later on, or want to do some extensive landscaping. Dirt is far cheaper than bldg materials, if you can make use of it. Not much maintenance, and won't deteriorate over time.
Hi Mike, northern Michigan here. Couldn't you place the scraped topsoil on those hilltops you showed that no longer have topsoil??
Do u got ernie up here also?
And yeah u got an awesome coop if they care about the little things
Mike, question, so after the bins are up, is a house on this site your next goal? Thanks for sharing.
You can't build houses on farm land lol
@Dean Zinter yeah, sad right... I own some land next to my house and it used to be house ground but when I wanted to sell it to some people for them to build their house on the government went nope and changed it to farm land for no reason and didn't compensate me or anything... I fought them for a bit to try and change it back but that led to nowhere...
@Dean Zinter Governors Inslee and Brown as corrupt as the day is long!!
@Dean Zinter everybody quit using amazon then they don’t need those distribution centres
You need to pick up a nice used Terex TS14 or TS24 scraper. Would make life easier. Ritchie Bros had 3 nice rebuilt TS14’s at their auction in Grande Prairie this summer.
Well seeing as he already has the equipment and is only doing it once for himself, that wouldn't be a wise investment.
That pusher is called an ejector
Can you dump the top soil on the blown off hilltops you mentioned earlyer? make them farmable again
Afternoon
Do you ever get a problem with drive-shafts due to running double or triple wheels sets Mike?
A lot of the old moldboard plows had a spring loaded breakaway in the hitch to reduce breakage when you hit a deadhead at 2 mi/hr. They also had a trip rope to lower them into the ground and raise them. Tractor seats had a nice little hole at the back that was the natural place to fasten the rope. Operators who did too good a job fastening the rope risked the seat spring launching them over the steering wheel when the plow disconnected.
Finally mike is catching to current date
Hi Mike. What size bins are you going to put on the pad?
You guys need to try out a Bridgeview pull dozer makes building pads and drainage way faster
Nha. Theu already have the scrapers and they aren't in the business of doing it so this works just fine.
How the dig coming along at the main farm
Mike I have a question. Lol. At the beginning of the video you showed us that grassy area where you had to move some equipment out of the way, so I assumed that's where the new pad was going. So why are you putting the pad in a field where it looks like you have crops? Just wondering. Keep up the good work.
Perhaps it's an old bldg site and the crops are not so good here, or in Mike's master plan it is simply a good bin location that coordinates well with everything else planned.
I think it’s is so the yard is a decent size and not crammed
Hey mike if the ground was damp would it be easier
When you say straight with the world, what is your reference line the equator 😂 ? As always nice video.
Do not use cast galvanized water pipe fittings for hydraulic systems. They are not rated for the pressure. It's a recipe for leaks at best, injury at worst.
and the galvanzing can flake off and containment your system.
“My empire of dirt” 😃
You should start a window cleaning buisiness!
Next year Deere 640rx or asf 620 quads ? They say the 640 has the pulling power of a case 620 but I don't Think they changed the slow shifting. Better view and more HP is all .
Good work Mike!!!!
"Let's Go Brandon!!"
That's illegal to say in Canada. Wonder how you would actually cheer for someone named Brandon. It'd be a bummer if your name was Brandon and you were really good at sports.
Apparently that's fake news but it is believable with the clown government we have
@@horselakeranch Actually its true, You cant say Lets go Brandon in Canada if you are goverment "worker"
Lets go Brandon! from Sweden
@@vanilakung7563 you should watch true north news. They debunked it
@@horselakeranch Link to that?
@@vanilakung7563 how do I do that?
Morning
What brand of scraper is that? We have one that looks just like it but no idea what brand it is.
you guys should go full John Deere with tractors I know this opinion doesn't mater but just saying lol. also I don't know how you edit but time lapse would be cool.
That scraper doesn’t look too hot to begin with
The "pusher" is called a tailgate.
you werent in a rush thats for sure. but better slow and steady
OutbackWrap
Excavator and dump trailer 🧐🧐 so much quicker
Not even close... When you have a lot of dirt to move, a scraper is the best option. He isn't digging deep either... The next best would be a dozer...
These scrapers are only used in Europe for grading not excavation as too slow
Have you seen a scraper come in 2? Farmers seem to think construction equipment and farm equipment if engineered with the same level of toughness. That scraper would pull that tractor in 2 before breaking in 2. Also you don't need a knife to cut soil. Looks like someone actually used a grinder to out an edge on it.
Definitely wore that edge on there just dragging through the dirt... Thay old, tried scraper would break before that tractor...
only question about allz this ,... who owned that 9620 before you ?
*which farmer ***** correction
Nothing to do with the video,but i work at a shop that sells dryed and painted wheat,the entire plant,without the leafs(100-150 grames) for 2.80 USD,idk lol
How much did your transit run you? I'm in market for one doing drainage.
You can pick up a decent grade laser for about 600 bucks. If you're doing drainage, you're gonna want one that does slope so probably closer to 1,000. Get a nice Spectra or Topcon. They are worth it.
@@mikeznel6048 At work we are still old school with string line level and tape measure. So we still need engineers designs and a surveyor to shoot hubs in. Any models in particular that you'd recommend? I was looking at machine mounted receivers too that would be nice so a guy doesn't have to get out of the machine to check grade. Would've saved me a few hundred bucks hiring someone.
Hello from Friesland Are you going to live in the north or are you going to take over your father-in-law's company It seems to me a slightly better climate to grow food there,👍
I knew a guy in Alberta called Hans Hansma. Unique name. Maybe you're related
The father- in -law has sons that farm with him. Mike and Ashton are independent.
I don't mean to laugh at your misfortune but as a fellow dirtologist I completely sympathize with covering the rig with oil. If it was easy everyone would do.
How much weight can that scraper hold?
You better be fixing the Father - in -Laws equipment ;-)
Absolutely!
Pinch it off, PINCH IT OFF.
If your like me, as soon as you let someone talk you into selling it, a friend or family member will call and say " hey all that top soil you scraped off, would you mind if the wife and I came and got some for a garden . Even though it was your you end up feeling bad and trying to take care of them in some other way. Often costing you the MONEYS. maybe not but that's usually how it seems to go around hear
Are you and Ashton separating from your family farm and operation and going on your own or are you just building a satellite bin site for that land?
We are not leaving the south farm, that is where my main farm is.. This is myself and Ashtyn's own hobby farm/ risk management for a our main farm back home..
My family has no interest in this nor do they assist us
You need to put laser levelling gear on there. Or gps levelling which comes with a bigger price
No he doesnt...
@@mikeznel6048 that and a new cutting edge. No looking back 👍
How's Ashtyn?
👍👍
Maybe you could dump the dirt in a pot hole??
10:58 german mike
That’s not a transit, it’s a lazer level
My bad, 😂 I call alot things by alot of different names 🤷♂️😆
That's not a laser level, it's a grade laser...
Mike sgreper CAT🤔🤞🇮🇹
Maybe it won’t rust now
🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Why don’t you use the soil on the got to On your Wife Fields Turn the level off some of the areas cut down the tree areas where is the trees and use the topsoil on top
Time and money! Likely eventually if crops come and prices stay decent.
Is Mike eventually leaving farming on the family farm to work on his and Ashtyn’s new farm up North? Sorry if it’s been explained and I missed it.
all i know it's to have some eggs in another basket.
I have the same feeling. Mike and Ashtyn is having a baby soon and a "new" home?
Mike has said no they are not giving up on the farms down South. The plan is to farm in both places.
No they are diversifying their farms to best protect themselves in the future. So they are expanding the family farming overall. This way they will have multiple crops so to have a buffer in questionable times.
@@bpaul1201awesome What?
Why you putting them so far apart
Why would he put them closer?
Hey Mike why don't you hire a contractor and it done fast?
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@@mikemitchell2554 I guess you got the tractors. all you need is a few pull types
Keep in mind Mike is a farmer who had a tug of war between a couple of 300k tractors. So when he says he doesn't want to break stuff, he's fibbing, he lives for it. And I bet he used auto steer in that tug or war. ruclips.net/video/dGp24jagGt4/видео.html
No... That was completely different and a tug, when Don properly, is not hard on the equipment in soft dirt... An old worn out and tired scraper is a whole different beast than tugging two tractors... If you knew equivalent, you would know why.
It took 6 min say something that was wrong with the JD. I know that you will say it's not a negative but just a preference. It's your money, your channel do as you please. On our farm it was the other brands that broke, the down time cost were great. It just bugs me that you nitpick every time you sit in a JD. I'll unsubscribe & you will not hear from me again. "They have never built a monument to a critic."
Boy, someone’s panties are on too tight today! Don’t let the door slap you on your way out!
Are you freaking kidding?!! Do you even watch the video's? What did he say about Ideal combines?