Back in the day we were also the pickers. They just put a limit on girls working in the cucumbers. The buckets were deemed too heavy. Good. We had other things to pick anyway...beans, berries, then cold storage working on the processing lines. Corn, beans, fish, crab, carrots, cucumbers... Ah, the good ole days of manual labor.
You are a wonderful gentleman imparting responsibility to young people. How different out lives would be if the young punks from intercities could work under your supervision even for on season. You not only grow beautiful vegetables but generations of quality people. Blessings and thanks from PJ Vichi in north Idaho.
Its been a real pleasure following you through this season, id like to commend you on the excellent videos youve produced and the knowledge youve shared!
Great video! I'm a farmer in nys. And have work with several large snap bean growers around here. Ya those machines work great! I ran the big self propelled ones
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years.
Believe me there are plenty of unorganized messes around the farm that don’t always get shown in the videos….special thanks to my wife for helping with the beautification of our farm and property.
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years. nahwus
I am impressed with you hard work you are doing, good work! You are blessed! And I am also just amazed how this machine is designed to do this work of harvesting 😊
Do the green bean plants grow back for multiple harvests from the same plants? I love how you employ young folks to help out. Great skills and teamwork they are learning. I would have loved to work for you doing this kind of work. Do any of the kids go on to farm themselves?
No, the bean vareties that we grow are specifically for machine harvest, they set higher up on the plant for easier picking and have a more concentrated fruit set that way a majority of them are ready all at the same time. I have not had any kids go into farming that I can think of. I have hired over 300 kids in the past 28 years and some of them now have kids that have worked here.
I guess I should have explained that a little better, we sell 99% of them by the pound for three dollars which makes a bushel come out to $75 worth of beans, but when someone wants to buy a bushel, we sell them for $40.
Looks like the crew is doing a good job. I believe you mention it was $75/bushel, so at farmer's market you sell only by the bushel or also break a bushel and sell by the lb?
WOW Thank the Lord for inspiring the idea's of these machines to whoever they were 😀 when i see how far we have come with machinery and technologies it amazes me 😀 especially with a.i now and soon to be quantum computers 😕 i like how you keep your farming operations "old school" (hard work and labor) with the help of some modern day technologies 💪🖥️ wise and thanks for another interesting video 🙏
Love this !!! You had mentioned about showing the commercial kitchen. How long down the road on that video? Not trying to push, just don't want to miss it.
A moment of silence for all that blossom which wasn't destined to become a pod ,but hey,that harvester's performance is worth of that potential money loss.
I love that tractor, I learned to drive on this tractor when I was 7! My dad gave it to me if I agreed to pay for the engine overhaul about 15 years ago and she's my baby...we also have an old 4010 from the late 60's and a 4230 from the early 80's.
Fascinating. Please remind me - do you irrigate your beans and corn? I know you use drip tape under your crops planted under plastic but can’t remember what you do for direct planted crops. Thank you.
Thank you! I do not irrigate my corn and beans and I definitely pay for it on about 1/3 of my bean crop each season. The corn can get by a little better with less rain and does very well 8 out of 10 years.
good tip, but normally if the tubs are centered they all go right in, plus we double stack the tubs and anything hanging lower from the outlets would get in the way.
Well, I believe an average yield for green beans is around 250 bushel per acre, but that can definitely be less and can definitely be more but based on that number at the wholesale rate of $28 a bushel, which is what it is today, that is $7000 per acre, but if you’re retailing all of them at $3 per pound like we are and able to move that many you can make up to $18,000 an acre with that yield.
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Have you ever tried harvesting bush snap peas with this? Any particular variety you know of that works? And what about bean varieties that are well suited to mechanical harvesting? I recently acquired an old version of this machine. Worked pretty great with Jade green beans. Thanks!
Yes and it didn’t work very well for me, it damaged the pods and picked up too much dirt and left half of them on the plant. We planted Jade about 15 years ago before we had the picker. There are numerous varieties well suited for machine harvesting that the seed companies can recommend
Awesome video. Where does your waste water go from these washing processes. Do u have a holding pond that u can irrigate out of, that us plumbed to the drain outlet in your wash pack area? Seems like an awesome opportunity to use thw water more that once and cycle it back into a pond to use as irrigation for feilds that r still producing. Or even to recycle to use as wash water again. Only reason I ask is that water seems like the most important input on a farm, essentially on drought years, which seem like they will b more common going forward. Always having that surplus of water on hand in the pond would mean not having to tax the well water as much. Same idea as a power plant utilizing its input fuel up to 3x to get the most efficient output of a single unit of fuel compared to a vehicle that only burns once. Thx for the video. This was a great one
Thanks Eric, we don’t reuse any of the water, it’s only about 150 gallons per week so not even worth the effort. If we were harvesting and packing every day it would be a different story. Large operations are absolutely reusing the water, we’re just simple small potatoes in the bean picking world.
Not needed for that small of an area, we used to hand pick an area four times larger. Probably anything more than 8000m2 it might pay off in the long run.
@wishwellfarms ok thanks a lot 🙏. Im from algeria here we harvest manually since labor is cheap we do up to 8 times, i though about buying such a machine to help farmers. But i don't think they would accept that .
We’ve planted about 15 or 20 different varieties over the years, but I have settled on Valentino as our all-time favorite but another one we like this year was called dark horse.
No, picked once and move on. A good crop can produce nearly 200 bushels per acre so can potentially be very profitable and no need to pick more than once. The varieties for machine harvest are more concentrated fruit set for one picking.
About a bushel per minute. The only thing that slows that down is unloading and turning around at the end of the rows. Of course it has to be a good yielding patch and weed free. I bet you could get 500-1000 bushels a day if you kept it rolling for 10-12 hours.
About 45 minutes south of Findlay. The beans don’t really come back because the leaves are all stripped off the plant and it’s just a bare stalk left behind.
Yes, it strips all the leaves off and leaves nothing behind but an empty stock, green bean seed is cheap and it’s better to go into a new patch weekly when you’re picking this many beans for the fresh market.
If they choose, but it’s not loud in the back of the machine, only the sound of the belt and fan…camera definitely makes it sound much louder than it really is. On the tractor is where it’s really loud.
Where do you see waste? Are you referring to the few bushels of broken beans on the floor after packing? After a 60 bushel harvest there is only about 2 bushel of broken pieces, that's pretty good if you ask me. What's the alternative?? Hand picking? This is happening on thousands of acres around the world to feed humans.
There’s hardly any waste at all, a few beans every few feet is all, I would say the machine pics at least 95% of all the beans. I think the row that I showed I didn’t have things set properly and it was missing some.
When using a mechanical harvester, you pick one time and move on, the beans we grow are designed to all come on at once for machine harvest. We plant green beans once a week for 14 weeks so we’re always in a new patch weekly.
They try to come back to life a little bit, but they look like junk and it’s not worth messing with it because there’s a new patch coming on every week so it’s all one pic and done. The variety I grow produce a concentrated fruit set so they all come on at once.
So many young people are getting some excellent education in farming and agriculture.
Good to see hard working kids. Keep up the great work
Back in the day we were also the pickers. They just put a limit on girls working in the cucumbers. The buckets were deemed too heavy. Good. We had other things to pick anyway...beans, berries, then cold storage working on the processing lines. Corn, beans, fish, crab, carrots, cucumbers... Ah, the good ole days of manual labor.
The connection you have with nature is beautiful.
fascinating machine! I have always been fascinated with all the different harvest machines they have out there for vegetables! They are all amazing!
I love watching unique harvest machines on UA-cam that I’ve never seen before, definitely fascinating stuff
You are a wonderful gentleman imparting responsibility to young people. How different out lives would be if the young punks from intercities could work under your supervision even for on season. You not only grow beautiful vegetables but generations of quality people. Blessings and thanks from PJ Vichi in north Idaho.
3020 sounds great!! Thanks 😊.
EXCELLENT VIDEO. 💯👍. From an old Famer. 🤠🇺🇸
Selling at the market provides a special and joyful atmosphere.
Its been a real pleasure following you through this season, id like to commend you on the excellent videos youve produced and the knowledge youve shared!
I love green beans thanks for the video
You are welcome
that washing and packing is such well orchestrated operation with everybody knowing what to do and Jason pushing the buttons behind the bench.
We have a great crew that can get er done!
That bean picker is amazing. Betting a farmer designed that beauty. Great to see you getting good yields.
I bet you’re right! Thanks!
Quite a great cash flow. Thanks for letting us learn about your farm operations 👍👍👍
My pleasure, thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Your hard work is paying off! 💪
This green bean harvester is amazing. I would love to try driving it one.
Thanks for sharing!
Great video!
another great vid - so glad I found your channel!
Thanks so much Brad. I really appreciate that!
What a hard working people u have.
They do a really good job for us!
Great video! I'm a farmer in nys. And have work with several large snap bean growers around here. Ya those machines work great! I ran the big self propelled ones
That's pretty cool. It's amazing that machine can pic so fast and separate without damage. Quite an operation post picking.
Thanks, this setup works pretty well for our small operation.
Very interesting. Thanks!
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years.
We watch the Veggie Boys also. Amazing how organized and clean Jason keeps his farm.
Believe me there are plenty of unorganized messes around the farm that don’t always get shown in the videos….special thanks to my wife for helping with the beautification of our farm and property.
Very thankful for this machine, one of my best investments I’ve ever made.
Looks great Jason!. Thanks for sharing. I have seen the veggie boys harvest similar. Your cleaning and packing is next level and shows in the final product. Sure does beat hand picking. I have done my fair share of that over the years. nahwus
Kool BEANZ MAN!!!😊
Yes!
I always wondered how beans were picked in large quantities. Thanks for sharing 👍 ❤
No problem! You should see the 4 row harvesters that look like combines!
Amazing video
Thanks!
I am impressed with you hard work you are doing, good work! You are blessed! And I am also just amazed how this machine is designed to do this work of harvesting 😊
😊interesting. Welcome with all your heart
Get up the good work God bless the farmers.
Thank you!
Do the green bean plants grow back for multiple harvests from the same plants?
I love how you employ young folks to help out. Great skills and teamwork they are learning. I would have loved to work for you doing this kind of work. Do any of the kids go on to farm themselves?
No, the bean vareties that we grow are specifically for machine harvest, they set higher up on the plant for easier picking and have a more concentrated fruit set that way a majority of them are ready all at the same time. I have not had any kids go into farming that I can think of. I have hired over 300 kids in the past 28 years and some of them now have kids that have worked here.
Good Work
I guess I should have explained that a little better, we sell 99% of them by the pound for three dollars which makes a bushel come out to $75 worth of beans, but when someone wants to buy a bushel, we sell them for $40.
shout out to all hard working guys❤❤❤
New pinoy fans ...i love farming
I'll always rather see child labor than Mexican labor. The harvester is awesome.
Super interesting! How do you decide your ground travel speed? Thanks for sharing.
Great video 🇳🇿🙏🏼
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Looks like the crew is doing a good job. I believe you mention it was $75/bushel, so at farmer's market you sell only by the bushel or also break a bushel and sell by the lb?
WOW Thank the Lord for inspiring the idea's of these machines to whoever they were 😀 when i see how far we have come with machinery and technologies it amazes me 😀 especially with a.i now and soon to be quantum computers 😕 i like how you keep your farming operations "old school" (hard work and labor) with the help of some modern day technologies 💪🖥️ wise and thanks for another interesting video 🙏
Thanks Elijah, you’re right, a little old school and a little modern technology.
Love this !!! You had mentioned about showing the commercial kitchen. How long down the road on that video? Not trying to push, just don't want to miss it.
Hoping to film it when we make our sweet pepper relish in mid to late August. Thanks!
A moment of silence for all that blossom which wasn't destined to become a pod ,but hey,that harvester's performance is worth of that potential money loss.
Lol, normally that is not the case, I think the heat wave earlier this summer may have played a part in the uneven ripening.
I like to see the per 1970 3020 John Deere tractors. i drove one for years and it is still on the original farm. Great tractor.
I love that tractor, I learned to drive on this tractor when I was 7! My dad gave it to me if I agreed to pay for the engine overhaul about 15 years ago and she's my baby...we also have an old 4010 from the late 60's and a 4230 from the early 80's.
I need 1 of these machines in my life! Not sure what I'm gonna do with I just want it...
Fascinating. Please remind me - do you irrigate your beans and corn? I know you use drip tape under your crops planted under plastic but can’t remember what you do for direct planted crops. Thank you.
Thank you! I do not irrigate my corn and beans and I definitely pay for it on about 1/3 of my bean crop each season. The corn can get by a little better with less rain and does very well 8 out of 10 years.
Wow amazing I want a version of that at my garden I love green beans but I don’t like picking them lol
A mini version for a lawn tractor would be sweet!
To improve you could add some length of flexible duct to the end of those 2 outlets so it can direct the beans more into the boxes.
good tip, but normally if the tubs are centered they all go right in, plus we double stack the tubs and anything hanging lower from the outlets would get in the way.
What do you do with the stuff that falls on the floor and the leaves etc.? Animal feed?
I picked an hour and got a 5 gallon bucket of beans. It would be nice to get one of these.
I have always farmed barley and wheat here in Canada. What would you say beans earn per acre?
Well, I believe an average yield for green beans is around 250 bushel per acre, but that can definitely be less and can definitely be more but based on that number at the wholesale rate of $28 a bushel, which is what it is today, that is $7000 per acre, but if you’re retailing all of them at $3 per pound like we are and able to move that many you can make up to $18,000 an acre with that yield.
Well kept. I thought it was new😅
It’s definitely got its wear and tear scratches and dents but from a distance it looks pretty nice That’s for sure.
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Очень интересный Харвестр -- комбайн у вас ...!!!
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Have you ever tried harvesting bush snap peas with this? Any particular variety you know of that works? And what about bean varieties that are well suited to mechanical harvesting? I recently acquired an old version of this machine. Worked pretty great with Jade green beans. Thanks!
Yes and it didn’t work very well for me, it damaged the pods and picked up too much dirt and left half of them on the plant. We planted Jade about 15 years ago before we had the picker. There are numerous varieties well suited for machine harvesting that the seed companies can recommend
The finger spring thing look like the ones on peanut pickers and the Barber Surf Rake that cleans trash off of beaches.
Interesting
How about putting a mat or blanket under the boxes to easily pick up the spilled beans?
Those are broken and damaged beans that get thrown out, it’s usually only about 2 bushels out of a 50 bushel pic
Sometimes the employees will take them home
How do you prevent crushing the other rows of beans as you travel through the field?
Awesome video. Where does your waste water go from these washing processes. Do u have a holding pond that u can irrigate out of, that us plumbed to the drain outlet in your wash pack area?
Seems like an awesome opportunity to use thw water more that once and cycle it back into a pond to use as irrigation for feilds that r still producing. Or even to recycle to use as wash water again.
Only reason I ask is that water seems like the most important input on a farm, essentially on drought years, which seem like they will b more common going forward. Always having that surplus of water on hand in the pond would mean not having to tax the well water as much. Same idea as a power plant utilizing its input fuel up to 3x to get the most efficient output of a single unit of fuel compared to a vehicle that only burns once.
Thx for the video. This was a great one
Thanks Eric, we don’t reuse any of the water, it’s only about 150 gallons per week so not even worth the effort. If we were harvesting and packing every day it would be a different story. Large operations are absolutely reusing the water, we’re just simple small potatoes in the bean picking world.
The video is amazing. I have a question: with an area of about 1000m2, will this machine work effectively?
Not needed for that small of an area, we used to hand pick an area four times larger. Probably anything more than 8000m2 it might pay off in the long run.
I'm curious how many times you harvest the same bushes compared to manually harvesting
Maybe two or three times but makes no difference when you machine harvest, once and done and move on to the next one, a new one comes on each week
@wishwellfarms ok thanks a lot 🙏.
Im from algeria here we harvest manually since labor is cheap we do up to 8 times, i though about buying such a machine to help farmers. But i don't think they would accept that .
I see some waste do you get a second growth and pick
If you can pick beans green and yellow.. can peas 🫛 be used by the same machine
It works on edamame and purple hull beans too but not too well on peas, it dings them up too much and misses half of them.
What variety of cultivar are the beans?
We’ve planted about 15 or 20 different varieties over the years, but I have settled on Valentino as our all-time favorite but another one we like this year was called dark horse.
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After you pick the beans will the plant give more beans ?
No, picked once and move on. A good crop can produce nearly 200 bushels per acre so can potentially be very profitable and no need to pick more than once. The varieties for machine harvest are more concentrated fruit set for one picking.
Your machine looks almost new. Oxbow must use good paint.
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What varieties did you plant?
My all-time favorite variety is Valentino and also added dark horse this year, which was really nice
How do you keep the grasshoppers off of your green beans?
Don’t really have any problems with the grasshoppers. Sometimes little mini leaf hoppers will chew on them, but not very often.
does the machine kill the plant or do you get more yeilds?
Picked once and move on to the next planting
How many bushels of beans can you harvest in a day with the oxbo
About a bushel per minute. The only thing that slows that down is unloading and turning around at the end of the rows. Of course it has to be a good yielding patch and weed free. I bet you could get 500-1000 bushels a day if you kept it rolling for 10-12 hours.
Ya hand picking has got so expensive! Any way you can save labor in this business is the key!
Cant find any single row harvesters for sale in Australia, it seems they use multi row threshers to do it.
Wow, I never would’ve guessed that, maybe since they’re so high priced for new ones now that all the used ones are getting gobbled up
What type of soil do you use for green beans
We have pretty fine soils, a mixture of heavy clay and loam
So you’re somewhere around Toledo Findlay Ohio. Will the beans come back or not I mean bloom. Regardless thank you
About 45 minutes south of Findlay. The beans don’t really come back because the leaves are all stripped off the plant and it’s just a bare stalk left behind.
Where is this machine produced and how much does it cost?🤔
I believe Oxbo is in Wisconsin. They currently cost 58,000 USD but were only 33,000 USD when I bought this one 15 years ago.
Picking with the machine does it kill the plant, you having only one harvest?
Yes, it strips all the leaves off and leaves nothing behind but an empty stock, green bean seed is cheap and it’s better to go into a new patch weekly when you’re picking this many beans for the fresh market.
Put a sock on the chute to cut down on waste
Hi do your workers havw ear protection
If they choose, but it’s not loud in the back of the machine, only the sound of the belt and fan…camera definitely makes it sound much louder than it really is. On the tractor is where it’s really loud.
$21 AUD kg here in Oz or $13.78 USD kg
pretty sure blowing leaf's on the road is illegal in most places, it is considered causing a road hazard and can kill people on motorcycle's very easy
Oh my goodness give me a break, those blow right off after a couple cars go by… of all the things to make a comment about from a video, unbelievable
Alot of waste looks like
Where do you see waste? Are you referring to the few bushels of broken beans on the floor after packing? After a 60 bushel harvest there is only about 2 bushel of broken pieces, that's pretty good if you ask me. What's the alternative?? Hand picking? This is happening on thousands of acres around the world to feed humans.
@@wishwellfarms I was talking about what was on the ground it look like a lot of beans
Seems like a lot of waste. 🤷♂️
There’s hardly any waste at all, a few beans every few feet is all, I would say the machine pics at least 95% of all the beans. I think the row that I showed I didn’t have things set properly and it was missing some.
How many times can you pick a single field. Our small garden produces beens for weeks.
When using a mechanical harvester, you pick one time and move on, the beans we grow are designed to all come on at once for machine harvest. We plant green beans once a week for 14 weeks so we’re always in a new patch weekly.
Would the beans plants produce more beans after running through the machine?
They try to come back to life a little bit, but they look like junk and it’s not worth messing with it because there’s a new patch coming on every week so it’s all one pic and done. The variety I grow produce a concentrated fruit set so they all come on at once.