Trouble on The Farm
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2021
- Trouble on The Farm, We have entered one of the slowest time of the year with only 20,000 bushels of corn left to haul.
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There are FAR to many ill-inform people, that think making fuel out of corn is a sinful waste of a good food source. It's too bad they don't understand that the protein content isn't used to make alcohol, but IS used by meat growers to grow FOOD for their tables, by way of the dried distilling left-overs.
And there haven't been any ethanol subsidies in 10 years (can't say that for the oil industry), they count rain water as an input when calculating the energy it takes to make it, they don't account for the fact that corn would be grown on most of those acres anyway, and every small engine on our farm has been just fine running it for 20 years! "BuT I ReAd oN tHe iNtErNeT".....!!!
@@MillennialFarmerEthanol is just fine in a regularly run internal combustion engine. I just don't like it in my boats, chainsaws, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, weed trimmer, pole saw, ice auger, log splitter, rototiller, or pressure washer. That stuff all gets non-ethanol 91 octane premium spiked with Seafoam. That way I never have to clean a carb. Our kids won't have to worry about this when electric motors are in everything.
@@MillennialFarmer Not quite true: while the ethanol industry no longer receives a direct subsidy, their very existence is due to a government mandate that ethanol must be blended. If the mandate was lifted, most of the industry would go away.
So to say it is unsubsidised (because the ethanol producers don't get a direct check or direct credit) is really misleading.
@@rodjohnson2938 You cannot equate a government mandate to a government subsidy. The fact that government mandates create industries is a whole different discussion and there are many people who make a living of government mandates existing. If all red-tape and bureaucracy and were to disappear most lawyers would go out of business as an example. Subsidies are a direct monetary input into an economic activity. Once the monetary input is pulled it's no longer a subsidies activity.
@@MillennialFarmer I own a small engine repair shop and I can show you tons of damage done to carbs and engines by ethanol.Also My truck can run on E85 if you want really crappy gas mileage so wheres the benefit in that? Theres certianaly no cost savings.Ethanol is not all bad ,Just not the great thing its made out to be.
At the end of Onyx's baseball game, invite the whole team over for ice-cream at the farm. Then announce you will bring out the ice-cream as soon as all the bins are cleaned!!
A genius plan!
I like it!!!
I did that at work once. I said hey I am having a hayride after work. One of the guys asked what I wanted him to bring! I replied you will probably want a pair of gloves! 😂
No one showed up? 🤷🏻♂️
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Brilliant!
When my grandpa got older he used a snowblower to clean up around the edges of the bins. He used that same trick when he overflowed a bin once.
That is actually an awesome idea.
I've heard of it but never thought it would actually work
As long as it’s brushless electric. Dust and spark or combustion engine don’t sound like a good plan to me
@@shanebeeson4123 He used his a electric one as it is really hard on the a gas powered motor.
As an old electrician told me once "it is either a fuse or something else" in this case it looks like something else.
Because it's not a fused circuit, so safe bet. Lol.
He must have been a genius--wow! lol
Zach said the breaker was hot. Bet its a loose connection at the breaker. We deal with that very issue constantly here in the oil and gas fields.
Always check the easy stuff. Look for loose wires then measure amperage to see if the draw has increased beyond the breaker capacity.. if so why…
Must be a Millennial breaker. Can't handle the heat and breaks down under load!
And no telling what may have triggered it this time. :)
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Nah it's a boomer breaker. When it gets old it costs more to keep up than it was ever worth.
@@pdc023 It was "feeling" overworked!
After having issues with carbs on saws, mowers and trimmers I now only use non ethanol gas in all my equipment and have zero issues since making the switch. Not an ethanol fan here.
It’s not good in diesel either. Everyone blames emissions but maybe it’s the poor fuel quality?
Ya - same here - ethanol is not my friend
In my 2-stroke engines, I use non-ethanol gasoline in them. Yes, my small engines operate better and I can store fuel in them longer. But for my vehicles, ethanol works OK in them even though I do not get as good of mileage. But figuring it out, cost wise, ethanol and non-ethanol gasoline cost about the same per mile. My problem is to find a gasoline station that carries non-ethanol gasoline.
If you want to drive the grain cart, etc.. you must sweep out grain bins as well.
Thanks for supporting the ethanol industry. I have worked at the same ethanol plant for over 20 years.
When we were cleaning out our bins following the sweep auger we used a broom. Would broom behind the auger and then lift up the sweep auger and pull it up over the pile of corn or beans thendrop it down. We had a rope on the end of the sweep.plus we had it set fairly low. Sometimes we had to push it along.Easier to cleanup that way.
We also had an overhead bin so we filled that and the truckers could fill themselves when ever they came to get another load.
Best investment we ever made was the 1850 bushel overhead bin.
True, the benefits are like magic: non-existant 😁
I'm a grain farmer and I hate ethanol fuel! Has extremely short shelf life and destroys gas lines while gumming up carbs.
I have to kinda agree with ya but i hate soy diesel far more
I don't know understand why your having so much problem with ethanol, I have a old IH truck from 1961 and I have 2 Oliver's from 1965 and a 1974 Oliver tractor that are gas and I don't have trouble. In my small engine's I make sure to run them dry before storage. If they sit to long the ethanol can absorb moisture. My IH truck is all original, on my one Oliver I had to replace the float. I thought it age related maybe I'm wrong. I raise spring wheat soybeans and a little corn, Sometime I sell to ethanol plant.
@@ollie-lk5dx black plastic floats swell and get heavy, had the old Chevrolet truck flooding and gasoline in the oil couple years ago, changed to a tiny Holley with metal float. Bottom of fuel bowl in the old carburetor is almost rotted out from ethanol fuel.
Same problems here. Hollet carbs are great and all until you have to rebuild them. And rebuild them again.
Easier to spend $3.60 on no ethanol 91 than to sit and fix things that for some reason, don't happen on no ethanol 91.
@@ollie-lk5dx we have a 63 1600 IHC. Vaporlocks on ethanol e10. Doesn't on 91 no ethanol. Same with the 1970 IH gas tractor and the 77 Ford trucks.
Your singing cracked me up!! Here comes the sun, udaladoodlie
" Nope. No problems." Dad chuckles as he hangs up.
You like the smell of ethanol in the morning. I like the smell of captain crunch peanut butter in the morning when we take our white corn to Quaker in Cedar Rapids
The Minnesoyta shirt is awesome.
Love your puppies ❤
Hauling corn - life on the farm. Those are 'giant' bins compared to what Grandpa had. Then he also had ear corn yet back then. take care - be safe - hope the family and you are doing well.
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[A] it is a Classic case of the POT calling, the Cattle BACK
Mmm. Yuck
Good to see your wearing a high quality dust mask's. I got really sick once cleaning a bin of soybeans that had mold. No mask.
Ethanol also makes for some good racing go go juice! 🏁 was nice to meet ya, my friend got a good kick out of it!
Like everything else. It usually gives a few warning signs before it catches on fire and burns down the farm.
Becky gets you ice cream?!? She's a keeper I tell ya. Lucky guy.
Glad to see everyone is doing well. Started to wonder. Stay safe in those bins.!!
Zack.
You have heard this before. It takes more energy to produce and transport a bushel corn than you get out of it gas energy
The good thing is the mash goes back to livestock farms
Ethanol is really an expensive subsidy to farmers. But that is the way it is
Don't forget solar and wind can never come close to what fossil fuels as well
You are wrong. It take .7 BTU of energy to deliver 1 BTU of ethanol to the pump. It take 1.4 BTU of energy to deliver 1 BTU of gasoline to the pump. then add in that you get animal feed back, it burns cleaner than gas alone, and replaces MTBE as a gasoline additive.
@@sweeternutsyum5926 The thing with green energy is you want it to be as diverse as possible so you don't have to rely on the sun or wind alone. Tidal, hydro and thermal thrown into the mix can help plug any gaps.
@@thepottmi you are using cherry picked data
A wind turbine cold deliver a 1000 times more energy than 1 acre of soybeans ethanol does, adding to that cars average a 30-35 percent efficiency.
We are very appreciated for the video. Stay safe.
Not watching because you ignored us for a few days.... ahh heck, I can't stay mad with those puppers in the beginning
Anything with a carburetor hates ethanol.... I'm glad a local station has rec gas so I'm not dealing with bad gas every other week
Injectors hate ethanol every bit as much as carbs. Gasahol was nothing more that corporate welfare for the corn belt. Congress is NOT the taxpayers friend.
Carbs hate ethanol when the carb sits for a long time. If it's used regularly, NBD. If the bowls are drained before storage, NBD.
@@Rsenior1981 I couldn't get it to last more than 10 days in my dirtbike... stabilizer in snowmobile and still needed to clean carbs every fall because the pilot jets would be plugging with varnish
Injectors in my car love ethanol of the e85 variety.
@@gregjames5070 Does your car have plastic injectors?
Enjoyed as always my friend...I live on 600 acre cattle farm in KY....I suffer from equipment envy with every episode!!! Thanks brother!
I remember my uncle having a dog that barked every time you started diesel.
Try using an infered thermometer on all your connection lugs, loose terminals cause heat and tripping breakers, then again, you most likely had a local tech look at the system.
Infrared (or infered.!.) are extremely handy all over the farm. A quick shot with the laser and an overheating bearing (lets say) can be replaced before shaft damage or worse. Lubrication issues can be caught early and all kinds of mayhem averted. Your suggestion is a good one. The one thing I can't figure out is that a farm of this scale and one that is maintained as well as it seems on the videos, doesn't have a lot of these critical maintenance tools! Oh well, I guess the local handymen like it just fine!
Onyx will go into stealth mode now. You mentioned him helping clean out bins.🤣🤣 I used to hate doing that growing up. My Dad and Granddad never had the floor sweepers. It was a LOT of shovel work.
Welcome back Zach! I was bored to tears all week! 😊
I love to see someone like Zach grow so fast on youtube by being himself and doing his everyday job. So much respect
We grilled the Dakota Pure burgers on Freedom weekend. Delicious!
I think the "If I m good Becky will take me for some ice cream" may have been code for something. I'm not sure though 🤔
Thanks for another awesome video, I really enjoy watching them 👍
I trip out and quit when I get hot too 😝
Circuit breaker worn out. They can only trip so many times before they won't reset. An electrician told that when they trip, they arc and after so many times they wont reset because they don't make good contact and will not carry the load. Now I always have spares. Just a thought.
I ran into Zach and Onyx in the parking lot at the local Fleet Farm while in Alexandria, was a little star struck and didn't know what to say other than love your videos and keep up the good work! Also need to add the Duramax looks great with the leveling kit and bigger tires!
1,000,000 subscribers this year? Let's push the actor that plays Millennial Farmer into the 1M club. What say y'all?
I had a similar problem almost 20 years ago with a 200 amp sub panel breaker that started tripping out. It fed underground like yours. Turned out mice had gotten in the quazite box underground and chewed through parts of the insulation on one of the 3 phases, shorting it out. I hope you don't end up having to replace the feeders. It can get expensive quick no matter what it is.
For some content ideas maybe you could fit in an update on your Dad's lawn that you seeded down last fall.
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Your dad reminds me of my grandpa Gene rough and gristly corn and soybean farmer in Indiana that had a Hog Farm also. Thank you brother for sharing your life with us.
You just made my day Bc I just got out of the hospital and I love you guy keep up the work!
You guys talked about bin entrapment last fall. I don’t know the statistics but sweep augers are pretty dangerous. I know of 3 people in our area that have been tangled up with those things. One has a prosthetic leg because of the sweep auger. He was very lucky.
Anyone else think this camera quality is to damn good!!! It’s almost as if we’re there with zach like virtual reality 😅
Yeah it is amazing!
Just 14000 km away
Sounds like a bad breaker- Hopefully they get it fixed asap for you... Great video and I hope Ms. Becky took you for ice cream lol.. Have fun and Be Safe ! :)
Awesome to see your channel going so well! I really enjoy watching your videos!
Onyx has it made when I was a kid we didn't get to rid are four wheelers and dirt bike till we got some work done on the farm
I bet one of the dogs was tripping it as a hilarious prank.
Dogs are crazy like that.
Ethanol is great for boosted applications and making horsepower. However, it takes 1.25 gallons of E for 1 gallon of gas. Calculate how many more truck loads that is to deliver to gas stations and how many more gallons of diesel used to deliver those tankers.
So reducing emissions should never be taken into account? Tell the government. The government has created a lot of hoops to jump through in the name of “ controlling emissions “. Why is this one the one that takes all the heat?
I like the hauling and bin work.
Ooooo the suspense !!!!!! I'm thinking loose lug terminal somethwhere on the leg!!!!
Man you living on the edge with that dry rotted sidewall crack checking 😜
debate~~ i throw about 150 small engine carburetors away each year, ethanol/water damage and see about 1 out of 4 engines with cylinder/piston damage. started seeing problems about 10 years ago.
Found the debate I was looking for before mentioning the same on what ethanol does to carbs.
Could not agree more, I run non oxy in all my small engines as an alternative. I also believe many home owners give up on their snow blowers and lawn mower and end up hiring a service due to ethanol, they run great for the first year but after that its in the shop.
That's cause your not supposed to run an ethanol blend in that type of equipment. There's literally radio ads about it where I live.
20 years here. Zero problem. Even if I don’t drain them every fall. I think there is another issue and it’s not ethanol
I wanted to say how much I like your videos and admire your hard working.
Another great video allways worth watching thanku.
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Each time the breaker trips it gets weaker. So when you find out what's making it trip I would replace breaker.
another great videp. thank you
Thanks for the videos, my son is a big fan and we enjoyed watching you race in Sauk Rapids the other night.
Your Dad looked pained when he mentioned fertilizer prices, I know I am not too enthusiastic!!!
Just in the first few seconds I really like the looks of the camera. Or whatever the settings are. Keep them
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always!!!
Was thinking of passing over your channel and then I previewed it and the first thing I saw was the dogs I’m hooked I’m subbing right now and I will show this video to my pug when I get off the road
Start with a amp meter on load side of main breaker. Shouldn't be more than 75% of main breaker rating. And to find out what amp it is tripping at. Possibly a motor getting ready to go, or loose wire connection.
Put a gopro on top of a trailer and film a time lapse of filling, driving, and dumping at the plant. Would make a cool clip I think
What amount of petroleum based inputs (how many barrels of dirty oil) did it take to plant, fertilize, spray, harvest, transport, and process that corn into "clean energy"?
it take 0.7 BTU of energy to deliver 1 BTU of ethanol to the pump. It takes 1.4 BTU of energy to deliver 1 BTU of gasoline to the pump. Thank you for asking.
@@thepottmi is that starting with corn arriving at the plant or is that from the planting of the corn forward or do you know?
@@kb7722 includes all fertilizer inputs and fuel for the tractors. As corn yields go up and it take more energy to get fracked oil those ratios are going to continue to favor ethanol. It also includes that ethanol is not delivered by pipeline so it has a higher delivery charge.
It never gets old seeing them play.
We only use ethanol in our field because of the corn lobby. The energy needed to create it mitigates the environmental benefits. We simply grow too much corn
Most of US corn production goes to ehtanol fuel
Iowa State University did a Farm Energy study. It found it takes 34 gallons of diesel per acre of corn grown.
How many gallons of ethanol are made from that acre you ask?
328 gallons on average.
@@mikewhitman830 hasn't even gotten to the plant yet. Try again
What’s the problem of growing corn for ethanol?
@@OOpSjm uuuuuhhhh....huh?
I wasn't making a statement either for/against. It was a statement of facts.
I didn't elude to fuel consumption for transportation of corn or fuel.
Reason is, is because it varies so greatly that no real average can be produced.
But if making a stupid statement makes you sleep better....ok. 🤷♂️
That breaker looks like a feeder for a subpanel. More than likely there is a loose lug at the subpanel or the main. Poor connections will cause the conductors to heat up and trip the breaker.
I agree. That or there is a bad connection between the breaker and the bus but that is not that common with Square D stuff.
Worked a walmart electrical job with a loose lug, caused a lot of havoc on the system and heat at the terminal.
Hauling is my favorite part of your videos when you haul corn.
GOOD TO SEE THE OLD MAN.
Zack your killing me wearing that hoodie in July! LoL! I’d pass out down here in Ga!
It can be high 50s here in Minnesota before 10 a.m.
The price of corn fluctuates, at times we run out of burrito wrappers
Best farming channel in the world it’s nice just to take a break and watch one of these videos. Brilliant channel keep the great videos going 😄
Does my heart good to hear a Millennial singing a Beatles song!!
Breakers will go bad after a while. So hope that's all it is, as then could be so many other items in your system.
I jumped in this video so damn quick its not even funny
Edit: And I don’t regret it, excellent content as usual bud keep it up!
same here waiting till the next Scott you are awesome
Beautiful corn.
You can make unloading grain bins fun to watch. Cleaning the floors of the bin can sometimes just suck, but it has to be done.
Breakers ware and as motors ware , the will draw a few more amps,
So we're calling it "ice cream" now!?
Hey Millennial Farmer I recently got some of your merch I got a hat and shirt they're both very comfortable great for the outdoors so thank you and keep up the great work
Glad to see green corn and its higher than the knee. The last video was sad when you were talking about the rain situation
Oh jeeze I sure hope you tell us what was happening with the breaker
Tripped breaker usually means a lose wire in the panel...
If there was a lose wire that would mean his installation wouldnt work, and if it somehow was lose it should not wait 5 mins before kicking out.
Thanks for the TIP! In my experience, on thing's like a corn drier/grain elevator, etc., is that there is a lot of moving parts, a lot of vibration, what may have been tight a month ago/a year ago can eventually work it's self loose.. lose wire cause heat, trip breakers...
Hope the ice cream thing worked out for ya. Breakers can be a pain, hope that all came together also. Love your UA-cam and am looking forward to the up-coming season.
Gday mate, keep pumping out the great content!! Im a keen as control traffic grain farmer from south Australia and one of my favourite things on the tube is learning how yo guys farm in the states. Your the first farmer tuber I watched and still the best🌾keep it up mate 👍(that’s what she said)😎
Please let us know what was wrong with the electrical system. Something simple like a tired circuit breaker or something more complicated. During that real hot spell the cooling fan on the big shop compressor kept coming on when the unit wasn't running, turn out the sun was shining through the door and heating the sensor up.
Haha,thats a good one
My vote is a tired breaker and high ambient temperatures.
Most likely motors are hot high ambient temps you get heat soak then add running temps =Phut.
If I was too guess, bad breaker, or one of the motors could be going causing a higher amp draw on the circuit.
Test the Amp draw. On the motors.....had to replace the big 10 horse motor on top of the leg...a bad job and dangerous!!!!!!
Walbro is finally creating ethanol proof gaskets, Primers and diaphrams for small carbs.
Love the hauling videos!
Ethanol is not even close to being a carbon neutral or carbon negative fuel. While the ethanol combustion produces less carbon dioxide than gas the ethanol plants create an enormous amount of carbon dioxide as a by-product during production. Then the corn production and transportation with tractors and trucks emits a significant amount of carbon dioxide.
CO2 IS produced during fermentation but that gas is captured and bottled for industrial use else where.
@@josephcihlar5691 Not at the plant Zack goes to. At plants where it is bottled what happens to it after that? Back into the atmosphere.
Corn oil, C02, distillers grain, all byproducts of ethanol. Stop bitching about a renewable resource. Do you bitch about the enormous infrastructure that has to be created for wind energy?
You want a debate... I'd rather have corn liquor than corn fuel!!! Lol
I love corn squeezing myself lol in my truck and in my liquor thanks for everything buddy god bless everyone
That breaker it’s hopefully a bad ground causing everything to run hot
Great video you are on top of things way to go keep um coming I enjoyed and learned a lot thank you
"Here comes the sun, skoodily doodily." - Was this George Harrison's first attempt at the lyrics? :-)
5:30 the equivalent of an engine running on your beloved ethenol.
Love it. All my engines work very well with it. I have about 30 of them, how many you have?
Thanks for another great video Zach. Enjoyed this video. Sorry for your electrical problems. Problems like this can be frustrating for sure. I am like you not much on electric problems. Usually takes a lot of tracing and backtracking on the system to figure it out. Electrical people are good at it and will have it figured out in a flash. Just frustrating trying to get things done. Know you want to get the grain hauled. Hang in there. Glad you are getting some of your old planter parts sold-very good. Let’s us know what the electrical problem was. Interesting. Take care and be safe. Thanks. The Iowa farm boy from years ago.