Those liability warnings are because they know that someone is inevitably going to die. That's basically overhead line voltage and current where it can be easily touched when complacency happens.
😆 🤣 😂 I love the way you said. Could not have been more accurate, not that someone might die.... someone is going to be stupid and kill themselves with it for sure 🤦♂️. I understand the liability claims for sure, it might be a different operator that gets back in the seat. The company that makes them is family owned great people, that feel blessed to make a living selling these so they definitely don't deserve a lawsuit on top of everything.
Zapping weeds is better than walking them when I did that for my grandfather once I passed out walking beans. Once I passed out five times in one day, it was cause by the heat, and you have awesome video footage, which is what I like 👍👍👍👍
That's for sure Turbo! I've scientifically the last 6 years Pulling by hand, this thing is a game change for sure. I've never passed out due to the heat but I've had peyote working with that have its not a good situation. But I've had vitamin D poisoning more times than I can count 😆
Seeing the flames reminded me of the night top fuel qualifying session at the U.S. Nationals. That machine is awesome, glad to see it making a big difference in the weeds for you. It would be awesome to be able to do custom zapping with it too. I had a few places in my field where the co-op couldn't get into to spray and the ragweed was about 5 feet tall already. There were beans under it all but without any way to get rid of all the ragweed I just bush hogged those spots. Figured it was better to lose a few beans than to grow that much more weed seed. Thankfully most of the field is cleaning up. I'm really happy for you Tim, hope you get a really good price this fall and I hope you have an awesome crop to sell! Thanks for the video Sir!
I had a similar situation a couple years ago in my beans, I disced about 2 acres of ragweed out that year, and also decided that year to do away with end rows. It's made my life so much easier all the way around. And now with the zapper I need to do a 3 point turn to get back in the rows at the end, so if really be beating up the end rows so I don't think I'll change that practice. Thanks for watching Evan!
Glad to see your happy with your new toy. It looks like it was a good investment. As a fellow organic farmer I totally know where your coming from. One thing that I have found that works really good is rolling the ground after planting. It slows the germination of the weeds way down, so the corn and soybeans get way ahead of the weeds. By the time I come back to cultivate I can hoe the dirt right over the weeds because the crops are tall and the weeds are still short.
I've found the exact opposite to be true when it comes to rolling the ground. Especially when it comes to foxtail. Witch is a constant battle for me here. I used to roll every year. Then one year I tried a side by side test in a 10 acre patch, I ran the cuptipacker across half it and left the rest, the foxtail flourished in the ground I rolled and that half of the field yielded 10 bushel less than the part I didn't roll. I found that the gas grew alot faster than the soybeans mainly because I gave them a perfect seed bed, I've found that a good planter that gives just my soybeans a nice packed seed bed and leaving the rest lose alows the beans to germinate faster than the weeds and grass, and get ahead of them. Also with the loose dirt, the rotary hoe and drag are able to do there job better. I think of the hay kings, when they plant grass or clover, hay, ect they like to roll it to pack the seed in and make it germinate faster. That's definitely the last thing we want in organics lol. Long story short I've retired my cultipacker and am never looking back 😆
Maybe it is just the difference in your soil type. I don't use a cultipacker it is a smooth roller so maybe that makes a difference, I guess as long as your happy with what your doing, thanks again for the video about your weed zapper.
Very interesting idea thanks for sharing. Would like to see a follow up video a couple weeks post treatment to see if those weeds push again or if they fit up completely
Thankyou Eric. I just posted a crop update last night. It shows pretty good what the zapper did a couple weeks after. There was alot that wasn't over the canopy and didn't get zapped I'm doing a 2nd pass this week. But everything that it touched is definitely dead at this point lol.
Wow - that fire show at night really highlights what it's doing. Good demonstration of the overload patch of weeds - it's great that they can still be zapped in multiple passes. It will be interesting to see if the ironweed patches are reduced on future years if they don't go to seed as often.
Thankyou Jazz, I'm sure I've got a few years of hard seeds to deal with. But in theory anyways, it should get better and better every year until they are gone.....I hope anyhow 😆
Man yeah Tim, that thing is truly amazing!! I cant get over how well that truly works!! Loved seeing those stems discolored all the way down!! I hope you can get some custom work as well!! That whole septic issue is for thr birds, down blame you one bit!! I am one behind, but will go back and catch up!! Thank you sir for bringing us along!! Cant wait to see what's next!! 😁😁😁👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thankyou my friend. I am one lucky farmer to have this machine. I'm a firm believer in carma. I try my best to be positive and to spread my positive attitude. At the risk of sounding like a hippy good vibes 😆 🤣 😂 it's a big part of my spirituality, I interpret the good book a lithe differently than most. I see god as every one of us, we're all part of God, when the Bible says one with God I take that in a very literal sense, the universe the planets were all made from the same thing. That being said I Bellerive were all connected in some strange way that i don't understand but I Bellerive a positive attitude or good vibes towards all is important to having a happy life and directly related to being blessed with things like this weed zapper. Thanks for being here my friend it means more than you know.
Thankyou Robert. The farm is on top of a huge hill.... as far as Illinois goes for hills anyways 😆. It would be even better without the bypass running through our land 😆
Hell yes brother!! It's a huge game change for sure,but I appreciate all the help with it too. However.... it's bullshit having to get out and put my stands down by myself 😆
Wow that zapper really does it's Job 👍 what are you going come up with next Tim? I was watching one your videos from last year where you were doing some samples with your corn, you have shelterbelts in Wisconsin, how about pheasants you got them running around too? We have a lot of Pheasants here in Minnesota, there's a lot more in the Western part of Minnesota going on to ND and SD 🚜 thanks for the video man! 👍🚜🌽🌽🌽
Your welcome Matt, thanks for watching, we've got a lot of pheasant in this area. Another of wildlife in general really. I'm just sound of the Wisconsin border in Illinois BTW. I appreciate ya watching my old videos too BTW,
I understand tho whole reason behind this being you are organic farming. I am curious about the cost per acre forgetting for a moment the purchase price of this vs. say a traditional cultivator and manual labor (rouge crew) The fuel burn of the 7060 under full load while decent isn't great at that ground speed and making multiple additional passes, your thoughts please?
I was acualy just doing the math before I was only guessing at the fuel consumption. But I used just under a gallon an acre so 150×3.80=$570 in fuel. So to do it 2 times it'll cost around $1200. So organic soybeans have been pretty steady at $21.00 per bushel. When I hired it done my average went up by 7 bpa. But I've been saying it gains 5 bpa for sure. So 5bpa on 150 acres is 750 bushel at $21.00 is $15,750 gain. As far as a ground crew if I cloud manage to find people to work we wouldn't have cover 20 acres for 1200 dollars. When I hired it done he charged 75 an acre to Zapp it. But either way I figure it will pay for its self in 5 years and that's if I don't do any custom work with it. And that's all not mentioning the seeds that won't be there in the corn next year. It's hard to put a price on that.
@@TimothyFluegel I picked up a generator unit with a 273 buda diesel with low hours it has a strange water manifold and thermostat housing wanting to use motor in a tractor can you tell me if the manifold’s are all the same on 230 262 and 273 diesel for the tractor and maybe where I can find one
Thankyou William. I am happy with the investment and I think it will pay me back in a few years, for sure if I can get some customs jobs with it. Some guys are interested, but I think they are skeptical about the job it does, I hope after driving by my fields here it will lay this doubts to rest 😆 thanks for watching William.
I hope all is going well young man! I just came in for lunch and I was reading cloves are a great mouse deterrent, and don't forget about putting baking soda and cornmeal mix in an area where other creatures can't get it as that will do them in big time!!!
@@williamkemm673 I didn't forget your suggestion on the mice. I've also got a bunch of mint plants to harvest and spread around. I figure if I use everyone's suggestions I'll have no mice in the combine next spring lol
It was worth the investment for me with the organics. You'd have to have alot of Johnson head to make this thing pay for itself for sure. But there are people all over the country that do custom zapping. Might be worth looking into 🤷♂️
So how does it know which are weeds and which are not?? Thanks Monsanto is going to be angry with you!! Lol I’m also a organic farmer, but we do not grow row crops.
Yes I'm organic its been quite the learning curve for sure but I'm getting the hang of it. The guy wanted to buy the land next to his bar here and were not doing that so he's being spiteful about fixing the septic, is all it amounts to. I've never even called the cops on anyone in my life, but the more this goes on I think I could show him the definition of spiteful, he's just not smart enough to think that far ahead.
We want to be best neighbor. I always considered my neighbors like my closer family member no blood related but stuff like that after trying to solve the friendlies way! NOP, you need to do what you need to do go ahead you don't have a clue of what he is dumping down the drain.
I've never even caked the cops on anyone in my life so I really don't think I could bring myself to call the epa on him. Like I said I'm half tempted 😆. He tried stealing about an acre of land from us, he put gravel down and made a parking lot in the field over night one time. Then when confronted about it he tried to pick a fight with my 75 year old dad, one my brother and I came around the corner his attitude did a complete 360. I always say there a fine line between fear and respect.... with him the line isn't so fine. Plus I lost any respect I had for the guy in that situation and I surely don't fear him 😆.
@@TimothyFluegel I completely understand but again and trust me in this one he is waiting for you make a mistake and he did not go to have any consideration. Praying for an amicable solution!!!!!!
@@jorgemrivera5973 thankyou Jorge. Time will tell. We've offered to let him expand the septic to under our field as part of it is already under our field... he found that out when he called the land surveyer out. After months of us telling him this of course 😆. The sherif that was there told him very clearly that if we were wanting to be a holes we could dig that aortic up and there's nothing he could do about it..... I think that's the only reason he treats us with any respect as it is. But he still refuses to do anything about it. This has been 4 years now 🤦♂️. I guess only time will tell.... I love your positive attitude btw more of us need to be this way so thankyou for that is a nice breath of fresh air!
Those liability warnings are because they know that someone is inevitably going to die. That's basically overhead line voltage and current where it can be easily touched when complacency happens.
😆 🤣 😂 I love the way you said. Could not have been more accurate, not that someone might die.... someone is going to be stupid and kill themselves with it for sure 🤦♂️. I understand the liability claims for sure, it might be a different operator that gets back in the seat. The company that makes them is family owned great people, that feel blessed to make a living selling these so they definitely don't deserve a lawsuit on top of everything.
Zapping weeds is better than walking them when I did that for my grandfather once I passed out walking beans. Once I passed out five times in one day, it was cause by the heat, and you have awesome video footage, which is what I like 👍👍👍👍
That's for sure Turbo! I've scientifically the last 6 years Pulling by hand, this thing is a game change for sure. I've never passed out due to the heat but I've had peyote working with that have its not a good situation. But I've had vitamin D poisoning more times than I can count 😆
Seeing the flames reminded me of the night top fuel qualifying session at the U.S. Nationals. That machine is awesome, glad to see it making a big difference in the weeds for you. It would be awesome to be able to do custom zapping with it too. I had a few places in my field where the co-op couldn't get into to spray and the ragweed was about 5 feet tall already. There were beans under it all but without any way to get rid of all the ragweed I just bush hogged those spots. Figured it was better to lose a few beans than to grow that much more weed seed. Thankfully most of the field is cleaning up. I'm really happy for you Tim, hope you get a really good price this fall and I hope you have an awesome crop to sell! Thanks for the video Sir!
I had a similar situation a couple years ago in my beans, I disced about 2 acres of ragweed out that year, and also decided that year to do away with end rows. It's made my life so much easier all the way around. And now with the zapper I need to do a 3 point turn to get back in the rows at the end, so if really be beating up the end rows so I don't think I'll change that practice. Thanks for watching Evan!
Glad to see your happy with your new toy. It looks like it was a good investment. As a fellow organic farmer I totally know where your coming from. One thing that I have found that works really good is rolling the ground after planting. It slows the germination of the weeds way down, so the corn and soybeans get way ahead of the weeds. By the time I come back to cultivate I can hoe the dirt right over the weeds because the crops are tall and the weeds are still short.
I've found the exact opposite to be true when it comes to rolling the ground. Especially when it comes to foxtail. Witch is a constant battle for me here. I used to roll every year. Then one year I tried a side by side test in a 10 acre patch, I ran the cuptipacker across half it and left the rest, the foxtail flourished in the ground I rolled and that half of the field yielded 10 bushel less than the part I didn't roll. I found that the gas grew alot faster than the soybeans mainly because I gave them a perfect seed bed, I've found that a good planter that gives just my soybeans a nice packed seed bed and leaving the rest lose alows the beans to germinate faster than the weeds and grass, and get ahead of them. Also with the loose dirt, the rotary hoe and drag are able to do there job better. I think of the hay kings, when they plant grass or clover, hay, ect they like to roll it to pack the seed in and make it germinate faster. That's definitely the last thing we want in organics lol. Long story short I've retired my cultipacker and am never looking back 😆
Maybe it is just the difference in your soil type. I don't use a cultipacker it is a smooth roller so maybe that makes a difference, I guess as long as your happy with what your doing, thanks again for the video about your weed zapper.
Same here , foxtail loves a fine packed seedbed .
Very interesting idea thanks for sharing. Would like to see a follow up video a couple weeks post treatment to see if those weeds push again or if they fit up completely
Thankyou Eric. I just posted a crop update last night. It shows pretty good what the zapper did a couple weeks after. There was alot that wasn't over the canopy and didn't get zapped I'm doing a 2nd pass this week. But everything that it touched is definitely dead at this point lol.
Wow - that fire show at night really highlights what it's doing. Good demonstration of the overload patch of weeds - it's great that they can still be zapped in multiple passes. It will be interesting to see if the ironweed patches are reduced on future years if they don't go to seed as often.
Thankyou Jazz, I'm sure I've got a few years of hard seeds to deal with. But in theory anyways, it should get better and better every year until they are gone.....I hope anyhow 😆
Man yeah Tim, that thing is truly amazing!! I cant get over how well that truly works!! Loved seeing those stems discolored all the way down!! I hope you can get some custom work as well!! That whole septic issue is for thr birds, down blame you one bit!! I am one behind, but will go back and catch up!! Thank you sir for bringing us along!! Cant wait to see what's next!! 😁😁😁👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thankyou my friend. I am one lucky farmer to have this machine. I'm a firm believer in carma. I try my best to be positive and to spread my positive attitude. At the risk of sounding like a hippy good vibes 😆 🤣 😂 it's a big part of my spirituality, I interpret the good book a lithe differently than most. I see god as every one of us, we're all part of God, when the Bible says one with God I take that in a very literal sense, the universe the planets were all made from the same thing. That being said I Bellerive were all connected in some strange way that i don't understand but I Bellerive a positive attitude or good vibes towards all is important to having a happy life and directly related to being blessed with things like this weed zapper. Thanks for being here my friend it means more than you know.
@@TimothyFluegel Amen brother!! Always my friend!!
Beautiful scenery in your part of Illinois...must be a pleasure to see the dead weeds in the short view and the scenery in the long view
Thankyou Robert. The farm is on top of a huge hill.... as far as Illinois goes for hills anyways 😆. It would be even better without the bypass running through our land 😆
That looks awesome! Very cool seeing the lightning bolt fry them bastards. Lol. Now I want one!
😆 I hired it done 2 years ago and thought the same exact thing.... now I want one 😆
Cool unit!!
Thankyou Sean!!
Those lightning bolts look so satisfying!😀
😆 🤣 😂 they sure are Dean!! They sure are 😆
So glad I got to be a part of getting that thing going. The weeds are D E D dead
Hell yes brother!! It's a huge game change for sure,but I appreciate all the help with it too.
However.... it's bullshit having to get out and put my stands down by myself 😆
Wow that zapper really does it's Job 👍 what are you going come up with next Tim? I was watching one your videos from last year where you were doing some samples with your corn, you have shelterbelts in Wisconsin, how about pheasants you got them running around too? We have a lot of Pheasants here in Minnesota, there's a lot more in the Western part of Minnesota going on to ND and SD 🚜 thanks for the video man! 👍🚜🌽🌽🌽
Your welcome Matt, thanks for watching, we've got a lot of pheasant in this area. Another of wildlife in general really. I'm just sound of the Wisconsin border in Illinois BTW. I appreciate ya watching my old videos too BTW,
I understand tho whole reason behind this being you are organic farming. I am curious about the cost per acre forgetting for a moment the purchase price of this vs. say a traditional cultivator and manual labor (rouge crew) The fuel burn of the 7060 under full load while decent isn't great at that ground speed and making multiple additional passes, your thoughts please?
I was acualy just doing the math before I was only guessing at the fuel consumption. But I used just under a gallon an acre so 150×3.80=$570 in fuel. So to do it 2 times it'll cost around $1200.
So organic soybeans have been pretty steady at $21.00 per bushel.
When I hired it done my average went up by 7 bpa. But I've been saying it gains 5 bpa for sure.
So 5bpa on 150 acres is 750 bushel at $21.00 is $15,750 gain.
As far as a ground crew if I cloud manage to find people to work we wouldn't have cover 20 acres for 1200 dollars. When I hired it done he charged 75 an acre to Zapp it.
But either way I figure it will pay for its self in 5 years and that's if I don't do any custom work with it. And that's all not mentioning the seeds that won't be there in the corn next year. It's hard to put a price on that.
Pretty interesting Tim.. nice touch on the video.
Thankyou Don!
Hey Tim, I really like you videos and would like to talk buda engines when you get the time.
What do ya need to know sir.
@@TimothyFluegel I picked up a generator unit with a 273 buda diesel with low hours it has a strange water manifold and thermostat housing wanting to use motor in a tractor can you tell me if the manifold’s are all the same on 230 262 and 273 diesel for the tractor and maybe where I can find one
Tim, sorry to hear your nephew. Ma just sent me the bad news. 🙏
Thankyou Andy, this is definitely one of the hardest times my family has been through that I can remember.
Yes sir I can see where a few year return and was well worth your investment, keep persevering my friend
Thankyou William. I am happy with the investment and I think it will pay me back in a few years, for sure if I can get some customs jobs with it. Some guys are interested, but I think they are skeptical about the job it does, I hope after driving by my fields here it will lay this doubts to rest 😆 thanks for watching William.
I hope all is going well young man! I just came in for lunch and I was reading cloves are a great mouse deterrent, and don't forget about putting baking soda and cornmeal mix in an area where other creatures can't get it as that will do them in big time!!!
@@williamkemm673 I didn't forget your suggestion on the mice. I've also got a bunch of mint plants to harvest and spread around. I figure if I use everyone's suggestions I'll have no mice in the combine next spring lol
I could sure use that on my Johnson grass !!!
It was worth the investment for me with the organics. You'd have to have alot of Johnson head to make this thing pay for itself for sure. But there are people all over the country that do custom zapping. Might be worth looking into 🤷♂️
So how does it know which are weeds and which are not?? Thanks
Monsanto is going to be angry with you!! Lol
I’m also a organic farmer, but we do not grow row crops.
It only effects what it touches do I've gotta keep it about the beans.
@@TimothyFluegel okay thanks for the reply. Makes sense.
Good day Wow that is actual flame, at 1st I thought it was yellow flags
Are u organic?
Up here I heard that sceptic system is 35,000$
Thanks for now.
Yes I'm organic its been quite the learning curve for sure but I'm getting the hang of it. The guy wanted to buy the land next to his bar here and were not doing that so he's being spiteful about fixing the septic, is all it amounts to. I've never even called the cops on anyone in my life, but the more this goes on I think I could show him the definition of spiteful, he's just not smart enough to think that far ahead.
We want to be best neighbor. I always considered my neighbors like my closer family member no blood related but stuff like that after trying to solve the friendlies way! NOP, you need to do what you need to do go ahead you don't have a clue of what he is dumping down the drain.
I've never even caked the cops on anyone in my life so I really don't think I could bring myself to call the epa on him. Like I said I'm half tempted 😆. He tried stealing about an acre of land from us, he put gravel down and made a parking lot in the field over night one time. Then when confronted about it he tried to pick a fight with my 75 year old dad, one my brother and I came around the corner his attitude did a complete 360. I always say there a fine line between fear and respect.... with him the line isn't so fine. Plus I lost any respect I had for the guy in that situation and I surely don't fear him 😆.
@@TimothyFluegel I completely understand but again and trust me in this one he is waiting for you make a mistake and he did not go to have any consideration. Praying for an amicable solution!!!!!!
@@jorgemrivera5973 thankyou Jorge. Time will tell. We've offered to let him expand the septic to under our field as part of it is already under our field... he found that out when he called the land surveyer out. After months of us telling him this of course 😆. The sherif that was there told him very clearly that if we were wanting to be a holes we could dig that aortic up and there's nothing he could do about it..... I think that's the only reason he treats us with any respect as it is. But he still refuses to do anything about it. This has been 4 years now 🤦♂️. I guess only time will tell.... I love your positive attitude btw more of us need to be this way so thankyou for that is a nice breath of fresh air!
Your Crazy!! Cool But Crazy..
😆 🤣 😂
Zap on👍🏻🇺🇸
Thankyou sir, I definitely will 😆
Don't try this thing on herding stubborn farm animals!
😆 prolly not the best plan, unless your planning a cookout, kill and cook your supper with one swipe lol.