Today is April 13 and the country is watching the news about a massive blizzard going on in Sask, and Manitoba. I really hope you guys get the snow you need to put moisture in the ground. We are all rooting for you, best of luck this season.
Hey Mike, just a couple thoughts that may make things easier for you and the crew. On the cap screw bolts use a drill the same size as the hex down in the bottom of the hex and drill them out. The internal hex is the same size as the diameter of the bolt so you can drill the head off the bolt leaving just the threaded portion which you knock out and replace anyway. It an old machinist trick for when the hex strips out the head of a cap screw. As some others mentioned here. Get yourself and air hammer or air chisel to get the points off the shank once the bolts out. Way less work and safer as well. The Steel on those points look hardened and the carbide is even harder. When either of those break the flying shrapnel is as hard and sharp as glass. That shrapnel flying at the speed of light will cause choice words to fly from your mouth once it's imbedded in you. Lol. Just a few thoughts that may make things easier. Obviously you've been doing this a long time and maybe you've tried this already but if you haven't give it a shot. Nothing to lose but a little time to find out.
Mike, air hammer works wonders with those. Stuff the tip into the allen screw and break the nut through the opposite side, it will blow out the side of the opener fairly easily.
I once wacked an axe with a sledgehammer. A splinte broke loose and into my thigh. The doctor had his whole indexfinger in the wound to get it out... So stay safe...
Here is a tip for removing those bolts Take a propane torch heat up head of bolt for 20 to 30 seconds it heats up locktite and it turns to liquid again used this technique when removing truss head bolts on transition cones on case combines
The problem isn't so much the fact that's the bolt is some how seized or rusted in.. No, it's the head of bolt is wore off too much to get a good bite... Which = worn out. 🙂
Just to let you know the CARBIDE TIP some persons bought it to be recycled it has a value more than steel, I was working in a machine shop and our old tools bit was sold to a guy every month, it was couple 100’S for a 1/2-3/4 gallon bucket .
i dont know if you tried that before but take your impact socket, stick it in the bolthead and hit it a few times with a hammer with good force. that will loosen even the most stubborn bolt. it amazes me always how much difference it makes from being too thight for the big impact wrench to almost hand loose in a few hammer blows
Howdy my Friend, another Cool video, Thank you for sharing, I did notice at least one of your closers had a huge split in it, do you change them at the same time as the openers ?? Stay safe, Stay calm and Farm on, Peace
Hey got a question . Hahaha. You have the locktite on the thread why not put never sieze on the bolt head where it touches the nut. Might help when taking them off.
Hey Mike, I don't know if you were aware of this, but they make side shields that hook on to your prescription eyeglasses to make them true safety glasses. Might work out pretty good for you.
If you use a impact air, battery , or electric..., chisel wouldn't be easy for you Mike? Just a idea I no you pretty much no how to work but sometimes we have got so much going on and we don't realise the easy way 🤗 I do that a lot of times.😅
You need a back pack set of tourches for stuff like that sorry for the spelling but with the small set keep them in the truck be a lot easier than losing blood and finger nails keep up the good work can’t wait to see you all seeding I can’t wait to start mowing hay planting corn I hate winter I must be getting old cause I hurt all over now when it gets cold
Crisco their hatbands. Also, recycle some plastic shopping bags; put the square nut in then shove the tooth up over a piece of shopping bag and then run the loctite bolt through. Should make em take 2 smacks each next replacement.
Sitting spread legged when breaking them off might cause Chapel broken-hearted he does not have a brother or sister. Air-powered impact chisel would sure make that job much easier and quicker.
@@rolandvachon9848 With the operation as big as they are I would think they have a gasoline-powered air compressor on a service truck. Tires always need to be aired up, plus no matter what one thinks battery-powered stuff can do there are quite a few things that they cannot do. Followed an Amish guy thru the checkout line at Lowes and he had a big shopping cart full of power tool batteries. Their power tools do not run off of the devil's powerlines. So having a boatload of batteries that an English Yodertoter would charge overnight was a way to have modern conveniences on a construction site without breaking religious rules.
If you wanted to make your life a whole lot easier when you have to change tips again, once you take the old tip off take a wire brush and clean the rust off then apply copper coat and then put your new tip on, I bet you wont even have to use a hammer next time you take them off. Little bit extra work but it'll make your life a whole lot easier in the long run.
Sure Copper coat will be every were !!! Copper Coat is the Dirtiest trick in the Book of Mechanic Tricks ! inside of the Door handle - there will be Copper Coat on the interior of that truck until traded off !!! LOL
Yow Mike. As I noted in a previous post, chuck all those packer wheelies and replace them with small diameter, less diameter than the packer wheels. Make wide span rollers the same width as the wings and center section seed gangs and there will be a heckuva lot less brgs and packer wheel rubbers to replace. Youd have to determine the diameter of the rollers and their weight/downforce to pack the mound of soil along the seed trench adequately. That seed cart must be one mighty soil packer. I see Welkers are going to tow between. There must be some crop loss towing the cart behind the planter instead of in front of the planter. Hope you have a problem free planting season and a bountiful harvest.
@@kriskohut7159 An adjustable bent plate could be added behind the seed opening to control the depth and a Vee shaped closing blade to fill in the trench leaving a slight mound along the seed trench for the roller to pack the dirt.
G'day Mike, those tips are not chrome or stainless, I'm assuming you think that because they do not rust. They are most likely Corten steel possibly Corten B, typically used in high end tips as it maintains its hardness at high temperatures, I'm not talking red hot, just 30 to 50 degrees C which is enough to reduce the hardness of steel and increase its wear rate, you don't want steel that is so hard it is brittle because you would destroy a tip every time you hit a stone. Cheers Mate 🍻
I know the Monette brothers and I am happy for their continued success. But don't ever confuse or compare their farm with any other. Their business model is investor driven, with investor cash to spend. 🙂
Just so you now how to use a hammer, doesn't matter what one, finish hammer, framing hammer, ball peen hammer or sledge hammer. Put sixteen nail in a board and grab the hammer close to the head and try drive it in with one swing. Not going to happen. Do the same thing and hold a Hammer on the end of the hammer more impact different out come. I get frustrated when I see people use a hammer the wrong way and struggle.
Mike, those do it in the gravel fellas, think they'll stay cleaner if it rains, than working in the soft grass? Little do they know your calling out the rain.. even daring it to come rain on your repairs work!
Hi I love yor Videos, especially the Mechanik work.😁 I allways want to meet you and help you 😂. Keep on going. Greetings from Germany. PS: sorry for my bad Englisch
Mike just a suggestion use two hammers when breaking the tips one for back-up and one to hammer with also when knocking the tip off put the wedge on the tip and hit it with the other hammer.
Mike, worked in a lumber yard for 32 years you didn’t want to leave your gloves laying around someone would take a grease gun and fill a finger up they done it to me so I started nailing their gloves down as the old saying goes mess with the bull your going to get the horn
@Mike Mitchell I've been following you for a year or so and am a farmer myself down here in the winter wheat capital of Kansas. Always wondered, but have never found a reason for hoe drills vs disk openers in no till up north. Down here is 99% disk drills/seeders on 7" rows or 10" out in western KS. I'm guessing hoe drills available in larger widths? Is it a weight problem or soil abrasion/rocks? What are you thoughts?
He said they tried a disk drill, didn't hold up to their extremely rocky ground. They used to seed with one-way "diskers" before they got the hoe drills .
use a mass boltknockerouterpoundingratchett, then use a 4spadeclinetoolbarbreaker with the plutonium shackleshickershaper, they will fall rite off👍👍👍👍🚜🚜🚜🔨🔨🔨🔨
Soo Mike, did you trade the fendt 1050 for the new 700hp Fendt 2 track??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
@@mikemitchell2554 How about warming those really-tight-rustied tips with oxy-acetylene to red hot - burning rustiness off? Usually then everything gets off quite easily.
@@realredditstories420 then you could use a harder drill bit, i work at a place where we make drill bits and i do not see a bolt as a hard steel, those openers is hard as you see them shatter, that is hardened steel and we have tools for drilling that.
Today is April 13 and the country is watching the news about a massive blizzard going on in Sask, and Manitoba. I really hope you guys get the snow you need to put moisture in the ground. We are all rooting for you, best of luck this season.
My dads up in sask and he works for a oil company and he’s out all day he says it’s terrible
It's always fun to pull pranks on each other at work
Still looking at snow and muddy yards here in the peace country- we’re a couple weeks before we are going to get going
Hey Mike, just a couple thoughts that may make things easier for you and the crew. On the cap screw bolts use a drill the same size as the hex down in the bottom of the hex and drill them out. The internal hex is the same size as the diameter of the bolt so you can drill the head off the bolt leaving just the threaded portion which you knock out and replace anyway. It an old machinist trick for when the hex strips out the head of a cap screw.
As some others mentioned here. Get yourself and air hammer or air chisel to get the points off the shank once the bolts out. Way less work and safer as well. The Steel on those points look hardened and the carbide is even harder. When either of those break the flying shrapnel is as hard and sharp as glass. That shrapnel flying at the speed of light will cause choice words to fly from your mouth once it's imbedded in you. Lol.
Just a few thoughts that may make things easier. Obviously you've been doing this a long time and maybe you've tried this already but if you haven't give it a shot. Nothing to lose but a little time to find out.
Glad you can still get red grease we can’t down here in Ky it’s blue now
Mike, air hammer works wonders with those. Stuff the tip into the allen screw and break the nut through the opposite side, it will blow out the side of the opener fairly easily.
Greasing the inside of the Door handle is one of the Oldest tricks in the Book of being a Mechanic !!!
Mike, I’m at work by 6:15 am. I can’t start my day watching a Mike Mitchell video.
smart boy on the grass!!
I once wacked an axe with a sledgehammer. A splinte broke loose and into my thigh. The doctor had his whole indexfinger in the wound to get it out... So stay safe...
I also would recommend the tip with more carbide for your course texture soil.
Here is a tip for removing those bolts
Take a propane torch heat up head of bolt for 20 to 30 seconds it heats up locktite and it turns to liquid again used this technique when removing truss head bolts on transition cones on case combines
The problem isn't so much the fact that's the bolt is some how seized or rusted in.. No, it's the head of bolt is wore off too much to get a good bite... Which = worn out. 🙂
@@mikemitchell2554 sounds like the struggle bus lol
Could you try penetrating oil.... maybe Kroil by Kano labs it’s great
@@danefer08 doesnt help if the head is worn away. Easiest way if head strips is either air hammer the allen nut out or just break the tip.
Just to let you know the CARBIDE TIP some persons bought it to be recycled it has a value more than steel, I was working in a machine shop and our old tools bit was sold to a guy every month, it was couple 100’S for a 1/2-3/4 gallon bucket .
You realize that the handle on the hammer is much longer. Don't be afraid to use it. LoL my grampa talking 50 years ago. Bless his soul...
Awesome. I really do think you have a dream job. 😉
Great video Mike
i dont know if you tried that before but take your impact socket, stick it in the bolthead and hit it a few times with a hammer with good force. that will loosen even the most stubborn bolt. it amazes me always how much difference it makes from being too thight for the big impact wrench to almost hand loose in a few hammer blows
Air chiesel !!!! on top just pushes them off fast! ear protection!!
What tractor are you gonna use? Or are you going to use the replacement?
That's farming for you! Blood, sweat and tears!
Is that grease from Coop , good stuff !!
Howdy my Friend, another Cool video, Thank you for sharing,
I did notice at least one of your closers had a huge split in it, do you change them at the same time as the openers ??
Stay safe, Stay calm and Farm on, Peace
Hey got a question . Hahaha. You have the locktite on the thread why not put never sieze on the bolt head where it touches the nut. Might help when taking them off.
HA HA HA. THE CLASSIC TIRE PALETTE!!!
My grandfather was a blacksmith, one of his favourite sayings was "Hit the bliddy thing, its no killin mice ye are"
Working on weapon systems in the Navy it was a requirement to bleed during maintenance to give to the Weapons Gods LOL.
Hey Mike, I don't know if you were aware of this, but they make side shields that hook on to your prescription eyeglasses to make them true safety glasses. Might work out pretty good for you.
If you use a impact air, battery , or electric..., chisel wouldn't be easy for you Mike? Just a idea I no you pretty much no how to work but sometimes we have got so much going on and we don't realise the easy way 🤗 I do that a lot of times.😅
These videos are always so fun to watch
Grettings from Spain !!!!!
So how long last these tips?
If your not scared of going to the 1in opener, being wider I changed all of mine last year and didn't have to break one opener.
I would suggest air hammer with chisel or a angle grinder with thin cutting disc,
Enjoy your videos from dry land cotton farmer ln Texas.
You need a back pack set of tourches for stuff like that sorry for the spelling but with the small set keep them in the truck be a lot easier than losing blood and finger nails keep up the good work can’t wait to see you all seeding I can’t wait to start mowing hay planting corn I hate winter I must be getting old cause I hurt all over now when it gets cold
fantastic friend. greetings from Mexico 🤗🤗🤗
Crisco their hatbands. Also, recycle some plastic shopping bags; put the square nut in then shove the tooth up over a piece of shopping bag and then run the loctite bolt through. Should make em take 2 smacks each next replacement.
How many acres do you usually trade drills at
Mike, buddy, farming is easy, you are just doing it the hard way. You said so yourself 🤣
Sitting spread legged when breaking them off might cause Chapel broken-hearted he does not have a brother or sister. Air-powered impact chisel would sure make that job much easier and quicker.
I was wondering that myself whether he could get closer to the shop and bring out an air powered impact chisel.
@@rolandvachon9848 With the operation as big as they are I would think they have a gasoline-powered air compressor on a service truck. Tires always need to be aired up, plus no matter what one thinks battery-powered stuff can do there are quite a few things that they cannot do. Followed an Amish guy thru the checkout line at Lowes and he had a big shopping cart full of power tool batteries. Their power tools do not run off of the devil's powerlines. So having a boatload of batteries that an English Yodertoter would charge overnight was a way to have modern conveniences on a construction site without breaking religious rules.
Mike why can you drill it loose that saves blood?🤔
Good video, started laughing at least 5 times! I did notice one of your packer wheels was splitting in half.
Hey mike wouldn't it be easier with a dye grinder or and angle grinder to cut the stubborn ones off
Grass then stone. That's the right order Mike.
Did u guys get any snow from the storm that went toward Winnipeg ???
Nothing but a skiff
How close r u guys to start seeding ???
Johnny Deere bolts on a Bourgault drill?
Silver anti seize on the inside of door handles works better then grease.😂😂
😂😂😂
I think they make a battery powered hammer.that wait would be quicker to get the points off.
If you wanted to make your life a whole lot easier when you have to change tips again, once you take the old tip off take a wire brush and clean the rust off then apply copper coat and then put your new tip on, I bet you wont even have to use a hammer next time you take them off. Little bit extra work but it'll make your life a whole lot easier in the long run.
Sure Copper coat will be every were !!! Copper Coat is the Dirtiest trick in the Book of Mechanic Tricks ! inside of the Door handle - there will be Copper Coat on the interior of that truck until traded off !!! LOL
Scientific Fact : a dot of Copper Coat the size of pencil pin will cover 2 square feet ! Yes it will ! LOL
What brand grease you use? Had terrible bearing problems till we found one that held up
Why not get ones with roll pins?
Air hammer for points? Idk im just a grape farmer but might be worth a try
Yow Mike. As I noted in a previous post, chuck all those packer wheelies and replace them with small diameter, less diameter than the packer wheels. Make wide span rollers the same width as the wings and center section seed gangs and there will be a heckuva lot less brgs and packer wheel rubbers to replace. Youd have to determine the diameter of the rollers and their weight/downforce to pack the mound of soil along the seed trench adequately.
That seed cart must be one mighty soil packer.
I see Welkers are going to tow between.
There must be some crop loss towing the cart behind the planter instead of in front of the planter.
Hope you have a problem free planting season and a bountiful harvest.
It's the packer wheel on each opener that keeps the point from going to China.
@@kriskohut7159 An adjustable bent plate could be added behind the seed opening to control the depth and a Vee shaped closing blade to fill in the trench leaving a slight mound along the seed trench for the roller to pack the dirt.
@@John-nc4bl maybe like the technotill opener idea?
So they must be made a cast or they would never break that easy
G'day Mike, those tips are not chrome or stainless, I'm assuming you think that because they do not rust. They are most likely Corten steel possibly Corten B, typically used in high end tips as it maintains its hardness at high temperatures, I'm not talking red hot, just 30 to 50 degrees C which is enough to reduce the hardness of steel and increase its wear rate, you don't want steel that is so hard it is brittle because you would destroy a tip every time you hit a stone. Cheers Mate 🍻
Maybe, Bourgault on their website says they're "cast crome with tungsten carbide inserts" 🤷♂️🙂
What are your thoughts on Monette Farms buying Nykolaishen Farms in kamsack?
Yeah aren’t those guys a pretty big farm in the area as well?
I know the Monette brothers and I am happy for their continued success. But don't ever confuse or compare their farm with any other. Their business model is investor driven, with investor cash to spend. 🙂
@@mikemitchell2554 Interesting, thanks for the insight.
I tought i was at another website when i saw the title😂
Great video!
If you where to keep those old points on, do you think it would impact how well the plants germinate and grow?
It will due to the incorrect depth of the seed
Just so you now how to use a hammer, doesn't matter what one, finish hammer, framing hammer, ball peen hammer or sledge hammer. Put sixteen nail in a board and grab the hammer close to the head and try drive it in with one swing. Not going to happen. Do the same thing and hold a Hammer on the end of the hammer more impact different out come. I get frustrated when I see people use a hammer the wrong way and struggle.
How many seeding machine have you on the big farm the Bourgalt machinery?
They run five Bourgaults, one 68ft and four 84ft, two with Bourgault 7950 cart and three with 71300 cart ( 950bu+1300bu )
@@ytfan3815 Thanks for the answer
@@marcelvink2341
Graag gedaan, groetjes uit NL 😉
Mike,
An 84 foot wide drill on 12 inch centers will require 85 units. The first unit is at foot zero.
No 1 per ft
@@richardradawetz8788 yes, one unit every foot of width. The first unit is at foot zero, the last at foot 84, total units required 85.
Weird my 65 ft drill has 65 open ers
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Ve kaç dekar alanda tarım yapıyorsunuz?
Mike, those do it in the gravel fellas, think they'll stay cleaner if it rains, than working in the soft grass?
Little do they know your calling out the rain.. even daring it to come rain on your repairs work!
Hi I love yor Videos, especially the Mechanik work.😁 I allways want to meet you and help you 😂. Keep on going.
Greetings from Germany.
PS: sorry for my bad Englisch
Mike just a suggestion use two hammers when breaking the tips one for back-up and one to hammer with also when knocking the tip off put the wedge on the tip and hit it with the other hammer.
Never hit hammer head to hammer head. 🤦🏻♂️💥
@@LakePresley maybe read again. Not suggesting hitting the hammers together
Guess what I thought you meant was put the wedge end of the hammer in and hit the head with another hammer
Mike, worked in a lumber yard for 32 years you didn’t want to leave your gloves laying around someone would take a grease gun and fill a finger up they done it to me so I started nailing their gloves down as the old saying goes mess with the bull your going to get the horn
Can you tell if the drill pulls harder with all new points than worn ones?
Yes it will.
They make cordless air chisels.
Who is the little boss doing
Question why do y'all not use roll pins
Our Dutch openers I believe used those, and they don't come any better to be honest 🤷♂️
23:25 that's a inch mike your suppose to say that's what she said lmao. btw great work as always
Was totally thinking...
They don’t have empty talk on here
There is so many “that’s what she said” jokes in video.
Would anti-seize help with the points coming off.
Many times just some regular grease in area helps with rust buildup.
I'd think those tips would break easier if you had someone hold a big sledge hammer against the other side so it doesn't bounce when you hit it .
Mike buddy! Used an air hammer, no? No blood!
Need to buy cut resistant gloves. Maybe a pneumatic or electric chisel or something.
You need to make yourself a portable tool tray.
I don’t know who did the grease trick….. all I know it rimes with “friggels”
Ok Mike air chisel take all of them off pull ahead clean up with magnetic and then do your installation
Could it have anything to do with the fact that you DON’T have a tractor to hook to it?
The reason you were in the grass instead of up by the shop…no tractor.
About how much does it cost to put new tips on it?
84 tips times he said maybe up to $100= $8400CD
NICE LOL!
it may be better to pour water, wait and then change
Hey Mike Mitchell try and drill those bolts with the stripped heads Out
@Mike Mitchell I've been following you for a year or so and am a farmer myself down here in the winter wheat capital of Kansas. Always wondered, but have never found a reason for hoe drills vs disk openers in no till up north. Down here is 99% disk drills/seeders on 7" rows or 10" out in western KS. I'm guessing hoe drills available in larger widths? Is it a weight problem or soil abrasion/rocks? What are you thoughts?
He said they tried a disk drill, didn't hold up to their extremely rocky ground. They used to seed with one-way "diskers" before they got the hoe drills .
Hoe drill requires much less maintenance and helps level out the ground.
A plastic sled works great for dragging your crap around under there.
just a hard job // head down and do it
Ya you guys need a air chisel
use a mass boltknockerouterpoundingratchett, then use a 4spadeclinetoolbarbreaker with the plutonium shackleshickershaper, they will fall rite off👍👍👍👍🚜🚜🚜🔨🔨🔨🔨
Whens the new 100' show up!? Lol
With all them big bucks one would think you would invest in a $30 camera/ phone mount
Why don't you use anti-seize on these shanks? As a mechanic anti seize has saved my ass hours of hammering and bleeding.
Soo Mike, did you trade the fendt 1050 for the new 700hp Fendt 2 track??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Morning
Great awesome video mike , lots of fun , do u replace them every year or depending on how hard the soil is ?
Depending on the soil conditions, normally every other
@@mikemitchell2554 How about warming those really-tight-rustied tips with oxy-acetylene to red hot - burning rustiness off? Usually then everything gets off quite easily.
@@realredditstories420 why is your 2cents in every comment
You need a bigger hammer Mike! 😄
Why not just use easy outs on the bolts
Would it be easier to just drill the head off the bolt
@@realredditstories420 then you could use a harder drill bit, i work at a place where we make drill bits and i do not see a bolt as a hard steel, those openers is hard as you see them shatter, that is hardened steel and we have tools for drilling that.
An air chisel would make those tips walk off quick. Less grunt work.