Peg boards and tool chests have their places. There's tools you can't hang up on peg board above the workbench that obviously go into tool chests. I like to keep sets of sockets on a rack and in a tool chest, different drawers for different drive sizes, SAE and metric seperated as well. Tool chest makes sense for stuff that can easily get loose and is easier to throw into it like sockets, pliers, punches, chisels, etc. But a peg board above the work bench where you can line up a row of end wrenches from smallest to biggest, hang multiple wrenches of the same size on the same peg, hang big channel locks, filter wrenches, crescent wrenches, hitches pins, etc etc is way easier to grab n go, than to fish around in a tool chest. Less weight you carry in the tool chest, the easier it is on drawer roller bearings
Grant one thing you might consider buying is a 30 or 40 foot truck auger. With your two 657 wagons you could have a full semi load on wheels ready to load a hired semi. Sometimes hiring some trucking done helps with logistics and keeping the combine moving. If you are planning on pulling loaded wagons 12 miles down the road you will definitely have to stop and wait in the combine. Something to think about.
One thing we do on our farm to keep the sheds clean, is to pile all of the dirt and dust that we sweep up into a pile somewhere in the shed and go and dump it out away from the shed. This will keep from tracking the dirt back in to the shed. Because if it rains then the dirt turns into mud and then you will track it back into the shed and it will just keep happening.
Hey man I'll be honest I was never really a fan of your fs channel but this channel I love Watching. It's interesting to see you start a farm and what goes on. Much love from New Zealand
A metal workbench would be the way to go so if your welding or using a blowtorch or simply just hitting something a metal one won’t break like a wood one would
Yooo sweeetttt grant thats gonna be a nice entry to your farm cant wat for the harvest!!!! Im glad spencer is helping you around here and there keep up the good work!!!!
They have an actual hitch attachment for the skid loader. It hooks like any other implement for it. Safer way to move trailers farm equipment. I have one for my skid loader. Bought it at auction for $75
Great video Grant. I hope this tip might help in the future. We had a starter go out on our four year old skid loader a while back. It was backed against a wall. Not fun to work on when you can't get to the part. Since then I always make sure leave it far enough away from the wall. I noticed yours was backed against the wall. Looking forward to more videos.
Grant get some 8's limestone, when you have fines in your gravel it just makes mud ! When you do build a workbench make sure it's tall , that way you can slide welders, tool boxes and work carts underneath and really keep it clean and save space !
Really great, Grant! Love seeing the progress! You got some really great footage there, each step of the way. really appreciate it! :) At 7:07+ you look like an experienced farmer already!!! A good deal under your belt already! Each week brings more experience! And from 10:16 to when you shut the tractor off, that was a milestone moment to me. So many things you accomplished, all visible in that 'snapshot'. Way to go Grant! Looking forward to the fun harvest! And I agree with folks: a good steel workbench bought at auction or welded up to practice, could withstand the force required for freeing stuck parts. Non-flammable too. The wood one is good for super light duty flame-free situations. I like watching you build your place! Thank you :) Consider an enclosed trailer? fitted up to sleep in, because you can use regular furniture and stuff, like a pullout sofa, and it would be spacious...maybe an 8x16 near the end of it's life, bought reasonably? just an idea :)
Should have had the floor coated before putting anything in it. Also should get the walls spray foamed, help keep the bugs and pests out. while helping keep it warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
Don't cut holes in the forks. They make a skidloader quick attach plate that has a receiver hitch in it. Get that and one of those tri balls and a regular hitch then you slip them in and out just like your truck hitch. Way easier.
Awesome video. Shop with a the equipment inside looks great 👍. Driveway looking good to. Make sure all the belts and bearings are good and grease on combine. Can't wait for harvest!!
They have some great work bench kits (Simpson strong-tie) to custom design a bench. It isn't hard to do either and that is how I made a bench. Keep up the good work.
Corn is drying down really good you won't be long before harvesting, we're done with corn in Louisiana yields were really good this year, some early soybeans have been cut in my area the rest are drying down really fast!!
Just a little tip put a key to get into your shed somewhere hidden outside you will be kicking your self the day you forget your key and have to drive a half an hour to go get it
Not at the moment. I've had a plan to eventually move the farm closer to home/where I grew up. Am possibly looking to buy a whole farm with sheds & grain storage in the future, and then just add on to that. Possibly buy from a retiring farmer if everything aligned good! Who knows tho! So as of right now I don't want to spend too much on infrastructure.
@@granthilbert5632 that was direction I was hoping you were going. Take his shop, make it into your office, living quarters, put this shed there… but don’t have clue what was available in area.m
With windows that low to the ground I would recommend cameras , alarm,maybe even chain link fenced in with gate. Or a hell of a good Insurance policy!!. Thieves will keep you cleaned out if you don't watch it
Grant, I just got a bunch of Outback wraps, for my 6140m, they are really inexpensive, and I got them on Amazon, They are color coded to the scv's and also lettered. So when you go to hook up, it is super fast and easy. You might want to talk to Dougo Larson about his floor sweeper game... LOL maybe he can give you some tips on keeping the new shop clean.
One thing about those beans Grant is that they typically look a little rough anyways when they start to drop their leaves as the plant shuts down and loses some strength but as it dries up and loses more leaves it will look much better.
Yeah that’s what I was going to say because mine have looked like that for about a month now. That’s just what they do at this time of year. Great vid Grant!
Should have used double wall plastic pipe in the ditch like Chris Letsdig18 uses. Especially if you're in a state that Sal's the roads in the winter. You'll never change it again. Metal lasts only 10 to 20 years or less depending on road salt damage and you have to replace it.
Double wall would of saved me a bunch of money! The only issue I was possibly worried about was burning the ditch. I would guess this steel would last a lot longer than 10-20 years tho! Should last longer than plastic I would think
To slowely grow and eventually bring the farm back close to home/ trade this ground that I own now for land closer to home! And actually live on the farm too!
Hello Grant, Excellent Video my friend. The clamp-on tow ball works well. Question, When is does rain, where does the water go from your shed roof? Perhaps a rain tank to conserve some water. also stops making a muddy mess of your yard. I wish you all the best. Always, work safe. Cheers John from Australia
You have hail damage. Hail is like tornados. Will wipe out one side of the road and leave the side undamaged. A lot of farmers in Minnesota have lots of damage on their corn fields.
Get a bunch peg board. Amazing what all you can hang up on the wall and how much more organized it can be vs throwing it into a toolbox
Label the drawers and put stuff in the right place and it’ll be fine
@@mintyman1968 I agree...no wall clutter!
Peg boards and tool chests have their places. There's tools you can't hang up on peg board above the workbench that obviously go into tool chests. I like to keep sets of sockets on a rack and in a tool chest, different drawers for different drive sizes, SAE and metric seperated as well. Tool chest makes sense for stuff that can easily get loose and is easier to throw into it like sockets, pliers, punches, chisels, etc. But a peg board above the work bench where you can line up a row of end wrenches from smallest to biggest, hang multiple wrenches of the same size on the same peg, hang big channel locks, filter wrenches, crescent wrenches, hitches pins, etc etc is way easier to grab n go, than to fish around in a tool chest. Less weight you carry in the tool chest, the easier it is on drawer roller bearings
Grant one thing you might consider buying is a 30 or 40 foot truck auger. With your two 657 wagons you could have a full semi load on wheels ready to load a hired semi. Sometimes hiring some trucking done helps with logistics and keeping the combine moving. If you are planning on pulling loaded wagons 12 miles down the road you will definitely have to stop and wait in the combine. Something to think about.
One thing we do on our farm to keep the sheds clean, is to pile all of the dirt and dust that we sweep up into a pile somewhere in the shed and go and dump it out away from the shed. This will keep from tracking the dirt back in to the shed. Because if it rains then the dirt turns into mud and then you will track it back into the shed and it will just keep happening.
Can’t wait to see the yt thumbnail that says we bought 12 X9 combines to finish our 5000 Acre harvest
haha
5000 ac would not justify 12 X9's. 12000ac wouldn't lol
Too bad you only need one X9 for those acres
@@mateusz7850 NOT EVEN
more like 30000
Hey man I'll be honest I was never really a fan of your fs channel but this channel I love Watching. It's interesting to see you start a farm and what goes on. Much love from New Zealand
One thing I love about Grant is that he is not afraid of work hard to to find people like him these days
Nice video Grant can’t wait for harvest to start for Hilbert Farms 😀
me to
Fun fact with the transmission you have in your tractor, if you keep the nobe in the F+ position it will automatically shift
A metal workbench would be the way to go so if your welding or using a blowtorch or simply just hitting something a metal one won’t break like a wood one would
Or a concrete one like Andrew camaratas
@@gussoefje6430 I luv watching that guy...he can pretty much do anything
@@granthilbert5632 yesss im like gassed that he does everything it doesnt fit he will make it fit like woe
Spencer does an excellent job spreading the stone.
Everything is coming together. That wider driveway will be nice
I actually just got done putting in a driveway at work today. Love the videos, your a farming inspiration.
If you got a lot of space rent it out for the winter months storage. We did that and left then equipment we used in the winter in the front.
Yooo sweeetttt grant thats gonna be a nice entry to your farm cant wat for the harvest!!!! Im glad spencer is helping you around here and there keep up the good work!!!!
Anytime I see an upload from this channel my day is made.
They have an actual hitch attachment for the skid loader. It hooks like any other implement for it. Safer way to move trailers farm equipment. I have one for my skid loader. Bought it at auction for $75
we just drilled a hole in the center of the bucket on our skidder.
Love the farm you got there its awesome
Great video Grant. I hope this tip might help in the future. We had a starter go out on our four year old skid loader a while back. It was backed against a wall. Not fun to work on when you can't get to the part. Since then I always make sure leave it far enough away from the wall. I noticed yours was backed against the wall. Looking forward to more videos.
OMG it's so cool to see all thee toys finally together in the shed...
I am one of your fans for both of your channels I love them all keep up the good work
Grant get some 8's limestone, when you have fines in your gravel it just makes mud ! When you do build a workbench make sure it's tall , that way you can slide welders, tool boxes and work carts underneath and really keep it clean and save space !
cant wait and see when its done
This is by far my favorite UA-cam channel keep it up grant
Looking forward to seeing your next video. Good work.
Great video Grant
Really great, Grant! Love seeing the progress! You got some really great footage there, each step of the way. really appreciate it! :) At 7:07+ you look like an experienced farmer already!!! A good deal under your belt already! Each week brings more experience!
And from 10:16 to when you shut the tractor off, that was a milestone moment to me. So many things you accomplished, all visible in that 'snapshot'. Way to go Grant! Looking forward to the fun harvest! And I agree with folks: a good steel workbench bought at auction or welded up to practice, could withstand the force required for freeing stuck parts. Non-flammable too. The wood one is good for super light duty flame-free situations. I like watching you build your place! Thank you :)
Consider an enclosed trailer? fitted up to sleep in, because you can use regular furniture and stuff, like a pullout sofa, and it would be spacious...maybe an 8x16 near the end of it's life, bought reasonably? just an idea :)
Awesome seeing all the progress
Always so satisfying to see those big leaps of progress. Lookin good.
Post 10 will be happy with the way you laid the Culvert pipe
Should have had the floor coated before putting anything in it. Also should get the walls spray foamed, help keep the bugs and pests out. while helping keep it warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
From what I see you have bought some clean green.
I’ve used a hole saw to cut holes into pallet forks before. Takes awhile and a good drill but it’s works.
Hey Grant, on your tractor when you put it in gear you dont have to use the clutch. you just have to flip it in gear and it takes off pretty smooth
Yes, for some reason i still tend to use clutch a lot. Starting to break that habit tho!
Looks great! That will be one nice building site.
All that hard work is paying off.
The farm is coming along I excited for harvest love the vids
awesome video come so far
I love a wide drive way!
Been here since day one, and never leaving!
Don't cut holes in the forks. They make a skidloader quick attach plate that has a receiver hitch in it. Get that and one of those tri balls and a regular hitch then you slip them in and out just like your truck hitch. Way easier.
Congratulations on 100k Grant, keep it up your videos are amazing!
Ur doing great Grant keep it up 👍
Awesome video. Shop with a the equipment inside looks great 👍. Driveway looking good to. Make sure all the belts and bearings are good and grease on combine. Can't wait for harvest!!
A tip for if you want your shed real clean use the leafblower to blow all the dust out.
Great job 👍
Everything is looking good keep up the great work
Love the videos
They have some great work bench kits (Simpson strong-tie) to custom design a bench. It isn't hard to do either and that is how I made a bench. Keep up the good work.
You're having way too much fun.
Corn is drying down really good you won't be long before harvesting, we're done with corn in Louisiana yields were really good this year, some early soybeans have been cut in my area the rest are drying down really fast!!
Yes sir i love Austin you grant basically i love all yall all of make my day better
I joy your video on your channel and I cannot wait to see your first harvest video :)
I recently saw a 9500 combine and it was being serviced
Excited to see the progress!
man always a good day when you post and if you keep working at this youll be better then millineal farmer
MF is a huge inspiration! Luv his vids!
@@granthilbert5632 if you keep up you will be there one day to
That shed is awesome
Get a Matco impact we have one they work great and they are strong would recommend also Matco tools and tool box
Just a little tip put a key to get into your shed somewhere hidden outside you will be kicking your self the day you forget your key and have to drive a half an hour to go get it
Nice! Are you planning on developing around that shed? Silos etc.. maybe a house?
Not at the moment. I've had a plan to eventually move the farm closer to home/where I grew up. Am possibly looking to buy a whole farm with sheds & grain storage in the future, and then just add on to that. Possibly buy from a retiring farmer if everything aligned good! Who knows tho!
So as of right now I don't want to spend too much on infrastructure.
@@granthilbert5632 that was direction I was hoping you were going. Take his shop, make it into your office, living quarters, put this shed there… but don’t have clue what was available in area.m
Excellent home made tow bar. Do not cut a hole in the fork.
I like your videos and the farming
I think you need a larger concrete apron in front of the shed to make it completely beautiful.
I can’t wait until the future when his farm is huge
I love your videos this was amazing don’t feel bad
A leaf blower makes quick work of blowing dust or gravel out of shed
Great video
Awesome video.!
Nice to see your another progress! I wish you good luck in the future, especially at harvest :-)
With windows that low to the ground I would recommend cameras , alarm,maybe even chain link fenced in with gate. Or a hell of a good Insurance policy!!. Thieves will keep you cleaned out if you don't watch it
You just need tractor number 2 now and you will be set so happy for keep do what your do
Grant, I just got a bunch of Outback wraps, for my 6140m, they are really inexpensive, and I got them on Amazon, They are color coded to the scv's and also lettered. So when you go to hook up, it is super fast and easy. You might want to talk to Dougo Larson about his floor sweeper game... LOL maybe he can give you some tips on keeping the new shop clean.
Yes, I actually got sent some by a friend. I just need to get them on. Will try and remember to bring them tomorrow when I head to farm!
That sheds a thing of beauty though. Keep the awesome content coming man.
Hello from Canada
Perfect video man keep it up! Hard work definitely pays off!
That was awesome
One thing about those beans Grant is that they typically look a little rough anyways when they start to drop their leaves as the plant shuts down and loses some strength but as it dries up and loses more leaves it will look much better.
Yeah that’s what I was going to say because mine have looked like that for about a month now. That’s just what they do at this time of year. Great vid Grant!
Best UA-cam video ever
105k subs Grant nice job
Hi grant, im a cattel farmer from Sweden
Keep up the outstanding work as always! We just finished chopping corn! For the series can you use an 8970? YEEYEE and have a good one! : )
Cool video
Should have used double wall plastic pipe in the ditch like Chris Letsdig18 uses.
Especially if you're in a state that Sal's the roads in the winter.
You'll never change it again.
Metal lasts only 10 to 20 years or less depending on road salt damage and you have to replace it.
Double wall would of saved me a bunch of money! The only issue I was possibly worried about was burning the ditch. I would guess this steel would last a lot longer than 10-20 years tho! Should last longer than plastic I would think
i have been watching since your last fs 17 video i love that you a persuing your dream keep up the good work on both channels
Love the videos keep it up
Harbor fright
Right as i finnished the latest fs 19 video when this popped up
What are plans and or dreams for your farm? Love the Video as always. 🚜
To slowely grow and eventually bring the farm back close to home/ trade this ground that I own now for land closer to home! And actually live on the farm too!
I really hope you’ll have a huge farm here in a couple years maybe more
Grant if you got bigger rock around your shed and on your drive way it would make it not muddy
Get yourself a leaf blower to blow out the shed floor. So much better than a broom
5:58 swide brotha 😂good ole days
Hello Grant, Excellent Video my friend. The clamp-on tow ball works well. Question, When is does rain, where does the water go from your shed roof? Perhaps a rain tank to conserve some water. also stops making a muddy mess of your yard. I wish you all the best. Always, work safe. Cheers John from Australia
I would love to see some 32’s or 30’s on your truck
@Grant Hilbert you got them extensions I was wanting
We had a barley field that was in an area of the field where the wind would swirl and fours the barley down
just me or does anyone else love the word clevase
9:40 "shaking hands with danger"
Squad- "Its tough seeing back there with a couple of wagons!" Me- "Did anyone say TOW MIRRORS!!!!!"
You have hail damage. Hail is like tornados. Will wipe out one side of the road and leave the side undamaged. A lot of farmers in Minnesota have lots of damage on their corn fields.
Sorry about your Beans
But its normal if a tracktor sits to long the tier preser will Blow out
You will know tracktor tier leks are loud
Nice vid