Long days 😵💫 - Standing canola
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2024
- It was at this point during the harvest season that Mike was feeling the hours... Also the header does hang up canola and not sure sheers would help this time.
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If I would run on 4hrs of sleep for 50 days, I wouldn't be able to construct any kind of sentence that would make sense. Huge respect for what you and a lot of other farmers out there do
No wonder words are hard😅 imagine how mike would talk on a consistent 8 hours of sleep 😳😳
@@alexandersjostrom5933haha nobody would wanna listen to him he'd just have to much energy
I do that from the first day the frost is out to the first snow fall. Many days I sleep in the tractor cab if I'm far away from home.
Im on 4 hrs of sleep every day for about 6 years 🤣🤣
@@jacksperf8003do you mean 4 hours a night?
Here in Germany we use a standing double knife at the end of the header to cut through the canola so that there are no piles, you should try it with such a dense crop
he complains about this problem every season, take it as normal😅
Too much shatter loss as well as cut pods and grain loss with side mounted standing knives.
I love your toys Mike
Chapel is almost 2! It seems like I was watching you sweat when he was born. Happy Birthday to Chapel and well done to you.
I know exactly what Mike is talking about when he says we have a plan or strategy when your dealing with a growing family farm business. Your working like a mad man trying to get to your end plans, just a few more years lol.
Thanks for taking us along on 2023 harvest Mike.
the lad is almost 2 years old already!!! Time is flying by. Thank you for the constant video feeds considering how busy you are
wishing Chapel all the best!
That is an incredible looking crop. The boys down south must be drooling watching the north videos.
Thanks for the videos Mike! My prayers for Chapel and his skin issues
Happy birthday Chapel on November 8 , that just happens to be my birthday to only I'm going to 73 years old, so have a good birthday there little man, I hope you get over all of your health problems.
I remember the "Fendt 1050 vs 560RT John Deere (See Description for details)" video like it was yesterday. 5 years already passed on the UA-cams. Time flies Mike, remember to stop and smell the roses every once and awhile.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for letting us follow you around this harvest season. Good luck finishing up.
Watch you faithfully mike, since to see you have a happy ending and to share your issues as well your successes.. farming just north of golden Parie, it was a disgusting year and to see some one get ahead, is good to here.. meet up sometime for a beer.. and dump the green and get in red, non sore hands is a happy farmer
Happy Monday Mike!, Have a good week.
Great videos, thank you and your family for taking the time to share.
I love your show.thank you
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us all. Respectfully like your thoughts. Hope your son out grows his skin problems.
I sure don’t miss those long hour days Mitch. Good for you and your crew working so hard to feed us!!
Thanks for the ride in the cab.
Great video Mike
You’re amazing Mike!
Almost 2! Where did that time go! Must be time for a little brother or sister 😜 love your content mate. G’day from AUS 🇦🇺👍
Mike you are going to grow old real fast if you keep this up. At the end it doesn’t matter if you farm 1000 ac or 100,000. I’ve learnt over the past couple yrs there is more to life then spending it in machinery and in your case a truck running back and forth.
Each to their own.
Except the bank doesn’t care and those payments show up regardless of how tired you are.
@@crandonborthThen you've made a miscalculation. The idea is to be alive.
At time like these, I don't mind our 130 ha and 70 ha for our friend. That's roughly 500 acre we work on and even this amount feels too much sometimes for 2 people, my dad and me. If the weather just right and your window to plant/drill shrink to a day, you gotta sacrifice something to put your crop into the ground or you lose days or weeks. But that's only 2 times for us here, so I can't realy complain.
@@crandonborth banks only care about interest payments never pay shit off they love it $ for them
We are all lucky that someone will work this hard for us to go to the grocery store
Been running a hinge since year 1 of them in canola in north central North Dakota. Cut high. Tilted back. Set you 2 or 3 depending on what you like. And combine. We leave as much stubble as you can for moisture. I want to fill with snow. I like seeding around water then being dry. Personally everyone is different. We farm roughly 60 miles apart. And that 60 miles is the biggest soil changes most people will ever see cut 3000 acres of canola this year. At 4+ mph at 45 feet with a 790.
Those deere throw over monitors are all over the place. We had the sensitivity set to 76 near the start and we were throwing over 0.38bu/ac, and then later in the year got combine set to 0.24bu/ac throwing over and the set to current was 86 sensitivity. We throw a pan every few hours and don't pay a ton of attention to that little display. Seems to be fairly inaccurate, but the drop pan doesn't lie. We've been really pleased on the numbers out the back. Sample has seemed to be variety dependant, but not tons better than a 700 series unless you start throwing over around half a bushel. Then it cleans up nice.
Them Billable hours add up!! ZZzzzz Stay safe!
if i lived arround the corner i would come and help mike!
Happy 2nd birthday to Chapel! I know I'm early but if I don't say it now I'll forget. 🎂🎉❤
Good luck combining your canola Mike
Getting there!
That is one happy looking crop Mike.
Happy for you Mike, finally getting rewarded
Have you tried the side knives on your HD header? It MIGHT help eliminate the canola from bunching on your divider.
Nice crop Mike! Appreciate you finding the time to record and share your harvest with us. Im curious how much land you actually farm South and North?
Okay
Thanks Mike.
North farm seems vastly more productive than the south farm..
Helps when it rains
It’s amazing what a drought does to farmland eh?
Delighted for ya Mike, ur reaping the rewards of ur hard work 👌
The north farm is reaping great crops. So Mike when harvest & tillage is all over do you hibernate for a week. A do whack a do whack a do whack a do is a great song. I hope some day Christan out grows his issues.
Its like munching through a great big ax-minster carpet full of dollar bills. Not a bad feeling for a farmer.
Enjoyed the vid Mike! Thanks!
Now that's interesting. Nice camera work Mike 💯
Milk and canola oil baths are great for eczema! I used to do them as a child.
Hang in there Mike
Mike, will you be culling the Deere from your fleet?
Wow 20 hours a day Mike, time for a rest buddy!!
You almost have the hours for unemployment insurance. Your videos are very informative. Keep up the awesome work you do with your family and crew.
That is one crazy crop 😃
As a farmer I more than understand the lack of sleep and how it messes with your head but I am way too old to be able to do two months anymore, I do a month of little and sporadic sleep and then I’m done not able to wag . Sleep for 24 hours straight. I will say that you do lose a lot of weight during silly season. So now that you have almost finished your season with the deeres honest opinion which was worse the fendt or the Deere ? You know that’s why we’re all looking at you sitting in the cab of a combine for the last two months mate.
You are at “harvest USA Report” 2 day’s in a row! Short, but always interesting!
Run the metal divider on the end of the header. Will help divide and keep it from hanging up on end of header 👍
My canola ran 15bpa. Lol. I guess that’s the difference between south and north rains. Our son had sensitive skin until about 3 years old. Lot less sensitive now
Yeah I hear ya, my mustard ran 8bu/ac back south. Rain is somewhat important 😆
my daughter has sensitive skin, she is now a teenager and her skn it is much better.
I was allergic to many things when I was young, Now only allergic to mold (wet hay, staw, dust) and chlorine (milk system cleaning)
Awesome content 👏
Hi Mike, how come you are not running vertical knives on the ends of the header. Here in the UK we wouldn't touch it without them.
Same in Czechia and all European countries I would say… last year he had a video about how bad he can cut canola with JD header cause the ends of the header were pluging and he said “sideknives wouldn’t help” 😄 I cant understand this
@@paveljanata7369Intelligence or solving problems using simple or practical solutions aren’t characteristics that Mike has.
Side knives definitely makes combining oil seed rape (canola) alot easier. We changed from swathed rape to combining direct with side knives and found a lot less problems. Swathed rape if it was bunched up would do some serious damage to the combine.
@@clearskiesranch1362not very common in western canada.
@@SirHuddy Intelligence? I know….Mike has made that abundantly obvious
Great looking canola
thanks
Love the name!
Your harvest hours sound like hours I worked on commercial fishing boats during the days with 15+ hours of daylight, and it's such a relief when winter gets there so you can slow down and spend time with family
I can only imagine what your hours would have been with a great Southern crop. We started cutting back our hours during cotton picking season after a month and a half of combining grain and corn with similar hours as bad things usually happen after midnight on and to the cotton pickers. Parts and down time are just too expensive when trying to eek out an extra hour or four ( unless a hurricane is imminent. Too bad farmers can't go on strike for better wages. The office-working world would sieze up and starve without food and freeze to death without clothing..
If you dont have the side cutters i would recommend going with the grain...instead of across it.
When we lived in the farm all our boys had skin issues. Moved to town and they all went away. I’m pretty sure it was the water they were bathing in.
i am very sorry to hear Chapel has health problems.mAybe the little man will grow out of them.
So here’s a weird one I learned about straight cutting.
In southern Alberta The grain generally leans from the west wind. I found it way easier with way less gobs building up like that if I cut north and south starting on the east side of the field For us it worked🤷♂️
The car seat could be for lee too.😊
Watching that jd head feed is terrible Mike I strongly recommend you try a claas 8700 with a geringhoff trueflex razor make mince meat outta that canola!
And also some canola knifes for the sides of the header would help
Now I see the reason for the upper auger,,, Jackson Brothers AU just installed them on their headers, they're close to cutting canola also...
Hello Sir, have you ever tried CaseIH combines / New Hollands or are the dealerships to far away? Thanks for your great videos!
buddy, one of my boys had pretty had skin problems as well, luckily hes grown out of it, but while we where fighting with rashes and eczema my wife found the creams and treatments available where not helping so she started making her own creams from all natural products and we even got into honey bees to supply our own bees wax, anyway shes selling lotions and soaps and other beeswax related products, if your interested to try some i can hook you up
Have heard from various people who also had skin issues and other conditions that they changed their diet and the condition went away. A friend of mine has been on keto for 30 years now and they no longer suffer from Chronic fatigue syndrome. I suspect much of this is a result of high oxalate acid foods. Maybe that could help Chaple as well. My Brother suffered from food allergies and toxic foods and only eats clean now. The other thing that helped me was eliminating seed oils.
When i was a little boy i had skin issues also like eczema i was highly allergic to any kind of pollen i was miserable. I was born dead i was really blue and the doctor brought me back but the doctor didn't know if i was gonna make but i did. Im 51 now and i still have skin issues.
Mike speed your rotors up and increase your wind a bit it will clean the sample up. We ran the CR in the 1000rpm range.
Mike maybe you should try an ideal 9 fendt they're amazing machines and I bet no plugging issues new to the channel
😆 You're not fooling anyone
Well maybe you'd only plug it once every hour but that's about it
@@Mygirlfriend3141 the Ideals def plugged worse and when they did, the chopper wouldn't roll back. So it was a bigger job to unplug. Deere is easier to unplug, hands down! 😂 But I am not taking away from the fact that it shouldn't be plugging..
@@mikemitchell2554 well I guess you made a wise choice to go from fendt too green never a bad choice to go green just the right color green but I wish you a green harvest or are you done already
Go mike
You could use a New Holland
Mike is it possible to run lodge knives on the header to help with the cutting the canola
Thanks for the videos i really enjoy them 👍
Those excema issues are quite common in young kids his age Mike . Don’t worry
Good morning Mike goats milk is good for you skin
Pickin corn watching on the iPad 🤦🏼♂️
Mike You've got the temporary yield almost the same as in winter rapeseed in Europe 😊 Is this canola is gmo hybrid?
Magnifique grand champ et la x9 1000 et la grande coupe et bien équipés 😂😊😮😅
You got side-knives for canola?
I apologize for tuning out but combining at night on camera, mite as well be driving in the rain without my glasses.😢😢😢😢
Do you not use side knives in standing Canola (OSR)? Might help with the jamming at the header ends?
Averaging 19.5 hours a day for 54 days straight?? How??
You get used to it. Harvest of 2019 was 100 days long.
Yeah a million dollars, why expect a clean sample.
Bushy crops like canola tend to bunch up at times at the right angle transition to the center belt for the feederhouse, (throat) of the combine.
Let’s hope your plan of expansion doesn’t come at the cost of your health & mental well being. Live is too short to be working all the time. A camping trip that includes relaxational time around a bonfire will do wonders
You need cutters at each side on the header Mike makes it a lot more easier ☺️ great work otherwise !
We call them side knives in the uk 👍
I feel for people that have to deal with “Skin Issues” as from what I have seen the ointment medication that works for one person may do more harm to another person and there certainly is no “Quick Fix”
Mike do you have to farm this big and work that amount of crazy hour to make a good living.
No. This is nothing but greed
@@clearskiesranch1362Why you always so sour?? This is what capitalism looks like… work harder then the next guy and you will have everyone looking up to you instead of down on you.
@@clearskiesranch1362 NO. By the time he has paid for his equipment, fuel, fertilizers, spraying, seed, and other equipment and considering the crop risks involved Mike is probably yielding about what's right for the size of his operation. I also expect that finding good help that gets paid whether the crop is good or poor is very difficult. For what he has invested he could do a lot better in other occupations.
@@crandonborth how many young families do you think he’s displaced just to stroke his own ego? There’s no reason to cover this many acres other than greed
@@clearskiesranch1362Wow you're a ray of sunshine; must be a hoot at parties, telling everyone how greedy and stupid they are for living their life in a way that you don't agree with.
What I didn't like about combining at night was i always felt like something was watching me
Id really really like to see you try out a Claas.. all the fanboys always championing them.. lets put it to the test in Mike's conditions!! And im talking the biggest one they offer in North America!
You guys don’t weight everything that comes off each field?
No sir
Get rid of the X9!!!
Um. Thistle slivers...... gloves?
Are you using canola knives on your headers? it doesnt look like it so i wonder why?
Mike with all the x9 issues does that mean you will have a case next year as you don't like to stick to something that you don't like lmao 😂🎉 would love to see it lol
not a CASE he already mentioned possibility of tradeing in each of the x9's for 5 700wutevers ;) the new ones have all that automation on them too... ;)