The first thing I learned in Tractor Trailer School ( FIFTY years ago ) was after you open the door to get out - TURN AROUND and back down the truck - of couse, we had a lot more cab overs then.
There is only one person to blame for the fall and that is Brody. The golden rule is you ascend and descend from every machine facing the machine and with 3 points of contact not skidding down facing forwards. Think you need a workplace health and safety person to give advice. John Deere is totally not to blame for Brody"s fall.
I've gotten out of semi's my whole life, thousands of times, back in May I took a wrong step and fell breaking my ribs! Always be careful, 3 points of contact they say!
I worked around heavy equipment for years. We were instructed in our Safety Courses that you face the machine the same way as going up when going down, they are not stairs but rungs as in a ladder.
BTW folks, entry and egress in semis is the same. Climb down facing the cab just like you entered and use the grab handles. I think we’ve all blew that rule off a few times. The older you get, the harder the ground is. First thing to break is the wrist. Broken wrist with pins and limited motion for life is no fun.
I’m a transport truck mechanic. We split and wash rads regularly. The key is to stay straight. I can push 4000 psi through a rad from 3 inches away with a 15° tip no problem. Just stay very straight. It is necessary to remove the a/c condenser and charge air cooler. ( if you can bend the lines for the a/c enough you can wash it first then just fold it out of the way then remove the charge air and wash it on the ground and then wash the radiator while it’s still in the truck.
Great video as always and to show more corn harvesting. Chet, you mentioned it was dry there and it's certainly been dry here in the 1st state of Delaware. We've had 30 straight days of no rain. You guys always provide some great entertainment in your videos as well. Great to see DOUGO getting some tv time as well. Thanks again guys for sharing another great video with us! Cheers from Laurel, Delaware USA.
As soon as you receive those three rib belts cut the ties on them and let them relax. The longer you can let them relax the better. This will help to get them to fit.
Very good advice never go down a ladder frontwards hazardous. Dougo very thoughtful idea to name the panel’s and yes never over flow the auger will plug and don’t like straight line belts not good have to watch . Chet very good video and interesting. Oh lookBrody over filled his combine .
Thanks for an awesome and interesting video. Am do glad that Brody is ok and did not get hurt falling off that combine ladder. Wow. The natural thing to do is the way he tried it but the steps are Built for backing down. He is really lucky to not have been hurt. Take care Brody. Watch those ladders. Seems the field operation went good today. No breakdowns and things went good. Not so with Dougo and the bin system. Had belt problems today. The piping system got too full of corn and overloaded the belts and burned them. Glad you had some replacements Dougo. Can be frustrating I understand that. Hang in there Dougo. Maybe the truck drivers need to tell Dougo when they are dumping a load of corn in the pit. Busy time with corn 🌽 harvest. You all hang in there. Good videos. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
When you plant that field where you have trucks in the middle, start with one pass across the spot where the carts go over to the trucks. Pick that when you open up the field so the carts can cut across.
Hey Dougo, instead of running the 16% load thru the dryer, blend it with the 13% loads. Moisture is money! I like the new intro and outro to your videos.
I think Deere called that a latter, meaning you should not use it as a stair. Go down the same way as you go up. What Deere could do is replace the steps with rungs, and the chaff would not pile up either.
Yeah I just got done watching Board of View Farms in Michigan and they use kondex kx7 in their John Deere Combine so if you're having trouble with your concaves you might be able to use those they're really good
2:56 I wish I could say 15.9 was dry corn. Northern Colorado doesn’t believe in dryers, so anything over 17.0 we can’t put in the bin. Not uncommon for some guys to fall behind and see moisture in the 12’s.
You should go down the ladder facing the ladder or should. We all have our ways. One of the worst falls I had was missing the last rung and turning on the ladder falling bad and twisted my ankle so bad that the Dr said it would heal faster if I had broken it. It was a real bummer 😢
When you have more than one belt, it's best to always purchase matched sets or banded belts. Matched sets will always work better. Non-matched sets, some will be too tight and some too lose.
Belt out a tune....Guess it's extremly la la rare in the corn belt. While if was doing all that transferring this morning.... "BURNIN BELTS" Sometimes they do ask sometimes they don't this time they didn't.... While(And making UA-cam Video's) "WELL HELLO NICE OF YOU (TUBE) TO TURN ON"... HANKHARDWARE"" RIGHT WHEN>>> I had a truck this morning........ No yack Yack on radio... Probably a trucker asking if it's VERY OK to move!!! Then I've gotta go cause there Yacking on the radio... Don't care what a trucker is sayin... OK now we're talkin too much.... people don't like that!! LOL so funny!!
Good stuff guys. I’ve been on many of ladders. When you are tired and wanna get home you disregard safety warnings. And end up hurting and feeling stupid.
I laugh every time I hear you say you're in the rhubarb , you got an awesome crew you guys put out great videos a lot of fun to watch keep up the good work.
Once or twice a year take the condenser off and lay off to side without disconnecting the lines and take air to air all the way off and and climb in hood (with the hood supported) and with a lower psi short wand wash radiator out. Do the same with the air to air before installing it. It will save yourself a lot of overheating issues. Coming from a Peterbilt mechanic and someone who has been around silage trucks often.
What an awesome video Chet and reading the comments was hilarious probably 140 of the 150 comments were telling you how to use a ladder 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Really enjoyed the video as always looking forward to the next one Best wishes from Ireland 🇨🇮
The type of radiator you're looking for are referred to as a silage radiator. They will have less fins per inch. Go to your local radiator shop & tell them what you have for a truck so they will be able to get the radiator dimensions & tell them you want a silage radiator for it.
Where I work steps even 1/2 that steep would be considered a ladder and you could only descend on it facing it same way you climb it. That out of proper spacing is a whole other and much worse issue.
Couple bits of learned advice, from one old man to another old man and a few young bucks. #1, that's a ladder and not a flight of stairs. FACE THE MACHINE no matter going up or down. 3 points of contact ALWAYS. #2 ALL OF YOU would benefit GREATLY from having a physical therapist visit talks farm for at least a couple work days. They'll be able to tell you how to better position your bodies for various tasks. If and when you make this happen (and without any skin in your game i HIGHLY recommend it) PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to what you're being told and take it to heart. Your bodies and your wives will be thankful later on in life. Cheers, happy harvest boys
Love the channel, but I thought it was common farmer knowledge that you treat steps on a tractor/combine/any piece of machinery like a ladder, facing the machine as you go down. This is also a much more effective way of grabbing the railings that are also practically vertical.
At the truckercourse 40 years ago 🚛 🇳🇱 We where tought to try for once, to climb the ladder or stairs on the truck to climb with the back to the cab,and let someone look😅 Hilarious,...but they will never forgett ,how to climb the right way into or out a cabin again
Depending on the gravel pit owner or quarry covered by MSHA, you’ll never have an issue with dismounting mobile equipment… face the ladder, three points of contact and nothing else or your unemployed
3 points of contact at all times! Both hand on the side rails and one foot while the other is moving! I used to laugh at this when younger and just jump out or only have one hand on the rail till I fell out of my semi and broke my wrist cause my railing was slick with ice and my side step was froze over! Now I always use the three points of contact rule😆. I bet Brody does too.
Years ago cultivate was the norm, had years when cultivated crops were 3xs non cultivated, extremely wet year, no cultivated went 50 bu, cultivated went 140+
My brother's two green tractors had a different number of steps on very similar tractors. It was not fun stepping on the thrid step of the tractor that only had two steps. Brody, I feel for you.
Can we agree that while the ladder is designed to go up and down facing the tractor, that it's construction and position make it a debris collector which makes it unsafe as well. I guess you have to buy and carry a cordless blower to clean off the steps as well. Maybe a rear facing ladder facing the back would both collect less debris and also allow it to be less steep while not interfering with the unload auger.
Here in Ohio we actually have shelled some corn at 10.3 moisture i double ✔️ my tester with our local elevator and at my 52 years of my farming career I have never seen corn coming out of the field at that moisture also it had a 59.6 test weight
Thanks for letting all us farmers know that we might not see things as clearly BUT... Our life expectancy lights will last 3,000 more minutes longer if we turn them on 15 minutes later and for telling John Deere some people would like a bouncy castle to land on when the steps are not configured right for the end of the day forward about to be a quadriplegic triple twist 2 1/2 summersault stair descent under the save the bulb life dim lights "JOHN DEERE KEY GOES OFF....." "The Lights Stay On For 2 minutes The Dismount".... OH so BRODY can yawn and dive!!
The first thing I learned in Tractor Trailer School ( FIFTY years ago ) was after you open the door to get out - TURN AROUND and back down the truck - of couse, we had a lot more cab overs then.
3 points of contact too 😀
@@autocat9371 yes I worked with a driver that missed the first step on his 85 cab over peterbuilt and landed on both elbows and broke them be careful
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Parachute training course you learn how to fall landing in a curl and roll never try to stop a fall go with it make yourself into a ball.
There is only one person to blame for the fall and that is Brody. The golden rule is you ascend and descend from every machine facing the machine and with 3 points of contact not skidding down facing forwards. Think you need a workplace health and safety person to give advice. John Deere is totally not to blame for Brody"s fall.
That isn't a staircase, Chet, it's a ladder. It is designed to go up and down while facing the ladder, butt first coming down not face first.
I've gotten out of semi's my whole life, thousands of times, back in May I took a wrong step and fell breaking my ribs! Always be careful, 3 points of contact they say!
That is why the safe way to descend stairs like that is backwards and 3 points of contact at all times!
I worked around heavy equipment for years. We were instructed in our Safety Courses that you face the machine the same way as going up when going down, they are not stairs but rungs as in a ladder.
It appears to have been said enough in the comments!
UP AND DOWN THE LADDER FACING THE MACHINE!
It not the machine~ ~it's the operator!
Im assuming they were joking about going down a combine ladder that way.
And three point of contact
@@joekeusch5995 I think not. Many farmers come out tractors and combines facing wrong way, cause its faster. I do it too.
@Kornn66 That's different. Well, people have no one to blame but themselves if they try to go down a ladder like that and get hurt.
I the ladder is made to be used climbing down facing the unit
Yes
Ya ya ya yaaaaa Like you have not been on a Comdine
Const has this issue with ladders ..you never climb or ascend a ladder with your butt to the steps or rungs
AND THATS THE RISK WE SLL TAKE
BTW folks, entry and egress in semis is the same. Climb down facing the cab just like you entered and use the grab handles. I think we’ve all blew that rule off a few times. The older you get, the harder the ground is. First thing to break is the wrist. Broken wrist with pins and limited motion for life is no fun.
Had a buddy break a wrist when he ran into ice on the steps.
I pray for you all not to get hurt. so knock it off Stay safe guys it’s hard dangerous work and then you’re tired on top of it. GOD BLESS GUYS
The knowledge you need to run your farm equipment is amazing.
Dougo is great, I love how real he is!
That tint is awesome. We run tint on all our tractors
I’m a transport truck mechanic. We split and wash rads regularly. The key is to stay straight. I can push 4000 psi through a rad from 3 inches away with a 15° tip no problem. Just stay very straight. It is necessary to remove the a/c condenser and charge air cooler. ( if you can bend the lines for the a/c enough you can wash it first then just fold it out of the way then remove the charge air and wash it on the ground and then wash the radiator while it’s still in the truck.
Production team is doing a great job 👏
💯
Agreed, love the next on Larson Farms😂
Great video as always and to show more corn harvesting. Chet, you mentioned it was dry there and it's certainly been dry here in the 1st state of Delaware. We've had 30 straight days of no rain. You guys always provide some great entertainment in your videos as well. Great to see DOUGO getting some tv time as well. Thanks again guys for sharing another great video with us! Cheers from Laurel, Delaware USA.
Dougo cam is still gold!
Add a red & a green light close to the pit , have the red light on when you don't want the truckers dumping their load
Excellent video as always! I love the new intro and outro! God bless you all, and thanks again for farming!
As soon as you receive those three rib belts cut the ties on them and let them relax. The longer you can let them relax the better. This will help to get them to fit.
Loving the Dougo humor, today it's all bout the grain bin belts...don't luv those straight ones...😇
@@denault3985 I didn’t get it at first and then I realized how ignorant I am. Douggo is my clone.
Honestly, this video brightened my mood!
Always turn around and walk down backward. I had a city slicker ride a few rounds with me years ago, and he face planted into the corn stalks.
This content makes my day, you rock!
its called 3 point for a reason. go down backwards with both hands on the hand rail and you will live longer.
Very good advice never go down a ladder frontwards hazardous. Dougo very thoughtful idea to name the panel’s and yes never over flow the auger will plug and don’t like straight line belts not good have to watch . Chet very good video and interesting. Oh lookBrody over filled his combine .
Thanks for an awesome and interesting video.
Am do glad that Brody is ok and did not get hurt falling off that combine ladder. Wow. The natural thing to do is the way he tried it but the steps are
Built for backing down. He is really lucky to not have been hurt. Take care Brody.
Watch those ladders.
Seems the field operation went good today. No breakdowns and things went good.
Not so with Dougo and the bin system. Had belt problems today. The piping system got too full of corn and overloaded the belts and burned them. Glad you had some replacements Dougo. Can be frustrating I understand that. Hang in there Dougo. Maybe the truck drivers need to tell Dougo when they are dumping a load of corn in the pit.
Busy time with corn 🌽 harvest. You all hang in there.
Good videos.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
When you plant that field where you have trucks in the middle, start with one pass across the spot where the carts go over to the trucks. Pick that when you open up the field so the carts can cut across.
That makes way to much sense why would they do that? LOL,
Plant 24-48 leading across field to truck loading area. Then plant field as normal long rows.
always use the 3 point system when entering/exiting any cab. if you use it you won't get hurt.
That is what I was taught when entering and exiting a steam engine cab.
3 points of contact works however, Chet has a legitimate complaint about those steps. Poor design on JD's part.
@@Ham68229there are many different options, just cost money. Use them how they were intended, or pay for what you want. He was whining like a bitch.
Hey Gang we used to cut a small soft piece of rubber hose and slip in over the steel pipe. Never hurt a rad. Great video cheers Peter
Ty for showing the corn dryer. I think its very interesting ❤
Hey Dougo, instead of running the 16% load thru the dryer, blend it with the 13% loads. Moisture is money! I like the new intro and outro to your videos.
I agree, as a elevator operator 16.5% average is dry enough for a bin cooling fans do magic work on 16%
Lmao. I’m pretty sure if he could do that he would. You’re talking to a very experienced farmer.
@@WarrenWass Yeah, but you're always learning. Maybe he does know, maybe he doesn't. Don't hurt to share advice
Always go down your ladder facing the machine.
I think Deere called that a latter, meaning you should not use it as a stair. Go down the same way as you go up. What Deere could do is replace the steps with rungs, and the chaff would not pile up either.
Yeah I just got done watching Board of View Farms in Michigan and they use kondex kx7 in their John Deere Combine so if you're having trouble with your concaves you might be able to use those they're really good
2:56 I wish I could say 15.9 was dry corn. Northern Colorado doesn’t believe in dryers, so anything over 17.0 we can’t put in the bin. Not uncommon for some guys to fall behind and see moisture in the 12’s.
Appreciate the added information this video. retired farm worker
Those 3 rib wide belts are great. They can handle more horse power but the down side is if you have worn sheeves they will not last.
You should put a house window screen in frunt of the rateater it helps with the trash not going through it it works well on our silage trucks
Yep , facing the ladder .
Daily wisdom with Dougo, “straight belts no good, round belts good”
Don’t fret about the 1 bushel/acre loss. The doves and geese appreciate it very much😂
Glad to see such good yields. Have a great week and stay safe.
The rule is you come down with your face to the machine. When I got my license you were docked if you tried to come down facing the street.
Awesome video, Chet and Larson Farms!!!
Thank Dougo for the belt advice.
You should go down the ladder facing the ladder or should. We all have our ways. One of the worst falls I had was missing the last rung and turning on the ladder falling bad and twisted my ankle so bad that the Dr said it would heal faster if I had broken it. It was a real bummer 😢
When you have more than one belt, it's best to always purchase matched sets or banded belts. Matched sets will always work better. Non-matched sets, some will be too tight and some too lose.
Belt out a tune....Guess it's extremly la la rare in the corn belt. While if was doing all that transferring this morning.... "BURNIN BELTS" Sometimes they do ask sometimes they don't this time they didn't.... While(And making UA-cam Video's) "WELL HELLO NICE OF YOU (TUBE) TO TURN ON"... HANKHARDWARE"" RIGHT WHEN>>> I had a truck this morning........ No yack Yack on radio... Probably a trucker asking if it's VERY OK to move!!! Then I've gotta go cause there Yacking on the radio... Don't care what a trucker is sayin... OK now we're talkin too much.... people don't like that!! LOL so funny!!
Good stuff guys. I’ve been on many of ladders. When you are tired and wanna get home you disregard safety warnings. And end up hurting and feeling stupid.
I laugh every time I hear you say you're in the rhubarb , you got an awesome crew you guys put out great videos a lot of fun to watch keep up the good work.
Once or twice a year take the condenser off and lay off to side without disconnecting the lines and take air to air all the way off and and climb in hood (with the hood supported) and with a lower psi short wand wash radiator out. Do the same with the air to air before installing it. It will save yourself a lot of overheating issues. Coming from a Peterbilt mechanic and someone who has been around silage trucks often.
What an awesome video Chet and reading the comments was hilarious probably 140 of the 150 comments were telling you how to use a ladder 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Really enjoyed the video as always looking forward to the next one
Best wishes from Ireland 🇨🇮
Thanks for the awesome comment!!👍
@@LarsonFarms THANK YOU for you're videos I've been watching them for a long time their pretty awesome
Best wishes from Ireland 🇨🇮
Loving and enjoying these videos. Good job guys!👍❤️
Face the ladder going up (AND Down) !
The type of radiator you're looking for are referred to as a silage radiator. They will have less fins per inch. Go to your local radiator shop & tell them what you have for a truck so they will be able to get the radiator dimensions & tell them you want a silage radiator for it.
Where I work steps even 1/2 that steep would be considered a ladder and you could only descend on it facing it same way you climb it.
That out of proper spacing is a whole other and much worse issue.
If you know, well, you know!
Couple bits of learned advice, from one old man to another old man and a few young bucks.
#1, that's a ladder and not a flight of stairs. FACE THE MACHINE no matter going up or down. 3 points of contact ALWAYS.
#2 ALL OF YOU would benefit GREATLY from having a physical therapist visit talks farm for at least a couple work days. They'll be able to tell you how to better position your bodies for various tasks. If and when you make this happen (and without any skin in your game i HIGHLY recommend it) PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to what you're being told and take it to heart. Your bodies and your wives will be thankful later on in life.
Cheers, happy harvest boys
What a coordinated dance!!
Dougo rocking the Honda!
It’s a Polaris
I could watch your bin site operation all day
GREAT videos as always. We real like the new intro and out tro!!!!
Love the channel, but I thought it was common farmer knowledge that you treat steps on a tractor/combine/any piece of machinery like a ladder, facing the machine as you go down. This is also a much more effective way of grabbing the railings that are also practically vertical.
Holy cow is this a movie!!!
Health and safety states you should reverse down a ladder with 3 points of contact. That’s in the UK.
Same everywhere. In any industry it is a sackable offence.
At the truckercourse 40 years ago 🚛 🇳🇱
We where tought to try for once, to climb the ladder or stairs on the truck to climb with the back to the cab,and let someone look😅
Hilarious,...but they will never forgett ,how to climb the right way into or out a cabin again
Depending on the gravel pit owner or quarry covered by MSHA, you’ll never have an issue with dismounting mobile equipment… face the ladder, three points of contact and nothing else or your unemployed
3 points of contact at all times! Both hand on the side rails and one foot while the other is moving!
I used to laugh at this when younger and just jump out or only have one hand on the rail till I fell out of my semi and broke my wrist cause my railing was slick with ice and my side step was froze over! Now I always use the three points of contact rule😆. I bet Brody does too.
Always turn around so you can have 3 points of contact.
Dougo riding side-saddle. Nice!
Chet don’t laugh at Brody one year I turned my lights on because I forgot I still had my sunglasses on lol 😂
Really like the new intro and the peeks at next video.
Stay safe out there.
Years ago cultivate was the norm, had years when cultivated crops were 3xs non cultivated, extremely wet year, no cultivated went 50 bu, cultivated went 140+
My brother's two green tractors had a different number of steps on very similar tractors. It was not fun stepping on the thrid step of the tractor that only had two steps. Brody, I feel for you.
So that ladder you're supposed to go down backwards facing the ladder, so you don't fall on your face.
With 3 points of contact at all time
I have to learn the Hard Way also sometimes more than once...
He's right, you know.
@@nickcollins1528don’t forget the belly button rule…
@@pati8142never heard of that one and ive sat in many pointless meetings
Look at the label's on the ladder, will tell you to face the ladder when ascending and descending. They are ladders not stair's.
I really like the new intro👍 keep up the hard work guys
You have it wrong, just jump then tuck and roll. Works for me. From: me and my crutches. 👍
CHET DO LIKE THE NEW INTRO AND LOVE DOUGO SAYING “I MIGHT GET ANGRY”HA HA YOUR DAD IS A LEGEND . GREAT CONTENT MATE KEEP IT GOING MATE.👍🇦🇺
In my early years I did roofing work , as a rule you come down a ladder the same way you go up
Dougo get a orange cone and set on pit when you don't want your driver's using it
Great job Dougo,Chett
that "im having fun" in the intro makes me laugh everytime i hear it
That's a ladder not a set of stairs you're supposed to go down and facing the ladder holding on to the railings. Perfect example of operator error LOL
Love the new intro!!
Tip for Brody, wrap a rubber string at the front of the steps. I did so on my wheelloader, succes
Wish you the best best of luck for the rest of harvest season
It's called 3 point contact and going down backwards
You can get an adjustable pre cleaner for those combines, replaces the non adjustable one in the machines now.
@@lynwessel2471 They removed the pre cleaner extension, you cannot remove the pre cleaner itself.
Can we agree that while the ladder is designed to go up and down facing the tractor, that it's construction and position make it a debris collector which makes it unsafe as well. I guess you have to buy and carry a cordless blower to clean off the steps as well. Maybe a rear facing ladder facing the back would both collect less debris and also allow it to be less steep while not interfering with the unload auger.
I'd make a good farmer.
I'd absolutely love this type of life!!
Have you inhaled soybeans dust before?
Three points of contact Brody
Here in Ohio we actually have shelled some corn at 10.3 moisture i double ✔️ my tester with our local elevator and at my 52 years of my farming career I have never seen corn coming out of the field at that moisture also it had a 59.6 test weight
Great video Chet.
Thanks for letting all us farmers know that we might not see things as clearly BUT... Our life expectancy lights will last 3,000 more minutes longer if we turn them on 15 minutes later and for telling John Deere some people would like a bouncy castle to land on when the steps are not configured right for the end of the day forward about to be a quadriplegic triple twist 2 1/2 summersault stair descent under the save the bulb life dim lights "JOHN DEERE KEY GOES OFF....." "The Lights Stay On For 2 minutes The Dismount".... OH so BRODY can yawn and dive!!
Awesome video like always 👍
Good video good to see y'all
you can remove the non adjustable pre cleaner and switch it out for an adjustable pre cleaner that you can open or close from Deere. Around $1100
Chet Eric Broodie and Jordan great job Dougo problems bins oh same thing different year
Dougo, you should get a traffic cone to set on your pit when transferring grain, so your drivers know not to unload.
Use lights red and green before the dump pits
Great video Chet