Moving Equipment Before the Blizzard
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- Moving tractors before the blizzard! Batteries don't like cold weather! I'm getting anxious to get the John Deere machinery ready for spring planting. I decided to shuffle the sheds around and get the planter in the shed so I would have something to work on while the weather is bad!
I am a 5th generation family farmer from West-Central Minnesota. The recent interest in food, combined with a large amount of 'misinformation' has driven me to start this channel. I hope to be someone people can relate to and trust when they question how their food is grown and raised. I also hope to become a 'smarter' farmer through my experiences with this channel. I strongly believe we must have an open mind and a willingness to learn about others, or we cannot move forward as one. My goal is to build the connection between farmers and consumers by facilitating a collaborative conversation amongst everyone. I do this by sharing my day-to-day farming experiences, my opinions on certain topics, and occasionally visiting other farms and businesses to help better understand other farming and business practices. There is no limit to where this channel may go, so please join me!!
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Love your sense of humour. Always enjoy watching your videos. 👍
I’m an Agriculture student at Montana State University and I enjoy every bit of your videos. Growing up in an agriculture community, I came to learn that there are fine differences in succession between well-organized and un-organized operations. I have a lot of respect for you and your passion for farming and I can’t wait to see where this channel goes
Zach Arndorfer thank you!!
Love how clean you keep your equipment, says a lot. Great video!
This makes me want to be a farmer. I’ve always liked hard work in the yard. It’s the adult version of playing with trucks, and you get paid for it. 👍🏼
truly enjoy your events on the farm.....great work!! can't wait till spring videos
Love it. Same experience here, just with much smaller and older equipment. And my waukesha 265ci starts just as well in meadow green. Very dependable winter tractor.
Only in farming can a small project turn in to an all day event, I love it.
Wow I was cold the whole time I watched you. I just hate that wind when it blows hard. Feels like it goes all the way through you. Take care and stay warm.
Mark Mortensen q
I here ya
Me too.
Susan Dickson is
Love how the Moline never dies
my dad was a western Kansas wheat farmer and that is what I told him I wanted to be and he discouraged me and sent me to college...now I am 76 and would have loved doing your job you are terrific
I love how the moline just fires every time 👍🏻
I’m in NE MN so I feel the temps along with ya! Warm now but -35f in the winter!
I want to see more of you frolicking through the yard lol. Literally laughed out loud
HAHA! I will try to "frolick through the yard" more often!
Please more frolicking! Lol
yes yes that was funny lol
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Oh yeah that was funny!
Skipping through a winter wonderland. Awesome!
Grew up in west Kansas. Amazing how much the two states look alike. Your video takes me home even with all the snow. We grew wheat, soybeans and corn. Our main tractors were Minneapolis Ms and case WD 90s. That was in the 60s. Yes, I am that old.
When it comes to the tractors, we’re in our right minds, MN Millennial Farmer. John Deere is our go-to tractor.
Yes beautiful sea of green. Good luck racing. Enjoy your vacation
You should get quick disconnect terminals for the battery charger to plug in the trucks to avoid dismantling the step each time you need a charge. like the kind a tow truck uses
that a very tidy yard and shop gud 2 see a man that knows ho 2 respect his equipment
Love seeing the 8260R in action we also have one but its pit biggest tractor lol. Thanks so much for the video!
It's been awhile since I've been watching I'm back love all the green good luck racing it's also been a brutal winter in upstate NY
That's a lot of John Deere equipment! Nice Minneapolis Moline tractor. Thanks.
you need to add some cameras to your grain cart. We have put one on the auger and one on the rear of cart. the one on the back makes it nice for backing in sheds and while driving down the road. The one we put on the auger faces inside of wagon to watch while unloading on the go.
You are amazing sir. Always working always on the run. God has blessed you with so much. Work hard play hard!!!
Drop $20 a tractor on a Noco battery tender or put in a tender system and your batteries will last years and start every time.
great attitude. dad or grandfather taught you well, but mom had your back.. keep safe
Have a safe and good time
Best tractor in the fleet the ole Minnie. Great video zach. Good luck racing
I got the same black schumacher. I also have a small smart charger they make that will charge test and maintain batteries. Nice to use if Im not going to be around it to make sure it dont over charge or anything the smart charger does it all.
Dont feel alone, all our batteries seem to be dead when we want to move things as well. Thanks for another great “the farming life” video
You have the best job ever I love farming I hope to be like you when I am older
Wow you got the whole nine yards, beautiful farm, amazing equipment and race cars. I’m a hobbies farmer and that large equipment is just cool to see.
you should get a trickle charger for each piece of equipment. keeps the batteries in top shape all winter.
I was born in 1930. The Mpls Moline Plant was on the corner Hiawatha and Lake Street in Mpls when I was young. Jim
A day in the life of a farm.Taking it in stride. Nice to have at least one always start.
Love your humor. I laugh my ass off at times reminds me of me and my buddies.
M Jonesy821 that's what it's all about man!
Don’t know what your talkin bout the cold start on the combine was awesome! Great video
I understand how important farming is, but the people where I live are super obsessed with it, even more than normal farmers. Also, I hate it when crops are in my fields because I always want to do something with that large open area wherever there's crops there. Anyways, huge props to all the small farmers out there. That machinery is super expensive, and you won't always make a lot of money farming, but you people don't lose hope and keep going.
This is hilarious because it’s EVERY time it’s miserable out and you have to move everything around. 🤣
You've probably been given all kinds of advice about the battery issue. Personally, when I have equipment in cold storage I find it is best to avoid the batteries ever dying by trickle charging them. You can add on trickle chargers to each machine so that all you need to do is plug them in when you store them. Then you get a good start every time you need to.
Maybe an ideas I use battery tenders on Tractors that sit. Yes you have to leave them plugged in minimal power use. IT is nice to have a fresh charged battery. Also exstends the battery lie They are reasonably priced
Not to mention the time savings...
I agree the reason the battery on the old tractor isn’t dead is because it doesn’t have the drain on the battery from the computers and digital clocks like the newer equipment has I have the same problem with my riding mower it has a digital clock on it and same with my atv he either needs tenders or disconnect the batteries over winter or once a month or so start everything up but that’s hard on the equipment to cold start them as far as the batteries lasting longer because of keeping them charged I leave the battery in my mower over winter and it is dead in spring I usually jump start it and leave it run and the battery charges back up I get usually 5 years out of the small battery that it has my brother takes his mower battery out and sits it on a piece of wood in his basement where it is warm and he keeps a tender on it and he is only getting 3-4 years out of his battery
Great videos !!! Safety is number 1 on my farm ! Such a good reminder in this busy time! We had about 8 feet of frost up here in Saskatchewan!! Love the videos! Keep them coming !
Brody Hermanson dang! Did you have problems with water lines at that point? The city nearby has a lot of 6 foot deep water lines and they had some issues with them bursting this winter
Hey ! Not too many problems with freezing lines... I believe code for water lines is 8 feet deep. Hope your seeding is going ok ! I've done about 300 of lentils and moving on to canola here soon ! Take care be safe and again I love the videos! Beautiful shop too !
B Hermanson
Outlook sask Canada
I race late models at Boot Hill. Always nice to see someone else with a modified
Great video! Having a lot of farm machinery around here also the batteries always wear down in the shed....one product I have to recommend is the NOCO Genius Boost GB150 4000amp jump starter. I was skeptical but we've boost started completely dead semi's, a 9560RT, quad tracks and countless other machines all the way down to a dead UTV. Beats the hell out of pulling around a battery charger/booster and extension cord! $300 is expensive but it is one of those tools I wouldn't trade for anything now. I was laughing like crazy when you said "that figures" because that is my exact same reaction when I jump in a machine and you hear the click. Keep up the good work man!
Our NC sweet potato farm just bought a new Deere 1790 ccs planter
When I worked in construction our shop foreman would always wait for the coldest day of the winter and then want us to go out and start all the trucks that had been sitting outside for months. We'd have to put weed burners under the oil crankcase to warm the engines up enough to start.
Definitely one of my favorite winter videos so far!
Your skipping with the selfie stick was hilarious 😁😎✌
My new favorite channel. I grew up farming then got into racing IMCA mods. Just dont end up like my profile picture! Keep up the great content!
Battery disconnect switches, the save a ton of headaches. With all the electronic stuff on equipment these days, you just never know if you have a small drain on the batteries.
I thought my grandfather had good land until I saw your acreage. Its beautiful grain country, and we just had rocky hilltops. I’m seeing the race cars and I know you’ve got some acres.
hey my friend, all too well do i know the struggles of cold starts, we tried using an insulator on the batteries whick seems to work great in the winter onditions. I would like to suggest you get some dustbayne floor sweep, save your lungs my friend... keep'r goin strong!!
All those batteries to maintain, I got battery tenders on everything. It’s a pain but it works. I think we are going to have a bad winter, my snowblower for tractor isn’t on yet but soon I think.
Yep, cold temps & electronics on the equipment can really put a hurt on the batteries. Good luck on the track. Stay safe.
I use a solar panel. I put a diode into the control to each cord to keep them separate as not to be able to discharge through the Wal-Mart extension cords. I use a pigtail female plug into the trucks or tractors so no one can plug 120V into the system. When a battery deep cycles a considerable amount of performance is lost.
Good luck in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Big grass country down there. We farm in Abilene, Kansas and have a ranch in Eureka, Kansas. Enjoy the videos of your families farming operation.
Something to be said about being able to make moving equipment funny. Good luck with your race!
Battery tenders are a farmers best friend, especially in cold weather. I know the feeling and frustration well. Keep up the great attitude and looking forward to more videos, maybe some of your upcoming racing.....
I'm hoping to include a little racing!
I'm 2 minutes into your video. Looks like you having a Great day. Lol
Amazing that the old Minneapolis that’s 40-50 years old fires up every time. And the new stuff just fails consistently 😜. Goes to show they don’t make equipment like they used to!
seems like things are working out real good!
I am a dirt track driver I drive a factory stock my dad used to drives a late model and a modiefeid just like yours
Frolic Ryan Frolic! I love seeing all that nice green equipment.
I should be napping...yet here I am...completely entertained.
Don't you hate that?
Same as 'brando pb' said, and the combination of your content & humor makes this one of the best channels.
Thank you!
I’m sitting in my shop and I’m actually getting tired watching you work that hard. Lol. My hats off to you!
Your videos are so funny! Your assumption that the combine (stuck in the front of the barn) would start cracked me up! Life is funny.
cold enough to snow but can't be that cold if everything starts without being plugged in lol
and that MM is awesome, very similar to Oliver/Cockshutts. my Cockshutt 1655 diesel is my baby, reliable and ridicously good on fuel.
It actually wasn't too cold out, just snowy and windy. Notice I had just a sweatshirt on for half of the video!
Dammit man! Stay warm and safe traveling. Thanks for sharing
you seem to look after your equipment very well!
Good job and living the dream.
Dang dude! I need a nap just watching you work! Holy crap!
That sea of green sure is beautiful. Lot better than those red tractors. It was a cold winter for sure!
I realize this is an old video - but when that bolt on the battery cover sheared off I almost blasted coffee on the keyboard! That's exactly how that stuff goes! When you're battling the batteries in those temps OF COURSE everything that CAN go wrong WILL go wrong!
Keep showing your dry sense of humor, really sets you apart from other Ag related channels. I always enjoy your positive attitude and humility in your content. I grew up on a 4th generation family farm in East Central MN and went to the Princeton Raceway on the occasional summer evening when dad was free. So keep up the racing content as well.
Matt Calander awesome, thank you!
All good! Good luck
Love your vids buddy so perfect everytime happy farming from canadian farmer here keep the vids coming
Get you some battery maintainers. $25 on amazon and they trickle charge if needed or shut off when the batteries fully charged.
You think about adding a fuse block into your batteries on your machinery. All you do is pull a large fuze and it stops the flow of.juice out of the batteries instead of charging everything for 45 mins and messing around
Next time your big rig is dead just attach the charger to the big positive terminal on the back of the alternator and ground to the frame . Charges the batteries just the same and saves the BS of removing the battery box cover .
great video thanks good luck with the race
Thank goodness we don't get blizzards here in Queensland Australia. Get frosts and icy cold southerly winds. Gets to about -4°C here in winter minimum temp.
Mic Yeats wow, that not too cold. Are your summers very hot?
I'm 30 years old and I am not responsible enough to remember where I keep my wallet. I can't imagine caring for all of that beautiful and expensive equipment.
Agreed, a battery cut off on the machines and Anderson plugs that are easily accessible to start/jump/charge.
Most of the Deere stuff has easy connect stuff on the starters but the trucks kind of suck
MN Millennial Farmer. Got the battery posts under the cab on mine but that polava with removing the steps would get my goat!!
Nice green and yellow John Deere is the way to go
MN Millennial Farmer you should have a master switch on the battery box it would solve your dead battery problem.
We have 1 on 1 truck but it doesn't always seem to help
Oh Jeez. West-Central MN. I'm near Elbow Lake, MN. We have about 2000 acres.
Love the sound of that big 9870 cold starting!! Enjoy the videos man.
Jared Cialkowski thank you!
OMG.. All that fun you are having trying to get things to work JK... Makes me what to be a farmer like you so I can have that much fun. I am impressed with the knowledge you have to run and fix everything and work on cars. Once again a very good video. Great shots. Good story line. Fast paced editing. Interesting and informative . Well done.
us boys down here in Texas would have froze to death running around in that weather! Love the old yellow MM. We still have an old Oliver that my Grandpa farmed with. Enjoy your videos.
jim pustejovsky it was actually pretty warm out (mid 20s) but it was windy. That's why I was just in the sweatshirt half of the time!
What miserable weather. Glad its up there and not down here. LOL Meant to mention in the other video when I was drag racing we also ran brodix aluminum heads good lick at the race please take video the next couple of weeks would love to see some of the trip have fun in FL. Have a great day and God Bless!!!
I'm hoping the boys will let me turn the camera on once in a while while we're down there!
Cool video its nice to see that everyone has rough day getting things started
So many toys to play with!!!
Not sure how I landed on this but LOL I love it. Subscribed!
We’ve got an 8130, 4640 and a 4440. The 81 has always given us trouble starting in the winter I just always expect to have to have it plugged in to start or have to boost it. The other 2 start pretty easily
Love your videos, they have gained a lot in quality !
Why not invest in solar panels and have power stations to have your equipment on charge all night during the winter..thats what we do T our camp down in Louisiana in the winter..takes 2 minutes two unplug everything and we never have to worry about battery chargers..just a suggestion..awesome videos.. from Joey in Louisiana!!!!
Float chargers work pretty good over the winter.
nice video I'd want to leave also if I lived there.lol.
car looking tuff good luck. oh yeah like all that green as long as I'm not paying the bill
Wait wait... You need proper tour... We need tour of the race car hauler LOL