Roman: "I'll be making stuff and being confident about it, so you can believe me" I am totally stealing that line!

So happy to finally see Roman in Cornstar gear!

Roman has got to have regular appearances. He's absolutely priceless! Good luck to you with your planting!

"So I'll be making stuff up and being confident about it " LOL We love Roman! Go Roman!

Your dad is running a 16 row planter. That's not chopped liver, he can plant 250 acres a day with support from 1 guy keeping him full. 4 days and beans are done. 4 days and corn is done. That's 2 guys working. Assuming tillage is done. Other guys can focus on tillage and spray. You don't need to rent anything, that's just added expense. Repair what you have, it's always cheaper to repair than replace.

Hey Cole a few years ago we had a 2013 290 case magnum with the same exact problem. Mid seeding it started to over heat and we noticed low coolant and high oil level. Next day the dealership came out and drained the oil and put in this additive that swells the o rings and prevents coolant getting in the oil. (More of a bandaid fix) but that allowed us to finish seeding with it and ended up trading tractors. Hope you find a fix to it and can get in the fields soon. Good luck this year!

Not a farmer but since I have been watching your video I’m learning a lot thank you for bringing us our food COLE YOUR THE BEST GUY EVER KEEP GOING and have a awesome super awesome amazing day 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😊😊😊😊👍👍

I used to look forward to your videos as you posted them, but WOW have you raised the information and quality of your past few month's videos! thanks for the Cornstar weather report.

You should try to give a the BIGGEST THANK YOU to Mama CS and Nave for keeping the rest of life's chores taken care of while you guys are in the fields.

Main issue with those FPT engines is believed to be casting sand left in the block from when they were manufactured which comes loose and moves to the liners, this then due to engine vibration rubs on the o-rings between said liners and block and destroys the o-rings and causes an internal coolant leak into the sump. In some scenarios, whilst destroying the o-rings it has also rubbed into the block and made it too rough for the o-rings to seal. Then you’re up for a whole new engine.

Case ih has known about the issue since 2014 and have had the fix for it. I had my law student wife send case a letter explaining this 3 years ago and they supplied a new engine and we just paid for labour and we were out of warranty.

Fascinating, you are bringing to the uneducated the day to day issues of the farmer. As a non farmer it is very interesting all power to the plough.

Hang in there, Team Cornstar! God bless you all.

Although not ideal… the cost of repair is tolerable but the timing is what causes the worry! Hang in there Cornstars, you’ll weather this storm…. That’s what farm folks do.

Had same issue with 235 two years ago. Neighbor had it rebuilt in a week or so. $9000. In frame and used the old pistons. Put another 1200 on it so far

Thank you for sharing! The stress of farmers is unreal! God bless your family!

That engine is known to have bad orings. We have a 290 with the same engine in it. We had to put a new short block in it. Had about the same amount of hours on it too. That was 2 years ago. Case IH did cover quite a-bit of the bill since it’s been a well known issue.

Roman finally got his Cornstar gear.

That's bad news to hear about the tractor. 🙁 Hopefully you can find a temporary replacement while it's getting repaired. 🤞

Time to run the 4840 and 16 row planter 24/7 to get it done! At 250 acres per day you'd have 2000 acres planted in 8 days.

Good to see Roman again.

❤ My mind would be a total wreck trying to be a farmer with those types of numbers and breakdown of equipment and all of the prices you have no control over. Plus mother nature. Good luck this season. You surely need it.

You're not going to hurt that engine anymore. Change the oil and filter, and use it. It'll only leak when it's cold out. When it's running the o rings expand. The sleeve isn't broken. I ran my 340 for nearly a year before a new short block was installed. CIH should pay for it anyway. Paid for mine.

bravo on the meteorologist take on giving the weather forecast. that part makes me fast forward but making the weather forecast more entertaining is better. thanks cole.

Thank the ladies who may or may not be taking care of the things inside with the kids and food

Awesome video splicing. Good to see Roman. Sorry to hear about the 340.

Hi Cole! I love this series! Keep it coming!

I love everyone on Cornstar Farms!.Everyone seems so friendly and does their share of work! I love how well you all always get along!! Wishing you all a great farming season! God Bless you all!

Cole thank you for doing this series. People don't realize what it takes in order to bring food to our tables. You all work so hard and long hours thank you thank you thank you for everything you do.

Hey Cole, a good machine shop should be able to machine the block square, machine out the sleeves and re-sleeve the block and re-assemble for far below new cost. I suggest keeping the engine around for a swap down the line if you still buy a new one. It'll be money well spent when your 340's new engine gets tired.

Thank Cole for your time and effort to educate those of us who know nothing about this stuff.

Many thanks to Cole and the team for sharing these videos. 🇺🇸

I am so sorry you have two tractors down. That is a blow and I admire your resiliency.

As a business owner of a concrete restoration company, I can relate to cutting $50, $60, $70,000 checks on a regular basis. I definitely got your beat on payroll. Mine runs about sixty thousand a week.

loving watching all of you work on the farm x

Glad for the transparency.

I'll pray it will work out God bless the farmers 🙏🇺🇸

Love it when Roman “makes it up” with confidence.

What a crew! I thoroughly enjoy watching!

Iam so sorry for you guys.Just what you need right now.But you are the corn star you will figure it out.Good luck guys.thank you for your videos I love watching you guys Ed from Michigan

Your videos are a breath of fresh air, always enjoy watching

When you all get into the different machines, you all remind me of pilots in airplanes. You check everything before leaving, get your computers ready, and take off. 😊 I'm over my head I think. People need to know that it's more than getting in a tractor and pointing it in a straight line. And, people outside of Iowa may not understand how important friendship is. We truly help our neighbors when they need it. I've also noticed you've shattered your 500k subscribers! Fantastic!😊❤

Your oil cooler could also dump large amounts of coolant into your engine oil.

I’m loving these farm videos!!!! So very informative and Cole, you explain everything and make it fun. You’d be a great teacher. I’m loving every helper doing their jobs like busy bees 🐝. I so look forward to each video, keep it up and Cole, God bless each one of you. 💕🙏🏼💕

Very impressive video. Really enjoyable to watch thank you

Really appreciate the effort putting this series together for us see. While the house remodel is also very interesting, i came here for the farming... but am i have enjoying both very much. I have been looking forward to this year crops.

My husband’s grandparents had a small farm when he was young. His grandmother for years churned butter by hand. His grandfather had to do it once. The next day it was motorised. Loved hearing DC’s story about the lift on the seed machine.

Cole , very sorry to hear about the engine issues on the 340. Since it is a known issue with CASE try contacting your local CASE dealer and see if maybe they could work a deal. It is not like you are never giving them advertising and assisting one of their most popular CASE farmers could go a long way for them. Especially since big Green turn their back on you. Worth a shot. Good luck.

You're a star, keep shining bright!

We have a long block for that sitting in our hangar for that very problem. When ours went bad we just had the original block pulled and a new long block from Case put in. Took the original block, had it rebuilt and it has been sitting in our CC'd equipment hangar as a backup in case it happens again.

Been watching for years and this video format is my leather favorite of any videos you have produced

Now you know what central and western Nebraska farmers feel like when a bad storm goes through and tips over some center pivot irrigation systems with the corn and beans desperately needing water.

Hahahaha the weather rock! Congrats Roman on your Cornstar gear.

about time Roman got Merch 😄😀 best of luck with your crops, looking forward to seeing more work done on your house

I agree with you Cole…..the numbers are mind boggling for an old guy from Toledo, Ohio

There goes the 100k repair budget. I feel you, we have broken both our disks and two tractors. All in a week. Amongst other hoses and such.

Hi Cole enjoying your farming series very detail. Great filming and editing. Keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing fan in CT.

Love the info graphics! And keep up the good work! - 👋🏼 from Sweden!

Really enjoying these series

Hope everything gets in the ground you need! You're team is awesome!!. 🙏💜🙏

The 340 situation happened to me also a few years ago , and it was also my planter tractor , what I ended up doing till we installed a new block was going too CNH and getting a few jugs of coolant conditioner , it will probably seal the coolant leak in the engine till your done planting, well worth the try before doing anything else

👋 hello thanks for new vid loving this series

I'm in South Central Iowa. We've had several tornadoes and several rain events, just long enough to soak in. During the day, it's been sunny with a perfect breeze. The last 2+ years, we haven't had the rain we've desperately needed. With all the inches of rain in the last 3+ weeks, we're nearly caught up to even out the moisture. Anything after the next week will be for this year. Only a farmer would understand that word salad. But, it's great to have a nearly normal spring. Only 2 days of storms. It cooled slightly, but not nearly as low as expected. 😊

We’ve missed you Roman . I fear it will be awhile before we see home renovations again!

We had something similar happen to our John Deere because they decided to use inferior parts in their engines. Fortunately, the dealer tech caught it and had time to repair before we really needed it and didn't have to rent another one. Unfortunately, it was about a $30k bill and it's not easy to just swap planting tractors with today's technology and different setups.

Shoutout to the guy that let you use his tractor ! 🚜 it’s nice in this day and age to have Great Neighbors ! Hopefully you get your tractors up and running at reasonable Cost ! 💰💰💰💰😣

Roman was the “gopher’’ , go for this, go for that. Very helpful role!

Wow, if only the public knew the hardship that farmers have and things break down and their crops, don’t go right and the weather. There’s so many multiple problems. You really have to be a brave person to be a farmer today well corn Star family I salute you you’re the bravest family Farmers that keep on going for generations. us here in the United States. Thank you for being diligent, God’s blessings as always

keep being that man you are /stiff upper lip/ god bless every one

Cole, i really like the realistic forecasting of the weather, as it is so variable during planting season. Great job explaining. Hopefully you will have a successful crop year, prayers to your family and all farmers that feed the world. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏AMEN.

Might have to run the John Deere and 16 row planter 24/7 just to get through this season just so you don’t gotta cough up more money to rent a tractor. Atleast you still have one planter rolling!

Well that is no good. Hope you find a work around and case fixes it for you. You all are amazing.

Lovin' the weather forecaster, the rock 😂 Great job Sedrick!!! Appreciate seeing Roman has a cam and Cornstar Merch! Really enjoyed seeing Coop and Nave ❤ Thinking Daddy Cornstar needs his Reese's in a cooler of the tractor 🚜

I've worked some hellish retail years-- working on off days, 12 hour days, putting up with the general public, visits from big-wigs where we had to burn the midnight oil to get ready for the inspection so that the bigwigs could delude themselves that we could maintain a 100,000 square foot on the hours we were budgeted, but it looks like a walk in the park compared to farming!

My understanding is more water soluble fertilizer will not benefit yield, may actually cause yield drag. May cause them to be top heavy and more susceptible to heat, low moisture, and high winds due to lagging root development in early stages. It will be interesting to see. I am having a similar issue this year... I applied extra N and K for spring and my brassicas would have died if not for extra irrigation and rain... I got good early development but after fruiting they just lagged and now I am fighting to keep the bugs off till they all finish.

My one word of advice do not take chances it’s not worth it and usually they don’t pan out. You can take a chance to buy a lottery ticket but that’s about it. Stay safe be careful.

Doesn’t sound like Daddy Cornstar really wanted to change out the seed, to see if the fertilizer trial works. He just wanted to keep planting. Love the guys.

😊😊😊good 👍 to see your back to doing what you do better than anyone else on KZfaq🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

Coolant in the oil sucks. I suggest pulling an oil sample 3/4 through the oil change interval possibly catching problems early. I’ve caught coolant issues twice by sampling. Good luck this year

Thank you. Hope for rain but only enough not to much.

Man that's tuff on that engine failure.Hope you get it figured out. That's OK Roman your will get it all figured out. You are a quick learner.

Really enjoy the content. Intense and epic.

Thanks Very informative

awesome video Guys. thank you

Hope the rain helps and not hinder your planting.

weird to thank yourself, maybe, so I'll say it, Thank you for all you do, making great contant to entertain and teach us what goes on!

I can relate to high costs. I worked on $3M - $16M machines in the semiconductor industry for 30+ years. High pressure Hg lamp was $6k plus. A $6000+ light bulb.

Haven’t watched for probably about 2 years Cole but man if there is anything thing I can say if that the level of editing has had a abundantly significant quality inhancement aboutsoulty phenomenal video!

Sorry about the problems Cole, could be a simple head gasket but antifreeze in the in all bearings is not good, we had a John Deere combine I believe it was a 9670 I could smell antifreeze,from exhaust, that was a terrible harvest season they had to replace the engine, and it was snowing oh man it was horrible I think it was around Christmas time they had to put a new engine in it, so it happens to any manufacture doesn’t matter what color!!

You do that pretty damn well I’m proud of you. Be careful stay safe.

Agreed, well known problem that CaseIH has been dealing with on this series of engines. They'll probably get you going quicker than any other option as well.

Praying 🙏 you have it insured 😮

There was a PIP back in the day for bad cylinder sleeve o-rings. Big job. Surprised yours didn't get that PIP done back under warranty. Our dealership was doing as many of them as they could.

hi Cole on the tractor with the coolant problem can Cooper pull the oil pan and put coolant back into the radiator and presssurize it . with the pan removed and inspect the liners and check and see if and or which one is bleeding by . if your not bleeding by the liners check the oil cooler . if this isnt leaking then prob a head gasket check next. anyway a few ideas to try . Good luck my friend .

Keep the planter running with 2 guys. I plant a lot more acres with 1 planter a lot more moving and smaller fields. Just keep rolling and less whining

the best way to check is to pull the oil pan and fill the coolant system up you'll see where it's leaking. it could be the liner or it could be the o ring on the liner. that can be fixed in the tractor. you need to know which liner it is, that's the reason for pulling the oil pan.

Farm up the road from us had the 8.7 do the same thing. Not sure of year or hours, but as a known issue, was warranted by OEM. Hope you get some help also. Anything be good.

Looks like the 16 row and the 4840 are gonna get to stretch their legs, honestly won’t be that bad. Should be able to cover 200-250 acres a day with that setup. No reason to spend money on renting equipment. Take your time and have the 340 ready for harvest

That was a good weather forecast Cole, however you can't begin to be as good as Marty Engstrom was back in my hay days. Marty was a weatherman on WMTW and reported the weather from Mt. Washington in NH. You should google his name. Love your show. Jim from Augusta, Maine

The O rings are probably bad on the sleeves. Take the oil pan off and pressurize the cooling system and look at the sleeves, you may see water dripping off the bottom of the sleeves. You may get by with replacing the O rings.