Doing Some Custom Harvesting

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Oliver66FarmBoy

6 ай бұрын

That was a little bit more of a chore than it should have been.

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@garyharrington5300 6 ай бұрын

Them tracks and all the upgrades to make them work are paying for themselfs ,congrats to you and your dad ,you folks are awsome❤

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

It was worth the effort.

@davidstranz438 6 ай бұрын

I like the expression “the goat rodeo that is my life”. That one made me chuckle.😄

@Husker3435 6 ай бұрын

Glad to see the tracks doing their thing, the 1066 and gravity flow with your combine, take me back, a lot of memories on those older machines👌🏻as always Ethan, great job🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Old school.

@Husker3435 6 ай бұрын

@@Oliver66FarmBoy you’re the king of it, young man.🏆

@mikefrost3744 6 ай бұрын

love your story telling! Your combine is awesome! Your dad and you are some DAM GOOD fabricaters you are Not like some farmers I know Fabrecoblers!!!!!!!! Your love for the Olive machines comes out.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@lawrencekiel-sr2772 6 ай бұрын

8700 is bringing home a paycheck. On the snouts digging into the soil look into May Wes header components. They have poly tip covers and poly snout savers. The snout saver is a bowed poly strip under the snout point that slides on the soil, preventing the tip from gouging in the ground, especially when heavy crop is laying over. It's a bummer when the water heater goes and you're tired from a rough day.

@andymahaffa3396 6 ай бұрын

Outstanding !!

@DonWelter 6 ай бұрын

Corn head (and picker) snouts can be a challenge!!! Used to have problems on frozen ground with down corn...catching frozen clods and/or stones and ripping up snouts. Glad the tracks are working out well for you. You'll receive a quick return on your parts head in adverse conditions.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

I’m glad I bought it before all this happened.

@mathiggins4264 6 ай бұрын

Looking good buddy be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@kevinsiedschlag429 6 ай бұрын

In our country, sandy when it get that wet, be careful, sometimes, tracks willpump water to top, n make it worse, especially, when several tips on same spot. Hope all goes well!!

@alvinyoung1258 6 ай бұрын

Good thing you got that 6 row header for all the parts off of it

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yea

@jonathancrissinger2301 6 ай бұрын

Hey, you know what? I was happy to see what you were sharing. I appreciate any videos you post. A little bit is better than nothing, lol. Thank you for your time and effort. Sorry to hear about your hot water heater. I sure am impressed with how the tracks are doing. Nice to see you are making money with them. See you soon.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

They make a big difference

@oliversorensen5178 18 күн бұрын

Good job

@edwarddherde9536 6 ай бұрын

Looks like your tracks could open up some more ground for you to farm that is less desirable to others if the person you’re harvesting for won’t farm that ground again

@juztyn00 6 ай бұрын

The parts header was a good investment. Wonder if the pivot on the tracks might of changed the center of gravity a bit on the combine causing it to dip a little more in the front over bumps.

@justinschmitz8034 6 ай бұрын

Could be...I think that's part of the reason why he is looking for a longer feeder house or extensions for the 8700.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

He machine got taller so the head runs at a steeper angle.

@Stovalls 6 ай бұрын

I’ve had so many neighbors go behind my back trying to steal land from me, and yeah while I was in the hospital recovering from surgery. It’s cut throat central down here in southeast Illinois

@FollowingKeenan 6 ай бұрын

Same thing here in central Illinois as well.

@dknust9 6 ай бұрын

No different then in my area of Michigan. Lost 20@ my family farmed thirty years. New owners the last couple years said we Could farm it forever then got offered an extra $20 an acre and called and said your done farming it. Never even offered it to us at the higher rate. New renter is full of promises he can’t keep and is gonna just farm it out of our fertilizer. Pisses me off.

@nikphoenix 6 ай бұрын

@@dknust9 Funny thing is, its always the piss poor farms that undercut other farmers. They come in over pay for the land. Then cut corners to cut cost and destroy the land until they cant afford to keep farming it. They give it up and someone else has to come in and try to recover it.

@dcoslet1 6 ай бұрын

I think a big part of it is most guys don’t know their neighbors anymore so they don’t think twice about backdooring them in the old days if you did that you might come home from the coffee shop or bar missing teeth cause everybody knew who you were and who you screwed

@scottharvold6286 6 ай бұрын

Great job !!!

@geraldharkness8830 6 ай бұрын

excellent job ethan that combine does you proud!

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@melvinschmecklebak3766 6 ай бұрын

Finally got back on YT forgot my password. Amazing that you and your dad got that track setup working so well. Enjoy your vids very much

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks

@BeckyMcDermott 6 ай бұрын

Great video . Jeff.

@stephenheyes4324 6 ай бұрын

Nice work doing some custom jobs

@BradErwin-ny9nd 6 ай бұрын

Good job Ethan keep up the good work

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@antiquegunslinger 6 ай бұрын

Good to have spare parts

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yep

@roadhogg1418 6 ай бұрын

I remember telling you about 81 days ago it was only the first of October Farm Boy! Things can get late pretty quick eh? Sorry and Merry Christmas to you and you family!! Hope your able to finish soon!!

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@nmccw3245 6 ай бұрын

Ha! Investing in tracking that harvester makes you and dad the tall dogs at this goat rodeo. 😜👍🏻

@jamesbreault5762 6 ай бұрын

Good stuff Ethan

@tomthompson489 6 ай бұрын

At least those trucks are paying off for you. Thank you. See you next week.

@rustyrelicsfarm2406 6 ай бұрын

I cant imagine how many acres of land have been through that cornhead.

@possumholler05 6 ай бұрын

Never understood why some folks want to run their snouts right on the ground. All it takes is a tile hole or groundhog hole and there she goes. I’ve always figured if I cut the stalk off higher, my drive tires ride the remaining stalk down instead of rolling straight down over top of it and doing a bunch of stubble damage. (Not that you have that issue now with the tracks). Some folks around here shave em off and others run about 18 inches or so like myself. I figure without a chopping head, I’m gonna shred them unless it’s going to no till anyway, so may as well save some tire and wear and tear with extra material going in the machine. Looks like the tracks are paying off, hopefully you’ll wrap up soon if you haven’t yet.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Because the tracks picked the combine up 7 inches and changed the head angle so it’s steeper. So to run the head low enough to get under the ears the snouts get closer to the ground which wasn’t helped by that fact that corn was only 5 foot tall in most places to begin with……… that’s why…….

@possumholler05 6 ай бұрын

Makes perfect sense. On the flip side, looks like you needed that 7 extra inches to get over that fellas cart, so there’s an upside to it. I’ve never been close to a white or Ollie combine, the axial flow IH/CIH machines have a faceplate adjustment to them where you can tilt it forward/back to an extent, that’s how we had to counter for larger rears when we added a mud hog. Corn head was alright, but the flex head wanted to plow and messed up the weight on the auto height sensor making it plow even worse.

@johnnyholland8765 6 ай бұрын

You don't miss the hot water till the water heater goes out. Mine went out last Mon night and we picked cotton all week so I didn't get it fixed till Sat. Had to heat up water to bathe with. That was a pain. Hope you get yours going again. Those tracks are paying for themselves. Notice you swinging wide on the turn rows. Is your turning radius changed with the tracks?

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

It tears up the ends less if you swing wide

@justinschmitz8034 6 ай бұрын

Ethan, what sort of differences/drawbacks are you seeing as far as the overall operation of the Combine with the tracks, now that you have had time to get used to driving with them. I think they were a wise investment overall. Also with the rework on the subframe for the tracks, the work should pay dividends in the long run. As this is Monday 18DEC2023, and it's snowing like a you know what. I hope your staying warm or trying to at least. Take it easy and be safe. Its all downhill from here to the end of the year and hopefully harvest for you and your neighbors. Though from what you said in previous videos there may be corn standing for some come January.

@rickwoodvine.7529 6 ай бұрын

❤

@ronzezulka6646 6 ай бұрын

Hey Ethan,,do yer thing. Chase a little cash. We're here watching anyway.

@19661650 6 ай бұрын

nice job Bud.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@Rumblestrip 6 ай бұрын

With the way you went thru snouts in this one, im curious, would a poly snout from a newer case or john deere head fit? I realize this is a fairly broad question... But might be easier then pounding the bent ones back into shape? Happy to see the tracks seem to be working out at least.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

The bent ones are going to scrap. You won’t fix those.

@tca375 6 ай бұрын

Nice you got some custom work out of your tracks.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yep

@michaelmcconnell7958 6 ай бұрын

You may have addressed this already (sorry if you have). I was wondering if the treads will prematurely wear out the transmission. Are there extra precautions you’ve had to take?

@Masseyman471 6 ай бұрын

You gonna have all them spare snouts that you bought used up by the time you’re done shelling corn at this rate 😂

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Hopefully I’m done doing that.

@edmikula9637 6 ай бұрын

I figured opportunities like this might show up considering what a soggy mess this harvest season turned into. Congrats on jumping on a good solution that presented itself.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@dylanhockaday9878 6 ай бұрын

Time for another parts head it looks like

@hughperkins707 6 ай бұрын

If were you I’d go after it and show Mr. X a thing or two. With your experience I’m sure you can make it profitable

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

He’s already got it under contract.

@realmongo7565 6 ай бұрын

I hope you can figure out the source of that vibration, it can tear that combine up if it continues.

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

It’s from the tracks…

@TheMuskokaman 6 ай бұрын

"Making it work takes a little time"

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Experimental engineering.

@jamesbreault5762 6 ай бұрын

Do you think you might pick up this field,?

@michaelsheeder148 6 ай бұрын

Ethan, that's got to be a little nerve-wracking drive going through a field you've never been on before. Not fun taking a cold shower I hear that. When you're doing the custom work just get whatever video you can that would be fine 👍 thanks Michael

@Oliver66FarmBoy 6 ай бұрын

Strange fields in poor conditions to begin with are no fun.