First Day Of Spraying Our Own Fields In Decades

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Andy "aTrippyFarmer" Dole is a 6th generation farmer from Central Illinois. On this farm, Andy works alongside his father, Marty, his uncles, Chris and Jeff, and his sister, Katie, to grow corn and soybeans on some of the finest dirt in the world. Andy and his family are deeply rooted in the area, operating a large farm that traces it origins back into the 1800s. Although some tracts did not stand the test of time, Andy and his family still grow corn and soybeans on fields that have been in the family for longer than even the oldest members of the farm have been alive. We do, we have, and we always will take tremendous pride in calling this piece of paradise our home. Andy was a Bronze Tablet graduate of the University of Illinois in the field of Crop Sciences, following the same path as his father and late grandfather.
It would be misleading for Andy to claim that this life is one that came by chance; rather, as a member of two multi-generational farm families, it was simply in his blood. His passion for agriculture traces back to his early youth--some of his fondest, earliest memories being of days spent riding in the combine with his father and grandfather. Although his understanding of the lifestyle was much less complex in the beginning, the love he has for farming, and its industry has only appreciated through time. As this dream blossomed into adulthood, Andy now works relentlessly, and tirelessly, to chase his own dreams and to build a farming operation of his own alongside his family.
We, as a whole operation, are handymen, electricians, mechanics, landscapers, accountants, economists, caretakers, stewards, and, most importantly, farmers, and we take an incredible amount of pride in our work. There is no challenge too overwhelming, no situation too stressful, and no problem too difficult for us to take on, and we want to take you along with us. Welcome to our farm and welcome to our lives. You have the best seat in the house to watch the everyday chaos of farming unfold--we usually only get concerned when things aren't going wrong!
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@jaredfrantz8928 Жыл бұрын

Hang something like an old hyd line or some type of hose on the end of the booms that will help you see where the end of the boom is

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

That is a great idea!!

@davedammitt7691 Жыл бұрын

I think that is absolutely wonderful that your dad trusts you with a significant investment in the farm. Not sure when his dad started supporting Marty's land purchases and other decisions, but the time comes when you have to trust the next generation.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I think he was just tired of me complaining about us not having our own sprayer… 🤣

@alhearn7561 Жыл бұрын

Should park your old John Deere sprayer next to the Hagie to show how far sprayers have come over time

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea… if the old John Deere would even start 🤣

@travistalbot8736 Жыл бұрын

Hit the aws button on your haggie screen that is lite up to turn your aws off at all times. I only run my aws in standing crop but go with out on bare ground

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

It isn’t on automatically when you switch from road to field mode. I’ve just been trying to get used to it before I get into crops. It’s a weird feeling.

@jeffreywakeman1472 Жыл бұрын

turning at the headland had the auto steer fighting you for some reason (somewhere around 11 minutes). You were turning left and the rears were also left. Thats opposite of what you want to do and why you think its nuts. Has to be a buried setting in stupid menus. Crab is a cute feature they put in for alfalfa or other monster acre farmers running autosteer.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Interesting observation. The AWS is quite the learning curve for someone that’s never had it before. I’ll have to fine tune my operating!

@donaldberg7955 Жыл бұрын

Totally enjoy....Doing great video’s....Appreciate! Farm boy who never lost the love of farming.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I’m glad that you enjoy the videos!

@mikedowell8978 Жыл бұрын

Morning Katy keep getting it ☺️

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

🤣

@TwoHappyChildrenFarm Жыл бұрын

I like to add 50 mesh tip strainers. Really saves a lot of tip plugging. Helps even if you have a 50 mesh strainers on the main lines.

@agger838 Жыл бұрын

Most guys have no issues and throw them in the trash. Filter your tender and keep strainers is good shape and i never tip problems. And i run 04 tips. 06 tips would plug less.

@Caleb12856 Жыл бұрын

You should get a Milwaukee or Dewalt shop vacuum to suck the seed out of the tanks when you run out on one side. It might save you some time.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

That would probably work nicely!

@douglaskoonce2097 Жыл бұрын

Andy, order you a carburetor tip cleaner kit for your spray nozzles! It’s a bunch of different sized thin wire pieces made for cleaning the jets in a carb. But CAN be used to clean very fine tips of different things! Your welcome in advance 😊

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

That’s a great idea. Thanks!

@edwardmonken4562 Жыл бұрын

Little tip get a torch cleaner they work great for cleaning out tips!

@t-torrez6357 Жыл бұрын

You Do A Great Job! Top Notch Outfit 👍 Great Equipment!

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@jakecarter2312 Жыл бұрын

Just use AWS when you turn it’s a learning curve but get used to it. Also didn’t see you prime your boom on the first field. Hope you get some rain for that zidua to be activated

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Haha sometimes it’s for the best if I don’t show where I prime the boom at 🫣

@phillipwhite2615 Жыл бұрын

Andy for the win

@shanekirk8950 Жыл бұрын

Hey Andy don't forget to charge your boom each time you change chemicals just like priming your planter typically 30 to 60 sec and chemicals will be all the way outto the end.

@taborhurt7910 Жыл бұрын

Need mesh strainers, don’t forgot to charge boom with atleast 20 through boom when starting new chemistry, also when turning on endrows never go outside of your endrow tracks. Just a little bit of knowledge that you’ll understand with acres on the machine!

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

The mesh strainers were a point of contention for me. I had many people say that they weren’t necessary, especially with inline strainers to each book section. I’ve been learning to stay in the same tracks on the end, but it can be hard!!

@DylanMasters-yk5jw Жыл бұрын

Yea man, u need u a good strainer in a good place plumbed in probably save u a lot of time catching material there instead of stopping up sprays

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I believe the main section lined all of strainers.

@joemalone9380 Жыл бұрын

you're a very fortunate guy andy. enoy the investment . i honestly believe you deserve it .

@tugboat2739 Жыл бұрын

Howdy trippy

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Hey there!!!

@welwyfm33 Жыл бұрын

Next onboard planter unit (add on ) should be a mini air transfer to re level bulk seed during planting 🤣

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

That would actually be a great idea!!

@donham512 Жыл бұрын

we used to carry a tank of compressed air to clean tips, its a lot faster than using a pick .... have spares to replace the plugged tips and clean with compressed air near the compressed air tank storage loacation .... an apron keeps you cleaner too ...

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

That sounds like good advice. Thanks!

@Seth-px3dh Жыл бұрын

“Ok… some kind of miracle has occurred we made it to our 2nd fill up of the day”😂 some of your comments crack me up! On a serious note you speak so well when talking about farming practices, seed etc you should think about teaching or speaking professionally.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

It’s hard to not joke about some things! I’m not a great speaker…just great at editing!

@marksmith6533 Жыл бұрын

Like a kid in a sweet shop great job spraying

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I earned my dollar for the day 🤣🤣🤣

@robertanderson1878 Жыл бұрын

Probably your best video. I was about as nervous as you were taking out your sprayer for the first time.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Haha thank you. I was very nervous!!

@dougblasberg8244 Жыл бұрын

I am confident in your ability to catch onto the sprayer quickly. 34:16

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I got better everyday that I ran it!

@Marshall_Weber Жыл бұрын

Awesome Video and Much Love as Always!!!

@FVF2020 Жыл бұрын

Andy It’s awesome to see you take a new step into the sprayer application world!!! Hope some day I can do the same!!!

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

All it takes is the desire to work a bit more than you already do… and money to buy the sprayer. You can do it!

@scubajoe3321 11 ай бұрын

Got to practice with the all wheel steering

@aTrippyFarmer 11 ай бұрын

Yes it’s a different feeling!

@scubajoe3321 11 ай бұрын

@aTrippyFarmer think of it like a turn in the road. You turn with the curve instead of having the front wheels turn making you get on the curbe rather cool technology

@Husker3435 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff Andy, I know you’ll be kickin butt once you learn that sprayer, keep em comin and stay safe young man🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

It’s been fun learning the ropes of spraying. Thanks!

@stanuphoff3615 Жыл бұрын

Great job Andy! Keep up the good work.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Stan!

@kylecaskey1752 Жыл бұрын

Looked like there wasn't an actual tip in those yellow caps. You definitely need a cap on every one or they will give you plugging problems. Great vid!

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Duly noted. Thanks!

@xj1716 Жыл бұрын

great video!! your dialog is the best....good job dude!

@Brian-ov1rj Жыл бұрын

Trippy, you are now an official spray man, good job! I see custom spraying in your future. As always, keep it between the rows. 🚜🌽🌽

@mikei2545 Жыл бұрын

You will be a master with that sprayer in short time. When you start spraying post emergent is when it gets nerve wracking. I am in the lawn care business and post emergent is where bad things can happen and my sprayer is simple compared to that Hagie.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks for the encouragement 🤨🤣

@fazeobama8872 Жыл бұрын

are you so confident in a rain coming seeing how shallow you are running the planter? here we try to go 5 to 6 cm to get moisture so more than 2 inches

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Great question, Faze Obama. We can often find moisture in the top 1”, but I normally never go deeper than 2”.

@alexanderphillips1213 Жыл бұрын

Awsome video! Great job on first day spraying! I would suggest though you get strainer and strain everything you put on that machine, it will definitely help with choked up tips and the strainer on machine from getting choked. Just helpful tip, maybe u are already straining it and I just didn’t see it. I run sprayers everyday commercialy and we strain everything!

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

There are in-line strainers to every section. I’ve heard multiple different opinions on tip strainers. I guess we will find out when the atrazine come into play with post corn applications.

@tomnugent845 Жыл бұрын

Andy, we plant our heavy land at 140,000, our sand we plant thicker with our 7.5” drill to get closer plant spacing. Seems to work for us. Mostly Becks, some Asgrow.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

140,000 is probably plenty. We just like the extras for insurance. Beck’s has some pretty strong products anymore. They’ve grown like crazy!

@paulprigge1209 Жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer Thanks to Pioneer

@randy6650 Жыл бұрын

Good jobputting thr product down

@agger838 Жыл бұрын

Andy i dont use all wheel steer unless sidedressing. And i have it setup so it turns off wen i shift to 2nd gear and on in 1st gear. Really helps keep it from being squirrly coming out of headlands. Mine is older tho

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard multiple people say the same thing. My issues is that I’d like to get a feel for it before spraying in standing crops. I don’t want to drive all over it from it being new to me!

@peteparker7396 Жыл бұрын

Andy, it’s nothin but a thing runnin a spray rig. It does look like your boom is a tad to low. Could be the camera. Personally I’m not a fan of Hagie’s. I don’t like the feeling of being the first one on scene if a hub locks up. 😂 I had it happen on a Deere and everything came to a halt very quickly! You will love the blue lights on the boom. It makes it so easy to spray at night.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I’ve felt the stopping power of that thing just from yanking the hydrostat back a few times… I can only imagine what an emergency stop feels like. The boom has been set at 20-36” depending on the terrain. I do have 15” nozzles, so I don’t need to be super high up for good coverage.

@deanfrancis6474 Жыл бұрын

When I spray. I keep a can of air to blowout the clogged tips.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Some others have suggested that. Thanks!

@mikedowell8978 Жыл бұрын

That’s nice outfit

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

👍

@bandiprasad6979 Жыл бұрын

Andy is am going to miss the airoplain spraying the pestiside , the hagie is good the nozels make a thin film of pesteside , it will be a delight to watch hagie spray pestiside on fully grown corn and soya

@chrissyfrancis8952 Жыл бұрын

To be fair Andy, had you gotten the sprayer before crunch time, you would’ve been able to get out & practice with water without the added stress.

@ryangroen1697 Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@patrickhayes420 Жыл бұрын

If you need any tips for running the haggle you can ask Ross from l &r ruch farms or Jay from ivers

@justwar76 Жыл бұрын

You speak for these men?

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I know Alex Rusch personally. His family is also an Alliance Tractor customer!

@paulprillwitz9901 Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@mattschroer5221 Жыл бұрын

Really curious the acres/hr you are getting out of each machine? Planter, sprayer, field cultivators. Not use to equipment that big.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I don’t have actual averages, but I can speculate on straight line averages. The corn planter is running around 70 acres per hour. The soybean planter can do 60-65 acre per hour. The bigger tractor can do 45-55 acres per hour with a field cultivator. The sprayer can do 175-250 acres per hour. Again, those are straight line numbers. You’ll never actually come close to that by the time you account for bathroom breaks, loading products, breakdowns, etc…

@lucasspiering1942 Жыл бұрын

Just turn AWS steer off I only run it when in crops that are up

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

Someone else suggested that. It really is hard to get used to!

@lucasspiering1942 Жыл бұрын

I agree definitely a learning curve with all wheel steer, you’ll love in standing crops good luck

@chrissyfrancis8952 Жыл бұрын

If graphite & graphine have some of the some characteristics, I’m not surprised your have some issues. Hopefully it’s just temporary irritation.

@brandonneisen9030 Жыл бұрын

Gloves in a brand new machine 🤦‍♂️. Come on man..lol. Had to bust your 🥜

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

I never realized how many people would be bothered by that!!!

@donrock6800 Жыл бұрын

Didn’t you have somebody help you get started with your sprayer to get going

@cozdiver Жыл бұрын

Question for ya! I have asked many of the YT Farmers and none have answered yet. Why are corn and soybeans planted differently in irrigated vs non-irrigated ground? Like I see, all the irrigated farmers use a folding toolbar planter and all the non using pull behind type. And for the life of me, I can't figure out why!

@Hendog1001 Жыл бұрын

big reason for pull type versus mounted planters is portability and a mounted planter is much more precise for when planting around pivots and with areas like texas you spend alot of time on the road so not having the speed limit imposed by the planter is nice as well

@Dontworryboutit315 Жыл бұрын

Just a farmer preference, doesn’t matter if it’s irrigated or not. Irrigated fields are smaller hence the smaller planter

@agger838 Жыл бұрын

Kinda culture thing, nebraska guys like 3pts. I states like pull behind.

@sche0707 Жыл бұрын

If it's flood irrigation the end rows need to be open to the end of the field not perpendicular so you need to back up to the edge of the field that is easier to do with a 3 point hitch

@zcole6612 Жыл бұрын

Just got 3 inches of rain in 24 hours . I was worried if the lakes where going to go dry and mess up my fishing

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

You lucky dog! You gotta watch out for those sneaky rains… they’ll give you a few headaches 🤨

@zcole6612 Жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer 4 1/2 now and the lake is up 5 feet . Did you guys get any

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

@@zcole6612 we’ve missed all of the big ones. I hate to say it, but we’ve had a literally perfect start.

@zcole6612 Жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer I know alot of guys north of me quite planting because it's to dry and the notill ground is to hard . The seed has been in the ground 3 weeks and still isn't up just to dry

@dldarby73 Жыл бұрын

Do you plan to try and bring the videos that are more current? This vlog is basically what was done a month ago? Just curious. Your content is awesome and informative.

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

It is literally impossible for me to upload the videos immediately after filming. There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into producing these videos beyond just filming them. It also doesn’t make sense logistically. One day, I will not be as busy, so the delay allows me to keep the uploads consistent throughout the season. Thanks!

@randomtiktok4401 Жыл бұрын

Who owns the farm ??

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

China!

@johnperry5102 Жыл бұрын

instead of having the camera on you most of the time why not show what being done

@aTrippyFarmer Жыл бұрын

If I had 10 arms, I could do everything and keep everyone happy, but that’s not the way I was born.

@philhosier9185 Жыл бұрын

Andy, Can't help to wonder why you need special gloves to handle loading of product, but you are sitting behind the spray in a cab while spraying ! Why Is a Hagee better than a J-D sprayer ? Big money either way ! Are you breathing any fumes from product being sprayed ? With monitors, why have a front boom spraying product all over the machine and the stairs you go down, while not wearing special gloves ? Asking for a friend.

@agger838 Жыл бұрын

The cab has a charcoal filter and a intake up above the cab. You dont smell the products at all. But yeah touching the rails youll get product on you if not wearing gloves. Its not really a big deal unless its insecticide in my opinion

@sche0707 Жыл бұрын

Hagees have higher clearance if are going to spray tall corn that matters