You are right this weather is amazing! Thanks for watching and for being so supportive all the time

After a couple times it becomes second nature

Thanks Curt!

Thanks!

Thanks Dennis

Thanks Keith!

Thanks! You are always so supportive 👍

Hey I appreciate it. I will say thought that it’s almost more than I can keep up with at times. Don’t be too hard on the people that can’t do it. If I had 100K people watching every video I guarantee I couldn’t keep up with the questions. I’m thinking about doing a special video every so often where I just answer questions in my easy chair. Would that appeal to you?

​@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Yeah, I'd find that interesting. End a video by just soliciting questions of an "ask me anything" (within reason) nature. Maybe suggest topics for questions. It might be interesting if the questioner shared their town, county, state or country. I think you might like to see where questions come from. Maybe if they farm or are wannabees. I think that change of pace could take the channel in a different direction. On a side note, I like that you do not have clickbait titles, silly video gimmicks or loud background music. Just to let you know, my wife is always asking if I have heard from Carl (like you are a pen pal of mine!). She loves videos that have animals, kids and farm scenery. Not so much Zerk fittings and hydraulic hoses! We often rerun the video on the big TV on the wall if there is something she likes. Thanks for asking my thoughts! Have a great week shoveling. Does heavy snow reduce yield on beans?

Robert Pautsch thanks! I’m always glad to hear from people who are enjoying our farm. The heavy snow on beans is bad news because some of the beans get knocked down and can’t be harvested.

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Thanks! Many of the larger combines run 12 or 16 row corn heads that don’t fit down the road. The exception to that is folding heads. Our neighbor has a 12 row folding head that is really nice for road travel.

That has been the real bummer of COVID. Fulton County Ohio has a decent Fair and all the "toys" are always on display. The harvesters seem to get bigger and more complicated each year. Even though I don't farm, I do enjoy seeing the technology that has blossomed. I believe a young AG student would need a good share of computing technology education along with traditional subjects.

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You would be correct

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Thanks for watching, Frank! If you ever have any questions don’t hesitate to ask.

This combine wold do wheat and oats and canola just as it is. I’m pretty sure there is a different rotor or concave style for rice...

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Haha it’s not so complicated once you do it a few times

Thanks David! The combine burns about 1 gallon per acre in corn and 1.4 in soybeans. The human labor requirement is greater in corn though because there are four times as many bushels to get hauled away. Great question!

@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Yeah, more complicated than I thought also. If there's 4 times the hauling work, certainly that's a lot more fuel expense as well as labor. It's complicated, LoL.

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Forgot to mention that I really appreciate how responsive you are to questions from your viewers.

Thanks Jerry! I have not been able to get the comments answered as quickly as I’d like during the busy times, but I’m doing my best!

They own the big fancy equipment and we run it for them

If you see a combine coming at you duck into a driveway as far off the road you can and let him pass. He won't have the same ability to do that. He was cleaning the combine with a leaf blower. All the fields they harvest are GPS mapped so the combines and tractors are mostly driven by auto pilot. They also do custom harvesting and planting for other farmers in the area.

Thanks for jumping in and helping me out here Joel! It’s been getting difficult to keep up with the editing and replying to questions in a timely fashion during the busy season.

It’s just like anything you learn how to do. Pretty simple after you’ve been around it for awhile. If you forget a step you would probably notice that the machine would he having trouble doing a good job of threshing or cleaning or spreading chaff. The only damage that could be done is forgetting the cob deflector when going back to corn and damaging the fingers on the cleaning sieves.

I do it all from memory now. There are 5 things I have to change on the outside of the machine and everything else is just settings that I manage electronically

We used to lower it for beans, but when we went from the 25 foot bean head to the 35 foot draper they told us to leave it up because there is so much material coming in at once.

Not with a 35 foot header. There is enough material coming in that you leave it up. We used to lower it for soybeans when we had a smaller head.

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I will definitely post my review on Instagram and KZfaq!

That’s great! Yes I’ve heard that the old ones were a real job!

Yes actually there is a camera on the unload auger that shows what’s behind you when you back up and it also shows a birds eye view of the grain cart while you are dumping.

It’s second nature after you understand how the machine works.

I’d pick farming every time

I don’t. My brother has 90 acres of corn and soybeans on ground that he rents from dad, but I just have the hay.

Good question! It takes more fuel to harvest soybeans. Approximately 1 gallon per acre for corn and 1.4 for soybeans.

Normally i would be as well but the rubber parts are all protected inside these blocks and brake clean is cheap. Never had it give us a problem.

So who was that in the cab talking to Carl?

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@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 thank you for replies Your an amazing KZfaqr

Most of the material you harvest in the field is easily flammable, (soybeans, dry corn, dust). Combines get very hot in alot of places, but you can't really protect those spot 100% so some dust/material gets into and could cause a fire. Cleaning the combine off with a blower/ with you hand after you use your combine you diminish your chances of a fire happening greatly! In conclusion, CLEAN YOUR COMBINE :O

Also the dpf gets hot enough to ignite it if you don't clean it

Great answers guys! 2017 was the last combine fire we had, and thank goodness it was minor and we caught it early before it would be hard to put out.

@@MonsterGaming-wc5so ​ Just Google combine fires and you can see some videos of some very expensive machinery going up in smoke.

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I used to think that, but our neighbor has had so much trouble with gearboxes and drivelines on his red combine I think I’ll keep the belts and pulleys 😂

@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 for close to a million dollars you need to have that machine moving not changeing belts etc should be done with in the cab but then again these new combines won,t last that long anyway because electronics will kill them dead in there tracks

Never experienced that