Here's a suggestion on how to handle canola "piles". Switch your pickup to manual mode, slow it right down, gently pick up the pile. The pickup teeth will hold the pile back while the table auger fingers, turning at regular speed, tear the pile apart into smaller chunks. Works for me 80 to 90% of the time to avoid plugging the feederhouse.

The North farm is looking great 😃

I love your tee shirt logo Safety First and while reading it i thought of you standing on top of your drill while Ash was driving and climbing on to of the combine to look in the bin, it put a smile on my face, Love all your video’s I really appreciate the time and effort you put in to making them, THANK YOU.

Mike… if any other farmer on the KZfaq channel world can get under .02 loss it is you… we know you can do it we are pulling for you and we are waiting for that video…👍👍👍👍👍👍

How about plugging the back? That would bring back memories. Not very ideal

Just remembering back to how I found Mike. It was shortly after his 1050 vs 560 Tug of War video. Heen here ever since, keep up the great work man!

Thanks for sharing the new video with us. There’s something very relaxing about watching y’all farmers work the land. Good job

Take the wads with the corner of pickup, by the time they get to the feederhouse the auger has chewed them down into bits. Works like a charm!

You can definitely see and hear the difference in the combine when you switch between the D450 and the MacDeere swathes. Great video, 2 thumbs up.

Really appreciate your detailed explanation on what the various features of the monitor relate to plus why plugs take place and how to either minimize or rectify the situation.

Reminds me of baling hay with a New Holland baler with a Wisconsin engine, back about 1960. When the windrow had a big slug of hay, you had to slow down and gradually work forward so that you didn't kill the engine. I can still hear that engine working for all it was worth. Those were the days!

I had the same issues combining swathed SC canola, seemed tough feeding, ran my rotor at 1050 all day and when I switched back to wheat it was much easier to thrash. Usually it’s the other way around!!! Love your videos man, when I get home from the field your latest video is playing on the tv! Good luck with the rest of harvest!

Enjoying your videos Mike, I still save them for the weekend. Thanks for the great entertainment 👍😁 That’s some combine

Thanks Mike showing the Mac deer difference being easier day of Combining

Keep up the hard work

Thank you for your comments. Enjoyable 😊

Mike said...”let’s listen to the machine”... that didn’t last long!..hahaha!.. I bet a conversation with mike doesn’t come with “comfortable” silence!..hahaha!!!... I think it’s awesome mike tells us cool things about his farming!.. But it doesn’t come with a lot of “listening to the equipment”!.. Thank you mike for your sharing! It’s cool to see farming on our neighbors to the north farms!!! Shalom!..

The MacDeere swathes definitely feed threw much easier not hard to see that .Great video

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I love the owners manual still zip tied to the header

At some point you should do a comparison or shared your thoughts on the Bourgault paralink vs the 5710 fixed frame. Yield difference, emergence, etc...

glad you got so great yield numbers, know its been a long harvest. Appreciate the videos!

Good to see everything is moving along well and you are getting a good harvest. Hard work and effort payed off. Mike, I have a question. I am hoping that once the harvest is over, could you please break down exactly how a combine works. What goes on in a combine that allows the machine to suck up all the crop, separate the straw from the bean and pods from the seeds. To me, it is just a marvel of engineering. Maybe once us non farmers understand how exactly the machine works, we can better understand the numbers you are pointing out on the dash. As always, thanks for your educational vids. Much respect from north eastern Ontario.

You should show your fields when the Canola is in bloom!

You mentioned you don't have harrows ! Is the previous unit you bought from Manitoba not available due to mechanical issues or did it get moved back to the south farm ?

Hey Mike, enjoy the videos very much, the KZfaq channel zk mastertech has a fix for the seat in your x9 combine, the video is called harvest service calls and the time in the video is 9:15 hope this helps a guy out

Hello Mike, John big 💪🌾👨‍🌾🇮🇹

Mike I’ve noticed when I did combining nexara canola went through HARD.

Nice Job ! Interesting as usual. Your two humongus grain bins must be getting pretty full by now. How full are they at this point?

Str8 cut pal! No piles 😜😎 just buggin

Magnifique matériel agricole et la moissonneuse batteuse x9

Hello Mike great work you and your crew are doing I’m from Moosomin, Saskatchewan

You should have made video of the pick and grunt combining of the crop.

I talked to an Iowa grain farmer who had a Case IH 12 row corn head when you had to have it custom built by a company in Nebraska. Case was not building a 12 row head at that time. He had a man hired to run a grain cart. He said I had a full hopper and the man was out of the tractor picking up downed ears at the end of the field and I couldn’t run the combine. He said I had to explain to him I had more to lose by not keeping the combine running than he could save me by picking up the downed ears.

Perfect conditions to demo a green and white claas!!!

I hate canola windros but I like the idea you leave the blocks behind wish I had that option

Big stock piles best to go over them figured that out years ago. I remember when the wind blew my brothers flax into big piles and we had to put it all through found out the melrow pickups with the steel teeth worked the best and the header reverser on the Massey 760 was a great asset. The piles were the size of two pickups. Would like to see you demo a FD 250 macdon header and a New Holland combine compared with the John Deer

Hey Mike, I believe I just found out how you can fix your seat in the X9 on the South farm. Are you familiar with ZK Master Tech? If so go to todays video and you can see how to fix it. Not only that but there’s a program that will show you when it goes active and inactive tripping the alarm. Take a few minutes and watch it, he has some Great videos and explained things sooooooooooooo well. It should fix the seat sensors for ya. I won’t charge ya for the free knowledge either.lol God bless and take care!…..

Combine AMSR? Cool.

Can you change the timing on those pickup auger fingers like an auger head?

Hopefully the aeration is on...

Just lift the drills over the piles. 😂😂

Mike how does the x9 compare to the S series combines on performance / capacity? You touched on some of your likes and dislikes, would like to know the performance side too.

Yes you do have a harrows , you where dragging one home from Manitoba last year

Any particular reason your not hauling up your other X9 to help out ?

What model of combine is this ? What models are all on the farm now aside from the massey 750

It sounds like you have a clothes dryer running behind the cab lol

I can see the difference between the John Deere and the Macdon.👍

So what's the benefit to swathing this canola vs just regular straight cutting an harvesting it? Is swathing more gentle on the crop allowing a higher yield?

When you drop pans, do you have the chop up for that?

Hey Mike have you guys ever gave Cereal Rye a shot? Our cereal crop this season outperformed soybeans by over 150$ an acre. we are starting to see yields over 100 bushel/ac on fairly sandy soil with hybrid rye.

I wanted to pick up one of your caps unfortunately I find out by the time I'm done at $64 is it free shipping if I pick it up from swift current And where do I pick it up in swift current

Swath east and west, cut that roller into pieces then you’ll have a happy combine 😂 I can hear those slugs going through

Mike, what was Your average canola yield per acre this year? The weather forecast shows frost at your place, did you manage to collect everything from the field? Greetings from Poland

How Nancy acres is your north farm compared to the south,30%?

Will you use some of the yield as seed for the south farm?

Mike I like your content also nice your not cussing every second word

I have family in the Watson SK area .. where is the north farm abouts ?

Macdon is just the best like kinzie equipment

Mike , does your x9 replace 2 combines production wise ?

Do you find the south farm depressing compared to the north

Why not jump out and pitch fork those piles in, or while waiting for the canola to dry down, go out in the field and spread those piles out into a swath? I had to do that as a kid years ago.

When it gets so tough like your describing. The losses will quadruple

Mike will you buy the macdeere

You don't run both of the other x9s? Up north

Mike 2 questions: 1) what’s a bushel of canola worth? 2) What swather are gonna keep next year? I can see that other swather that you rented would make more sense with a bigger opening.

What are grain (or whatever you call canola) prices doing right now? Are they good,bad,average? I don’t keep up with this stuff! I just want Mike to be making money! I don’t want him to go belly up!

A quarter a day? Hilarious. When I was a kid we had two John Deere combines: a 4400 and a 6620 Turbo both with 15' headers. I don't think we harvested 40 acres a day.

I would suggest trying not to plug the rotor… I had a gentlemen that I went out to well I was on call that plugged the right rotor from the back all the way to the front of the feederhouse, it was all packed solid. Took about 7 hours but I got it all unplugged.

Didn't know john deere had their own swather. Most companies have MacDon make them and put their decals on and paint

Seems like on a per acre basis, this field did 10 x better (or more?) than your fields in the south.

Mike, the north x9 will need to cut how many acres?

With those big piles, cant you just pick up the front and slice the top off and then reverse back and take the bottom ... maybe 10 sec at the most and you have all the crop and no burn piles

JD adding a reverser is 👌🏻 That’s one thing I loved about Combining for others they had NH TR98’s the reverser was the best in tough stuff otherwise YOU were the reverser 😂

2 minutes per pile if you have 200 piles is 400 minutes which is a little more than 6 1/2 hours chewing at piles even 100 piles is 3 hours of chewing at piles you burn more fuel and pay an operator more than that piles worth

Ain't no fun time when she's got a rumbly stomach. 🤭 Must be a relief to have a crop other than rocks and dust.

What in the world is that red tool by the window in the x9 cab? It’s been bothering me for awhile now.

Why do you cut 90 degrees to what you plant?

U could give one of the boy a new job and make them throw those piles apart so u don't have to leave them in the field

Seems lonely out their all by yourself with out a few Green ones helping with the thrashing ....

Weird that you’re struggling along and a yard full of combine s back home. Call Chris barber. He’ll have one there in no time

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No wonder they quit making those d450 Swather s

I thought that macdon made the JD swather

I like how they can feed it in slow if you want John Deere probably figures they invented it TR 98 had that in the 90s lol 😂

Why so much pickup speed. Put it on auto.

I might have miss heard you but it's good to hear that heroin isn't an option...

Just saw this video Mike. Not sure if you still have issue with the seat of your other X9. but if that can help you... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMykebFiq8DHiaM.html Go to Minute 9 👍

a fix for your jd x9 seat issues; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMykebFiq8DHiaM.html at the 9.40 mark

i would be willing to bet a small farm you would have been happier with a claas.. better production especially in damp conditions, better crop quality better losses, better throughput, less fuel.. better parts availability, very few downsides other then having to admit john deere sucks for the money

56 bushel is an amazing crop

The fact that they paint someone elses machine their colour now suggests to me that they KNOW their machine wasn't as good

I bet your glad your not in an ideal combine 😊

Mike. Are you the weakest link? Just kidding. Thanks for the show.

If canola is such a pain in the ass. Why grow it?

No, no JD just copied the MacDon. Like everything else JD sells. X9 carbon copy of the New Holland etc, etc.

Plot twist. There will be more d450 swaths after this