I love it Mike uses his turn signal even though there is not a car within a 100 miles.

Your Father-in-law must be a great guy. It is one thing to take his daughter but he gets grandkids so he can deal with that. But you also took one of his best equipment operators and he still lends you his truck. That is impressive.

She is trying to do her job and Scorsese is looking for the best shot. But I really appreciate your work Mike!

Mike, you seem to be a fine young Man. Personality plus. I wish you an Ashton all the best with your the birth of your first child. Mike, you know about safety around equipment. My friend you are taking chances to get these pictures that we all enjoy but, think of your lively Wife and newborn on the way. It only takes ONE SLIP and Ashton would be raising that little sweetheart alone. It’s not worth it. Have a Blessed day my young friend !

LOL "mike dead man walking". I told you to be careful around her right now. ROFL. The right person at the controls, smart of you to stay out of the way and let the expert run the machine. Good Job Ashtyn. Go easy on him, he can't help himself.

I always hit the LIKE 👍 button before I even open the video. History (almost two years) tells me it’s a certainty that I’ll enjoy the content. Even the road trips are worth ‘riding along’

That was priceless reaction from Ashtyn when you went up the other side... LOL LOL LOL

Great job swathing Ashtyn

Ashtyn is a gem you two work so well together you're a lucky man

In England we use Propcorn BP for pickling barley feed corn when the corn has a high moisture content . You don't have dry it once done !

Back about 1960, our "swather" was simply a set of tapering flat metal tines bolted to the back side of the mower sickle bar. Oats or wheat was then formed into a windrow for combining.

Great Machine and your Lady Cooks Dinner as Well 😅😮😂😮😂

Great video Mike! Thanks!

Awesome looking swather Mike

Hi Mike. I think Fendt having been watching your videos. The 900 and 1000 are now available with an optional laminated windshield and a self cleaning air filter for the engine.!!

I'm impressed how weed free Ashtyn's barley is - considering how weedy it was prior to planting.

Great video Mike good luck combining

Awesome ,Ashtyn does so well .What a great choice in picking such a great lady . You are swathing which is something that is not done everywhere .Take care .

Hello Mike and Ashtyn . Hope you guys are doing well and hope harvest is going good . On the backside of the end covers on the header on the swather there’s a hole that has a latch for opening it . Hope this will help . It’s the same are macdon header for our combines . Take care and talk you guys soon .

Ashteyn Is an awesome operator I'd hire her for swathing hay crop

Only ever ran the old versatile, or versa-pile swathers. I call them that because they were worn out long before I ran them. Set up a couple new MacDons back in the early 2000s and a Case in the late. This thing actually looks nice. Had me laughing for a minute when Ashton noticed you on the wrong side of the cab! 😆

Mike you should leave a camera with Ashtyn so she can record some videos

The fact that your sales guys get out of their pickup is impressive. Down here it’s more of a we take your money and if you need help then you call the shop. Lol.

Mike, great video with Ashtyn in control of the swather. Greetings from central Illinois.

Thank you Mike and Ashton

11:26 ah man Mike I felt that. Many a time I've been flying in and out of a machine to hook up a chain or reposition it and my head went full bore into the door frame. It sure does hurt.

The reversible fan is a pretty darn good idea! Gott give the engineers credit there!

Oh my. Engineers as well as sales person. Have a problem here when machine delivered "Oh. Next Wednesday? I will get the engineer to call. Sorry about that......." Good show Ashtyn. Mike, flowers and best meal.

Ohhh hellooooo there! Fancy looking!

Something mesmerising watching this !

Swathers have come a long way since I was a kid cutting hay for my uncle. He had a 910 New Holland (which was old when I was running it) it had steering levers like a tank.

I would love to operate that all day!! I have never operated a swather before but i have operated a lot of tractors before and i'm a good student, let me have it for a few hours and i will be a pro at it!!

Awesome machine!

The appearance of that swather driving backwards has a futuristic SiFi quality about it.

Super!!!👍 it works good!!!🙂

My dad put me on a A JD with a 12 ft. Massey pull type, spent days on end going in circles, learned a lot that summer, grew up from the sand box to putting in 10 hr days and eating out of a bucket, things have changed since the early 60's. Had just turned 10

Good job

Just like watching John Deere equipment- something I can relate to!

Awesome Thanks for sharing

That's a big row hope the weather plays it's part. Good luck.

One thing you don't get with the video is the smell. I LOVE the smell of fresh cut crop on the green side, especially through low spots with a few weeds. Just watching the video triggers that smell for me even though its been over 20 years since I have smelled it.

Looks a much healtier a crop than the 1bu/ac from down south 👍

That's a BIG windrower!

KNUCKLE MEAT 😂💪been there many times brother👊

I pre-delivered and worked on a lot of those Macdon heads it's kind of funny to see them with John Deere logos because they are the same shape of plastic. There's small holes on the inside of the ends with a lever you push in to open the sides up.

Would love to hear Ashtyn's thoughts on it, compared to what she's used to.

Hey mike, I've been swathering a reasonable lot in the Netherlands, mostly canola but you name it we swathered it. looking at the video, and seeing the material flow through the header, i think you're running your real to low, the way it "pulls"through the crop you could say it is pre-thressing the crop. in Holland we swather the crop in a far more ripened stage, we try to almost not touch the crop with the real. If you have you're ground speed high enough the material flow into the header, onto the drapers will be going by itself. compare this with cutting a piece of rope with a sharp knive very slow or very swift cut. The slow one will puss the rope away, the swift on will cut it with almost no movement of the rope. Otherwise a nice video and proud to see a lady driver.

Good video i now how they move swather header.

You scaring Ashton was priceless, she jumped out of her seat!

what we do with bad areas of the field in Norway, dig a hole and make a pond, plant some treess and some wildflowers that bees like. then we go claim money from the goverment for doing work for the good of the enviroment. it pays better even if the area was full of high yield crop lol

28:35 🤭💪🏽 great! But also lucky she did not go into labor instantly 😂

Ha "Mike" you are amazing my dream I'll work for you too.

i would pay "some" money to se a Ashtyn-view of you running sideways beside the header. xD

Nice machine

Pretty nice swather. I’d love to see a demo of a massy. Thanks for another great video

20th!!! Big up the good work Mike!

Great video. One of these days, Ashtyn is going to beat you up for scaring her. Lol Hope harvest is going well.

Nice video

Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

Good morning Ashtyn

It's a good swatter just had some final drive Seals leak

stubby end guards are less prone to breaking when doing low spots and dragging the ends

Salut super machine tank you vidéo magnifique

28:26 Best part 😂😂

We don't have a swather on our farm but we do have the header for when are done swathing though

Great video, I really enjoy when you try out new equipment. That looks like a nice swather and it appears to be doing a great job. I wonder how it compares to the Case IH?

Well the green paint fan boys are happy.

Hello Mike good good, 😜💪👍🇮🇹

Now you doing your workout Mike.😉

I think the guys need to step back and let Ashtyn do her thing due to her swathing experience. 🤣😂 This unit may be green and although Ashtyn prefers red she most likely has more hands on experience than all the guys combined.

Ok .Mike, I know she loves the honey bee, but u gotta ask her, the mac don lays a better cereal swath..., I ran both...just can't seem to lay a decent ceral swath with honey bee

I think they might be called Sow Thistle.

Mike everytime: whoo.. sorry about that guys

Mike your playing with fire! A pregnant lady is dangerous at the best of times, but scaring her like that….well that could of ended badly, she might have had that baby right then and there! How would you explain that to John Deere? 😂 Sad day for Ashtyn finding out that Green is better than yellow! Sorta like the day you found out Santa wasn’t real!😂

I assume Ashtyn edits these videos??😂 great video everyone!! Being from 🇮🇪 I’ve never heard or seen this swrathing of barley but it looks like a good idea for certain reasons

Sure beats the old Massy 36 I grew up cutting hundreds of acres of hay with

I'd go with the new CASE WD5 series. A lot more horse's under the bonnet..😁

The look on her face! 😂

Fala chefinho 👍!

Those guards are called rock guards I had them on my hay bine

Good afternoon

Magnifique machine la john deere combien ha à l’heure svp merci vidéo super 👍😉

Now that it’s all set up, the demo hours are done and it’s time to send it back. Lol.

Looks like hawks beard is the weeds. Kinda looks like a very tall dandelion.

The JD W170 seems better balanced nose to tail than your current machine. What did Ashtyn think?

I love farming ❤️❤️ I am Indian farmer

What no 80 ft header demo? Thought you love bringing a machine to it's knees? Ashtyn seems to be having a blast

Is the combine you got in operation on the home farms

You know Ashton won't like the deer. Lol

Hey Mike! Is the auger used for heavier crops? Keep up the good Videos. Hello from Chinook, MT.

Mike I have a question: Does the "MacDeere" swather have laminated glass? I guees it should be on the rear window since it's reversible.

@19:52 It's either Hawkweed, Sow Thistle, or Wild or Prickly Lettuce, idk for sure they all kind of look the same to me.

You can sure hear the hydrostatic noise from the hydraulic pumps.

I’d like to see your reaction when you see an organic field full of weeds. 😂

Ashtyn's face was priceless Mike! I have an intelligent question, after swathing do you have to drive the combine in the same direction as the crop was swathed?

That Deere is a Great machine! 👌🏻

We use those to cut mint but we went back to macdon

27:48 HEY!! that SWIRLING that was left behind, was that storm damage?? it didn't seem to pick up the DOWNED STUFF or DID IT get enuf ??? that seemed like it coulda been ''an issue'' but maybe it is an issue, it was or is storm damage lol and yes that is an issue ... ;) or something like that.... just wondering

Weird not seeing a crimper on that head. But then we use swathers for haying not grain harvest.

So serious question. Why use the swather instead of the combine?