years ago we used to replace broken bearings Mike is proving us wrong

As an arborist, my guess would be roots not being able to grow naturally due to compaction and girdled roots from small transplanting pots. It’s especially common for new trees planted around construction sights, roads and concrete structures. Just a hunch since I saw tracks next to the spruce trees 😂

Run diesel through the entire auger. Oil the crap out of the bearings. Good to go. My old farm king 1070 has had only fert in it for about 10 years now and habe changed the bearings twice.

Keep planting trees . I don't know how many times that has happened to me. My Dad was still planting in his eighths and said I may not be able to enjoy them but some body will. Miss him

It's just another typical day in the grain business

We put airless tires on our swings from Canadian tire, haven't had a flat for years haha

Here us old guys can remeber a thing called a 9 hole bar! It fitted on the lift arms of your tactor and provided a hitch for implements such as augers and could possibly give you the 8-9 inches your looking for (Keep your thoughts clean) A 9 hole bar is called that because it had 9 attachment holes in it, it is usually about 1,1/2 inches thick steel If you find one and decide to use it don't forget to pull or knock the lift lever so that it comes up and bends the PTO shaft like a bannana!

Hey Mike, you can spin the 1000 pto at 540, just not the other way around. Just have to select 540 and away you go.

6 bags of floor dry in the hopper. 2 pails of used motor oil. Let it soak and run it up slow. Not perfect but it helps with rust in the tube and auger flighting. Grease the bearings and oil the chains after use. Pine trees on the prairies are fickle for sure. Try standing old pallets around them on the south and west sides. Then they shade in the summer and it holds snow on them in the winter. Happy Easter Mike!

Great interview. Olley totally agree with you and the Welsh chap keep flying the flag for UK farmer's, good April fools, you had me 😂 ❤

Always cool, to see the sassy massy

200K. Congratulations mate

Really hoping you guys have a great year for the South and the North farm. Sending positive vibes your way

Have you thought about changing the hitch on the auger itself? You could even just add on to the tube and put heavy plate to tie them together.

Thanks for the update Mike. Tough pushing fert up an auger. Bring on the planting seaason, ha!

A video showing Mike repairing the auger would be interesting lol

really like that truck, Mike

We always try to keep a set of bearings on hand for the fert auger.

Great video Mike

Yep, not just tractors, trucks, drills and combines. All these other pieces of equipment also can be a problem.

Poor ernie looked like he had a flat. Inside passenger tire. Lol

Maybe a tree guy could look at them and see what they think. Trees are so good to have around a farm.

Sure like following you Mike even though you were pining over dead spruce trees. LOL

Next video "Brand new fertilizer conveyor" hahaha

Mike you run a well oiled hay wire operation . 🤣🤣🤣

If thats like my Farm King auger the hitch is adjustable for length. At least 3 holes as I recall so it can match up to various different tractors. There is a spec in the operators manual giving the recommended distance for the hitch and shaft.

Mike magnifique vidéo et le tracteur et le matériel agricole et bien équipés 😂😮😅😊

Gotta get the auger RPM's down a bit, it helps keep the fert augers together. I put a deflector inside the auger on the shaft behind the main drive bearing, helps it survive a lot longer. For ernie it would be quicker to just make a hitch extension if you only need the extension for the auger. Or extend auger hitch.

R.I.P. pine trees

Why extend the Hitch on the Tractor? It would be way easier to extend the square tube at the auger. This way every tractor should fit und you can just weld there as much on as you need.

Thanks.

great video mike

Another great enjoyable video. I'm a pastor here in Oregon and a former grass seed and grain farmer!

Just be thankful you're not in the Xmas tree business! 😂

OSHA approves your PTO modification by “Bodgeit and Scarpa”

I think it should warm up to like +15° this week the foot of snow down south probably won't last very long.

Has to be discouraging. But Canadian farmers are tough!

Id be putting a 40ft container hoop barn at that nth farm, and get 8x4x3 big sqaure straw bales and fill in one end, get that gear undercover, plus some ibc s with water, although freezing be the issue?? Maybe in one of the containers might not freeze??

Hey Mike Christmas tree farmer and horticulture is here. Without seeing the spruce trees here is my educated guesses on why they died. 1. They were planted too deep.... Only about 3/4 of a root ball should be in the ground. Then mound dirt up to the top of the root ball to finish. 2. Too little or too much water. 3. Not enough protection. If the snow piles up around the trees and there's not enough green showing the plant will not take in sun and photosynthesize. 4. The trees were not heeled in properly. You really need to compact pack the soil in around new seedlings. When the little roots start growing and they hit an air pocket they will stop there. 5. Naturally you're going to lose about 10% of trees the first year planted. 6. For about the first year, a few times a year, water the trees with a root stimulating hormone. Happy growing 🌞

You may need to introduce mycorrhiza to the soil around the roots of the pines to help them get established where trees have not grown in the past.

Gear oil and diesel mix and coat everything in it and like someone already mentioned kitty litter or floor absorber soaked in it same mix and auger it up

Your trees are not dead yet. The needles lost their water, if you prune them and water them properly, they might get back alive !

Hi from oz mike. Are you sure you have to extend drawbar????? I have different pto shafts for different tractors here and geared pto on tractors to run at the correct speeds or even more economical speeds. That fendt looks like it has bolt on pto shaft so maybe change it to the 540 shaft. My fendt came with three bolt on shafts for the different sizes.

It's 540 or 1000 Mike.... duh!!!! All tractors, every brand, analog or digital...

If you knew the bearings were shot, it begs a question (or a few, really). 🤷🏼‍♂️

Looks like the pine trees maybe got too much water. Looks like the ones that are dead happen to stand in an little bit of a low spot were a bit of water was standing

You can always shorten pto shaft 😀

Par for the course to have a smoking bearing on the auger around here. I’m not even a grain farmer lol

Just get a hitch bar for the 3point hitch, then you can hook the auger to the 3 point

Have you tried any of the lanolin rust proofing products when water is not available?

Dad better get a crop down south or things are going to be looking bad for Mike

Very sorry about your planted trees, should be a nice wind shelter if they are grown up, hope you try again.

Mike. Is that a brand new shaft on that auger? You might need to cut a bit off each end of the shafts. Your Massey would probably be fine.

that brown on your trees is wind burn from winter. they may still be alive, this happens as nurseries protect the trees and when you plant them it could be first time seeing these winds over winter. just wait for mid summer to decide if alive or not.

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Some of them shafts you can shorten pretty easily

As a farmer in aus we not even get a chance to go out in the paddock cuz it’s so dry and the ground is so hard

random question mike..are you gonna be trying the new john deere 9rx this

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LOL... thinking about overheat the bearing while moving ammonium nitrate... hope they add enougth potassium in America to avoid a detonation

You should have used ACF-SR biological bacteria product for the pine trees and they wouldn't die at all.

Why don't you extend the tongue of the auger? Seems easy enough with a bit of square tube.

Hey man got your PTO shorter. Pull it apart and cut about 2 inchs off of each end.

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Hey where do you wash your equipment

Are you going to put a pre fab house at the. North farm ?.

From Farmington, New Mexico, U.S.A. What TWO WAY RADIO or CB RADIO do you run on your new truck and your new one ton truck? Oh, have you ever seen SASQUATCH on your south or north farm?

Mike are there augers specifically built for handling fert?

Can you make your auger hitch longer?

Why not make a short PTO shaft for Eany?

is your hitch to short or your PTO to long

If the pto is too long on both tractors. Find a portable bandsaw. Slip the halves apart. For you metric folk chop 25.4mm off each side and recheck. Lol

We ran bout 3 days on it. I had $16k to spend on new but my wife has been beggin for new tit$ies. So I went ahead and paid for the augmentation. So far so good tho

Could you get away with a hole bar in the 3point hitch arm?

Steel wheels on auger

Ummmm Mike that's what ernie 2 is for

Late start, afternoon

mabey you got rabbit damage to them trees,we put chicken wire around young trees buy me because rabbits love the bark on seedlings.

Good one Sir but I disagree about the trees, the first row is spruce and not pine. I know you’re a farmer but pine tree has long needles and spruce short needles. Regards from south Sweden.

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What about Bert?

They're spruce, not pine though eh?

If you want more pine trees you can come to my place, dig them up, and take them for FREE

Aren't you afraid of hot sparks going in the bin an Catching fire

Why don't you change your 1000 to a 540 on the tractor? Think it's just 6 both and absolutely no oil leak, all external. You probably have the other one on the bottom of your tractor toolbox, we sure did..😆👍

Guess them million dollar farms cannot afford bearings lol

5:50 lemme translate "my activity is not sustainable and ruining the soil". Crazy that someone can say that and not question what they are doing.

Shorten the PTO tubes.

sure that they not red Pine trees? :D

Cut the pto shorter

Have one built wouldn’t be that hard

Why can’t Erin’y be a plow

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