wrapped up haul in those pe's they call and said they're full so we're like all right no more haul in there now it's time to put everything away got air drills there air drill over there got trucks for fertilizer truck for seed augers everywhere fertilizer augers you do an operation there's a lot of odds and ends that go and Supply that operation and well winter weight seating operations spraying operations are all pretty much done so that means we need to put everything away so heading over to the grain bin site we're going to clean up the grain spill that we had finish putting all the seed back in the bin that was uh left over from the wintery seeden pull a bunch of auger conveyor everything back to the yard over here run all the small engines out of gas so they don't sit there during the winter probably use some of them but I like to just run them out anyways they sit for a few months even though it's non ethanol high high octane fuel that we put in these still that gas just gets old so sometimes it's nice just run a dry and then they start a lot better the next time you go to run them 4520 is dead I don't know I think usually doesn't go dead had power the other week but for whatever reason the battery is dead dead dead so must been have short somewhere so we're charging on it but we're going add a little more juice get this thing going all right 4520 come on that think's amazing good deal all right back goes first think that'll work ah now for a pin hey well that's [Applause] convenient I was pulling away and I got waved down by the guys and they're like hey we actually might use that conveyor we've got winter wheat seed that we were using out of this bin right here um there's only about two or 300 bushel left in it maybe 400 at most that truck's got like 200 bushel in it and instead of putting that back in there and tying up a 3,000 bushel bin with like 500 bushel winter wheat seed that bin on the end there holds 700 bushel so we're like well let's get the conveyor set under there finish dping that into the truck then take the truck with this augur and put it in that little bin there make sense so they're going to handle that I'm going to grab the fertilizer auger let's take that back to [Music] farm now some might wonder why are we taking all this stuff back to the yard every time we finish this stuff cuz well it's more likely only going to be used over at the bin site over here so why are we taking it all over there well I like to take them back home close to the shop because if any of you guys have been around Machinery you know that when it sits for a little while and you go to use it it might have worked just fine the last time youan it but it is amazing Murphy's Law something will be wrong be a flat tire a bearing will just be out uh the mice will built a nest inside the engine somewhere and the intake you just you don't know the G the fuel tank wasn't drained and leaks down into the oil pan cuz the carburetor float was stuck there's all kinds of stuff that happens so then you got to take it and either try to work on it in the yard or you can have it right next to the shop where you can pull right up at the beginning of the year when you're ready to use it and quickly just run through it in front of the shop have all the tools right there and equipment necessary so that's kind of why biologic to bring in stuff back back to the main yard when it's sitting now we don't have the luxury of having massive shops Cold Storage uh at our location cuz we haven't generated enough Revenue to be able to finance some of that stuff but if the day comes we definitely will but we've got old buildings spread across the whole Farm old Quant sets old shops from different Farms that we' been acquired over the years so for the sake of putting equipment inside some things do got to be put far away from our yard and just to get them out of the elements and out of the mice and out of the random stray pieces of lead flying through the sky during hunting season all right well let's drop this here cuz I want to like I said winterize it get all the gas out of the carb and everything [Music] beautiful all right round two this time they don't need it I can get out of here with it say how's my 62 been running running real really good really good very little oil burn very little oil burn and uh it's uh good power good mileage I can't but I'm still having uh cylinder one the sparkle keeps fouling pretty bad by two times an oil change probably so about half an oil change I go in I pull it out and clean it off put it back in so I got to fix I'm pretty sure it's a leaky uh valve seal that's leaking a little bit of oil in along and it's causing particles or carbon to build up on the on the spark plug which isn't good cuz you get a bad spark which lowers performance and you possibly can get hot spots that create detonation I think predetonation detonation anyways with all that I got to fix it so winter job I'll keep cleaning the plugs for now we've been getting some gravel hold on the site too really to use some more gravel in some areas that's always something we're trying to do but now we're getting our binyard fairly well established on how layout's going to be uh we'll know where our areas are that they're going to be driven on the most and so we're just going to keep kind of putting some gravel down here and there get to points so that way we're not in a sloppy mess when they call and go hey we need grain and we're like oh do I make tracks for trucks good morning all right the plan is today we're going to grab our plow um chisel plow and it's actually already hooked up to the 600 big bud we just put the pin the hitch um there's a tire that needs air and I'm going to go try to air that up we'll Wing It Up bring it over to the shop we'll grease everything check the shovels on it and see if they need to be uh replaced or moved around and if it looks pretty decent and everything looks good we're going to go out and rip some ground that's pretty rough we got about oh 250 Acres maybe 200 depending on what we want to rip and uh it's just really rough we just got to rip it so we're going to get that done and then the idea that we're going to do is after we rip it we're going to use one of the air drills which is actually hook to the series 2 big bud the 5 and a qu and uh run that air drill through and just not seat it but just run it through and what it's going to do is it's going to kind of level it out a little bit um all the little plow um rows that kind of get dirt moved up in a big bunch of grooves and it'll just be rough so what I'm trying to say is we're trying to level out the ground make it smoother cuz it's a nightmare to spray it's a nightmare to uh run the combines through and the best thing to do is just got to get iron to the ground and rip it so that's our plan um other than that we got the air drills cleaned out um um seed put away augers put away and uh couple other things taken care of and and it's feeling good we're getting close to the end of the the long push but we still have to keep pushing still got some stuff to do but yeah things are going good really happy about it and we're making some uh plans for some upcoming projects this winter so should be very interesting I think you guys are going to enjoy some of the stuff and I'm not going to say anything about it but you'll find out shortly all right I'm going to use the air on the big bud so I can PL fill up the tire let's start this thing and let it fill up the air tank there we go and I grabbed two air hoses cuz I didn't know if it's going to be long enough with one it should be long enough with one but just in case I figured better grab two this hose that was a beautiful toss all right the other end oh yeah it's plenty long enough there's the other end and we'll go over here and I see let me grab this and in case I need it there we go it says 90 PSI I'll probably put 80 it's filling up [Music] after tightening a couple bolts that need to be tightened replace a few things like shovels uh greased and air it up the tires make sure that they're good we are good to go so I'm going to take this 600 with our chisel plow and uh go rip some ground yeah this thing this thing's seen uh better days it's it's definitely used we bought it pretty used like it was it was used when we bought it and we've used it too so it's not pretty but most of our stuff on our farm has been hand me- Downs multiple times before we get it there's a reason for that cuz we can afford it then H we need somebody to eat the initial cost of new and then maybe another person buying it from them so that we could be the third or fourth on the list to acquire that piece of Machinery that's about how it works around here it's all good though you learn a lot of things by working on used stuff all right guys I'm back with the big brute and I've got some things I want to talk about with this big brute CU well it's big and it's a brute and we've done a lot to it the last few years and I I don't know if I ever fully showed some of these systems that we put on here so I kind of want to go over some of these they're they're they're amazing I love the sprayer oh this this just such a good sprayer let's just start with the Boom the tech that we're going to talk about is from our friends at Raven Industries Raven's been a great company to work with they make some outstanding products and it it just has transformed a sprayer without without it I don't know honestly if I can handle a sprayer without without the systems I got here and this is first system up I'm going to show you is the autoboom the xrt system it's a seven sensor system and it has made my life so nice spraying I sprayed for years manually running the booms I had 100ft Boom at the time and every dip every [ __ ] every wash out everything I was pressing the button to raise and low the boom along because I didn't have auto boom and now we do thanks to Raven it is amazing so let's show the system here here's one of the sensors right here so it just detects the proximity to the ground and it watches and there's an algorithm as these sensors work together and unicent and it'll just kind of go okay oh I need to go up a littleit I need to go down a little bit I need to keep that height CU whatever the predetermined height that you pick above your canopy of the crop whether it's weeds or crop spraying or whatever you're doing um it'll try to maintain that and it does a fantastic job I mean I can spray 12 15 miles an hour and it keeps up if it's really level I can spray way faster but the 120t boom it's amazing how fast it keeps up it's unreal so there's one right there there's another one right here and then we got another one right there so there's three on each boom then there's a center sensor one right here in the Center and then three that way and along with that there's also a sensor right here as you can see that's attached to the frame the center section of the sprayer and that tells it exactly how high up and down the boom has been raised and lowered so as it raises it push this arm here pushes on that little arm there turns the sensor or switches it inside here and says hey um I moved up a little bit and uh then all the the position sensors out there the height sensor will will will confirm and they'll go together work together and go yeah yeah you went up this far you went down this far so there's one on each side there and there then there's also another one if I can find it here right here see so we got another one and that is because the center section can uh oscillate back and forth like this and pivots should say pivot not oscillate pivots pivots right there so this sensor tells that information to the system one more piece of the puzzle that's all in that algorithm that goes okay this has moved that has moved this has moved you hit you know that boom raises up a little bit it's going to cause this boom to dip down on this side so this boom on this side is going to have to raise up a little bit to counter that dip because of the forces of moving that 120t boom back and forth and it's pivoting here and that isn't even saying with the sprayer itself as it's barreling down the field hitting bumps and dips because this truck's going to go bam hits a dip okay well now it's going to throw that boom down into the ground well the moment this truck drops the boom has already started lifting cuz it knows it goes oh the truck just down I got to correct for that so it starts raising that and that way you're not dragging boom out there hidden up underneath the truck hey hear that I found my air leak oh thanks guys you guys are awesome I've been looking for that early for a while now all right back to what we're talking about right here is a roll sensor so that is mounted level with the frame of the truck so as the truck like I was saying earlier if it dips in a dip a tire a rut whatever ever it may be the ground starts turning that sensor will go uhoh the truck is starting to roll a little bit I better start preparing for something that's coming because there's a good chance the truck's driving down a hill in a ditch so let's raise a boom on that side a little bit to counter that just to make sure we don't drag boom and for just the stress level of spraying I'll say the autoboom system by far is it's worth it it's just worth it if you got a sprayer and you don't have an autoboom system on it highly recommend getting one on it it is unreal how much it changes your spraying all new sprayers have my know shouldn't say all and probably you can get them without them but anything over 100 ft you got you just got to have it now on the back of this we have a bunch of modules that were installed there's one up here and there's one right there and those modules combined with a flow meter which is oh it's over here actually with this flow meter working unicent so they keep tabs on the product going out and that's how you get your variable rate and uh a lot of the autoboom systems and all that it's all integrated together in those systems and so that's the spraying side of things now when you go to fill we have this a big flow meter here attached to this monitor this counts the product going into the tank so as you're filling that says hey you got 786 gallons put in that tank and that then connects to your viper which is in the cab and puts a a a a icon up there that gives you your gallons in your tank and how fast it it uh is being taken out so that way you can keep an accurate tab of how much did you actually put in that tank and how much is going out now with the spr we used to have a trimble system in it it was like an easy pilot I think is what they called it and it would overheat it didn't hold the line very well it worked but it wasn't it wasn't great and the monitor we had wasn't enough horsepower to run all these systems and so we swapped all that out for the Raven system and uh I'll touch more on that in in a in a bit about the swap but we went Auto or integrated Auto steer so no longer is the steering column driving the steering into this the sprayer there's an integrated system so we're using this hydraulic block here with all these solenoids connected to this arm this tells the position of the steer axle so this arm is it goes in and out real simple but does a lot very important that tells the degrees of what angle is this front tire at so the computer can then go okay I'm going this way now that system combined with your receiver GPS receiver and that's talking all the systems too and that is working with that steer position sensor and that uh that hydraulic valve body to go okay with the satellites in space talking to 10 11 of them at a time and they go hey uh you're right here but you're drifting this far off the line that was preset and the steering indicator goes oh well your steering I don't know 3 de off from Center okay well let's turn them back 5° to intercept that line again the receiver goes yep you're intercepting that line okay take that 5° reduce it to 4° reduce to 3° reduce it to 2° 0° all right we're back on straight on that line does that make sense it's I'm such this is such a dumb version of this but the guys that really know these the terminology and how this all works are probably shaking their heads at me but no this is just a real basic view of how all these systems work together it's it's amazing and all these systems talk to each other it's it's it's it's remarkable that literally pieces of silicone and aluminum and gold and solar panels screaming across the sky at thousands of miles an hour way up there are helping me do my job down here and GPS has been around forever but still amazing all right so we're inside big brot's cab as you can see the easy Pilot's gone now we've got nice integrated Auto steer the old triple monitor is gone got our beautiful Viper 4 my favorite monitor love this thing Viper 4 plus so here's our screen right now as you can see this is the auto boom these are each of the sensors on the on the booms right now that's 30 in 28 26 24 27 38 44 and that's the height above the ground up there so if I raise and lower the boom 45 86 85 72 88 91 so I raised that boom up so now it's indicating that lower it down you can turn on auto mode and I can adjust sensitivity the height the crop level what kind of crops am I in am I in really tall crop or am I in really short stubble lot of options there really nice we've got all your rate control really nice easy tank level says zero right now gallons of tank Acres you can spray acres per hour your target rate your sections of your sprayer I can turn on and off the switches so I can turn the valves open and close them per swi switches there's five sections on the sprayer let's go to auto guidance here's where we can adjust our steering sensitivity how well it tracks to a line intercepts a line that's line acquisition speed response how fast ises the motor or does it try to turn integrated auto secure system are really fast they can they can whip on quick see how many satellites we're talking to right now we're talking to nine current accuracy is 25 in it's getting better as it requires more satellites we've also got a lot of telematics on here we've got Wi-Fi and cellular so if this thing needs to connect to say slingshot you can actually send your data to the cloud while you're out in the field as long as you have Cellular Connection or if you pull in your yard you can dump it through Wi-Fi or if you need help diagnosing something you can have someone remote in and work on it through the slingshots pretty pretty cool system now as a lot of you know we have a weit system on the sprayer the weit system has been amazing um and that does all the nozzle control there are solenoids for every nozzle the weed it system controls that but it works hand inand with the Raven systems now Raven does offer a uh nozzle control system um doesn't have the sensors that the weed it has but you can have that but because we have the weed it it has the weed it weed it uh pwms or pulse width modulator uh solenoids on this on this on the nozzles now I haven't in a while I'm going to pull the data on a thumb drive I like thumb drives off of this Viper and put it on my computer so let's uh copy all of that and Export it to the thumb drive there we go and that way we can look at that data on the PC that's always nice to have and for backup too for records now will there be more added to Big brute I don't know but for right now it's it's made quite a sprayer out of this thing and I've I don't know I haven't kept cheack of all my hours but I've got to have well over 300 hours in this sprayer this season alone so I put a lot of time into this and every time I go and drive a different sprayer I just think myself how much I like big root just all these systems when they work they work so well so if you've got an old system in your sprayer your combine whatever it may be you can pull it out right now take it into Raven and they'll give you up to 50% off a new system from Raven up into the end of the year which is December 31st so get on it pull that little system out do what we did trade it in put that money towards a much better system okay well I have a project that shouldn't be too difficult uh what it is is uh this is my daughter's car about a 2011 Regal Buick Regal and uh happened a couple months ago um during Harvest um she wanted to come and ride on the combine and we're we're cutting right next to a kind of abandoned County Road um but koshia the weeds had kind of grown up in the middle and so she was heading up uh to uh ride with me and she was heading up there if it wouldn't been for the weeds she would have missed it but she was kind of straddling where the the the Wheel Wash out or the road wear is you know so you have the middle up a little higher but evidently it must been a rock from a truck or whatever that kicked up and when she did go across that that rock must just tapped the oil cover rolled and then punched a hole right up in the oil pan well when she realized and she heard that big crash um as far as the oil pan um she coasted down and then shut the the oil light came on and she shut it down so I there no damage to the engine I you know it wasn't running that long at all uh but of course with that kind of a hole it pours out it dumped it quickly so I do have an oil uh pan and I got time now to uh drop this oil pan so that's the job and what I understand is that the dipstick could be your biggest uh issue um just trying to get it to uh separate from the pan some had to take the dipstick off with the pan but other than that uh it's just matter of a bunch of bolts and what's interesting is uh I went and I tried to look for a gasket an oil pan gasket for this engine and they don't make oil pan gaskets they use sealant as a gas gasket using sealing a gasket sealing material and so um I'll just put some gasket sealing material on there and put it back up put some oil in it and I think she's good to go so we'll see what kind of a project that is all right well first things first is drain the oil right okay what is that the oily bird gets the worm no now all right so had to take uh a couple bolts out of the air conditioning um compressor because it uh one bolt is uh hooked onto it so I I loosen it up so the pan won't be against it won't be against the pan now I just have uh about seven of those pan bolts uh these two and then there's one here I took this last one out and uh it's come out now um I need to work this off so let me go get some vice grips and uh see if uh if I can wiggle it back and forth enough to work it out here it comes all right got that off let's pull the pan oh okay it's just barely on the there we go okay man hands are a little oily but that's the indentation a little crease just a divot uh maybe just a little crease it does come with the oil suction uh screen that was a GL gasket there let's clean it I got to get her all cleaned up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]
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