I Almost Tanked The 4020

hey everybody it's ryan welcome back to how farms work so i'm in the jcb just pulling it out of the machine shed travis and i've bought the 40 20 and the manure spreader out to my place because we are going to be starting to clean out the barnyard so i've got a big pile of manure out there that needs to be hauled out so the 11 acres was just made so that's pretty short to where we can haul it out there very lightly and we're also talking about hauling manure out onto these two strips straight out from my house out here to put manure on that since those are going to be getting torn up so this project is going to take some time considering the amount of manure that we have to haul out but uh we're going to start hauling out today so let's get to digging uh we repaired the manure spreader and uh we had an issue last fall where the floor was sliding out so we put some metal down over the floor to give it kind of like a new base and then we screwed down underneath and we're hoping that that will give it some more life because the chain on the spreader itself is good we bought that we bought the spreader off the farm auction and right before grandpa had passed we had he had just redone the chain on it so we knew that the chain was good and that was the thing that could always give us the biggest problem with the spreader so from what we've hauled out with it so far it seems to be holding up pretty good with the new floor we didn't do all of it just part of it but i think he's going to be hauling out to 11 acres for the first for the first few loads and i just got the drone back today from when it had its little incident so now i get to fly that again it's always a little difficult getting back into the grind with some of these tasks but once you get out a few loads usually you're a little bit quicker at it [Music] we're taking out light loads because we want to make sure since we're spreading on hay ground whether he's taken out to the 11 acres or out here we're still hoping to get at least one cutting off the grass out here but he's going to take that manure out spread it out at the 11 acres and we want to spread it lightly because we don't want to kill any of the alfalfa underneath so we're spreading fairly lightly with light loads that way all of the manure is going to get run through the beaters on the spreader and ground up if we overloaded the spreader to as full as we could get it and you know we can get the spreader full with the jcb because we can reach as far as we need to um what tends to happen is it just kind of heaves the manure out manure out the back instead of beating it up so while he's gone i'm gonna be digging at some of this to try to loosen it up so i could load him up a little bit faster next time i was just gonna do this myself but he offered help and uh can't really argue with that so let's get to digging [Music] my uh foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so so well that's how much we got done this afternoon i think it's pretty good considering we didn't even start working on this until was it like 3 30. this morning i uh ran around paid some bills off positive and some checks paperwork but uh yeah that's a pretty good start on that pile i want to get the pile cleaned up and then throw some lime in there to raise it up some to refill in some of what i took out because i'm digging a little bit deeper than what we usually do so i'm gonna park the jcb and then uh i'm gonna ride over with travis and get my car because i brought the four-wheeler back over so i can go check on the cows that's one big freaking rock my dudes we're going to dump this one in the dish this is just a big uh chunk of cement i think or rock that was used for the barn [Music] i never even really saw it all out it's gone must have better i dropped it in the field somewhere anyway back to back to load manure so what i'm doing right now is i'm taking off the wear plates on the quick touch on the jcb because i got a lot of slop in between the quick attach plate and the bucket so to avoid damage to the quick attach it's always best to make sure that your uh bucket is making good contact with quick attach so i think if i flip these around looking at the face of these i mean they are pretty work brush mowing is pretty hard on these things but uh i'm hoping that i'll put them around and that'll resolve the contact issue you really want this plate to be clean [Music] that's a mud pit all right travis just called and said that he's having issues so he asked me to bring the implement mover out to him hopefully it's nothing too serious we're getting pretty close to being done which i guess we should have expected all the spreaders on the ground oh with the drawbar that's not good that's a new one well it could have been a lot worse the pin that holds the drawbar in place broke this spreader is getting pretty far up there in age i imagine that our next spreader purchase is probably going to be one of those where well can we fix it uh probably not all right well now it's time to go buy a new spreader i'd imagine that we're probably gonna run this thing until it quits so but miraculously the problem was with the tractor and now the spreader this time so it's not what i expected but it's a really simple and easy fix but john was trying calling sloanes and he couldn't get a hold of him so he's uh just gonna take the 40 20 back to the farm we're pulling this into the buildings and we'll keep on another day it's not really worth going back and getting the 7600 to bring it out just to haul for another hour but when we get the time we'll finish hauling shouldn't take more than another day to get all the manure all out so i'm gonna take this back to the buildings park it and then once we get that pin for the 40 20 probably just should be behind you [Music] so we got that pin put back in the drawbar on the 40 20. and travis went through and cleaned the 40 20 out so this is a nice before of what it looks like before i take it back out and keep spreading so we're going to make hay today but unfortunately uh if the last video was about breaking hay with the 82. um we figured out what the 4640s problem was basically needs new brakes so uh travis and dad are taking the 46 up to sloanes and i'm out here gonna keep hauling manure so hannah's here today hmm come on buddy [Music] love you bye so [Applause] [Music] [Music] now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] well i just went for a ride in the tractor not sure what made it stop whether it was the combination of the tractor jackknifing but i actually had this wheel up off the ground i'm kind of shook up but i'm kind of stuck right now over that hump so hannah's gonna bring down the jcb and we're gonna push the spreader see if we can't coax it out of there well this is awkward so we need to get some new lugs in the 40 20. i was coming down that hillside and uh once i got to the top i'm like um this isn't a good idea i should spin around but uh there's gonna be no way of spinning around up there without putting myself in a worse situation once i got down to the corner up here i just decided to come down along the old logging trail and i got to right here and it got to be too much weight more weight than the 40 20 could handle i only had the back end on there but i ran a little bit out actually that ran out while i was uh trying to figure out where i was but i slid down the entire hill here and the uh 40 20 jackknifed on me so that's might be what stopped me from keeping on going down into the creek between that and the fact that the spreader bottomed out uh probably was what stopped me and hooked it even though i lifted it up in the air because i wanted to get it out of the situation the area that it was in uh because the 40 20 was sitting cockeyed and well my first part my first priority is to make sure the tractor is fine so i just unhooked that where it was hannah's bringing down the jcb and i'll probably lower it down re-hook it up again make sure it's straight and not at a 45 degree angle but i came down that hillside right here and it started to jackknife on me there's nothing i could do and uh the pto was kinked up so i immediately shut that down so i think that's everything's fine there but the 40 20 i mean i i knew it went up about at a 45 degree angle so i don't know crap happens but they're really what i ran out of places to go to my idea was that i could run it out i went slow down this logging trail hoping to spread it out as much as i could because i wanted to spread out in this area which i've what i've done before but it was with the 7600 so the 40 20 is pretty bald so [Music] [Music] really wasn't much turning around right there [Music] clean up the barnyard kind of cleaned some out of the steer a lot i'm cleaning this pile out of the pole shed this needs to get done and this is going to be the last of what i need to haul out so now we're on the 40 20. i've got the last load on that i'm going to spread out and i'm sure some of you are wondering why we're spreading on this grass that is now almost a foot tall in some places and the reason for that is being is because when we first started spreading on this my intention was to spread it very lightly and hopefully be able to get another cutting off of it but the thing is is now we've had so much manure i was intending to spread more out in the pasture i wanted to spread some out on those hillsides over there but especially with the incident that i had with the 40 20 sliding downhill i'm like yeah nope this is enough i'm just gonna keep spreading out on the strips here so that's what i did and we only spread on that lower strip as well as the back part of this strip here i tried not to spread anything on the front side of the strip here so we can still cut all of that but the thing that you have to remember with these strips the lower one and this back piece here is that these grass strips are getting chiseled up this fall so what we're going to do is for the first time last year i let my cows out into the field to extend the feet a little bit longer and actually worked pretty well and since i am short on hey i'm going to do that again this fall go around check the fences make sure they're all good let the cows out and then they can pick off all the grass that's left standing on these strips i was hoping that maybe if i spread it light enough on the lower strip in this strip that we could still get a cutting off of it like i did with the 11 acres which has grown back beautiful by the way we spread it very very lightly on that field and it's the alfalfa is just coming back great but on this one spread it a little bit heavier i tried to contain it a little bit more just to this back piece and that lower strip so that way we can still get a cutting off the front half of the strip so anyway uh that's why we're spreading out on the fields here uh even though there's there's grass on them now when we get started it was freshly cut and we didn't get a whole lot of grass off these strips and we're just like you know it's worth just getting the door spread out and that's what i did so now i have time to put rock or lime down before the cattle come in for the fall so that gives me more time to work on it through august so anyway let's go ahead and spread out this load and it packed me some snacks i got pb and j crackers in there some cheez-its and some muddy buddies she also made cold brew coffee last night and she put it in a cup for me so yeah she cares about me so i was telling hannah last night after uh after i had time to think about it when the uh 40 20 started sliding down the hill i told her it's just like well that's one very good reason why we should get new lugs new tires on the 40 20 because they are pretty bare uh number one it's a big safety issue but uh number two what i was thinking the whole time when i was going down that short hill i mean i was kind of surprised how fast the 40 20 sped up when it started slipping i was only in second gear so it was basically like a slip and slide all the way down but i actually did scream but i thought it was going to be a lot higher so i remember thinking just like well that wasn't a very good scream that can't be my last one i gotta try this again i gotta go i gotta go back and do it again and she's like no no don't do it again but uh yeah 40 20 is fine spreader's fine um that's not the first time where we've had an issue like that happen that right there is a very good argument for why you should have um four wheel drive tractors uh on your farm because it gives you that much more traction and it would give me that much more stopping power i know we've done that with the 76 and if we do it again in the future only the 76 is going down there i'm all done scraping this up now i would have liked to scrape it up a little bit better but i'm always running a little short on time but uh yeah i finished this last night i finished hauling out what was in the poll shed this morning and i got a little bit taken out of the uh out of the steer lot over there and uh now i gotta get going but so what i plan to do with the barnyard now is to add something underneath i was originally thinking lime because with lime if i'm here spreading again i can dig down into the lime you'll see it and i'll know that i'm digging too deep and i can put that in the spreader but i was also suggested to put in breaker rock first to give the jcb some support because especially on this lower end i've had problems with the jcb sinking in so i wanted to dig down further here uh get all of that goop out of here that i kept sinking into and there's definitely a steep decline down in there in this area but i'd love to fill this up i was suggested to put in breaker rock and uh i think that would really give the jcb some support but my big concern with breaker rock is i don't want to scrape some of that up and put it in the spreader and then broadcast it out on the fields so that was part of my concern there what i'd love to do is get this nice and smooth and level out and have it have a nice slope downward so that the water runs out of the barnyard and then come through with cement and cement this off so that the uh there's a nice good base here for me to feed cows on and i don't have to get sunk into and i don't got to worry about the cows getting up on a heat large heap of manure like i had here and uh rolling over the wrong way on it so that's what i was i would love to do i was thinking about going and at least getting this priced out to figure out how much uh putting cement in the barnyard would be but i'm kind of torn between doing this first because this i think would cost less i'm sure it would um than actually putting in a brand new building here and um yeah but people are telling me to do this first because especially i'm thinking if i did the cement and then tore this out that it could damage the cement which you know is a very real possibility but then you know i could uh if i did this first i could tear this out and then cement everything and then just have it be nice like the pole shed so i don't know the barn uh honestly the barn needs to come down because we've been watching it and it's been slowly giving way especially in that back corner but on this corner over here as well the foundation's starting to break away and i don't know if it was the weight of the barn that was keeping all of it from falling in probably but either way i feel like the barn over on that corner one way or another would have ended up falling on the machine shed so i'm glad we got it off of here but i'm looking at this and thinking we need to get the rest of this foundation down here so i don't know lots of things to do not enough time to do it you can look at how twisted the foundation was and that was like that while the barn was on it so part of the foundation was going towards the barnyard and the other half was going towards the machine shed so i'm still kind of worried about this giving away with the cows under underneath here um it's not as big of a worry for me now that the barns out of here i feel like the barn really would have caused some damage if my cows were in it um but still this is like if this were to give away with cows in that i would fear for them so anyway that's pretty much it for this video i'll be sure to keep you guys in tune uh tuned in on everything that's going on with the barn yard and everything we're doing around the farm right now i'm going to let this dry out and then yeah let me know in the comments what you guys think i should put down as a as the first layer and then what i should top it off with to get it nice and leveled out so i might do some more scraping just try to get it nice and level there's a hump out here in the middle that i want to kind of that i was thinking i might want to take out and refill with with rock or lime or something so 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Length: 28min 40sec (1720 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 25 2021