Rrriiiip It Dude! - #222

hi guys hi guys hi guys [Music] good morning i'm debating i'm going up to the field to look and see if i need to start my irrigation up i think we're gonna have to go and look i'm hoping i don't have to start it but we're gonna go see what that looks like and then i'm gonna go down to my seed warehouse and uh work on that stuff this morning until my parts for this thing get here well it actually doesn't look too bad up here uh we still got a fair amount of moisture out there and laying on the shaded side this side not as bad but or as much but out in the corn it's moist so i'm gonna say no we're not gonna start this up yet this corn looks really good dang that looks really nice those kernels are really thick fat that's that's good corn all right well we'll work down here for a while cleaning some stuff up first thing i want to do is finish putting my plot signs up i just have a few to do out uh in the corn there so i'm gonna sort through this pile and find them and take a box of posts all right i think i've just got about three or four more signs to put up on the corn plot side i do need to put some up on the other side with some of my nitrogen trials and that stuff um i don't really know why i'm wasting my time putting signs on this coons have just just destroyed it but that's my 99 day i think there's an experimental and then a 95 day and we'll get these last few put up because yeah just to finish it okay check it out all the signs are up some over here it's a shame we had that five and a half inches of rain otherwise this plot would have been really nice i do need to make some labels up yet for the special trials like the starter rates and the uh um population and those things but signs are up oh yeah i do have that one yet we should put that one up we gotta find a spot for it and i don't i don't know what to do with these these are the same sign size as that one but i don't have anything to hold them with or put them up with so i have to get creative there check that one out pretty good i like it okay now i'm trying to clean up these signs here a little bit and uh decided i needed to make some room on my sign rack so all those other color style ones there are ones that we're not we're not going to use them anymore i still sell some of those numbers but um yeah so i don't want them here maybe my sales rep wants them i asked but i haven't heard back yet and these ones are the new style but their numbers we no longer sell so those two stacks can all be gotten rid of those two stacks need to find room up here somewhere i do need to go through the bean ones yet and make sure that those are not uh old things that we don't have anymore well i feel like i'm making a little bit of progress clearly the flooring still needs swept it's dirty um but that's kind of the last thing you do so i got all those signs organized and put away i've got a pile over there that needs to be gotten rid of um i got some steaks put away and cleaned up and just organizing a little bit we're getting there dad's uh still cleaning up they got rid of their deck they had a pool we tore out a year ago and the deck sat there so now he's just kind of cleaning up around a little bit yeah but anyway it's lunch time i'm going to launch hopefully my truck doesn't show up while i'm gone and hopefully our parts are here when i get back we got a truck all right there they go so uh uh i do need more to do more down here cleaning up and stuff but uh my part should be here anytime so we're gonna shut stuff off and close it up and head back to the farm well look at that there's my parts okay let's see what we've got here those look like the hubs right there okay well that's what we need expensive little buggers but uh hopefully this one's sealed a little better all right let's get them put together look it spins nice and free there you go got one spins better than that one but it spins all right all back together we had even got our tracker hooked up for us so we are going to fold her up and head to the field make sure that everything is working get going here there we go we'll get her folded up and uh we got some stands on the back we gotta get off well let's go to the field guys finally we're gonna go have some fun jack's up here helping i think he's gonna grab the 8430 and our 5 shank ripper and come work too i'll be in a little different spot than i am but we'll run them both so if the road commission leaves their equipment set in my field overnight does that mean i can use it okay i think i got the computer all set up let's see what happens here see if we can pull this thing okay our closing disks got to go down there we go okay come on basket adjust let's get everything adjusted right here there it's starting to turn all right all right we got some dust so that's good i guess all right well [Music] see what we can do here okay we are running i've got it where i want it i think it seems to be doing a really nice job if you look at my strips i've already done they're nice and level we're uh ripping good uh it's it's pulling sort of hard in spots but not terribly like right here we're running five miles an hour five point yeah trying to go six um some places it'll do it other places it bogs it down that's okay we expect that it is really dusty uh this stuff we're in right now dad actually discs it so after this uh they figured out that this ripper the blade bearings were bad um they dropped it in the shop and then hooked the disc up to try and work some more of that litter in and did part of this here that's what we're in now i'll show you this a little bit how it works after i turn around all right so this uh ripper it's a 2730 john deere and it has what they call true set tillage on it and basically that means that there is a computer to control the depth and i know what you're thinking a computer on a tillage tool come on and you're right it's completely over the top and unnecessary but there's so much adjustment to this and different settings and stuff on it that it really does help it's nice it's really nice when it's running right so the disc gangs in the front they adjust independent of the ripper points and then those closing discs in the basket are all independent from all of that stuff and so on my computer here on our 2630 i can actually set the depth of all of those so like our uh our discs in the front there i've got set to run two and a half inches deep the number on the top tells me what they're actually running and they are constantly adjusting to get to that point if you could see the hydraulic hoses on there you would see them jumping around as the they're pressurized and not um to maintain that but it's so dusty you can't hardly see that so the next one then is the ripper right now we're set at 10 inches deep uh which that's actually on the deep side for what we're usually able to run sometimes it's only nine sometimes it's only eight um but i like to go as deep as we can and still pull it effectively uh closing baskets are set to like an inch but that's an inch from the original depth it's really hard to see basically you just adjust those so that they leave it nice and level and then the basket that's actually a pressure which is what this dial is down here we can change how much down pressure is on that rolling basket in the back again just to try and help level it up a little bit so we can have presets over here you know different settings to you know if you want to make it shallower or deeper or the disc deeper shallower or whatever for different types of ground different areas and stuff all you got to do is hit the button and it'll change those we can go into our settings here and change some of the set points and the increments in which they change and if you really really wanted to you could set prescription maps uh like i do for my seating rates and what that would do would allow the ripper to basically follow your preset uh settings and say you wanted to had a farm that had different soil types on it and you wanted to rip one soil type deeper than another one or you have some areas in the field that are typically really high yielding and so the corn stalk residue would be a lot thicker and you want to run the dips deeper to bury it better you can pre-set all of that stuff and it will automatically follow it as you're going through the field or you can just do it as you're going through the field and watch it and stuff but usually we're just setting it in one spot and uh and letting it go the only thing we really play with a lot is the ripper depth and that's just based on what we can pull and what we can we do like to change the the disc depth uh based on uh the residue that we're in so if we're in corn stalks we'll set them a little bit deeper so that it buries some more for a bean stubble where there's not much residue there anyway you can raise them up and and they just they don't they're not needed as much so you pull them up and don't wear them out it doesn't take as much power to pull them so anyway we're going to keep working across here see how far we can get at uh four o'clock today or a little before dad's going gonna come and take over for me because i gotta go pick up my boys from the babysitter today by 4 30 so we'll do that and we'll probably come back and try and keep running if i can get them to ride with me or cooperate while they're riding i don't know we'll see we'll have them tonight i think i'm going to stop here and get out and just go look see how good of a job we're doing show you how it works it's nice and level so you'll notice our disc blades we're not digging in very deep we've got them set fairly shallow i think it's at two two and a half something like that um but it is turning over some dirt and cutting up that residue a little bit burying stuff and then we've got our ripper points and they are in the ground a ways uh i don't have a shovel to sit here and dig and tell you exactly how deep those points are but uh they're not shallow i know that so and then there's our uh closing discs and you can see how you know those hubs are just running right in the dirt and they're kinda the idea is that back ripper point is creating a a valley and a ridges on each side of it and so these discs kind of run in those ridges to help level the dirt off fill in the valleys make it a little bit smoother and then this rolling basket comes through and kind of pushes everything down and this tool does such a good job like i can complain about some of the quality on those bearings and stuff i am absolutely complaining but it does such a good job in the field it's really hard to not like this thing it's a really good tillage tool it's long but it's doing a lot of different things you know it used to be you would have to disc the field and then you would chisel the field and then if you wanted it level like this you'd have to run another tool through it and stuff so we'll be able to hit this with our field cultivator it'll be nice and level we won't have to do anything else it's this is i'm i'm really happy with the job that this tool does and that's why we have it because it's a nice tool and it does a good job and it works really well and it's got that easy adjustments and stuff so i know a lot of you guys said buy something else just go park it and buy a different thing yeah this is an 80 000 tillage tool there's a reason that we're using it and while i can complain about 300 bearings man it's still hard to not like this tool that does not mean i'm gonna stop complaining to john here and to my dealer about those and trying to get them to help me out i'm still working on them because i'm not convinced those had those seals in them from the factory and that's why they were going back but it's it does a good job i still really like it we're gonna keep it just stopped because i noticed my rolling basket wasn't turning i wonder if we got a rock or something caught in it so i thought i'd come look see what's going on oh it's just a baby one that would have fallen out eventually but it was it was pushing you can see back here where the little pile is and i lifted it up right here i don't know can you guys see that i can see it but there's a little pile here it was pushing there and i lifted it up to go over it and just lifted it and you can see what that rolling basket does see how much ridge how much more ridged this is oh then over there yeah that's that's what that rolling basket is for [Music] i have a i have a photographer chasing me my sister i think she wants to ride what are we doing we're doing a little bit of content creation you know content for what page uh i got a social media manager awesome if you're new this is my sister anna hello she's you've seen her a few times but not maybe ever heard her talk nope i'm so honored to be here just stop it's really great just stop the fans you're awesome i don't know if she's written an attraction with me in the last five years so this is rare whatever that's that is true let's see starting to make a little progress this is kind of where i started and i got everything over to the corn dome so gotta work back across that way yeah looks like my relief driver is here but it's phil who has never actually run this ripper in the two years that we've got it so we might need to give some lessons here which means she's getting booted out have to go take some pictures outside so i told you a little bit ago but i have to go pick up my kids um my wife is uh gone for the weekend it's thursday she took off up uh going up into michigan with uh her sister her mother a bunch of people for my sister-in-law my wife's sister's bachelorette party so i hope they have a good time but that leaves me with the boys for the weekend which is fine but it means i gotta go get them tonight at 4 30. all right he's gonna go [Music] yup yup yup does a good job so phil's working back over there on the other side of them trees that wheat stubble there and uh jack is over here doing this little finger pretty small piece here he's got our five shank it's a 512 john deere ripper it's it it looks like it's doing okay but it does not leave it near as smooth as that 2730 does so we don't use it a lot but small spot like that he needed something to do well i got the boys but uh grandpa's gonna go take him to go pick up rocks so i'm gonna go see where phil's at if he wants me to take over if he wants to keep running that jack got done with that area he was at so that tractor's parked for now let's see what's see how phil's doing like he is finishing up intros in the clear in the back there so we'll wait for him to get up to the front [Music] so i came back here to that other piece where jack was working with that other tractor and ripper just to kind of compare and contrast the job that they do and i don't know how well it's going to show up in the film and or on the on the video here um but those two tools so the one that phil's running over there is a 2730 john deere uh and jack was pulling a 512 john air and it's just a five shank it's a lot smaller because we pull it with smaller tractors but um they're they have the same purpose they do the same primary tillage job but they're not nearly the same tool and they don't do they don't do the same thing i guess that one's got those disc blades in the front and then the levelers in the back and that rolling basket and it levels and does a really nice job this one has one disc gang in the front and then five ripper shanks and then another disc gang in the back and i don't know if you guys can see this mound here this is right in the center of the the tool the discs kind of throw stuff back together they leave a ridge so you got one here and then it's kind of low and then right there there's another one and it's just it leaves the field really wavy uh we've got bigger clods here than what that other one does it's it just it just does not leave the field as nice and smooth of a finish and uh it's it's noticeable it'll even be noticeable in the spring when we come back to to work this down now this is going to get done in the next week or two but if it would be left als till the spring you would know it's not as good sometime when we've got them parked next to each other i'll show you the physical differences on the tools and you'll see how much of a difference there is but one of the other key differences is that uh the 512 has shanks there's five shanks but they're on 30 inch spacings uh that 2730 has nine shanks but they're on 24 inch spacings so it's 12 and a half foot versus 18 foot um but the closer spacings does a better job pulls harder but it does a better job so here i'm back up in the stuff that i did with that uh 2730 ripper and there is some small ridges you know right here there's a little bit of of a ridge but it's not a mound that that other one leaves and you can see there's a lot less trash it buries a lot more so this will this will work down a lot better the clod size is a lot smaller it's breaking stuff up you need a couple like this one but nothing nothing like what that other tool does so it's why we like it because it does a really good job something's squeaking oh it's the scrapers all right well i'm back in the tractor all i had to do was finish these ends up oh it's rough and uh we're heading to the next field now okay well we're getting started here um about the same as the other field other than this one hasn't been discs so it's standing weak stubble working pretty good i'm playing with it just a little bit trying to get it to level just a touch better but it's it's not bad so one thing to note is i always when we're doing primary tillage almost always go on just a little bit of an angle so my rows actually run more that way and we're five degrees off of that i just punch in a heading on the computer in this case of 185 degrees so we end up with some point rows and angles here along the road that we've got to fill in which is what i'm doing now [Music] i'm also sure somebody's going to ask a question about fuel efficiency and all that stuff so i'll just give you the numbers uh we are burning two gallons of diesel per acre about 25 gallons an hour covering 12 acres an hour something like that which yeah uh what else is on there right now we're at about 11 slips we get in this low spot and it really bogs the tractor down and the slip goes up the fuel economy goes down then when we get out of that it kind of speeds back up and starts running er you know a little less so it's all about averages everything but you're gonna burn fuel when pulling a ripper like this there's no way around it and once again i will remind you fuel is a minor expense i know every penny counts when you're talking about two dollars an acre and a dollar fifty even which our fuel was cheaper than that it's three bucks like that's that's a minor expense in the grand scheme of things so i don't get overly caught up on fuel efficiency of tractors and stuff because you're gonna burn fuel no matter what so if a different colored tractor was burning instead of instead of two gallons an acre it was 1.8 and you're saving two tenths of a gallon per acre it's pennies it's not a significant enough difference for that to be something that is a determining factor in what brand or size or tractor we run or anything like that now whether this is a necessary operation in order to raise good crops next year or if we could skip the whole pass entirely well that may be open to debate there is some some doubt in my mind as to whether or not uh this is necessary if we were in a strip till uh situation could we get the same results as we are doing this maybe but that has expenses with it as well so something i definitely want to try i've been thinking about it trying to figure out how but uh for what we have found historically and anytime we try any no-till stuff especially corn there's a reason we do things the way we do so it is a necessary expense in our opinion picked up a couple riders can you boys say hi hi they were helping grandpa what were you doing picking up rocks and throwing them on the bird oh did you find any big ones that's a good job for you boys [Laughter] they're quite upset with me for not having any snacks it's bright isn't it 128 acres here we've got nine done got about 10 hours left so ain't gonna happen tonight obviously but we should get her done tomorrow my uh riders have had enough time for grandpa to come get him listen she will take you back to the farm grandpa is there oh man bye boys all right it is uh what time is it a little after seven i was planning on quitting around eight tonight anyway take the boys home so we'll work for 45 minutes or so here and then head back quick for the night right here's where the chicken litter pile was definitely can feel a little bit of uh compaction when i set the ripper down on that end because it bugs the tractor down it's from the trucks coming in and dumping it but pretty small area we are getting through it and uh it'll be fine better than the cow manure all right i think i'm gonna make this one last round here finish up this uh little block that i've worked in here and uh we'll call it a night okay well what did we get here it's like a little over 20 acres so call it 20. there was a little ball well now it's 30 i think that we did in that other field so we did about 50 acres with this tractor i think jack did 10 or so um good day considering we started it but 2 o'clock 2 30 something like that so we should get a bunch done tomorrow um really we've got the rest of this field to do and then another 72 acres that are ready to do now and then we got to do a little more spraying before we do any more than that so i'll head back to the farm here just wanted to look things over a little bit here um you can see how much dirt those dang closing wheels are running in which is why it gets in the bearings yeah not much you're gonna do about it so and it also it always amazes me how hot these ripper points are like yeah i can hold my hand on there for a few seconds but that's about it they're quite warm so these were new when we started this this year you know today basically so they've got a lot of life left in them these shins here these are wear guards they're they're getting some wear they're not too bad yet those are original so yeah and our display's got lots of wear left in them yet all right that's it here i'm gonna go find my boys and head home so uh tomorrow morning i have somebody coming to help me finish my bin project so that will be exciting check back in for that and once we get that done we're going to spend the rest of the day back in that tractor probably so have a good night everybody um if you would hit that like and subscribe button for me please if you have any questions and comments be sure and type them out down below even if they are not very nice have a good night see you guys

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Length: 29min 18sec (1758 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020