The Largest Shop We’ve Seen, Bobcast Skid-steer Sells, Milwaukee Chainsaw, and More! | Full Episode

[Applause] [Music] hello I'm Dave moats and welcome to successful farming today's program I track traps skid-steer loaders and then size up battery powered chainsaws we continue our tour of the phenomenal Museum in Washington and after these brief messages I tour a massive shop in the making in Washington State so please stay tuned [Music] welcome to top shops I first came to the Spokane hunter & colony some 30 years ago to see the first chemical direct injection system and use on a farm sprayer that first ever was the brainchild with Jake gross who fabricated that state-of-the-art technology in one of the best shops I had ever seen at the time as what has happened to many farm shops expanding operations and larger equipment group structures as certainly what happened here at the colony Jake and his crew not only needed a bigger shop but are better equipped facility today we have the opportunity to see their shop in the making midway through construction let's go talk to Jake about the shop of their dreams so Jake why don't you walk us through the overall dimensions of this complex that you have here it's 400 feet long and 140 feet wide how did you figure out for your needs here because you're servicing so much equipment in the colony how did you figure out how much space you needed well we all got together and there's some guys that are better than others others and they come up with these dimensions these sizes four we want to put in 10-foot no 10-ton cranes and 70-foot this is pretty good length for a overhead crane that's why it turned out to be a crane on that side one on this side 140 feet then there was a lot of strategy had to go into usage of that space it's just not the fact that you have a big shop it's really that a big shop can be kind of worthless if you don't really think it out right all right so how did you divide out the space I'm not sure if it's exactly perfect we'll learn as we go on right but it's more than just maintenance it's going to be manufacturing it's going to be a lot of maintenance and in now farming because we have so many varieties of crops there's a lot of modifications being done to planters potato plants as canola planters whatever we have doors 20-foot doors a 30-foot doors in 140 foot door where the largest implement can fit in and the wash bay of the Northside is wide enough for two semis can stand there side by side and pass through doors you had then we got we're gonna show people the the old shop you guys were in and I remember the stuff that you were building everything in this place so is this kind of the shop of your dreams eventually to have exactly it's it's been a 50 year waiting period to see a shop like that bring go in in the wintertime it's nice and warm you can hide beneath coveralls yeah and do whatever you want to do we got plasma cutters we got CNC milling machines and things like that if someone really wants to gear up when my young man wants to go into machining here's the opportunity Jake and his family spent considerable time on door widths and placement so as to create both multiple work bays and pass-through equipment flow you've got this large area here with a combination of doors how did you figure out what doors to use is it in relationship to the work bays you wanted to create well not so much of just for the fact of having them okay you know the wider the door the bigger the cost right to the forty foot is yeah the 40 foot so there's only one of those and that's all we need we can drive in right out and there's 30 footers and 20 footer so the 40 foot you have one of those and then you have a large area it behind that door then so you can stage in several combine exactly for a potato harvester that bring the combine in so that's kind of long-term not only for big work but long-term work - yeah in the wintertime we had a 60 foot no-till drill in here Wow - potato harvesters for all each right monster machines and there was still room to work around right and that's just in that and right and the big these smaller busier with the smaller trucks that's where the semis come in when they go through and service them in the winter time parts storage and the parts that they want to keep on hand is being given a lot of attention Jake explains as having the right part on hand is so crucial on not only keeping equipment running but also running a wide variety of equipment that the colony utilizes how far are you gonna take it when it comes to parts cuz that's a question I get asked all the time by farmers is how she you know we started out with filters and belts stocking right and then dealers would come out and restock you now guys are thinking we're seeing more and more farmers going and with more and more advanced more parts so they not they're not dead in the field but are you thinking it would be everything up to a major repair on like an engine and transmission well that's it's hard to see what exactly that's gonna be but if that's something we're gonna with time things are going to develop right you know some things we know we have to have filters you know especially in batteries too and we'll have some tires just so that we're not stuck right when someone's in the field he needs a tire right now we'll have some implement tires like right now we have truck tires too right especially specialty tires like the potato diggers that's something every shop in town does now those are the things that it's gonna times gonna tell right what you have to do the other room that I noticed you've got your smaller office then you've got a kind of washroom you have parts storage sitting back there and of course the boiler room upstairs you had the medicine but you also have a woodworking shop cuz you guys make a lot of your own furniture this oh yeah yeah that's a very common thing for our communities is to have a good carpenter shop yeah you know it'll be set up with some modern equipment yeah for machining wood structure is a little atypical what you find in pharma shops concrete walls and you got a course a metal roof on the top we're talking a flat flat roof on that concrete walls that's it's a little bit more investment why did you go with the concrete the durability it's got less eye width 50 50 years to see this and now my grandkids and maybe great grandkids are going to be able to use it yeah so you're building it for them then it's gotta last it's gonna live the last stages of construction on the Spokane hütter and Colony shop includes an office complex complete with a much-needed conference room we plan to return in a couple years to see the completion of the offices as well as the rest of the shop I'm looking forward to seeing all the innovation Joe Jake and his crew come up with in the structures final form I'll see you next time on another top shop tour after these brief messages join me at auction to see what Bobcat tracts skid-steer loaders are selling for and then we test battery powered chainsaws to see if they're worth their cost so please stay tuned [Music] at most any farmer what they would buy and their next skid-steer loader and very likely they'll respond tracks oh that and of course always a larger loader well I found both of these features at an auction being conducted by Cooke auction today now what we have here is a 2018 Bobcat t7 70 that runs on tracks of course this model also offers a rated capacity of nearly 3500 pounds and then the press up 11 foot of lift and this skid steer has a two-speed transmission which is another option farmers yearn for but there is one thing about this loader that concerns me it's being sold with over 1700 hours of use in this one year I'm not concerned about the engine and transmission which are capable of delivering thousands more hours of work before dating serious repair it's these tracks that worry me with over 1700 hours of use that could mean they need repair sooner than expected for a one-year skid steer to get some answers to my concerns I'm gonna go talk to Scott cook about track wear and tear before this t 770 sells Scott were looking at that Bobcat v7 72 2018 but it does have 1700 our 1771 that must have been used at a construction site because they put a lot hours in a short time didn't they yeah that's what we would we would guess now we don't know exactly where it came from but you put that many hours on a year most farmers aren't using a skid loader that long whenever I talk to farmers whenever ask them what are you gonna get in your next skid steer loader they always say tracks well a bigger skid steer loader tracks and they like the two speed transmission and that loader has all of that doesn't it yes so it's gonna get a lot of interest yeah at least in our country with all the cattle it will have a lot of people looking at that skid loader it's bigger it handles a little handle the hay bales a lot easier they can load them off in and off the trailers as they come in and yes there's a lot of people and they all want cabin air anymore and I don't blame them for now that loader with this track feel concerns me a little bit there was a lot of cuts on the tracks so it'd been used likely in a construction site what things should I do when inspecting that use skid steer with drafts on that the tracks itself well it's very similar to the track tractors and check out the bogie wheels look at the large sprocket make sure it's not wore to bed where it needs to be replaced and on those tracks I've seen them many times and they'll run a long time with cracks in them but it's when they wear wear their tread down if you will no different than a tractor but you'll cut the tracks with you know rocks or you know maybe some steel somewhere but in general the tracks don't break that way but they will wear out the pads just like on a lug on a tractor tire it's kind of important to do your due diligence before bidding we're heading to an auction or to a dealer shot right so is that something where I could call you up ahead of time and ask about price trends oh yeah the guys put you on the spot and say what do you think it's worth they asked me out all the time I asked you what do you think it's worth I think it's 35 to 40 thousand yeah well it's gonna be interesting to see because I'm thinking about the same thing so I should have stated my own I'll say 37 200 we'll see who ends up with the right price thanks for that information Scott let's watch that Bobcat t77 decel [Music] bading just ended on our bobcat skid-steer the final price paid was forty one thousand five hundred what does that price tell me about the current marketplace for skid-steer loaders remember this loader was clocked up over 1700 hours so I found the loader sitting on a dealer slot in Illinois that had 1500 hours it's asking price was $45,000 and the appraisal tool of iron solutions which is the absolute best appraisal source in agriculture finds the average values of high our t7 70s like this Bobcat at forty two thousand five hundred see what you can do searching online for price comparisons doing some online research allows you to set a price with confidence one last bit of advice when buying a track skid steer loader consider that the cost of replacing cracks is thirty to forty percent higher than replacing tires new tracks can set you back thirty five hundred up to five thousand dollars so factor that pricing when you're looking to act track loaders for more information about Cooke auction you can go to a website at Cooke auction co.com I'll see you next week on another steel deals report [Music] a couple years ago Milwaukee introduced a cordless chainsaw wasn't the first cold dressed chainsaw in the market but it offered to have huge amounts of power and the claims that the company was making is that that would replace any motorized chainsaw I decided to get a farmer to test it so I said to the Terry Wells on Maxwell Iowa you're gonna do some work on fence lines we had to get trees out and now you're running 16-inch still mower or chain saws then at that time and you weren't sure when I sent this out what to think of because here comes a little battery on the side but you put it to work I found out you're using it quite a bit see how easy a kind of use it all the time the other chainsaws will always take two because one one one start and get out the other one right and then this and here starts every time it works great well this thing this uses it's all run off an 18 volt and this is a 12 amp hour battery so first off is that one of those things you're having if you're using it during the day do you have to charge it a lot or does that last quite a while it lasted all day long but we did anyway and we didn't use it constantly we we use it off and on all day as we going and then I got another battery that I took with us too okay so well the key to all chainsaws I know is a good sharp blade at the certainly that's the case but it's the power and this thing goes to full power instantly yeah you know so if you were in cutting a pretty sizable limb or even a trunk on the tree was it ever bogging down when you'd cut mmm no it's just stayed right with it I mean it would bind up like any changed off the branch right bounded right but you know it was but power-wise our wisest find it handled it all just like the other one so Terry if you had to buy a new chain saw and the 16 inch size such as this and you had the choice between a a battery powered chainsaw like the Milwaukee we were showing here and a motorized one which would you prefer to buy this in here you know because it's everything that you need right farm operation yeah no I don't have to keep the gas and gas with me or anything I just get it and go right just keep some oil for the bar or oil for the bar is all I need what Terry thanks a lot for testing the Milwaukee chainsaw I'll see you again next time on another product test team join me as I tour a phenomenal agricultural Museum in Washington estate after these brief messages [Music] welcome to eat its iron last week if you remember we started our tour the eastern Washington agricultural museum which is a special kind of museum because of the equipment that it has because it's nestled in the Palouse hills of Eastern Washington western Idaho and even Oregon but also it's a museum that has a lot of unique equipment for this area that you would find that's why it's special come here and we broke this into a multi tour area so on the displays that we see you have next to the engine area a full branding area now branding was important out here for the cow-calf operation wasn't that necessary so when you have the actual branding irons and then you showed the way that the the brands worked yes they most of them come from the blacksmith's shop then when they got done with the iron they would heat it up and go over at that time it was a would be building a brand into the side of the building and over the years they had those brands there and people that owned it had the foresight to make brand blocks out of them and took a little doing but we finally was some mail got collection where did you find the branding irons themselves from local oh my gosh people were would donate their original brands there's that's kind of unique I've never seen that in a museum before that you have that many and how many do you know how many brands that you have represented there well on the blocks there's a hundred and sixty almost and the irons there's not that many but they're still probably 50 Wow that's as extensive as you'll find then other items that you find here because every time I turn around I'm noticing things barbwire collection yes sir with interpretation by a date of the the barbed wire then yes sir good gravy I did that was a collector that had put those together and just donated them actually several collections yes sir but you've got a lot of tractors that were donated as well by members in the area and a wide variety of makes and models right yes sir so you're truly nondenominational as we see back here with the farm well this is an H on steel wheels yes all right and then you've got a field marshal on a John Deere and I know it's all kinds of colors that are here yes is this a lot of equipment the germane to the area see you have crawlers too as well yes so that there was a lot of crawler agriculture in this area because of the steepness the steepness of the hills you know Carlos were very virtue elite when they went from horses to crawlers and then later they got to makin the wheel tractors wider and that crawlers was a big thing so David if they want to get the information the telephone number that to take it to her they should go to your website then that's where the great starting point yes sir well thanks for the the tour but we're not done yet there's actually a second building that's part of this museum so we'll return next week to continue our tour of the Eastern Washington Tygra cultural museum please join us next week for another outstanding show I tore a great farm shop in Idaho and then I had to auction to see what late-model loader tractors are selling for re-report on a farmer's test of an innovative jump starter we finished our tour of the Washington agricultural museum see ya next week right here on successful farming [Music] [Music] hi I'm Dave moats thanks for watching if you like this video hit subscribe right here if you haven't already and click that little bell right here to be notified when we post a new video and click here to see more great episodes from successful farming television [Music]

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Length: 22min 38sec (1358 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 29 2019