THIS WAS FUN!! Two Deere 5075e’s. Oliver 565 Plow and John Deere RWA Disk

special deal today we got a call to do a bit of plowing for a guy up the road just a little too far to drive johnny five so we're gonna load him up let's get started chris i'm glad you came over today this is what i've always used in the past right and uh this is called a quick binder and i liked it because it actually has a ratcheting handle right i mean it's a lot it's a lot easier than the little boomers and the old style yeah and um but it's kind of a pain really i have to have three hands because i have to hold both of these while we crank it yeah it was the best and i've recommended them i think i've even got them on my amazon store amazon.com tracked your time with tim they're fine but we got something better look at this chris this this is like a a big truck brake adjuster is what i think it is right and it's been modified a little bit it's got this right here on the side and we can hook it up well here i'll just i'll just run it without being hooked up you just grab one end of the chain there see how this works i can crank it right in there so you're letting your tools do all the work for you yeah i don't have to do any of the work so this is a 14 millimeter socket right here and you can even order the the fancy dewalt drill with it right that's got what three speeds on it so you can undo it quickly and you can have additional torque if you need yeah yeah so we just hooked this up like a regular binder hook it right there above that length stretch it as tight as as practical here chris right and since we've got this slack here it should be fine make sure i get it hooked reasonably and usually this top one is where i have the problem so i hold on this end [Music] wow that is really putting pressure that was all in third gear so fast and more than enough yeah read the directions there's a lot of discussion about how tight to tighten these and i don't think you need low gear on this this dewalt kit that comes with it speedbinders.com pluralbinders.com i really like this thing that's the end of the old ratcheting binder for me great tool so rich you're one about an acre plowed here yeah okay and and how big is this area um the whole space is about two acres okay yeah there's 30 acres here at the farm but this was just a sacrifice area that we used for the cows last winter okay so we're just going to turn that over and okay so you want about an acre right out kind of in the middle of it right plowed we'll leave an end on each end and we'll just try to plow some in the middle probably the best thing for me to do is kind of start in the middle i'll make a lamb and i'll just keep working my way outward until you tell me to stop okay and as far as the length you can do the same thing when i make my first pass you can tell me you know how long you want it okay [Music] so you want to grow corn and you've chosen open pollinated corn why yeah actually a friend of mine in ohio has been planting this corn this specific variety of corn for a number of years and has been really excited about it okay what's exciting um i think the the process of just doing it on his own farm on his own land that's that's kind of what excites us too of being able to save off the best ears for your seed and be able to come back year after year we're a small farm just a small family farm we started doing this just really to kind of grow our own food as much of it as we possibly could okay and so we try to limit the inputs that we're bringing into the farm so all of the cows that we've got are all grass-fed they're they're born here raised here you know the only grass or hay that they get we grow so we know exactly everything that's in it i can't say that for our chickens or our hogs okay so we're starting to now you know branch out a little bit and look at could we grow our own corn okay and to be able to do that with as few inputs from off farm as possible okay so that's why we were looking at the open pollinated and non-gmo now when i get started here is your disc working did you get her workout yeah the only thing i've got a uh i've got a lug that's um broke one bolt on the tire oh that's probably not so yes but yeah now that i'm started you can you can start disking right there in the middle if you want okay you'll have a rough ride i can tell you that i figured that would be the case for sure but i don't think this late we have the luxury of waiting on a rain yeah and it's moisturize it's in pretty good shape but it's going to plow up rough because it's it's not been plowed in a long time [Music] i've got to adjust my lift arm christy because my wheel's going to be in the furrow so i'll have to lift it up this shininess that we're seeing right here at the first is the paint that was on my moldboards you can see that on the first strip here for a ways you see the silver coming right off on the on the mud here okay we'll see how that goes [Music] so from a fertilization standpoint you have to try to let the manure do it i want to do it this year that way and see how it does this area that we're we're going to do today is our sacrifice area from last year so the cows were here from early november until just a month ago so by sacrifice you mean that the pasture essentially got worn out because they were out there all winter right right we this is where we had a feedlot set up here where we we moved hay around and they just kind of by the by the way that we did it just kind of distributed that manure everywhere throughout this so that's the cheapest and easiest way to spread that i didn't have to spread any of it they took care of it [Music] got a hydraulic hose hitting the tire over here there we go so i i actually think fertility wise you'll be all right this year um this this hasn't been farmed in a lot of years and i don't think you've taken hay off of it i guess it has been grazed but you've had manure so i think fertility wise you'll be all right this year i'm concerned a little bit about weed control yeah have you thought about that very much well some but we what we're looking at is um you know really just trying to get out ahead of it and not let it get away from us okay um but but as far as the plan i mean we you know i'm even looking for for more advice from you even maybe some of your viewers could could um chime in on some of that too this would do a lot better job plowing if i could go a little faster and b1 right now i'm gonna go to b2 i don't know if i can pull it may be hard for me to keep up with the drone this might be an interesting um series if we have a chance to get out here often enough i think this could be an interesting series maybe comparison with what we do on our own property because we're taking exactly the opposite approach growing our sweet corn right on our property right we're we're not trying to be organic we're not trying to we're not concerned about gmos we're we're we use fertilization heavily and we use herbicides right to control the weeds so i think it might be a very interesting contrast yeah to see if how good we can do uh growing this so i think to that end i think we probably need to get you a little cultivator yeah because we'll have to get out here and attack those weeds if we're not gonna you're not gonna use any herbicides right correct we're not gonna spray anything no we won't add anything to the soil we won't spray anything either you know what this is the first four-wheel drive tractor or front wheel assist tractor i've ever used to plow it's really nice to have those extra tires scratching and digging up there for me but i will say that this tractor is plowing a lot better now that i've got the rim guard in the tires i think this is the first time i plowed with it since i've had the rim guard in there so i took the loader off this time yeah the loader would help provide a little more weight but i wanted to see how the rim guard would do without it and it's doing fine i've got essentially the same traction that i have power so i run out of both about the same time and that's about all you can ask for [Music] sometimes when i go over those little bitty knobs like that i'm actually plowing deeper than i need to be now this soil here in central indiana should be plowing this in the fall but we didn't get the call in the fall so we're plowing in the spring i'm gonna put my isotunes in i i heard christy said well he's got isotunes around his neck i tried those because of your recommendation yeah i had some uh i had some plantronics yeah that were noise canceling uh headphones but they're they're just uh they're not inexpensive okay and and so i thought man sometimes i don't want to get those out here get something yanking on or snagged on something if i'm working and listening yeah so i had heard you talk about those iso tunes so i ordered up a pair of man they work beautifully you like them yeah i do which ones do you use um i got the ones i got them last month and i got the ones they they were doing a sale which basically i think it was like free shipping or something like that on it and then of course i got my discount from ttwt hey that works rich has said it'd be all right for me to try this disc here it's going to be a rough ride but we're going to get a chance to use it and i see the rest of the family coming out here so it'll be interesting to see how that goes not having any issue with it you're feeling the wind in your hair it's riding a lot better than what i expected to be honest one difference is it's not going to be sweet corn you're trying to grow you're right you're trying to grow the corn to maturity so you can feed it to your cows and hogs and chickens just the hogs and chickens just the heart of the cows okay okay that sounds good well i think this is going to be a fascinating fascinating experiment and we have to really to really learn i think i think our viewers will enjoy this excellent rich i think you're i think you're good to go this will be this will be great i think you can probably do okay in b2 it'll be nice if we go a little faster but i'm not sure how fast you're on that second pass i'm pretty sure it'll pull it with no problem okay i don't think it had any problem with that and uh i'll get back in the plow and see how it goes i think you ought to get your iso tuned so i'll do it for me it's a one-time shot he can disc all afternoon but for me it's a one and done [Music] [Music] now the 5075e we got two of them here one of the biggest advantages of this tractor is its price this is a lot of tractor for the money two different configurations his is open station mine's got the cab on it they look dramatically different but if you look close they truly are the same tractor 73 engine horsepower ours tested 65 at the pto i can't remember exactly what it's supposed to be you know maybe we should deal with some basic questions just uh questions of the difference between plowing and disking and why we should do each one first of all today both of these attachments that we're running are old attachments now i'm running an oliver plow full board plow sometimes in in the southern states it can be called a breaking plow it's an oliver model 565 three bottoms each one takes 16 inch dirt and it rolls it over as you can see rolling a lot of that sod under [Music] rich has a rwa john deere brand disc i'm not sure how wide it is it looks like about a 10 foot to me but this technique of of plowing is used to to roll over the side maybe to bury some of the weed seeds from from the last year [Music] and the disc is then used to kind of break that down because the plow leaves it pretty rough on top now if the side weren't so old uh we wouldn't do quite as rough a job we should be able to plow it a lot smoother [Music] given that it hasn't been a good one and who knows our plow may not be perfect we didn't put near as much time into setting it up properly as you might if you were going to be plowing a lot more acreage nor do i have the expertise dad had that expertise and well he's no longer with us [Music] now rich will end up disking it several times [Music] to get it smoothed down ready to plant so you're raising chickens hogs cows right are you raising them for sale are you raising them just to feed your family what's going on yeah both it really started um kathy and i my wife and i just um we just kind of lost some confidence in what we were getting out of kroger and all these nothing against kroger and all these guys we were in a unique situation we both grew up on farms right and we were small farms that we you know we raised a lot of what we ate yeah and so we had the benefit of kind of knowing something about that we hadn't been doing it for a long time but we bought this farm with the idea of just seeing how much of our own food could we produce okay and we started with you know simple stuff just small things like chickens and rabbits and then we added hogs and then we added our cows okay then we added bees uh and and of course kathy's gardening now we've even started this year selling a little bit of our produce so what happened was family and friends just begin to taste what we were raising and they were just amazed you know we had folks say i didn't know that pork wasn't white meat i didn't know that eggs were supposed to stand up thick in a skillet you know just things like that and the flavor and the quality of what we've got when we do it this way rich said he found that disc for 200 it's it's interesting because those old discs if you can find them and if they're in decent shape they may be cheap because no real farmer i might say is interested in getting one but uh they're perfect for a smaller hobby farm it's and it's a lot cheaper than the new disc like we have the monroe tough line if you want to get a new one we get ours at monroetufline.com it's an eight foot disc uh it's probably a little better disc than than his because you know they they just their blades are bigger his blades are pretty much worn out it's a lot cheaper two hundred dollars i would say fifteen hundred dollars is a is still a decent price for a disc like that and it's gonna be pretty wet where i'm coming up here that he's put hay out there and the cows have spent a lot of time there and it'll be interesting to see if i can kind of pull it through here or not you know folks begin to come to us and say hey could we get some of that and i thought well yeah i guess i could do a few extra pigs or a few extra tabs or whatever and so it just kind of grew into that so four years ago we actually incorporated the farm and began doing a little bit of marketing we do [Music] online we've got a website that's online and we've got some sales that we do through family and friends and this year is our first year to do any markets so kirkland which is just three miles from us has a monthly second saturday flea market and starting this year's may was our first booth and it was already more successful than we than we thought it might be so what we raise we raise a lot of it for ourselves then we raise also for sale and folks can get that grass-fed grass-finished beef you know eggs chicken pork honey maple syrup we have all that on the front sounds good i think we must be running the same gear but he's able to go faster because it's pulling easier so he's not slipping his wheels as much kind of fascinating actually [Music] i'm gonna guess this is about all he needs i imagine he's so engaged in the disking that he's forgot about how big of an area we're working here but he said an acre and i would suspect we've got an acre here i would recommend that you go ahead and make sure you if you try to disc another round right over those furrows a little bit and we'll see if you have trouble filling them in i can fill them in a little bit with the plow okay and then once you get this you know you've done one pass this way i would go at an angle okay and do a pass at an angle and then pass it another angle you'll probably since this thing's not very heavy you know we don't we don't have any much weight on it these older discs aren't very heavy you'll have to go over it multiple times okay right several times and i think at those different angles and all you'll begin to get it knocked down to where we can plant it excellent i believe this is the deal of the day rich 200 yeah i looked and looked and and had trouble finding something like this i tried to i tried to find an old disc uh and and you know i suggested to our viewers uh that this is a good way to get a disc this one's pulling easier than mine pulls i think because mine's got such bigger blades right new blades bigger blades notch blades it really goes in deeper i think it's heavier but this one's is going going fine behind the 50-75e i think it would pull fine even by a large four series and so deal of the day definitely you're going to go ahead diskin yeah and i'm going to go home and get the planter awesome thanks for watching everybody we'll see you next time on tractor time with tim [Music] wow that's in that third gear [Music] you landed right on a cow pie i'll laugh i did not land it on a cow patty

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Length: 22min 27sec (1347 seconds)

Published: Sun May 23 2021