Here's a suggestion on how to handle canola "piles". Switch your pickup to manual mode, slow it right down, gently pick up the pile. The pickup teeth will hold the pile back while the table auger fingers, turning at regular speed, tear the pile apart into smaller chunks. Works for me 80 to 90% of the time to avoid plugging the feederhouse.

I love your tee shirt logo Safety First and while reading it i thought of you standing on top of your drill while Ash was driving and climbing on to of the combine to look in the bin, it put a smile on my face, Love all your video’s I really appreciate the time and effort you put in to making them, THANK YOU.

The North farm is looking great 😃

How about plugging the back? That would bring back memories. Not very ideal

@mikemitchell2554

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😆

@David-xl8zf

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Not very ideal he says without even blushing. 🤣🤣

@7rixee

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@@David-xl8zf They used to get constipated fast and easy. Fibers and hydration in fact made it worse..

@2511jeremy

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@@mikemitchell2554 jd teck has a quick fix for your seat sensor problem It was the last service call kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJqoqLBqdr3JidI.html

Really appreciate your detailed explanation on what the various features of the monitor relate to plus why plugs take place and how to either minimize or rectify the situation.

Reminds me of baling hay with a New Holland baler with a Wisconsin engine, back about 1960. When the windrow had a big slug of hay, you had to slow down and gradually work forward so that you didn't kill the engine. I can still hear that engine working for all it was worth. Those were the days!

@darylhamann2310

Жыл бұрын

Good old days

I had the same issues combining swathed SC canola, seemed tough feeding, ran my rotor at 1050 all day and when I switched back to wheat it was much easier to thrash. Usually it’s the other way around!!! Love your videos man, when I get home from the field your latest video is playing on the tv! Good luck with the rest of harvest!

Take the wads with the corner of pickup, by the time they get to the feederhouse the auger has chewed them down into bits. Works like a charm!

Thanks for sharing the new video with us. There’s something very relaxing about watching y’all farmers work the land. Good job

You can definitely see and hear the difference in the combine when you switch between the D450 and the MacDeere swathes. Great video, 2 thumbs up.

Just remembering back to how I found Mike. It was shortly after his 1050 vs 560 Tug of War video. Heen here ever since, keep up the great work man!

Mike… if any other farmer on the KZread channel world can get under .02 loss it is you… we know you can do it we are pulling for you and we are waiting for that video…👍👍👍👍👍👍

Enjoying your videos Mike, I still save them for the weekend. Thanks for the great entertainment 👍😁 That’s some combine

The MacDeere swathes definitely feed threw much easier not hard to see that .Great video

Thanks Mike showing the Mac deer difference being easier day of Combining

Mike said...”let’s listen to the machine”... that didn’t last long!..hahaha!.. I bet a conversation with mike doesn’t come with “comfortable” silence!..hahaha!!!... I think it’s awesome mike tells us cool things about his farming!.. But it doesn’t come with a lot of “listening to the equipment”!.. Thank you mike for your sharing! It’s cool to see farming on our neighbors to the north farms!!! Shalom!..

Morning

Thank you for your comments. Enjoyable 😊

I love the owners manual still zip tied to the header

You should show your fields when the Canola is in bloom!

@Northern_Farmer

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I have some video of that

Keep up the hard work

At some point you should do a comparison or shared your thoughts on the Bourgault paralink vs the 5710 fixed frame. Yield difference, emergence, etc...

Good to see everything is moving along well and you are getting a good harvest. Hard work and effort payed off. Mike, I have a question. I am hoping that once the harvest is over, could you please break down exactly how a combine works. What goes on in a combine that allows the machine to suck up all the crop, separate the straw from the bean and pods from the seeds. To me, it is just a marvel of engineering. Maybe once us non farmers understand how exactly the machine works, we can better understand the numbers you are pointing out on the dash. As always, thanks for your educational vids. Much respect from north eastern Ontario.

@richardradawetz8788

Жыл бұрын

How it’s made. Combine harvester

Mike I’ve noticed when I did combining nexara canola went through HARD.

Hey Mike, enjoy the videos very much, the KZread channel zk mastertech has a fix for the seat in your x9 combine, the video is called harvest service calls and the time in the video is 9:15 hope this helps a guy out

Perfect conditions to demo a green and white claas!!!

glad you got so great yield numbers, know its been a long harvest. Appreciate the videos!

You mentioned you don't have harrows ! Is the previous unit you bought from Manitoba not available due to mechanical issues or did it get moved back to the south farm ?

Hello Mike, John big 💪🌾👨‍🌾🇮🇹

I talked to an Iowa grain farmer who had a Case IH 12 row corn head when you had to have it custom built by a company in Nebraska. Case was not building a 12 row head at that time. He had a man hired to run a grain cart. He said I had a full hopper and the man was out of the tractor picking up downed ears at the end of the field and I couldn’t run the combine. He said I had to explain to him I had more to lose by not keeping the combine running than he could save me by picking up the downed ears.

You should have made video of the pick and grunt combining of the crop.

Magnifique matériel agricole et la moissonneuse batteuse x9

Nice Job ! Interesting as usual. Your two humongus grain bins must be getting pretty full by now. How full are they at this point?

I hate canola windros but I like the idea you leave the blocks behind wish I had that option

Str8 cut pal! No piles 😜😎 just buggin

I can see the difference between the John Deere and the Macdon.👍

Big stock piles best to go over them figured that out years ago. I remember when the wind blew my brothers flax into big piles and we had to put it all through found out the melrow pickups with the steel teeth worked the best and the header reverser on the Massey 760 was a great asset. The piles were the size of two pickups. Would like to see you demo a FD 250 macdon header and a New Holland combine compared with the John Deer

@jackbannock3458

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A big NH would eat it alive, i know a few people who have done demos with Case, Deere, NH and Claas

@georgeketchmark3087

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@@jackbannock3458 that’s what I was thinking and the new macdon headers are pretty sweet looking and one tool adjusts everything on the head and it comes with. I haven’t seen any ratchet straps on a macdon yet. Im willing to bet all the green stuff would be gone if Mike tried it out

Hopefully the aeration is on...

Combine AMSR? Cool.

Yes you do have a harrows , you where dragging one home from Manitoba last year

Hey Mike, I believe I just found out how you can fix your seat in the X9 on the South farm. Are you familiar with ZK Master Tech? If so go to todays video and you can see how to fix it. Not only that but there’s a program that will show you when it goes active and inactive tripping the alarm. Take a few minutes and watch it, he has some Great videos and explained things sooooooooooooo well. It should fix the seat sensors for ya. I won’t charge ya for the free knowledge either.lol God bless and take care!…..

Just lift the drills over the piles. 😂😂

Can you change the timing on those pickup auger fingers like an auger head?

So what's the benefit to swathing this canola vs just regular straight cutting an harvesting it? Is swathing more gentle on the crop allowing a higher yield?

Mike I like your content also nice your not cussing every second word

Swath east and west, cut that roller into pieces then you’ll have a happy combine 😂 I can hear those slugs going through

It sounds like you have a clothes dryer running behind the cab lol

Mike how does the x9 compare to the S series combines on performance / capacity? You touched on some of your likes and dislikes, would like to know the performance side too.

When you drop pans, do you have the chop up for that?

@BGFKevin

Жыл бұрын

Sorry “chopper”

Do you find the south farm depressing compared to the north

Hello Mike great work you and your crew are doing I’m from Moosomin, Saskatchewan

Macdon is just the best like kinzie equipment

Hey Mike have you guys ever gave Cereal Rye a shot? Our cereal crop this season outperformed soybeans by over 150$ an acre. we are starting to see yields over 100 bushel/ac on fairly sandy soil with hybrid rye.

Any particular reason your not hauling up your other X9 to help out ?

Mike, what was Your average canola yield per acre this year? The weather forecast shows frost at your place, did you manage to collect everything from the field? Greetings from Poland

When it gets so tough like your describing. The losses will quadruple

What model of combine is this ? What models are all on the farm now aside from the massey 750

What are grain (or whatever you call canola) prices doing right now? Are they good,bad,average? I don’t keep up with this stuff! I just want Mike to be making money! I don’t want him to go belly up!

2 minutes per pile if you have 200 piles is 400 minutes which is a little more than 6 1/2 hours chewing at piles even 100 piles is 3 hours of chewing at piles you burn more fuel and pay an operator more than that piles worth

Mike 2 questions: 1) what’s a bushel of canola worth? 2) What swather are gonna keep next year? I can see that other swather that you rented would make more sense with a bigger opening.

@codyarnold5672

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canola last I heard was back up to $19-20 per bushel it topped at almost $30

@Northern_Farmer

Жыл бұрын

20 right now I heard today

I have family in the Watson SK area .. where is the north farm abouts ?

@richardradawetz8788

Жыл бұрын

South of elfros

How Nancy acres is your north farm compared to the south,30%?

Will you use some of the yield as seed for the south farm?

@jkwark2665

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Illegal...but wish we could

@DEDBRD-di4yj

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@@jkwark2665 why is it illegal ?

Didn't know john deere had their own swather. Most companies have MacDon make them and put their decals on and paint

Mike , does your x9 replace 2 combines production wise ?

@2007dalin

Жыл бұрын

lmao no.. at 2.5 mph its barely replacing a 9650

A quarter a day? Hilarious. When I was a kid we had two John Deere combines: a 4400 and a 6620 Turbo both with 15' headers. I don't think we harvested 40 acres a day.

Why not jump out and pitch fork those piles in, or while waiting for the canola to dry down, go out in the field and spread those piles out into a swath? I had to do that as a kid years ago.

I would suggest trying not to plug the rotor… I had a gentlemen that I went out to well I was on call that plugged the right rotor from the back all the way to the front of the feederhouse, it was all packed solid. Took about 7 hours but I got it all unplugged.

With those big piles, cant you just pick up the front and slice the top off and then reverse back and take the bottom ... maybe 10 sec at the most and you have all the crop and no burn piles

Mike, the north x9 will need to cut how many acres?

@crandonborth

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All of them.

Mike will you buy the macdeere

U could give one of the boy a new job and make them throw those piles apart so u don't have to leave them in the field

I wanted to pick up one of your caps unfortunately I find out by the time I'm done at $64 is it free shipping if I pick it up from swift current And where do I pick it up in swift current

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Seems like on a per acre basis, this field did 10 x better (or more?) than your fields in the south.

Ain't no fun time when she's got a rumbly stomach. 🤭 Must be a relief to have a crop other than rocks and dust.

You don't run both of the other x9s? Up north

Why do you cut 90 degrees to what you plant?

What in the world is that red tool by the window in the x9 cab? It’s been bothering me for awhile now.

@catfischer86

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Window breaker

@NorthernDrone323

Жыл бұрын

@@catfischer86 would that be in case you tipped over?

@midladder

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@@NorthernDrone323 exactly. It has a pointy tip so you can break it easily

JD adding a reverser is 👌🏻 That’s one thing I loved about Combining for others they had NH TR98’s the reverser was the best in tough stuff otherwise YOU were the reverser 😂

@tmlf1239

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John Deere combines have had feeder reversers for decades. It was an option on the venerable 9600 If I recall. Certainly been standard fair for many years.

@Len_M.

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@@tmlf1239 I was just saying it was the smartest decision ever. The 96 series wasn’t an option for us just yet we only had a JD 7720, so the TR98 reverser was mint, but it was only working on one of their TR98s, it was a fight to see who got the working Combine 😂. Then 9570, 9670, 9770, 9870, then S690, S790. The largest we got was 5 S690’s with about 18,000 Acres then my Cousin came down with Bone Cancer, it wasn’t a good time.

No wonder they quit making those d450 Swather s

Weird that you’re struggling along and a yard full of combine s back home. Call Chris barber. He’ll have one there in no time

Seems lonely out their all by yourself with out a few Green ones helping with the thrashing ....

I like how they can feed it in slow if you want John Deere probably figures they invented it TR 98 had that in the 90s lol 😂

a fix for your jd x9 seat issues; kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJqoqLBqdr3JidI.html at the 9.40 mark

I thought that macdon made the JD swather

@tmlf1239

Жыл бұрын

MacDon made the W170 yes. The D450 is a John Deere unit with a Honeybee header on it.

Why so much pickup speed. Put it on auto.

Just saw this video Mike. Not sure if you still have issue with the seat of your other X9. but if that can help you... kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJqoqLBqdr3JidI.html Go to Minute 9 👍

I might have miss heard you but it's good to hear that heroin isn't an option...

The fact that they paint someone elses machine their colour now suggests to me that they KNOW their machine wasn't as good

@tmlf1239

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John Deere has offered green MacDon swather units for years. And before that they sold MacDons as the "Premier" brand name. Deere's own line of swather tractors are very popular with hay farmers, more so than MacDon. So Deere is simply covering all their bases. They offer a grain header (main by Honeybee) for their D450 swather tractors because sometimes a guy just wants one machine for both hay and grain, even if the MacDon is a much better grain and canola swather.

@davidlogel2350

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John Deere is not the only one to have MacDon units branded in their colours. Case and Massey have had MacDon machines in their colours.

i would be willing to bet a small farm you would have been happier with a claas.. better production especially in damp conditions, better crop quality better losses, better throughput, less fuel.. better parts availability, very few downsides other then having to admit john deere sucks for the money

56 bushel is an amazing crop

Mike. Are you the weakest link? Just kidding. Thanks for the show.

If canola is such a pain in the ass. Why grow it?

@Northern_Farmer

Жыл бұрын

Rotation...can't just grow cerals every year

@davidlogel2350

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It can also be your biggest money making crop.

@Northern_Farmer

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@@davidlogel2350 not this year

@davidlogel2350

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@@Northern_Farmer our area the canola was pretty good. Sorry to hear that about yours.

@Northern_Farmer

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@@davidlogel2350 it was good...but you can make more on 13 dollar wheat then you can on 19 canola

I bet your glad your not in an ideal combine 😊

No, no JD just copied the MacDon. Like everything else JD sells. X9 carbon copy of the New Holland etc, etc.

@davidlogel2350

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And Fendt and Claas stole the twin rotor design also so…..

Plot twist. There will be more d450 swaths after this