I love it Mike uses his turn signal even though there is not a car within a 100 miles.

@VenningMotorsport

2 жыл бұрын

Do it every time, never forget it.

@gliderider7077

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I was going to comment look a Canadian that uses a turn signal 😂

@farmcentralohio

2 жыл бұрын

Around here I wish more folks were like Mike and signaled, even some of the time. But that's too much work for the important people lol

@matthewvanderbeek1240

2 жыл бұрын

U just wear it out if nobody is around to see it. But it is a good habit to have.

@r3b3lxxleader

Жыл бұрын

I always have my emergencies on when I’m roading and don’t always use my blinkers since I have those but had one time I was turning into a narrow county road entrance with a wide plow not knowing I had a cop behind me and I only saw when I made it into the road as I was too busy watching my turn.

Your Father-in-law must be a great guy. It is one thing to take his daughter but he gets grandkids so he can deal with that. But you also took one of his best equipment operators and he still lends you his truck. That is impressive.

I always hit the LIKE 👍 button before I even open the video. History (almost two years) tells me it’s a certainty that I’ll enjoy the content. Even the road trips are worth ‘riding along’

She is trying to do her job and Scorsese is looking for the best shot. But I really appreciate your work Mike!

Mike, you seem to be a fine young Man. Personality plus. I wish you an Ashton all the best with your the birth of your first child. Mike, you know about safety around equipment. My friend you are taking chances to get these pictures that we all enjoy but, think of your lively Wife and newborn on the way. It only takes ONE SLIP and Ashton would be raising that little sweetheart alone. It’s not worth it. Have a Blessed day my young friend !

Ashtyn is a gem you two work so well together you're a lucky man

LOL "mike dead man walking". I told you to be careful around her right now. ROFL. The right person at the controls, smart of you to stay out of the way and let the expert run the machine. Good Job Ashtyn. Go easy on him, he can't help himself.

Awesome ,Ashtyn does so well .What a great choice in picking such a great lady . You are swathing which is something that is not done everywhere .Take care .

That was priceless reaction from Ashtyn when you went up the other side... LOL LOL LOL

Ashteyn Is an awesome operator I'd hire her for swathing hay crop

Hi Mike. I think Fendt having been watching your videos. The 900 and 1000 are now available with an optional laminated windshield and a self cleaning air filter for the engine.!!

Great job swathing Ashtyn

Back about 1960, our "swather" was simply a set of tapering flat metal tines bolted to the back side of the mower sickle bar. Oats or wheat was then formed into a windrow for combining.

Great video Mike! Thanks!

In England we use Propcorn BP for pickling barley feed corn when the corn has a high moisture content . You don't have dry it once done !

My dad put me on a A JD with a 12 ft. Massey pull type, spent days on end going in circles, learned a lot that summer, grew up from the sand box to putting in 10 hr days and eating out of a bucket, things have changed since the early 60's. Had just turned 10

@bobjones9449

2 жыл бұрын

That is or was a problem.We were looked at as. free labor.A number of my friends went to other types of trades and professions.They were burned out on all the long. hours that they endured at younger ages

I'm impressed how weed free Ashtyn's barley is - considering how weedy it was prior to planting.

Swathers have come a long way since I was a kid cutting hay for my uncle. He had a 910 New Holland (which was old when I was running it) it had steering levers like a tank.

@outfitr9703

2 жыл бұрын

910 was a good one. I had a 903 "Speedrower". Although it cut well, there was nothing related to "speed" with that machine!

@gaylengurr3911

9 ай бұрын

started on and new holland 905. I really enjoyed running it when I was a kid

Awesome looking swather Mike

Only ever ran the old versatile, or versa-pile swathers. I call them that because they were worn out long before I ran them. Set up a couple new MacDons back in the early 2000s and a Case in the late. This thing actually looks nice. Had me laughing for a minute when Ashton noticed you on the wrong side of the cab! 😆

Great video Mike good luck combining

Mike, great video with Ashtyn in control of the swather. Greetings from central Illinois.

Oh my. Engineers as well as sales person. Have a problem here when machine delivered "Oh. Next Wednesday? I will get the engineer to call. Sorry about that......." Good show Ashtyn. Mike, flowers and best meal.

Thank you Mike and Ashton

Mike you should leave a camera with Ashtyn so she can record some videos

@minergate4066

2 жыл бұрын

Ashtyn doesn't like being on camera

@ryanc8188

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn't use a camera he just uses his phone. We wouldn't get any videos if he had to use a camera.

Great Machine and your Lady Cooks Dinner as Well 😅😮😂😮😂

The reversible fan is a pretty darn good idea! Gott give the engineers credit there!

@patu5798

2 жыл бұрын

Been around for years. Nothing new. Should be standard

The fact that your sales guys get out of their pickup is impressive. Down here it’s more of a we take your money and if you need help then you call the shop. Lol.

@delbutler885

2 жыл бұрын

Get over the X9 deal. I don't know where he read it last year but my son read that the combine that Mike and MANY others were scheduled to demo was sent to a big producer in I think it was Kentucky to replace a x9 that burned. Mike isn't the only one that didn't get to demo an X9 last summer. Mike had the option to demo a Claas and an X9 this year but he didn't take them because of the poor quality crops.

@BaileyFarming

2 жыл бұрын

@@delbutler885 ok not sure where the x9 thing came from. I’m an actual farmer that runs John Deere stuff and our salemen never help with anything that’s outside of the ac. Then the shop guys have to come out and then the shop guys get pissy at the sales guys because they aren’t getting paid or whatever. It’s kind of a John Deere thing down here in the south. Don’t really care much about their million dollar combine we’ve been running there nearly million dollar cotton pickers for over 10 years. I was just impressed that his sales guy was out hooking a header on. Our sales guys don’t know how to put a tractor in reverse. But they know how to order equipment and that’s all I need them to do.

@delbutler885

2 жыл бұрын

@@BaileyFarming I'm a farmer in Idaho that runs John Deere and Agco equipment. Our salesmen on both brands know how stuff works. They are always running escort for the delivery truck. I've never had a piece of equipment delivered where the sales people didn't help with the setup on the farm. They generally come in front is the truck with someone from the service department behind.

@BaileyFarming

2 жыл бұрын

@@delbutler885 I’m not being smart at all. That is truly foreign to me. We buy multiple pieces per year and I’ve only seen a salesman at our farm maybe three times in the past 20 years and that was just to look at our trades. Most of the time we have to just send them pictures. It’s pretty sad. I am honestly glad that service is still a thing in some parts. That was the first thing I noticed in the vid was that his sales guys were out there helping. That doesn’t happen here. Our John Deere dealership has 25 stores local to us (within 300 miles) and they know we don’t have any options and they treat us that way.

@delbutler885

2 жыл бұрын

Josh Bailey all I can say is WOW. We have been dealing with our dealers for decades. Even if we pick something up at the dealership the sales and service department are hands on.

Hello Mike and Ashtyn . Hope you guys are doing well and hope harvest is going good . On the backside of the end covers on the header on the swather there’s a hole that has a latch for opening it . Hope this will help . It’s the same are macdon header for our combines . Take care and talk you guys soon .

Something mesmerising watching this !

The appearance of that swather driving backwards has a futuristic SiFi quality about it.

Super!!!👍 it works good!!!🙂

I pre-delivered and worked on a lot of those Macdon heads it's kind of funny to see them with John Deere logos because they are the same shape of plastic. There's small holes on the inside of the ends with a lever you push in to open the sides up.

11:26 ah man Mike I felt that. Many a time I've been flying in and out of a machine to hook up a chain or reposition it and my head went full bore into the door frame. It sure does hurt.

One thing you don't get with the video is the smell. I LOVE the smell of fresh cut crop on the green side, especially through low spots with a few weeds. Just watching the video triggers that smell for me even though its been over 20 years since I have smelled it.

Awesome machine!

I would love to operate that all day!! I have never operated a swather before but i have operated a lot of tractors before and i'm a good student, let me have it for a few hours and i will be a pro at it!!

Just like watching John Deere equipment- something I can relate to!

Awesome Thanks for sharing

Ohhh hellooooo there! Fancy looking!

Looks a much healtier a crop than the 1bu/ac from down south 👍

what we do with bad areas of the field in Norway, dig a hole and make a pond, plant some treess and some wildflowers that bees like. then we go claim money from the goverment for doing work for the good of the enviroment. it pays better even if the area was full of high yield crop lol

KNUCKLE MEAT 😂💪been there many times brother👊

Would love to hear Ashtyn's thoughts on it, compared to what she's used to.

I think the guys need to step back and let Ashtyn do her thing due to her swathing experience. 🤣😂 This unit may be green and although Ashtyn prefers red she most likely has more hands on experience than all the guys combined.

@mikemitchell2554

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely.. Then all 3 of us 😂

You scaring Ashton was priceless, she jumped out of her seat!

@user-wr1mg7ot7d

3 ай бұрын

15:27

Hey mike, I've been swathering a reasonable lot in the Netherlands, mostly canola but you name it we swathered it. looking at the video, and seeing the material flow through the header, i think you're running your real to low, the way it "pulls"through the crop you could say it is pre-thressing the crop. in Holland we swather the crop in a far more ripened stage, we try to almost not touch the crop with the real. If you have you're ground speed high enough the material flow into the header, onto the drapers will be going by itself. compare this with cutting a piece of rope with a sharp knive very slow or very swift cut. The slow one will puss the rope away, the swift on will cut it with almost no movement of the rope. Otherwise a nice video and proud to see a lady driver.

Pretty nice swather. I’d love to see a demo of a massy. Thanks for another great video

@starks1414

2 жыл бұрын

No comparison… macdon out swathes a massy in any condition

@nathanvandebruinhorst9960

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve no experience with a Massy Draper header but I run one with a discbine at work and I love it

@jackbannock3458

2 жыл бұрын

@@starks1414 hahaha thats bs amd you know it. 2 best swathers out are MF and Macdon. We run Massey and id put it up against a MD any day of the week. Hreat swathers that do a great job and are a hell of alot easier to hook up in the field compared to that thing. I laughed for 5 minutes with all the things they had to hook up and do.

28:26 Best part 😂😂

Good job

28:35 🤭💪🏽 great! But also lucky she did not go into labor instantly 😂

That's a BIG windrower!

Mike everytime: whoo.. sorry about that guys

20th!!! Big up the good work Mike!

i would pay "some" money to se a Ashtyn-view of you running sideways beside the header. xD

That's a big row hope the weather plays it's part. Good luck.

Ha "Mike" you are amazing my dream I'll work for you too.

Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

Great video. One of these days, Ashtyn is going to beat you up for scaring her. Lol Hope harvest is going well.

Salut super machine tank you vidéo magnifique

Good video i now how they move swather header.

It's a good swatter just had some final drive Seals leak

I assume Ashtyn edits these videos??😂 great video everyone!! Being from 🇮🇪 I’ve never heard or seen this swrathing of barley but it looks like a good idea for certain reasons

Nice machine

I think they might be called Sow Thistle.

Great video, I really enjoy when you try out new equipment. That looks like a nice swather and it appears to be doing a great job. I wonder how it compares to the Case IH?

@southwestmb2509

2 жыл бұрын

MacDon is far superior machine compared to the CNH units .

Well the green paint fan boys are happy.

Good morning Ashtyn

stubby end guards are less prone to breaking when doing low spots and dragging the ends

The look on her face! 😂

Sure beats the old Massy 36 I grew up cutting hundreds of acres of hay with

We don't have a swather on our farm but we do have the header for when are done swathing though

Nice video

Now you doing your workout Mike.😉

Mike your playing with fire! A pregnant lady is dangerous at the best of times, but scaring her like that….well that could of ended badly, she might have had that baby right then and there! How would you explain that to John Deere? 😂 Sad day for Ashtyn finding out that Green is better than yellow! Sorta like the day you found out Santa wasn’t real!😂

@ITubeTooInc

2 жыл бұрын

Yellow? Ashtyn is a red fan.

@ScottMiller-rx2wc

2 жыл бұрын

Somebody lied to you Santa is real 😂

I’d like to see your reaction when you see an organic field full of weeds. 😂

That’s no fun…you’re not even getting barley beards down your neck like the good ole’ days on a John Deere 780. Had an umbrella and an AM radio beside me, good times

Ok .Mike, I know she loves the honey bee, but u gotta ask her, the mac don lays a better cereal swath..., I ran both...just can't seem to lay a decent ceral swath with honey bee

I'd go with the new CASE WD5 series. A lot more horse's under the bonnet..😁

Now that it’s all set up, the demo hours are done and it’s time to send it back. Lol.

You can sure hear the hydrostatic noise from the hydraulic pumps.

Mike I have a question: Does the "MacDeere" swather have laminated glass? I guees it should be on the rear window since it's reversible.

@elizabethliska5377

2 жыл бұрын

Windshields are curved and very expensive I hear approximately $3000

Those guards are called rock guards I had them on my hay bine

Hello Mike good good, 😜💪👍🇮🇹

Hey Mike! Is the auger used for heavier crops? Keep up the good Videos. Hello from Chinook, MT.

@mikemitchell2554

2 жыл бұрын

For canola

So serious question. Why use the swather instead of the combine?

Looks like hawks beard is the weeds. Kinda looks like a very tall dandelion.

What no 80 ft header demo? Thought you love bringing a machine to it's knees? Ashtyn seems to be having a blast

Don't ever be sorry for being who you are Mike. Your laugh is just fine.

@leddielive

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, it's his creepy hand waving that has us all concerned! Tee hee!

do you have much trouble with crop lodging in. wet conditions

You know Ashton won't like the deer. Lol

Is the combine you got in operation on the home farms

How can you cut canola without crop dividers? is the rowspacing that far? In Germany we couldnt cut without it

@davidlogel2350

2 жыл бұрын

We’ve cut 70 bushel canola crops with nothing but dividers, no keer shears or roto shears. Macdon equipment.

Good afternoon

Mike I have a question… So what’s the verdict? Does this machine have ashtons approval? Do you like it

@claudreindl7275

2 жыл бұрын

It's not Astyn's preferred color, but we'll see.

I love farming ❤️❤️ I am Indian farmer

When do you use the auger on the header

Magnifique machine la john deere combien ha à l’heure svp merci vidéo super 👍😉

Mike,From a ex backhoe operator,startling the operator{Ashtyn},not cool,I'm sure you heard about it off camera!!!HAHA

We use those to cut mint but we went back to macdon