Why We're Tearing Out Our Best Tomato Crop

if any of you guys know much about cars or specifically electrical in cars stay till the end of the video i could really use your help mom's down here now picking cauliflower all right so we just finished up we did two different loads of five so we have 10 trays all together now mom's taking that back and i'm going back to mow finish up for today i forgot down here and the tomatoes i couldn't get between the soybeans and the last row of tomatoes so i'm going to mow that off everything up here is already done and out of the field As far as the soybeans go, like I said, I'm no expert, but I don't see much. There is, you know, the occasional stalk here and there that is whole beans, but there's no way you're getting everything, that's for sure. As a whole, I would say it looks like it did a pretty good job, but what do I really know? See how much progress Hunter made in the upper high tunnel here. By the looks of the pallet, it looks like he got all the stakes out, or very close, if not. Yep, he did. So, between every two tomatoes was a stake. In all six rows. So now that's done. Now we have all the strings to go through. Put in buckets. Throw that away. And then we'll be pulling the plants out of the ground and getting rid of those. So this process is actually very fast. We've already done both high tunnels all in the same day. But that's usually with two people starting in the morning. And so as long as we can, you know, keep steady work on it. Maybe if Hunter comes tomorrow, that's what he'll work on. Something like plastic isn't very fun to do. It's not really fun to do in general, but it's definitely not fun to do all by yourself, especially when the fields are as big as they are now. We haven't had rain in weeks, maybe even close to a month, which is crazy because before that, we were getting rain literally almost every day, and it was just flooding everything. So luckily we don't have many crops in the ground that really need water right now besides our cool crops and even that harvest is halfway over so we're not going to worry about irrigating. All of our irrigation pipe is actually out of the field now stacked on wagons so we can start mowing and cleaning up everything. Today is Friday, October 30th. I just backed the tractor in next to our pressure washer. I'm going to wash this water tank. We have two of these. There's some water left in here from planting earlier on in the season so I'm going to get this drained out. I'm sure it's kind of like green and gross, but if this is in here throughout the winter and freezes, it'll bust that tank and then it's no good to us. It actually doesn't look too bad, or at least not. Yeah, oh geez, I forgot. This hose is really dry rotted. These tanks literally sit out 365 days a year, so I mean, you gotta imagine. Stuff dry rots and we have to replace it every so often. This tank's nice because it's got such a big lid. I can actually crawl down the side of there and clean it out. Yeah, it's very green and scummy, isn't it? Well that's what the pressure washer is for. Our potato digger is obviously out of the field here washed up nice and clean ready for next year. It's so nice that we didn't break anything on it this season so I can actually next year just take it right to the field and start using it. Down here we have the irrigation pump at the pond which we're gonna flush it and then pull that up out get it winterized and put it in the shed so that's not sitting out all winter long. And then over here under this shed is our plastic layer that we cleaned up a while ago that's done ready to go for the winter and then I just cleaned up the plastic lifter because I just got done with plastic and so then this is going to move with a skid loader and put underneath the shed here just so it's out of the weather for the most part. This worked really good this season. Really happy with it. We'll probably just WD 40 some of the discs and the points there in the back that way they don't rust too bad for the next season. Oh and there's Daisy and Chloe swimming in the pond. Are you having fun? shake shake. So I finished that water tank, got it about as good as I could, and then we worked on plastic for the rest of the day. But now it's the next morning, and we have cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli to pick. That's our big three things we've got to harvest. We've got to bag potatoes in. We've got to wash potatoes. We're picking up plastic. We're cleaning out high tunnels. So stay tuned because we've got a lot going on. We had another hard frost this morning, so everything's dewy. Waiting for everything to dry off. Plastic is not something you want to start early. because it's just going to be a muddy, it's already not a fun job and then getting a sloppy muddy mess with gross peppers and stuff it's just worth it to wait until at least dries out on top anyway. So what we're starting out with here is our high tunnels. Mom has went through and cleaned off everything good so that way we can come through now and just clean it out and not have to worry about trying to save bits and pieces here and there. And so what that's going to entail basically is going through cutting off all the strings off these stakes pulling the stakes up out of the ground and then pulling the tomatoes up out of the ground by the roots and taking them down and disposing them. Other than that it's just going to be cleaning up some of the rotten tomatoes off the floor and then just our drip lines. It's actually a very it seems like a lot but it's a very very quick and simple process. In two hours you can have this whole thing done and cleaned up which is just crazy because it's not that way when you're setting it up that's for sure. The upper high tunnel though which is much bigger is already We're already done and we're just pulling out the last couple weeds and tomatoes. to finish that one up. I need to come in the barn here though I need a board. On the floor here is all of our spaghetti butternut which is here and here that's left for the season and this is all what's left of onions for the season. And then this is what it'll look like after it's cleaned up. This one looks exactly the same way the lower one did just bigger is all more rows and longer. We take all our steaks pile them up we'll sanitize them before we put them in again this next And we usually pull all this fabric up. So I know a lot of you guys say that's a waste and then just lay down more. And it does seem like a waste. I don't know if it's very necessary or not. It's just something my dad likes to do. That way he knows he's getting rid of any diseases that were in there and then starting completely fresh. It's a good idea, but it is more expensive. It takes away from your profits. So is it worth it? I don't know. I know there is many farmers that don't change out the plastic. I can't say exactly, you know. if they go through headaches or if they have issues with diseases. We're going to get rid of a load of corn so we just got our neighbor's auger set up. We are going to soon start obviously harvesting all the corn that we are going to have this year but the thing is you don't really want to keep your corn too long and so we want to get rid of our old stuff before putting in the new which our bins I think like not half full or something close to that. We're only going to take out one load and then hopefully we'll fill it close up again. For the next following season that way we can bag corn and do whatever with it. While Alan works on Cleaning out that high tunnel. I came down here to the brussels sprouts. He'd like 20 or so I've seen this section from the drive road over there And it just looked like they were pretty nice all the way to the top nice and big on the bottom The only downfall of these is it seems like they just get quite as tall as the other ones The other varieties, but they're every bit as nice. So I just finished up. I think I got around 20 to 22 or something like that These are really nice. Now that Brussels sprouts are done, we still have cabbage and cauliflower to get, which will probably take an hour total, but mom's got to go set up the farm market. Dad's getting ready to go get the garlic field finalized so we can actually go in and plant. I'm going to head down and see how Alan's making out in the lower high tunnel. If he's, no matter what point he's at, it doesn't really matter. I'm going to pull him and we'll go get plastic picked up. Our dumpster is full, but we can put it in bins because he's got to leave around noon and one o'clock And it's already like 10.30, so we're running out of time. Snapped off. To finish off this video, I'm down here at my house. And behind me is the 1938 Chevy that I've been working on for many, many months. Now I'm going to be coming out with a whole entire video very shortly with all the progress I've been making and what's been going on. But I need some help, and I'm hoping some of you guys can leave comments down below and give me some information on some wiring troubles that I'm having. So, I bought... a wiring harness from Chevys of the 40s that i guess just gets that basically from this company called American Auto Wire now this is supposed to be a universal wiring harness that can work with 6 volt or 12 volt systems because i told the guy i wasn't sure it's 6 volt or the car was 6 volt told him i wanted to keep it 6 volt but maybe in the future i'd want to switch it to 12 volt this is what he gave me now it gave me a whole schematic blueprint whatever you want to call it That looks just like this. This is one side and you can pause the video and take a look at that. This is another one and I think there's another page somewhere here. Yes right here and so that's everything that they gave me. Now I kept it six volts so that means I kept my original generator. Didn't get an alternator. I didn't need a voltage reducer because it's 12 volt. Everything's six volts so I didn't need to reduce it from 12 volts. Stuff like that. Yes the engine everything's back in here. Again I'll explain all that later but some big issues I was having was So that's my generator. This is my regulator and so basically I was told that the generator can be wired up either way it doesn't matter which wire goes on which terminal but I could find no labeling anywhere on the screws on the tabs underneath the cover on the back of it that says what screw is for what as far as like armature I think and all that kind of stuff I was reading up on it. So that was one question I had because I wasn't sure if that's even wired up correctly which from the research I did I think I have it wired up good. But some other problems I'm having is this whole wiring setup says it's kind of for 12 volt even though it can work for six volt. So I have relays multiple relays one's in the fuse panel one is for the horn And now I'm wondering or somebody mentioned to me that maybe the horn relay because it's supposed to operate off 12 volts isn't operating fully because it's only six volts. So that's another question I'm having. If you can please answer that for me or leave a comment down below. Also, this car never had a battery in it. So my issue is I'm not sure if it's supposed to be reverse polarity or regular polarity. I'd rather be regular, but we actually had it wired up both ways and it did start both ways and you know, everything was fine. But Really a lot of issues. The horn. The horn is supposed to be pretty basic from what everybody tells me. I had a couple people here looking at it. You have one wire coming from your horns. To the fuse panel and then once from the fuse box to the actual horn. And so basically what you're supposed to be able to do is take this, which is the horn button and those two probes touch like something metal in there and then that grounds it out, which makes the horn work. But every time I do that, it starts blowing fuses in my fuse box. So there's some crazy stuff going on. But when you turn on the key, the lights work, the high beam. Light indicator works, the lights behind the dash work, all the gauges work, but turn signals are also an issue. I'm not sure if now because I've been switching stuff around I could and I checked all my fuses none of my fuses are blown but my turn signals aren't working. The lights come on but there is no turn signal so again that could be the relay. Headlights I don't even have wired up yet I just got them back in so I'm gonna soon wire them up maybe like today or tomorrow but I'm hoping they work. It's just little stuff like that, if you guys could answer or give me some information on. Because I am running out of time. It is November 1st today, and by December 5th, this car has to be perfectly working. Now, I will spill the beans a little bit. The car is running. I could take it out for a drive. It's not actually road legal yet because I don't have the license plate and all that kind of stuff. But I want to get this main wiring buttoned up, and I've been struggling for this for... Three weeks now. So any information would be great. I appreciate it. And as always, thank you guys for watching. Hopefully, I'll see you in the next one.