This is a Very inefficient way to Farm

Morning. Starting the day off looking for some bolts. This is the feeder house bolt that I need. See if I got any more. I need a six millimeter. Now we got those spares. We're gonna head over to the field we were in last night. We got three trucks to get dumped, two combines to move, two heads to move, and a grain cart. This is a very beautiful farm, but man this driveway. I'm not a huge fan. Surprisingly this year we didn't get any semis stuck on the hill. Normally one of them spins out going up about every year. But this is one that I would love to own. Not a super large amount of farm acres, but just, it'd be a fun one to own. And a pretty place to live. Having said that, I'm not moving, but I've got a nice blend of woods, stream, privacy. It's beautiful. I think Bubby's going to need to clean that radiator or reverse the fan or something. She's plugged. The screens are anyways. A lot of bean wings and bean chaff. So now we are down to 220 acres of beans. If all goes as planned after today we'll be down to 130 and that's in one location. Today we're going to divide and conquer. I'm going to a 26 acre farm with two fields and dad is going to a 24 acre field. Now the one dad's going to is going to be a pain in the butt. We've got to get the sassy massy to pull the header wagon up this very large hill in a very twisty windy road. It's actually where the Amish uh Person where we help them get their semi unstuck same driveway, but a fork in the driveway anyways That's gonna take him a while. I'm going about five miles the other direction Neither one of these fields are gonna be very high production I mean if they make 50 it'll be a miracle the way I look at it and then after that we've got Three fields by the shop that we've been saving until we're ready to move on because they're slow and whatnot But that's where we're going to end up tonight. That's the plan. We'll see how the plans go They usually don't go the way I want them to. Check the oil in this thing. I'm gonna take this truck to town this morning, as slow as it was yesterday. I should have plenty of time to do that though. We had a pretty heavy fog this morning. No frost, just a lot of fog. We're good enough. Somebody was asking in a previous video, why are there so many small fields? Well, like this farm in particular is a great example. We are nestled right at the base of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, so. There's just not a lot of big open ground around here unless you get in the river bottoms. That's about the only place you see those bigger fields which is why we don't get like 300 acres a day done like some of the other YouTube channels you might see. It's one thing I've noticed we get people compare channels a lot to other channels and completely different terrain types. Like I've been to Minnesota, I've been to Larson's, I've been to Zach's farm and you know big squares, big fields. It'd be very fun to farm because you would be able to get a lot done. I mean, I'll be real honest, I hate hooking and unhooking the head three or four times in a day, but that's just where we live. So while that truck's airing up, I'm going to make sure I've got a spare guard for this head. I had a guard break right at the end yesterday. It's still cutting, but it might be a good idea to swap that. It's one thing with this loaner machine, they didn't send any sections. I think there's a guard there in the toolbox. If not, I have a buddy who has An FD2 MacDon. Did I say it right that time? MacDon. And he said I could swipe one if I needed to. So I might have to do that this morning. Fair enough, didn't. Man, I thought there was one in there. But put these bolts in here. So we've got a line system at our car, Gail, where you have six lines. Four, five, and six are beans. I've got beans on. I'm going to the shortest Bean line, so they're going to give that guy a green light and that's going to turn red, and then this one will turn green, and then it'll turn red after I go, and so on and so forth. But if I'd have got right behind him and someone would have pulled in, they'd have went right in front of me. It would have been my fault. Honestly, not too bad. There was only a few trucks here when I got here, and I've only been here about 15, 20 minutes, so this isn't bad. Trucks shouldn't be an issue today, especially with all the moving we're going to do. BJ and Jeff are in the corn line. We're going to dump next to so we should all get out here about the same time. That'll be good. Dad and I went down to look at the farm I'm moving to make sure we could get a truck in there. I think we're just going to take the dump trucks. It's a little tight and we were going by where we've got the honeybee from the last field he did. He's going to be using it today so decided to grab it. Now this this grade we got to go up is pretty steep. It's definitely a four-wheel drive situation so you about need someone to come up here and make sure that no No one's coming before you get a... Heading up so you can get a run at it. Well I might get in. We sure look like something might happen. Four semis and a dump truck. I knew this was broke. I didn't realize that had happened. If we got to there's a whole nother cutter bar in the tube or half of one. We're rolling. Time to move. Last day of patch hopping. Hallelujah. We're in road mode. High gear. Gotta move our power ladder and then we'll be ready to roll. So that is why we have a flagger. That RV and I would have had a Interesting time of it. Alright, we made it. That move took 25 minutes. So there's no real good place to stage anything here, but it works. That field there, you'd think it'd be great, but when they filled that in, they filled it in with wood chips, so it settles so much every year. Told Dad we ought to bring the excavator or the dozer or a skid steer or something to make a cut right up to the field because it's kind of a pain in the butt. Wish you'd have told me that 20 years ago. So this will definitely be our worst bean fields. Well, I guess I don't know about where dad's going. And we knew that going in. That's why I only have a dump truck to dump into because there's just not a lot here. Now in the center there, where you don't see all that grass, there's 50, 60 bushel beans out there, but like right here, we're at 30. And this is just a wet field. I mean, it's very wet. We don't own this or we've maybe put some tile in it, but it's a, That's what we're working with. Now, we have pulled 220 bushel corn out of here before. It's not the greatest bean ground. Normally, we would have the grain cart with us, but Dad needed it more than I did. So, I've got to do some exploring on how I'm going to get a dump truck over here. Or at least to where I can dump on him a little easier. I don't know if there's any logs or anything in these weeds because, well, they had this timber there about a year ago. It's been a while since we've taken a head through here because the 50-footer we knew wouldn't fit. The 40s would fit. I have to kind of ease our way through here. I'm about to put you guys down. Well, that started getting a little close for comfort, so we're going to hook this up to the header wagon because I don't feel like totaling this head. We might have to bring it back over here if we're going to do that again with the 40-footer. Used to do it all the time, but we went to a 50-foot. We haven't been through that crossing with a head in a while. It's definitely grew up a little bit. There's a ravine separating this field and the other one, and that's kind of the end of that ravine, so you were able to snake through there a little bit, but it didn't work this time. We're going to use the combine as the grain cart because the grain cart is about oh five or six miles from here and it would take about 25 minutes for him to get here the way it has to go and cart on for dead so we're unhooking the head to go dump to come back to finish about four acres. Not the end of the world but this is just not very efficient. It is 5 10. I started the combine here at four o'clock and with what I'm skipping because of all the grass We're probably only going to combine about 22 or 23 acres. Super efficient, super handy. So I went ahead and dumped my rock trap. There's two rocks on the rock trap of the combine basically. All right, let's go. Oh yeah, definitely rock. That's dirt, but that's a rock and it was heading in. We've done all we're going to do. I don't see much point in doing that grass. So if you're wondering what happened, lots of springs right there. Completely drowning them out. Nephew Landon, he's here. He's going to pull the head home for me. Sounds like dad should get done about the time we get back. But we're going to be about 30 acres shy of where I wanted to be today. Home base. So I think I'm going to probably clean off my windows and that's going to be it for the night. It's going to be dark in about 20 minutes. Dad and BJ are still here, so I'm going to go help them move. I'm going to pull my combine over and clean off my dusty windows. I've not been able to properly do that for a few days, and, well, I'm tired of it. It's driving me crazy. Snake are in there. In case you're wondering about the rolling turd, Jeff was checking it out today, making sure it was ready to go. And, well, we've got a leak, like an air leak. Oh, and it still doesn't start when it's supposed to. Had to start her off ether again. So it's still sidelined, which is why I call it the rolling turd. At the rate it's going. This whole harvest it will have toted uh one maybe two loads of grain. Substantially better. You know what I might just leave it right here. That way when it dries I can do it again. Heck with it. Oh the depot. Brad and BJ are moving the head and the combine. So I hopped in here to move the cart. I thought both of us would be done here a good while ago. I thought we would have uh got to that last 30 acres today. You can't tell in this video, but this is a very steep driveway, which is why we don't bring semis up it. They could not make it. All right, cart's empty. Let's take this back to the shop, because we will be needing it tomorrow. Well, folks, that's it for today's video. I feel like it's probably a short one, but I was pretty discouraged most of the day. I was really wanting to get to where we just had those two larger fields left. That way we could have moved there in the morning while the dew was on. We didn't quite make it. But we got the worst of the patches done as far as maneuvering and getting into the most likely to break stuff places. So that's good I guess. Thanks for watching. Do us a favor and thumbs up the video, subscribe the channel, hit the like button and we'll see you tomorrow.