I should just drop out of college

@everyone I'll be posting all future farming photos here.

Right now I'm prepping some hunting ground. We'll plant our leftover corn seed out here and leave it for the wildlife. Pheasant season starts in October and goes to the beginning of January.

amazing. Great pictures. wow !

Thanks.

All done mowing.

I'm looking forward to a channel specifically for wheat field updates

Geeze how many acres of land do you own

New favorite channel

Wow @Der Seeteufel - SD Your a very lucky man,looks beautiful! Thankyou for everything you do,farmers are so valuable for all of us!

oh wow brother

@Pat-MA I work for my second cousin. We farm 24000 acres.

If you need a size comparison the average farm in the United States is 434 acres but that's probably partly affected by micro farms that only do a few acres.

I was actually really surprised when I saw how low the national average was. We have fields that are 1200 acres.

Yeah that's crazy, growing up we had 25 acres of tobacco we worked, but that was my dads idea of a "hobby" farm haha

If I had one complaint it would be the absolute state of the bitches around here!

She's a dirty one...

Getting ready to go pick rocks.

Oh and I just realized I never posted a picture of my favorite truck in here.

@Der Seeteufel - SD Is that a rock crusher or catcher?

Catcher

I wonder if they make those for cat 1s

I don't know. We supposedly have a smaller one but I've never seen it.

These two run on hydraulics but it's possible that they make some that use a PTO if your tractor doesn't have hydraulic hookups.

I got hydraulics but at my size its probably safer to run it on pto with all the rocks we have her

here*

This one needs some work. This is how you move equipment when the shop is too small to turn the tractor.

New shiny bolt. Hopefully this one holds a little better than the last one.

Check out this power line up.

I think I'm going to need a bigger tractor.

My dog really likes to help.

Dumping out the smaller rocks

It looks like someone dropped that boulder on your dogs head in that one pic

What a good dog

Glad to see you putting that dog to work😁 he's gotta earn those meals.

@John O - I've got a wheat field update for you.

The women should be arriving soon.

@Deleted User I thought you might be interested in the control setup on that smaller tractor I was driving today.

Its called a quad-range. The front levers are your throttle and gear selectors. The back leavers control your hydraulics.

There are only three foot petals. The clutch on the left and the breaks on the right.

Nice thing about these older tractors is that you can leave your dog in them. Newer tractors with electronic controls are too easy for your dog to bump. Guys have died because they left their dogs in the cab while they go fix something.

For comparison the controls on a modern quadtrac are a bit more complicated.

Friends don’t let friends run tracks.
Be white run pneumatic tires.

@JesseJames 👆

@Der Seeteufel - SD such a glorious sight. My kids have to eat!!!

@JesseJames do your kids like corn? I have lots of corn. 😂

@JesseJames What are the advantages and disadvantages of tracks?

@Der Seeteufel - SD they do but we actually grow our own..... sweet corn.

@Jacob I am kidding. I do tire sales and service for a living.

Right, but there must be some advantages and disadvantages, or else both wouldn't exist

Certainly. Tracks don’t go flat. Also it is supposed to offer more traction. But that is debatable. There are more failure points with tracks because of mor moving parts. The tracks are heavier and more expensive.

@Jacob tracks handle mud better and like Jesse said they don't go flat. That picture I responded to him with is a deer antler in the tire of one of our seed carts. That might be good for him but it really sucks for me. A flat tire can take hours to get fixed especially when you are in the middle of a field 30 miles from the nearest town. Also I don't know if it's a function of the tracks or just the fact that the tractor is much newer, but the quadtrac has by far the smoothest ride of any tractor I've driven.

This looks fun

I enjoy it a lot, but I work between 12 and 17 hours a day and weekends are not guaranteed days off. This job is also pretty dangerous so it's definitely not for everyone.

How physically intensive is it?

I've worked double shifts at Dairy Queen. Not fun.

It can vary. Days when we level bins are extremely physically intensive. Imagine moving several tons of corn or sunflowers inside a 80° bin with only a scoop shovel. There are also days where I sit in an air conditioned cab and the only workout I get is climbing up and down from the tractor.

Maybe being forced to do something like that would help me

@Der Seeteufel - SD Yeah I have eight gears; one high/low stick and one four gear stick

@Jacob there's also one more thing that you should consider before moving out to a place like this. The isolation. I see the same 10 people every day and hardly anyone else. I grew up here so I'm used to it, but it can literally drive people crazy. Also very few potential GFs. I actually can't remember the last time I even saw an eligible woman. I'm 26 and the only single girl I know around here is 16.

It’s odd you claim the tracks ride better because that is normally a complaint people have of the tracks is they do not ride as good. @Jacob farm work builds character and is good for you.

How I spend a lot of my time.

The only other tractor that size I have driven is this 9380 and honestly the difference might just be in the seat. This tractor is about 20 yrs older.

Seats make a huge difference.
Since you posted that photo I just wanted to let you know it is a huge pain to work on those. Seems like the outside tire is never the one that goes flat and you always have to take the outside wheels off to work on the inside.

I have zero potential GFs right now, so the number can't go down lol

I'm an only child and grew up in a small family, so I don't think I would mind being around the same 10 people every day

@Jacob lmaoing at the comparison between farmwork and DQ

@Der Seeteufel - SD bro, that's so cool that your cousin hires white people at decent wages instead of undercutting the American workforce with cheap Mexicans

We don't have many Mexicans up here and they can't operate equipment like ours and everyone knows it. Some of the farms around here hire South Africans. I met a couple at the bar a few weeks ago.

@Jacob you can get the experience of farming in many different forms. You could get a part time job a full time job or simply they could call you if they need extra help from time to time.

You don't put a Mexican in a $500,000 tractor pulling a $200,000 planter. It just isn't done.

They'd be driving drunk anyway

@JesseJames I actually live in a rural area. So that's no entirely out of the question.

@Jacob Most farmers would be happy for you to contact them asking for work.

Chevrolet to the rescue.

This is my bosses new Dodge. He got it last week.

To be fair to dodge this was clearly a case of user error.

Fields can be deceptive. If you look at the top soil around this mud it looks pretty dry. There was no way any pickup was going to make it through there though.

@Der Seeteufel - SD my cousins are farmers and they hired (white) south africans last year. they said they were good people and hard workers

at first glance I thought that was just pickup tug'o'war

@Deleted User so did I, I was going to ask who won? 😂