So we had a hydraulic rupture on the mower tractor.

Luckily we have bigger tractors.

We probably didn't need to go that big it's just the one we had in the yard. That's why we needed the jump start.

The trials of being a farmer. When your stuff is broken you need to fix your other equipment to get it going again.

@JesseJames I do want you to sperg out about tires. I’m a gearhead, I started a new job that works regularly with tires, and I enjoy sperging out on things.

In the limestone mine field tires are a huge expense to my clients. I track every out that tire runs and can tell my customers how much they are paying per hour to run those tires. There is a lot of technology that goes into quarry tires and each brand has specific quarry branded lines of tires. My other customer base is the excavating field. Those are tracked in the same manner but usually they do not run as long because of the conditions they are ran in. I have a good diagram with examples of each style and how they’re constructed.

We run in pretty soft soil. Our tires can last quite a long time. Antlers do the most damage to them.

Highways are also hard on our tires.

We probably put more wear on the tires moving from one field to another than we do actually working the field.

@JesseJames can you post that diagram? I'd like to see it.

Ya I am on vacation at the moment. When I get back to work I will get it up.

Too bad most our corn got hailed out. This is one of the survivors. I'm 5'11" for reference

I drove across SD a few months ago, fields as far as the eye can see

Can y'all share short videos? When I see that picture of chickens, I want to hear them all clucking, haha. And walking about all goofy, with that head thrusting.

Wheatland tube

I used to build these now I tear them out. Building them was easier.

Here's the new one installed. It's a different model than the kind we pulled out.

Wind farming!

Good night IE. I'm getting your wheaties ready for breakfast tomorrow.

It's getting pretty dark out here. Thank God for auto steer.

Done for tonight.

Pros and cons of being a farmer.

Con: working a 15 hour day.

Pro: Free beer!

Alright now to get into the informative portion of this content.

This screen is probably the most important in the combine harvester.

The top two indicators are what is going on with your crop. The left is moisture percentage and the right is bushels per acre. Just below that is your crop. In this case it is a lie (we're actually harvesting winter wheat) but it's close enough.

In this type of combine the majority of the threshing is done by a device called a bullet rotor. The top left indication below the crop type is the speed of your rotor. The number below that is the clearance between your rotor and concave. In this case it's 0 because we want it as close as it gets.

Next to your rotor speed is the cleaning fan speed. The cleaning fan blows light weight unwanted chaff out of the mechanism.

The last two indicators on the right are the top and bottom sieves. They are what sort the grain from the remaining chaff.

The bottom block is the message center. In this case it's telling me my grain tank is 3/4 full. Next to that is the record button for keeping records of what we're harvesting.

You control all of those settings with this panel.

Sorry for the crappy photo. I was driving and it's bouncy.

I'm pretty tired so I'll just close this post by saying you adjust all those settings based on crop density and moisture and by visually inspecting your grain tank and by getting out and counting the amount of grain you bypass per square foot. It sounds more complicated than it actually is. You can learn to do all of this in a day.

Remember that hail storm back in June?