Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[jblnut]

We began the morning by getting stuff ready to combine again.


The 911 stuff wasn't quite doing what we wanted so I thought I'd give something else a shot.


The fields we were going to go into next have some pretty narrow gates so we took the head off to make it easier. It was snowing a little bit before and it started snowing quite a bit so we decided to do other things today instead.


We've got around 150 bales to bring home yet and decided to start working on it.


Good grief. I was grabbing a bale off the wagon and got a little closer than normal and sneezed. I twitched and the skiddy jumped into the wagon just that little bit extra and busted the window out. Well ****.

 

[Dumber than lumber]

Beautiful pictures. But that cold weather - NO THANKS!!

 

[jblnut]

Beautiful pictures. But that cold weather - NO THANKS!!

Thanks !!

I agree with the cold weather. It can go elsewhere !!!

 

[Redwolf947]

Congrats on 3000 posts!! Too bad on the skiddy door/window. That sux.. Stay warm out there.
Mike

 

[jblnut]

Congrats on 3000 posts!! Too bad on the skiddy door/window. That sux.. Stay warm out there.
Mike

I never figured this thread would garnish enough interest from y'all and commitment from me to get to 3,000 posts. More on the commitment from me than anything else. I think I have 20,000 pictures in a "Quaker Road" folder on my server. Good grief !!

Windows are easy to replace I guess. I sent a picture of it to a local buddy and he called and asked how on earth a sneeze would have busted a window. Musta been a hell of a booger thrown at it he said

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

3000 post! nice milestone and 20,000 pictures of pure goodness.
Thanks again for your time and sharing your day to day.
Can you put a Polycarbonate panel back in?

 

[Finallygotit]

3000 post! nice milestone and 20,000 pictures of pure goodness.
Thanks again for your time and sharing your day to day..........

Agreed, thanks for sharing. I know I appreciate it.

 

[jeepxj]

for anti gel -

 

[drivesitfar]

JBL: yep I had to read that a couple times to see that your sneezing didn't exactly bust the window. of course that stuff happens when it's below freezing instead of 70 degrees and I hope the fix isn't too expensive.

your thread always has something interesting in it even for us city boys so keep up the good work and postings allowing us to see how a farm runs.

how will you know if the new enzyme works like its supposed to? are you going to feed only a few of your cows that corn or just feed it to all of them and see how the numbers compare to year's past?

stay warm!!

 

[cliftonbros89]

We started in a special field today. This field was planted with Golden Harvest corn with the Alpha-amylase trait bred into it. This enzyme helps make the corn more digestible so the cattle should be able to gain more weight while eating less corn. Win Win for all of us

We just booked some Golden Harvest seed yesterday for next year. I saw they had some corn varieties like that. I’d considered some but we didn’t look into it very much. It sounds like a good idea to me. I’m just not sure how much the boss man would be on board with it.

 

[XJSuperman]

I laughed at the sneeze in the skiddy. You can't make that **** up. Expensive lesson though Im sure. Better get them bales moved post haste, snows a comin!

 

[Sifan]

May your Golden Plump and Golden Harvest, golden your bank account!

 

[ABSTIFFGS]

What would happen if something very serious where to happen to the combine in the middle of a field? How do you get it back out to be able to work on it? That’d ****.

 

[Farmall450]

We just booked some Golden Harvest seed yesterday for next year. I saw they had some corn varieties like that. I’d considered some but we didn’t look into it very much. It sounds like a good idea to me. I’m just not sure how much the boss man would be on board with it.

That's an interesting idea. IG we've always known corn was hard to digest. Will you still grind the hybrid, or?

 

[cliftonbros89]

That's an interesting idea. IG we've always known corn was hard to digest. Will you still grind the hybrid, or?

Yeah we still grind the hybrid. But never just straight corn of corse.

 

[jblnut]

3000 post! nice milestone and 20,000 pictures of pure goodness.
Thanks again for your time and sharing your day to day.
Can you put a Polycarbonate panel back in?

Thanks for following along

I had a polycarbonate panel in my 763 and it was awesome until it was a few years old and got scratched up and started getting foggy. I thought it was a good idea and although it was there is still no replacement for a glass window. SO I have nothing on my 763 now lol.

Agreed, thanks for sharing. I know I appreciate it.

And I appreciate you following along !! I'd keep posting for a few years probably even if no one followed along

for anti gel -

That guy did a decent job of showing the differences and such. It's sure worth a watch.

JBL: yep I had to read that a couple times to see that your sneezing didn't exactly bust the window. of course that stuff happens when it's below freezing instead of 70 degrees and I hope the fix isn't too expensive.

your thread always has something interesting in it even for us city boys so keep up the good work and postings allowing us to see how a farm runs.

how will you know if the new enzyme works like its supposed to? are you going to feed only a few of your cows that corn or just feed it to all of them and see how the numbers compare to year's past?

stay warm!!

Yeah. That was a $278 sneeze. I can assure you hitting it REALLY hard with your head doesn't bust it so that'd have to be a hell of a sneeze !!!

You've been a big part of this mess Drives so thank you for following along and poking at me for more info all the time. It makes it interesting. It seems like I am showing all the same stuff all the time so knowing what y'all want to see is nice

We plan to feed some cattle on the Enogen corn and some on regular corn and weigh them once a month and see how they do.

We just booked some Golden Harvest seed yesterday for next year. I saw they had some corn varieties like that. I’d considered some but we didn’t look into it very much. It sounds like a good idea to me. I’m just not sure how much the boss man would be on board with it.

The Golden Harvest dealer is the same guy who's dozer and scraper I used for the shed dirt work plus I've been buying calves from him lately so I thought we'd buy some corn last year to be neighborly. I am excited about the Enogen stuff so we'll see how it turns out. I didn't get a cooler or any neat stuff like you did from him so I'll have to show him that picture from your thread so he knows the stuff does exist and can find it for me

I laughed at the sneeze in the skiddy. You can't make that **** up. Expensive lesson though I'm sure. Better get them bales moved post haste, snows a comin!

I was moving pretty quick as well and knew the sneeze was coming so I stopped so I didn't run into anything while I was mid-sneeze and still busted it out !!!

May your Golden Plump and Golden Harvest, golden your bank account!

Well it's more of a aluminum/bronze than golden but we get by

What would happen if something very serious where to happen to the combine in the middle of a field? How do you get it back out to be able to work on it? That’d ****.

Well Mr. ABSTIFFGS we've used a variety of methods to get broken down machines home over the years. Depending on what is wrong with the combine we would either fix it in the field or limp it home somehow. Unless we break an axle or get a nasty flat we can just about always limp it home to work on it in the shed.

That's an interesting idea. IG we've always known corn was hard to digest. Will you still grind the hybrid, or?

Yeah we still grind the hybrid. But never just straight corn of course.

You beefer guys do things quite differently than we do. I feed a whole corn and pellet mix and they have as much free choice meadow hay as they can eat. Beef cattle and holsteins rumanite a little differently though so we must do it different for the good of the cattle

 

[jblnut]

Thursday morning things were cold and grumpy getting started.


We got the dryer augers down and moved around a bit in the morning.


And yet another John Deere by a fuel barrel


The field we were going to first today was through the river and through the woods and a few narrow gates so we put the head on the header trailer to get it up there.


I brought three wagons up there to get started.


Whaoo Hoo dumping corn !!


My mom took a picture of me taking a picture of the combine and send it to me


Every once in a while a picture turns out better than expected. I like this one


Hauling corn on the snowy roads is always a little nerve racking but it went smoothly all day.


I forgot to brush the snow out of the wagons before filling them with corn and it didn't want to come out of the wagon !!


Since this corn was going to be fed to the cattle we opened up the concaves a little to allow more cob and trash in the corn to give them more to chew on.


It was sub 20F and although there was snow on the corn it was cold enough that it didn't cause any trouble.


Running through a sea of corn.


Om nom nom this thing just eats corn !!


The ground is frozen and can support the wagons in the field without issue so we decided to do some unloading on the go. It speeds things up quite a bit.


These deer decided to go running across our frozen lake and somehow made it without breaking through.


We moved augers around and put the corn right in the bin as it was dry enough.


We're going to be selling some corn straw to a neighbor and I chopped it for him. It got a little late but all is well as it's going to rain Sunday and it'll probably all freeze to the ground after that.


Today had a good start to it and had an abrupt stop.


Dad is checking out what all got damaged.


Well look at that. The rear axle is broken. WTF.


Gobs of damage ....


There was only about 30bu of corn in the hopper when it broke but no need to have extra weight in the hopper so out it goes !!


And of course it had to happen on a 25 degree slope !!!


We got to work lifting it back up. The frame was laying on the ground and was a ****** to get moving back up. We picked up a pair of low profile bottle jacks and the job got easier.


Here is the break. Looks to be a stress fracture. Seems the turnbuckles that are suppose to take the brunt of the force of the 4wd system are not adjusted properly and the center of the axle was flexing and it finally gave way.


As we kept jacking it kept getting closer to being back together.


We used a high lift jack, a floor jack, a ratchet strap and three 20 ton bottle jacks to get it back in place.




Almost looks normal again !!


We used a ton of 6x6 blocks to support it in the center as well as leaving the bottle jacks in place to help stabilize things. Monday morning we'll have a local welding guy come with his mobile welding rig burn it back together and reinforce it enough to at least get back home.


In good news the new window for the skiddy is in and looks nice and clean !!!


I ordered a pair of gas cans and have to say they are very impressive. Very.


I also ordered six of these D-Rings to put in the floor of the shop to be used for whatever. I'll be building boxes for them to be enclosed in concrete to be used as anchor points.

 

[Sifan]

Same deal model 2388 right?

 

[jblnut]

Same deal model 2388 right?

Similar. Ours has 2,000lbs of weights in the back and is 4wd but the same thing broke in the same place ....

 

[drivesitfar]

JBL: it's been a fun ride watching, learning and seeing what you can do in a day always is inspirational. keep doing what you do!!

glad to see the window on your skiddy is replaced and OMG that was an expensive sneeze. (OR A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE)

sorry to hear the combine's axle broke, but like everything else you and dad go right at finding out what it takes to fix it and GET R DONE.

maybe the welder will do a good enough job to keep it running for years now that you have it all set up for him to weld.

I'd say have a good weekend, but at this time of year you are like the old Beatles song lyrics 8 days a week and I bet that doesn't even describe it.

do what you do and tell dad and mom and the family you have more than a few followers and fans.

cheers and GO PACKERS (they were my favorite team in the mid 60's when i was actually playing football)!!

 

[cliftonbros89]

The Golden Harvest dealer is the same guy who's dozer and scraper I used for the shed dirt work plus I've been buying calves from him lately so I thought we'd buy some corn last year to be neighborly. I am excited about the Enogen stuff so we'll see how it turns out. I didn't get a cooler or any neat stuff like you did from him so I'll have to show him that picture from your thread so he knows the stuff does exist and can find it for me


You beefer guys do things quite differently than we do. I feed a whole corn and pellet mix and they have as much free choice meadow hay as they can eat. Beef cattle and holsteins rumanite a little differently though so we must do it different for the good of the cattle

I’ll be interested to see how it turns out for you too. May be worth looking into for ourselves.

Gotta get those “free” things. The cooler had snacks inside too with the Golden Harvest logo all over it. But I guess it helped that we bought more than last year. It was a bigger discount if we bought more plus money off the soybeans if we bought a few more bags.

I can agree we’re definitely dealing with two different style operations for sure. Most people would think a cow is a cow and you do the same for all of them.

 

[Finallygotit]

Holy **** Mike!! That's one hell of a catastrophic failure!! For the driver, that had to be downright rude when it happened.


I'm sure you will right this wrong as you have done with everything else that has gone sideways.

 

[Farmall450]

Similar. Ours has 2,000lbs of weights in the back and is 4wd but the same thing broke in the same place ....

Man, ***** you got it just in time for issues. Although, ig after 20 years of going hard they'll happen. Hopefully he can get a good weld on it and just save it. I'm sure the 4WD versions probably could have used a heavier axle but every combine could use heavier rims, axle, etc for extensions and heavier chopping heads, etc that come along.

 

[realvc]

Man oh man, what farmers deal with. Between the weather, the equipment and then the market.

That is one tough looking recovery and repair. I'm very impressed with how you were able to get the broke axle back in place for the welder.

Will it be repaired or replaced?

 

[Finallygotit]

Same deal model 2388 right?

Thank you for sharing that. I learned some more.

 

[jblnut]

JBL: it's been a fun ride watching, learning and seeing what you can do in a day always is inspirational. keep doing what you do!!

glad to see the window on your skiddy is replaced and OMG that was an expensive sneeze. (OR A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE)

sorry to hear the combine's axle broke, but like everything else you and dad go right at finding out what it takes to fix it and GET R DONE.

maybe the welder will do a good enough job to keep it running for years now that you have it all set up for him to weld.

I'd say have a good weekend, but at this time of year you are like the old Beatles song lyrics 8 days a week and I bet that doesn't even describe it.

do what you do and tell dad and mom and the family you have more than a few followers and fans.

cheers and GO PACKERS (they were my favorite team in the mid 60's when i was actually playing football)!!

Eh on the skiddy window. Sneezes happen I guess
It ***** the axle broke but there are a bunch of "It could have been way worse" deals we thought of while jacking it back up. Like if it gave way on the road, or in some guys yard blocking all their stuff, or backed in the shed and we couldn't get to it or worse yet in a muddy puddle a few weeks ago. No matter how bad something is, it could always be worse !!

They'll get it welded good enough to get it home and we'll decide what to do after that.

Even if there were 8 days in a week I'd still run short of time sometimes. I'd just find more to do and be just as far behind somehow. Seems to be how it goes !!

Not sure what's going on with your last sentance. It's all jumbled up and looks like you are rooting for some football team we do not recognize here in MN. It may be the font or just a lot of misspelling but I do not have a clue what you're trying to say !!

I’ll be interested to see how it turns out for you too. May be worth looking into for ourselves.

Gotta get those “free” things. The cooler had snacks inside too with the Golden Harvest logo all over it. But I guess it helped that we bought more than last year. It was a bigger discount if we bought more plus money off the soybeans if we bought a few more bags.

I can agree we’re definitely dealing with two different style operations for sure. Most people would think a cow is a cow and you do the same for all of them.

We were concerned mostly about a yield drag for some reason and there was none so I think we'll be planting more Golden Harvest corn next year. It's a lot less expensive and yielded just as well.

I do not mind dealing with my fussy holsteins but I say that never really having any straight beef experience. We've had cross breds and tri-breds and they did AMAZING for feed efficiency and grade and yield but nothing straight beefer ever yet.

Holy **** Mike!! That's one hell of a catastrophic failure!! For the driver, that had to be downright rude when it happened.

I'm sure you will right this wrong as you have done with everything else that has gone sideways.

Dad and the neighbor who's corn was being combined were riding along and they were going less than 1mph when it happened so the combine just basically sat down and Dad stopped right away. Had the combine been going 4.5-5mph like normal there would have been WAY more damage !!

Metal is easy to fix. Humans are not and luckily no one got hurt. We're going to get it home and park it for the winter with the rear end very accessible so we can work on it if there is a warm day or two this winter.

Man, ***** you got it just in time for issues. Although, ig after 20 years of going hard they'll happen. Hopefully he can get a good weld on it and just save it. I'm sure the 4WD versions probably could have used a heavier axle but every combine could use heavier rims, axle, etc for extensions and heavier chopping heads, etc that come along.

The new replacement axles come with a brace on top to strengthen them quite a bit to prevent this. The 4wd and weights puts the hurt on it though. The frozen ground didn't help either ....

Man oh man, what farmers deal with. Between the weather, the equipment and then the market.

That is one tough looking recovery and repair. I'm very impressed with how you were able to get the broke axle back in place for the welder.

Will it be repaired or replaced?

Sounds like you're prepping me to give you a sob story about how bad we have it but like any industry we have good times and bad times. We've had a bunch of years of not great times after a couple years of AMAZING times so I guess it should average out. It doesn't but we like to think it does. In the good times we can pay cash for things and in the bad times we make interest payments on the loans just to get by. We're doing ok all in all though.

Meh, jack it up and put it back together. If you understand a little bit about a lot of things like we seem to it's not hard to fake it through the rest of the way to get it done.

We're thinking it'll be a few hundred dollars in labor and that again is metal to get it patched up to get it home so we can work on it. To beef this one up may not be smart but we do not know until we can get it home and get it off. A BRAND NEW axle is $3,200 and used ones go for half of new usually so we're going to try hard to make use of this one still. Any used one we buy will have to be beefed up anyway so may as well fix this one. I just know I do not want to weld it up on the combine anymore than we need to to get it home.

Thank you for sharing that. I learned some more.

Me too. Cole the Cornstar has some crazy sunglasses and obviously isn't the one setting the combine up to combine corn. The rotor speed and other things he was talking about while explaining how a combine works would turn corn into pig feed powder in a jiffy !!

He puts out an entertain set of YouTube videos and never fails to entertain me.

In no particular order these are the farming related channels I watch in my "free time" . I make a point to watch Welkers and Millennial Farmer when they come out, the others are a as time allows deal.

Cole the Cornstar
Harmless Farmer
Welker Farms
Brians Farming Videos
bigtractorpower
Millennial Farmer
TractorSpotter
Mike Less - Farmhand Mike
Peterson Farm Bros
onelonelyfarmer

 

[Farmall450]

I recently started cole again. Quit the first time, it was a bit too show then. Wes is po,ar opposite

 

[rixtrix1]

Looks looks like it failed altogether at the same moment considering how well it came back together after jacking, rather than cracking open at the bottom and getting bent/torn apart and all deformed. If your weldor is experienced in this repair, I'm sure he can recommend the proper way to reinforce it.

 

[drivesitfar]

JBL: yep I know so many members in Wisconsin that I forgot that you are in MINN E SODA. that said i'm guessing the Vikings are maybe your team. OK so i'm a WEST COAST kid (old guy now) that liked good old fashioned football where guys played with short hair and injuries and didn't complain much.

i'm just curious if all the times you were pulling that combine out of the mud if maybe that was the cause of the axle breaking where it did? great attitude that it could always be worse and just make the best of whatever comes your way.

hope you are enjoying the weekend and maybe the snow will hold off a few days more so you can get all your crops and hay bales inside.

cheers!!!

 

[skippydoo]

Check out Cenpeco super diesel kleenz along with their motor oil and grease. Very good high quality products.




QUOTE=jblnut;8178247]We began the morning by getting stuff ready to combine again.

The 911 stuff wasn't quite doing what we wanted so I thought I'd give something else a shot.

The fields we were going to go into next have some pretty narrow gates so we took the head off to make it easier. It was snowing a little bit before and it started snowing quite a bit so we decided to do other things today instead.

We've got around 150 bales to bring home yet and decided to start working on it.

Good grief. I was grabbing a bale off the wagon and got a little closer than normal and sneezed. I twitched and the skiddy jumped into the wagon just that little bit extra and busted the window out. Well ****.

[/QUOTE]

 

[jblnut]

I recently started cole again. Quit the first time, it was a bit too show then. Wes is po,ar opposite

Yeah I wrote him off at first but have since watched most of his videos. It's yet another different view into what we do and it's always nice to see how others do it.

Looks looks like it failed altogether at the same moment considering how well it came back together after jacking, rather than cracking open at the bottom and getting bent/torn apart and all deformed. If your welder is experienced in this repair, I'm sure he can recommend the proper way to reinforce it.

After a few days to think about it we're still not 100% sure if we'll replace it or repair it. Either way it needs to come completely off the combine so we'll look closer than and make a decision.

JBL: yep I know so many members in Wisconsin that I forgot that you are in MINN E SODA. that said i'm guessing the Vikings are maybe your team. OK so i'm a WEST COAST kid (old guy now) that liked good old fashioned football where guys played with short hair and injuries and didn't complain much.

i'm just curious if all the times you were pulling that combine out of the mud if maybe that was the cause of the axle breaking where it did? great attitude that it could always be worse and just make the best of whatever comes your way.

hope you are enjoying the weekend and maybe the snow will hold off a few days more so you can get all your crops and hay bales inside.

cheers!!!

Eh I don't much care for the Vikings but I have a dislike of the Packers. When the wind is just right it smells like rotting cheese over here .....

The BIG cables we put under the combine direct all the pulling force/stress to the main drive axles up front so I doubt the mud had anything to do with it.

No need to wallow in misery because something is broken or not going your way. Pick yourself, or your broken stuff either way, up and get back at it. Failure is only failure if you don't learn something from it. Weather it's a part or machine or something you did that didn't work.

Still no major snow here and we're hoping to get more corn straw bales made yet this week/weekend !!

Check out Cenpeco super diesel kleenz along with their motor oil and grease. Very good high quality products.

I'll pick some up and see how it goes. Looks like they have a TON of products to choose from as well !!

 

[Growlertdi]

I am glad to see that no one got hurt during the combine axle failure. I just find it ironic that the following conversation happened like the day before the axle failure.

Originally Posted by ABSTIFFGS View Post

What would happen if something very serious where to happen to the combine in the middle of a field? How do you get it back out to be able to work on it? That’d ****.

Well Mr. ABSTIFFGS we've used a variety of methods to get broken down machines home over the years. Depending on what is wrong with the combine we would either fix it in the field or limp it home somehow. Unless we break an axle or get a nasty flat we can just about always limp it home to work on it in the shed.

Best of luck getting it stitched back together and into the shop for a proper repair/replacement. be safe out there.

 

[XJSuperman]

Sad to say thats not the first one of those axles Ive seen break. Musta been a weak link on those machines. Oh well, fix it and go! Hopefully the welder can get some good reinforcement there.

 

[drivesitfar]

JBL: STAY WARM (and dry) and hope you get the fields clear and ready for winter before it arrives for good.

funny you talk about the smell of old cheese and you've got a million chickens and cows that i'm pretty certain have a nice odor too.

best of luck with the combine!!

 

[Sifan]

Back in the 60's and 70"s my Dad ran a Minneapolis Moline corn sheller and custom shelled for most of 4 counties. Sheller ran for 50 weeks a year. Dad was a firm believer in Cenpeco lubricants and always said "it's not the cost of the grease, it's the cost of the downtime and I've got the records to show I get at least 50% more lifetime with Cenpeco" give them a try, I guarantee you've got nothing that runs the hours that sheller ran.

 

[Farmall450]

Speaking of Cole, his 2388 just let it's rear axle go, too.

 

[ABSTIFFGS]

I am glad to see that no one got hurt during the combine axle failure. I just find it ironic that the following conversation happened like the day before the axle failure.



Best of luck getting it stitched back together and into the shop for a proper repair/replacement. be safe out there.

LOL! We have a winner! Someone is paying real close attention.
See, I'm good buds with Mr. Jubble Nuts. He sent me pics of the carnage earlier that day. What else should any friend do but razz him a little bit. Cause, you know, what else are friends for?

 

[davo727]

Do you have someone to do the rest of the combine work for you or can borrow or rent a machine to finish up?

 

[Redwolf947]

Do you have someone to do the rest of the combine work for you or can borrow or rent a machine to finish up?

I was wondering this as well??

 

[jblnut]

I am glad to see that no one got hurt during the combine axle failure. I just find it ironic that the following conversation happened like the day before the axle failure.

Best of luck getting it stitched back together and into the shop for a proper repair/replacement. Be safe out there.

When you have inside info it's less ironic

We try to choose safety over speed whenever we can and do a pretty good job of it. We still have all our appendages so it must be working. Once in a while you get an extra hole poked in you that leaks a bit but it's nothing a few stitches or a decent wrap of electrical tape can't take care of.

Sad to say that's not the first one of those axles I've seen break. Musta been a weak link on those machines. Oh well, fix it and go! Hopefully the welder can get some good reinforcement there.

After it happened we found that out too. The new ones are reinforced quite a bit right away. Would have been nice to know before it broke but oh well.

JBL: STAY WARM (and dry) and hope you get the fields clear and ready for winter before it arrives for good.

funny you talk about the smell of old cheese and you've got a million chickens and cows that i'm pretty certain have a nice odor too.

best of luck with the combine!!

Winter is here whether we want it or not. We got most things done minus a lot of tillage but we'll get it next spring.

The cheese was a Packers joke that I maybe didn't set up properly ..... Or it was only funny to me.

Back in the 60's and 70"s my Dad ran a Minneapolis Moline corn sheller and custom shelled for most of 4 counties. Sheller ran for 50 weeks a year. Dad was a firm believer in Cenpeco lubricants and always said "it's not the cost of the grease, it's the cost of the downtime and I've got the records to show I get at least 50% more lifetime with Cenpeco" give them a try, I guarantee you've got nothing that runs the hours that sheller ran.

Er'ma'garwsh that's an insane amount of time to spend running a sheller .....

Speaking of Cole, his 2388 just let it's rear axle go, too.

His was only 2wd and seemed a lot easier to remove. I think we have a plan to take ours off but we'll have to see if it works or not.

LOL! We have a winner! Someone is paying real close attention.
See, I'm good buds with Mr. Jubble Nuts. He sent me pics of the carnage earlier that day. What else should any friend do but razz him a little bit. Cause, you know, what else are friends for?

Good buds eh' ?

Do you have someone to do the rest of the combine work for you or can borrow or rent a machine to finish up?

I was wondering this as well??

We were doing some combining for a neighbor that does not own a combine when it broke. The guy that baled my corn stalk bales owns a combine and does custom combining and finished it for them.

When it broke and I was exploring options to fix it or buy a new one our sales guy at the local dealer called and said they had a really nice low houred 9230 on tracks they could bring out if we wanted to buy that. We'd pretty much have to trade in all our machinery on that one combine to be able to afford that beast