Hired help

[Partners]

Don't feel to bad..At least you don't have 30 hired men to baby sit..
Now that's a gong show to watch...

[sumdumguy]

Sure nice not to need them. It's hard to find a good man. One might be a good mechanic but not farm smart. Then old farmer has to learn the new technology. Everyone needs three sons - all 3 absolutely awesome.

[farmaholic]

How the hell did the tire stay on the rim if it was driven that long to stress a wheel motor to the point of failure. Those "fixes" aren't cheap, escpecially if the wheel motor is an integrated hydraulic motor and final drive component. Then there is the system(hydrostatic motors and wheel motors and anything else the shared oil drives) contamination if filters bypass.

We had a wheel motor go on us two years ago. QUIT driving it. Had a full tank, transferred it to my neighbors sprayer and he applied it for me. The same neighbor who also had a wheel motor quit.on him.....but he kept driving, just kept pushing the hydro to keep moving. Complete drive system overhaul--4 wheel motors and the hydro pumps....about 70k into a sprayer that wasn't worth that much, un-real, just got it. Worthless even as a wrecking unit, what do you do?

Our new Rogator now.had the final drive and wheel motors seperate, but am thinking a blown wheel motor could be as catastrophic as before. Maybe a mechanical drive machine would be better.

What do you think hobby?

[sumdumguy]

My brother -in-law took his 1996 Walker to Hydrio Tech in Regina and had Mike install 4 industrial high-pressure oil filters. These filters have built in reversing valves that maintain flo forward or reverse. This is a 1996 Walker that is still going today with 5000 spraying hours.It has a custom built 130 foot boom front mount. That sprayer doesn't owe him anything.

[biglentil]

Wheel motor who, just try n keep up to my chipped apache 1220, it weighs less than your jonny empty fully loaded with 1200 gallons, just wish the autosteer wouldnt kick me out at 27mph. So I spray at 26 and transport at 38.

[hobbyfrmr]

Farma,

I dunno I am cultivating!

Sprayers are like Mistresses. If one is good, two are better. Farmers think they cant go without one. At first its all wonderful and happy times until the attention and maintenance demands begin. Then, they really **** up your life.

Dat's all I have to say 'bout sprayers.

[farmaholic]

Cultivating.....weed homicide.

Another pesticide like herbicide, insecticide and fungicide. Kinda fits in.

[SASKFARMER3]

We run all family and it works great.

Sons are old enough and have been around equipment since 13 they are 17 and 14 plus the old guy still helps out.

If they screw up its easy to forget.

Problems happen on all farms but stupidity you are born with.

[fjlip]

Same old, if NOT yours, less at stake, and less give a shit, see housing on reserves.
If you pay for screw ups, you try harder, human nature. Zero employees, never had any, all have a stake in farm. Oh ya nobody would work for me anyway.

[bucket]

Klaus.

Don't feel bad. I caught a hub leaking before the gear oil had started collecting dust. Still cost 10 grand to fix.

They have to basically destroy parts of the hub to replace a 800 dollar seal which then costs as much as a new hub.

Why the **** anyone would design a hub without an easy fix is beyond me.

[hobbyfrmr]

I have a city helper this year who is very much into organic farming, sustainable living, conservation etc. I have spent a lot of time describing organic vs. Conventional . Tillage, erosion risk, fuel consumption, tractor hours, farmers not "dousing" chemicals on the crops, efficiency, zero till, spraying, repairs. It was kind of exhausting. My strongest point was I simply did not understand the conditions of buying retail and selling wholesale. I just didn't understand everybody's bullshit/rhetoric. I am not so much "against" my conventional neighbors farming practices, I am just not doing it. Everybody is trying to make a living in their own way. we choose our direction/method and lean into it.
I just see the conventional industry, which I participated in for 15 years, as one sided. I cannot dispute the fact that my neighbors are far more efficient and productive at growing crops.

All makes and models of machinery run great until it breaks down........

[farming101]

I wonder if a deer antler started that chain of events