I BREAK DAD'S TRACTOR :(

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:05]Oh man, things a little different. Got some trees cut down around the house. Well guys, good morning, good afternoon, good afternoon to you all. Welcome to Hartung Family Farms. I can't talk this morning apparently. Okay, I got some uh trees to move. Had a buddy come down and fell some trees for me or near the houses.

[00:00:21]So, this one's done because it was right near the power lines. It actually fell before and it broke it. So yeah, we're going to get that done. Get those cleaned up. Curtis is out working ground here. He's working on this 100 acre field. Pat's finishing up my field.

[00:00:35]He'll he'll be down there starting on the 60 acres we got south of the road.

[00:00:40]Then I'll jump on the 300 acres 200 acres we got north of the road. Let's get it. Okay, it's very breezy, so I apologize for that. But uh got a lot done. that tree and that giant tree. My buddy uh got them down today and I just about got them picked up here and then I got one more to pick up over there.

[00:01:00]Let's get it. Last scoop. Got both of them cleaned up. So, we took this one down because it was right against the power line. Actually, a limb of it fell against it and busted that part against the house. So, try and get that fixed.

[00:01:11]Hi, Dy.

[00:01:13]And then the other two were about dead.

[00:01:16]Had a rotten core. Need to get out of here. Boom. About 3 hours at the skid loader, everything cleaned up. Probably saved me about 500 bucks doing it myself.

[00:01:30]Let's get her done. Well, good morning everyone. You got the bud, man. It is Monday morning. I don't even know what day it is. May 4th, maybe.

[00:01:39]Anyway, I had to run to Debuke quick to pick up a part for the planter.

[00:01:43]this little boy here.

[00:01:48]Nathan text me this morning and said, "Hey, can you run up to Debuke and grab this from Raiders?" Hopefully they have one. This was at 7:00 this morning. They don't open till 8. So, I called my good buddy who works up there, salesman Buck, and he had it all ready for me when I got up here. And they don't open till 8.

[00:02:07]I left that building before 8:00. So, good to have some connections. Thanks, Buck. Appreciate it. Have some trucks.

[00:02:19]So anyway, got the part. Now I got to run down to Preston, drop that off so they can get the planter going and I got to run back to Belleview. I have a cow going to the vet today. It's got a bad foot. It's been limping on it for over a week and I don't like that.

[00:02:37]Once in a while they'll trip and stumble and fall like we do.

[00:02:41]sprained an ankle and over a week or so it gets better. Well, this ain't getting any better. It's getting worse, I think.

[00:02:45]So, now it's time to take it to vet. I like to take care of my cows and cattle and calves and whatever the case may be.

[00:02:54]So, uh I'm going to take it to vet. It's going to cost me a little bit of money, but like I said, I take care of my stuff. We try to um the best possible care possible for our animals, and that's what we do. So, okay. Naturally, I didn't get my camera out when we loaded it up, but it actually loaded pretty good.

[00:03:23]We are heading to Makoka with this cow.

[00:03:28]So, go to the vet, get it foot all wrapped up, and we will come back and drop it off. Hopefully, it'll be good. So, two, give me a hand.

[00:03:41]I like them cuz they got a table. You can actually put the cow on the table, strap him in, put him up, so you can really work on the foot really good.

[00:03:50]Okay, we made it over to the vet. We're working on the foot.

[00:03:57]You'll like it when it's done. Trust me, you'll like it.

[00:04:03]So, um, it's got a a back foot about right there.

[00:04:13]It's got a cut of some type on it. So, we're going to take it over here and get it fixed up. Okay. It's got a It's got a bad infection in that foot.

[00:04:22]So they spray it out, give it some drugs and fix it up. So hopefully it works.

[00:04:35]Give us some pain medicine and then some uh infection medicine.

[00:04:51]Yeah. Yeah. Come on.

[00:04:54]Easy cheesy.

[00:05:04]There's your foot.

[00:05:07]Okay, we'll go get your calf now.

[00:05:14]Okay, we're back to the farm with the cow.

[00:05:26]And we're out of here.

[00:05:30]Like I said, I had a bad infection in one of the toes. And uh we're going to give it some antibiotics. They put a lift on it to keep the weight off of that toe for at least 3 weeks.

[00:05:43]And hopefully it works that way. So, got it loaded up. Apologize for the wind. It is pretty nasty. That's why I'm doing these jobs instead of uh spraying because oh, it's gnarly out today. And we just got a shower of rain just not to tick you off, but I don't have to really do anything.

[00:06:04]All right, so I'm going to got a couple twigs and branches just kind of sitting around. I got to move them. Got the truck started up cuz we're going to load that up and choke the bin while I got Curtis here. And then while I got Curtis here, we're going to put the sweep in.

[00:06:26]Fire up on me girl.

[00:06:48]Okay, door up. That's been opened up.

[00:06:52]Taking down this sump. I do have another intermediate sump right there, but I'm not going to mess with it because I got a bin jack holding this auger on straight. This is a sleeve and it wants to spin. So, I'm not going to mess with that jack. We're going to have enough immediate miss.

[00:07:13]We'll just take her down and then I'll have Curtis help me hook the uh sleep in.

[00:07:23]Emptying. I was climbing up there. Now I don't need to.

[00:07:33]Well, we made it home. Ready to get out by your mom or your calf?

[00:07:40]Let's get him out by his calf.

[00:07:55]Easy, easy.

[00:08:03]limping pretty good.

[00:08:08]Good girl.

[00:08:10]Well, hopefully in a week or so it'll be a lot better.

[00:08:15]And she said it should stay on for about 3 weeks. So hopefully that heel stays on for about 3 weeks.

[00:08:23]Hi.

[00:08:25]And we'll take it over and make sure the calf's around. Let's go out by your calf.

[00:08:33]Take your time.

[00:08:40]Yep. Go get it.

[00:08:59]Okay, got them back home. They're in the shade. So, Curtis is working on this field right here. Pat's got 140 acres, I believe, that he can plant here, but I think he's having trouble. He's been at my field for 3 hours. My field should take him two max, and he did 20 last night, so should take him an hour and a half.

[00:09:20]Okay, I'm going to go grab the truck, pick up Curtis. We're going to go ahead and put the sweep in and I'm going to fill up that truck. Well, I got time.

[00:09:29]So, Curtis is working the field with the cat. We were working with the 340 Magnum because the cat was busy on the Inhyas bar. 340 works, but it's severely underpowered. You can't do anything in the hills and you can't pull it as fast as you want to, especially in the stock ground. Cat's got over 120 more horsepower, and that thing just toys with it.

[00:09:48]Okay, I'm up here in this CRP field and we got to cut these weeds down so stuff can grow.

[00:09:58]So, I'm going to go around real quick and do some trimming, I guess, is what it's called.

[00:10:04]Go all the way around the field. See what happens.

[00:10:12]Heat. Heat.

[00:10:42]I am back where I started. Made it all the way around. Doesn't look too bad.

[00:10:52]Oh.

[00:10:54]So, we made it all the way around.

[00:10:58]Then we come back over here and we're done.

[00:11:03]Now we got to wait for June and July.

[00:11:04]When the heat comes in, that's when this stuff's going to really start growing, they say.

[00:11:09]So, we'll give you an update.

[00:11:13]Okay, got her back home.

[00:11:17]All dusted up. So, now I'm going to go get cleaned up and I'm going to go to my dad's house. We got a little family meeting going on.

[00:11:28]Okay, I'm out of here. Have a good day, everybody. You got the bud, man. Heart tongue family farms in beautiful Jen County, Iowa.

[00:11:42]CAD MT865B, the Sunflower 34 ft mulch finisher or soil finisher as we call it.

[00:12:10]Watch the There's wires and underneath.

[00:12:44]House looks kind of strange with no tree there or no big tree in the back.

[00:12:50]Okay. Well, didn't get that uh truck completely full. We got about half full and we ran into some snags with the sweep.

[00:13:01]Basically, the bin sweep that you saw us lugging in. It was kind of uh nicking on the end of the bin. So, yeah, I'm not sure. We'll just have to fight our way through it or something. But either way, we'll figure that out uh some other point. I'm going to head up to the Bellev or the Preston farm. Grab the semi-trail and flatbed.

[00:13:19]And we'll head up and grab a little of bales at the Bellev farm.

[00:13:24]There's Pat and here's Brian.

[00:13:30]Got done with my farm and boy the planner is fighting him. He had two load cells go bad in him out at his farm and then when the load cell balls goes bad for his worms it defaults and it actually raises the row unit out of the ground doesn't so like a load a load sensor I should say so like a load sensor actually on the row unit that measures the ground pressure between it and the ground the row unit and the ground when it goes bad something happens and basically it rains out of the ground so the planter isn't even planting on the ground what a joke well hello everyone you got the bud man here And we are taking the water tank back to Preston.

[00:14:10]Ron is done spraying here. He's taking his last load over to Andrew Farm.

[00:14:15]And we are, as you can see, going through the yard here with a big trailer.

[00:14:33]Now, if we take our time going down this little hill and we're out. So, we'll get on the highway the Belleview Cascade Road, the 62 to 52 to down to Preston.

[00:15:18]Okay, we made it home.

[00:15:21]So, I'm going to close things up and get out of here.

[00:15:27]Made it up here to the farm.

[00:15:31]Oh, got to start the water up.

[00:15:36]We go.

[00:15:38]So, got the water flowing. Let that thing fill up for a morning. Grab me a strap and we're going to head to Belleview and uh grab a little baleser.

[00:15:48]Let's go get a little bales.

[00:16:00]Okay, we're ready to roll. I just realized I forgot my phone in there, so I am definitely going to lose signal.

[00:16:08]That's okay. So, we're going to load that up and hopefully we have no issues.

[00:16:13]Not even sure how many I'll be able to fit on there, but a lot.

[00:16:23]Let's go get some hay. So, we are loading bales now.

[00:16:27]I got six old hay bales I want to get rid of for sure.

[00:16:36]We're going to load them up, put you guys on a time lapse, and then we'll uh load up corn stock bales and see where we end up.

[00:17:01]These things are disgustingly old, so we got to get rid of them.

[00:17:07]So, this is the first for our farm. We are actually getting these bales out of here before spring. We're going to be starting from absolutely scratch minus the 9 or 12 bales, whatever we'll have wrapped, which is awesome because we have a pretty big hay crop coming this year up in Belleview.

[00:17:55]Well, I uh my GoPro died, so I'm ahead.

[00:17:59]But we're loaded. We're heading home.

[00:18:03]Nice. The GoPro screwed up. Well, anyway, uh it just lost all 2 minutes when I was speaking. Basically, uh, that thing actually rode pretty nice. Just got them unstrapped. Those six grinding bales are going to go right here cuz we're going to grind whenever we grind hay in two weeks. Then we got stock bales will kind of go along there for the for the cattle. So, honestly, like I said, I'm borrowing this from a buddy.

[00:18:22]I'll bring it back to him on Saturday.

[00:18:24]We kind of need one. Like, that's uh that's pretty nice. Like, that's really nice to haul bales. I mean, I hauled 23 home when normally I can just haul 11.

[00:18:33]So, I doubled over doubled what I could do in roughly same amount of time. I'm just giving an extra half hour or so to load load and unload.

[00:18:41]So, honestly, can't complain. And even if I would be complaining, which I have in the past, you guys know.

[00:18:58]Well, Nathan's up there picking up a stump pile. Basically, we had a dozer in there and there's a bunch of roots still in there, so he's picking that up.

[00:19:06]Curtis and Pat are down south doing work planting and tilling.

[00:19:15]I'm going to go shut my water off cuz I just remembered it and I almost guarantee you that it's running over.

[00:19:21]Oops. T. Look at this.

[00:19:24]Oh, let's go grab that and we'll grab a bite to eat and we'll finish unloading those uh bales. We'll probably head home or at least uh prep the spray trailer for tomorrow. Actually, I might do that. I need to prep it and that way tomorrow I can get up here and start spraying as soon as I can cuz tomorrow's going to be a really good day where the rest of the weekend not so much wind wise. Wind's going to be pretty uh non-existent.

[00:19:47]Yeah, she's running over. Crap. Oh wow.

[00:19:52]Oh yeah, she's moist. She wonder why there's no grass here cuz it gets flooded a lot. Uh, hasn't been going for too long cuz this hasn't reached the trailer yet.

[00:20:06]Man, we got a good pump here.

[00:20:09]Ah, good well pump. Grandma does. So, now I got to climb up in there, pull that hose out, otherwise it's going to back siphon it out. Actually, that would not be good. I'm going to do this the safe way. It is a beautiful evening. Hi, Kitty Kitty. Hi, Kitty Kitty.

[00:20:26]Let's go grab a bite to eat.

[00:20:29]Good kitty kitties.

[00:20:31]Oh, and just like that, the day got away from me.

[00:20:36]It's been a day. We're going to go ahead and roll this one in the tomorrow morning, more than likely, and see what day brings.

[00:20:45]See you guys tomorrow. I'm going to head home, go to bed, and get up and work on the house tomorrow morning.

[00:20:51]Well, good afternoon everybody. You have the bud man, and it's May 8th.

[00:20:56]The boys are down south planting beans and corn, and I'm going to come out and do two small little seedings of some grass pasture mix.

[00:21:11]One's over here across the road and one's way down at the bottom in the big hollow where the cows fed during the fall and made a big mess. So, I dissed it up yesterday. I didn't have my camera, so I didn't get no footage of that. But I'm going to uh hook up my cedar to blue. I have to take him out, back him up, hook him up into there, and then use this guy to do it.

[00:21:41]So, but when we uh did our CRP field, we changed things around. You see this one's empty. These aren't. So, I got to move some of this seed over to here to make it equal and then go seed seed and be done. So, that's what I'm going to do. We'll take this and dump over there. Just like that.

[00:22:08]Okay. I get out here, get ready to hook this up, and somebody forgot to take the key out of the ignition.

[00:22:13]>> Wasn't me.

[00:22:14]>> Wasn't too.

[00:22:15]>> It wasn't me.

[00:22:16]>> Who was it?

[00:22:17]>> It was you.

[00:22:18]>> No, it wasn't me. Who do you think >> it was? It was you. You're getting old.

[00:22:21]You forgot about it.

[00:22:22]>> He thinks I'm getting old. Who do you think it was?

[00:22:25]>> It's your son.

[00:22:26]>> Which one?

[00:22:27]>> There's only one here.

[00:22:28]>> Which one? Say it.

[00:22:30]>> Ron. Ron the man.

[00:22:32]>> So, okay. So, we put the charger on.

[00:22:35]Hopefully, it starts up. So, let's hit the button over here.

[00:22:49]Got it.

[00:22:53]>> Okay. Am I good on the other side?

[00:22:55]>> Yep.

[00:23:15]Clear. Straight. Straight.

[00:23:17]>> That's it. Just go straight.

[00:23:38]And we're done.

[00:23:41]I'll go down the bottom and get that one done. Heading down the hill down to the big pasture. Get that all seated up. then go up and hopefully get that cultter packer going and run down and cultter pack it and call her a day.

[00:24:00]So that's what the game plan is.

[00:24:09]And we're going to lower it down and run through Looking Good.

[00:25:01]A little muddy.

[00:25:18]We go out and take a look and see what we got for seed left.

[00:25:28]Oh yeah, nice.

[00:25:31]Good job, bud. Good job. Well done. Now we'll put the latch back on so we don't lose it.

[00:25:55]There we go.

[00:25:57]That keeps it locked in place so the wheels can't go down. We're good to go.

[00:26:02]Okay, we got her at the bar.

[00:26:06]Okay, now they should come. They're going to pull hard, but you got to get Hi, too.

[00:26:14]>> Hi.

[00:26:16]>> Hi. You're good. You want the pin in there? Shut the lids here on this here.

[00:26:25]So, just leave the pin in it.

[00:26:29]All right, we're going watch movies.

[00:26:39]>> Thanks.

[00:26:41]We got a calf out.

[00:27:07]I got to get this cap in, boss.

[00:27:31]Okay, so we had planter problems yesterday. It's the next day. I'm just going to kind of close out this video.

[00:27:36]I'm going to work on the house a little bit and then we'll kind of start the next one here soon. But basically, our planter had some major issues yesterday and it actually it unfortunately affected my farm. It is what it is. But basically, I had a row not planting for a while. Well, it was planting, but precision planting screwed up and we don't know what happened. Basically, a load cell went bad or two load cells.

[00:27:55]I'm not even sure. The monitor, everything was showing fine, but Pat was looking around. The row unit was actually up in the air. So, somehow the how the planter works is basically it has hydraulic downforce on there. So, it has a hydraulic cylind cylinder on every single row unit. Remember how Nathan's air pressure system went bad in this video? Well, basically there's a couple different ways to put down force on your road units, but you need to have downforce on your road units to make sure that you always keep in ground contact as you're going across the field. 5 mph or whatever it is, 5 10 m an hour at some it's even more important when you go faster. But basically, you have that downforce and it's a pretty important thing to have. You don't want to be pressing too hard because you'll create ground compaction. You'll um you'll be collapsing your trench. It's just not good. But you don't want to have no ground pressure because then you're just going to be bouncing up all over the place and corn is at critical because you want a consistent depth.

[00:28:45]Nice battery went from 47% to zero. Just powered off of me. Anyway, you want to have that critical depth because corn emergence is key. You want all the corn to pop up at the same time. If you got corn plant at 3 in and one and a half, you're never going to pop up at the same time. So, you want them all at that consistent 2-in depth. So, that's the problem. And when that row unit was defaulting, it was actually raising the low row unit. It was going to full lift.

[00:29:08]So we were just dropping seed on top of the ground. That was that's that's terrible. Like what? So that was extremely frustrating. Cost Pat 3 hours of downtime because he had three of those load cells go out and he had to replace them all individually.

[00:29:21]>> So yeah, I'm going to go switch out batteries real quick, then we'll continue this rant.

[00:29:26]Easy. Okay. Um, so yeah, where was I besides the GoPro taking me off? So anyway, so my field has about oh two passes with one row just not even working because it happened a couple different times where it was defaulting.

[00:29:40]So he was basically having to turn around and watch the planter the entire time cuz the monitor was so it was fine.

[00:29:44]But he would actually physically look around and look and see that the row unit was way up. And it's one thing like one of the times it happened it was one of the row units on the very end. He caught that pretty soon. But one of them was directly behind the planters or row 11. And that one it's hard to see because you have your CCS tank, you have your frame, everything's in the way. So he couldn't catch it for a couple passes. So, it just he was frustrated.

[00:30:04]Everyone's frustrated. We actually have Kunals out there right now looking at it and messing around with it. But yeah, it's it's not good. I mean, you pay $200,000 plus for a planter and you're having three or four $400 sensors fail every year. Like, it's just it's not good. We talked to our dealer like they say that uh they haven't sold any of those sensors this year except to us. We bought in four of them so far this year.

[00:30:29]But it's not not good at all. So yeah, that's cost us a lot of downtime. It's cost me personally a lot of money with that basically only having one row not planted for a while. So anyway, that was the uh issue we were having yesterday.

[00:30:43]Okay, let's get back on the house. So um switching gears. I have my electrical inspection on Monday. So I got to get all the rest of this electrical done.

[00:30:51]What I have left, I have completed all the outlets around. I got to get the dryer done. I gotta get that light done, these four lights done.

[00:31:02]And then I got to finish that switch box, this switch box, and I got to put another switch box right there.

[00:31:10]Let's get after it. And then I got to get spraying. Hopefully I'll be have this done in about a half hour. So, I'm working on finish up wiring these lights and then I think I got everything else done. We'll be able to close out this video. Basically, I got these can lights. Essentially, you'll have a switch there that energizes power to that light and then there's basically it the power goes in, feeds the light. So, that's two wires. And then you have a third wire that goes out to the next one. It's just basically in series. You flip the light, sends power to there, sends power to there, sends power there, and then sends power to here. So, all of them have three WGO connectors until this guy, this guy only has two because power ends here. Power just comes in and goes to the light. It does not go out anywhere. So, therefore, I just have two. And these called Wagos. There's two types of wagos. There's the flip up connection. So the one you actually insert the wire and then flip it down.

[00:31:55]And this one you just press fit it. So basically once the wire is in, it's not coming out. It's cheaper. So that's what I'm doing.

[00:32:02]There we are. Okay. All of the wiring is done except for the can lights. Crap.

[00:32:11]Got to finish that. That'll be a tomorrow problem.

[00:32:15]Yeah. I got to run 142 to there.

[00:32:19]There. There. Shoot.

[00:32:23]Yeah, I'll have to do that yet.

[00:32:26]Okay. Well, I'm glad I remembered that because Yeah, we'll have to do that for sure. Luckily, I got 14 tube. I got outdoor can lights. That's got to go everywhere. So, we will be doing that soon. But that'll be tonight or tomorrow probably. Anyway, I'm going to head out, guys. Stay tuned in the next video.

[00:32:43]Going to be a big one. Thank you so much for watching. As always, take care. Take it easy. Stay safe. And till now.