Dan Anderson

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Indelicate handling systems can damage germination rates in soybeans.
“Tight” is always appropriate, but “crushed” can be expensive.
The question recently came up, “What do you do when you can’t remember how to put something back together?”
Some farmers have one tool worth more than their grandfather’s entire tool inventory. Modern equipment is so big, it takes expensive tools to do even simple maintenance and repairs.
I confess that, years ago, I didn’t pay much attention to closing wheels on planters. Since then I’ve learned both the importance of properly adjusted closing wheels, and how to do it.
If a combine refuses to ingest, or expel what it’s fed, here are a few tricks to get things unplugged.
Turn it on, select the direct current setting and test on a machine with a 12-volt battery
Here are four greasy facts...These four facts, gleaned from mechanical and lubrication engineers, make sense once they’re explained.
Battery chargers by any other name might be different.
Turn it on, select the direct current setting and test on a machine with a 12-volt battery