Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way
Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.
So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.
Chapters:
00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest
01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck
12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem
14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain
20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder
24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest
26:30 Wrapping up
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