 Rain or shine, it's tractor time. Bye bye. Bye bye. It was hard to not name the tractor Clementine when it has its own song. Oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine. This literally just keeps happening. We get ready and then we get to work and it's raining. This is all for you camera. No, pack. Pack? It's for them. And the camera. Watching, they are the camera. Oh my darling, oh my back. Just in time. Actually, just almost in time. Our tractor broke a few weeks ago as the hydraulic line started spurting hydraulic fluid. Hydraulic line has come loose. We had to wait a little bit to get our lines in. And now we're ready to fix Clementine because Clementine is probably the most helpful tool at our homestead. And now that we have Clementine, we do not want to do anything without her. About a month ago, our sweet, sweet tractor, Clementine, joined the family. After almost two years transforming this abandoned cabin in the woods, using mostly our own muscles and two feet, our bodies are feeling it. Not OK? No. This machine is a back saver. And with all the upcoming renovations on the land, we need her in tip top shape. Tractor wives, back at it again. I should also mention this is our first time doing any maintenance or hose replacements on our tractor. Bear with us. Learn with us. It shall be fun. We have two hydraulic lines to fix. The one hydraulic line goes from this, which is like where it tells it how to move. And then the other one we need to replace is down there with all the coverings. And the reason it has the coverings on, I just learned this, is so it doesn't spray you with hydraulic fluid in the face. Thank God. Ow. She's a tractor mechanic. Gosh, talking about yourself? All right, there she is. There's her heart. Not really. Open heart surgery, Meredith Gray. What did they say? We know where the leak is, but we want to follow the line back to the heart and make sure that, one, we have the right hose. I think they're wrong. Kirstle thinks they're right. I'm pretty sure it's going to fit, but we'll see. I don't think they ordered the right one personally, but. If you look at this diagram, we got 150, right? That's what we got. How do I tell? This is on 60. I knew it wasn't right when I looked at it in the start. This is the line, right? This one? No, dog. We bought two. Yeah, one, two. No, they're completely different sizes. Look how little this is, man. There's no way that's a hose. And it connects here and it ends there. So we don't need, it's not the length of this. Where is this one going? This one, you go up there. He asked if we want to replace bows within the line. No, no, no. Then why do we have two hoses? This big hose connects here and ends there, small and short. Oh, they gave us the two hoses that are in here. Correct. What we need to do first is drain the hydraulic fluid from the drain pipe so we don't get a hydraulic fluid everywhere. Is there still a hydraulic fluid in it? Tiny bit, you know. OK, so yeah. Enough that it's going to go in our garden. Empty it. Oh, my garden. Oh, my garden. Like every project on the homestead, time to get certified on YouTube University. Nice classroom, lady. All right, let's do it. Do what? What are we doing? What are we doing? Getting a dog. For some reason, I keep calling Crystal a dog. So spam comments, dog. And duck, funny dog. I think it's because all I do is talk to my dogs out here in the woods. So now she's got the same name as them. Dog. Here's my dog. All right, y'all. I'm looking for that nut. Let's hope we unscrew the right one. OK, that's there. For sure? This tractor does look a little different. I found it. Hi. Hi. I think it's here. One here. That's a whale. And then one here. Oh, right there, yeah. I get so claustrophobic like I actually. It's tight. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK. I probably look exhausted. That's because I am. I just found the last hour underneath the tractor and in the manual and my phone and watching videos and researching how to drain transmission fluid from the B to 1-E6 cabota tractor. The transmission fluid and the hydraulic fluid are the same. Who would have known? Doesn't work like that in my van. So now we know. And if you know, you know, and now we know I'm going loopy. OK, this is how tight it is. You can hardly get your two shoulders under this axle thing here. I can't even. Anyway, I have my little diagram from the manual. And I want to make sure that this is absolutely it because if you could even imagine that it wasn't for a second. Guess what? Horrible. This looks like it. Like I'm pretty confident. It looks so different sometimes. Just have confidence and. Yeah. It cares. Just do it. OK. Cool, confident, and collective. The three Cs. Do you want to make sure? Nah, I'm done making sure. This has been a long time coming now. Oh my god. It's going to be tough. Damn. I think this will be better because of all the points on it, Chris. I don't even think it's it. Where's my phone? Oh my god. It's so hard. Oh my god. Every time. The bolts are just. Oh, I already got it. Oh. Yeah, girl. That's my good dog. Can you just stop calling me that now? And like, be in a roll for a second. I like calling you Doug. OK, I don't love it. But you already took a photo. I saw your photo session on my phone. I'm taking photos of everything now, dude. So follow us on Instagram. Is food coming out? I got the O-ring, baby. When's it going to pour? As soon as I get it out, girl, I'm still spitting it. Gosh. I know, hold my camera so hard, eh? Come on, buddy. I wonder how much food's actually going to fly out of here. Is this really it? Like, I'm starting to believe this isn't it. I'm confused now, dear. I don't know if this is. I don't know if this is it, babe. This isn't looking like a drain. What do you mean? I actually don't think this is the right one. You're lying. I'm not lying. I don't think this is it at all. Unless there's just no hydraulic fluid, which the reservoir says there's nothing. This can't be it. This is wrong. This doesn't look like a plug. No, no, no, no, no, that's not. What the f*** is going on? Back to square one. Figuring out what one it is. No one left. It was a fail. The under the wrong one. Did you learn? Well, maybe. But what I did was. Don't be stubborn there, Leo. Okay, well, I found it. I'm doing another one. Oh my God, but it's going to be even harder because it's like so much in there. You got it? I got it. That was quick. That makes more sense because it. I got it. And this makes more sense because obviously, like that other one looked like it had never come off and that simply doesn't make sense. Yeah, well, you learned. Now you know how to take bolts off quicker. Look how fast I went. Good job, girl. This is absolutely hilarious. Justin's listening to this video and this person's like, yeah. If you're just looking at the manual, it's so hard to see where they're saying it is. If you look in the manual, it is so strange where they're saying that plug is. I was looking everywhere from under the filter and whatever, but it is right here. I think we got it, but first. Not only does Clementine need her fluids, so do we. Not only is bottle, bottle, everything the competitor is and more, but it also comes at a more economical price. These things are absolutely rugged. We take them on the back trails in the UTV and they're the only thing that survives my driving. The bottle came in clutch. These are BPA free dishwasher safe, double wall stainless steel insulated bottles and they have a handle for carrying, which I love so much when I walk it around outside. As well as the dual design lid where you can open up and drink from here or you can use a straw. The best part is, is the bottom turns off and you can store your pills, supplements, powders, tea bags, anything in here. What we use it for is we take this little square out, put some water in here for Belan Izzy to drink from. It's the best. This is glued to my hip at all times. You've probably seen it in the back of every video since I got it. It's all I need. Yeah, I love my bottle bottle. If you'd like a bottle bottle for yourself, 15% off using code BANWISE15, click the link in the description. Stay hydrated, babies. Glad we're not the only one having a problem finding it. Wow. I was tugging on something for a long time that was not what I needed to be tugging on. Wrong screw gun. Oh shit, there she goes. Hi, bud. We did it! Round two. This is the plug. That looks like a plug all right. And there's three screws that look so similar side by side and the photo makes it look like... You have to know that one. So we took it out too before we got to this one. And one of the funniest parts about it all is the plug that you need to take out is the hardest one to get at. There's three and it's the middle one, obviously. Is that what mechanics do on the job? This is what you're paying for. Is it because it's exhausting? Get it? Well, that didn't go quite as planned, but we got it. Regular maintenance on clementine will be really important. Tractor puns may be tiresome, but they never get flat. Hello everyone. It was a smashing success. Took a while, but we got all the hydraulic fluid out of clementine. And now we can start working away at the lines and it actually is very dirty. Told you, girl. Told you. It looks very nice and golden coming out, but it's very dirty. And this is awesome because we are going to do a full maintenance on clementine and that way we know as the new proud owners of a tractor that it's going to be done today on this date with this many hours and we're going to keep up with it as often as we need to. And hopefully we don't have to do it through winter. That's my goal. You got a nice summer July day. Well, summer. Replacing a hose. Hopefully we have the right hose. You're very un-optimistic. The end, she's still with the same man. Jasmine just took off one end of the long hose and now she's working on the second end. Hopefully we'll be able to maneuver the hose out of place and then put the new one in carefully. And we will do the same thing again with a smaller hose. A smaller hose. Still crossing our fingers that it's going to fit. Yeah, so, ta-da. This was the hose that was leaking, right? Is it the same length as the new hose? Same length? But the heads, don't celebrate. I know they're different. I already told you they're different. If they go in the ends, this is going to be fabulous. It doesn't. Back to the local tractor store we go. Number one. I might need your hands on this one. We're going to go. Just a bunch of mechanics. This is raining. I would love to change the angle. But it's raining and we have you under an umbrella. So this is what you got. Now it's pouring. It's pouring! First line on successfully. And it's beautiful. It fits well. Do we need to do the second one? It's not leaking yet. I kind of want to ride in my tractor a bit. 100%. I think that's a good idea. Hold on to that hose until we need it. Let's do the full maintenance now. Test it. If it leaking from that hose, which I don't think it was, it was leaking from this hose, then we'll change it. Proud. How do you feel? It's true mechanics. Honestly though, I actually think it's super important we know how to do these things when you own a tractor. Like, you can't not know how to do your own maintenance. Especially so far out here. Yeah. Can you imagine driving our tractor? We can't even. We don't have a trailer lady. But imagine trying to, like lining it up to pick it up an hour 45 to come get it. I'm charging you to go get it and bring it back to bring it back and go back. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't even make sense. And I mean, I want to use it faster. I can't. It's so important. You save so much money knowing how to do it. And you gain so much knowledge. But I was watching a video and it's like, if you own a tractor, you don't know these spa things and you should get off your tractor. That's what I feel. I feel like because also when you're driving it, I was like the spa video, I was listening to it, right? And I was like, there's something not right right now. So you're able to like pick up on these things so that way you don't injure it more by using it. If you notice something's wrong, right? My hair, I don't know if anyone knows that feeling, but when your hair touches like diesel and oil and grease and gravel, it's a dry and dirt. Totally. Every inch of my body feels dirty and oily and just, you know, just got this layer. You still got the wrench in your pocket. It's got this layer. Thank gosh for this, you got this only. It's got this layer of grease. Okay, shower time. How good does that feel? So nice. Imagine having to work in your tractor and not having a shower. That used to be us, but our man and girl. True. So happy we just fought the rain and got another day and got that done. Hopefully tomorrow there's no more rain and we can finish up this job and get back to using our tractor. Your turn. Do you have oil filter wrenches in stock? I can't find mine. Morning pack. Everyone's on the job site today. Bella's hunting our feral cat that has been here for three weeks now. All right, we already jumped underneath the tractor, ready to install our two filters. I don't know, we'll have to go find that. Went to go look for our oil wrench and guess where it is? In the van, which is in storage. There's a local shop, not too, too far away. And they have it in stock. That's what that means, I'm on my way and we're gonna take you all with us because I could spend hours in that shop and I think all of you are gonna love the shop too. It's so fun in there. Wanna go fuck our wife? She wants to go fuck her wife. Anytime we get cabin fever, a family road trip like this is welcome. Amenities like this are few and far between, I tell ya. But I guess it's what you get when you live rural. More tractor supply stores than shopping malls. We call it a hydraulic fluid wrench, filter, wrench. Is the oil filter wrench? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. Just look at this place. It has everything you need for outdoor maintenance. They even have a cute shop dog for Pat's while you wait. This is Denver, he's the best. With a wrench in hand, we say farewell. Give her the keys. Give her the keys, she's driving. Give her the dog, you're driving us. Oh yeah, you smell Denver. Yeah, what the heck, mom, are you cheating on me? A little bit, a little bit. All right, everyone, I'm dropping us home. See you there. As soon as we take that filter off, it is going to gush, I think. So we need to have the spare one ready and learned a little trick to write the hours. One, nine, one, nine, zero. This is absolutely genius writing on your filters because you're bound to forget and you're gonna look back at photos and footage and let's say you didn't take any of those. Most people wouldn't. Most people wouldn't. Then you're never gonna remember. You're going under. Feeling confident? Yeah, I feel very confident with this wrench. Get it, Terry. We used to have something, who's Terry? I don't know, you just see look at Terry right now. Beautiful spin. Oh yeah. You got it already? Wow, tools, eh? Crystal did attempt to do this with her hands just to see if we could do it. Nearly impossible. Nearly impossible. It's out. It's out. Do you need the old one? Do you need the new one? So what we've learned, I'm told to stick my finger in the hydraulic, the new hydraulic fluid and lubricate it, just like so. There you go, mechanical. Take it off my street. Yeah, we're all the same. What's next on this maintenance to-do list? But we literally can't move forward with any project until Clementine is fixed. Oh, is it like pouring out? Your suction filtered is now oiled up. Nice girl. Good job. Oh my goodness. Jasmine, stop driving in the mud, girl. I think trackers are just dirty. You're just dirty. Look at you and your sweater, your shirt right now. It's so up. Thank you. You're welcome, how's your back? Good. Really? I'm in, it's made for this. OK. People are going to be mad at you for that comment. Why? Because they're going to tell you to take it easy, girl. My back is doing extremely well now. So thank gosh for us to you. It was hurt in three days ago. Yeah, but like only a little bit. Keep telling her in the comments to take it easy. Someone wrote a comment, you only have one spine, one back, and that's it. I try people, I try. Two filters down, hydraulic line down. What are we doing now? We're skipping the other hydraulic line. Because it's not punctured. And we have a spare. So that means everything is done. We just need to put the fluid back into the tractor. And then drive it around. The new fluid, drive it around. No, you're supposed to. Do you want to also put the pin in? Or what do you want to do? Yeah, we could do that right now. And then we're done our tractor maintenance, right? Well, then you get to do a dry ride. I also learned another trick. With permit marker, color on this end of the dipstick because they give you a yellow dipstick when you're testing literally yellow fluid, hydraulic fluid. And no, you can never see it. But how will that make you see it? It's black. Oh, got it. That's what people do. Yeah, yellow dipstick. That's dumb. So silly, like, come on, Kubota. Oil's literally yellow. Like, Kubota, what are you thinking? All right, Clementine, it's time to get you some new fluid. That's slow and steady. A good thing about a slow thing. Like, so slow, down this long neck. Do you have another funnel? Oh, this is stupid. This is silly. This tractor is guzzling up about 26 liters of oil. So one of those full buckets, then the small black one that you saw in Jasmine's hand the first round. I hate that. However, I feel like this is a me thing. Yeah. Are you just, like, totally losing your patience and not holding it or what's going on? I don't have good aim, you do. OK. I should have gone and taken the filters off, and you should have gone and done this. Every single time. Here, just grab the camera. So it turns out putting all this oil in the tractor takes a long, long time. Let me fast-forward this vlog for you. Here we go. Have you ever wondered where you put your old oil after you're done your maintenance? Put it in your new bucket, and you bring it back. Time to see if we actually did it, or if we're going to be doing tractor maintenance on a nice day. Moment of truth. Are we diesel tractor mechanics? Let's find out. OK. So what we're looking for here, well, first of all, the tractor is nice and dry. It's no longer wet. So there's no rain to be, you don't have to worry about looking for drips of water. We are looking for hydraulic fluid leaks, because we did a whole hydraulic fluid change. They watched the video. So there's multiple areas where we could potentially be leaking fluid. So we're going to look under, around, over, under, the side, upside down, and everywhere around the tractor. I've got nothing but trouble, baby, to watch me. You're going to hug her. You did it, but you waited. Well, everyone, there goes my darling Clementine. She's back in business. I'm so happy we took the time to learn how to maintenance our dear tractor. I love the tractor, and it feels really good to know how to do these things, to be mechanically inclined and take the time to learn. Those two days, you know, we could have done absolutely anything else, but now we have that under our belt, or whatever they say. We've got the skills, and we're going back to work. Show them next week. Summer, summer, we're moving into a smurf house. I'm so excited. Whee, it's been such a long time coming. It is a laughing joke. This was a hunt camp. They didn't give a shit. We're bringing it to life. The cabin's going to be very, very blue. This is a day we've been dreaming of since we arrived here. It is going to change everything. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!