40 yrs ago, i was 16 helping my grandpa build fence, setting wood posts. I had a post in my hands and told Grandpa "look out I'm going to drop it". he was on the down hill side. when the post hit the bottom of the hole it kicked over an hit Grandpa in the for head which I didn't realize. He took two steps back and down he went flat on his back. My cousin who is younger yells from the tractor "you killed him." We both got down on the ground over top of him yelling his name. He opens his eyes and said "Damn". when we asked if he was alright, which he was, he said "I thought I was in heaven until i saw you two a-holes looking at me." We all laughed. His next words where "don't tell grandma." when we went in for lunch grandma ask why grandpa had a knot on his for head. my cousin and i never looked up from our plate and tried not to laugh. till this day my cousin still laugh about it.
Reminds me of a story about a funeral at a nearby town. The deceased gentleman had been a military officer so the ceremony included a 21 gun salute. The widow was a heavy set woman, the family was seated on plastic garden chairs at the gravesite. When the first volley of shots was fired, this startled the widow. She shifted in her seat, a chair leg buckled and she fell over. A young grandson jumped out of his seat and shouted “dad, the son of a bitch shot grandma!” Best funeral ever.
My favorite manure story. When I was about 8 or so a semi was loading cattle at our feedlot. I had a screwdriver and was prying the pebbles out that were caught in the tread of the trailer tires. All of a sudden the steer above me cut loose and gave me a green shower. What a mess!
A group or us were teaching youngsters how to safely ride motorbikes, we used access roads around concrete settlings ponds where the surface would form a crust above the sloppy liquid stuff that hid below (just like your video). They'd just mowed the grass at the edge of the access roads, and there was grass cuttings on the concrete road, so we warned the all youngsters to slow down and take it easy. But one young smart ass came hurtling down the road, he tried to brake at a T-junction, but went straight. The front wheel hit the small wall of the settling tank, stopping the bike, but he sailed over the handlebars doing a majestic summersault and landed a few yards into the settling pond, breaking and going feet first through the surface. Luckily it was not too deep at that time, and all that was left showing was his head. He shouted for help to get out, and someone threw him a rope, but it still took him a while to work his way out. Sadly in the days before smart phones, else that would have been on RUclips :)
Great video and yes, a nice change of pace from manure hauling. My story of farm fails is from when I was 13 or 14 years old. I grew up in the city in SW Missouri and spent every summer vacation, from the weekend after school let out, until the weekend before school started at my grandparents farm in SE Kansas. I was tasked with mostly hauling round bales a mile and half each way from the field to my grandparents farm after I got a license to operate on other farm land other than my families, from a John Deere dealership when I was 13. This begins the horror show of summer 1984. Instead of hauling round bales... "boring", I wanted to experience the field work aspect, so my grandfather figured brush hogging would be a great way to get me experience without affecting crops, as it was just clearing fields of grass and weeds. Going along the first fence line, as I should, I was paying attention to make sure the brush hog tires weren't getting caught up in the barbed wire fence line. What I failed to do was pay attention to the overhead tree branches along that fence line and ended up folding over the muffler of the tractor. We got that repaired and back out I went. About two hours later, I got showered with dirt clods and the whole back of the tractor lifted in a jolt. Yeah, the whole blade and bowl assembly got hung up and flew out from under the brush hog. That was repaired and I was able to finish a couple of more pastures without incident. Graduated to raking hay with the Oliver. Promptly cut a turn too sharp and rode the rake up the back left rear tire, breaking off the valve stem and sending streams of whatever is in the rear tractor tires to weigh them down all over the place. I ended up killing over an acre of hay that I was to windrow. What a great summer vacation and one my grandfather was sure to be happy was over.
We got our tiny forklift stuck in the snow outside the shop door one day, with our 8335 RT on the other side of the shop. the way we had things set up it was either move the RT or use it to pull the forklift out. Looked at my cousin and said "overkill? I think not" 🤣 RT didn't even make the slightest sign of struggle.
I was about 16. And I was spreading dry fert, right on the edge of town. My next field was on the other side of town. Could figure out why people were ducking and hiding. I forgot to shut the spreader off.
Doing frost protection with irrigation on strawberries in a very chilly morning when we started our irrigation system everything was frozen so we had to torch our risers to thaw them out!
Since Trevor seems to always be the source of humor, let’s just say it started when he was little. One time when we had dairy cattle, Trevor was about 3 or 4ish. Our dad and the gentleman we farmed with was trying to pull a very large calf, us kids and mom come around the corner and Trevor blurted out, with much disgust, “How’d that get in there?!” So then we were all laughing and dad and the gentlemen trying to pull the calf.
When I was young, my dad's cousin always brought us the potatoes that he sorted out . Our Holsteins loved potatoes and one day I gave them way too many and the next morning some of the girls couldn't even walk anymore 🙈. Our Vet found out that rumen bacteria started to produce alcohol and he had to figure out a hangover treatment for cows 🥔🍻🐄😂. But everyone survived and we still laugh about the story of a barn full of drunken cows😅
When I was a little kid my grandma ran a restaurant and general store back in the early 80's. My uncle lived with her and helped run the store. He also worked for the neighbor running tractor. When I was 5 the neighbors nephew came to work on the farm during fall. The kid was a city boy and didnt know anything. The Farmer loved his corn mash whiskey and put a ton every fall. He told the nephew "take dat there mash and throw it out so the pigs cant get to it." Well they kid didnt understand us southern missourians so much. He didnt hear the "cant" , he heard "can." Right around sun down there was one heck of a commotion. Every animal was going crazy. The horses were winnieing, the pigs flopping all over making an awful racket. The goats kept falling over. The chickens couldnt hold their heads up they were just limp and making the funniest crowing sounds. The kid had poured about 8 buckets of mash right in the main yard feeder. Apparently animals LOVE to get drunk because every animal on the farm was high as a kite. Even the dog.
I doubt if you can get that tank replaced on your radiator. Since they are made out of plastic with aluminum core now they usually tell you to replace. But you never know. Good luck and God bless.
The funniest (to me) thing that I remember goes back to the late1950's in the potato field. Then we dug the potatoes with a 1 row digger and dumped them on the ground to subsequently be picked up by hand in baskets which were then dumped into burlap bags (60-80 pounds). The burlap bags were picked up and loaded on trucks/trailers. In that process, one of the field workers had a field mouse run up his pant leg. To borrow an old expression, he didn't know whether to s..t or go blind. He danced around shaking his leg and pants. We all clapped (to give him a dance beat) and rolled on the ground laughing (not funny to him)
I was working for a guy who was always joking. Early June morning, we went to change sprinklers. The truck had slick tires on it, and the sprinklers were spraying the road. The turn-off was in the middle of the line, so my boss told me to jump out and shut off the line so he didn't get stuck. Well, you probably know when the sprinkler valve is not on right way it sprayed a 7 foot hole in the ground. There is water generally around the valve. I stepped in the water, thinking it may be a foot deep. No 7 foot, nothing to stop me. I went in head first, doing a front flip onder water, soked to the bone. I was ticked because I thought at first my boss had set me up. I changed the water and thinking about it he wouldn't have known about the hoe. But we laughed for days about it.
When I was helping clean the gutters in the barn I was the wheelbarrow operator I went out the barn door there is a drop off an was pushing the wheelbarrow an hit a cow pile an in went over the wheelbarrow an it wasfilled with manure an all over me that a mess
I was pulling a 16’ aluminum trailer behind a 6 wheel ATV & took a turn too sharp going about 15mph and hooked the front right corner of the trailer (full size 8’ wide trailer behind a ATV HAHA) and smacked my face on the console of the four wheeler. 45 minute or so later a kid who was coming to feed the horses found me and woke me up, I asked him to put the machine away and I drove home… probably shouldn’t have… ended up having to pay for the trailer to be fixed & have been teased lots cause of it, deservedly
One time at the end of a day after potato harvest I was chasing my co worker with a dead mouse all the way around one of our cellars and he jumped in a truck and the door didn’t lock so I opened it and threw the mouse in and he jumped out and the truck got stuck in reverse and the doors locked so we couldn’t get back in. So it (with no one in it) reversed across the road into a canal and we got the our wheel loader super quick and pulled it out without anyone knowing. We are the only ones that know to this day.
2 years ago I was sitting in a semi truck and waiting girls to be loaded and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going when I was getting out and I fell out of the semi onto the ground
When I was about 18 my brother was about 16 we were doing manure hauling and I was running the pump and we had a major clogged down at the end of the pump in my brother thought it would be a good idea to go get the backhoe and go reach for it well he didn't know how to run the backhoe and so I decided I would do it and he went down to guide me in and I accidentally hit him with it did not hurt him but knocked him right into the manure lagoon and and he went face-first all the way up to his head into the lagoon it was the smelliest thing I made him riding the back of the truck all the way home!!!
Not being a farmer I don’t have a farming funny story but I can share a funny work story. We had went to Seven Eleven and all got Big Glups. Later on one of my coworkers put his almost empty big gulp on the back of the service truck and went back into the excavation to work on the new water service we were installing. Another coworker thought it was his empty big gulp and went into the back of the service truck closed the curtain and pee’ed in the cup as we were working in area without an available toilet. He then put the cup back on the back of the truck. My other coworker later got out of the excavation and guess what it wasn’t coke in his cup. 🤮🤮
anything’s an option with money! if i recall correctly he’s talked about the guy’s they’re hauling for are cheap/don’t have a lot of money so they’re limited to the things they can do
Been watching for while now . Is the dairy ur family or do yaw contract from them I know y’all do potatoes and hay and things like that, but I didn’t know if y’all was part of the dairy
That's not even close to a dragline that's a long boom excavator a dragline would have another cat set up on the other side with a cable run across and a dragline pulling across there
The machine cleaning out cow crap is a long stick excavator it's not a drag line a drag line looks like a crane with cables that run to a big bucket which they drag back to them there not even close to the same thing
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40 yrs ago, i was 16 helping my grandpa build fence, setting wood posts. I had a post in my hands and told Grandpa "look out I'm going to drop it". he was on the down hill side. when the post hit the bottom of the hole it kicked over an hit Grandpa in the for head which I didn't realize. He took two steps back and down he went flat on his back. My cousin who is younger yells from the tractor "you killed him." We both got down on the ground over top of him yelling his name. He opens his eyes and said "Damn". when we asked if he was alright, which he was, he said "I thought I was in heaven until i saw you two a-holes looking at me." We all laughed. His next words where "don't tell grandma." when we went in for lunch grandma ask why grandpa had a knot on his for head. my cousin and i never looked up from our plate and tried not to laugh. till this day my cousin still laugh about it.
Sounds like you had a fun time with your grandpa!
Reminds me of a story about a funeral at a nearby town. The deceased gentleman had been a military officer so the ceremony included a 21 gun salute. The widow was a heavy set woman, the family was seated on plastic garden chairs at the gravesite. When the first volley of shots was fired, this startled the widow. She shifted in her seat, a chair leg buckled and she fell over. A young grandson jumped out of his seat and shouted “dad, the son of a bitch shot grandma!”
Best funeral ever.
My favorite manure story. When I was about 8 or so a semi was loading cattle at our feedlot. I had a screwdriver and was prying the pebbles out that were caught in the tread of the trailer tires. All of a sudden the steer above me cut loose and gave me a green shower. What a mess!
Man that would be nasty. fresh from the source
A group or us were teaching youngsters how to safely ride motorbikes, we used access roads around concrete settlings ponds where the surface would form a crust above the sloppy liquid stuff that hid below (just like your video). They'd just mowed the grass at the edge of the access roads, and there was grass cuttings on the concrete road, so we warned the all youngsters to slow down and take it easy. But one young smart ass came hurtling down the road, he tried to brake at a T-junction, but went straight. The front wheel hit the small wall of the settling tank, stopping the bike, but he sailed over the handlebars doing a majestic summersault and landed a few yards into the settling pond, breaking and going feet first through the surface. Luckily it was not too deep at that time, and all that was left showing was his head. He shouted for help to get out, and someone threw him a rope, but it still took him a while to work his way out. Sadly in the days before smart phones, else that would have been on RUclips :)
Great video and yes, a nice change of pace from manure hauling. My story of farm fails is from when I was 13 or 14 years old. I grew up in the city in SW Missouri and spent every summer vacation, from the weekend after school let out, until the weekend before school started at my grandparents farm in SE Kansas. I was tasked with mostly hauling round bales a mile and half each way from the field to my grandparents farm after I got a license to operate on other farm land other than my families, from a John Deere dealership when I was 13. This begins the horror show of summer 1984. Instead of hauling round bales... "boring", I wanted to experience the field work aspect, so my grandfather figured brush hogging would be a great way to get me experience without affecting crops, as it was just clearing fields of grass and weeds. Going along the first fence line, as I should, I was paying attention to make sure the brush hog tires weren't getting caught up in the barbed wire fence line. What I failed to do was pay attention to the overhead tree branches along that fence line and ended up folding over the muffler of the tractor. We got that repaired and back out I went. About two hours later, I got showered with dirt clods and the whole back of the tractor lifted in a jolt. Yeah, the whole blade and bowl assembly got hung up and flew out from under the brush hog. That was repaired and I was able to finish a couple of more pastures without incident. Graduated to raking hay with the Oliver. Promptly cut a turn too sharp and rode the rake up the back left rear tire, breaking off the valve stem and sending streams of whatever is in the rear tractor tires to weigh them down all over the place. I ended up killing over an acre of hay that I was to windrow. What a great summer vacation and one my grandfather was sure to be happy was over.
That’s a rough summer! So many exciting memories haha
We got our tiny forklift stuck in the snow outside the shop door one day, with our 8335 RT on the other side of the shop. the way we had things set up it was either move the RT or use it to pull the forklift out. Looked at my cousin and said "overkill? I think not" 🤣 RT didn't even make the slightest sign of struggle.
I was about 16. And I was spreading dry fert, right on the edge of town. My next field was on the other side of town. Could figure out why people were ducking and hiding. I forgot to shut the spreader off.
Oh dang. That happens quite a bit actually
Doing frost protection with irrigation on strawberries in a very chilly morning when we started our irrigation system everything was frozen so we had to torch our risers to thaw them out!
Yeah, we’ve had to do stuff similar to that and it’s not fun
Since Trevor seems to always be the source of humor, let’s just say it started when he was little. One time when we had dairy cattle, Trevor was about 3 or 4ish. Our dad and the gentleman we farmed with was trying to pull a very large calf, us kids and mom come around the corner and Trevor blurted out, with much disgust, “How’d that get in there?!” So then we were all laughing and dad and the gentlemen trying to pull the calf.
Oh that definitely sounds like Trevor
When I was young, my dad's cousin always brought us the potatoes that he sorted out . Our Holsteins loved potatoes and one day I gave them way too many and the next morning some of the girls couldn't even walk anymore 🙈. Our Vet found out that rumen bacteria started to produce alcohol and he had to figure out a hangover treatment for cows 🥔🍻🐄😂.
But everyone survived and we still laugh about the story of a barn full of drunken cows😅
When I was a little kid my grandma ran a restaurant and general store back in the early 80's. My uncle lived with her and helped run the store. He also worked for the neighbor running tractor. When I was 5 the neighbors nephew came to work on the farm during fall. The kid was a city boy and didnt know anything. The Farmer loved his corn mash whiskey and put a ton every fall. He told the nephew "take dat there mash and throw it out so the pigs cant get to it." Well they kid didnt understand us southern missourians so much. He didnt hear the "cant" , he heard "can."
Right around sun down there was one heck of a commotion. Every animal was going crazy. The horses were winnieing, the pigs flopping all over making an awful racket. The goats kept falling over. The chickens couldnt hold their heads up they were just limp and making the funniest crowing sounds.
The kid had poured about 8 buckets of mash right in the main yard feeder. Apparently animals LOVE to get drunk because every animal on the farm was high as a kite. Even the dog.
Love the Linkin Park song reference by Christopher 😎😆
Yeah I decided not to cut it out.
❤❤❤Good job your always doing something of interest 🇦🇺👍🇦🇺👍🇦🇺👍🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it
I doubt if you can get that tank replaced on your radiator. Since they are made out of plastic with aluminum core now they usually tell you to replace. But you never know. Good luck and God bless.
Yeah, we just had to buy a new one
No! no cold. We need to get a new cow shed up before it gets cold! 😂
It’s getting cold pretty fast
Ooooohhhhhh that smell, can't you smell that smell? Farm on gentlemen !! Hello from Michigan
Thanks for watching.
The funniest (to me) thing that I remember goes back to the late1950's in the potato field. Then we dug the potatoes with a 1 row digger and dumped them on the ground to subsequently be picked up by hand in baskets which were then dumped into burlap bags (60-80 pounds). The burlap bags were picked up and loaded on trucks/trailers. In that process, one of the field workers had a field mouse run up his pant leg. To borrow an old expression, he didn't know whether to s..t or go blind. He danced around shaking his leg and pants. We all clapped (to give him a dance beat) and rolled on the ground laughing (not funny to him)
I was working for a guy who was always joking. Early June morning, we went to change sprinklers. The truck had slick tires on it, and the sprinklers were spraying the road. The turn-off was in the middle of the line, so my boss told me to jump out and shut off the line so he didn't get stuck. Well, you probably know when the sprinkler valve is not on right way it sprayed a 7 foot hole in the ground. There is water generally around the valve. I stepped in the water, thinking it may be a foot deep. No 7 foot, nothing to stop me. I went in head first, doing a front flip onder water, soked to the bone. I was ticked because I thought at first my boss had set me up. I changed the water and thinking about it he wouldn't have known about the hoe. But we laughed for days about it.
Sounds like you had a wild morning!
When I was helping clean the gutters in the barn I was the wheelbarrow operator I went out the barn door there is a drop off an was pushing the wheelbarrow an hit a cow pile an in went over the wheelbarrow an it wasfilled with manure an all over me that a mess
Oh that sounds terrible
I was pulling a 16’ aluminum trailer behind a 6 wheel ATV & took a turn too sharp going about 15mph and hooked the front right corner of the trailer (full size 8’ wide trailer behind a ATV HAHA) and smacked my face on the console of the four wheeler. 45 minute or so later a kid who was coming to feed the horses found me and woke me up, I asked him to put the machine away and I drove home… probably shouldn’t have… ended up having to pay for the trailer to be fixed & have been teased lots cause of it, deservedly
Man that would be pretty rough
Your spring tension is uneven on that roll up door. One side has slipped.
One time at the end of a day after potato harvest I was chasing my co worker with a dead mouse all the way around one of our cellars and he jumped in a truck and the door didn’t lock so I opened it and threw the mouse in and he jumped out and the truck got stuck in reverse and the doors locked so we couldn’t get back in. So it (with no one in it) reversed across the road into a canal and we got the our wheel loader super quick and pulled it out without anyone knowing. We are the only ones that know to this day.
That’s a crazy story
That’s a funny looking dragline.
A long boom excavator.
Yeah it’s not. I know that now I didn’t know it at the time though.
2 years ago I was sitting in a semi truck and waiting girls to be loaded and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going when I was getting out and I fell out of the semi onto the ground
I’m pretty sure I’ve done that before. Missed the step.
When I was about 18 my brother was about 16 we were doing manure hauling and I was running the pump and we had a major clogged down at the end of the pump in my brother thought it would be a good idea to go get the backhoe and go reach for it well he didn't know how to run the backhoe and so I decided I would do it and he went down to guide me in and I accidentally hit him with it did not hurt him but knocked him right into the manure lagoon and and he went face-first all the way up to his head into the lagoon it was the smelliest thing I made him riding the back of the truck all the way home!!!
Oh man that’s something I’ve always been afraid of is accidentally falling in the lagoon. That would be horrible.
Not being a farmer I don’t have a farming funny story but I can share a funny work story. We had went to Seven Eleven and all got Big Glups. Later on one of my coworkers put his almost empty big gulp on the back of the service truck and went back into the excavation to work on the new water service we were installing. Another coworker thought it was his empty big gulp and went into the back of the service truck closed the curtain and pee’ed in the cup as we were working in area without an available toilet. He then put the cup back on the back of the truck. My other coworker later got out of the excavation and guess what it wasn’t coke in his cup. 🤮🤮
Oh, that’s horrible
Is your “mechanic” my cousin Oily? Hope so. He’s a good one
Yep, the trucks over at his shop
is bringing in a lagoon crawler and custom crew with liquid tankers a option? you could haul the wet stuff at least. i dunno just throwing out ideas.
anything’s an option with money! if i recall correctly he’s talked about the guy’s they’re hauling for are cheap/don’t have a lot of money so they’re limited to the things they can do
They could definitely do that, but I don’t think they would want to pay for it
😂 A 😢 crying shame about the weeping 😭 wall.
Yeah it’s toast
That'll do.
Glad you enjoyed it
That looks like a long reach excavator not a drag line!!!
It is, but I didn’t know that at the time they’ve always called it a drag line so that’s what we’ve called it
the cables are not pulling evenly on door and rollers at angle binding door
Yeah we need to have it fixed
That's called a long reach excavator not a drag line so you know
Thanks
chris leave the singing to Linkin park 😂😂😂😂 jk
Haha
Been watching for while now . Is the dairy ur family or do yaw contract from them I know y’all do potatoes and hay and things like that, but I didn’t know if y’all was part of the dairy
The dairy is my uncles, so it is kind of family but it’s also separate so we don’t do a whole lot with it other than manure and hay
Not a dragline....
Why not do the biogas plant
Too expensive
Rubbish it is easily cheaper than the expense you ensure by not having one.
That's not even close to a dragline that's a long boom excavator a dragline would have another cat set up on the other side with a cable run across and a dragline pulling across there
You're right, my bad.
@RockyMountainFarmer it's okay we've all been bad once in a while stand in the corner for half an hour and then go pick some potatoes
The machine cleaning out cow crap is a long stick excavator it's not a drag line a drag line looks like a crane with cables that run to a big bucket which they drag back to them there not even close to the same thing
I know that now thanks for the info