Thank you for helping out Joe & Family. Joe was telling me about all the help from the neighbors. I think he said 18 disks showed up. Way to showcase Nebraskans!
Thank GOD for ALL the Farmers across America. 🇺🇸 You are Appreciated More than you Know/Hear because our Survival is Not Possible without your Help. 👍🙏
As a retired Deputy Chief, it is amazing how area farmers come together to help another. I've been on many field fires, combine fires, and barn fires over the years to see this in action. What a great group of people willing to jeapardize their own equipment and safety. Big shout out to all of you!!!
You and Laura will never not be a team. As soon as she was on board 4 eyes were scanning, clear communication and lessons being taught on top. Good work you two
The negatives of a crop fire show the benefit of a close farming community. Plus look at the bright side, the burned areas of the field will have all that ash and nutrients for next years grow. Glad to see no one injured or any equipment lost. I will say it was a bit scary seeing Laura wearing what looked like a synthetic polyester shirt. Please whenever you guys go out to disc a fire line please wear 100% cotton shirts without any plastic graphics printed on them, wear denim jeans, leather boots and gloves. Polyester when it gets hot will melt and burn into the skin causing a lot of horrific injuries. I had polyester shirts I’ve worn start smoldering just standing near a rather small contained fire, it doesn’t take much temperature for them to turn to molten plastic.
Was a volunteer firefighter in my community for 25yrs. I would like to say to you,your father and the rest of the farmers that stopped what they was doing to help as well as the coordinated efforts put forth. All of you folks did a bang up job!! Just so you know the fire department is very thankful for your assistance!!
Certain things get my adrenaline going and bring a patriotic tear to my eye. The Blue Angels air shows the Cajun Navy response to disasters, Coast Guard helicopter rescues (I was a Coast Guard Aircrew member 50 yrs ago), and the rallying call of Amercan Farmers saving crops, equipment, and lives. You guys are heroes!
Neighbors helping neighbors in time of disaster.... thank you for being there and lending aid whenever and however you can. It makes me quite emotional. Prayers and thanks to all who responded including you and Laura.
I won't be able to add too much that has already been said, but I will say this much...great response from the whole farming community, plus I love how Cale used this a a really good learning experience for his daughter to use in the case of a future fire event...great job each and every person involved!!❤...prayers sent out for all!
Outstanding response and control. Smart having Laura with you. Good to see neighbor farmers mobilizing to salvage the unharvested corn. The American way 🇺🇸🚜👍👏🏻
Living in a rural town about 100 miles NE of you guys I've often thought on a high wind, dry day the farmers are our only salvation from the possibility of having hundreds of homes burnt down. Thanks for your commitment of self and resources.
I can't believe how emotional I got sitting in my home in Salem Oregon, while watching this video. I could only imagine the damage a fire could cause to unharvested fields. Lively hoods wiped out. What a team effort to meet this threat. Good on ya.
As a volunteer firefighter here in CenTex y'all did a great job disking firelines for the VFDs, enormous help. Please support your local VFDs. Many departments rely solely on donations and annual fundraisers. Take my word, they can use all the help they can get.
My goodness. So glad everyone is safe. Brought back memories of our corn field fire back in the late 90's in Virginia. Its difficult to describe how fast the fire eats in a field of dry ready to harvest corn. The Volunteer community is very strong, well done everyone.
What a Great Job guys!!! As a “City Firefighter” for 45 years now and don’t have much experience with field fires, I have to admit my pulse rate did increase watching your operations!! I’d like to recommend a “GO Bag” of sorts to grab for any emergency. Water, snacks, fire extinguisher, “Gloves for Cale”, etc”. What a GREAT experience for Laura to draw back on in her long life ahead in farming!! GREAT JOB GUYS!!!!!
Love this video! It shows a side of farming that most never see. All of us in the Midwest are in a heavy drought and there have been open burn bans for weeks. These sorts of fires are hard to prevent but glad the community came together and took care of the situation. Most of all, the emotion and adrenaline really come through! Thank you for being a farmer and thank you for these videos!
I hate to see the loss of corn but it is MUCH better than a loss of equipment or even worse life. As a former volunteer firefighter/emt, It does take quite a person to run or walk swiftly towards danger.
It's been very dry here in Nebraska. I live a couple hours west of you, we had a few sprinkles 3 or 4 days ago, otherwise we haven't had any rain for quite awhile. Some farmers around here are running their pivots, saturating where they have already harvested. So good to see neighbors helping neighbors, Laura said it well.
As a volunteer firefighter for many years, it's always so very helpful when farmers show up at a corn or bean field fire with their tractors and disks. They make a great fire line and usually stop the speared unless it's a really windy condition. Now the farmer has to deal with next years crop where the corn has burnt. If it's roundup ready corn and he plants beans he'll have a really messy field, but it's all part of farming
It's all about communication. In a fast response situation like this, a $40 handheld vhf radio in the tractor cab with a dedicated emergency frequency would be so helpful. Most of them probably have one anyway.
Life is about choices, as sometimes we make choices based off of knowledge which we do not have in the moment. Choosing to help a Friend is probability something one does not need to learn, as that decision is mainly rooted within ones' instincts. One of the better sermons from a good yesterday addressed what a Friend is, as the pastor used Jimmy and Tammy Baker in delivering the message, specifically, "A Friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out"; meaning, even in the darkest of times for the Bakers, they did have at least one Friend who walked in when the rest of the world walked out on them. Cale, our physical paths may never cross in life, as there is ZERO doubt that if they did, I would NOT need to ponder if you were someone I could consider as a Friend, as that trust, and respect has already been achieved just from witnessing the values and character of you & your Family from your channel. Godspeed! 🍻🙏🏻🍻
Your statement we don't have a chain or rope - it certainly would be prudent to ADD that into the tool box when you prepare the tractor for emergency use - the suggestion of the GO BAG - is absolutly prudent - as well -
Cale, when you and Laura work together, it's nothing short of amazing! I remember what it was like, that feeling of "farming community", just like your church family.
It's awesome to see all of the neighbors and fellow farmers helping out. Unfortunately we still have a lot of negative Nancys commenting on the news stories, saying how ignorant and stupid was this farmer for being out in the field in the first place.
wow IM PUMPED shit can happen so fast wow glad ya ok you and ya dad wow what a team ya dad is a very knowledgeable farmer WELL i think the farmers are MY HERO'S
Has anyone in the Carlson/Wilson family ever thought about joining the local fire department? Every VFD in the country is hurting for people and I'm sure they would love the help.
I went through this Oct 7 .neighbors field was on fire blow through my field lost 65 arces of corn, a semi and trailer and little damage to my combine. Fire burnt 2 miles 10 fire departments and 14 tractors and tillage equipment
16:00 scary moment, driving right over large flames🔥, you can see this same spot (circle) in the drone✈footage at 44:25, that fire had jumped over the fire line, Cale saved a lot of corn putting it out, truly right place at the right time, was only a matter of minutes before that fire would have spread.
Would have been nice to have that drone overview at the beginning of the fire before even going into the field!! Be real nice to have a drone up about 1000ft just sit there and stream a video stream so everybody in the area could see the stream. Also have transponders on every tractor that would be indentified on the stream so everybody could see where they are in the field. Just a thought!!!!
Every farmer that fights wildfires should take S130 and S190 Wildland firefighter courses. They can be set up free by any forestry agency and can be taken online.
Hopefully everything is okay. Fire is no joke. Just a couple months ago I almost drove into a forest fire in Southern Oregon. My girlfriend was saying we were getting really close to the smoke. I told her don't worry the road would be shut down if it was dangerous. Right then I went around a bend and the road was shut down. I was like shoot, I shouldn't have said anything. 😂😂😂😅🤪😆
You don't want to get so worked up in these situations when you are in your upper fifties, and beyond that you flip yourself into a heart attack situation. Just calm tf down, and disc stuff down. It's okay for young guys to panic, they (should) have a better cardiovascular system.
You really need to know what you're doing with this so you don't burn your own equipment. Having two heads in the cab also helps. An extra pair of eyes and all that. Something that rarely happens here on Irish farms with all the rain we get, although occasionally we get gorse or woodland fires.
Do the pivots have the capability to let a fire truck hook on and reload water in situations like this? I’m sure access to water in a tractor/field fire is extremely difficult. Just curious.
Would it be possible or practicable to have certain farmers haul tanks of water to supplement the fire department’s supplies? I realize that water is heavy and could cause the tractor / tank to bog down in a field.
So, only maybe the third video I've watched of you. Is that your dad with you or Husband?! I've been through this type of disaster myself with my grandparents. It is not fun. But crops are replaceable, people aren't. I'm glad everyone was safe
Thank you for helping out Joe & Family. Joe was telling me about all the help from the neighbors. I think he said 18 disks showed up. Way to showcase Nebraskans!
One of the great things about being a Nebraskan! Neighbors helping neighbors! Go Big Red!
Good job by all! Bless you both Joe & Laura.
Cale, you are a good man. You and your wife have raised beautiful children. Laura made me emotional with what she said.
Thank GOD for ALL the Farmers across America. 🇺🇸 You are Appreciated More than you Know/Hear because our Survival is Not Possible without your Help. 👍🙏
Great job to all you folks who worked together.
As a retired Deputy Chief, it is amazing how area farmers come together to help another. I've been on many field fires, combine fires, and barn fires over the years to see this in action. What a great group of people willing to jeapardize their own equipment and safety. Big shout out to all of you!!!
You and Laura will never not be a team. As soon as she was on board 4 eyes were scanning, clear communication and lessons being taught on top. Good work you two
The negatives of a crop fire show the benefit of a close farming community. Plus look at the bright side, the burned areas of the field will have all that ash and nutrients for next years grow. Glad to see no one injured or any equipment lost.
I will say it was a bit scary seeing Laura wearing what looked like a synthetic polyester shirt. Please whenever you guys go out to disc a fire line please wear 100% cotton shirts without any plastic graphics printed on them, wear denim jeans, leather boots and gloves. Polyester when it gets hot will melt and burn into the skin causing a lot of horrific injuries.
I had polyester shirts I’ve worn start smoldering just standing near a rather small contained fire, it doesn’t take much temperature for them to turn to molten plastic.
18 disks!! Neighbors dropping everything to help someone in need. Bless you all!
Was a volunteer firefighter in my community for 25yrs. I would like to say to you,your father and the rest of the farmers that stopped what they was doing to help as well as the coordinated efforts put forth. All of you folks did a bang up job!! Just so you know the fire department is very thankful for your assistance!!
Certain things get my adrenaline going and bring a patriotic tear to my eye. The Blue Angels air shows the Cajun Navy response to disasters, Coast Guard helicopter rescues (I was a Coast Guard Aircrew member 50 yrs ago), and the rallying call of Amercan Farmers saving crops, equipment, and lives. You guys are heroes!
Neighbors helping neighbors in time of disaster.... thank you for being there and lending aid whenever and however you can. It makes me quite emotional. Prayers and thanks to all who responded including you and Laura.
I won't be able to add too much that has already been said, but I will say this much...great response from the whole farming community, plus I love how Cale used this a a really good learning experience for his daughter to use in the case of a future fire event...great job each and every person involved!!❤...prayers sent out for all!
Great team work keep it up!!
Everything bad has something good in it. The fire is terrible but seeing neighbors pull together against a common problem is truly inspirational.
OMG, thank goodness you and laura were there to save the day !!!!
Outstanding response and control. Smart having Laura with you. Good to see neighbor farmers mobilizing to salvage the unharvested corn. The American way 🇺🇸🚜👍👏🏻
Living in a rural town about 100 miles NE of you guys I've often thought on a high wind, dry day the farmers are our only salvation from the possibility of having hundreds of homes burnt down. Thanks for your commitment of self and resources.
I can't believe how emotional I got sitting in my home in Salem Oregon, while watching this video. I could only imagine the damage a fire could cause to unharvested fields. Lively hoods wiped out. What a team effort to meet this threat. Good on ya.
As a volunteer firefighter here in CenTex y'all did a great job disking firelines for the VFDs, enormous help.
Please support your local VFDs. Many departments rely solely on donations and annual fundraisers. Take my word, they can use all the help they can get.
Edge of my seat for 45 minutes. Wow. Great work - stay safe - cheers.
Thanks for sharing, absolutely showed how the farming community coming together to help fellow farmers, and yes Laura love the Dive Bomb hoodie GBR
My goodness. So glad everyone is safe. Brought back memories of our corn field fire back in the late 90's in Virginia. Its difficult to describe how fast the fire eats in a field of dry ready to harvest corn. The Volunteer community is very strong, well done everyone.
What a Great Job guys!!! As a “City Firefighter” for 45 years now and don’t have much experience with field fires, I have to admit my pulse rate did increase watching your operations!! I’d like to recommend a “GO Bag” of sorts to grab for any emergency. Water, snacks, fire extinguisher, “Gloves for Cale”, etc”. What a GREAT experience for Laura to draw back on in her long life ahead in farming!! GREAT JOB GUYS!!!!!
So great to see farmers and neighbors pulling together to try to minimize damage.
I can’t believe how many people responded to that fire!
With that wind blowing it could have been much worse if not contained. Well Done!
Good job everybody ! ❤🙏
Absolutely amazing. Thank you for documenting this.
Are you farmers are nothing but heroes for helping your neighbor absolutely awesome I think you so much for what you do
I love both of you. Thank god you are safe, thankyou for all that help but my goodness you scared us 😋 take care
SO WONDERFUL How rural people all jump in and help. In the city just watch...
Nice drone view at the end SIR! certainly provides a good summary
Love this video! It shows a side of farming that most never see. All of us in the Midwest are in a heavy drought and there have been open burn bans for weeks. These sorts of fires are hard to prevent but glad the community came together and took care of the situation. Most of all, the emotion and adrenaline really come through! Thank you for being a farmer and thank you for these videos!
Glad the fire was taken care of by you and your neighbors. You people do make a community.
Thank you for what you do!
great job helping the community out there!
"Are we related" I love it. What a great team. Much love and 22:04 response to you guys and the community.
I hate to see the loss of corn but it is MUCH better than a loss of equipment or even worse life.
As a former volunteer firefighter/emt, It does take quite a person to run or walk swiftly towards danger.
Great Job! Even got my adrenaline going-Farm Neighbors are the best
It's been very dry here in Nebraska. I live a couple hours west of you, we had a few sprinkles 3 or 4 days ago, otherwise we haven't had any rain for quite awhile.
Some farmers around here are running their pivots, saturating where they have already harvested.
So good to see neighbors helping neighbors, Laura said it well.
Great job, a community working together in support of each other.
Exciting video. Thanks for sharing.
God bless our farmers! What great people! Next time I see a fire I will call a farmer!
Real life. Great farming community. So scary. 🇬🇧
simply amazing. can not believe what i saw!.
As a volunteer firefighter for many years, it's always so very helpful when farmers show up at a corn or bean field fire with their tractors and disks. They make a great fire line and usually stop the speared unless it's a really windy condition. Now the farmer has to deal with next years crop where the corn has burnt. If it's roundup ready corn and he plants beans he'll have a really messy field, but it's all part of farming
What a wonderful effort for all.
What adrenaline rush. Great action video
Great summary Laura.
It's all about communication. In a fast response situation like this, a $40 handheld vhf radio in the tractor cab with a dedicated emergency frequency would be so helpful. Most of them probably have one anyway.
You are doring so very well my frineds ❤
Life is about choices, as sometimes we make choices based off of knowledge which we do not have in the moment. Choosing to help a Friend is probability something one does not need to learn, as that decision is mainly rooted within ones' instincts. One of the better sermons from a good yesterday addressed what a Friend is, as the pastor used Jimmy and Tammy Baker in delivering the message, specifically, "A Friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out"; meaning, even in the darkest of times for the Bakers, they did have at least one Friend who walked in when the rest of the world walked out on them. Cale, our physical paths may never cross in life, as there is ZERO doubt that if they did, I would NOT need to ponder if you were someone I could consider as a Friend, as that trust, and respect has already been achieved just from witnessing the values and character of you & your Family from your channel. Godspeed! 🍻🙏🏻🍻
A salt of the earth dad right there
Respect to all farmers 💚
Your statement we don't have a chain or rope - it certainly would be prudent to ADD that into the tool box when you prepare the tractor for emergency use - the suggestion of the GO BAG - is absolutly prudent - as well -
Cale, when you and Laura work together, it's nothing short of amazing!
I remember what it was like, that feeling of "farming community", just like your church family.
God's love for neighboring families in action ❤
It's awesome to see all of the neighbors and fellow farmers helping out. Unfortunately we still have a lot of negative Nancys commenting on the news stories, saying how ignorant and stupid was this farmer for being out in the field in the first place.
Daughter and dad right, helping neighbors corn field get fire
Great teamwork
Well done all!!!!
wow IM PUMPED shit can happen so fast wow glad ya ok you and ya dad wow what a team ya dad is a very knowledgeable farmer WELL i think the farmers are MY HERO'S
God bless you all.
Wow...just wow!
Great job
Has anyone in the Carlson/Wilson family ever thought about joining the local fire department? Every VFD in the country is hurting for people and I'm sure they would love the help.
I went through this Oct 7 .neighbors field was on fire blow through my field lost 65 arces of corn, a semi and trailer and little damage to my combine. Fire burnt 2 miles 10 fire departments and 14 tractors and tillage equipment
surprised you don't have a common radio channel for these types of events
An awesome community! Does anyone keep a field-capable water trailer available for support?
16:00 scary moment, driving right over large flames🔥, you can see this same spot (circle) in the drone✈footage at 44:25, that fire had jumped over the fire line, Cale saved a lot of corn putting it out, truly right place at the right time, was only a matter of minutes before that fire would have spread.
Would have been nice to have that drone overview at the beginning of the fire before even going into the field!! Be real nice to have a drone up about 1000ft just sit there and stream a video stream so everybody in the area could see the stream. Also have transponders on every tractor that would be indentified on the stream so everybody could see where they are in the field. Just a thought!!!!
I think Laura's video will have that.
Team work and SAFETY !!!!! I can smell the smoke !!!! Lol
HOW ABOUT LAURA IN A @DIVE BOMB INDUSTRIES hoodie!!!!
Every farmer that fights wildfires should take S130 and S190 Wildland firefighter courses. They can be set up free by any forestry agency and can be taken online.
Wish we could have had a heart rate monitor on Cale. He was in “go mode”.
Hopefully everything is okay. Fire is no joke. Just a couple months ago I almost drove into a forest fire in Southern Oregon. My girlfriend was saying we were getting really close to the smoke. I told her don't worry the road would be shut down if it was dangerous. Right then I went around a bend and the road was shut down. I was like shoot, I shouldn't have said anything. 😂😂😂😅🤪😆
Cale and Laura...CALM DOWN!!!!
AND ADD a fire extinguisher in EACH tractor - and first aid kit - PLEASE
What I find amazing is all the farmers show up with there million dollar tractors no question asked and take care of another Farm
With strong winds, embers can jump to another field… that was a problem years ago in Australia.
You don't want to get so worked up in these situations when you are in your upper fifties, and beyond that you flip yourself into a heart attack situation. Just calm tf down, and disc stuff down. It's okay for young guys to panic, they (should) have a better cardiovascular system.
Daddy protects his baby girl
As a cotton farmer, I've had to deal with fire a couple of times and it's definitely not fun!
The pictures at the end of this video shows you reality what what a shame
Would CB radio work for communication with others. Glad all is good with helping each other
They asked the farmers in our area of Neb to stop harvesting untill the wind dies down.
If Laura got her pilot's license she could jump in the plane and coordinate all these efforts .
You really need to know what you're doing with this so you don't burn your own equipment. Having two heads in the cab also helps. An extra pair of eyes and all that. Something that rarely happens here on Irish farms with all the rain we get, although occasionally we get gorse or woodland fires.
IMO.... You go help your neighbors all you can in an emergency. One day it may be you that needs the help...
That was intense and I'm 2000 miles away sitting in my lazyboy.
Do the pivots have the capability to let a fire truck hook on and reload water in situations like this? I’m sure access to water in a tractor/field fire is extremely difficult. Just curious.
I guess a water truck with pump sprayer is out of the question
So my question would be... would it be worth popping a drone up in this situation, just to work out where the fronts are
God Speed!
Would it be possible or practicable to have certain farmers haul tanks of water to supplement the fire department’s supplies? I realize that water is heavy and could cause the tractor / tank to bog down in a field.
👍 to everyone
Hallo from switzerland
Mobile water tanker full of water and ready to go in an emergency would be advantageous. 🇬🇧
those are what a lot of those smaller fire trucks basically are
Am aware of that. But farmers are there before the fire department. Logic says, water availability is paramount pre the fire service arrival.
So, only maybe the third video I've watched of you. Is that your dad with you or Husband?! I've been through this type of disaster myself with my grandparents. It is not fun. But crops are replaceable, people aren't. I'm glad everyone was safe
That guy is dad…
Wow!