It never ceases to amaze me at how people can’t keep their own trash in their vehicle till they get home or to a trash can. One of my ditches seemed to be the liquor bottle dump and another must be designated for fast food
Cole, back in the 1960's the State and Counties used sickle bar mowers to do the ditches. I would watch and wait until the County would mow several miles of ditches generally just one pass on each side of the road and when the grass was dry I would go out with my old pickup and pitchfork and get several loads of grass hay. Times were difficult but I needed the hay. No money and no hay rake or baler but just willing to put in the labor. "Ditch hay" saved me many times. Just sayin! J.R.
I remember as a young lad the farmer neighbor would cut his hay and pick it up with a pitchfork. then drive into the barn and fork it in the loft. It was a way of life.
Yep. I helped a neighbor do it for her horse. We put a tarp down to line the bed and pitched hay like a bugger, stomping it down as we went. When we got to her place. we cinched the front and around the sides of the tarp, tied it to a tree and drove away. Instant hay stack.
@@onewhitestone we use to use pitch forks to load bales years a go too , as we did not have a tractor with a loader back then , i remember it well , yes it was hard work but we did it
Yes, our counties mowed everyone’s ditches in the 60s and 70s and maybe even into the 80s. I’d have to check with my sister ( who now has Mom and Dad’s farm)…as to whether or not the County workers have continued mowing after the 80s, for sure. I don’t live near there anymore . Regarding people who throw things in the ditch: STOP BEING A LITTER BUG…it’s too bad you can’t put up cameras on the post every now and then, and get their license plate numbers and then take it into the local sheriff and have them deal with perpetrators who are throwing their trash, and obviously, other things into your ditches, because just watching this video made me aware of how inconvenient that is to have to keep stopping for beer, cans and diapers, as your Dad mentioned he’d found… I recycle everything I can, and take it to my local recycling store. I would never dream of throwing any of my trash in the ditch!! and I’m sure if you had a dumpster of some kind out there in your ditches for people to use instead of throwing it in the ditches in a second your time for mowing and safety as well… But they wouldn’t use it…. such a disrespect of you and your property. I am very sorry. I hope everyone who watches this video stop throwing their trash in your ditch. Once they realize what a hassle it is and a dangerous situation it can be, as well as how hard it is on your farm equipment!!!!!!! Cole, thank you for making a suggestion to the individuals who would like to get into farming to go, and after purchasing some OLDER farm equipment, offer to mow the ditches for farmers as a way to get hay and make some money as well, if they want to😊♥️🌈
Had a neighbor who was planting a hayfield about 2 miles away from their farm and they loaded up the seeder with verna alfalfa and started down along the edge of the road to the field they planned to plant. When they got to the field the seeder somehow got engaged and spread the seeds along the edge of the road and the seeder was empty 😂. They tried once to make hay from the ditch but it didn’t go well. You can still see the alfalfa 40 plus years later and it grows really well 😊
Brian I’m so glad you didn’t get hurt when the window broke! Your corn is still all green where as here, east coast MA to NC, with (dare I say) to much rain, our corn is brown at the bottom. I’m still praying that the farmers get the rain they need 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
When I was younger we used to pasture the side ditches. Everyone had fences each kid at the end of the road and kept them out of yards and cemeteries. Every once in awhile a calf would step on a beer can and it would collapse around there foot. Then the fun would begin. 🤪🤣🤪
We used to put up road hay for our hogs. We put it up loose alot of pitchfork work. I wanted to cry when my step dad found someone to small square bale It. Thanks for sharing guys
I recognize that swiveling cup holder! About 45 years ago I had a ‘67 Chevy van and I bought a couple of those for it. It was my first car, shag carpet, sink, fridge you know, all the good stuff. Custom vans were a thing back in the day. Those cup holder were made for boats.
Worked on a farm in high school. Every spring we put a crew together and walked all road side ditches with 5 gallon buckets. When full we'd dump into a pickup truck bed. Every year we would fill that truck 2-3x. Crazy the stuff we'd find.
Good morning, gentlemen. Unfortunately, Oregon State Hwy division is the only one that can mow, and trench any ditches, to deep. Comes in three's: flat tire, broken tractor window and broken rake.🙃🙃I'm so glad Brian that you didn't get hurt by the object or the broken window!!!! I pray for everyone from Hawaii and across the US- Take care everyone
Thanks for sharing this ditch update. I appreciate all the grief you must get from us non-farmers. Thankful that Brian did not get hurt by the rock. Be sure to thank your wife for getting the pool and letting you share cool water. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle rains, seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
When I was growing up in the mid 60's my dad would put me on a Ford tractor with no brakes or power steering and the and the old rake that you pulled a rope to lift the teeth up. Dad didn't like it when the row lines were off. Many hours on that old tractor.
I had the same thing happen to me this week cutting hay. It busted out my rear window. I uploaded a video short about the two things I had to check after it happened.
So sorry about window. Did a many road ditches putting in small squares for the barn. One year after doing some small squares, we had to go to a meeting, came back the next morning the bales were stolen. I just started crying because it was hay that I gave my egg ladies in the winter. That and our longhorns loved it. Tell me about the garbage! We had a bale start on fire from piece of glass on a very hot day!!
I can see why you don't like road ditches . Be careful when you are working on ditches. You can flip a tractor pretty easy. Take Care and Be safe on the farm.
Ditch hay definitely is a risk vs. reward situation. In Michigan our rural roads typically only have a right of way of 33' from the center of the road so there isn't much of opportunity to for harvesting . It was great to hear the return of "that's all I got to say about that" from Brian.
Brian that was god/ angels that flipped the belt and the angels are watching over you and Cole the cows and babies will love munching on the hay in the winter or laying on it praying for a better year next year bless you both🙏🙏🥰💕
I’m one of those beginning guys. Can’t compete with corn and beans to put grass in so I have 2 nice 20ac fields of alfalfa and then put put 200 bales in the ditches and old farm yards. It’s not easy but it’s a start to a passion.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. That glass on your mower tractor really shattered. Wow. Like you say Brian, probably a rock that got thrown up there. Expensive rock. That rock guard you are getting should help. Like you say mowing ditches is expensive. Sorry about your glass window. Welkers had the same thing happen but was a glass combine door to that shattered. We did ditches also. Been there done that. You are getting some nice thick grass hay off of your ditches. Nice bales it looks like. Hang in there with the ditch hay baling. Thanks for the song of the day Brian. Good song and music. That 4050 Deere you got is running good and handy tractor to have for small jobs on the farm. Tire fixing and baler fixing and window fixing, you have had a busy day. Thanks for taking us along. Never ceases to amaze me the stuff people throw in the ditches instead of in a trash barrel. Amazing the junk you got out of the ditch. You take care and be safe. Thanks. The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
Just had to straighten the pickup gauge wheel on our 560M. 2in ratchet strap tied to the tractor drawbar and a little heat. Followed with a little fresh green paint and you cant even tell it happen.
mowed many miles of ditch with a M farmall. no power steering and no cab, small square bales, drop them on the ground and then went back with a hayrack and picked them up by my self. baled 850 to 1000 every summer. I looked forward to bailing every year.
Every spring here on PEI CANADA the municipalities supply all the county's locals bags that walk all the ditches picking all the trash and leave the bags road side picked up by dump truck crews.
Certain powered rotary basket hay tedders are notorious for picking up and flinging small stones against the back of the tractor especially if badly adjusted - many a back window glass has been smashed when tedding hay or silage. We used to counter against this problem by stretching a heavy cotton or jute sack high up across the link arms to reduce the risk of this happening. Operators of open station (cabless) tractors were particularly at risk of being hit on their back, neck or head by stones if something was not in place to prevent this and the machine in need of adjustment with the top link too short. Dan.
Washington state does the same thing with adopting interstates and stuff. I always see the white clean up bangs from the state correction inmates cleaning the ditches and road sides.
I definitely agree road ditch hay not much feed value either like some CRP hay . But for bedding hay and let the cows pick through it . Most people don’t understand but if you’re a farmer then you do . Just like buying hay I would recommend getting it tested for quality and feed value .
I see what you mean about not liking to mow the ditches. It’s good to get feed, but you have to look for trash, and the ditches are hard on equipment. Thanks for showing us that!!
I was mowing hay 1 day by my brothers house and his boys hit a bucket of golf balls into the hay field. That was crazy how the mower through them. Never broke a window but did get a dent in tractor
I can remember baling the roadside when I worked on a farm in 1992 - 1994 . They were older gentlemen that their father back in jersey baled anything and everything he could that milk cows would eat lol to get thru winter safely
Hi Cole, its good to see Brian was listening to us about missing the 'song of the day'. That mower on the Bobcat is a great piece of gear for doing narrow strip's of grass and sunflowers. I can understand why the ditches are not a favorite job especially all the rubbish tossed out by people while driving past. It's the same in most countries, people just don't care. Each bale is a gift in this year of drought and I hope the cowes appreciate all your hard work and repairs you have done for them. Thanks for sharing. Chris from Australia 🇦🇺. .
guess it was 4 or 5 years ago I finally replaced the old sickle header with a Vermeer tm 1410..., course didn't have a window guard on. think I did 50 acres before it must've sucked up a small stone from a pocket gopher mound and blew out the door window on the muffler side. My son was riding with me when it happened. I got a hold pf him before he bailed out of the cab by the scruff of his shirt cause in his words "I thought someone was shooting at us!"
My Uncle George did not like doing ditches. He also had some experiences that cost money. One sad story is a cousin's friend was doing ditches for Alberta Highways. He hit a culvert and his tractor turned over. He was killed. Those were the days that tractors did not have cabs or even roll cages. That was unfortunate.
@@earl7611 Yes, he was baptized as profession of his faith. He was a wonderful person. It was a tragedy as we see it from earth. His family missed him a lot. This happened a long long time ago. I am now getting close to 80. He was a couple of years older than me when he was killed.
When I lived out in Oklahoma, the building main highway down the center Fayetteville that all up you’ll see on the unit and the regular farmer down the middle of the highway
I knew those ditches would be a pain, wish they were breaking things. That song of the day started going off in my head as soon as Brian sang that little part of it. Hope you continue to get some more timely rain for the alfalfa and grazing fields.
Love that song of the day. Golden years. Big Daddy DJ Brian is the man when it comes to the hits. In one of my favorite movies that makes my Bebita Wife Maria scratch her head when I watch it if it comes A Nights Tale it's the song during the medieval banquet dance scene. Lots of good music in that movie.
we have adopt a highway here in Joliet, Illinois, and we did the clean-up along the road in front of our business, along with high schoolers for their community service hours, and the stuff people throw out is disgusting. had to be so carful as they thru out broken glass, car parts and always wore double gloves. Be safe.
Cole it will make you humble and you will appreciate the beautiful fields you have🙏💕🥰 god bless you and Brian for farming in all types of weather, hot, cold, rainy, hail and snow and enduring the cold and all the stuff you do for others like Storela station for other farmers, families in need love you guys and THANK YOU BOTH AND UNCLE JEFF TOO 🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕 from 🇨🇦 fan
That happened to me couple yrs ago, I was sure the diskbine threw a stone bc it exploded the right side & front window but I never found culprit stone. I took it to repair shop & he found bad cab mount. Evidently the twisting in the ditch with bad cab mount twisted the cab & blew out the windows
Awesome video in my State cans and bottles are worth 10 cent's know when i was in highschool and Middle school they were only worth 5 cent's but I managed to pay for my FFA chickens with can's I picked up out road ditches still to this day even tho there Worth More money there is still Many in the ditches but More people picking them up here know also ..
I clean the half mile road ditch along the county highway each spring. I must live the distance it takes to finish off a can of beer. One year I collected 18 different beer cans, some of them l didn’t know were still available.
Been there and done that with the rock through the window, actually have a video of the rock taking out the window.. I put the Rock Block on on my John Deere MOCO after that and have not had any issues. The Rock Block is a good product and John Horter (the inventor) is great to work with. I hate baling ditches and trash fields!
Ditch bailing is a good foot in the door if you're industrious. Cooper Cornstar had a nice side-action baling grass and hay using old equipment when he was in high school. Now he can afford better equipment....and better trucks.
My grandpa was mowing the median of the interstate one time and ended up running a whole bag full of used diapers through and had to pull basically all of them out by hand
Hay Cole & Co. So my memory might be a little shot but I seem to remember the baler wheel getting bent before? That window was a proper bummer too, Ive had them break while using demolition equipment and boy it gives the old heart a fair shock, coupled with being showered in toughened glass chips that find their way where they have no right to be. Stay safe guys
Cole I live near the towpath in Sharpsburg MD. The park service is out mowing all the time. It looks like, the canal could be baled. Or I think they could put an electric fence and have goats eating. Or other animals. The farmers could use extra grass during dry year
every bit of hay is a help for you this year , it does so upset me to see all that trash in the ditches , same happens here and garden rubbish too , that looks not a bad tractor you were racking in , we had a JD 3050 fwd years ago , I loved that tractor and it seemed to have so much power pulled like a train
Take the cans in extra cash for new window 🙏💕🥰 look for the blessing now the garbage is getting cleaned up in South Dakota hes every where 🙏💕🥰 god bless Sonne farms💕💕💕
I’m still really enjoying the quick clips at the end. Thanks, Cole. ❤️🌹nj
It never ceases to amaze me at how people can’t keep their own trash in their vehicle till they get home or to a trash can. One of my ditches seemed to be the liquor bottle dump and another must be designated for fast food
Assuming that it’s mostly impulsive teens helps my sanity, but it’s unfortunately not true.
Cole, back in the 1960's the State and Counties used sickle bar mowers to do the ditches. I would watch and wait until the County would mow several miles of ditches generally just one pass on each side of the road and when the grass was dry I would go out with my old pickup and pitchfork and get several loads of grass hay. Times were difficult but I needed the hay. No money and no hay rake or baler but just willing to put in the labor. "Ditch hay" saved me many times. Just sayin! J.R.
I remember as a young lad the farmer neighbor would cut his hay and pick it up with a pitchfork. then drive into the barn and fork it in the loft. It was a way of life.
Yep. I helped a neighbor do it for her horse. We put a tarp down to line the bed and pitched hay like a bugger, stomping it down as we went. When we got to her place. we cinched the front and around the sides of the tarp, tied it to a tree and drove away. Instant hay stack.
@@onewhitestone we use to use pitch forks to load bales years a go too , as we did not have a tractor with a loader back then , i remember it well , yes it was hard work but we did it
Yes, our counties mowed everyone’s ditches in the 60s and 70s and maybe even into the 80s. I’d have to check with my sister ( who now has Mom and Dad’s farm)…as to whether or not the County workers have continued mowing after the 80s, for sure. I don’t live near there anymore .
Regarding people who throw things in the ditch: STOP BEING A LITTER BUG…it’s too bad you can’t put up cameras on the post every now and then, and get their license plate numbers and then take it into the local sheriff and have them deal with perpetrators who are throwing their trash, and obviously, other things into your ditches, because just watching this video made me aware of how inconvenient that is to have to keep stopping for beer, cans and diapers, as your Dad mentioned he’d found… I recycle everything I can, and take it to my local recycling store. I would never dream of throwing any of my trash in the ditch!! and I’m sure if you had a dumpster of some kind out there in your ditches for people to use instead of throwing it in the ditches in a second your time for mowing and safety as well… But they wouldn’t use it…. such a disrespect of you and your property. I am very sorry. I hope everyone who watches this video stop throwing their trash in your ditch. Once they realize what a hassle it is and a dangerous situation it can be, as well as how hard it is on your farm equipment!!!!!!!
Cole, thank you for making a suggestion to the individuals who would like to get into farming to go, and after purchasing some OLDER farm equipment, offer to mow the ditches for farmers as a way to get hay and make some money as well, if they want to😊♥️🌈
@@onewhitestonesickle bar mowers and three legged dog name a more iconic duo
We used to do our ditches twice a year. Used a swather to cut and bailed small rectangular.
Had a neighbor who was planting a hayfield about 2 miles away from their farm and they loaded up the seeder with verna alfalfa and started down along the edge of the road to the field they planned to plant. When they got to the field the seeder somehow got engaged and spread the seeds along the edge of the road and the seeder was empty 😂. They tried once to make hay from the ditch but it didn’t go well. You can still see the alfalfa 40 plus years later and it grows really well 😊
Brian I’m so glad you didn’t get hurt when the window broke! Your corn is still all green where as here, east coast MA to NC, with (dare I say) to much rain, our corn is brown at the bottom.
I’m still praying that the farmers get the rain they need 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
When I was younger we used to pasture the side ditches. Everyone had fences each kid at the end of the road and kept them out of yards and cemeteries. Every once in awhile a calf would step on a beer can and it would collapse around there foot. Then the fun would begin. 🤪🤣🤪
We used to put up road hay for our hogs. We put it up loose alot of pitchfork work. I wanted to cry when my step dad found someone to small square bale It. Thanks for sharing guys
I recognize that swiveling cup holder! About 45 years ago I had a ‘67 Chevy van and I bought a couple of those for it. It was my first car, shag carpet, sink, fridge you know, all the good stuff. Custom vans were a thing back in the day. Those cup holder were made for boats.
You are right. I have the holders out of my old pacemaker on the porch rail holding my beer now.
Worked on a farm in high school. Every spring we put a crew together and walked all road side ditches with 5 gallon buckets. When full we'd dump into a pickup truck bed. Every year we would fill that truck 2-3x. Crazy the stuff we'd find.
Love watching the 4050 work and a shout out to Brian , dad and I are still fixing junk to keep going !! Great vid
You guys are doing such a good job you guys show the true struggles of corn soybeans and beef. You guys are doing great good job. Keep it up 👌👍
Brian, just wanted to say thank you for making Cole run that tractor with no A/C.
Good morning, gentlemen. Unfortunately, Oregon State Hwy division is the only one that can mow, and trench any ditches, to deep. Comes in three's: flat tire, broken tractor window and broken rake.🙃🙃I'm so glad Brian that you didn't get hurt by the object or the broken window!!!! I pray for everyone from Hawaii and across the US- Take care everyone
Thanks for sharing this ditch update. I appreciate all the grief you must get from us non-farmers. Thankful that Brian did not get hurt by the rock. Be sure to thank your wife for getting the pool and letting you share cool water. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle rains, seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
Hi Cole and Dad Brian thank ya for sharing everything.God bless you all.
When I was growing up in the mid 60's my dad would put me on a Ford tractor with no brakes or power steering and the and the old rake that you pulled a rope to lift the teeth up. Dad didn't like it when the row lines were off. Many hours on that old tractor.
Hey Sonne farm my dad as a John Deere 4050 we use it every morning to feed the Dairy cows.
I had the same thing happen to me this week cutting hay. It busted out my rear window. I uploaded a video short about the two things I had to check after it happened.
So sorry about window. Did a many road ditches putting in small squares for the barn. One year after doing some small squares, we had to go to a meeting, came back the next morning the bales were stolen. I just started crying because it was hay that I gave my egg ladies in the winter. That and our longhorns loved it. Tell me about the garbage! We had a bale start on fire from piece of glass on a very hot day!!
I can see why you don't like road ditches . Be careful when you are working on ditches. You can flip a tractor pretty easy. Take Care and Be safe on the farm.
Love the song of the day🙂. And thank goodness you didn’t get hurt when the glass shattered.
That look like a successful day of ditch mowing and raking and baling 👍
Thanks for letting us Ride along !
When we mow or mulch we have plexiglass sheets over the windows, works well until it rains.
You gotta do what you do and take it as it is,thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
Ditch hay definitely is a risk vs. reward situation. In Michigan our rural roads typically only have a right of way of 33' from the center of the road so there isn't much of opportunity to for harvesting . It was great to hear the return of "that's all I got to say about that" from Brian.
Brian that was god/ angels that flipped the belt and the angels are watching over you and Cole the cows and babies will love munching on the hay in the winter or laying on it praying for a better year next year bless you both🙏🙏🥰💕
I’m one of those beginning guys. Can’t compete with corn and beans to put grass in so I have 2 nice 20ac fields of alfalfa and then put put 200 bales in the ditches and old farm yards. It’s not easy but it’s a start to a passion.
I believe you have the best farm videos. Love whaching them
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
That glass on your mower tractor really shattered. Wow. Like you say Brian, probably a rock that got thrown up there. Expensive rock. That rock guard you are getting should help. Like you say mowing ditches is expensive. Sorry about your glass window.
Welkers had the same thing happen but was a glass combine door to that shattered.
We did ditches also. Been there done that.
You are getting some nice thick grass hay off of your ditches. Nice bales it looks like.
Hang in there with the ditch hay baling.
Thanks for the song of the day Brian. Good song and music.
That 4050 Deere you got is running good and handy tractor to have for small jobs on the farm.
Tire fixing and baler fixing and window fixing, you have had a busy day.
Thanks for taking us along. Never ceases to amaze me the stuff people throw in the ditches instead of in a trash barrel. Amazing the junk you got out of the ditch.
You take care and be safe.
Thanks.
The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
Doing great guys. Have a cold one when the days over.
Always something to do on a farm. Love the fresh smell of hay and grass. Doing a great job Cole helping your dad and wanting the farm life👍😁
God Bless your good old equipment give it a little wing and a prayer🙏💕 hes got you guys🙏
In our area farmers are required to cut the road ditches. They didn't have to bale it but can be fined if they aren't cut
Just had to straighten the pickup gauge wheel on our 560M. 2in ratchet strap tied to the tractor drawbar and a little heat. Followed with a little fresh green paint and you cant even tell it happen.
thanks for the idea!
mowed many miles of ditch with a M farmall. no power steering and no cab, small square bales, drop them on the ground and then went back with a hayrack and picked them up by my self. baled 850 to 1000 every summer. I looked forward to bailing every year.
Every spring here on PEI CANADA the municipalities supply all the county's locals bags that walk all the ditches picking all the trash and leave the bags road side picked up by dump truck crews.
Great job raking Cole
Certain powered rotary basket hay tedders are notorious for picking up and flinging small stones against the back of the tractor especially if badly adjusted - many a back window glass has been smashed when tedding hay or silage.
We used to counter against this problem by stretching a heavy cotton or jute sack high up across the link arms to reduce the risk of this happening.
Operators of open station (cabless) tractors were particularly at risk of being hit on their back, neck or head by stones if something was not in place to prevent this and the machine in need of adjustment with the top link too short. Dan.
Washington state does the same thing with adopting interstates and stuff. I always see the white clean up bangs from the state correction inmates cleaning the ditches and road sides.
I definitely agree road ditch hay not much feed value either like some CRP hay . But for bedding hay and let the cows pick through it . Most people don’t understand but if you’re a farmer then you do . Just like buying hay I would recommend getting it tested for quality and feed value .
Great video Cole and Brian
I see what you mean about not liking to mow the ditches. It’s good to get feed, but you have to look for trash, and the ditches are hard on equipment. Thanks for showing us that!!
I was mowing hay 1 day by my brothers house and his boys hit a bucket of golf balls into the hay field. That was crazy how the mower through them. Never broke a window but did get a dent in tractor
It’s nice to have good ditches on the county roads for the hay and drainage.
Y’all be safe out there in those ditches, don’t want y’all getting hurt
I can remember baling the roadside when I worked on a farm in 1992 - 1994 . They were older gentlemen that their father back in jersey baled anything and everything he could that milk cows would eat lol to get thru winter safely
Hello Brian and Cole I always enjoy watching your video because you are both so amazing hard workers God keep on blessing you both always Rosa
Hi Cole, its good to see Brian was listening to us about missing the 'song of the day'. That mower on the Bobcat is a great piece of gear for doing narrow strip's of grass and sunflowers. I can understand why the ditches are not a favorite job especially all the rubbish tossed out by people while driving past. It's the same in most countries, people just don't care. Each bale is a gift in this year of drought and I hope the cowes appreciate all your hard work and repairs you have done for them. Thanks for sharing. Chris from Australia 🇦🇺.
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guess it was 4 or 5 years ago I finally replaced the old sickle header with a Vermeer tm 1410..., course didn't have a window guard on. think I did 50 acres before it must've sucked up a small stone from a pocket gopher mound and blew out the door window on the muffler side. My son was riding with me when it happened. I got a hold pf him before he bailed out of the cab by the scruff of his shirt cause in his words "I thought someone was shooting at us!"
Here in Va. STATE cut road ditches. We don't cut hay nor bushhogg with a cab tractor 🚜
Regular tractors with just a canopy. Yes u get mighty hot 🔥.
Welkers had a combine door explode on their latest video as well
I was just in Florida the grasshoppers there were so big you could invite them in for dinner and have them over for a pool party !
The diaper in the sickle bar is like the banana in the tailpipe…
Enjoyed all the Sonne Farms ditch stories as well as the ones in the comments.
My Uncle George did not like doing ditches. He also had some experiences that cost money. One sad story is a cousin's friend was doing ditches for Alberta Highways. He hit a culvert and his tractor turned over. He was killed. Those were the days that tractors did not have cabs or even roll cages. That was unfortunate.
Hope he excepted JESUS before that happened sorry for your loss
@@earl7611 Yes, he was baptized as profession of his faith. He was a wonderful person. It was a tragedy as we see it from earth. His family missed him a lot. This happened a long long time ago. I am now getting close to 80. He was a couple of years older than me when he was killed.
Great video Cole
When I lived out in Oklahoma, the building main highway down the center Fayetteville that all up you’ll see on the unit and the regular farmer down the middle of the highway
I knew those ditches would be a pain, wish they were breaking things. That song of the day started going off in my head as soon as Brian sang that little part of it. Hope you continue to get some more timely rain for the alfalfa and grazing fields.
I-94 in ND has about a 150 miles of hay bails on both sides. Alway from Fargo to Bismarck.
lot of hay!
Thankful Brian wasn't hurt with the shattering glass! It's sad the litter people toss in our ditches! Fun to hear Brian's stories.
Love that song of the day.
Golden years.
Big Daddy DJ Brian is the man when it comes to the hits.
In one of my favorite movies that makes my Bebita Wife Maria scratch her head when I watch it if it comes A Nights Tale it's the song during the medieval banquet dance scene.
Lots of good music in that movie.
we have adopt a highway here in Joliet, Illinois, and we did the clean-up along the road in front of our business, along with high schoolers for their community service hours, and the stuff people throw out is disgusting. had to be so carful as they thru out broken glass, car parts and always wore double gloves. Be safe.
you and your dad are awesome. Loved the video and so sorry about all of your bad luck in this video. Y'all please be careful
We here in Hotchkiss Colorado are experiencing the same grasschopper issues😮💨
Thanks for sharing this. I can understand why you don't like doing it. I don't understand people throwing garbage out the window. Guess I never will.
🤣one of the most fun vids. that ya'll have done ! still laffen here
Cole it will make you humble and you will appreciate the beautiful fields you have🙏💕🥰 god bless you and Brian for farming in all types of weather, hot, cold, rainy, hail and snow and enduring the cold and all the stuff you do for others like Storela station for other farmers, families in need love you guys and THANK YOU BOTH AND UNCLE JEFF TOO 🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕 from 🇨🇦 fan
That happened to me couple yrs ago, I was sure the diskbine threw a stone bc it exploded the right side & front window but I never found culprit stone. I took it to repair shop & he found bad cab mount. Evidently the twisting in the ditch with bad cab mount twisted the cab & blew out the windows
Awesome video in my State cans and bottles are worth 10 cent's know when i was in highschool and Middle school they were only worth 5 cent's but I managed to pay for my FFA chickens with can's I picked up out road ditches still to this day even tho there Worth More money there is still Many in the ditches but More people picking them up here know also ..
Thank you Sonne farms!!!!
Our pleasure!
I clean the half mile road ditch along the county highway each spring. I must live the distance it takes to finish off a can of beer. One year I collected 18 different beer cans, some of them l didn’t know were still available.
Love seeing your daily operations and making good use of the ditch hay!
I just did my second cutting and I’ve cut ditches for several years. I did not get much this round. Dry weather and SD DOT mowing the ditches.
Those ditches were scary but glad you got some feed off of them. Be safe.
That brush hog did a hell of a job on that model bobcat.
That’s a good looking 4050! Thanks for another great video!
OMG, I could not cut ditches. The angle of the tractor freaked me out. Glad you got it done. AND shame on those who litter, very uncalled for.
Been there and done that with the rock through the window, actually have a video of the rock taking out the window.. I put the Rock Block on on my John Deere MOCO after that and have not had any issues. The Rock Block is a good product and John Horter (the inventor) is great to work with. I hate baling ditches and trash fields!
Ditch bailing is a good foot in the door if you're industrious. Cooper Cornstar had a nice side-action baling grass and hay using old equipment when he was in high school. Now he can afford better equipment....and better trucks.
Have you thought about spraying fence lines with roundup or hy-var which works well for that
Pop Welker blasted a combine door glass. He drove 300 miles, ONE WAY. to get the new replacement glass right then and there. They are combining peas.
Those soundgard tractors are fun to drive!
We used to walk the ditches for beer bottles and got a bit of spending money that way. Did not spot many of those in de video.
Enjoyed watching the video Cole and Brian 😊
On the positive side the ditches look nice. Prayers for rain.
that wheel then bent was missing a important weld along he front to stop it bending!
😂😂😂😂 Ms Ellie was looking up at that tractor window like "PA, WHAT DID YOU DO???" 😂😂😂
My grandpa was mowing the median of the interstate one time and ended up running a whole bag full of used diapers through and had to pull basically all of them out by hand
You should have cut sunflowers as silage to add to your winter feed
Took the back window out of a Case IH while chopping cornstalks. Pretty sure it was a stone. VERY loud! Glass everywhere!
Hay Cole & Co. So my memory might be a little shot but I seem to remember the baler wheel getting bent before? That window was a proper bummer too, Ive had them break while using demolition equipment and boy it gives the old heart a fair shock, coupled with being showered in toughened glass chips that find their way where they have no right to be.
Stay safe guys
Cole I live near the towpath in Sharpsburg MD. The park service is out mowing all the time. It looks like, the canal could be baled. Or I think they could put an electric fence and have goats eating. Or other animals. The farmers could use extra grass during dry year
I'd love to travel or walk u.s. and gather cans. I'd be like that movie. Trying not to say movie title. Don't want to get in trouble.
every bit of hay is a help for you this year , it does so upset me to see all that trash in the ditches , same happens here and garden rubbish too , that looks not a bad tractor you were racking in , we had a JD 3050 fwd years ago , I loved that tractor and it seemed to have so much power pulled like a train
New equipment is nice. But it's good to see the old iron still running. The old 4050 earning it's keep!
Take the cans in extra cash for new window 🙏💕🥰 look for the blessing now the garbage is getting cleaned up in South Dakota hes every where 🙏💕🥰 god bless Sonne farms💕💕💕
A peice of conveyor belt works pretty good on the front of disc mowers
We're well trained in that ditch life. Oofta. It can be pretty dangerous! Good luck out there and watch for car rims...
Thanks for the video
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In ky the jail bird's get out in the day time to clean up the ditches 😊
Where I’m at in Michigan the crop fields are almost to the road so we can’t hay the road side