First combine breakdown of 2022 & why this drought is getting serious for farmers
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2022
- The combine brokedown last week and stopped harvest 2022 from progressing for several days. Once it was fixed, we started harvesting the oilseeds and things are looking good.
I also explain what affect this drought is having on the farm and look at what we are planting for harvest 2023.
I do wish we, the public, would actually appreciate the crap you guys go through to keep food on our plates. Its far more than "Plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land". You guys have some really tough decisions to make on a regular basis that can , at the end of the day, be life changing for all those around you. We, as a nation, should be doing all we can to support you all before you are assigned to the history books like the miners and the car manufacturers of this once great nation. Thank you for all your hard graft & the stresses you endure.👍
Declining primary and secondary industries isn’t the death of a ‘once great nation’. They contribute a very small amount to our economy which is mostly tertiary and, increasingly so, quaternary high tech industries. Even though you can’t physically see the results of most of these more modern industries it’s certainly not a death, just an inevitable progression. Look at Japan, which is one of the most developed countries, they have hardly any primary and secondary industry.
@@ewancook You are right about this simply because specialisation, economies of scale and opportunity costs come into play in an ideal economy, but specialists are also the most vulnerable as history has shown time and again. Adaptability and diversification, while less profitable, are invariably the safer bet for survival.
Farmers do do an amazing job, however much of your comment can be attributed to most, if not all, businesses (?)
I don’t think a vast majority have absolutely no idea how hard it is to grow a crop these days
And the government interference is not helping one bit
@@ewancook Come off it, Japan has a massive indigenous motor manufacturing industry, electronics, engineering large and small scale that dwarfs that of the UK.
Financial services may provide wealth to a relatively small number of people and massive profits and taxes to London, but the rest of the UK is stagnant with the majority of people, even those in work, barely over the poverty line, mostly due to the decline of UK industries that actually make and export things, partly due to the UK propensity to sell industries off to foreign ownership who are literally ‘here today, gone tomorrow’. Agriculture and steel are the next to go. Steel is already in foreign ownership and threatening to shut down [who can blame them with UK electricity prices at a premium] and both it and agriculture deemed to be ‘dirty’ and not needed by politicians and activists on all sides.
Thats when you have a operator that knows his machine and can tell when something isn't quite right thanks for the videos keep up the good work
When a chopper bearing goes out it’s very obvious, it’s a heavy unit and the highest speed shaft on the machine. The vibration can be felt everywhere including through the seat of the pants.
@@junkorbust9498 yes if you are alive at all you cannot miss when they let go ..........very lucky to catch the fire .............!
came here from Harry's garage . as a car guy I also love how informative Harry's farm is . i always look forward to every new episode . and how you break down all the farming stuff and politics . keep up the good work Harry ...
RE. Combine bearing...
Recommend getting a thermal camera. Doesn't need to be a fancy/expensive one (one on a mobile phone or a phone addon module will work fine).
...Works great for spotting dicky wheel-bearings and the like. Run the thing for a bit then check the temperature of the bearing on one side then the other, if one side is considerably hotter than the other it's probably on its way out. Also works great using a similar method for locating vehicle brake faults.
Also good for spotting electrical fire risks, overloaded circuits, etc.
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Laser thermometer also kinda works but not as intuitive with telling you exactly where the hot-spots are.
where the heck did my comment go? Anyway a wireless meat thermometer is cheap and will be a good option in the combine straw threshing cavity which can be montiored from the cab. no need to run around with thermal image gun. although a thermal image is a good tool to have for many many situations, the more semi permanent meat thermometer is food grade and efficient. and also financially viable. on amazon they are like 25 or 30 something quid. some have bluetooth if you're into that. but SECURE the probe in the threshing cavity, tape the display to the cab dashboard and its done. search wireless meat thermometer @Harry's Farms
@@Palmit_ Harry has enabled the auto delete function (it avoids spam) . So if you posted a comment with a link, thats why it gone.
@@Nuts-Bolts yes. it was amazon link. thanks.
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Wouldn't one of those pocket-sized point-and-shoot infra-red thermometers do the job - as used by the medical authorities during COVID. Even the ones on E-Bay have a range up to 500 c and cost anything between £15 - 30.
How come a bearing that near to catastrophic failure wasn't picked-up in the annual service ?
Bad mechanicaning.
Thank you for sharing Harry, you farmers are important people, please keep on growing our food, and may Yah (God) bless you for doing so.
Love these videos. Harry's Farm is my favorite dramatic mini-series. Missed seeing Stanley this week, though.
I actually love this channel more than his main one lol
@@bob-wo3ir Actually me too, the farm stuff is surprisingly interesting
@@bob-wo3ir Whats his main channel?
@@chatteyj "Harry's Garage". Harry has a passion for cars, which he happily shares with us. Well worth a look.
How does one man run a huge farm and run so many machines - cars, trucks, combines, bikes, everything - yet still have time to shoot videos to share with everyone? You are the busiest man on earth Harry.
Thanks for noticing. For info, there’s going to be no new Harry’s Garage video this Sunday as it hasn’t stopped on the farm recently..
@@harrysfarmvids Wait. You're a one man operation?? And I thought I get little sleep.
Great update Harry.
Love these videos Harry.
I see you've had your hair harvested, just like me lol ! On the farm where we live in North Yorkshire I think they will be harvesting the Oilseed rape over the next couple of days, we've had some rain showers on and off recently but nothing substantial. Wishing you luck Harry moving forward, the same to all farmers !
Lol! I'm blessed my head still yields a lot of hair, unfortunately it doesn't earn me anything all the same 😂
Good lad Harry, always happy to see an update
I just started watching this channel. This guy is great: super intelligent. He packs so much information in such a short time. Wow!
Always Nice to have another Harry's farm video
Stay safe Harry, thanks for the update 👍
Fascinating thank you. Best of luck 👍🇬🇧
Love the new drone shots!
Brilliant as always
Learning all the time, Harry’s content is always top !
Love the t-shirt Harry!
Great vid Harry, fantastic advice and wise words.
Great stuff, yet again.
Thank for the channel and showing how tough farming is
Thanks Harry. I look and learn. What a quandary, I dont envy you your choices.
Excellent as always Harry, so informative. Sincere respect for your calm delivery.
Thanks Harry for the update, it’s odd I was coming home this afternoon from Witney thinking of you and how you were getting on, take care
Great teeshirt Harry, we will have to get you over here for the TT.
OSR great guns this year, well done Harry.
Best of luck with the harvest and decisions on future crops.
A bit of a pickle Harry.
The path of least resistance,
Especially in times of war, or
Trouble. Is usually the best
Policy Harry. Go with it. 👍
Great video.
Excellent video Harry, I am learning so much about farming
and the difficulties of running a farm. More power to you elbow!
Lucky to catch the bearing before the combine was a gonna. Absolute must to change both bearings, they have both done the same amount, so the second one would soon have gone. Virtually no rain here in West suffolk for months, but mainly heavy land cereals here, so grass is not such an issue. Still a crazy situation with input costs verses returns, but hope most farmers dont go down the line the government want them to take, and continue to grow crops that are needed to feed the nation,
Lucky to catch the fire before everything was gone!
I’m in West Suffolk as well, think we’ve had 15mm in two and a half months but the heavy ground certainly helps
Rain forecast tonight Harry. Fingers crossed. Congratulations on the great coverage on cars and farm.
Great watching I am getting quite the education appreciate what you are doing Thanks RM
We're only just up the road in Staffordshire and we had some good downpours recently, amazing the difference
amazingly informative - thanks for that
Great video Harry! You make some very interesting informative content! 😀😀
You got your +100k subscribers... well done Harry 👏👏👏
Another good video getting across to the general public all the effort and decision making that goes into growing food for the nation, well done, keep up the good work.
Great update Harry. Looks like the combine took a few laps recently on your hair also. Gotta be looking Shmick for harvest!
nice one Harry.
Thank you as always for a very informative video report. Your posts have made me appreciate some of the issues farmers face in the UK. I hope its the same for others that have watched your videos.
Great t-shirt Harry!!
The TT is the - imho - pinnacle of motorcycle racing.
Don't forget Harry without our farmers we all starv good harvest to you sir
All things considered it's amazing that Harry is keeping so level headed. I hope things improve for him and all farmers very soon.
Always a great vid, no nonsense, ta
Cheers Harry for giving us an insight into what farmers are having to go through and how the industry is adapting or not . We need to work with the farmers to ensure food security.
Wish you and JC meet up and have good old chat since the times we having are crazy as you been saying so be a good fun watch .
Always appreciate your perspective Harry keep us posted!
Loved it.
Hello from the Isle of Man, nice T(T) Shirt!! I hope you get some rain soon, it must be so tough trying to make decisions about what to do when the world is chaotic and the weather is not helping either. Having grown up around agriculture I understand some of what you are going through. Thanks for the videos, I like to keep in touch with what is going on in the south of England.
I like your T shirt - IOM TT 🏍🏍👍 without doubt worth a visit . Its also a stunning Island to visit. hope all goes well on your farm and it rains soon
Nice update Harry but I would love to have seen more combining footage. I know we saw some of the barley harvest but an extra few mins longer and a bit of footage of the oil seed rape harvest would have been very enjoyable. Thanks and all the best. JC
The constant winds we’ve had all year are also helping to dry out soils. Everything is under stress at the moment
Those cows are absolutely magnificent. They look so healthy and happy. Their coat is wonderful.
Brilliant video
In Australia we always carry a fire extinguisher with our tractors etc. With dry conditions there is always a risk that sparks from hitting a stone, or a hot sump over grass might cause a fire.
Combine harvesters brought to the UK usually come with fire extinguishers as well. I am surprised that non of the new ones actually have a fire extinguisher system like on a racing car which automatically extinguishes the fire.
@@bentullett6068 exactly same thoughts. If combine fires are so common the companies building them need to look into this
Thank you Harry, it is very interesting/concerning to know what is happening in farming at this time. Great insight....
Farming is tough job both in UK and in Finland , luckily we have good farmers left to do that work ! 🚜🚜🚜
Preventative maintenance springs to mind, that other bearing looks like its not seen any grease in a while. Luckily you didn't loose your combine to fire, we have had four combines on fire in this area in the last month..
Good catch on the bearings, and i always change bearings in pairs as you just know if one goes the other will probably follow. Worrying to see the fertiliser issues and prices not reflecting the cost/risk.. every things all wrong at the moment lol.
And I thought my 2 allotments were difficult to plan, I am full of admiration for how much work and decision making you go through.
Just discovered! Brilliant content!
Brilliant stuff.
I feel like lve just taken a crash course in farming.
Really interesting 👍
At least you have a combine. Our new one only arrived yesterday. We had to make do with a 10 year old New Holland to do the OSR. Hopefully will start on wheat on Monday but we haven’t a lot ready yet. Looking forward to driving the new Claas 8800.
def the best farming channel on youtube
Nice T shirt. Love how you have adopted basketball smuggling like Clarkson and I 😇
It is clearly a most difficult time Harry and thank you for so clearly setting out the dilemma affecting farmers in this drought affected and troubled World. I’m not a farmer of course but your films make me wish I worked for you! Good luck and I hope the rain comes soon. 🙏🙏🙏😳😳😀😀😀Richard
Unfortunately or fortunately it could probably be much much worse...
Scarily your farming videos have given me some insight into the machinery problems, before I played this video I thought this dry weather and a bearing failure could lead to a fire with the combine. (Insight from a previous video of a failure with it). Not an easy time at all for farmers, hopefully your upbeat videos will inform the public.
Reality farming. Very enlightening and important for "ordinary" folk to comprehend the hard work and daily problems you farmers deal with to keep us in food.
Interesting informative and enjoyable thank you so very very much indeed grazie grazie Mille ciao ciao
Thank you interesting video particularly the dilemma over growing oilseed rape next year. Re the movement of the combine may I suggest bigger gateways or removable fencing at the side of the gateway. A farm I worked on years ago either had double gates (2x 12ft gates) or a 12 foot gate with removable fencing one the clapper side of the gate. The posts were dropped into lined holes similar to removable goal posts used on football pitches. The removable fencing worked well so long as nobody ran over it with a tractor which meant it then required repairs.
Wow ... what a mess to be in ... I wish you the best of luck and thank you for all your hard work, I was admiring a couple of local farmers doing some local harvesting near Middlethorpe in York ... and of course getting covered in dust while I was filming the combine working it`s magic. Sadly most people have no idea how hard it is for farmers to keep their head above water in these trying times and you people deserve so much more respect from the public for all the stress and hard work that goes in to keeping the food on our tables. I spent a few years doing landwork in Lincolnshire in the late 1980`s and I can tell you that it was a real culture shock` moving from York and working as a bricklayer` where everything is so handy and easy to get to, then living on the fens and walking 14 miles to work to be bent double while picking flowers or cropping veg for twelve hours a day ..... a very different life style indeed. After that I respect every job that any farmer has to do. I guess the next problem will be that when we do get rain` the ground will be baked hard and we will get flooding because the water will not soak in as easy, will that mean that the standing water would either rot your new crops or simply wash them all away ?.
you have inspired me to walk past a wheat field and bite the wheat very hard and dry i would say it is ready for harvest by the way it is laying ,it will be interesting to know what crop comes next also lets hope they do not put sewage on it this year
Lucky to catch the fire in time. Seen enough combine and tractor fire videos for this year.
In USA and Canada, rapeseed oil is also referred to as "Canola oil". I was researching some historical machinery and saw that "rapeseed oil" was used in machining as a lubricant and coolant. Probably started in the UK...along with the rest of the Industrial Revolution. Hats off to the British!
Thanks Harry I enjoy these videos a lot. I wonder if there is someone here on the prairies of Manitoba/Saskatchewan who is doing the same sort of videos. BTW just for comparison, in Saskabush the average farm size is 1700 acres. I know of a farmer here in Manitoba that grows 3000 acres of just potatoes for McCains. Over here on the prairies we have had a crazy year of rain with everything pushed back a month and farmers getting their crops in just under the insurance deadline.
In Australia, Rapeseed is called Canola. We live in Western Australia and one cousin who farms 300 kms North East of Perth has seeded about 15,000 acres of canola this year. We are going out there shortly and there should be yellow everywhere.
What a dilemma. Good luck with harvest and decision making. Very lucky with the combine.
Quite fascinating watching your Vlogs Harry. Drought in the Cotswolds is most unusual I am sure. And as for a header fire, they’re usually associated with Australian farms. I am a retired school teacher and help out at harvest in WA and VIC and got taught to position myself always to be able to watch the header when chasing for pickups so any fire can be quickly spotted. Picking up a bit of wire or a stone can cause a fire. Glad it didn’t happen to you. And all the gateways at my wife’s WA family farm had to widened to allow 40’ wide combs through. I have to take my hat off to Case also, how they manage to get spare parts to some places when farmers are in extremis, is extraordinary.
"Chasing for pickups" - is that a phrase meaning "monitoring the header for foreign objects"? Maybe I'm asking the obvious here because I don't think chasing a pickup (car) is what you're getting at, I'll blame it on not being familiar at all with the terminology or running a combine in general. haha
Respect to you and your farm Harry. I always promote Buy British no matter the price difference. I have no real idea but I reckon it has to be one of the hardest jobs.👍👍🤞
Harry, you should never wash down any machine that has bearings, because the water pressure that you use will penetrate your bearings,and eventually cause bearing failure.
Just use a air pressure. Experience from an old Aussie farmer.
Stay safe Harry
Thank you. Very informative, if not a little concerning.
Harry, I do remember, we had a heavy drought in the seventies two times, very, very dry here in north of Germany as well as in England.
Hopefully it’s a good harvest, the Espada depends upon it!
I never thought that I'll see England farmers in drought while victorian farmers(Australia) enjoying great weather and crops are growing extremely well..
Looking very smart Mr M. Super T shirt, New haircut? And even your specs look new.
Best of luck to you
Same with us on allotments, we stopped using hosepipes a few weeks ago and are losing crops for our winter freezers.
Its gonna get more serious as farmers around the world get thrown off their farms. We need to remove all the politicians (in all parties) who allow themselves to be mislead into making things worse by big industrial complexes.
Somehow Bill Gates’ farmland will survive
@Jason Yeah. It's Agenda 2030. This has been planned for years
@Jason They ‘belive’ they know what they are doing. There is a big diffrence from ‘knowing’ and being able to foresee real outcomes and consiquences. Even those that are sincere are merely well intentioned fools. The commitees members that allow them to stand for election and find finance for the political party are from ‘interested controling conglomerates.’ We are only free to vote for anyone ‘they’ have chosen for us.
It seems that the UK gov is on the strategy to create global famine by paying farmers to take land out of production. The WEF influence is everywhere.
@CORNER MARKET PLACE We have known the solution for a long -time, U.N studies have shown that small mixed farms produce far more food per acre than large industrial ones like Harry's. They should have been encouraging these decades ago. Small family farms with a mix of animals and crops can use the manure to fertilize the land - how do you think British farmers did it for centuries before industrial fertilizers became available (mostly in the post WW1 period)? Farm's like Harry's are only possible because of fossil fuels, using various chemicals and large machinery. I am not blaming farmers - they have been pushed down this path, as the cost of labour cannot compete with cheap fossil fuels, and cheap fossil fuels make large farms more efficient (as long as fuel lasts). But if you want to transition to something else, then must go back to what farmers used to do - which is the only sustainable way - but the skills are largely lost. Read Enid Blytons "Willow Farm" books if you want a snap shot of British farming before the industrialisation took over.
Can you do a video a video on the technical specifications of you farm machinery, combines, tractors and other equipment you need to keep the farm running? It would be interesting to see what is required to keep a modern farm running.
I was 16 in '76 when the drought hit and can well remember the long spell of "good" weather but was far more interested in other things (girls!) at the time.😂 We didn't have water rationing where we lived but many counties did. There's obviously a lot more tech involved in modern farming methods but I wonder how farmers coped with the situation back then?
Yikes! That was a close call with the combine fire! Watching the dry grass and crop fires on the news it was scary to see how quickly the flame front moved.
Just as well it was during the OSR not the barley or wheat as it would of been a new combine required 🔥
Glad it worked out not too bad for you and hope the rest of your harvest is less eventful.
We are getting through OSR harvest up in East Lothian, dry and early up here too. Not as much as down south but dry for Scotland. 👍
Farming does need to help restore the watershed by renegotiating cultivation patterning at a very large scale. Ripping up all the hedgerows and knocking a load of little fields into massive ones has wrecked the watershed in the past 50 plus years however there's no reason it can't be restored in an even better and more convenient/integrated way now with layers of agricultural and horticultural cropping, also bring very well integrated with conservation to create a well structured landscape watershed pattern.
That grass looks very much like we see here in Australia in summer. I have to say I and a few of my friends are just stunned at the temperatures in the UK and Europe. We are setup with aircon homes, transport and shopping centres, my memories of the UK and Europe was the lack of aircon. You would have been doing it really hard.
Hello from Canada
Vibration condition monitoring is used in industry to build up a historic monitoring of equipment to prevent downtime and breakdowns.
Wonder if it is available in the agricultural sector, considering the costs and consequences of failure and downtime when vital equipment is needed I would think if not then if would be beneficial.
Note to combine service technician....next time check any & all high speed rotating unit shaft ends & bearings...😉
I would suggest you divide your storage with either old corrugated roof or plywood screwed in pallets. It creates a modular system that you can move about your posts.
We have done it in old 1950's barns for decades.
You can make the piles higher. No need to move the cars then.
Harry, thank you so much for such a wonderfully informative series of videos. You really have a truly valuable skill in communicating some really quite techie farming stuff to your audience without ever appearing patronising or seeming to talk down to your viewers, and at he same time it is genuinely entertaining. Can I ask what initially might seem like a daft question from someone lacking the full farming facts? That field of dried-out pasture which you said you had to move the cows off, is there no feed value in the dried grass at all? It seems that UK stock farmers spend a lot of their time and energy gathering in a crop of 'dried grass' , hay in other words, in early summer to keep their livestock alive over the winter when the grass in the ground stops growing. They cut a crop of green grass and then let it dry until most of the moisture is out of it before baling it and storing in a barn. It presumably must have pretty good feed value as sheep and cattle seem to to do well on it over winter. What then is the difference between hay and all that dried grass in the permanent pasture field you showed us? Would that not be just as nutritious as hay? We all believe that livestock like to eat lush green grass but they also don't mind a bit of hay so why can't they eat what is left in all these brown, drought stricken fields? I must admit it was only when I visited a friend's farm in Australia that I discovered that they made hay in the spring to feed their livestock over the summer when the grass dried up and died because of the heat, in exactly the same way as we made hay to feed the cattle over the winter when the grass stopped growing because of the cold. Obvious I suppose to those in the know! Many thanks.
The legumes look a good bet amd maybe mixed species swards for the grazing areas intresting times Harry
Harry, I’m struggling too…between a Claret or a Rose?… but thanks for all the hard work both there and here in France … my respect!