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.
@@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.
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. --- 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
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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,
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..
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 !
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.
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 ?.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Harry, try rye instead of OSR. Deep rooting, easy to grow, easy to combine and fits into 4 and 5 year rotation. There's also a good market for it. We've grown it instead of linseed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Were those bearings checked and greased in the recent pre-harvest combine service? The o/s bearing looked pretty dry and its not like they're hidden or hard to inspect. I know a few long sessions in dry dusty conditions can make anything look used on a CH. Add it to the very long list of things to keep in the back of your mind. (Along with fire extinguishers) More annoying is the fact that a consumable part isn't on the shelf ffs. I'd be keeping some spares myself if the machinery maintenance companies are not prepared to keep inventory. Love the easily accessible insights Harry, please keep them coming.
I was thinking the same thing. Obviously a part that is going to fail and not held in stock? Probably crap cheap Chinese bearings as most American manufacturing has sold out to China. Those bearings should have lasted the life of the machine with correct lubrication. Sign of the times I'm afraid. If your going to keep that plant I would get hold of a parts manual and order some spares.
Those four bolt flange bearings can be bought over the counter, best to by them complete with the housing , looked bone dry , ten minute's going around with a stethoscope should have picked up on it.
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.
@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.
@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.
I Went to Agri College Many Years Ago And We used to Service the Combine on the Farm I worked on ourselves ,Changing Anything that needed Doing etc,The Combine Never Never Broke Down It Was All cleaned and Greased Every Morning and checked over,I Don't See many Farmers Working Much on there Own Equipment Nowadays And Speaking to One He Said You Can Not maintain it Yourself as its Too Complicated ? Well Funnily Enough Another Job i had Latter in Life Was Working on RAF Jets And I Never had a Problem Fixing them either and there a Bit more Complicated than a Combine More Farmers Should Look after There Own Equipment and Repair it And Stop Listening to Dealers/Manufactures Saying Only They Can Fix it.
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.
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.
I never thought that I'll see England farmers in drought while victorian farmers(Australia) enjoying great weather and crops are growing extremely well..
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.👍👍🤞
I have to say looking at the state of those critical bearings I would be changing my servicing provider. That bearing does not look like it's been properly lubricated in years.
@CORNER MARKET PLACE I like this theory. Even if the inspection was contracted out, an owner would very well look at the bearings by themselves regularly, and surely would have noticed it if it were dry, that bearing isn't exactly hidden and inaccessible. Caring for it well and killing it with kindness (read: grease) however happens quickly and frequently. John Deere adjustable fan belt drives are another common victim of too much grease, their seals do not like to be packed, at all.
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.
Have you considered planting trees in the permanent pasture land Harry? A study was done where and I can't quite remember the numbers but they found if you for example planted 10% of a field with trees you wouldn't have a loss of productivity from that field. Quite the opposite in fact, they found that the trees gave shelter to the sheep and allowed them to lamb earlier as a result.
Definitely seeing a shift in weather patterns where I live, a few years ago it seemed like you couldn't rely on it being sunny for more than a few days except for the odd "week of UK summer". Now over the past few years it seems that it either rains for weeks or it's sunny, which is a real problem as our plants this year just didn't sprout as we planted then had a month of pretty much no rain followed by two weeks of rain, so it got burned then drowned which isn't ideal. So yea, really seeing a shift in climate where it's becoming more extreme which is worrying, just hope it isn't a cold winter!
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.
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.
So many people quick to blame the dealer, thinking they know best…Harry hasn’t only just started his harvest he must be a fair way into it now and had those bearings been bad straight out of winter storage they would not have lasted this far…they’d of failed first day out. Over greasing the bearings can blow the seals and let chaff and other debris in, destroying the bearing in a matter of hours…equally the bearings guards can get packed with chaff or wrapped with crop material, super heating the bearings and causing them to fail…take a lexion rotor bearing…seen that happen many times. Grease intervals are to be taken as a guide, down to the operator to check their machine daily and it never hurts to put a pump into the bearings each day. Fair play to the dealer for getting you up and running again so quickly! It’s a working machine at the end of the day…it will break down at some point.
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.
I think I would be asking questions why that bearing failure was not picked up during its annual service. Surely the bearings had to be worn to excess prior to harvesting, obviously the check on these types of things are not part of the service schedule.
I have worked on machinery in a large potato processing plant.Bearing sets can appear fine but the slightest wear due to dirt and grime can wear at an astonishing rate to failiure point and often take the shaft tolerance with them.He was lucky only to need to replace the bearing sets and not need the shaft ends welding up an turning back to working tolerance.
@@glennpowell3444 Pre-inspection of bearings include a torsion bar test. To have a combine start down it's first pass and have a major bearing completely disintegrate shows a complete failure of the inspection process. They need to pack an assortment of torsion bars to perform bearing tests or not bother at all.
A standard bearing consists of an inner race, an outer race and a quantity of steel balls which are retained by a metal or sometimes plastic cage. When this cage fails, it allows the steel balls to gather on one side of the bearing and immediately allows the inner race and shaft to move away from its central position. This failure of the ball retainer cage can happen so quickly, that a bearing can appears fine one minute and is destroyed the next. Bearings can be 'sealed for life' (packed with grease when manufactured with a seal both sides) or greasable, ( a seal on one side only ).
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.
How long has the small farmers got left, with big corporations buying up farming land, just look at what the dutch farmers are going through, its coming here.
Governments paying farmers not to farm ever again? They want us all to die thru starvation or hypothermia. These people in charge who can't be elected or sacked are pure effing evil
Within 10 years half of the farmers in the USA are ritiring. I wonder too whats gonna happend there. Multinationals buying up farmland is not axeptable. What Will happen to the price of commodities?
The current drought and tinder-dry grasses are having me seriously worried about wildfires and deliberate arson. It really won't take much for a small spark to set alight a serious amount of ground.
I remember as a kid, watching out the window, the burning of the stubble back in the 80s. That was controlled, well mostly. But we aren't set up like that anymore
If you look at the pattern of fires, you'll see it was clearly arson. Eight serious fires started on the hottest day...but none the day after. Was it ecoloons? What do you think?
A massive fire not too far from me was started from a garden bonfire going out of control. I hope the person responsible is made an example of, the lack of common sense some people have is astounding.
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. 👍
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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
I just started watching this channel. This guy is great: super intelligent. He packs so much information in such a short time. Wow!
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.
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
Don't forget Harry without our farmers we all starv good harvest to you sir
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..
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 😂
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.
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 ?.
Those cows are absolutely magnificent. They look so healthy and happy. Their coat is wonderful.
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.
Thank for the channel and showing how tough farming is
Great watching I am getting quite the education appreciate what you are doing Thanks RM
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.
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.
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.
All things considered it's amazing that Harry is keeping so level headed. I hope things improve for him and all farmers very soon.
Learning all the time, Harry’s content is always top !
The constant winds we’ve had all year are also helping to dry out soils. Everything is under stress at the moment
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
Good lad Harry, always happy to see an update
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
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 ! 🚜🚜🚜
Great teeshirt Harry, we will have to get you over here for the TT.
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.
Excellent as always Harry, so informative. Sincere respect for your calm delivery.
Best of luck with the harvest and decisions on future crops.
Thanks Harry. I look and learn. What a quandary, I dont envy you your choices.
Great t-shirt Harry!!
The TT is the - imho - pinnacle of motorcycle racing.
Same with us on allotments, we stopped using hosepipes a few weeks ago and are losing crops for our winter freezers.
Note to combine service technician....next time check any & all high speed rotating unit shaft ends & bearings...😉
Excellent video Harry, I am learning so much about farming
and the difficulties of running a farm. More power to you elbow!
Harry, try rye instead of OSR. Deep rooting, easy to grow, easy to combine and fits into 4 and 5 year rotation.
There's also a good market for it.
We've grown it instead of linseed.
RIGHT: deciding WHAT to plant is key. In Western New York State, the decision is often between soybeans, corn, wheat, and oats.
You got your +100k subscribers... well done Harry 👏👏👏
Stay safe Harry, thanks for the update 👍
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.
Great vid Harry, fantastic advice and wise words.
Love the new drone shots!
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.
We're only just up the road in Staffordshire and we had some good downpours recently, amazing the difference
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.
Rain forecast tonight Harry. Fingers crossed. Congratulations on the great coverage on cars and farm.
Love the t-shirt Harry!
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.
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.
def the best farming channel on youtube
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
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...
Were those bearings checked and greased in the recent pre-harvest combine service? The o/s bearing looked pretty dry and its not like they're hidden or hard to inspect. I know a few long sessions in dry dusty conditions can make anything look used on a CH. Add it to the very long list of things to keep in the back of your mind. (Along with fire extinguishers)
More annoying is the fact that a consumable part isn't on the shelf ffs. I'd be keeping some spares myself if the machinery maintenance companies are not prepared to keep inventory.
Love the easily accessible insights Harry, please keep them coming.
I was thinking the same thing. Obviously a part that is going to fail and not held in stock? Probably crap cheap Chinese bearings as most American manufacturing has sold out to China. Those bearings should have lasted the life of the machine with correct lubrication. Sign of the times I'm afraid. If your going to keep that plant I would get hold of a parts manual and order some spares.
Quality Bearing manufacturing is still a very US & European & Japanese thing - SKF, FAG/INA, NSK, Koyo, NTN etc
Those four bolt flange bearings can be bought over the counter, best to by them complete with the housing , looked bone dry , ten minute's going around with a stethoscope should have picked up on it.
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.
I Went to Agri College Many Years Ago And We used to Service the Combine on the Farm I worked on ourselves ,Changing Anything that needed Doing etc,The Combine Never Never Broke Down It Was All cleaned and Greased Every Morning and checked over,I Don't See many Farmers Working Much on there Own Equipment Nowadays And Speaking to One He Said You Can Not maintain it Yourself as its Too Complicated ?
Well Funnily Enough Another Job i had Latter in Life Was Working on RAF Jets And I Never had a Problem Fixing them either and there a Bit more Complicated than a Combine
More Farmers Should Look after There Own Equipment and Repair it And Stop Listening to Dealers/Manufactures Saying Only They Can Fix it.
Great update Harry.
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.
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.
Great video Harry! You make some very interesting informative content! 😀😀
Always Nice to have another Harry's farm video
I never thought that I'll see England farmers in drought while victorian farmers(Australia) enjoying great weather and crops are growing extremely well..
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.👍👍🤞
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 .
Hopefully it’s a good harvest, the Espada depends upon it!
Have you considered adding divider walls between the columns to have multiple crop storage? Old method used removable board slats.
My father had those dividers in his grain store that he built back in the 1970s. Those pillars in Harry's store look like a right pain.
I have to say looking at the state of those critical bearings I would be changing my servicing provider. That bearing does not look like it's been properly lubricated in years.
So true Bob, they serviced it last year too, and that was a disaster as well.
@CORNER MARKET PLACE I like this theory. Even if the inspection was contracted out, an owner would very well look at the bearings by themselves regularly, and surely would have noticed it if it were dry, that bearing isn't exactly hidden and inaccessible. Caring for it well and killing it with kindness (read: grease) however happens quickly and frequently. John Deere adjustable fan belt drives are another common victim of too much grease, their seals do not like to be packed, at all.
6:36, we've only got a 12ft header and thankfully it stays on the whole season until winter.
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.
Have you considered planting trees in the permanent pasture land Harry? A study was done where and I can't quite remember the numbers but they found if you for example planted 10% of a field with trees you wouldn't have a loss of productivity from that field. Quite the opposite in fact, they found that the trees gave shelter to the sheep and allowed them to lamb earlier as a result.
nice one Harry.
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
Definitely seeing a shift in weather patterns where I live, a few years ago it seemed like you couldn't rely on it being sunny for more than a few days except for the odd "week of UK summer". Now over the past few years it seems that it either rains for weeks or it's sunny, which is a real problem as our plants this year just didn't sprout as we planted then had a month of pretty much no rain followed by two weeks of rain, so it got burned then drowned which isn't ideal.
So yea, really seeing a shift in climate where it's becoming more extreme which is worrying, just hope it isn't a cold winter!
It's as if the scientists have been right all along.
@@brettmeikle no they havent. britain always has a 2 or 3 week period of hot weather during the summer
@@thewhitedoncheadle8345 I respect your expertise in this area, but I'll stick with the blokes with the smarts. Cheers bud
@@brettmeikle but ignore the experts who dont propagate the climate nonsense. you keep blindly following what you're told, theres a good sheep
@@thewhitedoncheadle8345 aye, and the earth is flat ya fanny.
Always appreciate your perspective Harry keep us posted!
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.
Fascinating thank you. Best of luck 👍🇬🇧
Great update Harry. Looks like the combine took a few laps recently on your hair also. Gotta be looking Shmick for harvest!
How about fitting a removable gate post for next year.
I'm surprised Harry hadn't already done that or at least said it was going to be done.
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.
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.
The legumes look a good bet amd maybe mixed species swards for the grazing areas intresting times Harry
So many people quick to blame the dealer, thinking they know best…Harry hasn’t only just started his harvest he must be a fair way into it now and had those bearings been bad straight out of winter storage they would not have lasted this far…they’d of failed first day out. Over greasing the bearings can blow the seals and let chaff and other debris in, destroying the bearing in a matter of hours…equally the bearings guards can get packed with chaff or wrapped with crop material, super heating the bearings and causing them to fail…take a lexion rotor bearing…seen that happen many times. Grease intervals are to be taken as a guide, down to the operator to check their machine daily and it never hurts to put a pump into the bearings each day. Fair play to the dealer for getting you up and running again so quickly! It’s a working machine at the end of the day…it will break down at some point.
Nice T shirt. Love how you have adopted basketball smuggling like Clarkson and I 😇
Brilliant stuff.
I feel like lve just taken a crash course in farming.
Really interesting 👍
Was wondering why it hadn't broken down this year.
And it was Serviced ! same as last year, glad they don't service my car.
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
Lucky to catch the fire in time. Seen enough combine and tractor fire videos for this year.
Brilliant as always
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.
Looking very smart Mr M. Super T shirt, New haircut? And even your specs look new.
I recommend checking out the same size bearing from the original bearing manufacturer (or rather their distributor) too...
I think I would be asking questions why that bearing failure was not picked up during its annual service. Surely the bearings had to be worn to excess prior to harvesting, obviously the check on these types of things are not part of the service schedule.
Same story last year.
I have worked on machinery in a large potato processing plant.Bearing sets can appear fine but the slightest wear due to dirt and grime can wear at an astonishing rate to failiure point and often take the shaft tolerance with them.He was lucky only to need to replace the bearing sets and not need the shaft ends welding up an turning back to working tolerance.
@@glennpowell3444 Pre-inspection of bearings include a torsion bar test.
To have a combine start down it's first pass and have a major bearing completely disintegrate shows a complete failure of the inspection process.
They need to pack an assortment of torsion bars to perform bearing tests or not bother at all.
@@OOpSjm Good job that outfit doesn't look after his classic cars!
A standard bearing consists of an inner race, an outer race and a quantity of steel balls which are retained by a metal or sometimes plastic cage. When this cage fails, it allows the steel balls to gather on one side of the bearing and immediately allows the inner race and shaft to move away from its central position. This failure of the ball retainer cage can happen so quickly, that a bearing can appears fine one minute and is destroyed the next. Bearings can be 'sealed for life' (packed with grease when manufactured with a seal both sides) or greasable, ( a seal on one side only ).
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.
How long has the small farmers got left, with big corporations buying up farming land, just look at what the dutch farmers are going through, its coming here.
Governments paying farmers not to farm ever again? They want us all to die thru starvation or hypothermia. These people in charge who can't be elected or sacked are pure effing evil
Big corps? You mean Bill Gates
Sir James Dyson
Klaus Schaub
Within 10 years half of the farmers in the USA are ritiring. I wonder too whats gonna happend there. Multinationals buying up farmland is not axeptable. What Will happen to the price of commodities?
The current drought and tinder-dry grasses are having me seriously worried about wildfires and deliberate arson. It really won't take much for a small spark to set alight a serious amount of ground.
I remember as a kid, watching out the window, the burning of the stubble back in the 80s. That was controlled, well mostly. But we aren't set up like that anymore
If you look at the pattern of fires, you'll see it was clearly arson. Eight serious fires started on the hottest day...but none the day after. Was it ecoloons? What do you think?
Bullshit. Fire is normal. Smoke calms humans: it means supper is being cooked. Get over your brainwashing.
A massive fire not too far from me was started from a garden bonfire going out of control. I hope the person responsible is made an example of, the lack of common sense some people have is astounding.
@@benpenagonzales6014 Yeah we used to get forest fires in the 80s. Kept burning for weeks
Great stuff, yet again.
I rode through The Cotswolds on Monday - it looked like The Gobi - alarming...!
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. 👍