Barley harvest is done but now it's too hot to combine!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The Winter Barley harvest is finished and next to do is the OSR but it's now too hot to combine, which has never happened to me before. This video will explain all..
Absolutely fascinating stuff. Thank you Harry.
What he said 👌🏼
I enjoy watching your videos, I like the way you explain things, the logic prevails. Keep the videos coming. Hope you have a successful harvest.
Congrats on hitting the 100k subscriber mark! :)
Agreed, congrats !
Hello Harry. All your videos have been extremely enjoyable to me. Living in an agricultural area in Ontario Canada but having worked all my life in automotive engineering, I recognize the challenges you face, and also the enormous rewards. Love Harry’s Farm and Harry’s Garage!! Cheers
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I loved the farm shows in Ontario back in 1994/5 Got friendly with a cattle farmer who shoed his prize bulls. I was an Inspector of Works on the construction of the St Clair River Tunnel for CN Railroads. Had a great time sailing on the lake, watching ice hockey and even got involved with the Michigan Police pipe band.
Manitoulin calling
We live right opposite arable fields and I love watching the cycle of the farming year from our top windows. Harry's videos give me a useful insight into what's going on behind the scenes. Been waiting for days for the harvest, today a big Claas combine is being manoeuvred into position - I I particularly love it when they harvest overnight and the floodlights cut across the fields like something from a sci-fi movie.
As an Australian grain producer i am astounded that grain traders wont accept wheat below 11 percent moisture. Half the wheat grown here would be below 11 percent and canola regularly gets below 5 and sometimes 4 percent and its exported worlwide and mostly to the Eu in the case of canola
Interesting to know - thanks. As a fellow Aussie I was wondering what the difference might be, given our summers are regularly hotter than what Europe would normally get.
Could it be with dust explosion in mind? The UK seems to have quite a few silly solutions to various health and safety issues.
I use to be involved directly in farming but now just rent out. I appreciate your comment about the moisture levels and think it has more to do with the merchants making their margins on the product. The product is sold on weight and water weighs therefore they want it between a particular moisture range for the customers and factories processing the product. Factories do add water and they also take it out dependant on requirements. Just my view and it might not be so ???
Listening to the stubble under foot brings back so many memories of my Grandad's farm and helping out at harvest time. I can almost smell it now.
I look on these videos in wonder - there's just so much to know. I try to imagine myself in a position to buy and run a farm (lottery would be the only way that would become possible) but when I watch these videos I think there's so much to learn that I'd need my life all over again.
In my 50s as I am, I'd expect to teach someone my trade from scratch would take some time but probably nowhere near as long as it would to make someone into a successful farmer. It's all so fascinating but most of all I totally love your attitude to the difficulties of weather and the lack of shed space. You seem so chilled about it all - I guess you'd have to be or it'd make you a nervous wreck but so many people exist on the edge of a breakdown in industries which are so much more controllable/predictable than farming.
I was all ways tought that any one can farm the secret is farming for a profit and that go`s horticulture too in my humble opinion that`s why we will be short of fruit and vegetables
dairy and arable products if the government douse not wake up sorry for that little chant
To be a successful farmer all you need to know which phone number to ring.
@@MrFastFarmer who am i to argue hope you have a strong signal
He's as chilled as a farmer who knows he can live handsomely on his other investments and lucrative RUclips channels etc if the shit hits the fan on the harvest front...
I watch most of the farming videos , I was born and bred on a farm and left the farming industry in 1977 . I am now 70 and just retired and I think your videos are the best
This has absolutely become my favourite channel. Thanks Harry! Keep it up
Thanks for sharing your farm. I really enjoy these videos and the insight into daily operations on your farm.
Harry, the wall looks amazing! The amount of long term planning that you farmers have to attend to is amazing!
Harry's channel offers really good and accurate information.👍 The grain is too dry to harvest??? Who would have known this?
I was listening to the BBC world service .. 40 deg C .. you pommies must melting in the streets.
I was thinking of you Harry and the fact that you possibly never had to deal with combine fires . Out here In OZ the temp is regularly up in the mid 40's for harvesting.
Be very careful . Whatch out for static discharge. Get a fire pod ready Have it in a trailer.
One other point you nay not be aware of is the speed of a field fire, they can move at 100 k's an hour and more .
I was a combine driver for about 40 years and in that time I had an assortment of trailer drivers from school children to staff members. From my elevated position I found it difficult to see why some of them found it so difficult.. I have been retired sometime now but help out on another farm. Now I know what their problems were. Even though we now have technology that my trailer drivers wouldn't believe. lesson learned.
I'm in Hereford, did the trailer driving aged17, 1978, on mate's farm, on a165. No clue which gear, slipped the clutch trying to find the right gear, combine driver stopped, put the tractor in the right gear, spat on his finger then wiped his ear. Walked back, didn't say a word. One of the best jobs I ever did, with spuds and hops. Beautiful memories.
No slight intended to the American farmers I watch, but what a pleasure it is to hear a correct but not plummy English voice explaining the relevant agricultural matters! Col, NZ.
Interested that you don’t have UHF radios in your cabs to communicate about speeds etc? It is brave of you to record yourself Re-acquainting yourself with chasing the combine harvester! And it’s so hot and dry for harvest in England.
We use handsfree phones when off-camera, which work well enough for us.
here in South Australia we have 'Total Fire 🔥 Ban Days' where No Farm machinery, grinders etcetera are allowed, as the risk of Fires are so great. Even hot exhaust pipes set off fires.
PS: 95% of our fires here are Arsonists or Farm Machinery.
One question I have, how many of your farm vehicles have AC for working in the heat? I know they're fancy pieces of kit so skimping on AC seems like a no no!.
Also, doesn't the basic license cover rooks and carrion crow with the shotgun treatment? I know the shooting regs changed not too long ago, but it'd be a solution for it!
Harry can you explain why there is the East/West divide (in general) between arable and dairy? I have never understood why. Is it climate?
If you see a crow with his mates they are rooks, if you see a rook on his own he's a crow.
Thanks for the info, didn't know that!
I bumped into a farmer couple of days ago in Cheshire. He had a much smaller version of your combine. I asked him about maintenance and he said he does it all himself with a spanner! I was super impressed. Friendly chap, loved the brief chat I had with him. Farmers always seem nice, genuine people!
He maintains the electronics and software with a spanner?
@Kingsford Gray Don't ask me! I just said I heard they are complex and difficult to maintain from watching HG. And he said it was not that bad and he did it all himself. I asked if he needed many tools and he said no, a spanner does most of it. I was gobsmaked! He mentioned Harry's one was likely worth hundreds of K, and seemed to imply the cheaper ones are less complex.
His one may even be pre-electronics ? Similar to how older cars are? It seemed to have been about it fromn looking at it! I am far from knowledgeable though do find it inetersting.
Top quality content Harry, can't wait for the update
QUESTION : Why not jerry rig a cheap camera to the top of the tractor focused into the trailer. That way you could watch on a screen in the cab how the trailer was filling, while comfortably sitting forward. Also, can't some clever clogs design some sieve that would separate the wheat from the barley so you could get a better price / be able to harvest the barley earlier when it was ready to go ?
My guess would be that farmers have a natural dislike for superfluous tech 🤣 Harry is probably not one of those however, would imagine that keeping it clean from all the dust would be difficult
@ewings999, I run cameras all the time and dust is minimal, Czechbound is right on the money with cheap cameras, mine all come from ebay..
The grain size varies, and screening takes time and space, that it looks like Harry does not have. Unfortunately.
you could put it over a separator but takes time and cost. sometimes easier to take the hit and move on
Always hard, but overall going well, think. Hope it carries on sort of ok!!
The merchants should be adding the water is utterly ridiculous that you get docked on price of it being too dry. It’s a constant push to the bottom.
The combines and the Bayler’s are out in the fields where I live. The bayler was going till about one this morning. Maximum respect to all the farmers at this busy time of year.
bailer/bailers, not Bayler's/bayler
@@michaelanderson7715 USA we spell it baler. 🤷
@@jimbob8969 Oh, he's talking about _that_ meaning of baler! I thought he meant something else, anyway, he's still wrong. And yes, it's 'baler' in the UK too.
@@michaelanderson7715 Well, the English spawned the language and can claim seniority, unless of course the American is a Southerner, in which case it can get complicated since Southerners often times used words the English used to use, but no longer use, and therefore the Southerners can claim....seniority. :) Funny how that works.
@@erichamilton5932 That's _one_ take on it!
Fascinating as always! Question though, did I miss something or do I not know why merchants won't take the grain when it's too dry?
In most grain processes anything too far out of specification gives poor extraction and losses for the user hence a claim on cost.
For example, with oil seed rape , if it’s too dry the oil evaporates from the seeds , and if it’s too wet the pods won’t mill therefore the oil cannot be extracted
People are ditching TV in light of this sort of stuff. No tedious or patronising presenters, just real life.
"The combine's working well". Did anyone else hear the man from Cotswald Combines sit up sharply and rub his hands together?
Are you regretting starting that magazine now you actually need the extra barn?
Just move the cars out and tip the OSR in the garage!
Your heatwave is giving us all a good laugh in Australia. We have this weather every year.
Hurrah for air-con!
@@harrysfarmvids ...and the frozen food section in supermarkets!
But you're geared up for it, we arent! We also have a good laugh when you have a 11 degrees day and say it's cold! That's shorts and T shirt weather here!
@@MrBrianc1975 True but I also have a home near Baden-Baden in Germany and it gets very hot there in the summer (high 30s every year) and the summer is long. The Krauts do not have air-conditioning but seem to cope far better than the UK. As for 11 degrees being cold, mate, that is almost freezing cold - anything under 18 degrees is too cold for me!
@@Mike-br8zt ha, I think it's just us Brits. I dont know what our ideal weather is but whatever it's doing out there is subject for conversation! Apparently this week Scotland broke its record temperature with 28 degrees! I was very surprised that it has never been hotter than that up there! Here on the south coast of the uk 28 is not uncommon. With the way things are going we might be seeing more of this heat!
Doesn’t seem 5 minutes have passed from when I watched last years harvest 😳
Harry! Why do you not have storage bins! I was brought up on the farm in the sixty's and we had storage bins and also sheds for overflow! Combining was a dawn to dusk availability with dryers if too moist! Every load was sampled for moisture! It beggars belief how backward the industry has become! You should also be growing potato's and sugar beet as back up!
I can remember it being like that on farm too but today, on a farm our size (350ac arable), it's really only a part time occupation and you need to supplement it via other income sources. There's simply not enough profit to contemplate investing in new storage bins. A more popular option is to join a local storage group and increase your storage capacity that way. But it's still expensive and you have to offset the potential increase in grain sale price with the rental on the storage space.
I'd rather do it my way and develop other income streams instead..
@@harrysfarmvids I've replied to a few others asking this and pointed out cost/volume/margins
Keep cool and safe ladies and gentlemen. 🇬🇧
Any chance of you doing an depth video of how driving a tractor works? None of the buttons and levers make sense to me.
Great vid as always Harry. Hot dry weather always should have a plough on a tractor incase of fire in a field couple of runs a head of the fire to create a fire break better to lose a little by ploughing crop in than the whole field. Keep equipment well greased and oiled so bearings don't get hot. Keep the videos coming one of the best ag channels on RUclips thank you Harry.
Looking at you loading you would make quite a good formation pilot!
This channel and Clarkson's farm series have me fascinated by the day to day reality of farming. Great work.
One of them does
Clarkson is an entertainer, not a farmer.
Another great video Harry, informative and enjoyable as always. Fingers crossed you can crack on with the OSR asap. Already looking forward to the next one.
Should have borrowed Gerald and his walkie-talkie’s for the combining- he’d have kept you on the straight path.
Great video, it can be a dangerous job in these very high temps, the farm at the back of us had a very large fire today, took the loader up and flattened some fire breaks whilst the field was burning around me. It’s very scary how fast these fires spread.
Was that the farm in East Hall by any chance? I was there with a water bowser helping to fill up the fire engines.
It was an absolutely massive fire, I was there until about 12pm last night and then one of our other guys was there all day today helping out.
The wall looks fantastic! Hope you get some rain and cooler temps soon.
Looks like you'll have to move your cars out of the hanger and use that to store your Rape-seed. lol
First man to work the land wearing a relax 😅😅
Found the Harrys farm from the cars, now Its the farming I can't wait for! And the fulvia of course. Favourite channels, many thanks
Ive got to say Clarksons Farm did so much for farming and introduced what is a complex and scientific world to the masses. Harry further refines this and covers the intricacies and difficulties faced with good humour and it is a fascinating insight …. Absolutely love it!! Almost as much as I love his XJ-C!!
Harry’s got so much more knowledge and experience than that Johnny come lately
Harry did it earlier and he actually knows what he's doing.
Clarkson is clueless.
I think the difference is that Clarkson is making a TV show which of course is very entertaining whereas Harry Metcalfe is more towards educational interest for the general public, but obviously still enjoyable because I for one are learning about something I know nothing about.
@@charlesharper2357 Says Charles who probably doesn’t even have an allotment..
@@oakashthorn5714
I don't post videos and pretend to be an expert...nor am I a witless fanboy.
Anybody who thinks Jeremy knows half of what Harry does about farming is an idiot.
100k! Well deserved, keep up the great work.
Stay safe in this very hot weather, to you and your staff, thanks for getting in the harvest so that we can eat
You want more shed space? Move them bloody cars out of the garage😂😂 only joking Harry, don’t you dare.
Last time I saw you,was you driving your awesome project 7 down the south of France,work hard play hard Harry ,fair play to you 👍
If there is little to no moisture, why would you cultivate it which will dry it out more. Keep the canopy until you drill surely?
I want to stimulate the barley left by the combine to germinate prior to drilling but we need a sprinkle of rain first for that to happen..
Thank you for an interesting video. Amazed the oilseed rape was under 6%. Was involved in growing oilseed rape back in the 70’s and we never had the problem of to dry to harvest. How things change, you are spot on about early planting oilseed rape we worked that out although we often planted after winter wheat we had insecticide to deal re the beetle. Look forward to your next video.
Thanks for the update, Mr. Harry. Sorry that it’s been so hot lately. Hopefully you and the other farmers in your area will receive some much-needed rain.
Another educational and outstanding video. Why is Harry not at the top end of DEFRA or the CLA?
Hi Harry
Did you manage to cure the kangarooing that the combine was doing when roading last year, and was it the potentiometer in the joystick if you did?
Marvellous Harry great show
That's my boss posting with the John Deere combine, early start was definitely worth it. Keep up the great work.
Fantastic channel and videos. So informative. I live in a place surrounded by farmland and always wondered how things worked in terms of harvesting, rotation of crops etc. Keep up your great work.
Great video like always happy!! Take this for what it is, I’m not a farmer, but I’m good problem solver. Ever consider splitting the grain shed? Having a collapsible divider in between the two halves so you can have two different products like right now. AND, I was also thinking of possibly splitting the dryer system into two banks, and say for OSR, put a tarp over it and have a humidifier in there so you can occasionally just stir it up a bit and up your moisture so you can still harvest during events like this. And I am truly sorry, 104 degrees is HOT (our radio mentioned London today)
This is the best time of year for Harry's farm content.
Farming bores me but this channel is farming for dummies and It draws me in . So interesting ! Keep it up
Fantastic vid Harry, as an old Suffolk boy I love harvest time. This vid shows us how you boys really tackle this vital job. Love all the sample stuff and how you explain what’s acceptable. Waiting for the next one already. Cheers.
Don’t have those problems in Farming Simulator ;-) Stay safe, stay cool - 29 Celsius here in Scotland
Harry, please be careful around combine with Stanley bull terrier.
Thank you for your service, are you going to be restricted using fertilizer like the dutch?
Thanks harry for promoting agricultural. Love the passion you still have for it and I have tremendous amount of respect for you as your a self made man and first generation farmer.
Looks like you may have rain tomorrow! Fingers crossed you get the crops in first!👍
I thought the title was BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST but the vid is some carrot crunchers hrvesting barley
We could use some heat to start combining😅 It has been quit damp
Your farming problems pale into insignificance when compared to the Dutch and Italians. We're next if we're not careful.
What happened to “keep watching, keep subscribing, more videos coming along, very soon” 😂😂
I feel for you mate, in this near 40 degree heat!!..I farmed potatoes in Benwick, in the 1970's..I Never saw a day over 30 degrees. I did see rain, rain, rain..till harvest..then the rain subsided and great potato harvest. Farming is more gambling than Balley ever achieved..lol
Ever been tempted to trade a motor to fund a new shed for the extra grain storage space?
Hi Harry,
Enjoyed your video.
Bit late shearing the Pacas? - ours were done end of May.
Our Shearer uses his trailer with a board over the top for the Pacas to lay on- saves bending over, and his back.😎😎
Very little money for Fibre this year (again)
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Great videos 👍🏻👍🏻 and I must say...how much does Harry sound like James May 🤭🤭
Barley is so itchy
Move the Paris dacker bikes over to the other side of the garage , with a few dust sheets I’m sure your good for a few tons in there Harry x
Dacker 😆
Harry, what's the deal with grain futures? I've heard farmers say they can't lock in the highest prices because if in the end they can't deliver the volume & quality committed (due to admix, drought, fire, whatever), they have to buy the deal out?
How does that all work? Seems like the whole farming game is more about LIFFE futures trading than digging vegetables and driving tractors!?
It is...like dealing with supermarket chains as a primary producer...terrible consequences for you...no penalty for them....
Have you got anyone shooting the pigeons / corvids? Farmers biggest nightmare!
thought this was a posting by "Barclay James Harvest" ......
Thought it wasn’t merchants accepting dry grains more they will only and always pay for 15 percent moisture on barley for example even if it’s 10 percent so weighs less and wont get as ,duh for the same product
Informative and interesting as ever, Harry. Many thanks! 👌👌💯%
Really interesting I noticed the crops seem to be turning quickly where I walk
Wouldn't it pay to have a silo
Re transition to a low carbon economy, can farmers earn and then sell, carbon credits? (To boost income.) the market and register is evolving. Companies will want them to pollute and or say they are net zero. Can farmers play a role?
Always put some weight on the drawbar first and then concentrate on filling from the back.
If you ever visit Harry and are feeling unwell whatever you do don't let him take your temperature! Blimey did you see the size of his thermometer! Makes my eyes water just watching!
Harry, you need Australian farmers advice - these are not unfamiliar conditions, including fire prevention.
A lot more educational than JC !
Congradulations on 100k subs Harry The crops are so dry at the moment there is a big danger of fires -- be careful out in this heat !
Its funny watching this video a little over a year later, winter barley still in fields and farmers can't get machines into fields to salvage crops😢😢😢
Like your farm videos more than your garage videos. But if I can give you one bit of advice and that is,wear a hat when you are under a hot sun. Here in Australia I’m pretty sure you can’t class yourself as a farmer without a hat.
I was hoping to have the opportunity to taste that barley in a whisky. 🙂
But if it isn't for the chickens either, I wonder what it will be used for...
I’m not a farmer so I don’t understand why it’s too hot to combine. I live in Abilene, Texas and I see the combines going when it’s 110 degrees out there.
why is the tyre thread on the back wheels flipped around? I know motorcycles have it switched on the front for more traction and sacrificing some water displacement capacity.
Harry, I'm available for crop protection duties?
Nice to see the harvest going well... I can't help thinking of the poor Ukrainians having it all pinched...
Can we see more of your little dog please 🙂