Been in the same boat as you. Storms coming and need to get going. you maybe couldve finished the field but i totally agree with you about not wanting to be caught in a hail storm. I sure wouldn't want my equipment out there.
Travis I was getting stressed out just watching you get stressed!!! Can't imagine what my GPA had to do in those situations back in the 50's until he sold the farm in the late 80's here in West Michigan. Glad you were home safe and I'm sure your whole family was worried stiff.
You are lucky to make it home. We have square baled or Round baled to the last moment and almost had disaster. I remember one time my brother and I cleared 50 bales off his field with a storm like that looming. My brother didn't think much of it as I was the one driving the open station tractor. Keep the great videos coming, you and Ryan remind me of my brother.
Im dying at this comment and i dont know why lmao!! Lower it a little too so in a few monthes you have beans on the side of the road lmfao!! taking out road sign with it haha
this video is a prime example of why I like your videos. It's real right down to the emotions at that time. Keep up the good job you are doing sir!!!!✌️
Oh my God!! I was so scared for u. Don't be upset with yourself when u make a right decision. It was frustrating for u but better to be alive to go back another day.
In watching some of your videos it's amazing how large some the fields that you farm are. My brother and I farm in Northwest Indiana and know some of the frustrations you encounter with the weather and other things. Keep up the good work, enjoy your videos.
You guys have been blessed with the weather you have been getting, in Indiana every time it dries up it rains another 2-3 inches. We're not getting the crop all in until late June probaly.
That's when you are wishing for a fifth gear in that D range on the old quad range transmission. Been a many time i was trying to get that last windrow of hay rolled before an afternoon thunderstorm only to get caught. Seems that's the way it goes sometimes.
Travis, now that was a great video glad you made it back ok. Great attitude to have, not getting upset over shit you can't control. Keep up the great videos! !
love the way You and your equipment are hard fighting with time! i had similar situation last september. i was seeding wheat i have made 20 of 50 ha then it started raining... all autumn. next time i was on field, i wasnt seeding wheat, but corn, in april. weather can change our plans but without her anything cant grow.
should have kept going Travis......We can see the stress in you.......Do what we do here in the UK!!!!!!say sod it and carry on....all the best fella...We get harsh storms here too..and tornados...Beleive it or not...Thats a good looking super cell....
I sure am glad you decided to head for cover , weather you get that 4 acres in or not it's not worth your life or risking that nice equipment . thanks for sharing another adventure with us buddy .
this spring this also happen to me I was in are 8410t working ground with are vertical tillage tool for wheat and I was watching the storm blow in I had 100 acres left and my phones alert system went off saying severe storm warning for the county I was in so I finished the pass I was on folded the wings up and hauled 10 miles In 16th gear wide open got to farm and my dad had the shed door open soon has I got into the shed the hail started to fall
Ha ha, Yes, my friend is a Big Time Management Consultant for the Computer Industry and he went nuts at the World Ag Expo in California. All he could say is he would love to drive, or Operate a "Carbine" or "Big Tractor" Guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Keep up the good work. Thanks
No doubt tough call Trav but you made right one. Not worth the risk of that storm. Iam visiting friends near Cedar Rapids and seems the whole state has been wet.
I coulndnt count how many times i got caught by thunderstorms and rain showers while working on farms when i was young;it was always time to get cover like you Travis;like you said 15 or 20 minutes later the sun was shining.Here in Quebec we didnt had tornado warnings like yours but sometimes these storms were strong with hail,high winds and lot of rain to push down some crops! Ah those younger days!!!
I've been on an open station Oliver 1655 bringing home the last load of haylage for first season an the field was 5 miles away from the farm. Thank God I had a radio other wise I wouldn't have known that there was a tornado warning and I was hauling ass to get home, about 3/4 of the way home it just started to down poor and lightning everywhere and I could feel the ground shake, I'm was feeling like I wasn't going to make it, but thank God I did. One of my neighbors cousins was taking hay and he was driving home on a IH 806 and when he was coming back and it was mid July and a thunder storm was coming, Lighting struck the tractor, sadly he died and the tractor was burned all to hell, the tires, wiring, engine, all burned. That's why I always have a phone or radio with me cause I don't need to be stuck out in a storm like that again.
What weather app are you using? I do outside work, non-farm, but am totally dependent on weather, reasonably dry weather. I understand exactly the reading of the green, red, yellow "blobs" as they move across. I primarily use Accuweather, but also use Weatherunderground. The Accuweather forecaster for the "next 120 minutes" us usually very, very good in my area. If it says, "rain starting in 55 minutes," I can plan around that information. Information is so much better now than even five years ago. Yep, ... sure helps to be a amateur meteorologist, and know how to read the radar maps, and satellite images for cloud cover.
mother nature is a cruel old bat some times I am a county worker in Mn she messes with us in the winter all the time it is hard to plan anything with what we do and I get it with what you guys do too be safe have a safe season and thanks for the video.
Yeah I remember one time I was disking in the fall after a long hot dry spell-- rolling dust like nobody's business... It was HOT and we had some big thunderboomers rolling in, so I was hauling it trying to get done. I was watching the lightning on the horizon and it was big, strong, and frequent. I looked back at the disk and saw all the dust and hot exhaust rising straight up from behind the tractor, like a trail right up into the sky... sky now filling with lightning, and here's all this hot carbon sooty exhaust from the tractor and soil (mineral) dust going up with it, which it dawns on me can CONDUCT ELECTRICITY... and anything that can make it easier for lightning to travel down, acts as a "lightning rod" in the air, leading the lightning right down on top of me. SO, I decided given the intensity and frequency of the lightning, it was time to "hang it up" for the day, even though the rain hadn't arrived yet... No sense taking DUMB chances (and I'd already been zapped twice in one week from nearby lightning strikes during cotton harvest). Later! OL J R :)
Hauling ass to get home. Looks like you just barely dodged a bullet. When that weather system hit Des Moines I had just gotten to work, and my late-night tech couldn't believe that the sound she heard was rain coming down on the roof of the store. It made for a quiet night, which was nice. How long did it end up taking for that field to dry out and you to finish planting it? Today (Monday 5/22) looks to be the first sunny day I've seen in about a week.
We got caught in a big storm this last wheat harvest. The rain caught us right as we covered the grain trucks and hopped in pickups. We couldn’t see but maybe 5 feet in just a solid wall of rain. A lot of us hadn’t even shut the doors on our pickups when the bad rain hit.
You are smart. You do the best that you can with what you got. If you waited for a perfect time to do everything you would never get it all done. Sometimes you have to improvise and do what you think best.
Speed kills accuracy & usually creates more problems then it's worth!! But I hope you got the soybeans in. Weather is always the biggest obstacle for us farmers.
i cut it close mowing hay last year in the back field dad sent me a text had just started my fifth round when dad who was watching the sky and weather called me i never locked the haybine in transport so fast as i did that day turned around while mowing to check the sky and it was black as night hauled ass across our ground in 2nd high wide open longest short ride of my life
smart thing to stop with all that lightning, with all that electronics one lightning strike with that planter in the ground could be costly. I understand how you feel so little to go and you'd be done but don't feel bad its may 22 and I haven't got anything in the ground yet. you must have been getting a little stressed you started to sound like OLF lol
kylewil12plays that would be ideal I should have been done 2 weeks ago. because of rain just got started last week and I have heavy clays that take longer to dry out, rained again yesterday. doesn't help either that I'm still waiting for my big tractor to be overhauled because of water in the crankcase so I only got one other big enough for tillage work and I just got that back from having a clutch put in it. still I'm not to worried yet I only plant corn for silage so I have alittle bit more flexibility
all of us that have farmed know that farming is a gambling game play the wrong card loos your ass and the worst part is it is an addiction got out of it this year it was taking up to much of my time and i couldn't do my school work and with the stress i wasent happy but what i discovered is it wasent the farming that was stressing me out it was the school work when a i graduate i plan to become a heavy equipment macanic and some day i know im going to be farming again
Rain is good! I guess you don't want a 'gully washer' for fear it might cause erosion and expose the seeds you just planted. Smart move to get out of the field and out of the open. :)
Travis I hope you got home before it rained on you and the tractor and planter that was a bad storm have seen cows run from the pasture to get in the barn to get of a bad rainstorm.
Wow, I know this is an old video, looks like Travis having bad day, but anyone else see him whip them U turns lifting the planter and making turns same time...looks like he is roping up a bull at the county fair he doing it so fast
Have you guys (even though you bleed green) ever thought about buying a Kinze? You don't have to leave the cab to fold it, it's all on a hydraulic system.
Talking about ironic , how farms work was the ad at the start of this video,lolllllll, hope u got home safely Travis , now u can just cuddle up with the lady of the house and forget about it ,lol
I can see the pressure on your face and hear it in your voice in this video. You were stressed man ! Scary looking storm, I would have high tailed it to the barn too! You need twin turbo, propane injection, drag slicks on that baby ! heheh..Hang in there man.
that's the thing about life sometimes.... you work as hard as you can, as long as you can, but you got to listen to God's nudges sometimes when he says u need to trust me and I'll take care of yah, cause it won't make sense to you, but God knows what's best, he just has more information on the situation then you do, being as he knows the future
There aint no rest for the wicked. Sometimes ya get shut down but ya did the right thing, better than getting stuck and frying a tractor planter, and multi thousand dollar GPS system.
Pretty good light show. I heard this morning that they where expecting bad weather in Wisconsin today and possible tornadoes. We are under a flash flood watch here in Georgia till Thursday. Need the rain bad but not all at one time.
You are a very hard and intelligent worker, but you can't control the weather. As a farmer you have to work with it. Unfortunately our weather forecasts aren't always very accurate with all the so-called technology. Don't get stressed out over things that you can't control. Use the time to do something else constructive and you'll be happy. The farmers back here in northeast Ohio are having it worse.
