Everything About Irrigation Pivots (Farmers are Geniuses) - Smarter Every Day 278 

Was there laminar flow you could find on the pivot?

I really enjoyed watching the video as well. I could tell this was not an easy video to make, but I loved your passion in this, and I love how you break things down even if they are simple.

Did it have a laminar flow though?

I have always wondered how these move whenever I see them while driving.

I wonder what sponsor pulled out this year... but telling me defeats the purpose, because it's free sponsorship for the act of removing their sponsorship. I guess I could go back through old videos and see who's been missing this year. Hmm... I could go back through old videos just because they're awesome to watch. What a great idea! Off I go.

They're stealing our jobs though /s

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without good mentors there would be no new guys. A bad teacher can ruin the learning process easily.

This couldn't be said more. Patience and understanding for the guys coming up whether it's Farming or Trades.

@@moezbenhamouda4725 Yeah, cause there is a HUGE rush of lazy Americans wanting those jobs. (sarcasm)

Destin is literally a national treasure

Absolutely, it's something I always take note of with Destin.

Seriously, his humbleness is inspiring. He's literally a rocket scientist and yet he has such a curious and humble mindset. I really want to be more like that.

Destin's great virtue is in realizing that everyone he encounters is a genius.

I would love to see a team up with him and Mike Rowe.

The long sleeves is for sun block! I do the same thing, but I wear white cause it's WAY cooler than a darker color. Same thing with jeans - white

ye fr respect to hosehey

Yeah that’s really what you should wear in high temps is a breathable light colored shirt that covers as much skin as possible. Next time you’re driving and pass a construction site, you’ll notice that most folks are wearing long sleeves and long pants. All for the same reason.

You just burn hands working all day under sun short sleeves.

Body heat keeps you cool when it's over 98 degrees Fahrenheit. The long sleeves help to contain your body's natural A/C.

@@Something-Something-Dark-Side 🤣 Bless your heart, it is not.

@Something Something Dark Side You made it all these years in life and still act the jackass?

They are not complicated at all… had them all my life.

@@SmokeShow9969 how much money you wanna bet you couldnt come close to creating this design?

This is really what is missing in africa, we need the expertise, the engineering... and we need mentors wo can make this happen not the government!...

Hello

Didn’t think you would be here

Hello iPod man!

Definitely didn't expect to see you in these comments 😊

I've just realized that Destin's farming videos have actually taught me a lot about how to conduct myself in manual jobs. I always remember the advice _"When you first join a team, volunteer to do the jobs no-one else wants."_ That has served me well in my career these past few years.

Not just willing, he insists on it. He was physically unable to just take "no" as an answer when he asked to help

He’s a rural engineer. This is NORMAL life. It’s hardly “getting your hands dirty” to not be a pen pusher or a “privileged RU-vid, creator”. Back in time before this insane era, people broke their backs and sweated rivers, just to earn enough to stay alive! There is no such thing as “going to the gym”, life itself is the gym. We live in an age of pansies

It's indeed not something a lot of people would do but I think Destin has also proven how well it works. He really gets in there and earns the trust of the people who actually assemble the stuff and learns from them.

Mike Rowe 2.0

Dude got the respect of a Mexican crew leader. That really means a lot.

Thats alot! We used to have 1...lol

I help run a family farm with about 10000 acres all irrigated About 105 pivots

people usually get annoyed when i confirm stuff back to them lol. glad to see its appreciated somewhere

@@ganon8835 i mean obviously there's time and place for everything. It's definitely very useful in a fast paced and error prone environment

@@aronseptianto8142 yeah fast paced, error prone, and where the errors cost lives. This form of communication is common in surgeries as well.

@@skyorrichegg yeah, definitely not in an office setting though

-Nice personality -Thanks, it's yours 😎

Also love the dude that smacked Destin's hand out of the pinch hazard!

"Shout out for the people organized and asked way way way ahead of time and the host that gets paid thousands of dollars to pander."

One thing not covered here is when the pivot goes down in the middle of the night. Nozzles are clogged and have to either be replaced or cleaned out. So much more, than just putting one in a field and letting it work. You are so correct about, bottomless pit. They are ingenious though.

As a geography major, your job sounds pretty exciting too. I'm in the Central Valley of California, so Ag is a big deal around here.

As a Geology student and lover of our natural world I really thank you for the job you do. Was lucky enough to see a guest speaker who works with farmers on managing water resources and it struck me as a tough but absolutely necessary line of work.

"revolves.' I see you

Feel very similar. I am a hydrogeologist with the state of Oklahoma that manages our aquifer studies that supports our groundwater permitting program and was just thinking I should share this with my team as we work with farmers all the time when we set up our well networks or look to do pumping tests and we often don't really think about all the stuff that goes into what they actually do and know out there in the fields.

"as my job revolves around the wells" Sooo, you ARE a center pivot irrigation system...? :D

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Whoops 🤭🤭

Nope. This is not technology (drill a hole and take water by tubes) and neither science. This is the worst thing people could invent and use. There is enough water undeground for years and maybe few decades. But this kind of underground water is there for hundreds or thousands of years. There is no chance to use this for more than few years. And it will do a lot of drying in those places...

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so you're meaning non ?? or likely not much ?? leonardo da vinci would've been got a better solution in 5min. pure ingnorance is that is all that to me

Yes! 🙌🏻

Sounds like you had a great dad!💪

Lol where? In Bama he'd be saying that every 60 seconds

Great Story!

May he RIP

Fun fact: In Hungary, these are called "lineár" (and yeah, it means what you think it means).

If only I knew what you were talking about

@@janeblogs324 I’m assuming the red outlines on the mechanical moving bits that regulated the moving of the wheels that turn the whole thing.

Seems like your dad underwent a career pivot

You remember a whole lot better when the reaction to something dumb is severe. I bet he had that swat in his head the next time he wanted to grab it.

The timestamp is actually 7:04 if you want to see what he's talking abounded

Yep, rule #1 keep human parts out of hard steel parts, they bite and don't bark before taking some hide.

I understand that completely as someone who works the ramp for an airline. Constantly moving new hires away from dangerous areas.

Yup

Same here. Drove across the Midwest wondering the same thing. Had no idea how big they really truly are

I guessed these might be hydraulically driven by the water, no need for electricity, or just a smidge like a beacon/receiver. Boy was I wrong. Simple, effective, less is more!

​@@YCbCr google TL irrigation pivots. They are hydraulicly powered and the towers move continuously together rather than start and stop like this one. Pretty neat design.

​@@bonanzabiker...best kind of wrong. :) Sounds interesting, thank you!

Many things are just that. If you drill down far enough all the most complex systems are comprised of simple parts.

This is what top-tier engineering looks like.

Ingenuity is best portrayed when it wholly solves a complicated problem with a simple process.

@@goodgoyim9459 What?

I was sure that the wheels would work with gears and water pressure. When I have own house I would want to build something like this to circle the house (pivot@roof). Or put irrigation system inside the soil before the new top soil.

We have the same rule with Star Wars. Making it a family experience is half the fun!

This is the most hilarious yet wholesome comment I've ever red lmao.

I've seen these in the Delta, but not really here in Simpson. Now I know what I'm looking at when I see them.

I like Revelations 2:9

@@tedundercarriage8183 I like Leviticus 26:16. 🤤

@@LudditePower yeah, I feel like there's a laundry list of people deserving of much worse. Very metal tho. 👌🏻 wp

You've got this.

@@smartereveryday :)

@@smartereveryday ❤

Literally everyone has bad days. You're not alone. They are temporary and are always soon followed by good days. Take care, Dani.

@Dani Ochoa destin's videos dont usually make me happy but i enjoy watching them but it makes me happy that his videos make YOU happy :)

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Hear hear!

Different gear ratios could still be used but it's probably best to keep the ratios low for the sake of efficiency. Different ratios alone wouldn't account for changes to the terrain while the bang bang method allows the inner boxes to keep up even if they hit a snag and presumably stop the whole thing if they can't get unstuck. I'm not sure how they actually do it but a simple method would be to check for pulses from the closest motor and if it doesn't get a signal to move (because one of the outer sections is stuck) or if it's constantly got a signal to move (innermost section is stuck) it could kill the power and send a message through the smartphone app/service. I work in manufacturing, in particular on press lines, and there's quite a few safety systems in place that look for periodic pulses such as a shortfeed sensor (makes sure the coil is in position before trying to hit it) and part eject sensors (makes sure the part properly ejected so it doesn't get smashed on the next hit). Some of our presses also have a sensor on their shakers (moves scrap chutes back and forth in a certain rhythm to push scrap into a hopper) to make sure the shaker doesn't stop while the operator is busy with other tasks (loading coils, raking scrap, emptying part buckets, catching parts, emptying waste coolant buckets, filling cooling buckets, ect). Some jobs get really busy and/or scrap can build up fast (some jobs we could walk outside and watch grass grow).

His excitement and giddiness are infectious, aren't they? I wonder what his IQ is?

@@scottkempton6085 He seems like a very bright individual for sure!

Such genius until they used all the ground water.

@@bobdebouwer7835 What? Are you serious? You don't think water usage isn't figured into their calculations? Not to mention those crops are quite literally the reason you're alive today. What do you think happens to the water? Once the plants use what they need, it sinks and gets reabsorbed into the ground. If some remains on the surface, it evaporates and eventually all that evaporated water will go back to the earth in the form of rain.

Not a ton of profit but it's enough to have a large house+ workshop+ garage(s) etc... housing is 4-8x cheaper than in city/ suburbs.

@@soundguydon In many places farmers have "water rights" and they intentionally overuse water only because they don't want to lose their claim over how much water they are allowed to use. It's not particularly honest or honorable. In regions that frequently experience droughts, that water could sorely be needed elsewhere. Then there's also the issue of crops often being left to rot in the field whenever supply becomes too abundant, just so they can keep the price of food from falling.

Thats what Im here for... The guy can be inside a nuclear submarine below 30 feet of ice in the Arctic and go "Wait, this shower works this way" and seeing the people that actually know how that shower works "hey, this guy knows what he is talking about" is the whole point of this channel hahahah

Takes a lot of hard work to make it feel like this, I am sure he is working incredibly hard to find the next good subject to cover and tosses most of his ideas without us seeing them.

Always the best way to learn.

Preach! To people in the know, Destin is royalty.

@Drick lol, idk who hurt you but most of what you said is soooooo incorrect. Where I live I can drive for hours in about any direction and see a pivot sprinkler every once in a while, who I just kind of assumed people knew what they were. Just like you assumed that I'm a defect and invred. Idk where you got that😂

thats so cool - I cant imagine what your reaction must have been when you think to yourself, "Hey, wait a minute, I know that guy!" XD

How much would this cost?

No way......... Jose.... I'll leave lol.

@@gurpurvenkatesh roughly 15k a tower these days, another 40-80k needed for well and pump probably.

Following from the outside also makes the most sense too, since it has to drive the fastest. If it were following from the center, the outside would have the most starts and stops at high speed and possibly not even keep up in some situations, slowing the whole process down. It is so much easier for the shorter, slower inside one to catch up

That's how I thought they worked as well. I just went and explained it to my sister.

My first instinct would have been to make the outer segments follow the inner one, but your reasoning makes sense. It's probably smarter this way.

I can imagine this is also alot more analogue in nature than alternatives thus making it easier to maintain and repair.

I always wondered about that as well. I had incorrectly assumed they were running at different speeds or geared differently. The limit switch thing makes a whole lot more sense.

They are farmer they dont care...That clay aint going no where..

@davehughesfarm7983 that attitude is how people get hurt esp with the youngin in that trench

Though the same thing when the Kids were in the trench!

um... why didn't you ask your wife?

@@maxsdad538 Good question! She grew up on a small dairy farm and didn’t have irrigation… She’d never given it much thought…

@Karl with a K Is this a genuine opinion?

Most modern cars nowadays with steering wheel controls actually have a 'ribbon ' of wires coiled up instead of slip rings.

@TheBigghunter01 It's called a clock spring because it's literally that, except it's not made of stiff metal but of ribbon cable. This is OK in a steering wheel because you can't turn it in the same direction indefinitely, you have to backwards, therefore a good lenght of coiled up ribbon cable will do the trick.

In all fairness, from an engineering standpoint guns are incredible machines. Complex and purely mechanical devices which need to withstand massive forces, that have become so refined over hundreds of years that they now have an almost elegant simplicity. That so much effort and ingenuity was put into devices whose sole intended purpose is to murder really says more about humanity than any philosopher ever could.

And I think the tube was a gas tube.

@@sylvrwolflol Not just murder. Take a look at some of the extreme engineering that goes into target rifles (e.g. 6mm rail guns). Yeah, there is a lot of work that goes into military and self defense arms, but even the stuff that isn't intended to shoot anything but paper is rather impressive.

Jeremy, imagine designing and building a robotic arm that had joints/pivots that "followed the leader" of the finger or manipulator with some quasi-"bang bang " controls.

Wonder why they changed because that would make perfect sense.

@@Liwet. maybe it required more fine tuning of the nozzles and pressure and it's more convenient to use a motor

Electric motors are simple and also very energy efficient devices.

Technology connections actually did a video on the impact sprinkler, which was interesting to watch.

Reliability & consistency. Too much variability in water flow that affects drive speed, I'm sure the water powered ones are real finicky.

Maybe you could make a video, Adam! Ask your wife if she'd be okay with that!

Please do get a video made of this somehow, so many industrial uses of soy totally aside from food. Got to hear a presentation on soy-based gear lubricants and it was surprisingly fascinating. What little I know about soy-based plastic and other processes tells me about the incredibly exciting uses for soy besides feed and food-grade soy. Which... isn't the intro to this video made of soybeans?

It’s nice that you genuinely enjoy hearing about your wife’s job :) 👍🏼

@@N0no420 classic family. The mainstream media have demonized family life, women and men teamwork.

I;m thinking about thos beans

Very cool!

Sounds like he was the "genius", not farmers who are just using the tool.

@@NoctilucentArts same with all other inventions... Someone solves a problem, and it's a benefit to everyone who needs it... just because you use a rubber tire, or a double pane insulated window doesn't mean you must be smart enough to have created it for yourself.

@@volvo09 So I must be a genius because I know how to use tools invented by other people and follow established routines. Like farmers following established routines using tools invented by other people.

I was just curious, where does Valmont industries fit in?

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As a person who doesnt like their own pronunciation but lives and works in the US, i do like the captions.! It helps a lot to get and practice.

-- haha I felt that, as someone trying to learn Spanish.

I will add, the build crews are amazing. We have 5 full crews in house and they work like mad. This last year they gathered crews for a downed machine in super hot conditions and knocked out a 1/4 mile pivot and running water in 7 hours.

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I’ve had so many questions driving past these bad boys on road trips (the water and the movement, primarily). So cool to see it get the attention it deserves!

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complex on lazyness ??

It just makes me think that if there was a big collapse we'd all be so screwed

How's the work? Are you tired at the end of the day? Do you get used to it? Kudos to you for doing such a laborious job!

My neighbor Henry who is well past 80 spent many years in South America building pivots as well with building them all over the country. Now there are more than enough companies local that one no longer needs to travel. If you get an offer to go some where to build pivots take it. Train well and learn all you can and then find a bigger company that offers international work.

@@susa4727 very hard but very rewarding to see all the little parts laid out and put together into one recognizable pivot. In a way you do get used to it. In another, it is always heavy parts.

@@kameljoe21 I'm actually doing pivot work to transfer into welding but there really is a lot of opportunity because pivots are so widely used.

This is industrial farming though, which is interesting in its own way, but I think the farming most people are interested in is self-sufficient farming, you know, farming just enough in order to 'save your bacon' and not be so dependent from other people or organizations to put food in your table.

@@you2be839 pivots aren't industrial farming i work on a family farm with 13 of them

@@dougstitt1652 Doesn't matter, family or company, the use of heavy duty agricultural machinery and farming methods with the intent of selling most, if not everything of what the crops produce, it's still called industrial farming by definition. Also, I only define "family farm" when most of the people working there belong to the same family.

Undocumented immigrant pickers are the reason you have food in your table

Me too. From Nebraska. Center pivots the norm, and run well on that perfectly flat prairie.

Nebraska boy here!!!

My parents live out past fields of these, I’ll definitely look at them in a different way now

No they sure dont..Its amazing the stupidity..If I was a city dweller I would have a inquiring mind to know!

A farmer friend of mine said Drain Tiles and drainage were the second best payoff next to irrigation itself for cash crops.

I am old school..Old equipment works best for me..New paint is debt..But I understand what you are saying..Some of the tractors I still use are over 40 years old..

@@davehughesfarm7983 Absolutely nothing wrong with stretching out the life of good equipment as much as you can. It's difficult to pay more than double the price of my house for a new tractor and then have to figure out the payments. However, looking at the data that some of these new systems can provide is sure a help when it comes to maximizing yield with the lowest outlay of resources. But then, that's the catch, isn't it? You have to have the money to buy all the new gear and that's not always easy to come by...

Why are you ruining his life

@@TimPerfetto ???? Dirty Jobs didn't ruin Mike Rowe's life, if that's what you're implying? What are you trying to say here?

@@williamdowling7718 WHy are you ruining my life

@@TimPerfetto .... Instead of just saying the same confusing thing again, why not explain how or why I've ruined anyone's life? What are you even talking about?

@@williamdowling7718 OhhhohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhAHAHhahahahaaaaaaaa