"We come from the land of the ice and snow/ From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow..." You never know when winter will strike in Wisconsin! The drone definitely helped you locate those massive sinkholes. Just keep pushing on to the end. Thanks for the video!
I have successfully repaired many sinkholes here in central Kentucky. It's more of a process than just filling with rock. They were also fun and rewarding jobs. One had swallowed an employees pickup in a factory parking lot. It was repaired and is back to being a parking lot. 👍. The pickup was also repaired 😊
Dude...holy crap! Iv never seen anything like that sinkhole.. I’d be sitting on the edge of that combine seat thru that entire field. Great video bud, I hope your thanksgiving was good. Thanks for all you do Ryan 👍
Holy cow! Those are some massive sink holes. 😬😳 I had a sinkhole at the bottom of the barn bridge few years back that a riding mower would fit 😬. Excellent drone footage .
I can't believe today is December 1st. Hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving. It won't be long and 2020 will be here and start all over again.
I have watched Kuster Farms Harvest for umpteen tears. For some reason this has been a more enjoyable series. The intro is fresh and it lets me know what is coming. For us on this side of the screen, the harvest has been smooth except for the uncontrollable Mother Nature. PM's were basically finished before the start and only annoying gremlins have popped up. With better yields, the stress and tensions were much less. Dad has actually had more input this harvest and was appreciated. AS always, I'll be her to the end, then hang around for winter maintenance leading into spring planting. The cycle never ends.
Hello Ryan , that drone coverage was awesome ! ... I would hate it if I had to worry about holes like that . Those size holes could make a person disappear . Hopefully you guys will be able to relax a little , I know it’s been a long tough harvest for everyone . I live in North Ohio and there it still a lot of corn standing . It’s been to wet to get into the fields . May god bless you all ! Great video !
It absolutely blows my mind seeing all the you tubers drone shots... you can tell immediately who has the better planters by the stand. You plant to harvest and harvest to plant. Two biggest and most important pieces of equipment, good planter and good harvest machine will either make you or break you. There is no telling how much is lost when you have a planter that doesn’t do a good job. Buy a new planter man,,,, yeah it’s a big cost but it pays for its self! I promise! This is from a fifth generation farmer. 👍🏼
I was just thinking that they looked like good places to lose rocks when it was the next sentence from you. Luna looks about as impressed with tractor work as Gem (our working collie) does, when it comes to sheep work she is hyper and absolutely nuts
Those sink holes are no joke. Back in the late 70's my dad was discing a field near the river. Hes was 100 feet or so from the edge when a sinker opened up and the tractor rolled pinning him inside. He spent 3 hours pinned until a friend stopped by to talk with him and found him. Turned out to be an old spring decided to wake up and created a hell of a hole under there. From the pictures i have seen it was about 30ft in diameter.
Check out my post above... this was about 6 miles from our house... My mom and Dad both drove that road to work, she crossed it at about 10 pm going to the night admissions office/ER at the hospital (she did paperwork) and Dad crossed it at 5 pm going to the nuke plant to work, and would have crossed it again at about 8 am on the way home. Mom would have crossed it again by about 7 am on the way home... The road was closed for over a year while they pumped the thing down (took weeks of pumping 24/7 with several large diesel powered pumps) then refilled it with dump truck after dump truck loads of dirt... They actually mounded it up somewhat and it's since sunk back down about 4 feet as all the dirt they filled it in with has settled over the years... there's now a pronounced dip in the road where the sinkhole was... It was like a year or 18 months later before they finally could pave over it and reopen the road... until that time everything was detoured around on some old one-lane farm roads... just crazy! The believe it was caused by the ground strata being undermined by oil drilling or, most likely, sulfur extraction that took place at the nearby Texas Gulf Sulfur plant at Newgulf, Texas (which was the company town that's now all but dead since TG closed in the mid-late 70's IIRC). They pumped superheated water down wells that was then extracted from other wells, which dissolved the sulfur veins in the underlying rock. Over time the entire area where the old oilfield and sulfur wells were located has sank to form a subsidence lake... OL J R :)
We have Sink Holes here in Florida! Where we live on the west side of Marion Co. we have tons of them, Far as it goes the whole west side of the gulf coast is called "Sink Hole Alley" ours are from the rain water running through the Lime Rock and dissolving the rock, As you might have seen on TV, they can be massive or they can be small, Some they call Chimneys. The biggest one I have ever seen open up was on a Construction site I worked on, Retention Pond was full of water, Maybe a 15 acre pond about 15 to 20 Ft. deep and a few big bubbles came up and within 45 Seconds ever bit of that water was Gone. Now that is scary ! Ryan, You haven't had Jamie on here lately, Is she in Hibernation ?
On a second note it would be awesome and very interesting to see the map that your grandfather had if you guys ever find it. These tunnels you’re talking about, are they big enough to walk through or they were just tunnels from machinery boring into the land itself?
Great shots from the drone again, cool music and amazing pictures! By the way. Your skills in flying the drone plus your sense for finding the right scenes are absolutely great.
In your area there used to be lead mines and coal mines. I work for a costom silage chopping crew and we chopped for a farmer near Rockville. He has sinkholes all over his farm. There is a mine tunnel entrance at the bottom of his driveway.
Ryan, have you guys made any decision on purchasing the Unverferth as well? As you said it seemed to be a big help. Or would you rent one next season instead?
Thanks for the update, Good video. Always interesting to see the footage from the sink holes, do you have enough fill around the farm to fill them in or do you have to truck it in? Maybe getting a dump trailer for big red might be a good investment for hauling in the needed fill. Depending on size might give you some additional emergency storage. Depending on the dockage for high moisture, are you at all getting close to the point where more storage and a dryer would make sense or is your operation just to small to justify the investment.
Is a ground penetrating radar scan too expensive? A good map ought to show the problem areas where you could bore and pour fill or at least have GPS locations of dangerous spots.
@@normanhosford2506 I don't think that's possible... ground penetrating radar is a pretty complex deal, and requires a lot more power and intricacy than "fish finder" sonar... Later! OL J R :)
Hey, Ryan! Thanks for the video! When I see those sinkholes, it makes me think about how unaware I am when driving the combine, haha xD Thankfully we don't have those, otherwise I probably would have been a goner! By the way, how do you like the Cappelo's ability to size residue? Would you say that most of the residue in between the row has been sized up? I know that a person can buy stalk rollers that are supposed to do the same thing, with less maintenance.
If you are far away from an equipment operator hand signals can be very hard to see. Use some elbow movement or move your entire arm. Otherwise the operator is basically guessing the entire time.
How far down are the mines? Will the sinkholes (if not dealt with) sink down really deep? I am quite curious because where I farm we only get broken tiles that cause small sinkholes.
Dumb question, If you have a high lead content in the ground, and they mined it, what's the ground water like? Do you get lead in your Wells? Can anything be done about it?
