Grain Bin Entrapment 

I mean if we all donate a dollar that 600k raised for a good cause.

Old man is in heaven watching the yield monitor on the combine... 70+.. he had to come back! 👍👍

My uncle fell off a grain bin about 6 years ago. He broke his hip and had several surgeries. Thank you very much for addressing grain bin safety. That’s why you are the best channel on RU-vid.

Thanks for helping other farmers by helping first responders.

Thank you for all that you do for the farming community!!! You are an excellent example of what a man should be like!

As a first responder in Michigan myself and growing up and being around farms my entire life, I must say you guys are absolutely amazing! These volunteers who will be lucky enough to be chosen must really feel lucky! As always y’all stay safe!

Your dad seems like such a nice man. Reminds me of my dad. He always loved being in the combine. I miss him so much!! Enjoy every minute with your dad!! Take care and God bless!!

I know you hate grain bins, but I love watching grain bun videos. I don’t know why it so satisfying watching a grain bin be emptied or filled

Not all small town emergency responders can afford the equipment for grain bin rescue but they should have it, so that is awesome that you guys are doing this for the emergency responders!!

Hey! I'm a Paramedic, watching from Eastern Canada. We don't have a lot of agriculture in this area that utilizes storage bins. Little to no grain, but lots of root crop. I just wanted to say, I think your giving back and providing rescue training or equipment is an amazing thing to do. I've been a subscriber for a couple of years, and this is by far my favourite video!! A huge thumbs up, and I hope you get that training out there to everyone who needs it!

Those old farmers are tougher than a $2 steak. Glad your dad is doing good keep on keeping on and stay safe.

Thanks for helping out the volunteers and rescue squads.

Thank you our local white river coop just donated a grain tube this summer for grain bin rescues to Taylor fire Dept which I’m cheif of. We have three tubes in Greene County indiana now. Pioneer seed put on training a couple year ago. It’s good to have folks who recognize the need for rescue equipment. Thank you

You hit a chord, Zack. I have been away from my farm roots for a lifetime but can name entrapment victims from the 1950s onward in an all too long list. I am a retired rural Wisconsin sheriff's sergeant and have always called our almost totally volunteer responders and fire fighters "America's modern Minute Men". Thanks for the opportunity to do something for both groups!

Your a good man Zach giving back. People helping people that’s how we should live our lives.

Had both my knees done 15 years ago ,best thing I ever did. Thank you for your videos ,they are very informative to us "city folk"

Gotta say as a first responder in a heavy farmed area seeing them want to help that way means alot

Back in the day the rule was it was a two man job to work in the grain bins. One man inside and other man on the outside...even working in corn cribs with ear corn!!

We recently had a farmer fall in to a silo. He was 40 years old with 4 kids.. stay safe everyone our family’s need us

I'm a landscaper contractor in Arizona was raised in Tennessee love to watch these videos an old farmer told me one time he said I quote if you talk about farmers don't talk with your mouth full bless you guys keep up the good work

Man, I don't know of anybody in AG that doesn't know someone that died from grain bin/silo mishaps. I'm thankful and blessed it's not been a family member but we've lost 4 family friends in my millennial life, most recently about 3 years ago. As farmers we have to remember nothing is ever so important that we don't have time to be safe. Thanks for always highlighting this important issue. Be safe, everyone.

Sorry for any loss from grain bin deaths, Thanks for giving everyone a wake up call!!!

I hope a certain Green Machine and red machine manufacturers get involved in this cause. Be safe!

Don't forget children. Many climb to the top and fall in and suffocate in the grain. That needs addressing. Good job Millennial Farmer!

Hey, Thanks for helping the local first responders. The subject of grain bin entrapment is not widely known and I believe your campaign will assist in helping agencies to be better prepared. God Bless and Thanks for what you do!

Our local fire department bought a grain bin entrapment tool and they had its 3 days and weren’t even trained on it yet and they had to use it the lady made it because of the tool

"Thank you" is never enough to say, but I hope it shows how much you and Mrs. Millennial farmer are appreciated for all you do. Givingback is such a great support to the local EMS personnel that risk their lives, just like farmers do everyday going out to work their farms. I am a subscriber, and also a firefighter and former EMT, and truly appreciate how much you are helping us out, the equipment and training are an extremely important to us and as you may know, it is costly to the departments to purchase and upkeep the equipment and training. Thank you for your continued support.

ZACH, you are such a GREAT advocate for the farming industry - and like it or not, it IS an "industry". You are intelligent, well-spoken, humorous (eg. "eating" the dead bug ) and moderately handsome. Farmers need advocates such as you. Your videos are always well done - well edited (thank you Becki) and always have an excellent (or at the very least interesting/informative) message. The average consumer has no idea what it takes to put food on their table or the clothes on their back - whether it comes from an ear of corn, a pod of soybeans, a boll of cotton, a half of beef, a side of pork, a gallon of milk, or carton of eggs, or a pint of cream, a stick of butter, a head of caulifower, a package of strawberries, a bag of almonds, a bag of potato chips....etc etc etc. But I (and many, many others) appreciate you and your peers (the "industry" of farming). High tech sometimes - yet sometimes mucking out a grain bin (or hog pen or chicken house). Most Americans look down on farmers as "hayseeds". They have NO idea the critical importance you play in our daily lives. I know I am going on and on here. But believe me when I say you are NEEDED. Your VOICE. Your PERSPECTIVE. It is an important and useful thing you are doing.....so THANK YOU. And God bless the American farmer and the American cattleman and pork producer and cotton producer et.al............

YOU'RE REALLY GREAT. OUR FAMERS LIFES ARE THE MOST VALUABLE. THE WORLD WOULD DIE WITHOUT THEM.

It’s “KOBE!” 😂 I commend you for giving back to those communities where training funds are limited and the department members foot there own way!

Hey, I'm a retired bricklayer (because of disability, bad back) Who started out life on a very small family farm. One of the things I remember most from those years is my grandfather having me picking up rooster eggs. I comment on that very often...maybe too often. The farms down here in Southern Ohio are not even near the size you have up there but they work very hard just the same. I really enjoy watching your videos and look forward to looking in on the operation up there. Keep up the good work and above all stay safe! God bless and keep those kids praying (you too), Greg

Ex-firefighter I think it's amazing that you guys are getting back to volunteers firefighter .thank you

Dad: I’ll take the combine back, you go back in the bin” Zach: “No really, you rest your leg some more” Dad: “No, I’m good” Zach: “Doh!” 😂

“You just holding that trailer in place”? “Yea I don’t want it to roll away” that had me dying 🤣🤣

South Dakota military family currently serving in the UK. We watch every day that you post, thanks for what you do and what you do for your community! Cheers, Alan and Andrea Place.

Thank you for spearheading this campaign. It's a great cause.

I watch you, welkers and larson farms religiously and makes me wish I could buy my grandfathers land and get the farm going again and yall are awsome and amazing content

Thanks for giving back, I did alot of how do I say, "if ee" jobs growing up on the farm. But grain bins always scared me. I could stand on top of a silo or barn without concern. But crawling into that bin to level it out always made hair stand up on my neck. Couldn't wait to get out of it. Thanks for giving

That's a great thing your doing for the volunteer fire departments and for the 1st responders who rescue Farmers in Grain bins. SHOUT OUT TO YOU !!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍😎

Thank you both for donating to all these worthy causes!!!

My department has the equipment for grain bin and silo rescue and I am certified in grain bin and silo rescue.. we are as far as I know the only department in the area that has the set up

Our department got grain bin rescue equipment recently within the last few years we are lucky to have it seeing incidents happening in the neighboring districts, lucky to have it

Donated to the cause! We don't have bins on our family farm but anything to help first responders the equipment and training needed to help farmers is well worth it!

Videos like these serve this country well....a lot of people can see the handoff from one generation to the next off hard working farmers that make up the heart of our country and keep it moving forward, even when the rest of us are caught up in petty arguments.

You should do a video with MPL showing how they go into a bin to rescue from a bin.

When he pretended to eat that bug he's so funny😂😂

God bless you and all the Farmers out there you are the best!!

Well done Zach you are doing our community proud! 👏🏻

Hello MMF, Your are a breath of fresh air during these crazy times. A big thanks to you and your family for thinking of how your family can help out a great cause. Most of these tragic accidents are avoidable. If people could slow down and think through their processes and have a plan in place for confined spaces. Good luck on your plan to help. God's speed to your 2020 harvest. Boe

love to see money go to fire departments to help the farmers, Im 19 and on a fire department in eastern Nebraska and this Saturday we have a grain bin rescue class that i hope we never have to use but im glad we are having it incase we need to.

Nice to see a good people who care about others what a nice family you have enjoy your videos and information shared on farming many thanks from AUSTRALIA

I just wanted to say thank you for doing this, Many people don't understand how small some departments budgets are, especially volunteer departments. So receiving donated equipment that is vital to the area you serve is a huge relief to those departments! Also don't hesitate to check with your local FD to see if they need volunteers, Many of the old timers are retiring and we aren't seeing enough new blood wanting to come in and fill the boots, so recruitment is down nationwide!

U should put a camera in the cab of the combine for some footage when ur not driving it

Kevin from Mississippi here. Grew up on a farm n worked on for several years. Enjoy watching your videos

Very generous of the two of you to give back in such a manner. Thank you.

The company I work for Grain Systems Inc (GSI) have a thing called a ResQ to save someone in a bin when trapped. We have a team that travel around the US teaching fire departments how to use them.

Your an amazing guy for what you do. Im from alberta Canada and a couple years ago we had a tragic accident where a customer of our lost his 3 young daughters due to getting suffocated in a grain truck. It was news that had our whole farming community in tears. Keep up the awesome work and being a strong voice for farmers. Don't matter what country your from, farmers are farmers.

You are absolutely the best. I don't subscribe to cable tv or any national tv for that matter. You and youtube channels like you are my television. I personally would like to see longer episodes of the Minnesota millennial farmer.

Where I live we have a lot of crop agriculture. We are lucky and we don't have a lot of incidents but one of the local farmers purchased two sets of grain rescue tubes with auger and all the other nice tools for grain bin rescues. We are grateful for the farmers and for them looking out for the other farmers and themselves for providing that rescue equipment. What your doing is great and will benefit everybody.

Welllll, I was waiting for it, because I know you got some handy-dandy wd40 panther piss that'll free up those gears and shifters and linkages... lol BRAVO!!! On setting up the first responder fund!!!! Volunteer department's DEFINITELY need ALL the help they can get for funding for equipment and training!!!! THANK YOU!!! AND STAY SAFE!!!

I'm currently working on a senior design project at the University of Kentucky designing a harness and device to prevent entrapment caused by grain collapse or an auger being turned on.

Hi millennial farmer my name is Adam Painter and I’m from southern Illinois.I have been watching your channel now for a year now. I’m not a farmer but I am a volunteer firefighter and I put some of the stuff you talk about to use on Incidences involving anything on a farm I think it’s great that you are donating that money to fire and rescue departments. My department just got grain bin rescue equipment and training a couple years ago and we train 3 or 4 times a year with it. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there

Love your Dad. Can’t keep a farmer down for long. Keep up the great work!

Millennial Farmer is probably the most generous farmer alive! Let's get him to 600k subscribers!

If me or any of the friend's that help's us work in the Grain Bin's. We always have a spotter watching them. Cause year's ago i was in a caved in on one of our corn bin's. Lucky my daughter was watching me when it happened. And she took off to the garage where my dad and a friend was working on one of the Semi's. And my daughter ran in screaming. And my dad knew what happened since my daughter ran in screaming daddy's hurt. Lucky i manage to stand up and get out without no injury's. We now always carry walkie talkie's and say where we are at and what we are going to do. My daughter was happy i was ok. The device ur trying to fix our's was kinda like what ur's is doing. So we use a vac like what u did in ur last video. Cause it's easier to do and it's quicker. My daughter chewed me out when i got out. We had to get all the corn out to the plant that day. And the device kept clogging up. So i just said to hell with it i will just go in and just shove it in the middle. And bam got covered up good. I am 6'5" and i stood up and my wife yell's his head is right there. Friend's and my dad was like u lucky son of a %$#@!. We got it all out and taking to the plant. One of the plant worker's say's hey (Daughter's Name) she just goes hi. And he goes why are u mad. She goes i am mad at daddy for falling in the ben. I explained what happened he goes $#@! i said hell we had to deliver the rest 2 load's. That's cool u guy's are helping people. A lady at the Cafe where we always eat out all the time. She lost her truck in a accident. And her insurance company only give her $500.00 so what i did was give her one of the shop truck's so she would not have to walk in the cold or in the snow. And she was happy. And she help's us when it's hay season. And she help's my mom and wife cooking meal's when it's time to load up the hay off the field.

Great cause. Thanks for helping those who help farmers everywhere. 👍🏼

What you are doing is pretty thoughtful in the current craziness in the US. Without the first responders or the Cops things would be a lot worse. God Bless the US and all!

Let’s get this awesome man to 1 million

Many years ago when working on a farm in Scotland cleaning an empty silo/bin I ended up with "Farmers lung" the fungus spores started to grow in my lungs horrible not being able to breath PLEASE use good dust masks or respirator been lucky no more lasting issues

Not a farmer myself, but come from a family of farmers. Grain bins aren't the most safe thing on the farm, but of course, what is? Gladly donate if my money will help save someone's life.

I lost a brother in a grain bin accident...I want to thank you...I just subscribed

It looks like a beautiful corn harvest this year ... two weeks of sunshine and summerly temperatures ahead for you.

Every time I hear your "Are you alright? You okay?" Line I absolutely die. Love your content!

What a great thing you and your wife are choosing to do. I have been on several calls as an EMS provider. Dealing with farmers and injuries. The last rescue before I retired, a farmer was on top of a silo during the rain, lost his footing and fell landing on the auger. His leg wrapped around the auger and it was my job to assist with the rescue. We took the auger and the farmer to the ER for emergency surgery. Farmer lost his leg, but not his life.

What you and Mrs Millenial Farmer are doing is so awesome. I shared this video to my friends list and a majority of them are farmers. Continue to be safe while farming!!

Just finished a Off the Husk podcast, now I get to watch a great video!

So my grand dad raised up two boy's to take over the farm for him and he passed on the torch over for all the hard work but till he was 80 years old he did almost all the combining it got to a point were he would force his son's to lift him up using the skid steer into the combine so he could run it. Got a nickel your old man will do the same.

Thank you sir I am a firefighter in Ohio and I can’t thank you enough for giving back

As a firefighter i'd like to thank you for this Campaign Keep up the great videos.

Need to thread the end of those slides so I can screw a handle on

My cousin died in a grain bin last month, be careful

We are from Eastern Iowa a Fire Department and we have a rescue tube and training on Grain Bin Rescue!!! This an awesome cause!!!

Thanks for your contribution to farmer safety & grain bin entrapment.

U should weld handles on those shifter rods

Nate's question at 0:56 umm most of them

thank you i was in a farm accident got a finger cut off in a combine in 1981 at 9 years old so i love that you are helping with farm accidents

As a firefighter in rural northern Illinois I thank you for what you are doing i have never had to respond to a grain bin accident but its good to be ready and have knowledge on what to do in those situations

Let's get Zach to 750k by end of this year! #Mnmfnation

Siledge gases, leveling off corn siledge is definitely the most nerve wrecking job on the dairy. Knowing it's up there but u have hungry cows

Not a farmer but I am a freight relocater professional. I really enjoy your videos (living out a dream through your videos lol) often watch the videos with my younger son. Thank you and please keep up the good work

Been a subscriber for going on 3 years now! Probably the channel I watch the most on RU-vid. Keep up the awesome videos and that you for giving back to the farming community.

I subscribed over a year ago. I’m just smart though. 😀

I'm disappointed that it took you 9 minutes to get the wd 40.

Thanks for all you do for people in need and to educate those that have a desire to make this world a better place for all. Cheers

That so awesome on what you are doing. Being from a small volunteer department in Central Illinois , it the generosity of people like you that help volunteer departments survive. Keep up the good work!!!

Near my house in Indiana the farmers soybeans r ready but still hasn’t harvested 🤔

Do you have a "TAG OUT or LOCK OUT" procedure that everyone ( Jim, kids, dad etc. ) on site knows about? Like what if you powered off the bin motors and went in side the bin and someone for some crazy reason powered up the auger and other motors and you got hurt because they didn't know someone was in the bin.

My go-to farming channel, very interesting content. Thanks for doing something great for first responders and the community. Awesome!

Keep up the good work, thanks for helping with the donations. Most volunteer fire departments need donations to get new equipment.

If I had to go into a grain bin, I would want to be wearing a safety harness hooked to an electric winch/hoist at the top of the bin, with a remote control strapped to my chest to hoist myself up as soon as the grain started burying me.