Had To Call In The Big Guns! 

I’m surprised your dad sprung for the vac truck, and didn’t have you haul the gravel out in buckets!😉😂 That rye field is amazing…hope all your crops are just as good this year after struggling the past few years with the dry weather. Happy Father’s Day to your dad!❤

Impressive work clearing out the pit. That gravel looks like tough work, but you handled it like a pro. Your dedication to maintaining the farm is inspiring.

I could not be more happy that the area your farm is in has had good rain and I pray it keeps raining as needed all summer long. Take care and thanks for the video.

Ah, the good'ol pitch fork! One of the most used/important hand tools needed on a Dairy Farm. 👍 My back hurt just watching you guys shovel that wet gravel!! Some serious manual labor for sure.💪💪💯

Happy Father's Day to your father.

Jan, it’s so good to see your videos and look forward to them. Farming is a tough job and I can see your optimism in the upcoming Barley crop and so glad to see it for you guys. Thanks for letting us see the inside and the problems you face and the hurdles you achieve! Thanks!

Hey Yan, my first time back in your channel for a few months. Glad to see your crops are benefiting from the plentiful rain we've had on the prairies this spring.

Thank you for clarifying the air quality concerns . Ventilation is the Key. Stay safe out there

Woah! Those winter Dunlop"s probably have a 2" heel with aggressive tread on them. That puts Jan at around 6"3". He's one tall young farmer. 👍😁

Thank you for explaining the negative pressure in the barn . Has there always been an issue with flea beetles in Saskatchewan? Rye growth 2.5-3.5" by end of the day.😊

Great video brother from the imperial county California 👍🇺🇲 and happy Father's day America 😂

Great video!! You have such great video content. The rye looks great. So do you use the rye for the grain and also the hay that will come from it? Looking forward to many more videos this summer. Thanks so much for sharing them with me!!

Appreciate you answering questions from people who clearly aren't farmers, but it seems like a negative contribution to your RU-vid content imo. I know it can't be easy to ignore comments whether they are positive or negative as it is our nature. I look at your channel as a Canadian institution I can be proud of and that your channel is very entertaining to a fellow Canadian is a bonus for me. Hello from Ontario, Canada.

For more space in bunk silo can you make two into one by covering the middle with silage and go higher????????

Great video What a hard working man you are. No wonder you have such huge arms. I watch several young, hard working farmers like you, but you do beat all. Good on you. THANKS so much for doing these videos.

Those Vac Trucks aren't cheap. The girls are going to have to up the milk production to pay for that little jewel.

Nice video as usual Happy Fathers day to your Dad Jan.

Always interesting, Thank you .

I'm sure some engineer somewhere could design an affordable Alger system to keep the sand out of your pit and in 2 a contaminant area.😊

All of those pits need an skidsteer access ramp to clear sand. To anyone thinking of making a pit.

Cool video. Do you ever wear your overalls over top of your Dunlop boots to prevent stuff from getting down into the boots? Standing in those rye fields with your pants tucked into the boots must mean you have boots full of seed and other stuff afterwards. Pants over top of the boots is much better I reckon. Would be good to see you wearing them like that too in your videos.

In my opinion the feed value of the rye in this stadium would be really low. We chopped the same stuff a few years ago. Nothing for milk production. You should chop it before the grain heads start to pop out. That's pretty good feed for dairy cows.

Hi Jan. Your fields are nice, green, and growing gangbusters. Meanwhile down in Iowa, on Papa Cole the Corn Star's 2000 acre farm, a good portion of his land is flooded due to excessive rains. He's got corn and soy beans in the ground. He's hoping if they get some dry out, the crops will rebound.

Hi Jan, regarding the canola and the cabbage stem flea beetle. I assume you guys in Canada can’t use the neo nicotinoid seed dressings anymore? They banned them here in the UK and now people are stopping growing canola because so many crops fail due to the flea beetle.

now that you got to shovel the pit do you think looking into a screening system for your sand may be worth the extra time and cost. looks like if that much gravel was in the pit , who knows how much went to the lagoon contributing to delays cleaning that too ? Time will tell and thanks very much for sharing .

🎉🎉🎉 you need one of those big brushes for your skid steer so you can clean up on top of that bunk and in the bunk and get all that stuff swept up😅😅😅

Great video! I like the beard and new haircut. 😎

Brutal work my Friend BRUTAL

World record, nice to see you have getting some nice crop

Been around Vac trucks and their LOUD and the suction is powerful. I bet if you dropped a shovel it would have gotten sucked up.

The rye - 2 to 2-1/2” easily. Whatever vac truck drivers make - pay them double. It’s definitely in the top 10 dirtiest jobs, just ask Mike Rowe. When insects show up in the millions, everything is at risk. I’m glad you had some recourse, but the company should reimburse you for lost crops, too. If they guarantee the seed to not be affected, and the seed was indeed affected, plus you certainly can’t replant at this point, there’s no question that it’s a loss. I just hope the rain makes up for the difference for y’all.

Great job,Jen Tell your sister to get their own shovels!!!

Nice work.

Great Video!

Great vid, Jan. Not too pleasant a chore but nice to know what's needed on a farm, from a non-farmer.

The flea beetle is kinda like the snow flea. Small and jumps. But the snow flea lives in snow not crops and they are good as they break down organic stuff in the snow all to make stuff grow better when the snow melts. Flea beetles well Aaaaa good for nothing. Great video, learned a lot this time. A good dairy farm isn't just about the cows. 🥰

Six Five with boots on, wow! I always thought your dad was short, but I guess you're just really tall!

Yan your #1 at #2 buddy! Bet you weren’t bored doing that 💪🏻💪🏻

Hey Jan maybe thought this would be a good idea for cleaning out the bunker is get one of those sweeper buckets for the skid steer

Being in the sand and gravel business all my life , I’d say an old Powerscreen Mk2 would screen out the gravel , plus then u would have some nice gravel for whatever u want

Another very interesting video Thank you 😊 🙏 😊😊😊😊😊

I often wondered if that pit ever got cleaned out. Now I know. I bet Jan is already thinking of a redesign of the pit.

Wouldn't it clean up easier using a shovel? Happy Father's Day to your Dad! Glad you are videoing again. Took so long for them to come out the gravel dried up didn't it?

You know, you almost need a hydroexcavator to clear that gravel, the longer hose and pressurized water agitation would make it clear a lot faster.

Good video.

I had thought Jan i f you made the sump in such a way that you could get at with the skid loader it would be a much more efficient way of cleaning the gravel out because it s so heavy and cement.like .

your crop looks outstanding, there always a pest that makes farming clallenging.

WOW!

I’ve been watching your channel for a long time. Where did that young whippersnapper go? 6’5” with a beard!

Jan you could put some hay in that sludge and make an adobe sod house.

Wow that was a lot of rocks 🪨

Holy cow, such a score on rusted pit iron!

2nd thought in AMERICA we have 2 foot square concrete blocks 2,4,6,8 foot in length to build walls higher just suggesting don’t know what works for you love your channel

Well how tall are you with out the boots?

Given some of the labour you do on that farm, when you say "That's brutal work!" I know it's actually BRUUUUUTAAAAAL 😩😭🤬🤪🥴 WORK! Good job getting it done.

Rich rebuilds showed a video of you in the milking parlor in his Cybertruck video he released today.

got my tire toss, but i was expecting a "no diving" sigh in the gravel pile

Municipality CLAM Shovels for catch basin/curb sewer clean outs....access hole an issue though.

Nice to hear your reasoning on the air safety

I was wondering if someone had washed the New Holland loader or if you had gotten another one.

Thats 'gold' !

❤

Happy Father's Day Dad....

Why don’t you get rid of the tires, they’re a pain to work with….go to tube bags easier to handle and take up less space! Just a suggestion from a fan!

Ferdinand likes yellow; prefers it on flowers…wants pets too!...woof Austin?...huh - Yuengling Black and Tan…not the only dirty devil…the excavator…Assistus Maximus and Unfettered Helper……weathered gray black stallion 😎 "Big John (Jan), Big John (Jan), Big, Bad John (Jan)"

What part of Sask. do you farm?

I looked. Lol. Couldnt help myself. The tall rye plant was juuuust above your eyebrows in the morning and was at your hairline at the end.

Im sorry but that rye is worthless as feed itll be a nightmare to chop at that height been there done that before itll only be fiber for the cows to eat which dont make milk, ours only tested 4% protein the time it got that big on us which then was the last time we grew rye for feed triticale isnt much better probably moving away from growing it too

Too bad you don’t have a sweeper for your Bobcat

Snakes !

Where is Mike Rowe ? That definitely is a Dirty Job…

Why don't you get a Milwaukee M18 blower?

Don’t think I saw you work so hard as I did in this video surprise you aren’t standing around letting everyone else work shovelling the dirt liked how your dad called you camera man in the other video 😂😂😂

Maybe 2-3 inches

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maybe you shrunk 2 inches from all that shoveling

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How come you didn't hire Winston Rothschild?😂😂

Oh boy😮that must smell so bad 💩

Oh c'mon Jan, you're just a manly man. Don't see many of you guys anymore. Gosh, this makes me want to go back to the dairy and get to work. And as far as the unbelievable crop, it's probably the last one of world history.

Didn't have any shovels for your sisters ?

FFS... they Rye growing two inches in a day....but geez I had no idea you were that tall..with boots 6 foot 5...FFS!!😃

so much to do. Going going.. GrannyUSA

Why don't you put a man hole in floor to get at gravel to suck out?

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😢😢😢😢 I hope the animal rights people don't see you petting that poor depressed deprived cow😮😮😮😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Jan, how do you dispose of all the plastic? I hope it doesn’t wind up in the ocean!!! Plastics are a human made disaster in my opinion!!!!!!!

Why do you use open at both end sileage pits and not a wall at one end ?

Confined space is confined space you need to adhere to the laws of Sask buy showing this vidio I hope you don't get yourself into trouble 😊

I’m sure glad to see you come back on. I know you took time to be off and it was probably a lot to work and camp planting and stuff but I have sure missed you. Do you have one of the best stations I see your sisters give up on us too, but please don’t give up. I really enjoy watching your show.

Well how tall are you with out the boots?

hey yan we have a farm in germany milking 50 cows atm. Recently we replaced our deep straw boxes with rubber mats because it was too much work. The milk yield did not drop. Do you ever consider replacing your sand beds with rubber mats or water beds?

Thanks for another very interesting educational video to us that are not farmers. Great job you men did shovelling that pit out. That is hard work. I also enjoy your big machinery as I operated very large machines on the Railway before retiring.

When you said he was going to “ dump “ his truck you were not kidding. I have never seen one unload either. As I was watching another weekly downpour this morning ( 7/8” since yesterday) I was thinking the greatest challenge you might have this year with silage is trying to get it off between rains. You will need at least two weeks of good hot weather with plenty of sunshine and I sure hope you get it. Best of luck.🤞

GOOD MORNING 🙏 HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL

Glad you addressed the air flow in the confined space . Everyone was safe awesome.😃😃🐄

Great awesome video . Speechless wow that’s tall . Lots of fun

Glad you had help getting that pile of gravel out, what a job😮.

One thing I've never seen you do in all your videos is treat a cow for bloat. Is this because your specially controlled diet prevents them from getting it?

Wow 😮 that's some hard work