Im not allowed to watch you anymore. My husband is upset when i try to snap my fingers to make dinner, do laundry, and mow lawn... well, 3 years I've been watching you, and he has had enough 😊
Poor Anna. She did a good job defending the farm. Don't let anyone give you grief over her Zac as you know stuff like this happens. Keep up the good work.
Missed Anna's barking when you started the John Deere! It's almost like her voice is part of that process :-). Hope she heals fast; she's such a lovely dog.
Oh man Zack, thank goodness she's going to be okay. Anna and Gidge are my two favorite YT dogs by far. I love that you feature them in pretty much every video. I hope they both heal up completely and quickly.
Sooo... kids are out of school for the summer, both dogs stuck in the house all day, and Zack comes in expecting dinner... Becky sure has her hands full! Not all heroes wear capes... 🤣
Hey Zach I just wanted to say that your content has been super fun to watch I have been watching for many years and I have always loved your content keep up the great work have a good one
What ever you did to that “unwelcome dog”, you’ve got my support. We had a neighbor’s dog attack and kill our little dog about 10 years ago. I’ve still got PTSD over it. I’m pretty paranoid about it. I’m sorry that happened. All my best for her speedy recovery !
My goodness! I’m reminded of George Jetson coming home from work and complaining that he had to push three buttons and was absolutely exhausted! Way to go George, I mean Zack!!
I watch your videos all the time, it takes me back to the days when we farmed, I grew up on a 320 acker dairy farm that was a 24/7 job no sick days off, I could be on my death bed and my grandpa would tell me to get up and walk it off
I certainly hope you gave Anna the proper support for the house security agent. And have taken care of the "problem" that came into her territory!! And To those who want to give you grief for that, May the bird of paradise fly up their nose!! Trespassers should be dealt with quickly, and completely. Don't need to talk.
Zach, just want to say that your content and ability to make us all so intrigued with the day to day life of a farmer is truly amazing. Every time I am notified you posted a video im always excited to watch and learn. Thank you for entertaining and informing all of us.
I was in elementary school in the 1950’s. A futuristic painting was on the wall in my classroom that I’ve not forgotten. One man in a hover unit overseeing 4 tractors, each autonomously completing 4 different tasks: plowing, discing, planting and spraying. I didn’t think I would see the day, but maybe I will. 😊
It's always comical to see the Milenial Farmer out in the sunshine in a sweat shirt while the Baby Boomer Farmer, father, is out working in a tee shirt!!🤣🤣 Speedy recovery to Anna!!
My Mom's Dad started farming with horses in the 1920's, started transitioning to gasoline powered tractors in the late 30's. He collected many arrow heads and other Native American tools while walking behind those horses. Now the technology is getting to the point where the farmer may be able to walk (ride) around the field again while the farming is done. Who knows what discoveries are awaiting you and your children, Zack, as the farm equipment does the farming for you. ;)
And how are you going to program it to clear the mud out of the openers/closers? The packing wheels? How about fixing the vacuum tubes that pop off? And what happens when they screw up, take off, leave your farm, do damage to other properties, possibly hurt someone? I work with computers and I would never ever trust one to operate something on its own unsupervised including self driving cars.
I wouldn’t blame you on living in the city I’m from Texas and I’ve worked on a 10,000 acre cattle ranch and being out there working the fence by yourself and watching the sunset while balin hay during the summer
Country/farm living is the only way. People in these areas know each other, look out for each other and help each other,but in the cities most don;t know who their neighbour is. If you become ill it takes days sometimes foe anyone to notice that you are not around.
It looks like you will be able to start one tractor spreading fertilizer, another operating the digger, and a third one planing. In the mean time you monitor everything from your office were you can watch other peoples RU-vid and call John Deere if something goes wrong. Though work.
Zach....I noticed the hoodie still had the strings in it.......are you feeling OK? Are you slipping, I'm concerned about you....thats not normal....LOL
Tony Reed had a toktok about automation will become popular when the farmers realize they are sitting in the cab and could be doing something else. He hypothesized the same scenario as you about the farmer running around to diagnose issues primarily.
Zack you and your family take great care of your pups and cats. When you first got Anna I couldn't believe how fast she was growing. The haters always start stuff cause they can't get out of there mom basement. Take care glad to see you and dad out in the fields
I'm with you. I live in Los Angeles. I love going to other places. As far as Minnesota one of my bucket places is the Duluth Canal. I don't know why. I just regularly watch what is happening over there. Its like always colder than crap, even now. 45 degrees? But I always like to come home.
Poor dogs, hope the have a speedy recovery. Happy for planting this season, early in and it appears to be going smoothly, very odd. Planter closing wheels have some sweet, tri spoke rims and low profile rubber. lol For hot rodding it I guess at 10mph lol.
20+ years ago in ag class, we talked about how this would eventually be the way of the farm. I never thought it would come so soon though. The technological leaps and bounds that we’ve made are incredible.
Zack you and Becky are Great People. Great Family, hardworking. Ignore the Ignorant..Hugs for the Doggies..🙏❤️🙏for them both to have Speedy Recoveries..Love Watching your channels and how Ya'll involve the kids in the farm. God Bless Ya'll..
Thanks for another great video Zach and Becky. It was interesting and informative and entertaining. So sorry to hear about Anna getting hurt. Sounds like you have a really good vet and he has Anna fixed up and healing. Give her a pat on the head from me please. So now you have Didg and Anna both in the house with you and healing. I know you will take excellent care of them both, you and Becky and the kids. Sorry about Anna. Bless her. Thanks for telling us about the situation Zach. The automated steering with the planter is something else. Auto steer is here that is for sure. Pretty slick setup if you ask me. Turns and lines itself up on the rows perfectly!!!!!! Absolutely amazing technology for a piece of farm machinery. Really appreciate you showing it to us Zach. I am impressed!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!! Thanks for showing us Zach. You are coming right along with your planting and the new planter. Good show. Sorry to hear about Anna. Am sure she will heal soon. Thanks for everything Zach and to Becky for editing. You and dad take care and be safe. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
For those airlines can I suggest when you get the time in down season pull all of the connectors trim ends but get heat shrink for when you put them back on! Stops them from popping apart and only a razor blade away from being removed for maintenance! Hopefully sowing treats you well mate! Cheers from Australia 🍻
Last year was attacked by loose pitbull in town,in my own yard with my gsd on leash. He took the bite and got me back in house. He was miserable for 10days, still wary of any pitbull. Give Anna hug for me
Hey Zach, the technology is already in play. I watched a "reel" this morning of an autonomous tractor. Don't know what country it was in, somewhere in England or Euope from the look of the signage on the machine. It was doing tillage. No operator or operators station.
First off prayers for Anna and the entire family and kitty's that your in charge of Zach your a hell of a parent, farmer, actor ,race car driver. Pray for a record harvest for you and record race yr as well. For you and onyx.. God bless you always sir. 😊
I have watched so many of your videos and this one just struck me as why I watch your videos. I enjoy most of farm videos by other farmers, but you sense of humor is what gets me beside excellent content keep up the great content. Beside I love your dog comments and how you interact with your pets just adds to the content making watching this channel a joy to watch.
In 1980 I lived with a girlfriend outside Cloquet. She had a German shepherd and "saved" a female half German shepherd, half St. Bernard. Those two would run in the woods and come home with a face full of porcupine quills. My job was to hold the dogs while she pulled the quills out of their faces. The older / wiser one only had 7 to 10 quills in his face. The One year St. Bernard mix would have about 30 quills in her face. I was dragged all over the floor while going this.
Poor Anna was protecting her domain, just as she was bred to do. I work with dogs for a living. Have 2 chocolate labs, never been aggressive. An older lady walks her lab mix past my house every day & she really can’t control him. We were out working with our gardens, our front door wasn’t closed right. Patriot came out while she was talking to us. Her dog attacked him. My husband tried to grab Patriot & slipped his collar off while I was shutting the door(keeping Paisley in) Ran back over, grabbed the lady’s leash & yanked the dog off of him. No puncture wounds, thank God. He was so upset, he came in & threw up. He still goes insane when that dog passes our house.
You should do a farm swap week with Trevor Bales. You can drive the Camo truck around and watch other people drive the tractors. He can sit in the driver's seat and watch the tractors drive themselves. But you better get there before it gets boiling hot in Arizona.
Coming from someone who has seen corn planted with a 4440 and fairly new 8345. Fully automated tractors do not need to happen. I 100% believe they can/will happen but they don’t need to. Too many things to go wrong, so when you’re paying off a 3/4 of a million dollar tractor and something in the fully automated breaks you’ll be paying another 100k just to fix it. I’ll just stick with my 4960 and turn it at every end row.
Your father must think back to years ago, and say WOW. We had to actually drive and operate everything back in the 70's-80's.. I am of that era and can tell you technology has come a very long way.
VERY interesting video today, Zach . . I got to see the planter "folding up" and seeing and hearing about the Auto-trac system was VERY interesting. You can almost see why that equipment costs so much . . ALMOST !!!
We also live on a small farm, (much smaller than yours!!!), and we foster LOTS of dags as my wife is helping to run a rescue. I've found that if a fight breaks out here, I (or my wife) will pull out our pistol and pop a round in the bank!!! Haven't had it fail yet as they scatter immediately ;-) I carry a 44Mag and my wife carries a 38, I think any bang would do. Hope the pups continue to heal, just one of the hazards unfortunately of having animals loose on the form!!! I wouldn't live anywhere else either 🙂
All that automated farming is definitely different. I grew up with a 806 turbo diesel tractor doing the plowing and disking. A 606 doing disking and planting and we done 4k archers a year. Then picking with a 2 row Gleaner Cleaner combine. You guys definitely have it made over us old people 😂😂.
My grandpa farmed 40 acres by draft animals and raised cattle. He rode his wagon across the frozen Mississippi River to sell meat. Other times, he rode the train across the river taking cattle to market using the Eades bridge.
you should create checklists for each implement and each tractor, so you don't have to remember how to do things after months of not doing it. Create the list, laminate it and hang it up in the tractor. Weren't you a private pilot at some point in the past.
I don't doubt full automation because it's the dystopian future the central controllers have planned for us where we mainly just oversee and repair the robots and ai.
As a farmer, "hand" we had a M.F. 12ft. Combine and a 4 row planter .its amazing what machines turned around since 1984! Bye the way, i love the farm around and out hats ,hint-hint !
Self driving tractors makes far more sense with our current level of tech compared to self driving cars where we are no where near ready. Learning how to make fully self driving farm equipment is infinitely safer in the beginning stages as well. There is very little to nothing to hit in the field compared to cars on public streets. I'm 110% with you on this one for sure!
The pressure line on quick connection, in plumbing happens, there are plastic c clips that keep the quick release from releasing. Snap in and pull out.
Hey, Good Luck with planting and crops this coming year. Hope the Star actors are doing better. Yeah its was 94° today in Tampa Bay Fl. Little to no rain but Monsoon should be coming soon. Then Hurricane season.
The look on your face and what you said last video. I was worried. Those of us who know you and your loving family know you handled the situation positively and right. Love ya mate.
We did the exact same thing when that rain was coming. We ran out of worked ground at 6:30 that night. We could have planted another 40 that was right there but it wasn't worked so we called it a night. We haven't been back in the field since except to pick some rock the last couple of days.
