Sarah chopping hay with John Deere 8700 chopper.Chopping Pioneer variety 55V50 alfalfa This was planted in August of 2015,it was a mixed stand of 85% alfalfa,12% Timothy and3% fescue.
We did this with our 3 Kids in their Pre and early teens to let them know what's ahead for them to do if they don't Stay In School and get a Decent Proffession..It worked!that was 20 yrs ago and it was alittler harder, Dirtier and more Boring.. In due time? It will all be done Remotley and with Robots! don't kid yourslef..
This is awesome to watch! Sarah is a quick study and you are a very good teacher Andrew! My daughter drove her first tractor at about that age and I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity with her. Farm life is the best life in my opinion.
Really enjoyed watching. I grew up on a mostly livestock farm in Iowa. Grain and hay got fed, very little was sold. We had an old clay tile silo that we filled with corn silage and the hay was all put up in small square bales. This was back in the 60's and farming was totally different then, but the hard work and responsibility made me who I am. I expected to see a lot of negative comments from the libs about making a young person work. Your daughter is lucky to be growing up on a farm and have a dad like you. Thanks
Thank you for such an inspiring video, Sarah was great did everything without a single argument or question and Dad you are a very good coach! Hats off to you and your Family God Bless your family!!
One of the more immersive videos I’ve seen in awhile lots of angles to satisfy all curious questions I had. And super cool to see you’re young in’s following in you’re footsteps! Love Deere stuff, that chopper is swwweet.
My daughter went to tractor safety school when she was 11. The final thing she had to do was back a very long trailer into a barn. She was incredibly proud when she got her certificate 😊
difference between a city girl and country girl, country girl has a brilliant mind and real skills, city girls needs a cell phone to fill her mind with BS, good job daughter, appreciate you folks sharing.
seen plenty of country girls with their heads buried in their phones and city girls who do all kinds of things that enrich them.....try to stay away from generalities especially when you know NOTHING about the subject
Well done Sarah you remind me of my childhood on the farm I started driving tractors when i was 10 Great times You will remember all of this all your life Enjoy
Just getting to the silage now in Aberdeenshire, been to blooming wet, great weather now, hope it holds for the hay, good job your doing there young lass, just listen to dad he will keep you right , great vid , thanks from bonnie Scotland.
This has happened at all times, the kids start early, and later take over the farm. This is what makes agriculture continue generation after generation.
As a city boy, I love videos to do with ranching or farming, they're therapeutic to me for some reason, and this exact video is no different, except this amazing 15 years old makes it more amzaing, I love it.
You are a great dad you got a lot of patients. and I think it's wonderful that your baby wants to learn something like that it's a great thing leave you open to do more Farm business. She's doing a wonderful job. I think it's great that she's takes an interest in her dad's farm and wanting to do something like that, not many kids do Maybe she'll keep up the tradition. I think it's great for father and his children to be able to work together like that they can accomplish a lot and learn from each other. Tell your baby I said keep up the great work she's doing and dad keep up the good patience. Y'all have a great day. 😀👍
I think that was fantastic your daughter seemed like she knew what she was doing very well you must be a proud father knowing your daughter is falling your foot steps she will be the next generation an take over the farm God bless her I am looking at this in 2020 so she's now 16 I hope she is still working on the farm great job back then 👍👍🇺🇸
Wow.......wow.........whata fine 15 year gal you're raising to appreciate, value, respective the land and that heavy-duty machinery. Proud of you wonderful folks. Pet
Great job young lady. Following dads crooked windrows and running the joystick for the silage discharge. You put many a teen age boy I've tried to teach to Shame
Awesome job, I grew up next to a family that farmed over 5k acres and I started to work for them when i was 12, I loved driving the huge JD 8630 and all the other equipment. I really miss it. Again Great job to your Daughter ^_^
I had my daughter running a tractor when she was around 15. She would plow until 3 or 4 go home clean up work as a waitress until 10. She would do that all summer long. She is 40 and still works two jobs every day.
In my Opinion, I truly believe that all Governments should be lending full support to the Farmers in these difficult times of being plagued by the #Covid19Virus 👉🏿 #Quote Farmers Are Most 'Outstanding' In Their Field... 👉🏿 #UnQuote I can just imagine if that was #Marijuana The Global Governments would be making many #MinionsOfDollars Way To Go Dear #JohnDeere 🚜
This is REALLY GREAT TO SEE a young girl interested in running farm machinery.. I would say she was raised on the farm. She's doing a GREAT JOB. Hope she continues to be interested in what made this country. I started back in the day plowing with a Case DC tractor when I was 10 years old.
Hi Sarah, Congratulations on your skill and your maturity. Lots of buttons and unlimited free videos. Tell your dad to try to keep the windrows a bit straighter. ;-)
Nice to see that you let your kids run some of the equipment. Your daughter did a great job! I had my 9 year old son run our harvester and he did pretty good for his first time.
Not only is she a great operator. This teaches her responsibility. When I was her age I built my first cranberry bog on Cape Cod with a 14 ton bulldozer. Which ledy to have my own excavating business, which I recently retired from Keep up the good work.
This teen will go places. I wish for all teens to be this way. This kid is probably content with helping out rather than having Social media. Good kid you raised . Dad
She is doing a great job I taught both of my daughters to hunt deer's, clean and process them, second year my youngest shot a 16 point buck and she still gives me crap about out hunting me lol!
lot of respect for her doing that at her age was 16 when i started learning how to run my dad excavator and have worked for him ever since going on 15 years now :)
It's a far cry from the self propelled chopper on a farm I worked on as a kid. It was a Gehl Brothers with a 2 row corn head, powered by an in line 6 continental with a straight pipe. It was loud and had poor turning radius because the front wheels did the steering. If you weren't careful you could spin out on the sand hills so you wanted to plan things out. It chopped to big of pieces so we used it to open up corn fields. We would chop two rounds around and two passes up the center of a field we were going to chop and one round around and one pass up center of the fields we were going to pick. All the corn we didn't chop was picked with a New Idea picker on a 4020 power shift. It's good to see a young woman out there who doesn't have the "I can't." attitude.
I find all the controls, especially his direction on how to run them, so funny. It's ridiculous how technical these machines are now. I probably couldn't run anything anymore as there are too many directions. We greenchopped hay with a tractor pulling a chopper. You had to only worry about speed and keeping the chopper on the windrow. And directing the head.
What might be a cool idea is if you did a tour of the farm, showing all the equipment and buildings. Probably do it multi part series though to fit it all in.
I would be sooo proud having daughter like this one!!! Finally some good girl,not any entitled brat!!More of them and America will not be lost in future!!
This is what it should be. Sons and daughters have helped on farms at all times. I was driving and harrowing when I was about 12-13 years old. I did not plow until I was about 15, I did not plow so straight furrows at first, but it got better over time. She has a good teacher, who explains slowly and objectively.
