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My father and I farmed together for more than 30 yrs. He’s gone now and I’m retired. Watching you interact with your father sure reminds me of my father and I working together for all those years. Cherish this time with him as life goes by so fast! Keep up the great work with your channel. Cheers from “The Great White North”.

A farming video that’s actually about farming.

When i was 9 yrs old, my family was going to the grocery store one evening with my newborn sister during a thunderstorm. We stopped at a intersection and as we waited to go i we saw 2 thin clouds dropped down from the storm and in a flash a full blown twister started tearing out trees and roofs. It was only bout 1/4 mile away from us at most. My dad and i got out of the car to watch, my mom flipped the frick out. Lol. When we got back home from the store we saw that the twister passed between our house and our neighbors and only took out the 80ft pole pine trees and their fence. Il never forget that. It was Awesome!!

Am I the only one that gets super excited when a new video drops?

Zach, here is my crazy experience which I have never shared. When I was a young boy, I walked from sandbar to sandbar in Lake Simcoe. I went a little too far and there was no sandbar to be found to stand on and I was alone. In a panic, I forgot that I could swim and started to take on water. I am sure I would have drowned but something pushed me back to shallower water and everything turned out OK. To this day upon reflection, I am certain that it was the hand of God that saved me. -John

Zach your dad is one of the most down to earth person around. You guys work so well together.

Couple stories here aren't for the faint of heart... As a truck driver I've got a whole bunch of stories. Some are mine, some are from old timers... most memorable one I was told, was a co-worker about 20 years back was going up the NJ turnpike to NYC. Car fire in the left lane shoulder. It was so hot not one of the 5 or 6 truckers could get near enough to the car to use the fire extinguisher. The occupants didn't make it. Just one vehicle alone on the highway burning. Shook him for months. Another one which happened to another co-worker, coming back through Philadelphia one morning, and a guy on a crotch rocket flew by him. Three miles later that guy ended up strewn across 4 lanes of traffic and about a mile worth of highway. He never saw the tow truck on the shoulder that just picked up a broke down car.... Another one that happened to myself... was running through Pennsylvania through a nasty rainstorm, I happened to glance out my window, and I found myself driving parallel to a tornado. Naturally I had a brown alert moment, pulled over and about a mile or so down the road you could see it cross the interstate and continue on its Merry way. It wasn't a big tornado, but still having one along side ya is disconcerting when you don't live in Tornado alley. For a happier story, I got treated to a rolling car show up in North Jersey one night. This show consisted of about 8 Lamborghini's, 10 Ferrari's, a few Bentleys, a couple corvettes, some classic vipers, and a whole bunch of Tuner BMWS, Mercedes, and Audis. Lastly I got passed by a McLaren. All said and down the vehicles not including any mods had to total out to about 50 million or more just racing up the highway at no less than 130... what a sight in all honesty. Definitely one of the cooler nights I had on the road.

Paramedic here. Seen almost every combination of train versus car/pedestrian/boat/animal/tractor/implement. Train remains undefeated.

My Cousin was moving a combine, his nephew was following in a truck. Probably 25 years ago. The engine on the combine was to the right of the driver. He was crossing a train track(no lights/or barricades). The train coming from the right hit the right rear of the combine. The nephew said as each train car went by the combine was facing a different way as it spun from the impact. When the train had gone past, the nephew jumped out of the combine and said “did you see that”? Un-injured and extremely lucky.

You're lucky having Nate as a father. I love how he talks to you with respect and listens to your input. My dad just acts like I'm dumb for not being able to read his mind.

There is something so satisfying about how you check the oil every time you start a tractor lol

Crazy lucky story. I was once following my dad with the tractor and wagons behind the combine as we were opening up a new corn field. Just as I was about 30 yards behind him, I saw a fire on the ground (burning husks). I called him and he shut down the combine and put the fire out with the fire extinguisher. We both looked at each other and counted our blessings. With the wind that day, the entire field and probably the neighbors would have been gone before the fire department could respond.

14 April 2019 our last trip back to Ireland before the birth of our daughter Margaret was born in the air on Aer Lingus Flight 2175 enroute to Dublin, Ireland from San Francisco. It was a nonstop flight. Margaret was born 6 weeks early. We were 2 hours outside of Dublin, Ireland . When landed emergency services were at the gate. Took mw wife Bridget and Margaret to hospital. Stayed behind for the luggage and to collect our car hire.Wife and Margaret remained in hospital for 7 days. What was going to be a 2 week holiday was extended into a six week holiday.

My dad was running a locomotive in the 80s and encountered a train coming at him as he rounded a bend. He dumped the air, got out of the chair, went out the door and jumped right off the side still doing 35mph. Locomotive coming at him ended up crushing the front end of his and stopping almost perfectly on top.

Thank you farmer. I pray the good Lord blesses you with just the right amount of sun and rain to grow your crops. Farmers=food.

I was approaching an intersection one time - the light ahead just turned green, the car waiting at the light pulled out, and was nailed by a car coming from the left probably doing 50 mph - clearly going through the light well after it had turned red. The car ahead of me got hit in the front left fender, did a perfect 360, and was sitting exactly where it started out. The car that hit it did a 180 in midair, flew into the ditch, took out maybe a 6" tree, and landed pretty darned hard. People ran up to the car in the ditch yelling "are you okay?" and the guy inside was shaking his head no. That's my great crash experience :)

I am a locomotive engineer, about a month ago i was riding in a crew van in transport to our train, a drunk driver hit us head on at 60 mph....by the grace of god everyone involved lived

John deere owners always so positive. Its got hydraulic oil in the engine oil it's not so bad.

My fun fact story is as such : It was late '90's and I was working for a custom green bean (snap beans) harvesting company. We used PIXALL BIG JACK harvesters, powered by deere diesels. We were on the Eastern Shore of Virginia driving on US Hwy 13 along side railroad track. There was a train going on the tracks and we passed it going the same direction. Mind you the harvesters top speed was 15mph. Not often you pass a moving train out on open tracks.

Hi ! My train story ! We were going to a wedding in the country . Just as we were driving over the train tracks the car stalled!! Yes ! A train was comming ! We got out in our dress clothes and pushed the car off the tracks just in time ! The train was blasting his horn and shaking his fist as he went by! I am sure he was just as scared as we were ! We all had drinks as soon as we got to the wedding to settle our nerves ! I still love trains ! Deborah. Winnipeg, Canada

Craziest story I have is I sneak on to this farm in Minnesota and drain all their batteries so they are dead when they try to start stuff.

Had a ambulance break down while having a heart attack, that was a strange day

Fun Fact: As a kid we were riding in the back on the truck (yes in the bed, and yes I know that's not safe. We did it a long time ago when my parents and others of their generation didn't know better and let their children ride in the back of pick up trucks) when we came to a railroad intersection. The main road ran east and west, we were on the east side of the tracks on a side street that went north and south. The railroad tracks went north and south and there was a freight train headed northbound. A sheriff's deputy was headed eastbound and he was on the west side of the tracks. The deputy rammed his gas pedal trying to beat the train thru the intersection but didn't make it. He hit the side of the train engine. I remember my dad and the other guy getting out of the truck to help the deputy, I had walked the tracks north and we found his mini-14 on the tracks and someone else found his "riot" shotgun. Come to find out I went to school in a different district and was going to school with his daughter, she was two years older than me and we had Spanish class together. She told me that her dad was ok, the worst thing he had was some bruising.

I'm 6'4. I was in the backseat of my friends 98 trans am in with the LS motor doing about 140 when he tried to miss a tumbleweed. He hit the tumbleweed and lost control and only by using all my strength to hold onto the back of his seat did I not get thrown out the back as we tumbled for a couple hundred yards after hitting a culvert in reverse. Three of us were ok except some glass cuts and bruises, car wasnt... at it was an awesome car. Fireman couldn't believe we survived especially considering there were trees a hundred yard's or so before and after the crash. Everyday alive is a good day!

I was a firefighter for 30 years. In my time, I've met people I'll never forget, learned things I won't forget and seen things I can't forget. Stay safe sir. Much love and respect from Gurley, Alabama.

Strange story? When I was around seven years old I found a fingertip in the street. Seems the local postmaster was clearing a plugged snowblower with his hand. I was crossing the street with my older brother on a paper route when I thought I saw a small stone in the snow packed street. Thinking it was a sign of spring, I picked it up. Surprise! It was soft and there was a fingernail on the other side! I showed my brother and threw it back down. Turns out I should have taken it to the doctor's office across the street as the postmaster was in there getting patched up. The Dr. said later that there would have been a chance to reattach the tip since it had been lying in the snow and was very soon after the accident. I still remember thinking a stone should not be soft. That was fifty years ago in South Dakota.

One of my crazy experiences was when my older brother & I where helping my grandpa haul manure ! My. brother was about 12 years old, I was about 9 ! This was about 1961 ! The manure spreader we were using was an old horse drawn type with a metal seat on the front ! The tractor we were using was an Allis Chalmers WD45 ! After spreading the manure in the field, my grandpa let my brother drive the tractor back to the farm yard ! My brother gets into the tractor seat to drive, I sit on the tool box on the tractors left fender & my grandpa sits on the seat of the old manure spreader ! My brother revs up the tractor & pops the hand clutch so fast that I can’t hold on & fly off the fender & my grandpa falls back into the spreader breaking the seat suspension ! Remember this was an old horse drawn spreader converted so a tractor could pull it ! IT HAD STEEL WHEELS WITH STEEL LUGS on them !!!!! I get thrown off the tractor into the field & get my head run over by the front wheel of the old steel wheeled spreader ! My brother stops the tractor soon after I got run over, Otherwise I would have gotten run over a second time by the bigger steel wheel of the old manure spreader ! I came up off the ground spitting dirt out of my mouth & crying while grandpa was recovering from being thrown backwards into the spreader ! Good thing the field was freshly harrowed so it was soft !

When I was in junior high, I road the bus since I lived in the country. We would meet the Amtrak almost every morning. One winter morning the bus driver slammed on the brakes as we came to the train tracks. The bus started sliding it turned sideways. By the time the bus stopped the drivers side was within 2 feet of the amtrak as it sped by brakes locked up. I was on the driver's side in the back row closest to the train. I remember being able to see the conductor and engineer as they went by, barely missing us.

I would really enjoy having your dad on the Off the Husk and talk about marketing

Hey millennial farmer, I just wanted to say thank you for your hard work keeping this lockdown stuff from driving me mad. You, the welkers, the cornstars, and the Larson family are some of my favorite channels

In my teens I had the job of pulling a small sprayer behind the ATV into the pastures to spray the weeds. One summer day about 11 in the morning I parked above one bank of a ravine to spray. I didn't park quite well enough and the 4-wheeler rolled back, jackknifed the sprayer trailer hitch, broke free from the trailer and rolled to the bottom of the slope 20' below, missing me by about a foot. In that time before cellphones it was fun broadcasting my predicament to everyone on our business-band 2-way radio frequency.

One time we were coming down the mountains in north carolina and we got behind an oil tanker truck that could not stop i did not realize it until grandpa looked at me and told me he couldnt stop when he hit the runaway truck ramp the truck and trailer jacknifed on the ramp and totaled the truck and spilled oil everywhere thats something that i will never forget

In the mid 60's my Uncle was one of the largest cotton and alfalfa growers in California, even did ag commercials for several equipment and suppliers on TV. A film crew was out in a hay field setting up for some filming for the day. My Uncle's neighbor was up in his ex Navy Biplane crop duster and decided to buzz the field. For some odd reason (he was laughing hard at his stunt) lost his concentration and dropped too low and hit the camera crane rig and crashed. It was all on film! Made the local and west coast TV news outlets. He had minor injuries, but his biggest pain was when the production companies insurance adjuster sued him for $100K , for damages to equipment. They settled the issue when he agreed to fly a camera rig for them for about 30 flights in the following 12 months, all on his dime. He always said it was all worth it to meet some of the actors and such. He lost his pilot license after the FAA and State officials went back and forth for 2 years about his stunt.

Thanks for the entertainment as always! As one of your loyal non-farmer viewers, I’d love to see a video sometime talking about all the variables when it comes to seed. What “XX day maturity” really means, what hybrid means, the differences in GMO and non-GMO and when all of these things are desirable or not, how you make decisions on which ones to use, etc.

Train story from about 45 yrs ago. I was supposed to be going on a blind date come the weekend but it got cancelled because my upcoming date was killed at a RR crossing. The county/RR track owners had been asked prior to her accident to improve the grading and add crossing lights and arms. They said they don’t add lighting until someone is killed there…things changed quickly after that, new crossing grading, lighting, and stop arms were added. The worrying part was several school busses crossed that unimproved crossing at least 6 times a day.

So I commute to work on a motorcycle and live in California so I'm able to lane split. In '17 I was headed home from work splitting traffic in the carpool lane. At 40mph a car crossed the double yellows half a car in front of me. I hit the car in-between the rear wheel and back door, slid down the driver side until my front brake locked up on the side mirror. I flip over the hood of the car and landed face first in the middle of the freeway. I walked away with just a huge hematoma on my leg. Was back riding to work 2 days later and still to this day. Be safe bro, really enjoy the videos.

just wanted to let your dad know he's not alone w/ his knee i'm gettin my left done after gettin right done so good luk to us

I was in a car that was hit by a train and pushed 2 miles down the tracks. The coupler went through the passenger door so the car was hook onto the train and skidded on the tires down the tracks until the train could get stopped. That was the second accident the Engineer had had with a car that day. The year was 1974 and I was 4 years old, I suffered a broken collarbone as well did my mother. We were both very lucky that day.

Years ago when my dad would be harvesting potatoes on his own, he would start the tractor and trailor off down the drills in a low gear, jump out, jump into the harvester tractor and do a strip, jump out of the harvester and back into the trailor tractor at the headlands, turn and do it again!!! Im an only child , when I was 8 he had me on the harvester

I 'almost' saw a truck lose a back wheel. We were following the truck on a dual carriageway and could see the near side back wheel wobbling, but we had reached our turn off and if we'd overtaken the truck it was miles and miles to where we could turn round. So we pulled off, crossed the overpass, and doubled back to our destination (a pub) which was the other side of the dual carriageway. When we pulled into the car park the truck was in the ditch on the other side of the road, and its back wheel had bounced over the Armco barrier, hit a car coming the other way smashing it's windscreen, and ended up in the pub's car park. We felt bad for not trying to stop the truck, but we had a good story for when we got back to work.

As a summer farm kid, I got to drive my uncle's old pickup that he had rolled over in a bar ditch. So folks on the road saw a kid driving a truck that the frame rails pointed straight down the road, but the body pointed into traffic...

I love how Becky just cuts away from Zach around 6:16 like "Yeah love, that's enough." 😂

About 11 years ago I was helping a neighbor out do field work picking rocks, he has a set of tracks that split a field and we just finished the one side, crossed over, and about 5 minutes later a train derailed and the area we were at prior to finishing is exactly where about 15 rail cars ended up rolling and piling up. Had we took a break or just had more rocks to pick I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this. Ever since I honestly can’t stand being anywhere near a track while a train goes by. Big write up in the local paper about the derailment.

About 15-20 years ago a buddy and I were driving home on a foggy night after hunting ducks all day. We were driving down a highway in the middle of nowhere when this kind of neon blue light came out of the fog above us. It was cruising too and within a couple hundred feet of the ground. We were doing 65ish and it went over us like we weren’t moving. It went back up into the fog then dropped down in front of us again for a split second before going back up. Never saw it again. That was the biggest WTF moment of my life 😂 I’ll never forget the look on my buddy's face! There was an Air Force base about a three hour drive north of where we were. We chalked it up to those guys getting a chuckle out of screwing with a couple teenagers. It worked lol.

My dad said to me he was in the hospital for his 11 birthday Bc he got hit in the train and he here today thank god

Your Dad is such a cool guy.

Seeing how you’re opening up your planter machine reminds me of how mike Bloomberg said HE HIMSELF can teach anyone to farm. “You dig a hole, put a seed in it, cover it with dirt, add water, up comes corn”

I work at an airport, and I´ve seen an aviation accident. About 2 yrs ago I was just walking on the pavement, nothing to do, enjoying nice weather. Then, all of a sudden I hear a very loud screech. Turned out to be a small general aviation aircraft landed on its belly. Pilot claimed he had forgotten to extend the landing gear, but that´s the worst excuse you can come with. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Keep it between the rows from Slovakia :)

Seeing you empty those Dekalb bags brought back some memories. I think when I was a kid, Dekalb was the only brand allowed in Ohio! Those were the only signs you ever saw.

I was sitting at a RR crossing in our local town, a woman did not see the train going by and she rear ending my car and force me into the side on of a train doing 55mph, I got lucky and survive it.

I love when Zack's dad says "Okay"

My story. 15 years old on my 72 Ski Do Elan. Got my foot caught in the track while doing figure 8ts. Pulled off the sled. Broke all my toes on my left foot, dislocated my ankle, and my knee. Took my dad 45 minutes to get my foot out. 63 now, and my foot still gives my problems at times

Zach says it was copyright, but he just didn't want us to hear him singing along to the in cab rock concert.

In elementary school(maybe 5th grade?) my principal every month would choose 4-5 students who had good grades, AR points, good improvements etc to go have lunch in town. I was chosen one month and we decided we wanted to go to Taco Bell. As we are sitting in the corner of this Taco Bell my principal in a panic threw out his arms as to protect us and pull us away and told us to get out of the seat. As I’m quickly getting out of the booth I look out the window to see a minivan slam right into the corner of the building and into the booth we were just sitting at. Everyone was safe and the guy driving was just a little dinged up but safe to say I try to stay clear from edges or corners of restaurants that face the parking lot.

It’s so good to see your dad looking bright and happy you can really tell he is in less pain than this time last year

Craziest thing I've seen was a Hummer H2 in an ice storm coming into Chicago on the freeway. The H2 lost all traction, did a slow, graceful-yet-terrifying 540º pirouette before crashing into the middle guardrail facing backward.

Fun fact, about me? Almost had a building collapse on me while fighting a barn fire. Officer sounded a mayday, everyone bailed in about 15 seconds - 30 seconds later the roof fell in.

My dad was a trooper for years. He responded to a car/train crash where the kid in the back seat was only about 6, the same age as me at the time. He never had really gone to the stress debriefs before for incidents but he said he showed up to that one

I once saw a train hit a conversion van with 5 people inside. The train pushed that van 1 mile down the track before it could stop. The side of the van that got hit was pushed completely to the other side of the van and unfortunately everyone died on impact. I don’t mess around at train tracks when the signal is down, the van tried to go around blockades that come down when the signal is on. It’s an image that’ll never leave my mind.

as a kid my uncle used to take each of us kids from Coronation albeerta to Korrobert sask,stay overnight in tthe bunkhouse and home the next day. I was in the enginecab east of consort and we came around a hill to see a farmer with an 830 johnn deere and an 18 foot disker stuck on the tracks,we wernt very fast but the tractor and discer broke up and went everywhere.My uncle said if the farmer would have reached down and pulled the hitch pin he could have saved the tractor,but at least he saved himself.

Right when you started talking about the USDA...it gave me an ad from the Whitehouse and how much awesome things they are doing just for me...I don’t argue politics with anyone but....it’s like they “know”....creepy 🤭🤔

Good man with the Blue Diamond Almonds, appreciate the support 👊

I love getting stopped by trains, but I do so on purpose. While camping by train tracks as a kid, friends put a bunch of pennies on the rail. The next vehicle to come was a track inspector in hy-rail pickup. When he hit the pennies, it made a lot of noise and resulted in the inspector quickly stopping to check for issues. A few seconds later, he saw our group, figured out what happened, and laughed as he carried on.

Well...not directly in the field but close to it! Our home farm was next to an Army proving ground (ordinance test) in SE Indiana. We were always finding parachutes off of flares while growing up. The Air National Guard had a test range in the northern end of the facility and having F4 Phantoms, A7 Corsair II, and A10 Warthogs flying over the farm was a daily occurrence. As a matter of fact our Sunday "alarm clock" was usually a flight of Warthogs forming up for their attack runs over our cornfield (our farm was in the middle of about 300 acres of "open" fields in woodland). They would fly so low they would make the corn rustle. Back in the summer of 1988 or 89 I was farming with Dad and also had a "summer" job at the Proving Ground and this is the weird story. The folks were on vacation so I stopped by the farm to do some chores and went in the house for lunch. When I came back out I heard a jet that didn't quite sound right... As I looked to the east over our pasture I saw an A7 Corsair II fighter/bomber coming low over the woods...which was strange because they typically did not come in at tree-top level. Then he appeared to clip the trees on the edge of the woods and began banking around to the north and something definitely wasn't right. I watched the plane steadily descend over the cornfield to the north of the house and eventually disappear from sight...followed shortly thereafter by a huge mushroom cloud and thundering explosion! I jumped in the truck and headed to the neighbors to the north where this appeared to hit. Now, these neighbors were some bachelor brothers who lived on their old farm and thoroughly enjoyed their "adult beverages" and had started pretty early this day. When I got there I saw a pile of flaming wreckage in the ditch across the road from their house and a flaming path thru their yard out into the bean field. First to show up was the local small town (think maybe 12 member) VFD. They immediately started trying to put water on the wreckage when it started sounding like a huge popcorn popper...as hundreds of rounds of 20mm ammunition started cooking off. Shortly thereafter the USAF crash teams showed up and called into Wright-Patterson where the plane came from to report the crash and check on his loadout. They informed them he has however many thousand rounds of 20mm ammunition and four 500 LBS BOMBS...neglecting to state they were dummy bombs. I could see one wing out in the beanfield with 1 bomb hanging off of it...and we all had to assume there were 2 more 500 lb bombs in that burning wreckage! Eventually the Air Force crash team got the fire out...the brothers sobered up and cleaned out their britches...and then we all had to walk that bean field to flag hundreds of rounds of 20mm ammunition that got scattered when the fuselage started coming apart, so the EOD teams could dispose of it . According to one of the brothers the plane was headed straight for their house when the wing hit out in the field and slew it around just enough to slide between their house and barn. According to the Air Force if the wreckage had not ended up in this deep ditch (almost a creek) when it exploded, all that jet fuel going up probably would have leveled the place. Eventually they got it all cleaned up...but needless to say...I was NOT going to rent that farm again!!! As for the pilot...he had just finished his first bomb run when he had a flame-out and didn't have enough altitude for a restart. He thought he could get the plane turned around to crash back in the Proving Grounds but after almost getting lined up he lost all his hydraulics so he had no choice but to bail out. He radioed in that his plane was going to hit OUR barn (we had a white vinyl covered metal roof on our old tobacco barn that the pilots apparently used as a reference) so all the Air Force crash crews showed up at our farm first.

Would love to hear more from your dad and the early days, I really enjoyed the videos that you interviewed him before 👍👍

I was 10 or 11 riding on the back of my brothers motorcycle, we hit a deer doing 100+ mph.. rode straight thru the thing. Didn't put us down or anything.. Still can't believe we walked away.

I've got an interesting train and snowmobiling story, but I'll save that for the Off The Husk podcast that I enjoy in the background.

Another great time. Yeah, you are a great farmer, wise, mechanically superb, skilled in all sorts of stuff that only farmers have to worry about, a fantastic father figure, super guy, and ok jokester. BUT, what has impressed me THE most, is opening those seed bags. NEVER in my life have I found the right string to pull and have the dang thing come out whole. I usually end up cussing, and slashing the bag with either my pocket knife or my teeth. (depending on degree of rage) I can't even open the potato bags from the frocery store. I guess some people got it, and some people don't!! And I know which one I am!! Great video Mr Millennial, I really enjoyed it. Thanks for taking me along...

Keep up the great Work Zach, your dad and Jim. You've become family viewing in this UK household

Craziest thing I ever had was waking up at 0300 because of a warm wet feeling on my chest. Wake up and I'm covered in blood. The PICC line I had (peripherally inserted central catheter - a type of IV) had punctured itself and was oozing/squirting blood all over me. That was not a fun night, I was 15 years old.

Zach, Really digging an insider perspective on the economics of your market. I’d say keep doing it, just stay away from politics. A crazy experience I’ve had was in Costa Rica. We watched a cougar clear jump an 8ft fence, and proceed to charge a bunch of Nicaraguan guys squatting in a shipping container, who were cooking chicken over an open flame. It attracted the cougar and they were all freaking out taking up arms with machetes.

I was hit by a train when I was fourteen. I was driving a 4240 with a baler and rack wagon behind. From the firewall forward it took off everything except the engine block. Tractor rested down on the front cover. From the firewall back nothing was damaged except the right windshield busted out. Pretty lucky I didn’t have a scratch on me. Rebuilt the tractor at an old AC dealer in town. Dad was friends with the owner and he didn’t have any employees, so we spent a lot of time there getting our hands dirty. We used an engine out of a 7720. Had a few issues with getting the cab to lineup but other than that everything still works to this day thirty years later.

My crazy story. I once saw two ambulances crash while carrying patients away from a car crash which caused more ambulances to be summoned.

My dad tells a story about getting caught half way across a rail bridge when a train came and had to hang off the side while the train passed.

The channel is great entertainment. My 5 year old daughter has enjoyed watching it with me over the past few months. Literally some days it was the only thing to make her smile, she had to undergo a 2nd Bone Marrow Transplant. Keep up the good work Johnson's!!!

Zach, its a train story and a bit scarey. I was ripping home going down the side of the railroad tracks on my dirt bike. It was night and dark dark, and for some reason I decided to listen to music with earbuds this ride, which I never do cause I like to listen to the bike sing and hear if anything goes wrong. Well, where my street ends, there is a power substation between the tracks and my road. The trail that runs down the railroad tracks is on the opposite side of my street so I have to cross the tracks and cut threw the substation easement to get home. This one night, I decided to listen to music with my helmet on, as I start turning to cross the tracks, I see the brightest light I've ever seen before coming towards me. I pinned the throttle and bounced over the tracks and ties faster than I've ever done before. I get about 10 or 15 feet from the tracks and the train goes barreling by that was behind me. One of the scariest events ever and I'm an Army vet. Learned my lesson about headphones and dirtbikes. I also had a bee fly up my shorts ripping down the tracks before. That one hurt.

I'm from Germany and I once found a bomb from WW2 while working with a tractor on a field which had been part of the near forest before. Bomb squad said i should play the lottery, because I should have been blown into a thousand pieces.

Love the spring vids! I am a farmer myself and it feels good to get into the fields!!

I was in a car that exploded when I was around 6. We went over train tracks that were being worked on, that cut the fuel line. The driver (not my mom, carpooling situation) kept trying to restart the engine until BOOM! gas vapors had built up under the hood to an explosive mix. Fire came in through the vents, but just a puff. The blast was powerful enough to shear the hood off the vehicle (both springs at the back and the central lock up front tore out of the frame). That was the day I learned I don't have a normal fear response. I didn't panic, I had my emotional breakdown about 10 minutes later, but I was totally calm while the car caught progressively more on fire as we got out (the hood had landed on the roof, making opening the doors...problematic).

Those of us with six row planters never have to worry about down force problems on row 19. 😂

That calming sensation when the engine shuts off after a long day.

Zach you should get Grant Hilbert on Off The Husk to talk about his journey to becoming a 1st generation farmer.

I was setting at a RR crossing when a van was approaching from the other side, and the van driver thought he could beat the train. I told the passenger that was with me to watch this van. Well needless to say the van didn't beat the train. Luckily the train was only traveling at very very slow speed when it hit the van. The van was flipped on its side and started to skid towards us. The van stop skidding just feet from in front of the truck that we were in. My passenger and I hop out of the the truck to extract the driver from the van. We tried to get the driver out by lifting the driver door up but it was to heavy for us so we went to the back of the van and opened the back door of the van. Thank God that the driver of the van was uninjured. Funny thing is that we was driving a wrecker. When the police showed up they ask if we could clear the van from the road. We told them that we was on our way to another call so they would need to call another wrecker.

I have a friend who is a Conductor on the B&P, he has been involved in 4 train derailments in his career, walked away each time, and was once shot at too.

Always a good day when you release new videos! Thanks for what you do!

You don’t have to lie Zach. You were talking when you should’ve been listening and Mrs. Millenial Farmer decided you needed a tune up. I tell my wife all of the time that male spousal abuse is the most under reported crime in the country. #justajoke #dontcrucifymeinternet

I've moved away from the area now, but I used to live on a gravel road when I was younger. On this Gravel Road people were notorious for driving way too fast. So one day my mother and I are driving to town for a doctor's appointment. As we're coming up the road we see this dually truck with a flatbed, carrying a small tractor coming down the road. To our shock and horror we watched him lose control and roll the entire rig into the ditch. He wasn't harmed but man alive was that scary.

Zack i have ben watching your videos for about a year just wanted to say thank you and to all the farmer's.. Stay Safe & GOD Bless form Monroe Georgia..

I was walking down the road. A wheel flew off the postman’s van bounced over my head just missed me. That’s my bad experience

The craziest experience I’ve ever had with you was I got to do a zoom interview with you for school. How you been

I was stationed at Fort Sill, OK, in the early 90's (yeah, I'm old-ish). My artillery unit's equipment was being moved from Ft Sill to White Sands for a training exercise. I went to the railhead on a weekend to watch the Burlington Northern crew switch the loaded cars onto the Main Line for movement. While I was filming with my Panasonic-TV-sized-VCR-recording-camera, I caught the rail widening as the spikes pulled and two flatbed rail cars with howitzers came down on the road at a crossing. The cars stayed upright as the train was only moving at 5 mph, but it was cool to be right there as it happened (in a safe environment, unlike what being at an intersection as a freight train doing 40-70 mph derailing would be like).

When I was younger, I used to travel via RR every weekend. The last 20 % of that route were a common spot for suicides. People would randomly call the office of the local RR company, proclaiming that they will comit suicide. The trains would sometimes be stuck for hours. After the police finished searching for the caller in the area, the train would slowly pass through. One of the eeriest feelings in the world.

Sat in school and watched a train derail. School was evacuated as 44 of the 66 cars were loaded with bombs from the Cornhusker Ammunition plant about thirty miles away.

Nate and his Handy Andy gloves are a throwback to a bygone era.

I never seen anything with a train but my dad did one time in a small town in Tenn. The town was on the other side of train tracks from the main road. Train speeds where 60+ so you did want to get caught on the tracks. A car drive was going through the light stop and backed up getting my dad stuck on the tracks. Dad started hearing a train horn so he had seconds to clear the tracks. Dad said he was getting ready to ram the car in front of him when they moved so he was clear of the tracks. On the same tracks a few miles from town we saw a car that was hit. It was a way down from the road on the tracks. I heard no one made it.

My grandfather used to bring a pb&j when he snuck out and went train hopping. He used it so he could ride along with the hobos in their cars.

My crazy story is one time I was putting the hitch on my dads truck and I forgot to put the pin in and when my dad got on the highway and picked up speed, the trailer fell off and my dad slammed on the brakes and pulled over and the trailer smashed his bumper. ALL BECAUSE OF ME

A few years ago me and my dad we're in this intersection waiting for the light to turn and just as the light was about to turn green, someone ran a red light and was near inches from clipping us. He hit one of the lights and flipped into the ditch. He was okay though

hi Zach, just wanted to tell you ive really enjoyed your videos, im in New Zealand and i was in a motorcycle accident in January 2020 and i began to watch your channel and it helped alot with the boredom, im nearly recovered and i just thought I'd say thanks and keep up the good work

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