The wreck that got us a new dammer diker! 

I loved the explanation of the dammer diker, all of its intricacies and what it's purpose is since I am not familiar with potato farming. You do a fantastic job of that as well as the excellent drone clips at the end. You instantly get a sub from me and I feel I will be learning lots more from you about spuds and how they are farmed. And that accident was horrific!! I am certainly glad that no one was hurt any worse and are ok after that.

The only people who gripe about GPS haven't used it, or are scared to learn it. I swathed hay for 20 years without GPS and after the first 5 minutes of using it, I was hooked!

Farming the most Honest way to make a living in the world .....God bless the Farmer

Great video. Enjoyed learning about dammer/diker. Guy was lucky. Glad no one was badly hurt.

New viewer and I think your videos are awesome. Coming off a small farm as a kid in the 70s and 80s we grew potatoes in our large garden and it was a lot of work for the few bushels we produced each year. It is amazing at the technology you employ and the sheer volume of potatoes you are able to produce each year. In this video I'm glad you weren't hurt but that was a scary accident. No doubt the driver had a cell phone in their hand at impact.

I'm from Australia and just had you pop up into my feed. I have grown up on viticulture and broad acre dryland farming so was very impressed in the machinery. I don't know how you light your tractors when driving on the roads, but here you are supposed to have rotating beacons operating. maybe a good investment if you don't already use them. stay safe and keep farming.

I am amazed the guy did not get hurt.luck was with that crazy four wheeler.

Wow! Job well done. Carry On Sir!

Glad you included the wreck footage I had watched the old video of it on you play list. I never had GPS but I loved cultivating spuds, sugar beets are much harder to do, first time through you had about 3 inches or you were destroying beets. We called that cultivator blight. One year we were harvesting beets and Bill was saying how crooked the rows were. Jose who had planted them just said "More beets per row!"

Great video and explanation of how everything works. I often wonder how the designers figured out how things would work. That accident was pretty ugly. You would think that anyone driving through farm country would be a bit more alert to the possibility that there may be farm machinery on the road. I bet he or she is now!!

Amazing ,.Thank you for sharing ,.God Bless

good work farmer. good explanation too of the machine,

Thank You for a geat video! I Moved to IF 4 years ago and always wondered what the purpose of the paddle wheels were on the back of the cultivators!

Saw a pair of those working their way through a gate to get to a field in Platte county Wyoming. Both on semi's. First signs of spuds in Wyoming for me. No idea where the machines came from.

You're good at this RU-vid stuff. Definitely an up and coming farm channel.

Thank you for showing what that looks like.

You should see how bad the traffic is up in the panhandle. Half of Seattle has moved here to escape Gov Inslee.

Some people are complete idiots, I was pulling a rod weeder that I bought from a farm auction home with my l9000 Ford grain truck, and was crossing a bridge, and got over as far as I could, and these people were at a stop sign cross road, and instead of waiting 20 seconds for me to cross the bridge they came on the bridge with me, and I was inches from scraping the side of the bridge with the shanks, and these idiots literally drove towards the center line of the road, and the shanks on the drivers side of the rod weeder, drug down the entire vehicle and shredded the vehicle, I told the police what happened they told the guy in the other vehicle that he was an idiot and that they were reporting that the accident was his fault, and I didn't hear no more, I did a Lil welding, put 3 new shanks on, and to this day I still summer fall with that rod weeder. I personally think the guy drove towards me to get insurance money, and he ended up getting a totaled rig, and no money

So educational, thanks

I was in a bad wreck too back in the day. Only I was driving a 1995 Ford L9000 AeroMax dump truck. I learned to always have my headlights on after that day.

Don't know how I've missed your channel. I'm from right down the road in poky.

seeeeshhhh ..... that accident looks terrifying ! Again awesome droone footage at the end ! Question : does this make the sprayer lines bumpy-unstabile ? or you lift thoose up independently ? Other question : how many times and how much quantity of water do you use for irrigation ?

During soil preparation do you use deep ridge or not or only cultivated by dammer dyer after potato planting i like your GPS system which is too much effect it works good does gps use on any tractor or different tractors have different gps system do you spray weedicide or not and your drone shots are amazing you are good person that you realize the disadvantage of the accident of the previous year of the dammer dyer you take too much average 550 sacks every year you get yield below or above 500 or only previous year

People can’t drive for love nor money these days! Always in a hurry or on the phone and not paying attention. The roads are FULL of idiots! What is y’all’s row width? 36” and 38” around here mostly. Two farmers in our country is on 40” rows. One happens to be my neighbor.

Another awesome video

Those drone shots are great, thanks. Looks like you have a wind farm up on those hills at the back?

That machine is a great idea.

believe I saw a ladies only bar called the Dammer Diker somwhere up 95 😉

My question is, how could not see that thing going down the road?

I feel the same way about moving equipment 2 years ago ago a cop hit the sprayer and totaled it and had flagger infront and behind me and still I wake up shaking and now when I go to move any kinda equipment just a nervous wreck and the court battle from it was horrible and the officers tried to cover it up and blame me saying I had a dui and caused the accident but proving them wrong and dealing with all of it just made the accident worse

Crash wooow that's quite something else, but I like your show 😊

Great video! What kind of potatoes do uou grow?

How many days does the potatoes grow before harvest? Seeing other yt farmers talking about 105 day corn and 120 day beans

Implement looks like it works as intended.

Yep I'm always nervous getting on the roadways... Have had fair share of road warriors.

I was involved in a accident involving a tractor with a drain plow my wife was driving she was going 73 mph she got distracted and slammed into the back of the tractor tractor was almost on top of the car she died almost instantly 😢I miss her she was just 23 it’s been 2 years since the wreck I was in the car 2 I only had minor scratches and bruises I also have a 3 year old daughter I fathered with her the car was basically crushed only the backseat remained

Great video what do you plant in taters about 3500 acres or so I'm guessing maybe you won't say and I'm good with that we used to raise a bunch of acres averaged anywhere from 250 to 300 sack to acre didn't know what your yield is but to fill 9 cellar got to be several acres 😊 great video

Thank God you are ok. My Dad would say we can replace equipment but you we ca not.

Who do you grow potatoes for? Someone I know plants for a potato chip company. In your area some plant for McDonalds and others for different restaurants.

You run center pivot irrigation though?

Ah another KIA driver!! LOL!

thanks to lemken you drive lots of european 9 feet equipment ;)

That many acres, why not get a 5 row too? Also why not put a spray boom on the back and do your spraying while cultivating?

"That will buff out"

Do they incorporate this into the planter?

How much of the 1,300 acres are owned by your farm v.s. leased?

how the hell do you not see a large slow moving tractor in flat lands on a clear sunny day.

He was ALMOST a Darwin Award contestant.

Thank you! About 40 years ago Cora tried to pass me 4020 what’s the loader on it. It was Like a 17-year-old second and third car brand new. Nobody got hurt thankfully it

How much seed you plant in one acre

Maybe add a couple of yellow strobe lights to the roof, to have on when roading the tractor?

Write the depth into on the tool its self.

Wow are people blind or what? Looks awsum out there! How far is your closes town? And no stones wow!

Just call it a Idiot Eliminator!! Didnt work that time , maybe next time

I'm pretty sure the car took all the damage lol

I bet the next time that person sees a tractor coming down the road they’ll pull over to the ditch

As someone with a net worth of like $1000 it must be nice to have land as far as the eye can see coupled with ridiculously expensive machinery to work it all. I imagine there's no way you took out a loan on all that, it was probably handed down to you by your great great grandfather who bought it in 1856 for a like a dollar.... But anyways thanks for helping feed the world. At least you're working the land and not making a golf course out of it or something

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And that's why you shouldn't be able to road run this shit