Molly you do such a great job with your videos always very informative and interesting to watch. One of the things with farming is there’s always something new and different to do and that makes it not like work.
Purchased an electric and it stays in my Jeep. Super nice for the trails in the mountains of East Tennessee and North Carolina. However I did get an extra battery just in case. Good job. FYI I explained that I had been there but didn't realize that Maine was like this. Was a Mill Right for ET Barwick and came to Lewiston to set up the carpet mill at Albany Felt Co. Main is a nice place so Kudos to Bells Farm.
I love that thing. I just used it the last couple days when we were getting out irrigation pump. It’s so handy! Very cool you have been to Lewiston! It’s not so pretty these days. But the country pat and river are very nice!
Yea, I think Molly would be just a little distracting around the farm, or anywhere !! Wow!! You are strong and feminine looking at the same time ! Wonderful combination! Be safe, keep up the hard work and great videos Thx !
To watch you now, noone would ever know that you weren’t brought up on a farm, and it’s very obvious that you love what you’re doing, and that makes all the difference in the world. Love your videos. Stay safe and have a great day…
Good video and you always seem to keep smiling no matter what. I use a cheap electric chain saw and it’s very good not to swallow petroleum fumes. Keep safe and enjoy the weekend.
Jeez Louise...unfortunately all my yrs of farming i was never lucky enough to work with someone with all the bumps and curves in the right places as well as always having a gorgeous smile. Good luck with this growing season guy's.
Hey Molly, well your a farm girl now. I am happy for you. Nothing better than farm and ranch life. You have a Great channel too, very interesting. Thanks again. 😊
Hi Molly. It is nice to hear of your transition from a hygienist to full time farming. Your love of the land and enthusiasm in producing these videos shows. Thanks for sharing.
An amazing hard working woman who doesn't mind working with non stop energy ...and I am sure has no problem sleeping at night...thank you for sharing your energy ...
Thank you Molly,excellent work 😊 great to see you using the chainsaw,I'm like you once i start using the chainsaw i can't put it down 🤣, I'm very impressed with my electric chainsaw to 😊 i liked the little bit of history to 😊 fantastic as always 😀 till next time take care 🙂 UK 🇬🇧
Another great video, I see your happy to get out of the office and enjoy the out doors. Love that you show us the hard work and what it takes to run a large farm. All of you are good people.
Tree-mendous work Molly. And a nice history lesson about the farm. Quite a change from dental assistant. Their loss is our gain as viewers. You are an absolute delight.
Molly and Shane, you might want to have some paper towels and Fast Orange nearby for when you get your hands so dirty. No water needed and then you don't grease up the steering wheel or anything else. Really appreciating all the informative videos!
Molly your posts are absolutely great. You, Shane and the rest of the crew are amazing in what you are accomplishing on the farm. I originally grew up on a Dairy farm in the land of Cheeseheads (Wisconsin), but my working life with the government led to me to many places in this country. One my favorites was living in Whitefield, Maine for almost 6 years. The greatest people I have ever got to know so well. I now live in the Black Hills of SD, I and am retired. I really enjoy watching farm shows on RU-vid. I am curious if you have the time watch some of these videos. My regulars are Laura farms in Neb., Larson farms and the Millennial farmer, both located in Minn. Take care, be safe and enjoy life.
Thank you so much for the compliments and support of the channel! Farming is such a good life! Very neat you lived in Maine for a bit. I’m from Ohio and I just love it here. The people are great! Thank you for watching and commenting!
What a great video… I loved hearing about the farm and how you got started. I did my time in corporate world and now I work outside every day. I wouldn’t have it any other way. You could easily be a farming role model for everyone. You have that gift of being in front of the camera and being photogenic.
I grew up farming with my dad from the mid 50's through 86. Even though I didn't end up farming as my primary profession I still kept my hand in it after I got out of the Army and graduated from college until we cash rented our place in 86. My the difference in tractors compared to what we owned! All were old school open platform so you always got the full effect of what mother nature had to offer. I loved the tractors and the work though. Lots of great memories for me of plowing, working down ground, planting and harvesting and working with livestock. I share your feelings about the work and the overall experience.
Thanks for sharing some of your family history and personal info. Makes us feel like we are a little part of your operation too. I know that if I had to choose between working in a dental office or driving a tractor in the sunshine with a smile on my face, one just has to look at your face for the answer! Good video Molly.
I'm always impressed! The guys were probably over the moon when you took on the FS records, and I'm sure that someday you'll be running the planters and harvesters! 🚜
Thanks as always for bringing us along and thanks for briefly explaining how you came to be at the farm. Seems like a big shift from dental assistant to irreplaceable farm handywoman extraordinaire!
Molly, I have a chainsaw like yours. After years and years of working with large, gas powered saws, this one is a delight to use. Your abilities are amazing, you have a high level of intellectual curiosity to learn all that you know. And so pretty, too. 😊
I really enjoy your videos, it brings back memories of when I was a kid. I was raised on a farm. We had 200 head of cattle, 50 laying hens, pigs.... We also planted corn and soy beans and had 500 acres of hay.... Hard work.
Some guys in really sandy soils plant 2 - 7" rows of rye skip a row pattern, plant a row of corn, usually pop corn. At planting or very soon after, burn down the rye for cover. Saves a lot of moisture. Of course, all under pivot.
Hey Molly how’s it going? Busy as always I see. I love the “I’ll just cut up these trees before I plow the fields up” attitude! Awesome!! So let’s do a recap here. You’re quite a lovely gal (I hope that’s respectful), probably a good cook, farms a full day along side her husband, takes care of her own home - and a plethora of animals, Oh and you can shoot the paws off of a squirrel at 900 yards! Let’s not forget also you are learning to ride horses - which I am jealous of by the way!! Molly gals like you are a rarity! You really are. 😉
I think Shane and Bell Farms struck pay dirt when you became part of it all. Kudos young lady. BTW, your weather is about a day or two behind ours. Today and the wkend here are beautiful weather. You'll love it when it gets over to you.
My son Keith Christadore is a dealer for channel corn seed I’m not sure if you have cow Silage also has a combine and works Connecticut and Massachusetts. I’m not sure if he gets up to in New Hampshire Maine. I got to get them to come up and see your.
Hi Molly it look like you are having fun with the TREEs . My wife does that same thing you are doing with the Branch's . I cut the Tree and Maria takes all the rest of the Tree and puts it in the woods 😁.... Great job Molly looks like that is a Very large Tree over behind you . I hope your Electric Chain saw can cut it . For us we have a EKO gas saw ... Ran time 2-half hrs long... God bless you and Shane ❣️🙏 and your family and your Pretty Dogs
Hi mark! Thank you for leaving this comment! It’s nice to hear about other husbands and wifes working together :) thank you so much for your support of the channel! 💚😊🫶🐕
Carry a small tub of hand cleaner in your tractor with some clean rags..It helps keep your hands clean and moisturized and keeps equipment like the steering wheel clean..
I agree with your comment. I grew up with end of old school farming methods. I was born in 47 and started helping my dad and grandad by the mid 50's continuing from there through 68 when I went in the Army. My grandad still had a team that he sometimes chored with hauling feed to the cattle and hogs. In the Fall we used them to open up the first couple of rows along the edges of the corn fields since we were using pull type corn pickers and didn't want to waste the corn by running over them with the tractor. I got real familiar with a shucking peg. The team was handier than a tractor and wagon for that purpose since they would start and stop on voice commands alone and already knew the drill. They usually walked slow enough that you could keep up with them while shucking and tossing the ears and only stopping when you needed a break. My dad and grandad had farmed with horses, my grandad most of his life before the 50's. My dad told me that he always enjoyed working them especially light work like cultivating and mowing. He said is was very peaceful and you could spend time with your thoughts and enjoy the beauty of the world around you while working at an unhurried pace and free of loud noise. I never experienced much of the quiet while working our fields since during my time we were two cylinder John Deere tractors among other brands. The six cylinder Olivers were the quietest followed by our Super M Farmall and AC WD. We had a Farmall 300 Utility and a Ferguson 30 used primarily for choring. My dad and I also farmed with a Minneapolis Moline UB and during the last 20 years we owned an MF 85 row crop gasoline tractor. Great memories for me.
I am just getting to reading your comment! Thank you very much for sharing these memories with me too! I just got a little glimpse of farming with horses! It does sound very peaceful and rewarding. I just recently started riding horses and just love being around them. Thank you so much for watching us and commenting! 🚜💚🫶
I am so happy for you Molly.. Farming is a wonderful lifestyle. I wondered what you did before joining your husband on the farm . Dental assistant makes sense your teeth are so white .. 😅
I was out until 10:20 the other night because we had rain coming the next day, gotta do what you gotta do. Can’t get the sound of the tractor out of my head.
Another great video! Thanks for sharing some of your background and working history. That was really interesting. You're always so cheerful, and I admire the way you approach new tasks. I can be very nervous and full of self doubt, but I try to remind myself of the way you talk to yourself, and the pride I can see you have in yourself once you've done something new. I'm probably over sharing a bit here, but I just wanted to say thanks, and your videos help people possibly in ways you didn't imagine. Keep up the good work. p.s. I love learning about how you all farm too. p.s.s. can I buy a Bell's Farm cap anywhere?
Thank you! I would have never guessed I could really heal people in that way, 🫶 don’t worry about over sharing, I love reading these comments and interacting with the very nice people who watch. I will be having merchandise availed soon. I’ll talk about in an upcoming video when it’s available!
Thanks for your reply to my recent comment and story regarding my own experience farming. Quite a few stories have come through me from my dad and maternal grandad and his brothers who also farmed during the first 60 years of the 20th century. They all were great story tellers who gathered often and my grandparents place for weekend gatherings and meals. The families also got together at my grandparent's place to butcher cattle and hogs in the Fall which was a big deal and exciting for me growing up as I eventually got to participate and learn how to do things. Between my dad and grandad they had two large and very heavy butcher's blocks to cut up the meat, a large galvanized tank with iron legs large enough to hold and entire hog that was used for scalding the carcass in order to remove the hair and they had a large cast iron cauldron that was used for heating and rendering lard. We also had a hand cranked lard press that we put the fat chunks in after they had been cooked sufficiently in the cauldron. Nothing compares to eating hot fresh pork rinds right out of the press. A thing most people today never get to experience. Enjoy your farm experience.
You are full of great stories. I can picture everything you are describing to me! I just bought some lard to start cooking with. I’m sure it isn’t nearly as good as home grown! 🐖
I have a couple of Stihl gas chain saws and a Stihl battery MSA200, they are good for limbing and getting my teenage son use to operating a chain saw. These are not cheap and won’t replace a gas saw when the going gets tough.
Yeah, it’s a great way to get your son out working! I also have an Echo gas powered saw, for doing firewood with Shane. This one is great for this kinda thing. Thank you so much for watching!
Great video,Molly, thanks for your honesty and outline. I was wondering how long those batteries last in the saw, seem like a good buy. Are you putting more nitrogen into the fields that were flooded, the water tends to deplete the water soluable nutrients, particularly N and K. I guess the fields get plenty of phosphate during their potato phase and P is not all that soluable, tends to stay where it is put, firmly affixed to the clay minerals. Thanks for your mammoth editing job. Great channel. regards to all.
I was actually thinking about it! I watch Tayfarms and she has one on her tractor. My favored old forklift had one. Maybe I’ll go take it off that steering wheel! Good idea :)
Long time fan, first comment as I watch most videos on TV, and commenting while watching on /tv kind of sucks. Anyways, I've had the same saw a couple years now. I mostly use the saw while milling tree to lumber and boards. I absolutely love the saw. The chain is very small, so its not taking hardly any power to get thorough the wood. Chains are also quite cheap, about $20. Great choice on the saw Molly. Keep up the great videos, truly enjoy them.
Thank you very much for taking the time to leave me your first comment!!! We have a saw mill too, we haven’t used it much yet, but I’ll keep that in mind when we do start milling. The file that I got to go with the saw is so tinny! Haha do you sharpen yours or just buy new blades? Thank you again for watching our videos! 💚🚜😊
You guys have a sawmill? Thats awesome. I cant wait to see the videos from that. Dont get me wrong, the farming videos are great. I have a Woodland Mills sawmill. Just a hobbiest mill. I do use that tiny file and sharpen the chains a few times, but I dont hesitate to change it out. It is amazing how long the battery does last. I bet you would get a lot of use out of the Stihl leaf blower on the battery, great power. I use that also at the mill for cleaning the dust off the mill when done milling. Works great for cleaning out the garage and barn also.
Great video and content again. I do like your positive attitude and can do spirit. It is a joy to work with others that have that up lifting attitude as opposed to the other way.. keep up the good work, you are a valuable part of the farming operation.
@@BellsFarming I'll just add, I have a real interest in this as I am wanting a chain saw and had convinced myself that battery life would be a real issue if I chose a battery model. So I know a lot more now, especially about the Stihl brand! Enjoy your channel a lot.
