Farming Youtubers

You could fall out of the tractor and break your neck. A million ways to get hurt on a farm. It's not difficult to stay a safe distance away from the pto shaft. No business being in there at all as far as I can see. Have your covers right and the danger is minimal to none.

I was just going to say the same about pto covers and chains. If you have these correct, along with some common sense, the chances of getting harmed are minimal.

You can't do this on most tractors since the mid 2000's (or any I've driven anyway) as you have to press the clutch when starting same as a lot of new cars. Great safety feature even with kids etc.

Funnily enough this feature stops starting but with CVT/vario transmission you can actually drive the tractor from the steps since is just the move of a joystick to start/stop. Have a neighbour near us who you often see standing on the step moving the tractor out a gap or shifting it around the yard without even getting in.

This sounds like a lad who has never had or managed employees!

Your 100% right… well 80% right, I do understand the realities, I know the time pressures etc but its all fine until its not. I wouldnt wish it on anyone, and yes If I was doing it myself I would prob trim down the process, prob use the pto btn etc. Because it is my business and my equipement. But you need to train people (Employees) the right way to do things, you can measure clearly and plan better.

How much time do you really save by not doing it, 1 load maybe? a qtr of the time of 1 load. Do you ever race down a road going somewhere and when you get there u have still arrived like maybe 10 mins quicker or maybe the same time because of conditions you race up on, but your spent miles and miles over the limit risking fines and points and for what 10 mins or maybe nothing.

Just because I work in an office doesn't mean I don't know the reality of something… most of the time I have a clearer picture of the suitation. seeing the wood from the trees so to speak

You close the filling valve before you turn off the pump

Do ya do that? I'm the opposite and I'd turn off the PTO first and then close the lollipop. There's a vacuum still in the tank and it's still filling for the couple of seconds when the pump stops.

Tis mad the different routines

Neutral pump, connect hose, pump to suck, PTO on from mudguard (revs tractor too), open lollipop, twitter, pto off, lollipop down, neutral pump, hose off, pump to spread, see ya later alligator

That's the correct way.

If the chap that employed me spreading slurry 20 years ago seen me at it any other way he would say I was costing time.

Changing from spreading to filling while the pto is running is bad practice, therell always be pressure on the tank when you're changing over.

Start PTO , pump to suck, fit hose, open lolipop. When full, stop pto, wait a few seconds to allow tank to fill to top, close lolipop, remove hose, pump to neutral to release vacuum, pump to spread. Have hydraulic drive for pump on older splash plate tank so using spool valve instead of PTO on that tank.

it’s a pit of pure dung he has any way

Watched Tom P's most recent video of silage there. I don't feel so bad about some of my own mishaps over the years now. Fair mess in the fields.

I see he has maize set in wet ground and without plastic. That can't be a good idea.. I'll keep an eye on it as I'm planning on experimenting on 3 acres next year myself.

it’s all about editing. 140 acres gone into the pit. But focus on the wet 10 acres for content.

I know what you mean about content but that looks a lot more than 10 acres. Dunno how he’s laughing about it!!

I’m Watching Tom a long time and he’s done very little reseeding.

For a system so reliant on grass and grass silage it’s bonkers

When they did the video on the maize one of the fields they had been farming for the last number of years had a ph of 5.5 or something and they went and bought bagged lime instead of ground limestone. And it went out at about 5 bags per acre. Mental.

we took on 70 new acres this year and it will all be limed with ground limestone by the autumn

Lots of ppl give out about teagasc but at least we’re not relying on salesmen to give us advice over here like they do over there

sorry Visa I don’t agree. He needs the YouTube money to pay for the concrete, that tells enough about the farming operation

In the last 6 years I’ll have put in 430k gallons of slurry storage, 200 cubicles, a shed and improved the parlour, only thing grant aided was the parlour and I haven’t fingers in any other pie only farming. He needs to stop taking advice from his dad imv