19 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  2. Cool video!! Innovation is amazing i never even thought of “crop lifters” makes perfect sence!! We do it to our hair when it lays flat. This yields much lower insurance costs I’m sure when that happens farmers don’t have to sell the farm anymore. I’m sure it’s been around forever but I’ve never herd of it until now. Wow!! Very cool!!
    I have always wanted to farm but because I was raised in a city my family never thought I could or would do it they never asked me or thought of me just sold the farm outside deloraine MB …..my brother ,all of my uncles walked away ..and it’s all I wanted to do!! Oh well maybe one day a hobby farm.

  4. The scale of the mechanization is truly amazing from when I was a kid. Millions of dollars of machinery in this video.

  5. ‘”crop lifters”…..I’m sure it’s been around forever but I’ve never herd of it until now.’
    Well son, lifters have not been around forever but they were an assessory on Mr. McCormack’s reaper…..before a fella named Gatling invented a mechanical knotter to convert that contraption into a binder.
    Now they’re made of tough plastic….mine were stamped heavy sheet….before that they were forged or cast steel.
    They work real good now that electronic header-height keeps the header from plowing or coon-hunting…sorta like cruise control. BTW that equipment is steered by GPS guided auto steer…..no human can drive that straight. Peak efficiency with no miss or overlap…with straight passes….some auto-steers will anticipate the row end…then complete the turn to head back right on the money. And that makes automobile cruise control look primitive.
    Meanwhile electronics monitors the seeding/application rate, pressure, and detects/alarms plugged nozzles and seed openers. Inputs are expensive…so is unseeded untreated ground…..
    Another set of electronics monitors grain loss on the combines….
    It’s something like yer automatic, electronic controlled engine/transmission in yer sedan….on spades….
    That tractor besides auto-steer, controls it’s own speed by means of pulse Doppler radar…regardless of soil conditions (slippage)….
    Then the amazing thing is this stuff is extremely robust and reliable….and expensive.

  7. Thanks squatchy I appreciate the info. Not to bad for a buncha rednecks. Lol. So much technology !!

  8. This was amazing. I left my dads farm in 1970s. WOW what a change in equipment and methods and crops and, and ,and, WOW. These farmers can do more in a day than we could do all season.
    Now show us how a modern dairy works please. WOW.

  9. “Plowing or coon hunting”, beautiful way of saying digging into the dirt. I had some flattened crops like that before crop lifters came back into style and it was not fun swathing. There was a lot of crop loss.
    Thanks Kate, this was a fantastic video.
    The equipment is not like the second hand stuff I had to farm with. The only thing wrong with Schultz’s equipment though is that it isn’t green. 🙂

  10. Those swathers are easily three times the width of the ones we were using in the mid 80s when I moved off the farm. What a difference 30 years has made. A quadcopter equipped with a GoPro like he had would have made a lot of things so much easier back then, too (counting the herd, for instance). Sure ain’t my grandpa’s farm.

  11. I learned more about crop farming from that video than I’ve known my whole life. The info age is amazing. I’ve been alive for 54 years, living in NL for much of that time, but never knew anything about what fishermen really do….until I watched Cold Water Cowboys. A little understanding of what other go through to make a living, surely must be good for us.

  12. “The scale of the mechanization is truly amazing from when I was a kid. Millions of dollars of machinery in this video.”
    I owe, I owe, it’s off to swath-seed-swath-seed-swath-seed-swath, I go.

  14. Nice that someone does a video like this every once in a while. I do want to know, though, were these union actors from the screen actors guild, or were they just the stupid country hicks that the New York Times talks about? They look like my neighbors. They sure grow them pretty up there in Canada. Nice to have you around, cousins.

  15. Thank you sir. Around here we use the New York Times for a good purpose in our outhouses.

  16. Great video. Music was also great but I would prefer audio from the farmers discussing their operation.
    – My great Grandfather brought the first steam tractors to Carmangay, AB in 1908. They broke ground through piles of buffalo bones.
    – I grew up next to the biggest farmers in our BC valley in the ’50’s. I was regularly taken out to the farm. The headers on the combines might have been 20′. Most combines were still open cockpit with standing steer.
    – My father-in-law farmed in Lipton, Sask until ’53 and used horses until 1946.
    – My wife’s cousin still farms in Lipton but now farms 11,000 acres. He uses
    3 of those $450,000 combines that can harvest at 8 mph. I took my father-in-law and uncle out to the farm a few years back and they simply stood in the fields watching those huge combines and were speechless.

  17. “- I grew up next to the biggest farmers in our BC valley in the ’50’s. ”
    Probably closer to 12’….they looked bigger in them days. “20′” heads were pretty well limited to low yield, prairie, dry land farms.
    Here in Ontario, Dad had a “40” Cockshutt which wuz a big tractor then….Farmall M’s, Massey “44”s, MM U’s were about……Stuff like IH WD9’s were rumoured to exist “Out West”. It wuz mid “50’s” when the first 65 hp diesels arrived. That’s when we started ripping out the fences….
    It was mid 60’s when the Farm Quarterly had an issue “THE BIG TRACTORS”…806 IH, JD 4020, Allis XT190, 1100 Massey, Oliver/Cockshutt 1850….all 90 hp….no cabs…..heady times….

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