Couple videos of farming gone bad!!! LOL

JD Seller · Mar 3, 2013

The first has pictures that I have seen before but some of you may not have. The second has a bunch of pictures that are new to me. They are still kind of neat to watch.
Videos of what can happen while farming 1

Video 2

paul · Mar 3, 2013

It appears YouTube needs to make more money, and is blocking more and more videos from use on iPads and other mobile devices. Can't see them, not that you can do anything about it.

Paul

Hay_Man · Mar 3, 2013

Must have bees some deaths and serious injuries in most of those. Amazing!

That never ending train load of combines is needed to replace all the ones shown destroyed in the field by fire.......looks like its on a loop.....

ShadetreeRet · Mar 3, 2013

Those are some interesting videos. I was always told that you don't take a tractor into a field where there is standing water! Some of those others where they ended up in the creek, I would like to hear the stories, (or excuses), behind those.

smallercrawler · Mar 3, 2013

Thanks for links. Does anyone make a fire suppression kit for combines/balers? It would probably not be 100% effective, but could limit damage/save a machine/field or two.

Video 2, toward the end, picture of a TLB on a railcar isn't an accident. These hoes climb from the ground to the top of an open hopper car and then across the top of the car to load/unload for various uses. I think they are called cartoppers. Youtube has several videos of them in action.

rrlund · Mar 3, 2013

The first picture in the first video reminds me of the neighbor kid when we were teenagers. He drove a DC Case through the side of a mobile home. He kept stomping the left brake instead of pulling back on the hand clutch.

Lamar Fudd · Mar 3, 2013

Won't see trainloads from the John Deere Des Moines
Works, as the Railroad has sold all the rails for
scrap. Deere and Company decided they could ship
cheaper by truck. And why not; they've got a
continuous supply of drivers from the Community
College that thinks $35,000.00 a year is going to
make them wealthy. Funny though, Firestone still
uses the railroad to bring in raw materials, and
it's on a spur that runs from the trackage that used
to go five miles further to Deere.

The Red · Mar 3, 2013

One thing that stands out in my mind is the equipment is getting way too big for ground and bridges to hold up to the increased weight.

samn40 · Mar 3, 2013

And there was me thinking it was only in Ireland where tractors and combines get stuck in the muck!
Sam

John B. · Mar 3, 2013

After seeing the combines upside down they look like a turtle on their back.

calf · Mar 3, 2013

Is some/a lot of the equipment getting to big to go by rail? Height and width?

(quoted from post at 18:34:51 03/03/13) Won't see trainloads from the John Deere Des Moines
Works, as the Railroad has sold all the rails for
scrap. Deere and Company decided they could ship
cheaper by truck. And why not; they've got a
continuous supply of drivers from the Community
College that thinks $35,000.00 a year is going to
make them wealthy. Funny though, Firestone still
uses the railroad to bring in raw materials, and
it's on a spur that runs from the trackage that used
to go five miles further to Deere.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 3, 2013

I like Ich bin a farmer, as a video, a little better. The german techno funk wrecks tractors better, IYAM!

aarolar · Mar 3, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:47:59 03/03/13) Those are some interesting videos. I was always told that you don't take a tractor into a field where there is standing water! Some of those others where they ended up in the creek, I would like to hear the stories, (or excuses), behind those.

Looks like the auto steer may have quit on a couple of them. :lol:

Richard from SE AZ · Mar 3, 2013

I have seen many pictures and videos of combines burnt or burning. Can someone tell me what causes them to catch fire and can't some design change be made to stop this from happening?

2x4 · Mar 3, 2013

one cause is hydraulic lines breaking & spraying fluid all over until something hot like exhaust manifold causes fire. Fluid, under pressure, keeps squirting out, feeding the fire.

RickieBlue · Mar 4, 2013

Some of those pics are very tragic..........agriculture can be dangerous...but common sense needs to prevail!

Couple videos of farming gone bad!!! LOL

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