Probably got a mile down the road and thought man I should've grabbed my lunch box......6 hours later still having the same thought.....🤣. Awesome neighbors......👍 for getting that one stopped quick!
This is my experience of putting/keeping fires out under bushes and trees. Use the most concentrated stream of water you can to penetrate down into the ground, do not use the spray setting because all you are doing is watering the top of the ashes. The best thing I have ever seen for getting down into the roots was a pressure washer with a 500 gallon tank. It works much better than you think it would not only for getting down into the roots but also the spray that it puts out will also do well on a grass fire. Mike, you make great videos and I like your sense of humor!
Ah, man. When you said FIRE, my heart stopped for a moment. I remember helping out neighbors with my grandpa when I was little... Glad that the losses are so small.
Good neighbors are a real blessing! Fires, another farming hazard. Something that doesn't happen very often in Iowa, however we have our share of combine fires! Interesting video, stay safe!
How do you get to know about these fires and if its on your land? You know every single farmer around you and you all message each other when something happens?
5:25 Mike pulls in a field to let combines pass, how freakin funny would it have been if one of those combines had been an X9 JD :) I have a feeling we would have been in high speed pursuit if that had been the case, or watching Mike give it the bird on it's way by lol
trouble is how farmers have a wagon with soap water in it plus time to find and take it to the fire look how long it took to get there with the protill what the others were there with something od use also who ever with the other protill did the most usefull move
They may install lightening cages on top of the poles. It stops arcing by directing plasma inside. The downside is you need to ground it to be effective, which in this situation is probably missing a point, because it will attract the lightning.
Mike, Another farmer calls me one day...fire has crossed into one of my places...i’m hour away so I dispatched my stepson...he calls me back said fireman drove out in field and got firetruck stuck and ran off...in short...my friends had a 310 case ih and landoll disc down the street..brought it down and put the fire out..and pulled burnt up firetruck to the road. #RIPfiretruck
Mike the pro till vers a tree was pretty cool. I’ve had the pleasure of pro Tilling a Couch in one of are fields East of Calgary before. 👋🏼 bye bye 🛋. Lmao.
I farm here in Indiana and I'm jealous those fields are huge. I couldn't imagine how much to seed you use to plant all that. If that was soy beans instead of wheat wow$$$$
i really like these vids. again, being from northern ontario, i had no clue about these kinds of issues, like fires. its fun listening to you guys. you have a bit of an accent, but still sound like a typical canadian. I had a friend from sask. she use to tell me how big the farms were out there, as far as you can see. thats hard to comprehend when the property i own can be cut with a push lawn mower in 5 mins. ill keep watching your vids, keep them coming.
Lol Here in West Australia a bloke had a pole fall on his hobby farm Started a massive fire amd caused millions in damages One of the biggest in the area ever He reported the damage weeks before multiple times Still the after it fell, burnt out his farm hos house all his neighbours stuff the power company still tried to take him to court and say it was all his fault They lost Companys will put more into court fees than the damages are actually worth just to avoid taking the blame
Really enjoying the camaraderie that can only be found on the farm - memories of my time on Iowa farms 1960 - 1999. We were the sultans.......... we were the sultans of swine! I'm sure that you guys can appreciate that where most folks would say "HUH?"
TIL a pro till will mulch trees. Also did you know that California has so many fires because you aren’t allowed to cut down dead timber, this you have very dry wood in the heat, all it needs is an ember and there goes half the state
Mike a lot of people around here cut the perimeter of the field 1st then work it up so hopefully if a fire breaks out working around the field will stop or at least slow fire down
Good on ya mike, always good to look after one another because you never know when you need their hand to help you out! Always like the longer vids too. Have a good harvest, I’m keen for mine in north west Victoria, Australia!
Hey mike! I found a channel post in ng your videos and claiming to be you! They go by the name "Real Life Farming" and have also posted another faming youtubers video. Just a heads up!
So he claimed to be Merrett contracting from Australia then posted 2 of your videos and said he got a hair cut.😂😂 he must have also got a voice change as you don’t sound Aussie Hahah. th-cam.com/video/yOOEN1XkPeU/w-d-xo.html
Little kids want to be just like you hahaha have a good day or night mate! And keep up the good work, oh and he’s Gmail is in the about page on TH-cam if ya want to send him an email. Cheers
Mop up is the hardest part of fighting fire, if you don't get it right and cut in good, you'll be back. Here in the Mtns we don't really have many fires we can drive to, it's all walking In.
Isn't tilling the ground in a fire just common sense? I think it's even a normal thing to do in the Netherlands, where fields are small, fire departments are close, and conditions are usually not all too dry during harvest. About going when there's enough people there to fight it: It should be common sense that even if there's enough people there, as long as there are people there that are not part of your crew, you go there to relieve them. They're helping you, so you make sure they can get back to their own work as quickly as possible. We all know the guy who's like "Oh you're gonna finish that for me? Thanks, bye". That's a bad guy.
I think you had a video about border patrol coming along if you hung out near the border too long... but in case of fire right on the border, i presume they overlook a few farmers helping each other across the border?
It is often said that fire on a boat, is the worst thing that is, but a fire in a grain field. must be somewhere up there too. On dit souvent que le feu sur un bateau, c'est la pire chose qui soit, mais un feu dans un champ de céréales. doit être quelque part là-haut aussi.
Mike, ... Good info on fires, I grew up farming, and was a fireman. Very nice idea from another vid to get Your Wife and Family more involved.(you can skip the grave digger stuff, those corn folks do it and it gets old).
If you want to see what a fire in cropping country can do, Google 'Pinery fire 2015 South Australia". It burnt 210,000 acres in less than four hours and 180,000 acres in less than 2. No amount of water or tillage can stop a fire once it gets going down here ...
Have you ever considered installing a FireTamer (Remote Controlled Water Cannon for High Clearance Sprayers) on the front on one or more of your sprayers and use it a fire truck? It's made by a couple of Canadian farmers in Alberta: www.firetamer.ca FireTamer Demo th-cam.com/video/VwMPix6iMOA/w-d-xo.html TH-camr Welker Farms has one installed on one of their sprayers for harvest: Welker Farms Tries FireTamer th-cam.com/video/Pt2_xAlmFGY/w-d-xo.html Welker Farms Battles Fire th-cam.com/video/4t4m60dacaY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/zT4nkq-rltk/w-d-xo.html
I grew up in Southern Alberta and we treated fire like you guys. Then I bought this place by ituna and people will start a quarter section on fire to burn the straw and leave. Took some getting used to.
Theyre usually not 4x4 and are designed to dump massive volumes of water on a plane in a minute or even a few seconds Used to live next to an airforce base Had a fire in the pine plantation near by and the airforce decided to "show those little volunteer brigades how its done" Basically they went in, got stuck in the sand on the side of a track, dumped 15'000 lts of water on 3 trees, spent 2 hours getting pulled out then left All the brigade trucks and most of the farmers trucks are either izusu or hino 4x4 trucks with 4000lt water tanks
Stay out in California where they had a big fire it was caused by Highline wires touching in the wind so every time they get a certain mile per hour wind they shut off the power when that be something that would be out for maybe a week no air-conditioning no water no lights when we had our Wind storm here in Iowa we were out for weeks
23:55 „we didn’t lose much“ just 20 acres! In Sweden where I’m from it would be like a fifth of my whole land 😅
only 20 on a total of 40000 acres, ............... 😂
Mike you may want to have a Flir infrared camera (not that expenses), that way you can see the hot spots below the surface.
That’s a great investment for any large scale farm.
20 acres.... ha. Thats half our farm
16:01 “like my pit vipers” 😂
That a poke at anyone in particular?
It was actually really nice to have to talk with, and about your crew. Do more of that. It really humanizes your video(s)!
Don’t you DARE call an Aussie a Kiwi or visa versa😂🤣
Yep, them's fightin' words (in a friendly way, of course)
Aaaay, quiet down there in the internment or it's nutriloaf again tomorrow!
Kiwis are just South Pacific poms .
Probably got a mile down the road and thought man I should've grabbed my lunch box......6 hours later still having the same thought.....🤣. Awesome neighbors......👍 for getting that one stopped quick!
Lots of fires over here too. We haven’t had a year without rain like this during harvest in a long time.
We can’t get rid of the rain wish we could send some your way we just wanna hey started lol
Tho, it's nice for getting good quality grain! 😂 So there's always an upside, saw some fires down there yesterday
Mike Mitchell “so that’s what wheat is supposed to look like.”
The Wolf Point fire started right next to our land.
@@FastAgMontana Hahah 😂 right?!
Yikes.. That's scary stuff man5
Mike Mitchell Tell Will Hays hi next time you talk to him.
This is my experience of putting/keeping fires out under bushes and trees. Use the most concentrated stream of water you can to penetrate down into the ground, do not use the spray setting because all you are doing is watering the top of the ashes. The best thing I have ever seen for getting down into the roots was a pressure washer with a 500 gallon tank. It works much better than you think it would not only for getting down into the roots but also the spray that it puts out will also do well on a grass fire. Mike, you make great videos and I like your sense of humor!
Aaaaah so your the Mike everyone keeps asking if I know lol your kn the other side of the province from me lol
👋🖐👋🖐👋
Antoine must have a woman in SW SK so must know Mike .... surely .... I have driven the equivalent of Toronto to Vancouver for a woman in Oz ....
@@gregpope4366 hahahahha
Ah, man. When you said FIRE, my heart stopped for a moment. I remember helping out neighbors with my grandpa when I was little... Glad that the losses are so small.
You dont need to tell that he's your brother
He looks exactly like you which explains he's your brother
Good neighbors are a real blessing! Fires, another farming hazard. Something that doesn't happen very often in Iowa, however we have our share of combine fires! Interesting video, stay safe!
AH, canadian things... where i live my neighbours are the first cause of fire
Where do you live? Kenosha?
How do you get to know about these fires and if its on your land? You know every single farmer around you and you all message each other when something happens?
You bet.. Pretty much
Jean-Paul if they’re like farmers anywhere, yep.
5:25 Mike pulls in a field to let combines pass, how freakin funny would it have been if one of those combines had been an X9 JD :) I have a feeling we would have been in high speed pursuit if that had been the case, or watching Mike give it the bird on it's way by lol
Hahaha that would have been awesome! Oh, the Fendt 1050 has a much higher road speed then a combine, would have been a funny forsure tho 😂 🤷♂️
Mike
Watch the Welkers in Montana,they have a fire tamer and it’s in every field they do
Don't catch US on fire. I live in the US.
That sucks mike. Been there done that. No fun. Good luck this harvest!
20:30 DUUUD,he didn't look very happy,lmao.
I laughed soo hard,lool.
I will come with my free standing hammock & a case of wine and watch it for you 🍷🍷🍷
Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work.
have being a fireman for almost 50 years sugessted to put soap r suffactant in your fire water helps with penatration for the smoldering fires
trouble is how farmers have a wagon with soap water in it plus time to find and take it to the fire look how long it took to get there with the protill what the others were there with something od use also who ever with the other protill did the most usefull move
Lightening might have hit the power line then run to ground in lots of places along the line 😬 keep up the good work Mike .
They may install lightening cages on top of the poles. It stops arcing by directing plasma inside. The downside is you need to ground it to be effective, which in this situation is probably missing a point, because it will attract the lightning.
Joe Doe ff
It’s good that you and all the neighbors world together! That’s why I love living in the country! Thanks again for sharing Mike!!
Man..its so open down there!!
Very lol
@@SouthSaskFarmer1 I always like a little bush haha
@@Northern_Farmer exactly when its clean and maintained not over grown amd all tangled hahaha
👋🖐👋🖐👋
@@straightpipeacres6365 Hows she going?
I'm not entirely sure that "protill" was really *intending* forestry. Or anti-forestry...
Fun to watch. XD
😂 Thanks
Mike,
Another farmer calls me one day...fire has crossed into one of my places...i’m hour away so I dispatched my stepson...he calls me back said fireman drove out in field and got firetruck stuck and ran off...in short...my friends had a 310 case ih and landoll disc down the street..brought it down and put the fire out..and pulled burnt up firetruck to the road.
#RIPfiretruck
Well at that point it's a real fire truck
Tree removal with degelman. Guess international borders don't matter in an emergency, the way it should be. Be safe mike
Mike the pro till vers a tree was pretty cool. I’ve had the pleasure of pro Tilling a Couch in one of are fields East of Calgary before. 👋🏼 bye bye 🛋. Lmao.
That's awesome! I kinda wanna try now! 😂
This video restores some faith in humanity man. 💪🇺🇸🇨🇦👍
Your in a 400,000 dollar tractor and you said hook that tree to the pickup truck. 😂😂😂 Good ☝️ Mike. Keep the videos coming.
I farm here in Indiana and I'm jealous those fields are huge. I couldn't imagine how much to seed you use to plant all that. If that was soy beans instead of wheat wow$$$$
21:06 Lol - its like trees are aliens from another planet to you people. I've never seen anyone attacked by a tree before.
Hi Mike I have never seen such HUGE fields. I live in Wales GB and those field look the size of 1 county. Thank you for sharing.x
Does the power company pay for the crop damage?
i really like these vids. again, being from northern ontario, i had no clue about these kinds of issues, like fires. its fun listening to you guys. you have a bit of an accent, but still sound like a typical canadian. I had a friend from sask. she use to tell me how big the farms were out there, as far as you can see. thats hard to comprehend when the property i own can be cut with a push lawn mower in 5 mins. ill keep watching your vids, keep them coming.
Mike what do you think about the new Fendt Vario 1100 673hp 2 track unit?
Oh man I bet he will get 1for demo .
@@shoresharp8349 he sort of gave me ahint, i asked on one of his previous video's
his answer was: "There are rumors of it this fall"
So will the power company that owns the pole pay up for all the damage caused by their pole?
Foodways Distribution dont think soooooo
Lol
Here in West Australia a bloke had a pole fall on his hobby farm
Started a massive fire amd caused millions in damages
One of the biggest in the area ever
He reported the damage weeks before multiple times
Still the after it fell, burnt out his farm hos house all his neighbours stuff the power company still tried to take him to court and say it was all his fault
They lost
Companys will put more into court fees than the damages are actually worth just to avoid taking the blame
Hey Mike I have a question. How come you talk in miles instead of kilometers?
10:29 well someone is gonna have a big credit on their next bill
Mike is so dam cool 😎
that one thing about farmers ... they WILL help you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fires are scary when out of control
watching you trying to find the hot stops and put them out so you don't get called back, HMMM ... IR thermometers on your trucks? seems a lot simpler
I want to move to Canada,hire me I'm very reliable and well experienced
If the Americans crossed the border to help fight your fire, what complications do they face from USA or Canada customs?
Good ?
he didn't said they cross illegally..one of his video showing the border crossing really close to his land..
@@TheRick2130 Please, point me to the video. Intriguing question, I hope Mike responds. Boundary lines can't stop love.
@@onepocketslim th-cam.com/video/1Z-Xtg3PIpk/w-d-xo.html
Understand very well on fires, was a volunteer firefighter years ago. Have a pleasant week.
T m
Been there done that sask power wouldn't pay the fire department because it was a act of god🙄
Fire bad but I’m amazed you’re calling that sucker growth trees, absolute nuisance in Texas
Way to go on trying to get to the 🔥! I love seeing others helping others! Take care Mike and crew🇺🇸
Them protills are better then water if you can get them in the areas you need
At 20:30 he is thinking: "oh boy, you sended it a little bit too fu**ing hard"
You need a JBC FastTrack for the situation .
Really enjoying the camaraderie that can only be found on the farm - memories of my time on Iowa farms 1960 - 1999. We were the sultans.......... we were the sultans of swine! I'm sure that you guys can appreciate that where most folks would say "HUH?"
Nobody:
Mike Mitchell: Let me just take this tree down with my protill.
lol
TIL a pro till will mulch trees. Also did you know that California has so many fires because you aren’t allowed to cut down dead timber, this you have very dry wood in the heat, all it needs is an ember and there goes half the state
Mike a lot of people around here cut the perimeter of the field 1st then work it up so hopefully if a fire breaks out working around the field will stop or at least slow fire down
Your brother would not have been standing near that tree if you had yelled timberrrrrr!! Great job men that’s some good team work. Thanks Mike👍
Good on ya mike, always good to look after one another because you never know when you need their hand to help you out! Always like the longer vids too. Have a good harvest, I’m keen for mine in north west Victoria, Australia!
Hey mike! I found a channel post in ng your videos and claiming to be you! They go by the name "Real Life Farming" and have also posted another faming youtubers video. Just a heads up!
🤔 Like just sharing the videos?
Mike Mitchell nope they are claiming to be you and another farming TH-camr.
🤔 Gosh.. I don't know who would want to claim to be me.. 😂 🤷♂️
They must be sick in the head! 😂
Got link 🔗 so I can see what I look like?
So he claimed to be Merrett contracting from Australia then posted 2 of your videos and said he got a hair cut.😂😂 he must have also got a voice change as you don’t sound Aussie Hahah. th-cam.com/video/yOOEN1XkPeU/w-d-xo.html
Little kids want to be just like you hahaha have a good day or night mate! And keep up the good work, oh and he’s Gmail is in the about page on TH-cam if ya want to send him an email. Cheers
Good morning Mike... The Mitchell crew to the rescue ❤️❤️❤️
IR camera would be great to have in this case.
Hopfully the Americans that came to help don’t have to quarantine for 14 days cus they came to Canada 😂 just kidding good job for them coming to help
Is this the same fire that SaskDuck Kid was showing on his Channel?
No..
@@mikemitchell2554 thought I would ask as yesterday they were racing to a fire and with how videos are delayed I was like huh. Both are South Sask.
Frankles " you like my pit vipers?" O......k. Kinda like a burn after the 🔥
(been binge watching your old videos) The realization of a little bit of foreshadowing in this video.
Mop up is the hardest part of fighting fire, if you don't get it right and cut in good, you'll be back. Here in the Mtns we don't really have many fires we can drive to, it's all walking In.
Isn't tilling the ground in a fire just common sense? I think it's even a normal thing to do in the Netherlands, where fields are small, fire departments are close, and conditions are usually not all too dry during harvest.
About going when there's enough people there to fight it: It should be common sense that even if there's enough people there, as long as there are people there that are not part of your crew, you go there to relieve them. They're helping you, so you make sure they can get back to their own work as quickly as possible. We all know the guy who's like "Oh you're gonna finish that for me? Thanks, bye". That's a bad guy.
Get a call from the guy thanks for removing my trees hated those damn things
I guess if you're going to send it it might as well be into your brother then somebody else... lol
I think you had a video about border patrol coming along if you hung out near the border too long... but in case of fire right on the border, i presume they overlook a few farmers helping each other across the border?
It is often said that fire on a boat, is the worst thing that is,
but a fire in a grain field. must be somewhere up there too.
On dit souvent que le feu sur un bateau, c'est la pire chose qui soit,
mais un feu dans un champ de céréales. doit être quelque part là-haut aussi.
I wonder if one of those flir cameras that attach to your phone would be able to see any spots smouldering.
Mike, ... Good info on fires, I grew up farming, and was a fireman. Very nice idea from another vid to get Your Wife and Family more involved.(you can skip the grave digger stuff, those corn folks do it and it gets old).
Stay safe Mike, hope there will be no more fires.
Hey Mike, really enjoy the videos! We farm in western Minnesota and I was curious how you take your videos. On your phone or with a camera/gopro?
Could have been worse!! Tinder dry!!welkers fire unit would have been nice!!👍🔥
I see cole the cornstar has rubbed off you guys lol
awesome video mike glad nobody was hurt, and you didnt loose too much crop thanks for the video
Like I said before mike a dream job your so gifted and fires are not good I put my life in hands of God fighting a fire
Can you not sue the power companies.?
Miiiiiikkkkeeee what was the third case combine
You didn't check the temp of the hubs when you did your stop check. You should carry a non contact thermometer.
So do you carry fire insurance looks like you where very lucky so can you keep track of your acres by your monitors
If you want to see what a fire in cropping country can do, Google 'Pinery fire 2015 South Australia". It burnt 210,000 acres in less than four hours and 180,000 acres in less than 2. No amount of water or tillage can stop a fire once it gets going down here ...
Small farm, big farm, huge farm, it is the creed in America. New York State or Ohio or Oklahoma but city folk will not, maybe cannot understand it.
Hi Mike m from india n here 50 millions bucks n 5 year impresment for this job 😭😭😭😭😭 please take care of family..👍👍👍👍👍
Have you ever considered installing a FireTamer (Remote Controlled Water Cannon for High Clearance Sprayers) on the front on one or more of your sprayers and use it a fire truck? It's made by a couple of Canadian farmers in Alberta: www.firetamer.ca
FireTamer Demo th-cam.com/video/VwMPix6iMOA/w-d-xo.html
TH-camr Welker Farms has one installed on one of their sprayers for harvest:
Welker Farms Tries FireTamer th-cam.com/video/Pt2_xAlmFGY/w-d-xo.html
Welker Farms Battles Fire th-cam.com/video/4t4m60dacaY/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/zT4nkq-rltk/w-d-xo.html
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I grew up in Southern Alberta and we treated fire like you guys. Then I bought this place by ituna and people will start a quarter section on fire to burn the straw and leave. Took some getting used to.
Glad some people across the border helped you guys, we love you guys!!!
Did frank work at AMI in hawksville Ontario?
maybe invest in some surplus fire trucks ? Airport ones with big water guns and high road speed.
Theyre usually not 4x4 and are designed to dump massive volumes of water on a plane in a minute or even a few seconds
Used to live next to an airforce base
Had a fire in the pine plantation near by and the airforce decided to "show those little volunteer brigades how its done"
Basically they went in, got stuck in the sand on the side of a track, dumped 15'000 lts of water on 3 trees, spent 2 hours getting pulled out then left
All the brigade trucks and most of the farmers trucks are either izusu or hino 4x4 trucks with 4000lt water tanks
Awesome farm and equipment. Hope you don't get any more 🔥 🔥
"can't have a video without Mike saying goodbye 5 times" hahaha 😂
Hahaha it's so true! 😂
Great video Mike
You know you’re on your own when there’s no fire department
At least you drove over a tree success. I hope all is well man bummer to see
Stay out in California where they had a big fire it was caused by Highline wires touching in the wind so every time they get a certain mile per hour wind they shut off the power when that be something that would be out for maybe a week no air-conditioning no water no lights when we had our Wind storm here in Iowa we were out for weeks
Wow.. Great neighbor. Thanks for sharing