Been in the same boat as you. Storms coming and need to get going. you maybe couldve finished the field but i totally agree with you about not wanting to be caught in a hail storm. I sure wouldn't want my equipment out there.
Travis I was getting stressed out just watching you get stressed!!! Can't imagine what my GPA had to do in those situations back in the 50's until he sold the farm in the late 80's here in West Michigan. Glad you were home safe and I'm sure your whole family was worried stiff.
this video is a prime example of why I like your videos. It's real right down to the emotions at that time. Keep up the good job you are doing sir!!!!✌️
In watching some of your videos it's amazing how large some the fields that you farm are. My brother and I farm in Northwest Indiana and know some of the frustrations you encounter with the weather and other things. Keep up the good work, enjoy your videos.
You are lucky to make it home. We have square baled or Round baled to the last moment and almost had disaster. I remember one time my brother and I cleared 50 bales off his field with a storm like that looming. My brother didn't think much of it as I was the one driving the open station tractor. Keep the great videos coming, you and Ryan remind me of my brother.
You guys have been blessed with the weather you have been getting, in Indiana every time it dries up it rains another 2-3 inches. We're not getting the crop all in until late June probaly.
Im dying at this comment and i dont know why lmao!! Lower it a little too so in a few monthes you have beans on the side of the road lmfao!! taking out road sign with it haha
love the way You and your equipment are hard fighting with time! i had similar situation last september. i was seeding wheat i have made 20 of 50 ha then it started raining... all autumn. next time i was on field, i wasnt seeding wheat, but corn, in april. weather can change our plans but without her anything cant grow.
Travis, now that was a great video glad you made it back ok. Great attitude to have, not getting upset over shit you can't control. Keep up the great videos! !
Oh my God!! I was so scared for u. Don't be upset with yourself when u make a right decision. It was frustrating for u but better to be alive to go back another day.
should have kept going Travis......We can see the stress in you.......Do what we do here in the UK!!!!!!say sod it and carry on....all the best fella...We get harsh storms here too..and tornados...Beleive it or not...Thats a good looking super cell....
I sure am glad you decided to head for cover , weather you get that 4 acres in or not it's not worth your life or risking that nice equipment . thanks for sharing another adventure with us buddy .
That's when you are wishing for a fifth gear in that D range on the old quad range transmission. Been a many time i was trying to get that last windrow of hay rolled before an afternoon thunderstorm only to get caught. Seems that's the way it goes sometimes.
No doubt tough call Trav but you made right one. Not worth the risk of that storm. Iam visiting friends near Cedar Rapids and seems the whole state has been wet.
I coulndnt count how many times i got caught by thunderstorms and rain showers while working on farms when i was young;it was always time to get cover like you Travis;like you said 15 or 20 minutes later the sun was shining.Here in Quebec we didnt had tornado warnings like yours but sometimes these storms were strong with hail,high winds and lot of rain to push down some crops! Ah those younger days!!!
Ha ha, Yes, my friend is a Big Time Management Consultant for the Computer Industry and he went nuts at the World Ag Expo in California. All he could say is he would love to drive, or Operate a "Carbine" or "Big Tractor" Guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Keep up the good work. Thanks
What weather app are you using? I do outside work, non-farm, but am totally dependent on weather, reasonably dry weather. I understand exactly the reading of the green, red, yellow "blobs" as they move across. I primarily use Accuweather, but also use Weatherunderground. The Accuweather forecaster for the "next 120 minutes" us usually very, very good in my area. If it says, "rain starting in 55 minutes," I can plan around that information. Information is so much better now than even five years ago. Yep, ... sure helps to be a amateur meteorologist, and know how to read the radar maps, and satellite images for cloud cover.
this spring this also happen to me I was in are 8410t working ground with are vertical tillage tool for wheat and I was watching the storm blow in I had 100 acres left and my phones alert system went off saying severe storm warning for the county I was in so I finished the pass I was on folded the wings up and hauled 10 miles In 16th gear wide open got to farm and my dad had the shed door open soon has I got into the shed the hail started to fall
mother nature is a cruel old bat some times I am a county worker in Mn she messes with us in the winter all the time it is hard to plan anything with what we do and I get it with what you guys do too be safe have a safe season and thanks for the video.
You are smart. You do the best that you can with what you got. If you waited for a perfect time to do everything you would never get it all done. Sometimes you have to improvise and do what you think best.
Hauling ass to get home. Looks like you just barely dodged a bullet. When that weather system hit Des Moines I had just gotten to work, and my late-night tech couldn't believe that the sound she heard was rain coming down on the roof of the store. It made for a quiet night, which was nice. How long did it end up taking for that field to dry out and you to finish planting it? Today (Monday 5/22) looks to be the first sunny day I've seen in about a week.
i cut it close mowing hay last year in the back field dad sent me a text had just started my fifth round when dad who was watching the sky and weather called me i never locked the haybine in transport so fast as i did that day turned around while mowing to check the sky and it was black as night hauled ass across our ground in 2nd high wide open longest short ride of my life
We got caught in a big storm this last wheat harvest. The rain caught us right as we covered the grain trucks and hopped in pickups. We couldn’t see but maybe 5 feet in just a solid wall of rain. A lot of us hadn’t even shut the doors on our pickups when the bad rain hit.
Speed kills accuracy & usually creates more problems then it's worth!! But I hope you got the soybeans in. Weather is always the biggest obstacle for us farmers.
Rain is good! I guess you don't want a 'gully washer' for fear it might cause erosion and expose the seeds you just planted. Smart move to get out of the field and out of the open. :)
Travis I hope you got home before it rained on you and the tractor and planter that was a bad storm have seen cows run from the pasture to get in the barn to get of a bad rainstorm.
I've been on an open station Oliver 1655 bringing home the last load of haylage for first season an the field was 5 miles away from the farm. Thank God I had a radio other wise I wouldn't have known that there was a tornado warning and I was hauling ass to get home, about 3/4 of the way home it just started to down poor and lightning everywhere and I could feel the ground shake, I'm was feeling like I wasn't going to make it, but thank God I did. One of my neighbors cousins was taking hay and he was driving home on a IH 806 and when he was coming back and it was mid July and a thunder storm was coming, Lighting struck the tractor, sadly he died and the tractor was burned all to hell, the tires, wiring, engine, all burned. That's why I always have a phone or radio with me cause I don't need to be stuck out in a storm like that again.
smart thing to stop with all that lightning, with all that electronics one lightning strike with that planter in the ground could be costly. I understand how you feel so little to go and you'd be done but don't feel bad its may 22 and I haven't got anything in the ground yet. you must have been getting a little stressed you started to sound like OLF lol
kylewil12plays that would be ideal I should have been done 2 weeks ago. because of rain just got started last week and I have heavy clays that take longer to dry out, rained again yesterday. doesn't help either that I'm still waiting for my big tractor to be overhauled because of water in the crankcase so I only got one other big enough for tillage work and I just got that back from having a clutch put in it. still I'm not to worried yet I only plant corn for silage so I have alittle bit more flexibility
all of us that have farmed know that farming is a gambling game play the wrong card loos your ass and the worst part is it is an addiction got out of it this year it was taking up to much of my time and i couldn't do my school work and with the stress i wasent happy but what i discovered is it wasent the farming that was stressing me out it was the school work when a i graduate i plan to become a heavy equipment macanic and some day i know im going to be farming again
Yeah I remember one time I was disking in the fall after a long hot dry spell-- rolling dust like nobody's business... It was HOT and we had some big thunderboomers rolling in, so I was hauling it trying to get done. I was watching the lightning on the horizon and it was big, strong, and frequent. I looked back at the disk and saw all the dust and hot exhaust rising straight up from behind the tractor, like a trail right up into the sky... sky now filling with lightning, and here's all this hot carbon sooty exhaust from the tractor and soil (mineral) dust going up with it, which it dawns on me can CONDUCT ELECTRICITY... and anything that can make it easier for lightning to travel down, acts as a "lightning rod" in the air, leading the lightning right down on top of me. SO, I decided given the intensity and frequency of the lightning, it was time to "hang it up" for the day, even though the rain hadn't arrived yet... No sense taking DUMB chances (and I'd already been zapped twice in one week from nearby lightning strikes during cotton harvest). Later! OL J R :)
Have you guys (even though you bleed green) ever thought about buying a Kinze? You don't have to leave the cab to fold it, it's all on a hydraulic system.
that's the thing about life sometimes.... you work as hard as you can, as long as you can, but you got to listen to God's nudges sometimes when he says u need to trust me and I'll take care of yah, cause it won't make sense to you, but God knows what's best, he just has more information on the situation then you do, being as he knows the future
Talking about ironic , how farms work was the ad at the start of this video,lolllllll, hope u got home safely Travis , now u can just cuddle up with the lady of the house and forget about it ,lol
Pretty good light show. I heard this morning that they where expecting bad weather in Wisconsin today and possible tornadoes. We are under a flash flood watch here in Georgia till Thursday. Need the rain bad but not all at one time.
Wow, I know this is an old video, looks like Travis having bad day, but anyone else see him whip them U turns lifting the planter and making turns same time...looks like he is roping up a bull at the county fair he doing it so fast
I can see the pressure on your face and hear it in your voice in this video. You were stressed man ! Scary looking storm, I would have high tailed it to the barn too! You need twin turbo, propane injection, drag slicks on that baby ! heheh..Hang in there man.
There aint no rest for the wicked. Sometimes ya get shut down but ya did the right thing, better than getting stuck and frying a tractor planter, and multi thousand dollar GPS system.
You are a very hard and intelligent worker, but you can't control the weather. As a farmer you have to work with it. Unfortunately our weather forecasts aren't always very accurate with all the so-called technology. Don't get stressed out over things that you can't control. Use the time to do something else constructive and you'll be happy. The farmers back here in northeast Ohio are having it worse.
Man I wish there was more videos like this.
Haha, I love this video, I've watched it like 4 times.
You don't even want to know how many times I've watched it.
Same here
Been in the same boat as you. Storms coming and need to get going. you maybe couldve finished the field but i totally agree with you about not wanting to be caught in a hail storm. I sure wouldn't want my equipment out there.
I can't stop watching this video it's something about the race
Also just from when this video was filmed to now, you have matured Travis.
Always one of my favorite videos. I’ve watched it probably 10 times. Definitely have had days where I have felt like this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Travis I was getting stressed out just watching you get stressed!!! Can't imagine what my GPA had to do in those situations back in the 50's until he sold the farm in the late 80's here in West Michigan. Glad you were home safe and I'm sure your whole family was worried stiff.
It wouldn't be farming if everything runs perfect without any breakdowns.Atleast your safe and beat the storm
this video is a prime example of why I like your videos. It's real right down to the emotions at that time. Keep up the good job you are doing sir!!!!✌️
Glad I happened to be able to see this video. Thanks for sharing.
In watching some of your videos it's amazing how large some the fields that you farm are. My brother and I farm in Northwest Indiana and know some of the frustrations you encounter with the weather and other things. Keep up the good work, enjoy your videos.
You are lucky to make it home. We have square baled or Round baled to the last moment and almost had disaster. I remember one time my brother and I cleared 50 bales off his field with a storm like that looming. My brother didn't think much of it as I was the one driving the open station tractor. Keep the great videos coming, you and Ryan remind me of my brother.
You guys have been blessed with the weather you have been getting, in Indiana every time it dries up it rains another 2-3 inches. We're not getting the crop all in until late June probaly.
I would've booked it down the road unfolded
Im dying at this comment and i dont know why lmao!! Lower it a little too so in a few monthes you have beans on the side of the road lmfao!! taking out road sign with it haha
I've done it
Caidyn Meyer you my friend are a legend
love the way You and your equipment are hard fighting with time! i had similar situation last september. i was seeding wheat i have made 20 of 50 ha then it started raining... all autumn. next time i was on field, i wasnt seeding wheat, but corn, in april.
weather can change our plans but without her anything cant grow.
Is that time of year to watch the time to panic planting video again. I watch it every year in spring.
Started the field at 5mph ends at 7 total BA
ben smith I'm giving you a thumbs up, just for the Allis Chalmers
Great vid Travis Smile More God Bless Stay Safe Kuster's 👍👍
Travis, now that was a great video glad you made it back ok. Great attitude to have, not getting upset over shit you can't control. Keep up the great videos! !
Oh my God!! I was so scared for u. Don't be upset with yourself when u make a right decision. It was frustrating for u but better to be alive to go back another day.
scary and good stuff
Well that sucks you had to quit with 4 ac left but think of it this way, at least you dont have 40 acres left to plant
By far greatest video
should have kept going Travis......We can see the stress in you.......Do what we do here in the UK!!!!!!say sod it and carry on....all the best fella...We get harsh storms here too..and tornados...Beleive it or not...Thats a good looking super cell....
We are east of you guys and we don't even have all our corn in yet, hope it drys up, Great video!
I sure am glad you decided to head for cover , weather you get that 4 acres in or not it's not worth your life or risking that nice equipment . thanks for sharing another adventure with us buddy .
A tractor with a seeder on the back is not the vehicle to go tornado chaing in! Love from Nebraska!
That's when you are wishing for a fifth gear in that D range on the old quad range transmission. Been a many time i was trying to get that last windrow of hay rolled before an afternoon thunderstorm only to get caught. Seems that's the way it goes sometimes.
that was some really cool footage of the storm coming hope you finally got your field Planet the rest of the way
I've watched this video at least 20 times over the last 2 years
Gotta love being a farmer and racing the weather, mother nature always seems to win the battle but the farmers win the war
No doubt tough call Trav but you made right one. Not worth the risk of that storm. Iam visiting friends near Cedar Rapids and seems the whole state has been wet.
Travis I would consider u a dam good farmer don't ever give up
Could be us. Got rained out with about 500 acres of beans to go. Haven't been back in the field in over a week in southern MN.
I coulndnt count how many times i got caught by thunderstorms and rain showers while working on farms when i was young;it was always time to get cover like you Travis;like you said 15 or 20 minutes later the sun was shining.Here in Quebec we didnt had tornado warnings like yours but sometimes these storms were strong with hail,high winds and lot of rain to push down some crops! Ah those younger days!!!
Ha ha, Yes, my friend is a Big Time Management Consultant for the Computer Industry and he went nuts at the World Ag Expo in California. All he could say is he would love to drive, or Operate a "Carbine" or "Big Tractor" Guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
Keep up the good work. Thanks
What weather app are you using? I do outside work, non-farm, but am totally dependent on weather, reasonably dry weather. I understand exactly the reading of the green, red, yellow "blobs" as they move across. I primarily use Accuweather, but also use Weatherunderground. The Accuweather forecaster for the "next 120 minutes" us usually very, very good in my area. If it says, "rain starting in 55 minutes," I can plan around that information. Information is so much better now than even five years ago. Yep, ... sure helps to be a amateur meteorologist, and know how to read the radar maps, and satellite images for cloud cover.
this spring this also happen to me I was in are 8410t working ground with are vertical tillage tool for wheat and I was watching the storm blow in I had 100 acres left and my phones alert system went off saying severe storm warning for the county I was in so I finished the pass I was on folded the wings up and hauled 10 miles In 16th gear wide open got to farm and my dad had the shed door open soon has I got into the shed the hail started to fall
Always love a well timed curse/workin word.
Glad you made it back safe.
God love the farmers wives who stand at the windows waiting at times like these. So scary. Kept thinking, hurry.
And i hope you weathered the storm ok Travis.
mother nature is a cruel old bat some times I am a county worker in Mn she messes with us in the winter all the time it is hard to plan anything with what we do and I get it with what you guys do too be safe have a safe season and thanks for the video.
You are smart. You do the best that you can with what you got. If you waited for a perfect time to do everything you would never get it all done. Sometimes you have to improvise and do what you think best.
You did the right thing.........
With all that is at stake here Better to be a Live Chicken Than a Dead Duck
I live north of waterloo, that storm did a lot of damage
Better safe then sorry imo especially that far away. Farthest really is about 2 miles that I farm a lot of and that different then your distance
You flinched smart. You said it weather don't bluff.
I feel you when you say you are panicking. We still have 60 acres of corn and like 300 of beans yet to do. When will the rain stop
when that storm hit us in vermont I was on an open station tractor going down the road. I got hailed on needless to say...
I don't blame you for leaving I was planting and it started to lightning so I left to
Hauling ass to get home. Looks like you just barely dodged a bullet. When that weather system hit Des Moines I had just gotten to work, and my late-night tech couldn't believe that the sound she heard was rain coming down on the roof of the store. It made for a quiet night, which was nice. How long did it end up taking for that field to dry out and you to finish planting it? Today (Monday 5/22) looks to be the first sunny day I've seen in about a week.
this is all a life of a farmer
What is the weather app you have on your phone. All the weather apps i found arent very good
Nasty storm! Any tornadoes touch down?
i cut it close mowing hay last year in the back field dad sent me a text had just started my fifth round when dad who was watching the sky and weather called me i never locked the haybine in transport so fast as i did that day turned around while mowing to check the sky and it was black as night hauled ass across our ground in 2nd high wide open longest short ride of my life
Had to wait 20 days after rainout on the last 10 acres.
We got caught in a big storm this last wheat harvest. The rain caught us right as we covered the grain trucks and hopped in pickups. We couldn’t see but maybe 5 feet in just a solid wall of rain. A lot of us hadn’t even shut the doors on our pickups when the bad rain hit.
i got caught in the middle of that same storm rollin beans a tractor cab in the middle of no where is not the place to be it got pretty nasty
You totally weren’t ticked off lmao🤣🤣
Just a little
Speed kills accuracy & usually creates more problems then it's worth!! But I hope you got the soybeans in. Weather is always the biggest obstacle for us farmers.
Rain is good! I guess you don't want a 'gully washer' for fear it might cause erosion and expose the seeds you just planted. Smart move to get out of the field and out of the open. :)
though as far as a video goes, this was good stuff.... made me wanna watch tornado chasers/storm chasers....
That was a huge storm man
Travis I hope you got home before it rained on you and the tractor and planter that was a bad storm have seen cows run from the pasture to get in the barn to get of a bad rainstorm.
Always trust your gut. Damn the nay sayers. A lot of money to gamble on 4 acres. Made the right call. Can't coulda shoulda.
I've been on an open station Oliver 1655 bringing home the last load of haylage for first season an the field was 5 miles away from the farm. Thank God I had a radio other wise I wouldn't have known that there was a tornado warning and I was hauling ass to get home, about 3/4 of the way home it just started to down poor and lightning everywhere and I could feel the ground shake, I'm was feeling like I wasn't going to make it, but thank God I did. One of my neighbors cousins was taking hay and he was driving home on a IH 806 and when he was coming back and it was mid July and a thunder storm was coming, Lighting struck the tractor, sadly he died and the tractor was burned all to hell, the tires, wiring, engine, all burned. That's why I always have a phone or radio with me cause I don't need to be stuck out in a storm like that again.
smart thing to stop with all that lightning, with all that electronics one lightning strike with that planter in the ground could be costly. I understand how you feel so little to go and you'd be done but don't feel bad its may 22 and I haven't got anything in the ground yet. you must have been getting a little stressed you started to sound like OLF lol
madfarmer912 dave all grain should be in the ground may 20th here said by crop insurance
kylewil12plays that would be ideal I should have been done 2 weeks ago. because of rain just got started last week and I have heavy clays that take longer to dry out, rained again yesterday. doesn't help either that I'm still waiting for my big tractor to be overhauled because of water in the crankcase so I only got one other big enough for tillage work and I just got that back from having a clutch put in it. still I'm not to worried yet I only plant corn for silage so I have alittle bit more flexibility
all of us that have farmed know that farming is a gambling game play the wrong card loos your ass and the worst part is it is an addiction got out of it this year it was taking up to much of my time and i couldn't do my school work and with the stress i wasent happy but what i discovered is it wasent the farming that was stressing me out it was the school work when a i graduate i plan to become a heavy equipment macanic and some day i know im going to be farming again
Yeah I remember one time I was disking in the fall after a long hot dry spell-- rolling dust like nobody's business... It was HOT and we had some big thunderboomers rolling in, so I was hauling it trying to get done. I was watching the lightning on the horizon and it was big, strong, and frequent. I looked back at the disk and saw all the dust and hot exhaust rising straight up from behind the tractor, like a trail right up into the sky... sky now filling with lightning, and here's all this hot carbon sooty exhaust from the tractor and soil (mineral) dust going up with it, which it dawns on me can CONDUCT ELECTRICITY... and anything that can make it easier for lightning to travel down, acts as a "lightning rod" in the air, leading the lightning right down on top of me. SO, I decided given the intensity and frequency of the lightning, it was time to "hang it up" for the day, even though the rain hadn't arrived yet... No sense taking DUMB chances (and I'd already been zapped twice in one week from nearby lightning strikes during cotton harvest).
Later! OL J R :)
That was to close
a guy my dad works with was out in the hail storm one of his cows was having a calf and he had to take shelter under a tree
Oh the drama! lol
got done at 10 00 am hail 2.50 deep at 6.30 pm ft Atkinson ia that day
why cant you plant when its raining?
i like rain but i hate storms
I've watched it be a clear morning then in like literally 20 seconds I was running a way from something just like that.
The ryan car can quickly bring back the planter?
Did that say 'Take cover now!'?
Ya
Man that sucks
Have you guys (even though you bleed green) ever thought about buying a Kinze? You don't have to leave the cab to fold it, it's all on a hydraulic system.
Holy shit i never got hit that bad. and that came form mn if im right?
that's the thing about life sometimes.... you work as hard as you can, as long as you can, but you got to listen to God's nudges sometimes when he says u need to trust me and I'll take care of yah, cause it won't make sense to you, but God knows what's best, he just has more information on the situation then you do, being as he knows the future
Man oh man that looks nasty....you cut it close!
Talking about ironic , how farms work was the ad at the start of this video,lolllllll, hope u got home safely Travis , now u can just cuddle up with the lady of the house and forget about it ,lol
Pretty good light show. I heard this morning that they where expecting bad weather in Wisconsin today and possible tornadoes. We are under a flash flood watch here in Georgia till Thursday. Need the rain bad but not all at one time.
Wow, I know this is an old video, looks like Travis having bad day, but anyone else see him whip them U turns lifting the planter and making turns same time...looks like he is roping up a bull at the county fair he doing it so fast
Yery
sensible
This was kinda like a action movie
no one is wrong with running for home I would
I can see the pressure on your face and hear it in your voice in this video. You were stressed man ! Scary looking storm, I would have high tailed it to the barn too! You need twin turbo, propane injection, drag slicks on that baby ! heheh..Hang in there man.
There aint no rest for the wicked. Sometimes ya get shut down but ya did the right thing, better than getting stuck and frying a tractor planter, and multi thousand dollar GPS system.
I live just ten miles north of Dubuque, I remember that storm it took our power out for almost two hours.
guess what we are getting the bad storm you had but we are not getting a tornado.
Believe it or not. There are people who would pay big bucks to do what your doing right now.
USSBB62 I know
You are a very hard and intelligent worker, but you can't control the weather. As a farmer you have to work with it. Unfortunately our weather forecasts aren't always very accurate with all the so-called technology. Don't get stressed out over things that you can't control. Use the time to do something else constructive and you'll be happy. The farmers back here in northeast Ohio are having it worse.
drive er like you stole her
Do work son!
O no need to get all mad That's The Way Farming Goes!!! You will see as you get Older!!!
So on the way home did you think a JCB Fast Track would be nice right now....
PERRY C never crossed my mind