World's Largest Car Wash

good morning um i feel like my voice is really sore today not because i'm sick but because i spent all weekend with friends and just ask grant i'm a really loud talker i think that's part of what makes me a good youtuber because i can really convey my message to the camera but it also means that i'm yelling like all the time and so my voice finally gave out yesterday so bear with me through that but i just wanted to say happy summer i don't know i feel like i said that a lot maybe but it's kind of a cloudy morning but it's going to be really warm today um no clue what we're going to be doing maybe hailing maybe spring maybe starting pivots something along those lines i can see dad watching me through the window film this um but okay roll the intro and we'll get on the video [Applause] even though it's cloudy today cannot forget to put sunscreen on it's actually the perfect morning for irrigating there's a nice cloudy cover and honestly it's kind of sprinkling every once in a while but i know it's not going to turn into a full-blown rain um but this is one of my fields and before we come through and heal everything which is what grant has been doing in the past couple videos the ground is pretty dry and the corn is starting to need some more water and we haven't gotten a rain in several weeks now and so time to start the pivot so this pivot isn't quite to where i want it to be so before i start running water i'm actually just going to start it running in reverse here so no water you're putting in 100 and so it's just gonna run back a little bit farther while i check on the things that i need to while i'm waiting for that to move i'm just gonna come over to the well here and open this little cap up here um there's a little shiny oil drip oil on the bottom but other than that it is empty and i don't see any that's been left out here so i'm gonna run back to farm quick and grab some i do feel the need to show um okay sorry end rose tears they don't look great but i'm not actually running over corn with either tire here um and this is the corn that i just drove over so i'm really not hurting anything at all once it gets a little bit taller we'll just have one dedicated road that we drive over and that's the pivot road drip oil has been obtained time to go back out to the field how the tricky part is doing this without spilling okay i only spilled a little bit here we go okay can't forget to put the lid back on this now just gonna check the little dripper on the bottom and make sure it's actually dripping into the well it's kind of ironic that i come out here to irrigate and it starts sprinkling oh no my four-wheeler is getting wet this is like the one day i don't bring a sweatshirt to work it's supposed to be like 95 degrees today and instead it's 70 and raining and cloudy nebraska weather people i tell you there we go finally have the pivot all the way to that line and i can start running water you hear that water you guys ready there we go it's gonna start building pressure and coming out of these nozzles i have the pivot running on 20 so it's putting on a half inch of water here we go right now this well is pumping a little over 600 gallons per minute there he goes folks we just started a pivot i will say um this is definitely one of the easier pivots to start because it's electric and so all i have to do is press a few buttons and those are the ones that i'm starting this morning dad and i decided to divide and conquer so he's starting the one that you actually have to start a motor to get running um i definitely got the easy job on this one [Applause] i forget there's mirrors and you guys can see me this is what i look like filming all the time just like this hi um we made it out to the second pivot here and let's get it started you guys know the drill i'm pretty convinced that some of you guys have watched enough of my videos that you guys could be farmers honestly slowly but surely water starts starting to fill up the pipe and we'll get some rain put on this field this is one of my seed corn fields one of the questions i get well besides what is seed corn and i didn't know male and female seed corn existed if you really have those questions i have a video up it's called what is seed corn anyways but they asked how in the world do you tell the difference between male and female just look down the row do you see the size difference and they'll get to be a color difference here as we get later on in the season we plant it in a 4-1 pattern and it's super obvious the shorter ones are the males and then four females and then another row of males i haven't cleaned the nozzles out on this pivot yet so i'm hoping that it's not too bad might have to do that this afternoon got the pivot started just as the rain is kind of starting to pick up now nice um let's check this out here um right at over a little over 600 gallons a minute just like the other one made it out to the third and final pivot that we're starting and check the drip oil just as i suspected empty luckily someone left a nice little jug out here for me so i can fill it up i better hurry because the rain's actually kind of picking up now this never fails to happen you don't irrigate down irrigate down irrigate then as soon as you start turning pivots on rain this is another pivot that i have to make sure things are switched off because we have a pipe that's underground and it goes all the way down to that side of the field and we run um we would be running pipe but we're actually running poly pipe this year so it's just plastic pipe you roll out and i'll have some more videos on that later but i have to make sure that that's um off and that one's on so we have water running up into and through the pivot i really hope you guys can understand what i'm saying because i am like i'm struggling we're caught in a rainstorm boys and girls it's getting pretty wet out here um also four wheeler is absolutely soaked which i will also be in just a few minutes unfortunately the strap of paper towels is also getting wet so that's not going to be much help it's kind of nice though i guess okay so i switch it on manual and press start and the well started and the water's gonna start coming out here any second there we go and there we have it let's check the flow on this one oh wow we're pushing 850 gallons per minute very nice i definitely need to clean out a few nozzles on this pivot but we'll get to that later for now let's just talk about the fact that we got all three pivots going with no serious issues total win we'll see you back here in approximately 40 hours i just went home and made a lunch for dad and that means that you guys get a little bit of baxter and cooper content say hello cute doggos i love you so cute a little bit of lunch delivery to dad out in the sprayer dad today your lunch is a steak sandwich cheetos grapes and a brownie and then some coconut cookies just like if your mother was home it's almost like she came home as soon as i made it [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] i started the pivot and now i've got to unplug all the nozzles which i've done already and i am soaked so i don't quite look as cute as laura does when she's all wet but uh about two uh towers worth of uh nozzles and thank you laura for your kitchen stool i'll have to wash it and return it to you it worked very good i'm at this motor now and i think the distributor is bad or i'm hoping just the coils i'm gonna change the cap and then i have the rest of it if that doesn't work let me start with that so we can get this 454 going got the new distributor put on i put the whole thing in because there is titanic level of corrosion in the old one so i'm pretty sure it's just this part's bad but i don't know that's pretty bad so we'll see if this thing starts i got the motor running i'll put the drive shaft on we take it off so we can run the alternator to move the pivot but it is hot out today tonight or this morning it was all you know cloudy and drizzly it was very nice but now it is hot and the flies are biting and it is not very pleasant to be out here i'm gonna get this done as quick as [Applause] possible i got bad news the motor you saw it running it quit running and so i immediately went to the new distributor and sure enough i had power to it it just wasn't working so i took it all back apart and i'm going back to napa to get another one and for some reason the ac quick working in my pickup truck for the hottest time of the year so that's very nice very hot out 100 degrees at least we have arrived out to the pivot a different pivot dad started this one this morning um and it shut off for some reason so it watered you can see where the water is watered from right here to right there so not far at all um dad's guess was that maybe it overheated so we're gonna try and start it again and see if it works i think i got things running hopefully that works this is another pivot that dad started this morning and this whole pivot looks fine except for the first three towers i don't see any water so we're gonna go check it out yeah i would definitely say there's a problem this pivot is running and yet um nothing is coming out of any of these need to get that looked at also you can definitely tell this corn needs to be watered because it's starting to look like we're growing pineapple out here not corn the leaves are starting to get kind of shriveled so it's good that we're getting this on here so it would appear that this pipe has a small hole in it that's pretty fresh feels good so cold [Music] um yeah that didn't go as planned so there's these little clip things that i have to take out um to clean that junk get stuck right in here and so i took it out and one of these little clips has already broken off so it's already not right and the water pressure was so intense that was gonna knock me over so i know that all of these are blocked so instead of trying to do all the pivot is running i'm just i shut the pivot off and we're gonna try this [Music] we're gonna try this again [Music] so just a little update um one second wait for it i have the biggest brain freeze right now water's so cold um so even with the water off the problem is is that there's still like water in the pipe above the pivot or like in the pivot and these little clips are just so small i'm having kind of a tough time but we're getting it slowly but surely all right it took a little while but i have found out as i have lived just a small chunk of life that all of my teachers parents coaches um really anybody that's taught me any life lesson at all um has been 100 right the more you do something the better you get at it practice makes perfect however you want to say it so after i did four or five towers of these yeah i definitely got a lot better so i'm going to turn the pivot back on and that's the moment of truth to see if i really got all the nozzles that were clogged hey look at that i see a whole bunch of sprinklers that are going that's awesome there we have it i love jobs that are successful and finished our crops can get some water and i have a feeling that they are going to shoot up in the next week it's another 10-day forecast with everyday highs in the 90s so just mark my words guys okay it's the middle of june corn is almost knee-high um it's gonna be waist shoulder and then way above my head before you know it here's a different kind of john deere than you normally see john deere maintainer for the road left the farm and dropped some papers off at the fsa office now i'm going to go visit the p.o box get some gas and probably pick up something to drink but i don't know what yet a coffee an energy drink still exciting all right so i went into casey's and i got three drinks i got myself a mountain dew kickstart then i got grant kickstart and then i got grant's dad a coke i'm gonna go surprise them with some drinks and don't tell grant but i also got myself a donut cause it's chocolate with sprinkles and i mean like who could pass that good news apparently my drink delivery came just in time grant's been working on the same motor all afternoon so they know okay okay maybe not quite all of it yeah i've been here since 11 o'clock and it's not what it's fine it's five so i'm just giving him a little break sit in the nice ac drink a kickstart you're doing good keep it up just helping grant out one pickup toolbox at a time he clogs our unclogs nozzles a little bit differently there um like little drops are on soft bendy hose so he can just bend it up like that which is pretty handy hey hey watch it there now this this is service right here if you think about it um a pivot could almost be called like a world's largest automatic car wash i've just added a little uh service member to do stop to do the work for me oh my goodness stop grant i think we're i think we're going to call it a day it's six o'clock now we just picked up a vice grip off the road because i left it on top of flora's car car pickup and uh yeah we finally found it so yeah all the pirates are finally running they were when i left them so hopefully they're still running and uh we'll go check in tomorrow hopefully they're still running that thanks for watching went to town for a little mexican food for supper and we also got grant's haircut so i know everyone's loving his hair but he's in a wedding on saturday i told him he's gotta look all cleaned up for it so we're gonna eat supper here and then do a little shopping overall excellent work day for a monday very impressed thank you very much sir thanks for watching grant and i are feeding squirrels in a park and it is the best thing i might have ever done in my entire life they're tiny look at how happy he looks eating this little chip there's one right over there oh my goodness they're everywhere and so cute i love them yes oh so cute

Channel: Laura Farms

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Id: C_uYO7uJAW8

Length: 24min 53sec (1493 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 15 2021