What are farming magazines? The only magazines I use hold cylinders with precious metal tips......yes, pb is precious to me. The only calendar I use is the one on my phone where I can add in reminders for important dates or to keep track of things I have done. The videos are great.........we get to see her being a real woman, instead of just some pinup on a shop wall.
I grew up on the Androscoggin River in the Rumford area in the 1970’s. Back then it was one of the most polluted rivers in the country due to the many paper mills discharging to it millions of gallons of untreated water daily. It used to be to smell so bad it literally would peel the paint off near by houses. It was this water condition that I decided to spend my life as a wastewater treatment operator and manager. I have been working in this occupation for the past 40 years.
As a physicist with a background of electrical engineering, I am thoroughly impressed with you and husband and team with taking on such major projects like this. 65 years ago my father loaded me in our BorgWorg station wagon to go see the first system like yours in Canada. Balogna sandwiches, coffee, cigars and peanuts were loaded and we were off. Dad was a mining engineer and was very excited. It was a big event. Agriculture reps from as far as Japan were there. Our family friend who was a sales Rep for Wrigleys chewing gum showed up with a new Cadillac. He opened the trunk exposing thousands of packs of gum products. The Japanese, Koreans and a 100 people were chewing gum watching the automated rain! Hahaha..... Good times..... Carter Canada
When I was young the Androscoggin and Little Androscggin were horrible. I worked at a paper factory in Mechanic Falls. At four in the morning, we used to dump our pulp tanks into the Little Androcoggin. That was pulp, strong chemicals, sulfur and dyes. The river foamed up and and stunk while the chemicals flushed downriver. The air in town really smelled bad. Near Skowhegan, they dumped logs into the Kennebec. The logs were so thick you could walk across the river. Jay, Maine had IP or International Paper. The sulfur smell was so bad it made your eyes water.
Upstate NY here. There's a couple good weeks outdoors in the Spring. Starts to warm up nice, foliage is in, no bugs, great to be outside....then....Ack! I keep wood scraps, pine even, campfires to smoke out the bugs!
Move what out of the way ??? lol . As I watch your videos it is so amazing to hear of events that In my own past experience were the same . Loading fertilizer with a tractor , spilling a small amount of fertilizer into the radiator area . 911 farming , rushing to the next project and getting to put a new radiator in the tractor . Shop a disaster , yes it happens . I have to state the obvious , so much disappointment seeing waders , you never cease to amaze your viewers ... I used to have an up stream neighbor who always enjoyed dumping her grass clippings into my supply ditch . I never had such a fine screen set up , nice looking unit . That long suction is amazing , I never tried to get over 6 ft as the lift was a killer , one tiny vacuum leak and no prime . So much going on here that many have NO idea of the work involved . You guys are amazing . I could watch a circle work for hours . I considered them the most valuable piece of equipment I owned . It was June , it was cool and I did not have any say in my swim in the pond , it was cold ...
Hahaha thanks Dan! It’s always nice to hear how things haven’t changed much over the times little bit of an improvement on some equipment, but farming practices are still very similar! We have 2 other pumps we use on the PTO. These suction lines do not have nice river screens just a basket at the end of the pipe. We got a fish jammed a couple years back.
Love the wheel lines! I'm pretty sure the river is a whole lot cleaner than the irrigation ditches we swam in as kids in the 60's. Washington state. Easter WA is great for spuds! Short story, ~All overflow of fields ran back into the next ditch so by the time it got to our place, we pretty much swam in anything that was spread or sprayed onto the fields, then irrigated with siphon hoses. We lived through it, didn't we!
It's simply amazing to me that the androscoggin is used for actual irrigation. I know it's been cleaned up now for least 20 years. I wonder how long all those farms along it have been using it? Great vid though, yessah.
Hey Shane and Molly. I thought you guys only liked to play in the dirt. Now your playing in the water! Cannot wait to see what is next! Great episode! Thank you for allowing us to see how you set up Your irrigation equipment. Please take care and keep up the good work.
Good job Molly.!! I was expecting either Shane or you ending up in the drink. Looked like hard work lining up all those connections and getting them water tight. 💦
Oh no way would I’d be doing that job ,, ticks ,snakes turtles ,etc etc . What a rugged time you both had. You frightened a turtle so much it showed up in my high garden. It dug up four large holes and i hope to never see one again.i pray you don’t have to irrigate this year either..Keep smiling !!
Thank you Molly and Shane 👍 interesting and entertaining as always 😀 and neither of you fell in the river 🤣 "jeez" that is a lot to do to get water into the field but you did it 👏 well done 👍 thank you for the video from the UK 🇬🇧 😊
Well it seems given the start of 24 you will need irrigation this year and that’s a good thing! You two earn every penny paid! I’d ask Ray for a raise!
Another awesome video! I just love how you two work together to get a task done. I remember asking about your VFD's in the potato storage several months ago. That irrigation pump VFD (actually a Danfoss rebranded by Pentair.... Trane does the same thing) is the exact one I work on. I have been a Danfoss factory service rep for nearly 25 years. It is so cool to see all of the applications they are used in since I am almost exclusively in the HVAC side of the drive industry. Can't wait for the next vid!
Another great video Molly! I can't wait for harvest time, it's my favorite time of the year, and don't worry about how cluttered your shed is, because mine is worse!😅
Nice job with the editing, Molly! It was very fun to watch. I've always been curious about the pivot pump setups. I wish the rest of the summer could be like the weather we had last week; it was gorgeous! I hope you and Shane get a few minutes of downtime to enjoy the upcoming weekend a bit. 🍁
Quite the setup Molly. Like the canoe motor setup. Buy have a lake up here in Canada with better bass fishing. Very clean water as its a brook trout lake
Hello from France, watching since a while your videos. So interesting and i like your nice team. Hard working non stop, brilliant ways to face any situation. Thanks for your sharing and congratulations. Nice videos, explanations . Regards ...
We have 2 pivots and we also Set up hard hose travelers. 4 pumped. We do irrigate our potatoes and sweet corn. Last year was the first year in many many years it wasn’t necessary.
Molly you never sease to ammaze me you dive rite in and get it done shane sure has an amazing partner, what dont you do, nothing that has to do with bell farm kudos to whoever thought that system up seems to work once you get it all hooked up
Irrigation is maybe the most profitable work on a farm but I hate it still. Most times you should have started two weeks ago, it is blazing hot and you have the attention of a thousand mosquitos on the river. A neighbor almost did in when his home-made pump platform on the river capsized and he got stuck underneath by his clothes. Luckily he had a worker with him and was saved. Cheers from Finland.
Wow, that has to be a large expense to water your seeds, but if you supply a lot of food I can understand why you need this, very interesting thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing and all your hard work...do not know why...but the last two videos have had interment sound..I do not if other views have had the problem hearing...take care.
That is one big pump. The electricity for it must cost a lot. You are right, of course, you need a big elbow. Keeping the pump in Durham full of diesel must be quite a job and expensive. i have seen that this summer will be as wet as last summer was.
Triple R Farms in Alabama has a river screen setup. From what I saw, they wish theirs was as easy to set up as yours. One big difference is theirs is quite a long distance from their pivot.
I saw the spray coupe go by. If this is one form a company called melroe or maybe Clark equipment. A few decades ago I worked at the factory that makes them in North Dakota. . I was the quality control guy so I test drove every one before it shipped.
That’s very cool! Dave loves his spray coupe. It’s time to do an up grade in the next coming years. He really wishes he. Could find a new one, but I’m not sure when they stopped making them. Thank you!
Rolling the fields after planting does a couple more thing other than flatten. It increases the soil to seed contact which helps in germination. Rolling also pushes many rocks under the dirt which also helps keeps rocks out of the harvester. Arkansas is the mosquito capitol of the world but I'm sure I wouldn't like those black flies any better.
I'm wondering if you all in Maine deal with the same type of water rules/laws that we do here in Washington state. Do you have to have water rights to draw from the river? I really enjoy the potato growing work you share. Thanks for the video.
There are not the same regulations here. We have bodies of water that are off limits. But for the most part the water just has to be tested and clean for irrigation. Lucky for us.
If I understand correctly, your irrigation boom swings in an arc: how do you irrigate outside the arc? Does the water pressure drive the swing/moving mechanism? We have many of these things which travel along the whole field.
Because its center point is along the road. It will only make a half circle. But it will still reach most of the field. There is an end gun that will reach beyond the half circle. We just have to be careful using it because the road is right there.
Hi from Australia, great channel, just curious how the water use is monitored where you are. Keep up the great videos, I particularly liked this video as I used to work on various pump set ups.
We use the VFD to convert the single phase to 3 phase/ control the rpm to get our required pressure/and a low pressure shutoff to shut down in case of a blow out.
Great suction screen, the pump didn’t look that big. How many GPM is it? The pivot looks so long standing at the base. May have been a long day setting up but the results were worth it.
Silly question but is that river tide dependent? In the Albany, NY area long time ago I hauled a diesel pump and piping to a job on the Schodack side (they pump some river water into the oil tanks, they monitor water level under oil and if there is a leak the water goes down first, they can offload oil to barge or other tank if problem). The river that far up is affected by the tide all the way down to NYC. Those poor guys in the rowboat trying to site the suction strainer and hose LOL! You did good not falling in!
Very cool u two. Last thing I need is water this year. Never going to get into my fuelds I think. My bees are in trouble, with this cold and wet weather. Send water wings please.
Molly needs to be a calendar girl for a farming magazine! Those that agree? 👇
As crazy as this world is anymore I don’t think so! Just enjoy the videos!
Amazing couple
Wishing you guys continued
success.
Molly, do you have a sister?😊
Molly is a FOX and an extremely hard worker along with being a joy to listen to.
What are farming magazines? The only magazines I use hold cylinders with precious metal tips......yes, pb is precious to me. The only calendar I use is the one on my phone where I can add in reminders for important dates or to keep track of things I have done. The videos are great.........we get to see her being a real woman, instead of just some pinup on a shop wall.
I grew up on the Androscoggin River in the Rumford area in the 1970’s. Back then it was one of the most polluted rivers in the country due to the many paper mills discharging to it millions of gallons of untreated water daily. It used to be to smell so bad it literally would peel the paint off near by houses. It was this water condition that I decided to spend my life as a wastewater treatment operator and manager. I have been working in this occupation for the past 40 years.
Molly and Shane. You can't have one without the other. You two work really hard together. The farm shows your efforts and dedication.
As a physicist with a background of electrical engineering, I am thoroughly impressed with you and husband and team with taking on such major projects like this. 65 years ago my father loaded me in our
BorgWorg station wagon to go see the first system like yours in Canada. Balogna sandwiches, coffee, cigars and peanuts were loaded and we were off. Dad was a mining engineer and was very excited. It was a big event. Agriculture reps from as far as Japan were there. Our family friend who was a sales Rep for Wrigleys chewing gum showed up with a new Cadillac. He opened the trunk exposing thousands of packs of gum products. The Japanese, Koreans and a 100 people were chewing gum watching the automated rain! Hahaha..... Good times..... Carter Canada
Never a boring day on the farm. Thank goodness for hardworking people like you to provide great produce.🙌
Shane needs to make a jib for that skid steer. Molly knows shes half of why we watch these vids.
I havent heard stylin in a long time.😎
Shane's a man of many words, I like his style.
When I was young the Androscoggin and Little Androscggin were horrible. I worked at a paper factory in Mechanic Falls. At four in the morning, we used to dump our pulp tanks into the Little Androcoggin. That was pulp, strong chemicals, sulfur and dyes. The river foamed up and and stunk while the chemicals flushed downriver. The air in town really smelled bad. Near Skowhegan, they dumped logs into the Kennebec. The logs were so thick you could walk across the river. Jay, Maine had IP or International Paper. The sulfur smell was so bad it made your eyes water.
I’m simple I see a new video from molly I click.
Upstate NY here. There's a couple good weeks outdoors in the Spring. Starts to warm up nice, foliage is in, no bugs, great to be outside....then....Ack! I keep wood scraps, pine even, campfires to smoke out the bugs!
Great teamwork and Yankee know-how. And love of the farm life. That's what it takes. Great YT channel, Bells Farms. Cheers.
Move what out of the way ??? lol . As I watch your videos it is so amazing to hear of events that In my own past experience were the same . Loading fertilizer with a tractor , spilling a small amount of fertilizer into the radiator area . 911 farming , rushing to the next project and getting to put a new radiator in the tractor . Shop a disaster , yes it happens . I have to state the obvious , so much disappointment seeing waders , you never cease to amaze your viewers ... I used to have an up stream neighbor who always enjoyed dumping her grass clippings into my supply ditch . I never had such a fine screen set up , nice looking unit . That long suction is amazing , I never tried to get over 6 ft as the lift was a killer , one tiny vacuum leak and no prime . So much going on here that many have NO idea of the work involved . You guys are amazing . I could watch a circle work for hours . I considered them the most valuable piece of equipment I owned . It was June , it was cool and I did not have any say in my swim in the pond , it was cold ...
Hahaha thanks Dan! It’s always nice to hear how things haven’t changed much over the times little bit of an improvement on some equipment, but farming practices are still very similar! We have 2 other pumps we use on the PTO. These suction lines do not have nice river screens just a basket at the end of the pipe. We got a fish jammed a couple years back.
Love the wheel lines! I'm pretty sure the river is a whole lot cleaner than the irrigation ditches we swam in as kids in the 60's. Washington state. Easter WA is great for spuds! Short story, ~All overflow of fields ran back into the next ditch so by the time it got to our place, we pretty much swam in anything that was spread or sprayed onto the fields, then irrigated with siphon hoses. We lived through it, didn't we!
That’s right!
It's simply amazing to me that the androscoggin is used for actual irrigation. I know it's been cleaned up now for least 20 years. I wonder how long all those farms along it have been using it? Great vid though, yessah.
Hey Shane and Molly. I thought you guys only liked to play in the dirt. Now your playing in the water! Cannot wait to see what is next! Great episode! Thank you for allowing us to see how you set up
Your irrigation equipment. Please take care and keep up the good work.
Hard work pays off, love how Shane knows what and how to do things and you not afraid to jump in and help and learn
Awesome stuff, you guys rock !!
I love your "Get'er done" attitude with a smile!!! Very, very interesting!
Good job Molly.!! I was expecting either Shane or you ending up in the drink. Looked like hard work lining up all those connections and getting them water tight. 💦
Oh no way would I’d be doing that job ,, ticks ,snakes turtles ,etc etc . What a rugged time you both had. You frightened a turtle so much it showed up in my high garden. It dug up four large holes and i hope to never see one again.i pray you don’t have to irrigate this year either..Keep smiling !!
You are one really tough lady and not hard on the eye's either.
You & Shane ave a great work ethic ! You work well together !
Brings back memories when I worked shade tobacco 74-75 in MA and pumped out of the CT river with a Dodge powered pump that used a lot of gas!
It’s a big job getting the pivot up and running! Great job! Way to make it fun!✌🏻❤️🇺🇸🙏🏻🌎
I remember irrigation blow-outs! Nice looking screen!
Hey Molly and Shane, interesting to see your set up, hard work pays off, keep on farming!!
Thank you Molly and Shane 👍 interesting and entertaining as always 😀 and neither of you fell in the river 🤣 "jeez" that is a lot to do to get water into the field but you did it 👏 well done 👍 thank you for the video from the UK 🇬🇧 😊
Thank you Pete!
You guys work so hard. God bless ya's. My back hurts just watching.
Shane is a jack of all trades. Very capable mechanic
Well it seems given the start of 24 you will need irrigation this year and that’s a good thing! You two earn every penny paid! I’d ask Ray for a raise!
Good work guys! This is the kind of work i enjoy. The elbow by the river will definitely make a big difference. Be safe and take care.
Molly, Love your farming videos please keep them coming!!
Thank you!
Great video Molly. I always wonder about those big sprinklers
Another awesome video! I just love how you two work together to get a task done. I remember asking about your VFD's in the potato storage several months ago. That irrigation pump VFD (actually a Danfoss rebranded by Pentair.... Trane does the same thing) is the exact one I work on. I have been a Danfoss factory service rep for nearly 25 years. It is so cool to see all of the applications they are used in since I am almost exclusively in the HVAC side of the drive industry. Can't wait for the next vid!
Nice looking screen and great working and you are lucky that you have a great husband who loves you and you are also good lady
We are very lucky and happy :)
Another great video Molly! I can't wait for harvest time, it's my favorite time of the year, and don't worry about how cluttered your shed is, because mine is worse!😅
Hahahah
Another Great Video 👍 Great content, keep up the great work!
Glad that river is cleaned up. Back in the day you couldn’t swim or fish in most rivers that had discharge from the paper mills.
Nice job with the editing, Molly! It was very fun to watch. I've always been curious about the pivot pump setups.
I wish the rest of the summer could be like the weather we had last week; it was gorgeous!
I hope you and Shane get a few minutes of downtime to enjoy the upcoming weekend a bit. 🍁
Thank you! It seems like summer is a month or more early this year! The corn will be growing fast.
Great video Molly and Shane
Great Video! Thanks for sharing !!!
Quite the setup Molly. Like the canoe motor setup. Buy have a lake up here in Canada with better bass fishing. Very clean water as its a brook trout lake
Hi Molly and Shane 👋🏻 Thank you, that's a very cool 😎 setup! Have a great weekend my friends 💚 God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you!
Hello from France, watching since a while your videos. So interesting and i like your nice team. Hard working non stop, brilliant ways to face any situation. Thanks for your sharing and congratulations. Nice videos, explanations . Regards ...
Nice job, you guys. What a team. No rest for a farmer. 😮❤
Good job! Can't wait to see it creeping across the field!
Molly and Shane great team work
I see pivots all over the west whenever I get on a plane, but I didn't know anyone used them in Maine. Thought you had all the rain you need there.
We have 2 pivots and we also
Set up hard hose travelers. 4 pumped. We do irrigate our potatoes and sweet corn. Last year was the first year in many many years it wasn’t necessary.
Molly you never sease to ammaze me you dive rite in and get it done shane sure has an amazing partner, what dont you do, nothing that has to do with bell farm kudos to whoever thought that system up seems to work once you get it all hooked up
Super job in the irrigation, Jack, RI, USA
Irrigation is maybe the most profitable work on a farm but I hate it still. Most times you should have started two weeks ago, it is blazing hot and you have the attention of a thousand mosquitos on the river. A neighbor almost did in when his home-made pump platform on the river capsized and he got stuck underneath by his clothes. Luckily he had a worker with him and was saved. Cheers from Finland.
You’re right about starting two weeks ago. That’s why we did all this year already. We still haven’t needed to use it, but it’s ready. Scared story!
Very cool set-up.
Wow, that has to be a large expense to water your seeds, but if you supply a lot of food I can understand why you need this, very interesting thanks for sharing.
It’s A,,,103 right now here, lol nice and toasty, thanks BigAl California.
Great video
Hello from Dixfield ! Yes the river is running a little high but we have had much rain lately..
Hey neighbor
Great content of hard working people
You two work so hard. It is never ending. How does that piping on wheels travel across the field? Is it motorized? Self propelled?
Hydraulic motors at each wheel, and a electric motor drives a pump at the pivot point. It’s really simple setup
Today is July 19th and I’m glad you haven’t had to irregatate so far this season…
Nice job.
Good video, thanks for sharing guys!
Love these videos, so down to earth
Thank you!
You guys make a good team....
Thank you we really enjoy working together!
I’m sure there are plenty of volunteers to jump in and save you, should you need saving! 😀
FINALLY I GET TO SEE THE FORD 8000 !! ❤❤❤❤
Yes you do!
Thanks for sharing and all your hard work...do not know why...but the last two videos have had interment sound..I do not if other views have had the problem hearing...take care.
I have been having trouble with my mic. It’s goes into steric mode with light me knowing. I got new mics coming. Sorry for the trouble!
That is one big pump. The electricity for it must cost a lot. You are right, of course, you need a big elbow. Keeping the pump in Durham full of diesel must be quite a job and expensive. i have seen that this summer will be as wet as last summer was.
Triple R Farms in Alabama has a river screen setup. From what I saw, they wish theirs was as easy to set up as yours. One big difference is theirs is quite a long distance from their pivot.
Good job.
Jack of all trades and Master of all "Go Molly"
: "The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days" (Ray Wylie Hubbard)
I saw the spray coupe go by. If this is one form a company called melroe or maybe Clark equipment. A few decades ago I worked at the factory that makes them in North Dakota. . I was the quality control guy so I test drove every one before it shipped.
That’s very cool! Dave loves his spray coupe. It’s time to do an up grade in the next coming years. He really wishes he. Could find a new one, but I’m not sure when they stopped making them. Thank you!
Rolling the fields after planting does a couple more thing other than flatten. It increases the soil to seed contact which helps in germination. Rolling also pushes many rocks under the dirt which also helps keeps rocks out of the harvester. Arkansas is the mosquito capitol of the world but I'm sure I wouldn't like those black flies any better.
Hey thanks for the info I don’t think of those things! 🦟😵
Thanks Molly!🐾
Shane makes a good mule, dragging that pump out.😂😂
Hahah
That looked a bit heavy but he got it done, big motor on the pump, looks like a Danfoss VFD, wonder if they have to mark the screen for boaters?
i love the music
HARD WORK 👌
As much of a pain in the ass as that looks like it is, that sure is super cool to water your fields using the river there! Nice work team!
👏💚 Welcome to Morocco
Shane cracks me up. A man of few words. Have you guys considered pouring a small concrete pad for the pump?
In montana we are using eighty two hundred feet of rollers
Hello from rocky mid-coast Maine, US.
THANKS!
That did not look easy. But I guess the water is a necessity. Nice teamwork 👍
Very kool !!
I'm wondering if you all in Maine deal with the same type of water rules/laws that we do here in Washington state. Do you have to have water rights to draw from the river? I really enjoy the potato growing work you share. Thanks for the video.
There are not the same regulations here. We have bodies of water that are off limits. But for the most part the water just has to be tested and clean for irrigation. Lucky for us.
Great video thanks for sharing and you are a calendar girl
good job.
If I understand correctly, your irrigation boom swings in an arc: how do you irrigate outside the arc? Does the water pressure drive the swing/moving mechanism? We have many of these things which travel along the whole field.
Because its center point is along the road. It will only make a half circle. But it will still reach most of the field. There is an end gun that will reach beyond the half circle. We just have to be careful using it because the road is right there.
Gone Fishing...Good work
Hi from Australia, great channel, just curious how the water use is monitored where you are. Keep up the great videos, I particularly liked this video as I used to work on various pump set ups.
Pretty cool that the pump runs off a frequency drive. Does it help control pressure or are you using it to meet other parameters?
We use the VFD to convert the single phase to 3 phase/ control the rpm to get our required pressure/and a low pressure shutoff to shut down in case of a blow out.
Great suction screen, the pump didn’t look that big. How many GPM is it? The pivot looks so long standing at the base. May have been a long day setting up but the results were worth it.
I read a comment down further from Shane that the pump is 780 GPM, it’s a nice unit for the size.
I believe it’s 750 Gpm, but don’t quote me on that. It only runs about 52psi at the pump (8” line ) . 45 hp electric motor
Nice thumbnail. Our permit cost to pump irrigation from state waters in our state is insanely expensive.
We do not have to get a permit there are designated bodies of water available for this use.
Silly question but is that river tide dependent? In the Albany, NY area long time ago I hauled a diesel pump and piping to a job on the Schodack side (they pump some river water into the oil tanks, they monitor water level under oil and if there is a leak the water goes down first, they can offload oil to barge or other tank if problem). The river that far up is affected by the tide all the way down to NYC. Those poor guys in the rowboat trying to site the suction strainer and hose LOL! You did good not falling in!
We’re 2 dams away from the ocean here, so not tidal.
Clickbait! That's quite the funky pump pickup! Curious to watch the video later - after the sun goes down... 🌄
Nice Saab
tell shane to settle down :-) greetings from Gorham, ME
Ford 8000 a bit rare in the UK in now of 2 in are area the Midlands 😊
Very cool u two. Last thing I need is water this year. Never going to get into my fuelds I think. My bees are in trouble, with this cold and wet weather. Send water wings please.
Do you have any merch? Have a good weekend. Love the channel.
I’ll be launching an online store next week!
@@BellsFarming ok thanks
great video amazing that yall can so many tasks you just do it cuz no one told you cant get what I'm saying ? also why no red potatoes? thank much