Mowing Irrigated Alfalfa near Tremonton Utah

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  • @TheBigjake04
    @TheBigjake04 11 місяців тому +1

    I grew up farming alfalfa in northern Nevada. This brought back some memories. Thanks for posting.

  • @joelg8004
    @joelg8004 Рік тому +1

    I could watch this all day. So satisfying.

  • @lwilton
    @lwilton 4 роки тому +7

    Boy, that swather was moving! 10 or 12 miles an hour, maybe even faster? I guess he was determined to be home in time for dinner!

  • @richardelliott8970
    @richardelliott8970 Рік тому

    Greetings from Arkansas. I grew up about a mile or so from that field. Recognized the house, the road, and those mountains. Thanks for enhancing my homesickness! Only one thing: If it was like any of the hay work I did, I'm surprised they didn't have at least one break down. Oh, wait. That comes with the baler. Good to see alfalfa again. Everything here in Arkansas looks like meadow hay. I have yet to see an alfalfa field anywhere in northwest Arkansas. Great video. thanks.

  • @4PeTe2
    @4PeTe2 4 роки тому +3

    Doesn't get better than farming in Utah along the Wasatch Front - thanks for the video around Tremonton

  • @andywintz959
    @andywintz959 4 роки тому +3

    That’s a first to see that kind of irrigation, we see lots of center pivots here in Iowa. Another great video Mike, keep em coming!

  • @gr82bcrazy1
    @gr82bcrazy1 4 роки тому

    Thanks for coming back to Utah. I bet you were going to ask at 9:15 if anyone has ever fallen into the ditch. The answer is yes. Or at least I have. We used to irrigate this way, both here it Utah and in Arizona where I used to live. Lots of good farms up in Tremonton.

  • @ScottPykare
    @ScottPykare 4 роки тому +2

    Cool video Mike. Your all over the country. I appreciate your time and efforts to bring us these videos. Stay safe, have a good day. 👍😀

  • @davidparker6201
    @davidparker6201 4 роки тому +2

    I had no idea that you made it out this way. I love watching the videos and sorry i missed out on seeing you come out this way. We have some great farmers out here that do a great job!

  • @nmelkhunter1
    @nmelkhunter1 3 роки тому +1

    Great video. I more or less grew up in the Mesilla Valley and use to enjoy watching the farmers run their swathers in the irrigated alfalfa fields. I really miss the smell of fresh cut alfalfa as well. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. 👍
    EDIT: I’ve never seen the siphon method before. I learned something new!

  • @ryanbpercival
    @ryanbpercival 4 роки тому +11

    Awesome. I live just west of Tremonton. Best farms in Utah throughout the valley.

  • @johnwesley6929
    @johnwesley6929 2 роки тому

    That siphon irrigation is the best trick i would have never thought of.

  • @tonymckeage1028
    @tonymckeage1028 Рік тому

    Great Video, loved the windrower, thanks for sharing

  • @antonyfarming
    @antonyfarming 4 роки тому +1

    What a fantastic place to film Great looking crop and irritating systems
    Stay safe 👌 👍 👍

  • @JuniorMintKiss
    @JuniorMintKiss 4 роки тому +7

    My husband is the one in the red shirt 😊 Hansen Farms is a 5th generation farm, started by John T. Hansen, a son of Danish emigrants. The farm runs between 800-1000 acres, and does a lot of custom work, as well as running their own ground. We grow hay, wheat, corn, and safflower. Great-grandpa Lee and his son Albert used to grow sugar beets for the now defunct U&I sugar factory in Garland, Utah, and used to grow sweet corn, tomatoes, and green beans for Del Monte.

    • @Filthyanimalyeh
      @Filthyanimalyeh 4 роки тому +1

      great wee story, were on our 5th generation up on our wee place here too, its no big enough to make a living off but its a nice place to stay, we have carrots and malting barley and agri contract the rest of the time

    • @am49073
      @am49073 2 роки тому

      That is some awesome farming and amazing work. We grow alfalfa as well but it is my first time seeing it being mowed. Do you let the alfalfa regrow after mowing it or you plant new ones from seeds?

    • @JuniorMintKiss
      @JuniorMintKiss 2 роки тому

      @@am49073 the alfalfa regrows after every cutting, sometimes we can harvest a 4th crop of hay before late fall. After a couple of years, or depending on what's needed, we will spray out the alfalfa and change crops.

    • @am49073
      @am49073 2 роки тому +1

      Thanks for the details. All the best in your awesome farm

  • @noworriesmate8287
    @noworriesmate8287 4 роки тому +3

    Amazing irrigation system! Never seen that before.

    • @carlfalt174
      @carlfalt174 3 роки тому

      It's a good system when there's lots of water but that's changing with the drought out west

    • @stevenbetassa7329
      @stevenbetassa7329 2 роки тому

      that type of irrigation with the tube's have been used since the mid 60's in my Valley, Wash State, now mostly pivots are being used.

  • @fisherh9111
    @fisherh9111 4 роки тому +1

    That's an awesome turning circle.

  • @eddyperry
    @eddyperry Рік тому

    One of the best dairymen in Utah was just down the road a little way from there in Corrine Utah. John Noyes. He was the first farmer I ever witnessed putting up 5 crops of alfalfa per year in Utah. He was cutting hay every 28-30 days. His fields were cut in the morning, chopped in the afternoon, and water put back on the field by sunset, or the next morning at the latest. Sometimes water was started on one end of the field before the field was even completely chopped. Probably the highest protein tests I have ever seen.
    Sadly John passed some years ago, but I believe his son is still there turning hay into milk and fertilizer

  • @SimonKL11
    @SimonKL11 4 роки тому

    The background looks awesome!😁👍 This is a great place to make a video👍😉
    Thank you for sharing👍

  • @stevekrilich3040
    @stevekrilich3040 4 роки тому

    That’s one of your best videos Mike. 👍🇺🇸

  • @johnberndsen5614
    @johnberndsen5614 Рік тому

    Nice! I was born in Tremonton in 1956. Been back once.

  • @jackiejohnson6064
    @jackiejohnson6064 3 роки тому

    Great video Mike. Better then the last swather I ran years ago. I operated a CaseIH 8840 with a 16 foot header real type slow work and long days

  • @georgetarabini6552
    @georgetarabini6552 4 роки тому

    Didn’t know how they siphon irrigate, know I do, like the new content, thumbs up

  • @OpunktSchmidt1301
    @OpunktSchmidt1301 4 роки тому

    Wonderful pictures!
    Thanks for the video!😊👍🏻

  • @2of2DCH
    @2of2DCH 4 роки тому

    Dude looked like he had some serious hours doin that. Smooth is fast, fast is smooth.

  • @moneyandtimefreedom3352
    @moneyandtimefreedom3352 4 роки тому +1

    There is a cereal plant in Tremonton and at times the area smells like Fruit Loops. Mike: if you want to show some very fascinating, get with the State and have them you how they are dealing with the invasive phragamite problem around the bays of The Great Salt Lake. Super cool with big equipment, I am sure your subscribers would love it. Another would be to show the big dry farm operations just west of Tremonton, 10’s of 1,000’s of acres of wheat. They run some of the largest farm equipment to take on the huge farming task.
    (I grew up just down the road from Tremonton, Utah’s diverse landscapes are second to none. There are numerous types of farms and operations )

  • @markrskinner
    @markrskinner 4 роки тому

    That irrigation method is very cool.

  • @brentreid7031
    @brentreid7031 4 роки тому

    I like that dark green alfalfa. Going to make good feed. That is quite the irrigation system. Thank you for the video update eh

  • @Landon_Durrant
    @Landon_Durrant 4 роки тому

    Come up to Cache Valley and come play up in our fields. Another great video.

  • @JBaads
    @JBaads 4 роки тому

    You should try and get up to the Columbia Basin in Washington State. Grant County raises more potatoes than any county in the country. That would be around Moses Lake.

  • @stanleybaker8707
    @stanleybaker8707 4 роки тому

    Shout out from Brantford Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 🙌 👏 👌 😎

  • @kimyoung1093
    @kimyoung1093 4 роки тому

    So satisfying to watch, good job 👍🏻

  • @LONpaulDON
    @LONpaulDON 5 місяців тому

    I could easily watch a full hour of those mowers mowing

  • @garyfaulds2008
    @garyfaulds2008 4 роки тому +1

    Man ! That is a smoooooooooth riding machine. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦👍👍👍

  • @tomhoward8304
    @tomhoward8304 4 роки тому

    It's an hour and a half from my house in the Salt Lake Valley, about 45 minutes from Ogden.

  • @CarlosGonzalez-kt5be
    @CarlosGonzalez-kt5be 4 роки тому

    Yooouuu.... WHAT Sapien!! UTAH.. SALUDOS FROM : "THE BRONX "
    NEW YORK CITY.. thank you for the video...good job... you see this job from Satellite .. I know.

  • @markreetz1001
    @markreetz1001 4 роки тому +7

    That was some awesome good looking alfalfa and background scenery, Mike! Is the disk mower more efficient than the old sickle bar? Or is it just more resilient? Absolutely great video, Mike!

    • @jordanparmer7221
      @jordanparmer7221 2 роки тому

      Would like to know the same thing what’s better

  • @joelee662
    @joelee662 4 роки тому

    THAT WAS AMAZING VIDEO 👍🇺🇸

  • @MrTyroneweaver
    @MrTyroneweaver 4 роки тому

    I'm surprised no one has tried dry beans, like pintos or reds in Tremonton. Hi from Burley.

  • @goldfire1676
    @goldfire1676 4 роки тому

    Cool work Mike keep at it bro

  • @markrasmussen7918
    @markrasmussen7918 4 роки тому

    I’ve been driving Hwy 19 in Caldwell Idaho for years and just a couple of days ago I finally noticed the local Versatile dealer. I never knew.

  • @mountainviewturning5319
    @mountainviewturning5319 4 роки тому

    Wow very cool mower

  • @jetegtmeier71
    @jetegtmeier71 4 роки тому

    you like Versatile Tractors right ... I've been hauling rock up and down 63 in Iowa all day and noticed an old 4WD Versatile sitting along side the HWY north of HWY 3 :)

  • @sharpshooter7127
    @sharpshooter7127 4 роки тому

    That is some good looking alfalfa 👍🚜

  • @franciscosandiego3026
    @franciscosandiego3026 4 роки тому

    I like your videos, from the imperial co California.

  • @MrPummi88
    @MrPummi88 4 роки тому

    Simple, but genius technique.

  • @klaudheath2665
    @klaudheath2665 4 роки тому

    3:40 🤣😂yeah mike you did ,and yes it sure is. This machine does a clean job ,impressive

  • @tommyone7718
    @tommyone7718 4 роки тому

    Good video.

  • @RJM1011
    @RJM1011 4 роки тому

    Great to see thank you.

  • @tractoragriculture1352
    @tractoragriculture1352 2 роки тому

    nice modern agriculture

  • @christ5856
    @christ5856 4 роки тому +1

    Hi Mike - the irrigation is very interesting have the fields been graded away from the ditch to allow the flow of water.

    • @dmcpeck
      @dmcpeck 4 роки тому +2

      I'm not Mike but I grow on a farm in Ohio and moved to Utah many years ago. My late wife had aunts and uncles that farmed. Like Mike said there is all kinds of irrigation going on there. They need to level the flooded fields and keep them that way. You need water rights to use water and it's very closely monitored. Use more than your share and your in big trouble.

  • @Summitclym
    @Summitclym 11 місяців тому

    Gives me anxiety watching them run over the end rows. 😂 We have an alfalfa farm in Utah and always cut, dry, bale and haul away the end rows a couple days before the rest of the fields. It’s a lot cleaner.

  • @motel581
    @motel581 6 місяців тому

    Those are the Wellsville mountains! Citizen created wilderness in the heart of big ranch country. Don’t move here but yes it is the pretties t country in the west imho

  • @theirishaxe9405
    @theirishaxe9405 4 роки тому +1

    Wow the driver is cooking bro 👍 i worked the soybean corn and sunflower harvest for years in North Dakota in a 9650

  • @Bernie5172
    @Bernie5172 4 роки тому +1

    My ancestor came to Australia, his sister went to live in USA .From England ,
    she took a wagon train west to Logan Cache, just east of this place.mid 1800s
    Wright- Brown- Laddle- Pitcher families
    I think she converted to being a Mormon, or quaker, or something like that.
    My family didnt go into religion here in Australia

  • @chrisroccaforte3934
    @chrisroccaforte3934 11 днів тому

    How fast was it moving and what was the setup? Dang Mike? Vacation

  • @traviskleinsasser1144
    @traviskleinsasser1144 4 роки тому

    You didn't mention the beautiful reeeed swather!

  • @noworriesmate8287
    @noworriesmate8287 4 роки тому

    Wish I could mow my yard that fast. He’s moving. I have been looking for a 16’ deck for my 318. No luck so far

  • @justinshepard9096
    @justinshepard9096 3 роки тому

    grew up doing this - only 1 - 1 inch tube per row.

  • @avontaprice2
    @avontaprice2 Рік тому

    What is the stick that is spinning around in the circle on the back of that mower and what is it used for and what's the purpose of it???🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

  • @ValleyCustoms
    @ValleyCustoms 4 роки тому

    Is this the same farm / machine recovered by Winder towing in their video?

  • @delprice3007
    @delprice3007 4 роки тому

    Great idea for irrigation! Are the fields sloped for water flow?

  • @CarlosGonzalez-kt5be
    @CarlosGonzalez-kt5be 4 роки тому +1

    Excuse-me !! my question is , this guy ( the operators) hop GPS..in the tractor ?

  • @valentinderrien
    @valentinderrien 4 роки тому

    Super vidéo ! Vers qu'elle vitesse de travail roule-t-il ?

  • @ronaldgoss1167
    @ronaldgoss1167 4 роки тому

    Hi my name is ronald and I was just letting you know that is my hometown

  • @farmguy2400
    @farmguy2400 4 роки тому +1

    Is the hay irrigated the same way as the corn is?

  • @delprice3007
    @delprice3007 4 роки тому

    What's the trick to such smooth fields and lack of gophers?

  • @dakota1316
    @dakota1316 3 роки тому

    I live in tremoton it is a nice place

  • @cntslesfabrication
    @cntslesfabrication 4 роки тому +1

    How long did they say they water for?

  • @Bernie5172
    @Bernie5172 4 роки тому

    WOW.-O-WOW

  • @tooez90
    @tooez90 4 роки тому

    Interesting irrigation...do they fill the ditch from tankers or is that natural?...

    • @rodcody7278
      @rodcody7278 2 роки тому

      Probly natural but I don't know about this yr 2022 being in this drought low water everywhere!

    • @JuniorMintKiss
      @JuniorMintKiss 2 роки тому

      Our water comes from our local canals, which tie into the Bear River. Leftover water drains into the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Nothing really goes to waste as far as the water goes ;)

  • @rodneyrtennis1279
    @rodneyrtennis1279 Рік тому

    Its like this person is dancing with that cutter.

  • @paulahrens5530
    @paulahrens5530 Рік тому

    How do they get 16' of hay in a windrow to dry ?

  • @willeengdahl2137
    @willeengdahl2137 Рік тому

    What happens when de irrigated water is gone?

  • @donstreit821
    @donstreit821 3 роки тому

    Can almost smell the Alfalfa. Ranks right up there with freshly plowed ground.

  • @ronaldgoss1167
    @ronaldgoss1167 4 роки тому

    I love tremonton utah

  • @abdelilahlabro6883
    @abdelilahlabro6883 7 місяців тому +1

    Hi how much this machine

  • @rodcody7278
    @rodcody7278 2 роки тому

    That's cool what yr

  • @layniejonathancontrerasgax5622
    @layniejonathancontrerasgax5622 4 роки тому

    Here in Sinaloa we irrigate like tath

  • @Mariini
    @Mariini 4 роки тому +1

    What is that slow spinning thing behind the machine? Like in 4:08 and 5:43

    • @MrPummi88
      @MrPummi88 4 роки тому +2

      Looks like some Kind of cleaner for the air Filter.

    • @hansesfarms1305
      @hansesfarms1305 4 роки тому

      That is a vacuum that keeps the radiator screen clean. It has a sheet of metal that rotates on the inside of the screen to block the suction from the fan while the vacuum sucks the debris from the outside. It gets its suction from the tips of the fan blade on the engine. It's really a pretty ingenious setup.

  • @ileenmcminn2062
    @ileenmcminn2062 4 роки тому

    As well as Malt-o-meal in Tremonton there is a hay press just west of Bear River City that re-bails hay for export. Bailey Farms. If you travel into Idaho , east of the freeway I84 from the Idahome exit is a dairy that covers more than a section with cattle Idaho Jersey Girls. They have an indoor feed mixing building with a drive over bridge so semis can unload directly into the bunks as loaders are scooping out ration mixes. here is a video that shoes some of the operation. ua-cam.com/video/kmutrzPyx0Q/v-deo.html

  • @thayhai1994
    @thayhai1994 4 роки тому

    Nhìn máy khác những máy khác quá

  • @delprice3007
    @delprice3007 4 роки тому

    First cutting?

  • @GRamerDim
    @GRamerDim 4 місяці тому

    why is the video quality so low?

  • @YouT-DJ
    @YouT-DJ 4 роки тому

    What are they getting for nice hay like that??$$

  • @drisselmousaoui8363
    @drisselmousaoui8363 10 місяців тому

    👍💪

  • @ML-lg4ky
    @ML-lg4ky 4 роки тому

    Cows be like
    :yum

  • @scruffy6151
    @scruffy6151 4 роки тому

    👍👍

  • @tompreiss5010
    @tompreiss5010 4 роки тому

    Wow have you ever seen such a beautify crop of alfalfa???

    • @tompreiss5010
      @tompreiss5010 4 роки тому

      I flue in a airplane with a big corporate darry man to some where in the try state regain in the 80's to contract alfalfa by the cubic lot. We flue over about hours worth of first cut alfalfa didn't see anything that good.

    • @oe542
      @oe542 4 роки тому

      Tom Preiss holy shit Tom. Please tell me English is not your first language, or at least tell me you were drunk af.

  • @beebop9808
    @beebop9808 3 роки тому

    Is a beautiful place. I spent about a year out there in the 80's. Don't let the nutty Mormons convince you there's Marlin in the lake. Seen it happen no joke. lol

  • @nwpioneer2551
    @nwpioneer2551 4 роки тому

    He must be going 15 to 20 miles an hour

  • @adamfpv8294
    @adamfpv8294 4 роки тому

    Where do you get the specs on the equipment you film?

    • @farmhandmike
      @farmhandmike  4 роки тому +1

      Just depends but I've collected farm equipment brochures for a long time and know lots of folks in the farm equipment business. Lots of specs online as well.

  • @Danny_Don1
    @Danny_Don1 4 роки тому +3

    First!

    • @Danny_Don1
      @Danny_Don1 4 роки тому

      @Ken Hofer shut up!

    • @oe542
      @oe542 4 роки тому

      Mr Krabs you sound Krabby.

  • @anilpateliya2617
    @anilpateliya2617 3 роки тому

    we want this machine in india
    any one can help me ?

  • @allenschmitz9644
    @allenschmitz9644 4 роки тому

    Those are drag race speeds..wabbits look out.

  • @hcn6708
    @hcn6708 Рік тому

    A buncha kids inhaled arsenic for this

  • @TheZachary86
    @TheZachary86 3 роки тому

    Ah yes they’re also shrinking the Great Lake of Utah, and the the winds are kicking up arsenic laced dust where the waters used to be, affecting wildlife and the community. Great job growing farms in the desert dude 👍

  • @goldfire1676
    @goldfire1676 4 роки тому

    Cool work Mike keep at it bro

  • @wilsonandrade6246
    @wilsonandrade6246 4 роки тому

    👍👍👍