160ac in one 1/4 (1/2 Mile square) Four 1/4s = 640ac (1 Mile square) Mike I have question: I thought Canada was in the metric system? Answer: yes it is... But prior to Canada entering into that system, we were in the imperial system and everything including but not limited to our land and roads were measured out in miles. So we farmers use both..
@@mikemitchell2554 In Denmark all is metric, but the headers on combines is in feet, we use pounds and kg, we measure area on farms both in acres and hektar (10.000 sqrm) but all grain is measured in weight not in volume, so I should wrap my head that fact.
If your wife was in Michigan she just bought half the county,my god those fields look like they go forever ,simply amazes me how big the fields are up there.good luck out there this year,pray God brings the planting rains.
Mike it's GR8 to see a farmer smile @7:10. Ashtyn first 1/4 will be one to remember. Now what will you name it? We don't do it @ home. She wearing her Case hoodie. How's it feal? Tough and dewy I don't no. I don't know. Huh. OK. Back to it. Straw always drags in your harrowed. Hydraulic controlled more pressure less pressure change the angle. Dew clumps up those harrowing beavers. LoL
Sorry Mike beavers didn't take down those trees. When they chew off a tree it looks like a pencil that has been sharpened. Those died and tipped over. Congratulations from North Dakota Ashtyn on the purchase.
Sorry bud but you’re wrong! That’s just what you see in movies. I Farm way up north in Sask and have seen beavers wipe out 10 acre patches of trees. And believe it or not most are chewed off flat.
@@carterk116 Ah they must have evolved to use chainsaws..., Kinda worrying but as a twenty five year veteran tree surgeon i can tell that tree was dead from water stress...
CONGRATULATIONS ASHTYN!!!!!!!! I know you are camera shy, but you do an AMAZING job every time he manages to get you on film, so no worries. Hopefully in the future you will become more comfortable with it. We sure enjoy seeing you and hearing your input and perspective on things. KEEP EM COMING both of you.
Huge congrats to Ashtyn on her pusrchase, wow she looked like a kid in a candy store in that tractor having the time of her life....Absolutely love her smile too...have yourselves a good one Mike....love your channnel..cheers and well wishes from Gold Coast Australia
When I was a kid I loved plowing with a 5-bottom flip plow hooked up to a John Deere 4640 with the lights on. We almost never got to work with the lights on.
I did most of the fieldwork as a teenager after school's sports practices (football & baseball). I usually ended up working past midnight so I always did things via the old fashioned pre-LED & pre-HID lights. You know, those yellowish dim ones!
I am a farm kid right now and I haven't been able to stay up driving that late myself but I was with my grandpa when I was 8 or 9 and we went tell like 9 or 10 and It was so cool going with lights on. I am 13 now but I still love seeing the lights in when you are farming.
@@spedgaming2390 Mike & Ashtyn, older brother Terry ~ wife Emily & son Wyatt, younger brother Brian ~ wife Sam, father Bob and crew farm approximately 40,000 acres in SW Saskatchewan. Mike also recently bought 480 acres plus Ashtyn also personally bought 160 acres in east south central Saskatchewan where Ashtyn’s parents live that they contract Ashtyn’s parents to do some of the work. Mike’s new John Deere combine will head north later in harvest season to help out at the newly purchased land.
Mike I hate to break it to ya but that tree was not cut down by a beaver it broke down that is not the way a beaver cuts down a tree it does not have the tell tale signs of rounding or wood chips at the base coming from your north Sask farming friend. U have an awesome channel by the way.
Congrats Ashtyn! Mike I love your videos. Everytime I see you working the land it brings back some great childhood memories of helping my great uncle with his. One day I hope to travel back north.
Mike, good story to tell. You are the best as well. Coming to from Central Illinois, not a farmer. Update on me I had lived 14 years in southern Colorado on I-25 about 3 hours south of Denver and now my wife and I live in Central Illinois. This is where retired landed me we with family.
I guessing land is cheaper in Canada than in Ireland. Here the average cost of agricultural land is €10,316 per acre. So 160 acres could cost €1,650,560 or Can$ 2,426,323.
We used to use a 12m version of that style of Harrow for weeding our organic wheat until it was too tall but by then the wheat had created a canopy and prevented the weeds from growing.
Canada's the Second Largest country on this globe. Trust me we got tree's, Hollywood even does a majority of its films and tv up here. Western movies in Kamloops British Colombia. While the Rise of the Planet of The Apes movies were filmed on North Vancouver Island British Columbia, along with way more. There's a lot of different ecosystems in British Columbia ranging from Rain Forrest's to The Rocky Mountains and Western Cowboy county, let alone the rest of the Canada.
@@Nevis.Supermoto Yeah, I travelled and Worked in Saskatoon Saskatchewan when I was 18 it's a beautiful province completely different from Vancouver and Quadra Island British Colombia where I grew up. My Grandfather has a small 55 acre farm on Quadra Island that's surrounded by Forrest
That's the difference between heavy and medium duty harrows. The medium duty have the cables and basically not built as heavy. The heavy harrow have big heavy arms that swing and lock in and usually have heavy thicker tines
Congrats to Ashtyn on her first field purchase. Seeing the smile on that young lady was priceless!! Mike, when will you seed this land and start growing crop?
Lyme disease was founded in my state of Connecticut in Lyme, CT in 1975. We definitely have our share of ticks in this state. We have to treat all our yards, around our houses, soccer fields, baseball fields, lawns around municipal buildings. We have to wear long pants when ever we go hiking anywhere with tall grass. I have family members who now have Lyme disease and the pain they go thru once in a while is seriously bad.
Thanks you mike I appreciate that you realize how amazing an awesome I really am enough to tell me cause when I mention it people think I’m arrogant or cocky but at least you know the truth !
I was looking for that explanation. What Ashton was towing looked like a much bigger grass rake to me. No ploughing, so maybe the disk harrow is not used, although the pro till used at harvest time did look like a disk harrow to me, not that I know anything worth knowing about farming. Thanks for the idea.
In Norway, harrows have lots of different configurations. It´s more like a collective name for a lot of different types. This one would be used to suppress weed. It will take out more fragile weed with big, round leaves, but doesn`t hurt the straw-like crops. It´s an alternative or supplement to spraying in certain crops.
Ok sorry but what size is a quarter ?
160ac in one 1/4 (1/2 Mile square)
Four 1/4s = 640ac (1 Mile square)
Mike I have question: I thought Canada was in the metric system?
Answer: yes it is... But prior to Canada entering into that system, we were in the imperial system and everything including but not limited to our land and roads were measured out in miles.
So we farmers use both..
@@mikemitchell2554 In Denmark all is metric, but the headers on combines is in feet, we use pounds and kg, we measure area on farms both in acres and hektar (10.000 sqrm) but all grain is measured in weight not in volume, so I should wrap my head that fact.
@@mikemitchell2554 thx for info
@@mikemitchell2554 never stop asking yourself q's mike love it
@@mikemitchell2554 we call 640acers a block
If your wife was in Michigan she just bought half the county,my god those fields look like they go forever ,simply amazes me how big the fields are up there.good luck out there this year,pray God brings the planting rains.
Chasing each other around the field in trucks and tractors is what Mike and Ashton call foreplay
I can tell by the cut on 7:10
Mike it's GR8 to see a farmer smile @7:10.
Ashtyn first 1/4 will be one to remember. Now what will you name it?
We don't do it @ home. She wearing her Case hoodie.
How's it feal? Tough and dewy
I don't no. I don't know. Huh. OK.
Back to it. Straw always drags in your harrowed. Hydraulic controlled more pressure less pressure change the angle.
Dew clumps up those harrowing beavers. LoL
Sorry Mike beavers didn't take down those trees. When they chew off a tree it looks like a pencil that has been sharpened. Those died and tipped over. Congratulations from North Dakota Ashtyn on the purchase.
What about if Canadian beavers have bad teeth?
@@jackgerberuae Nah thats English beavers...
Sorry bud but you’re wrong! That’s just what you see in movies. I Farm way up north in Sask and have seen beavers wipe out 10 acre patches of trees. And believe it or not most are chewed off flat.
@@carterk116 Ah they must have evolved to use chainsaws..., Kinda worrying but as a twenty five year veteran tree surgeon i can tell that tree was dead from water stress...
That was definitely not a beaver. Rotten poplar that blew down.
CONGRATULATIONS ASHTYN!!!!!!!! I know you are camera shy, but you do an AMAZING job every time he manages to get you on film, so no worries. Hopefully in the future you will become more comfortable with it. We sure enjoy seeing you and hearing your input and perspective on things. KEEP EM COMING both of you.
Congratulations Mike for becoming a father🎉
Was about to comment on that, it is in the oven 😉
What?
Loved when Ashtyn came off that tractor, John Deere, wearing CASE sweater… that propably made her feel better in there….🤣😆🤣😆
Case is what Ashtyn prefers. John Deere is what she somehow has to put up with.
Ashton can add. Used green tractor and combine left money for land.
I could see Ashtyn's grin. It's 90' wide!
Huge congrats to Ashtyn on her pusrchase, wow she looked like a kid in a candy store in that tractor having the time of her life....Absolutely love her smile too...have yourselves a good one Mike....love your channnel..cheers and well wishes from Gold Coast Australia
Who wouldn't be happy, did you see that tractor?
A custom hauler is bringing up your Borgault drill. Is it going to stay on the north end?
Most people use a drone for the chase and action shots. Mike just hangs out the side of his truck rippin across the field :D
When I was a kid I loved plowing with a 5-bottom flip plow hooked up to a John Deere 4640 with the lights on. We almost never got to work with the lights on.
Harrowing up north is better anyways...it warms up the soil better for germ
At the beginning I misheard you as "Ashtyn's doing some heroin". That made me sit up and pay attention.
Same here 😂
Pleased to say I'm not the only one, lol
I did as well. It’s a little early and I almost choked on my coffee. Had to rewind and listen again.
Made me feel sick for second.
Why would you want to watch that ?
That tree was rotten!! Beavers did not take down that tree!
Your right thats no beaver !!!
Wind
@@straightpipeacres6365 Dead and rotten too.
@@quappelle3637 yep
It woud be nice to see a cab ride whit Ashtyn. Good video . I love to see all you video's
8:30 what picture! The big bad Chevy sitting uptop that hill with the sun off in the distance.
Glad to see her Buy some of her First Land. Congratulations on her land Purchase.
Congrats to her! Reaping what she sows me thinks. You all work some brutal hours!
Now imagine Ashtyn would harrow her field with a Case Quadtrack...... 😁😁😁
Congrats Ashtyn and Mike 🙂👍
Hi Mike and Ashtyn, Ashtyn very good luck with your new field.
Congratulations Ashton on your farm purchase!
Congratz Ashtyn on your purchase
I did most of the fieldwork as a teenager after school's sports practices (football & baseball). I usually ended up working past midnight so I always did things via the old fashioned pre-LED & pre-HID lights. You know, those yellowish dim ones!
Congrats Ashtyn on your first baby... field ! Does it have a name yet ?
👍🚜🇨🇦👋congrats 🎈 too her& you Mike 👌. Thank you friends.
your lighting comments is so true growing up
Congrats Ashtyn!
Well done Ashtyn with the land purchase
Great video Mike as usual
Congratulations Ashtyn! Hope your first crop is awesome!
I am a farm kid right now and I haven't been able to stay up driving that late myself but I was with my grandpa when I was 8 or 9 and we went tell like 9 or 10 and It was so cool going with lights on. I am 13 now but I still love seeing the lights in when you are farming.
Ashtyn has more trees on her 160 acres that the entire 40,000 acre operation in SW Saskatchewan 😂🌲🌳🌿🤣
She's not out of the woods yet !
@@Chiellus11 Cymbal please!
@@robertg.9964 Two drums and a cymbal fell off a cliff....
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Did he say 40,000?
@@spedgaming2390 Mike & Ashtyn, older brother Terry ~ wife Emily & son Wyatt, younger brother Brian ~ wife Sam, father Bob and crew farm approximately 40,000 acres in SW Saskatchewan.
Mike also recently bought 480 acres plus Ashtyn also personally bought 160 acres in east south central Saskatchewan where Ashtyn’s parents live that they contract Ashtyn’s parents to do some of the work.
Mike’s new John Deere combine will head north later in harvest season to help out at the newly purchased land.
Agree, as a kid going with the lights on was awesome!
11:41 another picture perfect picture.
Mike I hate to break it to ya but that tree was not cut down by a beaver it broke down that is not the way a beaver cuts down a tree it does not have the tell tale signs of rounding or wood chips at the base coming from your north Sask farming friend. U have an awesome channel by the way.
Thank you for that clarification 🙂
Thank you Mike for the good videos.
Congratulations Ashtyn. Beautiful tractor in the sunset together.
Thanks for the daily vids Mike.
Ashtyn's sweet shirt is awesome !!!!
Ashton you have a smile that could launch a thousand ships. Congratulations on the new ownership!
4:28, lol, that's no beaver, where are the chips, that's the bloody wind, ha!
Give him a break, he's new to this tree thing! lol
Haha exactly! 🤣🤣🤷🏻♂️🤦
www.google.com/search?q=Beaver+cut+tree&sxsrf=ALeKk03lOc7iJcpdzLdQaDRnkuRmWaga_g:1623871791908&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFyMTq8ZzxAhVUV80KHZA0D4AQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=754
Thank you Mike for sharing your life!!!
That's an awesome harrow. Do a sweet job in the field.
Sounded like you said Ashtyn, was doing some Heroine! 😁 Chok
Congratulations miss Ashley in Delaware the family farmers were around 80 acres you now own 2 🤗😎
Congratulations Ashtyn on your purchase of land
You're not lying about Saskatchewan have a nice sky's I used to do custom harvest in America and came up to Canada to combine near Regina Canada
Great awesome video mike, congratulations
This was my first job to work with a big 4-wheeler tractor (JD 9420) when I was helping a farm for 8 months in the USA. Great memories.
Congrats Ashtyn!
Mike I love your videos. Everytime I see you working the land it brings back some great childhood memories of helping my great uncle with his.
One day I hope to travel back north.
She looks pretty happy Mike ,good for her on the purchase .....
The truck definitely did not ruin the shot lol it added
Congratulations ~Ashtyn. It might take a season to fix but it can always be yours and not Mike's!!
Mike, good story to tell. You are the best as well. Coming to from Central Illinois, not a farmer. Update on me I had lived 14 years in southern Colorado on I-25 about 3 hours south of Denver and now my wife and I live in Central Illinois. This is where retired landed me we with family.
Congratulations Ashton on your 1st farm I hope there are many more
That's a beautiful sunset.😀
Great video Mike and Ashtyn
I love this channel.. NO clickbait ever! I hate clickbait
I love that running shot you did along the harrow! Neat to see it working!
Nice video footage!
Good for you Aston 👍
Congratulations on the land purchase!!
Congratulations Ashtyn
Fun video Mike! Congrats to Ashtyn! Owning land is great. :)
100% agree with kids growing up on farms with the tractors lights! : )
congrats to ashtyn
She just bought more land than we own😂 (Small-Medium Farm in Austria)
Servus aus Wien
Same here in the UK 😂
@@whoddy Servus aus Eferding(nähe Linz)
I guessing land is cheaper in Canada than in Ireland. Here the average cost of agricultural land is €10,316 per acre. So 160 acres could cost €1,650,560 or Can$ 2,426,323.
@@dellhell8842 thats still pretty cheap tho, here in the netherlands a hectar is about €120.000. So an acre is €48.000!!!
nice camera work. thanks for this!👍
Awesome for Ashton. Fun watching her work her ground. Have fun
Success with the patch.
We used to use a 12m version of that style of Harrow for weeding our organic wheat until it was too tall but by then the wheat had created a canopy and prevented the weeds from growing.
How awesome is that!
Congratulations to Ashtyn
I still find it funny that Mike is so fascinated by the trees, because in Austria we have a lot of trees
Canada's the Second Largest country on this globe. Trust me we got tree's, Hollywood even does a majority of its films and tv up here. Western movies in Kamloops British Colombia. While the Rise of the Planet of The Apes movies were filmed on North Vancouver Island British Columbia, along with way more. There's a lot of different ecosystems in British Columbia ranging from Rain Forrest's to The Rocky Mountains and Western Cowboy county, let alone the rest of the Canada.
@@cptjohnbhewler1529 I know but where he lives there are no trees
@@Nevis.Supermoto Yeah, I travelled and Worked in Saskatoon Saskatchewan when I was 18 it's a beautiful province completely different from Vancouver and Quadra Island British Colombia where I grew up. My Grandfather has a small 55 acre farm on Quadra Island that's surrounded by Forrest
Who cares about trees, it's about the number ones and twos !
Congratulations on your new land purchase! Also hope you have a wonderful year
Heavier tines and heavier frame....will disturb more soil and chaff...I just bought a brandt set
Love the video and great job Ashton
That's the difference between heavy and medium duty harrows. The medium duty have the cables and basically not built as heavy. The heavy harrow have big heavy arms that swing and lock in and usually have heavy thicker tines
Good to know! Thanks
Ashtyn is going to replace that tractor with a red one to keep the smile on her ground.
Mike u should put the 9620r on a grain cart this year
The automatic captions turned “harrowing” into “heroin”. 😂
I think UA-cam has a problem, it might want to get profession help. Ha ha
It did sound that way, made me laugh
Ashtyn got a lot work on that field done. Lights! let's do some more.
Congrats to Ashtyn on her first field purchase. Seeing the smile on that young lady was priceless!!
Mike, when will you seed this land and start growing crop?
Congratulations Mike❤️
Great Video Mike 👍
Yo yo guyzz. Right on nice buy, looks like a beauty piece of land 🔥👊🔥
Lyme disease was founded in my state of Connecticut in Lyme, CT in 1975. We definitely have our share of ticks in this state. We have to treat all our yards, around our houses, soccer fields, baseball fields, lawns around municipal buildings. We have to wear long pants when ever we go hiking anywhere with tall grass. I have family members who now have Lyme disease and the pain they go thru once in a while is seriously bad.
Harrows doing nice job forsure, tills it up a bit
Your like the Papparazzi. She does'nt want to be photographed Mike! hahahahaha
In the fens, we called that style a spring tine harrow
Thanks you mike I appreciate that you realize how amazing an awesome I really am enough to tell me cause when I mention it people think I’m arrogant or cocky but at least you know the truth !
Bending the bar. Try taking the corner to sharp. One wheel is going fast forward, and other goes partly in reverse.
Awesome that’s she is smiling. Good for you young lady!!!!!
damn good camera stabilisation
It is so true about the lights when you are a child .. and an adult 😂😂 hahaha
So Mike how many acres is a quarter
love your channel
Congrats
You need the cab cushion on the Versatile tractor to give you a smoother ride.
A harrow uses a concave dish to turn the soil in my part of the world. Looks like your using a spring-tine to just spread the left over shaft.
I was looking for that explanation. What Ashton was towing looked like a much bigger grass rake to me. No ploughing, so maybe the disk harrow is not used, although the pro till used at harvest time did look like a disk harrow to me, not that I know anything worth knowing about farming. Thanks for the idea.
In Norway, harrows have lots of different configurations. It´s more like a collective name for a lot of different types. This one would be used to suppress weed. It will take out more fragile weed with big, round leaves, but doesn`t hurt the straw-like crops. It´s an alternative or supplement to spraying in certain crops.