A Girl, Her Tractor, and A Batwing Shredder

[@hondaatver]

One of the prettiest farmers on KZbin .

[@navyretired230]

Love the Stars and Strips in you upper barn area. God Bless America

[@silverc4s146]

Started watching a few weeks ago. I am 78 and retired from Semiconductor then Senior Care worlds, but have zero experience with farming, ancient, modern or otherwise. I can not express what a delight it is to watch your videos, see the enthusiasm and skill that you bring to your everyday world. You make really precise tasks seem like they are everyday, while not taking anything away from the skills required in so many varied areas. Thanks so much and keep going. I wait for new videos every day.

[@jollyrogerhobbies2386]

I love to hear you say "my Husband Grant". Just brings a smile to my face!

[@russellbowman8051]

That Was Fun Thanks For bringing Us Along!! Thanks For That Famous Pleasant Laura Farms SMILE! Once Again!! 😊👍👊

[@papatomsthoughts]

I love your attitude toward operating equipment and having to move those limbs. Your awesome..

[@johnsandell4501]

You make mowing corn stocks soooo entertaining.

[@Agriculturespotter]

Great video again Laura, always interesting and for me a great start of my day! Thanks!

[@americasdream1265]

Red tools, green tractors and red combines makes farming fun.

[@DM-uv3sd]

You are such a pleasure to watch, The camera LOVES you!!! Stay safe and I hope Grant did you right for Valentines Day. Happy Valentines day from a fan.💝

[@roadstar92220]

It’s great to see you back in the tractor. It tells me spring is just around the corner & planting videos are soon to come !! Yeah 😊😊

[@keitherwin6943]

Such pretty eyes!!...........Spring planting is just around the corner

[@gerrybrunner7009]

Laura, watching you with all the enthusiasm you have makes a person feel Great. keep your spirits uplifting👍🦅🚜

[@sjg699]

Thanks for educating us what a shreadder is and the details about what it does, you and Grant have made me a farmer at heart!

[@Maxid1]

When you line up with your sleep cycle, the day goes really well.

[@AnthonyFlores-vq9ji]

Eastwood makes some great welders and they are less expensive than big name brands. I used to borrow my friend's Hobart Handler until I bought my Eastwood 180. It has done everything I have asked of it up to 5/16" mild steel. If he needs something a little bigger, then the Eastwood 250 is 250 Amps. They are both inverter based and not transformer based so they are SUPER light and they also outperform the equivalent Lincoln/Hobart/Miller machines. Anyway, love your channel. Keep up the good work.

[@joegregoire7481]

I’m a 35+ year Veteran of the Canadian Military with a few issues to say the least. I operated equipment in the military. Your videos are great, you would have excelled in the military!

[@thelandrethfarm4782]

Good point about camera’s, they are good for seeing levels in seed tanks and if shafts are turning! Good video kid!

[@bruceducker2029]

Laura, new to the channel and I find your videos not only informative but entertaining. Being a non-farmer it's interesting seeing the day to day ops of a farmer. Gives us more appreciation of the hard work you farmers do to provide food. Thanks for the content.

[@federicoloforte863]

hi Laura, happy Valentine's day

[@benja_mint]

Answer to the GPS question: its a long answer but quite simple :) the tractors have a GPS chip on them exactly the same as your phone or the navi in your car. They all just "look" at satelites in the sky and get a measurement of the distance to each satelite -> trigonometry calculation -> it knows its position on the world. There is one extra thing for tractors: normally your phone is only accurate to within ~3 meters because of the atmostphere of the earth (different weather conditions etc. can delay the signal from the satelite by just a tiny tiny minescule amount and that makes an error). To fix the error, farmers build networks of base-stations (one must be near your farm) and they measure how wrong the signal from the satelites is e.g. it can say to your tractor e.g. "today the satelites are 10cm wrong in an easterly direction" or whatever, and then the tractor can account for the error. i think every 15 minutes or so the base station takes a new measurement of how wrong the satelite signal is

[@1984shadow]

Your narrative is spoken in a gentle step-by-step manner. The tenor of your voice is not ALL KNOWING, but rather a soft-spoken first-time instructional style that the World can easily follow. You are a natural spokesperson anyone would be proud to have you as part of their team.

[@jamesmccabe1702]

you sound like a creep

[@1984shadow]

@@jamesmccabe1702 I am a TV producer...I recognized talent when I see it. Thanks for your interest.

[@jamesmccabe1702]

@@1984shadow you sound like a double creep now

[@FreedomRock44]

So Good to see you in your Tractor for 2022 Laura!!!!! Good Times! Oppppp I am waiting?????

[@renoflames]

We are Planting 1250 acres of corn this year and another 845 acres of wheat. I retire on my Birthday end of March flying Cargo in a 747 and I am ready and the Silo's are ready and the contract is signed. I have the same tractor as you and 3 very nice Combines. I am going to tell one of my Sponsors you need a HD wire welder ad see what they say. I also have a Army M151A1 1966 I use in the fields. With Trailer it looks new. I bought 3 Mack CH rebuilt to like new with Grain Trailers all in mint condition. I did forget one thing the Fuel Station so I got 2, 5 Ton Military trucks and 2 Military Fuel Trailers 5000 Gallon and solved that issue for now. I just had a survey done on everything that moves or storage. We are clean and ready to go. My Farm Manager is a 6'1 slim and trim Goddess like you but taller and she has degrees in AG and knows her stuff. When She started Last year based on what we had or Leased She showed a Net Profit of 153000.00 after all Bills Paid. Farm sat Idle for 5 years prior to that but Maintenance was kept up. Place Looks Good work never stops. It was Idle due to getting it all bought, I had to get the old owners to all agree on everything plus Insurance costs etc. This place is Paid for 100%. I do have 2 natural gas production wells and one does the farm one I sell the gas. And that is separate, unlimited supply of Natural Gas. We do have plenty of Water wells all are tip top condition. You are doing good. Go for it..

[@jdkpalmeira]

I usually get up feeling positive for the day ahead on our farm. But rarely am I this excited in the morning knowing I have days, weeks, months of mowing ahead of me.. fair play to you Laura. And thanks for the videos

[@Torsee]

Great visiting with you!

[@leslietarboxjr4287]

Love your channel, you are such an informative person and so fun to watch. A hundred years ago, (it seems that long, it was really the 60's and 70's) when I grew up on a potato farm in northern Maine, we would have never imagined tractors and equipment like you have today. Great video.

[@americasdream1265]

I have never heard this machine called a shredder before Laura. I farm in Indiana so maybe it is an area thing but here in Indiana they are called a mower, a bush hog, just a batwing and a field chopper. A corn shredder in Indiana is something that was used 80 years ago when farmers cut corn stalks and all and hauled it to a barn to shred the stalks and leaves and blow into a pile after the ear of corn is separated from the stalk to be cribbed and used for cattle feed after it is ground up and the shredded stalks was used to feed to the cattle for roughage and to use like straw to bed stables for cows that had a calve or ready to have a calf to protect from extreme cold weather. I am not saying you are wrong Laura at all I just never heard this machine called a shredder before.

[@mykstreja8648]

Looked it up (I'm not scrolling through 350+ comments to see if I'm first), and the Rhino 4155 Flex-Wing is FIFTEEN FEET WIDE! No wonder you need that Clydesdale sized tractor to move it.

[@joefudd]

Hey Laura! I just saw an ad here on your channel for a company making a neat new tillage disc attachment that will be in the south wing here at the Farm Machinery show! SHOW STARTS TOMORROW! :-) Good times ahead! Lookin' forward to seeing you here! I wonder if you and Grant will be here for all 4 days of it? MIG welder, as others have said, you can't go wrong with a Millermatic 250. I LOVE their Tweco made gun and wire feeders! I like Lincoln welders, but have not had much luck with their MIG or TIG welders so much vs Miller or Hobart.

[@Kardall]

Love the GPS stuff... I find it fascinating... Please cover more of it, even any analysis work that you may do on the inside computer to gauge yields by patterns/paths or something. However that works :D :D

[@jeffreystefanmaasdam6362]

i have the same waking up at 5 am sometimes doesnt go corect coffee saved the day and the first coffee is an really strong one

[@arthor1212]

I love Eastwood welders. Have used a handful, have had a mig, good quality and good price, can't go wrong

[@landscapingspecialist]

Yes

[@bryanlamb319]

I’ve never heard a mower referred to as a shredder. “Bush hog” and “brush hog” are the two most used names I’ve heard. Love it when I learn something new! Great video!

[@jvin248]

+1 brush hog ... but that's a trademark that has slipped into common use like kleenex. Australians call them 'slashers' like 'need to go out to the paddock with the slasher'

[@jjeanes2214]

Brush hog, brush cutter, mower, bat wing mower and so on.

[@leejproductions27]

The Bush Hog Brand usually has only one PTO drive. But they all do the same thing in the end. Clear the land of undesirable growth.

[@chasesblog]

I always call them shredders as that’s what I’ve always known them as.

[@robertreznik9330]

@@jvin248 My dad bought a Servis Shredder in 1951 years before Brush Hog copied the Servis brand.

[@chrisread6103]

Nice interesting post Laura. Thank you.👏

[@Timothy-NH]

Yes, red tools of the win! Though you're also good with orange or yellow, but really, red are the best IMHO.

[@patrickgodwin8947]

Hi Timothy

[@alejandromirada8936]

Muy buena idea picar el rastrojo de maíz con la cespera !!! Lo voy a probar en un lote de sorgo a ver cómo queda !! Sigan así con ese entusiasmo y amor por el campo saludos desde Argentina

[@dougrogillio2223]

Your second tree limb extraction footage was quite entertaining in fast motion.

[@kevinsmith5881]

Every farmer in the soth calls them a tri fold bush hog. Love your channel keep them up.

[@Duramaxjon]

Wow, I’ve only known them as a batwing mower in the north 😂

[@joefudd]

For even a closer cut, flail mowers rock! Not as wide as the bat wing, but they get the really tough stuff close to the ground.

[@DaBinChe]

Get a Millermatic250/251/252 if you can find one for a good price, it can weld thicker when needed. GPS works using Triangulation...basically Trigonometry.

[@pickypuck1]

Your pretty face and beautiful smile brightens my day. Love your attitude. ☺

[@dougpaulson]

thats a realy nice set up love the farm.thank you for sharing with us.

[@mattpage9826]

Take a look at eastwood welders. There are a ton of videos demonstrating them here on YT. As an aside, I picked up a yeswelder unit for use around my property, and got everything except tanks, with 20# wire, tig gun, parts kits, and a new helmet for just under $1000. But at this point, I have buyers remorse getting a Multi function welder rather than a straight up mig unit. However, the multi function seem to be more portable. Just my 2 cents. Great video. Keep smiling, and you are welcome to all the snow up here in central mn.

[@welder1288]

Lincoln electric welders are some of the best bang for the buck iv been using Lincoln electric welders for years

[@klauspeters7434]

Laura is the best ❤️

[@robertreznik9330]

That is a small shredder for a lot of tractor. Rhino produced the first tractor-mounted, rotary stalk shredder. It was made in South East Texas now in KS. Rhino came from merging with Austin Manufacturing that had the Servis shredder manufactured after WW2. The Brush Hog makes this claim, but Brush Hog company was later in the 1950's

[@juliemadden1206]

Another great video Laura 🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@raccoons392]

What a pleasure to learn about farming "Nebraska Style" from you Laura. Lucky you to be a farmer.

[@alan6832]

You think that smile is painted on or something? nobody could be that happy.

[@khialoza7990]

I'm so jealous of your weather today in MN it's about 8 degrees and extremely windy which makes it colder so it probably more around 0

[@steventoby3768]

Laura's farm is well equipped. The refueling scene just knocked me dead. The tank is underground, right? And both the tractor and the pickup are diesel powered, or maybe both fuels are available next to each other? It was mesmerizing to watch the auto-steer do its thing. But Laura had to get out and throw the branches aside because the equipment can't do everything.

[@murrays9535]

The fuel pipe to the bowser Laura used for the pickup had a sticker reading 'unleaded'. Good to put the right fuel in your tanks.

[@FreedomRock44]

Good one Laura...Thanks!!!!

[@TheJwd310]

We call them brush-hog..they eat anything 😂 great videos yall. From East Texas

[@greywolfwalking6359]

Thanks for a good start to my day.." Good morning everyone"...yup! That "Bat wing", as you call it,like others have said, is called a " bush hog"around my area... Look Into a " Lincoln " welder...round here, many use 'em!! Great results! Hey Grant...!!👋🧙‍♂️👍! See ya on the next vid!

[@rgmoore]

Everlast Welders. I love mine and it was a great value.

[@jamesgallia0147]

Keep up the good work I know how it feels to wake up early it's a good feeling I wake up at 530 every day except for Saturday and Sunday I wake up at sunrise

[@noelc9961]

in australia we call the shredder a slasher, btw im loving the videos as its harvest season here in OZ

[@joefudd]

Shredder? That's what you all call it in Nebraska? Here in Ky., we call those a bat wing mower or a bat wing bush hog or bat wing brush hog, lol! Yes, it is indeed satisfying to mow anything with those! You'll find out what we call those when we see ya'll down here at the Farm Machinery Show this week! I can't wait to meet you and Grant and see that Laura Farms trademark cheer and smile in person! When choosing a good MIG welder, get a size bigger than you'll ever need (only a 240 or 460 volt powered model, no 120 volt powered tiny ones) and it won't have to work as hard plus the extra power/heat comes in handy whenever you have to tackle welding the thicker stuff.

[@dalekriens1397]

Your pretty fun to watch. Just love your get up & go. lol

[@landscapingspecialist]

I love my fronius mig for everyday welding for our needs. Runs best on the 220~240 like most id say. Also have an old eastwood i keep at home.

[@jamesmbutler]

I had to look up the specs.... Rhino 4155 - Cutting Width - 15 ft Transport Wide - 8 ft Overall length - 15.25 ft Cutting Ht - 2 - 14 in Cutting Dia - 4.5 in (!) PTO HP - 60HP Weight (approx) 5,455 lbs Deck thickness - 7 GA Side Skirt - 1/4-in AR400 (!!)

[@jamesmartin3197]

Happy Super Bowl Sunday Laura

[@LAP1050]

Laura, learning to pace-off your stride measurement comes in handy. If you stretch out your tape measure to say 30ft. and then just pace next to it to see how long your stride is…

[@michaelstuckey7730]

Bush Hog is a brand name that is used to refer to these cutters like the name "coke" to refer to a soda because Bush Hog was one of the first manufacturers of these. The proper name for them is a rotary cutter. they are used a lot in the south for clearing and cutting pastures etc. Love the video's, keep up the good work.

[@Richard-kp9ex]

John Deere also refers to them as "cutters". I can't speak for the south but they're very commonly used in the north for mowing ditches, pastures and cutting CRP. They can be used for chopping corn stalks but a stalk chopper does a better job.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Bat wing mower. Using “bush hog” generically usually refers to the single blade models.

[@michaelstuckey7730]

@@ArmpitStudios Just looked and Massey, John Deere, Bush Hog and Woods all call theirs either flex wing or bat wing rotary cutters. The generic more often refers to single because that's what most people have except for bigger operations. That's why I like Laura's vids so much because Mine is a small farm/ranch and I like to see how the big guys/gals operate.

[@tommathews3964]

I grew up in Selma AL, home of Bush Hog, and played on the Bush Hog Little League baseball team growing up. You're right, all soft drinks are "Cokes" and all rotary mowers are "Bush Hogs" :) Still proudly made in Selma!

[@glendurant911]

Laura Laura Laura is the great farm lady.

[@berthelman1504]

can hardly wait for planting season

[@geistbike]

I have got.very good informations, presented from the world best farming lady. I enjoy every video. You have excellent moderation skills...you are awesome and cute. absolut top...greatings from Germany

[@josephrasberry3850]

Awesome. Love the red tools they work great

[@waynemullican1008]

The Lincoln 255 is a good farm welder. I run a small machine shop and use daily.

[@VonBluesman]

You better keep an eye on the coyote and make sure it stays away from the livestock. For Grant’s birthday, surprise him with a canvas cover for his military truck and a 50 caliber machine gun mounted on a tripod, aka Rambo First Blood movie. LOL 😂 👍

[@btrent9244]

Great video Laura. Thank you 👍🇺🇸😎🚜🌽🥇...

[@cynicalrabbit915]

WoW!!! Technology sure has made gigantic leaps forward for agriculture. 50 years ago I'd have given alot for Auto-steer or as JD Named it Auto-Trac. A used Auto-Trac is about $1900. That 15 ft batwing brush hog or shredder is $20,000. Clearly to be a farmer today and be fairly profitable you need to be working thousands of acres and invest MILLIONS of Dollars in equipment. To think I thought that going from an International Harvester Farmall Super M tractor to a John Deere 4520 was such a leap forward in comfort, it had a CAB, it had AC, it had POWER STEERING, it had a transmission with more speeds!!! I can't wait to see you plug a tractor in instead of filling the tank with diesel fuel. I wonder what the runtime will be for a big 4WD like the one you were operating? Assuming right to repair wins.

[@bill45colt]

never a dull video,,,,,thanks,,,,id not thought there were sooo many stray limbs,,,be safe,,,i have 3 MIG welders,,,,,,miller 215 i like a lot also,,,auto set feature works well for most work, but you can easily override if needed....miller TIG i bought 4 yrs ago, thinking id use it but never have fired it up!!! HAHA Bobcat miller 250 is what i use mostly,,,no real reason other than the fact that i like to hear it running...

[@davidbetts480]

Very nice job Laura 👍

[@steveaaron6941]

I will suggest a Lincoln Miller or a Hobart welder. Either will last a young man a life time.

[@PaulWalker-lv2gl]

I'm a 64 year ol man was raised in the country but never got to do any farming Grant is one lucky guy to have a beautiful wife and one that doesn't mind getting dirty or afraid of hard work

[@johnwyoder]

Hmmm. I might try getting out of bed before turning the alarm off. That would certainly keep me from going back to sleep. 🙂 Great video!

[@fubblitious]

It still amazes me how much farm tech has advanced in 40 years. No more empty fertilizer bags on sticks at the field edge paced out, sighting the nose of the tractor to distant objects. But also good to see safety still taken seriously. I did once have to suggest to a guy that straddling a live baler PTO shaft with a loose cover 5 inches from his crotch was not his best life choice. I may have used stronger language.

[@mrschwartzjeannicola]

Bonjour, toujours aussi réussi vos vidéos, avec un sublime paysage, courage pour le travail que tu réalises,

[@jacob5014]

En anglais stp

[@bearbait49]

The windrow next to corn field makes this pheasant hunters heart go pitter patter….

[@dominictramonte2687]

Regarding the autosteer, they usually use differential GPS. That's regular GPS, as modified by certain fixed location towers that send a correction signal. GPS is normally degraded by 15-25 meters or so; you have to be using a military GPS receiver to get accurate data. But, if you put up some towers, at a surveyed location, and give them a GPS receiver, they can figure out and broadcast a correction signal to your farm equipment. They work pretty simply: the tower knows where it is, and they take the GPS signal and "correct it" to show the location that was surveyed. Then they broadcast that correction factor to the GPS units on your farm equipment, which can apply it to the positioning. That's how they get you within an inch. The GPS is degraded to prevent malefactors from using the "civilian" signal for targeting purposes. Differential GPS makes up for the lack, at the expense of making GPS accurate enough to use for targeting once again. Anyone can buy a differential GPS system-- there are several systems-- and use the same in a guided weapon, but the systems are intentionally built too big to fit in a missile or something, and they're expensive.

[@jamesmccabe1702]

rubbish

[@blackfox1961]

Have to agree with Joe, can't go wrong with a Millermatic

[@lost_marblesadv]

I've used a brush cutter to clear land. If you were worried about those limbs damaging the cutter, don't be. It would have chopped those up without even slowing down.

[@Mr480junkie]

Red & green colors. She's ready for Christmas...😁

[@rodneyevans5525]

Wide of shredder is the # 4155 means the middle two # . Is the wide. Before run shredder is check hyd lines are plug in those block. So when you get in tractor you with hrd lever

[@cannotsay5505]

Avoid the 50 % duty cycles, they are worthless, ours shut down after about 8 mins of welding. Turns out our old 1998 model (Miller 251) would weld circles around the later models.

[@gideonwaldner2670]

I have a 2010 ish welder and it still works good we bought a new one and itsother board fried

[@WarpFactor999]

Laura!!! You look really good today! Thanks for taking us along for your day out in the field. No Grant update?? Fore soot... five sooth even!!! Cheers from a friend in Texas!

[@nowhereman7398]

I always put my alarm clock across the room, so I have to get up to turn it off.

[@Lmgoutdoors]

Love your channel love your content I’ve been watching your tiktoks

[@thr8061]

I'm pretty sure Rhino Ag rotary cutters naming convention says alot: 4155 = 4" diameter cutting capability, 15 foot cutting width. I know there is a 4150 & a 4155. The difference is that the 4155 can cut up to 4 1/2" diameter brush/trees. Thus saying, you probably could have left those branches in the field and that cutter would have chopped them up pretty good (in theory).

[@glynndickerson7939]

glynnd your true all american farming girl. just a shame others try copy cat your blogs your number one and grant your are the best .

[@chrisu9312]

I use the Miller Multimatic 215 at work it is a great welder. The auto set is nice as well.

[@samuelmatz]

This is better then the super bowl. No politics or race/gender agendas.

[@stanleybaker8707]

I could never get back into farming, I would be so lost with all the computers 🖥 and technology involved.

[@jordanlarson9647]

I believe Hobart is Millers 2nd cheaper brand and they are well built! Dad and I had one we used for vehicle maintenance and we had no issues with it! Miller of course is the way to go! But for a budget and just as good quality then Hobart it is!

[@den1845]

Omg Laura…those white nails and a JD 😍

[@johnwickham6843]

Fantastic insight into your lifestyle never seen anything like it Before I serpose be form London England probably has a lot to do with it love your content and zest for life take care stay safe you and your family

[@js7127]

Welder, Millermatic 211 MIG, light, versitile n portable with a generator. 035 solid wire n a CO2 tank weld 20ga to 1/4" single pass. Field- older Lincoln 250 stickin it with 5P rod for welding fence posts, anything non DOT to dirt. 7018 rod or mig for onroad.

[@xinix74]

Goodmorning everybody

[@steveabbott3251]

I would recommend a Millermatic 220 welder. it can do four different welding processes, it will run on 110v or 240v so you can run it off a generator if needed. I have one and love it. Check it out Miller might even cut you a good deal if you show it on your channel.