BIG BALER STUCK

[@paulbuckberry7683]

Olly, I’m 63, I have lived in and around the farming community in South Lincs all my life, my Dad was a land worker all is life, I went into engineering!. I have learnt more about farming watching Harry’s Farm and your videos in the last year or so than ever before. I find it absolutely fascinating. Your short snap shots of a day are superb. Great stuff!!

[@alanroygbiv]

Fashion guru with Red sunglasses. Sophie was a great addition to NFU. You nailed it.

[@geraldbeard856]

It made me smile seeing the small tractor and baler chugging along no bother whilst the big 4 wheel drive is bogged down.......all this big machinery is wonderfull in the right conditions but this year it's all a bit too big and heavy for the wet ground

[@davidmottram2932]

Well done to the nfu for employing someone like Sofia we all need to start somewhere and if you don’t ask you will never no well done 🎉85%

[@BCWilsonLime]

It’s certainly a challenging season! I’m feeling 100% today as it’s been announced that I’m a finalist in the British farming awards!

[@darrenross7984]

Bang on with Sophie Olly, this is common place in every other industry and she will no doubt appeal to a whole new audience that’s previously went untapped. Great to see you in better fettle this week too 👍🏻

[@Dermot501]

Thank you for the daily updates Olly 🌾👍

[@berkshirefarmgirl]

Dan and Ben have both bellied out this week. It is so wet. Hope you are ok. Good to see Charlotte smashing it ❤️❤️❤️

[@jackforsterstrawtrader3793]

Nice load of straw again Olly, thanks

[@laurelsayer7557]

Can't believe how hard you guys work, and the hours you put in. All this and the stress of not even knowing if you'll come out in profit at the end of it. Your daily blog certainly reflects real life as an Agri contract farmer. Well done Ollie and keep up the good work.

[@richardcanning7351]

I’m not from a farming background but I’m so glad I came across this site. I’m learning so much about farming. For anyone to disrespect someone who is just trying to learn is not on. 60% today Keep up the great work

[@TheMrNicke]

7:38 - That's a great picture showing modern farming versus the past. Both obviously have their advantages in the field.

[@johnwarwick4105]

Brave driver going off road with the straw lorry this year. He can’t have seen the baler bogged 😂😂

[@RichardWright4707]

Just thought I’d let you know that the message works. My wife received her combine run t shirt this week (thanks) she wore it today and one of the livery girls asked what answer as a % meant which led to a Frank and open discussion about our own and others mental health so thank you

[@thelambshed6875]

This has to be in the top 10% of your videos. How you get around everything is a credit to you. Even explaining about the NFU and Sophie . I understand people's comments but you response puts it to bed.. Well done Olly

[@SimonPower65]

Good on the NFU, Hannah and you for supporting them Olly because whether the farming community like it or not there are still many outwith farming who think farmers are all rich, have an easy life and buy a new Range Rover every year when "WE" all know its far from the truth. Communicating what the farming community does 24/7 to the general public is a must. 80% today. Keep up the fab education and enjoyment. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

[@davidwilson2977]

Great video again Olly, I have spent most of my life around the farming community working . I have come across people who just don't understand what machines are or how things work, I would always try and explain what they did and the purpose they served. Its alright for people to mock , but not everyone knows and hats off to Sophie for asking because that's the only way to find out. 80% today.

[@johncooke3353]

Olly you are right to teach anyone who wants to learn, the more people know about how agricultural and how food is grown the better, keep farming and stay safe with the long hours 👍🏻

[@jbbumpkin]

Having worked mostly on playing fields and admittedly those with smaller wet spots, I always favoured pulling the front of the mired vehicle from an angle. That way the mired vehicle doesn`t follow in the "broken ground" of the towing vehicle and may have a chance to gain some momentum on better ground.

[@davidramsay3622]

I think Rob had his foot on the brake rear wheels are stopped on the 936 7:14 Zerion still rugged it out 70%

[@KevinCowe-uk5us]

Fantastic video Olly you and your team deserve a medal for all the work you have put in the last few days...been hot here in South Shields today ground is still wet a lot of machines getting stuck...😊😊😊50%.

[@cheechU38K]

Hey olly, would have been a good advert for a new xerion trial 😝

[@ROGEXTREME]

Another hard day farming Olly, I'm old school need to see more of the 135 and bailer please. Great work lads.

[@johnwaddell7239]

135s one of the best tractors ever produced by any manufacturer,very versatile and could do jobs way beyond their power and size

[@andban92]

😂7:02 First time ever as far as i know that somebody else's perspective is soo clean.

[@iangrindley8326]

Great video today, must be about 50 years between those two balers! Perhaps you should get yourself little Massey, that proper little tractor baled nearly half the field whilst you were pulling yourselves out! 😂. Your working day would a LOT longer though, with small machinery and those nightmare old balers. You work long enough hours as it is. Well done. 👍. Had a good day today, feeling 95%

[@KiwiJim13]

👀🙄🐾👍having someone like Sophie is a good idea on the whole

[@danniderbyshire4548]

Great video, i think Sophie shows how ordinary folk really dont know about the ins and outs of farming and that is how we learn, by asking questions. I used to help out on a friends farm and we had nursery kids visiting the young calves and they did not even know that is where the meat for there burgers comes from, rather than tescos !!

[@ronniehoyle9671]

Great video as always. I agree that the general public need educating on how farming works so what the nfu is doing is good. Here's an example of how some children and adults see farming.....they say why do we need farming when we can go to a shop for food. Another one.......a farmer and vet using a modern cattle crush to do the feet but someone spread it around that it was a deliberate torture device.

[@RallyRobert976]

That Xerion is some tractor to pull even the Fent wheels were not even turning 🤔

[@2626stephen]

Who is breaking all the doors ? That old Ferguson some age . Who needs modern technology. Nice one team

[@philipwatts992]

Great vidio Olly I love to see what's going on over there besides all the rain lived here in Australia for the last 30 years

[@jamielee9350]

I reckon the balers are about 48 years apart ... 😎 Back to 75% , home from hospital , now playing catch up ..

[@brendanwhite9799]

I think about 60 years between the the balers . Looking like a bit of organised kecos but great to see work getting done after all the delays ps you are not the only one that can't spell . Feeling about 85% got a good bit done today to 😊

[@stephenellison2472]

I reckon the bailers will be about 52 yrs apart ??

[@EddieRedX5]

There was probably 40 years between those two balers the old and the new how farming has changed I reckon those two spanner’s are in the combine Ollie you’ve had a very hectic day again life is a challenge at the moment But nothing seems to faze you glad your getting on with the harvest feeling 93% today hope we are going to see more of Sophie another fantastic video Ollie

[@flatheadV8]

I was bailing with a similar bailer in the late 1960's and it was second hand then.

[@johnmatthews454]

Busy day today by the looks 👍

[@traceyrobinson7554]

Totally agree with you its important the general public see and learn more so good luck to Sofia

[@wooly8836]

The sound of xerion when pulling Baler is what dreams made of

[@steveC2]

What a fright at 3 min. Thought it was Timmy Mallet

[@ianleak]

Maybe 40% sat in the sun all day don't feel to bad today just no energy at all, tomorrow is another day

[@richardbaker22]

Great video Olly I think NFU are doing a great job employing Sophie

[@trevorjarvis3021]

Another great blog Olly - I recon your dad used the two spanner’s and forgot to put them back 😂

[@swblandyman]

Great video, thanks my T. Shirts arrived today.

[@Ev1lsp00n]

The Xerion sounds so good.

[@robertallen3441]

Best part of 60 years between the balers. Wonder if the new one will still be running in 60 years time?

[@ericwilson5742]

The 17mm and 19mm spanner’s will be next to disappear. Your lucky no rain we still lashing it down today

[@matthewhodder3029]

Not a good day when your boss has to come and two you out. Poor Rob. 10km spanners have a life of their own, and they lead 13mms astray. Sofia is a great asset for the NFU

[@matthewhodder3029]

Mm not km

[@nicke6394]

Absolutely, you’d be surprised how many people are completely clueless about farming and where our foods comes from.

[@MrJudgementday99]

95% again, still didn’t win the lottery last night. As for the Sophie part, I think it is brilliant to introduce new people to farming and if she can make a career out of farming, good on her and NFU

[@simonbatty5442]

U cud see the power of the xerion, rob had the wheels locked when u pulled her backwards😂

[@jamieelson5019]

The video yesterday really made my day with Sophie being clueless but i think people learnt something from it. 90% today how are you

[@peterclarke3300]

Great video Olly 👏👏👍👍

[@wulliewhyte544]

Poor Rob landing in the wet hole happens to all of us it is more fun when it's someone else though 😂

[@militarymad2840]

One thing the general public don’t know is the amount of hours farmers work, also what is the OSR bales used for is it bedding or feed

[@johnwaddell7239]

I'm part-time farming now after losing my farm tenancy and late 60s but still work on average 35 hours a week looking after a sheep farm but when farming properly worked a regular 10 hour day and 12 to 16 hours a day at busy times maybe 4 months a year and 7 days a week with maybe only 5 hour days at weekends ,Holidays only happened in winter time at last minute when nothing pressing with work and did not happen often sometimes years apart ,The hours i worked were and are certainly not unusual among my farming friends ,i would say they are normal and no farmer ever retires most winding down a bit in mid 70s seems to be the norm if they are still alive !

[@meghainn2010]

There's drivers and then there's Claas drivers 😁😁😁. But then again seeing Mr Pemberton stall the tractor because of water logged ground I suppose we could let Rob off😂

[@rr17reebok]

Hi Olly I work in the aerospace industry. If we carry out an investigation into something that has gone wrong . We often have someone on the investigation team that has never carried out that type of work. They are used as an external view, asking questions that might seem stupid to someone who does the job all the time. However they often see things that the experts don't as the experts are often too close to the job. How many times do you put your keys down in the same place but you just can not see them. If farming is to adapt and evolve then new people and new ideas need to be encouraged. Great video's by the way.

[@Dave.defender]

Merlo fuel gauges have mind of there own, mine drops from half to red in no time

[@thomasjones3946]

Good job olly proper stuck 😂 the comments on about Sophie 😒we've all got to start somewhere. And thanks to people like you we learn about farming good and bad keep it up 👍👍👏👏

[@pauljarvis8919]

Can’t wait for the magic day we hit 50k for the birthday bumper olly

[@SimonHandy-e1x]

Absolutely well said the public needs to understand some of farming maybe not all that is done 😮 lol I worked on a dairy farm in Canada just outside Toronto and we used to get farm tours for inner city kids and a 12 yes 12 year old boy asked if chocolate milk come from the brown cows? After my initial sniggering I realised that it was really sad and not funny at all 👍 chin up it’s only rain

[@colinmaynard2879]

7:43 Definitely the tortoise and the hare.

[@TheMrNicke]

3:49 - Our rule is that whoever gets stuck buys cake! 🙂

[@Yorkshireduck]

Another great video. I think you need a stuck a list, every time someone get stuck chucks a tenner in the pot, least amount of stucks wins the pot. Loser has to clean bait room and bog 🤪 65% today

[@brianknowles5519]

Hope you did the Tim Tam Slam which is nip off opposite corners and then suck your tea or coffee through and then swallow biscuit 👍😁

[@ianparker3486]

Great video as always Olly

[@keithgraham8906]

About 49 years they where good bailers at the time

[@johnhyde8892]

The ground conditions are not really going to get much better now, if we still keep getting the showers.

[@raygreene73]

Wet fields in august shocking bad weather everywhere ❤

[@markyoull6744]

great video was that your charlotte leading straw if it was hope you looking after her seen your live you get sum rest bud

[@jhlane1977]

Marst Agri are down here in Suffolk

[@PhilipLuckin-rs2kq]

Good video. This is the trouble with the ag industry, everyone looks in not out. I think it would be great to see Sophie learn about the industry, then use it as a tool to show both non ag and ag people what our customers need to understand about the industry. Just as an example my friend's daughter nearly came to blows with her classmates, because they couldn't comprehend that an egg came from a chicken. EDUCATION all round is needed Rant over😬

[@andrewwebb2691]

Sign of the weather when balers are geeting bogged. How do they xpect people to learn if the questions the public would ask get asked and people bag them not everybody was raised on or near farms or have worked on them

[@colinmcnally5931]

50 years apart? Still going strong.

[@denniscarvell1828]

Firing all cylinders,getting on a roll

[@Robstew9000]

I’m guessing that little square baler is a 40+ year old…80% today it’s not all day in South Yorkshire but rain forecast for Saturday.

[@pseggons9512]

Got to be 50 years between balers. The age difference between the two tractors must be in that region. I'd say the balers are basically the same, the new one just scaled up. The BIG advances will be between the two tractors. Always toe a stuck baler backwards if possible, lot less reel damage that way.

[@adamwatson6384]

Fendt wheels weren't even turning when you were pulling it back!🤦. Was like a sledge

[@adrianhutchin4925]

its important that pepol enot involved b family get intrested in farming and really anything otherwise the trades and businiess wil not survive -you cant know about everything we all need to do and do learn evryday

[@smallsuffolkfarmer]

I thought the Sophie idea worked well. Its so easy as farmers to assume that people know what we are talking about and to use words we use everyday that just dont feature in most of the public's minds. ps. Thought you might struggle with my name on the birthday bumper my spelling is awful too thank god for autofill.

[@thetessellater9163]

Interested to know where Hannah and the other young people, that all seem relatively new, came from. Are they on work placements or such like?

[@williamwood816]

12 red wheels 70% here

[@moreteavicaruk1958]

Grey work again guys

[@iaingibbs9589]

About 50 years between the Baylor's brilliant idea with Sophie. I was once sat in a room with a 16 year old girl that goes, that's not milk, it didn't come out of a bottle.

[@rogergregory5981]

Positives of the young lass asking questions will probably be passing on a bit of knowledge to others via social media might even lead to some getting into farming, and great to all the crops coming in and balling best time of the even if it is a bit damp

[@richardwatts220]

Big kit soggy ground = bloody mess.

[@johnwaddell7239]

The Merlo dealers seem to have some link up with corvus ,our local merlo dealer also sell corvus ,fully agree with you about the nfu girl ,farmers are far too self centred ,im a farmer myself and the world does not revolve around farming ,many city people just need a little education about farming its one of the most important jobs nfu can do and do do and part of that education is having non farming background staff getting that message across as they see both sides of the coin

[@ThePsiclone]

yeah could you quit making me feel old, first time I was working on a farm that little baler was what everyone had, though ours was a Massey not IH. No mechanical handling then either, didnt even have a sled, which meant much walking and humping bales on a trailer one at a time. I was all of 11 or 12 then and thus I am not saying how many years between them haha

[@edturnbull5362]

She’s learning! At least she’s making a effort and not just pretending. That’s the problem with keyboard warriors Ollie, they all want to put people down instead of encouraging their efforts. # 70%

[@jaybernieschoep3491]

need to put in some drain tile.

[@jayd1974]

Where in Merseyside is your farm?Good video 👍

[@robingilpin6280]

Fully agree, Sofi had many other skills that the NFU work with her for. We do the same in our Finance team, the good people are inquistive and want to learn how what we do is impacted by what farmers do and how they use our products.

[@MickHodgson-q1k]

And sometimes new, unblinkered eyes offer fresh ideas.

[@eoghanhayes7699]

Per tonne of dry matter does the chip or osr straw make better fuel?

[@JohnDeerefan-fo1qp]

With all the straw your handling would you ever consider buying a bale chaser? Be more efficient than the loader and trailer.

[@OllyBlogsAgricontractfarmer]

Would love one but only a one trick pony

[@ianhudsontlm]

Did the Xerion have any bull power when pulling out the bailer 😉 90%

[@F.K.Agri.1208]

7:06 14 red wheels including the ones on the pick up reel

[@alijonveitch1962]

i agree with you re sophie... set us farmers into a hospital or whatever and we`d not have aclue either , i know i only know a wee bit about what i do ...

[@TotalOpel]

That looks a hectic day Olly - but at least you are making progress.

[@ajohnson2381]

Interesting for a non farmer to see the difference in your farming job compared to say Tom Pemberton in dairy. Dare I say it but your work comes over as technical with your quoting values and crunching numbers. You have a lot of kit for sure and machinery investment. Back British farming.

[@jrvintage]

Good video as always Olly, showing the good and the bad bits of the day. it does seem you guys are having a run, of damage, mistakes and mishaps this summer, do you think it is down to everyone being that bit more tired and stressed working round all the wet whether this harvest?

[@adamwatson6384]

Hope the baler pick-up reel didn't fill of mud.

[@theeleo]

Would have loved a better close up of the 135 working it looked like an untouched original