Excavator Clean Up

We go off the farm today to see where corn and soybeans go once they're harvested! We see different methods of storage and transportation for these important commodities. There is no lack of new things to learn! I'm so excited to take you guys along with me as we learn these things together. Thank you, all the people at Aurora Coop for the tours and information!
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[@justmyopinion80]

Absolutely loved the "Drive your tractor to school day"

[@toddbroeker187]

Love the idea of driving your tractor to school. And good for you and Grant for letting Gage and his friend take yours!

[@mikeknowles8017]

My John Deere E-140 lawn tractor (with Laura Farms Decals of course) would have looked hilarious at "Drive Your Tractor To School Day"! 🤣

[@AdamA2Z]

I remember tractor day at school; it's cool to see other states do this as well.

[@brianharrington5593]

That little Ford Ferguson tractor brought back many memories. It has to be somewhere around 75 years old. Used to drive one to chain harrow our pastures back in the late 50's. Great information on different corn storage methods, good video work.

[@markknister6272]

First tractor I learned to drive. No one told me about the flip bar to “engage” both brakes!!😮. Round we went!!😅

[@JohnTreadgold-es8og]

Thanks for the “Drive tractor to school day” segment. I didn’t know any town still did that. Please show the school board how many loved this segment. I learned a lot about corn storage also. Thanks

[@jonwatt678]

👍👍Two thumbs up to Gage... And of course thank-you Laura & Grant for supporting the young guy. He will be a great asset to your operation.

[@pauleddy5146]

Sadly, an important part of small town community that city's completely fail to embrace, or even understand. Never stop being the farming community. It is a necessary component of a proper existence. Right is never wrong.

[@enteriprse33]

Cat wheel loader

[@sjsz06]

🎉back in the day (I’m 76) I used to ride with my granddad on his old steel wheel JD. He hired a crew for harvesting. Farm too small to keep a harvester around. It was in north Oklahoma. Less than 20’miles from Kansas. He farmed about 120 acres.

[@user-ul5pd6uk6g]

I love seeing all those tractors at the school. Our local FFA in Pleasantville Ohio does the same thing every spring as well. Seeing some of those older JD’s is so cool. We have my father-in-laws 2440 with the 146 bucket, but the one that gives me goosebumps every time it turns over is his 1954 Farmall 400. Keep up your great work!

[@richletram539]

love seeing all kinds of tractors. The ones with tracks are so cool. I dig graves for a living and run a John Deere 315D, John Deere 110, and two Kabota M62.

[@spootnewton7121]

Brought tears to my eyes to know that somewhere family values, innocence, and faith still exist for students. What a beautiful thing. Thank you Laura and Grant for supporting Gage the way you do.

[@chasl3443]

"Drive Your Tractor To School Day" is so quintessentially mid-west Americana. Thanks so much for showing us that!

[@lindanelson8400]

So cool that the FFA has drive your tractor to school day. It's equally as cool that you let Gage and his friend drive two pieces of your equipment to school. That's a lot of money rolling down the road. Brought back lots of memories of my childhood. The whole family was involved with farming in one way or another. My uncle Ed ran the grain elevator for the cooperative. In addition, he delivered loads of fertilizer and other items to the farms. Grandpa owned the Massey Harris, and Oliver implement store. Several cousins worked on the family farm. One uncle owned the welding shop, and a welding truck to make repairs on site. Good times, for sure.

[@johnridgway8355]

Cool the FFA still doing this🎉, this is cool I'm 55 and we did it back when I was in school ❤ awesome Future Farmers 🎉🎉

[@user-qo2je8xe4c]

❤ love to know that you've got to take your tractor to school day up there

[@user-qi9bn2ns2l]

Tractor day at school is awesome. Thanks for letting Gauge be involved. Laura is so beautiful😁

[@johnsandell4501]

Outstanding storage but tractors to school was priceless.👍👍👍

[@N603E]

Loved tractor day! The 1486 International was well represented and IH 1066 was my favorite tractor. Drove the 1066 to high school. A guy drove a Steiger tractor. End of the day we got out half an hour early so the tractors didn't hold up the school buses. Slowed the buses down though because we all went down to the DQ in N. Manchester before driving the tractors home :) Great memories!

[@rogerkern]

Just love the drive your tractor to school day. Glad they still do it.

[@brianwittman5172]

Thank you so much, Laura, for covering the FFA Drive a Tractor to School Day. Events like these do so much to keep the profession of farming alive and well. Adding a red tractor to your operation would be a great idea. The International 1066 was, arguably, the best tractor that International made. The 5488 was a very nice tractor to run and see. It was powerful and smooth and was on its way to keeping International afloat among all of its problems as a company. A bright new Red CaseIH Axielflow combine wouldn't be bad, either.

[@guybarriault3304]

Thanks for showing the tractor to school day. Love your videos the way you and Grant explain how things work on a farm. Before long Laura it's going to be planting time again and can't wait to see you guys working together it's like a symphony on tractors.

[@thomasjessop8367]

I learned how to drive on a Cub International Tractor, and when I got into High School, I would drive it to school sometimes, Either that little cub, with sickle Mower blade on it, or a little 1954 1/2 ton Chevrolet Pickup. I really enjoy driving any and all Tractors.

[@TheTubaEmporer]

Thank you for showing us the behind the scenes!

[@paulg2132]

Last night I watched "Tractor Wars" on KZbin. It was so good and really interesting.

[@davidlabedz2046]

Take your tractor to school day is amazing. The different grain storage systems is so interesting and very important to farmers.

[@tomcrowley1786]

I was in the La Habra CA FFA from 1974-1977. Being in the suburbs of Los Angeles we didn't have bring your tractor to school day. That sure would have been cool if we did!!! 🚜 😊

[@frankkirby5763]

Such a beautiful way to say farmers are cool. Thank you for being so kind. May God bless you both.

[@russellbowman8051]

I Did Thourly Enjoy The Video!! Thank You For The Different Perspective In Grain Storage!! Nice To See And Hear From You as Always !! Keep Smiling On!! 😅👍👊❤️

[@garyricci3562]

That's so awesome to have a tractor day so cool. Great to see different methods on how the storage of corn is kept. Always learn something new with your videos. ❤

[@jasonstclair6293]

The FFA had a few acre plot beside the school when I was there years ago. I wasn't in FFA, but remember the drive your tractor to school days. Allis Chalmers, Case, John Deere, and International for sure back when they were still all separate companies.

[@leslietarboxjr4287]

How cool is that. Drive your tractor to school day. I would have love to do that when I was growing up on the farm. Loved seeing all the different methods for storing and unloading corn and beans. Another awesome video Laura.

[@michaelwilliams7481]

Laura, you are fantastic, I learn something every time you post a video. I would never have known about all the different operations that corn goes through, Thanks again, love from Mike. ❤

[@robertmeyerholtz8504]

Great video and especially the two of you allowing Gage to drive your equipment to school. I am sure he was honored to do this. My former ag students were never allowed to do this because the school large corp. thought that some of the city kid would get hurt. I told my Supt. that he needed to get with the times. He didn't like my comment.

[@thomasb188]

Drive a tractor to school is just so cool for Gage. What a great thing for you and Grant to do for Gage. 🙂🙃🙂🙃

[@d5ncat227]

I was involved in the first corn piling for kokomo grain in middle tn.,,,,, I got the whole place ready I worked 20 hours a day for several days . A man and his son came from Indiana with a large excavator and a big backwards scoop ,,boy he knew what he was doing ,, I had fun helping with this farmers came from miles away to watch,,,,,I'll never forget that

[@jamesfriestad3164]

The township would mow the ditches with the small Ford tractors and I would play on them till it was dark when they were done for the day.

[@rawhideadventures9515]

I'm in Arkansas (rice country, and mosquitoes). Back in the 70's the state required farmers to take a tractor driving course and pass in order to be able to drive them on the highways. The state worked with all the FFA chapters to setup testing stations at the schools on the weekends. You would just drive huge tractors around an orange cone trail and twisting and turning between them. It was fairly difficult to prevent cone damage from the rear tires if one did not have a fair understanding of geometry and angles of approach. After 2 years I think they found it just wasn't worth the trouble for the state to continue that process. Great video Laura and Grant. It is heart warming to see you two lend your equipment to the boys. You rock..!!

[@EdBrumley]

Perfect video to educate kids in a classroom to understand where their food comes from. Keep them coming!

[@phillipdickinson8557]

Great video Laura and Grant love the different ways to store grain thank you for sharing and your time was really great never miss a video and can't wait for next video.

[@edwardjohnson1269]

Thank you Laura it’s so interesting to see a world that is city slickers have not ever been exposed to keep up the great work and I’ll see you in Utah very soon

[@paulws58]

Thanks Laura. Another educational and informative video about the farm operations. The part where the kids drove their farm equipment to school was nice. God bless.

[@terrydarow8401]

That was neat guys you have to b proud of Gage and his friend for having your equipment at his school love you guys ❤

[@terry3651]

Love seeing the old tractors with the super comfortable buddy seats, err fender. :) Really cool you're supporting Gage and his friend. Sure that made their day.

[@fuzzykat6570]

Wife & I love your videos. Keep up the good work! Nice of you to let Gage & his friend take your combine/tractor to school. Pretty dang cool! We would love to see grain bags being loaded some time in the future, as neither of us have ever seen that before. Thank you. 😊

[@ericmullins8983]

Absolutely add a red tractor! International 656, 786, 1086, diesels or 504 gas are the tractors I have had experience with and all were good tractors. I have a 1962 504 now.

[@GTL77]

I use to work on a farm and I never seen them bags like that before! I’ve seen them in fields but never knew what they were! Thanks for sharing

[@markhiatt5068]

FFA and 4-H great programs

[@user-ej1xy6gk1c]

Thank you again to you and Grant for doing such a good job of showcasing different ways of doing business on the farm. As far as the 2 international tractors I worked one those and it was a 1967 model. That should give you an idea of the Era they are from. Enjoyed the time working those tractors as well as your video

[@ianhughes7805]

I think that you should all be very proud of your school your town and your young farmers. Being from the UK it made me realise when you got to the grey Massey how big American tractors are. I think your bring your tractor to school day is fantastic, well done for supporting the day

[@dennispeters9626]

Very interesting I really enjoyed that. Also, it was great that you guys let the boys take your tractors to tractor day. Believe me it’s some thing they’ll. remember their whole life , how in high school they took the tractor to tractor day, good on you for that.

[@michaelromer7115]

Thanks Laura. Great educational video. I had no idea there were so many ways to store grain.

[@bretts4343]

Our kids loved "drive your tractor to school day". They didn't have tractors to drive, but were very proud of their "hick" school and that the lot was about 1/2 full of tractors that day.

[@matthewselander-zj5py]

Our local school has tractor day on the seniors last day. Last year there was 83 tractors, our record number 138 tractors.

[@roselinton8549]

My husband still has a International 986 tractor that his father bought brand new in 1979 , it still works good , but not used all that much anymore . The bigger ones do the work now. Thanks again , we always enjoy watching your videos.

[@douglashomrighausen9010]

Like this video too; and thanks again for an instructional video; this time showing some corn & soybean storage methods that us Midwestern farmers use. Yes, you and Grant do need a red tractor on your farm. Sounds like Gage is a "gearhead" like me. When I started farming I bought a brand new IH, 1066 (no cab); and put a chrome straight pipe on it immediately after the tractor was delivered. I then went up and down the road and to a little, small town (pop.75) to show it off. As soon as I thought it was broke-in I turned the stock, injection pump all it would do. Washed and waxed that tractor often. You can probably understand why I so enjoyed the "Red Power Roundup" last summer near you in Grand Island.

[@rickyweber2651]

That was so cool...LOVE ITThanks Laura, Grant and GageAdd an old CASE Tractor like a 930.

[@ArmpitStudios]

4620 is the coolest there. Yes, get a '60s-'70s IH tractor. They look even cooler than JDs of the same era.

[@wyattblessing7078]

That makes me smile to see the tractor's at school. I grew up in Ranching and Farming country in Central Oregon and miss the small town life.

[@jamessmallegan680]

My step son took the 4440, instead of the 8R 310 because that's what he rode with me first, so awesome!!!

[@Justmeutah]

How sweet is that... Drive your Tractor to school day......This is what makes America... Thanks for sharing....

[@lauchieburton5592]

Love seeing all the tractors and driving them to school, great video

[@mmccarth67]

I grew up in a farm town, too. We didn't have a "drive your tractor to school day" but we did hold tractor races during Homecoming where the slowest tractor won. FFA and 4-H were big in our town.

[@brucelove1426]

Seems like the more I watch you guys operate, the more I learn! Thanks However, even when I was young, it would be hard for me to keep up with the two of you! Lots of work, and none of it easy! Major Admiration for you guys!

[@stevenlageson1868]

Always enjoy something new at the farm. Love seeing the take your tractor to school day. So small town. Grew up in a small town in MN with an active FFA

[@wallycrabtree]

Like it when you two are talking about older tractors. When I had my little farm, my tractor was a Harry Ferguson. A three cylinder gas burner. Ran great, was getting hard to find parts for it when I ended up having to sell the farm. Oh well, so goes life.

[@DANSHotshotTrucking_Outdoors]

Drive your tractor to school day, gotta love small town America.

[@randyadams7269]

Tractor day is way cool. Awesome you let Gauge and friend road them in. Would you please give us an update on your neighbor who had the fire when they are ready? Thanks for what you are doing!

[@pilialoha21]

Best hour spent with you and Grant. Great episode Laura and Gage has earned a place in our hearts as well.

[@user-nr3wb5ue8k]

An International at Laura Farms? By all means, go for it!👍😀

[@shineeye4896]

Great of you to participate by lending your tractors.

[@bripslag]

I like the way you describe things to us non-farmers without dumbing it down. I learn a lot with every video you post.

[@dob1662]

All the things we don't think of, great and informative video Laura 👍

[@barrygrant2907]

The vintage MF is the winner, hands down! Good to see all the farmers trying to expose the public to the realities of farming.

[@kevinrogers5245]

Great video of the kids taking the tractors to school. Our future farmers!!!Laura I think Grant and you need your logo on the doors of your grain truck.

[@user-mx5sp6dj9x]

This was very cool to see the big pile of corn. You wanted to know some info on the International tractor. Stay away from the era of the 886 or that 986. The transmission has problems of locking in to park and high at the same time. I worked on a farm and we had a 886 and in the 4 years that I worked there it was in the shop 3 times for that reason. That 856 are good tractors

[@williamwright8286]

Never had a FFA day like that, super cool. Great video of grain storage

[@petermartin2643]

Love the way you support Gage and your community the US and Canada need more people like you and Grant

[@bellelibby1]

Always liked the looks of the IH tractors with the forward leaning styling like the 986 makes them seem like they are always moving

[@richardl.mcglasson826]

It has been awhile since seeing a 756 and a 986. The 786 is a late 60's to mid 70's while the 986 was a short lived 70's model. The companion to the 786 was more times than not the 1556 as both were introduced at the same time. You are right, both are in good condition. PS watch out for the hydraulics overheating during operation.

[@greywolfwalking6359]

An awesome job on this vid!! Like alot of the " small town" references..and examples!! The line up of rigs ..Amazing!! Thanks for sharing!! 🍀👍🐺🧙‍♂️🤙🍀

[@daviovann]

One February day in Michigan we had a day in the low to mid 70s with flowers blooming. 😀😀😀

[@gregboyd7728]

It is so amazing to see mountains of corn. Corn is power and power is freedom. We are free because of our agricultural strength, the envy of the World! Thanks!

[@nigelcanuck5943]

Always some good farm education on Laura Farms, thanks!

[@cliveklg7739]

986 was the tractor my dad used when I was growing up. Solid tractor then. I don't think we ever had problems with it.

[@katreniaclark]

Yup, Drive your tractor to school would have been neat when I went to school. YES, you need to do an International harvester

[@PeterStrand-pd7gs]

Crops are Green, Tractors are Red. I grew up on an F-12 Farmall. Green tractors too.

[@BrianWetzel]

That Ol' Massey Ferguson ALL THE WAY!!!!!

[@cdalton3169]

That Kubota tractor, Exceptional!

[@Rockinglfarm]

A lot of Green at the school!! Thanks for the tour!

[@Cantsaydog]

Love you site you’re an awesome awesome family I see you did great out west in Utah that was awesome we sure do need more people like you 💯👍✊🇺🇸

[@jerrycorbett7294]

That was awesome of you all to let your son's friend drive a tractor and your son. They did that when I went to school I loved looking at them all lined up. And my money is on you and trailmater Roery. He knows he wheeling so you are with one of the best. Good luck and have fun.

[@r_husman]

Those old International tractors were workhorses we pulled a feed wagon with one That last way of grain storage is something I have never seen before

[@TB-zw7dt]

Looking forward to the Trailmater collaboration. Should be a lot of fun.

[@user-wu2qk7qh1f]

I wish they would have done things like "drive your tractor to school day" back when I was in school. That would have been so much fun. I bet Gage was the only combine at school. I was just asked if I'd bring my tractor to my local elementary school in May for a touch a truck event. They want all kinds of rigs there, and I would love to let kids see a tractor and sit on it.

[@tseabaugh8747]

Cool video. Also, FYI March 5th is also the Seabees birthday. I mention this because I know your grandpa was a Seabee, I am a retired Senior Chief Seabee.

[@My-Say]

The new microphones you are using seem to do exceptionally well at capturing audio and not the wind.

[@user-hl4ud5rc7x]

Love your clips, especially on the tillage equipment, feel like I'm right in the cab

[@Howard-ld1bv]

I think it would be cool to see a red tractor at Laura farms for a comparison. Now for me personally have Allis Chalmers tractors, but I have relatives that have case and I think they're really nice.

[@pakgreenfield]

Nice work good to see your tractors❤