Flying The Drone Into A Sinkhole | Corn Harvest

I found two large sinkholes while scouting the British farm with the Drone during harvest!
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[@leol1682]

Love the video Ryan and the Drone video too .

[@fitzieindoorsoutdoorsadventure]

That was a very good drone video in that sinkholes!

[@justincase2830]

Repair of these sink holes would be an interesting video!

[@brianhrobsky9200]

Impressive sinkhole. Definitely a good find with the drone. And neat flying into it

[@hanksfarmvideos]

Glad you saw the sinkhole before something broke

[@MatthewHoag77]

"We come from the land of the ice and snow/ From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow..." You never know when winter will strike in Wisconsin! The drone definitely helped you locate those massive sinkholes. Just keep pushing on to the end. Thanks for the video!

[@tommyhumkey1044]

I have successfully repaired many sinkholes here in central Kentucky. It's more of a process than just filling with rock. They were also fun and rewarding jobs. One had swallowed an employees pickup in a factory parking lot. It was repaired and is back to being a parking lot. 👍. The pickup was also repaired 😊

[@jannawalzschink775]

Beautiful, but scary, views of the sink holes!

[@TheFarmingLife]

I can't believe today is December 1st. Hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving. It won't be long and 2020 will be here and start all over again.

[@danfinley3690]

What another great shot of the grain cart and the combine in the field sweet pic opportunity post card material. Love the drone footage

[@Leofred2000]

Harvesting in the snow seems so wrong but yet so beautiful

[@dankinnard1833]

Spectacular drone footage!

[@Adam_Poirier]

Dude...holy crap! Iv never seen anything like that sinkhole.. I’d be sitting on the edge of that combine seat thru that entire field. Great video bud, I hope your thanksgiving was good. Thanks for all you do Ryan 👍

[@RKHarm24]

I have watched Kuster Farms Harvest for umpteen tears. For some reason this has been a more enjoyable series. The intro is fresh and it lets me know what is coming. For us on this side of the screen, the harvest has been smooth except for the uncontrollable Mother Nature. PM's were basically finished before the start and only annoying gremlins have popped up. With better yields, the stress and tensions were much less. Dad has actually had more input this harvest and was appreciated. AS always, I'll be her to the end, then hang around for winter maintenance leading into spring planting. The cycle never ends.

[@MrGkoplitz]

Our farm was 50 miles NE of Mosinee WI. and when we were working in the winter we put field chains on our IH 1586 that helped with slippage a lot.

[@northstar2007]

the drone view of the corn and the snow and harvesting is just beautiful

[@MrBubbahunt9]

Glad you have it worked out as to who's corn and beans is who's...I was lost weeks ago. .hahaha thanks for the post..

[@MsSunwatcher]

What beautiful scenery!

[@clinthochrein888]

Holy cow! Those are some massive sink holes. 😬😳 I had a sinkhole at the bottom of the barn bridge few years back that a riding mower would fit 😬. Excellent drone footage .

[@mikebonge7206]

glad you bought the big red,

[@MrBigrigdaddy]

Thanks for the vid Ryan. It looks cold in Petosi!

[@simonaldridge82]

I would agree big red has been a big game changer for you. I commended you for not scrimping when repairing it will pay back over the next year's.

[@deibert1]

Those sink holes are no joke. Back in the late 70's my dad was discing a field near the river. Hes was 100 feet or so from the edge when a sinker opened up and the tractor rolled pinning him inside. He spent 3 hours pinned until a friend stopped by to talk with him and found him. Turned out to be an old spring decided to wake up and created a hell of a hole under there. From the pictures i have seen it was about 30ft in diameter.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Check out my post above... this was about 6 miles from our house... My mom and Dad both drove that road to work, she crossed it at about 10 pm going to the night admissions office/ER at the hospital (she did paperwork) and Dad crossed it at 5 pm going to the nuke plant to work, and would have crossed it again at about 8 am on the way home. Mom would have crossed it again by about 7 am on the way home... The road was closed for over a year while they pumped the thing down (took weeks of pumping 24/7 with several large diesel powered pumps) then refilled it with dump truck after dump truck loads of dirt... They actually mounded it up somewhat and it's since sunk back down about 4 feet as all the dirt they filled it in with has settled over the years... there's now a pronounced dip in the road where the sinkhole was... It was like a year or 18 months later before they finally could pave over it and reopen the road... until that time everything was detoured around on some old one-lane farm roads... just crazy! The believe it was caused by the ground strata being undermined by oil drilling or, most likely, sulfur extraction that took place at the nearby Texas Gulf Sulfur plant at Newgulf, Texas (which was the company town that's now all but dead since TG closed in the mid-late 70's IIRC). They pumped superheated water down wells that was then extracted from other wells, which dissolved the sulfur veins in the underlying rock. Over time the entire area where the old oilfield and sulfur wells were located has sank to form a subsidence lake... OL J R :)

[@peteparker7396]

It absolutely blows my mind seeing all the you tubers drone shots... you can tell immediately who has the better planters by the stand. You plant to harvest and harvest to plant. Two biggest and most important pieces of equipment, good planter and good harvest machine will either make you or break you. There is no telling how much is lost when you have a planter that doesn’t do a good job. Buy a new planter man,,,, yeah it’s a big cost but it pays for its self! I promise! This is from a fifth generation farmer. 👍🏼

[@matthewjohnson3910]

Thanks for sharing Ryan 👍

[@dennishettinger4469]

Great video guys ! great harvest , watch them sink holes ,we have them in PA. scary at night ! keep videos coming thank you .

[@SlipShodBob]

I was just thinking that they looked like good places to lose rocks when it was the next sentence from you. Luna looks about as impressed with tractor work as Gem (our working collie) does, when it comes to sheep work she is hyper and absolutely nuts

[@IH100]

Great video Ryan! Those sinkholes look like a pain and luckily we don’t have any on any of our farms!

[@homey3051]

I am in Rice Lake WI and we got shocked with the snow pretty good so I feel for you brother

[@SuperJohndeere4020]

Hey Ryan, can you sneak a cold start of the combine in?

[@andywintz959]

Awesome drone footage!

[@SLCFarms]

Thats crazy how big they were. Got to really pay attention driving for sure. Wow 😮

[@timothymcmurtrie5277]

Love the drone shots with the music.....well done ryan

[@craigadair128]

It looks like your new corn head is working well and does a number on the stalks

[@pd-ox1pd]

Can't believe you're Siva rant freezing up we quite mud snow great )luck

[@afarmerslife2092]

Hello everyone I hope your keeping well. Take Care and have a great day

[@HowFarmsWork]

You too! I hope you had a great weekend!

[@AlexDettmann-sn3zy]

​@@HowFarmsWork how is rocket doing today

[@billsexton4811]

Hello Ryan , that drone coverage was awesome ! ... I would hate it if I had to worry about holes like that . Those size holes could make a person disappear . Hopefully you guys will be able to relax a little , I know it’s been a long tough harvest for everyone . I live in North Ohio and there it still a lot of corn standing . It’s been to wet to get into the fields . May god bless you all ! Great video !

[@smithfarms1332]

Hey good thing that you took the time and went scouting. If not you might have run the combine in the hole.

[@Adam_Poirier]

On a second note it would be awesome and very interesting to see the map that your grandfather had if you guys ever find it. These tunnels you’re talking about, are they big enough to walk through or they were just tunnels from machinery boring into the land itself?

[@ivanvankeulen5214]

Where I live in France we never have Snow, the last time we had snow was in 2013-2015

[@arminschmidt6199]

Great shots from the drone again, cool music and amazing pictures! By the way. Your skills in flying the drone plus your sense for finding the right scenes are absolutely great.

[@HowFarmsWork]

Thanks Armin!

[@gl309495]

I LOVE the drone scenes of the harvesting and all the other processes, especially in the snow. Going down in the hole must have been a bit hairy,

[@Josefrosty]

Hi Ryan, I would check with the Town Hall or Historical Society. They may have copies of the mining maps.

[@raynonabohrer5624]

I bet they do. If not try a local mining organization. I do a lot of history research. And Historical Society is a good one to check out too

[@glenn_massie3039]

Ryan, have you guys made any decision on purchasing the Unverferth as well? As you said it seemed to be a big help. Or would you rent one next season instead?

[@matthewcunningham2399]

Great video. You need to get a ground penetrating survey so that you can ascess the sinkhole possibilities!

[@wrightfarmshoffman8663]

Great video

[@normanzywicki2496]

Wow those are some big foxholes lol! Hit one of those and you entered a bad day instantly.

[@myrrdin5009]

Good job team!

[@MrVailtown]

That drone just paid for itself over. Do you GPS, record them sink holes for future watch ?

[@HowFarmsWork]

MrVailtown we’ll fill them and mark them with the AgLeader monitor, flagging is another good option

[@tbix1963]

Thanks for the update, Good video. Always interesting to see the footage from the sink holes, do you have enough fill around the farm to fill them in or do you have to truck it in? Maybe getting a dump trailer for big red might be a good investment for hauling in the needed fill. Depending on size might give you some additional emergency storage. Depending on the dockage for high moisture, are you at all getting close to the point where more storage and a dryer would make sense or is your operation just to small to justify the investment.

[@richdillon2157]

We have Sink Holes here in Florida! Where we live on the west side of Marion Co. we have tons of them, Far as it goes the whole west side of the gulf coast is called "Sink Hole Alley" ours are from the rain water running through the Lime Rock and dissolving the rock, As you might have seen on TV, they can be massive or they can be small, Some they call Chimneys. The biggest one I have ever seen open up was on a Construction site I worked on, Retention Pond was full of water, Maybe a 15 acre pond about 15 to 20 Ft. deep and a few big bubbles came up and within 45 Seconds ever bit of that water was Gone. Now that is scary ! Ryan, You haven't had Jamie on here lately, Is she in Hibernation ?

[@deanreinke1148]

Holy sinkholes! You could loose the grain cart in that one!

[@shopshop-lx9hj]

Do you or farmers in general, ever use tire chains on tractors? Your music fits the video. Its interesting to see how deep the roots apparently grow.

[@timmis15]

Not sure if you made a video yet, but can you make a video about how you fix sinkholes

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

sink hole and night harvest would be rough..

[@kristenscott9438]

Hope you and your family had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving, Ryan! I sure did! Even though I ate way too much! LOL!

[@Arek13706]

Fajne filmy . Pozdrowienia z Polski

[@ginggur17]

Omg, those sink holes could catch you out big time.

[@ontariocashcropfarmer4955]

We call beeswings , Red Dog up here don't ask me why LOL

[@normanhosford2506]

Is a ground penetrating radar scan too expensive? A good map ought to show the problem areas where you could bore and pour fill or at least have GPS locations of dangerous spots.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Unless you could find some college geology department willing to do it as a class project I doubt a farmer could afford it... Later! OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

Seismographing would work too... OL J R :)

[@normanhosford2506]

@@lukestrawwalker That would be interesting. I wonder if a fish finder sonar could be made to work? They are getting very cheap.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@normanhosford2506 I don't think that's possible... ground penetrating radar is a pretty complex deal, and requires a lot more power and intricacy than "fish finder" sonar... Later! OL J R :)

[@nicholass5405]

You should stick a gopro down one of the small holes where it opens up

[@thr8061]

Having a drone to spot this HUGE sink holes in your field(s) is a great thing. It would be horrendous if you "discovered" them via the combine!

[@piperdoug428]

WOW!!

[@nathancampbell2906]

You'll be happy when you get a conveyer system and what ever else so you don't have to climb on frozen icey silos

[@Kugerand727]

Ryan, what brands and models of drones do you fly ?

[@mattheutinck6329]

Dumb question, If you have a high lead content in the ground, and they mined it, what's the ground water like? Do you get lead in your Wells? Can anything be done about it?

[@verti7268]

How far down are the mines? Will the sinkholes (if not dealt with) sink down really deep? I am quite curious because where I farm we only get broken tiles that cause small sinkholes.

[@dannjudy10]

Whow, great footage. Keep up the great work, thanks.

[@dimduk]

I like that someone bought the Unverferth, you should sign it!

[@jessejdanieljd]

Well thats a good resource for drone use is finding out what sinkholes showed up over the year

[@andywintz959]

How many total acres do you have left?

[@HowFarmsWork]

Right now, 10

[@tylerbebes376]

Hello ryan and how ur day so far

[@HowFarmsWork]

Pretty awful! Have had to upload this a couple times because the song in the middle of the video keeps getting flagged for some reason.

[@pd-ox1pd]

Wow we get sink holes but not like that

[@donald1056]

How deep are those sink hold - 8' x 8' ?????? good size

[@Leofred2000]

You should find that map of mines and caves, for everyones safety

[@rocksandoil2241]

Is this karst geology adding to the problem or perhaps only caused by subsurface mining? Love your drone shots...

[@brianrutherford3229]

That will total out a combine if it was run into .man those are deep sinkholes. It will take alot of work to fill them in.

[@banjobenson9348]

Good idea, they could use an upgrade in machines anyway

[@joshuawilliams8555]

Looks like a great place to deer hunt

[@sixtoes2313]

Ryan. have you tried the "US Bureau of Mines". or your local "Government" to see if they have map copies of the old mine's ?

[@farmertyler8087]

If you’ve got an entrance you know if you should go take a look at the insides of the tunnels

[@Steven-vo8tk]

How far down are the mines? Be careful out there.

[@Workinghard9265]

Are you guys going to be done before Christmas?

[@markpeck5117]

damn they are some serious sink holes!

[@rodneycraig3118]

How high was the drone when you were over the combine?

[@timothyrannells]

7:47 Ah... look at those soil horizons...

[@AndreyK415]

Will you be building another storage bin? Was this year especially plentiful that you couldn't fit everything. I also remember one of your bins is buckling and I think you aren't filling it up all the way.

[@jeremysmits9784]

Those sinkholes are scary! I wouldn’t want to find one of those in the dark with anything!

[@danielsweeney6742]

Those are some big holes! You could lose a machine in one!

[@makingithappen9722]

This seems to be a difficult field to harvest.

[@cameronbeilke5908]

Did the green grain-cart see any action this year?

[@ethanringelberg9771]

Where does the tunnel open could you show us the tunnels

[@Mark-zm9yg]

hi Ryan from the UK great videos

[@warrencraig6948]

I suppose you would have the satisfying thought your crop will make plenty of wild turkey

[@jackdennehy-coles8119]

what were they mining that causes your sinkholes

[@jackdennehy-coles8119]

my bad wrote just before he said

[@EtzEchad]

Those sinkholes are massive. What do you do with them? Do you fill them up with dirt in the spring?

[@lumpy1603]

That's my last name lol

[@ronaldspruill2247]

It will be what it is!

[@leerick6510]

How did your field you had in the contest yield ?

[@caj8968]

How does the header work for you guys?

[@billsmith8739]

I would think that the map for the mine tunnels could be found if you did some research. Your grandfather had to have gotten it from someplace.

[@banjobenson9348]

Those old guys on the porch had all the tunnels figured out over a few drinks

[@arkycadd]

OLD LEAD MINE?