From 1920’s Drill to Million Dollar Punches

Thank you so much to Chief Agri in Kearney Nebraska for this amazing afternoon! So fun to be able to get a closer look at a small piece of behind the scenes: how bins are manufactured! Would you like to see more videos like this? Comment your thoughts!
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[@ChristaBritton1970]

Well done!!! The people in the plant at Chief Agri are the best! It's great to see the younger, female, farmers out there making things happen. Keep up the great work!

[@larrystockwell8994]

I like the sign that says, this machine has no brain use your own. So applicable in so many places. Glad you and Grant are using your brains. Keep up the good work.

[@alkennedy1124]

I love that sign 🪧 too, you would be surprised where people will be dumb enough to put them selfs in harms way, lol thanks BigAl.

[@russelljohnson4527]

I once put one on a machine that said" This machine will kill you, and it will hurt the whole time you're dying". It worked. Nobody died there!

[@canadianviking7846]

We have signs at work that say, “Not only will this equipment kill you, it will hurt the entire time you are dying!”

[@russellbowman8051]

That is a Huge Amount Of Stuff Going On Inside if That Enormous Factory!! Lots and Lots of Different facets to building the Fans and Grain Bins! Thank You For Taking Us All Along!! 😊👍👊

[@lyndavichi5938]

Laura, anyone anywhere would enjoy speaking with you. You are bright and beautiful. You have a tremendous work ethic and everything about you is simply wonderful.

[@russellbaughnjr6457]

Laura and Grant, I really appreciate the tour of the grain bin factory. Very informative to see how different things are manufactured. Please keep them coming!

[@Ken_Stauder]

Thanks Laura, I like "How its made" as well, your just good at delivering us interesting content. Be well.

[@orchidhouse297]

I have a ridiculously strong interest in how things are made and how they work. This also goes for how crops are sown and harvested. Stunning episode.

[@cooperhanson2961]

Man, I have spent sooo many hours watching “how it’s made” love that show!!!

[@davegift197]

I love your "On the Road With Laura and Grant" series. They are so informative and interesting. Who would have thought that grain bins would need any special manufacturing? You just look at a catalog and say "Yeah, that's what I want" and it shows up. 🤔😏 Keep it up, Laura, as there are many people that still think the food they eat just seems to magically is available in their store. But so much goes into farming. Great job with the presentation.

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Hello there. We are loving it. Yes it just makes a change seeing how those bin's were made.

[@g.carroll8357]

Thanks Laura and Grant. Machine operators had brains back in the 20's...after one finger gone they kept the rest.

[@thomaswhite8899]

I love seeing how things are made from start to finish .. Thank You ..

[@paultisme]

Hay Laura, love your show, your obviously a natural engineer.. your clever quick brain, enthusiastic skillful programming, hard working family orientation and sense of fun is brilliantly watchable.. hi from England UK.. 🙂

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

You do an excellent job conveying the process of bin manufacturing!

[@apollomoon1]

That was great Laura/Grant!! I love Laura's sense of amazement on learning new things. It's quite refreshing....thanks again!! :)

[@inezajoi4111]

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[@bryantholmes9963]

Mike Roe is probably watching your show on how things are made. Great job, we need to make more here in America. You are doing a great job, I don’t think many Americans can relate to how hard farmers work and the technology they use in the industry. Keep up the good work. Keep America great.

[@kenindra1747]

You have a great way of explaining yourself. I enjoy listening to you. 😃😃

[@WarpFactor999]

Laura! Nice tour! Thanks! Tell the big guy he's a good guy.

[@waynefiebiger3202]

I like your tour at the steel bin factory. You do a very good job of explaining every process in the place same as when your at the farm. Thank you

[@Alexx120493]

Makes me happy that there are so many german Trumpf machines used there.

[@gregkarkowsky967]

I really like the piece of music you have at your video entry. Every polished sound.

[@keitholeniacz9249]

Thanks for taking us on the tour, very interesting. I also enjoyed "How it's made".

[@deancody174]

How it's made is one of my favorite shows!

[@stevemockoviak8384]

What a nice tour! You did a marvelous job! You listened and learned so well I was sure you've done this tour before!

Wow amazing 😍😍

[@gregbromley152]

Thank you for sharing. I loved "How it's made". This was awesome

[@KS-on9qp]

Great ! .....really enjoyed the tour !

[@MorphAndCats]

Half the joy watching this ,is the joy you get in this visit. Thank You. learning here is easy.

[@philipcollings985]

Interesting processes just to make grain storage bins. It's a whole nother world out there guys. Thank you so much

[@Meriphistimo]

This was excellent! More please!

[@randyganow7250]

GOODMOOOOORNINGAFTERNOOON, Happy International Pi Day!😃👍

[@tommy..980]

Hi Laura!! Thanks for the tour that was very interesting.. I had no idea the bins were made in such small sections..

[@zymmer4]

Love, love, love the manufacturing aspects of the stuff you use.

[@richardnelson1769]

Great to see another segment of the Ag Industry on Laura Farms How Its Made!

[@richardnelson1769]

Seen on a machine from the 1920's, "SAFETY FIRST...BE CAREFUL...THIS MACHINE HAS NO BRAIN...USE YOUR OWN"

[@normmuelleman2570]

This was cool! I'm so intrigued by the whole "big picture" of how Ag works together!

[@bobstratton6362]

You are rare because Joe and Karen Consumer have not the foggiest clue or any concept of the infrastructure involved.

[@normmuelleman2570]

@@bobstratton6362 most Americans have no clue how their food is sourced. I grow veggies in my garden. If the apocolypse happened, I could probably get by...

[@jimmyjenkins9240]

Very cool! Loved this segment and I appreciate seeing all facets of farming. You and Grant make such a great team!

[@rdyardie]

Laura, those safety glasses improve your looks over 50%. . . . they cover half your face. . . . I told our 12 year old daughter that years ago. She had just got her first glasses. I have used that comment when I wear my mask at church. I ask someone in the church office if my mask is covering half my face. . . . then I ask if it improves my appearance 50%. I have never said, "Do the math." By the way, I am so pleased to see your KZbin videos. Your enthusiasm is wonderful. The factory reminds me of working at my uncle's Flexi-Coil plant in Saskatoon in the evening when I was in high school. . . . those were the years. 😊

[@leslietarboxjr4287]

That place was awesome. I love it when you take us on tours of manufacturing companies like this. Great video.

[@jimoconnor6850]

Laura's "How It's Made"...! There are many great things being built for agricultural. What a way to tie manufacturing and agriculture together. Keep up the great content!

[@bay9876]

Nice to see Made In America, the way things were going

[@2020Tundra]

Thanks for sharing that experience with us. As for Chief’s lack of workers; that’s everywhere across the country. There are small and large companies struggling to find people who want to work. This is especially true here in S.C.

[@earthdreams1569]

What is the average salary for a welder in America?

[@inezajoi4111]

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[@eosjoe565]

@@earthdreams1569 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average welder in the United States earns $42,500 a year, or about $20.40 an hour. Welders in specialized high-risk environments can make much more.

[@waderue]

yes i love watching how its made and you find it on you tube these days

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

GREAT STUFF LAURA.... THANK YOU

[@chiefagri6329]

Thanks for stopping by and hanging out with us, Laura and Grant! It was an absolute pleasure to have you! Great job sharing what we do here at Chief Agri. We look forward to working more with you in the future!

[@gold-diggersanonymous1085]

Thank you so much for letting Laura share her experience at your factory! I am sure that ton's of folks will look quite differently at all these bins when they drive through the countryside. Be safe!!

[@bige.3474]

Great to see that we still have manufacturing in our own country. When suppliers had trouble keeping up with demand, Henry Ford would build another factory and supply his own hardware and parts.

[@roger8927]

Nice to see things being made in America with American workers!

[@Synflood2014]

Absolutely agree! We need more of our manufacturing jobs back here in the U.S. instead of getting 90% of everything from China. We used to have a lot of manufacturing before everything got outsourced.

[@Walkndude69]

Grant and Laura, come tour the John Deere Seeding factory and the Harvester Works facility. Very cool to see behind the scenes. Thanks for the tour!

[@ratt727]

This is cool, I like the field trip out to the manufacturer, very interesting.

[@ronaldcarter9860]

Great tour Laura...I really enjoy your manufacturing and facilities tours..always interesting and informative...I also was a fan of "How it's Made" !....👍

[@jimpolk]

Very cool tour Laura. You look good in the glasses.

[@jkbrown5496]

Dustin at SmarterEveryDay did a 2019 video on grain bins that mostly covered the very innovative way they are built on the site and a bit on operation. Now I've seen from sheetmetal to emptying out. Thanks.

[@jerryarcher1923]

Thanks for the tour…I come from heavy industrial manufacturing, and love working with these massive machines.

[@davidbetts480]

Hello Laura and Grant, it was very interesting video. Thank you

[@douglascampbell9809]

That is a super nice shop. I used to work in furniture manufacturing. I've seen some impressive manufacturing plants. The most impressive was Fort Howard paper mill which is now a Georgia Pacific location in Green Bay Wi. It was over 5000 acres internal space. You needed a map to find your way around the place. It even had it's own coal power plant to make electricity.

[@ozone385]

Thanks for the HOW ITS MADE. Your cover photo is interesting as used to run a large Carlton drill press that was manufactured the same year I was born. I worked at a fan company that makes industrial and commercial fans.

[@PaulRhodes420]

I have learned so much, I didn't know, I didn't know, that I didn't know!!! But now I do!!! Thanks Laura! ✌😁

[@rodfaragini7110]

Thanks Laura, very educational. You folks are awesome keep it up

[@danfinley3690]

What a cool tour thank you for taking the time to video this so much appreciated looked like a fun tour

[@ted70281]

Thank You great tour

[@arronclark711]

As always.... you are really...really good at this

[@northernliving2387]

Thank, you Laura

[@gilly0691]

Grant reminds me of myself, can talk to anyone, and has never met a stranger, lol, its a good quality

[@-Steeltoelion-]

I work there! Got to see her walking around my area, I am one of the welders!

[@lonnieclifton3883]

Chief Agri You Are Helping The American People In A Lot Of Ways Thank Yall So Much !

[@tyrelwalker5624]

I use those Trumpf presses at my place of work. Laser gaurds are equipped on these presses so digits don't get removed.

[@geistbike]

This was a very excellent presentation abaut a very interesting factory...absolut top, greatings from Germany

[@robbiebaker2412]

I operated a trumpf punch machine very similar to the ones they have. Trumpf machines are top of the line. And yes those press brake machines that bend the metal can take your finger off before you realize it's happening. I ran Amada press brake machines also. Thankfully I was never injured but I know several people who were injured badly by them

[@FreedomRock44]

Wow thanks for sharing that with us that was fun to learn.

[@MrGlenspace]

Thank you for the tour. One of my favorite things to do is go on any type of factory tour. No matter what the product is I just love seeing where things come from and how they are made.

[@bruceducker2029]

Thanks for the content Laura and Grant. Interesting behind the scenes of "How it's Made". I believe I have seen some Chief products here in Florida. Keep up the good work. Love you guys.

[@Doobie2100]

I love how it’s made!!! Great tour and thanks for sharing!!!

[@joefudd]

So Laura, did you and Grant hook up with Chief here at the National Farm Machinery show to get this neat factory tour? You did get to climb up on top of their grain bin to get the panoramic view of the south wing! Small world! :-) I always LOVE tours of manufacturing plants!

[@michaelwilliams7481]

Laura, you could never make a bad or boring video. Your videos cheer me up. With this bad war going on, how is the grain price holding up, have you seen an increase in your sale price?

[@jameskirk9996]

Hi Laura. This old-timer lovers this video. When sheet stock is over about 1/8" thick it is referred to as plate. I learned this early in my aerospace career as a strength of materials tech. and thought I'd pass it on to you. I used a Tinius Olsen universal test machine rated at 50,000 lb. force, a baby compared to that monster you saw.

[@thomascruff786]

Awesome video Laura farms and have a great day.

[@heathledger4506]

Nice to see, that machines from my country (Trumpf) are used all over the world :-) Greetings from a german machinist.

[@jimmackey9654]

great tour, thank you!

[@edshelden7590]

Great show very well done.

[@jaysartori9032]

What a cool place!

[@chrisretired5379]

Awesome video, great production 💝💝

[@markusberg2770]

The Canadian television series How It’s Made is now filmed exclusively in the Guangdong Province. Nice to see some real Americans who didn’t sell out their own.

[@rayjames1493]

Laura, you and Grant have the neatest videos. I so enjoy watching you both on and off the farm on outings like this. Thanks much for sharing all your videos.

[@davidcarberry3547]

great tour , you are soooo good at that

[@calvinhfactor4565]

Thanks for taking us along it is nice to see how things are made..

[@richardclayton7047]

Hi Laura, just watch the vlog throughly enjoyed to content especially in forming your viewers that there were job vacancies at Chiefs. Job well done

[@roberttucek8594]

Awesome video tour, really enjoyed watching. With all that material already sold, must be a lot of farmers storing their grain and marketing themselves which is the best thing to do. Thanks Laura and Grant. Awesome couple, awesome farmers.

[@maxxmich]

love to see them make u a "Laura Farms" sponcered grain bin

[@roberttribbie9179]

OMGoodness Laura, I had to watch this one twice.... you never told me/us when it was safe to open my eyes so, I missed the last half :P

[@bcooo1]

Excellent tour Laura. Most people don't have a clue on what it takes to make the products they use. Thank you for the view inside the plant.

[@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment]

Awesome video, thank you.

[@badcarrera]

Very Cool tour! I currently own a product with a Patent that gets cut with robots using gnarly laser cutters. Thats a big operation! Very impressive. Thank You

[@FreedomRock44]

Laura you are a quick study way to summarize what you were taught so fast.

[@leeoverfelt9177]

Love seeing manufacturing. I retired from Fel-Pro Gaskets. Back in the day ever paper, cork rubber, and steel gasket were pressed or cut individually. First time I saw a CNC machine cut hundreds of small gaskets from a single piece of material it was amazing. However, when were in meetings the whole building shook from the 500 ton presses punching out cylinder head gaskets. The workers would insert a piece of material into the big press on their wrist were cuffs attached to a line that was attached to the top of press. They would mash a button the press would come down while at the same time pulling their arms away from the press.

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

One thing i learned from family who farmed all their lives, Make sure to take time out for you guys! That special time will save you marriage.

[@SpatialDragon]

I like factories making stuff like that. Good video.

[@dougdemaree1963]

I want a job...!!! Looks like fun.

[@oysterjohn5669]

Nice job. Great commentary. How It's Made one of my favorite shows.

[@charleshagenbuch6078]

It would have bee interesting hear the machines putting the curves into the bin segments. Especially to compare it to the bang of the older machines. Laura rocks the safety glasses!

[@Sailor376also]

I recently assembled a steel prefab corrugated building. Not large 24 X 36 X 13 feet high. 4,500 bolts. All initially assembled 'finger tight', to allow for flexibility of the later assembled segments. But when braced, true, level, and ready,, all 4,500 bolts needed to be tightened. That took nearly one week for one man,,, just to tighten and inspect all the bolts. Those plastic buckets filled with bolts looked very familiar to me.

[@usmarshall336]

Love the factory tour! Happy birthday 🎁🎈🎉🎂🎊 to Brad Marshall

[@danobrien155]

Awesome how you know about everything there.