2020 wheat harvest is proving a challenge & how accidents happen..

[@HawkMillFarm]

My first safety rule when working with machinery - never stick your finger where you wouldn’t stick your willie, it’s worked so far.

[@borjastick]

You'd have trouble getting your willy that high up matey.

[@HawkMillFarm]

borjastick I’m very tall I’ll have you know 😁

[@michaelperrin2531]

@@borjastick I believe he's bragging ?

[@Silver3ides]

@@borjastick You too know each other ?

[@mungojack]

Sound advice for dating also 👌

[@matgee8892]

I am loving the fact that Harry's farm now has little sneak peaks of the upcoming subjects of Harry's garage.

[@southjerseysound7340]

Harry's farm is one of the best kept secrets of KZbin. I seriously can't believe he doesn't have ten times the subs.

[@charlesharper2357]

It's the most informative channel on farming. He has a way of making a complex subject understandable.

[@mtl-ss1538]

Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop.& Subsidy Free.!!! New Zealander, - Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare.- (one hectare is equal to 2.47 acres.- www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop .. The kerrin wheat is to be milled for flour, or goes into feed for pork, chickens or cows..- .NZ - is at the forefront in developing farming techniques and technologies that could be utilised by other farming nations. - UK record is - 16.519 tonnes www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/91162354/new-zealand-farmers-break-world-record-for-wheat-growing ..

[@szymongorczynski7621]

It's very interesting watching Harry's farm and modern British farming practices compared to Polish farmer youtubers.

[@eldorado767]

Postponed watching a Jay Leno's Garage until after I watched Harry's videos.

[@IslaSprollie]

El Dorado Me too !

[@georgemerrick7728]

Hi harry I’m 13 and you are my favourite KZbinr because you have two channels about my favourite things cars and farming

[@Cam-wr5nb]

Hi Virtual Car Meets, I'm 36 and I agree with you :)

[@huyshe123]

I'm 45 and I agree....

[@advancelast1740]

Well I’m 59 and 3/4 and also agree

[@humanbeing1675]

I'm 55 and enjoy both channels😀

[@daveclark7777]

I’m just old, love Harry’s Farm, and just about to introduce myself to Harry’s garage. 😂😂

[@oldretireddude]

Back in the early '70s I was a high school kid operating an International 806 with a belly mounted sickle mower. The mower's drive assembly had a chain and sprocket system attached to the tractor's PTO that sent power forward to the mower. The chain and sprocket assembly were high hour parts so between worn sprockets and stretched chain the chain would periodically pop off. The quick fix was to get the chain started back onto the sprocket then bump the PTO lever to power it back in place. Not exercising enough caution, I started the chain in place by hand with the tractor running, but this time the PTO turned on without me moving the lever, catching my thumb between the chain and sprocket and giving it a 180 degree ride around the PTO sprocket. My thumb was minimally damaged due to the slack in the stretched chain and my thumb luckily cradled between teeth on its journey. The PTO lever entered top of the rear gear case. Turned out that over time a mixture of gear oil and dirt had built up under a shoulder on the PTO lever and gradually moved it closer and closer to it's engagement point. Normal tractor engine vibration was enough to allow the lever to cross from the OFF position to ON position by itself. Can't be too careful around machinery.

[@marcomarco7099]

I like how Harry switch from a Aston Martin SUV on a agricoltural combine Case keeping the same attitude...

[@johnj.baranski6553]

Passionate about both topics and it shows

[@Conservator.]

John J. Baranski Spot on!

[@davidfoster1762]

Dear Harry, Like all your subscribers thank goodness that your accident was not far worse . And wishing you a full and speedy recovery . It just shows what consequences a moment’s inattention , whatever you are doing , can have. I mainly watch Harrys Garage and always greatly enjoy them. David Foster.

[@stamford70]

Thanks for the update Harry. Your combine doing its thing in the dark would make for a lovely print on a wall

[@philipaldridge3749]

Hi Harry, after Sunday you might have another 4 days of sunshine then really heavy rain you obviously know this by now good luck with the crop. I’ve worked with farm machinery for 12 years and thank god no accidents you have got to really respect it. Never trust it. Cheers Phil 😀

[@allsearpw3829]

Very well presented Harry ,straight talking and learn by mistakes and point it out for others not to do . A true Gent

[@pdalia]

Great job Harry , farming s a resilient job and you know well, 2,8ton per acre yield is mind blowing for South America , just amazing how good lands you have there . Keep doing , keep filming and sharing . Cheers

[@farmerfuller87]

Absolutely loving this Harry. I am a farmer by trade my self and I love that your absolutely transparent about your Farming enterprise. Ian from Lincolnshire

[@MartinJG100]

'I had an extremely sore thumb'. Nice touch of English understatement :)...

[@michaelperrin2531]

Not sure whether to give the "thumbs" up for this report Harry ? take your time and you all be safe !

[@doccops]

Ouch, lucky with the thumb... Love all these videos, thanks Harry.

[@samanthawoodward7551]

I'm a big fan as well. Interesting, educational and yet somehow as relaxing as the shipping forecast X. WIsh my kids would watch some of Harry's videos instead of the mindless stuff they watch on here!

[@marcusmcsorley_1]

I could watch both Farm and Garage for hours , Keep up the great work and stay safe .

[@andycole366]

You remind me of James May, not an insult by the way. Knowledgeable and a joy to watch and listen to. Fantastic work. Keep safe though Harry🤞💪

[@p00pie]

I saw them at a pub together

[@andycole366]

@@p00pie what? When??

[@brynspooner]

Hi Harry, a very important lesson, turn your engine off! Me being a cocky 18/19 year old, (mid sixties) was putting fertiliser on a plot art the MAF&F, the old cups and flicker type, whet astound the back of the machine, still in gear, my old mack caught in the rotating flicker and started to pull my mack around the flickers. Quite thinking, pulled like hell and managed to release said mack, no damage. My lesson that day was never run the engine when inspecting or anything else. Like Harry’s Thumb, I hope he turns his tractor engine off every time. Well done for the grain info. Basil

[@neilpatching7443]

Always enjoy the farm videos Harry thank you

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Great Video again Harry. Really enjoy these a lot lately

[@ghostrider7688]

He’s a class act is Harry

[@utilitarian]

Thank you Harry - I love your videos, they’re explained in simple terms that are easily understood.

[@stevehucker7170]

Thanks for sharing another great video Harry you where likely to have a bar to hand with the trailer accident stay safe and keep the videos coming

[@WilliamStevens007]

The worst thing I ever did on the farm when I was younger was I was unhitching a Kidd clipper moco and in my haste to unhitch it I forgot to put the deck on the floor, Well pulled the pto off and then pulled the pin. Anyhow mower rolled back and where did the drawbar land....On my left foot. Problem was then I couldn't get my foot out. I did eventually I don't remember how but A&E and a broken bone in my foot later. Lesson very well and truly learnt that day. So I feel your pain Harry.

[@colinjones2505]

One very lucky Harry having only a bar to release the poorly thumb. That could so easily have had a very different outcome. Lesson learnt for all of us regarding innocent looking machinery. Lovely and highly interesting vid anyway.

[@andiharper4498]

Love these video diaries. Really well explained and non-pretentious. Tells the business of modern-day farming in a common sense, down to earth manner… keep up the good work.

[@ghostrider7688]

Very good job Harry , glad to see you didn’t lose your thumb .👍🏻

[@richardwalsh1838]

The first thing I noticed Harry was your bandaged thumb and I was waiting for your explanation for your bandaged thumb and I felt your pain as you related how it happened, your so right, machinery is always ready to eat you, thank God for that iron bar! Great video, this channel deserves way more views and should be shown to agricultural students studying farming at Agricultural college.

[@antonoat]

love these videos Harry. Sorry about your thumb, you have my sympathy I did similar many years back, the throbbing pain was indescribable, lol. Lesson learnt!

[@tonygray6587]

Reminds me of my early days working for Sid Tincknell, he had a saying -"Be careful, I haven't time for an inquest:!!

[@ianjb2127]

HARRY! Teeing up on the 3rd at Burford and recognised your combine hard at work in the linseed field. Was gonna jump the wall and come and say hello but other golfers would have screamed bloody murder at me. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Loving the product placement of an all electric X5. Smashing car that. Great easy going video as ever. 👍🏼

[@johntisbury]

Sorry to hear about your thumb, you were very lucky. Appreciate the update on harvest.

[@thesean68]

Another superb insight to the farming life and the economics of farming - oh... and where not to stick your thumb..! Hope it gets better soon Harry and we don’t want that bandage interfering with your driving...! 👍🏼

[@saxon-mt5by]

I'm taking a lot more interest in local farming since you started your channel, and I noticed just a couple of day's ago that a local wheat field, which at first glance looks ready for combining, is full of green seed heads just like yours. I wondered what was going on ...

[@Miata822]

Glad you are getting a decent price. We can all hope for a better, or at least more sane, 2021.

[@tomdarbyshire5348]

Don’t put your finger where you wouldn’t put you ****. I learnt that lesson and you won’t do it again! Great vid as always

[@judih.8754]

Best of luck with the wheat Harry. And please be careful as we need you with 10 fingers. Heal well.

[@richardclarke7224]

Bloody hell Harry!....please be more careful!...really made me flinch!!...also think you are fantastic!!!....love to see Oxfordshire as well...my favourite county. R

[@mikeclifton7778]

I bet you uttered some fine old Anglo Saxon when you trapped your thumb! Another excellent video, many thanks.

[@michaelscott4766]

Another ace video and sorry to hear about your injury. You have been in the wars of late what with your thumb and having to chomp on your tongue as Gordon Murry demonstrated the on wheel indicators of his new hypercar.

[@lotustris]

I`m a baker, I had a text today from our miller (ADM) saying that wheat prices have gone up by £45 a tonne, so our flour is going up 78p per 16kg bag. I have to pass on these costs, but the customer always thinks its bullshit! I can now just refer them to your channel! It also gives me food for thought, when I receive news of a major price hike in our basic raw commodity, I get miffed, how can there be a shortage! Its bloody sunny! This video gives us non farmers an insight into what goes on on the farm, and allows me to understand the reasons behind the price increase. Funny though, our miller never tells us when the price goes down! Let me know when the wheat price drops, so I can put that order in on a new rolls royce 🤣🤣🤣

[@MrOvershoot]

I work for the said company and if you knew how low our profit margins are you would be shocked 1% is a good year. Its only due to volume we can survive. The supermarkets have taken all the profit out of the Baking & Milling business. I know as I started in a plant bakery in 1982 and apart from a few years have either been in the baking or milling trade

[@lotustris]

@@MrOvershoot no Rolls Royce for you either then 😂

[@HawkMillFarm]

lotustris How many loaves does 16kgs of flour make? If say 500 gms per loaf thats 32 loaves or 2.5p/loaf extra, will customers really notice.

[@MrOvershoot]

@@lotustris so true, even if I wanted one.

[@lotustris]

@@HawkMillFarm you have around 56% water added to the flour, so around 50 small loaves, so it's a small price rise per loaf, however its around 13% price increase per bag of flour. Traditionally when the flour price rises, its time to add on all the other cost increases to the loaf, customers never react well to price rises 💸💸

[@timedmunds9054]

Thanks so much Harry for your Videos on both channels in the last hours, Hope your all well on the farm 👍🤦‍♂️ Timmy Norfolk

[@CanadairCL44]

I'm so pleased you still have all your digits Harry! It just goes to show, nothing in arable farming is certain.

[@rustyjoints4857]

Good luck with the OSR, flea beetle's a major pest in our area (East Herts) the crops near enough disappeared. Many seem to be growing sugar beet as an alternative.

[@robmorgan8369]

Ouch ouch ouch - you really cannot help but get the jitters when you described what happen - ouch! Glad you live another day - stop sticking your digits in holes!

[@TheByard]

Ouch that will be sore, did a similar one hooking a compressor onto the draw bar of a transit truck. One of the guys had leveled the compressor up by sitting a wheel on a brick as I pulled the tow ring forward the wheel dropped off the brick and it jumped forward trapping my thumb in the jaws. Luckily there workers around to get me free, and I was driven the Gloucester hospital where there sewed the top half of my thumb back on. I just love the way you explain how weather and growth works, in such an easy to grasp fashion.

[@mauriceupton1474]

Interesting channel...watching from wet and cold New Zealand.

[@d6joe]

Hello from North Dakota, USA. I am surprised your allowed to spray “harvest aid” round up. We do over here. Combining spring wheat here. Local price for a bushel of wheat, 60 lbs, is $4.25 U.S. All grain prices very poor here.

[@ahmedelnaggar8337]

D6joe that’s $165/ton. Close to what Harry is saying. Depends on season. The issue with wheat in America is the mafia Monsanto’s GMO killer wheat that’s destroying people’s guts! Round-Up is as awful!

[@maskito4256]

Stay safe Harry. Love your videos.

[@johnfurnival4133]

Another excellent video Harry, luckily you had a bar with you, stay safe looking forward to your osr progress

[@LittleNoiseBoy]

Always really fascinating to watch for us non-farmers: one learns so much. Thank you - and hope your thumb heals quickly...

[@IanRMcAllister]

Interesting video - Thanks Harry! My question after another video where you reveal the finances, is whether farming is a business or gambling? Answers on a postcard ... Good Luck!

[@cafebeats189]

Great vid Harry! You need to do a tour of your farm, machinery and cars you use for the farm.

[@TheAslakVind]

Harry I am excited on your behalf! What is going to happen, how will the financials etc. And yes thankfully no more 2020!

[@timogaleon1630]

Best of luck, matey. Just bought my mum a call safe alarm in case she needs to summon help. Working alone, that might be a solution? Stay safe...

[@suttonsplash14]

Glad u had that bar to get u out of the machine Harry! Be careful KZbin needs you!

[@nickbitten6037]

Another very interesting video. Your thumb tale is a salutory message for anyone using machinery be it farming or otherwise.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Thanks for another video, Harry. We've all heard the farming horror stories of tractor PTOs, loose clothes, limbs, hydraulics and things, so I'm very glad that Ol' Opposable's still with you. Nice bit of irony that KZbin uploads are rated in terms of Thumbs. I gave this video one Up, one Crushed, and two Relieved. Oddly enough, I'm reasonably sanguine about major injuries [pun intended], but it's the 'secondaries' - the clinical procedures and medieval remedies - that make me go all wobbly. I hate needles, and very nearly threw up at the thought of the A&E nurse piercing your thumb nail. The congestion... The swelling... The shiny, shiny needle... Nooooooo! On a lighter note, at least she didn't do the old 'Carry On' routine: "Now, you'll just feel a bit of a prick..." (Oh, Matron!) And I'm sure all of your followers are relieved that you won't need to rename your Channels: Lefty's Farm and Lefty's Garage just wouldn't be the same. ;-)

[@richardallsop5039]

Hello 'Harry', as always a real insight into farming which I would not of had elsewhere, billiant, very interesting, thank you. Regards, RichardA.

[@superheavyxd2684]

Poor Harry! He's lucky the hydraulic didn't crush his thumb completely! I'm glad you are okay! Please be careful around your equipment!

[@colinmayes9446]

Another good video from the maestro, thank you Harry, sorry about your thumb but it could have been much worse, best wishes from East Anglia.

[@Nick-xc4fy]

Great video, always wish they were longer! Glad to hear you won't have done too badly by the end of the year. Maybe not what you were hoping for but then a lot better than other farmers I'm sure.

[@fisherh9111]

Ouch. Harry! So glad you're ok.

[@philglover2973]

Happy days of when I was on my uncle's farm 😊😊🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

[@jayboy0681]

Recommended by farmer P and it seems like a top one, thanks for the knowledge and taking your time explaining everything.

[@markdodson4267]

Sorry you got hurt, hope that was the only time. You can thank your Gurdian Angel for having something to get loose with. A fellow member of "Hung Club". Take care.

[@tucker9162]

Cheers Harry - love to see the workings of a farm.

[@Lusitani74]

I genuinely felt the pain of that thumb crushing....hoping for a speedy recovery.

[@eldorado767]

A Harry's Garage, Harry's Farm, a new Jay Leno's Garage, a new one from Tyrrell's and Itchy Boots due to post a video on Friday. WHAT A WEEK!

[@fidelcastro9579]

Fascinating insight Harry. It’s like Countryfile on steroids. 👍

[@terrygreen4338]

Great video, l can sympathise with you i broke my hand badly driving a furgie 35 many years ago, machinery never says sorry, Harry look after that thumb 👍🚜

[@philhicks5818]

Great video Harry, good luck with your osr,

[@chrisflemington819]

Thanks for another interesting video and watch out the next time you open the grain trailer! Hope it heals soon it’s when you do this that you realise how much you use your thumbs - I’ve just spent an hour on the phone to the hospital who are going to try and repair me some two years after a hospital accident ☹️

[@TheFullyChargedGardener]

That sounds very painful. It really is quite scary just how quickly these accidents happen

[@benpattinson1]

Tom Pemberton sent me. He didn’t tbh, he gave you a very flattering mention though as part of “Farm 24”. I’ve been following your vids for a while Harry. Great video as usual.

[@ianashton886]

With all that grain I bet rats are a major problem, must be a pain keeping them under control ? Love this and your other channel, best videos on YT !

[@Da51lva]

Always carry a mobile with you. Saves lives

[@skippy5712]

Interesting that you can store wheat up to 15%. In Australia we need to get it down to about 10% to store in Elevators (Silos). I wonder what is the reason?

[@Splasher56]

You should have put a warning ⚠️ before you talked about your thumb, I went cold! Great educational video, I live in the country backing onto a field that was full of wheat until a few weeks ago, but never knew what you have talked about.

[@jeffdoell5064]

Good luck mate with the rest of the harvest

[@sic-]

Someone lost their dad when I was at school, after he went in to unblock the Combine but got dragged into it. Made the fatal mistake of not shutting it down and make it safe before doing so.

[@95lal]

Shit the bed

[@TedPartrick]

My uncle only used Mercedes Benz for his farm vehicles on his plantation in Barbados. He always needed to carry some tools or sweet potatoes somewhere. I guess a BMW should work as well.

[@jamescasey3760]

Hope you injury heals fast. Great video

[@toysandgameswithesmeeandis4096]

Love the Farm content. Could listen to you talk about anything tbh. Interesting to hear your thoughts on the X5 45e, drove the 745e last year and loved the 3.0/ electric powertrain combo.

[@G.5.B.H.M]

Good video as ever. But going to A&E just to have your thumb bored? Majority of farm folks would do it ourselves 😉, as I have done on a number of occasions. Once the blood is released, it certainly reduces the painful throbbing 😌.

[@shivayogaschoolrishikesh6005]

he sprayed it all with round up great....

[@Da51lva]

Harry's Farm and Harry's Garage mashup! Love it

[@SuperMAZ007]

Oh wow that was a lucky escape and that reminds me farming is full of dangers.

[@nickmurphy7177]

Hopefully better luck next year for better weather to farm on.

[@lucifarian93]

We had flea beetles all over our beans earlier this year and so now I know where they may have come from! Still like Bees though and don't like neoticanoids so lets hope agro science catches up for all our needs . I once hung up our bikes in the roof of our garage to save space when the silly little hook attached to the saddle let go. I fended off the chainwheel with my fore arm, luckily no grease laden tattoo to remind me. Wishing you 100% recovery of your thumb and your wheat. Thumbs up for 2021..🌻

[@LFC303606ACID]

I hope you are all paying attention to what this means for basic food prices.

[@tomreid8696]

Can we see some of the classic tractors on the farm Harry

[@ivanhowlett4907]

Love the videos, very informative. What did you say when you trapped your thumb, I bet it wasn’t “Oh bother” !

[@TJMack-]

I can hear Mr. Andrew Pemberton Esq.(aka Tom's dad aka 'The Ginger Warrior') shouting from Lancashire,"Danger never takes a day off!"

[@iangoldsworthy2056]

Peering over his glasses as Tom does watch Harry's Farm you tube channel.

[@TJMack-]

@@iangoldsworthy2056 I know Tom watches Harry - why do you think that I mentioned it? 🤣

[@petergrundy8081]

Very Good Harry very informative

[@blitzsah]

Farms are probably some of the most dangerous places to work, with such heavy machinery and very little in terms of safety precautions!

[@RobG001]

You are not wrong, I was brought up on a dairy farm, there is such a thing as a "Farm Inspection", stupid thing is they give or should that gave you, (as it was a long time ago now) several weeks notice as to what date they would be visiting, so it would be all hand on deck running up to it, putting all the safety equipment on the tractors etc. Never understood why they just did not do spot checks.

[@tomwilliams8102]

A wild Dave Shep sprinting across the stubble at the start

[@mattphillips4260]

well i am across the pound from you but needless to say i sure am glad you was not hurt any worse than the thumb hope this new crop for you pans out to be something that can help you and the farm make money stay afe out there

[@nickmills6450]

Thanks for the video Harry, really look forward to them.

[@ronmccullock1407]

Fantastic video Harry