This video is one of many I have filmed showing life on our small family run dairy farm in Gloucestershire, England.Visit my KZbin channel to see further videos of life on our farm through the year / thefunkyfarmer
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@ianmackie55034 жыл бұрын
I well remember, during a miss-spent youth as an agricultural engineer in Mid Devon during the Mid 60’s repairing the vacuum/pressure pump of a GUA tanker belonging to a slaughterhouse in Winkleigh. The discharge was via a 2-meter long 6” diameter pipe that tapered down to 2” none as the elephants truck as it could manually be swivelled through 180 deg across the back of the tank allowing an outreach discharge of some 25 to 30 metres. The continence was discharge onto a disused wartime airfield. Being one who always tested my work onto the airfield with a full tank, we went. With the Elephant trunk, set at 45 deg pressure was built-up and discharge began, then nothing due to a blockage caused by a stub length of cows’ tail stuck neatly in the 2” section. Not wishing to pick around I took the decided to build the pressure until the safety valve blow then open the valve. By this time several crows had landed, when the valve was open there was quite a large explosive sound, which made most of the birds to take flight. Out went the offending stub followed by a hug fountain of the tanks contents. Two of the bird were a little slow on getting clearance to take off and were about 3 meter off the grown and in line with the fountain. Crows cannot fly with sudden wings, they trying to fly but had to settle for running away. Didn't see them much after that.........that was back in the days when working was fun whilst offending someone or being political correct had not been invented.
@rogernamvet7 жыл бұрын
I am a, "COW TOURIST," in America, who spent a few years as a child visiting my Uncle's dairy farm in Wisconsin in the 1950s, which was probably the size of your dairy farm. So I will show up at a diary farm and PET THE COWS (and let the calves suckle on my thumb....LOL), and then I'm off (with several gallons of purchased milk or cheese), never knowing how hard all of you farmers must work to serve us dairy lovers in the general public. I never could have imagined how much work (and contractors, or farm machines) were necessary to get several fields prepared to grow what we call CORN in the USA. I just looked on Wikipedia, and apparently Maize is a Spanish name, as the Spanish found the natives growing it in Mexico and then exported it all over the world. I have just watched about 8 videos of all what you need to do to prepare and plant several fields, and I think most of us non-farmers are just amazed at the amount of work that all of you farmers have to do so to produce the food that we love. We all owe you a big THANK YOU, as I think these videos you make are funny, interesting, informative, and perfect for school children to watch, in order that they understand what you farmers must do to get the food and dairy to market.
@thefunkyfarmer7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words. Its interesting about the word maize. Here we use the word corn to give a general description for Wheat or Barley
@thedoodle-master50697 жыл бұрын
At our farm we still just spread it straight out of the tank and not through a dribble bar
@tomheineman4369 Жыл бұрын
Impressive. In Minnesota I got out of my truck to get some delicious food from a truck plaza. a neighbor of the truck plaza obviously had some issues with the truck plaza and he had just Spread tons of hog manure on the fields surrounding the truck stop and I thought I might have a seizure or an asthmatic attack.
@Etnstray10 ай бұрын
Well you are still able to use a splash plate on a slurry tank
@tomevans124811 жыл бұрын
Splash plates haven't been banned the injectors and dribble bars reduce the amount if nitrogen lost compared to the splash plate.
@markgordon42514 жыл бұрын
No you can use a spread plate
@emmetquinn31598 жыл бұрын
your the best youtuber ever
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
thanks
@rufushowe38854 жыл бұрын
I agree, hes a good dairy farmer
@rufushowe38854 жыл бұрын
Hes knowledgeable
@karenbrennan73534 жыл бұрын
Nice tractor and tanker
@ronaldlucas53609 ай бұрын
Enjoyed
@LiamGarrett7 жыл бұрын
I live 200ft from a farm does that still smell coz it smells when they do it
@thefunkyfarmer7 жыл бұрын
Yes it does
@LiamGarrett7 жыл бұрын
thefunkyfarmer okay thank you
@thomasgilmore2828 жыл бұрын
is that the cow slurry?? the reason why I'm asking is because in any o your other videos of the cows there's never any slots for the slurry to go down through
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
Yes its some slurry. Most of the muck we scrape out into a muck spreader
@thomasgilmore2828 жыл бұрын
ah right I thought yous just put it all in the spreader how's he maize goin
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
Ok
@patrickbradley97113 жыл бұрын
Why did u not mix it
@the0darkangel7 жыл бұрын
What was the contractor doing while you were talking to him before it started pumping? Looked like it was coming out of the tanker?
@morph-7 жыл бұрын
the0darkangel I think I was slurry/waste from somwere else
@upthereds49396 жыл бұрын
Peewee and Morph Tollon it was water to dilute the slurry more
@scottmatthews17679 жыл бұрын
good video a gen i bet you that smels i no what that slurry is like i have had it on me i wood not like to go in thar what make is your red slurry tank
@englishmaninengland14516 жыл бұрын
We love your channel. Can you water the slurry down to make it go further?
@thefunkyfarmer6 жыл бұрын
no need, theres plenty of it
@edwardthomas15379 жыл бұрын
You going to keep other animals on the farm or you just going to keep the milking cows?
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Edward Thomas not for now but i might get some more pigs next year
@maxcarroll37066 жыл бұрын
Great vid would you buy one of those slurry tankers
@callummcconnell68189 жыл бұрын
Is the old style of spreading only banned in England cause the farm I work on in Northern Ireland has one and uses it
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Callum McConnell i think i was mistaken about it being banned here
@markelliott52744 жыл бұрын
You should Make another video on slurry
@williamwells777510 жыл бұрын
is this the cattle barn pit or the farm house pit?
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
cattle
@darraghsheehan68053 жыл бұрын
That’s not a dribble bar that a trailing shoe
@farmersson2110 жыл бұрын
hi, I noticed u say how spreading the slurry is illegal well we are arable farmers so slurry and cattle aint our thing... but often when we are carting grain in the summer we see cattle men spreading instead of injecting it on large fields near houses (and the men use big kit too!) so I don't think it Is band.
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
hi, thanks for that. i think your right about it not being banned
@effinfendtsteve10 жыл бұрын
upward splash plates banned here in ire ,downward plates aren't yet rumour is tho that the will be in 2020 and this type will be required
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
thanks for that imfo, i thought there was some sort of issue with splash plates. All the regs certainly make farming more tricky
@ceiranodonnell3619 жыл бұрын
It hasn't been baned because my uncle has one thefunkyfarmer
@aidancushnahan39719 жыл бұрын
Why do you not have a slurry tanker as well
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Maybe we will get on one day but for now its better value to get a contractor in
@aidancushnahan39719 жыл бұрын
Why do you not get one injects in grass
@levistewart42486 жыл бұрын
Why dont you crop rotate?
@fsking6 жыл бұрын
they only do maize and grass so can't keep ripping up and drilling grass land
@noveltyjohn12489 жыл бұрын
What kind of weed spray do you use?
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
roundup
@agridk89447 жыл бұрын
thefunkyfarmer same
@keyranmcninch99527 жыл бұрын
does that job still gets done on the farm
@thefunkyfarmer7 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ceiranodonnell3618 жыл бұрын
how big is your tank
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
+Ceiran ODonnell not sure
@raymondmullin35726 жыл бұрын
Is the slurry tanker yers
@coffeyagriservices13026 жыл бұрын
Raymond Mullin no
@edwardthomas15379 жыл бұрын
What about poultry?
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Edward Thomas yes might get some one day
@muttgusse6 жыл бұрын
we had on 24meters ramp! samson pg25
@thefunkyfarmer11 жыл бұрын
ah thanks for that
@dylanreilly9525 жыл бұрын
one time the slurry pipe busted on me and all the slurry went all over me. I drove the tractor for a couple of hours in just my boots and underwear waiting for clothes to arrive
@thefunkyfarmer5 жыл бұрын
eeeuuugh!
@dylanreilly9525 жыл бұрын
+thefunkyfarmer and the worse thing was i had to go into the farmers house in just my boots and underwear to get a shower and it was only 4 degrees that day
@dylanreilly9525 жыл бұрын
+thefunkyfarmer love your current vids keep it up
@thefunkyfarmer5 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@dylanreilly9525 жыл бұрын
+thefunkyfarmer you should bring in some funky farmer merch
@ryangoodwin53558 жыл бұрын
I have got one of that tancer
@ryangoodwin53558 жыл бұрын
Sorry tanker
@x3toxicx3xboxone446 жыл бұрын
Funky farmer i live near u
@raymondmullin35726 жыл бұрын
It isn't band in Ireland
@edwardthomas15379 жыл бұрын
When we going to see your landrover off road and dirty
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Edward Thomas after the maize harvest
@outdoorswithlarryrobin6 жыл бұрын
great way to spread, I have to wash my tractor each time.
@dashcamdude66904 жыл бұрын
I thought u were not aloud put human waste on the land
@rufushowe38854 жыл бұрын
Is that cows shit, or human shit
@samablewhite94279 жыл бұрын
Why dont you bye your own eequipment insted of the contractors doing it for you because in the long run its cheaper
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Sam Ablewhite its not economic to buy some of this kit for the amount we use it
@Brooke_RS1978 жыл бұрын
+Sam Ablewhite for a small farm its not cheaper in the long run due to maintenance, contractors have the biggest and best equipment much more than the farm can afford..
@thomasadriaensen41488 жыл бұрын
We here have 25 cows and we own almost al those machine you let the contractor come for. Because it is way to expensive to let the contractor do it.
@Brooke_RS1978 жыл бұрын
Thomas Adriaensen depends on your area I suppose! It's too expensive to own our kit.. as we would be looking at best part of 500k in order to keep up to the contractors speed of work..
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
+Thomas Adriaensen if you only have 25 cows to deal with you will have a lot more time on your hands. Ive got 140ish cattle to look after, theres no way i could run the business if i did everything myself