Massively Chaotic Potato Cellar Move!

[@shanebell9589]

Potato farmer in Maine here, I enjoy your videos, not going to lie, watching you guys run over the cord and pull the end out made my day, I do that more then I’d like to admit on my spudnik bin piler . My wife started a channel here too if you want to see how is small guys (160 acres potatoes) do things over in Maine ,BellsFarming is the channel. Keep up the good work guys

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That is awesome! I’m glad you enjoy the channel. If you never break anything are you really farming.

[@Hezkezl]

Great video! Would definitely love to see more of this kind of stuff :D Even the boring old shots of just the equipment working and having someone with the camera going up and down the line looking at things can be fascinating to watch. Minus the loud squeaking, the sound of all that equipment running can also be pretty soothing. I'm an oddball who likes seeing everything going on and would love to just have like a 12 hour video of unloading. It doesn't all need to be exciting things like the battery pack falling off of a drill or watching someone rewire a cable end.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well I’m glad you liked the video. I was a little worried uploading a video this long. I wasn’t sure anyone would want to watch it.

[@daverave3698]

I really enjoyed this video and seeing all the different parts and how they all fit together. A lot of work for sure.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it! There’s definitely a lot that goes into setting the equipment up.

[@jurgenlawall7380]

Lot of work to store so much potatos, can you sell it too directly from the field? Thanks for upload your farmlife brings so much info about your work.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We can sell it straight from the field but the problem is that everyone is harvesting now so the plant is bogged down with the potato supply. We store ours so the plant has potatoes to run on for the next few months.

[@joelg8004]

Wow that’s a lot of work and stuff going on at once. Well done!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes it was! Thanks

[@SwannOG]

I really enjoyed this video.Seeing all the different elements that had to mesh together to get it done was fabulous. Looking forward to other videos here. I assume that is 110# sacks so over 55,000 pounds of potatoes. That certainly is a bumper crop..

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you like the video. I was kind of worried when I uploaded such a long video that nobody would want to watch it. Everything does have to work just right in order for things to run smoothly so we go off of 100 pound sack so we are getting Around 55,000 pounds of potatoes per acre.

[@lwrciwebstore7604]

That's a lot of fries!@@RockyMountainFarmer

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It could be, these will mostly be turned into Pringles

[@wayneinnc5379]

What a massive undertaking to get the process started! Very labor intensive.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes it takes a while. I think this move took about 4 hours.

[@ileenmcminn2062]

We had a piler, and a scraper tractor and the truck unloaded straight into the piler,, moves were easier. But I'm almost as old as your Grandpa.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah that’s how we used to do it but we had to upgrade to speed things up.

[@lepeotmit]

Jesus.. I was shocked a little when I have heared at 1:03:50 "eins, zwei drei" :D I am german and I did not expect to hear this in a video with latin american and north american people :D

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We try to mix it up. Hope you enjoyed it.

[@ileenmcminn2062]

550! when I was farming 300 was good and 325 was super, 350 you called BS.

[@idahofarmer]

I have the one driving the tractor we just had one filled go 625 sacks

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah I 550 is pretty amazing. That is our average over 1250 acres but yeah we did have one field go 625 sacks in the acres.

[@DavidHines-wn5gf]

Great video! Now how do you unload the cellars when you take to the plant? Thanks

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Good question! There is a scooper attached to a piler that drives into the pile and load a semi. I’m glad you liked the video.

[@rt3box6tx74]

Very interesting video. We had a few spud growers around here for 30 yrs, but I never saw them setting up that long train of equipment and running. There was a Fritio Lay plant in Lubbock,TX they delivered to. Then they began having them deliver to Dallas and other places. I assume the plant in Lubbock went to producing corn chips back in the late 1970s and 80s when Frito corn chips dominated the market before there was so much variety in snack chips. After Frito Lay quit contracting spuds they contracted a lot of food corn in this area, but gradually they began eliminating growers and were only dealing with one or two big growers for a few years. The bulk of our local corn was produced for the beef industry. Curious what percentage of shrink y'all lose during storage? Will those stored taters be gone by next spring? Congratulations on your bumper crop. We need a couple of those every decade to maintain a good attitude. We're seeing a lot of young farmers who got pretty optomistic and bought land at high prices from retiring Boomers get their first real kick in the gut. It's painful to watch when you've been through a few "resets" yourself.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks for sharing. We might lose 3 to 5% shrink but it’s not much because they usually take them out pretty quickly. They will probably all be out by march. Farming is certainly hard. Glad you enjoyed the video

[@jd-hv3nf]

Nice Video. How many guys are working during potatoharvest on the farm?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We have close to 30 people for harvest. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@briannetolman6554]

You guys must of let Trevor play supervisor for a day for his birthday looks like he was doing a lot of standing around😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That’s pretty funny no it was just kind of hectic. We hadn’t done a move that big in a while so we didn’t know exactly what to do first.

[@piippeeter]

Do you grow different varieties of potatos also? Or everything is the same sort?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We have in the past. Last year we had 4 different varieties. But this year they are all russet rangers. The plant likes them for what they are doing.

[@pinseekergaming4760]

Shelley was a good year for spuds I hope.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It was a pretty good year. We weren’t sure what was going to happen because we were a month late getting them planted. Due to the hard winter.

[@pinseekergaming4760]

@@RockyMountainFarmer yea. That last winter was brutal through Blackfoot up to IDaho falls

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I just seemed like it never ended

[@pinseekergaming4760]

@@RockyMountainFarmer get ready shes coming all the new comers gonna hate life.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, we need a good hard winter to push out a lot of the move-in’s

[@WilliamQuisno]

To many bosses out there trying g to move equipment

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Pretty much

[@MrCrazycook8]

"550 sacks per acre" For those of us who don't know, how many spuds per sack?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Each sack is 100 pounds so 550 sacks would be 55,000 pounds

[@piippeeter]

For the europeans and metric people, I will save you the conversion. That is 24900kg per acre and 61-62t per hectare. And indeed it is impressive. I was happy with the 30t per hectare yield.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks I would not know how to convert that to metric

[@MelanieLikes-x2w]

A sack consists of 100 lbs of potatoes. So however many potatoes it takes to get 100 lbs 28:06

[@AgroVideoTeam]

how many hectares of potatoes?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

506

[@6582rg]

Do you ever have a problem getting all of those taters sold?

[@idahofarmer]

They are all contracted

[@piippeeter]

Contracted as in going to be made french fries?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We make sure that when we grow potatoes that all of them are contracted there is an open market, but it usually isn’t that great some years it’ll be really good and other years it won’t be good at all, so we only grow contracted potatoes.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

@@piippeeter These are all contracted with a plant that will turn them into potato flakes, and then they will be made into Pringles

[@tiptondavid]

What do the women do in the spot with the flexible white vinyl sides?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They pick out the rocks, rot, and vines.

[@johnkeynes8873]

Why such long conveyers.😮

[@DonLuc23]

Appreciate not adding music

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It honestly didn’t even cross my mind to add music so you’re welcome

[@normangarrand1106]

Hey do me a favor when moving equipment only ONE guy give directions of up ,down left, right etc

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We do most of the time. But in some cases we take the referee approach. People placed all around what’s going on with different angles to see everything and when someone sees something wrong anyone can give the direction to stop or move. Because one person cannot see everything.