Picking up grain bags & sledding 😂

** Alright, we are back at it picking up grain bags now, this will pretty much be the narrative of winter.
** When things get slow in the field, we start having even more fun, we truly love what we do!
** So I hope you guys had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend, and thanks for following me around! 🙂 You guys are the best!
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[@marshallsmith3838]

I'd definitely buy a t-shirt that said.. "Now Mike, I've got a question..."

[@batmann2o]

or “good question Sir, let me explain”

[@blacquejacqueshellaque6373]

Any chance you can show us the offloading at the rail terminal, and/or loading of a train. Would be nice to see how the entire logistics chain works.

[@kennyz6533]

You guys are the craziest bunch of farmers I've ever seen and I love it!

[@mintyman1968]

And they are Canadian. A+++ for that

[@tony-the-tigerjohns3294]

You guys need to get an old car hood, flip it upside down, and pull it back of the truck.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

a sheet of plywood works well aswell not as goot as a hood due to no curve tho

[@dirtyMopar]

I came to say that exact thing. Works better behind a snowmobile too. Longer rope you can drift the corners.

[@BeardedxTwin]

add an old bench seat on it and its even better!

[@paulsimpson.417]

Mike get a better guard on that pto please!!

[@ATLS_gaming]

Thats a crispy combine on your profile pic 👌 Also nice vid not many people do grain bag videos besides manufacturers.

[@JSeppo]

Mike broke his mic? This is hilarious :D Ok i'll find my way out myself

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hahaha 🤣

[@scruffy6151]

Somebody had to say it 🤣

[@JSeppo]

@@scruffy6151 I guess :D

[@carlhendry449]

After your sled mishap, it's the first time I have ever seen stubble look dangerous 😂

[@stepark3437]

have you guys try solar electric fence around the bags to keep the deer and coons off.

[@syzygy3239]

To tell you how old I am. We used a Honda 3 wheeler. A 100 foot ski rope and a round sled. But the laughter was so bad that we where wet from falling down from laughter.

[@MillyRue]

Do you work with a company to watch the markets or do you guys do that yourselves??

[@mikemitchell2554]

Selves normally

[@trevorbacelli]

Boys will be Boys, Mike you and your work mates are like young pups,having a fun time, I suppose it breaks the boredom of waiting for the last truck to come to finish unloading the wheat out of the big bag, wish you all a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2021, Regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia.

[@scottmcgregor2757]

Those bags seem like a fuck load of waste. My god, on our farm father has a fit if a single bushel of anything is on the ground.

[@matthewgilbert9743]

Y'all need a snow tube for a real show 😂😂 that looked like so much fun

[@YouTube_Professor]

Snowtube and a waterskiing tow rope is what we use , works awesome and so much fun

[@AllisChalmersMN]

Looks like Canadian country kids are the same as Midwest country kids.

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Absolutely Gotta LOVE those International Road Trucks. What an awesome design.

[@marcV8diesel]

I really like how those International Lonestar trucks are looking... You guys own those trucks Mike?

[@rubenbraekman4515]

Mike those are some sick semi's, holy cow

[@1JeanPearl1]

This just goes to show, even huge farms like mike's still have alot of physical work and annoyances like scooping the snow or rotten grain.

[@rubenbraekman4515]

Yeah, you'd think he would be able to put it all in those huuge bins he has but I guess last years crop is still in there lol

[@mp40submachinegun81]

@@rubenbraekman4515 hes got like 40,000 acres or something those bins wont hold it all.

[@robertfranssen]

Almost 100k subs Mike. Good job from you and the whole Mitchell clan

[@HondaCivic-lj4ri]

Please help I’m weirdly addicted to eating snow

[@shettysuhas8030]

Mike increase your speed on that Sledge 😂😂

[@mikemitchell2554]

Agreed!

[@ExcitingTaste]

Benchmark: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3SVeZiOg9Kmq6c

[@perryc8943]

Hey Mike you guys Run summer Tires and then switch over to winter tires or just run an all-terrain.

[@allancundiff8027]

Dumb question! What do you do with the old bag after you empty it.

[@gizzmo667]

Got to ask Mike Mitchell why is most of your gear European really like your choice but why not John Deere case or cat

[@mikemitchell2554]

I like them all, and sometimes you just wanna jump into the neighbors pool naked!

[@gavinperry7237]

Riding a GT in a canola field and wiping out is good for a “Fascial” 🤣🚑😂

[@Jaxon-iu6vb]

I was going way too fast on my dirt bike in our harvested canola field once and crashed. I got little burns all over myself from the stubble. Those little burns were painful!

[@koryleague8833]

Great video mike. I won't share my horror stories of picking up bags.

[@joshwright6834]

Tractor tyre inerrtube with a bungee cord was what we used in the snow amazing fun

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Mike

[@aloneiplay26]

Remember sledding like that with 3-4 kids back to back on the back of a ski-doo, whoever was last was always eating snow!

[@seajeepstar7516]

Hey Mike, I ve got a question. You probably figured I would. What is all that white stuff on the ground? Looks like my dog got to a bean bag. You say its cold, is that like long t-shirt weather. I'm in Perth, Western Australia and cant relate. Today 12 - 29 degrees C

[@Jaxon-iu6vb]

There’s usually snow on the ground from November to March.

[@wildlifecameraYT]

What a nice video, made my day for sure!

[@shawnwaguespack1130]

Now that looks like fun but definitely fun while waiting on trucks...

[@timkelley8775]

That looks like too much fun.

[@gabykatut]

That big farm is yours?

[@letoniemas6606]

Dosent the whole bag thing cost a lot more money tan building a corn Tank at the field?

[@mikemitchell2554]

No, bags are relatively cheap and make grain disappear quickly when combining

[@Fadlan_Ala]

Imagine u go faster and then the car breaks u will be potato with that slide

[@wildlifecameraYT]

😂😂

[@scottb2712]

One of the best sleds I've ever used was... An old Christmas tree.. The branches make great shock absorbers

[@scottmcgregor2757]

And oh the memories on a pulled snow racer. Literally wore a front ski out. Paper thin. And also snuck one in a ski hill once. That was a ride.

[@shaunandjodydearing3159]

How many truck and super bees do you have

[@mikemitchell2554]

🤔 6 suber b's and few more trucks

[@jamjardj1974]

Great piece.

[@stanoreilly1992]

Mike - great videos - and credit to you and your team regarding the business you have built up.....would you consider highlighting the dangers around machines etc as you do your videos - for example the open PTO shaft on the auger - there are thousands of machinery addicts watching your vids and a few small references to safety from tie to time could save a life or a limb...I’m genuinely not a buzz killer - I just think you have a great chance to make a small difference - thanks Mike - Stan from ireland.

[@domthomas1002]

Next time, try one of those saucers. You can fly, (really), fly with those things. Make sure you have your health insurance up to date. (laughs).

[@wisconsindairyfarmer]

No mike what you do with the bags is build the world biggest slip in slide to the city

[@makingithappen5178]

You have very nice trucks. In Sweden it is 24 meters and 62 tonnes which is the legal weight.

[@AustinRichardson192]

Can we get mike to hundred thousand subs before 2020 ends? Keep up the great work mike

[@larswallingpedersen9028]

What about safety at the power transmission between the tractor and equipment :-|

[@gavinperry7237]

I once was pulling two of my nephews on snowboards behind my vehicle in a field and did a donut resulting in wrapping the ropes around the vehicle and tearing off the wiper blades. 🤣🏂🏂😂

[@wildlifecameraYT]

😂😂😂

[@protic4]

Not many hills for sledding out there eh? Gonna have to build a ski hill :)

[@scruffy6151]

Got to have something to past the time away when waiting.

[@coryferguson]

Mike mike mike hey mike. Hi Lol I dare you to touch the chain on the pto

[@HackerKracker0815]

Engelbert Strauss ... cool

[@jorisboelen1587]

Can you do a truck tour and shop tour

[@dougberry1011]

Great snowmobiling area.

[@davidjohnson3949]

How many trucks per bag?

[@lawsonexteriorsltd9908]

Got the tailgate down so he can hit the brakes and lose some teeth

[@thatREDMONKE_v2]

So......How many bushels can you put in a bag????🤔

[@wssides]

Do the math. 10ft od X 300ft. Then you have to decide if you are selling Canadian bushels or USA bushels because our gallons are a different size.

[@dennisgregor4091]

feel sorry for the guy with the #10 scoop

[@starfarmer716]

the moisture of the ground dont pass the plastic? esspecialy if rain an the groud holds water?

[@wssides]

That is a good thing you can say about plastic bags- they are water proof. I want to know if they are presently recyclable or will they have to be stored for years before their hydrocarbons can be reused.

[@BloodBrothersUnit]

Awesome video , the sliding is crazy

[@johnearhart8811]

That is so cool, got to get a couple of them for grandkids. Thanks Mike

[@pietoosterhof5901]

Mike, how ton or kg is a busil?🤔

[@RedNeckBiker109]

Whats is a bushel of grain worth?

[@lolek8536]

Ale walek wom nie ma oslony az strach patrzeć

[@johnzuck6163]

My first experience with grain bags was with a French farmer in Duck Lake sask who had a massive feedlot. That year everybody had wet grain like 20%+. What he did was purchase all he could and at that time put it into silage bags similar to what you have, grain bag technology didn’t exist then. I looked at his operation as I was unloading and he asked me “well what do you tink?” I replied “that’s the craziest thing I have ever seen.” Wrong reply! Looked at me and said “YOU TINK I’M CRAZY “!. Ha we had a laugh after .

[@2000vph]

Was that a genuine Swedish build Stiga sledge? I tried to convert 1300 bushels of wheat to metric tonnes. Is it like 35 000 kg?

[@realredditstories420]

For reference 54,000 kilograms is 120,000 pounds 64,000 kilograms is 140,000 pound

[@rongrace479]

You make the videos fun

[@mentalsid3701]

A good bit of "team bonding" right there!! All work and no play is not that productive! Good to have a bit of fun but when its time to work,,everybody knuckles down and gets it done!!! Cheers

[@mentalsid3701]

New Sub fae Bonnie Scotland !! Lovin the vids!!!!! Cheers

[@rvhome5599]

Mike Please fix the PTO safety shields, it is very dangerous and deadly, in Manitoba you would be held liable if someone gets hurt and face jail time. So please fix that, think of what it would do to the family of the person who gets hurt, it could be you or your family

[@WetCoaster]

Ahh. The GT Snow Racer. Gotta love winter.... Mike, you may want to find an interpreter to adjust those gross weights for the viewers south of the 49. I can see them laughing at only packing 63.5

[@snakeman48]

Sledding behind a truck!! Some people's children, they never grow up..LOL

[@pieter3388]

Are you the big Boss of this company/farm or do you work for someone?

[@mikemitchell2554]

My family and I own it, so I guess I am one of the boss's

[@pieter3388]

@@mikemitchell2554 Nice 🔥

[@bigun447]

Be real men, use water skis to snow ski behind a truck or ATV. We are known to have done cornfield skiing in stubble. But you guys probably have snow skis available. Tip for cold fingers. soak them in cider.

[@sebastiangod5941]

How old is frankles?

[@novadevelopment454]

Woke up just in time to watch

[@gorila16]

Hi Mike ! Akron produces it in Argentina and exports to several countries including Canada and the United States. It is a company from the state of Córdoba from which I am a native. I love your videos and I send you a huge hug

[@russrecker5344]

Lmao too fun watching you guys on the sled! Where I come from in Traverse City Mi. The snow would cover them bags some years. You would have to clear them all off before you unload?

[@B.E.Long.63]

Nice looking truck..

[@ernestrollins383]

Mike your fans want to know if you do most of your own stunts? And if not, how many of your stunt doubles have been seriously injured during filming? 😂😂😂

[@mikemitchell2554]

3 have since quit due to the repeated hospitalization 🤣

[@tedb.5707]

Before WW2 my grandfather and his cronies in Central Minnesota would tow a skier across the fields or down roads with his Indian motorcycle. Suddenly coming across a wire fence or a deep County drainage ditch added to the danger/thrill.

[@diggerdave.6587]

Hey guys! Mike, I was thinking about the damage the critters cause to the grain bags and how to maybe prevent it. Would it not be possible to use a bag from the previous season as a reinforcement layer over a new bag? or are the small grain loss and repair costs an acceptable part of the system? The sledding looked like fun but when the guy rolled off at the end I was remembering just how cold it is on bare hands. Stay safe Dave.

[@rongrace479]

Mike you guys are crazy

[@rs8617]

Bravo mike good job 👍

[@randybedker1584]

We used to do that down the road

[@pietoosterhof5901]

A very nice system Mike, you explains it very good.👍

[@jeffbrooks6166]

Awesome Mike👍😆Thanks I used to have fun just like that now I’m too fat and old and It would take me to long to recover if there were any injuries lol 😆. If you had a couple snow machines out there that would be a different story it would be on like donkey kong #polaris snowmobiles

[@krissyhofer8035]

Smooth operation. I'm probably not going to teach you anything about akron extractors. It seems like you mentioned every weak spot that we come across also. We got rid of the shear pin in the chain case by welding the two pieces together and running Reynolds h80 chain which kept a guy having to open that chain case and playing in gear oil in the cold months a little less. Also see your pto shaft is moving in the bearing/collar. What we did was weld a washer to the end of the shaft and use the right amount of spacers/washers to butt up against the locking collar or i suppose drilling a hole in center of shaft and threading it for a bolt would also work. Another thing is to take the hitch pin slop away by running the biggest pin possible and making some sort of sleeve if the extractor has bigger hitch hole then tractor. Akron has made changes on their latest model by removing the the chain case shear pins and gearing it different in the back to move more of the load up front but there can still be improvements made on the chain tensioning set up. They keep slacking off overtime and the chain jumps so back in the gear oil you go. i think a heavy spring loaded tensioner would be mint.

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hey I appreciate that input! I never thought about welding it where sheer pin is.. But we think about welding the end where the PTO shaft keeps sliding around! Haha just haven't done it yet

[@pullimgsm]

Grain bags seem to be very labor intensive both to fill and unload. Quality of grain after storage is questionable. And the you have the cost of buying them added to the cost of labor. And what about disposable costs of the plastic waste. Are they really worth it to use other than as a emergency type storage.

[@webluke]

When you don't have a hill in a few hundred miles and never seen a mountain, dragging your work buds behind the truck is all you got. I guess the bags are all you can do with the distance to your yard or a grain port when you are full tilt trashing the field in the fall.

[@JohnDeerefan-fo1qp]

How many tractors and trucks do you have roughly? That are front line service say?

[@rexjerome5931]

As a kid (before tubeless truck tires became popular) we used to tie 3 or 4 truck tire tubes together into raft to drag behind a pickup and a bunch of us would ride those together. You could turn the pickup and get the same whip action as on the water. And yes, snow goes places there should not be snow! 🤣

[@Saddletramp1200]

Your as crazy as I was at your age. I just subscribed. I hauled the grain, cotton, ect.

[@snowman5609]

Why do you mess with those bags has big as you are if it was me I would be putting up a bin site with the holding capacity for all the acres you run with a in closed drive though for loading and unloading instead of dealing with the cold snow and the wildlife but that just I like simple and easy now I know your going to say those bins cost money but of all people should know you have to spend money to make money.

[@mikemitchell2554]

I tell the banker that all the time!! 🤣And yet, here we are 🤦🤣🤣🤣

[@HootMaRoot]

Get yourself a bodyboard they can take lots of abuse. I managed to get to around 40 to 50 mph behind a quad on a mix of wet grass and sand, only tried it once in snow on a tarmac road got to 60mph before I sh1t my pants and let go of the tow rope

[@dougberry1011]

How many B-trains do you have? How many of stored grain are left to empty. Lots of work.

[@martinagoetz8485]

Like Canadian trucks you back with some practice. Ours you have 6 foot

[@eugenespreutels8305]

Love it Mike! Just what my brother's and I would do with some down time. Impressed that you remembered to bring a sled with you, lol.

[@kmac6399]

Haha I havent rode a GT in years. We used to haul each other behind the four wheelers through the woods haha lucky no one died. Was great fun until the driver decided to "crack the whip" then you were in for a ride LOL