One of many fires 🔥

[@menzimac6813]

23:55 „we didn’t lose much“ just 20 acres! In Sweden where I’m from it would be like a fifth of my whole land 😅

[@ytfan3815]

only 20 on a total of 40000 acres, ............... 😂

[@vrfarmerguy]

Probably got a mile down the road and thought man I should've grabbed my lunch box......6 hours later still having the same thought.....🤣. Awesome neighbors......👍 for getting that one stopped quick!

[@JanDreier-HH]

It was actually really nice to have to talk with, and about your crew. Do more of that. It really humanizes your video(s)!

[@DuffyInspect09]

Mike you may want to have a Flir infrared camera (not that expenses), that way you can see the hot spots below the surface.

[@LadyBugLawnCare]

That’s a great investment for any large scale farm.

[@tony-the-tigerjohns3294]

This is my experience of putting/keeping fires out under bushes and trees. Use the most concentrated stream of water you can to penetrate down into the ground, do not use the spray setting because all you are doing is watering the top of the ashes. The best thing I have ever seen for getting down into the roots was a pressure washer with a 500 gallon tank. It works much better than you think it would not only for getting down into the roots but also the spray that it puts out will also do well on a grass fire. Mike, you make great videos and I like your sense of humor!

[@nanoseTT]

Ah, man. When you said FIRE, my heart stopped for a moment. I remember helping out neighbors with my grandpa when I was little... Glad that the losses are so small.

[@bobbysears6626]

It’s good that you and all the neighbors world together! That’s why I love living in the country! Thanks again for sharing Mike!!

[@892guns]

(been binge watching your old videos) The realization of a little bit of foreshadowing in this video.

[@prattsgreenhousefarm9473]

Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work.

[@mattclark8436]

Good neighbors are a real blessing! Fires, another farming hazard. Something that doesn't happen very often in Iowa, however we have our share of combine fires! Interesting video, stay safe!

[@WendysCraftDen]

Hi Mike I have never seen such HUGE fields. I live in Wales GB and those field look the size of 1 county. Thank you for sharing.x

[@yarndog514]

Good on ya mike, always good to look after one another because you never know when you need their hand to help you out! Always like the longer vids too. Have a good harvest, I’m keen for mine in north west Victoria, Australia!

[@FastAgMontana]

Lots of fires over here too. We haven’t had a year without rain like this during harvest in a long time.

[@FERDABEERS]

We can’t get rid of the rain wish we could send some your way we just wanna hey started lol

[@mikemitchell2554]

Tho, it's nice for getting good quality grain! 😂 So there's always an upside, saw some fires down there yesterday

[@FastAgMontana]

Mike Mitchell “so that’s what wheat is supposed to look like.” The Wolf Point fire started right next to our land.

[@mikemitchell2554]

@@FastAgMontana Hahah 😂 right?! Yikes.. That's scary stuff man5

[@FastAgMontana]

Mike Mitchell Tell Will Hays hi next time you talk to him.

[@zzzubmno2755]

i really like these vids. again, being from northern ontario, i had no clue about these kinds of issues, like fires. its fun listening to you guys. you have a bit of an accent, but still sound like a typical canadian. I had a friend from sask. she use to tell me how big the farms were out there, as far as you can see. thats hard to comprehend when the property i own can be cut with a push lawn mower in 5 mins. ill keep watching your vids, keep them coming.

[@marshalloutdoors1791]

Way to go on trying to get to the 🔥! I love seeing others helping others! Take care Mike and crew🇺🇸

[@jeffbrooks6166]

Your brother would not have been standing near that tree if you had yelled timberrrrrr!! Great job men that’s some good team work. Thanks Mike👍

[@maniyan_wanagi]

Really enjoying the camaraderie that can only be found on the farm - memories of my time on Iowa farms 1960 - 1999. We were the sultans.......... we were the sultans of swine! I'm sure that you guys can appreciate that where most folks would say "HUH?"

[@geoaerorider4589]

16:01 “like my pit vipers” 😂 That a poke at anyone in particular?

[@farmcentralohio]

5:25 Mike pulls in a field to let combines pass, how freakin funny would it have been if one of those combines had been an X9 JD :) I have a feeling we would have been in high speed pursuit if that had been the case, or watching Mike give it the bird on it's way by lol

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hahaha that would have been awesome! Oh, the Fendt 1050 has a much higher road speed then a combine, would have been a funny forsure tho 😂 🤷‍♂️

[@dorsai2737]

Understand very well on fires, was a volunteer firefighter years ago. Have a pleasant week.

[@ruthandray]

T m

[@stanleyjones4180]

awesome video mike glad nobody was hurt, and you didnt loose too much crop thanks for the video

[@brentammons5736]

Your in a 400,000 dollar tractor and you said hook that tree to the pickup truck. 😂😂😂 Good ☝️ Mike. Keep the videos coming.

[@Rhelmer21]

The home owner should understand but if not he’ll get over it!! Another awesome video man!! I’m a small farmer in central Alberta

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Mike

[@johnearhart8811]

Wow.. Great neighbor. Thanks for sharing

[@ericglosten9014]

Mike is so dam cool 😎

[@gavinperry7237]

Don’t you DARE call an Aussie a Kiwi or visa versa😂🤣

[@grahamsenini8024]

Yep, them's fightin' words (in a friendly way, of course)

[@prjndigo]

Aaaay, quiet down there in the internment or it's nutriloaf again tomorrow!

[@interman7715]

Kiwis are just South Pacific poms .

[@stmcelroy4829]

Mike the pro till vers a tree was pretty cool. I’ve had the pleasure of pro Tilling a Couch in one of are fields East of Calgary before. 👋🏼 bye bye 🛋. Lmao.

[@mikemitchell2554]

That's awesome! I kinda wanna try now! 😂

[@matthewdowd4686]

Glad it wasn’t worse mike!! Great work, great explanations as usual!! Thanks for sharing w us!!!

[@jonathanharder6699]

At 20:30 he is thinking: "oh boy, you sended it a little bit too fu**ing hard"

[@andban92]

20:30 DUUUD,he didn't look very happy,lmao. I laughed soo hard,lool.

[@My123superman]

Our baler lost a stuffer bearing last year and burned down the baler, tractor and about 2 acres. Thank god for neighbors!

[@unknownuser2737]

I farm here in Indiana and I'm jealous those fields are huge. I couldn't imagine how much to seed you use to plant all that. If that was soy beans instead of wheat wow$$$$

[@danonotinthelionsden]

This video restores some faith in humanity man. 💪🇺🇸🇨🇦👍

[@rogerembry4777]

Glad some people across the border helped you guys, we love you guys!!!

[@mcd5082]

Love the videos man thanks!

[@lickwindowsdaily6989]

Honestly the best farming channel on youtube. so nice to have no bs

[@hairlesscat6458]

Is there a lot of BS in farming KZbin channels?

[@jtparker4978]

Stay safe Mike, hope there will be no more fires.

[@whitewolf7825]

Awesome job guys !!!

[@mickbennett2595]

Like I said before mike a dream job your so gifted and fires are not good I put my life in hands of God fighting a fire

[@tincan6929]

Lightening might have hit the power line then run to ground in lots of places along the line 😬 keep up the good work Mike .

[@checkengine1752]

They may install lightening cages on top of the poles. It stops arcing by directing plasma inside. The downside is you need to ground it to be effective, which in this situation is probably missing a point, because it will attract the lightning.

[@thewinefarmer7849]

Joe Doe ff

[@BazilRat]

Looks like your neighbours all did you a solid there - saved a lot of your crop by tilling around the fire!

[@scottmcgregor2757]

20 acres.... ha. Thats half our farm

[@theloniousm4337]

21:06 Lol - its like trees are aliens from another planet to you people. I've never seen anyone attacked by a tree before.

[@davidchain7742]

I see cole the cornstar has rubbed off you guys lol

[@Northern_Farmer]

Man..its so open down there!!

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Very lol

[@Northern_Farmer]

@@SouthSaskFarmer1 I always like a little bush haha

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

@@Northern_Farmer exactly when its clean and maintained not over grown amd all tangled hahaha

[@straightpipeacres6365]

👋🖐👋🖐👋

[@Northern_Farmer]

@@straightpipeacres6365 Hows she going?

[@mrbigedw.sr.1667]

Mike, ... Good info on fires, I grew up farming, and was a fireman. Very nice idea from another vid to get Your Wife and Family more involved.(you can skip the grave digger stuff, those corn folks do it and it gets old).

[@pseggons9512]

As a grass farmer I hope you moved the rock/stone so the mower does not hit it next year and start ANOTHER fire..... Glad to see the Uk is represented on the farm. Full time or harvest job ? Like the tuft, that has a good fire break but the rest is at risk !!!!

[@shawnclements14]

Awesome video Mike!

[@AureFreePress]

Good morning Mike... The Mitchell crew to the rescue ❤️❤️❤️

[@ViciouslyFish]

That sucks mike. Been there done that. No fun. Good luck this harvest!

[@gauravkashyap1957]

Love from India to America

[@kennethcarlton2860]

Mike a lot of people around here cut the perimeter of the field 1st then work it up so hopefully if a fire breaks out working around the field will stop or at least slow fire down

[@peterc2696]

Well you definitely won’t have to apply potash there next year LOL

[@drumminggoose444]

TIL a pro till will mulch trees. Also did you know that California has so many fires because you aren’t allowed to cut down dead timber, this you have very dry wood in the heat, all it needs is an ember and there goes half the state

[@komitadjie]

I'm not entirely sure that "protill" was really *intending* forestry. Or anti-forestry... Fun to watch. XD

[@mikemitchell2554]

😂 Thanks

[@bartoski-ag]

10:29 well someone is gonna have a big credit on their next bill

[@TomCRitucci]

"can't have a video without Mike saying goodbye 5 times" hahaha 😂

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hahaha it's so true! 😂

[@horselakeranch]

I grew up in Southern Alberta and we treated fire like you guys. Then I bought this place by ituna and people will start a quarter section on fire to burn the straw and leave. Took some getting used to.

[@plowboy7700]

We just had a fire a couple days ago. Started from our swather. Only burnt maybe a half acre. Lucky we had the disk ready. All the neighbors that were close came. Even though we had it out they came anyways. There wasn't anything to stop it if it got to the next field strip. Scary stuff. No rain since middle of June.

[@mickaelbissec7178]

Whaou ! Crazy ! All farmers rock ! 🙌

[@scottlange1419]

Love the channel! You should do a comparison video on your brother's Ford Tremor & your 2500 Silverado.

[@bigduck575]

I don't know if you guys do or not, but adding Dish Soap to you water tanks will help a lot with putting out those stubborn hot spots and extinguishing the fires.

[@nicke1903]

Mop up is the hardest part of fighting fire, if you don't get it right and cut in good, you'll be back. Here in the Mtns we don't really have many fires we can drive to, it's all walking In.

[@alanb9337]

How often does the powerline company wash the power pole insulators with a helicopter wash system? Should there be a bare dirt clearance around power poles during the summer crop growing season? Thermal imaging camera might be an addition to the fire control tool kit. Chain saws, a few other hand tools e.g Pulaski etc. Rake on a 14 tonne excavator etc.

[@gavinperry7237]

I will come with my free standing hammock & a case of wine and watch it for you 🍷🍷🍷

[@thomasg7978]

i love this videos thx from bavaria :)))))

[@rvhome5599]

Mike Watch the Welkers in Montana,they have a fire tamer and it’s in every field they do

[@Myamericanlife61]

Been there seen it done it Mike no fun loosing acres or equipment and of course human life had a couple of wheat fires corn and soy bean fires over the last few years we lost a combine trying to cut out the fire it went right up the feeder house John Deere’s burn quick that’s for sure I will definitely have to send you the videos one day glad things are all ok on your land man

[@dustinprice8897]

The combines should signal you like a on a snowmobile trail with how many are left in the pack lol

[@danrossell6375]

The combines should be hauling their heads on a carrier behind them instead of taking up the entire road.

[@believeinyourself7511]

California is full of fires now. Glad you all are safe. Will the power company reimburse you for the crops lost? Look up on KZbin the fires last year in Paradise, California caused by the faulty Power Lines. It burned the whole town in the mountains.

[@xCoolBreezex]

You know you’re on your own when there’s no fire department

[@mackbullock1210]

Nobody: Mike Mitchell: Let me just take this tree down with my protill. lol

[@ronriehle1337]

Happy you saved the "profit !". haha There will be Christmas presents this year !

[@charlesjones7116]

Frankles " you like my pit vipers?" O......k. Kinda like a burn after the 🔥

[@bigboar9446]

The more I see Brian in your videos the more I’m reminded of David Wallace from The Office

[@therealcow8282]

Big Facs

[@anderleof]

Haha.....right?

[@jeremymoreside1444]

Our neighbor bought 2 used overland fire trucks. They are 8x8 and have more cannons than I'd know what to do with them. Anyways we have an agreement with them to haul water to them and they will tackle the fires as we haul water and til

[@TricksRforKids903]

Same sort of set up in western australia with everyone having fire fighters but now days we have water tanks on our chaser bins(augar wagon)

[@mikemitchell2554]

Right, I have been told to do that, and that's a good idea.. But you can't go 30miles chasing fires with the Grian cart 😂.. So either way, we still have to have a truck with water tank on it the field.

[@Lordy29]

Chaser bin fire units are great for quick response if a harvester/header catches alight while they're working. Gives other people enough time to race back to the fire cart/truck and bring it over relieving the chaser to go continue with the other harvesters. But for basically anything outside the pdk they're working in, they're not worth grabbing. Offset discs or speed tillers are great stubble fire combatants 😁😁

[@TricksRforKids903]

My header burnt done last year failed bearing lost the header i was only one in 100km radius had to run to ute with tank luckly didnt burn much wheat

[@frankjoosten3501]

You're good neighbours!!

[@culmalachie]

Hmm, I'm thinking... I'm thinking ..... Phew! the responsibilities and the distances you have to travel ( time taken too) .... but the Fuel you burn running around ..... at what cost? - and getting deliveries - ' tanker a day keeps ...... away' But the Powerline Pole is still standing! .... Oh I'd better wathch my driving today - watch the 33kV Pylons here on the Skyline - tend to leave the Unloading auger out all the time- wear n tear from slewing all the time. thanks for posting

[@mattderr1013]

Man Mike you guys are dry. So glad they got it put out. Could have been really bad

[@smokey904]

Gosh that fendt is beautiful! I more of a claas, john deere, and new holland aswell as fendt kinda guy haha

[@PaperEater26]

if i were older, i would absolutely love to work with you guys.

[@tyler3148]

Hopfully the Americans that came to help don’t have to quarantine for 14 days cus they came to Canada 😂 just kidding good job for them coming to help

[@tquick3321]

I think Frankels like the camera the most on your crew past and present videos.

[@loadpin]

A good trick I’ve seen on hooking up your hydraulic lines is to attach colored wire ties (ty wraps), that should help when your in a hurry to get going. Glad everyone is safe and the fire was kept to a minimum burnt acreage.

[@ITubeTooInc]

Or colored heat shrink tubing.

[@ericgunter45]

Man Mike its dryer than a popcorn fart up there.

[@billfarmer7984]

Here in Colorado we need rain/snow bad. Drought like conditions throughout the state.

[@timcapell]

You are a good man, can those tiller blades hit trees and not get damaged? They must be very strong

[@MrChancebandit]

Did frank work at AMI in hawksville Ontario?

[@gtg765]

AH, canadian things... where i live my neighbours are the first cause of fire

[@theloniousm4337]

Where do you live? Kenosha?

[@pamacons]

I wonder if one of those flir cameras that attach to your phone would be able to see any spots smouldering.

[@tquick3321]

At least you drove over a tree success. I hope all is well man bummer to see

[@johngeiselbreth8397]

have being a fireman for almost 50 years sugessted to put soap r suffactant in your fire water helps with penatration for the smoldering fires

[@raypitts4880]

trouble is how farmers have a wagon with soap water in it plus time to find and take it to the fire look how long it took to get there with the protill what the others were there with something od use also who ever with the other protill did the most usefull move

[@PeterIJmker]

You need a JBC FastTrack for the situation .

[@straightpipeacres6365]

Them protills are better then water if you can get them in the areas you need

[@markymarc136]

Mike: keep trying real good ok! Good Job guys!

[@mikemitchell2554]

Ha! 😂 Love it!

[@namadon4twin]

0:04 Sam is not happy XD

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hahah no, she wasn't

[@makingithappen5178]

It is often said that fire on a boat, is the worst thing that is, but a fire in a grain field. must be somewhere up there too. On dit souvent que le feu sur un bateau, c'est la pire chose qui soit, mais un feu dans un champ de céréales. doit être quelque part là-haut aussi.

[@jtn-minn8105]

How do the Montanans get across the border....jump the bob wire,cut it,drive through it? Are there just gravel roads you can just go on?