TOPPING - EVERYTHING HAS GONE WRONG

[@niallgilmore2411]

Respect for not editing out your mistake 👍👍👍👍👍🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

[@EleanorPeterson]

Well said, Niall! I love an honest video. I'm pretty sure that some of the very impressive USA farm videos are edited (censored!) so that everything's always positive and heroic and perfect and noble and great. Too many USA flags on show for my taste. It's like watching a propaganda film made by Disney to impress Russian, Chinese, and North Korean viewers. Tom (and other top guys like Farmer Phil) are just ordinary working farmers. They may have bad luck or even make the occasional mistake, but showing it honestly and not trying to cover things up just makes me admire and respect them more. :-)

[@DB-mk5kt]

That's what makes this real. A day to day life with a farming family the good the bad the disappointments the struggles , the dos and don'ts. Ooops!😊😊 I love this channel.

[@dir372]

Great video tom I'm glad you post when things go wrong as well as good as it gives us a real taste of farm life.

[@EleanorPeterson]

When you spoke about a topper I was hoping we'd see you wearing a silk top hat in the cab. A monocle would be a good look for you, too... Jolly good show, what? Carry on, old bean! ;-)

[@MalcOfLincoln]

When I was at my first job Tom, bit younger than you chap said 'I've made a balls up, hope I make a lot more else I'll not live long'. Just one of my early lessons. Another of course was 3 point linkage. Remember it was on tractors like mine. Last year hooking up the plough, left arm in position, slip pin in. Alter height of adjustable arm and line up hole if necessary. Put top link on, lengthening or shortening as required. Hadn't done it for??? about 50 years but still remembered. Bit different on new tractors, equipment of course. Hey I couldn't even drive your tractor until you showed me how lol.

[@paulparnell3839]

Brilliant video Tom love the fact we see warts and all and they are only mistakes if you don’t learn from them keep the videos coming and Happy Farming

[@JJ_MacLeod]

Good video Tom! Glad you film and upload the things that go wrong as well as the things that go right!

[@joehamill7505]

Great video tom just a piece of advice when u go around corners u should lift the topper so it does not damage the skids

[@voxxag8054]

Cut those ball ends off and weld or get welded some hook ends. Your life will become easier straight away. And a bookend for your toplink. P.s nice tedder. Fella hydro. Same as us. 👍

[@OhNo-wf7et]

It’s only a small Tedder

[@rhyswatts6271]

Don’t worry about hitting that tedder on the way out. Nothing can be as bad as when I was pulling out of the shed in the sprayer and I drove into the fertiliser spreader and the contents spilled out around the shed

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Rhys Watts hahahahh

[@rhyswatts6271]

Let’s just say dad wasn’t the happiest bloke on earth

[@danielpooler4201]

Rhys Watts holey shit

[@southaussiegarbo2054]

No need to cry ofver spilt fert

[@bobpaterson1845]

When attaching 3 point linkage make sure you are in line to implement and attach left link arm first as you look at back of tractor and that way if right hand link is not in line you can screw it up and down with levelling handle, then attach pto shaft top link etc 😊

[@cloudmaker]

Very good advice this.

[@benallen4632]

ayee, only way to do it

[@Steven-on9se]

Are u from donegal Robert?

[@bobpaterson1845]

Steven 6610 no Steven am from Scotland

[@annebell7274]

What a day for you Tom. I hope you got plenty hugs from Jo.🚜🌷🚜

[@rorytclancy]

Putting on a 3 point link starts with taking one off, the easier it comes off and more level the easier to link up. Love the videos Tom well done 👏

[@russellmiller3660]

Cracking video as always Tom. I always put some oil or grease on the three point linkage balls. They take as much hammer as any bearing or pin. Livestock farmer and engineer. Keep up the videos.

[@wallaceloan4169]

Love the way you shared the mistakes. It happens to us all. I reversed back with the more on and forgot the brakes were split on the tractor. It spun round and hit the dry stone wall. Bent the bed. Father was not a happy bunny.

[@mikiekearney1771]

Tom it just saying the topper is one of the hardest things to put on anything else if a lot easier in my opinion.

[@CJSlayerrr]

Hi Tom, I think the thing with 3 point machines (especially mowers) is that you have the attachment level, then it's just getting experience of reversing the tractor level with it. Just a case of experience of hooking up.

[@kaceybowman9110]

When ur backing the tractor put ur arms of the tractor underneath, and then lift the arms up from outside using the lever, and guiding the arms on. Then put the pto on and top link. That’s how we do it anyways, hopefully it helps. Great vids

[@d7840]

Most farmers i work for have stopped using toppers now and just use their silage mowers to top, they say it cuts cleaner and the field grows back much quicker. If there is too much grass left behind they row it up and bale it!.

[@mikerom9958]

Another good vid. Tom. Don't be so self deprecating, we all learn a great deal from mistakes! Keep yourself, and those around you safe. All the other stuff can be repaired/replaced, have a good week.

[@moiwilliams170]

we have a jungle buster that uses chains bu its costly in diesel because it uses high revs and doesent have a big working width ,so we top our fields with a second hand mower and it does a great job , cleans the fields right down

[@randolphbutler1832]

Hang in there TOM there are better days ahead ! 😷👍

[@mairtinheneghan8795]

Personally I go for each arm, pto and then top link, but that’s dealing with a little semi offset topper on a fierce simple tractor,was taught how to put on the 3 point link properly in college but still just pull and drag it until it fits

[@thomaswilson719]

Nice vid Tom keep up the good work, we've been on toping as well

[@brianodea6427]

Tom a bit of advise for you.. went topping do your rounds first as normal and when stripping start in middle and work your way from the middle out as in right to left which will caus less damage to field and the same applies to rolling silage ground and also I'll c you lamma 2020

[@banditbeggers533]

Nice 1 mate. Not this week but years ago now I did a lot of bail carting for a mate jd tractor front loader artic trailer he was bailing I was carting last load in the dark I finished and watched where he left the field as like I sed it was pitch. I must have been a meter to the side of where he left the field and I got stuck right down to the axles fully loaded couldn’t believe it

[@MH-270]

When hooking on an implement most people make the mistake of not going back enough as when they stop and pull the hand brake on quite often the tractor will move slightly and may result in a struggle when putting in the pins. Also I find that if u get stabiliser arms instead of chains it will hold the arms in the right spacing for the implement a minute spent before backing up to the implement help a heck of a lot

[@GEOFFKV6080]

Its just practice putting something on Tom. Make sure your square on to the implement makes life so much easier. Another little tip grease the power shaft before youve got it on the tractor youve got loads of room to work that way. Cracking video

[@hillbillycat65]

Stuff like that happens to everyone all the time, just that most try to hide it. Respect to you for showing real life. We all learn from our mistakes.

[@Chgtuber]

Everything went wrong when I broke my ankle. I went from doing all kinds of work, to doing nothing. Keep strong and healthy! Thank you for being happy even when things go wrong :) You always learn.

[@pamelanoirot1427]

Tom i have to tell you i think besides graeme and your dad . you guys are the most honest men i know. And to admit you did something wrong makes you three the best of all men. You all are at the top in my book and please show this to your wives. They probably know but just too let them know how really lucky they are. Men like you and graeme and your dad don't come along very often in fact i have never met any until i started watching u tube and im 71 years old so ive been around. Please share this with the hoof gp and your dad . i hope the 2 of you reach 1 million this year!!!

[@danoohara397]

Hi. I’m here in rep of Ireland. There’s a unit for sale made here in Ireland called dromone quick link. It’s a quick hitch that you bolt into your implements , fertilizer spreader , topper , mower etc. you can attach any implement in seconds. Very handy. There’s a video here on KZbin of it working.

[@farminstoltzfus]

We call it "clipping" here in the States. What grass species do you have in your pastures? Orchardgrass can get away from us in the spring that it will need to be mechanically cut to get regrowing and our perennial ryegrass will shoot a head n go dormant as soon as it gets hot n dry in mid summer and might clip pastures again after significant rain or when I irrigate our lagoon water onto the pasture

[@Hutchie281081]

Just to echo a lot of the comments on here - making mistakes is much better than faking perfections. Accept them, learn from them and move forward. Respect for showing your lows as well as your highs.

[@magk14kav]

Hey Tom. Any chance of a video on the parlour and milking machine ?

[@adamsandrew5587]

I think you need to lengthen the top link on the tractor. It seems to be crowded in to the tractor so that when you lift the topper, it throws all the weight to the front. It's also evident when you move the topper into the topping position - the front edge drops to the ground.

[@marvelouslymad2824]

After watching your videos I don't feel so bad about selling my herd. I thought I must be doing something wrong. No it just really is that hard and stuff always always goes wrong. I'll keep rooting for you!

[@trevorjarvis3021]

Another great vid Tom, we all make mistakes even us “armchair farmers” as long as we learn from them. The great life story!

[@vektar8348]

My Fleming topper used to drift back. To fix there is adjustment on topper. A small box with pipes going in.

[@nyle1717]

Great Video. best thing about you is you explain why you do things not just how.

[@ferguson20diesel49]

Tom them side arm toppers do that any way not matter how dry or wet. Ours keeps swinging back to transport position it broke shafts

[@DVVANITY]

When attaching the pto I was taught to put bottom 3 point linkage on then connect pto then top link as it frees up space to move about inside the space also line it up mower pto with pto shaft and butt it up to shaft before trying to slide it on that way any adjustments left or right just turn mower pto till it slips on 👍

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

Like the topper, better than the pull behind we have. Saw OLF'S Ag Talk In The Raw. I thought it was pretty nice of him. Grtz from the netherlands

[@normfergus8472]

Tom I think you will find that the topper has a breakaway mechanism which allows the machine to swing back should it hit a solid object such as a strainer post this can be adjusted to stop the topper swing back under normal operation i.e. When the ground is dry and there is more friction. Hope this makes sense

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Norm Fergus 100% mate

[@ralfcourtauld7033]

Don’t worry Tom I’m also terrible at hooking up implements on the 3 point linkage and today I managed to rip my beacon off the tractor in a black thorn bush and also got out flail topper jammed up with wire

[@lukeconway3454]

They jam up with bale wrap off dumped bales and wire when ever I do fields that have being left "fallow"

[@lindenbergers]

Good haircut, you and the fields! 😁

[@cloudmaker]

Glad you left in your mistakes we have all made them in our younger days, that's how you learn. However i would have kicked your arse for taking out the tedding machine! When contracting years ago i had a runaway and overturned my beloved Massey Ferguson. It was brought out to me on the dealers low loader several weeks later with the latest cab on. It started to rain whilst i swapped the machine over, first load out slid it on it's side into a deep ditch. Good explanation of why do topping, animals will eat that spindly stuff after it has been cut.

[@tomg276]

I have watched all of the videos and their have been amazing!!!!!

[@graemeriddick3222]

Great video tom, my worst accident this week was the log splitter going through the back window😳

[@cocodonkey]

Been watching the videos for about 6 months now, only just realised from the drone shots where your farm is - must have driven past loads of times. Definitely going to call into the farm shop. Find the videos very interesting keep them coming. Less haste, more speed. Lucky to get away with that one, but that's what life is about . I've never stopped making mistakes !

[@agri_videosireland7233]

With our tractors you just leave pin and ball in machine and there is a little clip on arms and you just lift it up into it, a lot faster!

[@patrick0connell772]

As the song say they be days like this every day a school day Tom always learning

[@chrisbond8821]

I've got the same topper as that! Great bit of kit, leaves a nice cut. 👍

[@jonnyporter7901]

Well tom dont worry about not being good at the 3 point linkage as everyone says practice makes perfect, PS, remember to put the mike on next time

[@ganeshmohansingh8868]

I think u did well hooking up the three point..it is pretty difficult when doing it by yourself...

[@iancoupe20v43]

dont use a bent pto, that will now be running off centre and put extra strain on the bearings plus loads of vibration

[@diamondgaming9061]

Great vid Tom, we all have shitty days like this remember it could always be worse, Farm Life

[@matthewdavies2516]

My mistake today way getting out of bed o and putting 10 liters of red in a petrol machine not gone down well with the gaffer that one are well we live and learn keep it up Tom great vid

[@davk6059]

The closed end lift arm are always awkward to hook something on. If you had open ended lift arms it would make your life alot easier when attaching something.

[@mattaylortango]

I was wondering if using a Rotational Grazing system would avoid you having to perform 'topping'. I believe the theory is that you create small paddock with the cattle in which they are forced to eat whatever grass is there, even the stuff they don't like, then the next day or day after you move them to the next small paddock with newer grass. Effectively you get the cattle to do the topping for you.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Matthew Taylor I agree this would be a lot better, some people call it "mob grazing" the issue we have is that we don't have water troughs everywhere and would struggle with that system

[@robbrown1269]

Good video honesty all the way keep videos coming after watching you guys have bought a drone going to try some farming video

[@davidporter9556]

It’s the type of lift arms u hav they r a real pain to hook up. The hook type lift arm is a lot easier put the ball on the pin go under the pin an ball lift up an u r On

[@slimG2082]

3pt can be a pain in the a$$ no matter how long you have been doing it, I love the videos I like learning about farming in other places around the world

[@Tomhellyer]

Our sprayers boom’s hydraulics failed and we had to leave it in the field until we could organise a repair . it,s to big to rope.

[@Voevoden]

Would love to see a kit like this roll through downtown London topping all those super cars reving annoyingly over and over

[@Augie13]

Love the Spaceballs add in.

[@shaneruff7035]

I try to keep my implement level when taking off but almost never happens. I keep a 2x4 near the implements and back up hook one lower link then with 2x4 move it in place for the other lower link. Top link is last. Id rather move it then get on tractor and backup. Saves me time.

[@Ryan-cd9pm]

I hit a telegraph pole with a 1 year old claas rake, bent all 13 arms on one side, then bent them back and luckily bent them back. Still worked ok. As for the hitching up, if you do find it that little harder, maybe buy an A frame and should be much easier ??

[@gsbealer]

I’m 68 and find I’m surprised by my liking the music in your videos. 😱

[@BritishAgriVideos]

Great video Tom, Poor you! Hopefully next week will be better 👍👌😫

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Charlie's Farming Photography you need to see my Snapchat or instagram

[@BritishAgriVideos]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life haha 😫

[@fendt7248]

I find do I pass in the field 1st the I'd set the top link little higher so it won't catch the ground .. some people might not agree but worked for me this week . An don't mind about tedder Lest it didn't fall over 👍🚜🚜 keep up good work

[@eoghankeane2758]

Drive shaft broke on our topper an may I recommend video where u try teach ur girlfriend how to drive a tractor

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Eoghan keane hahaha I'll ask her

[@rorywhelan24]

@@TomPembertonFarmLife it still hasn't happened

[@Geisenyarder]

2 things: For helping your 3 point hitch antics, gangl docking systems looks like a great thing if you can spare the expense. Thing number the second, could you let me know the music you use please

[@bigears4426]

Overpacked bearings do overheat, ginger warrior is correct. Thats a nice spot where you live

[@Daniel-bn1hj]

Hello! I want to hear your thoughts about this? A farmer here in Sweden couple of years ago said in a farmers magazine: Move your cows more often instead of moving! Then the straws they will not eat won’t be not so many. His question was: Do you like to eat on a dirty plate! If your answer is no, then the cows won’t either. Their poop will be all over the place after cutting with that machine,yes? Btw that tractor seems nice, but i prefer the sound of 6 cylinder engine!👍🏻🚜 Do you have any 6 cylinder tractor on your farm ?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Lucky farmer MF 4270 Hi there, I get what he is saying but I don't think it would be as bad as that. We have done it like this every year and cows seem to do pretty well. It's not as bad if it rains on it after you have done it, which luckily it did today

[@bigboar9446]

My only mistake was not watching this video or subscribing earlier. Love your content Tom!

[@casto-]

Can't list what I've broken with a tractor or I'd never end the list! If I ever bump into you ill tell you them😂. I agree with your reason for an offset topper. I blew up the drag being 9 ft topper last year and bought an off set flail (video on my channel of it if u get realy bored😂) can't beat it's finish. Think your out of bad luck for a few weeks now👍

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Casto you should see my latest instagram post... not yet hahah

[@casto-]

😂 I won't ask! Just hope you still have the same amount of arms and legs as when you started the day!

[@garymcc5236]

You can adjust the bypass pussure on the toppers ram to stop it doing that.

[@minenotyours9031]

Farming is hard graf we used to have a 80 hp same and 80hp duitz which spent most its life either on fire or being repaired from fire. So the same got a lot of hours on it.

[@willmoore3790]

Tom we all have bad days but that phone bill bloody hell ouch nice topper looks well made

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

will Moore it's not the best is it hahah

[@farmercorby8281]

The mistakes I made this week was putting a hole through the bulls he'd with a tally handler and the throttle got stuck when I was in the field and went straight into a feeder an the worst I've done was not cleaning straw off the engine and it caught fire. We all make mistakes but we all find a way to solve them and sometimes blame it on something else lol. Nice vid and keep farming brothers and sisters :)

[@farmercorby8281]

I mean bull shed lol not bulls he'd

[@kieranosullivan02]

I thought you were saying the bulls head lol Better that it was a shed not a head. Sheds are repairable not so sure about the other one...

[@00networker]

We all make mistake mate how else you guna learn lol il come and do a vid shoot with you one day on the farm mate keep up the good work tom 👍

[@garretgraham785]

Tom videos are great...Garret Ireland

[@djdfarminglife731]

you could of used the case thats siting out side there it would save you from taking the trailer on and off the hurliman and with that case you could keep the tooper on it because you don't use it much in the summer thats just my opinion

[@edwardmorgan3186]

Hi tom my dad always told me to put the left link arm on first don’t know why but it helps a lot

[@jonnyporter7901]

Tom do u not have a spring on your topper to stop it doin that just at the pto because r major 8 foot topper does and its great. Great music today, can u put the names of the songs u use in the description plz

[@stuh9878]

I have got a teagle topper but unless i have the right link arm set higher than the left one i cannot get the topper to lift very high. These off set toppers are great on flat fields but hard work on dippy ones.

[@kevin6959]

I love all your videos tom I watch your latest one and it was fantastic

[@donalcallaghan1393]

The trailed topper is even better again

[@garethbryson]

naughty boy Mr Pemberton. first you attach the PTO with the tractor running and then you don't attach the chain to stop the guard spinning. lol

[@bradleytrewin8913]

In my younger days I didn't lock the pick up hitch up on the tractor, started tipping silage trailer and it unhitched and the draw bar went shooting up into the sky. It was ridiculously scary lol

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Bradley Trewin I bet!!

[@dester-kx1oj]

If the wirey stuff grows back dig a verge/ditch around field 7inches keep up good work Tom and what hp is your tractor

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great video Tom practice makes perfect

[@georgearmstrong952]

Put your arms all the way down when bottom arms are connected then drive forwards about half a foot and top link goes in easier

[@agrifarmingireland1604]

Get rid of those linkarms and get the quick hitch ones with the seperate balls they are miles faster and safer to put on

[@thecornishfarmer7217]

great video tom!

[@JamesYoung61]

Tom I was wondering if the piece of rope that you through in the back of the tractor was mean to tie on to the arm and hold the front edge of the topper up, then it caught on the ground.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

James Young nah it's to pull up when you want to open the topper out

[@eoincollins6751]

It helps if you get someone to work the hydraulics and tractor while you put on the linkage.

[@irishyt6158]

Can believe the weather is still like that in the UK, in Ireland it's been constant rain and clouds in the part I am in

[@fendt7248]

irish yt very little rain here in Wexford bit here are there still not enough for grass growth

[@jeffreyhollink985]

irish yt the neterlands is id dry tho no rain last 3 monts

[@irishyt6158]

fendt 724 all of the pastures in meath have greened up again

[@joechesters7936]

Mate youve got some nice classics, Lamborghinis, Sames, you dont see enough of them these days