Farming Youtubers

mythos110 · 21-09-2021 11:17am

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Its the silvermines mountains. Up in North Tipp on the Borrisoleigh/Templederry border

funkey_monkey · 21-09-2021 12:18pm

Lovely looking ground you have and looks like a nice area too. Do you just do machinery videos or you got any stock ones?

Well maintained looking machinery too 👍️

mythos110 · 21-09-2021 12:42pm

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I hardly have time to bless myself to be honest. Working full time off farm with more than 2.5 hours commute a day, & have 2 small kids so really only do a few drone shots when driving the machinery at the weekends. I might try and get something on the stock but easier said than done.

I like the machinery myself. I worked as a mechanic before going to college to do engineering and I try to keep things fairly well maintained. Its more a bit of craic to log some of the work on the farm for future reflection than an effort to produce stunning content! 😁

I must pick up a go-pro to get some sound shots as well. The drone is great for the footage, but the lack of original sound means that you have to add background music or it gets terribly boring.

Thanks for the compliments. Its a great area to live in to be honest and the farming is a great distraction to clear the head after work!

Link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvbByhPRREh7u4o8MA9Fuw

jaginsligo · 21-09-2021 1:02pm

Love them Renaults, they look great.

I agree with on the farming clearing your head, I work on computers & love getting out in the evening or weekend doing a bit to help the head

timple23 · 21-09-2021 1:51pm

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No it would be Upperchurch/Kilcommon/Hollyford area I think.

funkey_monkey · 21-09-2021 1:55pm

Certainly is - I can see that you could easily be sucked into a hole of elaborate content making very easily. I like the idea of documenting the work you are doing for future generations to see how you farmed the land.

Take is handy and enjoy the kids when they are young - the more you put up, the more folk will want!

mythos110 · 21-09-2021 2:43pm

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Looking over Templederry 👍️

timple23 · 22-09-2021 1:12pm

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Listened to it, ifarm really kickstarted his business, only 10 sales before video was put up, over 150 a week after the video.

Wonder how ifarm will feature his bins now that he is putting in a meal bin, kind of defeats one of the main selling points if he is going putting in a meal bin on an outfarm instead of using the bin.

funkey_monkey · 22-09-2021 6:37pm

Can you put them on tractor and go to the store to get them filled? From what I've seen of them, when empty there is no obvious way of securing them to the loader/pallet forks/bale handler to prevent them from bouncing off when driving along roads.

Suckler · 22-09-2021 6:45pm

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I use a ratchet strap.

ruwithme · 22-09-2021 9:47pm

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Suppose it became hard to resist a new meal bin at the right price. Will be top of range with all the bells & whistles a meal bin can accomadate.

Pussyhands · 22-09-2021 9:57pm

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If he needed that much of a work life balance he wouldn't be making youtube videos.

Lad plays the poor mouth the whole time. Says he doesn't make any money from the farm and that the youtube money keeps him going. Yet they're buying new tractors every other week.

Tileman · 22-09-2021 10:21pm

I don’t think Phil has much access to the income generated from the farm. I think they lost their shirt with lost cereals from weather a few years ago .

often see it anyone that stays at home. They are never financially independent.

much better to head off to work else where for a few eats rather than being a slave to the farm.

DBK1 · 22-09-2021 11:56pm

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That’d be my thinking on it too. There’s absolutely no way anyone that’s genuinely busy would have time to be making and editing all them videos.

emaherx · 23-09-2021 7:09am

Genuinely busy making videos along with whatever other farming he does, at this stage YouTube is a fairly decent additional income stream for him and probably as important as any other farming activity.

You make it sound like he's wasting his time making and editing all those videos.

orm0nd · 23-09-2021 7:35am

I think Liv helps with the editing or does the most of it.

patsy_mccabe · 27-09-2021 6:20pm

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How do you delete a post?

timple23 · 27-09-2021 8:10pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHL4WIbSbw

An interesting video of a day in the life of a meal lorry driver.

Say my name · 27-09-2021 8:39pm

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Not sure if the grants are still there for meal bins or were. But it's something that should be there. And then under Bord Bia ban the use of lofts.

funkey_monkey · 28-09-2021 11:59am

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Still waiting on him to finish the Crystal...

farmerphil135 · 02-10-2021 4:51pm

So I’ve just spent the last few hours reading all the comments on the board while piping slurry. Very interesting reading what people think and have to say about you. So I said I’d come on here and answer any questions ye have especially around advertising and how much you tubers make as the websites that claim to know how much we make haven’t a notion. Looking forward to reading your critical responses

farmerphil135 · 02-10-2021 4:53pm

Oh and if you haven’t figured it out my name is Philip Stewart better known as FARMER PHIL

Jb1989 · 02-10-2021 5:14pm

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Welcome along 👍🏻👍🏻

Suckler · 02-10-2021 6:11pm

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When will you realise the 3690 is only scrap and you should let me do you a favour and take it away ........for a mild fee to cover the transport.......

timple23 · 02-10-2021 6:28pm

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Hi Phil, when you say a video is sponsored by a certain business/company, does that mean they have gifted or loaned a product or do they pay an advertising fee?

Have you had to sign any non disclosure agreements/NDAs?

straight · 02-10-2021 6:43pm

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Thanks for all the work you put into the videos lad. Don't have the time to watch them all but I see a few. Father Phil is one chilled out man.

Odelay · 02-10-2021 7:00pm

I second that. Think the content and delivery is excellent. You'd put Ear to the Ground to shame. Well done and continued success to yours.

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White Clover · 02-10-2021 7:41pm

Well done Phil. You and the family are doing a great job.

I have been watching your videos with a couple of years now. The father has only been watching You Tube with a month or so and has already proclaimed that "Phil is the best of them" when talking about what he has been watching!

farmerphil135 · 02-10-2021 8:33pm

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Generally speaking when I say this video is sponsored it means that yes I’ve been given it/ received a discount/ paid/ earned commission on a link.

tho the vast majority of times I’ve just been given something to try out.I will say tho that I only promote/show what we’re genuinely happy to put our name behind trying to be as honest as we can while working with companies.

ive never signed any ndas generally any agreements are very loose and open to change

funkey_monkey · 02-10-2021 9:18pm

Hi @farmerphil135 has anything you've read on this given you food for thought on how you present or run your channel?

Do you think the contents on yourself and your channel are fair?

Is there anything we should see on your videos that would indicate that it is sponsored product? How much stuff would you reject from featuring?

ruwithme · 02-10-2021 9:19pm

What about that oul laneway the boss man had to follow you in & lift the mower a touch over a stump or other.

Seem to remember it caused a bit of debate on here over it.any reason its not being remedied by now or would it just not be silage time if it were.

farmerphil135 · 03-10-2021 12:06am

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There was a few things i can remember.

the videos being too long, i agree some are quite long and i like to think we've got better on that especially since liv has started editing the videos, tho i will say from my youtube stats videos under 20mins do not preform as well as videos over 20mins

my intro being annoying, from my youtube stats any video where i dont do my opening speel within 10sec of starting has a much higher drop off rate than videos where i do

the "poor mouth" stick, i regret saying what i said in that video, it was just one of them days and i vented my frustration in a video, in hindsight i shouldnt of mentioned it. things are better now but the root cause of it and the lack of investment in the farm yard, staff, etc. is down to the tillage crisis of 2016 where we lost our shirts due to bad weather, it also didnt help that beef wasnt a great trade for the following years.

they are fair everyone is entitled to their own opinion, we are what you see and we will never please everyone

when uploading a video you can tick a box to say the video contains sponsored content, which promts a little tag on the video for a few seconds when you start watching, which is rarely ever used by anyone, generally speaking if theres a link in the description theres some form of sponsorship going on.

ive turned down quite a bit, from torches to animal products to demos to parts and tools to apps to websites to services. all for different reasons form bad experiences, bad products, poor design, no relevance to the channel, no use for the product, competitors to companies already working with, which would probably be the biggest end of it and the hardest to get your head round

farmerphil135 · 03-10-2021 12:11am

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some of ye here hit the nail on the head, its ROW issues 3 farms and 1 house, no one wants to be helping the other and afraid of getting caught in telephone wires supplying the house, tho we did solve the problem for going back in with the baler but for fairly obvious reasons i couldnt let on.

einn32 · 03-10-2021 3:48am

New video from Evenflow is as mad as ever. Some trailer! Morris trailers I think made it. Has two rails either side to keep bales on board. I would have thought they still need straps though. Curtain side truck trailers still need straps.

jaymla627 · 03-10-2021 9:06am

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Is it fair to say the slurry side of the business would be the money making side of the contracting business and the silage/tillage etc is done to keep costs down for the farm side of things

timple23 · 03-10-2021 11:09am

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Is all your grain kept for animals on the farm or is any of it sold to other farmers/ feed mills?

Please keep the into, I like it.

Have you plans to develop the farm shop further? Will you keep it as a farm shop or will you try expand?

How far ahead are your videos planned? Aside from the obvious farming jobs that are upcoming, eg finishing slurry, housing, animals to factory. Do you have plans for other videos made that aren't on farm, eg like the liffey mills tour video?

timple23 · 03-10-2021 11:26am

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5V5oehodUg

Great video, yes I think they do need straps. The top rows don't have much holding them in, maybe because of the bottom row being on edge.

farawaygrass · 03-10-2021 12:58pm

Great channel Phil. Keep up the good work.

are ye well in your way out of the financial difficulty now from the bad harvest?

will you stick with taking all sorts of calves, good, bad and indifferent?

Do the videos take up a lot of your time?

You seem to genuinely get on great with your family which is great to see too

Mitchells33 · 03-10-2021 2:26pm

Great channel Phil, keep the videos coming.

I like the fact that ye work with older tractors, everything does not have to shiny and new. You are honest about how you do things and the system ye have in place.

Tileman · 03-10-2021 3:07pm

Much enjoy the longer videos than the short ones myself. Around 20-25 is the sweet spot but a few of your epic harvest ones were excellent.

Try make some more time for yourself and liv away from farm. U don’t notice the tears going by and you’ll be still doing the same thing in 40 years so try enjoy the best years if yer lives.

keep up the good work.

farmerphil135 · 04-10-2021 12:16am

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pretty much yes, the piping is the biggest end of what we do, the silage is a far cry from what we used to do especially the baling. the tillage is solely to keep feed costs down on the farm

farmerphil135 · 04-10-2021 12:21am

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just curious did anyone else get the vibe that the video was an advertisement for the trailer???

farmerphil135 · 04-10-2021 12:40am

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for the past few years everything weve grown weve fed to the cattle but this year we have grain to sell so the debate is wheter to sell to a mill take less for it but have no more work involved or sell it to farmers at a higher price but have to process it, treat it and bag it.

we plan on expanding what we have to sell in the short term and are planning on building a proper farm shop/cafe and a museum for all the vintage stuff within the next few years

99% theres no planning in it, its quite literally today were doing such a job and itd make for a decent video so i bring all my gear along, thats why sometimes my videos are a week or 2 old or quite literally made the day before i need them

dont have many planed videos ahead, i was to do a factory tour but they never got back to me but i may be videoing a massive tractor collection soon other than that nothing

farmerphil135 · 04-10-2021 12:51am

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were getting there slowly but surely, if beef prices hold out into the spring without any hiccups we should be able to put a good bit of the debt behind us

we will yes, we had originally planed on getting into numbers of cattle and then start buying continentals for finishing but the profit margins are to similar and all wed end up doing is tying up a huge amount money into the same number of cattle for the same return

not really when im working and filming i have to film around working not work around filming. every video takes 2-3 hours to edit but it depends on the number of shots in the video, also youll know how busy i am at a job by the number of different angles i have in a video

einn32 · 04-10-2021 5:46am

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How ya Phil? I enjoy watching your videos. Fair play to you and your family. All the best with the businesses.

Yeah I did. That's YouTube though. I've nothing against it really. There are advertisements everywhere now. The only guys I ever saw to not do advertising were OLF, oliver farmboy66 and western truck and tractor repair.

vincenzolorenzo · 04-10-2021 9:23am

Thanks for all the videos Phil. Really enjoy them and for me the main attractions are 1. the variety of stuff ye do and most importantly 2. its honest and shows the ups and downs of the family farm. Lovely to see the family all taking an active role too.

My own preference would be the 20-25 minute mark but the odd long one is great. The combine repair this year was epic.

Keep up the good work!

roosterman71 · 04-10-2021 9:25am

@farmerphil135 welcome to Boards! Savage that yer on here to give an insight. Hopefully ya'll contribute elsewhere in the Farming section too.

I like your videos. They would be my #1 place to head to for content. You're nearly unique in that you have such a wide range of things on the farm, and there's so much variety to the day to day work. It's great to see. I'd have no complaints about the length of videos, if anything I'd like more!

Would ye ever consider selling some of the machinery ye don't use? I think you said you'd 28 tractors. Would it be better to have 15/20 that are constantly used including the vintage ones? You've said yourself that the place needs a bit of investment. Interesting to hear about the debt and how that's impacted ye. Without ya being on here we'd probably never have known. Do the negative comments on the videos piss ya off when viewers may not know the full story behind why something is as it is?

Keep up the good work. The channel is a credit to you and the family.

Finally, mind the pumpkins. I've booked in to go get one late October :-)

funkey_monkey · 04-10-2021 11:09am

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Thought that myself - one part especially seemed to linger at the Morris sign on it - then I thought what would they get out of advertising on that channel. Would have been better off going to either yourself or Gerry.

GrasstoMilk · 04-10-2021 6:32pm

Think the farmer in that video actually bought that trailer, has a grain trailer made by them in it too

Ken wouldn’t be far from me here

JustJoe7240 · 04-10-2021 10:42pm

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That's a cool looking heifer standing to his right as he counts the stock.

Gas to see some of the critics run into the woodwork when one of the lads they're slating comes on here.

Laura farms is well worth a look...Solely for the tillage content of course.😏

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