Farming Youtubers

Well, you have Ifarm at one end of the scale and MC milking it at the other. He doesn't even own a fertiliser spreader and had to take a few weeks off farming because he got a tip in the head.

I think if you have cows you're pretty much married to the place if you want to do it right. You're example of the share milking sounds ideal until it all goes wrong and you are left with a big mess.

With the way slurry spreading is going towards LESSE then it is becoming more of a contractor job. Is I Farm not under the cut-off for LESSE anyway?

I thought the Massey was bigger than 140hp to be fair. Anyone around here shifting a 2000G tanker would be using that size of tractor and more. He has a few slopes about his place so better looking at the horses than looking for them (and the weight) plus when buying second hand, you buy what the market has to offer. At the minute the higher hp tractor are better value than the lower ones around the 100hp mark. I know this as we spoke to a dealer about sourcing us one earlier in the season and we were told that bigger ones are coming in better value than the smaller ones. Prices shot up and we didn't bother in the end though.

It is interesting to view all the different farm machinery strategies - MC Milking It is very sparse on the machinery side and I Farm is exceptionally well resourced.

I appreciate the way I Farm presents his farm and he seems to have a bit of a gra for machinery and field work, so we all have our own ways of going mad. I'm not really sure if he puts in significantly more hours than others, but he does seem to be tipping about pretty much every day at something. I'd say a farm in that condition and the way he runs it would tick over nicely. Not like he is trying to work boggy ground or use insufficient handling equipment. A relief milker used a bit more often for down time would do him good. Some people just don't like going away and would rather work away on the farm - he might be one of them, and if the family are happy then why not.

Dairy seems to be very hefty commitment and not one that I'd be cut out for. Fair play to those that do it.

Gerry was growing fast last year but someone reported him to the CoCo for allegedly spreading slurry in a storm and he said he nearly packed the videos in then. I think his heart went out of it a bit and quantity of videos dropped off for a while. He's back putting more regular videos out again. They're very tidy machinery work.

It looks to me like IFarmWeFarm has become a machinery nut to drive views of the channel. Look what he had when he started. 1 tractor and an 1100 gallon tanker and few bits like bale shear, mast shear grab, and not much else. he was dead set against a loader until he got one too. He's bought more in the last 12 months than the previous 12 years I'd say by the way he talks about it

Thanks - I've got 2 pointing outwards wire into junction box underneath tanker going to a cobo socket on the front of tanker and a removable cable to connect into cab with an inline switch just before the cobo in the cab - plugging in and out frequently will only wreak the socket imo.

Has any brand or manufacturer gone after anyone for defamation in court, this sounds ridiculous to me. I’d say they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

do you ever get a sore back from all the tractor work Phil? Longest I’d be in a tractor would be a bales in the summer. I do like going at it and do like when I finish 😂

or tired if doing a lot of field work like power harrowing, where they’d slow progress? Or do you just power on and get used to it?

a few times I’d have to drop the head and shut the eyes but 5 min would have me tight as rain again

Tipperary

Tipp . His videos are good. No waffle or product plugging.

Farming life at la Forge have a good clip up of an agricultural show in France.

Few Irish machinery firms represented there too.