It's drilling time on Harry's Farm. Linseed is the first crop to be sown.
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- In this update I explain how a modern seed drill works and visit a local farm machinery dispersal sale, to buy a new cultivator for Harry's Farm.
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Casually talking with Jeremy Clarkson but not even filming it or mentioning in title. This is what I like so much!
Didn't even notice Clarkson until you pointed it out! Can't stand Top Gear but will certainly start to watch his farming series. If it turns out to be racing a Massey against a John Deere or rubbish like that I'll turn off pretty quickly.
yea wtf
I thought that was Jeremy.
thought that was him...neighbours!
I love the complete absence of " click bait " with Harry's presentations . I doubt there's anyone else around who wouldn't have tried to make mileage out of this encounter . Harry is a class act !
Re-watching this after binging all 8 episodes of Clarksons farm.
I did the same. Clarksons farm was fascinating. I came to harrys farm as I knew him from evo and didn't realise he was a farmer. Harrys videos are also brilliant. Love watching them
Seriously Harry, you could describe paint drying and the chemical process involved and i would listen to it. Keep it up. Both channels are the best around 👌
Watching for the first time after finishing Clarkson’s Farm, thought that sale looked familiar… then we see the man himself!
I recognized the sofa 😂
looks like Jezza is taking his farming business seriously. Nice video as always
there was a massive camera to the left of him. it'll be something he's filming.
@@ZeeBri Yeah bunch of cameras about, filming something. Can't imagine is Grand tour but you never know
Nevermind just googled it, and he's doing a new series for Amazon called "I bought a farm". Harry's got some competition!
Good catch...I'd missed that...
I’m not sure I see him having the patience for farming..
The best stubble rake "IN THE WORLD"......
Harry, it wouldn’t matter if you started ‘Harry’s Needlework’, ‘Harry’s Lawn-mowing’ or ‘Harry’s Washing Machine’........you make the videos and we’ll all watch them. Just great stuff - every single video.
Oh I would love to see a Harrys' Lawn-mowing channel.
@@IrlDave71 he'd do it with a harvester.
He has won the lifetime achievement award ... twice. Harry Metcalfe. The most interesting man in the world.
Grew up on a farm, family stopped farming in 2001. Now I’ve been sending your videos to my old dad, and he is reliving the farm life
Jan Smid similar to you but it was 1993 still pick copies of farmers weekly for the old man.
Same hear - both my wife and I are from farming backgrounds and love watching this - even the nippers love it!
@@maximilianboost8498 woots a nipper, guvna
Nipper = child (ankle biter, nipper)
@@lolbots ''NIPPER'' a small handy person,nipping is a process used on a ship to pull up the anchor,etc,and makes a windlass more efficient.
Extras like the auction (rock walls, repairs, building mods....) make these extra interesting. :D
Did like the no click bait but just enough to show he was around well done Terry as a new sub enjoying the video from the beginning
Could you do a video on the economics of arable farming please. I don’t understand how one or two crops a year pays for a combine used for a few days nor the tractors, trailers, seed drills etc
Mark Butcher often it doesn’t 😂
Subsidies
Not many poor farmers at that auction I bet you.
Harry if you haven't already seen the Welker Farm channel you should have a look, they farm 10,000 acres in North Montana, dad and 2 sons. They have enormous kit and Nick talks constantly about compaction no-till farming and how pulses put nitrogen back in the soil.
Harry must be the best dad in the world, I take my hat of to you.
7:55 Clarksons film crew behind Harry’s shoulder, farm wars at the cotswolds 😬 go Harry go 💪👍👍👍👍
Harry's farm needs, requires a classic Lamborghini tractor.
Porsche tractor would be better :-)
Thanks Harry, Been retired after over 40 years farming but reliving the ups and downs of farming life through your excellent videos
From a garage of exotic cars to farming! Couldn't get more diverse than that!
Thank you Harry. Love your videos. Keep them coming.
Alway interesting Harry thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺
Love these farming videos. Clear to see that you're really into it and very knowledgeable.
Great video! Love Harry’s farm.
Rally enjoying these agricultural videos, thank you for taking time to making them.👍 🚜
Excellent film as always
I see people mentioning Clarkson there. I didn't notice him. Always thought he was a prat.
That old drill with the long seed bin is even newer than the one I remember as a kid in the mid 60s. It had individual hoppers over each tine you had to fill. Old school equipment. Of course tractors were really unsophisticated then to. Not quite steam powered but close. Lol
Jezza 😂 Great vid. Stuff like this far better than what you get on most terrestrial tv channels. Farming is very cool!
Fantastic video Harry, I live in Cumbria and we still plough our fields
All great fun, entertaining and informative because so few people have direct experience of farming and what is involved today, way to go Harry !
Much better videos than any TV program, love watching your stuff
Great day for you, a new piece of equipment ! Congratulations
Harry,
Thanks for the drilling update and also the auction I’m pleased to see you got the machine for less than you expected!! Hopefully you’re now prepared for any ban on the use of roundup. I’m looking forward to the next edition.
Another cracking episode Harry.👏 amazing how precise the drilling is these day's.
Another great vid Harry, a very good friend farms dairy just outside Cirencester and I always look forward to being in the area.
Epic! Came for the garage, loving the farming! A Cotswolds boy myself, have always had a soft spot for farming. More please!
This is good harry keep em coming mate.
Did I see Clarkson at that action ? Great video
yep, i thought it was him to, lives in the same area
Yes, farms close by.
@@harrysfarmvids
Foe God's sake keep him away...you don't need the chaos...
what a travesty - Harry would have made an infinitely better Top Gear host. Can't watch Jezza or the Hamster.
Awesome. That’s my lunchtime sorted.
Excellent informative video again Harry, I find your videos interesting and entertaining. keep it up.
Thankfully, there is nobody quite like Harry on CZcams, you get the feeling he could do a CZcams video on knitting and it would be entertaining and informative.
Brilliant video again Harry. For someone like me with a primary love of tractors and farm machinery both old and new and a secondary love of cars both your channels provide a huge amount of entertainment. Also I know your area well with my stepsister living in Taston and my dearly departed parents spending their last days at Tall Trees in Shipton under Wychwood. (Also a spell at Cirencester ag college in the 80's but enough said about that !!!) Keep them coming. Oh and well done for getting the stubble rake. Brilliant tools.
fergie35X likewise my interests are farming and classic cars and these videos are the best ever for me.
Did clarkson trot you up on that rake ? guessing he is the last person you wana see at an auction lol
No worries...not enough POWER!
@@charlesharper2357 since when has power got anything to do with trotting up a bid lol, i'm guessing you have never even attended an auction let alone bid
@@deviantrider9309
Have you ever watched Top Gear?
@@charlesharper2357 yes i have but clarkson & his more power saying he used to come out with has nothing to do with what i asked harry does it
@@deviantrider9309
Did you see a big, powerful motor on the piece Harry wanted?
Fascinating. I've always heard of drills but never really heard how they worked. Certainly quite a bit of engineering went into getting just the right amount of seed into just the right place.
I have traipsed across many a farm on footpath, and often wonder at the management and methods as i see different things happening. This channel has given such an insight into the farming community - this is an utterly butterly brilliant channel - much respect.
Genuine fan watched every vid , thought off jezza early on , then their he is !🤣 subscribed and liked every vid Harry fascinating stuff as always 👍🏻
Good buy. Well ware.
Fascinating stuff,farming really takes planning and brain power, very entertaining too,
Great vid again. I have learnt so much since joing this channel. Thanks. Good on you British farmers. Lets give them always our support. Hard working and sometimes a thankless task. I personally always try to by British.......
Just found Harry’s farm! Fantastic! Setting the bar high for jazza 😊
Absolutely brilliant channel. I've been binge watching the back catalogue for the last 4 hrs or so. Lovin' it.
Regards Mark in the UK
p.s. If you wanted to make a video about paint drying, I'd watch it.
I'm really enjoying these videos, Harry, keep them up!
One thing I thought you might have added in this one - when you were talking about the 80s drill, and how "now, with all the straw/stubble we have these days, it won't work" - you might have explained why that wasn't a problem back then (i.e. burning as well as conventional till back then).
Morning Harry! Except it's 3pm in Perth, but who cares, my fix of the homeland is here, thanks again.
Brilliant video
Harry we were direct seed drilling years ago. Les distervence of the ground and plenty of muck on the serfish.
Great video. Hopefully the person wasn’t losing their farm. Very interesting to see.
No, farm about to be sold
Has to be said that GPS is one of the most important innovations of the 20th century, I did not realise that it played such an important roll in arable farming. Great video's Harry.
Just found the farm chanel, brilliant vlog just like the garage. To bad about meeting Clarkson, but we all have to suffer a little in our life of which you seem to have a great one. Keep it up. Not sure where you find the time to vlog.
Great video
Nice cameo from JC at 8:08.
Nice buy on the rake, really hope you drove the Testarossa to a farm auction! (-:
Noticed JC. I remember that farm sale
Cheeky cameo there with Clarkson. Glad it wasn't mentioned. Think JC has bought a farm close by and is tooling up.
First a straw rake Harry, next you’ll be buying yourself a cross slot drill and adopting the Jake Freestone five minute fallow. 👍👍
Not sure of I missed it on your garage channel Harry, but you should promote this farm channel on there. I've been a subscriber to the garage channel for years, and only found out about this farming channel via CZcams recommendations.
As soon as saw that 3 piece I made the association
Another super Video. Does Clarkson know what he is doing ! Oxfordshire looks mega.
We run the Claydon hybrid too 👍
That's the problem with auctions, anything any good, everybody else wants too. Let's hope it rains soon , been a while.
The ground looks very stoney where I live the ground is peat and moss great for root crops
Fascinating stuff. Nice to see J.Clarkson at the auction too!
Harry - I've seen some good science on NOT cultivating the soil Just leave it to create the interconnections of bacteria (can't remember what they are called..) you might not get the same output per m2 but it might cost much less to get what you get.(I'm not a farmer this related to a smallholding just interested in your thoughts)
Known as zero till and the kit is extremely expensive. Looking into it but as I machinery share with a much bigger neighbouring farm, it's not my decision to change..
Nice video, new to the channel....
I've put you on the 🔔 👍👍
Jeremy Clarkson was also there… For his Didly Squat Farm series 😅
Harry i don't see any 2/3 metre headlands planted with wild flowers or beetle banks etc .incidentally how many coveys of wild grey partridge's does your farm sustain ?.
Regards from a subscriber and 70yrs a countryman .
Ps.really look forward to your video's you're a gifted individual.
There aren't any 6m margins around the fields going into linseed because they're a bridlepath near by and they got abused by walkers constantly using them as new footpaths. These margins are meant to be wildlife sanctuaries, so dog walkers letting their dogs run free on them scares all the wildlife away. I received 2 warnings from Natural England for not policing them well enough and I also wasn't making myself very popular with villagers by telling them they were trespassing, so I did away with them close to the footpaths but still have them on the more private areas on the farm.
You'll be doing well to get rid of Glyphosate Harry, but having used the rake for 4 years now, it does help get a chit and cut down volunteers, but you'll need to go over a few times and then give it a shot of round up...I would look into companion crops...
Interesting. I was concerned I was moving too much soil around with the Carrier, hence thought the rake would be a good option for when there's not too much trash to get rid of too. Let's see..
I use a simba express (like your carrier) on OSR stubble where slug pressure is higher as I feel it breaks up the habitat a bit more moving and incorporating etc... However the rake (in may opinion) is better where slug pressure is a little less and you just want to get a chit and break up the straw. I like the rake, its quick and doesn't use much fuel, you can easy cover 20 acs. an hour. I would strongly recommend a visit to see Jeff Claydon during the off season and also the guys at Mzuri (my seeder) both companies are very supportive of customers have a wealth of knowledge and a great example of home grown engineering, always experimenting which is great!
You re kidding , that was Jeremy clarkson at the end of the auction . Just casual talk , amazing
BTW Jeremy clarkson just started filming a farming show for Amazon , next year will ll be out
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6:53 that the sofa jeremy bought haha
Clarkson's sofa haha
Nice to see Jezza...
Was hoping for a small bit of a channel crossover - e.g. going to a farm auction in a Lamborghini Countach !
I'd like to know what Harry thinks about Lamborghini tractors!
Whoa, hang on. What we all want to know is did you bid on the 3 piece suite?
That auction you show in this episode did it mean yet another of our farmers went tits up....
great video mate and very professional unlike my channel😂
Always wondered where they got the name "Manitou" from for the tele arm tractor. I grew up near Lake Manitou on Manitoulin Island in Canada. Wonder if it's linked.
Wild Clarkson sighting.
What I have noticed is u have nice watches
Farm auctions must be a gathering point for automotive journalists
What about using cover crops to build up the soil, keep moisture locked in & suppress weeds too? I wish that the government would support farmers by supplying cover crops so wouldn't have to eat round up treated foods.
Harry can be seen in Episode 1 of Clarkson's Farm at 12:16 :)
What were your thoughts during the bidding process?
Very strange to see Step Brother and Cousin on a video! Say hello to Tom and John from me on the other side of the planet!
there is the draylon sofa from clarksons farm haha
Awesome video. Why did you have to buy bagged seeds instead of using your own crop to seed? I'm not a farmer so this may be a silly question.
I'll do something on this in a future video but seed comes in bags because it's generally been, germinated tested, 'dressed' (removal of weed seeds etc.) and then a seed coating added to help prevent soil diseases or fungi attack. It's also weighed accurately so you can adjust the drilling rate to precisely the target kg/ha. You could use seed straight out of the shed but it if there were any impurities(stones, twigs, leaves) in it, the drill might get blocked and it would be more prone to disease, etc.
Harry's Farm awesome. Thanks for the reply.
At 4:51 I thought someone has photoshopped the ‘thug life’ glasses on Harry...
Another interesting video!
Harry have you ever mapped any of your tractors just for that ‘little’ bit extra out of them
No but some farmers do. Tractors often have a boost function that increases power when the tractor detects a need for it. Not exactly sure how or when but you can feel it kick in when needed!
I thought i recognised the 'button back 3 piece suite'
Good day Harry. One question.....do you own the plant that works the land or do you hire a company to do the work?
Guess they were filming for a new documentary Clarkson is doing on farming. I think it is out later this year.
why do you buy flax seed in bags to plant and not keep some seed from the last harvest?
I wanted to ask the same, thanks for typing it out for me.
I have a possible answer, but it is just a conjecture: perhaps the harvested seeds are optimal for oil and not for growth, while the ones in the bag are special for growth? This would mean you get better yield (and better profit) doing it like this...
Harry, what’s the secondary bin on the drill ? That small white cone at the back?
A slug pelleter, for spreading slug pellets where there's a risk of slug attack.