It never ceases to amaze me at how people can’t keep their own trash in their vehicle till they get home or to a trash can. One of my ditches seemed to be the liquor bottle dump and another must be designated for fast food

@colamity_5000

9 ай бұрын

Assuming that it’s mostly impulsive teens helps my sanity, but it’s unfortunately not true.

Cole, back in the 1960's the State and Counties used sickle bar mowers to do the ditches. I would watch and wait until the County would mow several miles of ditches generally just one pass on each side of the road and when the grass was dry I would go out with my old pickup and pitchfork and get several loads of grass hay. Times were difficult but I needed the hay. No money and no hay rake or baler but just willing to put in the labor. "Ditch hay" saved me many times. Just sayin! J.R.

@onewhitestone

10 ай бұрын

I remember as a young lad the farmer neighbor would cut his hay and pick it up with a pitchfork. then drive into the barn and fork it in the loft. It was a way of life.

@sunnyday5621

10 ай бұрын

Yep. I helped a neighbor do it for her horse. We put a tarp down to line the bed and pitched hay like a bugger, stomping it down as we went. When we got to her place. we cinched the front and around the sides of the tarp, tied it to a tree and drove away. Instant hay stack.

@jamesmarsh4957

10 ай бұрын

@@onewhitestone we use to use pitch forks to load bales years a go too , as we did not have a tractor with a loader back then , i remember it well , yes it was hard work but we did it

@vickiemeisinger9632

10 ай бұрын

Yes, our counties mowed everyone’s ditches in the 60s and 70s and maybe even into the 80s. I’d have to check with my sister ( who now has Mom and Dad’s farm)…as to whether or not the County workers have continued mowing after the 80s, for sure. I don’t live near there anymore . Regarding people who throw things in the ditch: STOP BEING A LITTER BUG…it’s too bad you can’t put up cameras on the post every now and then, and get their license plate numbers and then take it into the local sheriff and have them deal with perpetrators who are throwing their trash, and obviously, other things into your ditches, because just watching this video made me aware of how inconvenient that is to have to keep stopping for beer, cans and diapers, as your Dad mentioned he’d found… I recycle everything I can, and take it to my local recycling store. I would never dream of throwing any of my trash in the ditch!! and I’m sure if you had a dumpster of some kind out there in your ditches for people to use instead of throwing it in the ditches in a second your time for mowing and safety as well… But they wouldn’t use it…. such a disrespect of you and your property. I am very sorry. I hope everyone who watches this video stop throwing their trash in your ditch. Once they realize what a hassle it is and a dangerous situation it can be, as well as how hard it is on your farm equipment!!!!!!! Cole, thank you for making a suggestion to the individuals who would like to get into farming to go, and after purchasing some OLDER farm equipment, offer to mow the ditches for farmers as a way to get hay and make some money as well, if they want to😊♥️🌈

@colamity_5000

9 ай бұрын

@@onewhitestonesickle bar mowers and three legged dog name a more iconic duo

I’m still really enjoying the quick clips at the end. Thanks, Cole. ❤️🌹nj

When I was younger we used to pasture the side ditches. Everyone had fences each kid at the end of the road and kept them out of yards and cemeteries. Every once in awhile a calf would step on a beer can and it would collapse around there foot. Then the fun would begin. 🤪🤣🤪

We used to do our ditches twice a year. Used a swather to cut and bailed small rectangular.

Had a neighbor who was planting a hayfield about 2 miles away from their farm and they loaded up the seeder with verna alfalfa and started down along the edge of the road to the field they planned to plant. When they got to the field the seeder somehow got engaged and spread the seeds along the edge of the road and the seeder was empty 😂. They tried once to make hay from the ditch but it didn’t go well. You can still see the alfalfa 40 plus years later and it grows really well 😊

Brian, just wanted to say thank you for making Cole run that tractor with no A/C.

Good morning, gentlemen. Unfortunately, Oregon State Hwy division is the only one that can mow, and trench any ditches, to deep. Comes in three's: flat tire, broken tractor window and broken rake.🙃🙃I'm so glad Brian that you didn't get hurt by the object or the broken window!!!! I pray for everyone from Hawaii and across the US- Take care everyone

Great job raking Cole

Welkers had a combine door explode on their latest video as well

When I was growing up in the mid 60's my dad would put me on a Ford tractor with no brakes or power steering and the and the old rake that you pulled a rope to lift the teeth up. Dad didn't like it when the row lines were off. Many hours on that old tractor.

🤣one of the most fun vids. that ya'll have done ! still laffen here

Hey Sonne farm my dad as a John Deere 4050 we use it every morning to feed the Dairy cows.

Brian I’m so glad you didn’t get hurt when the window broke! Your corn is still all green where as here, east coast MA to NC, with (dare I say) to much rain, our corn is brown at the bottom. I’m still praying that the farmers get the rain they need 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I had the same thing happen to me this week cutting hay. It busted out my rear window. I uploaded a video short about the two things I had to check after it happened.

So sorry about window. Did a many road ditches putting in small squares for the barn. One year after doing some small squares, we had to go to a meeting, came back the next morning the bales were stolen. I just started crying because it was hay that I gave my egg ladies in the winter. That and our longhorns loved it. Tell me about the garbage! We had a bale start on fire from piece of glass on a very hot day!!

I recognize that swiveling cup holder! About 45 years ago I had a ‘67 Chevy van and I bought a couple of those for it. It was my first car, shag carpet, sink, fridge you know, all the good stuff. Custom vans were a thing back in the day. Those cup holder were made for boats.

@icebabysnocain

10 ай бұрын

You are right. I have the holders out of my old pacemaker on the porch rail holding my beer now.

We used to put up road hay for our hogs. We put it up loose alot of pitchfork work. I wanted to cry when my step dad found someone to small square bale It. Thanks for sharing guys

Pop Welker blasted a combine door glass. He drove 300 miles, ONE WAY. to get the new replacement glass right then and there. They are combining peas.

Worked on a farm in high school. Every spring we put a crew together and walked all road side ditches with 5 gallon buckets. When full we'd dump into a pickup truck bed. Every year we would fill that truck 2-3x. Crazy the stuff we'd find.

Love watching the 4050 work and a shout out to Brian , dad and I are still fixing junk to keep going !! Great vid

You guys are doing such a good job you guys show the true struggles of corn soybeans and beef. You guys are doing great good job. Keep it up 👌👍

Thanks for sharing this ditch update. I appreciate all the grief you must get from us non-farmers. Thankful that Brian did not get hurt by the rock. Be sure to thank your wife for getting the pool and letting you share cool water. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle rains, seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother

I can see why you don't like road ditches . Be careful when you are working on ditches. You can flip a tractor pretty easy. Take Care and Be safe on the farm.

Y’all be safe out there in those ditches, don’t want y’all getting hurt

Doing great guys. Have a cold one when the days over.

We here in Hotchkiss Colorado are experiencing the same grasschopper issues😮‍💨

Michigan does adopt a high way also. You get paid for doing it

Just had to straighten the pickup gauge wheel on our 560M. 2in ratchet strap tied to the tractor drawbar and a little heat. Followed with a little fresh green paint and you cant even tell it happen.

@SonneFarms

10 ай бұрын

thanks for the idea!

God Bless your good old equipment give it a little wing and a prayer🙏💕 hes got you guys🙏

Great video Cole and Brian

Great video Cole

You guys with a blown out tractor door window and the Welker's did a blown out door on a combine.

guess it was 4 or 5 years ago I finally replaced the old sickle header with a Vermeer tm 1410..., course didn't have a window guard on. think I did 50 acres before it must've sucked up a small stone from a pocket gopher mound and blew out the door window on the muffler side. My son was riding with me when it happened. I got a hold pf him before he bailed out of the cab by the scruff of his shirt cause in his words "I thought someone was shooting at us!"

I knew those ditches would be a pain, wish they were breaking things. That song of the day started going off in my head as soon as Brian sang that little part of it. Hope you continue to get some more timely rain for the alfalfa and grazing fields.

I’m one of those beginning guys. Can’t compete with corn and beans to put grass in so I have 2 nice 20ac fields of alfalfa and then put put 200 bales in the ditches and old farm yards. It’s not easy but it’s a start to a passion.

You gotta do what you do and take it as it is,thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

That brush hog did a hell of a job on that model bobcat.

amazing!

all them beer cans Cole got the bales all tipsy

When we mow or mulch we have plexiglass sheets over the windows, works well until it rains.

I was mowing hay 1 day by my brothers house and his boys hit a bucket of golf balls into the hay field. That was crazy how the mower through them. Never broke a window but did get a dent in tractor

On the positive side the ditches look nice. Prayers for rain.

Those soundgard tractors are fun to drive!

Brian that was god/ angels that flipped the belt and the angels are watching over you and Cole the cows and babies will love munching on the hay in the winter or laying on it praying for a better year next year bless you both🙏🙏🥰💕

That happened to me, (window exploding). Scared the deal out of me, and glass all over the place

I believe you have the best farm videos. Love whaching them

I will never understand why people have to throw there trash out the window. Thank you for putting your pants back on

From ohio and we keep our sideditch es mowed in front of home farm and the same idiots that drive by your place drive by us and use the ditches clean out the car

When I lived out in Oklahoma, the building main highway down the center Fayetteville that all up you’ll see on the unit and the regular farmer down the middle of the highway

Custom vans were the thing in the 60s, some were pretty elaborate.

That look like a successful day of ditch mowing and raking and baling 👍 Thanks for letting us Ride along !

Hi Cole and Dad Brian thank ya for sharing everything.God bless you all.

I see what you mean about not liking to mow the ditches. It’s good to get feed, but you have to look for trash, and the ditches are hard on equipment. Thanks for showing us that!!

We pay a 5 to 10 cent refundable deposit on every can or bottle sold. It really cut down on litter as a lot of people now save them and others pick ditches for bottles and cans as a hobby and to make a little money.

@davidkramer6585

10 ай бұрын

We have 5 cent cooperage here. The county opened up to side by side and 4 wheelers on gravel roads a few years ago. Most of them are town people and they throw cans and bottles on road and in ditches. ridiculous amount of trash. Road past my place on weekends is like interstate traffic.

In our area farmers are required to cut the road ditches. They didn't have to bale it but can be fined if they aren't cut

My Uncle George did not like doing ditches. He also had some experiences that cost money. One sad story is a cousin's friend was doing ditches for Alberta Highways. He hit a culvert and his tractor turned over. He was killed. Those were the days that tractors did not have cabs or even roll cages. That was unfortunate.

@earl7611

10 ай бұрын

Hope he excepted JESUS before that happened sorry for your loss

@rdyardie

10 ай бұрын

@@earl7611 Yes, he was baptized as profession of his faith. He was a wonderful person. It was a tragedy as we see it from earth. His family missed him a lot. This happened a long long time ago. I am now getting close to 80. He was a couple of years older than me when he was killed.

mowed many miles of ditch with a M farmall. no power steering and no cab, small square bales, drop them on the ground and then went back with a hayrack and picked them up by my self. baled 850 to 1000 every summer. I looked forward to bailing every year.

😂😂😂😂 Ms Ellie was looking up at that tractor window like "PA, WHAT DID YOU DO???" 😂😂😂

Took the back window out of a Case IH while chopping cornstalks. Pretty sure it was a stone. VERY loud! Glass everywhere!

Certain powered rotary basket hay tedders are notorious for picking up and flinging small stones against the back of the tractor especially if badly adjusted - many a back window glass has been smashed when tedding hay or silage. We used to counter against this problem by stretching a heavy cotton or jute sack high up across the link arms to reduce the risk of this happening. Operators of open station (cabless) tractors were particularly at risk of being hit on their back, neck or head by stones if something was not in place to prevent this and the machine in need of adjustment with the top link too short. Dan.

Love seeing your daily operations and making good use of the ditch hay!

Those ditches were scary but glad you got some feed off of them. Be safe.

Cole it will make you humble and you will appreciate the beautiful fields you have🙏💕🥰 god bless you and Brian for farming in all types of weather, hot, cold, rainy, hail and snow and enduring the cold and all the stuff you do for others like Storela station for other farmers, families in need love you guys and THANK YOU BOTH AND UNCLE JEFF TOO 🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕 from 🇨🇦 fan

I-94 in ND has about a 150 miles of hay bails on both sides. Alway from Fargo to Bismarck.

@SonneFarms

10 ай бұрын

lot of hay!

Good job guys

I definitely agree road ditch hay not much feed value either like some CRP hay . But for bedding hay and let the cows pick through it . Most people don’t understand but if you’re a farmer then you do . Just like buying hay I would recommend getting it tested for quality and feed value .

Love the song of the day🙂. And thank goodness you didn’t get hurt when the glass shattered.

Have you thought about spraying fence lines with roundup or hy-var which works well for that

Ditch hay definitely is a risk vs. reward situation. In Michigan our rural roads typically only have a right of way of 33' from the center of the road so there isn't much of opportunity to for harvesting . It was great to hear the return of "that's all I got to say about that" from Brian.

Another very interesting video Thank you 😊 🙏

Thanks for the video !

Enjoyed watching the video Cole and Brian 😊

I was just in Florida the grasshoppers there were so big you could invite them in for dinner and have them over for a pool party !

Hay Cole & Co. So my memory might be a little shot but I seem to remember the baler wheel getting bent before? That window was a proper bummer too, Ive had them break while using demolition equipment and boy it gives the old heart a fair shock, coupled with being showered in toughened glass chips that find their way where they have no right to be. Stay safe guys

Always something to do on a farm. Love the fresh smell of hay and grass. Doing a great job Cole helping your dad and wanting the farm life👍😁

That’s a good looking 4050! Thanks for another great video!

OMG, I could not cut ditches. The angle of the tractor freaked me out. Glad you got it done. AND shame on those who litter, very uncalled for.

we have adopt a highway here in Joliet, Illinois, and we did the clean-up along the road in front of our business, along with high schoolers for their community service hours, and the stuff people throw out is disgusting. had to be so carful as they thru out broken glass, car parts and always wore double gloves. Be safe.

Thank you Sonne farms!!!!

@SonneFarms

10 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

😂cole has no idea when the song of the day comes up!

Hello Brian and Cole I always enjoy watching your video because you are both so amazing hard workers God keep on blessing you both always Rosa

I went to Brookings this past weekend to visit my daughter. There were hundreds of bales along I-29. I'm sure trash is an issue for them too, but the hay actually looked pretty decent. At least SD roadways are cleaner than MO. There is no way you could bale the ditches down here! Way too much trash.

@paulprigge1209

10 ай бұрын

Definitely do Missouri at least northern. But it depends on the area I guess.

you and your dad are awesome. Loved the video and so sorry about all of your bad luck in this video. Y'all please be careful

Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. That glass on your mower tractor really shattered. Wow. Like you say Brian, probably a rock that got thrown up there. Expensive rock. That rock guard you are getting should help. Like you say mowing ditches is expensive. Sorry about your glass window. Welkers had the same thing happen but was a glass combine door to that shattered. We did ditches also. Been there done that. You are getting some nice thick grass hay off of your ditches. Nice bales it looks like. Hang in there with the ditch hay baling. Thanks for the song of the day Brian. Good song and music. That 4050 Deere you got is running good and handy tractor to have for small jobs on the farm. Tire fixing and baler fixing and window fixing, you have had a busy day. Thanks for taking us along. Never ceases to amaze me the stuff people throw in the ditches instead of in a trash barrel. Amazing the junk you got out of the ditch. You take care and be safe. Thanks. The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.

sure glad your dad okay ❤❤❤❤❤

The diaper in the sickle bar is like the banana in the tailpipe… Enjoyed all the Sonne Farms ditch stories as well as the ones in the comments.

Take the cans in extra cash for new window 🙏💕🥰 look for the blessing now the garbage is getting cleaned up in South Dakota hes every where 🙏💕🥰 god bless Sonne farms💕💕💕

I'm zonked at all the junk you picked up. That has to be a few years of accumulation. Plastic bottles in the ocean, plastic bottles in the ditches and the garbage bins are half empty. Road warriors are shameless these days. My dad had us walk the ditch with empty fertilizer bags and we picked up maybe ten beer bottles and glass coke bottles all day. We picked up the grass loose with a hay loader and fed it that way. So under a fan in your undies unsupervised eh? You make me crazy. Good video. Pax.

I'll stop by Storla on Friday ...Im doing a road trip with my son & grandson. We live in Tx & want to catch a few sights in S.D. , Wyo & Mt... Hope you have T-shirts !

@briansonne814

10 ай бұрын

WE JUST GOT ANOTHER BIG SHIPMENT IN!

@pdrphil8159

10 ай бұрын

@@briansonne814 Cool ..!

Hi Cole, its good to see Brian was listening to us about missing the 'song of the day'. That mower on the Bobcat is a great piece of gear for doing narrow strip's of grass and sunflowers. I can understand why the ditches are not a favorite job especially all the rubbish tossed out by people while driving past. It's the same in most countries, people just don't care. Each bale is a gift in this year of drought and I hope the cowes appreciate all your hard work and repairs you have done for them. Thanks for sharing. Chris from Australia 🇦🇺. .

Good song Brian. Poor Cole doesn't have a clue.

Been there and done that with the rock through the window, actually have a video of the rock taking out the window.. I put the Rock Block on on my John Deere MOCO after that and have not had any issues. The Rock Block is a good product and John Horter (the inventor) is great to work with. I hate baling ditches and trash fields!

Hope you finish it without too much damages.👍❤️🇨🇦

Awesome video in my State cans and bottles are worth 10 cent's know when i was in highschool and Middle school they were only worth 5 cent's but I managed to pay for my FFA chickens with can's I picked up out road ditches still to this day even tho there Worth More money there is still Many in the ditches but More people picking them up here know also ..

It’s nice to have good ditches on the county roads for the hay and drainage.

I can remember baling the roadside when I worked on a farm in 1992 - 1994 . They were older gentlemen that their father back in jersey baled anything and everything he could that milk cows would eat lol to get thru winter safely

New equipment is nice. But it's good to see the old iron still running. The old 4050 earning it's keep!

“It ain’t Coke”! OMG-LMAO! Thanks Brian, Made my day!

Nice video!