Agriculture 11 Videos
"The discovery of agriculture was the first step towards a civilized life"
-Arthur Keith
-Arthur Keith
Here are some videos I filmed while working on my family's dairy farm in North Tay, New Brunswick. The photo above are the main barns back home. Every summer once school gets out, I pack up my family and head home. My father and uncle still run and operate North Tay Farms Limited. We have purebred Holsteins (we milk about 120) and have a few hundred acres where we harvest cattle corn, silage, and hay crops. Although I love teaching, this is where I sometimes think I belong. My knees were too bad to keep farming but I still enjoy helping dad out in the summers when I can.
Video #1
In my course, I teach a short unit on farm and machinery safety. In the small community I teach in, a good number of my students are around tractors, farm implements, and animals on a daily basis. I try to show them the importance of farm safety and respect for the machines around them. From personal experience and loss, I know how deadly most farm machinery is and I hope to teach them to spot danger points.
In this video, I am unloading a load of silage from a Gehl silage wagon. I am filming to show how many moving parts (mainly PTOs) are around me at all time, and the importance of awareness of these dangers. In the video, you will see the PTO from the wagon to my Deutz tractor, the PTO from the Massey to the Gehl silo blower, the auger in the silo blower, and the cross chains on the wagon itself. All deadly if I come into contact with them.
In this video, I am unloading a load of silage from a Gehl silage wagon. I am filming to show how many moving parts (mainly PTOs) are around me at all time, and the importance of awareness of these dangers. In the video, you will see the PTO from the wagon to my Deutz tractor, the PTO from the Massey to the Gehl silo blower, the auger in the silo blower, and the cross chains on the wagon itself. All deadly if I come into contact with them.
Video #2
In video #2 I stress the importance of machine maintenance. On the protective guard on the PTO shaft, you will see a gash. When this PTO spins at high RPM, this could easily catch clothes and wrap you around the shaft in a matter of seconds. We had a family member pulled through one this way many years ago. He had all his clothes torn off (except one sock and his underwear) and his left arm was pulled off. He is the only person I know to survive being pulled through a PTO. This guard is now replaced with a new one.
Video #3
Video #3 show me driving to the field to get a new load of silage. I took this video to show students all the levers, gears, and possible dangers associated with hauling. Thankfully, our farm is in a very rural part of New Brunswick so cars and other traffic is rare (maybe 5 cars per day....its a dead end road).
Video #4
This video shows the inside of a double six milking parlour in a free-stall style barn. Our parlour was built in the 70's and is getting small as our cows get larger due to better genetics and selective breeding.
Video #5
In this video, I show cows being milked using our automated milking system. It is fairly simple compared to modern robotic milkers but is a huge improvement from hand milking that our ancestors did.
Video #6
This video will show the application of a milker and the milk flowing through the milker, through the sensor, and into the pipe that leads to the holding tank.