Agriculture Videos
" A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home." - Robert Brault
This page contains videos I have taken over the years on my family dairy farm in New Brunswick. I tried to take videos while working in the summer to show my students what life is like on the farm and what daily chores are like. Some of these chores are basic and quite simple, while others can be dangerous and require great attention to stay safe.
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
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 (long before I was born). 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
Home. This video shows the main barnyard back home. I was coming back from eating breakfast and was enjoying the peacefulness of my family farm that I too often take for granted.
Video #5
This video just shows more of our farm back home in New Brunswick.