Everything About Grain Bins (Farmers are Geniuses) - Smarter Every Day 218

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Destin spends a week with Farmers* his accent proceeds to turn up to 11*

Now you have to figure out how the moisture tester works

As a farmer who has a Master's degree, thanks for showing farming in a positive light and showing the science behind it. So many suburbanites look down on farmers as dumb, but to run a farm today requires both scientific and business knowledge, as well as work ethic and a lot of common sense.

As someone who comes from an agricultural background, more cattle ranching than farming though, it just puts a giant smile on my face to see videos like this and the amount of respect this brilliant man has for farmers

"I just started working and they didn't make me go away." Literally just described how I got my first job.

Smart man. "I asked them what they least liked to do, and immediately started doing it." THAT is how you earn respect.

"There's no job like this anywhere in America is there?" "Iunno, I stay on the farm!' What a humble guy, great answer. I think he is a lot smarter than he lets on

" When a farmer has a mechanical problem,they don't wait for help. They know their equipment inside and out, and they wrap a wrench or a tool, and they just start taking things apart, and fixing it immediately. " John Deer: 👀

My favorite part is how you can hear his accent come out the more he talks to some of these guys. It's like he hits a button and activates 'Southern Mode'.

Coming from a former grain bin assembler now engineer, you did an excellent job at explaing how something so over looked is so intriguing to build!!!

“What do you call that tool” “A punch” This killed me

To all our farmers: a heartfelt thank you for what you do!

"Farmers are the backbone of america" Farmers are the backbone of the world.

fun fact - the moisture tester at 11:20 is actually just a capacitor, with one plate on the underside of the lid, and one plate at the bottom of the canister. when the canister is filled, the grain acts as a dielectric, and all other necessary info remaining constant (distance between the plates, type of grain used, etc.), water's presence changes the extent to which a given grain acts as a dielectric within the capacitor, which is how you get the moisture readout 🌺

Love it! Thanks for showcasing the Ag industry. Small world, that guy building the bin, built our 58ft bin in Illinois with his brother. Most efficient crew I’ve seen. Wasn’t expecting to see anyone I knew!

Always like coming back to this video. I work in grain management so it's cool to see this side of it so close up. I handle things AFTER harvest. Once the grain is in the bin, I monitor temperature and moisture and make sure fans are running (or not) when called. Trying to get the grain to target moisture for shipping or storage through the winter. Every now and then I get to go out to a site and troubleshoot the monitoring system, which is pretty cool to see, but I haven't seen much of what goes on before harvest in person. Thanks for these videos!

Farmers: It ain't much, but it's honest work. Farmers in memes: It ain't much, but it's honest work.

I like how his accent changes sometimes when he talks to people with heavier accents

Just imagine working and some physicist randomly starts working for you and filming a documentary