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Everything About Irrigation Pivots (Farmers are Geniuses) - Smarter Every Day 278 (Patreon)

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2022-10-30 22:19:18
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First of all, I'd like to direct your attention to the fact that there's no sponsor on this video. YOU made this video happen! Seriously, thank you so much for making this possible with your support as a Patron.  This involved filming over several months, and as you can tell, was quite labor intensive!  

Also, I hope you love the new stickers!  I'm going to send them out at the end of the year.  I hope you love them!  If you think anyone else might light to support, I'd appreciate it if you mentioned Smarter Every Day to them. I'm doing my best to make intelligent, respectful content... and I hope to continue earning your support!

Thank you so much,

Destin

By the way, here's the extended cut!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTPnV7YfaGQ

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Comments

Marc Ramsey

From a 5th generation farmer in DRY western kansas, look up soil moisture probes and how they can interface with pivots, soil, weather forecasts, and crop information to best utilize every drop of water we put through sprinklers. Lots of variable rate technologies and applications used to maximize efficiency in all aspects of agriculture these days!

Dain Walkup

I spent a lot of time with my grandfather on his farm when I was knee high before he died. Many of my fondest memories of him were out in the fields while he was working on his pivots. I'm sure it sound pretty dumb, but having just come across this video for the first time, as a 25 year old man, this video made me pretty emotional. I absolutely loved getting such an in depth video of something so cool and so under appreciated, thank you

Ethan Raynerson

Very cool Destin! This video and the grain bin video taught me how technologically advanced farming has become.

Ralph Woodard

Enjoy your videos and what I can learn from them Dustin. Good job. Glad to be a supporter.

Chad Eichhorn

The simplicity of the mechanical feedback forming the bang bang controller was beautiful and satisfying. What a cool video!

Steve Jones

SO COOL you are reading my mind... We were driving through the Delaware and Maryland Eastern shore not a month ago when I was telling my wife how much I'd love to stop and look closely at how these things work..

Hunter Coffin deKieffer

I've always been endlessly curious about these systems. Can't wait to give it a watch!

Viktor Tegvik

The James Webb stickers look absolutely amazing, can't wait to get one!

BlueCrystalBeast

Who hasn't driven past one of these and thought huh, how exactly does that work?

Mark Stave

Enjoyed the video, was hoping for a discussion of water loss - air evaporation, evaporation off foliage, runoff and deep percolation. Mayn of these systems draw water from deep under ground and drawn off at a rate many tiems greater than replenishment.

Daniel Ryan

I love the highlighting of the mechanical pieces as you were explaining them! Made it so much easier to understand!

Rick Corbitt

Very nicely done, Destin. I grew up on an irrigated farm and ranch and these were just starting to become popular in our area as I graduated high school in 1970. The first ones in our area used the water pressure pushing pistons at each wheel to move the sprinkler. It was always having issues and the electrical powered ones then came on and solved most of the problems.

Deacon Konc

I'm sticking with you as long as I have a paycheck and you're making videos. Thank you for putting something wholesome, novel, and useful into the world. Thank you for drawing our attention to the things we might take for granted and helping us marvel at them.

makr1million

omg i had an old address on the mailing list. :( I never got my sticker.

Arcy

Would have been interesting to see the yield map vs the previous soybean crop, I know those 600 monitors can be a pain to export from though. Maybe it was mentioned but do you know the maturity of the variety and how many acre inch were applied?

Smarter Every Day

That's incredibly kind of you Deacon! I truly find joy in these things and I'm glad you do as well!

Smarter Every Day

They look SO COOL in the sunlight! I can't wait to send them to you! (I'm sending you all 3!)

Smarter Every Day

I don't know, but you've given me some more questions to ask Trey!

pat o.

Seriously man, the section about "bang bang controls" was so fascinating. Thank you!!!

David Yeend

Yeah, I'm here for that badass JWST sticker!

Daniel Turner

Your thanks is enough for me, so is there any way of opting out of receiving these (admittedly awesome) holographic JWST stickers? I feel your cost incurred by posting them to me in Australia would be better kept towards funding a future video. PS - Given I didn't get a Supersonic Baseball Team sticker, perhaps I'm already opted out of being sent anything

Rick Corbitt

It was indeed a nightmare. Also, those water driven pistons driving the wheels could not be speed regulated accurately, so the sections were impossible to keep straight.

Steve Jones

Just finished watching the long cut.. Very cool.. At the end, were those beans shelled, or were they still in the pod? It was impossible to tell from that shot.. Also, I'd love to see a video on how the heck the combine separates all the pieces!! Those guys were probably so glad this job is over - I'm sure you slowed them down, but we sure appreciate it! I hope you bought them lunch! :-)

Daniel Turner

Me neither, is there any possibly you've not entered an address on your Patreon account?

Rick Beethe

Watched the long cut. I watch other YT farming channels "Laura Farms" and "Larson Farms". "Laura Farms" use the pivots to irrigate while "Larson Farms" uses something they refer to as tiling. "Laura Farms" has shown when a wheel on a pivot goes awry and how they fixed it. It's all very interesting to a city boy like me and I appreciate all they do to supply food to my table.

Jacob Klimes

I've often thought about how these work, and somehow i came to the conclusion that they must have calibrated the speed to run the motors by measuring the distance from the center. The system they actually use looks a lot easier and more reliable. You should see the power behind these things! They'll crawl right through an empty canal and right over small cars!

Controlled Insanity

Been watching your videos for years, I figured it’s about time to pay for all you taught me and my family. I have rewatched your snatch block video so many times! I can never seem to remember what I need to know, haha. Always have loved your scripture at the end. TGBTG

Andy Boatman

As a 40+ year MS resident who relatively recently moved to Alaska, I really appreciate videos like this that keep me connected to the South. I've been following you here and on No Dumb Questions for years, but this video pushed me over the line into patron. I hope to be a backer of NDQ and 10MBH in the near future. Tell Matt I said "Hi!"

Viktor Tegvik

The stickers have yet to even be sent out

Jonathon Rupp

Ha! Glad I'm not the only one who saw that "cylindrical" pivot. I was thinking there was a 3 in the size.

Marton Nagy

I should've starter supporting this Smarter Every Day years ago but now I do! Destin is one of the few reasons why I'm still sticking to YouTube! Thanks Destin to for making us Smarter Every Day!

Josh Monroe

About a month ago my family took a road trip out west and marveled at how long some of these were. I tried my best to answer all my kid’s questions, but didn’t know for sure. This video was awesome! We always watch as a family.

Randal Kay

I have been encouraged and blessed by your work, not to mention getting smarter. I have been privileged to pastor churches filled with farmers and you are correct, they are brilliant, and I must say very generous, too. I am humbled and appreciative of their work. And speaking of work . . . yours is great. I am finally joining the team.

James Halliday

I'd thought similar Maybe those that opt out could have their stickers all put somewhere that didn't need the postage? (e.g. sticker-bomb a grain silo with thousands) Or put value towards something from us all. I see why Destin does it, but just worry my sticker is going to cross the planet, and then sit on a shelf in the corner.

C. David Buchanan

Keep up the scripture “Easter eggs” Heb 4:12

Brit Hull

I have always wanted to know how those worked and I see them all the time when I go flying. This video was fun and made me really appreciate the time and effort that goes into farming and the technology that makes a big impact on production. Thank You, Destin for your dedication and ability to communicate in a fun and educational way.

Danny Wellman

The first one I worked on 30 years ago was pneumatic. They were a pain for sure. I remember one time trying to replace a gasket in between two sections. I climbed up one of the towers, started hammering in a 1" chisel to separate the two sections so I could do the swap and I had a mis-hit and the chisel under tension flew out and smacked me right under my nose. I'm just glad I didn't fall off the tower. Had to get some stiches for that one. Even all that, I thought the engineering on the old pneumatic ones was super impressive.

Danny Wellman

Destin, finally because a supporter after watching this video. I grew up in southwest Kansas. I love the cred and visibility you're giving to farmers. Some of the hardest working and smartest people I know for sure. My father-in-law is a retired lieutenant in the Air Force and farmed for 20+ years. He's a genius.

Arcy

Just nosey farmer questions from a northerner running dryland. I'm in 1.5 to 2.5 bean territory curious how much more growth they see.

Balu Babu

After watching and getting inspired by your content for years, I can finally support you. I come from a long line of farmers and I loved this video. Thank you from India.

Mike O'Dell

Big D: thanks for the pivot video. I’ve watched these go by for years and thought I had figured them out. As a good friend of mine would say to that claim: “Silly boy!” The sophistication of the design is at least 10x what I expected. What would be way-cool is to see the history of the development. Somebody built the first one - vastly smaller and simpler, but it proved the economics. As a result, they got bigger and found the boundaries that forced more sophistication. Lather, rinse, repeat, always seeking to balance complexity with economics. Your baseball cannon is the current zenith of baseball cannons, but somebody who watched those episodes is, or will be, plotting how to break Mach 2.0. Just like somebody is plotting further improvements in the pivots. You are a force for making the future arrive just a little sooner, and that’s worth more than gold.

Mark Young

Well done. Been curious about those contraptions for YEARS.

Terry Moore

Thank You, Destin! I look forward every week or two for what the next episode will reveal and your work is AWESOME!

Lyn E Gerner

So humbling to see the genius and effort that goes into that build. Times a zillion across this great country. Holy cow.

Ryan Brown

So much more complex than I'd realized. I'd always presumed they were powered by the water flow operating a geared drive system on the outermost segment. Love learning new things like this.

Austin Burnham

I’m sad you lost a big sponsor! Do you mind telling us supporters who it was?

Joshua Walles

He hasn’t mentioned KiwiCo in a while.

Brian Garrett

This was a fun episode! Clearly a lot of labor is involved, but it's really quite simple in operation. The fast-motion video was PERFECT to show how the segments move. I had always wondered how something so long could be rigid enough, so it was interesting to learn that *it's not* one rigid section. Cool.

Vishnu Varma

Thanks a lot for putting in all the work. I always wanted to understand how this irrigation system works when ever I see them while driving or flying over them.

Nathan Lee

We have center-pivots all over here, and the speed control at the joints was always an unknown to me. Typical me, I would have guessed that they adjust the motor's speed in a linear fashion. I would never have thought that it was as simple as the bang-bang method. Thanks for showing that!

Aiko Nakano

Can't wait for the Holo Stickers 🥳🎄 I always overwhelmed what Destin do for us! give us opportunity to unwide and stimulate our curiousity on things that we don't even thought about it ! Farmers are truly Genius and Hardworking Humble person!!

Ben Oliver

i love these farmer episodes very interesting