Traveler Irrigation Problems

Border View Farms is a mid-sized family farm that sits on the Ohio-Michigan border. My name is Nathan. I make and edit all of the videos posted here. I farm with my dad, Mark and uncle, Phil. Our part-time employee, Brock, also helps with the filming. 1980 was our first year in Waldron where our main farm is now. Since then we have grown the operation from just a couple hundred acres to over 3,000. Watch my 500th video for a history of our farm I filmed with my dad.

I started making these videos in the fall of 2019 as a way to help show what I do on a daily basis as a farmer. Agriculture is different from any other industry and I believe the more people that are showing their small piece of agriculture, helps to build our story. We face unique challenges and stressful situations but have some of the most rewarding payoffs in the end. I get to spend everyday doing what I love, raising my kids on the farm, and trying to push our farm to be better every year. I hope that I can address questions or concerns that you might have about farms and agriculture.

I hope you enjoy my content and ask questions as you have them. I do my best to answer anything I can. Thanks for watching!

Mailing address
P.O. Box 321
Pioneer, OH 43554

[kevinsiedschlag]

Years ago, ran a soft hose gun, one step up from a bucket!!!

[thomasstrand]

Boys she's a little cutie Nathan good luck with your crops this year

[patrickaherne]

I keep looking at those clouds and praying for rain for you guys.

[gregcatlett]

Well Nathan, you’re too young for a gentleman to need a light like that that’s for us old guys😂. Thank you very much, sir for the video I appreciate it!!! And that is a beautiful daughter.

[bfd]

I watched that line of rain slowly evaporate prior to reaching your farm yesterday.

[richardsnyder]

We got 3 tenths down by Whitehouse yesterday. Take everything we can get. The rain came out of the north. Hopefully Berkey got some first.

[dekr]

That was a great video man, the drone footand music you selected was awesome

[markarnold]

Glad you finally got some rain. Hopefully you get more this week.

[NelsonBigGunPFan]

Ah yes. Your dad had the bright idea! That screen oughtta keep the nasty stuff away from your suction line! Dont wanna starve the pump! Every once in a while when running smaller sprinklers i pump out of a retention pond and it'll pull rocks in that get caught in the nozzles of the sprinklers and i'd have to shut it off and clean out the heads! just taking the nozzle out and running the pump for a minute to flush out all of the rocks or debris. I do have a screen on my suction hose, but these rocks are small and can get caught in the spreader or range nozzles of my impacts. Of course using the big guns they dont get clogged due to the big nozzles! Thanks for sharing! Your gun gets good range in that field! This is a hobby for me i've loved irrigation since i was little, I was born in 78 so as a kid i got to see a lot of the fast reverse nelson big guns running, those were my favorite!

[bigt]

Cant wait for wheat harvest!! The swath of water looks so small moving across the field! We are getting a nice rain this morning across the whole state of Iowa, I pray it makes its way to the east!!

[mrdio]

TRUTH, I was sitting here mid comment "Get Mark to fab up a screen box for the pump head", when you say he fixed you up.What would you do without him.

[deionsharpe]

Hey Nathan, your idea of putting a screen upstream, blocking some more of that debris also, but your dad made a pretty cool diverter around the pipe, but if it starts acting up again I would put your 💡 idea to give it a try 🙂

[timboslice]

We didn't get any of that rain in Jackson either. Bummer!

[stevebiddle]

Very cool drone footage of the traveler!!

[Nappylou]

LOL thats what i was gonna say to build around the inlet for your pump just a cheap screen! nice that will work.

[grazycooter]

Love the video! Why don't you make a screen box with some pipe and a mess or chicken wire dat is big and put your pipe in there. You have a big screen en easy te move.

[richardgallup]

Hope you got the rain we did in Lyons.

[BoreFarms]

We made a basin (not sure what you call it...) in our river with a inlet pipe facing downstream so you don't get all the gras and whatnot in to the basin.

[wry]

Great drone video. Looking f forward to cutting g wheat.

[stanbrow]

The definition of what a river or creek is is VERY localized. When we were in Iowa, there was. River that I could walk across ( on stones) without getting my feet wer. If memory serves me correctly, it was 3 to 5 feet wide. Here in Charleston SC, there is a creek that ocean going pleasure boats can sail up.