r/BeAmazed • u/jkitty_1960 • Aug 09 '26
Miscellaneous / Others Before the expected rain, the whole family rushed to bring in the wheat so it wouldn't spoil.
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u/Organic_Fortune_4748 Aug 09 '26
This was stressful
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u/Fidodo Aug 09 '26
They finished up so quickly in the end. I blinked and missed it
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u/harrywalterss Aug 09 '26
The guy came out with the superior broom that looked like a branch or something. Worked very well it looked like
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u/LilJelloCat Aug 09 '26
Yeah that thing looked super efficient, exactly what you need for that
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u/Furious-Stiles Aug 09 '26
It was dad powered. That certainly helped
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u/Krog9 Aug 09 '26
Thats what I was thinking- this guy has been through this many times since age 2
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u/oysterpirate Aug 09 '26
he's also the only one who doesn't seem to be panicking, just casually walking over to the broom, then sweeping, then casually walking back to start another pass
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u/reluctantlysharing Aug 10 '26
He can feel the rain in his left knee, he knows they have enough time.
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u/Maximum-Standard3762 Aug 10 '26
Why's it always the left knee? Even my left knee acts up before storms.
Although I don't have it down to a science yet 😅
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u/Simple-Watch-2510 Aug 10 '26
My right knee acts up before storms, however, I'm left handed..🤔
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u/MangoCats Aug 10 '26
He struck me as "cleanup crew" getting the last of it after the bulk had been pushed over.
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u/reluctantlysharing Aug 10 '26
My thoughts exactly! Push broom? Nah, here comes dad/unc with the tree branch to save the day.
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u/Worshipme988 Aug 09 '26
Order eight of those 100%.
In case of rain, break glass: then it’s just a bunch of wizard brooms or whatever the fuck
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u/Equivalent-Passage78 Aug 09 '26
Well that and the time jump cut at -27s
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u/xteve Aug 10 '26
Yeah, I didn't think their work stopped being interesting at that point. I would have liked to have seen the rest of it.
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u/RuthVioletThursday Aug 09 '26
I think his method is just more effective. He's doing more sweeping and less running about
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u/supermarkise Aug 09 '26
That probably only works because most of the material is already gone.
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u/greg19735 Aug 09 '26
I find it interesting and maybe a bit telling how many people are like "wait until dad saves the day".
Completely ignoring the work of the women and kids. Especially with what you said with the broom being way better after the bulk had been taken out.
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u/stay_sweet Aug 10 '26
I feel like everyone else's technique was having more of a snowplow effect where most of the grain is being pushed off to the side instead of actually accumulating in front as they were running forward
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u/ajh0202 Aug 09 '26
I would have it on a tarp. Then you can just grab the corners, walk towards eachother, and drag the whole thing in. Done in less than a minute probably.
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u/MangoCats Aug 10 '26
How many (and how large) tarps do you think they can afford? Tarps left out in the sun don't last very long.
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u/TotalOriginal007 Aug 09 '26
Yeah, it is basically a bunch of very flexible branches and they are for outside use and are better than anything ever made in a G20 country.
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u/Magdasuerte Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
jokes on you, italy is a g20 country and we used to have those brooms as well 🤣 they're just very old and not used in modern times for healty reasons (if not kept well the branches would rot and send mold spores in the air and consequently in our body through the respiratory tract after every single swept) and also beacuse although it's very good for bigger things like weath grains, they're almost useless against finer dust. I remember that my grandma made me use one while cleaning the house on her farm when i was a child (like 20 something years ago).
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u/291837120 Aug 09 '26
if not kept well the branches would rot
Do they not cure the wood?- or is it like the type of wood it's made from?
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u/NeedsMoreYellow Aug 09 '26
It's usually fresh cut branches. Once the branches begin to dry out they become brittle and will break while sweeping. Fresh branches still have water in the cells that can mold.
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u/TheRedBaron11 Aug 09 '26
Introducing the new BranchTM! ($20.99, wrapped in plastic)
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u/NouZkion Aug 09 '26
I dunno, man, a snow pusher would have made quick work of this. I move a lot more material than this every time it snows in Minnesota.
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u/skippy_smooth Aug 09 '26
Unc with the power move, using the right tool for the job
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u/rjchute Aug 09 '26
Just imagine the Benny Hill soundtrack playing in the background. Much less stressful.
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u/storywardenattack Aug 09 '26
Working like their life literally depended on it
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u/eekamuse Aug 09 '26
I was very worried about them.
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u/OuterInnerMonologue Aug 09 '26
I saw the lil kid and old grandpa kinda fumble and went “ oh no!” But those two turned it up a notch. Nice
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u/That1guyUknow918 Aug 09 '26
Would've taken a third of the time if they worked in conjunction and swept side by side in a v pattern.
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u/NotYourAvgBoomer Aug 10 '26
In my country this is exactly how we do it: we have 90% of people discussing how to do it for a few minutes/hours and afterwards at least 2 or 3 self-proclaimed leaders who would just yell, curse and work nothing at all, in the end if is successful they get the credits, if not they will probably blame on who 's weaker and cannot complain. :)))
So, what I've seen was agile, they did something, failed a bit, adjust and finish as a team. Love it.
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u/Crintor Aug 09 '26
Yep, would have been multiple times faster if they worked side by side with overlapping pushes to catch the overflow instead of just plowing a single scoop across the entire floor and wasting 90% of the effort for half the clean up.
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u/greg19735 Aug 09 '26
and organizing that would have taken time.
Kids working at 40% effectiveness is a whole lot better than 0%
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u/Dudisayshi Aug 09 '26
And inefficient. Doesn't look like the first time, you think they would have a plan on how to handle rain or do this quickly. Like lay a tarp on the ground and then dry the wheat on it.
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u/greg19735 Aug 09 '26
i mean, this seemed pretty fast.
And tarps now introduce new difficulties if the rain isn't tooo common.
I mean for one, can you get a tarp big enough? Once you start pulling in multiple tarps you may have issues with overlapping.
Tarps may also collect water, unlike something like concrete. It's not a lot, but concrete can absorb into water a bit. WHich may help with drying out. I know this because my house gets wet spots in the living room under our carpet because the concrete slab my house is built on absorbs water. The foundation is fine and has had professionals looked at it. Just gotta improve the drainage.
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u/James-the-Bond-one Aug 09 '26
"I told you we need to have a few more kids!"
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u/xaeru Aug 09 '26
They need more branches, that thing was clearing the floor so fast.
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u/Reebawks Aug 09 '26
Dad came in with the big leaf and started putting in work
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u/tidder_mac Aug 09 '26
Didn’t move with any haste, but was very effective
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u/billymumfreydownfall Aug 09 '26
And got in absolutely everyone's way before redeeming himself.
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u/iruleatants Aug 09 '26
He never redeemed himself. He did a tiny little corner and then just stands there and we get a time skip to a little kid using the big leaf.
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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta Aug 09 '26
Damn man, I didn't even noticed that! Idk what he's using, but looks like they need a few more of those. It looks like a giant feather 😄
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u/CamelSmuggler Aug 09 '26
Unironically one of if not the main reason why farmers had so many children.
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u/James-the-Bond-one Aug 09 '26
Not only farmers, but city dwellers as well. The reason was high child mortality rate. A large number never reached adulthood.
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u/TheMostKing Aug 10 '26
I think most of those deaths are in infancy. If you make it past the toddler stage, your chances weren't too bad. But a lot of infant deaths really drag down the average life expectancy.
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u/thebighuski Aug 09 '26
In every society if you eliminate child mortality and improve Social Security you always solve “over population”
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u/anapoe Aug 10 '26
Yep, one of the major reasons we have modern civilization is that when paleolithic people settled down and shifted from hunting/gathering and started farming, all of a sudden kids went from being a drag (when you're a tribe on the move all the time) to a boon (more helping hands around the farm).
This was also the start of patriarchy: women often pregnant --> women in the home/kitchen with children --> women out of politics/power
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u/Poupulino Aug 11 '26
Also unironically the reason humanity survived countless pandemics, massive genocidal wars, crushing famines, etc.
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u/fruitsnackmonster Aug 10 '26
Last year we had a huge black walnut tree come down in our yard after a big storm. Our neighbor across the street has five kids and when she saw me out there with my two kids, picking up walnuts, she sent her whole crew out to help us. What I expected to be a two day job was done in 30 mins. I made a joke about wanting to have more kids and the middle son looked at me and goes, “don’t do it!” Poor kid 😂
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u/XCXBITH2 Aug 09 '26
This was my mother putting all the raincoats on her 11 horses, only for it not to rain
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u/BumWink Aug 09 '26
Lol on the flip side there's me remembering all my clothes on the line, promptly forgetting & everything gets wet.
I would absolutely not be on wheat lookout duty.
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u/Dietcokeisgod Aug 09 '26
Not me! Last wednesday I checked the weather, took all the washing off the line, put it into a basket and then forgot and left the basket outside overnight. It rained.
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u/Self_Reddicate Aug 09 '26
Horses are waterproof. Or, at least, water resistant. At least IP65.
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u/Vellc Aug 09 '26
... You have 11 horses?
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u/ohnoitsalobo Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
... you don't have 11 horses?
What kind of poor misfit just doesn't have at least three horses? /s
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u/Jopkins Aug 10 '26
Horses? The animals which live outside?
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u/k-trecker Aug 10 '26
Horse blankets are a pretty common thing. I’m not a horse owner but they’re sometimes used for rain and/or cold. Or to prevent flies from biting.
They’re kinda cute, like a horse poncho.
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u/AdjectiveNoun1234567 Aug 09 '26
Except for him this was some of the most ineffective sweeping and shoveling I've ever seen.
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u/sofa_king_we_todded Aug 09 '26
The branch was perfect for cleaning up the thin layer left after the shovels and sturdier brooms. The branch wouldn’t have been able to move much bulk like the shovels, the two-pass method was perfect imo
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u/janderson75 Aug 09 '26
Agree!! Too much credit for coming in on the literal light work in this comment section
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u/nothing_but_thyme Aug 10 '26
True. But everyone in this video still needs to learn the multiplying power of an assembly line. Anyone that’s ever moved a bunch of the same thing as fast as possible knows that if you let every member run all the way in and all the way out you’re the slowest crew on the dock and tiredest at the end of the day. People are stationary, product moves.
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u/24BuddyCrawlin Aug 09 '26
Everyone else just has a broom. This guy has a korok leaf.
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u/ADLuluIsOP Aug 09 '26
The kid had the leaf at the end and he used it like shit still lol
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u/Derezzed87 Aug 10 '26
He is but an apprentice. He has yet to learn the true Way of the Leaf.
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u/Playful_Drummer5688 Aug 10 '26
Never push a broom in a straight line. Short movements. And move the stuff. Everyone else used their brooms like bulldozers.
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u/Spare_Ad5615 Aug 10 '26
It's mesmerisingly inefficient. You'd get the same amount of rice into the shelter if you just brushed the last meter or so as what they're doing. They're losing almost all of it out the sides of the broom. Then someone else sweeps past depositing most of their lane back into yours.
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u/NoSTs123 Aug 09 '26
The germans actually have a song about doing this activity.
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u/NorthNorthAmerican Aug 09 '26
And a word that is no less than 24 characters to describe it, no doubt
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u/spiderdranny13 Aug 09 '26
As someone who used to work with farmers, I am saying this for those who's recommending tarps. They've thought about it. They've also tried it in the past. The thing with tarps is that, it's not worth the stress. The smell sometimes stick to the wheat, making the value of the wheat lower. When the tarp gets wet, it is so hard to dry and the smell makes it also unusable for the next few days/weeks.
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u/viper5delta Aug 09 '26
Thanks for this, I assumed there was some reason, because it seems like the obvious answer to the uneducated (ie me), and one thing I've learned is that if people aren't using the "obvious solution" when their livelihoods depend on it, the obvious solution 99.999times out of 100 has some non-obvious drawbacks.
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u/Polygnom Aug 10 '26
Yeah. You can be absolutely sure they thought about and tried the obvious solutions first. There will be reasons why they do not sue them.
Same if a new guy joins a company. there are usually reasons for why processes are they way they are, and you first need to understand WHY before proposing any change.
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u/robotatomica Aug 10 '26
ugh, I love you for this. These people are experts at this, we don’t value this sort of thing as expertise. But if any solution occurred to us randos who don’t do this every day, they’ve considered it, and weighed it against others, and know all of the variables that are they are facing.
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u/V0lirus Aug 09 '26
Thank you, i was wondering why they didnt just use a giant tarp. I was thinking not to place the tarp over the grain, but instead put the grain on the tarp. In case of rain, you could quickly fold up the tarp and get the grain out of the rain.
But as you said, i guess that would still cause the smell and maybe taste of the tarp get into the grain.
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u/Elpsyth Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
The second issue is that tarp does not allow the grain to expel moisture safely. So it is an extra risk of wetting.
Grains are hygroscopic, they absorb and release water. If they are covered by a tarp, and if the tarp is colder than the grain for any reason, condensation will occur.
Water and grain do not mix well for conservation
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u/kernelangus420 Aug 10 '26
I think the family that knows how to install a high res streaming video camera knows the difference between various types of tarp.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Aug 10 '26
I think they were very clearly asking WHY a canvas one won't work, not suggesting that this family doesn't know what a canvas tarp is ..
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u/Ctowncreek Aug 10 '26
For the same reasons stated above. A canvas tarp gets wet. It gets musty. Its hard to dry. Its also heavy. Any kind of water proofing either contaminates the wheat or makes the tarp heavier/stiffer.
Plastic tarps easily develop leaks. Canvas tarps become saturated because they are cotton.
Canvas is even harder to dry than plastic.
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u/AdJust6959 Aug 09 '26
That’s why we use cotton cloth bruh, several, not one big single one
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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Aug 09 '26
The wheat probably doesn’t weigh enough to keep the tarp down on the ground either. One good gust of wind will get between the ground and tarp and it’ll send the wheat flying everywhere.
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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta Aug 09 '26
I hate that Reddit has made it so users can hide their reddit activity.
I don't do it often, but when someone has a comment as funny and unique as yours, I've always enjoyed checking out their reddit history to see if it was a one time lucky thing, or if that person is commonly that entertaining. 🫤
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u/Active_Courage_6376 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I wish I was that funny on a regular basis but I was just inspired this time, even writing it with the voice of an old annoncer in my head.
My only previous record of a funny and unique comment was about a modification to a LEGO set that released on August 1st.I'm hiding my post history because I sometimes post in very niche or local subs and it wouldn't be too hard to put one and one together for someone who knows me IRL
Happy cake day BTW !
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u/manicdee33 Aug 10 '26
Debris from textiles can ruin the sale value of the grain.
Debris from the concrete is going to be dust which is easily separated by winnowing.
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u/pipnina Aug 09 '26
What about nets or burlap sack type material?
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u/kroating Aug 09 '26
Too finicky and grains get stuck. As someone who did this every summer with wheat and other millets in indian summers, this is where cotton or chiffon sarees come in handy 🤣 one below a lighter color on top to keep the birds away. Each saree length can be handled by one person , meanwhile large tarps are hard with the quantity.
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u/rlovelock Aug 09 '26
Seams like having a tarp on standby is the winning play?
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u/sunfaller Aug 09 '26
the people are referring to laying a tarp on the ground and then laying the wheat on them to dry so it's easy to lift or pack away the wheat in when it rains. Since the wheat and tarp are heated and dried under the sun for hours, the tarp oozes its smell onto the wheat making it smell bad.
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u/whitebandit Aug 09 '26
why not fly a tarp over the yard?
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u/ConsistentAddress195 Aug 09 '26
Maybe they want the sun to dry the grain
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u/whitebandit Aug 09 '26
well sure, but i feel like it would be easier to unhook half a tarp than it is to shovel a whole yard of wheat
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u/immaturenickname Aug 09 '26
In reality, the leeching of smell isn't a big issue with a good tarp, the real reason just "lifting and packing it away" isn't a real option, is that the grain weights a ton, so you end up having to move it with a rake anyway.
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u/AnastasiaNo70 Aug 09 '26
Teamwork makes the dream work.
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u/thespillover Aug 09 '26
Old dude was the slowest but most efficient. Been here before.
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u/Avalonians Aug 09 '26
It was painful to see most of them do the full length sweep. On 80% of the distance you're just pushing grain to the side. That's so much time wasted doing back and forths
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u/Evil_Sharkey Aug 09 '26
They need to learn to do a staggered push like Midwest snowplows
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u/gary-payton-coleman Aug 10 '26
Came to say the same thing. Anyone who’s had to shovel the snow off an ice rink knows the staggered-plow technique.
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u/Boogleooger Aug 09 '26
I swear one decent sized piece of cardboard clears all of the tools they used in this video. It's nice to see a family working together tho. My family woulda been yelling at each other, throwing the grain at one another, all while dad stood in the shade and screamed at us to go faster
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u/Downunder818 Aug 09 '26
Yeah.... So much wasted motion. He was the only one who knew through experience.
I think they could have done it in a third the time if they slowly advanced the entire lot rather than running a shovel through all of it with each pass to the pile...
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u/You_Stole_My_Hot_Dog Aug 09 '26
It's so much faster to stay in one spot and move it little by little. The others were running back and forth to get a single broomful at a time.
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u/Beerandpotatosalad Aug 09 '26
I'd say 2 in the middle and the rest on the side sweeping it towards them.
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u/HeyLookitMe Aug 09 '26
Most exciting thing I’ve seen online all day. I was rooting for them from start to finish and they made it!!!
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u/BornanAlien Aug 09 '26
Dad comes in and starts SLAYIN
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u/That_guy_from_1014 Aug 09 '26
Loved it, dad casually walks over, grabs the least effective looking thing that everyone else already passed on, cleans sweeps an 8th of patio in 4 swings
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u/Ok_Role_3947 Aug 09 '26
It bring me back to my summer as a kid. During summer school break, I was responsible for taking care of the rice being dry under the sun, and have to remove them before rain. I didn't like the job because it was inefficient and I thought we should have better way to do it, but adults didn't care.
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u/megalynn44 Aug 09 '26
Big Brother producers getting their next competition idea.
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u/Tall-Boysenberry-264 Aug 09 '26
The one guy who showed up late and worked smarter rather than harder could have done it himself lol
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u/Mr__H Aug 10 '26
That broom seems like it would only be efficient after the push brooms swept. Push brooms move mass, but this one can sweep a larger area area quicker as long as it's not too heavy
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u/Tigeire Aug 09 '26
maybe lay it out on a tarps you can swiftly pack up.
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u/Upset-Sea6029 Aug 09 '26
These kids aren't Canadian. Eight kids with scrapers can clear snow from a hockey rink faster than a Turbo-Zamboni.
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u/masterhogbographer Aug 10 '26
That old man with the broom definitely has a wicked wrist shot though
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u/mshroff7 Aug 09 '26
All that just to cut the damn video anyway….
How many loaves of bread would that make?
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u/yyc_yardsale Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
Bit of back of the napkin math, with some wild guesswork thrown in. Let's say that area is about 20x40 feet, and that wheat only looks to be about an inch deep. That gives us 67 cubic feet, or 54 bushels. You'll get something like 45 lbs of flour out of that bushel, which will turn into about 90 loaves of bread. So you're looking at close to 5,000 loaves, assuming a 1 lb loaf. That's for white bread, whole wheat would be significantly more. Wheat is amazing stuff.
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u/carolebaskinshusband Aug 09 '26
Mmm stepped on ground wheat
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u/mike117 Aug 09 '26
If you think that’s bad then you don’t wanna find out how many bugs and bug parts we eat in our produce on a daily basis.
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u/singletWarrior Aug 09 '26
friend allergic to prawns, suddenly kept getting allergic reaction, turns out it's coffee^^
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u/Disastrous_Visit9319 Aug 09 '26
Wait til you find out how many rodents and birds become mummified in silos/railcars for the wheat that makes your flour.
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u/XelpleX Aug 09 '26
Pretty much everything every natural food that needs to be dried is done on the ground. Enjoy your ground coffee too https://www.youtube.com/shorts/apTZppQZAaI
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