As some others have mentioned, a pit like that can be very dangerous to enter. Lots of people have died entering pits, and die from lack of oxygen. then someone else enters the pit to rescue them, and they die also. At the very least invest in an O2 meter, and lower it into the pit first to make sure there is sufficient oxygen to enter. I worked in the natural gas industry and heard of to many people dying from entering a tank or pit that had insufficient oxygen. there was a contractor cleaning a tank for the company I worked for. He passed out in the tank. His buddy went into the tank to rescue him, and they both died. Never ever go into a pit like that without checking O2.

Laura is the new Mike Rowe! Love that you show the less pleasant aspects of the operation. Always remember the concept of "opportunity costs" when you can subcontract something to an expert and spend your time doing something else. Also - maybe they should make a Griswolds go Farming movie - "found the problem Clark!. ha ha

"found the problem, Clark!" I died

That sunset is so beautiful 😁

Hiring a vactor truck and operator is always a good investment. Worth every penny. We have them at work every day. Vactor trucks can be used for so many things, even cleaning out horse stalls. Horse tracks here even use them to do that. They are also good for vactoring dirt out of excavations when a backhoe cannot get it all.

"Is there a breaker?" Smart girl!

I enjoy watching all your great content Laura. Hope there is more to come in the harvest season and beyond.

Love your enthusiasm and the genuine love you have for what your doing

After you have been away from the farm for 30 years, that smell brings back some good memories!!

Is that electrical tape you are using for a Band-Aid? You are hardcore, girl.. Great job! I learned a lot in this video. Thank you! 👍

I totally love this channel... 💪👍

You're really coming into your own woth all the consistantly great content around the farm Laura. Heck , anything you do is going to interesting really. You're a sweetie.

Worked in a grain elevator when I was 16, it was my job to clean out all the pits. So I know the smell very well.

You are SO adorable! I grew up in North Platte and now live in North Carolina and wish every day I can move back, but I've been here over 30 years now. I imagine you are the same age as my daughter. I first learned about you from the story they did on KNOPTV and found your channel. It has been so much fun to learn more about farming. So many interesting things I didn't know having grown up in the city. My husband comes from a family of farmers and my step-dad did as well, but they have others who now own their farms. I love your videos and getting to see the country and state that I love so much. Ready for my next visit home. I hope you continue to do well and many people will learn about farm life. :)

"why waste our valuable time when we could be doing anything else" like watching him do it

Your efficiency assessment is spot on 👍 👏

"Found our problem Clark!" LMAO your dad is best dad.

You are a very brave girl! I would gag just standing near that. I am very glad you did NOT do it the usual way. Standing down there scooping into a 5 gal bucket, then have said loaded bucket hoisted over your head on a rope.....too dangerous!!!! Great teaching/learning video. Thanks for explaining the steps! ❤️ Love you 😘

Must be that time of year, cleaned up a bunch of stuff that looked like that yesterday! Our system we have to be careful not to send any crap up the bucket elevator cause it will easily plug the distributor and the pipes, it is no fun! So cool you're not afraid to do the nasty jobs, you will go far in this world!

Beautiful sunset. Cool learning how your farm works.

Another great Laura Farms video!! Good stuff. Also I really enjoy my magnetic parts dish for loose nuts, bolts, etc. You can also magnet the dish to anything metal. Very handy. If you don't already have one you should!

I'm a car nut, truck driver, gearhead, so your channel is a nice break from the norm of my subscriptions, I've never learned so much about farming. Of course I did the obligatory, "OOOZHEEE, BOOOZHEEE, DOOODOOO!!" out loud for the awesome Rottie dog. Keep doing what you do, stay awesome!

Been there done that and have the shirt to prove it , and that was a smart thing to do on getting someone else to do it in less time .Enjoyed watching and again you don`t mine getting in there and doing it !

Love your vids....I have a hay/stock farm in Kansas. Much simpler operation...love seeing all the big stuff.

Loved the video showing other sides of the farm. Keep it up!

Keep up the good work Laura, love your content!

Hello Laura! Good to see you 😃

If it's moldy you probably don't want to be breathing in all that dust! Maybe better to use a respirator?

another beautiful midwest sunset.....

I'm glad you're getting down and dirty with your dad's operation. Grubbing out the nasty bits really does build character and a good work ethic.Keep shoveling, Laura. It'll do you good (God, I'm turning into my parent).

Good work, and sooo clean!

Just saw you on 10/11, congratulations. I'll look forward to seeing these videos. A Lincoln fan!

Heard your dad say he should find one of those trucks! Then you can do it all Laura, haha!

There is always something to do on a farm..... Thanks for sharing ...

Definitely a beautiful landscape

The "honeydipper man" can be your best friend when things get stinky!

2people dislike this video what’s wrong with people now days that was great information video, keep on educating us Laura i,appreciate every video u, upload thank u

Great video!

I guess most every job has a down side, for you it’s the boot pit. I am a retired aircraft technician, and our worst job was dealing with clogged lavatory plumbing and waste storage tanks!! I feel your pain!😳😁

i'm a operation manager at a carwash and we used to have to do the 5 gallon bucket method to dip mud out of our 6ft pits and now we use a sucker truck. it is such a life saver

A comment regarding safety in confined spaces... At the 8:30 point both you and your dad are down at the bottom of the pit. Was there anyone up above keeping an eye on you? For safety, it's not a good idea for you both to be down there together if there's no one watching from above. Certain chemicals are heavier than air and will collect in the bottom of the pit. A common tragic scenario is for someone to be overcome by such a chemical at the bottom of the pit, and another person goes in after them to rescue them and they are overcome, too. Two people die. You and your dad should talk about a plan that could be used for a pit rescue that does not involve a second person going down in the pit. I know this has probably never happened in the history of your farm and therefore you assume it will never happen in the future, but some night around the dinner table you should at least spend 10 minutes talking it through, just in case of a release of some heavier-than-air chemical that ends up in the bottom of that pit.

Great video Laura

I believe in hiring an 'expert' every now and again, even if I could do it myself, because if he cannot make a living, he might not still be around to hire for the jobs I absolutely cannot do for myself.

Great video Laura! I can see how you stay so skinny...geeeez. I do know what the grain pit smells like...on par with mucking out a cow barn in the middle of the summer. I always enjoy seeing you working with your dad.

Love me some Laura Farms!😍😍😍

I just like how even if the job is disgusting Laura has a positive way to look at it. BTW even though I don’t work on a farm I have been in some really stinky places and I will agree fermented and rotten corn ranks right up there in smell. Even skunk spray smells better than that.

Found The Problem Clark! Shitters Full ! 🤣 Your dad is a Goof 😆

What a GREAT DAD!

Atta girl, Laura! Workin hard. Nobody likes cleaning the pit. Great vid, darlin!

You are incredible💖

Keep up the good work stay safe 👍 damn i love your voice

The most unpleasant smell I have smelled has thil do with farming! I worked on for lake champlain ferries. Every day the Gut truck came across our boat straight from the slaughter house. My God we are talking bad.... Thank you for sharing that with us. Your dad is a cool dude!

Back in the 70's we had a bin type corn dryer that had a 15" high space at the bottom where the hot air blew under the whole bin. Corn would leak down there and turn to the same stinking rotten crap that you were digging out with your shovel. We used a garden hoe to rake it out as far as we could reach but the bin was 20' wide so that left me with a very nasty job. Since I was low man on the totem pole and the only one skinny enough to crawl on his belly in the 15" space under the bin where we had just hoed out rotten corn; I had to crawl with my arms out in front of my head with a hoe to rake the rotten corn from the opposite side of the bin so we could work it to where we could reach it from the outside entrance. Crawling in there was a slow process and there was only room enough between the floor supports to have my arms extended forward over my head; no room to wiggle that much. When I got about 15' under the dryer, I hit a big nest of yellow jackets and had to crawl backwards as fast as I could to escape. I got stung about ten times before I got out. That was painful but i lived to spray the yellow jackets and finish the job. It was the dirtiest job i can remember having to do on the farm.

We were in the Branson/Table Rock area earlier this week. I think they have really taken a hit with this Covid-19. Hope things improve soon. Thanks for the video.

Great videos my lil girl loves watching them goodluck

I love watching your videos l have learned allot about a farm thank you!!!

When you have your hair up it means something gross or dangerous is about to happen Lol

OSHA would probably require you to have a blower going (ventilation), plus an attachment (harness) for the person in the hole, for safety. But this is what happens on a farm. Not the Big City!

I worked for the local Behlen dealer putting up bins and elevator legs while in college. I would have taken the job of cleaning them over installing them as I'm not fond of heights. All my worst fears became a reality when a coworker fell and died. It was in Elizabeth Colorado but we worked as Far East as Wray and Burlington and Julesberg. But yes, I recall the smell of rotting fermenting grain and you're right, it's awful.

Beautiful scenery anyway

Hello there🌹 keep up the good work👍 Watching you from Egypt💐

Your Dad speed talking 😂 when he already talks fast

this was awesome to watch.

You are a very smart & resourceful young lady. You could use that muck for great Catfish stink bait.

This looks like a job for Mike Roe from dirty jobs. He would love this and you also. Fun guy. Llooking forward to seeing it.

Laura this smells but a worse smell is grain ( corn, soybean and peas ) that has been in a silo for 35 years and never sold. I was pulling a grain hopper n been sent to this farm many times to be loaded as it was vacuuming out. This went to a farm salvage company in Iowa.

It is moments like this that I am eternally grateful that they haven't invented screens that emit smells.

Just wow!

You're doing great! Be careful around all that mold dust, and airborne bacteria. Getting that in your lungs can be nasty. Wear a mask. CO2, and other naturally occurring heavy gases collects in pits, trenches, basements, etc., so ventilating the pit with a powerful fan helps reduce confined spaces issues. In Australia we have to have a Confined Spaces qualification to work in environments like your auger pit. Wear gloves! Best wishes. Take care hey, and look out for "The Virus"!

Sometimes you have to give thanks that Smell-a-vision was never invented. Great you're showing us all sides of the industry.

Don’t be forgetting that patreon in the video description ;) Had to go back a few videos to find the link to support.

Laura, definitely know the smell, and you are right, it is putrid. Spent many a summer working with my uncles at the CO-OP Elevator in Apache, Oklahoma.

You know, Laura, the more you keep that corn clean, the less the mice will come to visit you!

I'm imaging this is like a scenario I ran into a few times when I worked as a diesel mechanic. Worked on garbage trucks... In South Texas... in August. Packer blade cylinder breaks. Requires you to enter the back of the garbage truck where all the rotting garbage "juice" is. Sour milk, rotten eggs, diaper contents, etc. is what "garbage juice" is made of. Also, the maggots would be so thick, you generally had to shovel them out of the back before working on it. So, that's what I'm imagining when I see/hear you talk about this.

Remote control hopper bottom...fancy.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 That was a strangely satisfying vlog to watch 👍🏻🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

You have my sympathy Laura rotting beans is the WORST!

I used to work at Incobrasa Industries. Soybean processing plant. I was in the bean crushing side. Dusty and stinky. Especially the tunnels and pits. DEFINITELY makes everything else smell amazing lol

It was kinda funny when you sped up the video loosening those nuts because both you and your dad sounded like a couple of minions at work! 😁. It looked like a very disgusting job cleaning out the boot pit so thumbs up to the guy who cleaned it.

I work at a grain elevator, pull your slides out and clean out your leg after harvest or more than once per year and it would be a LOT easier/cleaner job. rotten grain can cause metal to rot out too over time.

The Cleanest Corn coming out of the Boot Pit LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO😂🤣👍😁🦄😷❤️🌴

try the smell in a choline plant, its a product that goes in animal feed and then refined for humans, building machinery for the food processing industry, machining or welding stainless steel parts after they have been in the processing plant, that smell will get u also

I would suggest that you wear a hat. My dad taught me years ago when I was a kid and farming to wear a hat of course I was stubborn and I didn't wear a hat I have dark Brown Is hair they get very hot in the sun I always wear light Is colored shirts and hats to not be hot In. I Marvel at these people at the county fair or whatever or wherever it's 95ﾟ in the shade and they have a black leather pants on and a black shirt it's gotta be hot as blazers in that but you know That's because they look cool in the black they think. Just a suggestion from an old phone just a suggestion I'm an old farmer.😁😀😎👍‼

Uuuuu turbo Tuesday 😂

I used to repair grain elevators & grain bins ect. She aint lying , one of the worst smells on the planet , rotten grain.

Beautiful sunset you’re dad’s a good working guy do you get a holiday this time of the year

Laura, I know this comment is for a video from two years ago, but since you mentioned something about sunsets in your state, you should see them in the deserts of the American southwest, Arizona in particular.

"Grain shrapnel." 😅

Lovely compost

return of the Mac.... " here we go !!! " ;-)

K what the hell, I REALLY need to know your skin care routine. I am at a loss on how you have such amazing clear skin!

Nice and sweet video 🤠👩🏻🇺🇸

Read all the comments, but still haven't figured out what the boot pit is for. I pumped liquids in my jobs, rarely shoveled a bit of sugar or starch.

good to some gas detectors when doing that kind of job or a bird to go nighty night - water pumps tend to die a lot - its mostly the float - need more access to - if died

Been there , done that

The farm on which I grew up had a grain elevator and pit so I know the smell. However, we also had a cattle feed lot. In my opinion the smell when cleaning out the lot after months of "buildup" is worse than rotted grain.

Laura, it would be wise to research "Confined Space Entry". It is a Big Deal, and it should be considered a significant hazard.

Clean out your grain elevators in the fall, and you won’t have that stinky stuff to clean out before harvest begins.. just a thought //Erik

There are lots of gross stinky jobs in this world. I worked in a large hospital that had it's own industrial sized laundry. Soiled ( poopy linen and everything else ) plus heat and poor ventilation was nasty. We also had grease interceptors on the drain lines from the restaurant and yeah lots of maggots and horrible grease and stuff were in them and needed cleaning out. I would have thought the worst job would have to do with the pigs and getting rid of liquid manure. Maybe you can show us how the pig barns operate sometime.

Putting electrical tape on a cut! You just moved up a notch in my book.