The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube

   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #51  
Correct….at least in our case.

We want to help folks choose the best size tractor. Very difficult question.
How can we illustrate the differences between sizes without having one of each size?

We also want to help folks see which attachments would be most helpful. How can we do that without having lots of attachments?

We certainly don’t expect folks to buy 2,3 or more tractors, and 20+ attachments. We don’t pretend that our inventory is ‘normal’.

We try to use, maintain, and discuss different tractors and attachments to help folks make these difficult decisions.

Our character is all we have to offer. We are thankful for the opportunity to help the community in this way. We promise to show the equipment honestly. That is all we can do. It won’t please everyone, we understand that.

Having said this, We KNOW that many of the other YouTubers do not share our same values and goals.

Tim
Tim,

Great feedback.

You have always had excellent content of varied subject matter.

And along with that, you don’t even come close to misrepresenting either what you have or what you offer to your viewers.

Thanks so much for your efforts, your honesty, and your hard work out there!

I might add this… for myself, I apply much more credibility to product reviews by owners of said equipment, not by equipment simply sponsored and then reviewed by others.

How difficult is it to trash a really bad product that’s either been given to or loaned to you for review?

That would probably be the end of any future product reviews, at least from that provider, no?
 
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   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #52  
I can't disagree with any of this. What's your channel, btw?

I sub to a bunch of tractor channels, but if I had to narrow it down to the ones I learned the most from, aside from what you listed...

1. Louisiana Tractorworks & Projects
2. Daveknowshow
3. Tyler Koehn
4. Biff's Equipment
5. George Recor

All these guys are not sponsored by anybody, and aren't promoting anything other than knowledge.
Promoting knowledge without sponsorship! How about that!
And, it’s all powered by human intellect not just $$ 🙂
Awesome, Great post!
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #53  
Camarata is a great channel! I agree!
I enjoy his stuff too. Very little talking. He just gets right to what he's doing, and when he has to explain something, he gets to the point, and then moves on.

The problem that I have with most youtube channels is the never ending rambling on. Thankfully the fast forward works pretty good and I can skip through most of it and turn a ten minute ramble into two minutes of something interesting.
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #54  
Promoting knowledge without sponsorship! How about that!
And, it’s all powered by human intellect not just $$ 🙂
Awesome, Great post!
Thanks! I do like some sponsored channels, like Tim's here. So long as they're spreading some good info, it's fine if they're making a few bucks, why not?

For instance, I just picked up a CMP Attachments dethatcher because I saw the dude from Good Works Tractors demonstrating it...and that's not the first time I picked up a pointer from him.

But regarding that chick in the bikini, that stuff is pathetic click-bait.
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #55  
I enjoy his stuff too. Very little talking. He just gets right to what he's doing, and when he has to explain something, he gets to the point, and then moves on.

The problem that I have with most youtube channels is the never ending rambling on. Thankfully the fast forward works pretty good and I can skip through most of it and turn a ten minute ramble into two minutes of something interesting.
So true! Such valid points.

I think for a lot of vloggers, there is a choice to make. That choice is “do we have something interesting for the viewer to hear that requires a lot of voiceover”,

or

“is the video almost or just enough to share our point?”.

It’s interesting to ponder, that there is sometimes a big difference between what some folks want to see or hear about a particular subject and what the channel or video creator might feel they need to, or want to, provide.

I guess in a perfect world those two things would match. But the last time I was in that kind of an environment, well … I believe I hadn’t yet been born. 🙂

So there is always bound to be differences there. We can’t always know the knowledge side of every viewer. Hmmm… so what do we do?

I suppose we could do various levels of the same offering (multiple videos) aimed at different types of viewers. Maybe one version for just browsers, and another version for more experienced and technical folks such as yourself.

That might double or triple the effort, but it would make a big difference for folks such as you.

For you, “less” is more, or at the very least, less is enough. It’s because you have a pretty good handle on the basics that someone else with less experience may not have.

That would be an interesting concept though.

Rewarding subscribers to content with “bonus information” or less verbose content that may provide more specific tailored content to those requesting it.

That’s why I believe we are on the edge of piping more user specific data to the individual over sending the same exact information for everyone.

Maybe we will soon have “Smart Post-Processing Systems”. We can call it YouTube SPPS!! (Or YouTube Smart”)

That is, an AI post processor that takes direct video content scans it, along with a media folder (pre supplied by the provider), of additional tailored content.

The SPPS adds or removes from the original video some of that additional provided media in order to fit several core groups of subscribers (or samples), thereby providing a more tailored content to whatever “core” group you’ve subscribed to YouTube Smart as.

I think you are on to something here! Make a billion $$ and I’ll only take 2% per year for my share!
😁
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #56  
Thanks! I do like some sponsored channels, like Tim's here. So long as they're spreading some good info, it's fine if they're making a few bucks, why not?

For instance, I just picked up a CMP Attachments dethatcher because I saw the dude from Good Works Tractors demonstrating it...and that's not the first time I picked up a pointer from him.

But regarding that chick in the bikini, that stuff is pathetic click-bait.
Agreed!!
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #57  
What did you see. My pulled the computer plug???
My wife bypassed everything and started cutting the breaker downstairs when she needed something. Granted… if I smelled smoke I’d react, but generally ….

So, I ordered a UPS 5600 battery backup for $149.

I had it shipped in brown paper wrapping (very discrete!)

It lasts 60 minutes minimum. Now she can pull the plug when it’s time to get to work and it doesn’t phase me at all …
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #58  
One of my pet peeves are the channels with "pretty" folks who never get dirty or sweaty & their tools are always shiny new. For instance, their chain saws always have a brand new bar that clearly displays the brand name. I much prefer the real world types.
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #59  
There seems to be this whole genre of sexualised outdoorsy content forming on YouTube these days. From 20-something girls on daddy’s farm equipment to hippies gardening with no clothes on. Maybe it goes more broadly than outdoorsy stuff but that’s mainly what I watch recently.

My opinion is that this type of information-sparse content degrades the platform by diluting the quality content and skewing the YouTube AI toward more of that type of content.

It’s tragic that the internet seems to be in this spiral of increasing shitness. Look at what junk social media has done to forums and classifieds - replaced them with a much worse version of themselves. TBN forums being one of the few remaining bastions of the internet before the normies came.

With all of that said, I’m extremely grateful, particularly to Tim and Neil@Messicks, for the education they have provided via YouTube. Tim’s responsible for my 2yo daughter wearing a “Don Deere” hat everywhere.
 
   / The Top 5 Tractor Channels on YouTube #60  
Sorry, I'm past the age where I need to watch some chickie-poo prancing across my screen in a video.

Maturity?

Agree whole heartily.
My brother in law was telling me he couldnt find any reviews that he trusted on that particular mower. He is very mechanically challenged. So I told him that I would look for him. When that came up during a search I sent it to him as a joke. Then this thread came up and I couldnt help myself.

Unfortunately sex sells. Just look at the view count on the vids.
When I watch a youtube vid I dont want posing and prancing. I want to see how they did the subject at hand with as few distractions as possible.
 

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