Thought it would be neat to see what YouTube channels people regularly watch or follow and maybe give a short reason why they like their content. I probably have an odd mix of channels I regularly watch new videos because I grew up in rural Iowa on a small farm so some of the farm/ag related channels intrigue me.
Iowa Everywhere - while I don't consistently keep up with all the content they have as it there is so much CW has done a great job with this.
CFTV - same reasons as above. Really enjoyed the "kickin' it" interview with Rhoads
Cole the Cornstar - when I first came across his channel thought he was a bit obnoxious but right now I am hooked on his series of videos renovating his great grandfather's farm house. He and 2 guys are doing a DIY renovation and its been very interesting to watch how they work through every new curveball they come across. He's also in Iowa.
Grant Hilbert and Spencer Hilbert - These 2 are ISU grads that originally were YouTube gamers playing Farming Simulator, now they are actually farming in real life. They have other things they are involved in that they make their money from but it's been interesting to see them learn how to farm without any real farming background.
Just a Few Acres Farm - another one that at first didn't find as interesting but the more I watch the more interested I got. It's a small farm in NY state that basically raises beef and chicken they sell but he also does tractor restorations and some other side project stuff that I find interesting
WhistlinDiesel - I just came across him this year. Guy is a bit crazy and obviously has some money to blow but it's entertaining to say the least. The first video I saw of his was 1 from 2 years ago titled "Catching the guy that stole 20 things from me." That one is a great watch, he basically got a guy on camera stealing his stuff and showed up at his place with the sheriff.
What Would You Do - some of the scenarios they come up with are great. Nothing beats hidden camera shows to get true public reactions. Overall it is refreshing to see that there are still a lot of good people out there willing to step into an awkward situation and take action
I tend to just get into phases where I am searching for things like police body cams, online court proceedings, prank calls, and certain video games where I come across some other content in the process
I've got dozens of them:
Wild Wonderful Off Grid, where a young couple with no construction experience built their own elaborate A frame house and are now working on the bedroom wing. They also own an acreage raising sheep, donkeys and chickens and own a couple of businesses in a nearby town, a restaurant and a candle and soap making business. He's an electrician by trade and she's a fitness model.
C'mon Homesteading, where a single guy with an obsession with tractors is building a homestead, raising goats, rabbits, chickens and ducks with plans for some cattle in the future.
Simple Life Reclaimed, where a young couple with three kids is building their own home and are living in the basement of that home, which they also built, while running a homestead on 41.36 acres they share with her brother and sister-in-law and their young son, whose channel,
Country Road Cure, I also follow. These two Youtube channels often feature the one directly above and currently have borrowed one of his tractors to help grade their lane. They are all friends and all live in the same part of the country.
Life Uncontained, where a young couple with three kids built a container home on an acreage in Texas with him doing all the work despite no experience in building such things. They are currently working on a tiny container home, that, when finished, they will move to a property they bought on a forested mountain to stay in while they work on that undeveloped property. They even had to build a road to get to it.
Matt Carriker, who has over 4.5 million followers on this particular channel, but also has another channel Demolition Ranch, which I don't follow, where he shoots off all kinds of guns and has over 8 million subscribers. On his Matt Carriker channel, he is currently renovating an abandoned resort on over 340 acres, but he gets into all kinds of other trouble too, like burnout competitions and building strange cars for doing that. He restored an abandoned mansion on a hilltop in Texas, which he is currently living in. He is a veterinarian by trade, but rarely does any of that anymore because he's so busy with his other projects. He also owns a print shop that prints T-shirts, hats, shorts, hoodies, you name it, and is the go-to supplier of such items for a lot of Youtubers.
My Self Reliance, where a man in his 50s is building a homestead in the Canadian Wilderness completely by himself, using mainly old-fashioned tools. He built one whole homestead, including a log cabin, an elaborate log cabin sauna, an elaborate outdoor kitchen complete with an oven made of clay and rocks, among other structures. But when neighbors moved in too close to him and he could hear their everyday activity, he abandoned that homestead that took him years to build and started another one deeper into the wilderness. He's built another log cabin since, with an outdoor kitchen and a stone chicken coop. He has an elaborate forest garden started from scratch, where he had to cut down a ton of trees to even start it.
Curiosity Inc., where a man used to own an antique store in Edmonton Alberta, but now just finds collectibles and sells them in online auctions. He has done several hoarder house cleanouts where he made deals with next of kin and bought the contents, and cleaned up the whole property. The first one was owned by a somewhat famous Canadian potter and he found lots of pottery and other collectibles. He bought the whole house on this one and made in excess of 100K just on contents alone. He also later sold the house for an additional profit. He also cleaned out a former music teacher's house, who had been married to a millionaire. She was also a bit of a fashion diva. He found in the basement rows and rows of vintage clothing and furs (he found over 50 furs alone), boxes and boxes of jewelry, cash money (paper money) hidden around the house, bags of silver coins and silver bars and other assorted collectibles. He sold all the vintage clothing to a vintage clothing store, more than making the money back that he spent on the entire contents of the house.
Treasure Hunting with Jeebus, where a really young couple buy abandoned storage units and clean them out to sell items online. They also hold semiannual yard sales, where everything goes for a dollar and the proceeds are used to buy Christmas toys for needy children in their area.
Itchy Boots, where a young, attractive Dutch woman rides her motorcycle all over the world and does it completely alone. She has done two tours of Africa, one in India, one starting in South America, where she made it all the way up to Alaska and several other long rides. She posts three videos a week, but she is on hiatus right now because on her last trip, she had an accident with her bike and broke her collar bone and did some damage to her foot too. She rides over some very rough dirt roads and takes dirt instead of pavement wherever she can. She was riding in Africa during the rainy season and some of the roads were quagmires.
There are several lesser channels I watch also, but these are the main ones.