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Campbell outlines story behind device, the way it works
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Farmer Don Campbell watches his son Mike put up the pivot stabilizer he created in his soybean field south of Aurora. The two legs help to stabilize the pivot in high-wind weather.
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Out in a verdant emerald field of soybeans with a slight breeze flowing around the pivots, veteran farmer Don Campbell has a new gadget that he wants to share with Hamilton County planters.
Campbell, who had trouble with pivots upsetting after the tornado last December, thought that there had to be a better way to keep the equipment safe and not have to pay upwards of $50,000 to get them fixed.
“We had five pivots that were damage,” Campbell said. “I thought that was ridiculous to have that many upset and damaged. There has to be a better way to go about this, so I come up with this idea, built it and see what it looked liked.”
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