Campbell outlines story behind device, the way it works

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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