Our Yorkshire Farm's Reuben Owen, 21, forced to call for rescue after nightmare driving accident leaves him stranded in 'deadly' bog
Reuben Owen, 21, was forced to call for rescue after a nightmare driving accident left him stranded in a 'deadly' bog.
The second series of Reuben's show Reuben Owen: Life In The Dales, about his attempt to grow a machinery business with friends, is currently airing on Channel 5.
It is a spin-off from Our Yorkshire Farm, the beloved reality show that introduced us to the Owen family and followed their life on their farm in the Yorkshire Dales from 2018 to 2022.
And it comes hot on the heels of Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids, which sees parents Amanda and Clive, who split in 2022, attempt to renovate a nearby farmhouse while co-parenting their nine children.
But their second eldest child Reuben found himself in major difficulty in the latest episode of his own programme.
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But elsewhere in the episode, Reuben and his gang, along with his 13-year-old brother Sid, also took his new three-tonne 4x4 cruiser out for a spin
The instalment mainly focussed on his preparations for the Christmas season, delivering a massive tree to the local town for the lights switch-on event.
But elsewhere in the episode, Reuben and his gang, along with his 13-year-old brother Sid, also took his new three-tonne 4x4 cruiser out for a spin.
He was warned it might not be a good plan to drive the large vehicle cross-country, across the family's 2,000-acre Ravenseat Farm in the Swaledale valley of Yorkshire.
Reuben, though, maintained he thought the test drive would be fine: 'What the hell is going to happen?'
The young farmer was soon proven wrong, as the vehicle sank into a bog - which the programme's voiceover added had been 'the demise of many a poor sheep'.
He said, 'I just felt us go very low, very fast!', before trying to drive the car out of the muddy ground - to no avail: 'Oh dear, that is not ideal.'
Laughing at the blunder, the team then tried to push and shove the car out of its stuck position - but that did not work either.
Reuben was eventually forced to resort to calling his younger brother Miles for 'salvation': 'We are stuck - would you come and rescue me please?'
Reuben had previously maintained he thought the test drive would be fine: 'What the hell is going to happen?'
But when the vehicle sank, he said, 'I just felt us go very low, very fast!', before trying to drive the car out of the muddy ground - to no avail: 'Oh dear, that is not ideal'
Laughing at the blunder, the team then tried to push and shove the car out of its stuck position - but that did not work either
With a collective effort, the team eventually managed to free the vehicle.
At the end of the episode, he reflected on how far he had come with his machinery business: 'This year brings us to the fourth year in business and it's been great fun.
'Miles has come up a lot and hopefully his role will be even bigger next year and Sid is doing what he can.
'I never thought I'd end up with my mates and brothers working for me.'
Reuben's own error with the vehicle comes after another of his team similarly got into trouble on the roads.
A recent instalment of his show saw the gang filling in some potholes on a private road to his parents' farm.
The 21-year-old said: 'It's quite nice to be doing jobs for your family. You tend to put your own jobs off and I have been putting this job off for ages.
'But mum has finally given me enough stick that today, we are going to tackle it.'
The crew started work using Reuben's brand-new, 26-tonne loading shovel - but trouble soon started when his farmhand pal Capper got the equipment stuck in the mud
The crew started the work using Reuben's brand-new, 26-tonne loading shovel, which his farmhand pal Capper took for a spin on some grassy ground.
But trouble soon started when Capper got the equipment stuck in the mud.
'It's just bad, isn't it?', Reuben said, as his friend explained how the error happened: 'I do apologise Reuben. So, yeah, I parked it there [on the grass], thinking [the ground] was hard.
'It looked hard. But then it sunk and got more stuck and more stuck and more stuck. I'm just going to fill in my P45 now, while I'm on it. Today is not my day.'
As Capper anxiously rubbed his face, the crew tried to come up with ideas as to how to resolve it.
Reuben said sharply: 'What did I say before you parked it there?'
His friend replied: 'Not on the grass. I'm a k***head. Employee of the month it is. I don't know whether to laugh or cry or both.'
As his crew looked on in apprehension, Reuben tried to get the machinery unstuck - but to no avail.
To make matters worse, Amanda soon arrived, with her other two sons Miles and Sid - so there was no concealing the stuck machine and churned-up ground.
'Does this alter the timeframe for me getting my road mended?', she joked.
She continued: 'Well, I've just come down to see how Reuben is coming on with mending my road but he seems to have not mended the road and he also seems to be wrecking the field.
'And even better, it's not my field, it's my next door neighbour's, so it looks like things aren't going to plan and actually looks like a bit of a disaster at the moment.
'Look at Reuben's little face - even he is completely stumped as to what to do.'
His co-worker Sonny agreed: 'I've never seen Reuben so disappointed. He's a bit upset but we'll get it out.'
Leaping into action, Reuben soon came up with a plan to resolve the issue - while Capper headed down to talk to the neighbours.
Soon able to make jokes about it, Reuben laughed: 'You know when you just feel like you shouldn't have got out of bed this morning?'
Amanda replied: 'I'll tell you something - your dad's going to kill you.'
But things started looking up when Reuben decided to use a two-tonne, 60-year-old tractor, known as the Major, to dislodge the machinery.
Though the strain on the tractor was visible, the shovel soon started to come unstuck.
Pleasantly surprised, Amanda said: 'I'm impressed. I didn't think it'd do that.
'I'm proud of them. And to be quite honest with you, Reuben does seem to enjoy a bit of a challenge.
'He likes problem solving and anything that involves him getting the old tractor out and making bad things go good.'
She finished: 'I'm not thrilled about it and it looks like I'm going to have to wait a little bit longer to get my road mended but good old Reuben.'
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