First 2 loads of my hay order came in yesterday, bale spear worked great no problem stacking 3 tall with the little tractor did not even need any ballast to move them around. Cleared a chunk of ground and started laying out a Hay shed yesterday got four of my six, 6"x8" standing before it was time to go jump into the river. The shed will be 12'x24' with 12' side walls should have no problem getting 30 bales stacked inside

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That's awesome!

On a side note. I know people say it all the time, but man are your kids growing up fast!!

 

That's awesome!

On a side note. I know people say it all the time, but man are your kids growing up fast!!

I know!!! If they team up they can now kick my ass, to the up side that would take the two of them working together and that does not happen often.

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Between family things and the rain this weekend I did not get much done but we did get the last of the post sank and got the grade board installed yesterday before the rain washed us out.

Every job site needs a few inspectors laying around criticizing, right ✅

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That moment when you know you should not try it, but you do anyway, then you spend the next 3 hours getting your machine unstuck. I think the look on Mis's face says it all. We dug under the axles, ramped the wheels in with crushed concrete, and with an extremely enthusiastic tug with Rusty we were back on solid ground. 15,000 Lb machine Vs 5,000 Lb clapped out Taco, It is amazing what a kinetic rope can do.

Spent the remainder of our day installing 2,600 feet of fence to move the critters on some new pasture. They devoured as much as they could hold and then laid around in the shade the rest of the day.

 

Looks like things are coming along!

 

I was wondering if you could pasture goats and cows at the same time. I'm working on my 5 acre over here and was wondering if I could do that. I'm about 1-2 years behind you, but mine's not overgrown.

 

Just keep them moving about every 5 to 7 days I put then on a new piece of ground to munch down the brush and to keep the parasites at bay. My first couple paddocks I put them on a month ago are starting to green back up and are around shin deep already.


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Spent the better part of Sunday hauling sand and HMA millings out to the hay barn took around 100 tons to get a workable site, it is still a little squishy in spots, but it will do for now. Was able to spend some time in the air before the heat of the day sent me to the river.

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I got about 3 hours of uninterrupted work on the hay barn last night, It is starting to take shape, not bad for a bunch of scrap lumber I had laying around the farm and a bucket of deck screws. At this point I have more invested in Sand and millings then I do in the structure, that will change when I go get my tin. I know the 2x12's are over kill for holding up tin but, I had then left over from my footing forms, when I built the garage. I figured having the larger boards would not hurt when I start leaning thousand pound round bails up against the walls.

 

Love it!

 

Well my next to free barn just got expensive I just dumped $1700 into tin and corner trim that includes 2 - 25lb buckets of pole barn screws, holy shit are those expensive $340 in them alone. But I think I now have everything to finish it up with the exception of dry weather, as soon as shit starts drying out back there I will get back at it.

 

So Saturday Colt and I put about 6 hours in finishing the framing and placing the tin on the back side of the barn, then on Sunday Mis and Shea helped with running 2 screw guns for about 5 hours. I hung the tin, and they would screw it down while I fetched another one. This barn was a test run for building our pole barn, I learned a few things and picked up some experience before tackling a 30 X 80 structure.

I still have gravel to haul for the floor and a pile of plastic pallets to put on the floor before I can start hauling my round bails back there. I know this project has taken a ton of calendar time but with the weather and other commitments, I have not been on this project full time. I have been trying to keep track of my time more out of curiosity then anything, to date I think i have around 50 hours into this structure.



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Lotsa great stuff. 👍

 

Looking awesome, Bob!

 

Got the last of my gravel in place packed down and covered up with these plastic pallets I stole from a buddy.

Now it is time to start packing it with cow chow for my Grass Puppies.

That is 16 and tomorrow night hopefully I can get the last 15 hauled back there and packed in place.

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So for the last 6 weeks the critters have been grazing this chunk of field and it was time to pick everything up and move then to greener grass.

It took us around two hours to real up the fence rope move all the post and restring the hot fence and now they should be good for around 3 to 4 weeks before we need to change things up again. The versatility of these temp fences are great, I can just keep moving them around as the critters clean under brush out of my wooded areas. After they are done with a chunk of land I go in with Lou and brush hog everything right down to the dirt and then we keep off it while the grasses come back in.

After they are done with this one I think they are headed to the Shooting range, which will require a shit ton of rope to make a shoot to get them back there but it is some of my best ground.

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Those critters do a great job clearing up the overgrowth.

 

So Friday after work Mis and I picked up all our fence and moved it to the shooting range we have never grazed this chunk and there was some trial and error getting our pieces of fence to work but in the end we got it and the critters are happy.

I need to order some more fence as this took everything we had.

Sunday Morning I hooked on the trailer and ran up to TSC to grab 3 feeder panels and much to my surprise they had nothing in stock which pissed me off at first but worked out better for me in the long run. I was planning around $900 in panels instead we got creative with a bunch of junk I had laying around the farm and $60 worth of hardware from TSC. It is not done yet, I need to put a top on it but I should be able to load 2 round bales in it from the outside of the barn yard, without needing to take the tractor in with the cows.

You know you are going to have a fun day when grabbing some tools looks like this

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Sent Shea out back for a fence check, after not seeing her for about an hour it was time for a walk to check on her, only to find her sleeping on the job.

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Hahahaha! That's hilarious.

 

The girls are mowing the the Range now, don't they look happy

That is a shit ton of fence


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Yes it is!

 

wow what a weekend Friday morning sometime before noon Vidalia was born She is our first calf born on our farm

The Little man and I got right to work Saturday morning finishing the fence line feeder, we finished it up a little after noon, with the lumber and tin included I have just a little over $300 and 2 days in it.

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So far everyone loves the new feeder

the goats think they have a new playground

Found this little guy last night during my fence check after work his name is George and he will be with us for hopefully lots and lots of years.

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Awesome!!

Had a bull just like George growing up. His name was curly. He was huge and enjoyed many years of being a stud... lol

When he got old he made for a seriously large number of "Curly burgers".

 

So I started getting nervous about my hay stockpile for this winter, and was talking to a buddy about it, he just bought a new hay-baler this year, and he said I will hook you up with 6 tight bails and I will throw in 3 end of the field leftovers. So what do you do when you have a 2,000 Lb trailer with 7,000 Lb of hay on it and your one ton Ram says " NOT TODAY " ???

Yep, that is right the 4Runner said " Hold my BEER BITCH, I got this "

I am starting to think I should have put taller doors in.

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