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The next BIG THING

12K views 88 replies 10 participants last post by  roll-bar Bob  
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This has been in the works for a couple years, I have been slowly gathering supplies and working toward pulling the trigger on getting a few of these
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Aberdeen Angus and some of these Dorper sheep

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No one has farmed my land in at least 40 years meaning there are no fences, no shelters, no real infrastructure to work with, all my fields have between 12 and 25 foot tall brush covering them. Now this leaves me with a kind of a blank slate to do what I want and not need to deal with others shit. I had a buddy bring a skid steer over with a hog on the front but he was limited on what he could chop and where he could go regarding tangles of multiple down trees, but for the most part he cleaned up the better part of 3 acres. I have about 1,500 feet of fence to install and 500 foot of water/electric line to trench in along with running my geothermal loop for my garage floor. I will still need a stack of 2x4s and the sheet metal for the shelter but I do have piles of post on site already.


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For the last two nights I have been putting in 3 hours a night pushing trees over and stacking them for a nice snowy night. I have two piles about the size of shipping containers stacked up now.

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The Ram doing Ram things

Everything was going great until it wasn't, got the Hay home and stacked in the barn, was running the empty trailer 2 miles up the road to my old Man's place, when it tossed its serpentine belt, She got HOT QUICK !!! and is now resting in my Dad's yard. It was way to hot to go exploring for reasons last nigh, I think that was the OEM belt it could have just given up or one of my pulleys might be the culprit, this weekend we will know more.

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Starting to get a pile

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So yesterday at the livestock auction 5 new critters were chosen to come home with us 3 calves one day old and 2 new goats. The goats are here to stay, but the calves are just visiting wile colt bottle feeds them for the next 30 days then they are off to my buddies house as he bought them and hired him to bottle train them.

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I picked up the last of the 2025 hay this weekend and played bale Tetras, it is hard to guess how much we will use over the 6 months they are pend up in the barn yard. We now have twice as many goats and sheep and our caves are one year older also. Last year I went through 30 4X4 bales and 10 5X4 bales, this year I have 20 4X4 and 18 5X4 I might need 10 more or so depending on how things shake out.

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Introducing Jim

He was delivered to the farm Friday night, he will be heading to freezer camp next fall, He is around 6 months older than George but noticeably smaller. We will fatten him up over the next year.

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Spent some time Saturday constructing a small pen for the goats and sheep as we have another litter on its way.


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Spent some time Saturday night down sizing my brush piles you can see the hay barn in the background for scale, we torched 5 of them in total over the coarse of the night.

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I had about an hour to kill last night between the daughter's volleyball game and grilling up dinner so Chet and I spent some good quality time ripping trees out to clear for fence.

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Progress is slow but I just keep whittling away at it.



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