Fortner Farms
Fortner Farms
  • 28
  • 35 378
Plow Days
Fall plow day at Darnell Farms. Bryson City, NC
Переглядів: 320

Відео

First ride in new wagon with Jane. Snow day fun.
Переглядів 15114 днів тому
First ride in new wagon with Jane. Snow day fun.
Fall Plowing with horses
Переглядів 7502 місяці тому
Fall Plowing with horses
Fall plowing and leading Job
Переглядів 1,1 тис.3 місяці тому
Fall plowing and leading Job
Making sorghum syrup. “Molasses”
Переглядів 4573 місяці тому
Lost my fall crops due to the hurricane. So I put together some old video from over the years.
Farming cabbage
Переглядів 1514 місяці тому
Since we lost our fall cabbage crop due to drought and all that’s been going on is waiting on syrup making time; I thought I’d put this video together. Hope you enjoy.
Farm update. Disking down grass
Переглядів 2535 місяців тому
Farm update
A GOOD PAIR OF MULES
Переглядів 1,5 тис.6 місяців тому
Bidding fair well to the best mules I’ve ever owned. Dolly and Lou. I will always love you.
Fall cabbage
Переглядів 1,6 тис.6 місяців тому
Setting fall cabbage
Cultivating with mules
Переглядів 1,4 тис.6 місяців тому
Plowing corn and cane with turner riding cultivator
Cultivating with horses and mules. Who does it better
Переглядів 1,1 тис.6 місяців тому
Horse or mule who’s side you on
Cabbage harvest. Cutting cabbage
Переглядів 8096 місяців тому
Cutting spring cabbage crop Bravo Cabbage
Horse drawn wagon. WNC 2024 wagon train.
Переглядів 1,8 тис.6 місяців тому
67th annual wagon train. WNC Cullowhee NC
Farming with mules
Переглядів 2 тис.6 місяців тому
Farming with my mules over the years 2013-2020
Hip strap harness and cultivating with Dolly
Переглядів 2,2 тис.7 місяців тому
Cultivating. Plowing with mule
Plowing with the tractor
Переглядів 1,1 тис.7 місяців тому
Plowing with the tractor
Cultivating with a mule. Plowing
Переглядів 6 тис.7 місяців тому
Cultivating with a mule. Plowing
Logging with mules
Переглядів 3,3 тис.7 місяців тому
Logging with mules
Planting corn and plowing sorghum with a horse
Переглядів 1,1 тис.7 місяців тому
Planting corn and plowing sorghum with a horse
Plowing with a horse
Переглядів 8297 місяців тому
Plowing with a horse
Setting sorghum cane
Переглядів 6397 місяців тому
Setting sorghum cane
Haying with horses and mules
Переглядів 8737 місяців тому
Haying with horses and mules
Family fun. Skeet shoot on Memorial Day
Переглядів 2658 місяців тому
Family fun. Skeet shoot on Memorial Day
Planting corn with a single horse
Переглядів 1,5 тис.8 місяців тому
Planting corn with a single horse
Plowing with horses and mules
Переглядів 9158 місяців тому
Plowing with horses and mules
Wagon Train clips
Переглядів 2478 місяців тому
Wagon Train clips

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 3 дні тому

    On a cold winter day with snow and ice on the ground this video certainly is heart-warming.

  • @sandrabehrle-liebsher4805
    @sandrabehrle-liebsher4805 13 днів тому

    I just love the wagon ride!! A one horse wagon ❤. A beautiful peaceful scene, one for the holidays!! Would make a sweet Christmas card. Thank you for sharing 🌲🕊️🐴

  • @CimmaronAcres
    @CimmaronAcres Місяць тому

    Evening. Where did you get your harnesses?

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 Місяць тому

      @@CimmaronAcres got it off a buddy who got it at a sale

  • @VictorsalomónDelacruzlázaro
    @VictorsalomónDelacruzlázaro 2 місяці тому

    Este si es un barvecho

  • @kennethmoles4643
    @kennethmoles4643 2 місяці тому

    I love watching a plow turn the soil! Will have my Cub and a disc plow splitting a field soon.

  • @kennethmoles4643
    @kennethmoles4643 2 місяці тому

    I love watching a plow turn the soil! Will have my Cub and a disc plow splitting a field soon.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 2 місяці тому

    Nice to see a good reliable team and a good plowman doing a fine job.

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 2 місяці тому

    Great video good to see you back hope the flood didn't do much damage keep the videos coming I will watch God Bless

  • @goatfarmmb
    @goatfarmmb 2 місяці тому

    there is something special about plowing with draft animals that got lost when the tractor came along, awesome video

  • @jackreacher.
    @jackreacher. 3 місяці тому

    Great great granddad did it just like that. All eight of him.

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 3 місяці тому

    That dead grass to get rid of it is A Match 😅😅😅

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 3 місяці тому

    It seems to be extremely dry, which doesn't make plowing any easier for the horses. We have the same problem here in NW Missouri. Yours horses certainly are holding their own.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 3 місяці тому

    Hope for you that the next year will be better. Unfortunately climate change, long denied by certain people, is undeniably here and will bring unforeseeable challenges.

  • @MarkWYoung-ky4uc
    @MarkWYoung-ky4uc 3 місяці тому

    Sorry to hear about your loss.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 4 місяці тому

    A good dependable horse with a steady gait in a nice cabbage patch- what a joy! Sorry about your loss of fall cabbage. I am trying broccoli this fall and just came in from covering it with netting since last night rabbits gobbled up an entire row.

  • @MarkWYoung-ky4uc
    @MarkWYoung-ky4uc 4 місяці тому

    Love that. Your cabbage are beautiful!

  • @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550
    @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 4 місяці тому

    Gonna miss the mules.

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 5 місяців тому

    Good to see you back great video keep upthe great videos nice Hoss right color

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 5 місяців тому

    I am very familiar with the weed fighting and watering in summer and have a disk just like you. But we pull it behind the forecart because that is more comfortable for me at my age. It is important to have a reliable horse for that work like Jane. It is good that you let her rest ever so often in the heat. I also use the scythe a lot, make windrows and then use them for mulch to suppress the weeds.

  • @MarkWYoung-ky4uc
    @MarkWYoung-ky4uc 6 місяців тому

    That reminds me of us planting tobacco years ago with my Farmall 140 and a Holland planter.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@MarkWYoung-ky4uc yes sir my father in law still grows about 5 acres

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    Bidding 'fare well' to those good mules - you sold them ? Oh my!!

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 yes sir. Want to focus on my young horses

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 6 місяців тому

    Good video great to see you keep up the mule and horse Work God Bless

  • @jasondewitt8046
    @jasondewitt8046 6 місяців тому

    Hi

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    Do you use irrigation? Here in NW Missouri it is rather difficult to plant anything at this time of the year because of the heat.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 no sir. We live in the mountains and we don’t see temps much higher than 85-90. So that helps. But the first week or so that we set them if it doesn’t rain we usually water them once or twice but after that we’re good to go.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    From the point of how much man power is required one certainly would favor the animal that only requires one person, the speed can also be considered.

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 6 місяців тому

    Great video miss the wagen train how many wageons were on the train this time God Bless

  • @Steve-u4j
    @Steve-u4j 6 місяців тому

    I have got a cultivator just like that that was my uncle John Darby,s. I have it set up as a driveway ornament at my home.

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 6 місяців тому

    Great video them riding cultivators work great nothing more relaxing than riding one thanks 😊

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 6 місяців тому

    Good looking cane patch we grow cane for molasses and a pair of dapple mules when they were young nowthew are white bad luck lost one this week good looking mule we went on The Western N C Wagon Train for fourteen years missed the last three years Great video just found your channel to hours ago we live in w N C

  • @rogerpadgett3189
    @rogerpadgett3189 6 місяців тому

    The in by

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    Now, these are some impressive cabbages. When did you plant them? Ours are not nearly as big and not even ready yet to be harvested.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 thank you sir I set these I think on April 16th

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    Nice work and the mules are taking the hot weather in stride. I have a cultivator like that but used it primarily for hilling potatoes with disk attached to the shanks.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 many good uses come out of these old cultivators

  • @Tom-p5z
    @Tom-p5z 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for letting us tag along while you cultivated your corn. It's been a long time since l have done that. It brought back good memories. Keep up the good work.

  • @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550
    @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 6 місяців тому

    I'd have to side with Dolly. I like her slower pace.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    I know it's the modern way, but why are you "Fortner Farms"? Do you own more than one farm? Nice to see that many people participate in the wagon train. It takes well behaved horses and mules to do that. I know that, because I did carriage rides and hay rides for the public for many years.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 not really but we have fields that we don’t own but people let us use. So we’re spread out a little. We don’t do everything on our land that we own personally

  • @michaelstumpf3646
    @michaelstumpf3646 6 місяців тому

    Why no cropper on the mule on the left?

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@michaelstumpf3646 I knew this question was coming ha I broke it the last wagon train on Memorial Day and never did fix one back.

  • @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550
    @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 6 місяців тому

    Chris’ seat was leaning pretty hard to the right!!😂😂

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

    You seem to have two teams of mules, a Belgian mule and a Percheron mule team and then I also saw a Percheron in one of your videos, right? Your farm is obviously multi-generational operation where everybody cooperates.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 I don’t have the bay mules anymore but they were good ones! And yes have a team of Belgian mules and a team of “ old style” Percheron’s now. And yes 4 generations helping farm right now!

    • @klauskarbaumer6302
      @klauskarbaumer6302 6 місяців тому

      @@EthanFortner61 Congratulations on your common sense: Multigenerational cooperation and farming with renewable energy sources which equines are as they basically live from solar power( grass, hay etc) is the way to go and is sustainable and conscionable. I wish you all the success and good fortune you deserve.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 6 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 thank you sir

    • @jacobkennedy112
      @jacobkennedy112 6 місяців тому

      Good stuff. Keep the videos coming!

  • @sandralittlejohn3816
    @sandralittlejohn3816 7 місяців тому

    Love it beautiful place. Looks like a healthy honest way of living.ive got some of my grandfather's old team equipment. reminds of plowing out corn and tobacco down by the creek at my home in Kentucky.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 7 місяців тому

    It must be such a great joy and satisfaction to cultivate with a good mule, as cooperative as Dolly!

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 7 місяців тому

      @@klauskarbaumer6302 it most definitely is

  • @JamesBond-qd5rc
    @JamesBond-qd5rc 7 місяців тому

    One of my earliest childhood memories was seeing my grandfather plowing with a mule. I love that memory! Oh how much we've lost with mechanasion.

  • @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550
    @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 7 місяців тому

    I liked the mules’ look when the truck was loading logs.

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 7 місяців тому

      @@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 they were probably thinking why that truck couldn’t do all the work ha

  • @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550
    @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 7 місяців тому

    Love the videos. Glad you turned comments on. You working with Dolly got me watching ya. Subscribed too. Kinda northeastern / eastern Kentucky here.

  • @robertoruiz6143
    @robertoruiz6143 7 місяців тому

    🙏☀️🌻🇺🇲

  • @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550
    @halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 7 місяців тому

    Wow, that mule does a great job!!

  • @sandralittlejohn3816
    @sandralittlejohn3816 7 місяців тому

    I like what your Doing. beautiful country. Love a good plow mule or horse.

  • @VisoMoraine
    @VisoMoraine 7 місяців тому

    That is a fine looking place with the mountains rising above your farm valley. It reminds me of eastern Tennessee and western NC. I have driven the route many times from Cleveland Tn to Bryson City and your place looks so familiar sitting in the curve of the road.

  • @bhamby9305
    @bhamby9305 7 місяців тому

    Yes sir. Great video.

  • @HECKLEFISH.
    @HECKLEFISH. 7 місяців тому

    Mule bondage crossed my mind when seeing the thumbnail 😂 I'm a normal thinking person right 😅😅😅😅 😂

  • @Moorefarmalls
    @Moorefarmalls 7 місяців тому

    I could watch this all day. Really enjoyed the hay video❤

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 7 місяців тому

      Thank you! Hopefully second cutting I won’t be as busy and can get a good video out of some hay work

    • @Moorefarmalls
      @Moorefarmalls 7 місяців тому

      @@EthanFortner61 yes sir. I’ve seen that old man on a video somewhere else doing molasses I believe

    • @Moorefarmalls
      @Moorefarmalls 7 місяців тому

      @@EthanFortner61 that cultivating video was great. My farmalls couldn’t have did a better job. The mules are truly a lost art

    • @EthanFortner61
      @EthanFortner61 7 місяців тому

      He’s my father in law. Buster Norton from Madison county nc. He on that faces of Appalachia channel some.

    • @Moorefarmalls
      @Moorefarmalls 7 місяців тому

      @@EthanFortner61 ok that’s it. I knew I’ve saw him somewhere else before