Love the ideas and changes you keep making. Small changes have big return!! It’s all about listening to your advisors. Hello From Ontario. Solid Team Effort with the Family is obvious in your Videos!!
Tell Lonnie good luck . Him and Lance are both Buffalo Bills fans. I have a farm 10 mins from the Bills stadium in orchard park ny. Happy to see the support !! Tell them GO BILLS from the Bills mafia for me !!!!
Sorry to hear Lonnie is leaving you but wish him nothing but the best 👍👍sure seemed like a fine young man. Loved the cordless drill,be careful might be hard on the wrist 😂. Laying in free stalls is an art for sure and good management!! Thanks good fellow sorry you didn’t like forking all those dirty stalls. 🤫🤫💪💪
Been watching for long time from easr central in.your old man should be so proud as to raised kids as hard working ,giving and caring as you and your brothers and all kids. Keep on the good road buddy we will be watching
I hope everything works out well for Lonnie. He was a great worker and he will do well wherever he goes and I’m sure that there’s always a spot for him at the family farm if things don’t work out in the future.
It was great to see you all working together on a project as team, we don't often get the chance. Plus, good luck to Lonnie, hopefully we'll hear how he's getting on from time to time.
I don't want to say the stalls were installed at the wrong height when they were first put in. Being the recommendations for 1970 compared to 2020 are to completely different recommendations. Yes, i do realize that some of the stalls might have been installed before that, but that was just a comparison. What seemed like the best way when the barn was built might not be the best way now. It's no different than the old guys going with a "comfort cab" in 1970 compared to now or even the seeding or fertilizer rates of then to now. Our dairy barn was similar age. The one farm picture we have was from 1964 and the parlor wasn't built yet and the north silo had 1968 on it. So the parlor and milk room was built between 64 and 68. We had a concrete bunk with an auger going down it and the stalls were similar. Parlor was setup as a herringbone with 4 on each side, but we had to wait until all 4 were to let them out instead of being able to let an individual in or out. Yes, i do realize that some of the university studies is about the only thing a person can go off of some things. But as what you are doing is applying it to real world stuff instead of trying to do it on paper or a small scale. Like South Dakota State university, they either sold their milk cows 6 months ago or will be selling them all in 6 months. South Dakota state, from what i can understand will still offer a "Dairy program" but is supposed to have some type of working relationship with a few bigger dairies near the university for learning purposes for students.
Lets call it-"Free Stall Elevate"-great video. Loved seeing your beautiful family on the vacation video. Your kids were having the time and memories of their lives. Something they will remember for ever. You are a very good dad spending as much time as possible with your kids. Loved it. Wish Lonnie good luck on his venture. I am sure he will be successful with his venture. Thanks for the ride my friend.
Best of luck to Lonnie with his future plans, some nice improvements to the farm, had the same problem here in Ireland, made similar changes and was a great success, your stalls look to be the right width but if they are too wide this will also cause cows to walk up and turn around.
Your heifers learn to lay backwards in the dry cow lot. We had it where we always had a handful of cows in the alley. Then moved the young heifers to a farm with cow size free stalls. After that, nobody laid in the alley, but then we had cows laying backwards. Your adjustments are good, but don't be surprised if they still lay backwards some
It was nice seeing Lance, again. Is this his last year college or does he have another year. I'm surprise to hear Lonny had left. Wherever he goes, hope he is happy and successful. Team work, getting things done. Dad, should have had safety goggles on, when using the cutting torch. I was afraid a piece of metal would fly up into his eye. Too bad the cows couldn't be litter trained😂
Reminds me of something we did a quite a few years ago. We bought new stalls while we were going thru the work of raising the stalls. We had a quite a few of the old ones that were welded and they were thin.
I have been watching your videos for a long time and I often wondered why your cubicles were so low, I thought that it might be something to do with the sand bed but I didn’t comment because I wasn’t sure if there was a valid reason for it, we have or cubicles 53 inches to the top bar from the floor but the mattress is 3 inches tick so realistically the top bar is 50 inches or so as the cow stands in,our cubicles are @ 4 foot centres and seven feet long for head to head and 7 foot 3 inches for head to wall a wise man told me that you build cubicles to give a cow a comfortable place to lay down which is relatively clean and dry but the most important thing is that she is comfortable basically if she is to be comfortable a large number will dung on the back of the bed and if you build a cubicle that a cow can’t dung on the bed it’s not going to be comfortable! So we clean the beds twice a day every day, we have a 3 inch fall on the bed so no fluid lies on the bed, the cows are happy and we haven’t had a cow lie the wrong way in years and we haven’t had a cow wedged in a cubicle in years either . Quite a few people over here are using the flexible plastic cubicle dividers now and some people think that they are great but others think that you need a lot of extra cubicles compared to cows because some cows are taking up a space and a half, I don’t know as I don’t have any. Regards from Ireland.
been thinking.....you mentioned a loader for feeding..... and a second skid loader...... not sure if you watch staneley dirt monkey or heard of cast loaders but it may be a 2in1 machine for you.... small, powerful, nimble, and extendable boom
Do ya think the stabilizing pipe that runs the lenth of the row, is a little to far out away from the posts. Might be blocking their heads when they go to lay down. You"ll have to watch some cows to see.
Attention, Kip… TIM from Ontario Canada. Was wondering what kind of RYOBI INPACK You’re using I have Ryobi I have never seen that one was wondering which brand and model number this is
We used sand in our freestalls of our 750 head milking herd. Grooming the stalls was done every 8 hours. We had a fllush system for the alleys and recycled the sand. We milked in that system for 18 years.
@KipSieglerFarming1 we milked 3x/day. Fairly fine gardening rake, tines a few inches long and a squared edge shovel were what the crew used to pull out the "pies" and puddles and smooth out the back half of the stalls.
So so people don’t care anymore. Everything you do is ain’t safe on the farm anymore. One of these days one of the employees is gonna get trapped over by a cow and it’s common.
Love the ideas and changes you keep making. Small changes have big return!! It’s all about listening to your advisors.
Hello From Ontario.
Solid Team Effort with the Family is obvious in your Videos!!
Tell Lonnie good luck on whatever he’s doing. I wish him the best.
👍👍
The best to Lonnie in the future.
At least with the sand bedding, you don’t have to worry about fire like a straw pack! Always nice to have the Torch Master Padré!
If you are not back on h before Christmas. I want to wish you and your family a very merry Christmas
And a blessed Holiday !!!!
Thanks. Good job on redoing the cow bunks. Nice. Everyone working together.
Best of luck to Lonnie!!!
The Iowa farm boy.
I can’t remember ever seeing your father. I seen him plenty in this video. That is absolutely awesome.
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You need a bed buster for your skid steer to fluff up them stalls, you would save a lot of sand.
I just looked it up, looked awesome probably $$$
God bless ur new adventure Lonnie. Michigan got ur back no matter
Tell Lonnie good luck . Him and Lance are both Buffalo Bills fans. I have a farm 10 mins from the Bills stadium in orchard park ny. Happy to see the support !! Tell them GO BILLS from the Bills mafia for me !!!!
Sorry to hear Lonnie is leaving you but wish him nothing but the best 👍👍sure seemed like a fine young man. Loved the cordless drill,be careful might be hard on the wrist 😂. Laying in free stalls is an art for sure and good management!! Thanks good fellow sorry you didn’t like forking all those dirty stalls. 🤫🤫💪💪
Been watching for long time from easr central in.your old man should be so proud as to raised kids as hard working ,giving and caring as you and your brothers and all kids. Keep on the good road buddy we will be watching
@@fredscott9090 👍👍
Finished Christmas shopping today. Good luck Lonnie
I am glad you listened to others for advice on your stalls. Really enjoy your videos
Great video. Working together with your family is what it's all about! Good luck to Lonnie too!
The technical part of farming... Love and learn! Great work! 👍 😊!!
Nice to see you making some changes for the positive on the dairy side of the farm. Nice work!
Thank you I’m digging in
Good luck Lonnie. I wish you the best.
@@mikenawrocki1837 👍👍
Good luck Lonnie. You're gonna miss the farm!
I hope everything works out well for Lonnie. He was a great worker and he will do well wherever he goes and I’m sure that there’s always a spot for him at the family farm if things don’t work out in the future.
Excellent improvement Kip and team!! Another thing I noticed is the lack of brisket boards in the stalls. These would certainly help as well 👍
Have you guys thought about buying a sand shooter for the skid steer I’m sure bedding would be much quicker
It was great to see you all working together on a project as team, we don't often get the chance. Plus, good luck to Lonnie, hopefully we'll hear how he's getting on from time to time.
Merry Christmas, Kip to you and your family and your nephews and your father
@@jerryfish1303 yes sir, you too my friend
@ thank you I really enjoy your videos
God bless you Lonnie on your journey 🙏 😊😊😊😊😊
I don't want to say the stalls were installed at the wrong height when they were first put in. Being the recommendations for 1970 compared to 2020 are to completely different recommendations. Yes, i do realize that some of the stalls might have been installed before that, but that was just a comparison.
What seemed like the best way when the barn was built might not be the best way now. It's no different than the old guys going with a "comfort cab" in 1970 compared to now or even the seeding or fertilizer rates of then to now.
Our dairy barn was similar age. The one farm picture we have was from 1964 and the parlor wasn't built yet and the north silo had 1968 on it. So the parlor and milk room was built between 64 and 68.
We had a concrete bunk with an auger going down it and the stalls were similar. Parlor was setup as a herringbone with 4 on each side, but we had to wait until all 4 were to let them out instead of being able to let an individual in or out.
Yes, i do realize that some of the university studies is about the only thing a person can go off of some things. But as what you are doing is applying it to real world stuff instead of trying to do it on paper or a small scale.
Like South Dakota State university, they either sold their milk cows 6 months ago or will be selling them all in 6 months. South Dakota state, from what i can understand will still offer a "Dairy program" but is supposed to have some type of working relationship with a few bigger dairies near the university for learning purposes for students.
Good team. Congratulations and good luck to Lonnie and all.
Lets call it-"Free Stall Elevate"-great video. Loved seeing your beautiful family on the vacation video. Your kids were having the time and memories of their lives. Something they will remember for ever. You are a very good dad spending as much time as possible with your kids. Loved it. Wish Lonnie good luck on his venture. I am sure he will be successful with his venture. Thanks for the ride my friend.
Good luck Lonnie on your new adventure in life. Kip it’s all about cow comfort going to be a good minor adjustment for the cows. God bles
Best of luck to Lonnie with his future plans, some nice improvements to the farm, had the same problem here in Ireland, made similar changes and was a great success, your stalls look to be the right width but if they are too wide this will also cause cows to walk up and turn around.
Lots of hard work and I hope it pays off!
Your heifers learn to lay backwards in the dry cow lot. We had it where we always had a handful of cows in the alley. Then moved the young heifers to a farm with cow size free stalls. After that, nobody laid in the alley, but then we had cows laying backwards. Your adjustments are good, but don't be surprised if they still lay backwards some
@@steveketchum9836 I’ve heard that, I’ll be needing to pay a visit down there and more work to be done
It was nice seeing Lance, again. Is this his last year college or does he have another year. I'm surprise to hear Lonny had left. Wherever he goes, hope he is happy and successful. Team work, getting things done. Dad, should have had safety goggles on, when using the cutting torch. I was afraid a piece of metal would fly up into his eye. Too bad the cows couldn't be litter trained😂
@@pwhitkinn4543 yes one more year left for Lance after this one
Wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new years 2025 . If you’re not back on videoing we respect your wishes. Be safe
Reminds me of something we did a quite a few years ago. We bought new stalls while we were going thru the work of raising the stalls. We had a quite a few of the old ones that were welded and they were thin.
Wishing Lonnie good luck on his next adventure in life
Best of luck Lonnie!!! Kip, you should do an update on your conversion of the weed eater to a driii. Amazing
@@stevebiddle8912 😃😃
Good luck Lonnie 🎉😊
I have been watching your videos for a long time and I often wondered why your cubicles were so low, I thought that it might be something to do with the sand bed but I didn’t comment because I wasn’t sure if there was a valid reason for it, we have or cubicles 53 inches to the top bar from the floor but the mattress is 3 inches tick so realistically the top bar is 50 inches or so as the cow stands in,our cubicles are @ 4 foot centres and seven feet long for head to head and 7 foot 3 inches for head to wall a wise man told me that you build cubicles to give a cow a comfortable place to lay down which is relatively clean and dry but the most important thing is that she is comfortable basically if she is to be comfortable a large number will dung on the back of the bed and if you build a cubicle that a cow can’t dung on the bed it’s not going to be comfortable! So we clean the beds twice a day every day, we have a 3 inch fall on the bed so no fluid lies on the bed, the cows are happy and we haven’t had a cow lie the wrong way in years and we haven’t had a cow wedged in a cubicle in years either . Quite a few people over here are using the flexible plastic cubicle dividers now and some people think that they are great but others think that you need a lot of extra cubicles compared to cows because some cows are taking up a space and a half, I don’t know as I don’t have any. Regards from Ireland.
Hope all goes well for Lonnie
How does raising the stalls keep then from laying backwards?
Cornell would be in my neck of woods , know someone in your backyard . Been there done that, stay safe peace out good luck with the new bam bam 😁
Great video. Wish all the best for Lonnie. Nice to see Lance again Lets go Buffalo.
Doing a great job, sounds like you got a great nutritious willing to help out in many ways!
Hello from Hadley Michigan 👋👋
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Ever think about getting a sand shooter for bedding?
Looking good!!!👍👍👍👍
been thinking.....you mentioned a loader for feeding..... and a second skid loader...... not sure if you watch staneley dirt monkey or heard of cast loaders but it may be a 2in1 machine for you.... small, powerful, nimble, and extendable boom
Sorry but I wouldn’t believe anything the Dirt Monkey is being paid to sell. Just my opinion.
Good work
Another trick could be to get some twine and lock a cow in a stall for a while until she learns to lay in the stall properly
Always something. Those girls are noticing something different with the stalls.
Hi good evening kip from Indiana
@@kevinwittstruck8764 good evening!
Do ya think the stabilizing pipe that runs the lenth of the row, is a little to far out away from the posts. Might be blocking their heads when they go to lay down. You"ll have to watch some cows to see.
❤ from Norway
Did you get any footage of them dumping the front trailer of sand? I’m sure they have to jackknife the rear trailer.
Around here they usually unhook to dump the front trailer
I've got 70 stalls just north of north branch, will best reasonable offer if you're interested
I cannot believe how much Lonnie looks like you holy cow
In the video that’s lance
@ after watching it a little longer I realized it was Lance, but he looks like you’re twin
@ he’s a good tough smart kid 👍
You need a bed buster for your sand
Why is raising stalls gonna make a difference with them laying backwards ..just asking..not really understanding
Good luck Lonnie
Farming is hard work and
Poor pay. You'll work less
Hours for more pay . Can't
say i belame you.
AGAIN GOOD LUCK !!!!
Attention, Kip…
TIM from Ontario Canada. Was wondering what kind of RYOBI INPACK You’re using I have Ryobi I have never seen that one was wondering which brand and model number this is
That’s a snap on impact with a lime green cover on it.
Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock
Kip, did you change a setting on your camera? You are recording in 720p. A little hard on the eyes in 2024.
Free stall rehab👍
Stalls are too wide
You need a set of Swivel sockets
Freestall Adjustment !!
You raise the stations then you add sand kind of defeats the purpose.
Be patient, please
Big cows genetics genetics genetics
We used sand in our freestalls of our 750 head milking herd. Grooming the stalls was done every 8 hours. We had a fllush system for the alleys and recycled the sand. We milked in that system for 18 years.
I might have to look in to something like that
@KipSieglerFarming1 we milked 3x/day. Fairly fine gardening rake, tines a few inches long and a squared edge shovel were what the crew used to pull out the "pies" and puddles and smooth out the back half of the stalls.
A engine powered hilty
like tie stalls better just me
A big lose losing Lonnie
Yes about 3 years he was here!
So so people don’t care anymore. Everything you do is ain’t safe on the farm anymore. One of these days one of the employees is gonna get trapped over by a cow and it’s common.
William do you want to talk about it?