Linda here; yes, meals are a big part of homestead life and a big reason for homesteading in the first place. I appreciate how the property has been the priority, too. Excellent videos.
Same with UK Amazon Prime for items sent from the US. In particular: ForJar lids that were obviously previously a return (damaged and taped up boxes), Videlia Chop Wizard (cracked hinge in re sealed, torn box), pandemic. If I send faulty US Amazon Prime items back from the UK (it’s a great incremental US/UK trade agreement, btw, set up during your previous Administration 👍🏻) they always replace quickly with brand new items in perfect condition. Just trying it on, I guess. Annoying but not worth me getting stressed about.
Yup they grab and go, not checking the way the buyer would for warping, twisting and cracks. But on the other hand they’re buying what the distributor sends them. I know there isn’t a lot of margin on lumber after working at a big box🤷♀️
Your videos are real. You stick to real life and needs. Others get too political and/or off topic. You work as a family. Hard work. Goooood meals. Oh, I still am jealous of your barn!
Yes. Not too much overtly personal stuff which ends up being disingenuous and obviously for click bait and clearly false (like some other you- tuber I could mention). Jason and Lorraine always give nice clear instructions on this channel and not a slap-dash string of carelessly spliced-together scenes, which leave you with a headache, and having to rewind to catch what they said, (like a you-tuber I won't mention again.) well done Jason and Lorraine.
You have made a tremendous improvement in your pastures. Great job. 👏👏 I also admire how you push through in the August heat to start a much needed water supply/feed shed. Take lots of breaks and stay hydrated. 👍 Please keep including Lorraine's 'What's For Dinner' video closing. 🤗 Your meals always look so yummy. 🥰
I’m surprised no companies have reached out and offered you a tractor 🚜. They’re the most multi purpose tool, you can cut grass, move dirt, drill holes. ..etc etc.
Man, we that storm here too! It didn't last long, but it was kinda scary. I'm in Iredell Co. It blew over a bunch of stuff in my backyard and scared my hens. I still have a bunch of huge tree limbs to pick up around the property.
I always watch your videos. I have been following your family for years. Ever since you lived in the trailer. I love what you have done to the new place it looks great!
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Nice to see you doing rain collecting, Are you going to put it in the shade. So the black doesn’t attract the sun 🌞.??? Stay safe in the ⛈ ⛈ storms. This Week. Prayers for your family 🕊🕊🕊💞 . Blessings 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
While digging the holes it sounded like hard soil (maybe a bit rocky). If it is hard dry soil, a trick to get it soft again is to fill the hole with water and let it drain into the soil. That way you can often get those holes just a bit deeper. Of course that won't work with rocks (LOL)
This reminds me of that time my grown daughter / pregnant wanted to put an over 3000 gallon pool on her deck, the deck was made with 2, 2x4's sandwiched together for posts. lol
Always enjoy your videos and all you are doing on your farm. You do a good job with it all. A little hint with your post hole diggers. Chop off the sides till you have some loose dirt in the bottom and then shove them into the hole mostly closed and it will pack the dirt into them better than dropping them in open. 70 year old rancher here that has built a lot of miles of fence. Keep up the good work.
It is a joy to watch your videos. Interesting, a bit of comic relief, and a real insight to what it takes to build a homestead from scratch. Help from a few friends helps too. And I must get my husband one of those levels that attaches to the post! Oh, the fun we have had setting fence posts. He thought that was pretty cool. Dinner looked great. Thanks!
Hi Jason and family 👋 just us 2saying hi and thanks again for sharing this video update 👋 summer over here in the uk has been a wash out 🌧🌧🌧 den and sue from across the pond 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🚌🚌🚌
Gas powered post hole diggers are game changers for farming and homesteading. They work great in the garden and for planting trees. Ours has an extension bar so we can go almost 4 feet down if we need to.
Honestly , I'd contact the manager & send him pics of those boards. They should at least credit you something. That's not good business to send wood like that . Especially since it's so expensive !
Jason I keep watching because you put your heart ❤️ into your farm. When those boards all fell down your attitude was oh well almost. It was funny and we have to laugh more get back up and go on. ❤
It was expensive to get flat free tires but I highly recommend it! The wheelbarrow and my 10 cubic foot Gorilla cart moves so much easier! I learned that you can go to the Gorilla cart sight and order the flat free tires from them. I tried to buy my Gorilla cart through Northern Tool with the non pneumatic tires but I got the air tires instead when it came. Yay, you got the lumber moved up the hill! Too bad it wasn't all useable. I wish the lumber places weren't like that. That dirt looks hard. Nice job building your lean to! Thanks for this video Contreras family! That dinner looked wonderful Lorraine!
It’s always a blessing to see you all working together in the field in separate supporting one another dude he worked so hard and you came home and she had steak for you. That’ll make a man work hard. Blessings to you and your family.
I enjoy your videos. They are interesting and your family is such a joy. I love the way all 3 of you work together on the various projects. That proves you are a close knit family who loves working with one another. God bless you as you continue making your homestead a nice place to work and live!
My grandfather had a couple ( 2 ) of 4 wheel trailers to pull around and from corn 🌽 to strawberries 🍓 even coal for heating the potbelly stove. He would use the farm tractor and the old 1940 Plymouth 2 door Roadking. We tended to use what we had and you’re doing it. ✅ FYI Water is 8.34 lbs per gal x 1000 = 8340 lbs. + the tank and hardware you have a very heavy load just need to check your work.
That is shameful for Home Depot to send such shoddy lumber. Yu would think being delivered, they would do their best to send quality. Don't forget to predrill your tin, just as Al Lumnah did for his siding on today's video. Sure saves time, and keeps the line of screws even. Looking forward to seeing the progress on this build. Have a Blessed day.
You video is useful to me because I have a tendency to go ahead and do it my way. As I watch, I have seen tools that will help and some things that I would definitely do differently after watching you have to redo or do extra. Your honestly admitting that you had to backtrack to get forgotten equipment for changing out the auger is a that's me moment. I definitely will be following with notifications for the future. Thank you. 🤠
Just watched your video and I have a suggestion that help me and helpfully helps you. Buy your lumber from a small time lumber yard. You can set up a account that gives you a preferred customer discount, free delivery, and you can tell them that you want furniture quality lumber. It’s just a way of telling them you don’t want any junk. You can also buy what is called call lumber which is lumber that is so bad they can’t sell it. You can use for those jobs that don’t have to be pretty. I have not been to a big box lumber in 4 years and have no regrets. Good luck
FYI, to help you in the future, whe you put post is the ground you can just dump the cement in dry and pack it then cover it and move to the next one. In your area there is enough moisture in the ground to harden the cement, I have build alot of building and fence post this way, you can look up Mortan building that where I learn it when I work there,
When I go to the box store. I make sure I make good friends with the department head in the lumber area I have gotten old pallets that are 12 foot long that the hardy board are shipped with that make good fence and buckets of tar that I have used on post that goes in the ground
Spud bar is the best thing to digest holes with . Then you just use the fence postdigger tool to clean out the hole as chip away at it with the spud bar
You make all your content enjoyable. Your way is the way it works for your brain. No two people think exactly the same.
Lorraine talking about what she is cooking is a great addition to the videos. Thank's
Linda here; yes, meals are a big part of homestead life and a big reason for homesteading in the first place. I appreciate how the property has been the priority, too. Excellent videos.
Jason, attach a pvc pipe for the water hose to go through for the chickens. Then they can roost on something sturdy without affecting the hose!
Could also put a shut off valve with a slow stream, or a full strem with a timed solar shut off
Lorraine doesn't mind getting hands on helping you with the homestead projects and she always has a smile on her face. She's a true gem!
The delivery gives them the opportunity to get rid of damaged boards that in store customers have refused to purchase.
I have noticed that too, with Walmart delivery orders - dented cans, apples with bad spots, limp lettuce, etc.
Same with UK Amazon Prime for items sent from the US. In particular: ForJar lids that were obviously previously a return (damaged and taped up boxes), Videlia Chop Wizard (cracked hinge in re sealed, torn box), pandemic.
If I send faulty US Amazon Prime items back from the UK (it’s a great incremental US/UK trade agreement, btw, set up during your previous Administration 👍🏻) they always replace quickly with brand new items in perfect condition. Just trying it on, I guess. Annoying but not worth me getting stressed about.
Yup they grab and go, not checking the way the buyer would for warping, twisting and cracks. But on the other hand they’re buying what the distributor sends them. I know there isn’t a lot of margin on lumber after working at a big box🤷♀️
Sheeesh.. a sad reality
True!…I was just having an issue with a Walmart delivery of milk..that expired the next day..so frustrating
Your videos are real. You stick to real life and needs. Others get too political and/or off topic. You work as a family. Hard work. Goooood meals. Oh, I still am jealous of your barn!
Thanks
Yes. Not too much overtly personal stuff which ends up being disingenuous and obviously for click bait and clearly false (like some other you- tuber I could mention). Jason and Lorraine always give nice clear instructions on this channel and not a slap-dash string of carelessly spliced-together scenes, which leave you with a headache, and having to rewind to catch what they said, (like a you-tuber I won't mention again.) well done Jason and Lorraine.
That's why I love this channel
What you need is a box trailer that is set up as a mobile workshop with your tools and consumables.
I know that sure is hard work out in that heat but you had a goooood supper waiting for you!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Sending Blessings to y’all!
Yes it was!
I enjoyed the shot from inside the hole. Unique shots are always fun. Love from Idaho!
Awesome work y'all. Shame on them for sending bad lumber. They should replace it.👍💛🙏
You have made a tremendous improvement in your pastures. Great job. 👏👏 I also admire how you push through in the August heat to start a much needed water supply/feed shed. Take lots of breaks and stay hydrated. 👍 Please keep including Lorraine's 'What's For Dinner' video closing. 🤗 Your meals always look so yummy. 🥰
Progress!
I’m surprised no companies have reached out and offered you a tractor 🚜. They’re the most multi purpose tool, you can cut grass, move dirt, drill holes. ..etc etc.
I am relatively still a small channel compared to the ones they do work with. Thanks so much!
Maybe AL can put a good word in for ya at TYM head office. You just never know
We love watching cuz your are our favorite down to earth /DIY/homesteader/ funny people on youtube
Hi, Jason! I admire your positive attitude. I pray you didn’t sustain damage from Monday’s storm.
Man, we that storm here too! It didn't last long, but it was kinda scary. I'm in Iredell Co. It blew over a bunch of stuff in my backyard and scared my hens. I still have a bunch of huge tree limbs to pick up around the property.
I always watch your videos. I have been following your family for years. Ever since you lived in the trailer. I love what you have done to the new place it looks great!
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Nice to see you doing rain collecting, Are you going to put it in the shade. So the black doesn’t attract the sun 🌞.??? Stay safe in the ⛈ ⛈ storms. This Week. Prayers for your family 🕊🕊🕊💞 . Blessings 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
Rain catchment is coming right along.👍🏻
While digging the holes it sounded like hard soil (maybe a bit rocky). If it is hard dry soil, a trick to get it soft again is to fill the hole with water and let it drain into the soil. That way you can often get those holes just a bit deeper. Of course that won't work with rocks (LOL)
dropshot, not if it's clay, that doesn't work! 🙂
Home Depot should be contacted and made aware of the lumber defects.
Id return and exchange them.
Love how you incorporate everything home and farm in your videos. Also, getting things done how ever you can. Love the channel. GOD bless
Love the videos, and the part at the end showing your dinner.
Great progress & practicality in all that your family does! Thanks for sharing! 🤗💜🇨🇦
We drive out John deer zero turn mower pulling a disk and it gets the ground prepared for our garden .. a great labor saver
Amazing how the grass has improved on your land. From when you bought the property. It would be a great example to see pictures side by side?
I appreciate your channel. Thank you. You all live a clean organized life.
Your videos are always fun to watch. You put a lot of little gold nuggets in them. ❤❤
So smart with lids on the buckets. I don't know why I have never thought of that. 😅
Always amazing
I believe that you are one of the hardest working men that I've witnessed in forever. Good job.
Your definitely taking on a big project! I’m impressed your basically doing everything by yourself that’s not easy. Love your channel..blessings❤🙏
This reminds me of that time my grown daughter / pregnant wanted to put an over 3000 gallon pool on her deck, the deck was made with 2, 2x4's sandwiched together for posts. lol
Never change! The Universe loves you just the way you are!
2:23 a little irrigation ratchet clamp would be a very simple cheap solution 😊
Thank you for letting us know if you have the desire anyone can Homestead.
Jason, you are one hard worker! I like how you break it down one step at a time, we could all learn from you!
You are getting so good with your videos. Your creativity is top shelf. I loved the one from within the hole.
You can return the garbage lumber. Find a local lumber yard. Its worth it.
My goodness, that dinner looks good!
We appreciate your video’s and the time it takes to make them,enjoy your yummy dinner🇨🇦🐝🤗❤️
Always enjoy your videos and all you are doing on your farm. You do a good job with it all. A little hint with your post hole diggers. Chop off the sides till you have some loose dirt in the bottom and then shove them into the hole mostly closed and it will pack the dirt into them better than dropping them in open. 70 year old rancher here that has built a lot of miles of fence. Keep up the good work.
It is a joy to watch your videos. Interesting, a bit of comic relief, and a real insight to what it takes to build a homestead from scratch. Help from a few friends helps too. And I must get my husband one of those levels that attaches to the post! Oh, the fun we have had setting fence posts. He thought that was pretty cool. Dinner looked great. Thanks!
Love that handy dandy spirit level! Perfect for single person use. 😃
Hi Jason and family 👋 just us 2saying hi and thanks again for sharing this video update 👋 summer over here in the uk has been a wash out 🌧🌧🌧 den and sue from across the pond 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🚌🚌🚌
Gas powered post hole diggers are game changers for farming and homesteading. They work great in the garden and for planting trees. Ours has an extension bar so we can go almost 4 feet down if we need to.
Good job
Honestly , I'd contact the manager & send him pics of those boards. They should at least credit you something. That's not good business to send wood like that . Especially since it's so expensive !
Everytime you guys Film in the kitchen I am just like in love with the new window in the dinning room ❤
You are one hard working man Jason love you and your family members Pete cape town south Africa
Jason I keep watching because you put your heart ❤️ into your farm. When those boards all fell down your attitude was oh well almost. It was funny and we have to laugh more get back up and go on. ❤
Great work J. You’ll get it done. Slow and steady.
Like your stories more every week. Great work, great projects, good ideas. Salutations from Mirabel, North shore of Montreal….Canada. 👋🏼💐🌺🌼🌺
It was expensive to get flat free tires but I highly recommend it! The wheelbarrow and my 10 cubic foot Gorilla cart moves so much easier! I learned that you can go to the Gorilla cart sight and order the flat free tires from them. I tried to buy my Gorilla cart through Northern Tool with the non pneumatic tires but I got the air tires instead when it came. Yay, you got the lumber moved up the hill! Too bad it wasn't all useable. I wish the lumber places weren't like that. That dirt looks hard. Nice job building your lean to! Thanks for this video Contreras family! That dinner looked wonderful Lorraine!
For building I go str8 to the HD cull bin. 70% off everything. It's cracked and warped just like the full price stuff.
Looking good on the lean-to! I can't wait to see how it looks done. I know you're going to have great success collecting water in your rainy time.
Great video J family always working together and that what makes it all work love you guys ❤❤
It’s always a blessing to see you all working together in the field in separate supporting one another dude he worked so hard and you came home and she had steak for you. That’ll make a man work hard. Blessings to you and your family.
I just love your channel! Real life, real people, real content.. thank you for showing the real side of building a homestead. ❤
I enjoy your videos. They are interesting and your family is such a joy. I love the way all 3 of you work together on the various projects. That proves you are a close knit family who loves working with one another. God bless you as you continue making your homestead a nice place to work and live!
Bernice!!! (hands outstretched) what a hoot you are Jason
That little Loraine works like a lumber jack.
Love your videos and your story! You have a beautiful family!
With the bent board, wet it up real good, so its soaked, then you can bend it straight and pin it down so it drys straight.
Donna here, I would love to see some more drone footage since you had the beefy boys and chickens making the rounds.
awesome as always.thanks for sharing and taking us along
We would love to see the improvements made inside the house ❤
Should have gone to Lowe’s for the lumber.😊
Loving the videos Jason! We too are starting a homestead from scratch. And you definitely need dual-purpose items. Keep up the great work.
Best of luck!
Happy days...keep cool...lovely supper 🏠🌻🍃🌞🌱💚🐽
My grandfather had a couple ( 2 ) of 4 wheel trailers to pull around and from corn 🌽 to strawberries 🍓 even coal for heating the potbelly stove. He would use the farm tractor and the old 1940 Plymouth 2 door Roadking. We tended to use what we had and you’re doing it. ✅
FYI Water is 8.34 lbs per gal x 1000 = 8340 lbs. + the tank and hardware you have a very heavy load just need to check your work.
I watch your video’s because they are interesting, because they are real and I just enjoy your content.
I appreciate that
Great video !
Thank you for sharing 👏😀
You are a hard worker. Just keep on keeping on!!!
I been working on a fence for about five months now and only have the posts in , the fence is only 75 feet long but I’m disabled 😊
Jason take them back to home Depot, they show them the delivery what you got , on those bad lumber trade for new ones on customer service😮
That is shameful for Home Depot to send such shoddy lumber. Yu would think being delivered, they would do their best to send quality. Don't forget to predrill your tin, just as Al Lumnah did for his siding on today's video. Sure saves time, and keeps the line of screws even. Looking forward to seeing the progress on this build. Have a Blessed day.
Enjoy your content and your family team is great to watch😍
You video is useful to me because I have a tendency to go ahead and do it my way.
As I watch, I have seen tools that will help and some things that I would definitely do differently after watching you have to redo or do extra. Your honestly admitting that you had to backtrack to get forgotten equipment for changing out the auger is a that's me moment. I definitely will be following with notifications for the future.
Thank you. 🤠
Excellent job Jason. Keep it up.
Just watched your video and I have a suggestion that help me and helpfully helps you. Buy your lumber from a small time lumber yard. You can set up a account that gives you a preferred customer discount, free delivery, and you can tell them that you want furniture quality lumber. It’s just a way of telling them you don’t want any junk. You can also buy what is called call lumber which is lumber that is so bad they can’t sell it. You can use for those jobs that don’t have to be pretty. I have not been to a big box lumber in 4 years and have no regrets. Good luck
Wonderful team work..
Love your videos always have!!, I learn something new almost all the time! 👏👏👏
I'm so glad!
We love watching you all 😊
You and your camera angles. LOL. I love your creative videos.
You have great ideas and you do you!
Congratulations on the beginning of your barn! I like your style, you get the job done~cool!!
Cool, thanks!
Good luck with getting that build up. Just wish your videos where longer.
Very cool post hole camera shot! Hahahaha. 🙂📹
FYI, to help you in the future, whe you put post is the ground you can just dump the cement in dry and pack it then cover it and move to the next one. In your area there is enough moisture in the ground to harden the cement, I have build alot of building and fence post this way, you can look up Mortan building that where I learn it when I work there,
When I go to the box store. I make sure I make good friends with the department head in the lumber area I have gotten old pallets that are 12 foot long that the hardy board are shipped with that make good fence and buckets of tar that I have used on post that goes in the ground
Loved the shot from the bottom of the hole
Great video
Jason, the Home Depot guys are not going to hand pick every piece of lumber like you and me will! Blessings 💕🤗
Spud bar is the best thing to digest holes with . Then you just use the fence postdigger tool to clean out the hole as chip away at it with the spud bar
I really enjoy your videos. They are very informative and I am looking forward to using some of your techniques on my new homestead.
I like your videos and you showing the food at the end thanks so very much 😊
What a great project!
Love your videos! Keep them coming ♥️♥️♥️
You are just great people ..
Love your channel. You always got something interesting to watch
Great video. That post hole digging and setting is a tough job. Nice to see the family helping out too. Glad you are getting rain. 💞
Thanks 👍