TYM Tractor Saved the Day. Loading the Steers for Trip to Freezer Camp.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Today we are loading up the steers and have to have them at the Butcher shop at 10 A.M. It's a rainy day we need to get the steers loaded and get on the road. But it doesn't go like we had it planned.
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Those ducks just quack me up (sorry ... I couldn't resist, but they are the stars of the barnyard!). Miss Rebekah really has a heart for critters. I'm glad she got to spend some time with them before their departure. Happy trails, beefs. And I love Miss Rebekah's voice and laughter ...
And Evan the older you get, the MORE "unscripted" your life becomes until your health or something else just goes off the rails. So I am glad that you can enjoy your life as much as you can while you are involved in it.
God go before me, behind me, beside me, above and below me. Amen.
great vids, great couple, congrats. You treat the animals humanely while they are in your care. We get the final disposition, your animals help feed America,
Do not worry if you feel low; the sun has a sinking spell every night, but rises again all right the next morning. Really enjoy your videos and telling us when you make a mistakes. I always have to remember that, Life is too important to take seriously. You and Rebecca truly are one of a kind. Stay safe.
It's all about...adapt and overcome...great job...strength and honor my friend.
U2 are an awesome couple🤘🏼🇺🇸‼️🐓🌽
Must be tough taking them to the butcher after they have been pets for. so long Sad day
I enjoy watching each episode, love farm life!
Great video- instead of considering it "frustration" call them opportunity for memories. Nobody talks about the time everything went right. LOL
Thank-you Evan and Rebecca.
Just a tip, always untwist your straps before pulling with them. A strap that is twisted has a much lower pulling strength and is more likely to snap.
Yep that’s where my life works too
No obstacles - no victories!!
That is how farming goes, always something.
Y'all did great Evan and Rebecca.
That Rebecca is a keeper , for sure .
Teamwork pays off.
Good save with the cows moving Rebecca
The challenges keep it exciting.
As long as you to deal with your stuff together you will be fine👍🏻 Look how beautiful the place you live in is
Hey, the Tom is cool!🦃
Awesome for the TYM .. well done team.
Hi..... Evan and Rebecca nice to see you love watching your videos, thank you for showing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐩🐕🐈🐖🐐🐄🐝🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍
Give God all the glory for your success today.
Put a winch on the front of the truck to use around the place. Put a post across the road from the barn yard so you can hook the winch to it. You will find a lot of uses for the winch,
jack
Thx
You can see the love in Rebecca not only in wanting to say goodbye to her steers but her devotion to you Evan. I am sure you don't need me to point this out. Keep up the good work, you both are creating a wonderful place to live. Best regards from Scotland.
I am gonna miss the Beefy Boys. Got my freezer all ready. Grill n Beer will be awaiting.
nice job white the tractor . from the Netherlands thanks for the video
Good stuff! Stay genuine!
Hey you guys y'all have a beautiful farm and y'all are a great couple work good together.👋😇💖💖
The quality and content of this video was outstanding. You expressed your thoughts with genuine context, you could see the authentic love for the homestead in your’s and Rebecca’s eyes. Keep the wonderful content coming.
Yessir. That's why Evan and Rebekah have 79 thousand plus of us subscribers ...
You guys are just an awesome! Team
What you both need are Dryas a bone oil jackets and coats from Australia, Ideal in wet muddy weather, farmers and horse owners ware them all the time.
Very cool take on day to day life. Endeavor to persevere . Blessing to have a wonderful strong wife to help you,and believe me as you age you will lean on each others help more and more.
Good job Evan enjoy your videos 👍
Every good man and woman need a truck and a tractor.
I just wake up every morning wondering, "What am I gunna learn today?" Been doin that for 5 decades.
You are very fortunate that Ms Rebecca is willing to part with the steers and have no problem with them being on the dinner table. My family has made it clear that if we raise our own beef, nobody wants to see or get acquainted with the animals that end up in the freezer or the animals will never make it to the butcher or get eaten if they get to the freezer. I grew up with our family raising animals for meat so I have no problem with it. I ask my family all the time where they think the meat at the market or the restaurant came from? I just wonder though if T-bone realized his life was at "steak"?😁 Great videos. Always look forward to another one.
Another great video Thanks Evan and Rebecca
As the Illinois farmer told the reporter when asked what he would do with the $10 Million lottery he just won. He said "Keep farming till it's all gone"!
I love the content you put out. The only thing I have to say about the video is when you are pulling anything out and you have the brush hog on the tractor you should never pull on the gearbox it is expensive to fix them I have seen many broken from pulling on them like that.
Enjoy your video. I grew up on a farm. So I see some of the things my family did. I now live in Carlinville Illinois.
Evan you and Rebecca are a good team. Not sure I’d waste money on gravel in the barnyard. If you think about how many times you’ll be loading with a wet lot. Good job guys.
Great job
put lime in the barnyard it serves as a double purpose it's good for the field when you spread manure and it firms it up
Teamwork on the Homestead.
Yes gravel would be a good idea.
Great job!
Actually, a chain won't break and kill you. A cable would DEFINATELY cause damage or harm. A chain has too many links and must lose all of its kinetic energy when it breaks. I have 110 acres in PA and I definitely agree with you on the frustrating perspective. I plan on something and I am often delayed. Cows won't load, tire low on air, mud, tractor won't start, weather obviously, forget and have to unload a trailer or empty a bucket or connect different equipment. List goes on. We often carry an extra ball on the tractor and just bolt it onto the drawbar and use it to back in to load. It turns shorter and sometimes easier to use to back a trailer into tight spots and out of muddy spots.
A load of 2 inch rock in the barnyard driveway would do wonders, gravel would just disappear into the mud without a base of larger rock underneath
The TYM Tractor saved the day. You have a very good partner and wife who supports you and the animals. It's nice to see in this day and age.
Should do what just a few acres does. Loads animals and uses a tractor to pull onto the driveway and then hook onto truck way better in a way
Good job, Evan and Rebecca. Team work.
Great video as always.
I would put some gravel in the barnyard, but just make 2 rows and add some cement out of the bag
Well rainy days are a challenge to say the least. At least the steers were good and helpful. Loading can be a challenge. Maybe the other location would work well to build a load out area. You may be able to coral them with extra gates to lesson the area for loading. But they may still prefer the barn area and have less trouble No matter what you are doing in farming it seems to never go as planed. But sure does build character! Glad it all worked out.
Murphy law applies to a lot of us.l am 62 and I still live with him every day. On a plus note, it makes life very interesting and makes for great content and conversation.
A winch that is on a trailer hitch fitting that can be moved around would be handy. then you put a trailer fitting on the front of the truck
Get a bigger tow strap. 3 inch x 20 feet (WLL 8000 lbs. / 24000 lbs. capacity) Better safe than sorry.
Just think as the tractor was pulling out the truck trailer, the strap would have broke and slide into the fence. I had a roll off dropped off Friday morning during all that rain and made everything soupy for loading it up with my tractor.
I would get a good set of mud grips always a good thing to have
Rebecca will miss those steers. I can see it in her face. Bless you both. You gave them as much of a wonderful life as they could have received ❤️🙏
I had the same problem because my winter feedlot was slightly down hill from the barn and pasture. I have had wonderful luck w wood chips which the contractor for the local utility company drop off for free. In fact I have filled in an entire farm pond and silt pond which was poorly conceived with wood chips to increase the size of the feedlot. Success I believe is in the packing down, if oxygen can get in then the chips decompose into compost however with each bucket load I dumped I packed them down with the bucket of my tractor and also w the wheels of the tractor. If you dig down a foot or two you can still see wood chips 4 years later in their almost original state with little if any breakdown. I believe the elimination of oxygen creates a slow fermenting condition rather than composting. Yes, I do top it off each fall with new wood chips but not much is needed. The feedlot is built up in the middle near the entrance to the barn and then drains slightly on all other sides. I have dug a ditch around those sides and put in a french drain to drain the water off to the creek. In addition I have built up my pasture road which use to flood and verded off at an angle that was scary in wet conditions 7 feet high. I have had very little wood chips float away because tractors and ATVs travel it several times a day continually packing down the chips. I might suggest that you dig down thru the muck, hay and manure that has accumulated to solid soil and then fill in with wood chips and pack them down. Lots of people on the internet say that wood chips are a bad idea. I read several pages of pros and cons before I began my project. All I can say is that wood chips have been working great for me for over 5 years.
My Uncle lived near an asphalt shingle factory, and this was a very long time ago, but they would give away the little tabs they punched out of 3 tab shingles. Those would make a nice driveway, and Ed had one, after a hot summer they were an oddly colored almost asphalt paving.
There may be a daily problem, but you guys seem to handle everything extremely well. You have the ability to take problems head on and either resolve or solve the situation.
Much agreed.
Every day on a farm, you learn something!😊
Great narrative around the 11:00 mark. You capture Farming spot on.
Congrats on getting those steers to the butcher. They looked great!
I meant to comment earlier on your video where you were fixing the mower with the seized wheel pivot. I watched as you struggled after heating and hitting the swivel pin until it mushroomed. You forgot one key thing, you need to support the thing you are hitting with a solid base. Otherwise you lose all the power from your hammer as the pin moves down from your swing. Every action has an equal and opposite action.
Good video
Good job getting the tractor to pull the truck out. You should have hooked to the drivers side of your truck with the strap though. If you notice the front of the truck kept moving toward the fence. Rebecca kept the wheel turned to the right because of this. I you had hooked to the drivers side, she wouldn't have had to fight that pull to the left. That is also assuming that there is a tow hook on the drivers side. You got the job done none the less, just a little advise in case of a future similar situation.
Great job Evan and Rebecca, she sure was right about taking the day off 👍👌. You both are a great team!! Everything is looking great around there going into winter. Now get the pigs to the processors and all the meats in the freezer and then some venison in the freezer too and enjoy your bounty. Take care and stay safe going into the holiday season. We do enjoy your videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
Pop a hole in the end of on of your forklift forks big enough for a ball and you don’t have to take your emoluments off the back
You don’t have to leave the ball in place take it off put it in a tool box on the tractor
Throw those loud turkeys in there also!
I share your thoughts with days not going well at times. My mother had a saying (that would make a preacher cuss). During my days of doing things I think of her saying often
We had a a Tbone also best beef we ever ate
Which run of gravel would be shorter the level spot or the barnyard pasture gate? Have guys ever heard of Dexter breed or Belted Galloways? Maybe a small herd of smaller cattle could be pasture raised between the old paddock & the new one? The rotational scheme was too inefficient for 2 steers? The two hayfields being in production look like they can make a grass-fed functional for more livestock. If there are other local small breeds associations, may be a way to preserve a heritage breed, make some income & have beef. Congrats on the first beef camp.
Make sure you tell Rebecca how thankful you are, she didn’t listen to you, and stayed home! 🥰
The twists in the straps and rubbing against the brushog bars were very dangerous. In the future you might try facing the tractor at the truck and pulling in reverse and make sure there's no twists (or not more than 1 or maybe 2) in the strap. Also put a heavy blanket or rubber mat or something over the strap because it can still snap and kill or maim someone. Glad you got the truck out and safe!
I wasn't for sure if I should pull from a skid attachment. So I pulled from the back. I didn't think about the twist in the strap. I will remember that next time.
Tractor tires have less traction when turning in reverse.
While some farmers don't name or build attachments to their livestock it is human nature to show love to the animals that will feed your family.
I was thinking the same thing
Should have a bull and heifer for breeding and use the heifer to produce milk for home grown milk
But, you two made it happen together .
Nice video, thx for sharing with us. Maybe you can train them to walk on rope or halter. Greetings from Belgium
Maybe put down more gravel and build a loading chute/dock
Love this channel. It so real to life and not scripted at all. Problems are just opportunites to be creative to over come the challenge. That's just life, on the farm, on the job, or whatever! Thanks again for sharing!
Best. advice I can give anyone is to. scrap the top soil and mud out of the barnyard and put in stone and ceme the top. You will never regret it.
Or just do a flat loading area with gravel and cement
The TYM tractor was a life saver and the four wheel drive did it's job. Glad Rebecca chose to stay and help you, as that would have been almost impossible without her help. Both of you did what you needed to do to get the steers out and to the processor. The farm life is not easy, but it is rewarding.
Barby n Que will go down very well
It was a challenge but you both got it all sorted. Awesome.
Good morning Rebecca & Evan! You did a great job getting out of the barn yard it was a little greasy! You got the steers to the butcher! God bless you!
If you could get a couple loads of crushed asphalt that might be better than gravel. I think it might pack better and give you more traction. Might be less expensive too. My 2 pennies for ya! Great video!
HA! Freezer camp!!! HA!
Peace
Brought back a lot of memories Evan, Great job,Farmers/Ranchers are a special breed of people 👍
Take the loud turkey also. Lol
My grandad built loading ramps that were set next to his dirt lane. It also had a corral connected. Some loading areas he could place the portable metal cow station squeezer when he needed to give medicine or shots or castrations, ect. There good to have when needed. You two are a great farm family team!!! It is weird to think I miss the hard work and family working cows and the farm together, but I miss those days! You guys bring back good memories for me. 😊💖
So a suggestion, where you showed the grass area that you thought would be a good place for the trailer. If you cut your fence and drop gravel in that area so that you have a permanent hard stand that your trailer can sit on and use a double gate to seal either side of your trailer (no escapes). The hard area would be always accessible and the field would just have a little bump out with the gates. Just a thought. As always thanks for posting
Try lowering tyre pressure to get more traction with the Ford.
I hope you have a big freezer for all the meat that's coming back!
We bought another freezer and we have 3 now. We should be good.
Maybe its a good idea to put some road gravel down in the barn yard. I know I would never drive in ours without a tractor or some kind of equipment. :P I want to put 2" to 3" rock down in ours.
I’ve often wondered how I would feel after raising some animals knowing their fate. I just do t know if could do it. When it comes to cattle, they just seem like nothing more than gentle giants and that would be especially difficult to accept. It is what it is but I think I would just end up with a collection of animals in the end...