Even though most tools I have are Milwaukee, I'm happy to know DeWalt is around and make great tools as well. Forces companies to stay sharp and make good products when they have competition.
Knowing the nuit value of your bed pack material will help to evaluate your decision on what's the best use moving forward. You are truly blessed Eric as you proved welding that gate while your lap was below it❗ I'am interested to see the long term report on your scrapers.. Cheers 🇨🇦
Compared to conventional spreading i.e. before tilling with clumps flying everywhere and after from here it seems that it was a more evenly spread load making for a more even soil amendment and faster incorporation into the field
I am very impressed with that spreader. It was nice watching it just sitting there from the side. I wonder how it would work with the bed pack bedding being wetter. Our cows were in a tie stall barn with a gutter cleaner behind and the manure was pretty wet, used straw as bedding.
@@robertmiller8336 a vertical beater spreader will do a phenomenal job in any density of manure. Sawdust like used here, or high density from calf pens, to bedding pack for cows or steers/heifers, it does a lot better job than a traditional horizontal type spreader.
Who would not LOVE to have Eric back the Pikrite up their garden and blow a load of composted shavings and manure out for next season’s vegetable crop? Eric showing the “Welders do it in all positions.”
Eric, I would keep the pile you made turned once a week. The composting process kills off bad pathogens and reduces the total amount that you have to spread. I live on a 1,300 cow dairy in North Carolina and we started composting last year and its really beneficial for your soil. Basically the composting reduces the amount of manure and make the nutrients more concentrated.
There is a saying for when you are trying something new and are not sure what the results will be. It goes "You're throwing sh!t against the wall to see what sticks". You are giving that a whole new meaning.
A couple of runs thru that spreader and it might end up dry. The only places I ever saw re using bedding was with Sask Dutch Kid in California. They clean, dried and then stored it for a while I think. If you have lots just put it back on the fields. Storing is just more mess.Waiting to see the robots. Good video. Pax.
Hauling manure with wood shavings, I had never done that until this year. That makes nice manure! A young man I help farm bought some from a local dairy and I got to spread it, that really is nice.
Hello Eric, thanks for the video. I noticed you sitting on the concrete while welding. My dad used to tell me, never sit on a concrete or stole flooring. Always use sometihing to sit on, to prevent backproblems when the years are climbing. Stay healthy and safe.
Wow it looks like to me, a non expert that the more broken down ( fine ) the beding is, the more an faster the micro nutrients will get back into the soil !!! I think you are on to something !!! Thank you for your videos !!! GOD BLESS Y'ALL !!!
Eric, the bedding after the till and then spreader work looked great. I see windrowed compost rows that are turned with a big tiller and even saw one that they composted over a 100 full grown pigs into the mix. Pete of Just A Few Acres (world class channel for the small farmer) composts everything including his bed pack as long as possible. They butcher their chicken and all the waste goes into the same pile as do any lost stock. The tilled mixture sure looked that it was thrown more evenly from the spreader in the field. See ya. Bob in Nevada
Reminds me of the farmer that got fed up with the county and backed his spreader up the front door of the county offices and let it rip. I thought it was great.
Hey there Eric, I hope you're all well and good! I hope those pooper scoopers do a good job keeping those alleys clean for you. It seems to me like re-using that bedding requires a lot of extra time and work, and 2-3 times more hours loading, unloading, reloading, and unloading, on your equipment, to extend the life of the bedding by how much.....25% 30%..... I hope y'all have a good one! "Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸
Great video Eric! Dairy Dude Doo might be a very successful product. Farms need to have innovative ideas to survive with the rising costs of pretty much everything. Well done!
Hey Eric this is Mike and Sherrill from Phoenix Arizona. We were just watching your latest video, and just wanted to let you know I am not a farmer, however the manure that you were spreading today seems to be much much smoother and also seems to spread easier through the spreader. I think rototilling it really seems to make a difference. I actually think you could consider selling that manure to people with gardens. If you had any left after you’ve done what you need to do for your farm. Once again the rototilling seems to be making a huge difference. Thanks for all you do have a great day will talk to you soon.
I love the idea of you using the bedding and trying to turn it into compost. To achieve that tho it needs to be a minimum of a 3'x3'x3' inorder for the actual composting process. What you have is more along the lines of an aerobic cow manure sawdust mix. It does however have some nutritional value but nothing close to actual compost. I would suggest. When cleaning out the pens to stock pile it. Wet it down and add a little watered down molasses. Mix the pile once a week and everytime you add to it for 3 months or so and Bam 400 bushel corn. Seriously, stock pile and feed it. You'll cut your fertilizer needs in half and produce more. Feed the soil web and it will feed your plants. Best wishes young man. Love your channel.
Your experiment helped me out. I have a small chicken coop that they were packing down pretty hard. I started throwing shelled corn on the shavings after I bed them and at every feeding. They've been doing the tillage themselves digging for the corn and it has definitely improved the life of my shavings.
That fertiliser is a cash crop, we pay between $8 and $20 for quality compost in NZ. Could be a great income stream for you when it’s too soft to put on the paddocks
I am not a farmer but it sure is really awesome to see how smooth you make your operation work. I hope the robots work out for you and i cant wait to see how they function. Keep up the great work and God bless
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 we have a shop right down the road from us it’s called CFS ( Cuffs Farm Supply) they do a lot of custom manure work from building pumps too tool bars basically anything manure they might be able to figure something out if you guys ever decide to try something or are interested in trying something they do alot all over they are from NY but they travel alot just wanted to let you know thanks for taking the time to reply to comments I love watching your videos!!!
on the farm where I help they filter the liquid manure and the liquid goes back into the pit and the rest is pressed so dry that we use it again for bedding. and that works good for us
I think you are OK with the DeWalt / Milwaukee work combination, however I believe the Festool gloves are only to be worn in the house - we wouldn't want to get them dirty. I'm not sure I could afford to work in them. (sarcasm) Great video.
I think the rototilling is good as it increases the oxygen level for the microbes to break down the manure. Also, leaving some on the ground is good to give the new material a head start to break down the new material. Plus, I'm sure the cows love the heat the compost gives off. In winter at least.
It would be interesting to have you stick a thermometer in there and see how warm it was. The cows might really like the warmer, softer, drier bed pack.
with the High price of fertilizer( ie lawn fertilizer) coming this spring, bagging the compost might be a good $$ idea. be sure you tell uncle Joe you're providing a green energy alternate to russian fertilizer, john kerry might come visit your farm as poster child!!
😅Ha! That was a good one, Eric, great line! It does look to me like your bedding is heating up good. Another nice job on the gate modifying project, a lot of work, but well worth the effort for use of the floor sweepers. Another great video, thanks for sharing, hope everyone is well and all have a great week.
I stopped watching you since october 25, i started to watch ur vids again a week ago and it was awesome how u maintain the farm, looks easy for you, hope you get 500k subs!
The heat it generates will keep the nasties at bay and provide more warmth in winter to the cows as well as making more composted nutrients. It would be great stuff for you vegie garden if you have one.
I personally would recommend bagging and selling. It will most definitely not cover the fertilizer expenses but it will lower them, and i believe the money you can get from it is worth more than the effects its going to have on your fields. Also you will build relationships that will guarantee you clients and consistent income through compost. Im not sure about America, but here in Europe it has quite the value, but we also garden more
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 That will be interesting to see. Before you mentioned bagging for sale, that was my thought, too. My only thought would be how much of it would be the saw dust compared to the bedding.
In general, dry cow manure is between .5 to 2% N, .25 to 2% P and .25 to 1% K. The fertilizer value comes from the fact that most producers have many tons of it at their disposal.
Understanding money is tight on a dairy if you find that your tilling of the bed pack is of use, I suggest a skid mount tiller. More maneuverable! Plus I’m sure your neighbor wants his tiller back at some point. Lol. Also have you considered hanging your middle bed packed gate to the outside, rather then where it is?
Doing a great at maintaining your farm. Everything is looking good and working efficient. Yes better get on the fertilizer band wagon. All the farmers are complaining how much chemical fertilizer has gone up. Check out your new business venture.
Funny that I Just happen to be rewatching this on March 4th, 2023. I think Eric should've bagged up the manure and sold it but that's only because I know a ways down the road he winds up spreading on a field anyway.
@10th Generation Dairyman do you guys get the same weather we get in Western PA. Some weeks we see all 4 seasons in the same week. 70 degree weather for 2 days rain for a day then freezing rain then snow at the end of the week haha
Hey Eric thought you may try just filling your manure spreader with sawdust to put bedding in the new barn, that’s how we do it on our farm.
This works great, we also do this on our dairy but with strae
Straw*
Wild idea: load the manurespreader with woodshavings and back into the bedding area. Nice layer and fast 😅
with dirty manure all over the shavings
7:00 bagging it up and selling it as garden manure is a GREAT idea. That is some really good looking stuff. Almost forget it was manure.
Even though most tools I have are Milwaukee, I'm happy to know DeWalt is around and make great tools as well. Forces companies to stay sharp and make good products when they have competition.
Knowing the nuit value of your bed pack material will help to evaluate your decision on what's the best use moving forward.
You are truly blessed Eric as you proved welding that gate while your lap was below it❗ I'am interested to see the long term report on your scrapers.. Cheers 🇨🇦
Dry manure with the composed mix. Prob will be amazing. Problms have to built an area for drying.
I like that bagging manure but good lord you’ve got enough to do.😂
Compared to conventional spreading i.e. before tilling with clumps flying everywhere and after from here it seems that it was a more evenly spread load making for a more even soil amendment and faster incorporation into the field
I am very impressed with that spreader. It was nice watching it just sitting there from the side. I wonder how it would work with the bed pack bedding being wetter. Our cows were in a tie stall barn with a gutter cleaner behind and the manure was pretty wet, used straw as bedding.
@@robertmiller8336 a vertical beater spreader will do a phenomenal job in any density of manure. Sawdust like used here, or high density from calf pens, to bedding pack for cows or steers/heifers, it does a lot better job than a traditional horizontal type spreader.
Who would not LOVE to have Eric back the Pikrite up their garden and blow a load of composted shavings and manure out for next season’s vegetable crop? Eric showing the “Welders do it in all positions.”
Eric, I would keep the pile you made turned once a week. The composting process kills off bad pathogens and reduces the total amount that you have to spread. I live on a 1,300 cow dairy in North Carolina and we started composting last year and its really beneficial for your soil. Basically the composting reduces the amount of manure and make the nutrients more concentrated.
Watching the last load come out of the spreader was like watching a politician talk.
Great video Eric. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
That small welder has seemed to be a great tool. 🖒 can't wait to see how these robots work out for you guys.
Bagging that manure and selling it really might not be a bad idea, especially with fertilize prices now.
There is a saying for when you are trying something new and are not sure what the results will be. It goes "You're throwing sh!t against the wall to see what sticks". You are giving that a whole new meaning.
A couple of runs thru that spreader and it might end up dry. The only places I ever saw re using bedding was with Sask Dutch Kid in California. They clean, dried and then stored it for a while I think. If you have lots just put it back on the fields. Storing is just more mess.Waiting to see the robots. Good video. Pax.
Hauling manure with wood shavings, I had never done that until this year. That makes nice manure! A young man I help farm bought some from a local dairy and I got to spread it, that really is nice.
Hello Eric, thanks for the video. I noticed you sitting on the concrete while welding. My dad used to tell me, never sit on a concrete or stole flooring. Always use sometihing to sit on, to prevent backproblems when the years are climbing. Stay healthy and safe.
Wow it looks like to me, a non expert that the more broken down ( fine ) the beding is, the more an faster the micro nutrients will get back into the soil !!! I think you are on to something !!! Thank you for your videos !!!
GOD BLESS Y'ALL !!!
I had just said I wish I had that for my garden while it was coming out of the spreader.
Eric, the bedding after the till and then spreader work looked great. I see windrowed compost rows that are turned with a big tiller and even saw one that they composted over a 100 full grown pigs into the mix. Pete of Just A Few Acres (world class channel for the small farmer) composts everything including his bed pack as long as possible. They butcher their chicken and all the waste goes into the same pile as do any lost stock. The tilled mixture sure looked that it was thrown more evenly from the spreader in the field. See ya. Bob in Nevada
I love Pete's channel too! He's an excellent teacher.
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Yeahhhh!!! I’m ready to see the robots get to work. Have a great week buddy!
It's ok , I have a bosch sawzall,, dewalt blades & milwaukee gloves 🤪 I diffently have fonzy bag up that manure too
Reminds me of the farmer that got fed up with the county and backed his spreader up the front door of the county offices and let it rip. I thought it was great.
Thanks again for sharing your day!
Hey there Eric, I hope you're all well and good!
I hope those pooper scoopers do a good job keeping those alleys clean for you.
It seems to me like re-using that bedding requires a lot of extra time and work, and 2-3 times more hours loading, unloading, reloading, and unloading, on your equipment, to extend the life of the bedding by how much.....25% 30%.....
I hope y'all have a good one!
"Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸
I was just waiting for a stone to smash your barn window when you were unloading that manure!
Watching your videos is like hanging around with you while you work on the farm. Great fun. Thanks till next time.
Great video Eric! Dairy Dude Doo might be a very successful product. Farms need to have innovative ideas to survive with the rising costs of pretty much everything. Well done!
If I were closer I would definitely buy a scoop of that compost!
Hey Eric this is Mike and Sherrill from Phoenix Arizona. We were just watching your latest video, and just wanted to let you know I am not a farmer, however the manure that you were spreading today seems to be much much smoother and also seems to spread easier through the spreader. I think rototilling it really seems to make a difference. I actually think you could consider selling that manure to people with gardens. If you had any left after you’ve done what you need to do for your farm. Once again the rototilling seems to be making a huge difference. Thanks for all you do have a great day will talk to you soon.
Love you’re matching shirt with your Dad :)
I love the idea of you using the bedding and trying to turn it into compost. To achieve that tho it needs to be a minimum of a 3'x3'x3' inorder for the actual composting process. What you have is more along the lines of an aerobic cow manure sawdust mix. It does however have some nutritional value but nothing close to actual compost. I would suggest. When cleaning out the pens to stock pile it. Wet it down and add a little watered down molasses. Mix the pile once a week and everytime you add to it for 3 months or so and Bam 400 bushel corn. Seriously, stock pile and feed it. You'll cut your fertilizer needs in half and produce more. Feed the soil web and it will feed your plants. Best wishes young man. Love your channel.
The Kubota is a real workhorse. 👍
Your experiment helped me out. I have a small chicken coop that they were packing down pretty hard. I started throwing shelled corn on the shavings after I bed them and at every feeding. They've been doing the tillage themselves digging for the corn and it has definitely improved the life of my shavings.
That fertiliser is a cash crop, we pay between $8 and $20 for quality compost in NZ. Could be a great income stream for you when it’s too soft to put on the paddocks
Good one Eric, thanks, we appreciate y’all!👍🇺🇸🙏
I am not a farmer but it sure is really awesome to see how smooth you make your operation work. I hope the robots work out for you and i cant wait to see how they function. Keep up the great work and God bless
Have you ever thought about using separated manure solids for the free stall barns to cut back the shavings usage
Yes but those systems don't really work with a slated barn and pit like ours
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 ohh okay I didn’t think about that. Is it because the pits under the barn so you couldn’t get something setup underneath
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 we have a shop right down the road from us it’s called CFS ( Cuffs Farm Supply) they do a lot of custom manure work from building pumps too tool bars basically anything manure they might be able to figure something out if you guys ever decide to try something or are interested in trying something they do alot all over they are from NY but they travel alot just wanted to let you know thanks for taking the time to reply to comments I love watching your videos!!!
on the farm where I help they filter the liquid manure and the liquid goes back into the pit and the rest is pressed so dry that we use it again for bedding. and that works good for us
I think you are OK with the DeWalt / Milwaukee work combination, however I believe the Festool gloves are only to be worn in the house - we wouldn't want to get them dirty. I'm not sure I could afford to work in them. (sarcasm) Great video.
I never thought about the fertilizer value to the fields when it has more time to decompose and break down before adding it to the fields
It's March 10th for me. Hello from the future!
😂🤣😂
@Dashiel Lopez Trippy.
I think the rototilling is good as it increases the oxygen level for the microbes to break down the manure. Also, leaving some on the ground is good to give the new material a head start to break down the new material. Plus, I'm sure the cows love the heat the compost gives off. In winter at least.
Another amazing video! Can’t wait to see the scrapers in action. Good job 👍
It would be interesting to have you stick a thermometer in there and see how warm it was. The cows might really like the warmer, softer, drier bed pack.
Mean while here in MN it’s going to be -15 tomorrow night😂 amazing how much of a difference it can be.
Very interesting. Looks like you have some very valuable fertilizer. Good report. Keep them coming as you have time.
Your dad needs a 9th Gen shirt
If you test it and sell at a reasonable price people will 100% buy it
On a Big Dairy Farm In California, they use manure with the water removed as bedding
Manure is a valuable resource. The ultimate renewable.
Duffy Ag bags and sells manure in 10 lbs(?) bags from his fathers diary. Might be worth messaging him about the situation.
with the High price of fertilizer( ie lawn fertilizer) coming this spring, bagging the compost might be a good $$ idea. be sure you tell uncle Joe you're providing a green energy alternate to russian fertilizer, john kerry might come visit your farm as poster child!!
😅Ha! That was a good one, Eric, great line! It does look to me like your bedding is heating up good. Another nice job on the gate modifying project, a lot of work, but well worth the effort for use of the floor sweepers. Another great video, thanks for sharing, hope everyone is well and all have a great week.
Thank u for another active and busy video. I enjoy it.
I stopped watching you since october 25, i started to watch ur vids again a week ago and it was awesome how u maintain the farm, looks easy for you, hope you get 500k subs!
I’m sure someone has told you but you need a wire feed welder. Game changer
Aloha Eric, when welding Galvanized metal try not to breathe to much of that smoke, very bad for your lungs brother.
Aloha from your Big Island fan.🤙🏼
Eric - good going on the safety glasses in the shop. Thanks.
That manure spreader looks like a great bedding tool……much quicker
See lots of farms do about the same thing when they remove the solids from the manure.
Eric how do you like your new little welder and as always great job
It would be cool to have some chutes on the back of a spreader to keep the manure the width of the spreader to make some compost rows.
You (and your Dad) are always trying new ideas. So smart !
Fantastic to follow your journey ! Bravo !
If you had the time bagging and selling the manure would be a good idea!
The heat it generates will keep the nasties at bay and provide more warmth in winter to the cows as well as making more composted nutrients. It would be great stuff for you vegie garden if you have one.
I'm very very impressed for spreading and special driving
I personally would recommend bagging and selling. It will most definitely not cover the fertilizer expenses but it will lower them, and i believe the money you can get from it is worth more than the effects its going to have on your fields. Also you will build relationships that will guarantee you clients and consistent income through compost. Im not sure about America, but here in Europe it has quite the value, but we also garden more
That looks like some good sellable fertilizer!! Have you thought about selling what you don't use!?
Yeah the idea to bag and sell your manure is a winner! Definitely a money maker.
I can remember when you posted a video showing your welding a long time ago, your Getty pretty good with it these days
try hinging the gates from the wall side lift the post out
I love to have the barn clean out for my garden.
That is some seriously high quality manure!
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Pretty progressive thinking on this one. The idea of bagging & selling for compost makes sense.
I am not a farmer by any means but man I admire your hard work and honest simple videos👍
Keep going Eric!! Love to watch every time😁😁
It’s great that you have manure for fertilizer given the skyrocketing costs of buying fertilizer.
if you can compost cow manure you should gardeners love it maybe a little bonus on the side
Much difference now with the manure.Well-balanced spread of manure.
Your welding is great
Should get a big lightbar for the Kubota
Dad rockin the Merch.
amazing fine compost , only thing worry is spreading germs around barns , great stuff on gate s
Bag it up and sell it perfect idea
As far as fertilizer. What do you think the NPK numbers are for this compost material! Thanks in advance.
I need to send a sample to get tested, not sure.
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 That will be interesting to see. Before you mentioned bagging for sale, that was my thought, too. My only thought would be how much of it would be the saw dust compared to the bedding.
@@robertmiller8336 I thought the saw dust is the bedding.
In general, dry cow manure is between .5 to 2% N, .25 to 2% P and .25 to 1% K. The fertilizer value comes from the fact that most producers have many tons of it at their disposal.
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 what kind of welder was that a arc welder?
Understanding money is tight on a dairy if you find that your tilling of the bed pack is of use, I suggest a skid mount tiller. More maneuverable! Plus I’m sure your neighbor wants his tiller back at some point. Lol. Also have you considered hanging your middle bed packed gate to the outside, rather then where it is?
Looks like you’re leaving some behind like a sourdough starter! I wonder if that would help speed up the initial composting
Doing a great at maintaining your farm. Everything is looking good and working efficient. Yes better get on the fertilizer band wagon. All the farmers are complaining how much chemical fertilizer has gone up. Check out your new business venture.
I'm getting a small compact tractor with a tiller on it to keep my bed pack turn much easier to get it around in barn I got to turn mine every day
Funny that I Just happen to be rewatching this on March 4th, 2023. I think Eric should've bagged up the manure and sold it but that's only because I know a ways down the road he winds up spreading on a field anyway.
Keep on kicking out videos! Just had an appendectomy and you, millennial farmer and Welker farms are keeping me occupied! Love the videos!!
You're also going to save diesel by not having to go spread manure as often.
Great awesome video Eric
Sweet ! Thanks 😊
Those Skidseers are workhorses. They are always on the move…
@10th Generation Dairyman do you guys get the same weather we get in Western PA. Some weeks we see all 4 seasons in the same week. 70 degree weather for 2 days rain for a day then freezing rain then snow at the end of the week haha
Could get a tilling attachment for the Kubota
If you get one for Kubota the Kubota has more turning abilities than tractor does and can fit in places where tractor can not fit very well