I just love YT channels like this!...the World gets an inside view of the lives, the times, the wins, the losses, the challenges, and the effort that goes into FEEDING PEOPLE....all I ask, no matter what part of the World you are in... if you know a Farmer who makes food , or a Veteran who fought for your rights, ..just stick ya hand out for a shake, and thank them!!
It's amazing, that after watching dozens of your videos, how accurate you document real life on a family farm. Nothing has changed in the last 40 years, except that equipment is bigger and farms are bigger, but equipment still breaks and still has to be fixed and maintained.
as a welder all my life, it is best to wrap the chrome plated cylinder rod in heavy wet rags as the sparks will burn the chrome plating making burn marks and a place that will tear up the wiper seal as well a place for rust to start, I have repaired hundreds of cylinders in my time working in logging camp, and welding sparks will total a cylinder out so fast, and that chrome plating burns blisters in it very easy.. that plating is very thin, I have welded in places I was sure if anything went wrong, i'd be a bug on a windshield, on dunp boxes I put heavy timbers across like you did, but also put 2 heavy steel pipes or tubing from the grond up into a crossmember of the box and let weight down on them, I have had wood posts brake as weight was set down. even today doing repairs for others I keep many heavy wall pipe of many lengths with a plate welded on the ground end with a big steel pin welded to it to dig in to the ground to hold them from slipping, with out the plate the weight will push the heavy pipe into the ground and not stop the box, when your welding, you cant see whats going on
you got that right, you get it up and going the best you can to get it done, and come back to it when it is not needed, but you have to do it safe for both who is working on it as well not to damage other costly parts, sure you can waste a few bearings, there cheap, but you don't want to be pitting up a rod,, re-chroming is costly
I'm really enjoying your videos. Not sure that any of us who have not been involved in the land really realise the amount of work and skills you need simply to keep all your equipment operative to enable you to run your land effectively. Learning something every day! Best wishes from the UK
I JUST DISCOVERED YOU VIDS AND I JUST LOVE THEM , I WAS RAISED ON A RANCH IN WEST TEXAS AND I DONT KNOW HOW YOU GUYS GET THROUGH THOSE WINTERS UP THERE YOU MUST REALLY BE TOUGH . PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR VIDEOS ,THANK YOU VERY MUCH ,
I'm from North Texas...I also admire how Farmers who live cold places get it done... grew up raising cows in Central New Mexico...(REAL COLD WINTERS)...Animal farmers never get a day off...I know this all too well... I have sloshed thru mud and snow on PLENTY of Holiday mornings to feed and care for our herd...there are no excuses, and no crying in Farming... Farmers just GET IT DONE....
Gotta love the famous cardboard creeper, used it many times myself. An not to be negative,but I agree with Arnold Romppai about needing to get some steel posts to hold that bed up. I also do welding and any time I work on a dump truck, dump trailer, front end loader or anything held up with hydraulics, it gets braced with pipe or I beam posts. You have a great family and I don't want to see anybody to get hurt👍
Sounds like a strange comment to make, but, fixing and fabricating is something miss. Spent most of my adulthood in the University of "You Broke IT, You Fix It." God Bless You All.
Very dangerous job, your husband is one of the old school farmers, that like to fix his own equipment. you don't see a lot of young farmers do that kind of stuff, they would rather go get a new one. That's one thing I like about you videos, you guts are down to earth farmers. God bless
good to see Kevin taking safety precautions by blocking the trailer up. my viewers pointed out how dangerous it was for me to be working underneath my F600 dump without blocking it. overhead welding is the pits with the fire raining down on you.
Kevin did a good job of blocking the box but it is never fun working under it. We used to chop silage every fall and then haul a couple loads a day all winter to a feed lot and we had to do lots of those kind of fixes, and they never break at home only when you are away and have a huge load on.
@@acresofclayhomestead last night it was winter crop where sugar beats had been and today il make a start ploughing 500 acres of pasture ready for next years sugar beat
Today it takes a fleet of equipment to run even a modest farm operation. Few can afford much that is new. The budget for parts and demands on labor to repair and maintain is large. You never seem to get ahead of it. I was quite pleased to see that substantial post used as a safety strut.
Kevin you have work with what you have to work on machinery and understand the wood pole and braces have to agree that they will break or bust with pressure from dump trailer at that moment that all you had glad to see worked out well. Nathan wear and tear on machinery they will breakdown just part of farming nice video.
Tell Eathan not to be so talkative . Its hard to hear everyone else Lol. 🤣. Actually im like that too. Listen to everyone else but dont say much. Eathan probably talks a lot off screen😏
Looks like them landing gear legs are missing some shoe pads, but then again maybe your droping them on wooden blocks. How does the tractor brakes stop with all of the weight in the dump body?
I didn't think of the shoes having field clearance issue s as i,m so used to running truck over pavement all the time . Rhonda i find that so sweet of you to dig right in and help Kevin out with doing repair work, even if some of it is just gofer task.
Please, please, please take multiple precautions when working under a tipped trailer. The massive weight of this really huge chassis, could easily crunch a single wooden post that may be decaying internally. I almost had to abandon viewing it, despite knowing that there wasn’t a serious outcome. We all take chances at times and sadly some suffer fatal outcomes that brings shock and grief to farming families and communities. SAFETY FIRST..
This is what happens when you just paint over rust, it eventually rushed through. There are ways of stopping the rust, then paint over them to protect them. But to paint over rust without stopping the rust is just wasting paint and deceiving yourself.
I see your inner chid came out writing on the trailer . Years ago we had a neighbor that left the kids in total charge of the calves including separating the bulls for sale. One day as the trucker was loading he noticed something missing asked the kids how do they know it's a bull answer we look at it's head. I went home and checked because i got a calf the day before from them and never looked and yes that was a heifer how many were sold is a good question .. Take care and keep an eye on your boys sometimes men take shortcuts
Absolutely LOVE hearing calves mewing!!!
Dear Acres of clay, just catching up with your channel! In binge watching Mode.
Great teamwork from the family, a credit to all!
Thanks for watching!!
I just love YT channels like this!...the World gets an inside view of the lives, the times, the wins, the losses, the challenges, and the effort that goes into FEEDING PEOPLE....all I ask, no matter what part of the World you are in... if you know a Farmer who makes food , or a Veteran who fought for your rights, ..just stick ya hand out for a shake, and thank them!!
It's amazing, that after watching dozens of your videos, how accurate you document real life on a family farm. Nothing has changed in the last 40 years, except that equipment is bigger and farms are bigger, but equipment still breaks and still has to be fixed and maintained.
as a welder all my life, it is best to wrap the chrome plated cylinder rod in heavy wet rags as the sparks will burn the chrome plating making burn marks and a place that will tear up the wiper seal as well a place for rust to start, I have repaired hundreds of cylinders in my time working in logging camp, and welding sparks will total a cylinder out so fast, and that chrome plating burns blisters in it very easy.. that plating is very thin, I have welded in places I was sure if anything went wrong, i'd be a bug on a windshield, on dunp boxes I put heavy timbers across like you did, but also put 2 heavy steel pipes or tubing from the grond up into a crossmember of the box and let weight down on them, I have had wood posts brake as weight was set down. even today doing repairs for others I keep many heavy wall pipe of many lengths with a plate welded on the ground end with a big steel pin welded to it to dig in to the ground to hold them from slipping, with out the plate the weight will push the heavy pipe into the ground and not stop the box, when your welding, you cant see whats going on
Arnold Romppai yup..i once helped a welder and he told me to go get a welding jacket to place on top of the cylinder. 1 spark is all it takes he said.
that s right, he was not feeding you any bs, it will take out the seal faster then any dirt
Good day Arnold. Yea a fellow was welding or torching on bobcat loader, got to close to hose, it let go came down on & kill him. Thanks
happens fast, no time to even move
When you are broke down you got to do what you got to do to get it going again. Thank you for taking us along
you got that right, you get it up and going the best you can to get it done, and come back to it when it is not needed, but you have to do it safe for both who is working on it as well not to damage other costly parts, sure you can waste a few bearings, there cheap, but you don't want to be pitting up a rod,, re-chroming is costly
Great video shows just how much knowledge of different trades a farmer needs to know 👍 so glad I was brought up in the world of agriculture 💪💪
I'm really enjoying your videos. Not sure that any of us who have not been involved in the land really realise the amount of work and skills you need simply to keep all your equipment operative to enable you to run your land effectively. Learning something every day! Best wishes from the UK
Nice video and good job on the trailer!
I JUST DISCOVERED YOU VIDS AND I JUST LOVE THEM , I WAS RAISED ON A RANCH IN WEST TEXAS AND I DONT KNOW HOW YOU GUYS GET THROUGH THOSE WINTERS UP THERE YOU MUST REALLY BE TOUGH . PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR VIDEOS ,THANK YOU VERY MUCH ,
Welcome to our channel!!
I'm from North Texas...I also admire how Farmers who live cold places get it done... grew up raising cows in Central New Mexico...(REAL COLD WINTERS)...Animal farmers never get a day off...I know this all too well... I have sloshed thru mud and snow on PLENTY of Holiday mornings to feed and care for our herd...there are no excuses, and no crying in Farming... Farmers just GET IT DONE....
Love your videos, you have a great family, wishing you all continued success !!
Gotta love the famous cardboard creeper, used it many times myself. An not to be negative,but I agree with Arnold Romppai about needing to get some steel posts to hold that bed up. I also do welding and any time I work on a dump truck, dump trailer, front end loader or anything held up with hydraulics, it gets braced with pipe or I beam posts. You have a great family and I don't want to see anybody to get hurt👍
I grew up on farms here in Australia many years ago and love watching all your videos. Keep up the good work Ronda!
Just love that new calf and the stretch!
Sounds like a strange comment to make, but, fixing and fabricating is something miss. Spent most of my adulthood in the University of "You Broke IT, You Fix It." God Bless You All.
Sounds like a university for senators and representatives to me.
So there's never been one graduate from there before.
Oh that baby calf is so darn cute 😍😍
Very dangerous job, your husband is one of the old school farmers, that like to fix his own equipment. you don't see a lot of young farmers do that kind of stuff, they would rather go get a new one. That's one thing I like about you videos, you guts are down to earth farmers. God bless
Great videos,
I love welding my first job,
I do wood work now,
Good to know everything for the farm
Another baby calf, awesome 👏!!! 👍👍👍😎
good to see Kevin taking safety precautions by blocking the trailer up. my viewers pointed out how dangerous it was for me to be working underneath my F600 dump without blocking it. overhead welding is the pits with the fire raining down on you.
Yeah, I have veiwers point out all the safety precautions that they didn't see or that we didn't take.
Kevin did a good job of blocking the box but it is never fun working under it. We used to chop silage every fall and then haul a couple loads a day all winter to a feed lot and we had to do lots of those kind of fixes, and they never break at home only when you are away and have a huge load on.
That was scary! Glad it done.
Thank you for sharing and God bless.
Aw you have baby cow that was Soo cute
3 am here in New Zealand ploughing flat out in the fendt 1050 quick stop to watch keep up the good work guys love it cheers
What are you plowing?
@@acresofclayhomestead last night it was winter crop where sugar beats had been and today il make a start ploughing 500 acres of pasture ready for next years sugar beat
Love ya all great vid allways enjoyable thx
Nice work Kevin ,work done in the real world. Oh and there's nothing like slag dropping down your sleeve. Have a better day guys 🇨🇦 Craig
Yeah, I decided not to show the part when slag went down his sleeve and he jumped up quickly!! :) (Thankfully He didn't get burned)
Good job folks be safe.
That's very true!!! Very dangerous!!!!
Tell him not to crawl under there unless you Put a Jack stand under it for support in case that Lumber 2x4 breaks. Be safe!!!!!!!
Today it takes a fleet of equipment to run even a modest farm operation. Few can afford much that is new. The budget for parts and demands on labor to repair and maintain is large. You never seem to get ahead of it. I was quite pleased to see that substantial post used as a safety strut.
Good video again tell him good job fixing the trailer that’s way to do it y’all be safe on the Farm
Great new video Ronda, stay safe😁
Great vid as always more of Mackenzie diving in the future cheers to everyone from Melbourne OZ
Always something to repair seems like that’s all I do. Great video.
Have a bless day
Kevin you have work with what you have to work on machinery and understand the wood pole and braces have to agree that they will break or bust with pressure from dump trailer at that moment that all you had glad to see worked out well. Nathan wear and tear on machinery they will breakdown just part of farming nice video.
Hi from New Zealand yea u got to keep them wheels turning keep up them gd work
Hey look
It's a farmer on trending
thinks for sharing .
Be safe. Always something to fix on a farm
See that’s why I miss farming, every day was a different day hour by hour.
Glad it turned out well!😃
Nice video very dangerous doing that 👍
Tell Eathan not to be so talkative . Its hard to hear everyone else Lol. 🤣. Actually im like that too. Listen to everyone else but dont say much. Eathan probably talks a lot off screen😏
Lol. Yeah, Ethan talks plenty when the camera is off. :)
I Love You Girls... Keep up all the good work. #womenstrong
Be safe 👍
Good Job!
YEP! Very dangerous work..
Fantastisk video
7:32 Yea that oughta hold her.
I'm sorry but one little jack with a wobbly stick or one pole is NOT taking "all the precautions". Redundancy is key.
Ummm you broke it... Dad fixed it...mom filmed it... 🙏day...
Those cylinders are not light to be holding up with a someone's leg. Keep up the good filmmaking Ronda
Looks like them landing gear legs are missing some shoe pads, but then again maybe your droping them on wooden blocks. How does the tractor brakes stop with all of the weight in the dump body?
We take the landing shoes off because they drag trash in the corn fields. The cart doesn't have brakes just the tractor.
I didn't think of the shoes having field clearance issue s as i,m so used to running truck over pavement all the time . Rhonda i find that so sweet of you to dig right in and help Kevin out with doing repair work, even if some of it is just gofer task.
I don’t know where you find the time to run your channel, thanks
Those jobs are never any fun
Please be cautious, that break is a warning sign of old age and potential failure of other stress locations.
This is scary stuff, I always cringe when I see this happening. I know you do what you have to do but still scary.
Tell your husband be careful when he work on truck with fire staff I'm don't know what that is
🙏❤️🙏
👍👏👏👏
听不懂但还是觉得好看
Please, please, please take multiple precautions when working under a tipped trailer. The massive weight of this really huge chassis, could easily crunch a single wooden post that may be decaying internally. I almost had to abandon viewing it, despite knowing that there wasn’t a serious outcome.
We all take chances at times and sadly some suffer fatal outcomes that brings shock and grief to farming families and communities.
SAFETY FIRST..
This is what happens when you just paint over rust, it eventually rushed through. There are ways of stopping the rust, then paint over them to protect them. But to paint over rust without stopping the rust is just wasting paint and deceiving yourself.
It was painted when it was new. Never been painted since...
Calf got colt feet
I see your inner chid came out writing on the trailer . Years ago we had a neighbor that left the kids in total charge of the calves including separating the bulls for sale. One day as the trucker was loading he noticed something missing asked the kids how do they know it's a bull answer we look at it's head. I went home and checked because i got a calf the day before from them and never looked and yes that was a heifer how many were sold is a good question ..
Take care and keep an eye on your boys sometimes men take shortcuts
Lol!!
Hi
Can't watch this. PLease be careful.
!;-)
how many boys do you have 2 or 3 just wondering
Do you mean bulls?
We have 3 boys.
Good Job 👍