Brenda is such a trooper - sloshing through the field to get the video! Great job driving the horses! Baron has so much energy. Your garden is amazing. Bless you guys.
Seeing that Brenda is part of the Working team on the farm, it’s a small request to have her view of the mildew stained decrepitated wall boarded up. My vote is Just do it Jim.
Baron seemed a perfect gentleman with Brenda..........I have found that sometimes a stud will react differently with a "lady driver"!! I remember my aunt always preferred to drive stallions
Brenda - For spider mites, aphids. Squash bugs. For most plants. Cucumber especially. Peppermint oil spray. 1-2 teaspoons of peppermint oil per gallon of water and a little squirt of dish soap to disperse the oil. From Gary at The Rusted Garden.
I think Baron would be fun to ride the way he prances! He is becoming a good "backer upper" like Bill! So, will you let us know if Lady's breeding took place! If it did, she should foal the end of May or 1st part of June next year, right?!!! As for good draft horses go, do you prefer one that's high energy or one with less energy? It definitely takes an experienced driver to handle/train him! Your cattle were telling you to drop off one of those bales for them!😘 The tameric(? sp) wood is beautiful. Would make beautiful tables! Brenda, your garden looks wonderful! Taters like nice and healthy. My goodness, what a huge bunch of grapes!!!!🍇 Delicious! And you will have plenty of apples to put up later on too! I remember you put up a lot of applesauce last fall. Do you ever make crockpot apple butter? My mom used to do that and her's was so good. Hope you all have a beautiful weekend! Will your son and family get to visit for the 4th? Hope the grandbabies get to see and love on Bree soon!!!
I think it would be easier to add the strength to hold Baron if you just add in a huge support beam for building out the rest of the wall. It would look great, be efficient, give you something to screw your rings into, and get rid of that ruin of a top wall. I love old buildings and barns and farms. I love the way time has added a patina to everything. But when you stick a beautiful wooden wall beneath a broken, dirty, mossy wall…it just draws attention to all the problems. I know how busy you are. I also know how you love this farm. The legacy of what you show us and demonstrate to us is important. And that includes 1) keeping the wife happy 2) supporting the infrastructure of the farm and 3) demonstrating suck-up-manship (the ability to just give up and get-er-done).
I know of some farmers who not only separate their round bells from each other but they also raise them up off the ground so that the bottoms of the rolls don't start to rot.
I think the cows were cheering for Brenda. 😀 She did a super job driving Baron for the first time. Jim and Brenda are a very fine example of a farm couple working together. 😀😀😀
I am in Nebraska and we put them up tight to each other to try to protect the ends. Some put them in a pyramid. But I found the bottom ones go bad faster.
Brenda, your garden is so beautiful. You're becoming a teamster. Jim, your fields and mill look so orderly and well managed. You are both an inspiration.
I can remember being a young stud but I didn't prance like Baron does. What handsome horses you have. I agree that you need some more vertical 2 Ex's to stop the boards from bending in to keep from breaking. I give you 4 thumbs up on all of your videos. God bless and keep safe
The benefit of round bales is that rain runs off and moisture only collects where they sit on the ground. When you stack them on top of each other you create contact areas where moisture collects and can seep into the bales. So, in regions with a lot of rain it is not beneficial to stack round bales on top of each other.
I love your Garden Brenda, and great seeing you and Jim picking up the round bales of hay. The Horses look great too! Barron knows he is the Man. HE feels so good and healthy. As are the other Horses all look great!
Having your own food and not needing the grocery store is true freedom. I agree that Baron needs to work harder. He is still being obedient, but he is full of himself. He's like a racehorse who just keeps getting fitter and fitter, and you just can't tire them out. Since the other two are older, they probably can't work him down on their own. It will probably take both Kenny and Bill to wear him out.
Your garden is wonderful in comparison with mine. We, in Western France, have had a very dry spring and summer. There was 6mm (Just about ¼ inch) last night. Feb, March and April were very dry with a NE wind winch made it cool. The water table is very low as last summer was dry and we did not have the winter rains to replenish it. Bravo for driving Baron.
I agree with Brenda that the wood covering the truck wall should be extended all the way up to the top. The top part is ugly. Painting won't help. The wood would make it lovely to look at from any distance.
While Jim was parking the horses, I was thinking the top of the wall was in need of a makeover. Wonder how much Andy would charge to put some boards up.
Gardens looking really good. Good luck w/ weed control. I never enjoyed weeding. Barron is really full of himself. Hope Lady settles and delivers again next spring. Thank you for sharing.🐴🐴
Thank you for another enjoyable video. Love the updates of Duke and Earl and your lovely garden. I know the garden takes a lot of time and work. Do you still have chickens and guineas? Always look forward to your videos
I have always put the bales tight against each other. Unless you put a tarp over the bales, a pyramid rots the hay faster, I have found. The lower bales are soaking up the water that is shedding off the top bale.
I put our bales like you have them there up on slabs. I’ve read “the best way” to do it is to flip one up, then lay the other on top, making it look like a mushroom. I’m really not sure. Love your videos as always. 👍✌️
Brenda you do a excellent job at doing videos especially this time with the sawmill getting beautiful close cool shots of the working’s of the sawmill. You two are such hardworking couple. Brenda your garden looks so beautiful, of course with all your hard work. Happy 4th of July 🎉😂❤. Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you Jim and Brenda . Your hay and gardens look beautiful. I have been hauling water to my garden for a month . We finally got some rain . GOD bless you and yours❤
I see Greg Judy storing the round bales on 6" to 7" cedar logs 4' to 5' long 18" to 24" apart. This keeps the bales off the ground and allows for air circulation. In your area you could use Tamarec. Hope spelling is correct. I thoroughly enjoy your videos all the way here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 👍🏽
Everything looking good there Jim Brenda, God has given you a blessing with the rain 🌧 🙏 to keep everything watered , 🌽 looking good , tralior looking great , Baron has got some energy alright l guess he's a young male , good job Brenda 👏 working Baron , we're they swallows flying around you in the paddock , ok all have a good weekend
I look at your place with the tall grass and the stuff put not in a perfect straight line and and perfect condition and I think about my place that looks just like yours. thank you so much for being real. On a different note my little stud colt is three days younger than yours. His name is Loki and he lives up to his name. He is a blast. Oh buy the way I have Shires
Enjoyed the video picking up hay❤. With the way u had the camera felt like I was literally riding along w yall!!💕💕 so excited to hear Lady is bred again. Her foals are GORGEOUS!! Bree will have a playmate in about a year👏👏🥳 Brenda your gardens are BEAUTIFUL!! I wouldn’t mind pulling some weeds w ya. Gotta make em look all pretty😊😊😊 God Bless!!
PG here, Love love the Garden tour! It is very exciting to see Baron High Spirit knowing the role God gave him in nature! I am guessing Brenda needs some strong forearms to keep Baron in check. That was a fun video. Even sawmilling lumber. But I did question to myself: I wonder why the bark had the silver bark mixed with the red? Thank You!
Hi Jim and Brenda, how I have my round bales is to stack them tight together with palettes underneath. I have seen that some cover it with fleece, but that fleece is quite expensive. Not sure if it makes a big difference. I would not put boards on the wall to the top, but you might consider doing it for Brenda if it makes her happy 😄 Today I have heard that the Canadian wildfire smoke reached Europe meanwhile 🤭 Have a nice evening and wish you good luck with further haying. -Chris
I push them up to touch on the flat side, but a space between each row. I never stack them, mostly because I'm afraid one might roll when i go to feed them. Also, kids might play on them and that's way too far to fall, depending on the kid's age.
I always enjoy your videos!! 😊 If Lady's breeding takes, does she then lose interest in Bree & wean her herself? You guys work well together!! The two of you show a well rounded picture of your life. I have a little deck garden...I was hand watering for a long time. Then we finally got some good rain & wow! It took off!!! I see I have little tomatoes!! I am so excited!! Lol!! I pray you are blessed with a bountiful garden & many round bales!! God is so good!!
Hello from Sweden!Storing bales outdoor during winter is mostly done in a pyramid stack close together and then a tarp over the top, not all the way to the ground to keep them dry and ventilated.
Brenda, what a fine job you did with Baron!! I have to admit, he's my favorite, although I do love all your beautiful horses! My husband & I so enjoy watching your videos, & look forward to all your posts. By the way, the garden is looking lovely as well. Also couldn't believe your beautiful Clematis was that old, that's amazing! We just purchased one called Nelly Moser the other day. Have a safe & fun 4th of July weekend, Brenda and Jim!!!
Sorry to make this comment, Jim - but I am concerned about the buildup of sawdust and debris in and around your sawmill !! My concern is that there is the possibility of what is called "combustive ignition" !! In other words, there is always the chance of the sawdust self-igniting and causing a fire in your barn !! I certainly don't want to be an alarmist, but I would encourage you to clean out ALL the sawdust accumulation from under and around your sawmill !! Having been in the fuel storage business for many years, we were strongly encouraged (actually, mandated !!) to the procedures and housekeeping practices of the company !! Jim, I would hate anything to happen to you and your farm and will pray that you ALWAYS practice safety in your operations !! Please annd thank you. I would not write this if I didn't care !! Blessings to you and your entire family, as I look forward to viewing your channel in the future !! Amen.
Great video, content and teamwork. You've got quite a few units of (dry) lumber. I was wondering if you are saving them for a special purpose, or if some get sold from time to time? As much as I enjoy watching you mill, I was surprised that you didn't just grab some off the stack for Abby's house and your wagon.
Oh man, those bales look nice and the clover looks absolutely beautiful! Love that teamwork, complete with clear hand signals. Just wondering, how much does a bale that size (same high quality) go for in your neck of the woods these days? I'm not a horse owner at the moment but I'm making plans. Meanwhile, Brenda's garden seems to be rocking right along too, especially the grapes. Thanks for another lovely trip through your day, it's so much fun to virtually tag along with you.
Jim, Brenda did great driving Bill andBaron!!, I enjoyed being in the mill cutting boards for for your new hay wagon. Jim, to answer your question on round bales, you stack them tight, and pyramid them, right! Jim, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hi to Trudy, and Abby.
Greetings from Wisconsin!! What an awesome job driving the horses Brenda !!! Hats off to all of you getting those bales in from the field!! Love love your videos!!!
Baron stuck his head in that window and saw that little baby in there with Lady and he also knows what’s coming next. He has to step up and get to work for his kids. Jim hang on to the reins. He is on the move and got work to do.😂
Brenda is a natural driving Baron. Re the bales, in Australia, many places wrap in plastic these days. While the rest of us are making concerted efforts to rid our lives of the retched stuff, agri is just now seeing the benefits! Those would be bales that need to sit through heavy rain and or snow mostly. But in anycase, most bales seem to be pushed together in long lines 2-4 deep and 2-3 high. If they need to go higher they will be sat on end and stacked 4 high, Those ones are often made stronger and denser to tolerate being stacked and placed on the bottom. Some round bales are getting to over a ton each these days. But pushed together with no air between and covered completely with huge tarps after stacking. I don't know how the inner bales are at the end of the sitting season right before use. Maybe they are not that good unless wrapped in plastic. Some use black plastic while others use white. I don't know if there is a difference or just manufacturers. Silage seems to come in black plastic here, so maybe that is the only difference. Those two horses are like chalk and cheese. Bill, being a Belgian is taller with a long slow stride. While Baron, being a Suffolk, is a stouter horse with a short choppy stride, so he is always going to be trotting or jigging a little bit because he sees Bill taking these long slow strides. He feels he needs to jig along a bit to keep ahead. He wants to keep ahead because he is a stallion. He will always be like that. If he was cut you would see him change and slow down in just a few months. Yes the garlic need to loose their scapes asap or they won't bulb up. It is best to remove the scape when you first see it curl around. The scape is actually new garlic bulbuls trying to reach the ground but if you allow that, the main plant won't form the big hefty bulb that we cherish so much. But it is possible to do both. Just leave a couple of scapes to touch the ground. The rest are then cut to form bulbs. Your garden is a treat, Brenda. I am so jealous! I can't grow anything in my typically Aussie impoverished dirt. It is far too thin to hold any nutrient. All vegetative matter is consumed by the ants in a few weeks leaving just the bones of dirt. I use potting mix with limited success inside a well-protected shade house. I can't have a grape on the place! The birds eat them while they are still tiny beads. If I net them I *may* get a few that the hares have missed! But again the soil is terrible so they rarely grow more than 2ft high so hardly worth the effort. I tried berries of different types but again if not the birds, it is the hares or the wallabies or some other pest getting everything while it is dead green. I don't feed any wildlife here. The garden does it for me! 🙄
Wow the hay is beautiful. The garden is coming along nicely. We just got done with strawberries here in south Fl. I have a U Pick farm near me and I go pick. I have a small garden in the winter months Oct -April Hope Bree is good👍😁
Set one bale on end so the string or net wrap is not on the ground. Then set the next one on top strings down so the water runs off. Leave some space in between. Pyramid stacks let the water run down between the bales and rots the whole pile. Just my experience. Thank you keep up the great work and videos!
I think that horses with a high level of energy like Baron are just motivated to work even harder when having to pull heavier loads. Nothing replaces working long hours, the load doesn't even have to be so big. After all, Baron is only three years. I draw my conclusions from doing hayrides in fall for many years. Pulling rolling loads 8 to 9 hours did more to calm down my horses than the occasional heavier work for short times.
Brenda . How do you keep the wild critters ( deer ,racoons , birds etc )from eating your garden . In my area we have to build 8ft high woven wire fences to keep just the deer out .My goodness those deer can jump . Racoons don't get me started . Black bears a real menace for the people who have bee hives .
Brenda and Jim you must be be busy from morning to night. You two definitely get your cardio and then some! Brenda your gardens look great you just can't beat home grown vegetables and fruit!
Do you use that Hemlock for your trailer floor and truck wall you walk the horses up too, and tie em off at.????. It's an old trailer bed w roofed and you wisely walled it wyou own milled wood. It looks gorgeous😊. ❤
Brenda, I enjoyed seeing your garden and that you mentioned what you're growing. I can't have a garden and so it is a treat to hear about yours. How are your chickens? I have been enjoying the sounds of summer bird songs here in northwest Indiana. Kathy
Hello, and thank you for sharing your daily lives with us. Please keep doing so it makes me happy. Wagon looks really good. You’re a good builder. Good job Brenda
put a heavy spring on the front of the pole, something like a snowplow spring that has a little give in it, when he goes forward the spring will coil up and send him backwards!
Read all the comments Jim please, look at all the compliments Brenda gets! It's not like you have to buy the lumber to finish the little wall...do it for her instead of saying right off the bat...I'm not doing that, she does so much for you 31:04
I know it’s a family show and you won’t show the actual mating, but handling him before and after and how you pad her up would be so interesting. It’s part of farm life and us city folk are interested.❤
I’ve watched a video of this on a different YT channel - and did not enjoy viewing it. I am thankful Brenda and Jim choose not to show these on their channel.
I would pile it up for sure, and put it on concreet, and plastic over it, im not a farmer but that's how in goes on our horse stable in the Netherlands, and we have about the same climate as you, lots of rain, long winters.
Oh, lookie how fast the corn has grown! In June in Seattle, WA area we get NO rain. Well we had one day with a little rain so far. But from now in July zero rain.
That clover really looks good.hope it’s dry up so you can mow more hay.Brenda got her first go with baron and seems to have it under control .rainy humid and Smokey here in southern Ontario.great videp
If you have re-bred Lady, you are obviously pleased with Baron and pleased with what you have seen so far with the cross between him and Lady. Just curious; Are these foals the future workers for "Working Horses with Jim"?
Brenda- not sure but I think some snuff ran thru water and filtered might do for bugs - think my family used lime for that - lightly dusted on the plants - I am 73 yo and haven't done much gardening since my teen age years (12)- family was 9 people and we did 1/2 Acer garden to feed us and often times also collected from other sources too like fruits - mom did a lot of canning , pickling, and freezing till we moved out on our own
Awe poor lady having to be pregnant again so soon after giving birth. Just wondering why you would do this? Is that the norm? Don't know much about horses but love them. Yours are beautiful
As long she is in good condition, rebreeding back is not going to hurt her at any way. In the wild, stallions would breed mares in foaling heat right after birth.
What a variety of good work and projects you have going! Sometimes just trying to think of what to do when wears me out at our place! Nothing like all the practical thinking through things to encourage! Thank you for the garden tour Brenda 😊!
Just curious - How do the Amish load round bales? How much do they weigh? Could they be rolled up a ramp? Brenda - Enjoyed seeing your garden! Plants that deter cucumber beetles are marigolds, garlic, chives, dill, basil, radish, and others.
Brenda is such a trooper - sloshing through the field to get the video! Great job driving the horses! Baron has so much energy. Your garden is amazing. Bless you guys.
Seeing that Brenda is part of the Working team on the farm, it’s a small request to have her view of the mildew stained decrepitated wall boarded up. My vote is Just do it Jim.
Jim, new boards to the top of the truck box = Happy Wife. Just saying...
I love your gardens Brenda! You've certainly got a green thumb.
Baron seemed a perfect gentleman with Brenda..........I have found that sometimes a stud will react differently with a "lady driver"!! I remember my aunt always preferred to drive stallions
As much as those horses know ,,,and I know they know..how much Brenda loves them..I just can not see them running away with Brenda driving.
@@joqlady888 Any horse can get startled and run, no matter who is driving.
Brenda - For spider mites, aphids. Squash bugs. For most plants. Cucumber especially. Peppermint oil spray.
1-2 teaspoons of peppermint oil per gallon of water and a little squirt of dish soap to disperse the oil. From Gary at The Rusted Garden.
I think Baron would be fun to ride the way he prances! He is becoming a good "backer upper" like Bill! So, will you let us know if Lady's breeding took place! If it did, she should foal the end of May or 1st part of June next year, right?!!! As for good draft horses go, do you prefer one that's high energy or one with less energy? It definitely takes an experienced driver to handle/train him! Your cattle were telling you to drop off one of those bales for them!😘 The tameric(? sp) wood is beautiful. Would make beautiful tables! Brenda, your garden looks wonderful! Taters like nice and healthy. My goodness, what a huge bunch of grapes!!!!🍇 Delicious! And you will have plenty of apples to put up later on too! I remember you put up a lot of applesauce last fall. Do you ever make crockpot apple butter? My mom used to do that and her's was so good. Hope you all have a beautiful weekend! Will your son and family get to visit for the 4th? Hope the grandbabies get to see and love on Bree soon!!!
Love the videos as always! I find myself telling my dog 'careful, careful' when connecting his leash lol. But with Jim's accent.
Thanks for the stroll through your gardens, Brenda. The grapes are amazing! Nice job driving the wagon, too!
I think it would be easier to add the strength to hold Baron if you just add in a huge support beam for building out the rest of the wall. It would look great, be efficient, give you something to screw your rings into, and get rid of that ruin of a top wall. I love old buildings and barns and farms. I love the way time has added a patina to everything. But when you stick a beautiful wooden wall beneath a broken, dirty, mossy wall…it just draws attention to all the problems. I know how busy you are. I also know how you love this farm. The legacy of what you show us and demonstrate to us is important. And that includes 1) keeping the wife happy 2) supporting the infrastructure of the farm and 3) demonstrating suck-up-manship (the ability to just give up and get-er-done).
I know of some farmers who not only separate their round bells from each other but they also raise them up off the ground so that the bottoms of the rolls don't start to rot.
I think the cows were cheering for Brenda. 😀 She did a super job driving Baron for the first time. Jim and Brenda are a very fine example of a farm couple working together. 😀😀😀
They were like go mom!!!
I thought they were hoping to get that round bale off the skid steer. 😄
I am in Nebraska and we put them up tight to each other to try to protect the ends. Some put them in a pyramid. But I found the bottom ones go bad faster.
Brenda, your garden is so beautiful. You're becoming a teamster. Jim, your fields and mill look so orderly and well managed. You are both an inspiration.
I can remember being a young stud but I didn't prance like Baron does. What handsome horses you have. I agree that you need some more vertical 2 Ex's to stop the boards from bending in to keep from breaking. I give you 4 thumbs up on all of your videos. God bless and keep safe
Stone boat hauling in hay Baron is still prancing on the way back to the barn. Garden looks like it's growing good
Barron's jigging is just swagger! Cool dude.
The benefit of round bales is that rain runs off and moisture only collects where they sit on the ground. When you stack them on top of each other you create contact areas where moisture collects and can seep into the bales. So, in regions with a lot of rain it is not beneficial to stack round bales on top of each other.
I love your Garden Brenda, and great seeing you and Jim picking up the round bales of hay. The Horses look great too! Barron knows he is the Man. HE feels so good and healthy. As are the other Horses all look great!
I know why you bread Lady,you are making a new team.
We always butted the bales together! To me it seemed to keep the ends fresher. Y'all stay safe!
Having your own food and not needing the grocery store is true freedom. I agree that Baron needs to work harder. He is still being obedient, but he is full of himself. He's like a racehorse who just keeps getting fitter and fitter, and you just can't tire them out. Since the other two are older, they probably can't work him down on their own. It will probably take both Kenny and Bill to wear him out.
Brenda you're becoming one fine farmer, I bet Jim really appreciates having you home working beside him! Good job 👍
We’ve piled bales 3 high. 3,2,1. Without any trouble as long as you know they’re good and dry.
Your garden is wonderful in comparison with mine. We, in Western France, have had a very dry spring and summer. There was 6mm (Just about ¼ inch) last night. Feb, March and April were very dry with a NE wind winch made it cool. The water table is very low as last summer was dry and we did not have the winter rains to replenish it.
Bravo for driving Baron.
Why would you breed her this soon. Doesn't she need a break?WOOD TO THE TOP would look a lot better.. always put ours on pallets off the ground..
I agree with Brenda that the wood covering the truck wall should be extended all the way up to the top. The top part is ugly. Painting won't help. The wood would make it lovely to look at from any distance.
I vote with Brenda, put the wall all the way to the top.
While Jim was parking the horses, I was thinking the top of the wall was in need of a makeover. Wonder how much Andy would charge to put some boards up.
I say double-up the mid section.
Brenda couldn’t be more right! The wall would be so lovely and an incredible backdrop for your videos
Brenda, you are right on with your suggestions😁
Another enjoyable video. THANK YOU BRENDA AND JIM.
I think Baron will have " his swagger" attitude for some time yet .
Just watching Baron trotting along, his gait looks so smooth. I'd be willing to bet he would be a very comfortable riding horse too.
Gardens looking really good. Good luck w/ weed control. I never enjoyed weeding. Barron is really full of himself. Hope Lady settles and delivers again next spring. Thank you for sharing.🐴🐴
Thank you for another enjoyable video. Love the updates of Duke and Earl and your lovely garden. I know the garden takes a lot of time and work. Do you still have chickens and guineas? Always look forward to your videos
Hey Brenda,,,I loved that lil wave you gave us. God Bless ya'll mightily.
Me too!
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I have always put the bales tight against each other. Unless you put a tarp over the bales, a pyramid rots the hay faster, I have found. The lower bales are soaking up the water that is shedding off the top bale.
What is the wood for the wagon floor? Is it weather resistant, or do you coat it with something?
Great job, Brenda!
Love watching your videos. You are both truly amazing and I enjoy every minute. What do you do with your slabs?
Wow! Brinda's two new careers becoming a Skid steer operator and a teamster.
I put our bales like you have them there up on slabs. I’ve read “the best way” to do it is to flip one up, then lay the other on top, making it look like a mushroom. I’m really not sure. Love your videos as always. 👍✌️
Good job Brenda driving. I can see you're more confident in the way you handle the rains.
Brenda you do a excellent job at doing videos especially this time with the sawmill getting beautiful close cool shots of the working’s of the sawmill. You two are such hardworking couple. Brenda your garden looks so beautiful, of course with all your hard work. Happy 4th of July 🎉😂❤. Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Old Pallets to keep them off the ground, pushed tight together is how I store the round bales. Keeps the ends for soiling.
I would love to know if alot of people are taking you up on breeding services with Baron
Thank you Jim and Brenda . Your hay and gardens look beautiful. I have been hauling water to my garden for a month . We finally got some rain . GOD bless you and yours❤
I see Greg Judy storing the round bales on 6" to 7" cedar logs 4' to 5' long 18" to 24" apart. This keeps the bales off the ground and allows for air circulation. In your area you could use Tamarec. Hope spelling is correct. I thoroughly enjoy your videos all the way here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 👍🏽
I think the wall would look really good covering the complete side of the truck body and painted.
Everything looking good there Jim Brenda, God has given you a blessing with the rain 🌧 🙏 to keep everything watered , 🌽 looking good , tralior looking great , Baron has got some energy alright l guess he's a young male , good job Brenda 👏 working Baron , we're they swallows flying around you in the paddock , ok all have a good weekend
Love your veggies and fruit! Great gardens!! And beautiful flowers!! Great job today busy lady! 🥰
Did you happen to notice all the swallows swooping around the wagon when you were loading bales??? ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes! Glad you saw them. They followed us the whole way
I agree with Brenda. The wall would look great with boards all the way up. 😊👍👍
I look at your place with the tall grass and the stuff put not in a perfect straight line and and perfect condition and I think about my place that looks just like yours. thank you so much for being real. On a different note my little stud colt is three days younger than yours. His name is Loki and he lives up to his name. He is a blast. Oh buy the way I have Shires
Enjoyed the video picking up hay❤. With the way u had the camera felt like I was literally riding along w yall!!💕💕 so excited to hear Lady is bred again. Her foals are GORGEOUS!! Bree will have a playmate in about a year👏👏🥳
Brenda your gardens are BEAUTIFUL!! I wouldn’t mind pulling some weeds w ya. Gotta make em look all pretty😊😊😊 God Bless!!
PG here, Love love the Garden tour! It is very exciting to see Baron High Spirit knowing the role God gave him in nature! I am guessing Brenda needs some strong forearms to keep Baron in check. That was a fun video. Even sawmilling lumber. But I did question to myself: I wonder why the bark had the silver bark mixed with the red? Thank You!
Hi Jim and Brenda, how I have my round bales is to stack them tight together with palettes underneath. I have seen that some cover it with fleece, but that fleece is quite expensive. Not sure if it makes a big difference. I would not put boards on the wall to the top, but you might consider doing it for Brenda if it makes her happy 😄 Today I have heard that the Canadian wildfire smoke reached Europe meanwhile 🤭 Have a nice evening and wish you good luck with further haying. -Chris
I push them up to touch on the flat side, but a space between each row. I never stack them, mostly because I'm afraid one might roll when i go to feed them. Also, kids might play on them and that's way too far to fall, depending on the kid's age.
I always enjoy your videos!! 😊 If Lady's breeding takes, does she then lose interest in Bree & wean her herself?
You guys work well together!! The two of you show a well rounded picture of your life. I have a little deck garden...I was hand watering for a long time. Then we finally got some good rain & wow! It took off!!! I see I have little tomatoes!! I am so excited!! Lol!!
I pray you are blessed with a bountiful garden & many round bales!! God is so good!!
Hello from Sweden!Storing bales outdoor during winter is mostly done in a pyramid stack close together and then a tarp over the top, not all the way to the ground to keep them dry and ventilated.
Brenda, what a fine job you did with Baron!! I have to admit, he's my favorite, although I do love all your beautiful horses! My husband & I so enjoy watching your videos, & look forward to all your posts. By the way, the garden is looking lovely as well. Also couldn't believe your beautiful Clematis was that old, that's amazing! We just purchased one called Nelly Moser the other day. Have a safe & fun 4th of July weekend, Brenda and Jim!!!
I'm with Brenda, Jim you have the lumber, I would finish the trailer with wood..I put the round bales end to end tight together.
Jim, we put round bales in a single row, like you, but push them together, end to end, as tight as possible. Keeps them protected. Brenda is awesome!
Sorry to make this comment, Jim - but I am concerned about the buildup of sawdust and debris in and around your sawmill !! My concern is that there is the possibility of what is called "combustive ignition" !! In other words, there is always the chance of the sawdust self-igniting and causing a fire in your barn !! I certainly don't want to be an alarmist, but I would encourage you to clean out ALL the sawdust accumulation from under and around your sawmill !! Having been in the fuel storage business for many years, we were strongly encouraged (actually, mandated !!) to the procedures and housekeeping practices of the company !!
Jim, I would hate anything to happen to you and your farm and will pray that you ALWAYS practice safety in your operations !! Please annd thank you. I would not write this if I didn't care !! Blessings to you and your entire family, as I look forward to viewing your channel in the future !! Amen.
Jim, Brenda is correct the boards need to go to the top!!!!
Thank you 🤗
Great video, content and teamwork. You've got quite a few units of (dry) lumber. I was wondering if you are saving them for a special purpose, or if some get sold from time to time? As much as I enjoy watching you mill, I was surprised that you didn't just grab some off the stack for Abby's house and your wagon.
Oh man, those bales look nice and the clover looks absolutely beautiful! Love that teamwork, complete with clear hand signals. Just wondering, how much does a bale that size (same high quality) go for in your neck of the woods these days? I'm not a horse owner at the moment but I'm making plans. Meanwhile, Brenda's garden seems to be rocking right along too, especially the grapes. Thanks for another lovely trip through your day, it's so much fun to virtually tag along with you.
Jim never discusses money . But I do sometimes .$40 now $ 80 next winter
Jim, Brenda did great driving Bill andBaron!!, I enjoyed being in the mill cutting boards for for your new hay wagon. Jim, to answer your question on round bales, you stack them tight, and pyramid them, right! Jim, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hi to Trudy, and Abby.
Great job with your animals. supper watching them being worked
Greetings from Wisconsin!! What an awesome job driving the horses Brenda !!! Hats off to all of you getting those bales in from the field!! Love love your videos!!!
Baron stuck his head in that window and saw that little baby in there with Lady and he also knows what’s coming next. He has to step up and get to work for his kids. Jim hang on to the reins. He is on the move and got work to do.😂
Brenda is a natural driving Baron. Re the bales, in Australia, many places wrap in plastic these days. While the rest of us are making concerted efforts to rid our lives of the retched stuff, agri is just now seeing the benefits! Those would be bales that need to sit through heavy rain and or snow mostly. But in anycase, most bales seem to be pushed together in long lines 2-4 deep and 2-3 high. If they need to go higher they will be sat on end and stacked 4 high, Those ones are often made stronger and denser to tolerate being stacked and placed on the bottom. Some round bales are getting to over a ton each these days.
But pushed together with no air between and covered completely with huge tarps after stacking. I don't know how the inner bales are at the end of the sitting season right before use. Maybe they are not that good unless wrapped in plastic. Some use black plastic while others use white. I don't know if there is a difference or just manufacturers.
Silage seems to come in black plastic here, so maybe that is the only difference.
Those two horses are like chalk and cheese. Bill, being a Belgian is taller with a long slow stride. While Baron, being a Suffolk, is a stouter horse with a short choppy stride, so he is always going to be trotting or jigging a little bit because he sees Bill taking these long slow strides. He feels he needs to jig along a bit to keep ahead. He wants to keep ahead because he is a stallion. He will always be like that. If he was cut you would see him change and slow down in just a few months.
Yes the garlic need to loose their scapes asap or they won't bulb up. It is best to remove the scape when you first see it curl around.
The scape is actually new garlic bulbuls trying to reach the ground but if you allow that, the main plant won't form the big hefty bulb that we cherish so much. But it is possible to do both. Just leave a couple of scapes to touch the ground. The rest are then cut to form bulbs.
Your garden is a treat, Brenda. I am so jealous! I can't grow anything in my typically Aussie impoverished dirt. It is far too thin to hold any nutrient. All vegetative matter is consumed by the ants in a few weeks leaving just the bones of dirt. I use potting mix with limited success inside a well-protected shade house. I can't have a grape on the place! The birds eat them while they are still tiny beads. If I net them I *may* get a few that the hares have missed! But again the soil is terrible so they rarely grow more than 2ft high so hardly worth the effort. I tried berries of different types but again if not the birds, it is the hares or the wallabies or some other pest getting everything while it is dead green. I don't feed any wildlife here. The garden does it for me! 🙄
Wow the hay is beautiful. The garden is coming along nicely. We just got done with strawberries here in south Fl.
I have a U Pick farm near me and I go pick. I have a small garden in the winter months Oct -April Hope Bree is good👍😁
Set one bale on end so the string or net wrap is not on the ground. Then set the next one on top strings down so the water runs off. Leave some space in between. Pyramid stacks let the water run down between the bales and rots the whole pile. Just my experience. Thank you keep up the great work and videos!
Love watching your videos Find soooo relaxing
I see you have barn swallows flying convoy when you're driving equipment in the fields. I have some that 'help' me mow. :)
Hi Jim and Brinda, the stone bot looks like a good idea. I'll be watching to see how well it works.
I think that horses with a high level of energy like Baron are just motivated to work even harder when having to pull heavier loads. Nothing replaces working long hours, the load doesn't even have to be so big. After all, Baron is only three years. I draw my conclusions from doing hayrides in fall for many years. Pulling rolling loads 8 to 9 hours did more to calm down my horses than the occasional heavier work for short times.
For the potato bugs, use a battery-operated car vacuum. It sucks the bugs up without hurting the plant
Brenda . How do you keep the wild critters ( deer ,racoons , birds etc )from eating your garden . In my area we have to build 8ft high woven wire fences to keep just the deer out .My goodness those deer can jump . Racoons don't get me started . Black bears a real menace for the people who have bee hives .
Brenda and Jim you must be be busy from morning to night. You two definitely get your cardio and then some! Brenda your gardens look great you just can't beat home grown vegetables and fruit!
Do you use that Hemlock for your trailer floor and truck wall you walk the horses up too, and tie em off at.????. It's an old trailer bed w roofed and you wisely walled it wyou own milled wood. It looks gorgeous😊. ❤
Brenda, I enjoyed seeing your garden and that you mentioned what you're growing. I can't have a garden and so it is a treat to hear about yours. How are your chickens? I have been enjoying the sounds of summer bird songs here in northwest Indiana. Kathy
gardens look great, have a safe and happy 4th
Hello, and thank you for sharing your daily lives with us. Please keep doing so it makes me happy.
Wagon looks really good. You’re a good builder.
Good job Brenda
As big and strong as they are their so darn cut both of them loved the ĥand full of grass brenda gave them 😂
You got a great wife jim she gets right in and does what she has to do to help 😉
Love how your saw mill works awesome job Jim 👍
put a heavy spring on the front of the pole, something like a snowplow spring that has a little give in it, when he goes forward the spring will coil up and send him backwards!
Ken what are the chances of that round ball rolling off the front of the wagon and crushing the driver?
Round bales have done that.
I really like the videos of the sawmill . I love the horses , too and the farming , but I like the sawmill stuff and working on things .
Read all the comments Jim please, look at all the compliments Brenda gets! It's not like you have to buy the lumber to finish the little wall...do it for her instead of saying right off the bat...I'm not doing that, she does so much for you
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Thank you for the nice lecture Joe .
@@chips4974 your welcome
I know it’s a family show and you won’t show the actual mating, but handling him before and after and how you pad her up would be so interesting. It’s part of farm life and us city folk are interested.❤
I’ve watched a video of this on a different YT channel - and did not enjoy viewing it.
I am thankful Brenda and Jim choose not to show these on their channel.
You do what Brenda tells you to do fella.
I wonder who did such a good job with the planks of the wagon ! 😀 Excellent team work everyone.
With all that is going wrong in our world it is so soothing to watch your channel every day. Does Jim help with the housework? God is so good.
I would pile it up for sure, and put it on concreet, and plastic over it, im not a farmer but that's how in goes on our horse stable in the Netherlands, and we have about the same climate as you, lots of rain, long winters.
Oh, lookie how fast the corn has grown! In June in Seattle, WA area we get NO rain. Well we had one day with a little rain so far. But from now in July zero rain.
That clover really looks good.hope it’s dry up so you can mow more hay.Brenda got her first go with baron and seems to have it under control .rainy humid and Smokey here in southern Ontario.great videp
If you have re-bred Lady, you are obviously pleased with Baron and pleased with what you have seen so far with the cross between him and Lady. Just curious; Are these foals the future workers for "Working Horses with Jim"?
Great question, @todd1808 !!
Brenda- not sure but I think some snuff ran thru water and filtered might do for bugs - think my family used lime for that - lightly dusted on the plants - I am 73 yo and haven't done much gardening since my teen age years (12)- family was 9 people and we did 1/2 Acer garden to feed us and often times also collected from other sources too like fruits - mom did a lot of canning , pickling, and freezing till we moved out on our own
Awe poor lady having to be pregnant again so soon after giving birth. Just wondering why you would do this? Is that the norm? Don't know much about horses but love them. Yours are beautiful
That's common in breeding, and she has 11 months before she is due.
As long she is in good condition, rebreeding back is not going to hurt her at any way. In the wild, stallions would breed mares in foaling heat right after birth.
@Wendy-bd9zu Thanks Wendy for responding
@HensOnly Wow very interesting. Thank you
What a variety of good work and projects you have going! Sometimes just trying to think of what to do when wears me out at our place! Nothing like all the practical thinking through things to encourage! Thank you for the garden tour Brenda 😊!
Just curious - How do the Amish load round bales? How much do they weigh? Could they be rolled up a ramp? Brenda - Enjoyed seeing your garden! Plants that deter cucumber beetles are marigolds, garlic, chives, dill, basil, radish, and others.
Some Amish use machinery .Those 4x5 round bales weigh about 1200 lbs . You won't roll them to far before giving yourself a hernia .
love your garden Brenda. Baron was very well behaved in the hay field.