Tying up a Few Loose ends on incomplete tasks.
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Just remember, each piece of trash you pickup brings
you 1 step closer to picking up that last piece of trash.
!
Well said! I will use that saying in the future. 😅
It won’t be a Country View acres video without something going wrong. 😊
The tree puller is total madness. Such a well thought tool.
It is beautiful out there and you sure are a hard worker. You can see all the things you have accomplish since I started watching your videos. You and Rebecca both. Love the videos and look after yourself too! God's blessings. 🙏❤️
So true I have been with them since the beginning, I remember the days of them living in the camper!! Right after they bought the property!!
It is a farm, everything doesn’t always have to be perfectly square and pretty. I do enjoy watching your videos and you guys have done a great job cleaning up the mess you bought!
Hang that chain from your truck hitch and drive a bit on gravel roads. Old-timers back home said that would clean a rusty chain up quite nicely.
Have you considered capping your pipe posts with mortar mix? Jam a thick wad of newspaper down into the pipes leaving an inch or so open then make up a ball of mortar mix and put in into the top. You will want to round it over the top to allow rain water to run off. That would be a fun task for Rebecca.
when we capped our posts we would just shove something down the post, usually, a concrete bag about 6-8 inches then fill them with concrete on top of that
If you drag that chain down your driveway gravel to clean it up and then through the grass, it'll polish it up like new. Also, never diss the weeds... many different varities have medicinal qualities about them... The animals know.
The cows and sheep are always watching what you are doing and cheering you on!
What you have done looks so NICE! Gorgeous!!
Wad up a piece of feed sack push in pipe with cement on top
Roughage is an underrated part of animal diets. They crave what they need. That juicy green stuff goes right through them.
Keep plugging away Evan. Things are looking good on your property!
Hello Evan I cannot begin to tell you how much I enjoy all your videos I just started watching about a year and a half ago and I wish you could show more. I think what you and Rebecca have done is to be commended. I went back and I started watching the videos from the beginning so when you talk about all the work you've done I can follow you. I lost my husband in 2016 and this was something that we had always wanted to do. But time got away from us. We did manage to raise four boys and that in itself is a full time job. I AM 75 years old as I said I am a mother a grandmother and a great grandmother. I look forward to your videos every night and I'm so disappointed when there is none. I understand holding down a job maintaining your form is above beyond hard work. I love the fact that you guys are trying very hard to be self-sufficient. I wonder how many more people out there are trying to do the same thing. I love the fact that you guys always put to good use whatever you can find in salvage on the farm. I can't believe some of the mess you've cleaned up. Please keep up the good work. I look so forward to watching your videos and see how beautiful the farm is coming along. So much respect coming your way from this lady.
Hi Country View Acers,Ed from Vermont
I used to be go,go,go like you Evan,but gave me a very bad back with multiple surgerys. Now I cringe when you strain and lift heavy objects. Sure love watching you and Rebecca. Nice looking farm coming together.
Wow, Evan- by the time you guys are through getting rid of all the junk, your property will be a few feet higher in elevation...
Where I am, I may just need to borrow a haybine from the neighboring farm to mow my grass- if it doesn't quit raining... Clay soil- it's either pudding- or concrete. With maybe an hour of in between. lol- I remember it took Dad 2 long, hard days to put in THREE fenceposts for a grape arbor. He had to pour water into the hole, and let it soften for awhile for nearly every scoop with the post hole digger. Just rock hard, dry clay. I don't know how farmers put in entire fencelines... (no wonder they switched to T posts!)
Temperature pipe cap idea 2 rubber band, 2 sandwich bags. Bag then bind until you are ready to fill with spray foam. Use the baggies in a ball to stop up depth for foam.
Re: caps for the posts, maybe save some canned food cans to put on top of the posts to keep the rain out until you can weld something more permanent on them for caps
you might want to look into red oxide paint to protect them metal poles. its basically the red primer you seen on metal work,
When you get done put a gate on each end of the driveway and let your sheep in to keep the grass trimmed. My relatives used to do it around their farm buildings. i
YA hit another home run-great video's short and to the point.
It is coming together so good , Your hard work is paying off !! I LOVE YOU GUYS !! 🥰🥰
Evan I think you should weld a metal plate to the top so you can put a bird house on it
If you raise the concrete an inch or two around the pipe and taper it down to ground level it will stop the water sitting next to your pipes and potentially rusting them out.
I tried to taper the concrete away from the post. It doesn't show up in the video very well.
Sometimes salvage yards will save decent scrap to resell,maybe call a few nearby to see if they have any pipe
That post level is a good investment. I was going to send you mine but you got one now.
Great video mate thanks for sharing this and all the best to you all
You are doing fine and you are both hard workers. I thought you looked thinner.
My dad was a meat and potatoes guy and worked a full time night job as well as farming 20 acres on a low budget just because he loved to farm. So he worked out a lot, just as you have done. In his late 80's he was still rototilling his garden and he lived until he was 94. Hope it all works out well for you.
Nice work your place looks great. Be nice to meet you both. Have a great day.
Love those steel toed flip flops!
Looks really good! Thanks for sharing!
You have a beautiful piece of property!
Shout out to Your missus... I've run 2 3/8" upset tubing on our rigs... But never in flip flops
Love that you always have your herd supervising your work. Sheep are far better than a zero turn mower for getting into tight spots and they love being able to browse .
Really enjoying watching you and Rebecca develop your dream. Transformation is fantastic.
Regards from Wales, UK 👍🏻
I was going to ask if you were doing low carb with Rebekah. I noticed your weight loss in your last video. You look great!
Another Great Video !!
Not sure what your easy capping idea is, but stuffing the top with newspaper and adding concrete to the top works great!
You do such a good job
You can stuff part of a sack in the top and put a small amount of cement on the top. That is an inexpensive way to plug the opening.
Look good on them silos
Nice. Thanks
You both work so hard! Enjoy watching your videos and all the animals too. 😊
Find some cans or buckets to put over the pipes till you do a more permanent solution to capping them.
cap them with old cans for now. Make a pattern on one short piece of pipe to mark the pipes you need to cut.
I have pipe fencing that was put up before I was born in 1980 that is still solid a the ground. I even have to pull some of them and replant them and they are solid at the ground.
I just walked out to my horse arena tonight and remembered something.
2 years ago after I built it a bunch of us were out goofing off on our horses one evening and I grabbed my pocketknife and cut off the bottom of a Coors Light can and pinched the edge in a little and it fit like a glove over the square cut end of 2 3/8” oil field pipe.
If you leave the male threaded end of the pipe on I think it was a Budweiser can that fits it.
All I can say is 2 years later they are still there as post toppers. I live about 100 miles from you so same kind of weather.
Nice safety shoe!!!
Afraid she'll have a accident some day....
I have really enjoyed these fence building videos, looking forward to the next instalments. On a side note, I was wondering where all the oil was in these oil filled pipes? Turns out they were oil field pipes. Duh. lost in translation across the pond.
Grazing animals like and need the forbs (weeds) which provide them with minerals and vitamins you do not get in grass. That is why hay made from an ancient hay-field full of wild flowers is preferred to modern grass by the grazers.
Hi, Evan! It’s always interesting to see what you find when you dig into the mystery piles. Those sheep did a great job uncovering this mystery pile.
JudithB Its coming together so nicely!! I enjoy working on cleaning, mowing and pruning my place right now. I count on my riding mower and yard trailer to help moving all the brush pruned out to the burn pile, and of course the mower wouldnt start this am. So pruning and push mowing is slowly happening. Storm season is not helping dropping branches as soon as I get an area cleaned up. My main concern is summer drought and fire possibilities. You take care up there!
I think some PVC caps with adnesive caulk should provide a quick, inexpensive and long term solution to your pipe caps. No sense wasting a lot of time cutting and welding metal caps. I have to say the weight loss looks good on you. Very healthy looking.
Tomato soup cans make the best caps.
great idea , a good way to conserve .
I’ve been following your channel for a long time now. Considering you both hold down full time jobs, you have worked so hard turning this farm around. You should both be very proud of yourselves. It is a credit to your hard work. 🇬🇧
What better way to lose weight than on a worthy project like the fence. It's getting there, just a little more or a lot more to do, depending on how you look at it. Be sure to stay safe on it and I hope your week goes good!
Farm sure shows what hard workers you guys.
Until you cap the posts, in the meantime just put an empty tin can from the kitchen over the top. That will help prevent any water filling them up before you get around to doing the job.
Great content as always. Just thinking, would old scaffolding pipes work as fence posts, I think they are usually galvanised as well.
Stay farmer strong Evan, great work
Really shaping up nicely....😊
I simply love your farm , It always makes me think of Mr. Macgregors farm , especially the barnyard .
Great job keep up the great work love your videos thank you
The posthole digger breaking was the lords way of saying work smarter not harder.
He was probably digging by hand because he was very close to that water line.
Really looks good around there Evan and Rebecca. The fencing project is in full swing and looking good, you two have it under control and know what you're doing. This isn't your first rodeo with fencing. Stay safe and keep up the great work, Fred.
Anyone that is a doer, makes mistakes, those that do nothing make the biggest mistake of all.
Was the entire property used as a trash dump? Man-o-man you sure didn't get a virgin piece of land. A lot of hard work but gratifying as you get it cleaned up. We're rooting for you!
I had just thought to myself that you're really loosing weight... Then the next thing you said was you were loosing weight - Amazing - Don't loose too much - Keep up good health... Thanks for sharing - Most enjoyable....
That small loader tractor is one tough tractor ! love watching you clean up with it . Great fencing project.
Really getting a lot done❤❤❤❤❤
When I first started watching this video, I was wondering if you had gotten a new camera because you appeared so much slimmer. Turns out it was working hard and not a glitch in the camera view, which is not surprising. It amazes me how much work you constantly do, making me wonder if I have always been around slackers, including myself. Between watching you and Tyler, at the end of both of your videos, I need rest and sometimes even a nap. (I'm an old lady. lol) Being included on your journey has been uplifting. Thank you for that.
It's been a nice week to get stuff done
When you mentioned to Rebecca about snakes, I was thinking about time for a mouse. Where my fencing crosses the water line, I utilized a gate, so if they need to work in that area the fence won't be an issue. Thanks for the video.
If you got a wood lath make plugs to tap into the pipe tops. Cheapest way to keep water out.
Thanks Guys
Somebody got a haircut!! Looks great, Evan.
Nice video
Keep up the good work, your a hard worker.qqq
I see those pipes all the time on market place.
That's where I am shopping. I am getting some 2-7/8" pipe friday.
To cap off the posts you can stuff newspaper in the pipe about 4 inches down and then put concrete in the top of the pipe. Either that or of course cut a cookie out and put it on top.
Soup cans would make great caps
They rust out in a short amount of time.
easy way PVC end caps
Below, someone mentions putting cans on the top of your open pipes. (Genius!!) Might be an idea to do that now, before any rain. You can always change it later. Prevention is better than a cure. 😊
Loving these vids. Thank you! I’m wondering how long you’ve now been there and when do you think you’ll get to a point where you won’t find their left over junk piles around the property? Lol
We bought the property September 30, 2015. We have been cleaning almost 9 years. And There is still lots to do.
Evan, Great Video. That TYM handled that concrete nicely.
It unloaded 3300 pounds the other day. I had to put the brush hog on the back, but it did the job. It think that is about it's max lifting capacity.
@@CountryViewAcres It did great sir.
Could put some tin cans over the pipes till you get the caps figured out...
Silly idea could you place jamjars to cap the poles?
2:30 I feel another punctured tyre coming on
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Trees will always seek out water pipes for the condensation during dry hot months to survive
thx
Want concrete cause metal to rust faster? Rebecca needs to give up the sandals. It’s gonna hurt. Great very entertaining videos.
You do not have to concrete in your intermediate posts, or you stay assemblies either, I’ve put up fences over a mile long on hill country in New Zealand without one ounce of concrete
But shouldn't you cap them with "something" until you're ready for the permanent cap? To keep the rain out in the meantime
When you buy used oilfield pipe some comes from out west. I've heard there is a possibility that some may be slightly radioactive. Just a FYI. Love your videos.
Where we live is an oil field area. There was an oil boom here in the early 1900's. There is an oil well, just a mile down the road. So there is pipe around available around here. But not as common as texas or out west.
I have taken old pipe to scrap and it was rejected because it was radioactive. They tested at the scrap yard with a gieger counter. Its true they do drop radioactive isotopes down oil wells. I live in Texas where that pipe is plentiful.
Evan what is a smash burger?
think i would have just hauled the whole pile off and got dirt someplace else. my thoughts on the water line they marked it it you hit it where you drilled it was their fault! course you would be out of water probably!! the pipe you need short peices around too
Put coffee cans on the top of posts !
Eat 👍👍👍
here in western ks we have that pipe everywhere. it runs around 60.00 a joint. use to be around 30.00
Yea $65 to $90 around here. Depending on the diameter.
@@CountryViewAcres It's Trumps fault !!!!!!!!!