God bless you my friend you hang in there I'm disabled too and chronic pain and these kind of videos really make me feel a little better hey I hope you feel better soon don't give up you got friends out there lots of them I'll be one you stay safe and God bless
I'm 60 some years old and I really really enjoy seeing a father and son work together my two boys help me quite a bit I'm disabled but they help me I love them dearly and I could see you too love each other dearly too keep up the good work I'm going to have some cereal with your milk amen from PA 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️
I really like that International. Fantastic looking tractor, and I think you guys really benefit from keeping a smaller one like that around the farm for stuff like this.
A farmer has to wear many hats, being versatile in every way, an electrician one moment, a chemist to a technician, well you get my point, we have to be able to do everything. We look for every way to improve our farms in as many ways as we can. Great job on the video and on your work. Have a good weekend, stay safe, see you next time.
As a building maintenance guy for over 40 years, I always write the replacement date on bulbs when I install them. Kind of gives a frame of reference when replacing them later as to how long they last.
Nice job on the lights and on the first time they worked. lol, You also did a great job on the bedding for the cows at the end. That worked really well. Thanks for sharing and have a nice safe day!! God bless you all and keep on farming.
We use a crate like that too. Safety tip: make a board from to bottomup 1 feet around. If u push with your feet a tool thats on the bottom it doesnt go down ( and hits someone on the head)
I have known a few old dairy folks back not that many years ago I must tell you that your operation is a much cleaner and more efficient then I have seen in the past And for a while I thought it was a requirement to keep everything you have ever touched in Ramond piles and at several locations Your farm looks great in your drone videos with the contour farming and various crops very colorful Like a work of art About those tele handler‘s You may not know that JCB makes a skid steer tires or track with side entry and extending boom They also make tillers for your skid steer Less tractors to maintain if one can do more Your barns may to small of alleys with thigh quarters you will end up bumping into things adding to your list of repairs
Eric, a suggestion to see if your compost is composting, try a thermometer and see how hot that bed pack is down inside. If it’s breaking down it’ll create heat….allot of heat in fact. My compost piles would reach 135 degrees. It would take about 90 days to turn my horse manure and leaves into dark great smelling compost for the garden with at least weekly turning. When the temperature drops, turn and add some moisture.
I paint lots of lifts, like skytrak, Pettibone, jcb, and Kubota. I was looking at pictures of how to place decals and a picture of you came up sitting in jcb putting feed in your hopper and the grinder in the cylidge so how about that, cool. God bless you and your dad and family in cold weather doing your thing down on the farm.
That helps with clumps in manure plus help to put it in the holding pits. We always at our neighbors salted the floor’s in winter to help keep the manure liquid an manage more quicker and going in auger to be loaded . Like how you have barn set up the new barn up above I think I ask about this once before to have doors you can open up from the door automatically shut during winter and open during spring ,summer, fall and closed in winter.
The juxtaposition of a pain in the ass “safety” switch for stopping accidental bucket disconnect with the piece of rope tied around the “safety cage” to keep if from falling off the forks is simply fantastic!
If you’re thinking of getting a tiller they make skid steer attachment tellers so you don’t have to buy a huge machine with motors and everything you can just hook it straight up to one of your mini skid steer‘s or potentially future Tele handler‘s and region from the outside and limit compaction even further
Great electrical job Eric, I'd hire you in a heartbeat. Hope the tilled bedding works well for you. Great to see your Dad in the video too. Thanks till next time.
Great video. We use something similar to the tiller for poultry litter that we call a fluffer. Priefert makes the one most people use in our area. We really enjoy your channel!
Any time you do electrical work and the blue smoke doesn't come out, that's a win. That little telescoping lift is quite a machine. I bet you find all sorts of uses for that. Great content.
There you have it. Kubota for the tight spaces and the telescopic for all possible jobs where forward and upward reach is needed. The reason we have a Volvo wheel loader and a Merlo
The Amish daiymen here do deep bedding. This time of year the pack is about 2' deep now. By spring when they clean it out the pack will br over 3'. They run a horse drawn disk harrow every afternoon during the milking. They clean out the entire pack all at oncenin spring.
Best to have the basket secured to the lift. I hose could break and tip the basket down. I'd hire you Eric as an apprentice but you already have a great job. Thanks for the great video.
You and your father wear so many hats, I don't see how either of you can get in and out of the barns to do all the jobs. Very interesting rototilling. Stay safe.
We promote rototiller for longer lasting litter in cowshed. With our miscanthus bedding chips we ask the dairy m'en to rototll every days to aérobie fermentation that will dry the litter. Also you have to pull up the tail of the rototiler to have the heavier parts of the litter on the top of the litter. Like that they will dry quicker !
You guys will love that machine if you decide to purchase it, we have a small farm and a construction company in Ohio and we own 7 Gradall’s and not one skid steer, you well find more things to do with it than you could’ve imagined. Love watching your videos my son started a YT page Ohio Farm Boy if you get time, lots of videos coming this year on our small farm Grain and lambs content. Great job keep up the great work!
I’ve been converting some of our lights to LED’s too. Bad batch of cheap light units fitted within the last 10 years and ballasts are failing. Older light units have very little problems.
THAAAAT'S why I nearly set that fluorescent light fixture on fire with those LED grow lights........I didn't know I needed to by-pass the ballast. Learned something, today!! Thanks!!
If you decide to buy a telehandler you can also buy slewing manbasket attachments plus a jib and winch as well which I see would be a great help around the farm but you have to consider cost great episodes keep up the great work
Hi Eric great video. Only concern I would have with tiller would be bringing bad bugs back up too the surface especially if you have had mastitis cows in there?
I have a pack barn for my 200 dairy cows the tiller is the best way to go if you use a cultivate or ripper it don't leave the top dry enough for the cows where the tiller mixes very well and the finer the better we use a compost tiller it's 8ft wide and Diggs 24 in deep
Interesting experiment with cultivating the bed pack and will it pack up harder quickly after. If so maybe try adding fresh bedding before you turn it over. Maybe something a bit course like soybean stubble. Cheers 🇨🇦
Great awesome video Eric. I think that would help better stiring it up adding air , now packing it harder that’s a good question only u will know when u clean it out
I have been hooked on your content for some time, do you happen to have a video telling about the history of your dairy? I would be interested to hear about the other generations.
Not sure what's more satisfying. Rototilling the bedpack or watch you scrape liquid manure... However why don't you guys get yourself a wheelloader? I don't know if you can get them in the US but in Sweden alot of farmers use Ljungby wheelloaders, since it's just a really good piece of machine. With leverstearing and hydraulic outputs in the back for all farming equipment.
Practice your welding. Weld a length of chain to the basket with ahook on the end. Boom! Safety chain. 😁 Good to see & hear Dad. That tiller does a really good job looks like. But will the surface be dry?
Friend of mine calves in a hoops barn. He runs an old cultivator through his bedding about once a month when he has his cows in it in the winter. Works pretty good for building a nice soft bed pack
For about the most extensive info on compost bedding go to the University of Kentucky websites dealing with subject. To accurately monitor whether your'e getting desirable composting you need to measure temperatures 8 to 12 inches deep. It should read about 140o.
I thought for sure that you were going to find a Mt Dew or Chocolate Milk up above the metal pieces you were removing when you changed the light over the LED. Haha, guess my intuition was off! 🤷♂️😂 Anyway, I can totally tell that you like that Manitou a bit more than the JCB, as you seem to go for that one more so than the other. It definitely seems like having a telehandler on the farm would be very beneficial to you guys though. You can see how much Tom Pemberton used his, over across the pond in sunny ol' England. Lol. It's a shame you weren't able to get each one by itself for a short time so that you could focus on them individually and give them each a fair shake, instead of having to try to use both before they go (not saying you aren't giving them each a fair chance, but I'd say it is very difficult to distribute your time between each one equally as every job you would use them on is unique and one might take longer than the other, or you'd need to use features that the others jobs wouldn't need said feature. Anyhow, loved the video, as usual! Already looking forward to the next. 🙂 Take care, God Bless, and stay safe!
Hey bud they have LED bulbs that that you can use with the ballast. The only thing that kind of sucks is if the ballast burns out completely you're kind of back to square one. I put quite a few of them in and they seem like they work pretty well though
78 yrs with cancer in skull, raised on dairy farm, managed dairy farms, taught school, you give me hope......thank you..........
Hang in there Van, we are with you....
God bless you my friend you hang in there I'm disabled too and chronic pain and these kind of videos really make me feel a little better hey I hope you feel better soon don't give up you got friends out there lots of them I'll be one you stay safe and God bless
stay strong mate, youve got support here! Start a vlog and put it up so we can hear what your dealing with
I'm 60 some years old and I really really enjoy seeing a father and son work together my two boys help me quite a bit I'm disabled but they help me I love them dearly and I could see you too love each other dearly too keep up the good work I'm going to have some cereal with your milk amen from PA 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️
I really like that International. Fantastic looking tractor, and I think you guys really benefit from keeping a smaller one like that around the farm for stuff like this.
I love the look a cow gets when she’s curious. Hard to imagine a 1,000 pound animal looking “cute” but they do !
A farmer has to wear many hats, being versatile in every way, an electrician one moment, a chemist to a technician, well you get my point, we have to be able to do everything. We look for every way to improve our farms in as many ways as we can. Great job on the video and on your work. Have a good weekend, stay safe, see you next time.
Mathematician too!
Man I love the ...tote basket... slash man basket 🧺. Lol. Always gotta be on your toes. Love watching you and your father on the farm.
Looked like the tiller worked well. Nice wide width made short work of it too.
As a building maintenance guy for over 40 years, I always write the replacement date on bulbs when I install them. Kind of gives a frame of reference when replacing them later as to how long they last.
My father in law always had a book for bulbs and batteries
Nice job on the lights and on the first time they worked. lol, You also did a great job on the bedding for the cows at the end. That worked really well. Thanks for sharing and have a nice safe day!! God bless you all and keep on farming.
The way the tiller fluffs and levels out the bed pack is satisfying to watch
We use a crate like that too. Safety tip: make a board from to bottomup 1 feet around. If u push with your feet a tool thats on the bottom it doesnt go down ( and hits someone on the head)
I have known a few old dairy folks back not that many years ago
I must tell you that your operation is a much cleaner and more efficient then I have seen in the past
And for a while I thought it was a requirement to keep everything you have ever touched in Ramond piles and at several locations
Your farm looks great in your drone videos with the contour farming and various crops very colorful
Like a work of art
About those tele handler‘s
You may not know that JCB makes a skid steer tires or track with side entry and extending boom
They also make tillers for your skid steer
Less tractors to maintain if one can do more
Your barns may to small of alleys with thigh quarters you will end up bumping into things adding to your list of repairs
I always enjoy it when you and your dad work together, Keep up the hard work.
Eric, a suggestion to see if your compost is composting, try a thermometer and see how hot that bed pack is down inside. If it’s breaking down it’ll create heat….allot of heat in fact. My compost piles would reach 135 degrees. It would take about 90 days to turn my horse manure and leaves into dark great smelling compost for the garden with at least weekly turning. When the temperature drops, turn and add some moisture.
I so enjoy watching you and your dad work together blessings to both of you and the family
I paint lots of lifts, like skytrak, Pettibone, jcb, and Kubota. I was looking at pictures of how to place decals and a picture of you came up sitting in jcb putting feed in your hopper and the grinder in the cylidge so how about that, cool. God bless you and your dad and family in cold weather doing your thing down on the farm.
That helps with clumps in manure plus help to put it in the holding pits. We always at our neighbors salted the floor’s in winter to help keep the manure liquid an manage more quicker and going in auger to be loaded . Like how you have barn set up the new barn up above I think I ask about this once before to have doors you can open up from the door automatically shut during winter and open during spring ,summer, fall and closed in winter.
I had not seen a modern dairy farm before. I have watched a few of your posts. Impressive. Thank you for what you do to feed us.
The juxtaposition of a pain in the ass “safety” switch for stopping accidental bucket disconnect with the piece of rope tied around the “safety cage” to keep if from falling off the forks is simply fantastic!
Many Many years ago on our farm we had one of those internationals as the main (only) tractor on the farm. It did a lot of work ! great tractor
The tiller would also be good for when you go to clean it out you can use it to fluff the bedding up so it’s easier to scoop out
Definitely--that's what we do on our farm.
Awesome video. Excited to see how that bed pack comes out.
That's how my dad planted corn as a kid 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for all your hard work 👌
If you’re thinking of getting a tiller they make skid steer attachment tellers so you don’t have to buy a huge machine with motors and everything you can just hook it straight up to one of your mini skid steer‘s or potentially future Tele handler‘s and region from the outside and limit compaction even further
Great electrical job Eric, I'd hire you in a heartbeat. Hope the tilled bedding works well for you. Great to see your Dad in the video too. Thanks till next time.
Love to see how things work around the farm. Thanks for your hard work to help America
i worked with a fellow who tilled turkey pens between groups. he said it made for easier clean out.
Always refreshing to see someone who knows about and uses a cordless drill's speeds between off and full.
Great video. We use something similar to the tiller for poultry litter that we call a fluffer. Priefert makes the one most people use in our area. We really enjoy your channel!
Any time you do electrical work and the blue smoke doesn't come out, that's a win. That little telescoping lift is quite a machine. I bet you find all sorts of uses for that. Great content.
I love watching that 4 wheel steer! So maneuverable!
Super attention to detail and safety. Great job guys.
There you have it.
Kubota for the tight spaces and the telescopic for all possible jobs where forward and upward reach is needed. The reason we have a Volvo wheel loader and a Merlo
Remember with the 4 wheel steering you can 'crab' at an angle too. Might be useful against edges.
It is literally my favorite when your dad narrates and explains things 😊
His dad did a whole video once, was filled with knowledge and a pleasure to watch.
Agree
The Amish daiymen here do deep bedding. This time of year the pack is about 2' deep now. By spring when they clean it out the pack will br over 3'. They run a horse drawn disk harrow every afternoon during the milking. They clean out the entire pack all at oncenin spring.
Best to have the basket secured to the lift. I hose could break and tip the basket down. I'd hire you Eric as an apprentice but you already have a great job. Thanks for the great video.
You and your father wear so many hats, I don't see how either of you can get in and out of the barns to do all the jobs. Very interesting rototilling. Stay safe.
Greetings from Denmark, Enjoy watching your videos alot! I'm involved in agriculture myself here.
Nice work! I'll never take a glass of milk for granted again. Thank You!
We promote rototiller for longer lasting litter in cowshed.
With our miscanthus bedding chips we ask the dairy m'en to rototll every days to aérobie fermentation that will dry the litter.
Also you have to pull up the tail of the rototiler to have the heavier parts of the litter on the top of the litter. Like that they will dry quicker !
Safety baler-twine made me laugh. Looks like something I'd do!
Gets the job done lol. I keep all of mine, never know when you'll need it.
You guys will love that machine if you decide to purchase it, we have a small farm and a construction company in Ohio and we own 7 Gradall’s and not one skid steer, you well find more things to do with it than you could’ve imagined. Love watching your videos my son started a YT page Ohio Farm Boy if you get time, lots of videos coming this year on our small farm Grain and lambs content. Great job keep up the great work!
You guys are all cool people I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!
Skid stir tiller would be awesome for that you can get around your gates and stuff
You and your dad are amazing work partners.
Friend of mine fell out of a JCB bucket working on trees he fell out and broke his back … glad u are working safely
This channel is fascinating. Thanks for putting these out. It’s really interesting to learn how this works
I’ve been converting some of our lights to LED’s too. Bad batch of cheap light units fitted within the last 10 years and ballasts are failing. Older light units have very little problems.
Also good that the rototilling does not create dust. I thought it might.
Definable curious to see what happens with the tilled bed pack.
We Okies would have used baling wire to tie the basket on.. Not everyone carries baling wire with them, but I drive Ford pickup. It's a necessity!
Baling wire: the farmer's friend, useful for Multiple tasks!
THAAAAT'S why I nearly set that fluorescent light fixture on fire with those LED grow lights........I didn't know I needed to by-pass the ballast. Learned something, today!! Thanks!!
If you decide to buy a telehandler you can also buy slewing manbasket attachments plus a jib and winch as well which I see would be a great help around the farm but you have to consider cost great episodes keep up the great work
Good to see baler twine in use to secure the cage to the telehandler. Known as farmers weld in Somerset
Awesome video Eric. Very nice to see you and your dad work so good together. Thank you very much for the video. How is your family doing Eric ?
Hello from California! Thanks for these videos. I get my need to do some farm work vibe out by watching..peace
Hi Eric great video. Only concern I would have with tiller would be bringing bad bugs back up too the surface especially if you have had mastitis cows in there?
I have a pack barn for my 200 dairy cows the tiller is the best way to go if you use a cultivate or ripper it don't leave the top dry enough for the cows where the tiller mixes very well and the finer the better we use a compost tiller it's 8ft wide and Diggs 24 in deep
What brand are you using? We use a reverse rotation Terra Force. It does a really good job, but I wish it went as deep as yours.
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@@justinjobson7184 The best one out there!
Only Farmers know and agree that Managing manure is like more than 80%work for farmers lol 😆
Dang, wish I had a load of that tilled manure for my garden!
If you plan to continue with the tiller, I would highly recommend one for your skid loader.
Those looked like the to fluorescent tubes. I like getting the bulbs that you don't have to modify the fixture.
Interesting experiment with cultivating the bed pack and will it pack up harder quickly after. If so maybe try adding fresh bedding before you turn it over. Maybe something a bit course like soybean stubble.
Cheers 🇨🇦
You light up our lives!
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
My very first thought: looks like a carnival ride! I was expected your dad to raise the “cage” up and down while spinning you in circles 🤣
telehandlers sures saves money then renting a lift
You guys are bad ass. Thank you for all you do to keep our country moving forward.
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I love that your dad gets in on the camera work. Narrating and giving shoutouts 😂😂
Well that was very kool to watch hope the rototilling works out for ya
Great Video, thanks for sharing, i'm curious how compost bed barns fit into dairy farming in the future, thanks for sharing
Great awesome video Eric. I think that would help better stiring it up adding air , now packing it harder that’s a good question only u will know when u clean it out
Great stuff Eric,thanks for sharing.Hope your newest young in is doing ok👍👍
I could watch this rototilling all day.
I have been hooked on your content for some time, do you happen to have a video telling about the history of your dairy? I would be interested to hear about the other generations.
Yes, that would be so cool!
Just started watching your videos......I am addicted.
Joe
I use an extension ladder to get into the lift if by myself.
Might have to invest in a telahendler? Great content 👌 pretty awesome you guys get demos. 😀
If you are bedding up that often wouldn't be that much more work to till a couple times a week. It seems like it would be beneficial in the long run.
Looks l,Ike you guys will be buying your own fluffier soon. That worked great.
Not sure what's more satisfying. Rototilling the bedpack or watch you scrape liquid manure... However why don't you guys get yourself a wheelloader? I don't know if you can get them in the US but in Sweden alot of farmers use Ljungby wheelloaders, since it's just a really good piece of machine. With leverstearing and hydraulic outputs in the back for all farming equipment.
Love how the crate is tied to the forks with baling twian love it lol
We switched our lights over years ago. Boy, what a difference.
Practice your welding. Weld a length of chain to the basket with ahook on the end. Boom! Safety chain. 😁 Good to see & hear Dad. That tiller does a really good job looks like. But will the surface be dry?
Nothing in life is better than working with your dad!
THE ROPE was a nice thought . Use a ratchet strap around the whole basket
Good show .
Friend of mine calves in a hoops barn. He runs an old cultivator through his bedding about once a month when he has his cows in it in the winter. Works pretty good for building a nice soft bed pack
For about the most extensive info on compost bedding go to the University of Kentucky websites dealing with subject. To accurately monitor whether your'e getting desirable composting you need to measure temperatures 8 to 12 inches deep. It should read about 140o.
Always fun to watch this channel
It'll be interesting Eric how this turns out that bedpack you tilled up for the pre fresh cows
Eric, grind part of one side off, easier to enter the "basket". The fire log boys do that, lots of vids. Bob in Nevada
I thought for sure that you were going to find a Mt Dew or Chocolate Milk up above the metal pieces you were removing when you changed the light over the LED. Haha, guess my intuition was off! 🤷♂️😂
Anyway, I can totally tell that you like that Manitou a bit more than the JCB, as you seem to go for that one more so than the other. It definitely seems like having a telehandler on the farm would be very beneficial to you guys though. You can see how much Tom Pemberton used his, over across the pond in sunny ol' England. Lol. It's a shame you weren't able to get each one by itself for a short time so that you could focus on them individually and give them each a fair shake, instead of having to try to use both before they go (not saying you aren't giving them each a fair chance, but I'd say it is very difficult to distribute your time between each one equally as every job you would use them on is unique and one might take longer than the other, or you'd need to use features that the others jobs wouldn't need said feature. Anyhow, loved the video, as usual! Already looking forward to the next. 🙂 Take care, God Bless, and stay safe!
Don’t forget safety glasses when removing those old bulbs just in case…..love the channel.
Fairy dust. It’s like forage inoculant. It works but sometimes you wonder.
Hey bud they have LED bulbs that that you can use with the ballast. The only thing that kind of sucks is if the ballast burns out completely you're kind of back to square one. I put quite a few of them in and they seem like they work pretty well though
Might want to try if you can find one is tiller with rotary fingers instead of the chopping blades this one has
LED lights really shine.
LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS ERIC HAVE BLESSED DAY
Lol the line about how your dad planted corn back in the day. Had me weak 🤣 😂 💀 😭
This will be an interesting experiment.