DRAFT HORSE FARMING: A History of our Farm & Finishing up Corn Harvest 2021!!
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Today we finish up Corn Harvest 2021!! I wanted to share a little history of our farm and how it has changed over the 30 years we have lived here. We do the majority of our farming with draft horses so it has been a lot of work to make the farm the way that it is today!
Watch our videos to learn about draft horses- horse logging, horses farming, and horse training! Jim uses Belgian, Percheron, and Suffolk horses to do work on the farm and in the woods. He teaches about harnesses, horse-drawn logging and farming equipment, horse feeding and maintenance, and voice commands for horses. New videos uploaded every week. Keep watching to see how Jim trains his new Suffolk Punch colts as he has trained his full-grown teams!
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A wonderful moment at 6.00 minutes with the horses sharing the leaves of corn. They are such beautiful creatures.
My grandfather started on railroad as a fire man, so can appreciate your shoverling the corn!!
He must have done a lot of shoveling!
Seeing the horses passing the cornstalks was new to me...cute!
I thought so too! And towards the end when Jim stopped, I noticed Ken looking at Bill, then he'd turn toward Lady, as though he was wondering if either one was going to pass a stalk and they didn't! So cute those big gentle giants are!! They are so smart!
It made us chuckle too!
Well that was a major accomplishment Jim, glad you got that all finished before the weather changes for the worse. Loved Brenda giving their ear of corn for a treat, well deserved big kids. You all did great, Maybe a little rest is due for You and Brenda Jim. Thank you FATHER for watching over this farm and all of its people and livestock as well as the harvest. Have a Blessed weekend Jim and Brenda.
AMEN, brother !!
Amen
you're fortunate to have each other,God bless
Yes we are, God bless you as well
Alway watch your videos at night, after a busy day this is a way of winding down. We talk about the good old days, seems to me you’re living the good old days, yes the work is hard but the is a real feeling of accomplishment. Thanks for sharing, God Bless.
I can just imagine starting out on a farm like that with the house 🏡
Uninhabitable. You guys are a great inspiration to those young people starting out. To put in the hard work.
Bless you
It wasn't so bad because we were young
Hello, it seems I find myself looking forward to your videos everyday. Hello to the Mrs. as well, it appears she has become your right hand woman. My regards to your lovely daughters.
Thanks so much for watching, we appreciate your support
Hello Brenda and Jim, always working hard and giving an honest view of farm life. Each task has a season and each season has its beauty and drawbacks.
Truly enjoy sitting with a cup of coffee and watching your daily living.
God bless you and yours.
Sincerely Sue Ellen, State of Maine
Thanks for watching!
Great video, always look forward to seeing you or your daughter work the teams.
Stay warm and healthy and the good Lord watch over you and your bride.
Isn't that the way Jim with farming, always something mechanical breaking. I try to keep it simple with tools that I can make and/or repair myself. That is what got me blacksmithing 50 years ago. Getting snow flurries here in central Illinois today, how about you folks?
My wife's cousin who will be 98, and myself, have had many chats on farming with horses. When it was time to give the team a rest he calls it a "Puff". My dad was born in 1907 and I heard endless stories of farm life in the good old days, but never heard about giving the horses a puff. When you say gee and haw, I read about that being used on a team of oxen. Friends of ours farmed like you, with tractors and percheron horses. At chore time the cows came in first and when all tied up, he'd call for the horses to come in. Two teams and two or four colts would come trotting into the barn and I stayed in the manger! There was a pail hanging over head with oats in it, and the horses would watch him take it down, do some horse talk, and wait for a scoop with the old 1# coffee can. Now the milking can start...
That is true 'corn on the cob'! One of my favorite passtimes as a kid was to watch our mares eat corn off the cob. 🤠🐴👍
Brenda you look like you are enjoying being home and helping with the farm and I am sure Jim likes the help
I continue to be impressed with how you care for your horses. It reminds me of both my grandfathers. One farmed with mules and the other with draft horses. Taking good care of their animals was always their first priority, both because their livelihood depended on it and because they loved their animals.
Thanks for watching!
After work I rush home to see what Jim, Brenda, and the horses are up to. Always makes my day. Thanks for sharing!
How nice, glad you enjoy the videos
LoL me too..
Watching you farm in the old ways really makes one appreciate the modern day farming. Thanks for your videos
It certainly must feel good getting the last of the corn in- good work for man and beast.
It seems to me that you greatly improved the farm, and what's most impressive about that is that you did it with primarily horses at a time when most farmers went to the bank to purchase the newest and fanciest technology. Hats off to the Gordon family. It's also worth mentioning that towards the end even the last few single corn cobs get taken care of, while I have seen thousands of corn cobs on the ground in fields harvested by big combines in our area. There were years in which I fed my horses corn gleaned from the field all winter.
Good evening Jim and Brenda 👏👏👏👏👏🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ l think this says it all BRILLIANT All the very best dear friends 🌱🌱🌱💕🇬🇧
Thanks Joyce, all the best to you!
The picture of your house tells volumes. More than a fixer upper - just a shell. What you have done with the house and the barn is incredible! And you still did horse training and logging! They don't make them like you anymore, Jim, or amazing women like Brenda.
I am watching your videos over and over again and I feel so happy to see you working with you're horses
Glad you are enjoying them, thanks for watching!
Good Evening from South Africa.
Good evening!
A nice way to live.
It sure is, it is how I was raised except we had a riding pony is all. 🌞
40 k subscribers! Bravo! 👍👍👍😎
Thanks! 😃
U got some awesome horses jim
Well glad to see you got the corn in with our any more breakdowns than you had. it's always a comforting feeling to complete a job with few breakdowns and headaches. I can remember baling hay and having to keep the baler going after each breakdown. bearings. plunger, string problems etc. so happy to see that field done for you. and now you can get those fingers welded up again. I also got a kick out of the horses passing the cob from one to the other.Thanks so much for the video and for taking the time to do it amongst your busy agenda. God Bless. ECF
Yes, glad to get this job done. Sounds like you know what it's like to have to keep going through breakdowns etc. Thanks for watching and for your support
Hi Jim and Brenda, my what wonderful horses you have and they certainly work very hard, aren't animals great they never complain and just go in there and get the job done, lol they put some humans to shame, I love all your horses I often wonder if Lady is bossy to the boys or does she consider herself one of the boys, thank you for sharing your life and horses with us you always brighten my day, sending hugs across the pond to you all from the UK xxxxxx
love love love the camera angles and all the extra work the new "camera lady" is putting in -
AND ofcourse having the calm soft spoken Jim narrating like in the "old days" either with his new
microphone set up or as overlay.....great team work guys 😊😊😊😊
The two of you work along together so well .
This is a great video with horses they are really hard worker and you got a really nice farm. Thank you for showing this video
Lovely blue skies...clear of plane trails.
Great video Jim n Brenda..and horses.
Hi, LOVE the care you give your horses. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻😁
Boy the video output has picked up since Brenda "retired". She is cracking the whip. Great video as always.
My grandfather picked up a very long, very high elevator at an auction. You had to place hay bales upright so the twine was on the sides which was a real pain to place and unload because the elevator was too narrow. I think it was actually meant to be a grain elevator. We borrowed a neighbor's corn grain wagon one year to harvest the ear corn and emptied it into the elevator which dropped it into our two corn cribs. A significant time and energy savings compared to shoveling. The elevator was PTO powered. My grandfather was not against saving labor. You might consider it if you could find the right elevator and grain wagon at auction.
Glad that you finally got the corn picked, that was one wet/muddy job but the horses handled it nicely. You have come a long way since buying the farm especially the house. lots of hard work I'm sure but well done. 👍
I look forward to your videos and seeing you guys doing your daily chores. Thank y'all for letting us tag along.
Well done too you there Jim good to get the corn off the other day it was very wet , thanks for sharing about when you brought the farm, its a long time 30 years , have a good weekend to you and Brenda and the girl and your horses off course
We sure loved this one. Super day and wished I was walking Brenda,,I would snagged a few stalked for the horses when stopped,. Then she gave them cobs.. Made me happy 😊,, thank you so much for good viewing viewing
And showing all about the machine,, my dad never had one...wish we could take a fund raisier for you guys...love all of you.xx
Thanks for watching
Nice to see the old photos and your dad helping out. I’m sure you have a lot of special memories.
Just seeing this video as a late subscriber. God has blessed you both for all you have. To fix the house...farm...logging...and your beautiful horses, chickens, cows, pigs and what other little animals God has blessed you with. I loved how the horses passed the corn stalk to each other. Made me laugh and how they take care of each other. God bless you both and 🙏❤️❤️🐎🐎🐎
When you show those close up shots of the horses, I feel their breath and the soft muzzles.
Have a great week end.
You as well
What a story! Brave to bye such a house and see potential. En look what you have now 😍
Glad you got the corn done. It's sure was pretty there today. There's nothing like the smell and taste of the air in the fall.
so true
I'm binge watching! Thought of you today as I took my mom's boxer mix breed dog out on a walk in a trail she's never walked. I had a good hold of the leash but it was raining a bit, so the grass was wet and slippery. I was holding an umbrella, too - open to keep the rain off me. We walked along a creek that has critter trails heading in & out of it, not sure which critters. The dog got a scent of one that particularly interested her to where she took off on a full run, dragging me downhill towards the creek. I lost balance a slid on my rear end all the way down the hill holding my umbrella high, but still keeping a good hold of the leash. Managed to stop before hitting the brush at the edge of the creek. I must've been a sight 😆 Anyway, after that all I could think was, "At least the dog isn't a horse" 🤣 Enjoyed this episode as always 💕🐎
Haha, glad you are ok! Sounds like quite an ordeal!
Always enjoy your videos. So happy your corn is harvested. Strange how much time flows by when you are in tune with the seasons.
Loved seeing some of the early history of your farm.
Another harvest done. Nice to see them enjoy the corn.
Yeah, tiling should definitely be up for kitchen table discussion. We too have have heavy clay. Our rainfall patterns have changed perceptibly in 40 years. Yearly rain total hasn't changed much but now much heavier rains in shorter periods. Used to get a good afternoon shower every week in summer, now 18-21 days without a drop and then BOOM!
Much more damaging and causes serious delays at critical times.
I miss those gentle soaking rains. Really helped.
Farming with horses is great.........but as I have seen and learned over the years my father farmed with horses......often things were overlooked such as tiling because so much time and effort was put into the horses. Its not an easy life.........but things still must be managed !
Boy they sure liked that ear corn!
I’ve always been warned off feeding horses corn and corn stalks because of 1) a certain mycotoxin which moldy corn harbours which can cause blindness, brain deterioration and even death; and 2) choke. Very enjoyable video!
My dad would feed his work horses about six ears of corn at a feeding . if he ran out of outs or working them hard at noon break. six ears always seemed like a lot, but if you would shell off six ears it wasn't really all that much grain.
I really enjoy watching you videos. I don't watch in order, but it so amazing what you guys do with the horses. Simply amazing.
What a contrast! 🤔 At 1:15 - 2:15: In the huge blue sky is the contrail of a jet while on the ground three horses and their owner pull a corn picker that could have been built before the Wright brothers flew! 😁 Obviously Jim loves farming and horses! Second only to Brenda, I suspect! 😆
The horse's did a great job.
They deserve the treats..
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Thank's for sharing that was very interesting you guys have come a long ways I have been telling all my friends and family to add your channel hopefully you will get 50 thousand by Christmas stay safe and God bless
Thanks so much Jerry, thanks for your support
My wife an I really enjoy watching your videos , you an your family have a nice day thanks
Very interesting on the history of the farm. Sure is a lot of work but well worth it!! Have a great weekend. 👍🌞🐴💓
Congrats on reaching 40K subscribers! Well deserved!
Very impressive!! That corn picker is something else-very interesting.
Yes , it is a very interesting machine
Does that about finish farming for the year? Snow can’t be too long off. Maybe get some good timber cutting time. Whatever y’all do, we’ll be watching. Stay warm and safe and God Bless! ❤️
Yes, that does it for crop work! Snow could come at any time and may stay or may not. You're right, time to cut some timber and some other projects we have. God bless you as well!
Maybe this is premature because I am only 1/4 way through the video, but I would love to see pictures of all of your horses before Ken, Buck, Bill and Lady; oh and Duke and Earl!!
Me too
Thanks for the suggestion, we will try to share some photos in the future
Thanks for sharing! Our pasture when we moved 10 yrs ago was a dirt bike track that was all grew up we took a tractor abd brush hog to it weeds was at least 5ft tall! Then we had to level it all out and take out rocks was a mess! Your house was in bad shape but you would never guess it now! Lots of hard work
Glad you was able to get you corn crop in. Yes the mud in the beginning was really bad. Nice to see it dried up some.
Enjoyed the video as always, see you in the next one. God Bless
Thanks, you too!
Congratulation for getting over 40,000 followers! Great video and thanks for sharing your lives with us! Darrel
Glad you got your corn finished the field looked to be getting a little dryer thanks for sharing take care
When I bought my first farm in 1980 it wasn't the corn but years of attrizine residues from the corn I had to deal with.
Despite all the combines around here I'm seeing quite a few old New Idea pickers in the fields. I like that. At least with horses your less likely to get serious compaction on wet soil... Thanks for all your fine videos.
You have a good stand of corn it a good crop an ears are nice an full that picker does a good job of cleaning the husk off the ears
it would do better if a part wasn't broken, but it does a pretty good job
I know somebody that used to give his horses corn silage maybe a forkful day
Love watching your horses at work.
Glad you like them!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim I do.
I have seven quarter horses , two roping horses, three cutting horses and two pleasure horses but there's something special about draft horses. I had a draft horse cross mare that passed away. She was the best horse I ever seen with people. Not an ounce of buck in her. Miss that girl everyday. She was a pleasure to own and ride and she was a big girl. Anyways really like watching your videos of your horses working.
Watching your video got me thinking. Could you remove the side and front board enclosures on the new wagon and replace it with large opening hardware cloth, one inch if possible? You could staple it to the wood frame Ornamental low landscape border fencing might work. I have some. Wire fencing would be too heavy but the other ideas might work. You could make a very low moving corncrib. Next year could be as wet as this one. Hopefully not. I just looked at my ATV trails and they are are as wet as ever I've seen them. Drainage projects, bridges and culverts I've done in the 33 years I lived here have been worth the sweat equity. I'm waiting on a new pinhole tile drainage project now to keep water out of the basement. The pinholes don't let soil thru like slits do (allegedly). Old tiling is broken and/or plugged.
LOL I have never seen corn on the cob eaten with such enthuseum.
Congratulations on 40k subscribers! :-) Have a nice weekend
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Tiling at the cost of around .40 cents per foot for four inch tile and the cost of installation seems rather cheap compare to fighting harvest year after year. Let alone the low yields ! My father farmed with horses too..... he constantly fought issues and never took the time to resolve them. He was always frustrated with farm life.
Yes installing tile 25 ft apart is even a bit wide. I have heavy soils too. I have tile installed every four steps ( 12 ft ) and its very effective draining the soil. Sometimes Ive even resorted to " back filling " the tile ditches with colored gravel. Pete bogs and old buffalo wallows often take this to make drainage possible. But in only a few years it pays for itself !
thanks guys it a great video
Hard yacka. Well done everyone.
Good night from Ibiza Spain
Good night! Thanks for watching!
Where is your "theme song" from? Love it! Its better than counting sheep at bedtime!....In wintertime my riding horses got their hay ration along with a grain mixture of oats and 'sweet feed' with the sweet feed being about 25% of the mix. Every Sunday night was a 'hot bran mash' topped with a little molasses-they loved that and it was good for their gut as well. They were ridden every day except when the weather was extreme. Snow pads plus barium on shoes of course.
That picker is pretty cool, nice video jim
I picked about 20 ears and put them away for a couple of squarrels that drop by every once in awhile.
You sure had a lot of work to do with the house when you bought it. If the house needed so much work I am sure the rest of the buildings needed work to.
The good thing about being young is there is so much you don’t know it allows you to do stuff you would probably shy away from now. Plus when you are younger you have so much more energy to deal with all this work.
Very true!
I saw some sun yesterday, and sent it up your way so you could get your corn in. Hope it worked for you.
Thanks😉
If you would have had to pull the picker and wagon with a tractor 🚜 you would have had to wait for the ground to freeze!! Seems like the horses saved the day because they could pull the picker and wagon though 🤔 the mud. All that work they did for an ear of corn 🌽! Thanks 😊.
Tile always pays takes twenty years to pay it off but it never lets you down
This guy sells drain tile.
Ah ha. Just joking,
I grew up on a marsh and we never had drain tile, but we worked to keep that adjacent crick open and flowing because it acts like a magnet and pulls the standing water off the field.
Is it ok to like the video before the ad finishes?
Yes !!!!!!!!
Scott I heard if we listen to the ad commercial through,,then the farmer gets morn money, ,I know it's hear to wait,,because it's so interesting,and good...
Jim, I'm sure that 30 years ago (like many young couples) it was a struggle. Can you tell us what word you use to get the team moving please? I know "stop", "left" & "right" but not what you say to get them moving again.
Love all of your videos Jim and Brenda. I had a team of Percherons for about two years but had to move thus had to sell my team. My life long dream is to own a small farm and use draft horses. My question concerns how many acres can you conceivably farm with a couple of teams of draft horses? How many acres do you all farm? Thanks
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Oh goody more farming with Jim! Opinion on horses eating while they work?
As always, another good video.
Nice job you have a good day.
Thankyou ! For sharing ! Appreciated !
In my neck of the woods its called grid tiling 1000 an acre but 35 ft start with the main and you can always add too it
Great Vid .... thanks
Hi JIM
Olipa kiva kun näin kuinka maissia (korn) korjataan👍👍
old saying tough love work hard end of day eat what you pick
Does it feel great to get job done that depends weather that's the way I feel when we finished our fire. Wood yesterday have a great weekend and thanks again
I was curious how you prevent corn ear worms from damaging your corn? I have had problems with sweet corn in the past.
They don't seem to bother this corn as much
Boy I wish I was closer. L would love to help out
Me too Linda,,it's like home for sure
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Do you have a manual for that picker I worked for a Dealer that sold new idea when I think I might have an owners manual
No I don't have a manual
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim I will look what number is the picker
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim that is an eight roll husking bed am I right