Super job. I’m jealous how ‘farmers’ seem to have skills far beyond farming. Looks well planned and functional for your needs. Nice presentation as well. 👍
Yeah , You did great in the lower part of the barn with the electricity , because the goats were helping you , I will like to see what you were able to do by yourself , love your videos thanks for showing them
Evan you are so knowledgeable about so many how to do’s. You even love to cook. And you don’t brag about your gift at all. You are AWESOME on the farm lifestyle..
I do not envy you the weather in Iillionis, I was born and raised just north of Chicago. I moved to southern California at 14. That was 1959. I now live in Oregon half way between Portland and Salem. Incredible country, forest everywhere. Take care/be well.
There’s nothing better than the feeling you have once you’ve lit everything up proper especially if you gone to LEDs, knowing it isn’t costing hardly anything for it all . This is an incredible transformation! Love it!!!! I especially love the idea of the Chicken light timer. I will be adding that here in the near future. Brilliant! We don’t have issue with frozen water but a few times each year but I love what you’ve done to make it work. Thank you for sharing!
We already have electricity to our barn, but was excited to see how you set yours up because we need to upgrade/update ours. Thank you for a fun to watch vid! By the way, love ❤️ the back of your shirt!
I put a led motion activated screw in light bulb that has 3 wings that flex up. I put it on the front of my coop it comes on as I walk up to the coop and I love it..... Great channel you do a good job.
Kudos, Evan! It looks like daylight inside those barn areas. I almost LOL'ed when you were installing the lights in the lower level and the goats kept climbing all over you! I am so happy for you now that you've gotten your bank barn wired up and are more ready for winter. Your animals are very well taken care of. Also, I am glad that you replaced all that old wiring. Better to be safe than sorry.
Ok so most people are commenting on the electrical stuff...which you did a fantastic job on. I'm looking at the goats, (mark 6:29) wanting to get in on the action....such pests but so cute. LOL
Looks great all lit up. Two suggestions would be GFI outlets similar to what is used in kitchen/bathrooms and a surge protector installed at the panel. Good luck with your future projects.
I would drill a hole in the wall and run the wire for the heated water bucket outside of the goat stall and inside of a pvc pipe to keep the goats from chewing on it. an LB with a short length of pipe through the wall all the way to the bucket should protect the wire and running it outside would keep the goats from climbing on it on the inside. Just a thought, jack
In our area they ran electricity to those poles and put a light on top that the electric company paid for (including the electric bill). The light shone on the area between the house and the outbuildings, and was used to convince the farmer that updating to electricity was a good idea. I believe the last farm hooked up was in the 70's but it's been awhile since I read the article. I believe the newest version of the Rural Electrification Project if for fiber optic -- we are in the middle of nowhere and have fiber optic right to the fiber optic modem!
Great work Evan. For regulating lights to the chickens you increase the lights in the morning, and then to go off when the sun is upp. The chicken should self go in when the evening comes with no light. IF you set a timer in the evening and the light goes out before the chicks sitting on the rosters, they will stay on the floor and get poopt on...or worse.
Fantastic execution. I would suggest putting a motion sensor, (with a built-in day-light sensor) that automatically powers on the lights only during evenings/night time. That sensor/s can be in the middle /walkway. This also helps scare away any intruding predators.
wow! Looks fantastic! I like that you put an overabundance of lights in. You can always remove bulbs but it's alot of work to add more. Very nice work! The Mrs. must be loving not having to hold a flashlight anymore...
Chicken timer light needs to be sat 25 minutes longer. They say chickens lay better when you read a nest time story to them. LOL just kidding. I love the way you saved money by knowing how to do electrical work.
Good job. Lots of power. 2 suggestions; 1. motion detector lights instead of day night lights outside on backside and front of barn 2. outside covers on outlets to keep mud daubers out and water gets splashed around when using hoses also hens may peck at outlets.
I'm glad to see/read that no one is giving you a hard time about the condition of the barn and the cobwebs. *YOU HAD NO LIGHT* How the heck were you supposed to have cleaned all that out? Good job.
Impressive!! Good thinking on the dusk-til-dawn lights. The only thing that i can think of that you might want to adjust, is to find a way to protect the heated water bucket cords from the goats teeth... you know about Murphy's Law.....🤷♀️
Heating and cooling is easy in your barn with it built into the hillside but with more animals you might consider some ventilating fans on thernostates.
Great job on the wiring. Just be careful because one electrical spark could catch that barn on fire pretty quick. The lights in the hayloft in our old barn are encased in glass so if they spark or burst nothing will fall & catch the hay or straw on fire.
@@CountryViewAcres I figured you had used LED's. Just more friendly word of caution when it comes to barns & electricity. Never seen anything bad in person but don't want to either. Fellow farmer (grain & former beef cattle) from Parkersburg, IL. Our farm was started after the Civil War & our barn is 133 years old.
Good job Evan. Did you have to get a inspection done for your electrical work. About your new hay field. May your hay be plentiful and your animals abundant. Thanks for the video. The lower livestock area looks great.
Nice work. After having wired a number of barns for people over the years, I would recommend using MC cable (metal clad) over romex. It is just regular wire with a steel sheath wrapped around it, while it is a bit more expensive it keeps the wire less subject to damage and chewing from mice. If you find the lights in the barn are not quite bright enough, you may want to look into so High Bay lights for in there. The L.E.D. ones are real nice and coming down in price all the time. The bulbs you have in there seem to be working rather well, though, so that is all up to you.
The romex wire was only on the ceiling. Everything that came down from the ceiling was in conduit. I thought about MC cable but decided to go with romex.
Thanks for the outside lights. We have a barn and you answered my question re: a control switch on dusk to dawn. We just completed the underground to it as well. So far, we only have one outlet cuz we are deciding what to use and where to place things. We have alot of mice, so exposted wire would not be an option. Great Job and looks really nice
Love your videos Evan! Great stuff as always. Just a minor video tip: maybe try practicing looking right at the camera eye instead of the screen as you film yourself. It’s a little tricky till you get used to it but then all your viewers would see you as looking right at us instead of off to our left. Thanks!
Very nice job! A couple of thoughts regarding what you did and what I would have probably done. I would have probably used some electrical putty then tape over the splices. Also, I would either use GFCI breakers or GFCI outlets. Even with no running water it is still "outdoors" and "exposed" somewhat. I am by no means an electrician so I could be wrong about my suggestions.
Looks to be a well-thought-out plan. Nice job! Do you follow any of the homesteaders on UA-cam? There is a gardener in New Jersey that has turned his backyard into a food Forest including fruit trees all kinds of vegetables I really compact with a lot of different things. The reason why I mentioned this is when you has a tree cut down and had it cut into mulch, he's used all mulch real sick to cut down on the weeds. Some of the homesteaders I have watched use portable hen houses and move them around to fertilize, thinking about that dip area you have that is hard to mow. Some moves are goats and Hogs and chickens all around to fertilize and help with ground maintenance. I do enjoy following your videos you're doing a great job. Thanks for sharing.
I think you said you had 60-amp service? I have a 25x75’ shed to wire up. I’ll need to provide probably 5 lights - 2 in the open half and 3 in the enclosed half. I’ll want a few directed lights, like over the workbench and maybe a motion sensor over the personnel door. I have a couple work lights for specific projects that need more in different places. And maybe 4 quad receptacle outlets. But I want to be able to run a 240V welder. So I’m doing some thinking about configuration and total amps. Good to see your solutions and the comments too. Thanks.
What a great job. We have just renovated the barn structure and siding on a very similar building and now we are ready to plan electricity and dig trenches. Evan, did you run any 3 phase ? And, could you list the parts that you used ?
I always set my timer to come on around 3 am to give my chickens extra light hours. The timer turns off the light when the sun is up. Seems to be a bit more natural for them to go to roost at dusk If they are not on the roost when your light goes off at night they wont move in the dark. Judith B
The believe the dusk till dawn light makes enough light through the windows for them to get up on the roosts. But I will sneak out there and double check.
Working with goats must be a lot of fun because they love to help.
Hi...... Evan, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
Super job. I’m jealous how ‘farmers’ seem to have skills far beyond farming. Looks well planned and functional for your needs. Nice presentation as well. 👍
Its good to see an old barn like that look alive again.
Yeah , You did great in the lower part of the barn with the electricity , because the goats were helping you , I will like to see what you were able to do by yourself , love your videos thanks for showing them
Evan you are so knowledgeable about so many how to do’s. You even love to cook. And you don’t brag about your gift at all. You are AWESOME on the farm lifestyle..
I do not envy you the weather in Iillionis, I was born and raised just north of Chicago. I moved to southern California at 14. That was 1959. I now live in Oregon half way between Portland and Salem. Incredible country, forest everywhere. Take care/be well.
There’s nothing better than the feeling you have once you’ve lit everything up proper especially if you gone to LEDs, knowing it isn’t costing hardly anything for it all . This is an incredible transformation! Love it!!!! I especially love the idea of the Chicken light timer. I will be adding that here in the near future. Brilliant! We don’t have issue with frozen water but a few times each year but I love what you’ve done to make it work. Thank you for sharing!
Very Good Video.
Great job complements 👍
Looking Good .
Nice of the goats to help!
Very nice work, professional job!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to chuckle at the inquisitive goats! Love it that you are actually USING the barn, not just fixing it up.
We already have electricity to our barn, but was excited to see how you set yours up because we need to upgrade/update ours. Thank you for a fun to watch vid! By the way, love ❤️ the back of your shirt!
Great job Evan 👍 and beautiful farm, love it 💖
I put a led motion activated screw in light bulb that has 3 wings that flex up. I put it on the front of my coop it comes on as I walk up to the coop and I love it..... Great channel you do a good job.
Amazing job
Kudos, Evan! It looks like daylight inside those barn areas. I almost LOL'ed when you were installing the lights in the lower level and the goats kept climbing all over you! I am so happy for you now that you've gotten your bank barn wired up and are more ready for winter. Your animals are very well taken care of. Also, I am glad that you replaced all that old wiring. Better to be safe than sorry.
Ok so most people are commenting on the electrical stuff...which you did a fantastic job on. I'm looking at the goats, (mark 6:29) wanting to get in on the action....such pests but so cute. LOL
good job on all the lights
Fantastic job
Amazing transformation! Looks good. Angel from The Bay
lolol the goats love to climb on you and your ladder how cute. Wow lighting is GREAT good JOB!
You are very telented indeed!! Great job!!
Looks great all lit up. Two suggestions would be GFI outlets similar to what is used in kitchen/bathrooms and a surge protector installed at the panel. Good luck with your future projects.
Nicely done and very well documented. I like it!
I'd prolly put some outdoor box covers on your inside outlets (especially in the hayloft) to try & protect against any potential sparks.
WOW, Great job Evan! What a difference a few lights mean.
I would drill a hole in the wall and run the wire for the heated water bucket outside of the goat stall and inside of a pvc pipe to keep the goats from chewing on it. an LB with a short length of pipe through the wall all the way to the bucket should protect the wire and running it outside would keep the goats from climbing on it on the inside. Just a thought,
jack
Lights look great, very nice barn!
In our area they ran electricity to those poles and put a light on top that the electric company paid for (including the electric bill). The light shone on the area between the house and the outbuildings, and was used to convince the farmer that updating to electricity was a good idea. I believe the last farm hooked up was in the 70's but it's been awhile since I read the article. I believe the newest version of the Rural Electrification Project if for fiber optic -- we are in the middle of nowhere and have fiber optic right to the fiber optic modem!
Pretty impressive with what you have done to your barn. Thumbs up,
What a transformation. Loving it. Thank you for sharing, and God Bless from Phoenix.
I admire, I’d be too chicken to try that myself. That barn will be very cool all fixed-up!
Great work Evan. For regulating lights to the chickens you increase the lights in the morning, and then to go off when the sun is upp. The chicken should self go in when the evening comes with no light. IF you set a timer in the evening and the light goes out before the chicks sitting on the rosters, they will stay on the floor and get poopt on...or worse.
Beautiful work!
Amazing transformation! So cool. You’ve given me inspiration to farm and have animals, especially chickens! You are living THE LIFE!! God bless y’all!
Place is coming along nice Evan.
Wow! The inside of the barn looks great!
it will look better when we finally finish the inside. hopefully this winter we can get it done.
Those updates turned out awesome Evan. You've come a long way from this video . Good job👍👌🏆
Fantastic execution. I would suggest putting a motion sensor, (with a built-in day-light sensor) that automatically powers on the lights only during evenings/night time. That sensor/s can be in the middle /walkway. This also helps scare away any intruding predators.
wow! Looks fantastic! I like that you put an overabundance of lights in. You can always remove bulbs but it's alot of work to add more. Very nice work! The Mrs. must be loving not having to hold a flashlight anymore...
Yes, it is fantastic having light to do the evening chores. She is very happy.
Nice Job!!! I appreciate your videos!
Fantastic job !!!! slowly but surely getting stuff done !!!!
Love what you guys have done with the barn, a lot of work,great job, thanks for sharing, I'm loving all your videos.
Looks good to me! Great upgrade!
Congratulations on getting your lighting up looks good 👍👍🐇🐐🐖🐓🐕
Nice Job👍👍 Vinny 🇺🇸
Really great! Wonderful job.
You did really well. Evan
Barn looks great, now that we can see it all! Ha! Wiring job looks good! Your homestead is coming along awesomely! Keep on rockin!
Looking good!!!
Looks great Evan
Been binge watching your videos...great..enjoyable..entertaining 👍
Super nice job on the wiring Evan! I no how it is to have no electricity in the barn I went for 2 year before I got it done! Again great job!
looks real good will be helpful during the winter. Great job.
Chicken timer light needs to be sat 25 minutes longer. They say chickens lay better when you read a nest time story to them. LOL just kidding. I love the way you saved money by knowing how to do electrical work.
Great Job! One drawback... A farmer's job runs from daylight to dark. You just added a few more hours to your day. Ouch! 👍
Great job on the lights man, the barn is coming together. God bless
Good job. Lots of power. 2 suggestions; 1. motion detector lights instead of day night lights outside on backside and front of barn 2. outside covers on outlets to keep mud daubers out and water gets splashed around when using hoses also hens may peck at outlets.
FYI for your unused outlets you might want to put child protectors on them to keep the dirt, dust, bugs etc out of them
That’s a fine job you’ve done there. I’m really proud of you. Your electrical skills are very impressive 😇👍😁🧐🌻🤓
I'm glad to see/read that no one is giving you a hard time about the condition of the barn and the cobwebs. *YOU HAD NO LIGHT* How the heck were you supposed to have cleaned all that out? Good job.
Impressive!! Good thinking on the dusk-til-dawn lights. The only thing that i can think of that you might want to adjust, is to find a way to protect the heated water bucket cords from the goats teeth... you know about Murphy's Law.....🤷♀️
The heated water buckets and bowls actually come with a metal spring like coil covering the extension cord to prevent animals from chewing on them.
Man will that ever help. Looks really great.
Awsome barn.
Great video
Heating and cooling is easy in your barn with it built into the hillside but with more animals you might consider some ventilating fans on thernostates.
You might look into a conduit expansion sleeve which moves up or down when the earth settles or the frost moves up it won't pull on your wire. John
That is a good idea.
Gonna need sunglasses for the animals now...then wifi for em too
Really interesting thanks for making the effort to film
Great work
Great info video my friend.
Goats are so funny and curious.
I also love when there is a lot of light
Great job on the wiring. Just be careful because one electrical spark could catch that barn on fire pretty quick. The lights in the hayloft in our old barn are encased in glass so if they spark or burst nothing will fall & catch the hay or straw on fire.
These are LED bulbs and they dont have filaments, so they shouldn't create sparks if broken. They should be safer than traditional bulbs.
@@CountryViewAcres I figured you had used LED's. Just more friendly word of caution when it comes to barns & electricity. Never seen anything bad in person but don't want to either. Fellow farmer (grain & former beef cattle) from Parkersburg, IL. Our farm was started after the Civil War & our barn is 133 years old.
awesome job on the wiring .i enjoyed watching.thank you for sharing.
Good job Evan. Did you have to get a inspection done for your electrical work. About your new hay field. May your hay be plentiful and your animals abundant. Thanks for the video. The lower livestock area looks great.
The is no inspectors and no building permits where I am. When I built my house the only government official was the guy approving the septic system.
Great video!!!
Man there isn't a thing you can't do looks amazing I bet it makes everything alot Better and easy on y'all
your barn has come a long ways and looks great , love how bright it is with lighting now. great job and hope the field takes off too.
You could also put couple dim night lights on the center of the lofts
Nice work. After having wired a number of barns for people over the years, I would recommend using MC cable (metal clad) over romex. It is just regular wire with a steel sheath wrapped around it, while it is a bit more expensive it keeps the wire less subject to damage and chewing from mice. If you find the lights in the barn are not quite bright enough, you may want to look into so High Bay lights for in there. The L.E.D. ones are real nice and coming down in price all the time. The bulbs you have in there seem to be working rather well, though, so that is all up to you.
The romex wire was only on the ceiling. Everything that came down from the ceiling was in conduit. I thought about MC cable but decided to go with romex.
All you need now is a couple cows in stalls, and a horse! Just something to think about. Farm Looks great!
Are you an electrician? Must be nice to get things like that done when you want to.😊
Great looking electrical job. Of course, the Goats get some of the credit. ;-) Thank you for another informative and interesting video. Art in CA
Nice to be able to do it yourself. I would be required to run all the wires in conduit per code here.
Thanks for the outside lights. We have a barn and you answered my question re: a control switch on dusk to dawn. We just completed the underground to it as well. So far, we only have one outlet cuz we are deciding what to use and where to place things. We have alot of mice, so exposted wire would not be an option. Great Job and looks really nice
Jill Seward we had mice too, so we enclosed everything in 1 inch conduit, and it works great!
Love your videos Evan! Great stuff as always.
Just a minor video tip: maybe try practicing looking right at the camera eye instead of the screen as you film yourself. It’s a little tricky till you get used to it but then all your viewers would see you as looking right at us instead of off to our left.
Thanks!
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I'd suggest setting the dusk to dawn light come on 15mins after dusk so all the chickens run home
Very nice job! A couple of thoughts regarding what you did and what I would have probably done.
I would have probably used some electrical putty then tape over the splices. Also, I would either use GFCI breakers or GFCI outlets. Even with no running water it is still "outdoors" and "exposed" somewhat. I am by no means an electrician so I could be wrong about my suggestions.
Yes, the barn would be considered a wet location and would require GFCI protection by code.
Goats love u bro
Unprotected extension cords for water heaters in the goat stalls? Run the cord thru conduit.
Looks to be a well-thought-out plan. Nice job! Do you follow any of the homesteaders on UA-cam? There is a gardener in New Jersey that has turned his backyard into a food Forest including fruit trees all kinds of vegetables I really compact with a lot of different things. The reason why I mentioned this is when you has a tree cut down and had it cut into mulch, he's used all mulch real sick to cut down on the weeds. Some of the homesteaders I have watched use portable hen houses and move them around to fertilize, thinking about that dip area you have that is hard to mow. Some moves are goats and Hogs and chickens all around to fertilize and help with ground maintenance. I do enjoy following your videos you're doing a great job. Thanks for sharing.
I watch lots of homesteads on youtube, but I am not aware of the gardener in New Jersey you are referring to.
@@CountryViewAcres the gardening Channel with James p r i g i o n i is the one from New Jersey
I think you said you had 60-amp service? I have a 25x75’ shed to wire up. I’ll need to provide probably 5 lights - 2 in the open half and 3 in the enclosed half. I’ll want a few directed lights, like over the workbench and maybe a motion sensor over the personnel door. I have a couple work lights for specific projects that need more in different places. And maybe 4 quad receptacle outlets. But I want to be able to run a 240V welder. So I’m doing some thinking about configuration and total amps. Good to see your solutions and the comments too. Thanks.
What a great job. We have just renovated the barn structure and siding on a very similar building and now we are ready to plan electricity and dig trenches.
Evan, did you run any 3 phase ?
And, could you list the parts that you used ?
just wonder is any of the outlets are GFCI ground fault plugs? Looking good a lot of work
No, none of the outlets are GFCI. They are all inside the barn, and no running water in the barn. Just buckets of water.
I always set my timer to come on around 3 am to give my chickens extra light hours. The timer turns off the light when the sun is up. Seems to be a bit more natural for them to go to roost at dusk If they are not on the roost when your light goes off at night they wont move in the dark. Judith B
The believe the dusk till dawn light makes enough light through the windows for them to get up on the roosts. But I will sneak out there and double check.
Wow :O Nice job ;)