Cindy and I say hello. Thank you for sharing. We have great respect for the Amish. And it's nice that they allow you to video what you have. We can all learn from them. We have some Amish living here on PEI too. Your gardens looks great. Looking forward to seeing what you will grow. Have a wonderful long weekend. From PEI
Another great video, Jim, takes me back about 75 years or so...Thanks for showing what you do of your Amish friends, I’ve never had the pleasure being around or knowing any but I’ve heard they are the best people to know. God Bless y’all! 👍👍👍👍👍
Always fun to watch your videos. I admire the soil you have. I live on the gulf coast of Florida and we have sand. I have worked for years to add compost and mulch but in the end it’s still sand! This year I am using the community mulch pile and putting down 8 inches of mulch and so far it’s working. I have to grow my food crops in containers from landscape trees. Today I have fresh tomatoes and peppers so I am very happy. I can’t wait to see your garden grow! Thanks for the video!
nice job Jim and Brenda. this is a great time of year when things grow so well and feed so many. I have my tomatoes but cut back on other things due to health reasons. Have a productive summer and i always enjoy your videos.
Good Job! A biddable team. No hesitation when asked to work. They trusted you in a new situation. Just a taste of what our grandfathers dealt with on a regular bases. I know you are proud of that team.
Hi Jim great to see another piece of equipment in use I cant remember if dad had a set of discs he had a single row cultivator like the one you moved to the garden because we grew a lot of strawberry's ,I think that there was sharing of tools with my uncle that farmed next door.so stay safe and say hi to your good lady for me she does a great job on the camera
The golden rule of farming.When the wife says she wants the garden work today you DO NOT say maybe. They may tell you MAYBE I will make Dinner 🍽 today. The garden was the most important field on the farm. It fed all of us well. Happy 😃 gardening all.Thanks
Nice job. I like the way you can adjust your setting on your disk, mine is much less user friendly. For my garden since we seem to have years that are very wet early on I have gone to making hilled rows with my plow after doing all the prep you have done. I just go down and back with the plow and make a ridge, then make another ridge etc until I have a series of plowed up ridges. I then take my horse cultivator down the aisle to smooth out the bottom of the "dead furrow". I have found in my heavy soil this makes better ridge than my McCormick-Deering 2 horse cultivator set with disks. The heavy soil always straightens the disks up or makes the raise row too shallow. The raised row improves drainage and we don't have plants "drown" the year's we have a wet spring right after planting. It does require more water though when it gets hot. Guess I can't really win. ;)
Great video folks..reminds me of my youth..I'm certainly familiar with the amish community, they colonized the area here in west central wisconsin in the early 70s ..a great asset to the area..I use their services often..
Brenda, not only quicker than with the Roto-tiller, but the disk is also better for the soil, since it doesn't destroy earth-worms. You are way behind us here in Northwest Missouri, I have 15 different vegetables planted, from arugula to tomatoes, and we are already harvesting radishes and spinach. I know you are much further north, yet your perennials look very nice. And your soil looks good.
Yes, we are way behind you! It has been very warm here and hopefully the garden will grow quickly. Hope your gardens are doing well, sounds like they are!
Nice way to take the edge off of Bill and the Garden. I really like how you respect the wishes of your Amish friends and neighbors, they are wonderful people (I have known a few from Ohio and Pennsylvania, I also used to work and live in Mennonite country here in Ontario) and always found them to be fair. Another informative video Jim, and Brenda. Thanks so much! PS.........it was good to get a close up of Jason.....He is usually working in the distance!!
Good morning Jim and Brenda. Love reading Brenda's blog or vlogs, not sure what they call them. I'd like to see her write a book about all this. Very interesting. Great video, my husband and I love going to the Amish market
When I first came to this place I have now, A neighbor gave me an old set of 2 bottom plows, I didn't have a tractor at the time so I pulled the plows with my 14" van body truck. It wasn't a very neat job but I did have a garden that year. Always had cows but never had work horses
bonjour Jim et Brenda. nice video. what a harrowing experience on your old plow. have you ever fallen off the seat ? how are the singing Plough Sisters ?
Bill aristocrat of the stable. Like the way your pretty wife is always ready to jump right in and help would like to see garden tours up close progressing the kinds of things yall plant. The amish are good solid people i could be neighbors with them a little different but aint we all god bless yall and bill well all the horses
I've never used horses before so I'd choose a small tractor any day. But I have to say I really enjoy watching the horses work. You have beautiful animals and the work you do with them seems very efficient. And the rhythm of their work is mesmerizing. I guess that's what may be so attractive about using draft horses? Plus the love of horses, of course.
He is a bit full of himself, isn't he? I would have thought the stoneboat would have taken the edge off him. I used to pull one of those with my ponies, who were 1500 lbs total, soaking wet with shoes on, roughly 720-750 each. They weren't even Halflingers or Fjords, just little Kentucky Mountain Saddle horses crossed on an Appaloosa. It did really work them. Your soil is so much better than ours. We had really heavy clay, and the clods made the disc like riding a bronc. I used to have to hook my toes under the frame to keep from getting bucked off. Watch dropping that disc out of the trailer: it is really easy to crack the cast iron parts. Ask me how I know. I had two of those discs, one of which had a broken bracket on the tongue truck, or whatever you would call that on a disc, which had been dropped before I got it. My boss also dropped an open gear single horse mower the last couple of inches off the trailer, and shattered a wheel. One of our Amish friends was able to make it usable again by brazing in a bunch of steel patches, but it was never the same again. He only dropped it a few inches. That really makes me miss working horses. I can almost smell the fresh turned soil. I'm doing a lot of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone's methods now, and I've got tomatoes blooming right now. Kentucky is way ahead of you, and I started everything under poly tunnels to gain an extra three weeks. On my tiny urban plot, I pretty much need to double or triple crop the whole thing. I still miss having a big garden plot and those wonderful ponies.
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim I have some. We had horses on the farm for the five years I was there, and then I worked in various areas of the horse industry for another decade or so after that.
I may be wrong but I believe that if you reversed your discs they would be pulling the dirt towards the middle instead of outside and you wouldn't have the big rut or concave section in the middle. Just a thought.
I think he was implying you remove them and reassemble them facing the opposite direction. Lots of work to end up with the a similar predicament, mountains in the middle instead of valleys. Either way it needs to be smoothed.
@@justinallmond3855 yes that is what I meant and yes it would be a lot of work depending if he could unbolt the complete disc assembly and simply turn it around or reverse each individual disc. And yes the discs pulling dirt towards the inside do make a small mound in the middle but in my opinion it is not as big as the deep rut caused by the discs turned outside.
Three people riding in a pickup. Which one is the real cowboy? The one in the middle! Because they don't do the driving and they don't open gates! Cheers! Whipple
Do you have a horse drawn implement that rakes out the stones to a set depth? It would certainly be useful,I have viewed mechanical machines on UA-cam.Another great video love to the family👍🇬🇧
Good day Boy with tractor you can't hear ground rubbing on disc plates. Yea I thought to hard on 1 horse, but wasn't puffing too much. Good job, some things modern machinery can't match.. Yet all our horse neighbors are selling there machinery & getting in custom. Can't figure it out. There machinery is going to Amish. Thanks
It's kinda good to have Bill burn off some of that energy. I had to do that with one of my quarter horses. Ride him a little bit more. He was a fine horse just a little on the nervous side. But horses are a lot like people and life in general.
Last month at a consignment auction, I got a disk like that and a JD 999 two row planter. Planter needs a lot of work, but disk is ready to go. The disk doesn't have the front wheels yours does. Is that necessary?
In our part of the world a "harrow"is much different than this disc. Hope I don't come across as a wise guy. A harrow has spikes that flatten the surface out.
Cindy and I say hello. Thank you for sharing. We have great respect for the Amish. And it's nice that they allow you to video what you have. We can all learn from them. We have some Amish living here on PEI too. Your gardens looks great. Looking forward to seeing what you will grow. Have a wonderful long weekend. From PEI
Hello Barry and Cindy! That's interesting that there are Amish living in PEI
Another great video, Jim, takes me back about 75 years or so...Thanks for showing what you do of your Amish friends, I’ve never had the pleasure being around or knowing any but I’ve heard they are the best people to know. God Bless y’all! 👍👍👍👍👍
They are nice folks. God bless you as well
You and Bill make me wish I was younger! My dream was to have a small farm and to use horses like my Grandpa did. He always favored Belgians.
Bill handled that real nice.Not hard to tell he is in good shape.He is well cared for!
he did a great job
I am living vicariously watching you disc a garden with a beautiful horse.
Thanks for watching
I like that you are respectful of the Amish believes and culture.
Always fun to watch your videos. I admire the soil you have. I live on the gulf coast of Florida and we have sand. I have worked for years to add compost and mulch but in the end it’s still sand! This year I am using the community mulch pile and putting down 8 inches of mulch and so far it’s working. I have to grow my food crops in containers from landscape trees. Today I have fresh tomatoes and peppers so I am very happy. I can’t wait to see your garden grow! Thanks for the video!
Sounds like mulching and amending the soil is working well for you! It has made a difference here too!
Good morning. Glad your looking out for each other. Mom would say a bit of kindness goes a long way.
We try to look out for each other.Your mother was right!
This is truly working the land. Brenda sounds ready to plant her garden. I wish her luck as she dose her planting.
🐴🐴😷👍
Yes she is
Well done. Garden almost ready to plant.
Right, and that will be coming up soon
Hats off to your respect of your neighbours. If only more people would realize that being different isn't wrong, it's just different.
Very true
Well done Jim love to watch the horses working
Hi Jim, nice equipment. It´s really great cultivating the garden with horses. Farm on, Andreas
Nice job by all. Thanks for the video and take care, Al
Thanks Al, you take care as well!
nice job Jim and Brenda. this is a great time of year when things grow so well and feed so many. I have my tomatoes but cut back on other things due to health reasons. Have a productive summer and i always enjoy your videos.
You too! Happy gardening!
Good job, Bill! (And good job, Jim!)
Good Job! A biddable team. No hesitation when asked to work. They trusted you in a new situation. Just a taste of what our grandfathers dealt with on a regular bases. I know you are proud of that team.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing. I do enjoy watching your post and you all make a great team working togeter. Have a nice safe day!!
Thank you! You too!
Hi Jim great to see another piece of equipment in use I cant remember if dad had a set of discs he had a single row cultivator like the one you moved to the garden because we grew a lot of strawberry's ,I think that there was sharing of tools with my uncle that farmed next door.so stay safe and say hi to your good lady for me she does a great job on the camera
Thanks for sharing about some of your experience. You stay safe as well. Brenda says hello and thanks
The golden rule of farming.When the wife says she wants the garden work today you DO NOT say maybe. They may tell you MAYBE I will make Dinner 🍽 today. The garden was the most important field on the farm. It fed all of us well. Happy 😃 gardening all.Thanks
Haha. Thanks, so truth there!
Always great to see things getting into place so you can start on the garden.
It sure is!
good job great weather for working the ground.thanks for the video
Yes, it's been really nice weather here
That bill would have been my horse when I was a kid ,lots of go ,I love them Belgians they are so powerful looking animals
.🌺🧅🥕🍅🍆🥒😎😁💗 Nice .Have a Great Relaxing Weekend you guys!!
Thanks, you as well Sandi
Nice. He almost took off after you adjusted the discs! Easier! You're a lucky lady, Brenda.
Brenda agrees, thanks for watching Louise!
this is a good old archives video..before we joined...nice
Thank's for sharing Jim you guys have a beautiful farm stay safe and God bless you and your family
Thanks, you too!
Nice job. I like the way you can adjust your setting on your disk, mine is much less user friendly. For my garden since we seem to have years that are very wet early on I have gone to making hilled rows with my plow after doing all the prep you have done. I just go down and back with the plow and make a ridge, then make another ridge etc until I have a series of plowed up ridges. I then take my horse cultivator down the aisle to smooth out the bottom of the "dead furrow". I have found in my heavy soil this makes better ridge than my McCormick-Deering 2 horse cultivator set with disks. The heavy soil always straightens the disks up or makes the raise row too shallow. The raised row improves drainage and we don't have plants "drown" the year's we have a wet spring right after planting. It does require more water though when it gets hot. Guess I can't really win. ;)
Yes, it is always had to know whether you will have a wet or dry year and how to prepare the soil. Sounds like our soils are a lot alike
Great video folks..reminds me of my youth..I'm certainly familiar with the amish community, they colonized the area here in west central wisconsin in the early 70s ..a great asset to the area..I use their services often..
Yes, they are great people
Props Jim but your GPS looked pretty stop on with each pass awesome thanks for sharing
Spot on sorry
Thanks 👍
Hi Bill did great job loved video 👍👋
Awesome thank you!
Fine looking vegetable garden plot. Nice soil now for the plants
That thing looks HEAVY! Good thing the horses are strong! LOL Bill makes it look like nothing!
Brenda, not only quicker than with the Roto-tiller, but the disk is also better for the soil, since it doesn't destroy earth-worms.
You are way behind us here in Northwest Missouri, I have 15 different vegetables planted, from arugula to tomatoes, and we are already harvesting radishes and spinach. I know you are much further north, yet your perennials look very nice. And your soil looks good.
Yes, we are way behind you! It has been very warm here and hopefully the garden will grow quickly. Hope your gardens are doing well, sounds like they are!
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Nice way to take the edge off of Bill and the Garden. I really like how you respect the wishes of your Amish friends and neighbors, they are wonderful people (I have known a few from Ohio and Pennsylvania, I also used to work and live in Mennonite country here in Ontario) and always found them to be fair.
Another informative video Jim, and Brenda. Thanks so much!
PS.........it was good to get a close up of Jason.....He is usually working in the distance!!
Yes, we enjoy our Amish neighbors.
Hi Jim&Brenda, I love your horses and your video's thank you so much for sharing, sending love from UK, Bill you're a good boy, x
Thanks so much, yes he is a good boy!
Well done Lads.
Thanks
Lovely pleasant speaking camera person. You’re doing an excellent job my dear. Stay safe and God bless. 🇨🇦
Thank you! You too!
GARDEN LOOKS GOOD
Oh Brenda, fresh garlic , yum yum. I try growing kohlrabi but can't get a green thumb at all. Bill is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your lifestyle!
Yes, fresh garlic is so good, I cook with it a lot. Never tried Kohlrabi. Thanks for watching
Great video again. It so fun to watch. Thanks 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it
You must have terrific garden soil with all the horse manure available to spread on it.
"Hot Laps" at 17:10!!!! Practice for the "County Fair Roman Chariot Races"....???? "Askin' fer a friend" Garden is looking good.
😅🤣😂Bill looked so funny when speed up
Good morning Jim and Brenda. Love reading Brenda's blog or vlogs, not sure what they call them. I'd like to see her write a book about all this. Very interesting. Great video, my husband and I love going to the Amish market
Brenda says thanks...glad to hear that you enjoy the blogs. Thanks for watching the videos
Kolay gelsin,beni çocukluğuma gotürdünüz sağolun. atları çok severim, çok sadıklar.
An amazing animal to say the least. 👍🐴
Jim, We need to have you come over and harrow our garden for us! Years ago I did it with a single steer. Sure miss those times.
That's cool
When I first came to this place I have now, A neighbor gave me an old set of 2 bottom plows, I didn't have a tractor at the time so I pulled the plows with my 14" van body truck. It wasn't a very neat job but I did have a garden that year.
Always had cows but never had work horses
Like always well done always enjoy your videos
Thanks again!
My parents garden was so rocky we would carry dirt in a bucket from the pasture to cover seed
Haha, now that's rocky!
bonjour Jim et Brenda. nice video. what a harrowing experience on your old plow. have you ever fallen off the seat ? how are the singing Plough Sisters ?
Bonjour, no, I haven't fallen off the seat. The singing plow sisters are doing well, thanks!
Bill aristocrat of the stable. Like the way your pretty wife is always ready to jump right in and help would like to see garden tours up close progressing the kinds of things yall plant. The amish are good solid people i could be neighbors with them a little different but aint we all god bless yall and bill well all the horses
A garden segment is coming up, yes, we are glad to have the Amish here. Thanks very much, and God bless you as well
I've never used horses before so I'd choose a small tractor any day. But I have to say I really enjoy watching the horses work. You have beautiful animals and the work you do with them seems very efficient. And the rhythm of their work is mesmerizing. I guess that's what may be so attractive about using draft horses? Plus the love of horses, of course.
Nice job, you can plant right into that
Yep, that's what we did
He is a bit full of himself, isn't he? I would have thought the stoneboat would have taken the edge off him. I used to pull one of those with my ponies, who were 1500 lbs total, soaking wet with shoes on, roughly 720-750 each. They weren't even Halflingers or Fjords, just little Kentucky Mountain Saddle horses crossed on an Appaloosa. It did really work them. Your soil is so much better than ours. We had really heavy clay, and the clods made the disc like riding a bronc. I used to have to hook my toes under the frame to keep from getting bucked off.
Watch dropping that disc out of the trailer: it is really easy to crack the cast iron parts. Ask me how I know. I had two of those discs, one of which had a broken bracket on the tongue truck, or whatever you would call that on a disc, which had been dropped before I got it. My boss also dropped an open gear single horse mower the last couple of inches off the trailer, and shattered a wheel. One of our Amish friends was able to make it usable again by brazing in a bunch of steel patches, but it was never the same again. He only dropped it a few inches.
That really makes me miss working horses. I can almost smell the fresh turned soil. I'm doing a lot of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone's methods now, and I've got tomatoes blooming right now. Kentucky is way ahead of you, and I started everything under poly tunnels to gain an extra three weeks. On my tiny urban plot, I pretty much need to double or triple crop the whole thing. I still miss having a big garden plot and those wonderful ponies.
Hi, sounds like you are making the best use of what you have. Sounds like you have a lots of horse and equipment experience
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim I have some. We had horses on the farm for the five years I was there, and then I worked in various areas of the horse industry for another decade or so after that.
Jim and Bill are disking.
Another great video Jim now when dose the book come out id like to read it if it ever dose thanks again Jim
You might have to wait a while on that one!
I may be wrong but I believe that if you reversed your discs they would be pulling the dirt towards the middle instead of outside and you wouldn't have the big rut or concave section in the middle. Just a thought.
It's not an option, the levers don't go that way
I think he was implying you remove them and reassemble them facing the opposite direction. Lots of work to end up with the a similar predicament, mountains in the middle instead of valleys. Either way it needs to be smoothed.
@@justinallmond3855 yes that is what I meant and yes it would be a lot of work depending if he could unbolt the complete disc assembly and simply turn it around or reverse each individual disc.
And yes the discs pulling dirt towards the inside do make a small mound in the middle but in my opinion it is not as big as the deep rut caused by the discs turned outside.
Three people riding in a pickup. Which one is the real cowboy?
The one in the middle!
Because they don't do the driving and they don't open gates!
Cheers!
Whipple
Haha! Brenda thinks it's a good spot!
Do you have a horse drawn implement that rakes out the stones to a set depth? It would certainly be useful,I have viewed mechanical machines on UA-cam.Another great video love to the family👍🇬🇧
No we don't, Brenda picks a lot of stones
Good video.
God bless you.
I like this beautiful horse 🙂👍👍
Amazing animal.
Good day Boy with tractor you can't hear ground rubbing on disc plates. Yea I thought to hard on 1 horse, but wasn't puffing too much. Good job, some things modern machinery can't match.. Yet all our horse neighbors are selling there machinery & getting in custom. Can't figure it out. There machinery is going to Amish. Thanks
Things are changing all the time.
Bill knows not to step in the garden. It's dangerous to make the lady of the house mad! 😊
Right!
Great video
Thanks for watching
Bill says:"This job was a piece of hay!"
1Haha
I think the disc would get deeper if Bill rode and Jim pulled. Maybe not.
Haha, I don't think it would get very far!
Hola que lindo lugar donde ese lugar me encanta 💖
Gracias
Good. Thanks.
I like it when we go to bens.
It's kinda good to have Bill burn off some of that energy.
I had to do that with one of my quarter horses.
Ride him a little bit more. He was a fine horse just a little on the nervous side. But horses are a lot like people and life in general.
I wish I could hire you to work up my logging road "food plots"
Sounds like an interesting garden!
Last month at a consignment auction, I got a disk like that and a JD 999 two row planter. Planter needs a lot of work, but disk is ready to go. The disk doesn't have the front wheels yours does. Is that necessary?
without it I think you will need a pole or shafts
Thank you. I'll MacGyver a wheel on to keep it level.
I would think when their streaight its easeyer to pull
yes
how much horses power in a tractor would it take to do that job? thanks.
Not sure
Just for my own education, if Ben lives without running water or electricity, what is the rational for him being able to use a power saw in his mill?
I don't know
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One thing is de breed Belgian, and another is the breed Ardenais ou Brabant, is not?
We own 2 Belgian horses, 2 Percherons, and also 2 Suffolk Punch colts. That is a Belgian pulling the harrows
Jim you need to weld a backrest on that seat, looks painful just watching.
It's not too bad
Can't make it too comfortable. Might nod off and drive into something!
Are the Amish stronger then average ?
Probably most are due to all the physical labor they do regularly
les meilleurs chevaux pour la traction sont Belge et plus précisément Ardennais
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When a horse is working that hard give him some slack on the rains. His mouth is open all the time trying to get some relief.
Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t
Soy de argentina córdoba
Gracias por mirar desde Argentina
In our part of the world a "harrow"is much different than this disc. Hope I don't come across as a wise guy. A harrow has spikes that flatten the surface out.
It's interesting that in different parts of the world they are called different things
I never tried marriage myself, now I am age 69.
Never give up.
Been happy for 69 years,,,,,,, 🤔 Don't put yourself through it,,,,,,
@@bustersmith5569 yup
Why no kidney drops.
коня жалко видно что ему тяжело.убрать по 2 диска
Это было сделано за короткое время, так что он
нашел это хорошо