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Fortner Farms
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Family Farm in the western North Carolina mountains of Jackson county.
We grow cabbage, potatoes, and sorghum cane for making syrup with draft animal power as well as modern equipment.
We grow cabbage, potatoes, and sorghum cane for making syrup with draft animal power as well as modern equipment.
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Making sorghum syrup. “Molasses”
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Lost my fall crops due to the hurricane. So I put together some old video from over the years.
Farming cabbage
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Since we lost our fall cabbage crop due to drought and all that’s been going on is waiting on syrup making time; I thought I’d put this video together. Hope you enjoy.
A GOOD PAIR OF MULES
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Bidding fair well to the best mules I’ve ever owned. Dolly and Lou. I will always love you.
Cultivating with mules
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Plowing corn and cane with turner riding cultivator
Cultivating with horses and mules. Who does it better
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Horse or mule who’s side you on
Horse drawn wagon. WNC 2024 wagon train.
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67th annual wagon train. WNC Cullowhee NC
Hip strap harness and cultivating with Dolly
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Cultivating. Plowing with mule
Planting corn and plowing sorghum with a horse
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Planting corn and plowing sorghum with a horse
Family fun. Skeet shoot on Memorial Day
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Family fun. Skeet shoot on Memorial Day
Este si es un barvecho
I love watching a plow turn the soil! Will have my Cub and a disc plow splitting a field soon.
I love watching a plow turn the soil! Will have my Cub and a disc plow splitting a field soon.
Nice to see a good reliable team and a good plowman doing a fine job.
Great video good to see you back hope the flood didn't do much damage keep the videos coming I will watch God Bless
there is something special about plowing with draft animals that got lost when the tractor came along, awesome video
Great great granddad did it just like that. All eight of him.
That dead grass to get rid of it is A Match 😅😅😅
It seems to be extremely dry, which doesn't make plowing any easier for the horses. We have the same problem here in NW Missouri. Yours horses certainly are holding their own.
Hope for you that the next year will be better. Unfortunately climate change, long denied by certain people, is undeniably here and will bring unforeseeable challenges.
Sorry to hear about your loss.
A good dependable horse with a steady gait in a nice cabbage patch- what a joy! Sorry about your loss of fall cabbage. I am trying broccoli this fall and just came in from covering it with netting since last night rabbits gobbled up an entire row.
Love that. Your cabbage are beautiful!
Gonna miss the mules.
Good to see you back great video keep upthe great videos nice Hoss right color
I am very familiar with the weed fighting and watering in summer and have a disk just like you. But we pull it behind the forecart because that is more comfortable for me at my age. It is important to have a reliable horse for that work like Jane. It is good that you let her rest ever so often in the heat. I also use the scythe a lot, make windrows and then use them for mulch to suppress the weeds.
That reminds me of us planting tobacco years ago with my Farmall 140 and a Holland planter.
@@MarkWYoung-ky4uc yes sir my father in law still grows about 5 acres
Bidding 'fare well' to those good mules - you sold them ? Oh my!!
@@klauskarbaumer6302 yes sir. Want to focus on my young horses
Good video great to see you keep up the mule and horse Work God Bless
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Do you use irrigation? Here in NW Missouri it is rather difficult to plant anything at this time of the year because of the heat.
@@klauskarbaumer6302 no sir. We live in the mountains and we don’t see temps much higher than 85-90. So that helps. But the first week or so that we set them if it doesn’t rain we usually water them once or twice but after that we’re good to go.
From the point of how much man power is required one certainly would favor the animal that only requires one person, the speed can also be considered.
Great video miss the wagen train how many wageons were on the train this time God Bless
I have got a cultivator just like that that was my uncle John Darby,s. I have it set up as a driveway ornament at my home.
Great video them riding cultivators work great nothing more relaxing than riding one thanks 😊
Good looking cane patch we grow cane for molasses and a pair of dapple mules when they were young nowthew are white bad luck lost one this week good looking mule we went on The Western N C Wagon Train for fourteen years missed the last three years Great video just found your channel to hours ago we live in w N C
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Now, these are some impressive cabbages. When did you plant them? Ours are not nearly as big and not even ready yet to be harvested.
@@klauskarbaumer6302 thank you sir I set these I think on April 16th
Nice work and the mules are taking the hot weather in stride. I have a cultivator like that but used it primarily for hilling potatoes with disk attached to the shanks.
@@klauskarbaumer6302 many good uses come out of these old cultivators
Thanks for letting us tag along while you cultivated your corn. It's been a long time since l have done that. It brought back good memories. Keep up the good work.
I'd have to side with Dolly. I like her slower pace.
I know it's the modern way, but why are you "Fortner Farms"? Do you own more than one farm? Nice to see that many people participate in the wagon train. It takes well behaved horses and mules to do that. I know that, because I did carriage rides and hay rides for the public for many years.
@@klauskarbaumer6302 not really but we have fields that we don’t own but people let us use. So we’re spread out a little. We don’t do everything on our land that we own personally
Why no cropper on the mule on the left?
@@michaelstumpf3646 I knew this question was coming ha I broke it the last wagon train on Memorial Day and never did fix one back.
Chris’ seat was leaning pretty hard to the right!!😂😂
You seem to have two teams of mules, a Belgian mule and a Percheron mule team and then I also saw a Percheron in one of your videos, right? Your farm is obviously multi-generational operation where everybody cooperates.
@@klauskarbaumer6302 I don’t have the bay mules anymore but they were good ones! And yes have a team of Belgian mules and a team of “ old style” Percheron’s now. And yes 4 generations helping farm right now!
@@EthanFortner61 Congratulations on your common sense: Multigenerational cooperation and farming with renewable energy sources which equines are as they basically live from solar power( grass, hay etc) is the way to go and is sustainable and conscionable. I wish you all the success and good fortune you deserve.
@@klauskarbaumer6302 thank you sir
Good stuff. Keep the videos coming!
Love it beautiful place. Looks like a healthy honest way of living.ive got some of my grandfather's old team equipment. reminds of plowing out corn and tobacco down by the creek at my home in Kentucky.
It must be such a great joy and satisfaction to cultivate with a good mule, as cooperative as Dolly!
@@klauskarbaumer6302 it most definitely is
One of my earliest childhood memories was seeing my grandfather plowing with a mule. I love that memory! Oh how much we've lost with mechanasion.
@@JamesBond-qd5rc true
I liked the mules’ look when the truck was loading logs.
@@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 they were probably thinking why that truck couldn’t do all the work ha
Love the videos. Glad you turned comments on. You working with Dolly got me watching ya. Subscribed too. Kinda northeastern / eastern Kentucky here.
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Wow, that mule does a great job!!
I like what your Doing. beautiful country. Love a good plow mule or horse.
That is a fine looking place with the mountains rising above your farm valley. It reminds me of eastern Tennessee and western NC. I have driven the route many times from Cleveland Tn to Bryson City and your place looks so familiar sitting in the curve of the road.
I’m in Cullowhee
Yes sir. Great video.
Mule bondage crossed my mind when seeing the thumbnail 😂 I'm a normal thinking person right 😅😅😅😅 😂
I could watch this all day. Really enjoyed the hay video❤
Thank you! Hopefully second cutting I won’t be as busy and can get a good video out of some hay work
@@EthanFortner61 yes sir. I’ve seen that old man on a video somewhere else doing molasses I believe
@@EthanFortner61 that cultivating video was great. My farmalls couldn’t have did a better job. The mules are truly a lost art
He’s my father in law. Buster Norton from Madison county nc. He on that faces of Appalachia channel some.
@@EthanFortner61 ok that’s it. I knew I’ve saw him somewhere else before
I’m definitely subscribed. I want me a mule bad lol don’t know why. A red 1 so I can name he or she farmall. It amazes me that mule didn’t step on no plants. My farmall couldn’t have did a better job
Keep em coming!
Great job with a very cooperative mule! Must be a joy. Twelve years is no age at all for a mule. I like your implement, too: It's built in a way that doesn't clog easily.
Yes sir it runs smooth. I like it better than a 4 foot cultivator