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Fortner Farms
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2024
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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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 and plowing with Jane and the crew
Plowing with a horse
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Plowing/cultivating out taters and cabbage with a single horse
Family fun. Skeet shoot on Memorial Day
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Family fun. Skeet shoot on Memorial Day
Planting corn with a single horse
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Planting some of the last field corn with Jane. With the help of Josh Ellis and Katie
Plowing with horses and mules
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Clips of old plowing of myself and friends. Hope you enjoy!
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
How did you train your mule to take such small strides? She reminds me of a Paso Fino saddle horse.
Just making her walk slow in the field all her life. When you’re cultivating you have to be slow about it to do a good job at it.
@@EthanFortner61 Well you did good! At my age I move a lot slower these days and a mule like her is a blessing!
Nice looking , sturdy mules, which obviously work very well. Wishing you success with your channel, greetings from NW Missouri.
Thank you sir
There is no way to leave a Comment on your second post. Can you add a Comment button one that post? Comments help your channel grow. It helps your You Tube algorithm to help your channel grow. 🤗👍
Jane is a beauty and well trained. Did you plow train her or did you get her already trained? I just subscribed and looking forward to following along.
I bought her in Ohio as a yearling
Nice looking mare. How do you get those furrows so straight?
Good straight walking horse and voice commands lol
I can’t watch. Too many carbon somethings.
Reminds me of my dad plowing the garden when I was growing up. I miss those days 😔
Thank you for sharing your story ❤️ 🙏 😊
Look better if it was a red horse.
Awesome thanks for sharing