Installing Windrow Deflectors on the Hay mower, Apple Harvest & Chickens on the way to Freezer Camp.
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Hi, Evan and Rebekah! You have no idea the amount of entertainment and pleasure you bring to me. It’s heartwarming to see a young couple living their dream. You bless me with every video.
For future apple harvests, you might want to handle those apples more gently, and also dry them off before you put them in storage. I’m afraid you may end up with bruised and moldy apples this time, unless you intend to pull them for further processing very soon. You can get fruit harvesting bags that you wear with a harness/belt in front of you like an apron to pick into.
Absolutely never handle apples like that, can’t imagine what will happen
Since the apples were wet when putting them in the refrigerator they will need paper towels to keep them from molding. I believe I would store them in the basement; in and unheated room. Apples will not keep long in the refrigerator !
I Love your Channel !!
Your Genuine, Honest, and deserving of every Success you strive for. Well done Evan & Rebecca 👍👍
Apples last much longer in storage when they are handled with care, not tossed around like rocks and bruised up.
Your cows n calves are going to love you this winter!
For storing apples or other harvested items, it's advised to not get the fruit wet as it will spoil sooner. Keep the natural layer of dirt on the apples till you are ready to eat them and they will last longer. You can put some paper towels down or newspaper as another viewer recommended to keep the dirt off the shelves
I truly enjoy watching you two work together. The way your wife looks at you and the way you look back, they're is truly love involved. I applaud you. I should be so lucky.
Nothing like the smell of fresh picked farm apples. Heading into the fall harvest and food abundance.
Pool noodles makes a great “adjustment” when trying to figure what works with your sheet metal alterations. Heck - maybe even semi-permanent!
I got to say, your pigs are really looking good. They are gaining really well.
As always an awesome video my friends and all the best for next adventure with your farming and the family and friends
Pure Entertainment. Great Watch..❤
I love your videos. It is fun watching them. To see how you do things.
Twist and pull when you pick apples
Thanks for the video love it Evan ,Rebekah .
Evan succeeds again 👍👍👍
Love watching❤.
You guys certainly keep busy with fall coming the harvest is on.
When you pick the apples you must lift up while you hold the apples and don't pull them off.
You also probably bruised most of them by handling them roughly.
I use to raise pears and apples if you need any advice!!
Yep, they aren't rocks.
Great job
Good luck with the equipment modification. That silage is really high. Thank you for sharing.
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I am 76 my grand father used to store root vegetables and cabbages in barrels of sand he would layer the sand and vegetables
You and Rebekah have the farming down to a science and I am glad to see it working so well for you two.
I think the most trouble you will have in your silage process will be baleing it, it is a special baler that is used. A silage baler has heaver pickup teeth/tines and a different roll starter. Good luck, because cows love silage.
Your dedication to optimizing your farm equipment, preparing for apple harvest, and caring for your chickens is truly commendable. It’s clear that your hard work and attention to detail create a thriving and harmonious homestead. Watching your process is both educational and inspiring. And I am Floating Village Life, Hit follow and let's explore together!
Love watching your videos. Can't wait to see what Rebekah makes with all those apples.
Awesome , gotta love it when a plan comes together !!!!! 😊🙏👍❤️
The sound in the left channel dropped out at the 13:28 edit. I know this because I am deaf in the right ear, partially deaf in the left and I was wearing headphones so as not to wake my family at 6:15 A.M. I had to swing the headphones around to pick up sound again.
Apart from that minor hiccup, as always I greatly appreciate your upload, and was both entertained and informed. Thank you.
I love it when Rebekah joins you :-)
My family always picked apples in the fall and my dad wrapped each apple in newspapers put them in boxes and stored them in the attic.
They stayed good all through ❤🇺🇸😉😉
This video got me hungry for an apple, went to frig and I'm all out! Store tomorrow since I don't have my own apple tree. As a kid, I used to know where every fruit tree in town was.
Yea!thanks Evan and Rebekah! Always enjoy!
FYI I volunteered for an organic orchard in Canada couple years ago run by a couple that were in their 80s ..they had 50 rows of 50 trees each - roughly 9 different species - they had trimmed every single tree so that they could be picked from the ground by hand. That’s what I did -I helped get the last batch of apples off probably a dozen rows or so ..I’m only 6’ 2” & was able to reach everything from the ground ,they had a basket with a belt through the handles that I put over my neck and it hung down about waist level, I could pick with both hands until I got it full enough and then took it to a big basket that they moved with the forks on the tractor. Made the whole process very quick, no ladder - no handtools… enjoy the channel -the two of you make such a terrific team. blessings to you and yours.
Every time I come watch one of your videos, I get the itch to get more animals... My son put his home in my pasture so I am going to have to develop a new section of property before I can get more cattle going. Maybe doing a batch of meat birds will hold me over until I can accomplish that. Nice work, Guys!
When I picked apples at an orchard we had Harvest Apple Picking Bags. Made picking apples a whole lot easier. You should check them out. They are a canvas basket that hangs on your shoulders in front and as you pick the apples (or other fruit) you just put them in the basket. The bottom of the basket is just a flap that latches to the top so when the basket is full, you unlatch and just empty it through the bottom of the basket into your container. Check them out. They allow you to pick apples hands free.
I bet those deflectors will work really good in shorter grass. You could probably take you some rubber and bolt to those deflectors & let it slide across the top of cutter so you could still adjust the deflectors & but it would stop the grass from hanging up in there. Great video always enjoy & always trying to take some pointers away for my channel. Thanks Evan & Rebekah!
Hello Evan and Rebekah, you two are getting so much done. It’s a good feeling filling the freezer and storing up apples and getting the hay ready for bailing. Enjoyed the video. Have a great evening. Donald and Lisa
Greetings from Stillwater (OK), Evan and Rebekah!
Go Pokes!
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Hi to both of you. Enjoying your channel, especially the longer videos and happy to hear Evan was able to go full-time at the farm. Just a tip: Keep the apples as dry as possible…don’t get them wet or wash any til you’re ready to use them. They’ll rot a lot faster. Michigan here…apple and cherry orchards everywhere 🙂
Pigs making their own apple sauce 😅
You could try fitting door draft excluder brush strips to the new deflectors to stop the grass getting caught
Keeping up with all the harvesting and the haying with all the other projects during the summer is a real chore. Things are looking good, thanks for sharing and I hope you both have a great evening!
Good job well your just foreging ahead
Hey Evan and Rebeca I love watching y’all’s videos. Evan I would love to see you restore that disc bine and get some nice color on it. that would be cool. ❤
It's gonna take at least two days to get sorghum Sudan to be dry enough for silage bales that stuff really holds moisture. We have baled it into silage bales as well as chopped if for silage juice will run out of it.
Amazing, I saw this video drop and while watching it, the Thumbs up went from around 200 to 1.2K by the end of the video! Outstanding work Evan.
thats alot of chicken ha ha ha thanks for shareing your videos with us i really enjoy all your works and the life of a family enjoying life
I think that you're both doing great and I know you're just getting started as full time small holders.
Many of those marked apples could have been turned into apple sauce or pulp for pies, the pigs will convert them into flesh but I think it's a missed opportunity to go straight to them.
Hey Evan. Can you pick up on old Dozer and push some trees down to expand your fields ???? Thanks for the great videos. 👍👍👍👍👍
I wouldn’t worry about the grass hanging. When you cut regular pasture, it probably won’t do that.
Wings you made are nice. Just close up big opening on top and bend right factory reflector. Good luck on siliage
Apple flavored bacon! YUM YUM!
The round baler should work better if the windrow is a little wider than the bale with the gathering wheels crowding the hay in on the edges. That should help keep the ends of the round bales well formed without needing to zig zag on top of the windrow
If you have some extra rubber laying around, you could run a strip over the top of each deflector ,which could possibly prevent the Sudan from hanging up in your hay bine.
Doing a great job.. Love your vidios..
Great video as always . Good job on the deflectors .You might be able to bolt a piece of rubber to fill gap above it to keep hay from going over top or even a metal plate could be bolted on to baler in front of deflector to deflect it down before it gets to deflector . Enjoying all your vids as always .
We just finished our fair broilers yesterday. We were around 12 Oz a breast average we were right around 100lb of breast and full legs from 29 birds
From old white haired farmer i dairyed and used sudan grass for dry hay green chop and chop to silo for silage very good feed and many ways to feed it to use for dry hay better if short and lot's of leaves really enjoy your channel
Good luck my friend 👍👋👋👏👏👏🇲🇦🇺🇸
Mmmmm I see an apple pie in your future. Lol
Evan, could you do a price per pound once you butcher the rest of the chickens? It would be interesting to see what it costs per pound to raise your own vs buy in the store. Obviously quality wise there’s no comparison but the numbers would still be interesting.
The best way to "consume" apples is to make apple cider.
I use a shredder attachment on a Kitchen Aid mixer to shred the fruit, and a hand crank cider press to make the juice. I'll bet those Gala apples would make superb cider, too!
I find it takes eight pounds of apples to make a quart of apple cider.
After you squeeze out the juice, you are left with the crushed apple cores and skins, which I bet would make the hogs deliriously happy!
If you are storing the apples for just eating, you need to handle them gently, so the don't bruise, and not just dump them into the container.(from an old uncle who was an orchard man.
Good Luck on the new bales
You might consider slower ground speed for haybine due to larger stalk/stem of the forage sorghum.
Sorghum sudan is a very wet crop. 3 or 4 days of drying would be better. Even then it'll probably still be over 50% moisture. I lay mine out as wide as the conditioner allows, leave it lay 4 days then rake it then bale or chop it
We had the same Gehl baler as you only it was the silage special model. If I remember correctly the manual recommended a max diameter of 4 foot for silage bales.
Keep the apples with spots. Then give them to the pigs 2 - 3 weeks before you harvest the pigs, the meat will be more tender. the meat is even more tender with oranges, lemons, and limes.
So that’s how you make apple bacon! LOL
My parents had three apple trees in the back yard, the wild turkeys clean off the trees the week before they were going to harvest. To take care the top gap, attach a strip of rubber and use square wire locking pins. Thanks for the video.
Even the factory deflectors caught grass above them. Anytime we bale to wet wrap we never make a full size bale they are just too heavy to handle
I see you give Rebekah the heavy side of the Chicken Cage 🐣😂
Yeh ah, those little black dots on the apples is bugs, they lay eggs and then worms hatch...
If you don't spray it'll only get worse.
We took out 3 apple trees because of it.
The windrow deflectors on the "Just a Few Acres Farm " hay mower stick out the back by nearly four feet. Maybe if you extended yours they might work better. Maybe??
Hi guys!
Do the cows not get any of the fruit? Our cows always loved the apples from the orchard. It was about the only time they wanted contact with us is if we had apples to offer!
I like your methodology on how you go about the modification of your cutter. I would suggest adding the deflector on the opposite side of the one in the middle to made and one on top that you said was missing. I think you will be pleased with that
can make apple juice and cider
can apple sauce also can make / can pie filling
apple juice it good if can blend a variety of apple when pressing
can feed pulp to pigs or cows and chickens
I have one apple on my tree and I think it's because we had a late freeze. Also the peaches had the same problem. The year before the deer ate everything. This is the first year we have fed the deer and turkeys all year. Keeps the deer out of the garden.
Good video
Great video Evan and Rebecca, lots of good food in the freezer and more to come. Glad you got the Hay Mower on the right course and looking forward to seeing how your Silage Bales turn out. Stay safe and keep up the great video's and fun around there. Fred.
Chickens are competition eaters.. they want what the other guy has... 2 new hoses and save the good used one just in case...
To cover up the opening on the cutter, get truck mud guards and mount them over the opening.
Those apples look so good , some nice apple pies coming❤
Maybe you should tell us about silage. Nice work.
Those will be well bruised apples with all that rough treatment.
Put some damp paper towels in with your apples to keep them from losing moisture. Apples lose moisture in the refrigerator, especially Galas. They will start to shrivel up without some moisture. Check the paper towels weekly.
Thanks for posting Guys
Maybe you can fab a piece to cover that big air gap and push the grass down to where it belongs?
Nice chickens! 😋
The squirrels got all my apples! How do you keep squirrels out of yours? I could not harvest my pears, apples or peaches without my picker.
could you bolt rubber flaps over the and on top of the deflectors to keep the grass from catching up I would think rubber would be a cheaper and easier fix than using metal and welding
Give it a go! You are the man!
Good job you all!
Brilllllliant - thanks for sharing ⛵️ 👍
Try using Kaolin clay to minimize insect damage to fruit trees. It is completely organic and is sold at many farm stores. Good luck.
Enjoy your videos!
suggestion to make smaller bales as the weight may be to much for safe handling if make full size bale
An Orchard is alot of Work looks like
Seems like the narrower the windrow the higher it is and the longer it will take to dry. It will be a balancing act depending on the weather forecast and how long it takes to dry.