Big admiration for Ethan he is a rock solid guy, determined to get the work done, never complains, (like he is building the silage pit in the cold and no cab) very knowledgable when it comes to spanners and with animals. A great guy!(hats off to all your family also) We get to cover our pits in summer and yes it is not a nice job so covering in November has to be really tough. Glad you have all safely gathered in, enough for your livestock. Also a big thank you to your neighbour for the use of his wagon, you would be lost without it. Happy farming ☘️
The most labor intensive job of all, is the covering. I hate when the tires splash the water that is lodged in them. Always a time to celebrate when this is done. Ye are one fantastic and united team. Take a big bow!!
Wow you guys work so hard and nice to see you work together love your videos I remember the day when Dad and my brothers stuffed the big white bags with silage
You have brought so much thought to the farmers of the world.. Great videos, of all the hard and difficult reality of what we get to enjoy out here !! Thank you Rhonda, and your hard working family, bringing so much information, out, such an education !!!! I have loved the way you have explained, everything, point by point.. I think everyone is praying for the farmers around the world, from your family's, dedication, to educating so many !!!!
This has been a good example to non farmers of how a normally enjoyable farm job can turn into weeks of miserable work .Like these folks you might as well face your day with a smile and use your experience and ingenuity to deal with the situation as best you can. So glad to see you got er done!
Yaaaaaaayyyyyy !!!!! National Acres of Clay day declared today !!! Haaaahaaaa !!! You guys are amaaaaziiinggg !!!!!! I'm so thankful today !!! What a Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now we know where Wonder woman went to have her family, lol,..Yes !!
Morning you guys are so funny together it's hilarious .love your family 😀 yay field work done. You always share the best part of family working together . Thank you for letting us in . I hope you all have the best days possible around all the chores 😀👍👍🚜🇨🇦 Craig
The sky was so beautiful at 21:50 , I thought the bobcat was going to just keep going and ride off into the sunset . Lol Glad MacKensie and her brother had all that energy stored up for moving so many tires . Just can't get enough of your videos !
A loving son climbs in to help Mom back the wagon up; and gets to be with her, and in the video to tease you. So pleased with you the crops are in. Then the tarping!! A million tires! Most folks dont know they are heavy and awkward. Then do it for hours straight. All the crop work plus 3 hours in the AM and again in evening milking. Long arduous days. Still love the music while tarping that you use. Acres family! Have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving. Who gets to milk twice that day and feed the herd? LOVE these videos!!!
Glad you guys finished cornharvest it was a challence this year also overhere in the netherlands Nice to see everybody steps up and helped all the best wishes greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
Glad you are done! Always a great feeling.Seepy sand- I know exactly what you are dealing with, we have a field here that is the same- sand over clay with tile. The tile helps but it still is the wettest ground I farm.Thanks again for allowing us to be part of your life.
Congratulations on your 2019 harvest season is in the books. Very much in joyed you sharing your family farm and life witch is fun and trying times. With that i wish you and your family a bless holiday season. A fellow michigander!!!
Big dirty job covering that pile but you did it , not to mention all the hours to make , it mission accomplished , enjoy it for a bit and get ready for the next project !! Thanks for the video !!
Always a relief to wrap up silage time, you're right though, covering the silo was probably my least favorite thing to do, sixteen inches, no wonder why the field wasn't draining, thanks for sharing harvest, I know there's still a little to do
Yea!!! I hope that doesn't mean the videos will be slow coming out. Can't wait for earlage. I do believe you work harder than any farmers wife on youtube, Ronda. Bless your heart! God bless your whole family! Thx for sharing!
OK, Now I understand your wet Ground, Never heard of Seepy Sand before , But makes good since now that I have heard Kevin's explanation, Plus I did not know that you have had that much rain, Need a Boat ? LOL Oh How I hated rolling out tarps to cover our Bunk Silage. our bunks were all under cover. and Tires, Oh how I hated tires. We had four that were 500 ft. long, Two at the main farm and two at the Heifer barn. At the main Farm, The hay loft was on the Milking parlor side of the barn and we could put a Million bales of hay up there, The old barn was used for Straw for the calf pens. I would say at the peak of our milking we had around 1000 head of Holstein cows, Milked from 375 to 400, the rest were Calf's and Heifers .
Good video pretty eyes and yes I am feeling a little better thanks for axing and the other video that shows you care about people and I am from Jonesboro Arkansas I don’t know if I ever told you that be safe on the farm
Thats a good demonstration of how do you have fun on the farm your working. City people don't get it and especially the part where a successful job done and time to have a little fun that's where you see some outstanding parents you both are working and having some fun had to smile seeing that truck going up the pile. When the amish moved in around here they talked of bin wagons everyone was like what are those they were gravity boxes . amish tend to make things difficult a skiddy is a skid loader . but your right to most of us it's a gravity box. This Sunday you'll have a reason to be thankful harvest done and every one can still count to ten when you put the hours in you do accidents can happen so easy
We had 10days of 50mph wind after we chopped our corn so it is the first time I didn't cover the silage in 30years . I have $3000 of plastic now , I guess I'll use it next year.
Mckenzie is lucky she didn't loose the spring on the fuel knozzle, spring needs to be pulled back some, also gloves recommend for doing fueling. I,m with you Rhonda on the seat height i like mid way up myself to.So many of these truck drivers in Peterbuilt trucks drive on the floor and they don,t realize how much they are destroying there lower back and spine,air cushion is there for a reason to absorb the shock.another great video never to many enjoy your content.
Is there an extension you can put on the cart to better fill the semi? I know the guys who pick seed corn use duals on high side trailers, but their carts are bigger and on tracks.
hey Ronda, you could have called your channel acres of clay and seepy sand, i think Ethan sounds like his dad, glad you got your harvest in, nice to see Sanders again, when are we going to see a q and a with Ethan? thanks for sharing your videos with us and god bless
That sure looks like a whole lot of fun rolling all them tires around. the only thing better would be if it rained. lol. I'll bet y'all don't need any sleeping pills when you hit the sack. I hope you all have a good thanksgiving.
you own a newhollnd telehandeler , who do you not use that to shove up the silage on the pile as it has a cab and must be a nice place to be in this weather compared to the cabless tractor ??? good to see that you are finished , its always a good feeling , also you are lucky to have lots of help covering the pit , pile , clamp , or mountain as my wife calls our pits betimes ..........
Another thing regarding the conditions.The tile may be removing a lot of water,but you also need drying weather which is limited even in good November weather due to the cool temps and short days.
Why do you have to pile the tires so close together on the cover for the Silage? Thats a good use for old use tires, I dont know how many I have found in the river while swimming and fishing
They are hard to back up. When the hitch is tucked in so close and there is a bit of slack in the steering linkage it is a challenge. its all about how you line it up when you are driving forward in the first place.
Rhonda This is just a question and suggestion Because I drive a Tractor trailer sometimes I have to jack the tractor around so the trailer is at a right angle to the tractor, Now, do the front wheels on the dump cart turn or are they stationary and only the tongue turns? If the wheels are stationary, would it be possible to Jack the challenger to the right so the dump cart is at a right angle to the challenger, then maybe Ethan can back along side of the dump cart without hitting the dual tires on the challenger? This may be a little more time consuming, I was just curious
Congratulations to Acers of Clay Homestead on a successful 2019 corn harvest! I now understand why covering the silage is the worst job. How many grease fittings are there on the chopper? How long does it take to grease and how often do you have to grease it? Have a great day and stay warm. 🙂
My job as a little boy was to grease every grease zerk on my uncle's circa 1950 Massey Harris combine and count them so that I was sure that I got every single one. This was before the advent of sealed bearings. There were 102 grease zerks in all.
Fantastic footage I didn't see how you all was going to get into that cab. And goodness that is a lot of tires did you really need that many? That one thing you was talkin about I couldn't find. y'all all have a great Thanksgiving!
Congrats on ur successful silage harvest!! Happy Thanksgiving!! Not ever being on a farm, I had to google why u cover the silage.....After understanding the 'why' part, is there an 'easier' method for covering the silage?? Even google mentioned the poly cover w/ tires....The tire thing is just to close to 'work'!!!
Thanks for showing the world the real America, with a hard working work ethic!!
Big admiration for Ethan he is a rock solid guy, determined to get the work done, never complains, (like he is building the silage pit in the cold and no cab) very knowledgable when it comes to spanners and with animals. A great guy!(hats off to all your family also)
We get to cover our pits in summer and yes it is not a nice job so covering in November has to be really tough.
Glad you have all safely gathered in, enough for your livestock. Also a big thank you to your neighbour for the use of his wagon, you would be lost without it. Happy farming ☘️
What a blessing to see family values and hard work at play! Many thanks to you all, from an old California native
The most labor intensive job of all, is the covering. I hate when the tires splash the water that is lodged in them.
Always a time to celebrate when this is done. Ye are one fantastic and united team.
Take a big bow!!
Yes, the water is the worst! Or maybe it's worst when it's ice in the tire... Thanks for watching!!
I see in the US weather forecast that some real Santa weather is heading yer way.
Stay safe.
You must hate tires with a passion. Everyone works hard and has fun doing it. You guys are awesome.
Good Morning to the Feel Good Family. Always makes me FEEL GOOD watching you🤗
Wow you guys work so hard and nice to see you work together love your videos I remember the day when Dad and my brothers stuffed the big white bags with silage
You have brought so much thought to the farmers of the world.. Great videos, of all the hard and difficult reality of what we get to enjoy out here !! Thank you Rhonda, and your hard working family, bringing so much information, out, such an education !!!! I have loved the way you have explained, everything, point by point.. I think everyone is praying for the farmers around the world, from your family's, dedication, to educating so many !!!!
Thank You!!
If only the cattle knew what was involved in getting their dinner! 😁😁
This has been a good example to non farmers of how a normally enjoyable farm job can turn into weeks of miserable work .Like these folks you might as well face your day with a smile and use your experience and ingenuity to deal with the situation as best you can. So glad to see you got er done!
Yaaaaaaayyyyyy !!!!! National Acres of Clay day declared today !!! Haaaahaaaa !!! You guys are amaaaaziiinggg !!!!!! I'm so thankful today !!! What a Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now we know where Wonder woman went to have her family, lol,..Yes !!
Morning you guys are so funny together it's hilarious .love your family 😀 yay field work done. You always share the best part of family working together . Thank you for letting us in . I hope you all have the best days possible around all the chores 😀👍👍🚜🇨🇦 Craig
My back hurts just watching you. Good job.
The sky was so beautiful at 21:50 , I thought the bobcat was going to just keep going and ride off into the sunset . Lol Glad MacKensie and her brother had all that energy stored up for moving so many tires . Just can't get enough of your videos !
A loving son climbs in to help
Mom back the wagon up; and gets to be with her, and in the video to tease you. So pleased with you the crops are in. Then the tarping!! A million tires! Most folks dont know they are heavy and awkward. Then do it for hours straight.
All the crop work plus 3 hours in the AM and again in evening milking. Long arduous days.
Still love the music while tarping that you use. Acres family! Have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving. Who gets to milk twice that day and feed the herd?
LOVE these videos!!!
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you also!
Kevin milks every morning, kids take turns in evenings. Our oldest son does all the feeding.
Love how your family works so well togther.
Now that's a hard-working family good job
Glad you guys finished cornharvest it was a challence this year also overhere in the netherlands Nice to see everybody steps up and helped all the best wishes greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
Know u have heard this before but Ethan & McKensie looks, acts, has mannerisms, etc. JUST LIKE YOU! It's amazing how much!!!😊🙃😉
Not sure if that's a good thing!! Lol
Glad you are done! Always a great feeling.Seepy sand- I know exactly what you are dealing with, we have a field here that is the same- sand over clay with tile. The tile helps but it still is the wettest ground I farm.Thanks again for allowing us to be part of your life.
Yes, someone else that knows what seepy sand is like. It's a great yielding field though. :)
Woww.. You hard work mom... 👍👍👍👌
Congratulations on your 2019 harvest season is in the books.
Very much in joyed you sharing your family farm and life witch is fun and trying times.
With that i wish you and your family a bless holiday season.
A fellow michigander!!!
Thank you!!!
You have the most adorable kids. I love your channel.
Thank you!!
Big dirty job covering that pile but you did it , not to mention all the hours to make , it mission accomplished , enjoy it for a bit and get ready for the next project !! Thanks for the video !!
kudos to you Kevin...you seem to have a great family...remember always smile...its alot easier in life...and to you Rhonda...you rock girl :)
Great video guys ! you guys work so well together god bless your family. thank you and keep videos coming.
C est super de travailler en famille tank you vidéo magnifique super
Great new video Ronda, harvest looked great this year!
Ronda, thank you for sharing your videos on your hard working farm family.
Glad you guys got all the harvesting completed dang what a fun time it will be to clean that equipment
Hi guys, glad to see in got the corn done, one thing off your mind. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Be safe and God bless
Happy Thanksgiving!!
I’ll bet the whole family is glad it’s all finished. Time for a little celebration perhaps?🙋♀️🦋💜
No celebration.
I love how your kids help doing farming, I would love to help farming some day .
Always a relief to wrap up silage time, you're right though, covering the silo was probably my least favorite thing to do, sixteen inches, no wonder why the field wasn't draining, thanks for sharing harvest, I know there's still a little to do
Love your videos! God bless you!!🙏🏻
Yea!!! I hope that doesn't mean the videos will be slow coming out. Can't wait for earlage. I do believe you work harder than any farmers wife on youtube, Ronda. Bless your heart! God bless your whole family! Thx for sharing!
The videos will continue! :)
Wow you guys must really have high winds. Lot of work but this family works together with no fuss
We do get strong winds at times.
great feeling to be finished...
Yes it is!
Well done one and all Ethan super job on the pit lad
OK, Now I understand your wet Ground, Never heard of Seepy Sand before , But makes good since now that I have heard Kevin's explanation, Plus I did not know that you have had that much rain, Need a Boat ? LOL
Oh How I hated rolling out tarps to cover our Bunk Silage. our bunks were all under cover. and Tires, Oh how I hated tires. We had four that were 500 ft. long, Two at the main farm and two at the Heifer barn. At the main Farm, The hay loft was on the Milking parlor side of the barn and we could put a Million bales of hay up there, The old barn was used for Straw for the calf pens. I would say at the peak of our milking we had around 1000 head of Holstein cows, Milked from 375 to 400, the rest were Calf's and Heifers .
U guys r the best great 👍 video
Party needed after that season and well deserved
Good video pretty eyes and yes I am feeling a little better thanks for axing and the other video that shows you care about people and I am from Jonesboro Arkansas I don’t know if I ever told you that be safe on the farm
So glad to hear you're starting to feel better. And thanks for sharing where your from!
Great family team effort gettin it done 💪💪👍
Very cozy. 👍
Some of the best smiles on youtube. ;)
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing be safe out there 🚜👍👊✌️😎
Ethan sounds like his dad. 🙏❤️🙏
I agree with you , covering the silage pile is one of the worst jobs ! Enjoy your videos .
Good job know you have lots o food for the cattle.
The wonderful art of knowing to operate a Grease Gun
My husband refuse to work the power grease gun. Too easy to blow the seals out. And he was one fine mechanic!
Great job, that is a decent pit of fodder ye have there, the corn sure packs well, very solid:):)
The end to great harvest season I bet you guys relieved . Dang that's a lot of tires .
Great job any way.
thinks for sharing ..
Thats a good demonstration of how do you have fun on the farm your working. City people don't get it and especially the part where a successful job done and time to have a little fun that's where you see some outstanding parents you both are working and having some fun had to smile seeing that truck going up the pile.
When the amish moved in around here they talked of bin wagons everyone was like what are those they were gravity boxes . amish tend to make things difficult a skiddy is a skid loader . but your right to most of us it's a gravity box. This Sunday you'll have a reason to be thankful harvest done and every one can still count to ten when you put the hours in you do accidents can happen so easy
Congrats on another season done.
I see what you mean about the tires!
Always hate it when it comes time to cover the pile!! We cut most of our tires in half. Easier to move around. Great video
Side walls would be a lot easier and cleaner!
We had 10days of 50mph wind after we chopped our corn so it is the first time I didn't cover the silage in 30years . I have $3000 of plastic now , I guess I'll use it next year.
Wow 10 days!!
Congratulations on finishing the silage, hopefully the earlage won't be as bad to finish.
WooHoo! Your almost at 20K subs? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏❤️🙏
You are doing good job at farm I'm was so proud of you I'm hope you have great day at Christmas day
that's one job i'm glad i never had to do so many tyres
thanks for the vidéo, super travail 👍👍
Wishing you and your family a safe and happy Thanksgiving
Thank you!! Happy Thanksgiving!!
you are sure keeping the landfills tire free
Gracias por la aclaración
Great kids
Mckenzie is lucky she didn't loose the spring on the fuel knozzle, spring needs to be pulled back some, also gloves recommend for doing fueling. I,m with you Rhonda on the seat height i like mid way up myself to.So many of these truck drivers in Peterbuilt trucks drive on the floor and they don,t realize how much they are destroying there lower back and spine,air cushion is there for a reason to absorb the shock.another great video never to many enjoy your content.
Great job well done
Just ..another ..Amazing ...Clip!
Take a brake!?
Hope you will do a clip from ...Mall or a Short Vacation , you all deserve!
Thank you!
I was wondering if I could come out and tour your farm love the channel. I live north of Grand Rapids.
So its not cold in that cab with so many people.... :-) why is the white plastik foil so short ?
Glad to see you finished up the corn! Can understand you jubilant mood on hauling the last load to the pile.
Nice Video
Hola saludos desde Austin Texas
Hello from the Argentina,god working in famely.🇦🇷🇺🇸🚜⛈❄👍✋
Hello!
I've covered a lot of silos in the summertime
Is there an extension you can put on the cart to better fill the semi? I know the guys who pick seed corn use duals on high side trailers, but their carts are bigger and on tracks.
Christmas is coming daddy needs a battery powered grease gun from Santa, LOL , great videos
The battery would probably be dead when You went to use it.
True!!
I was thinking the same!! And those Milwaukee battery’s last pretty long. And the old one can be a good back up
Central lubrication is the best solution. It would be a rich Santa Claus.
I have had both and i think the old manual pumper still works the best. A lot cheaper too.
I once had 4 adults in a JD 4240, it was pretty tight.
hey Ronda, you could have called your channel acres of clay and seepy sand, i think Ethan sounds like his dad,
glad you got your harvest in, nice to see Sanders again,
when are we going to see a q and a with Ethan?
thanks for sharing your videos with us and god bless
I'm still trying to talk Ethan into doing a Q&A. LOL
That sure looks like a whole lot of fun rolling all them tires around. the only thing better would be if it rained. lol. I'll bet y'all don't need any sleeping pills when you hit the sack. I hope you all have a good thanksgiving.
In Europe they do deepploughing in order to bring that layer of clay up.
you own a newhollnd telehandeler , who do you not use that to shove up the silage on the pile as it has a cab and must be a nice place to be in this weather compared to the cabless tractor ???
good to see that you are finished , its always a good feeling , also you are lucky to have lots of help covering the pit , pile , clamp , or mountain as my wife calls our pits betimes ..........
The telehandler don't work well for pushing up silage. Tractor is much easier to use.
Great video 👍
Here ground froze already and everything clay here a few km in every direction that 24.11 in south Finland.
Yeppers I agree Don't care if it's 90 out or 20 it ain't no fun
Another thing regarding the conditions.The tile may be removing a lot of water,but you also need drying weather which is limited even in good November weather due to the cool temps and short days.
Harvest over looked hard work covering the silage how long will that last
Should last till next years crop harvest.
Why do you have to pile the tires so close together on the cover for the Silage? Thats a good use for old use tires, I dont know how many I have found in the river while swimming and fishing
We have to have a lot of tires because we get strong winds.
@@acresofclayhomestead I understand. After a while if the wind caught the tarp it would tear it up
@@acresofclayhomestead Thank you for answering my question
They are hard to back up. When the hitch is tucked in so close and there is a bit of slack in the steering linkage it is a challenge. its all about how you line it up when you are driving forward in the first place.
Tuff year
Rhonda
This is just a question and suggestion
Because I drive a Tractor trailer sometimes I have to jack the tractor around so the trailer is at a right angle to the tractor,
Now, do the front wheels on the dump cart turn or are they stationary and only the tongue turns?
If the wheels are stationary, would it be possible to Jack the challenger to the right so the dump cart is at a right angle to the challenger, then maybe Ethan can back along side of the dump cart without hitting the dual tires on the challenger?
This may be a little more time consuming, I was just curious
The eyes just jump right out at you - the three of you all have the same eyes.
i have seepy sand on clay and i am on a hill so the water drains on top of the clay down hill for days
So you exactly what it's like!!
We use a top sheet save a lot of tyes
Congratulations to Acers of Clay Homestead on a successful 2019 corn harvest! I now understand why covering the silage is the worst job.
How many grease fittings are there on the chopper? How long does it take to grease and how often do you have to grease it? Have a great day and stay warm. 🙂
About 30 grease point every day and 10 after 50 h
My job as a little boy was to grease every grease zerk on my uncle's circa 1950 Massey Harris combine and count them so that I was sure that I got every single one. This was before the advent of sealed bearings. There were 102 grease zerks in all.
Never counted grease zerks on the chopper. Takes about 15 minutes. Chopper gets greased about every 8 hours of use.
Wow!!
@@acresofclayhomestead Thanks for responding Ronda.
Just. Wow!!!! Approximately how many tires does it take to cover that?????
I have no idea how many tires!
Fantastic footage I didn't see how you all was going to get into that cab. And goodness that is a lot of tires did you really need that many? That one thing you was talkin about I couldn't find. y'all all have a great Thanksgiving!
Thanks. Yes, lots of tires are need to keep the wind from blowing the plastic off. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Congrats on ur successful silage harvest!! Happy Thanksgiving!! Not ever being on a farm, I had to google why u cover the silage.....After understanding the 'why' part, is there an 'easier' method for covering the silage?? Even google mentioned the poly cover w/ tires....The tire thing is just to close to 'work'!!!
Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to you also!