he is going to have to be carful of her a flip of her head and she could hurt them BAD going to have to put her in her place she is TOO BIG to treat as a pet!!!!
@@winterhorse290 my dad had a brama/ holstien cross that was really tame ! dad walked down into a dry pond full of weeds to check on her and woke up with her standing astradle of him!!!!!!!
Great job hanging the 18 ft gate. A cable from hinge end, at the top of the post, to latch end will help prevent sagging. Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
That 6 way driver you used to tighten up the hose connector has a nut driver that fits the hose clamp. Much easier than trying to keep the straight blade in the slot.
You can install a center ring in your round bail feeder. The elevated position will allow the hay to fall to the outside ring. You are loading with a tractor anyway so it should solve your problem and also keep small animals out of your hay ring. You should also put a roof over this ring to keep the hay dryer.
When the drill hangs up around 7:20, I use a 3-fluted, tapered bit. It won't hang up and 'twist your wrist'. Another solution would be a 'stepped drill'. Stepped drills are best used om thin metal (sheet metal, etc.). I wanted to send a pic. but wasn't able to.
You need the Milwaukee Impact for drilling holes. I have almost broken my wrist several times with the Drill, but the Impact doesn't twist your hand off your wrist.
@adventureswiththeoelkers not on that drill. Setting the 'clutch' to a lower number won't drill through steel with a large bit...in my experience. Your results may vary.
Evan, maybe you should build a large fence line feeder for the cattle, and put up a cattle exclusion fence around the small fence line feeder so that the sheep can feed. After all in the future you will have 2-3 times as many cattle.
Wrap a 16' cattle panel or goat panel (4" squares) around the round role and that will let them eat without climbing on top. As the roll gets smaller, just overlap the ends. You can sit the roll out without the feeder.
Kevin, from Hidden Heights farm, used a cattle panel on the insides of the half moon feeder. He welded the panel on all the surfaces, even the ends. He said that he wastes less hay. Also Chad , from Doss Farms uses a Guardian hay feeder. It suspends the hay off the ground, and so less waste. And no animal can stand on it.
For an 18' gate you should put a cable with turn buckle from top of hinge pole to bottom of gate on latch side to prevent eventual sagging of gate at latch end.
IBC cadge are good for the smaller livestock small v fitted in the middle to deflect the straw.. Good morning sir.. another educational vid.. stay safe 🏴
Just a tip on the silage issue... if you feed the animals restricted every day, then they eat more.. because it will be new feed every day... it takes some time, but it also take time cleaning bad silage.. maybe look into a bale or silage cutter.. Good show...
Evan. Tip of advise. If your drilling maybe set your drill to the highest torque setting where it will clutch out to avoid it from taking your hands for a ride. At my old job I would always tell people after it spun around and "broke" there hands.... got to have the amusement of telling people after the fact lol. Also those pins stick through the hinge more then they have too.... what i do is i cut maybe a half inch off one and a quarter inch off the other and leave one alone so then you line up the gate you start with the bottom pin because it's the longest and you don't have to line all 3 pins at once, you can start at the bottom. It will drop quarter inch then you line up the middle one, when it lines up it drops another quarter inch then you line up the top one and it drops till all 3 are bottomed out.
I agree with you on the silage I’ve cut quite a bit. My advice might be to sprinkle some feed in it to keep them eating the high lignin silage. Typically when ours went long and it turned stemmy the best way to feed it is grinding it and mixing it with grain or a better quality hay.
Thanks for sharing Evan, it's looking good around there and it's great you have more of the shop opened up again. I know that really makes you feel better and you'll be able to work during rainy weather. The fence and the gate went up really nice and looks great. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Evan. Have you seen those rubber mats that they make out of old tires that you place around feeders. Ranching SoDak has them. His son hand makes them in South Dakota and ships them everywhere. That is what you need around that new feeder. 👍. Love all your videos.
I watch your channel a lot and I kept thinking to myself you look very similar to someone but I couldn't think who. Last night I watched a video of Gene Pitney, a 60's singer songwriter, and it hit me that's who I thought you resemble.
Great episode! There is a reason old-timer's liked small square bales, livestock aren't that smart, they will waste. It doesn't show up as much in a large operation but, it's there. Portioning will become more and more important as you grow, I salute you for your effort though! Nothing good is ever easy, keep on doing what you are doing and always pay attention to what you are doing while you are doing it.
The best feeder I ever saw was a cage suspended about two feet off the ground. Animals could access all around and even that hay/silage falling underneath centre, the gap being too small to physically get underneath and spoil anything.
you did a great job with the fence gate. Now you are going to do your other jobs: the rest of the fence, rekecca's book cases, the alice chamer tractor, etc
If you graze them in strips set up by the temp fences, they will only be on the land for a day or so and not damage it, before moving the strip along (I'm sure you had this in mind).
Maybe you should try building a box with a door around the water...that way the cattle wont go between posts anymore to get to the water. Maya❤ she's so funny with her little shoves . She just wants your attention.
For feeding the sheep we used to have, we had a cradle feeder, but it had way smaller holes. We also had our cow and sheep serprate, but their was little to no waste. Inless their was too much manure around it then would jump in it. Otherwise, it was great
Tip I learned for running hole saws and other nasty, twist-prone stuff in my cordless drills - if you stand on the up-torque side of the drill, you can brace it against your hip or knee, and when it tries to twist away, you can much more easily control it than trying to do it with wrist work alone. :)
You may try a cheap garden sprayer and a gallon of deer molasses sprayed on that silage hay. Sometimes that helps to entice them regardless of the type of hay. Murfreesboro, TN
Evan, you've got your hands full with that hydraulic valve. The one on my TYM T454 got stuck in the UP position detent and it was a bear to get it out. Had to disassemble the valve and release the balls to get it out. I then had to shim it with some 1/64" washers to keep it from moving too far into the detent and not being able to come out. Too few shims and it would stay stuck, too many shims and it would not engage and stay in the detent. The specifications are far too exacting to be on a tractor IMHO. I need continuous hydraulic flow for the BY85 backhoe I ordered from Small Farm Innovations. Before I fixed it, it wouldn't stay in the detent so I had to run a bungee cord between the handle and the handhold on the passenger side. Don't judge, it worked in the moment! 😆 You might be able to find a replacement ball at a good hardware store or online at McMaster Carr if you have a reliable set of calipers to measure them. Good luck!
I (unfortunately 😂) used to work in a burn shop, mostly running CNC plasma and burn tables and an older milling machine. When I drill smaller holes I'll use an impact with impact drill bits, it's so much better than using a regular drill. After I get a small pilot hole drilled I run a step bit in reverse to hog it out, that works great for thinner metal. For thicker metal once I get to the big bits over 1/2" or so I run them way slower than you were, and push a lot harder with the drill. Holes drilled on a Bridgeport type milling machine will have one long continuous spiral of metal if the speed and force are both correct, much much slower as the bit width increases. I might not even have the trigger fully pulled on your drills slowest speed for those big holes you drilled. If the speed and downforce on that milling machine were really dead on it would make spirals over a foot long 😂
I would have had a sore arm drilling those holes in the fence posts, you might want to try a variable speed drill and or one with a handle. On my tractor, it doesn't have a detent on the rear hydraulics, but my loader does and it will work before the detent. We had about 14 or 15 inches of rain over a 2.5 day period and lots of flooding out on the roads and creeks. Enjoyed watching, I hope you have a good night!
Put cattle panel cut to fit around the water hydrant so that cows don’t fit in between the protection posts of the hydrant as they are conditioned to do.
My tractor broke a little bit more last weekend Sunday afternoon. I had a dealership replace front axle seals and tie rods 25 hours ago and I was driving the tractor to town about 14-15 mph and the front wheel and final drive axle shaft pulled out and the front axle hit the road I bashed my head against the windshield and it tore up the road the dealership has my tractor fixing it an experience I won’t soon forget
I may have missed any suggestions earlier but why not put a couple more braces across the water faucet to prevent the cattle from rubbing against the faucet and hose . Previously, you had built the frame around the faucet because of past steers pushing on the faucet which caused it to leak.
I know you run Milwaukee, but Dewalt has a new drill with rapid tilt detection, to keep the drill from trying to snap your wrist when the drill bit binds up.
Hope you found the ball bearing that fell into the cover or whatever it was that you took off. Good luck. I loose things constantly and it is almost always right where I just looked. Cattle are so curious and I have seen several farm videos where they almost immediately discover the camera and go to lick it. Why, I don't know, but they can always find exactly what you don't want them to find. And they are very strong. I remember when my dad, who had farmed all of his life would have problems with some wanting to kick when he milked them. Hang in there. Adventure awaits.
This is kind of funny, but just as you said that you are going to stop and go check on the livestock my alarm for evening chores went off. I got to run feed chickens.
I was under that same rain system too... If that ball was High Grade Stainless the Magnet will not find it. Use a Metal detector away from the slab if You have Rebar in it.
That hydro top link is a dream. I don’t know how I did without it!
Mya is a hoot! She reminds me of a big dog. And she really loves the camera.
he is going to have to be carful of her a flip of her head and she could hurt them BAD going to have to put her in her place she is TOO BIG to treat as a pet!!!!
@@frrapp2366 right, she WILL hurt you thinking she’s just playing. Been there, done that. Best to keep your cattle a little bit scared of you
@@winterhorse290 my dad had a brama/ holstien cross that was really tame ! dad walked down into a dry pond full of weeds to check on her and woke up with her standing astradle of him!!!!!!!
Great job hanging the 18 ft gate. A cable from hinge end, at the top of the post, to latch end will help prevent sagging. Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
I appreciate when you talk as you are doing. Fence is looking good.
That 6 way driver you used to tighten up the hose connector has a nut driver that fits the hose clamp. Much easier than trying to keep the straight blade in the slot.
Thankful you finally got some decent rain. That grass you planted a few weeks ago is looking good now! Everyone take care and be safe!
when you took that piece off the detent I thought I saw a bearing fall inside the part you took off.
Yes it did ... saw the same thing. Inside the cap he removed.
I saw it too.....
The ball bearing for the remote of the tractor. It is down in the treaded cap that screws into the valve bank
I use the cage from an IBC tote to feed my sheep very effective reduces waste
You can install a center ring in your round bail feeder. The elevated position will allow the hay to fall to the outside ring. You are loading with a tractor anyway so it should solve your problem and also keep small animals out of your hay ring. You should also put a roof over this ring to keep the hay dryer.
Thanks for posting Evan
You’ve mastered the gate installation for sure. Good for you!!
Looks like a beautiful pasture..
The fence and new gate looms great
When the drill hangs up around 7:20, I use a 3-fluted, tapered bit. It won't hang up and 'twist your wrist'. Another solution would be a 'stepped drill'. Stepped drills are best used om thin metal (sheet metal, etc.). I wanted to send a pic. but wasn't able to.
Thanks Evan like the video and Mya like you shes a baby .
Thanks for this and the interaction with the animals. Great job Sir!😊
Great job hanging your gate Evan
Your grass looks good....good for you two!
You need the Milwaukee Impact for drilling holes. I have almost broken my wrist several times with the Drill, but the Impact doesn't twist your hand off your wrist.
Can also just clutch the drill so it won’t catch like that.
@adventureswiththeoelkers not on that drill. Setting the 'clutch' to a lower number won't drill through steel with a large bit...in my experience. Your results may vary.
Hi, Evan! I enjoy your fence building videos. You do a great job!
Evan, maybe you should build a large fence line feeder for the cattle, and put up a cattle exclusion fence around the small fence line feeder so that the sheep can feed. After all in the future you will have 2-3 times as many cattle.
Good idea
Love watching❤.
Awesome - thanks for a great video, those connectors for the fence braces look like great little wasps future residence!
@davidanderson2436 yes, that is the only downside. They need to make caps or plugs to cover the ends of the pipe.
Good luck building your fence
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your dogs would get along very well with my Ginger and Diamond they play rough as well
Great job to you and Rebekah
Wrap a 16' cattle panel or goat panel (4" squares) around the round role and that will let them eat without climbing on top. As the roll gets smaller, just overlap the ends. You can sit the roll out without the feeder.
Hi guys!
excellent work, I support people who work perfectly in what they do
Great video Evan
Kevin, from Hidden Heights farm, used a cattle panel on the insides of the half moon feeder. He welded the panel on all the surfaces, even the ends. He said that he wastes less hay. Also Chad , from Doss Farms uses a Guardian hay feeder. It suspends the hay off the ground, and so less waste. And no animal can stand on it.
If possible grind up the silage bales.
Try a feed lot panel in the bottom of the silver bale feeder to keep more in the feeder and less on the ground.
great video evan thank you for sharing with us
WELL DONE !!!
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank evan
Appreciate the longer episode!
For an 18' gate you should put a cable with turn buckle from top of hinge pole to bottom of gate on latch side to prevent eventual sagging of gate at latch end.
PS: install cable on outside of paddock.
Thank for sharing! Really enjoyed your post! Fields are beautiful!
Do the Safe Thing and put a snap on the gate chain to keep the livestock from getting out
Looking really good , always enjoy a new video..
Enjoyed the video.
Great job!
Inspired by you ive got myself a plasmacutter - its so helpful at the farm!
Love my Esab👍
Great video Evan. I find when I make hose connections like at our waterer I double clamp the hose to save from leaks in the future. God Bless
IBC cadge are good for the smaller livestock small v fitted in the middle to deflect the straw.. Good morning sir.. another educational vid.. stay safe 🏴
Evan, the aquatic plant problem can be solved if you put pipes on the edges of the lake wall instead of just one pipe in the center of the dike.
Thx
Your fence work looks awesome🙂
Great video, thanks for sharing this with us.
Just a tip on the silage issue... if you feed the animals restricted every day, then they eat more.. because it will be new feed every day... it takes some time, but it also take time cleaning bad silage.. maybe look into a bale or silage cutter..
Good show...
JudithB Those pipe connector things are cool, I hadnt seen those before!!!
Great video as you always do mate many thanks once’s again for sharing it with us all
Evan. Tip of advise. If your drilling maybe set your drill to the highest torque setting where it will clutch out to avoid it from taking your hands for a ride. At my old job I would always tell people after it spun around and "broke" there hands.... got to have the amusement of telling people after the fact lol.
Also those pins stick through the hinge more then they have too.... what i do is i cut maybe a half inch off one and a quarter inch off the other and leave one alone so then you line up the gate you start with the bottom pin because it's the longest and you don't have to line all 3 pins at once, you can start at the bottom. It will drop quarter inch then you line up the middle one, when it lines up it drops another quarter inch then you line up the top one and it drops till all 3 are bottomed out.
Awesome informative video…hope you find your Bering.
I agree with you on the silage I’ve cut quite a bit. My advice might be to sprinkle some feed in it to keep them eating the high lignin silage. Typically when ours went long and it turned stemmy the best way to feed it is grinding it and mixing it with grain or a better quality hay.
Great job
I love your fences.
Great video again as always you definitely do good a lot of times you could use help but you definitely get the job done be safe
Thanks for sharing Evan, it's looking good around there and it's great you have more of the shop opened up again. I know that really makes you feel better and you'll be able to work during rainy weather. The fence and the gate went up really nice and looks great. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
My wife works at a hospital too lately she's been doing a lot of overtime people don't like coming into work
Evan. Have you seen those rubber mats that they make out of old tires that you place around feeders. Ranching SoDak has them. His son hand makes them in South Dakota and ships them everywhere. That is what you need around that new feeder. 👍. Love all your videos.
Gracias por la transición en español Thanks for the transition in Spanish
I watch your channel a lot and I kept thinking to myself you look very similar to someone but I couldn't think who. Last night I watched a video of Gene Pitney, a 60's singer songwriter, and it hit me that's who I thought you resemble.
Great episode! There is a reason old-timer's liked small square bales, livestock aren't that smart, they will waste. It doesn't show up as much in a large operation but, it's there. Portioning will become more and more important as you grow, I salute you for your effort though! Nothing good is ever easy, keep on doing what you are doing and always pay attention to what you are doing while you are doing it.
Loved seeing the dogs again, ❤ good job on the fencing you sure are making a huge diff on your farm.
Waving a hand from texas
Fences look nice!😊
The best feeder I ever saw was a cage suspended about two feet off the ground. Animals could access all around and even that hay/silage falling underneath centre, the gap being too small to physically get underneath and spoil anything.
you did a great job with the fence gate. Now you are going to do your other jobs: the rest of the fence, rekecca's book cases, the alice chamer tractor, etc
You're not only the gate keeper, but also the gate master. Well done!
If you graze them in strips set up by the temp fences, they will only be on the land for a day or so and not damage it, before moving the strip along (I'm sure you had this in mind).
Maybe you should try building a box with a door around the water...that way the cattle wont go between posts anymore to get to the water. Maya❤ she's so funny with her little shoves . She just wants your attention.
For feeding the sheep we used to have, we had a cradle feeder, but it had way smaller holes. We also had our cow and sheep serprate, but their was little to no waste. Inless their was too much manure around it then would jump in it. Otherwise, it was great
Tip I learned for running hole saws and other nasty, twist-prone stuff in my cordless drills - if you stand on the up-torque side of the drill, you can brace it against your hip or knee, and when it tries to twist away, you can much more easily control it than trying to do it with wrist work alone. :)
Evan put a cattle panel inside the cradle feeder. lets the sheep easily eat from it.
It so interesting to watch you do all the things you can do. Just like my Dad did.
You may try a cheap garden sprayer and a gallon of deer molasses sprayed on that silage hay. Sometimes that helps to entice them regardless of the type of hay. Murfreesboro, TN
Evan you fencing is so nice ! Looks great!
Evan, you've got your hands full with that hydraulic valve. The one on my TYM T454 got stuck in the UP position detent and it was a bear to get it out. Had to disassemble the valve and release the balls to get it out. I then had to shim it with some 1/64" washers to keep it from moving too far into the detent and not being able to come out. Too few shims and it would stay stuck, too many shims and it would not engage and stay in the detent. The specifications are far too exacting to be on a tractor IMHO. I need continuous hydraulic flow for the BY85 backhoe I ordered from Small Farm Innovations. Before I fixed it, it wouldn't stay in the detent so I had to run a bungee cord between the handle and the handhold on the passenger side. Don't judge, it worked in the moment! 😆 You might be able to find a replacement ball at a good hardware store or online at McMaster Carr if you have a reliable set of calipers to measure them. Good luck!
I (unfortunately 😂) used to work in a burn shop, mostly running CNC plasma and burn tables and an older milling machine. When I drill smaller holes I'll use an impact with impact drill bits, it's so much better than using a regular drill. After I get a small pilot hole drilled I run a step bit in reverse to hog it out, that works great for thinner metal. For thicker metal once I get to the big bits over 1/2" or so I run them way slower than you were, and push a lot harder with the drill. Holes drilled on a Bridgeport type milling machine will have one long continuous spiral of metal if the speed and force are both correct, much much slower as the bit width increases. I might not even have the trigger fully pulled on your drills slowest speed for those big holes you drilled. If the speed and downforce on that milling machine were really dead on it would make spirals over a foot long 😂
I would have had a sore arm drilling those holes in the fence posts, you might want to try a variable speed drill and or one with a handle. On my tractor, it doesn't have a detent on the rear hydraulics, but my loader does and it will work before the detent. We had about 14 or 15 inches of rain over a 2.5 day period and lots of flooding out on the roads and creeks. Enjoyed watching, I hope you have a good night!
You can put a cattle panel inside of that cradle feeder. It will help keep the hay from falling on the ground.
Ever thought about reference the manual or talking to the tractor shop where you bought the tractor ?
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Put a couple of scrap board on the water hydrant, to keep the cows out of it.
Hello 👋 to your wife Evan
Put cattle panel cut to fit around the water hydrant so that cows don’t fit in between the protection posts of the hydrant as they are conditioned to do.
Make a lite triangle roof that hinges out of tin this way keeps every off and out of it and hay dry
My tractor broke a little bit more last weekend Sunday afternoon.
I had a dealership replace front axle seals and tie rods 25 hours ago and I was driving the tractor to town about 14-15 mph and the front wheel and final drive axle shaft pulled out and the front axle hit the road I bashed my head against the windshield and it tore up the road the dealership has my tractor fixing it an experience I won’t soon forget
Try looking for bearing at night with a flashlight, the light will shine on the shiny steel..
That is the way it is supposed to work
I may have missed any suggestions earlier but why not put a couple more braces across the water faucet to prevent the cattle from rubbing against the faucet and hose . Previously, you had built the frame around the faucet because of past steers pushing on the faucet which caused it to leak.
I know you run Milwaukee, but Dewalt has a new drill with rapid tilt detection, to keep the drill from trying to snap your wrist when the drill bit binds up.
Hi,Edward from Vermont
You can use that bolt for a nother gate hinge just have to make a band or sqare for it
Hope you found the ball bearing that fell into the cover or whatever it was that you took off. Good luck. I loose things constantly and it is almost always right where I just looked.
Cattle are so curious and I have seen several farm videos where they almost immediately discover the camera and go to lick it. Why, I don't know, but they can always find exactly what you don't want them to find. And they are very strong. I remember when my dad, who had farmed all of his life would have problems with some wanting to kick when he milked them. Hang in there. Adventure awaits.
@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586 i found it and it is put back together correctly and adjusted correctly.
@@CountryViewAcres Thank you. It is hard to be watched all the time, but maybe sometimes we can be helpful.
Go out at night with a flashlight and do you search for the ball bearing. You should be able to find it.
@@richqualls5157 i found it. I got it put back together correctly. And adjusted the way I want it.
Maybe also make smaller sileage bales next year for them to clean up faster?
This is kind of funny, but just as you said that you are going to stop and go check on the livestock my alarm for evening chores went off. I got to run feed chickens.
Wrap a cattle panel around the poles to protect the water pipe.
I was under that same rain system too...
If that ball was High Grade Stainless the Magnet will not find it. Use a Metal detector away from the slab if You have Rebar in it.