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
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!!!!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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 🏴
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
It might pay to bale the silage into smaller rounds. You might also think about getting a grinder and feed the silage in a trough. These changes might reduce the waste you are having.
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
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.....
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!!!!!!!
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.
I appreciate when you talk as you are doing. Fence is looking good.
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!
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
Looks like a beautiful pasture..
Thanks for posting Evan
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.
The fence and new gate looms great
You’ve mastered the gate installation for sure. Good for you!!
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.
Your grass looks good....good for you two!
Great job hanging your gate Evan
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.
Do the Safe Thing and put a snap on the gate chain to keep the livestock from getting out
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
Hi, Evan! I enjoy your fence building videos. You do a great job!
Good luck building your fence
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.
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.
Thanks Evan like the video and Mya like you shes a baby .
Hi guys!
Great video Evan
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank evan
Great job!
Inspired by you ive got myself a plasmacutter - its so helpful at the farm!
Love my Esab👍
Evan put a cattle panel inside the cradle feeder. lets the sheep easily eat from it.
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.
Waving a hand from texas
WELL DONE !!!
great video evan thank you for sharing with us
your dogs would get along very well with my Ginger and Diamond they play rough as well
Great job to you and Rebekah
My wife works at a hospital too lately she's been doing a lot of overtime people don't like coming into work
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
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.
Appreciate the longer episode!
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Thanks for this and the interaction with the animals. Great job Sir!😊
Looking really good , always enjoy a new video..
Love watching❤.
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.
Enjoyed the video.
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.
Awesome informative video…hope you find your Bering.
Thank for sharing! Really enjoyed your post! Fields are beautiful!
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 🏴
excellent work, I support people who work perfectly in what they do
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.
Great video, thanks for sharing this with us.
Great job
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.
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
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...
Great video as you always do mate many thanks once’s again for sharing it with us all
JudithB Those pipe connector things are cool, I hadnt seen those before!!!
I love your fences.
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.
Ever thought about reference the manual or talking to the tractor shop where you bought the tractor ?
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.
Put a couple of scrap board on the water hydrant, to keep the cows out of it.
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.
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
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
Loved seeing the dogs again, ❤ good job on the fencing you sure are making a huge diff on your farm.
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.
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.
You can put a cattle panel inside of that cradle feeder. It will help keep the hay from falling on the ground.
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
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.
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.
Make a lite triangle roof that hinges out of tin this way keeps every off and out of it and hay dry
Thx
You're not only the gate keeper, but also the gate master. Well done!
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.
Evan you fencing is so nice ! Looks great!
Fences look nice!😊
That is the way it is supposed to work
Hello 👋 to your wife Evan
EVAN, you put out to much feed at at time. only put out what they eat in a day. much more control and a lot less waste.
Try looking for bearing at night with a flashlight, the light will shine on the shiny steel..
Gracias por la transición en español Thanks for the transition in Spanish
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 use that bolt for a nother gate hinge just have to make a band or sqare for it
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
It so interesting to watch you do all the things you can do. Just like my Dad did.
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.
Maybe also make smaller sileage bales next year for them to clean up faster?
Wrap a cattle panel around the poles to protect the water pipe.
When you are drilling and the drill bit is catching, use your other hand to grab and hold the battery, you'll never wreck your wrist again!
Your fence work looks awesome🙂
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.
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 think I would chop the silage instead of billing it and the store. It would be a problem, but I think I would just chop it and feed it.
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.
It might pay to bale the silage into smaller rounds. You might also think about getting a grinder and feed the silage in a trough. These changes might reduce the waste you are having.