Dairy Farming During The Coldest Winters Of A Century! Farming In Below Zero Temps and Deep Snow!
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- Farming in the coldest winters of a century! Today we are milking, feeding and bedding cows in -20 below zero temperatures. Along with sharing our past experiences of farming in the coldest and snowiest winters of our lifetimes! Thank you all for watching! Share your stories in the comments.
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Enjoyed hear your Dad talk about past winters.
Your grand kids and great grandchildren are going to enjoy watching all these recordings of you history.
Your dad is just like mine. He understands how things work and knows his stuff. Be thankful you have that in your life! I know I am.
George and Mason thank you for this video. These are my favorite when you are working with the cows❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You know it’s going to be good when Papa Gierok is speaking ❤❤❤❤❤
You guys are as tough as nails! Great work! 💪
I was a little feller when we endured the 1978 blizzard. It was the roads with the dairy farms that got plowed out first. My dad bought a John Deere 440 industrial tractor with a 71 loader and Henry backhoe on it a few years earlier. After three days of being snowed in he dig his way out to the main road. I do remember the milk truck followed a Case 2670 four wheel drive tractor with a big blade. Even so, a lot dairies ended up dumping their milk. I think the coldest winter I remember would have been 92 to 93. One morning it was so cold my mom's new Chevy Lumina and my Dad's Chevy diesel would not start. My 82 Dodge an my 60 John Deere started so we had the jumper cables out on both vehicles to get them going.
Wow nice set up love how you take care of your calves putting little coats on them ❤shows you care about your animals !!!
Y'all definitely doing some cold hard work people don't understand and would not do. Hats off to the farmers.
Some of the best compliments I can give you guys is that 1.) You are absolute pros at cow and calf care. Bravo. 2.) Your entire place, inside and out, is meticulously maintained. Everything is so organized and clean. Having the boys helping on the farm contributes to that but I'm sure when other dairy farmers watch your videos, that's something they notice. Thanks SO MUCH for your videos. I enjoy them all, especially with the Internationals. ;)
Thanks for taking us along, on your daily journey. Great talk over.
God bless you George, you run around like a 20 year older.
we enjoy your channel young man!
Awesome video. These videos with George telling stories are the best
Thank you,
You certainly have. We'll cared for livestock! Stay warm!
Thank you for these videos
I enjoyed the the video very much I especially enjoy the cattle segments I just find that fascinating and hard work you people put in just never cease to amaze I mean you work 7 days a week doing chores you're up at wee hours of the morning man that would get old real fast at least I would think keep them coming.
Seeing the old picture of the MTA in the deep snow, and now seeing how little snow we now get is pretty telling. I remember us as a kid in the mid 80's watching dad pushing snow with our 440B JD Skidder or the 4030 tractor with a front blade. Now we hardly see the big snow storms that we use to in Atlantic Canada.
Great video. Love the memories your dad shares.
Its good to see the great care you give your animals. Thats the way God meant it to be. I wish you continued success.
Excellent video. Your stories bring back a lot of memories for me as well.
Another great video, it's nice to hear dad talking about some of the ways of the past. It's very cool to hear how things were done in the past
Nothing tougher than a dairy farmer
Thanks for sharing. Brings back the memories. Having livestock in the winter isn’t easy.
Great video! Loved watching you working with the cows, heifers and calves. Amazing narration as always and the nostalgia took me back to the farm. Mariska is always a joy too. The only thing that didn't look happy were the chickens, lpl. Love the channel!
Wow! Great job in that cold weather!
Cold always has good and bad. But yes I like you like that disease is on halt at cold weather. I calve January in western Iowa if possible. Instead of the shop. I’ll make sure it nursed and then load it in the truck back seat take it to the house and my wife uses hairdryer and paper towels. About 5 hours later back to mom and a blanket. It was 22 below last year when I took two in one night to the house. Appreciate all you guys do. Keep the videos coming
Thanks so much for this video. Brought back many memories for me, as I grew up in Buffalo County and hauled milk to AG in Arcadia in the 80’s. I believe I may have picked up milk for some of your relatives in Travers Valley. And yes, I remember the Travers Valley Bar as well. Some of those winters in the 80’s were brutal to haul milk in, but it made me very thankful to have a desk job later in life. Really respect what your family does. If you ever want to chat, let me know.
George, that w as an interesting and informative review of your earlier years during the harsh winter days on the dairy farm.
Thanks so much for sharing the video. George I always enjoy listening to you. Yes sir we finally had some winter here in Virginia for a change. People have forgotten about what it used to take to get the chores done. Y'all definitely have harder and colder winters than us. I can remember 20 below here only one time. I'm a couple years younger than you. But I don't know how we got done what we did with the M tractor and the later 2 wheel drive tractors now that we have the 4 wheel drive tractors and cabs. God Bless Y'all for what you do.
Great video. Warm last winter , cold this one! It’s been cold in New England too but not that cold . -10 is the lowest so far this year .
Great video George. Enjoyed it Thank You
good work and good story👍
Love hearing the stories, brought back a few memories of bedding a cattle barn with the spreader. We also flail chopped stocks but did not make as nice looking piles you had. thanks for sharing.
I give you guys credit. About a week ago we had -24 luckily no wind. Definitely cold and crunchy. Stay warm and have a good one. Hello from the Catskill mts in NY
We had a 200' x 40' pole barn. We had just finished bedding the cattle outside and all of a sudden I heard this huge boom. the middle rafters broke in half and if you looked at it from the top it looked like the inside of a football stadium. Luckily all the cattle were outside in the new bedding. That next Summer we got about 8 local farmers with loaders and we lifted the whold shed from the inside and put posts in the middle.
One of your best videos! Dad Gierok(name?) has built an awesome dairy. I could listen to him narrate videos all the time about history of the dairy and the various farming methods and changes.
Great Job Dad G!
George, it's quite an operation everything is neat and tidy. The type of guy you want to sit and visit with.
Thanks for reminding me of George’s name!
We're in Ontario. It's colder here but we've had more than 3 feet of snow in January which is great insulation for our buildings and crops!
Love the old pic of the SMTA with the spreader in the snow. I used to spread every morning before school, in the dark, with a Farmall H and heat houser. Sometimes it was a challenge to not get stuck in the snow and end up late for school!
Great video!! I can remember those winters
Great winter video
Excellent
So entertaining for me to learn how you run your farm.
You and your family have great passion and that’s impressive to see.
Excellent thank you
Thanks for another great video and the way you guys have to do things when it’s extremely cold out ❤
Spent a lot of years working in the elements , it’s tough when your whiskers start icing up . Be careful of the ice . Great video fellas .👍
Thanks for sharing!!!
Great video love the history of your farms. You take good care of your cows. Hate the cold though.
I have great respect for what you and all dairy farmers due, especially during our harsh winters here in Wisconsin. No doubt it is a job that I could not do.
Hi good evening Gierek farms from Indiana keep warm
I enjoy your videos. You guys do a great job putting them together. Thanks for sharing with us
I really enjoyed the video. Especially how comfortable your cattle are around you. That is a sign that you treat them very well. My ex wife's uncle had Holsteins. He was so mean to them that they started kicking him every time he came near. His wife did all the milking for the next 30 years. He was a real jerk. I also really enjoyed the old photographs. Keep up the good work and stay warm!
The frost on the barn windows, at least that part is kinda neat. Your right about cold weather being healthier. The pens stay a little dryer too.
My wife and I had a farm at Dorchester, WI in 1978 it got down to 55 below for a week. We had to put two fuel oil bullet heaters in the barn to keep the pipes from freezing.
That’s how I remember tye winters on our dairy farm. Born in 1980, from about a young age I remember the snows an snow banks cleaned our driveway a yard with the ol case 530 gas tractor with the bucket. Super cold days kept one exhaust fan running. Kept the cows inside cleaned an beaded. An hoping nothing else freezes like the silo unloader.
Die sorgen das das Wasser einfriert hab ich auch jedes Jahr. Zum Glück mache ich nur rundballen aber die können auch gefrieren so das man das Netz nicht abbekommt 😂. Grüße aus Deutschland
@@zzzzzz1220 hello! 👋🏾
I can remember vaguely a bad winter in 62-63 and I remember a blizzard at the end of Jan 77 in northern NY.
I have spoken to older folks that lived up in the snowbelt that can remember crawling out the 2nd floor windows to get out of the houses in earlier years.
Graduated from UW in 1977. I remember till this day how cold that one was. Surprisingly, 1976 does not stand out as bad, even though I was riding a bike and it was colder than '77. I guess there were less problems starting a bike than a car!
I remember winters where we had a lot of snow and couldn't haul manure out to the field. We would clean out the barn, t hrowing the manure on a loader, and pile it in an open spot alongside the barn. In the spring, we would load it on the spreader and spread it on the field. We had hogs instead of cows.
Great video
Another great video
❤😊YUP I GREW UP IN THE 70s&80s TOO !!!❤😊
In 1982 was the coldest January I can remember. Every weekend we got a storm. We had to pull the milk truck to our farm with tractor and chains. SW WI
have you ever measured the temp in any of the barns just courious love the sentimental journey
You guys give cows a lot of tlc. I am sure it pays dividends! :)
good job george
Dobry, ciekawy odcinek. Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski.
I use a pto fertilizer spreader to lay down stone dust on big ice areas no salt in the hopper ever.
Boy do I remember those days we had a formal M with chains and the old style load Seem to me we had some really cold weather in the 70s god it seemed like it was 30 below for weeks I farmed in Minnesota wind blew across that swamp and across that field
I made chili today and was glad I did not have to go out and do your chores today.
I bet you would have liked the Chili even more if you had been out doing chores! Heck, a cup of warm water would make you feel better after -20°! 👍👍
Biggest blizzard I remember in VA was 1996. 2' of drifting snow, and it was a week of plowing the stuff and towing the Milk Truck in and out. Longest stretch of sub freezing temps was 2 weeks in 1982. We had a bunch of snows in 2010/11 , but had time to recover between them. Had an unpleasant few weeks in late January this year, but really wasn't that bad. Mainly because I don't Dairy anymore... 🤔😯👍🥛!
Dairy farmer here. I'll second you on 96' we are in east central MN. It got colder than -50° ( the thermometer went down to -50, and it bottomed out) for a week. It sure was hard getting everything up and running.
Dairy farmers really don’t get enough credit for the work they do. Have to be on call24/7 if you want things to go the best possible. I milked cows for 25 years when it’s 30 below or 105. You have to be committed to your cows to be successful. All the jobs from calving to breeding to feeding to cleaning makes a big difference. Many other jobs that I didn’t list, are also demanding. I tip my hat to the people still milking!
Your hammer at the end of the video is for stonework. I have the same heirloom hammer. It was used building the a couple of stone farmhouses back in the 1920s and 1940s on my family's old farmstead. The snow years tend to track solar activity (sun flips its magnetic poles every 11 years).
Farmers don’t get enough credit. Not many people would or could work in minus 20 degrees.
Кредиты не получаю , второй день -28 . Работаю .
Ma che freddo fa in America complimenti per il lavoro che fatte 😮🖐💪💪💪
They didn't either, unless they absolutely had to,,, but it surly wasn't more than a couple hours at a time
Yup the 80s and 90s had some record cold temperatures. Let alone the wind chill.
Howdy Aaron, I hope ya'll are doing well,
I heard your Dad explain how he deals with a calf being born in the bitter cold, he put the calf in the shop with a jacket, you guys need to get a calf warmer, it's basically a box with a warmer in it, our calf warmer is a insulated box, with heat lamps, ya'll need to look into getting one yourselves, Stay safe, God Bless and Farm on my Friends
Walking on the crunchy snow always reminds me of nails on a chalkboard
Nice video
Thanks for talking of the yester years , Dad .......
My dad helped run a dairy that milked 2,000+ head of cows and said they calves that were born in the cold weather were healthier, we live in Louisiana close to Shreveport, later the dairy got shut down it even had a petting zoo, a water park came in it's place but did not last long, I remember the fresh milk and all the good things the milk made, not only running the dairy because he was an assistant to the veterinarian he also ran a milk route when the bottles were glass and had a plastic coated paper lid, we enjoyed the ice cream , and everything that was made, it was a really big business Soo what happened because we don't live like this anymore, babies have to drink the powdered milk but we got raised on the fresh milk as soon as it came out and was still warmed it got strained and heated to kill any germs and we were waiting at the table to watch mama pour it in a snuff glass that everyone collected back then, the snuff glasses had a metal lid and when the older people got through with them we inherited them , the world us fussing about the PFAS and im going to assume that's plastic containers, my question is when did the paper containers come because I remember the small boxes of milk that came to the lunch rooms, was wondering why if glass was safer "Why did it get stopped"? and I also remember the choice over a soda was a cold glass of milk, as the praise was it was good for your bones and teeth, all I can think is SABATAGE, changing a great thing, probably also what changed was what you feed the cows and I wish all this would stop with the meddling of how we used to get to eat healthy, it's like there is a plan to stop every good thing from happening and its affecting everyone because the government has went too far with meddling and stirring someone else's life and we are suffering, wish it was the way it was when I was a child, obviously all the new gadgets that helped with the milking was a great thing and speeded things up to deliver it faster, it looks like the plastic was the only thing that came along not good, don't know about the feed because the cows eat grass and the type of grass is what made the milk taste good , also we would pick the hay after it got cut and dried, we packed the barn at our house and using the pitchfork was a job but not complaining, just saying people now a days don't want to work Soo you have to hire people from somewhere else, and this immigration thing is going to take workers away that are needed to run some of the outfits, the dairies that put the milk on the shelf and the ones that supply local townships, a dying art, I love what you do and pray you get to keep it going.
Use to have winters when you could snowmobile every day now your lucky to get a couple days.
WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!! I'm number 2!!!!!
We did in the 1970-s and 1980's
They were probably dirt chains i think they were more aggressive chain
My brother's M had one of those canvas shields. Thought we had the world by the nuts getting that little bit of heat off the engine.
18-19!!!
The black building what does it heat?
My dad as a kid in Quebec in the 1930's and 40's said it wasvommon to be -40F....they as kids would walk behind the wagon getting wood so they wouldn't freeze....
you didn't tell me what kind of mittens Mason is wearing!
Push the hay up to the cows.
They do
They did ....Ha Ha
Throw the cow over the fence some hay😊
Its global warming folks 😅😅😅😅
It's all solar cycles.
And back in the day Farmers were Alot tougher they didn't wear them silly stocking hat's I don't know how anyone can wear them there to dam hot make your head sweat i just wear a truckers hat