I love ur videos please don’t stop im from America and always watching im not from a farm im a city boy i love to watch u i feel like im there with u ur really great
We used to bend the Ballcocks on the water troughs through the night so they had a constant slow flow of water to save them freezing and surrounding any exposed part sof pipes with much and straw
Hi Phil and Liv, best wishes and all the best for 2025 for you all this year. I follow Cathal Nolan at Irelands Weather Channel for years on social media for his weather forecasting, most accurate in my opinion. Keep ‘we lit!!
To be honest, the problem is a effort problem. Leave the pipe meters above the ground and add a few loops, no wonder it´s freezing, it doesn't take much, just a shovel-deep soil and some used silage foil around the pipes on the wall is enough for -4 to -7/-8
Hi phil,use a couple bales of straw to cover your pipe to that north facing trough, keep doing what your doing wish I could get into farming. Regards Vin
We had a night of -8 a few weeks ago now, and not one frozen drinker. I have 3 and 4ft long IAE high back water troughs bolted on walls inside sheds with bigger groups of animals, and they keep running well in cold weather. A bit of snow can be great craic. The tales I could tell you about riving about with mates in our old winter cars in the snow! Still enjoy a drive about in heavy snow, but my pickup will go pretty much anywhere.
Good Morning from Western Australia Very rare to get frozen pipes here occasionally in the south Rs the Beet The sugar company used to sell a nice light cover that kept the frost off It was made of material like meal bags if minded you would get a few years of life from them Interesting that a John Deere machine is a hard starter don’t know much about their engine likely individual glow plug s Funny some diesel engines were a beggar to start in the cold weather, others touch the Key That was one advantage of the old Zetor Never fail to start Happy and safe 25 to you all Ol Paddy in de Sun
Hello old Paddy in the sun from another old Paddy enjoying Perth sun. Am I glad I left all that hardship behind me nearly forty years ago. Do you remember January 1981 there were big snow drifts up around Oldcastle that year. I had a few zeter crystals back then, great ould tractors with a glorious cab. All the best for 2025.
A few forks of dung on the pipes on the north facing shed before the next cold spell might keep it running. In 2010 when it was minus 10 I worked for a guy that had all his water bowls in each shed at the same level so he only had one ball cock to keep running. The pipes connecting the bowls were buried with a connection underneath. 11 drinking places and nothing frozen
In 2010 had a tractor that was always hard to start and we put maybe 10 litre’s of white diesel into the tractor that had maybe 20 litres of green in it and it started every day during that weather which went down as far as -15C also all tractors I agree need time to warm for oils to work properly. If you have an infra red lamp for water pump house put it on. Also some milling salt for where you are walking or if cattle have to be moved across a yard and a blow heater can save a lot of time for thawing out problems but be careful with it don’t leave it work without it being supervised and finally write down where the problems were this time and aim to eliminate them for the future from a farmer that learned the hard way from my experience of January 2010. Keep up the good work I enjoy your videos
I worked on a farm here in south Ayrshire where we used to keep the old 390 on the cow feed passage with the milking herd at night during hard frost to keep the tractor warm typical 300 range parkins hated the cold 🥶
Like most older masseys! Saying that my father in law farms in Canada and they have an 8120 which will start in the freezing cold first go every time, and she’s not plugged into the heater either
Phil, why not cover the beets with plastic covering? Straw can hold moisture and cause you more rot, at least that's my way of thinking. Something that many people tend to forget or don't realize is, snow is an insulator so, yea, when it snows here, I like to see it. I prefer a wet snow over a dry snow though. Dry snow tends to cause deep snow drifts and then, you'd snowed in per say. Cheers :)
Phil you can buy Blankets for Covering Concert to keep the Frost out of it. They would be a great job for Covering The Beet . No messing with Straw .👍🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
As u said, the rest of the world, who know really cold weather are saying “Ah lads 🤷♀️” I drove out today on an iced road , I don’t live next to a main road, so best of luck getting to work 👍
Ak Phil/Liv the cold cauuses problems in every aspect of life here but particularly when animals are dependent on care. Ye seems to have it under control, good for ye. BTW I got a handy tip for defrosting windscreens instantly & avoids the scraping that takes so much time. Get an ordinary plastic freezer bag &fill with hot water straight from the tap & apply to widscreen & hey presto like magic its clear. Of course if you gor a hot water bottle you could do all of Longford. Try it & Keep 'er Lit.
That’s the first time I saw your pig house. It would be nice if you could give us a bit more information and content on your pig production. One of my favourite animals. Another fantastic video. Would you not bury those pipes in the field to prevent them from freezing.
A machine like the Tele I'd always be inclined to turn on the ignition for a minute before starting the engine. I imagine it helps in cold weather? Maybe there's no need
We live 50 kms from a major city, the first winter that is cold, wet, dull days sends some Lifestylers back to the city, quicker if their pipes freeze and they slip, slide on the road.
silage cover blows away in the wind ........I use the wraps off the bale silage .......takes longer to put them on but they will not blow away like the sheet does in the wind ...........
@@FARMERPHIL3690 would the green silage netting over the beet first before the straw and then straw removal would be easier. I remember the pain of removing straw from beet in the 90s. A handful of straw would block the blades on the Tullow engineering beet chopper bucket
Everything is bedded in the evening with the straw blower. We don’t bed along fed passages. Heifers are on milled peat and the bulls are on slats or scraped passageways
Hi farmer Phil that was a great job with your fresion bulls and NB with the frost yet so how are doing with the weather lad and keep up the good work with them 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love your videos mate but you need to look after your equipment better that jcb is fikthy already that’s why you can’t see through windows. Frustrating
Good man Mick. Over the year's, I have only heard and seen Phil and co showing what they do and ask for comment's back as to other ways of doing things. They do not give advice to farmer's, they aren't TEAGASC. I would assume, throught your excellent vigilance, the "black feed" was most likely the dung heap. There was a Kane trailer there too in need of repair/recycling. With such strong views on how other's do it, do share the flawless farming via a video channel. No bent sheet, spotless yards and tractors, perfect PH and DMD silage and of course the perfect conditioned animals on the most perfect of land. You have a fabulous 2025.
I love ur videos please don’t stop im from America and always watching im not from a farm im a city boy i love to watch u i feel like im there with u ur really great
Our favourite farmer’s in the world please don’t leave TH-cam all together.Your amazing 😻 so good luck.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
By far my favourite video was the one with yourself and Father Phil at the kitchen table answering questions from viewers.
Please don't leave youtube we would miss you so much
We used to bend the Ballcocks on the water troughs through the night so they had a constant slow flow of water to save them freezing and surrounding any exposed part sof pipes with much and straw
Hi Phil and Liv, best wishes and all the best for 2025 for you all this year. I follow Cathal Nolan at Irelands Weather Channel for years on social media for his weather forecasting, most accurate in my opinion. Keep ‘we lit!!
To be honest, the problem is a effort problem. Leave the pipe meters above the ground and add a few loops, no wonder it´s freezing, it doesn't take much, just a shovel-deep soil and some used silage foil around the pipes on the wall is enough for -4 to -7/-8
Hi phil,use a couple bales of straw to cover your pipe to that north facing trough, keep doing what your doing wish I could get into farming. Regards Vin
We had a night of -8 a few weeks ago now, and not one frozen drinker. I have 3 and 4ft long IAE high back water troughs bolted on walls inside sheds with bigger groups of animals, and they keep running well in cold weather.
A bit of snow can be great craic. The tales I could tell you about riving about with mates in our old winter cars in the snow! Still enjoy a drive about in heavy snow, but my pickup will go pretty much anywhere.
Great video Phil. Definitely important to get everything winterized , save some headaches later. Enjoyed watching 👍🏼👍🏼
Good Morning from Western Australia
Very rare to get frozen pipes here occasionally in the south
Rs the Beet The sugar company used to sell a nice light cover that kept the frost off It was made of material like meal bags if minded you would get a few years of life from them
Interesting that a John Deere machine is a hard starter don’t know much about their engine likely individual glow plug s
Funny some diesel engines were a beggar to start in the cold weather, others touch the Key
That was one advantage of the old Zetor
Never fail to start
Happy and safe 25 to you all
Ol Paddy in de Sun
Hello old Paddy in the sun from another old Paddy enjoying Perth sun. Am I glad I left all that hardship behind me nearly forty years ago. Do you remember January 1981 there were big snow drifts up around Oldcastle that year. I had a few zeter crystals back then, great ould tractors with a glorious cab. All the best for 2025.
Congratulations Philip
I hope the algorithm sorts its self out for ye gusy. Just want to say how much we appreciate you lads and value your content.
A few forks of dung on the pipes on the north facing shed before the next cold spell might keep it running. In 2010 when it was minus 10 I worked for a guy that had all his water bowls in each shed at the same level so he only had one ball cock to keep running. The pipes connecting the bowls were buried with a connection underneath. 11 drinking places and nothing frozen
In 2010 had a tractor that was always hard to start and we put maybe 10 litre’s of white diesel into the tractor that had maybe 20 litres of green in it and it started every day during that weather which went down as far as -15C also all tractors I agree need time to warm for oils to work properly. If you have an infra red lamp for water pump house put it on. Also some milling salt for where you are walking or if cattle have to be moved across a yard and a blow heater can save a lot of time for thawing out problems but be careful with it don’t leave it work without it being supervised and finally write down where the problems were this time and aim to eliminate them for the future from a farmer that learned the hard way from my experience of January 2010. Keep up the good work I enjoy your videos
I’ll keep commenting to help TH-cam help you with your grain shed
I worked on a farm here in south Ayrshire where we used to keep the old 390 on the cow feed passage with the milking herd at night during hard frost to keep the tractor warm typical 300 range parkins hated the cold 🥶
Like most older masseys! Saying that my father in law farms in Canada and they have an 8120 which will start in the freezing cold first go every time, and she’s not plugged into the heater either
later 4 pot phaser are cold blooded beasts also ..................
Titanic moment with the hand on the glass 😂
Phil, why not cover the beets with plastic covering? Straw can hold moisture and cause you more rot, at least that's my way of thinking. Something that many people tend to forget or don't realize is, snow is an insulator so, yea, when it snows here, I like to see it. I prefer a wet snow over a dry snow though. Dry snow tends to cause deep snow drifts and then, you'd snowed in per say. Cheers :)
Happy New year to you all
Phil you can buy Blankets for Covering Concert to keep the Frost out of it. They would be a great job for Covering The Beet . No messing with Straw .👍🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
Congrats on 90K subscribers 👏 👏 fair play to ye 👍👍
You have a flat tyer on the feed mixer
Cold water feels warm when your hands are freezing
As u said, the rest of the world, who know really cold weather are saying “Ah lads 🤷♀️” I drove out today on an iced road , I don’t live next to a main road, so best of luck getting to work 👍
You new the frost was coming just cover the pipes from the frost
Great Video Phil keep them coming🎉
The geese survived Christmas 😊
Ak Phil/Liv the cold cauuses problems in every aspect of life here but particularly when animals are dependent on care. Ye seems to have it under control, good for ye. BTW I got a handy tip for defrosting windscreens instantly & avoids the scraping that takes so much time. Get an ordinary plastic freezer bag &fill with hot water straight from the tap & apply to widscreen & hey presto like magic its clear. Of course if you gor a hot water bottle you could do all of Longford. Try it & Keep 'er Lit.
Sit down with father Phil for 90K .Well done Phil.
That’s the first time I saw your pig house. It would be nice if you could give us a bit more information and content on your pig production. One of my favourite animals. Another fantastic video. Would you not bury those pipes in the field to prevent them from freezing.
You never let the glow plugs heat up on the Tele 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🙈🙈
Just finished pulling fodder beet 2day before the heavy frost😅😅
Cover front of beet with silage sheets
6yh
Enjoy the frost.😊
Tip some muck on pipe wants on top and heat will warm pipes up
The tyre on the diet feeder is flat. 😮😮😮
Would old silo cover not do the job on the beet?
Dung on your pipe... the frost just falls onto the pipe... so open the pipe at the tank and nock the ice out of it...
Good looking video
A machine like the Tele I'd always be inclined to turn on the ignition for a minute before starting the engine. I imagine it helps in cold weather? Maybe there's no need
Ok I've watched further in the video and you talked about this 😅
Good video phil there is snow coming on Sunday I seen on the weather app if it's right or not I don't know
Who snows where it will land but !!
Here in croatia we are good until-10 ours barn scrapers are out of funcion after -9 and dairy barn pit needs to be clean for shite to fall into it
We live 50 kms from a major city, the first winter that is cold, wet, dull days sends some Lifestylers back to the city, quicker if their pipes freeze and they slip, slide on the road.
When we used to do beet we covered with silage cover. PITA putting it on but works.
silage cover blows away in the wind ........I use the wraps off the bale silage .......takes longer to put them on but they will not blow away like the sheet does in the wind ...........
Could you put silage pit cover over beet then straw
Silage cover would retain moisture and cause the beet to sweat and eventually rot
@@FARMERPHIL3690 would the green silage netting over the beet first before the straw and then straw removal would be easier. I remember the pain of removing straw from beet in the 90s. A handful of straw would block the blades on the Tullow engineering beet chopper bucket
Will u have enough silage?
Chilly in Longford
What part of longford are u in😅
Your flat out phil videos filmed and posted on the same day, fair play to yourself and liv👏
Bring back father phil, I hope everyone is OK/better, happy new year here hopping prices go up and costs go down
nice video Phil
would a tarp work. ??
Looks like you are on top of things Phil, it is cold here in Minnesota today 17 above zero which is warm for us. Take care see you in the next one.
Cannot believe you dont insolate your pipes we insolate all exposed pipes, it's not an expensive job only have to do it once
Cows don’t have beading ? They just lay in the shit to keep warm ?
Everything is bedded in the evening with the straw blower. We don’t bed along fed passages. Heifers are on milled peat and the bulls are on slats or scraped passageways
Snow has landed in Aberdeenshire Scotland you will have cosy beet now😂
Hon Phil 🥊
How is your back Phil
Hi farmer Phil that was a great job with your fresion bulls and NB with the frost yet so how are doing with the weather lad and keep up the good work with them 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
A cool spell would b good
How many times did you say WATER in this video 😂
How ya, Just wondering do you ever plan to get liv, as they say in Abbeyknockmoy, Up the Piss Pipe ( any thing Stirring) ????
why do you leave that tractor in the middle of the field? surely the new jcb manitou would lift her for a better stand?🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
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Hate snow,,, the country will be shut down for a week if it snows heavy
Good stuff
I'm fairing not to bad on my farm but I think I'd be better going back to FS22😂
Grand hardy morning Phil.
Question would it not been of some benifitto pull a silage cover over the beet then add the straw?
Asking for a friend😅
Silage cover would cause the beet to sweat and eventually start to rot
@ sorry Phil
Only seen that you had responded to an earlier comment once I had posted.
Thanks for taking the time.
You'll be in - 10 next week
It's a pity you couldn't pull a cover over the straw now
need heates for it
-10 promised on monday night
Love your videos mate but you need to look after your equipment better that jcb is fikthy already that’s why you can’t see through windows. Frustrating
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7:10 the Kane silage trailer is in a sorry state left in the dung pit submerged in shit
Ah it will be a different yoke when the new power hose comes
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Quality of yer feed is poor for someone that is giving advice very black in background do we get show what you want us to see
It’s great to be perfect the joys of farming 😂
Good man Mick.
Over the year's, I have only heard and seen Phil and co showing what they do and ask for comment's back as to other ways of doing things. They do not give advice to farmer's, they aren't TEAGASC.
I would assume, throught your excellent vigilance, the "black feed" was most likely the dung heap. There was a Kane trailer there too in need of repair/recycling.
With such strong views on how other's do it, do share the flawless farming via a video channel. No bent sheet, spotless yards and tractors, perfect PH and DMD silage and of course the perfect conditioned animals on the most perfect of land.
You have a fabulous 2025.