THE ABSOLUTE BEST PROGRAM ( MING) RIGHT HERE ON TH-cam ! I wholeheartedly believe that you are truly an old soul. The very best that the still, Good Ol' U S.A. has to offer starts and ends with Joe ! I love that you are- in every sense of the phrase " a man's man !" A gentleman that wears many different " hats". This is a slice of The American Dream ! ( imho) Big Time Regards from Arizona.
Thanks Joe. You are indeed a very kind and decent example for us all. Wishing you all of the very best. You are an on-going constant reminder of what excellence - defines.
Joe, I’m a little short on memory of late. You have so much going on, I can’t keep it all straight. Next video will help those in your viewing audience who are like me in the memory-light detail, to catch up. Thanks a lot, my friend.
Yeah, good advice on the halter training. The G cow looks pretty amiable, beef animals can be cantakerous. Sometimes that makes it easier to send them to the processor. haha When you do your first discing, be sure to follow the way the furrows lay, esp on the ends. Most farmers do headlands, you can research that if you do not know what they are. For secondary discing do a diagonal pattern rather than circles. Good luck and carry on!
Joe, that old tractor looks like it is serving you very well. I'm sure you take good care of it, but it really puts in a days work, whatever you are using it for. Hope it continues serving you well.
Watching you plow brings back memories of my childhood. We had an old Fordson tractor with metal wheels and a cranky starter. The plow was all metal with metal wheels and they had to yank a lever and it dropped a cog shaped like a moose antler kind of and it would lift the blades up. Every spring my dad or uncle would plow and my brothers and I would walk behind and pick worms.
Joe and Melissa, some advice from someone who has had both beef and dairy cows. Only buy cows that have been halter trained, meaning cows that have been trained to be led on a halter. This is vitally important for 1) your safety, 2) veterinarian access to the animals, and 3) moving them, if necessary, into a livestock/horse trailer. Please take this seriously as it also indicates that the animals have been socialized to people. Cows can be wonderful or they can be extremely dangerous, and halter training is the best indicator of an animal that has been socialized. Also, you must have a shelter for your cows, both from heat and cold, particularly when you are only getting two cows and because of the severity of your winters. Herds huddle during cold seasons. If I were you, I would get/build a three and one-half sided shelter. VERY important, and equally important for shade, especially for black cows.
On the dairy farm After going over the field in a 6 or 8 bottom plow we would then use a chisel plow to sorta smooth out the big cuts from the larger bottom plow. Then disk it and drag it before planting. But I think the chisel plow was for prepping or smoothing out more of the field for the planter. Since you are not using a planter it should totally work with what you are doing where disking after taking your bottom plow over it. Jus thought I would share for whatever it is worth. Amazing work Joe. Everything is looking good.
Great Video Joe. You put a lot of work into these video for us to enjoy. And I for one enjoy every disking second! Thanks much and can’t wait for the next one!
One of two things ; It's going to need an engine rebuild or the carburetor is adjusted to rich and rebuild as well . Those plugs should be burning clean and almost a whitish gray as hard as it's getting worded .
That tractor is 76 years old. Does she need some medical help? Yes. Does she still do everything she is asked to do? Yes. Lol. No reason to rebuild her until she dies. I need a workhorse, not a show horse.
“I’m not proud …” But, you’re learning! Later in the video, as you’re mowing, I’m thinking, What a CHANGE a caring owner makes! You guys have brought the place so far from what it was that even your neighbors have to absolutely love your efforts!! Looking great, guys!!!
Great job plowing Joe. Glad you figured out the plow depth issue. I just love that old tractor. Listening to it run takes me back to the days of my youth. Love your channels. Thank you. 👍
The deer will love the fresh tilled soil. I in construction and slways noticed how the deer love standing in it. I guess it must feel good. Even when I tilled my yard on my own property they deer came out at nigt and just stood there
I picked fresh strawberries today. I made a pound cake and served my 91 year old mom a nice slice with fresh strawberries and some home made whipped cream. I have a weird morel mushroom story. My moms house is on the outer part of the city. She had a huge maple tree that's about 70 years old. They came to trim it and there was sawdust everywhere. I told them not to worry about the sawdust because we don't mow close to that tree because three roots stick up and hit the mower. So we just use a weed-eater around it. They said they'd spray that entire area with grass seed and fertilizer. It was dark green. A few weeks later, I pulled in and thought "what the hell?". I got out and there were about 2 dozen morel mushrooms growing in that sawdust and fertilized grass mixture. I called a pal over to come over right away. He did. He was flabbergasted. He picked them all and took them home. I got two morells and tried to make a slurry to see if I could grow more. nope, didn't work.
Joe, you gotta lot going on fella. Guess house,Mellisa’s pottery workshop ,new cows , New big garden ,plowing tilling seeding alfalfa …………………….and so so much more! Awesome love it, cheers
When researching morel mushroom hunting on other TH-cam channels a few years back. I did run across some mentioning of pine trees where morels can show it really depends on the root systems and the mycelium in the root system. What some mentioned is that most likely there was an old ash or elm trees where if there was an old root system present at one time even years later they will still grow. It's pretty amazing studying some of how those systems work in the mushroom kingdom. With pines it is possible but you won't see a lot you will see way more in the elm and ash trees even some oaks. I know where we live over by sibley state park in Minnesota that is the place to find morels and if you can find an ash or elm with the bark starting to fall off that is a good sign for possible morels to start showing up.
Can't wait til you get all these projects one so we can see the outcome, patience Debbie, patience, lol. Looking forward to the next video Joe!!!!! Tyfs God bless you
On our farm we plowed in the fall and disced it. Then the snow could get at those furrows and really lay them down and flat. In the spring we came back with the cultivator dragging harrows behind it. That land sat for a year and was cultivated and harrowed every time weeds appeared, about every month. We always cultivated in angle patterns and circular, alternating to catch the weeds and lay the soil flat. We would plant the land the next spring. We always plowed in both directions. It meant more travel across the headlands but I guess this is how my dad did it when he did the work with the eight black horses. Harrows break up the clods. Now days you see these rotary cylinders that do it, and they work great! Really great to see that tractor and plow setup. I plowed my first field with a Deere R when I was 9 years old at night, after school and on Saturdays. 1966.
Thanks for sharing with us Joe and Melissa, sure enjoyed your video with the plowing and discing and some leveling of the fields for some great pasturing. As always the cooking is fabulous too and the inspection ride is always fun. Stay safe and keep up the good work. Fred.
When finished with plow for season, wipe off any soil from plow points & mold boards. Then apply with a small coarse rag, a heavy grease or varnish. This will void need to re scour in fall or next spring. Need to do this even if you store in barn.
Thanks for getting those random stumps and the pile of sawdust out of the open field. My OCD was killing me. 😬😁 Love watching your channel. We're already getting 90° weather here in Tennessee.
Aloha from Hawaii New to your channel just seen some of your videos I enjoy all the content that you share..once again thank you..stay safe ..stay blessed..
I follow a guy's channel named FARMAL FANATIC and he bought a chisel plow and did his field. I think yours looks great Joe, the more you work it the better it becomes 👍
Our neighbor would toss mushroom spores under his raised cabin and grow and harvest mushrooms. Maybe toss some compost under the guest house and a couple shroom kits. They will grow pretty good, just need to keep the critters from them.
Since we will be calving with her we will only have to do milk about 9 months of the year because you always dry them prior to her calving. We will also be calf sharing so it would be no big deal for us to leave and the calf can have it all until we get back.
Your plow is doing exactly what it is supposed to. I grew up on a farm and ours did the same as yours. That grass under the ground is going to become very nice topsoil. You are doing just fine for breaking new land.
Lots going on for sure ! Any plans maybe open up some of the wooded area and have some areas to hay and stockpile ? Obviously not an immediate project but something I’d thought of with the farmhouse progression. Take care Joe
You live in a very pretty part of the state. I love the wide open spaces and it is so nice and hilly. Beautiful area. That end of the weekend traffic was as bad as it is up here on 35. Lol.
Ah. so you're going to build a barn or convert one of your buildings into a barn for the cattle. That will be a challenge, especially since you haven't finished the other building. So who is going to milk the cow, and do they know how to do it? Are you buying the calf as well? Calves take a lot of care. So do cows with newborns. Well, good luck.
Stay tuned. The "calf" we are buying will be 1 year old. It will need one more year of feeding him and he can go in the freezer. Once our new girl has her calf, if it is a heifer we will either keep her and eventually have 2 milk cows or sell her at about a year old. If it is a bull, we will band it so it is a steer and it will go in the freezer 2 years later.
Joe- BE CAREFUL with the moral mushrooms. There is a moral that is called FALSE MORAL that is POISNESS. It looks like the editable kind but there is a slight difference. If you have the plant identifier app it helps out a lot. Don’t want to see anything happen to you all. Take Care Be Safe. 😊
Hey Joe- those Husqvarna mowers are nice mowers proven by Joe! Which model is the best one in your experience? Those morels sure are delicious! Great job on the back field!
Kevin from Living Traditions Homestead channel has a waterer he made for his ducks that keeps the water from getting wasted and keeps the ducks from playing in it.. check it out
If you keep turning with that disc buried your gonna be learning how hard it is to find parts for that old disc and how to rebuild an axel of discs on it
@NorthernSeclusion I haven't missed any. They were going to come pick it up, and if they didn't you were going to give others a chance. I missed anything other than that.
Well ; let's see . Need a barn for the cow - calf and steer . Pasture fenced . Make or buy hay and straw . Grain bin of some kind . Grinder or buying rolled or ground feed . Thats just the short basis list . Going to be some expensive Milk and meat ? ? ? Well All you are going to need is a forty two hour days for a few years ?
We will bring it in to get processed at first. I would have no problem doing it myself if I had the right equipment for processing it. This is not the first or 10th time I have done this. Not a big deal to me.
Annie is having a blast..bet when she comes in she just collapses..🦮 the dead Elm Tree’s that’s losing its bark is where we find the majority of mushroom here in southwestern wisconsin
I have enjoyed seeing Joe the builder morph into Joe the farmer. Good stuff 😊
me
Yaay...Brandons' getting off the couch!!
😂😂😂👍
Joe, When you disc a field, add a cider block to the disc frame or build a rock box with rocks for weight.
THE ABSOLUTE BEST PROGRAM ( MING) RIGHT HERE ON TH-cam ! I wholeheartedly believe that you are truly an old soul. The very best that the still, Good Ol' U S.A. has to offer starts and ends with Joe ! I love that you are- in every sense of the phrase " a man's man !" A gentleman that wears many different " hats". This is a slice of The American Dream ! ( imho)
Big Time Regards from Arizona.
Thank you, this is the best comment of the night.
Thanks Joe. You are indeed a very kind and decent example for us all.
Wishing you all of the very best. You are an on-going constant reminder of what excellence - defines.
Joe, I’m a little short on memory of late. You have so much going on, I can’t keep it all straight. Next video will help those in your viewing audience who are like me in the memory-light detail, to catch up. Thanks a lot, my friend.
Yeah, good advice on the halter training. The G cow looks pretty amiable, beef animals can be cantakerous. Sometimes that makes it easier to send them to the processor. haha When you do your first discing, be sure to follow the way the furrows lay, esp on the ends. Most farmers do headlands, you can research that if you do not know what they are. For secondary discing do a diagonal pattern rather than circles. Good luck and carry on!
That a large plot , interested to see what your going to grow , farmer Joe
Joe, that old tractor looks like it is serving you very well. I'm sure you take good care of it, but it really puts in a days work, whatever you are using it for. Hope it continues serving you well.
She was not very happy David but she did do what she was asked. Lol.
Watching you plow brings back memories of my childhood. We had an old Fordson tractor with metal wheels and a cranky starter. The plow was all metal with metal wheels and they had to yank a lever and it dropped a cog shaped like a moose antler kind of and it would lift the blades up. Every spring my dad or uncle would plow and my brothers and I would walk behind and pick worms.
That was called a duck foot plow.
Awesome story. If I knew half of what they did my plow job would have looked better. You learn each time.
Joe and Melissa, some advice from someone who has had both beef and dairy cows. Only buy cows that have been halter trained, meaning cows that have been trained to be led on a halter. This is vitally important for 1) your safety, 2) veterinarian access to the animals, and 3) moving them, if necessary, into a livestock/horse trailer. Please take this seriously as it also indicates that the animals have been socialized to people. Cows can be wonderful or they can be extremely dangerous, and halter training is the best indicator of an animal that has been socialized. Also, you must have a shelter for your cows, both from heat and cold, particularly when you are only getting two cows and because of the severity of your winters. Herds huddle during cold seasons. If I were you, I would get/build a three and one-half sided shelter. VERY important, and equally important for shade, especially for black cows.
On the dairy farm After going over the field in a 6 or 8 bottom plow we would then use a chisel plow to sorta smooth out the big cuts from the larger bottom plow. Then disk it and drag it before planting.
But I think the chisel plow was for prepping or smoothing out more of the field for the planter.
Since you are not using a planter it should totally work with what you are doing where disking after taking your bottom plow over it.
Jus thought I would share for whatever it is worth.
Amazing work Joe. Everything is looking good.
Great Video Joe. You put a lot of work into these video for us to enjoy. And I for one enjoy every disking second! Thanks much and can’t wait for the next one!
From the sound of your voice Joe it sounds like that tractor is getting the best of you 😂👍🇺🇲👊
One of two things ; It's going to need an engine rebuild or the carburetor is adjusted to rich and rebuild as well .
Those plugs should be burning clean and almost a whitish gray as hard as it's getting worded .
That tractor is 76 years old. Does she need some medical help? Yes. Does she still do everything she is asked to do? Yes. Lol. No reason to rebuild her until she dies. I need a workhorse, not a show horse.
“I’m not proud …”
But, you’re learning! Later in the video, as you’re mowing, I’m thinking, What a CHANGE a caring owner makes!
You guys have brought the place so far from what it was that even your neighbors have to absolutely love your efforts!!
Looking great, guys!!!
Great job plowing Joe. Glad you figured out the plow depth issue. I just love that old tractor. Listening to it run takes me back to the days of my youth. Love your channels. Thank you. 👍
Look what that beautiful old Tractor ca do!
That plough is peeling the sod back like butter, very satisfying, thanks Joe!
The deer will love the fresh tilled soil. I in construction and slways noticed how the deer love standing in it. I guess it must feel good. Even when I tilled my yard on my own property they deer came out at nigt and just stood there
I picked fresh strawberries today. I made a pound cake and served my 91 year old mom a nice slice with fresh strawberries and some home made whipped cream.
I have a weird morel mushroom story. My moms house is on the outer part of the city. She had a huge maple tree that's about 70 years old. They came to trim it and there was sawdust everywhere. I told them not to worry about the sawdust because we don't mow close to that tree because three roots stick up and hit the mower. So we just use a weed-eater around it. They said they'd spray that entire area with grass seed and fertilizer. It was dark green. A few weeks later, I pulled in and thought "what the hell?". I got out and there were about 2 dozen morel mushrooms growing in that sawdust and fertilized grass mixture. I called a pal over to come over right away. He did. He was flabbergasted. He picked them all and took them home. I got two morells and tried to make a slurry to see if I could grow more. nope, didn't work.
Hey Joe I told you that we weren’t gonna to keep up with you after you heels up from the surgery. AWESOME! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤩🤩🤩🌱🌱🌱💯💯💯
Melissa seems to what all this stuff but you seem to be doing all the work
Joe, you gotta lot going on fella. Guess house,Mellisa’s pottery workshop ,new cows , New big garden ,plowing tilling seeding alfalfa …………………….and so so much more! Awesome love it, cheers
When researching morel mushroom hunting on other TH-cam channels a few years back. I did run across some mentioning of pine trees where morels can show it really depends on the root systems and the mycelium in the root system.
What some mentioned is that most likely there was an old ash or elm trees where if there was an old root system present at one time even years later they will still grow. It's pretty amazing studying some of how those systems work in the mushroom kingdom.
With pines it is possible but you won't see a lot you will see way more in the elm and ash trees even some oaks.
I know where we live over by sibley state park in Minnesota that is the place to find morels and if you can find an ash or elm with the bark starting to fall off that is a good sign for possible morels to start showing up.
Thanks Joe and Melissa! Everything is coming together!
Can't wait til you get all these projects one so we can see the outcome, patience Debbie, patience, lol. Looking forward to the next video Joe!!!!! Tyfs God bless you
On our farm we plowed in the fall and disced it. Then the snow could get at those furrows and really lay them down and flat. In the spring we came back with the cultivator dragging harrows behind it. That land sat for a year and was cultivated and harrowed every time weeds appeared, about every month. We always cultivated in angle patterns and circular, alternating to catch the weeds and lay the soil flat. We would plant the land the next spring.
We always plowed in both directions. It meant more travel across the headlands but I guess this is how my dad did it when he did the work with the eight black horses. Harrows break up the clods. Now days you see these rotary cylinders that do it, and they work great!
Really great to see that tractor and plow setup. I plowed my first field with a Deere R when I was 9 years old at night, after school and on Saturdays. 1966.
We always plowed both directions and disced both directions it smooths out just fine and takes half the time
Thanks for sharing with us Joe and Melissa, sure enjoyed your video with the plowing and discing and some leveling of the fields for some great pasturing. As always the cooking is fabulous too and the inspection ride is always fun. Stay safe and keep up the good work. Fred.
Things are looking good on the farm! You need to start raising pigs so we can get our Pork Steak fix!😂
Guest house pottery studio outdoor kitchen greenhouse now you need cow shelter ! That's a lot of projects going
Awesome progress,🙏
This reminds me of growing up on the farm in N. MN. Similar tools, same process. 👍👍
When finished with plow for season, wipe off any soil from plow points & mold boards. Then apply with a small coarse rag, a heavy grease or varnish. This will void need to re scour in fall or next spring. Need to do this even if you store in barn.
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome.. Looking forward to seeing what's happening next.🤓👍🤓👍.Randy.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round. Just like Joe in his field.
👍great video
best thing for M to get worked hard
Mow, cook, cut, repair, travel, eat rinse repeat😂
Thanks for getting those random stumps and the pile of sawdust out of the open field. My OCD was killing me. 😬😁 Love watching your channel. We're already getting 90° weather here in Tennessee.
Aloha from Hawaii New to your channel just seen some of your videos I enjoy all the content that you share..once again thank you..stay safe ..stay blessed..
Wow, that’s one hell of a garden
I follow a guy's channel named FARMAL FANATIC and he bought a chisel plow and did his field. I think yours looks great Joe, the more you work it the better it becomes 👍
Our neighbor would toss mushroom spores under his raised cabin and grow and harvest mushrooms. Maybe toss some compost under the guest house and a couple shroom kits. They will grow pretty good, just need to keep the critters from them.
looking good Joe.
I can't wait to see what y'all do next.
Just curious: …..Why no priority on the “new house” ( next to workshop)?
No reason. No one lives there.
Dude just awesome stuff
We had dairy cows and remember we milked them 2 times a day 365 days a year .It. made it hard to go on vacations.
Only one cow, with a calf. Calf will do the majority of the milking
Since we will be calving with her we will only have to do milk about 9 months of the year because you always dry them prior to her calving. We will also be calf sharing so it would be no big deal for us to leave and the calf can have it all until we get back.
@@NorthernSeclusion
You have no idea what you're in for yet with a milking cow
Your plow is doing exactly what it is supposed to. I grew up on a farm and ours did the same as yours. That grass under the ground is going to become very nice topsoil. You are doing just fine for breaking new land.
Lots going on for sure ! Any plans maybe open up some of the wooded area and have some areas to hay and stockpile ? Obviously not an immediate project but something I’d thought of with the farmhouse progression. Take care Joe
You were near me just outside of Fountain.
You live in a very pretty part of the state. I love the wide open spaces and it is so nice and hilly. Beautiful area. That end of the weekend traffic was as bad as it is up here on 35. Lol.
Awesome!! 👍🇨🇦😎
lol.....looks like Crops...not a Garden! Good on You two!
Would it make it easier on the tractor if you removed that heavy bucket before you plowed?
Yes it would but then I would have to put it back on. That is something I do not want to do.
Ah. so you're going to build a barn or convert one of your buildings into a barn for the cattle. That will be a challenge, especially since you haven't finished the other building. So who is going to milk the cow, and do they know how to do it? Are you buying the calf as well? Calves take a lot of care. So do cows with newborns. Well, good luck.
Stay tuned. The "calf" we are buying will be 1 year old. It will need one more year of feeding him and he can go in the freezer. Once our new girl has her calf, if it is a heifer we will either keep her and eventually have 2 milk cows or sell her at about a year old. If it is a bull, we will band it so it is a steer and it will go in the freezer 2 years later.
I have a plow but went to 3 point rotary tiller king cutter brand does a really good job and breaks up a lot better
Woohoo!
We bag the grass and feed the cows the clippings out here. Maybe that'll help with feed bills.
Where are you going to keep the cows in bad weather, AKA heavy snow.
I was waiting for the old farmall to blow the engine.
I have to admit, I was wondering that myself. Once again she soldiered through it and got the job done. She was not happy about it though. Lol
Less hydrologic pressure on the plow, drop it down and raise it up on the hydraulic
Is there a way to adjust the discs so that they are at more of angle? If so, that might break up the clumps of soil more.
You should find an old Yazoo lawnmower to mow with. They are fast
Joe- BE CAREFUL with the moral mushrooms. There is a moral that is called FALSE MORAL that is POISNESS. It looks like the editable kind but there is a slight difference. If you have the plant identifier app it helps out a lot. Don’t want to see anything happen to you all. Take Care Be Safe. 😊
Hey Joe- those Husqvarna mowers are nice mowers proven by Joe! Which model is the best one in your experience? Those morels sure are delicious! Great job on the back field!
A+ Soil Looked Like it Needed to be Turned
Did you say you are getting a skid steer loader?
Kevin from Living Traditions Homestead channel has a waterer he made for his ducks that keeps the water from getting wasted and keeps the ducks from playing in it.. check it out
Too bad you didn't plow that a month ago when it could freeze or at least "frost" on it a few times !!!!
drag a log behind the harrow !
We hooked up old worn out tires behind ours. Worked great.
Piece of guard rail works good too!
How old are you mate, if you don’t mind? I can’t figure if I’m older than you or you older than me.
57.
@@NorthernSeclusion I'm 59. Now it's settled. Thanks.
It's usually a half hour before the camera quits filming a video
If you keep turning with that disc buried your gonna be learning how hard it is to find parts for that old disc and how to rebuild an axel of discs on it
If it breaks, we will buy a different one. We did not buy it to be a lawn ornament.
Yeah, If Dad would of caught us turning a corner with the disc down our butts would of been paddled red! lol
@@aft0315 he took the comment as if I was being an asshole I was only pointing out that a disc is not meant to be turned buried in the dirt
Did miss something why are you turning over your field?
Yes you did. You need to watch the videos. The grass in the field was not a good grass for grazing.
Are they ever going to come get the work camper?
I am pretty sure I covered that in a few recent videos. Perhaps you should watch them.
@NorthernSeclusion I haven't missed any. They were going to come pick it up, and if they didn't you were going to give others a chance. I missed anything other than that.
Elm trees
18:25 she fixed yet?
Not what are you going to do with all plow dirt
If you did not skip through the video, I explained it.
The camera is not clear.
Are you retired from daily job construction work.
and you're not busy enough
Getting a milk cow?? Grown adults dont need to drink milk, and ya'll dont have any growing babies. 🤔 What's the purpose? Just means more work for Joe😢
I'm sure Melissa has a reason. But you are right about more work for Joe. It seems like anything outdoors on the farm it's all on Joe.
@@williecourthers9450
Yeah, this sure is getting interesting though. Excitement around each bend! ☺️🌄
Have a good one, Willie💚
Well ; let's see . Need a barn for the cow - calf and steer . Pasture fenced . Make or buy hay and straw . Grain bin of some kind . Grinder or buying rolled or ground feed .
Thats just the short basis list .
Going to be some expensive Milk and meat ? ? ?
Well All you are going to need is a forty two hour days for a few years ?
The beef will still be cheaper than what you buy in the store. You negative people can stay away.
Are you going to be killing cattle?
You mean eating? I bet he will....eventually.
We will bring it in to get processed at first. I would have no problem doing it myself if I had the right equipment for processing it. This is not the first or 10th time I have done this. Not a big deal to me.
@@queenbee3647 how many people will they be feeding?
What a mess of a video thumbs down!
What a mess of a comment. You get the "fuck off" award today.
Annie is having a blast..bet when she comes in she just collapses..🦮 the dead Elm Tree’s that’s losing its bark is where we find the majority of mushroom here in southwestern wisconsin
Must be nice not having much rock to contend with when plowing..