Thank you so much for "The Homestead Builds". I received mine on Friday. I was surprised at how well-detailed the book is for each project. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such detailed lists and instructions.🥰🥰
Instead of concrete blocks for a retaining wall, try gabion cages. You fill the cages with rocks to make the wall. I have seen one installed along a road that kept washing out and it has been holding up great.
@@theJustinRhodesShow I was thinking much the same , but got no idea what the cost would be. Could something be made up with rebar to keep the rocks in place?
@@theJustinRhodesShow You can build your own. We did for flood protection along the Mississippi River when I worked for Soil Conservation Service. Saved a LOT of money and they work. I know they called this mess a 1000 year flood, but it happened--everything just lined up for it, but it will more than likely happen again. The Gabion walls are effective and the way the water came through there, they will not move.
Living in Northern Alberta, Canada, For my own preference, I greatly reduce my winter chores. I only keep 3-4 chickens over winter for eggs and then we only keep animals that grow from April until October for food animals. Of course the garden is for the same time period also- lots of root crops in our root cellar and chicken in the freezer.
Definitely! A plus for his sons. They will appreciate their dad years from now. There won’t be a thing they won’t be able to accomplish once they decide they want to do it.
I love your attitude behind the comments and your hard work. And to add to that how you get your boys involved and teach them how to work hard and be responsible at a young age. We need more young man like the ones ya are raising. Hard working man. Keep it up!! 👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I know folks make negative comments about the editing but I think Austin does a great job. It is interesting and entertaining. The young men are so smart and hardworking. It’s ok to not always want to but they get it done. And Lily is the little mom. That girl can cook!
vidaXL Galvanized Steel Gabion Wall with Covers Maybe Randolph can go around within the town to see if they can make something like this for you and you can line your creek bed Justin they used it in Mission Kansas and Johnson County and line the creek bed with that
I love the videos when you hold the camera! I've missed these; they are more personal like when you first started! Although I do enjoy what Austin adds, maybe you could incorporate more of these in your week. Stay warm!
Thanks for the feedback. I can see that. Austin will be available when I can't capture the dynamic well, like in butcherings. Because, after all, he will move on one day.
A lot was accomplished & I’m thankful that your main houses & barn didn’t get destroyed. May you all be blessed with good health & happiness in spite of the setbacks. 🤗🇨🇦🌻
2:36 man I can relate to this. Of course, all I have are chickens and a big garden. However, I’m in upstate New York and these are our temperatures for a good four months out of the year. So I feel ya! I understand where you’re coming from. I have to drag water daily for my group of birds. I have over 100. And they need water every single day and they don’t care what the temperature is. I look forward to April. Luckily so far this year we’ve had a very mild start of winter. January and February are normally our deep freeze. Negative temperatures. No fun. So it can be a nightmare. We struggle through every single winter and make it to the other side. But I wouldn’t change it for the world.
We used blue barrels filled with concrete at the sailing club here over in Scotland to fix snd stop erosion it worked fantastic and we have never had a problem since this was 16 years ago and we are hit with tindal waters and are prone to flooding big time hope this helps
I could listen to your family all day as background noise. Its soothing and Im thankful it exists. I work from home, computer stuff, and I think listening to you guys in the background makes my day more enjoyable. Its almost like it transports me to another place in time.
So... if you get a tiny cheap solar panel, on a pole.. you can throw a dual hose cheapy fish tank pump with clogless air stones and the pump motor running all summer and even through winters to prevent ice.. it makes warm bubbles since it runs low wattage 24 hours a day... all automated, 1 time a month check algae on the air stones... runs in rain, fine.
I have seen retaining walls built by the state DOT made out of welded wire cube frames filled with rocks. this would give you many of the advantages of both Big rocks and small rocks.
Thank you for some great distractions. I'm recovering from surgery, and it's been a long road and dark head spaces. Watching you work with your kids is a pleasure. Happy days.
Your sons are amazing with the equipment and problem solving and Lilly is such a hard working young lady. What a lovely strong family you have Justin and Rebecca and Gideon looks after Henry very well. Have a lovely day.
I agree with the Gabion baskets mentioned in some of the other comments. Allows you to use the equipment you have and still retain the fill. Definitely a little more labor intensive than the redi-bloks but cost savings make it more palatable for the budget.
From what I see those are $100 plus. We can get HUGE concrete blocks for $150 each but we're trying to spend even less than that (this wasn't in the budget) and see if we can't use what we've got.
I would never stop watching your videos. We all know you had to adjust with electric & all the extra that has to be done. I love your family, been here too long to stop. Plus you need the monitozation to help pay for rebuilding . Love you all. God continue to bless you with ideas of how to work towards a new & better normal for your farm . ❤😊
here in new mexico welay wire fencing down and rebar ti hold and fill it with rocks and bend the fencing over the rock piles for retaining walls for gulleys and culverts
I bet a lot of people have medium /smaller size boulders that wash down onto their property and they do not have the equipment or trailer to move them. Maybe ask around the hard hit areas and offer to come get the boulders for free.. Then you can build up the retaining wall on the barn, Win Win for you and them.
I actually totally get the nightmare or dream. My Husband was driving home on Nov. 30th from the feed store and had a heart attack. His heart stopped 3 times and he has burns from the paddles because the turned it up so high. After life evaluations this week us being 52 & 53 with adult children who are not able to relieve us of homesteading responsibility it's been a sobering 2 weeks. We are in North West Florida, the hurricane made land fall less than 30 miles from here and those downed trees and things are just gonna wait because instead of planning the next expansion we need to regroup and repair and re-enter our goals. Good luck guys, we definitely should have started this when the kids were younger. Our youngest was 18 when we realized the city was not the life we wanted.❤❤❤❤
Might want to check your and Pop’s homeowner’s insurance to see if they can help knock off the cost of those concrete blocks and culvert pipe that you absolutely should get to fix the road/driveway for safety reasons. Gabions are only as strong as the wire cages; they’re good, but have their limitations and probably better used as secondary/minor protection. (Other people are more qualified to compare/contrast.) The skid steer and excavator can’t lift or slide those? You might have friends with equipment that can, or rent, charging to your insurance.
Hello 👋 Justin and family, those young men are very skilled with the equipment you have. I watched a fellow with a mini excavator build retaining walls with smaller stones and be able to look at the stones and figure out to place them. These walls were approximately 4’ tall and well over 100’ long. I’m pretty sure those young men are very capable and skilled enough to do the task if dad will let them work at it 👍💪🙌🙏🌈✌️🐽🐷🐖
I have a few suggestions. First the creek bed that washed away needs heavy , large concrete or stone blocks because construction blacks will wash out next hurricane. You need the weight. Second done cut the large trees. They can be sold or cut up for lumber. Both are valuable. Use the long thin trees on the Slope to slow the water down and prevent erosion.
On Long Island, the iced tea would freeze in the wintertime. We did this: ½ fluid ounce vodka ½ fluid ounce rum ½ fluid ounce gin ½ fluid ounce tequila ½ fluid ounce triple sec (orange-flavored liqueur) 1 fluid ounce sweet and sour mix 1 fluid ounce cola 1 lemon slice
Get a spray bottle with a mix of high percentage rubbing alcohol and water to spray on your windshield to melt the frost. And a little bit of beet juice can help keep the chicken waterer from freezing up.
I have a small property and invested in a YardMax wood chipper.. Great for my rqised beds . I have piles of treeage that have fallen from storms. I would invest in a wood chipper instead of renting. You will need it.
Justin, y'all should borrow Ben Hollars wood cheaper! Proud of your children work and participate ! I received my book love it you signed HAPPY DAY! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your lives with us! Upbeat and positive. You all get it done! That dinner your sweetheart fixed looked so delicious! My mom use to fix the best fried pork chops, and she’d make the BEST gravy to pour over them!!! Miss her good cooking. My oldest sister would also make the best fried potatoes and onions. Nice salad on the side and warm biscuits made the meals just perfect. Good company with those you love and good food. The best kind of combination to end the day with. Good video! Glad it was a little longer version. It’s just on my mind for some reason, but my mom use to make us the best hamburger gravy. She only seasoned it with salt, and used milk and flour, but she always used the right amounts, and never measured. I’m thinking ground up pork would also make some good meat gravy like the beef. Pour it over some thick sliced Texas styled garlic bread that is topped with a shredded lettuce and maybe thickly shredded carrots, all covered with either a thousand island dressing or ranch dressing, then top it with the ground pork meat gravy. I think I’m getting hungry!
Love watching your channel. YOu say the water chores are the hardest or tediest on the farm, have you thought about getting permenant troughs and fencing ? This will save you so much time and with each paddock you can move your animals just like you do now. Just a thought. From Queensland Australia.
You'll lose a lot of heat out of the chicken waterer through evaporation off the top. If you can cover the barrel, even loosely, you'll be able to go to even lower temperatures
I really enjoyed this video. If putting up and taking down fencing isnt fun then work smarter not harder. Lol Put up permanent fencing with gates between your yards. Still works for permaculture farming. Opening gates is easier than moving fencing. If farming is fun the kids might stay when they are old enough to leave. Hey wearing a vest over a sweatshirt works too. How about digging and cementing in a pool at the bottom of that stream that is running and forget the tank. Great video. So much variety of things to do. It looks like your paddocks are larger. That is awesome. Thank you.
Hi Justin.Have you considered using Gabion Wire baskets to build a protection wall for your barn. You fill the baskets with rock which you can obtain from the stream.
If the wood chipper is $400.00 a day and $1200.00 a week and you need it for three days, that is the same amount. You might as well get it for the week.
Your boys seem to have a good handle on a lot of the workings of the farm. I love it when they show you that they can do something and it works. Those moments are special!
Suggest the everflow intake pipe be below the water level of the output so it’s under water and not exposed to the cold air. It will need to sealed properly, of course….
Justin look up - using cement bags and turn them into a retaining wall - you are still going to need rebar to hold them together - once those bags of cement are wet it slabs of concrete - cost that idea out as well
There is a point after 40 something that you start cutting back on what you do on the farm. You get rid of the critters that don't stay in the fence. I can't imagine hanging fence in my 50s. The only way I could do this is on perfectly flat land, no mountains or creeks that flood the fields. You have to have a plan to cut back or put more weight on the kids.
I think you have to keep going but be aware of what you are able to do. People who do these things every day are used to doing them. My Dad is in his seventies and still runs a sawmill. He uses a chainsaw every day, runs equipment,and splits firewood. He does more then I see most people in there forties do!
@@amy-qq9og That is amazing! My Dad is in his 80s and he don't do much more than sleep. I'm in my late 50s, and I can't do much more than sit around. This all depends on how many wrecks you had. My equine wrecks are why I need a walker. I know sawmill work! That can be fun if you have a buddy to help peavey a log onto the mill. Spinning a log around with a cant hook and no peavey is a pain. When you are older, you figure out how to best use your time, which is why your Dad runs circles around younger people!
Linda here…I’m hearing/reading there was lots of *nasties* released during Helene that are showing up in waters and soils in NC. Might want to consider testing 😳
I wait all year for this weather, it's a dream to me. $400/1200 for a wood chipper is extortion, you're better off buying one yourself because they're that handy. We run two splitters and one chipper. Your best bet for the wall is gabion walls, and that's from someone that has built walls for 30 years, and whose family have been stoneworkers for a few hundred.
The nightmare is back problems. Coming the barrel on the ground then lifting. Moving and lifting again. Whip house on hydrant, 2" bulkhead fitting and valve on the barrel. Cheap easy usable.. Best part no lifting. Wife did say work smarter.
Just ordered my book!! Happy Day!! I love watching your videos and how well you all work together to get stuff done!! Oh yeah, am I the new beautiful one? Cause yesterday I left the comment about what my Grandpa used to say about work smarter not harder!! 🤪🤪 Just kidding Rebecca!! ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🐂🐖🐑🐎🪿🐥
You have so much to contend with right now... you JUST moved in when the hurricane happened... your plans changed because they have to. A functional mudroom has to wait right now@theJustinRhodesShow
If you don't want to build an engineered, expensive retaining wall (I wouldn't), you can add fill out to 10 ft of so from the edge of the pole barn slab and slope away at a slope equal or less than what you see natural slopes in your soils. This might move the creek back to about where it was before the hurricane.
Try surrounding the ever flowing water tub with dirt or other insulation and bury the water lines both coming in and going out. Then, the main heat loss will only be the surface of the water.
Absolutely love your lifestyle choices for you and your family. My question to you is what company is your work apron from. I have notices it is sooo durable and stylish for homesteading. I would love to get one for my homestead husband.
You have some big logs...you could use to make giant Lincoln logs into retainer wall for poly tunnel fill..on river side......and possibly along river a straight long wall up stream beyond barn....to back fill behind...with big rocks....pour some cement behind after filling with rocks by barn... to keep rocks and logs in place for future floods.❤ use what you are given...the answers are there.
In the cow water could you try & add a ball with the system to keep it unthawed? Would it be worth while to pull back some of the stones out of the creek to creek higher at the edge to possibly be used later.
Thank you so much for "The Homestead Builds". I received mine on Friday. I was surprised at how well-detailed the book is for each project. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such detailed lists and instructions.🥰🥰
Yay! Glad you're happy with it.
Tell em. Old habits die hard. We train ourselves to do things a certain way, then you have to retrain@@theJustinRhodesShow
Instead of concrete blocks for a retaining wall, try gabion cages. You fill the cages with rocks to make the wall. I have seen one installed along a road that kept washing out and it has been holding up great.
Oooo! I’d forgotten those. Makes a pretty wall too.
I've seen those on the road side mountain.
This!!!!! Much cheaper, just as effective
Excellent idea
Use gabion walls if possible for retaining walls. You can use your current equipment and you have the rocks to fill the wire cages!
Am I missing something? Those are like $100 each or more. Is that right?
@@theJustinRhodesShow I was thinking much the same , but got no idea what the cost would be.
Could something be made up with rebar to keep the rocks in place?
After a quick google, yes, the sq yard ones would be getting close to $100....
@@tonymatthews445would have to be engineered and would end up costing the same
@@theJustinRhodesShow You can build your own. We did for flood protection along the Mississippi River when I worked for Soil Conservation Service. Saved a LOT of money and they work. I know they called this mess a 1000 year flood, but it happened--everything just lined up for it, but it will more than likely happen again. The Gabion walls are effective and the way the water came through there, they will not move.
Best video in a long time, not a lot of loud music just alot of instructional farm work! To the point! Awesome!
Thank you.
Living in Northern Alberta, Canada, For my own preference, I greatly reduce my winter chores. I only keep 3-4 chickens over winter for eggs and then we only keep animals that grow from April until October for food animals. Of course the garden is for the same time period also- lots of root crops in our root cellar and chicken in the freezer.
Yay, longer videos! 👏👏👏 Love all your videos but love the longer ones even more! 😍
Me too! I was almost ready to stop watching the 8 or 9 minute videos. Too short. Happy Day! 😢
I really enjoyed this video! I love the banter between you and Jonah - laughter is the best medicine!
I really appreciate your longer videos thanks 😊
Oh good.
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"It's ice, Papa!" I love hearing Henry building his sentences. He's got the sweetest little voice!
You're raising men stronger than yourself, amazing! Good job!
Definitely! A plus for his sons. They will appreciate their dad years from now. There won’t be a thing they won’t be able to accomplish once they decide they want to do it.
I love your attitude behind the comments and your hard work. And to add to that how you get your boys involved and teach them how to work hard and be responsible at a young age. We need more young man like the ones ya are raising. Hard working man. Keep it up!! 👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼
gabion metal wire cages backfilled with stone would be perfect creek retainibg walls. Secure roof verticals. before filling the cages with rock.
Oh the joys of keeping livestock in winter and keeping the joy going.
I know folks make negative comments about the editing but I think Austin does a great job. It is interesting and entertaining. The young men are so smart and hardworking. It’s ok to not always want to but they get it done. And Lily is the little mom. That girl can cook!
@@renitameares3838 hi
Love your laughter, Justin! Happy Holidays, Rhodes Family! Thanks for being here ❤
Thank you, Austin, for making these longer! Happy day!🎉
vidaXL Galvanized Steel Gabion Wall with Covers
Maybe Randolph can go around within the town to see if they can make something like this for you and you can line your creek bed Justin they used it in Mission Kansas and Johnson County and line the creek bed with that
“10 horses…” I’m with you there, Lilly. Love these problem solving videos. Thank you.
I love the videos when you hold the camera! I've missed these; they are more personal like when you first started!
Although I do enjoy what Austin adds, maybe you could incorporate more of these in your week. Stay warm!
Thanks for the feedback. I can see that. Austin will be available when I can't capture the dynamic well, like in butcherings. Because, after all, he will move on one day.
Use Gabion baskets 3x3x3 filled with small rocks / stones along the side of the farm buildings
Good day 😊
Tell Jonah it was -17 in Minnesota this morning.
Good day
A lot was accomplished & I’m thankful that your main houses & barn didn’t get destroyed. May you all be blessed with good health & happiness in spite of the setbacks. 🤗🇨🇦🌻
2:36 man I can relate to this. Of course, all I have are chickens and a big garden. However, I’m in upstate New York and these are our temperatures for a good four months out of the year. So I feel ya! I understand where you’re coming from. I have to drag water daily for my group of birds. I have over 100. And they need water every single day and they don’t care what the temperature is. I look forward to April. Luckily so far this year we’ve had a very mild start of winter. January and February are normally our deep freeze. Negative temperatures. No fun. So it can be a nightmare. We struggle through every single winter and make it to the other side. But I wouldn’t change it for the world.
We used blue barrels filled with concrete at the sailing club here over in Scotland to fix snd stop erosion it worked fantastic and we have never had a problem since this was 16 years ago and we are hit with tindal waters and are prone to flooding big time hope this helps
Blaze has such a happy attitude, playing in that freezing weather! Always being happy go lucky 😊❤
Make sure all major projects get done before boys get older and start their own families
They are welcome to start their own projects here on the farm. Already have.
I agree with the above comments
It’s good to see conversations going on
I could listen to your family all day as background noise. Its soothing and Im thankful it exists. I work from home, computer stuff, and I think listening to you guys in the background makes my day more enjoyable. Its almost like it transports me to another place in time.
Thank you, this means alot.
So... if you get a tiny cheap solar panel, on a pole.. you can throw a dual hose cheapy fish tank pump with clogless air stones and the pump motor running all summer and even through winters to prevent ice.. it makes warm bubbles since it runs low wattage 24 hours a day... all automated, 1 time a month check algae on the air stones... runs in rain, fine.
Merry Christmas to all of you hard working family and friends ❤️❤️🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🎅☃️🐮🐮☕☕😊🌲🌲🔥🙏👍🐴 from Angola Indiana 🙏🔥❤️😊
I have seen retaining walls built by the state DOT made out of welded wire cube frames filled with rocks. this would give you many of the advantages of both Big rocks and small rocks.
Thank you for some great distractions. I'm recovering from surgery, and it's been a long road and dark head spaces.
Watching you work with your kids is a pleasure. Happy days.
@@petermartin4769 can we be friends?
Your sons are amazing with the equipment and problem solving and Lilly is such a hard working young lady. What a lovely strong family you have Justin and Rebecca and Gideon looks after Henry very well. Have a lovely day.
I agree with the Gabion baskets mentioned in some of the other comments. Allows you to use the equipment you have and still retain the fill. Definitely a little more labor intensive than the redi-bloks but cost savings make it more palatable for the budget.
From what I see those are $100 plus. We can get HUGE concrete blocks for $150 each but we're trying to spend even less than that (this wasn't in the budget) and see if we can't use what we've got.
Any chance you could weld your own together?
I would never stop watching your videos. We all know you had to adjust with electric & all the extra that has to be done. I love your family, been here too long to stop. Plus you need the monitozation to help pay for rebuilding . Love you all. God continue to bless you with ideas of how to work towards a new & better normal for your farm . ❤😊
I’ve always liked the saying. Living the dream one nightmare at a time.
Good day 👋
Can we be friends?
here in new mexico welay wire fencing down and rebar ti hold and fill it with rocks and bend the fencing over the rock piles for retaining walls for gulleys and culverts
It can be a nightmare, and mundane sometimes. But you have the dream some people crave. You and your family are so blessed. Happy Day❤️
I bet a lot of people have medium /smaller size boulders that wash down onto their property and they do not have the equipment or trailer to move them. Maybe ask around the hard hit areas and offer to come get the boulders for free.. Then you can build up the retaining wall on the barn, Win Win for you and them.
I actually totally get the nightmare or dream. My Husband was driving home on Nov. 30th from the feed store and had a heart attack. His heart stopped 3 times and he has burns from the paddles because the turned it up so high. After life evaluations this week us being 52 & 53 with adult children who are not able to relieve us of homesteading responsibility it's been a sobering 2 weeks. We are in North West Florida, the hurricane made land fall less than 30 miles from here and those downed trees and things are just gonna wait because instead of planning the next expansion we need to regroup and repair and re-enter our goals. Good luck guys, we definitely should have started this when the kids were younger. Our youngest was 18 when we realized the city was not the life we wanted.❤❤❤❤
Might want to check your and Pop’s homeowner’s insurance to see if they can help knock off the cost of those concrete blocks and culvert pipe that you absolutely should get to fix the road/driveway for safety reasons. Gabions are only as strong as the wire cages; they’re good, but have their limitations and probably better used as secondary/minor protection. (Other people are more qualified to compare/contrast.) The skid steer and excavator can’t lift or slide those? You might have friends with equipment that can, or rent, charging to your insurance.
Good day
Jonah 😂😂😂 “If it’s not broke don’t fix it!”….no truer words have ever been spoken! That made my day 😂😂😂. Blessings Rhodes❤
Glad you caught that!
Being so cold, Your kids are amazing to go work in those temperatures! I loved when Lilly said if it were up to her, she would have10 horses!😇😘👍🙏
Awwwwwwwe!!! Sun shine! We haven’t seen the sun for a couple of weeks! Cloudy inversion! Love the Rhodes family!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@charmainemrtnz you look gorgeous ma ❣️♥️
@@charmainemrtnz you look gorgeous ma ❣️
Good one Lilly! 10 horses❤ Your own string of polo ponies. Thanks for the chuckle.
Hello 👋 Justin and family, those young men are very skilled with the equipment you have. I watched a fellow with a mini excavator build retaining walls with smaller stones and be able to look at the stones and figure out to place them. These walls were approximately 4’ tall and well over 100’ long. I’m pretty sure those young men are very capable and skilled enough to do the task if dad will let them work at it 👍💪🙌🙏🌈✌️🐽🐷🐖
We heated year round(hot water as well as hea)t with a Taylor wood boiler. We never split the wood. Always held temp.
I have a few suggestions. First the creek bed that washed away needs heavy , large concrete or stone blocks because construction blacks will wash out next hurricane. You need the weight. Second done cut the large trees. They can be sold or cut up for lumber. Both are valuable. Use the long thin trees on the Slope to slow the water down and prevent erosion.
In Maine they added molasses to the water to keep it from freezing
Look it up!!
On Long Island, the iced tea would freeze in the wintertime. We did this:
½ fluid ounce vodka
½ fluid ounce rum
½ fluid ounce gin
½ fluid ounce tequila
½ fluid ounce triple sec (orange-flavored liqueur)
1 fluid ounce sweet and sour mix
1 fluid ounce cola
1 lemon slice
Get a spray bottle with a mix of high percentage rubbing alcohol and water to spray on your windshield to melt the frost. And a little bit of beet juice can help keep the chicken waterer from freezing up.
Up here in PA homesteading in degrees under 15… and this is only December *crying frozen tears* Can’t wait for January when we’re subzero every day
Justin is Listening.
"I'm thinking about what people told us..." 5.44
Justin, maybe it would be worth looking into a sawmill. Good luck with the furnace and chipper.
I have a small property and invested in a YardMax wood chipper.. Great for my rqised beds . I have piles of treeage that have fallen from storms. I would invest in a wood chipper instead of renting. You will need it.
Hi, what diameter can the YardMax chipper handle?
@@karenromando4939 you look gorgeous ma can we be friends?
Justin, y'all should borrow Ben Hollars wood cheaper! Proud of your children work and participate ! I received my book love it you signed HAPPY DAY! Thank you!
Great video. Ty for sharing.
Love ❤️ you guys. You bring me joy in a time of grief. Thank you 🙏🏼
I love the longer vlog!
Hearing the flooding from helene caused contaminated water an soil in creek !! Please don't let kids do the ice cycles or drink water from creek ❤😮
Thank you for sharing your lives with us! Upbeat and positive. You all get it done! That dinner your sweetheart fixed looked so delicious! My mom use to fix the best fried pork chops, and she’d make the BEST gravy to pour over them!!! Miss her good cooking. My oldest sister would also make the best fried potatoes and onions. Nice salad on the side and warm biscuits made the meals just perfect. Good company with those you love and good food. The best kind of combination to end the day with. Good video! Glad it was a little longer version.
It’s just on my mind for some reason, but my mom use to make us the best hamburger gravy. She only seasoned it with salt, and used milk and flour, but she always used the right amounts, and never measured. I’m thinking ground up pork would also make some good meat gravy like the beef. Pour it over some thick sliced Texas styled garlic bread that is topped with a shredded lettuce and maybe thickly shredded carrots, all covered with either a thousand island dressing or ranch dressing, then top it with the ground pork meat gravy. I think I’m getting hungry!
Love watching your channel. YOu say the water chores are the hardest or tediest on the farm, have you thought about getting permenant troughs and fencing ? This will save you so much time and with each paddock you can move your animals just like you do now. Just a thought. From Queensland Australia.
Our Ranger windows get iced up in the mornings. I take a bottle of rubbing alcohol, put a sprayer on it and spray the window. Ice is gone quickly.
I appreciate that you allow your children to wear or not wear clothing to go outside!! One less fight I am choosing not to participate in!! 🥰❤️🤗🤗
You'll lose a lot of heat out of the chicken waterer through evaporation off the top. If you can cover the barrel, even loosely, you'll be able to go to even lower temperatures
You're welcome 😊. Nice Vlog.
I really enjoyed this video. If putting up and taking down fencing isnt fun then work smarter not harder. Lol Put up permanent fencing with gates between your yards. Still works for permaculture farming. Opening gates is easier than moving fencing. If farming is fun the kids might stay when they are old enough to leave. Hey wearing a vest over a sweatshirt works too. How about digging and cementing in a pool at the bottom of that stream that is running and forget the tank. Great video. So much variety of things to do. It looks like your paddocks are larger. That is awesome. Thank you.
GABION... Would love to see one come together.
Hi Justin.Have you considered using Gabion Wire baskets to build a protection wall for your barn. You fill the baskets with rock which you can obtain from the stream.
If the wood chipper is $400.00 a day and $1200.00 a week and you need it for three days, that is the same amount. You might as well get it for the week.
Might as well buy one and rent it out. Holy cow those prices are steep!
Your boys seem to have a good handle on a lot of the workings of the farm. I love it when they show you that they can do something and it works. Those moments are special!
Spray 90%alcohol to all the windshields to prevent icing.
I watched a Canadian woman demonstrate it on HER windshield.
Suggest the everflow intake pipe be below the water level of the output so it’s under water and not exposed to the cold air. It will need to sealed properly, of course….
Justin look up - using cement bags and turn them into a retaining wall - you are still going to need rebar to hold them together - once those bags of cement are wet it slabs of concrete - cost that idea out as well
There is a point after 40 something that you start cutting back on what you do on the farm. You get rid of the critters that don't stay in the fence. I can't imagine hanging fence in my 50s. The only way I could do this is on perfectly flat land, no mountains or creeks that flood the fields. You have to have a plan to cut back or put more weight on the kids.
I think you have to keep going but be aware of what you are able to do. People who do these things every day are used to doing them. My Dad is in his seventies and still runs a sawmill. He uses a chainsaw every day, runs equipment,and splits firewood. He does more then I see most people in there forties do!
@@amy-qq9og That is amazing! My Dad is in his 80s and he don't do much more than sleep. I'm in my late 50s, and I can't do much more than sit around. This all depends on how many wrecks you had. My equine wrecks are why I need a walker. I know sawmill work! That can be fun if you have a buddy to help peavey a log onto the mill. Spinning a log around with a cant hook and no peavey is a pain. When you are older, you figure out how to best use your time, which is why your Dad runs circles around younger people!
thank you
jonah sure is a farmer for a young man. So many ideas and good ones too, and so capable.
I love that Jonah came out with just a hoodie. Teenagers have their own thermostat 😂😂
Huberman says kids have more brown fat and literally do not get as cold (or as hot).
@theJustinRhodesShow that is true. I live in Arizona and there are always kids wearing hoodies no matter how hot it is. 🤷🏼♀️
Linda here…I’m hearing/reading there was lots of *nasties* released during Helene that are showing up in waters and soils in NC. Might want to consider testing 😳
Thanks for the video!
Always look forward to your videos 📹 love from Virginia ♥️
put card board over windshield or in garage, safer driving condition
I wait all year for this weather, it's a dream to me. $400/1200 for a wood chipper is extortion, you're better off buying one yourself because they're that handy. We run two splitters and one chipper.
Your best bet for the wall is gabion walls, and that's from someone that has built walls for 30 years, and whose family have been stoneworkers for a few hundred.
The nightmare is back problems. Coming the barrel on the ground then lifting. Moving and lifting again. Whip house on hydrant, 2" bulkhead fitting and valve on the barrel. Cheap easy usable.. Best part no lifting. Wife did say work smarter.
Good day,👋
There are things gabion cages in UK, large wire baskets, you can fill with smaller rocks, they may work?
Just loved this video, thanks!
Just ordered my book!! Happy Day!! I love watching your videos and how well you all work together to get stuff done!! Oh yeah, am I the new beautiful one? Cause yesterday I left the comment about what my Grandpa used to say about work smarter not harder!! 🤪🤪 Just kidding Rebecca!! ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🐂🐖🐑🐎🪿🐥
Happy Day💚
Why did you go to the trouble and expense of building a "MUD ROOM" if you're going to leave your shoes on the outside porch?
Yeh... touche. We have too many spots that we could leave shoes! But the mud room is turning out awesome for storage and freezers.
I love the longer videos❤ Like the old days.
The reason I liked is because I heard of snake crawling in boot someone started to put on. None crawling now but do rest year
LOL @@theJustinRhodesShow
You have so much to contend with right now... you JUST moved in when the hurricane happened... your plans changed because they have to. A functional mudroom has to wait right now@theJustinRhodesShow
If you don't want to build an engineered, expensive retaining wall (I wouldn't), you can add fill out to 10 ft of so from the edge of the pole barn slab and slope away at a slope equal or less than what you see natural slopes in your soils. This might move the creek back to about where it was before the hurricane.
Try surrounding the ever flowing water tub with dirt or other insulation and bury the water lines both coming in and going out. Then, the main heat loss will only be the surface of the water.
Bags of concrete set in place can be used to build a retaining wall.
Rebecca would also feel better if she didn’t eat plants, I highly recommend Toxic Superfoods by Sally Norton
Absolutely love your lifestyle choices for you and your family. My question to you is what company is your work apron from. I have notices it is sooo durable and stylish for homesteading. I would love to get one for my homestead husband.
You have some big logs...you could use to make giant Lincoln logs into retainer wall for poly tunnel fill..on river side......and possibly along river a straight long wall up stream beyond barn....to back fill behind...with big rocks....pour some cement behind after filling with rocks by barn... to keep rocks and logs in place for future floods.❤ use what you are given...the answers are there.
What about splitting logs in half.
Your kids are so focused strong and kind. How inspiring.
Most folks I know only split the big stuff. They mix both split and not split to fill wood burner.
Frosty ⛄!!! Came for a visit!!!
❤ lily
Have you considered using gabian boxes filled with rubble under the pole barn? It would be much more stable.
In the cow water could you try & add a ball with the system to keep it unthawed?
Would it be worth while to pull back some of the stones out of the creek to creek higher at the edge to possibly be used later.
@kayashmore4296 'unthawed' (no such word) = frozen - what you mean to say is prevent from freezing