If we would take a few minutes and watch your videos, we would realize how hard and important your job is. May the good Lord bless you and your family!! Peace from SW Florida 🤗🤗!!!
Right now it’s nice for us because we can take off all our first cutting but if we don’t get rain within the next week the grounds gonna be like a rock trying to get our summer forage in and growing
@10th Generation Dairyman Eric, I'm a new subscriber, I have Binged watched every video from the oldest to now, I just can't find all the right words to express how much I appreciate your humbleness, your work ethic, your respect, your "Dew" humour, your consistency, your care you take of your herds, your Faith, just so,so proud to see this generation work so hard, God continue to Bless you and your family.
Great to see you have some high quality British Columbia, Canada lumber…..…. Babine Forest Product lumber!! Likely harvested and milled in Burns Lake, British Columbia. Outstanding blog to follow…. Blessings……
I used to mow all our farm’s hay with a side-mounted Kosch sickle-bar mower, pulling a metal roller crimper behind a Farmall M. Mowing nice stands of alfalfa was an awe inspiring job. I just loved it, especially knowing how good it was for the cows’ milk production. We baled it rather than make silage. Thanks for prompting the memories.
We had a pole barn built back in the 70s. Instead of pouring concrete in the holes, they dropped in precast discs that were about 24 inches across and 6 inches thick. They called them cookies. The shed is still in use today, and it survived the derecho last year.
I had a hydraulic valve get bound up like that. It got worse and worse until it wouldn't work at all anymore. I took the valve to a heavy equipment mechanic and he cleaned it and put new o-rings in it. It worked great after he finally got the right o-rings in it.
This was another of your great and interesting videos. You are so fun to watch and learn from. Nice to see the new barn starting to take shape. Thanks Eric, enjoy your supper.
Your alfalfa looks a lot better than what the hay looks like in western WI. Full of dandelions and weeds. Hoping the second crop will have a lot better quality.
Our John Deere 7410 had the same hydraulic lever problem, on the back of the tractor there’s valve body’s where you can adjust your flow and there’s a cap, take it off and lube the insides up
Love the videos & I'm happy to see that all YOUR family's hard work is paying off, even happier to see you guys can keep expanding & upgrading equipment & barns.
Great video. I Thank You All For What You All Do For This World. I'm getting very interested in dairy farming so I was looking for a channel to try to learn more so we'll see how it goes. I'm subscribed and will be watching. Be Safe and Have Fun. Thank You.
I watch your videos quite a while now, i really like your work. We were Farming till 99 and a awful lot smaller than your Farm. We had 50 cows in total, 36 milkcows. Greetings from Germany
I hope you salvage what you can of the barn before it gets torn down. I heard you say in a previous video that you were saving the headlockers but those extendable gates are a keeper for sure! So can't wait to see the end results!!! So excited for you!♡
Yay I get something interesting to watch tonight! Ya-hoo mt dew! I wish Eric could help me with preventive maintenance on my 79 Monte!!! I could only pay him with mt. dew and sunflower seeds. Maybe chocolate milk too. Yay 😎🐮🐮🐮🐮
As a western pa equipment mechanic I see a lot of rusted and corroded parts. If I had to bet. Your remote problem is probably a cable that the liner is starting to rust from the inside, or the spool in the valve for that function is starting to get “grabby”. Even though hydraulics are bathed in oil all the time. They don’t like to sit still. Exercising valves regularly will only help everything in the end. Both of these would explain hard at first than after some use it gets easier. Good luck man
Having horses, nothing is more beautiful than alfalfa! It smells so nice. It's a bit too much protein for horses though, so we feed grass & oat hay along with grain. Alfalfa is about $25.00 a 3 wire bale at the feed store here in Northern California. Grass hay is over $20.00!
Good video as always. Would love to see you do an interview with your employees, Ethan and the lady that helps with milking if they would do it. Would be curious to hear more from them.
Hello fellow Dairyman! got a Tip for you. You dont have to chance the dull blades, just hold them still with one of your hand and sharpen them with a anglegrinder with your other hand enjoj the tip
Have you considered trying clearing the heifers pens with the small skid loader bucket on the Kubota... we kept our small bucket from an old skid loader for a very similar situation.. you may find that will make the difference you need... then you only have to bring two buckets, not two skid loader’s when you clean the heifer pens
They don't live in that type of community.. not everyone is a thief nor think that way.. if you have been watching ? their neighbors help eachother, like it use to be ..
I hope you designed the new barn with enough room for clean out using larger skidsteers. Maybe even larger than your current Kubota. Planning for the future. 😀😀
Pretty busy time at the farm - hopefully the new stalls will be big enough to handle the kubota... Re the hydraulics on the Deere, there is linkages that connect from your lever to the actual hydraulics. I looked online, and people are saying to move the levers after the machine is shut down to relieve the pressure on the seals. You should be able to follow the linkage down to the valve and check if you have any damaged parts or obstruction along the way. Let us know what you find.
Good video, keep working towards more soil health and you will see less weeds. You still have quiet a bit you can do to enhance the rate of improvement in health.
It sounds like you need to lube your linkage that goes to you hydraulic controls. The plastic that goes around those levers are held on by screws. The lever covers have a nut holding them on. Pretty easy to take off and spray dry lubricant on.
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I'm not sure why I was recommended this video but god damn I enjoyed this 100%. Strange how watching a farmer work is so interesting.
With the price of lumber right now you should have two armed guards with AR15s around that wood.
Lol
If we would take a few minutes and watch your videos, we would realize how hard and important your job is. May the good Lord bless you and your family!! Peace from SW Florida 🤗🤗!!!
One thing to be thankful for having awesome weather here in Pennsylvania to get the crops in. Some years we have rain every other day.
Right now it’s nice for us because we can take off all our first cutting but if we don’t get rain within the next week the grounds gonna be like a rock trying to get our summer forage in and growing
Ain't nothing like the smell of fresh cut alfalfa.
Yup
A fresh cut of fall rye
Excited about your New Barn! Keep the content coming. Thanks
Never get tired at looking at the beautiful land. Thank you for my fresh milk, cottage cheese, creamer, yogurt love diary products
@10th Generation Dairyman Eric, I'm a new subscriber, I have Binged watched every video from the oldest to now, I just can't find all the right words to express how much I appreciate your humbleness, your work ethic, your respect, your "Dew" humour, your consistency, your care you take of your herds, your Faith, just so,so proud to see this generation work so hard, God continue to Bless you and your family.
Me too
Ethan is fantastic help! And he did a great job with the camera, too!
Great to see you have some high quality British Columbia, Canada lumber…..…. Babine Forest Product lumber!! Likely harvested and milled in Burns Lake, British Columbia. Outstanding blog to follow…. Blessings……
I used to mow all our farm’s hay with a side-mounted Kosch sickle-bar mower, pulling a metal roller crimper behind a Farmall M. Mowing nice stands of alfalfa was an awe inspiring job. I just loved it, especially knowing how good it was for the cows’ milk production. We baled it rather than make silage. Thanks for prompting the memories.
I vaguely remembered Cunningham as the name of the crimper manufacturer. Just looked it up, It was a Cunningham. 😀
Ethan, another great cameraman! Very excited to see the alfalfa and barn progress 😆
We had a pole barn built back in the 70s. Instead of pouring concrete in the holes, they dropped in precast discs that were about 24 inches across and 6 inches thick. They called them cookies. The shed is still in use today, and it survived the derecho last year.
That's awesome.
By far the best dairy farmer on TH-cam
Love the vid Eric I get to watch this before work wishing I could be doing that
Great video eric , i learned a lot about alfalfa from this , thanks for being a farming family
Wow! Emily getting a little close to the poo poo! Lol great video! Thank you for the upload! You all work so hard!
I had a hydraulic valve get bound up like that. It got worse and worse until it wouldn't work at all anymore. I took the valve to a heavy equipment mechanic and he cleaned it and put new o-rings in it. It worked great after he finally got the right o-rings in it.
Best u tuber. Keep it simple and no drama.
I remember shoveling stalls like that wish we had machines great vid0eo always
With your 7220 the remote is mechanicaly driven and there could be some stuff in the box under it. You can open it up from the side and clean it.
That’s what I’m thinking as well. Either that or a corroded cable, linkage or valve block.
I’m pretty sure the remote runs on a cable system sometimes the cable stretches and makes it harder to use I ran a 6715 with the same problem
I was sort of expecting there to be a can of Mt Dew or Coke under that seed bag... 😂 Missed opportunity. 😜
This was another of your great and interesting videos. You are so fun to watch and learn from. Nice to see the new barn starting to take shape. Thanks Eric, enjoy your supper.
Another interesting day on the farm. Thanks Eric.
I can only imagine how much that wood cost at today's prices. Love watching the alfalfa get mowed. Great video can't wait for the next one.
It's up 250%.
Nice to see Ethan again. He seems like a really hard worker.
21 minutes!!! Man that's a record for me!!
Hi i am matthew from South Africa i watch your video and i love you guys
was anyone else expecting a soda to be underneath that seed bag in the alfalfa field? lol
⁴sho!
You must be new here
Your alfalfa looks a lot better than what the hay looks like in western WI. Full of dandelions and weeds. Hoping the second crop will have a lot better quality.
Our John Deere 7410 had the same hydraulic lever problem, on the back of the tractor there’s valve body’s where you can adjust your flow and there’s a cap, take it off and lube the insides up
Love your videos,you always look happy in those jd’s
the sound of a staring mower feels always really nice to me
Keeping the logistics scheduled and being flexible when things get disrupted surely dispels the idea some people have that anyone can be a farmer.
Love the videos & I'm happy to see that all YOUR family's hard work is paying off, even happier to see you guys can keep expanding & upgrading equipment & barns.
be glad you got your building materials, right now housing is shut down and if you do get lumber it's double the price of a month ago
Save the material!!!!!! That stuff is gold now as you said. Even used 2x and tin will bring good $$$. Or save and use on another project
Great and amazing video Eric. thank you
That Lucerne is beautiful I’ve never seen anything like it
Great video. I Thank You All For What You All Do For This World. I'm getting very interested in dairy farming so I was looking for a channel to try to learn more so we'll see how it goes. I'm subscribed and will be watching. Be Safe and Have Fun. Thank You.
Eric & family impress me no end !
The whole setup is an amazing process love your videos
Great video. Looking forward to seeing your new barn completed.
Those variable length(width?) livestock gates are a game changer for sorting livestock utilizing alleys.
I watch your videos quite a while now, i really like your work.
We were Farming till 99 and a awful lot smaller than your Farm.
We had 50 cows in total, 36 milkcows.
Greetings from Germany
This is honestly satisfying to just watch
That stuff smells so good when it's cut.
I hope you salvage what you can of the barn before it gets torn down. I heard you say in a previous video that you were saving the headlockers but those extendable gates are a keeper for sure! So can't wait to see the end results!!! So excited for you!♡
Yay I get something interesting to watch tonight! Ya-hoo mt dew! I wish Eric could help me with preventive maintenance on my 79 Monte!!! I could only pay him with mt. dew and sunflower seeds. Maybe chocolate milk too. Yay 😎🐮🐮🐮🐮
Wow another great video. 👍
As a western pa equipment mechanic I see a lot of rusted and corroded parts. If I had to bet. Your remote problem is probably a cable that the liner is starting to rust from the inside, or the spool in the valve for that function is starting to get “grabby”. Even though hydraulics are bathed in oil all the time. They don’t like to sit still. Exercising valves regularly will only help everything in the end. Both of these would explain hard at first than after some use it gets easier. Good luck man
Godbless your family’s farm work and your neighbors hand
Man that was 2 million dollars worth of lumber between the new lumber and lumber in the old barn you are going to tear down.
Always enjoy ur videos. Thank u. 😷🌸
First cut is always so satisfying. Smells good to
That is really nice first cut alfalfa. Thanks for the video.
thanks for the videos eric, its an inspiration to me. keep up
I thought you were gonna get a soda out of that seed bag.
that is what I was waiting for too :)
Me too
Always good to be back on the dairy farm
That "BABINE" lumber is produced a couple towns over from me here in BC Cool to see it way out East!
Check the plastic bushings on shift shafts. In the console might be the culprit. Thanks Florida Joe. Love your videos
Having horses, nothing is more beautiful than alfalfa! It smells so nice. It's a bit too much protein for horses though, so we feed grass & oat hay along with grain. Alfalfa is about $25.00 a 3 wire bale at the feed store here in Northern California. Grass hay is over $20.00!
Beautiful stand of alfalfa. Very weed free for first cutting. (Edit. I made this comment before finishing the video😂)
Good video of the different jobs that need to be done.
Good video as always. Would love to see you do an interview with your employees, Ethan and the lady that helps with milking if they would do it. Would be curious to hear more from them.
I could smell that cut alfalfa best smell ever 🙋♀️😊
Hello fellow Dairyman! got a Tip for you.
You dont have to chance the dull blades, just hold them still with one of your hand and sharpen them with a anglegrinder with your other hand
enjoj the tip
mower is nice, alot better than the damn sickle bar we had in the 80's
Lol I always cringe a bit when I see it as it is similar model to my old one and I hated it
Good video, lots of interesting things going on good job
Another very interesting day on the exemplary nice dairy farm 👍👍💯
Goodmorning to you Eric hope all is well! Never had a upload in the morning should be nice🙂
Thanks Eric another good one!👍🙏
For some reason I was expecting a drink to be under the seed bag in the field 😂
Another productive day! Loving it.
Eric I have to watch this before I go to school
Mowing alfalfa smells wonderful. Cleaning bed pack probably not so much!
What a beautiful field of alfalfa!
another awesome video and well worth the wait.
some of that graphite you use in the seed, could help lube up those expandable gates. Thanks for the content again :)
Good morning Eric. Have a dynamic day!
I bet that smells so good. The alfalfa, not the poop. Thanks for sharing.
It's amazing to me that my day is going to mirror yours except instead of using a skid loader to clean pens I will be using Minnie-Mo Jet Star.
Alfalfa is so satisfying to cut
Great video as always hope all is well
For some reason, when you picked up that seed bag, I fully expected you to "find" a can of soda underneath. LOL
You need to do a equipment tour
This is so true
@Canadian Farm Kid they've gotten quite a bit of new equipment since then plus equipment tours seem to get good views which equals more money
Hay looks good
You should get a rock bucket for you skid steer. It can cut into the bed packs like butter
Have you considered trying clearing the heifers pens with the small skid loader bucket on the Kubota... we kept our small bucket from an old skid loader for a very similar situation.. you may find that will make the difference you need... then you only have to bring two buckets, not two skid loader’s when you clean the heifer pens
1:05 leaving that outside is like leaving open your safe full of gold....
They don't live in that type of community.. not everyone is a thief nor think that way.. if you have been watching ? their neighbors help eachother, like it use to be ..
I hope you designed the new barn with enough room for clean out using larger skidsteers. Maybe even larger than your current Kubota. Planning for the future. 😀😀
Some farmers have said they like the smell of alfalfa so much they could stuff their pillowcase with it!!
Pretty busy time at the farm - hopefully the new stalls will be big enough to handle the kubota...
Re the hydraulics on the Deere, there is linkages that connect from your lever to the actual hydraulics. I looked online, and people are saying to move the levers after the machine is shut down to relieve the pressure on the seals. You should be able to follow the linkage down to the valve and check if you have any damaged parts or obstruction along the way. Let us know what you find.
Good video, keep working towards more soil health and you will see less weeds. You still have quiet a bit you can do to enhance the rate of improvement in health.
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Oh, that was a seed bag! I thought it was a weasel carcass.
Podoba mi się taka robota 😁
It sounds like you need to lube your linkage that goes to you hydraulic controls. The plastic that goes around those levers are held on by screws. The lever covers have a nut holding them on. Pretty easy to take off and spray dry lubricant on.
Gosh time has flown, back to aflaalfa again
Mild winter
Esch drills are the best out there for planting grass, alfalfa or cover crops from what I’ve seen.