Ep. 53 Picking Up Rocks and Sharing Stories
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- In today’s episode Al wears a sweatshirt while the other guys are dying in the heat. Jason and Ben deal with the June drought on the Homestead.
Al’s first ever tornado warning. Ben continues to wait for parts for his mini split while the heat wave heats up. Jason shares that he sold two Kune kune piglets.
The guys talk about pig breeding schedules.
Jason shares about a new side project to help prevent break-ins. He prepares to leave for Iowa. He is still working on his PowerPoint and talk for the event. He’s been busy getting the farm ready to leave for the event.
Al braves the heat this week and gets the waterlines done. Ben tells a story of building a waterfall with boulders and it reminds Jason and Al of similar stories from their past.
Ben weighs in on all his produce harvest. He is stoked with the results. He has his pigs in the forest on a single wire. He Smoked a delicious rack of ribs this last week.
The guys talk about why it’s so hard to sit still. See below for links! Thanks for watching!
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Homestead Shop Talk is a weekly audio podcast hosted by Jason Contreras (@sowtheland), Ben Hollar (@thehollarhomestead) and Al Lumnah (@lumnahacres). Three dudes with different homesteads talking about homestead life, content creation, growing a homestead and building a life worth living for. Thanks for listening!
This feels like being at the General Store listening to the local farmers compare notes before scattering their separate ways to go to daily chores. I love it!
Jason's gone from TH-camr to movie star & model!! In one year, & motivational speaker! Way to go Jason! Safe travels 🙏🏻 💕 💓 💖
So you guys are a bunch of Rock Stars
Great day to see the 3 BEST FAMILIES.
A POLICE❤ OFFICER WAS SHOT. HIS FUNERAL IS TODAY. 1/2 MILE FROM ME AT MY CHURCH.
HE WAS
30 Y/O. HIS Wife is pregnant#4.
Please pray for this family.
And the 18y/o
Guy arrested.
GOD BLESS YOU.
JASON, You will do a great job Sunday morning.
My dad went to a gravel pit in the 70s, and picked up heavy rocks for the rock garden. Rock on🎉 ❤❤❤.
Thank you.
SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Good luck Jason remember part of that hour use is Q and A.
It’s only stuff right, you got this.
Jason is going to be a pitch-man, pitching farm equipment !!
Funny stories . . . lovely for a Friday morning. Cheers guys.
Pampilgrim2! Isn't that the truth! I've watched all 3 of the amigos for each of their days 1! So fun to see them grow on their farms, channels, children & travels. Now they are together for this awesome podcast! I'm from AZ, so Ben & Jason were my neighbors! God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 ❤️ 💛 Nurse Judi from Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻 ☦️ 💙
JASON HAS A VERY GOOD BUSINESS SENSE. ALWAYS JAMING THINGS OUT BEHIND THE SCENES. PROUD OF YA
Jason ,do an hour live with your channel fans while your there.
Thanks for having me, I enjoy the conversation.
Good Morning y'all..... Al 55 lb?...That's crazy. Great video.
I love ALL Homestead Shop Talk Podcast videos!
I enjoy listening to your conversations. You have so much information to share. 🤗❣️
I love listening to you guy
I have a rock story!! One time when I had a really big freshwater fish tank, I went to a local county park into the stream to collect all kinds of rocks & a few pieces of driftwood for my tank! I took 2 reusable shopping bags, and I came walking out of the woods after getting turned around, barely able to walk anymore, when I realized I was definitely in the wrong place! I had emerged in someone's backyard in a neighborhood cul-de-sac!
This lady was hand washing her van in the driveway when I came from around her house.
I was dirty and sweaty & absolutely exhausted. I could barely put words together. She ran inside and got her husband. She probably thought I was some sort of mad woman that was about to beat her with these rocks!
She might have thought I needed an EMT! I'm surprised she didn't call the squad, REALLY.
Luckily her husband was willing to drive me to the correct parking lot.
Later, there were signs telling people to leave the river "habitats" as is, prohibiting guests from removing such things!
That was a killer tank, though! I sold it for a great price a couple years later!
This was when I was in an apartment and it was my only connection to wildlife.
Good morning from Virginia.
I can't even imagine a 55 pound turkey wow
Ben n Jason - if ya'lls plannin a trip or just headin to Lowes should give each other a ring to hang out on those hidin hot days
Good morning, Al, Ben, and Jason! Your podcast is the highlight of my week. Al, I am having a cup of your dark roast coffee. It’s my favorite this week.
Good morning guys.
Good morning!
Al, do a cobble platform around you fountains so it doesn't get muddy around them.
Make a rock basin around them.
Big bird !
Derecho - straight line wind.
Jason you got it man. You’re awesome
I love all the stories you guys tell!
My husband did security for a 20k acre property, most of it was leased farming. Yup I married him for the tomatoes. lol
RIP Johnny
I also can't wait for Fridays. You guys are absolutely awesome. Love the pod cast
Speaking of picking up rocks, when I lived in NorCal, in the winter I’d go out to Folsom Lake, let my dog run around and pick up river rock for edging my garden beds!
Good job guys
Kind of a vacation but not. I call that a different Window and it's great.. 💯
😊👍🙏❤️ , love your videos !!!!!
😂I love the weather comparisons 🤣🤣🤣
Awesome, as usual!
Strange as it sounds, every time I watch Al with his rocks, I think of the Flintstones. AM I the only one?
NO, didn't you know Al lives in BOLDER CITY, N.H. !!!!
It's headed to California next Tuesday! We need RAIN!!!!!!!
Here's my rock story. I live in the city. We had a 200lb big rock out front amid some yucca and pride of Barbados plants and one night someone stole it. A 200 lb rock. Really made me mad.
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Stole it?!?! 😮
@@jsloan9610 yep
Good morning guys, have a great weekend 😎👍
And don't worry about sweaty wrinkles in Tee shirts 👍👍👍
@@LB-gr7gu you commented on my comment 😊
I listened to this podcast after climbing Pikes Peak and going through Garden of the Gods as we paused for lunch in Colorado Springs. We head east to Kansas for the rest of our day.
Too funny Al, sawing turkey in half so it would fit in the oven.
I’m late but I’m here and as always I enjoyed watching and listening to the 3 of y’all.
Be Safe 😊
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Al, I work at a garden center, central NC, flat land. Every time I see you dig up rocks or see your pile of rocks, I wish you were closer to us, lol. We generally carry three sizes of boulders that we go hand pick out and buy from the Western part of NC by the 18 wheeler load. They sell for approximately $150.00, $270.00 to $350.00 depending on the size. They look great in landscaping and waterfalls. You should work something out to sell those things!
I love joining you three each Friday.
A farmer once told me he didn’t have a single rock on his farm.
They’re all married with children!
Al, I raised Mr. Turkey til he was 58 pounds dressed out. I didn't use a sawzall, but had to take his back apart to put in oven. I still have have part of that turkey canned.
I think this is become my favorite podcast/TH-cam channel to listen to while I’m milking goats in the barn. I learned so many things! A 55 pound turkey, I would have ground up that meat and made some really great turkey burgers. 🍔 🦃
Yes Ben here in Cincinnati which is normally cooler that your area and less humidity thismorning it's starting off at 6:30 AM 80 degrees with little to no wind + 77 % humidity. I too like to get the chores done between 5:30 and 9 and then head for a cooler place. Kudos to you all for the work is never ending but the pleasure of working your own place and your own plan is very rewarding. Enjoy each of you all tallented in different ways so thanks for a full YEAR of sharing it is meaningful to this Old Guy.
Wow old men talkin' about the weather!! :)
Good work guys. Rock on!
We have bears in Clemson, SC. Hit the bird feeders on a regular basis. Had a bear on my deck a few summers ago. They seldom give out hunting permits for bear. Lots of deer and coyotes and other critters too. They’ve learned to live near people and take advantage of gardens, etc..
My ROCK story is when we lived in Orange county,Ca. they built a track of homes in Anaheim hills, five of the homes pricer at over a million dollars each ( late 70s ). One home was built around a very large boulder, the boulder was in the home !
Al, Gina could use some of the rocks to make flower gardens. Yeah I know another project. But does it really ever end on the homestead.
Jason, I'm sure you did well at the show. Hope you and your family enjoy your trip. Safe travels.
Toot away Ben!!! There is nothing like home or grown naturally. I remember always talking with folks and everyone saying remember when this or that used to taste so good? We have learned why. Growing our own is very humbling compared to modern day. Happy belated Birthday Brett!!
Just turned the air on 3 days ago - lucky the house is positioned for opening windows on a 3 sides the pull is fantastic - until 90 degree days with no breeze
We did the same thing with the first turkey we ever raised, Al!! The breast alone was 28lbs!!!
Cold again here too! Washington State. 🥶
Thanks for sharing your stories....I love the one about stealing the boulders. LOL. That would never happen at Al's place. Everyone has as many as he does. In my part of Va. we have had the driest June since they have been keep records of such things. I hope it will be better in July like Ben said it is in NC. Good luck with your talk in Iowa, Jason. Hope y'all have a wonderful time. Y'all stay cool and have a Blessed week.
WHY DON'T I GET NOTIFICATIONS GUYS? I'VE HIT THE BELL TOO!
Talk to Jason at Cog Hill. Jason and Brooke bought large rocks. You can get an idea of what you can get for them. They come with a hefty price tag.
Strike plates that are heavy duty are cool, but definitely remind people that they're only as good as where you install it. You've got to have a nice thick or hardwood style wood jamb or put it into metal frames, right?
If you try to pop open a door and the door frame is flimsy, that strike plate with its sunken screws will stay with the door handle or deadbolt assembly will all come flying open with the door, from what I've seen.
So jealous that you'll be in Iowa! I really wanted to go and meet everyone. Especially You, Jessica and Charles Dowding!
All in good time! I'd be a crying fan girl mess 😂 just like I was in Virginia at the Homesteaders of America Conference.
It’s FREAKING HOT 🥵…it’s Dangerously Hot !!..garden loves it and hates it 🌱 .. I either go out super early or at 745 pm I’m the Evening…and it’s still pretty warm
But other then that things still busy working on the house -Leveled Done ✅
We planted a raised bed vegetable garden, which has become a deer buffet, despite our efforts to deter them.
Our rock story! My friend has a friend at work that has a creek running through his property! He told my husband that we could have all we wanted! We borrowed our friends F150 and filled the bed with flat stacked rocks! It made a nice little border to the garden around our house! Many old properties have them and are very old! Happy Independence Day to you all! 🇺🇸
Enjoyed another guys good job.
Al, sounds like you experienced a downburst. A cold rain induced column collapses . The winds spread out along the ground with the destroyed trees/vegetation layed out in straight lines. A tornadic event will have twisted trees/vegatation, usually the tops are evidence of the s[pinning effects.
So hot n dry here the grass sounds like walkin on corn flakes - forget pasturing anything
Umming and Arrington, Al! No H 😂
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 Great podcast!!!
We have bears here in Central Michigan. My neighbor lady feeds the bird and has many feeders 😮the bears come up regularly and eat. They destroy her poles to the point she has to take the feeders down each evening. She can keep them over her way lol
You joke about people moving out of the cities and the wildlife moving in but I am a born and raised city girl and the wildlife (deer, coyote) started moving in starting in the late 90's when people were clearing the land and building homes. I remember telling my friends that people built housing developments and the deer/coyote moved to the hood. We also have the occasional bear/s and now we have Eagles nesting in the county. Luv your podcasts.
We had straight line winds in Michigan.
Large rocks & boulders are a penny a pound here.
Those rocks can get up to $1,500!! Yikes.
The door plate sounds nice, my set up is a metal door frame, metal door and a thick metal bolt, may as well break my window cause you're not coming through the door.
Yo from Idaho!
Jason the video star, Al the stone picker, and Ben the sun hider hugsssss
I new some guy in northern ca. That use to go out in the country and take/steal large rocks and moss rocks. And use them in landscaping.
Jason, I live in Des Moines! Make a video when you are in my state!!!
I sweat as well till all my clothes are SOAKED ..2 days we been working in garage..it’s SUPER DUPER HOT !!!!🥵
It takes a toll I take a Nap..yup it’s been happening
All, I have watched every one of these videos! I love seeing you guys develop a good friendship in these episodes. (Al, you know my husband and me from the bread cast iron pan more than a year ago.). I cheer you guys on! Julee and Jack Chaffin in Boise.
And don’t get discouraged! You guys are an inspiration! I have not missed a single episode. None of it is boring. Jack and Julee Chaffin from Boise
Years ago when I lived in southern NJ I was driving home past the city park, when I saw an elderly couple had backed up the caddie sedan and were taking the rocks from the drainage pipe to the lake. In broad day light!!
Tks for video guys. Starts my Fridays off right. Everyone is doing a great job here on podcast. Stsy cool and don't work to hard. Much love to ya.
I moved from Minnesota to Arizona in 99. Minnesota is known for its iron mines. In Arizona they were getting hundreds of dollars for rocks. Back up north we would push them into piles and if they were too big to move we would paint them and plant flowers around them. Most homes had more than one "flower" rocks.
Rock Fences
Enjoyed your talk. The city decided that I had to have a sidewalk after thirty years tore down my stone wall. Had to get rid of them myself as I couldn't lift them. Put a ad in the paper it was amazing the people wanting them.
Have a safe July 4th❤️❤️❤️
Have a great week men really love out chats even though I cannot get a word in edge wise. Like at home with my four brothers. BUT I did get a few points in. We had 6 children 4 boys two girls and I definitely liked the boy stuff best. Told my Mom you had one girl Mom.
Jason, just put a rooster tail in- subtle, but funny.
We raised a 45 pounder turkey.
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As a young kid, I took apart a stone wall that had stood since colonial days. My parents had to pay to have the stone wall rebuilt.
I pastured pigs with a single wire for 12 years. I moved them far more often than today's TH-camrs. My pigs got moved several times a week.
The rain will come
We have traveled over 4,000 miles on this trip. We have not found any good ribs this trip.
We've had no problem hearing or seeing Ben. Maybe he can't see or hear you two. 😢
Butter and ghee , ice cream oh yeah - xtra milk
Ben dont know what it is but every summer when the temps get up my phone and internet gets wonky. Great all spring winter and fall.
Didnt see, but some folks saw black bears in Spartanburg
Hi number 53
we never see your goats anymore????
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