Farm Work In Between Storms/Spreading Manure/New Holland 489 Haybine Bearing Replacement

You and your family are the epitome of the American farmer.

Great video. Great lesson for your son; changing that bearing. A couple more times and he will be able to do it himself.

Here in Iowa, all I have to say is wow. We got a lot a rain. Homes just gone. Washed away. But by God's grace, no one has been lost.

My thoughts and prayers have been with all you folks in the upper midwest with the flooding. Even well-designed conservation structures can be compromised with some of these storm events. We aren't in real hilly terrain in N. Central Ohio, but the slopes will run a lot of water during heavy rains. Never-ending challenges being a farmer!!!

A quick fix for your barn that keeps gettin flooded would be to dig a trench right down the middle of it and put in a perforated drainage pipe siting on a bed of gravel..Make sure the perforations are sitting in gravel so they dont get blocked.. Run the pipe right out the back wherever you want it to flow possibly into a sump ?Or if you can send it far enough away that your not too worried about it.. Then to catch really harsh storm water you could install a drain cap at the front of the barn where the pipe starts with a grate on it.. Shouldnt be more than a days work if you could borrow a digger and find some drainage pipe.. I had to do this at the side of my Irish cottage, storms would flood the path at the back of the cottage and the standing water was making the old limestone walls damp.. The water now runs off into a sump I dug about 4 foot deep and 4 foot wide with a good bed of gravel and clayish soil enough for it to hold the flood water and drain it away naturally over the course of a day or so..

Gierok farms might have some ideas for you with the hills they farm. With what to do with that washout.And I know the two of you are friends. the winter rye idea is a good one I think and then you could no till into it during the spring next year. That should keep the soil in place until it gets established

Your still looking better than the Rapidan Dam and the Dam Store!!

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For the washout, check with NRCS. They can help with long term solutions. Short term, if you have junk hay bales, use them to make several dams.

Alan, thank you for showing your challenges (as well as your triumphs) in your videos. That's a bad wash (with the potential of becoming even worse...) and might well be best taken out of production. Explore soil retention strategies or comp land usage with your local ag rep. Me? If I had access to old bedding pack would probably just use that, cross my fingers, pray to God, and see what happens... btw. We've followed your channel since the great drainage-line cleanout-replacement, so I realize that this is neither your first nor your last "roadeo." God bless (as always) your diligent efforts. There is no higher calling than to raise a family (in the fear of the Lord) than your path.

I'm so happy you're ok with the rain

That is quite a wash out.

Best of luck to you and your family , God Bless .

Good video ya'll 😊🐄🐂🐃

Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊😊😊

Wow thats quite a washout. My parents have a grass waterway down a fairly good slope that worked well when we were working fields along it. Those fields have been in perpetually grass since I moved here. I think the rye idea might work.

Last year drought, this year rain, rain. It's like it saved it all up from last year and is giving it to us this year. I hope you're not getting sick or maybe it is just allergies to all of the mold and rain induced problems. Maybe next year we will have a better mix. It is a good learning experience for the kids to see how repairs are made. Maybe one of your children will go into mechanics, a much needed trade.

Hi guys, we are getting rained out here in Ontario. According to the commercials on tv, all you need is a couple of bounty paper towels for your water problems. Keep plugging away and take care. 👍🇨🇦🚜❤️

Last time I checked those rollers are about 3 000 in the way things are going nowadays they could even be more and again thank you for how you went through showing about the baler I went and looked at the one after your video did fine quite a bit wrong with it I Guess That's why they were selling it pretty cheap I decided not to buy it thank you for everything that you showed about it it was very helpful

Example you have 10,000 views at $ 10.00 that would be a $ 100,000 to put in the place. 3 coffee's, breakfast one morning.. We could all afford that and what a blessing for your family farm Just a thought , TAKE CARE !!!!