It’s another crappy day! I have to clean the cattle pen, loading and piling manure with the Farmall 656 tractor. But first, I load the Farmall MD engine and parts and take them to the machine shop so they can start their work. And of course, there’s time to share a few Dad jokes with Hilarie and to “run” the pigs. Please keep your fingers crossed that everything at the machine shop works out okay!
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I love Hillary and how she enjoys your relationship even with jokes. I love it!!!
Even with chains those tractor tires still spin. Fun to watch.
I find it interesting that I find someone scooping manure so interesting. I am grateful that "Smell-a-vision" is not yet a thing.
Mr. Pete you do know how to pile it on…😂
Great content Pete engine will be A ok
manure is like a fine wine… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Does your wife drive tractors and do work with the tractors
Hi Pete, couldn't you put up a low board where the hay is so the cows don't drag the hay in their pen? You know to block it.
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Hi Pete, What if you were to put a couple of panels of 1/2 sheets of plywood by the outside door and metal gate that leads to the pigs. That way, as you get closer to that end of the pole barn the manure wouldn't have accumulated in between the 2×4's or under the metal gate…AND you wouldn't have to use a shovel at that end of the barn. Just a thought from someone who likes to make things as easy as possible ;-)). Yours in Gratitude
Actually it was a happy crappy day instead of a crappy crappy day.
QUESTION: in one video I watched on your Channel, either a co-worker or supervisor let it out of the bag that you used to be an architect. Being that you had probably a decent salary with that job and health benefits and retirement benefits, are you making about the same compensation running a farm? Is the money being brought in from the farm fairly equivalent to what you used to make in an office?
2ND QUESTION: related to the first question; could your farm be run absentee and still make you money? In other words, if you were to hire a farmer to take your spot and a helper to take Hillary spot, with the farm still be enough to pay them their salaries and still a capital gains or dividend to you?
Cleaning barn, and spreading manure were always satisfying.
Thanks for posting.
Spirit of Archie Campbell lives!
Another sanitized term for cow manure = moo poo
Thanks for sharing. I am in Brazil central. To be honest with you. I never understand American jokes.
the jokes are phenomenal!!!
Can you do a video on what Hillary does for winter projects?
I appreciate your demeaner. I wish I could be that way.
Now there’s a use for your eventually-restored Cub, if you could find a trip-bucket loader…cleaning up most of the manure residue left around the edges once the 656 is done, eliminating some of that handwork with a shovel. No hydro drive, of course, but a Cub is super nimble with the clutch.
I’d thought, too, about using the Cub to move those chicken “enclosures†to fresh grass every day as you get older, instead of dragging them by hand.
Hey, I noticed when you had the head in back of the pick up truck, that there was a little dent on your roof beside the light. Did that happen to come from your tractor motor lift? Thanks for sharing your video, always enjoy them. Iowa
That crappy job, playing in the manure had a special smell to it. Did you enjoy the smell?
Great videos, we have a 706 gas farmall w a similar loader setup as you have and have been running that on the family farm for the last 25 years and it’s nice to see you keep your spare key in the same location we do. On the ring w the one in the ignition! Ha
The dent in the cab roof matches that bale spear well🤷ðŸ¼â€â™‚ï¸
My wife just asked me what I'm watching. I said Pete is scooping manure and telling Dad jokes. Big sigh from her, but I'm strangely enough in my happy place!!
Got joke why do farmers & zoo's got in common the zoo's you have pay see the animals plus ones don't have on farms and farmers are 24/7 and 365 day job lots hard work too ! Plus us humans always need feed and clean them and take care them to lots but mother nature bath them for us farmers ! LOL ON THE JOKE OF DAY ! Also do ever used a a barrel fully of cement on arms of with solid rod eye holes with slip rings like use on on Three point hitch on back of loader tractors do for plow hook up! We use one a 1963 McCormick International B414 Loader tractor Desiel motor 45 hp and plus 1978 International tractor Desiel motor 72 hp with Allied Loader to help out lots even for hard snow removal too for traction too! Also the B414 was small tractor got in hard small spaces plus 724 did for big spots clean in barns even pole one's of animals wastes!
Good evening, I enjoy your videos and especially your 656. I recently purchased a 656 and now am installing a 2000 loader. What brand of hydraulic control valve do you use?
Thank you!
Pete…Did you hit the cab of the truck with the hay fork while loading the block in the back of the truck????
Peter, have you considered and what are your thoughts on having a dairy cow or goat? Btw love this channel and your book is very interesting and informative.
Ah! The wonders of hydraulics. Back then (50 yrs ago) I had to shovel SH–T by hand straight into the spreader in the spring.
Pig manure is a disgusting smell along with chicken manure. And that's something coming from a farmer- me. But also, does one of your IH tractors have a Ford loader on it?
Using a tractors sure beats doing the manure clean up by hand. Each spring we get the family together to clean the barn, in return, they get fresh beef when we butcher.
Hi Pete
Have you ever tried Joel Salatin’s technique of letting the bedding pack build up all winter and then having the pigs break it all down to spread in the spring. I was just wondering since your pigs are right there.
I’ve had my share of cow poop. I use to washout cattle pots (trailers ).
Enjoy your videos and all the information that goes with it.
There’s another Sammy!
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That seasoned pile of manure is great for my garden. I'll give you $500 for it. All you have to do is truck it to California.
The way that I install a longer( pole,beam) used to lift something like you did thru the door I lay the pole one the ground under loader arm log chanel in 1/2 of a figure 8 one end of chain up each side of loader bracket then both ends over bucket and do another 1/2 of figure 8 around the pole hook chains together and tighten up with a chin binder . The lifting weight will be off center so pay attention to what's happing! Be safe should work like a charm
My nephew made up a neat set of manure teeth that I can clamp on the bucket. Teeth are so handy for manure!!! I didn’t know those tractors came with a Fast Hitch.
It must be a bit chilly working with a tractor with no cab!
Love the vid keep up the good work!!
Literally! More like run ..run ..run..run the little piggies are getting bigger and slower😄