Another Crappy Day

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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42 thoughts on “Another Crappy Day

  1. 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

  2. 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?

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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!

  7. 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!

  8. 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.

  9. 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?

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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

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