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Your welcome, glad you liked it!

The main shed is 16 feet wide and 32 feet long. There’s two pens. There 12x12 and my head shoot sits in the middle of them if there’s any trouble.

I’m not sure if the factory shafts are hardened or not, I just went to my local welding shop and they made me one out of regular hex shaft. I’ve been running the same shaft since I made that video with no troubles yet. If it starts to feel like there’s getting play I’ll just have another made and slide it in, it really didn’t cost that much I was surprised. Glad the videos helped!

Thanks!

I think like 16x33 roughly. It two 12’ pens with the head gate i between them and a little area to put a few bales along side

It’s not that bad, we only have about twenty cows

@@dustinadams9136 A lot for me.

Hey thanks Ed. It’s a nice feeling to have them all in now, we’re not keeping the one cow around anymore so she will be getting fattened and turned to hamburgers. I wasn’t expecting them to drop yet but we had a weather system come through and helped it out.

Stuffs coming but I was hoping to have them on grass by now, there really complaining about the feed lol.

I’m hoping to be able to get a cutting off of it and wet wrap it but if I graze it I don’t know if I’ll have time. Wanted to have th sorghum planted around the first of June. With all your rain the grass should be going into high gear any day now I bet!

Thank you!

Thank you!

I agree, but have heard many debates on it from old timers.

Very true. It cuts down on the smell in the barns as well

Don’t them kids your taken care of business in there lol. Yea that dam belted one 🤦🏼‍♂️

Thanks, my grandpa took alot of pride in this place and when ever I do something I always think of him or ask myself what he would think… thanks for watching and commenting!

That’s a question for someone a lot smarter than me lol. But my uneducated guess is it couldn’t hurt🤷🏼‍♂️

Lime still makes a barrier. In bad years for navel infection, we've put lime down over dirty straw and spread fresh over it.. it helps.

@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin Good to know, Thanks Ed!

Yup same here, they just don’t have the same respect for a hot wire the moms do lol. Goes maybe that’s why there was so much woven wire put up years ago, calves sheep or maybe pigs couldn’t make through that.

That hoop barn has been one of the best things we have done, just wish we would have made it bigger. This one is 36x64, with no end walls witch I think has saved it survive some bad windstorms. It does get some snow and rain that blow in but not to bad

Hey thanks Ed the cameras have been one of the best things I’ve bought yet, saves me making the drive to check them a few times a night anyway and don’t interrupt them when calving. But it’s like watching a pot on the stove to see when it’s boiling. Nothing happens till you look away lol. Thanks for checking in!

It’s a work in progress. Now just need more cows lol. Thanks Tom I appreciate the compliment! Seems weird that this is the time of year I look forward to the most even though it’s the most stressful.

Ha your Funny no thanks on the snow!!! I can’t believe how you guys keep getting hammered!

@@dustinadams9136 Its getting rediculous, im ready to start complaining about mosquitos lol i'll give you a call back this evening.

Thanks Tom I really appreciate that! Always enjoy joy hearing what you have to say . I hope everything is going good for you and your family!

Dustin thoughts 🤔I’d never get any work done lol.

Thanks Ed!

Yes, on the mother’s side there’s charlotte blood and it father is pure blood simmental

@@dustinadams9136 we had a little charlet calf. It was the cutest little thing but the most mischievous. It would be in the feed bunk in the bell rang anywhere that you put up a gate to not have cattle it would always be on the opposite side. But it would look at you like it did nothing wrong

Hey Ray. Yes I made the pin pockets for one end. 2” is kinda what I had in my head, I do better making things out of steel than I do out of wood.

Thanks Tony good to hear from you!

The belted one is half angus half belted Galloway, she’s not a real big frame cow but will usually wean a calf 2/3 her size. She’s bread to a full blooded simm bull, Tuesday afternoon she had a nice sized bull calf. The barn is coming along, not as fast as I wanted but getting there.

Wasn’t much but thanks for watching it anyway!

Still taking air yup. Good to hear from ya Rick 🍻

Are you meaning on the main drive gear box that the pto runs into?

@@dustinadams9136 I’m trying to pull the entire cutter bar out. It will pull slightly from the gearbox, but I can’t get it to fully release.

@@robertstuart1365 when you slide it try to figure out if the hex shaft is coming out with it or if it’s stuck in the gearbox. My shaft had gotten spon in the coupler and I had to free it to be able to move it. Or pull the end cap off the outer end and remove the hex shaft all together then the only thing connecting the cutter bar and box should be the bolts. I’ll pull the book out study it alittle more.

@@dustinadams9136 I got it! Thanks for your help!

@@robertstuart1365 no problem, what ended up being the problem?

Hey thanks for stopping by. We haven’t had any rain since I planted that stuff so it didn’t take off very well and we have had multiple nights down in the teens for temps already. Figuring growing anything is over for this year.

@@dustinadams9136 hey, same here! Very little rain here if any! Things are indeed crunchy! And of course we've already had at least 2 freezes and a few frosty punkin' mornings! Next week we'll be back in the 80's!! lol

Thank you my friend I hope yours has been blessed as well!

I sure hope so! Just need to lay in some more bedding and then I’ll be set I think.

Not bad, have started to supplement the cows with some hay because they pasture is all but done . I need to do an inventory count yet to be sure.

Thanks, I sure hope so. It’s a really nice feeling to know there’s going to be plenty of feed! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Renting a drill to plant with is easier then tilling it all up and then planting, takes alot less time and I think it’s cheaper for me anyway since I don’t have much for tillage equipment. But I am starting to see more weed pressure coming in with the rotation I’ve been doing. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@dustinadams9136 I don't know anyone around here to rent a no till drill from. I think I'm going to go to a rotation something like 3 years hay (clover, grass) till up for winter rye. Follow rye with sorghum then fall plant back to hay. Maybe 🤷‍♂️.

@@farawayfarm2520 that should work I would think your still not doing a lot of tillage so that will help. My grandpa was a big believer in the plow for everything so this farm needs some TLC big time.