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The Hay Farm
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Добавлен 18 янв 2019
This channel showcases a whole lot of DIY and manual labor. I'll tackle projects around our 34 acre homestead including renovations on the house, adding outbuildings, maintaining the land, and so much more!
Follow along with our struggles renovating a 1890's farmhouse and rehabilitating the 34 acre farm from cropland to pasture. Long term plans include building a new home, renovating the original house, building a 6-10 stall horse barn, building several other outbuildings and turning the far end of the property into hay fields.
Equipment featured in videos to date include a Ford F-150, Husqvarna 550XP chainsaw, John Deere Z915E Zero Turn mower, and some various Milwaukee M12 & M18 battery powered hand tools.
Follow along with our struggles renovating a 1890's farmhouse and rehabilitating the 34 acre farm from cropland to pasture. Long term plans include building a new home, renovating the original house, building a 6-10 stall horse barn, building several other outbuildings and turning the far end of the property into hay fields.
Equipment featured in videos to date include a Ford F-150, Husqvarna 550XP chainsaw, John Deere Z915E Zero Turn mower, and some various Milwaukee M12 & M18 battery powered hand tools.
Broiler Chickens on the Farm! First Steps to Home Grown Pastured Raised Poultry!
Join me in an adventure of raising my own pastured chickens. This is a first for me and the farm. In this video I bring home 14 Sasso chickens and 14 Jackie chickens from the Freedom Ranger Hatchery. I had to get the brooder box set up for them the day the chicks came home. I picked these up myself given its approximate hour proximity to the farm. I also stopped at a local feed mill to try two bags of their feed. Part of this adventure is finding the cheapest feed for them while maintaining quality given the amount they will eat.
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Finally Finishing the Paddock Fence! 1 Year After Initial Installation...
Просмотров 74Месяц назад
I finally got around to finishing the wooden paddock fence, almost one year later from when we put it in. When we purchased the twelve foot oak fence boards from the sawmill, there were a handful that came in slightly under 12'. That resulted in us running 4 boards short of finishing the fence. While I did go back to the sawmill almost 9 months ago for additional boards, it took until last week...
Installing Electric Net Fencing from Premier One after Bailing the Fields!
Просмотров 417Месяц назад
This hot Saturday afternoon is all about our electric net fencing from Premier One Supplies. We have 6 rolls of the PermaNet fencing that are each 150 feet long. We use these to rotationally graze the sheep and mini horse, which they love being able to move pastures when the grass gets thin. I'll go over all the pro tips and tricks we've learned over the past year of using this netting, which w...
The Fields Have Been Cut, Dried, and Baled! 12 Acres cleared for Dairy Bedding.
Просмотров 86Месяц назад
The fields have been cut , dried and baled. The 4.5 acres we planted, another 5ish that's weeds and an additional 3 that are much closer to being wetland grasses. Everything will be large round bailed and used for bedding for dairy cows by a local farmer. He also performed all the work so getting the bedding for free hopefully makes it worth his time and energy. I am super pleased it was all cu...
The Great Garden Expansion of 2024. No, this doesn't count as starting a new project.
Просмотров 128Месяц назад
This video covers the garden expansion of 2024 here at The Hay Farm. This included setting concrete retaining blocks (not shown) building raised beds from cedar fence pickets, filling them with horse manure, and amending the native soil next to the first tier of the garden. This video covers approximately a month of work, some of which happened to late in the season to really have the plants re...
Muzzle in a Hay Field, Let the Search Begin
Просмотров 6292 месяца назад
Sherman somehow managed to remove his muzzle while grazing in the field. He's muzzled 24/7 currently (June 2024) because he constantly complains his feet hurt. Something about horses and grass and feet. Haha. Anyway, I must not have had it on right for him to be able to get it off. It was right in the general area that I thought it would be, given where he was grazing the night before. Also, I ...
Spraying the Pasture Grass. Did We Kill Any Weeds?
Просмотров 392 месяца назад
This spring I attempted to spray 2-4-D weed killer on approximately 2 acres of our pasture. Early results were favorable and definitely showed signs of heavily stunting growth of the more susceptible weeds. Things like clover that 2-4-D will affect did not show many signs of being affected. I also sprayed prior to being able to mow the pasture, so my affective area of the spray was only the top...
Just a Regular Guy in Over His Head, The Super Awesome Introduction to The Hay Farm!
Просмотров 2582 месяца назад
The introduction to the hay farm you didn’t know you needed. My background, the history of the farm from our viewpoint and accomplishments, future projects for this year. Of course those always get derailed and we have new projects started already. Here's to many more years of farming/homesteading/surviving on our land. 0:00 Who's on the Farm 1:32 My Background & the House 2:48 The Playground 3...
The Great Play-set Move, How it got trucked home and standing it back up!
Просмотров 243 месяца назад
The results of the great playground move of 2024. Our friends are moving to North Carolina and the buyers of their house did not want the play-set. Or trampoline for that matter. One Sunday afternoon we went to disassemble it and bring it the couple miles back to the farm. Unfortunately I could only fit the truck through their gate and not the trailer so I decided to try tipping the structure o...
Spring Update from 2023. Projects to be done and not finished!
Просмотров 2023 месяца назад
This video is a collection of thoughts and updates from the spring of 2023, almost exactly one year to date prior to publishing. I go over various projects set to take place during the working months as well as show some of what had already been started at that time. I cleared pine trees that were going to a mill to be sawn into usable lumber, mainly 1" (wet) thick siding. Started the chicken c...
Ramblings about Sawing Logs from Our Farm and What We Got Back From the Mill
Просмотров 713 месяца назад
This video contains from ramblings from the spring of 2023 when I cut down old pine trees on our farm and took them to a mill. I had them cut into a bunch of 1" rough sawn planks which I used for siding our run-in shed. I also took a drive after unloading the trailer and prior to getting the lumber back to pick up 10,000#'s of used bricks for a new walkway to the house.
Cutting and Wiring Plug Mold for Under Cabinet Outlets
Просмотров 3963 месяца назад
This video shows the best way I determined to cut our plug mold for the under cabinet outlets in the kitchen, which was sketchy to say the least. Towards the end of the video I wire the 6 different strips to turn them on. The actual installation of the plug mold was incredibly frustrating and took me a day and a half and so I did not film any of the process. As a note, the kitchen outlets have ...
Fir Tree Removal, Homestead Logging & Clean Up! Soon to be 1x8 Rough Cut Siding!
Просмотров 639 месяцев назад
0:00 Introduction 0:44 Cleanup 1:09 ATV Ride 1:40 Timber 2:47 Timber 2 This video is from late winter or early spring of 2023. There are approximately 60 year old fir trees that separated the field from the yard at the farmhouse. We decided to take them down in order to gain both sunlight at the yard and house in the early mornings as well as open up the view to the field from the house. The tr...
#48 Lime Overseeing & Fertilizing the Lawn
Просмотров 45Год назад
In this video I lime the yard to hopefully help some grass actually grow. The soil samples from the fields last year were very acidic and so I'm going to assume the yard is fairly acidic as well. The lower the soil PH the harder it is for grasses to create a healthy root structure. And we certainly need a solid root structure to hold up the abuse of the dogs and myself and the equipment. I did ...
#47 5 Minute Workbench Gets a 5 Minute Shelf & Putting Legs on a Dog Grooming Tub!
Просмотров 58Год назад
#47 5 Minute Workbench Gets a 5 Minute Shelf & Putting Legs on a Dog Grooming Tub!
#46 Siding Siding Siding! When Will It End!?!
Просмотров 240Год назад
#46 Siding Siding Siding! When Will It End!?!
#44 Custom Bedframe Slats & Upgraded Dust Collection in the Workshop
Просмотров 30Год назад
#44 Custom Bedframe Slats & Upgraded Dust Collection in the Workshop
#43 Painting a Bedframe, Cleaning a Roomba I7, & Installing Cabinet Hardware, Drawer Faces & Pulls
Просмотров 46Год назад
#43 Painting a Bedframe, Cleaning a Roomba I7, & Installing Cabinet Hardware, Drawer Faces & Pulls
#42 Building and Installing Preassembled Window Trim Using Azek Frontier PVC Trim. Firewood Delivery
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#42 Building and Installing Preassembled Window Trim Using Azek Frontier PVC Trim. Firewood Delivery
#41 DIY Floating Book Shelves, Quick and Cost Effective
Просмотров 37Год назад
#41 DIY Floating Book Shelves, Quick and Cost Effective
#40 Weekend Vinyl Siding Installation and Aluminum Flashing
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#40 Weekend Vinyl Siding Installation and Aluminum Flashing
#39 Stripping Paint off a Bedframe Using the 5 Minute Workbench
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#39 Stripping Paint off a Bedframe Using the 5 Minute Workbench
#38 DIY Kids Kitchen Island with Built In Toy Storage
Просмотров 172Год назад
#38 DIY Kids Kitchen Island with Built In Toy Storage
#36 Oil change for the F-150, donations loaded for delivery
Просмотров 95Год назад
#36 Oil change for the F-150, donations loaded for delivery
#34 Cut FIOS Line, Final Day with the Rented Kubota B26, Mostly Finished the Trench Project
Просмотров 3323 года назад
#34 Cut FIOS Line, Final Day with the Rented Kubota B26, Mostly Finished the Trench Project
#33 Trench Prep, Manual Labor. Getting everything clean out and ready for backfill with the B26.
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#33 Trench Prep, Manual Labor. Getting everything clean out and ready for backfill with the B26.
#32 Odd Zach Tasks #1, Placing the Pump in the Pond!
Просмотров 543 года назад
#32 Odd Zach Tasks #1, Placing the Pump in the Pond!