Clearing Brush with Goats 2
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2023
- We feed our goats by rotationally grazing them through our wooded areas for most of the year. We go step-by-step through our process of clearing pathways and setting up portable electric netting fences in our dense forest, and selectively cut thick vines and small trees so the goats can fully access all the nutritious vegetation. We also try out our new Saker Mini Chainsaw and review it after putting it to the test as we cut our way through the woods.
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If you'd like to see our other video about clearing brush with goats, you can check it out here: • Clearing Brush With Goats
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Watching goats graze is very relaxing.
It really is!
I can watch the "come on goats!" all day😅
It’s great that goats can clear vegetation so well.. Where I live in the central Sierra of central california we have fire problems and goats are great for eating the flash fuels.. Especially thelight fuels under forest trees.. By eliminating flash fuel you cut out the rapid rate of spread and this can stop fire from spreading to crown fires.. This is a win win the goats get fat, no chainsaws needed and fires are less likely to spread fast..
Every five years we use a local goat herder to clear brush, we're prone to a lot of poison ivy and sumac and the goats devour it no problem.
I NEEDED THIS VIDEO!!! I have 4 acres of forest land and an electric net! Perfect video! Thank you! Also, I absolutely love the advice to not lose the temper. I find that very funny as I have been there so many times. You can hear the frustration in his voice and I totally get that!! lmfao! I feel for ya on that!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for the image in my head of Darrell in the goat Stampede! Awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. I'm really jealous over your soil. Where I live it's nothing but rock and clay. T posts seam to be our only option. Have broke our fair share of plastic stakes.
I feel you, we have rocky areas too that where we have to pound the posted into the ground.
Keep up the good work....
Thank you!
I am in the middle of land clearing with that fence and my goats. I’m just now learning the strategy on how to move it, it was very defeating at first. That’s for this video and sharing your journey.
Yes, those fences can be very frustrating to work with sometimes. You'll get the hang of it!
Thanks so much for this video! I use electric netting also and have land to clear/use for food and getting through certain areas is a challenge for sure. I have thought about one of those chain saws before, I think I will have to get one!
And I love when he said not to lose your temper with that fencing 😂 I have done that a time or two and he is right, it doesn’t help!
Glad you enjoyed it! Those fences are a great tool, but also very frustrating at times!
Can't wait for the cost of nofence or an open source alternative comes around. could be huge for the goat clearing market.
Do you mean like an invisible fence system? That would be amazing!
@@YouCanFarm yep
It's great, my friend (new channel subscriber)
I just started watching and subscribed. We have 4 acres. Very rainy… rugged and weedy. Goats….then sheep very very likely in our near future 🤙
Awesome, best of luck with your new endeavors!
What a healthy goats
Warm regards from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Thank you!
He gets a good cardio workout!
Haha, yes he does!
Demolitia checking in!
Hell yeah! Demolitia for life!
Thank you.God bless😊
You are so welcome!
Tim from Canada watching your show again I will be taking and sending that little baby saw back to the manufacture it’s not worth the two cents you paid for it.. 18 V reciprocating saw does the job whole lot easier…. figure out what platform you were going to use and bring a couple batteries with you Ryobi Milwaukee, Dewalt, Bosch, Black & Decker, all of these ones bring extra batteries they are better than the baby chainsaw they give you to use I don’t know I would be putting that back in the box and making sure that it never shows up again
It broke shortly after filming this video.
my uncle would cut wild grape vines about 3 feet from a y and dry them out put a rubber non shid on long end and sell as walking sticks/canes
Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks and attract pit vipers.
Thanks, good tip!
my goat call is Haaaaaaaay Goats, Haaaaaaaay Goats. lol
That's a good one!
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Thanks for watching!!
Tim from Canada.. for the size of that tree.. reciprocating saw would do the job
I agree, but we were testing out the mini chainsaw.
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Milwaukee has a self lube one i have it I use the crap out of it
After we burn this one out we will have to try that one!
Hey guys I recon there's a far easier way to do that fence if you made something like a roll powered buy an electric drill at the top and a wheel set up at the bottom you could use the drill power to pull it forward and your other hand to feed the mesh onto the roll at the right height once you got the technique right I think it would save a lot of time effort and wear on your mesh
Thanks, cool idea!
Winder how much fencing and goats you can buy with twenty thousand dollars. Forget your comfort ride mowers ferris lol
A lot!
Can't imagine the amount of goat poop they are going to produce after eating all those leafy green vegetation!!!
Yep, it's a lot
I’m assuming you have a goal of permanently fencing your property boundaries?
No, not really. We are just trying to feed our goats.
@YouCanFarm The improvements to the pastures, woodlands, are a nice bonus. Eventually where they clear is easier, I heard about three years on, so fourth year. But keeping you busy, and you seeing healthy animals, better forage.
People don't understand that people in the country have a different time table. In five years, what? You have a lot of firewood, working on a garden, etc, that if you see progress, maybe especially at Thanksgiving, you are grateful. A cousin visits and positively comments.... At least that was normal in our family.
Do the netting ever gets shorted out by growing weeds
We try to keep vegetation off the fence as best we can, but they don't cause too much interference on the fence, unless they are wet. We move the fence every day so weeds don't have time to grow on it.
to clear a path just drive threw it with a 2-3 bottom plow
We are trying to feed our goats and manage our forests better, not trying to clear any paths.
@@YouCanFarm I was thinking about a path for the fence
That makes sense.
@@YouCanFarm you don't need to bury the plow just 3 inches no more than 6 . Sure easier than weed eating and faster . make a roller out of a large piece of pipe to flatte it out when finished . Tell the customer the goats were raised with pigs and they picked up a few bad habits😁🤔 a brush hog would end up hitting a big rock or a piece of metal . A real heavy roller with cutting edge Would be even better but the build cost would be enormous , a disk would be to wide and to light , that is why i suggest a three bottom plow
I always hated clearing land. After the Goats bring on the Pigs.
Yes, we will be using our pigs to till some areas soon.
That chainsaw isn't very impressive!! The chainsaws that I've been most impressed by are the ones that are on the weed eater looking pole!!
Haven't tried those yet. For $40 this one has been a great tool.
This is how one destroys a forest
The goats only eat in one area for a few hours at a time, then the forest rests and regrows for at least 30 days before they graze it again. This helpful pruning and fertilizing only makes the forest stronger and healthier.