I noticed that the escape artist was keeping a keen eye on what you were doing with the gates lol. It's scary seeing just how fast it can flood and you can get cut off with a landslide. Luckily it wasn't too serious but it makes you realise how little you can control. The barn is going to be a thing of beauty back in its place.👍
Its so nice to watch people who are good at handyman work. Although i have the will, and ability, to put the work in, I would have no idea how to rebuild a gate. I wish i had someone around who was knowledgeable about things like this.
Nice gate upgrade. I hope the header isnt too low when it comes time to move equipment and materials to rebuild the barn. Thanks for sharing all your hard work. Charles
Another great video, I really enjoyed watching again. The upgrade to the tractor's lights will make a huge difference when you need to do something and it gets dark early. Have a wonderful weekend with the family, greetings from Cape Town.❤️
What a transformation with the gates, much stronger than before. I also noticed just how quickly the birds emptied the feeder you filled, they didn't play around. 👍
Consider getting a light bar for on top of the cab or upfront. That will provide more than enough light for any task. And you can always use the old front lights on the back of the tractor.
Hello Erik: You are doing a great job in getting the farm ready for things that might happen. You and your wife are very happy together and your son is growing like a weed. Do what you can and fix what you can, things will fall in place for you and your family. Good luck in getting the barn permit and all the papers that you will be needing. Until next time keep safe and god bless.
im gald you got that gate fixed i felt sorry for you climbing over it . the lights on the tractor is great you just need more good LEDs arent cheap . thanks for showing the barn drawings. Thanks
Eric can't help feeling you have mounted your front lights in the wrong place I think on a rail on front of bonnet / radiator shield would make them more effective, Somerset mike.
Hello Sir, What work accomplished since the first video often alone. You have to have a lot of courage to embark on such projects and constant motivation because certain tasks cannot be postponed (animal care among others). Hoping that the winter will not be too harsh for you, Friends Henri (France)
Takk for ennå en fin episode fra livet på gården! Håper vinteren blir fin for dere. Nå er det bare en måned til sola snur, og det igjen går mot lysere tider.
ya weather same here in Canada , but you do not need to shovel rain (well you did kinda,🥴 ), so ill take the rain , it was very dry fall so it will do the wells good to get all the extra rain before it freezes up , yet that increases the risk of frost heaving when it does freeze solid this winter, gate looks great, 🥸🤓,Canada
Whhhaaaaa - that weather looks terrible. I live in Poland and the weather can be bad but not really as wet as you get there. Those sheep and pigs must be damn tough to get through your winters - seems they live outside - interested in their breeds. Surprised you need building permission for a barn that is already in place and is on agricultural land. And very nice work on the gate, considering you had to do it single-handed.
I’d put automatic sensor lights in your tractor shed, the fence is a great job , looks good,Trillick tractor sell some old affordable tractors and trillick tractor parts too
woodchips are great but chickens will eat some of it, if the chips are from pine/cedar the eggs will likely smell and taste like it, oak and other hardwood seem to work well, but on the other hand mine were common hatchery birds, your birds look like heritage breeds and may be smart enough to know they're not supposed to eat the litter🤪👍
probably the camera angle ... but it did appear like your drainage ditch ran uphill. The pipe should drop 1% -- 1 cm per meter of pipe. You should complete digging the ditch before laying the pipe and gravel -- that way you know the water will drain.
few thoughts: you will want to get endcaps for your drain tile (USian name for porous drain pipe, not sure your local name) to keep it from filling up with dirt. with that super rocky ground, a Mattock (digging pickaxe) would go faster than the shovel and digging bar. might want to get a square hoe, i noticed that you were fighting with the crescent moon hoe when backfilling the trench high traffic areas like the gate might benefit from using some of that fieldstone for paving
I’m not sure how your drains work. Shouldn’t there be holes in the pipe to allow water to enter along its length? French Drain? Love the covered fireplace space. Very nice for a cold rainy coastal area.
You can’t have too many lights on a tractor. You should mount 1 on each corner of the cab 2 forward and 2 backwards. Remembering the height of the tractor shed. I would have put the gate latch on the outside animals do try and succeed in opening them.
like watching your videos ! would it not have been easier to just move the feeding crib to a drier place. you need to build a pond and drain off all the water on your property.
Have you considered to raise your access road that gets flooded? 50 cm should help to keep it dry. Add a drain pipe under across the road so the water can drain faster. Just my thoughts and
Man, has there always been this river through your fields? Even long before you purchased the lot? Have you actually considered just digging a few meter wide river through there or would it just make it worse? Great work with the gate, and your doing great with your farm work! Enjoy farm life with your family
I have used my digger attachment for the tractor on all the sides I can reach and it is a lot better now than before but the river is flowing trough a ravine with rock walls on each side. I cannot reach there. Afther this ravine the landscape slops so if I only could take that place also it would help but I need to do it by hand and I need to stand in the river so I can only do it in the summer. Of course, when the summer comes, I have other things to do. Winter and flooding is farm from my mind. 😂
@@NorwegianfarmlifeHei! Om du skulle ha behov for litt hjelp til sommaren med graving i grøftene, så kan eg ta med meg spade! Bare å gi ein lyd, eg er vel ca 17min vekke!
The new front lights on the tractor need to be moved higher up, i.e. on the cabin roof above the front windscreen. When you tested them, all you could see in front of the tractor are the shadows from the front wheels.
Last Friday (November 22) somebody from Netherlands called me on my cellphone. (Country code 31). He left no message. This channel is the only Norwegian contact I have ever had. Eric, were you trying to call me? 🤓🤓🤓
I saw that small wooden gate with a passage way, for a person to go thru, and I wondered if you will realize that you need to think about when the barn is built, you will need a way to get to the barn with a tractor ect. That passage way would be way to narrow.
You are correct but I have another wider gate out on the fields where I can drive the tractor. This gate only leads up to the house and the garden and I cannot drive the tractor there. 😊
Interesting view at 5:03; looks like you’ve got the angle and are working on final rafter length? Very interested in your roofing choice. Any grants or other federal/national funds available to help you rebuild? Hello from Oregon.
Yes, you are correct. The concrete slaps where not at the same height so the pillars needed to be on different length for the gate frame to be level. 😊
My plan is to someday restore it and maybe start to use it. Its not easy drying hay in our climate and making silage requires far less dry and sunny days. 😊
I understand the frustration but I also find that music makes a lot of things better. Unfortunately sometimes one has to accomodate the greater group of people. However, I dont get why RUclips doesnt collab with video editing software to layer up music and making it possible to filter out music. Seems more like a RUclips issue than creator issue in my opinion.
Sorry that the music is bothering you. We have tried to make a version of a video without music and tested in on some friends. There verdict was clear. Don’t drop the music. It is as @forrestvalleyfarmer say, for most it is better with the music. 😊
Finland there IS a Lake gold Pielinen .i live here Lieksa. The vater are veey dovn on The Lake. Are The rain Goes thre you live? Last year The vater of Pielinen vas very hig on this Time.
Where in Vestland do you live?, I have my sister living at Askøy just outside of Bergen, as you know of course (mean the island 😂). And I think you really need a trench spade (grøftespade), and a pair of tough boots 😊. But where do you lead the excess water to from the feeding station, it seemed to me that it were just going to sit just beneath the surface. Anyway I like to watch your videos. Are you showed in now? 23rd of November 24 that is.
Some people might have tried to drive through the flooded area. Lets just say that I would not like to own that car afterwards. Anything over the center of the wheel is going to damage important bits. Even just water up to the underside of the car is bad as it gets into areas not designed to be soaked. Better safe(with wet feet) than sorry with a soaked car. ;-) Please stop using indoor rated power cords outside. Really. Those wire brushes are ridicilously effective. Used one with my cordless angle-grinder(Biltema MultiX 18V) to strip the old paint off a wrought iron bannister this summer. The 4Ah battery only lasted a few minutes, but with two batteries and a charger, and things to do in-between, I got it done. (I have 3 batteries and 2 chargers now... ) I don't like using open flames on heat-shrink. Not because I damage it, but I tend to char stuff around it... So I got myself a battery-powered heat-gun. Works a treat. Tractor wiring is always a mess. It looks good at the dealer, but the moment you drive it off thee lot... there must be some elastic tension or something that gets released and pulls, snaps and whips about until it can no longer be recognised. Even worse than anything made by LUKAS...
Many people tried to cross the flooded alternative road I mentioned in the beginning and lived to regret it. It was in the papers the day after that hundreds of license plates were found on the road. They had fallen of the cars. 😂
great videos with interesting content,but the music is depressing and annoying,especially during the repair and construction content..i think it doesn fit ...
I noticed that the escape artist was keeping a keen eye on what you were doing with the gates lol. It's scary seeing just how fast it can flood and you can get cut off with a landslide. Luckily it wasn't too serious but it makes you realise how little you can control. The barn is going to be a thing of beauty back in its place.👍
Hello Eric, recently discoverd your channel, love the laid back style of your videos, your very relaxing to listern to and watch. 😀
Its so nice to watch people who are good at handyman work. Although i have the will, and ability, to put the work in, I would have no idea how to rebuild a gate. I wish i had someone around who was knowledgeable about things like this.
Keep up the great work and videos
Thanks!❤️👍
Nice gate upgrade. I hope the header isnt too low when it comes time to move equipment and materials to rebuild the barn. Thanks for sharing all your hard work. Charles
Another great video, I really enjoyed watching again. The upgrade to the tractor's lights will make a huge difference when you need to do something and it gets dark early. Have a wonderful weekend with the family, greetings from Cape Town.❤️
What a transformation with the gates, much stronger than before. I also noticed just how quickly the birds emptied the feeder you filled, they didn't play around. 👍
Another fantastic video looking forward till the next one😊🙏
Thank you so much 😀
The barn is gonna b great
Consider getting a light bar for on top of the cab or upfront. That will provide more than enough light for any task. And you can always use the old front lights on the back of the tractor.
Good idea😊👍
😌I feel for you😮that's a lot of water
Hello Erik: You are doing a great job in getting the farm ready for things that might happen. You and your wife are very happy together and your son is growing like a weed. Do what you can and fix what you can, things will fall in place for you and your family. Good luck in getting the barn permit and all the papers that you will be needing. Until next time keep safe and god bless.
It's great that two people build together, the scenery is so beautiful
Greetings from Ukraine! Cheers and thanks for the relaxed content...perfect Saturday morning vibe!
very very good thank you my friends love you....
Many many thanks😊
glad to see you sorted out the air cleaner on the tractor
I recommend puting the latch on the opposite side of the gate. The sheep could bump the latch up with their nose and escape.
i love ure videos man i am from norway to
im gald you got that gate fixed i felt sorry for you climbing over it . the lights on the tractor is great you just need more good LEDs arent cheap . thanks for showing the barn drawings. Thanks
Those owl calls at night are awesome!
that gate is a wonderful improvement!
I can't help but think of the old TV show 'Green Acres' when I watch this channel.
Nice to hear the owls. We have the same here in Minnesota.
Thanks
Thanks for helping the channel out👍❤️
Great job with the gates, Great video as always, keep the bird feeder topped up. 🐦 looks like your having the same whether as we are in UK.⛈
Thanks 👍
I love how hte sheep just came to a halt when they saw the new gate. "What the heck is that, my man?"
You know it is raining when even the west Norwegians make a video about it! Happy nothing worse happened.
Kjekt å sjå at de står på. Berre å gleda seg til neste video :)
Hallo Erik! I'll be back on Patreon in a few days! I lost my card -.- Thank you so much for sharing a piece of your life.
No problem and thanks for supporting the channel😊👍
You will find it easier loading stone with a pointed shovel, advice from an ex tin miner in cornwall england.
Eric can't help feeling you have mounted your front lights in the wrong place I think on a rail on front of bonnet / radiator shield would make them more effective, Somerset mike.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys 🐑 good work 👍😁💞
Hello Sir,
What work accomplished since the first video often alone. You have to have a lot of courage to embark on such projects and constant motivation because certain tasks cannot be postponed (animal care among others). Hoping that the winter will not be too harsh for you,
Friends
Henri (France)
Great video as always! Happy Thanksgiving from Georgia USA.
Same to you!❤️
Really enjoy your videos. Neil Hansen ---- NSW Australia
I wish I could move to Norway
happy wife happy life
Takk for ennå en fin episode fra livet på gården! Håper vinteren blir fin for dere. Nå er det bare en måned til sola snur, og det igjen går mot lysere tider.
Takk for det❤️ Det gjør noe med psyken å vite at det blir lysere for hver dag så det ser jeg frem til 😊👍
ya weather same here in Canada , but you do not need to shovel rain (well you did kinda,🥴 ), so ill take the rain , it was very dry fall so it will do the wells good to get all the extra rain before it freezes up , yet that increases the risk of frost heaving when it does freeze solid this winter, gate looks great, 🥸🤓,Canada
Whhhaaaaa - that weather looks terrible. I live in Poland and the weather can be bad but not really as wet as you get there. Those sheep and pigs must be damn tough to get through your winters - seems they live outside - interested in their breeds. Surprised you need building permission for a barn that is already in place and is on agricultural land. And very nice work on the gate, considering you had to do it single-handed.
I’d put automatic sensor lights in your tractor shed, the fence is a great job , looks good,Trillick tractor sell some old affordable tractors and trillick tractor parts too
Is that a woodland owl I hear at night on your farm? Your future barn looks awesome!
I don’t know what type there are. I have never seen them, just heard them. We also have a type that makes a screeching sound.🤔
More lights would-be better given you live in a region of relative winter darkness.
That storm hit pretty hard, you got rain, we got 30cm of snow, fallen trees, broken roads.
woodchips are great but chickens will eat some of it, if the chips are from pine/cedar the eggs will likely smell and taste like it, oak and other hardwood seem to work well, but on the other hand mine were common hatchery birds, your birds look like heritage breeds and may be smart enough to know they're not supposed to eat the litter🤪👍
for a wood chipper, compatible for your tractor , , maybe market place kan help you to find!!!
Thanks for the tip😊👍
Landslides: nature doesn‘t need man, but man needs nature!
The owl you hear at night is a Tawny owl (kattugle).
probably the camera angle ... but it did appear like your drainage ditch ran uphill. The pipe should drop 1% -- 1 cm per meter of pipe. You should complete digging the ditch before laying the pipe and gravel -- that way you know the water will drain.
few thoughts:
you will want to get endcaps for your drain tile (USian name for porous drain pipe, not sure your local name) to keep it from filling up with dirt.
with that super rocky ground, a Mattock (digging pickaxe) would go faster than the shovel and digging bar.
might want to get a square hoe, i noticed that you were fighting with the crescent moon hoe when backfilling the trench
high traffic areas like the gate might benefit from using some of that fieldstone for paving
I’m not sure how your drains work. Shouldn’t there be holes in the pipe to allow water to enter along its length? French Drain?
Love the covered fireplace space. Very nice for a cold rainy coastal area.
You can’t have too many lights on a tractor. You should mount 1 on each corner of the cab 2 forward and 2 backwards. Remembering the height of the tractor shed. I would have put the gate latch on the outside animals do try and succeed in opening them.
like watching your videos ! would it not have been easier to just move the feeding crib to a drier place. you need to build a pond and drain off all the water on your property.
Yes, but this is a place where it is really convenient to reach from the other side of the fence😊👍
Have you considered to raise your access road that gets flooded? 50 cm should help to keep it dry. Add a drain pipe under across the road so the water can drain faster.
Just my thoughts and
Yes, many times, but I don’t have the money to do it yet. 😂
You need a t bar for your digger its a safty feature from foster uk, i have the dame digger on a fiat 780
Thanks for the tip. 😊👍
the concrete you put on the walls, should be over windows too.
Man, has there always been this river through your fields? Even long before you purchased the lot? Have you actually considered just digging a few meter wide river through there or would it just make it worse?
Great work with the gate, and your doing great with your farm work! Enjoy farm life with your family
I have used my digger attachment for the tractor on all the sides I can reach and it is a lot better now than before but the river is flowing trough a ravine with rock walls on each side. I cannot reach there. Afther this ravine the landscape slops so if I only could take that place also it would help but I need to do it by hand and I need to stand in the river so I can only do it in the summer. Of course, when the summer comes, I have other things to do. Winter and flooding is farm from my mind. 😂
@@NorwegianfarmlifeHei! Om du skulle ha behov for litt hjelp til sommaren med graving i grøftene, så kan eg ta med meg spade! Bare å gi ein lyd, eg er vel ca 17min vekke!
The new front lights on the tractor need to be moved higher up, i.e. on the cabin roof above the front windscreen. When you tested them, all you could see in front of the tractor are the shadows from the front wheels.
Yes, I thing you are correct. There is a huge shadow from the front wheels. 👍
👍👍👍👍👍
what is the sound we heard hooting ... an owl, perhaps.
Yes, we have a lot of owls around our farm. The cat drags fat mice home every day so I guess they find a lot to eat. 😊
Litt usikker på den uendelige..musikken?
Your land looks like mine.. More rocks then dirt..
In uk you can just rebuild barn as foundation the same
I was hoping the same would apply here but unfortunately there where not enough left from the original building. 😢
Last Friday (November 22) somebody from Netherlands called me on my cellphone. (Country code 31). He left no message. This channel is the only Norwegian contact I have ever had. Eric, were you trying to call me?
🤓🤓🤓
🤣Unfortunately, I don’t have your number. Also, Norway's countryside is +47
I saw that small wooden gate with a passage way, for a person to go thru, and I wondered if you will realize that you need to think about when the barn is built, you will need a way to get to the barn with a tractor ect. That passage way would be way to narrow.
You are correct but I have another wider gate out on the fields where I can drive the tractor. This gate only leads up to the house and the garden and I cannot drive the tractor there. 😊
Interesting view at 5:03; looks like you’ve got the angle and are working on final rafter length? Very interested in your roofing choice. Any grants or other federal/national funds available to help you rebuild? Hello from Oregon.
Yes, you are correct. The concrete slaps where not at the same height so the pillars needed to be on different length for the gate frame to be level. 😊
what is your plan to do with the silo?
My plan is to someday restore it and maybe start to use it. Its not easy drying hay in our climate and making silage requires far less dry and sunny days. 😊
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I wish RUclipsrs wouldn’t play music all the time because it’s really annoying especially for folks with hearing impairments. The gates look great.
I understand the frustration but I also find that music makes a lot of things better. Unfortunately sometimes one has to accomodate the greater group of people. However, I dont get why RUclips doesnt collab with video editing software to layer up music and making it possible to filter out music.
Seems more like a RUclips issue than creator issue in my opinion.
Sorry that the music is bothering you. We have tried to make a version of a video without music and tested in on some friends. There verdict was clear. Don’t drop the music. It is as @forrestvalleyfarmer say, for most it is better with the music. 😊
I wish I could like this a thousand times !
less music please.
Your farm is progressing well. You are conscience parents working hard.
😇👍👍👍👍👍🙏
Finland there IS a Lake gold Pielinen .i live here Lieksa. The vater are veey dovn on The Lake. Are The rain Goes thre you live? Last year The vater of Pielinen vas very hig on this Time.
Where in Vestland do you live?, I have my sister living at Askøy just outside of Bergen, as you know of course (mean the island 😂). And I think you really need a trench spade (grøftespade), and a pair of tough boots 😊. But where do you lead the excess water to from the feeding station, it seemed to me that it were just going to sit just beneath the surface. Anyway I like to watch your videos. Are you showed in now? 23rd of November 24 that is.
We live on Osterøy and right now there is a lot of snow here😊👍
Hei hvor i Norge ligger denne flotte gården. ?
På Vestlandet 👍
Hvor i Norge bor I? Er det ugler man hører i baggrunden?
På vestlandet 😊
Some people might have tried to drive through the flooded area. Lets just say that I would not like to own that car afterwards. Anything over the center of the wheel is going to damage important bits. Even just water up to the underside of the car is bad as it gets into areas not designed to be soaked.
Better safe(with wet feet) than sorry with a soaked car. ;-)
Please stop using indoor rated power cords outside. Really.
Those wire brushes are ridicilously effective. Used one with my cordless angle-grinder(Biltema MultiX 18V) to strip the old paint off a wrought iron bannister this summer.
The 4Ah battery only lasted a few minutes, but with two batteries and a charger, and things to do in-between, I got it done. (I have 3 batteries and 2 chargers now... )
I don't like using open flames on heat-shrink. Not because I damage it, but I tend to char stuff around it...
So I got myself a battery-powered heat-gun. Works a treat.
Tractor wiring is always a mess. It looks good at the dealer, but the moment you drive it off thee lot... there must be some elastic tension or something that gets released and pulls, snaps and whips about until it can no longer be recognised. Even worse than anything made by LUKAS...
Many people tried to cross the flooded alternative road I mentioned in the beginning and lived to regret it. It was in the papers the day after that hundreds of license plates were found on the road. They had fallen of the cars. 😂
great videos with interesting content,but the music is depressing and annoying,especially during the repair and construction content..i think it doesn fit ...