DESTROYED Gate nearly Halted POLE BARN Project

Today we've got our parts for our little hay feeder for a cheap— Tractor Supply called yesterday. Randolph's going to be able to pick up our, our fencing that goes around this, save one. One got damaged in shipping, but we might— Hey, Mr. Brown, you want to go with me? We might, we might can just do a cattle panel, which I noticed is what Joel does when I was up there seeing his winter system. I think we have a cattle panel. We— I think we for sure have a hog panel. Yes, we have a hog panel. It's not as tall, but I'm thinking it's tall enough. You want to get the eggs? He's asking me about getting the eggs. We can get them. Let's go. I want to go with you and we'll get the eggs together, but let's go see if we have a cattle panel. Come on. Good morning. Good morning. How many hay bales we got left? I'm thinking we're gonna be in trouble. I think 11 only, and we're doing 4. What's today, Thursday? Yeah, so we do 4 day. 1, 2, 3, 4, that's Thursday. 1, 2, 3, 4, that's Friday. 1, 2, 3, Saturday. Shoot, let's go down to 3. He did call. He— I've been texting the hay guy. He thought maybe— when I really pressed him, he thought maybe Friday night the big hay would come in, so maybe a Saturday delivery. So if we go 3, we have 3 and a half days— Thursday, Friday, Saturday into Sunday. So we're gonna have to do— remember my brand new swill pot? Remember how I roasted that chicken? I've charred another bottom of— well, I've charred my new swill bucket. At least I could soak it in water a little bit. Yeah, well Apparently it burned it all the way through. You like— you can't see it, but if water boils, water comes through the bottom. Oh, the metal saw! Okay, I see it. All right, I don't know if it's one— we got a whole length! We got a whole length of cattle panel here, Gideon. One of our 16-foot gates that we ordered they had to send it back. I guess it got destroyed in shipping, and it's going to be in kind of a limbo because they're telling me like the Freightliner— the freight company won't deliver just one gate. Uh, they're sending that back. He thought he might try to work it out. We'll see. Uh, but I'm not counting on it anytime soon, so let's get this. Well, you know, get in. What would be better, a cattle panel We have that junk metal gate over there. That would look ugly. I think the cattle panel would be more discreet. Ugly, but more discreet. The lumber is supposed to get in today, so maybe picked up tomorrow. And then the hay— we're waiting on all three of those to come together. Might happen by the weekend. It's kind of looking at our outdoor loafing area situation. I think shooting the fence right through there, cows on this side, sheep on that side, will work out nicely. Looks like we did run out of wood chips. Didn't have enough to put right here. We're going to clear more in that pasture over there, so we'll get some more wood chips soon, but not soon enough. Maybe we can pull— Fred's coming back to do some work for Big Daddy. Maybe I can get him just to get some mulch from this pile for the time being. Another thing I plan on doing to keep this from getting just muddy as all get-out is it'll hold their manure or their urine But perhaps we can pick up their urine or their poop, at least the cow's poop, and bury it in their deep bedding mix. This is kind of like a compost corner. Come on, get in. We've been having some reservoir hay up here. It looks like the chickens have been— looks like we can't store our hay up here anymore. Oh, mucho huevos! Oh my gosh, look at this! Boom! Boom! Boom, boom! Just had us put our coffee grinds out and our eggshells. Come here, come here with your egg bath. We have to tie this up.

Look.

Okay, yeah, they're gonna— not even attached. No. Okay, we'll get some metal wire and do that. Okay. And look at that! I've been away today. I don't know if I've come in here. A few days before that. Oh crap, that's an easy fix. Now that we're getting lots of eggs, I think it's going to be time to look at some of these littler ones, older ones. Joe Salatin taught us when we were up there, uh, just a few days ago about chickens laying in the winter. There are 3 things. Did you guys know these 3 things? Whoa, look at this, look at this! I said, Joel, do you put artificial light on your chickens in the winter? Okay, because they naturally slow down in the winter. He said no. But there's 3 things. Light is one of them. Age— somebody was in my member area just asked me, uh, my chickens are 2 years old, when do I need to replace them? If they're 2 years old now You can need to go ahead and get some chicks in the spring. When those chicks come to age and start laying, then you harvest those old ladies. So 2 and a half years. Some of these are older than that. Some of them are too little to stay in our sheep net. The other thing is comfort. So this, this greenhouse is bringing them comfort. It's warmer in here, it's less windy. They're out earlier in the morning. They're not waiting for us to put them out. They go in when they want to. It's really nice situation. So age, comfort, and light. If you guys notice something, we covered our gardens. Our cover crops winter killed, and so to keep nature covered— she's a modest lady— we put the silage tarps over her. And when we go to plant in the spring, It's gonna be super supple and ready to go.

Here's my city.

Nice. We've got the wood chips down. We're ready to go in that loafing area. How's it going in here, Grandma? Oh, it's good.

It's overflowed a couple times, but we're working hard.

We're just keeping our counters all nice and milky. Okay, so we got the cream coming out. We're filling up our skim buckets. How you doing?

I'm doing all right.

Yeah. Bad night last night. Pelvis pain.

Well, I stepped on a ball. That started it.

Mm-hmm, and then you run into a kid's table.

And then I ran into the kid's—

because you can't see where you're going because that belly.

Well, I thought I had enough space between my foot and the table, and I was wearing slippers and like the rubber of the slipper got caught on the metal and I went forward and my foot did not.

You also had like a contraction-like pain.

I had— I don't know what that was. It was like It was like from my belly button down. I think it was just my pelvis. I think I was just in pain from my pelvis.

All right.

I don't actually— I don't think I had a contraction because you don't have contractions, but it just really hurt. But once I laid down, it all calmed down, and— but I still have a hard time moving. But I did move myself today in the bed.

Good.

And I did all right. So I might take another hot bath and take some more arnica and do all the things that I'm supposed to do.

All right, I've got about an hour. I'm gonna go try to hang this trough.

Okay, Tractor Supply called.

Okay.

And they're gonna send one gate.

What?

4 to 8 days.

Cool.

It's gonna take, and he was— concerned that it might be a problem because we might need it, and I said we can just figure something out.

I already put a cattle panel down there.

Okay, so we can figure something out until the gate gets here.

Okay. All right, let's review my notes for polyphase designs. I don't think it's going to be too hard to do this. We only lack pulleys and hanging up the winch, and we've done it before. That was super kind of the Tractor Supply guy to be so concerned and to get us our one gate. Oh, I know it's going to be a pain in the butt for them. They're making it right. Something went wrong and they made up, so that's cool. How are we gonna get this? How am I gonna carry this? I don't think I can carry this by myself. Am I really gonna have to wobble this over there? Let's do it. Let's gird up our loins. Oh my gosh. Okay, there we go. Nothing tough. Oh my gosh. Look who's here! Randolph to the rescue! Yep, delivery man's here. Yep, and look what's here— our Tractor Supply Gates! Thank you so much, Randolph. Oh, you're welcome. You're a good help. Got that nice long trailer. Haroon is coming to get me. I wanted to help with this next move. There's a low-lying power line we have to dodge with a shed move. There's no way we're getting through right here. Look, oh my gosh, it's like less than 8 feet tall. So I can even touch with my hand. You could touch it if you wanted to, but who would want to? I know. We're gonna pull it up, go around the tree, come up through here, and hopefully right through there. And back up. How's that? That's good. That's good. Look, it's coming. Tomorrow we might actually have some grass on the ground. Whoa, where you going, buddy? So that'll buy us a little more time. We open it up to this ditch, and look who's down in that— Phyllis. Everything must be grazed. We're right up to the road. We've got a little over an hour. Let's do this. Let's hang this hay feeder. I've got everything but my pulleys. I was hoping to not have to talk about this, but it's turning into quite the obstacle. They were upstairs on the porch. I put them in here. Maybe I should go watch the vlog. I came down here, I did the basketball shot from the middle. I don't know if I even had my apron on. Oh wait, I just looked back at footage. Friday night the big hay would come in, so maybe a Saturday delivery. So if we go 3— Arun, I must have set it down because Arun picked it up and walked, walked away with it somewhere. Let's go ask him. That wasn't the first time going back and watching footage to find something, to see where I last had it, has saved the day. Arun, looks like somebody got hot. Oh, there he is. Hey, Arun! Hey, where'd you put that white bag of hardware? It was in front of the hay stall. It's in the tool room. Tool room, okay, thank you. You know, on that table? Yeah. Tool room, yes, okay. So, that was a 20-minute obstacle. Let's do this. I've got done. And I've made a mistake. I've put the handle over here. It's right there. It's gonna hit the cable. So I think I— I guess I flip this and put it on this side. Let's try it, John. You want to see if I can't pick you up? Well, we got that done. We're 20 past where I want to be, but I don't think it'll take too long to hang these gates. What do you think, Johnny? You want to pull those— pull that off and, uh, we'll hang these things. That was nice. We're like an hour late. I really got a lot of work to do today inside, but it was nice. The family came out. Arun came over. We got these panels up. We did a temporary cattle panel. If our lumber comes in today, tomorrow we can put our gate system here. This is where the animals are going to get in and out. This is really coming together nicely. Let's get inside and eat, get the office work done. Tomorrow's another day.