How I’m getting Electric Fence + Water Across a Road (No Gate)

That's Randolph. We're gonna replace our front step. They need it, don't they? All right, starting to dry up in here. Hey, look, that'd be a perfect turkey ramp. Quickly make some cleats. Hey, you gonna help me? All right, you set them down and I'll drill them in. Now we're approaching the longest day of the year. What that means for us is it's like light at 5:30 when I bring Teddy out and not dark till almost 9:30. Little breakfast snack. Hey, Gideon's saying he's wanting a snack. Look at there, look behind you. Will you get him a couple strawberries? Nice. Look, there's two here, right here just side too. Uh, you pretty much have to do all your bed prep, go out and shut up the animals in your pajamas. And go right to bed. Yes, hold on, we got a little treat for you. Just one second. Oh my gosh, boy, do we have the snack for you! What do you say?

Thank you.

Yes, try that. See if that ain't delicious. Is it good? Yeah, we're gonna load up and then come get you. Hey, big brother gets you shorts. Okay, did you eat all your strawberries? Okay, you want to go on chores with us?

Come on, let's just go barefoot.

I didn't want to find his shoes. I wanted to get out there. Mom and I got an appointment this morning. We gotta leave at 9:30. —get any—

get any wet boots. That's crazy.

So we gotta get everything done. I'm not getting shoes. Are you just gonna wear the water shoes? They're mine, but I don't care. Water shoes, really? All right. All right, thank you, Jonah. My hope is that we can actually bury our water line and our electrical. That might be very hopeful, especially since we're having to leave early. Uh-oh, what's going on here? It leaks. The hose connection's leaking? Oh wow. It's a bad hose. Well, this is going to be fixed today. As for the Chickshaw Mini, we have to come up with a plan to be able to pull it behind Sally. Optional pull behind Sally. Like, today you wouldn't want to pull it behind Sally. Free the birds! I want to get more chickens in there so they can even do a more thorough job of spreading manure But I'm gonna need the Sally option. So I've ordered a 2-inch ball. I think I have an idea to actually attach it to the handlebars. Interesting enough, my buddy Alan, he's actually the guy that gave me this idea, inspired this idea. He said he's going to build my chickshaw. He asked for the plans. Uh, but he also said he was gonna modify it so it could also be pulled behind the side-by-side. So good job, Al Lumna, Lumna Acres on YouTube. Awesome YouTube channel. If anybody's a homestead builder, it's Al. So this is going to be really cool to see what he comes up with. But I'm impatient, I'm impatient, so I'm going to keep trying as well. So it'll kind of be interesting to see how two different ideas for the same thing come together.

Put the wheels where the legs are, then the hitch will come out the back, and it would— you know how we have the hitch on that gray trailer and it has that wheel that comes down? Yeah, to stabilize it. And then that will be the—

that's a possibility, the back, just to stay— that's a possibility. You know, there's— it's crazy how many ideas there are. I know. Here, will you take this? There are so many ideas. And Al's going to come up with something completely different. My idea: what if this were the handle, just like on the turkey shawt? It would simplify things. Sure, it would lower the handle, meaning we might have to bring our wheel back instead of on center, a little back, so it'd be a little heavier when moving it, but we'd be only moving it on easy situations. And then we attach a bar going across and that's where we mount our hitch. I think it's worth a try. Rebecca's idea is really good too. I'm thinking this would be a little easier, and then we kind of— if I'm trying to go the easiest route possible and go from there, hopefully that encourages them. I mean, they're already jumping up on there, but Let's make it even easier. We have been clear. This, this is where you can save. He was playing in the grass. It's hilarious. Tall grass. Look, he loves it.

You love that? Where's Daddy?

You love that? I don't know where he went.

Oh, there he is! There he is! Here, Fanny. You're funny, dog.

Mr. Brown, where are your water shoes? You do mud shoes instead? Mud gloves? Or are you seriously— you don't know where your shoes are? Oh my gosh. Okay, you found them. Good boy. Bring them with us so we don't lose. Why did you insist on— she's just gonna get barefoot 10 minutes later. Good morning, fellas. Also, thank you very much. A volunteer cucumber or something. Because you guys getting shocked? Because we planted cucumbers in here, or we fed them cucumber scraps. Planting a little garden behind them. Bananas, carrots, meat scraps, rotten apples. Get in. You're not supposed to climb on Sally. I do see you found some shoes though. That's good. See, you can hear that grounding out. We're gonna have to replace this electrical. We're gonna have to get our water line through this long pipe, and we're gonna have to dig this out some more. Can we do it? We got just like 30— a little over 30 minutes. Can we do it, Teddy? Can we do it? Because we have to milk and then go to town. Yeah, okay, my idea is to get— yep, but you would— I think you're gonna have to take it apart to do it. Yeah, so that's good, it's gonna work. Let's take this used pipe. Okay, yep, hold it. No, no, I think shorter. Wait, let's hold it over that. Let's hold it over that. There, right there. Two hands on your Sawzall. Yep, go for it. Wow, that was easy. Yep, this is gonna work, this is gonna work. And this And then our mega long piece. Let's clear this out, lay our pipe down, and then do it. Look at the sweat. It's not even— the sun isn't even out. Okay, we've ran water through it, we're sloped. All the way to here, Jonah. We got— we're still blocked up right here. Hey Teddy, it's okay. We're all here except Mama. I know that's who you want. We're all here, okay? Okay. It's sloped now. If water does get in here, which we have an idea to prevent water to get in here— that's that idea— then it will drain out. Can you come get my line, Jonah? Well, I'm gonna need more slack on that water hose. We did it! See, this is going to come up and out. Now we'll have to— if we have to put anything else in there, I don't know, I guess we'll take it apart. Maybe we'll keep it unglued for that reason. And that'll come up and only any kind of water will get in there. It's like crazy sideways rain, and if it does get in there, it's going to drain out. We've got 1 minute left. Gonna take a little more than that, but we're too close. Let's backfill this. Good job. I've got some help. Let's do it. We did it. We did it. Set out to do the impossible and extraordinary things happen. Like profuse sweating. Guys, really? I'm soaked. Oh my word. Okay, Mr. Teddy, let's go. Not bad, Flossie. Thank you very much. Well, we got done. We got in town soon enough. All went well. This is what I really want to show you guys though— your sprouts. Your sprouts are on our plate. Our pork chops are on our plate. Or is this a ham?

That's the ham.

And our lettuce. Hey, somebody's taking it easy this afternoon.

We are out doing afternoon chores. We got the fence sheep netting going up, and Josiah and I are going to go get Hamburger, who is out of the fence right there.

It's so hot they probably care less. They just want to stay under their shelter. Yeah. Nope, here comes Dixie. Come on, the leader! I think Dixie's the leader. Look, coming right here. Keep moving, keep moving. They don't care. They're getting out of their shade to come graze in the intense heat. They don't care. All right, we got our electric line in and we got our water line through. We're gonna wait. We do have temporary water line, so I'm not too worried about that. We got our electric hooked up so we can turn the fence on. They have water. Tomorrow we'll start making some— a legitimate connection right there, but right now B's already beat me to it. How's the water? Good.