The video is a first‑person, family‑focused diary of a busy farm workday. With the primary tractor "Sally" in the shop for maintenance, the narrator coordinates a series of improvised tasks: babysitting Grandma’s chickens, modifying a borrowed "Chickshaw" to be towable behind a backup machine, herding turkeys, feeding livestock, hauling logs for firewood, and preparing a pig access road. The family members (Grandma, Mom, Lily, Gideon, Rebecca, Jenna, Jonah, Randolph) and the dog Teddy all participate in various roles. The narrator details practical challenges—such as leveling a muddy road with incoming excavators, designing a temporary hitch without bottoming out, and moving coops—while expressing enthusiasm for the collaborative effort and the anticipated improvements once the excavators finish grading and graveling the road.
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Oh, Henry! It's up to Henry and the mower to get us through today because we put Sally in the shop. They picked her up yesterday, just a maintenance and a recall. Hopefully back today. Let's get this Suburban started warming up. Good job, buddy. Let's get a few things done while we wait for Mom. You see, we're babysitting Grandma's chickens. Lily doesn't— hadn't done her posse yet. You want to do it? It's a cage fight in there, Gideon. Come on, let them out! Free the birds! That one's particularly excited. Grandma's having surgery, so we're happy to watch her chickens for a while. Whoops, I guess we took a little too long upstairs with the birds. Uh, but anyway, Grandma has let us borrow her Chickshaw. So I'm thinking if we borrow Grandma's Chickshaw— oh, we're gonna have to take Teddy. Can't leave him. Oh, he's stuck. The trailer rolled on his leash. There he comes. Okay, everybody in your seats. Jenna's going to get Lily. Even going to get a Chickshaw is a family affair. So I'm thinking if we borrow this Chickshaw— look, Rebecca— we can switch. We can get our Chickshaw empty and start working on it, working on the modifications to get pulled behind Sally. Yes, I like it. And then when Grandma needs her Chickshaw back, we'll just switch it out, or we'll just use Grandma's Chickshaw up in the kitchen posse till we build Mama's. Hey! Pretty coop. A little bit more power than Sally's. 20-something. I go 20. Yeah, we would totally be doing this with Sally, wouldn't we? We would. Good morning, Grandma! Everybody's here. This is a family affair. All right, your garden's looking good though. Yes, these are, um, my bush beans. So I got— I had a couple of those, so I put them on and it's jamming. Look at how good these look, the English peas. Heck yeah, good job! Nice. Hey, don't go in the road yet, let Mama get past. Nice. This would be handy right about now if we had an optional hitch. That's what we're— that's what we're actually trying to do. All right, thank you. You get up front, I'll sit right here. Bye-bye, Grandma. Oh, we're doing good. Nice. Oh, it's going well. That went really good. Look at the patties and how they destroyed it, decimating the fly larvae, spreading the fertilization. Don't let them out yet. So, but they didn't get everything, so there needs to be more chickens, but it's going to be hard to pull by hand in some areas, particularly way up there on the mountain. So That's a reminder of why we're going through this effort to make this also pullable by a machine. Why don't we just, uh, let them out and just take this one away? We could totally do that, but we'd have to move both coops over there. I mean, that maybe that's easier. Should we just roll both coops over? Chance of losing a chicken. Yeah, all right, let's do that. Let's just move both coops then. Go ahead. So we're just gonna let them out of this. I think that's similar enough. What? Oh yeah, we'll get that up. We're gonna leave right now. Shut it up and let's leave with it. We're gonna— all right, now put this one down. I think it's similar enough that they'll just go— they'll just go in this one. We'll trick them. All right, let's take this old one away and we'll do some work on it. Oh, yesterday Randolph hung our gate for us. That means we got to get rid of our wires, our dinky donk wires. I buried that electrical line a couple of days ago and it's Whoa, what was that? Keep coming. Or is it hung up? But we need to swing it that way, so let's go ahead and swing it that way. I think so. No, I think it's hitting the ground, right, Rebecca? Does it hit the ground over there? So we got electricity coming to this wire, which will get us to everywhere else on the farm, but we've discovered a problem this morning which I think can be easily solved. So this scrapes here. So maybe when those guys come back today— the excavators are coming back today— they just need to level, make this flat. Thank goodness they're coming back today because that would take me like 2 hours with a shovel. Them, 5 minutes. Yeah. Check Jonah's job in here. He did an excellent job. Sea Monster's doing great. Fat chicks, you guys doing all right? They're doing great. Pause. All right, we just moved the sea monsters to fresh grass. One week, Rebecca. I mean, they're ready now-ish. You're gonna have 4 or 5 pound birds in your freezer. I can't wait. Oh, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be wonderful. All right, a bold move today with the turkeys. We happen to be in with Moose and Hamburger. That's probably gonna be the biggest challenge. We don't have an extra net, but I think If we pull that net part around, based on last time, I think we could herd the turkeys over easy enough and just reposition that snap. If you stay out of everything. I've put the feed on top of the turkey shaw so you don't get into it. Okay, buddy? Hey, just let me pet you. That'll get them away. You guys don't want to be petted? Hey, can anybody say that was super easy? That was really easy. It was crazy easy. 50% of their food off the land. They don't care about the feed. They don't care about the grain. Look, they're going at this new grass. Yeah, nobody's around the grain feeder. It's incredible. Listen, isn't that beautiful? Wow. Now I don't think they're getting up. Well, they got up on our ramp. Holy turkey squatted on it, but that's about it. Nobody's perching up there. I mean, if they want to keep going in there at night, they're a little more protected in there. We'll take it. What do you say? Good morning. We cannot get these out, so we're gonna get the tractor to pull them out. We're gonna broaden this, hopefully a turnaround for the public right on dead-end road. Maybe they would turn around here instead of in our— in our driveway. That'll get it out. We're taking our old sign Putting it down at the pretty place. Taking our logs to be cut up for firewood. That was easy. You think we can pick that up? I hauled it with my tractor. I know y'all can do it. They wanted to flatten my tires, but 10 snakes under. How much you think that rock weighs? A couple thousand, maybe. Goodness. I'll pick it up as long as these boards will ride on it. Up here at the pig access road, see how it's, you know, it's not level? Well, when it's hard rain, we sliding. We're sliding right here. So if we could get leveled and get some gravel on it, that'd be good. It's really nice to not have a road out to our pigs because before it was not that great because we'd slip and slide when it was raining and stuff. Stuff. As the kids were playing, I started working on the chick show. Hey, Teddy, it's all right, buddy. It's all right. He wants to be with Mama. Mama's busy with a friend. Come on, you'll be all right. All right, let me tell them about the Shaw, man. So these handles used to go up, and I said, well, if we can put them flat and attach another board here and end up putting our trailer coupler on there, we might be able to pull it that way and use it as a chickshaw. But if I lower it so much, can I still pull it? Like, is it going to cause it to bottom out, or am I going to move my feet back— my wheels back? So if it's this low, is it going to bottom out? The handles are off because it's— yeah, it's about right there at height. Let's see what that is. Uh, that was only about right there. Totally not going to bottom out. Now the question is, is that going to get it high enough off on a hitch to get those legs off the ground? If not, I have an idea for that too. See these legs? I just mounted them on the inside. What I'm hoping to do is just be able to replace that bottom board and extend it out. It will make for a much simpler build. You don't have— I don't have to instruct people how to, where to put this handle. If this could just come out like on the turkey shawl, it would be such a smooth build, and it would also be optional for hooking up behind a machine. That would just be amazing. It used to go right here. You can see where it was, and I just mounted this on the outside temporarily just to try it. I don't want to take that off if it's not going to work. The last thing— what we need to do now is we need to get Sally back. We need to get our tongue coupler and try it. So we'll wait on that coupler. Right now it's time to get hot in the afternoon sun and then an ice bath with a friend.
