My Farm was a WRECK until the EXCAVATOR Showed Up

We got guests. We got— we got minus 60 Minnesota over there. Did it get to minus 60? Randy Klyman. What's the coldest it's been this year in Minnesota where I am? Yeah, 31 below. Oh my gosh. I did learn a new thing from a co-worker though. What? Uh, it is warmer in your refrigerator 70 days a year than it is in Minnesota. Sounds about right. I've set out about about 4 days of meat right there. I'd say we like meat, wouldn't you, Beck? Hey Jonah, where's the torch? The guard— the weed— the weeder— the flame weeder— the basement, the garage, the tool room. All right, I can't guess that. We got a burn pile we need to burn. Fred's coming today, so I think that's perfect. It rained yesterday. Fred could kind of keep it stoked all day today with his machine. The problem is when I get organized and put something back, the kids kids know where it is and they don't put it back. I would keep the flame weeder in the garden stall. That's where I keep the flame weeder. That's not where the kids keep it. There it is. First attempt, it went out. We're gonna have to try a little harder. Go again, Jonah. It's so wet. How did you Any kind of green. Oh, the grader's here and we got the fire going. Hey guys, time to milk. Oh hey, Lily, will you go help them milk please? I'm gonna get these guys milking. I want to get a shot of him setting up the excavator and set you guys up on a time lapse. Let me show you some of the problems we're going to solve with this grading. Wet weather spring in our turnaround spot. How's he going to solve that problem? You can put it in the frame French drain. Problem number 2, a gap here. We got to put in gravel, a gravel ramp so we can get our stuff into the shed. Problem 3 is going to keep the burn pile alive. Problem 4, get all this wood over into a wood lot. Problem 5 is get this hill dirt out of here. All right, Josh has cleared this up. It's starting to come along nicely. Now he's stoking the fire, keeping it alive. All right, he has smoothed that out. Looks like he's not waiting on more rock. Look, he's dug our hole for our French drain. We're gonna solve this wet driveway problem, aren't we? You're gonna put the pipe here? Yeah. Oh, okay. He had to go shallow because we have another French drain in here and we couldn't— and we have our water line going through here. We didn't want to hit it. I just met with Randy. Randy's like my IT guy for our business, and he's coordinating with a local audio guy to get us a speaker sound system in here for a projection, for our PA. For this community barn, so that's exciting. Jonah's been setting up for the cows. Hey, have you not ridden Sally, Randy? Absolutely not. Okay. Hey Randy, you smell anything? Nope. Because there's cows and sheep in my backyard. I didn't even smell anything when we were standing in there. That's nice, isn't it? Yeah. You smell anything over here, Randy, right next to 200, 300-pound pigs? I smell green pasture. I know, right? That's amazing. Freshly mowed grass from Jonah, uh, mowing for this temporary fence. This is just the lane we're about to move these cows, and we probably could have herded the cows, but the sheep are a little more tricky. Arun, is this as far as we could get with our electricity? Okay, we need more wire. Let's test first this. So it's a 9.5 Energizer. Is it grounding out well? It might not be be grounding out well. It's not, it's not even hooked up to the ground, and the hot wire is actually hitting the metal a little bit. That's going to be a hot energizer if it's hitting that hard, hitting that metal. All right, let's try again. 11.6, nice. Now let's hook it up to the line out there. I expect it to be a little weaker, hopefully not too much weaker. Oh, 12.3! How do we get stronger? I'll take it. How are we gonna hook this? You got an alligator clip? Awesome. Now we've got our alligator clip on there. That's hooked, that's hooked. I think we're ready to go. This is a very exciting day. These, these cows going out on grass for the first time in 2021. It's after 11. It's actually working out good that we're putting them out later because if they get a bunch of green grass, they can actually get a little sick. So it's good they fill their bellies on hay. Boy, they're ready to go, aren't they? Man, you guys are ready. We just lifted it up and they just came. Wow. Wow. Oh, oh, oh, oh, go ahead, go ahead. You're good, you're good. Yep, we got him. Nice. Hey, trust us, guys. You're gonna give us a hug and a kiss. Cowboy Randy, they are going nuts for this green grass. They're, they're just eating in the lane. This is a good— this is like a kid let loose at an all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet after not eating for a day. Oh, hamburger, really? You were almost there. He jumped the fence. If you can herd him down, we'll get everybody in. It'll be easier to get him in. Yeah, man, they're having a good time. Oh my word, slow down, guys. Come on, Minnesota, get him in there. Oh, he's afraid of me. Mad skill. You guys haven't been able to run around like this. Look at Maple run! Come on, Maple, get them, girl! They say, how do you know when your cows are happy? That's how you know they're happy. There's something I learned from Reen Joel's new book. We're gonna always put the shade structure in the weakest part of the day's paddock. A bad job of that. Well, I don't know if there's a bad spot in this paddock. Right here is pretty bad. Well, then you did good. It's perfect. We do that because that's where most of the manure is going to accumulate. Tonight. So improve this area. Jonah's gonna get him a hay bale out there. That's for some roughage so they can eat it if they want, and going straight to grass won't be so hard on them. Good morning, Floppy. That is Flop— no, that one's actually not. She's like one of the skittish ones. Oh yeah, I'm happy she's Dixie. She's our champion though. How's that? Well, she gave She threw two. She threw them well, and one of them's a female. And since we're gonna replace Floppy, we're probably gonna keep one of them. Yeah, and they're beautiful with their markings. All right guys, you can get out. There you guys go. Because the cows aren't in here, they can be in here. Let's make— let's get this fence on and hot so the little babies don't test it. You guys are fooling around, but mom— moms are eating. Goofball. Oh, look, you guys got your baby carriers just like Mom, just like you, Beck. That's right. That's so cute. Hamburgers coming out for lunch. Bacon, bacon cheeseburger. Problem is this hasn't thawed out nice. Bacon thawed out nice. I have a bit of a problem. The burgers didn't thaw out. I just set them out this morning. This is from Bear, our Jersey. And this is from— or moose. This is from moose, and this is from a regular grass-fed farm. We have to mix them because this is so lean and it's got liver in it. But how am I going to mix them if they're frozen? Thinking about what to do here. Should we have like a hamburger bacon salad and crumble it? Hey Rebecca, Rebecca, my hamburgers didn't thaw out. So what do you think about a crumbled, like a hamburger bacon and cheese salad kind of thing. Wow, I did not expect that to go over. Okay, maybe it's a thing. You know, I guess even if it's not a thing, sometimes they need to be things. So that sounds good to me. Now that's my kind of salad— burger, bacon, and cheese. Little cultured sour cream on top. While we're eating, they're going to be hauling dirt, so let's catch a time lapse of that. All right, he's done with the moving of the dirt pile. Now we're gonna clear an old mountain board mound from our access road. The underlying quality that's in everyone that mountain boards is everybody's a little bit crazy. Easy. This is where we need to come with our access road. Well, this is the old access road. We need to flatten out these old rhythms. We got to flatten out this old berm so we can get up behind it and out through there, essentially. Just like that, he's flattening it out. We're trying to get a road through here. You can see our access road right there. That's our old access road, and there it is. So we come through And while I was on a business call, this happened. Whoo! That thing is quick. And he cleared a little bit along our access road so that we can get through there more easily.