For Its Own Good.

oh big stretch big stretch look at you a little spear fishing action stabby back when i was young and i'd hop up in there and step on it and push it all down it's a pretty nice day so dad's taking care of a problem that i got going on a couple videos ago i mentioned got kind of a disaster over at my pasture you know we had that drought and we're still in drought conditions we did get like two inches in the last week and a half and so we're blessed with that but it didn't fill up dugouts my cattle out west they have a dugout and it was getting lower and lower and of course when it's hot they like to hang in there and cool off and they're just constantly defecating in there and so less water more poop and also you know salts kind of wash in and then what the water evaporates and leaves the salts and so i ended up having three calves die and we think it's because of the bad water of course they got perfectly clean tanks of water over there but you know the saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make a drink they had good water they could drink they were drinking bad water and that's why we think those calves that were healthy just up and died i'm pretty thankful though because you know three is definitely a lot and it's gonna probably make this year a wash again but it could have been a lot worse could have been a bunch of them the cows are doing good the rest of the calves are doing good dad has one over there with one of the neighbors that lives close by to that pasture and they were treating critters and i of course haven't been going because my knee and i wouldn't be much help what dad's doing today with the help of our neighbor they're going to fence around that dugout because there's two sides of that pasture that are locked them out of the side with the dugout they're going to fence around it put a hot wire keep them out of there so hopefully nothing else drinks that water and gets sick and dies that's what's been going on otherwise the rest of our cattle looking good grass is pumping right back it is awesome real quick do you remember how brown our lawn was look at this it is back green and growing gonna have to mow it again i'm gonna be putting some miles on this bobcat because our flatbed trailer is full of junk we'll talk about that later we got some exciting stuff going on in the works actually next week we're closing on something closing on something be looking forward to that it it's it's it's gonna be awesome we're gonna do some damage today i tell ya the goal of today is tear out a couple fences we're also picking up trees this is the fence we're doing today kind of got a built-in tree fence we're gonna tear as much as we can out and then move the fence over so we don't have to contend with those trees of course to get at the fence there's a pile of dead trees laying everywhere not a pile but a bunch of them randomly strewn about and so what we got here is the iron eagle from mds we're running this it's the same as that bucket that we got for the tractor except it's for a skid loader of course and so we got we got these tines here you know dirt and stuff i always get a little too deep if you know what i mean and then we got dirt coming up and grass and so that'll fall through and we'll just hold the twigs and rocks if we have rocks and i was running that yesterday it was pretty impressive i was plucking some stuff out and these of course you know they got the fingers and first it goes down and then it curls in enough talking we got work to do so let's fire this baby up and start moving some trees then we'll start tearing some fence this thing's a beast i suppose i should hook the hydraulics up before i hop in the hop in the cab because that's kind of what i got out to do i'm kind of stupid if you didn't know i just get so distracted all righty i should do [Music] this tree is super dead you can see it's got no leaves it's been dead for a while the bark's falling off don't feel bad when i tip it over it's going to be cool [Music] so [Music] [Music] that would [Music] i got something stuck in my teeth need a little floss i got another toy that we haven't used on sunny farms that we're going to use to pull the fence out the rest of the way okay so next we got a tree and post puller this is actually my uncle jeff's he bought it just a few months ago so we're going to hook on to that pull these posts i used to have to get out slither out wrap a chain around stuff and pull it out and that sucks we've been needing one of these for years [Music] [Music] i'm thinking back to all those miles of fence that either dad or i walked outside the bobcat with a chain wrapped it around and pulled posts i should have built or bought one of these years ago that was amazing i changed my shorts that was awesome i tell dad i got all this done he's gonna think i did a lot when in reality i just sat in the bobcat for a couple hours that worked amazing just one thing a lot of it's stuck in those trees so we're gonna put lastly you need a lot of tools lastly the the forks and we'll just try to rip that up through the trees and roll it up and we'll be done here and we'll be on to the next thing we got a big pile of old woven wire and just all kinds of metal so we're just gonna pile it up and we'll grab the pile and then we'll put the pile inside a container that we're going to order pretty soon so our salvage yard can take it make a little moolah oh my lanta i broke something i completely bet the living heck out of that we can't have anything nice that looks bad well oops and it still works though oh oh gosh yeah maybe maybe don't use that one way to do it [Music] a little bit of stuff here probably a couple hundred dollars worth of scrap old stuff we tore out now it's gonna help me pay for a fancy new gate setup we'll get that container dropped off at our home farm and then i'm gonna have to run around with the tractor going to a couple different farms of course here and then our home place has some stuff and then our south farm has a decent amount of stuff i've had to make a couple trips down here since our trailer is full of stuff so i need that and i might as well take two things home so i'm gonna put that in there close it down and bring that home and i'll have to come back for the forks later before we head to the next thing it's getting to be close to close to lunchtime next place i'm going is like three miles away it's gonna take me 30 minutes to drive there get some food before we head to the next spat i left too much tension in those back yeah we got a few mile trek it's gonna take a while i better fuel back up ryan just got home can i have the rest of the day off i reckon you have to put in overtime on the weekend though okay looks like the pops were drank but the waters weren't dad's pretty tired he uh he pounded in 36 posts and walked around and strung the wire by himself he is shot poor guy doesn't get to be like me and sit in the bobcat in the ac i'm so happy to be working again though it is it's all i want to do in life it's work work and play with cows i got you some firewood you're trying to camouflage it or what i just provided for the family welcome to sunny frames faux fur full service fuel stop what'll it be sir i'll take uh about five gallons of diesel okay you want fries with that um i just make it free that'll be good it's always free with you just to get everything free here i gotta do a little labor here and there labor that's free too everything's free between us right pretty much i work my other stuff and he fills my tank hey that's the firewood slappy it looks like you got a little wet there you smell like diesel it peed on me you know be awesome no if i didn't have to drive 30 minutes to go pull posts you know it'd be even worse what if you had to walk over there and pull the post by hand that's true yeah so it's very true take it for what it's worth glad i don't like when i was a kid we had to pull posts out of the frozen ground and snow uphill both ways all right [Music] so we got i don't know if it's a quarter that might be yeah it's about a quarter mile maybe like an eighth mile a fence i took the four barbs down last week rolled those all up dad was hauling manure by himself i was ripping this fence out and so it's ready to go we just gotta pluck everything out other than this kind of gate here we're going to cut the wires at the end pull that out i'm not sure if we're going to reuse it or not it's kind of an old wanky thing [Music] [Music] this takes like no time at all it's awesome [Music] that's it for tipos barbed wire and shorts don't mix have i shown you my scar it looks pretty good these two holes right here been cut open three times this one this one this one and this one are all new from this year but it's all right because chicks dig scars pretty much wrapped up i'll come back with like the gator or something and pick up the piles of posts and some a little extra wire now we're gonna head across this pasture there i can see in the distance there's a old fence that's been falling down hasn't really like served a purpose in 15 20 years and so you know since i got that container coming might as well pull up as much steel and metal as i can so we can get a little more money and just clean the farm up just happened to come across a really old rolled up thing of barbed wire that's electric fence wiring on barbed wire cows are just grazing real nice out there it's funny how you know you drive out here with the four-wheeler sometimes they're like ah crap and they turn they start running around but they see a skid loader in a pasture they don't think nothing of it they just keep grazing i mean for me i'd be like what the that thing could rip my leg off i think i'm gonna start running you know one calf hanging away from everybody else that usually is a bad thing kind of down in the water you know sometimes if they get with pneumonia or something that makes them hot they like to hang down in there yeah that cap's got some eye troubles now i feel like there's ticks all over me i called dad he's gonna get the dart gun and give that calf a shot you can see this fence is just pretty much trash and they walk around it and it doesn't do anything i think at one point it was a decent fence obviously it was a decent fence at one point but they kind of did a rotational grazing type thing cut this half this pasture in half wasn't the most professional way to do it but now i'll just come over here with the loader just pick it up throw it in that big uh roll-off tote that they bring out that's about ten dollars we have some good timing here cows want the bread don't get some got some mineral dough hopefully that medicine takes care of that you got one more fence small fence to tear out darn weeds that actually works pretty good this one's going to take a little bit longer i haven't taken anything down not sure why we're redoing this one i i couldn't convince dad this fence would last another year it doesn't look i don't know you tell me it doesn't look that terrible oh this one's gonna take a minute i gotta get these woods out because if i send that to the salvage yard they dock me so you know i kind of want all the money we can get for all this work you think this would be the end of a tire look at that thing what the heck i'm glad i saw it now and not after it punctured a hole in my tire probably still run over it we'll see what happens it's the ultimate laziness right here that fence is probably 80 years old and it started getting bad and they're like ah let's just leave that there put another fence in but i guess going back to i got a 8 000 pound bobcat that does help a little bit nope oh i thought i had water left that's quite a piece of wood here i'm gonna lie that's bumpy in there [Music] [Applause] all right we're getting things wrapped up got a decent pile of jazz stuff to be burned and put in the hole that looks a lot better with nothing there i'm gonna finish piling this jazz up and then i'm gonna start the 40-minute trek home it's only like five six six miles it's i can only get eight miles an hour on this thing better than walking though [Music] right [Music] feel like a drove across the united states of america looks like dad picked up all those posts we pulled out so that's cool i'm gonna do that ready to put in three new fences look at this lawn looks like that's what dad's been up to i haven't mowed the lawn once this year crazy all right hope you enjoyed today's video thanks for watching we'll see you next time have a good one did you tell them to have a good one have a good one gross i hate them little buggers trying to suck my blood

Channel: Sonne Farms

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Id: 3CLlOUBdnfI

Length: 19min 32sec (1172 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 04 2021