When The Crap Hits The Fan

a couple more weeks and these guys will be out on grass they're excited for it and i am too last night i told my daughter to go to bed the cows are sleeping in the field and she said what's that got to do with anything and i said it's past your bedtime pasture bedtime dad jokes are important it's a big part of pop culture oh man it's a beautiful day and that means i'm spreading manure i've got three nice days in a row coming i'm gonna get that pile gone i guess dr caspen playing kicked the can in here [Music] clean it up check the oil we have oil set the mag in neutral set the throttle set the choke guess she's hungry i haven't had this lady started since last fall so we'll see what happens usually two pulls on a choke and one or two pulls out a half choke i'll give her three pulls well i said usually [Applause] would have helped if i turned the gas on right i gotta mix up some more valve lever oil for this tractor because the top end is manually lubricated and what i use is a 50 50 mix of marvel mystery oil and then motor oil to do it the marvel mystery oil seems to keep the valves from sticking after i rebuilt the engine on this tractor i had problems with valve sticking a neighbor said put in some marvel mystery oil half and half i did belt hasn't stuck since then i don't know what the mystery is in marvel mysterio seems to me like it's mostly automatic transmission fluid but if anybody out there knows tell me dusty from sitting in the barn all winter i can't have that in a tractor i'm going to drive all i day like that i just made my farm all into a john deere glad that illness is solved i don't want a john deere true tractors have at least four cylinders look there's a farmer cotter pin nice i spread 41 loads of manure so far in the last week and a half and i got a whole lot to go all this pile currently i'm spreading on the furthest field on our farm and we call that the triangle field because it's triangle shaped i got to do a lot of riding on the spreading tractor so i figured it was a good day to get out the f20 run it all day back and forth that field be fun another cold warning we'll plug it again [Music] compost really steams on a cold morning like this good it means the pile's cooking i've got a new old tractor powering the spreader today so let me introduce her this is a 1939 f-20 it was the first tractor i restored about 15 years ago and i'll put up a picture of what it looked like before i started work on it so gotta get every last bit of goodness this is a good opportunity to give you a tour of our farm from the tractor seat i'll show you all of our fields this first one nearest to the house is a little two acre field and then this one that the hay wagons are in makes an l shape around here and that's about six or eight acres this field over on the other side is a five acre field we call this the middle field in the middle of everything this of course is our 10 acre wood lot over here and then down here we have one five acre field that's fenced in and then the second we call that the lower field that's another five acres it's not fenced in yet we're gonna fence it this spring and then way over there next to the hedgerow is a triangle field where i'm spreading manure and that's the five cent tour of our little farm i bought this f-20 off of an old tractor collector named dick stoyl and he was a cranky old guy and i said being my first tractor will this tractor be okay to work on my farm he said what do you mean this tractor's fed the world for 50 years so i bought it [Music] so [Music] so to me there's more to spreading manure than just flinging poo on the ground and getting rid of the pile that's accumulated i do it when the grass is just starting to grow so i'm out there every day and i can actually see the change in the grass from day to day as it grows and it's just a great time of year to see the world waking back up and i'm always optimistic for the potential that the year is going to bring i start thinking about the hay that i'm going to take off those fields how we're going to be grazing the cows on nice grass it's just a really optimistic time to be outside i wouldn't trade it for any office job i got the government microchip implanted in me yesterday which is also called the coronavirus vaccine and my arm's a little sore today but i sure am glad i got it and ever since i've got it i can almost see the government satellites tracking me up there darn that microchip there now they won't be able to find me what are you guys hungry [Music] no when i'm busy doing tractor work hillary often does the afternoon chores for me which is a great help spread manure this week and then the rest of the year falls like domino's chicks are coming tomorrow fix fence after that let the cows out on pastures start butchering chickens start hay season markets pick up all the way until thanksgiving [Music] this tractor's a bit faster than the h for going to the other field and i think it's because the transmission was designed for steel wheels and these rubber ones that are on here are bigger in diameter this hat keeps my head cool maybe i'll wear it during hanging season you

Channel: Just a Few Acres Farm

Views: 212,752

Keywords: farm, farming, hobby farm, hobby farm guys, hobby farming for profit, homestead, how farms work, just a few acres farm, life on a farm, dexter cattle, dad jokes, spreading manure, day on the farm, spring on the farm, slow farming, the crap hits the fan, farmall f20, new idea 12A, manure spreader, composted manure, farmall 656, crap

Id: tosLEh0MdKI

Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021