You Were Right About Electric Tractors! No way it can do this!
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- You Were Right About Electric Tractors! No way it can do this! Come along with me as we work out on the farm getting some work done on the farm. We'll get our final mow of the season and have some fun with the cows! Hope ya'll enjoy! TYM Tractors: tym.world/en-us/ Electric Tractor: solectrac.com/
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I for some reason get the hint hes a Democrat. Especially with the grass fed bla bla and we don’t use fertilizer or vaccinations
Bhahhahha...best comment ever......Do you mean to tell me that making good choices, raising healthy food and not spending my hard earned money on fertilizer that lasts a month v/s carbon that lasts a lifetime makes me a Democrat? I'd have to disagree...furthermore are ya inferring that a republican would be too bullheaded, stubborn or stupid to eat right and treat their land like they wanna improve this planet while they're here v/s destroy it and wash my topsoil down to the river? I'm confused...or were ya just trying to make Republicans look bad? If spraying herbicides and pesticides, giving steroids and antibiotics to my animals and wasting money on fertilizer makes me a Democrat...then I'd have to ask ya this.......Is ya ignorant buddy?
Well seems like the last 6 years yes
If anything, I’d say that Josh is leaning more towards libertarian. Why? Because he’s doing it the way he wants to. A libertarian, is one who enjoys LIBERTY! All others, are sheep! They elect those they want to following, because they can’t lead themselves. Whereas, they should be electing those that do the “will of the people”, not telling the people what they want. You do you, as long as it doesn’t infringe on anyone else’s right to life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It really is that simple.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer well put, Josh. Nothing wrong with taking care of the land. Soil and water conservation was my research career. Nobody has ever accused me of being a D. 🥴
Electric tools shouldn’t be made into political agenda. Tell me you don’t have a battery drill or impact. Think if they were gas or diesel powered, you wouldn’t use them. Politics is telling you to hate things you use everyday.
You are to be congratulated for creating a tremendously healthy farm one of your best farm videos to date 🤠
100% agree brother! almost impossible to get everything done at the farm with just one tractor. I'm a hay producer from deep south Texas and we use 2 tractors on our farm. A Kubota L6060 Cabbed tractor with HST transmission and our work horse for big shredding jobs and dedicated baler use is our Kubota M5-111. It would be really difficult to run our business and farm with just one. I mean it could be done, but it sure would be a lot more work.
One thing you’re absolutely in resonance with my position on the E tractor is that it is a tool, and it works when functional capabilities match the task needs. As batteries have improved, capabilities have expanded. There are many tasks that require too much power to deliver via battery, that logistics preclude returning to a charging station, that time on task exceeds run time, or that the re-fueling step must be quick. Those advocates who don’t consider those limits are making political rather than functional decisions. I quite enjoy the electric chainsaw my sister got, and the weed eater / hedge trimmer I got, for smaller jobs near the base of operations. Gas chainsaws and trimmers can take me farther away and deal with bigger jobs. Our shop/shed is on the north end of a 2.4x0.75 mile sized farm, and only about 1/3 of the open ground is near the shop. The rest has a 2-mile one-way commute. Logistics dominates the decisions of what tool to choose. Hiking back for a can of gas isn’t fun, but it’s doable. I doubt an E tractor would reach feasibility in my lifetime.
I really do like TYM tractors for the reasons you gave and they look better than a Kubota or Kioti. Their dealerships are popping up every where here in Maine. They just built a new one in Houlton, Maine which is an hour south of me. We used to use powdered limestone aka as lime to rebalance the soil Ph before applying a mix of compost and manure to the schools student gardens and our FFA potato field. My academic teacherfs hated when I'd come to class smelling of hard work cause we used a manure spreader for tossing our compost manure mixture on the fields.
probably my favorite dealer Scotts Recreation up there in Maine!
Haha. You addressed what I was thinking about your beard right away!! Right on.
Thanks Josh , Great learning 😊
You have been very busy working. Congrads on getting the work completed prior to concrete. Hope to see you live on Wednesday evening.
We in the UK are spending $2.03 per liter on diesel. It's a bloody joke these big oil producers lowering production to the keep higher prices.
been going on for decades
I love what you are doing to restore soil fertility without chemicals. That is a great idea to bale graze your pastures to add to soil health.
Have you thought about leasing your pastures to someone who wants to commercially raise pastured chickens and pastured egg production? The big byproduct to the farm is the chicken manure, cow manure spreading, and insect control left behind as permanent assets to the farm. If you lease it for these purposes, you do not need to manage them, market them and you get a free farm setter for a few days in exchange for you feeding and putting up the chickens a few days a summer. I think the assets are great enough that you would be money ahead to least the pastures for free.
why would I lease my working farm brother? I'd just raise them myself...however, there's nobody around that's farming here. Take a look around....farmers and folks that are working outside are few and far between nowadays. We have a mobile egg mobile that moves around the farm, so eventually we'll incorporate more but egg sales are horrible and not a money maker at all
LOVED THIS EPISODE!!! Great job, Josh!!! I get in the 'mow zone' too. I have many dozens of trees to go around tho, so have a Bad Boy zero turn. I got in the zone so deep one day, that I fell asleep while mowing, and bumped a tree. Woke me up! 🤪 There is something so satisfying about it, cuz you can see what youve accomplished. Keep up the good work!! 🥰
thanks Susan!!
Hopefully, if you’re mowing before the weeds go to seed, you can reduce their amount for next year.
Oh, so Yosemite Sam got into the Mow Zone! ;) Josh, I really love the way you are such a sport about the ribbing. :)
You can definitely hear all the squeaks, rattles and clunks, as you drive that electric tractor around.
You know why? Because you don't have a loud engine hiding it. If you was to push your tractor around without any noise it would sound the exact same. All machines make some form of noise as parts move.
@@jstnwebb1997 Thank you, captain obvious!
Now Josh, you like your profile picture 😂. The little electric tractor would be good for the small stuff around the farm. And for my wife. Especially if I had a solar charger.
Man you're cattle follow nice.
I was on a farm that had trough made out of iron water pipe just like a sled.
RUN , dump feed, RUN get on tractor after hooking the drag chain. 25' long chain was USUALLY long enough that they didn't attack the tractor to often.
RACE to the next field.
Pull the hitch pin.
Drive 50 yards away. What a nightmare.
yep....that's another reason we don't feed grain...and the cows aren't about to starve to death or run over top of each other to get to the feed wagon
Awesome Farm, Beautiful
I always love the background music you use- nice for watching while working.. 😁👍
Don't worry about that beard- or, your gray. It'll be back, and it's a hassle to keep dying it.. 😉
There's something peaceful about mowing.
I have been in multiple situations where I almost ran out of fuel. It’s easy to bring diesel to a tractor but it’s hard to run a extension cord very far.
you'd have to be a complete fool to run this out of juice...it goes into "limp mode" at 10% power remaining and you have power to drive it a mile or more back to the charging station....it's super easy and simple my friend
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I’ve been stuck several times because of helping someone else that’s stuck or getting myself into a situation. Not all of us live on a farm called Stoney Ridge, some of us live on Muddy Ridge Farm my friend.
Well said.
Woods mower does an AWESOME job, Josh! 😊
Curious if you can tell us in a future vid about the progression you've had on those fields you mowed today. How's the soil organic composition and ph coming along since you started on restoring them? Can you describe the technique you're using on these pre-grazing / hay fields other than what is obvious (mowing down to recycle organic matter into the soil)? Or is this just a matter of mow it and otherwise being fallow will heal the land?
If you go back in his earlier videos, you’ll see the improvement of fields he’s already started.
Man, that woods batwing mower makes quick work of that field!
Will you be broadcast seeding or bale grazing those unproductive pastures to get cattle on them and starting new better quality forage? I'd love to see a long term video series on those pastures.
I'll broadcast seed as I move the cows in on the wet fall/winter ground...as well as bale grazing and unrolling hay
Love the videos on the Solectrac! Keep em coming!!
Great looking land there and I know what you mean about the "mow zone". Don't do the beard again, let it be there way it should be. LOL
That shot under the batwing mower was kick@$$!
Beard looks great. Electric hybrid will be the way forward. Diesel/electric hybrid with plug in solar.
Josh, that beard! 🤣
You are changing my mind on electric tractors it may be time to consider one
can't wait to see more of the big names electric projects!
I seen for the first time for me anyway a electric tanker truck. Volvo makes the one I seen to recharge their battery powered heavy equipment. Volvo now has a large dozer, wheel and track loader, haul truck, and now a large excavator. Batteries are the thing to watch over the next five years. NASA has already started licensing out their solid state battery design. It will probably take three to five years to develop the manufacturing techniques and factories to build them.
Dont think i would have an electric tractor as my only tractor, but i wouldn't mind having one in my lineup of multiple tractors. Like you, seems like another tool at your disposal. 👍
Nothing a razor blade cant sort out
Don't park it where you don't want a fire ! God Bless !!!
what's wrong with a nice camp fire in the fall lol
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Ha !
Hey Josh, I see you have the cooltops canopy with fan. I just installed mine on the Bad boy 4035. Love it!
love mine too!!
I’m in the process of getting a brewery to give me their grain, all I do is provide transportation, was wondering if you could comment on why you believe that cattle shouldn’t be given grain, especially an operation like yours would do very well if you can find a venue.
a quick google search on the effects of feeding grain to ruminant animals will lead you down a path that will explain it all to ya
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer great input I’ve done a lot of research and seen a lot of benefits, I’ve started raising wagyu so it’s a different ball game than regular angus which has made me want to change to a different feeding routine
❤ GREAT VIDEO
As you begin to get your fences established, do you have any plans to erect birdhouses like Greg Judy for insect control?
yeppers....I do...over time for sure
$400?! I have a 500 gallon farm diesel tank that I paid $1200 last year to fill up halfway. I feel your pain sir.
By a big bow and gift that thing to mrs. Stony ridge.
everything we have here is shared my friend...but she doesn't do much tractoring around the farm
Beard looks great man 💪
What’s in those areas that you’re mowing around?
Ah, you’ve answered it later in the video.
To get the most benifit from slashing the grass is to plough it in to the soil
You should tell people you fell in the compost pile when they ask about your beard
Outstanding.
I would think these electric tractors would be great for most urban homeowners, HOA's, City municipalities, Park and Req. and indoor arena work?
The only real downside to your battery operated tractor is not being able to swap out the battery with a charged one. Having several staged around the work area would increase productivity tremendously! The first tractor manufacturer that comes up with quick swap battery packs will be way ahead of the game.
Think of what a Kubota M6, M7 or M8 will be able to do configured in such a fashion.
Great page and good to see you are using it as a tool as it should be.
Beard looks good you look younger
The beard was the first thing I noticed.
Hey Josh, what’s the advantage of utilizing bale grazing over unrolling the bales? Thanks!
lol...when the bales are too small and loose to get on the bale unroller...then bale grazing is a great option...or if you're leaving town for a few days
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Makes sense. Thanks for the prompt answer! That Solectrac is a cool tool.
Another good vid Josh
That's a great shot of leading the cows w/ an EV tractor. I don't think I've seen anything of the sort before. Have you been in any situation where you wished to have the AG style tires on the e25 instead of industrial style?
with a little tractor like this, industrial tires aren't a big deal..in fact they spread the weight of this little tractor out better and help reduce compaction.
The guy that sold me my tractor said "L is for loader. M is for mower. H is for highway."
lol....well never heard that....then what's C for?
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Connect a 3-point hitch? That’s the slowest I need to move the tractor.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer My tractor has no C 🙂. I think it was just his way of giving me some advice.
Just curious why you didn't roll out the hay bale?
I like the idea of the electric tractor. Is there any job that it can't do that the little TYM tractor can?
I'm curious about cold weather and the hydraulics on the Soletrac. I have to let my tractor warm up the fluid by idling for awhile in the winter so everything functions smoothly. How does the electric tractor do when it's really cold outside and you first start using it?
really cold outside in NC v/s where you are may be totally different, however...if you're warming your tractor up to create heat in the hydraulic system, I do believe we'd be creating the same heat by running our hydrualics....It's not sluggish when it's cool outside, but I havn't ran it in extreme cold yet
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer My tractor hydraulics really make a bunch of noise and stutter when it's cold outside if I don't give it a few minutes to warm up. I'm in Missouri so it's usually in the 20's and 30's for lows, but sometimes below zero. Thanks for the info on this electric tractor. If I could justify the cost of buying one I probably would. I could do most of the things I need to do with an electric tractor without all the noise. The problem is haying and brush hogging. Maybe I'll ask Santa real nice this Christmas!
Tractor Time
I think you need to get a toupee to match the beard.
I'll ask Wrangerstar where I can get a good one lol
is it hard on the tractor to haul the mower off the ground? it seems like a lot of stress on the 3 point hitch to do so. just curious.
You should burn those stumps every time you roll them, will decrease the size and help the land.
Just hold out for the ammonia powered tractors.
I'm just here to watch the videos. I don't care one way or another what you use.
To get the most benefit from slashing the grass is to plough it into the soil.
TYM Corp is a Korean in Seoul, South Korea
TYM USA is an Atlanta based company that puts food on American tables my friend....you can see it right here! Wooooo!!!
Snap into a Slim Jim.....ooooohhhhh yeah! your beard reminded me of the late great Macho Man RIP Randy Savage gone 11 years now.
I have a general question. How long can the round bales be left in the field and still be considered good for feeding cows? My wife and have been seeing a lot of round bales left in the hayfields for long periods of time and we were wondering is that typical? We never saw square bales left out in the fields.
I asked my farmer neighbor about that. He told me that if the hay is rolled tight, it will prevent water penetration past the first few inches. Loosely rolled hay is another story. I guess you need to know your equipment pretty well. It's also important that the hay is dry when rolled, otherwise the entrapped moisture will encourage rot.
@@davidjoly9816 , thank you for responding to my question.
You know, Josh, if you have solar panels, you really could charge that electric tractor for free at least most of the time. It's a little more of the "doing it for yourself" thing.
In prior videos he claims that he does and shows the setup. But the number of panels, placement, and house battery size seem small to me for charging one of these. I'm not saying he doesn't, just that from what I see it would take a long time to collect the sunlight for the battery with the setup shown.
not really my man....just one solar panel and the charging setup...super simple system
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I was also thinking that if you have a set of solar panels it would just be "another way of providing for yourself rather than expecting someone else to provide it for you".
Great job Josh but not sure about the battery powered tractor but to each his own this world don't revolve around my thoughts or yours alone
Hey Josh, I grew up working my parents' place, then as a young man worked on large operations. In Texas, where I'm from we always call a Farm a place that grew crops and a Ranch where livestock was raised. Why do you call your place a farm?
Ranches are WESTERN and farms are EASTERN......but the bigger question is why on earth does it matter? Folks out west call a cattle farm a ranch....we call it a farm ....different terms for different areas of the country
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(The beard) You're just getting older except it. At least you don't have a earring. Of the 4 years that I've seen you have got a lot gone. GOOD JOB.
lol...the day I have an ear ring is the day you know I've lost it...not my style
Have you considered using the bat wing mower to shave off the beard then grow it back its natural color? lol
I wish I thought of that…….
Hey Josh thank you for the video and what you say there is so very true we don't medicate the healthy only the sick same thing with humans 2 I say so
I wonder how long till ECO power makes small tractor with half a dozen batteries like their zero turn mower? Then you could swap them out and keep working.
I’m not here for the boo electric or any of that I’m impressed with the hydraulics on that little thing. How does the tractor itself handle the load with the bales? Does the hind end get light I figured a smaller framed tractor wouldn’t like them to well
Keeping the mower on the back helps to counter balance the weight...so it doesn't get light. I guess as with any tractor you need to make sure you're properly ballasted (balanced)
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I commented that early in the video before I saw the bush hog on the back. Impressive little machine either way!
Go with the grey beard, all natural.
Why are you pulling sea grass string off the bales? It just decomposes with the hay.
it's sissle twine and you shouldn't feed it to your cattle....even though it will break down, you don't want a knot of twine in your animals stomach. You're asking for trouble by leaving twine on a bale...although I've seen it done...why take the risk of harming an animal when it takes me 20 seconds to remove?
I agree with you that it’s is just a tool and a good one at that. I think the biggest problem electric stuff has is the politics behind it. With all the hate farmers have had pushed on them by regulators, their first reaction is to push back because they’ve seen what happens when you go along with the agenda.
I don't see it being "pushed" so much as technology is just advancing....120 years ago they were "pushing" tractor power instead of mules and oxen....it's just technology advancing over time my brother...electric, steam, gas, diesel....now back to electric
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer reason I say pushed, is because of the banning of gas powered lawn equipment in some places. Lowes and Home Depot only selling gas mowers till end of the year. They only have one model available now. I think electric is future with or without the regulations though
What is the advantage of 64 gears if you only use high and medium?
depends on your farming operation....having full control over your speed is very important in farming, pulling planters, sprayers and plows
What type of solar fence charger do you use?
here's a link to the current charger we use from our amazon page: amzn.to/3MkiXvd ( fyi, this is a link from amazon that I earn commissions on...that's how I can afford to produce this content for ya)
I assume you dyed your beard at your vanity to flatter your vanity. That's how I would do it.
well...I dyed my beard and messed up....went out to fill the water tank and left it in too long lol
Nice video, how many acres are you up too now
still at 150 right now
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer
Thank you, I subscribed around the time you had all that dozer work going on in the beginning
I think your beard looks great.
The beard is not too bad
Won't the clippings just blow away, wash away in wind/rain?
would bush-hogging speed up the pasture rejuvenating?
yes....that's why we're doing it 2-5 times per year on land that's not being grazed
I’m talking about the mulching the piles of trees. You said that you just let them decay naturally. I was not talking about mowing the pasture. Would that hurry up the process
Hey Josh! I am Canadian and was just on a 3 week road trip through OH, KY, and TN. I think the mindset about evs must be an American mindset. During our trip we saw very few electric cars, up here in Canada we have a lot. I think America is having a tough time giving up its petroleum addiction.
I think it's the American way of freedom that scares folks...thinking we'll be mandated or taxed to the point where we'll have no choice but to abandon gas/diesel vehicles. It's a freedom of choice threat that really threatens the American way of life in my opinion
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer That and really long trips! 😄 Canadians have those too, so must be better charging infrastructure up there.
Looking at the E tractor of yours. I'm not opposed to it but there are a lot of unknowns about them. Farmers like the familiar. The first questions off the top of my head are, how long does are charge last? How long does it take to get a full charge from 10%? What is the battery cell degradation amount per year and how much is it to replace the cell? These are the first couple of questions I have regarding the tractor.
5 year pro rated warranty I do believe on the battery....8 hour charge time, runs for 4 hours at full load, countless hours just moving stuff like I was doing today
Hi JOSH? MY CONFUSE? Did You mean that the ELECTRO-TRACK couldn't handle the Big BAT-WING MOWER? Also ? Did the vid edit out a lot of the cows eating the hay??
huh? Yep the solectrac isn't powerful enough to run the batwing, and yep...the cows will eat on that bale all night and all day long
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Hi Josh, Understand about the BAT-WING mower but seems like I only saw about 10 to 15 cows munching on the 1 bale. Was the rest of the herd out of frame? BLESSED BE!
I grew up.. Horse doo kicky. Farmers (or ranchers) are the best economists there are. Just saying my comment .02 cent.
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Wouldn’t mowing the pasture earlier be beneficial to the grass? When the weeds get so tall, they start shading the grass and outcompeting them.
Land and meat!
That electric tractor is so slow, I'd need a calendar just to time it. Sheesh.
It's not an Indy car my friend...I'm going slow to keep from bouncing my brains out...we don't farm on the roads...we farm in the rough pastures and no tractor has suspension so it's bouncy
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I realize all of that Josh. It was meant to be humorous. But thanks for the response. Keep up the good work.
SHOCKING
lol
I don’t mind the electric tractor but it would be nice if you had a shelter for those poor hay bales.
why? Spend 40k on a shelter for hay bales and save $2 per bale on waste that goes back to the land anyhow? You must not follow the channel and have seen my vid on why small farms go broke.....spending 40k to save $200 per year isn't cost effective, square bales need shelter, round bales shed water
Is that beard a result of Just For Men? 😂
lol...yep
Yes that electric tractor is a tool, but can you strictly use that one tractor to do all your farming?
It is not a farming tractor. It is a yard tractor. Made for yard work. If you wanna see an equivalent electric tractor doing stuff like that try looking at Monarch tractors. Those are made for industrial farming and equate to a 40-70 hp equivalent.
not on this large of a property.....it just does the job of a small 25hp tractor
I totally disagree with ya...this is a 25hp tractor and it does the job of a comparable 25 hp tractor. Solectrac is coming out with higher hp models and they'll do the job of a higher hp model my friend. It's just that simple. I'm feeding 50 cows with it today and it's doing farm work. It's not a row crop tractor, but it will do anything that any other tractor does....it's just smaller my friend. You dont have to run 500 acres to have a farm, and ya don't have to run a 100hp tractor to farm. People get hung up on the size of a property or tractor.....folks farm everything from eggs to tulips my friend
Thats very true and i didn't mean it couldn't do the work, i was merely stating the avereage workload it would be expected to be put under. But I do appreciate you are showing it is much more capable than that and i agree with you you there. I just had the wrong type of workloads on my mind! Thanks Josh!@@StoneyRidgeFarmer
That was my favorite one. THAT'S AN OBAMA/BIDEN TRACTOR! lol I'm doing my Job getting along. Save America.
I do understand "mow zone". My wife requires me to wear ear buds so I can hear when she calls. Yelling and waving her arms at me doesn't get my attention.
your wife needs to understand that unless OSHA approved...those earbuds are gonna contribute to her having to repeat herself over and over again talking to a half deaf husband because they're probably not adequate hearing protection....buy now...pay later lol.
I would need a ev tractor that could mow for three hours
good news...this one mows for 4 hours at full power