Eric, it's our finals week here at our college and I'm sitting here in my 10th Gen hoodie... Would be fun if folks sent in pics wearing the 10th Gen merch and have you all post the pics somewhere. Looking forward to the next vid.
Coat the pins with "1 Million Scoville" from Amazon. It will only take a drop per pin, trust me. No cow will touch a pin after that experience. I used it to stop a genius-goat from opening gates.
Just love watching your video's, you and your Dad take so much care of your cow's 🐄🐄🐄🐄, it show's just how much there loved, thank you for filming your farm 🚜 the new barn look's amazing, the cow's are so clever to take them pin's out, anyway be safe much love from me in the UK 🇬🇧
Loosen clamps holding PVC pipe enough to move or roll. Unstable footing may deter. Paint pins with mustard, cayenne, horseradish, etc. Or with pureed weeds they won't eat. A few re- coatings may change habits.
I'm not sure if anyone else suggested using clear silicone to "glue" the pins in place. Should be relatively cheap, and yet remain somewhat easy to remove if necessary in the future. One other option if the pins fit loose enough, get some large heat shrink and use that on each pin to tighten the fit and create enough resistance to make it difficult for the cows to remove.
I had a Holstein steer a couple years ago that would stand with his front feet in anything higher than ground level. Feed bunk, hay bunk, and water trough. Anything I tried he would find with some way around it or something else to stand on. The bigger he got the more he would tear stuff up. He finally quit one day. It was the butcher man that broke him of it.
A bit of SynergyLabs 538 Fooey may work to deter the cows from licking the pins.. Its a bitterant used for pets. but I imagine cows might find it pretty digusting too. Of course you may have to use it with each new batch of cows...
If you can't find a fix to keep the headlock pins in, maybe paint them bright florescent orange so they are easier to spot on ground if they fall into feed or shavings. Not ideal but just a backup.
A cheap fix would be to take a heavy zip tie , loop around the top of the pin through the next hole to the rod thats the pin goes through. Don't have to tell you just how bored and nosey some of these heifers get . Hope this might help. Cheap easy fix if it does . This comes with 40 plus years of experience, sometimes the most simple ideas work out.
Pretty cool reuse of PVC pipes! I can’t wait to see how long the fix’s lasts. 25 years ago I used white PVC pipe outside and the sun made it really brittle. But it was good enough
Sorry but couldn’t stop laughing when I saw those girls standing up on the new pvc pipes. Better luck with the next fix. They probably think you did this just for them! Susan
Those are all new headlocks, perhaps the supplier might exchange your pins for longer ones or weld extentions on them. Another thought might be to weight them so they are too heavy to lift out. This would be good practice for you welding extentions on them if the supplier doesn't come up with a solution. You need a respirator if your going to weld all that galvanized metal. Not healthy to breath in. Cheer all 🇨🇦
Time for a 20' to 30' addition to the barn! How about some of those cow brushes for the heifers'? That might keep them busy? Anyway Thank you for sharing:-) Stay safe and healthy:-)
I originally thought of the drill & pins idea(and probably loads others, I am not claiming to be the first to suggest it). But longer pins is a really good idea. If longer pins are expensive/not available, an alternative would to just welding a few washers together, then weld them to lengths of bar to make your own and make then a foot long or something, then quick coat of something to prevent corrosion. Trial and error, it is part of what makes life interesting.
Morning Eric.... hope all is well with you and your family!!! Herd is looking great!! Hard work 💪 pays of!! You and your pops have a wonderful relationship!!!
Not on the subject of the heifers and the pins, which is just how creative cows can be... I remember the video when you were planting grass on the newly graded area around the new construction. I see the grass has filled in nicely and, my father would be proud, you keep it nice and mowed so it looks great.
Bevel the concrete on the inside, by cutting of the corner sloping toward headlocker. We beveled our concrete curbs on both sides, so the bottom pipe is straight on the level part
Cows can be as aggravating as kids. Who knew they would be standing on the pipes. They are something! Love the videos. If you get a chance show us your baby boy. I hope I have that right.😃
961! What a little stinker! The other one got down when you came over, but 961 is all like, "Yeah, I'm standing up here, I'm touching your shovel too. Neener neener.
Maybe a hinged bracket with a hole to resemble the lower hole would work, it already has a lip on the pin, you could modify the hole to allow it to rotate over. Well just a suggestion, good luck on it, looks like you have a lot of suggestions, maybe one will help your situation. Enjoyed the video, have a great week and stay safe!
I see the bedding you put down in the barn. Years ago straw and hay were used but not practical today. What is the composition? Does it change the soil composition over time? Curious in my old age.
its wood shavings (sawdust) from local saw mills. its organic material, so it adds great nutrients to the plantable soil over time. i use it for my chickens over winter and in the spring i spread it all over the front yard at my house. kills the weeds and greens the grass up!
I would weld a little chain on each pin. It would be faster than drilling and putting a pin in. I mean they can still knock the pims out they just wont get lost
Build another extension further along for the calving pens then take all the gates out and make that area there all in to the pre fresh pen would be quite a cheap fix
For the locking gates, just get tek screws one tek screw with do each one you will have the job done in 20 minutes.just drill one just under the 4 hole plate, pipe to pipe
Has anyone suggested Loctite? I feel like that is the fastest and easiest solution! Which product depends on how permanently you want those pins to stay.
I think what you did will certainly help the situation. I wonder if you took the pvc tubes and clamped them to the top so reaching the pins would be impossible. I can't really tell if there is room for that, but you guys did a good job discouraging pin pulling activity. There is always one heifer that no matter what you do, she will find a way around it. We had a cow we called Houdini - didn't matter what we did she was always her getting out. (Eventually she had to go). Hey, great video. Really enjoyed it as always thanks for bringing me along..
Maybe placing a temporary board right above the pins. Seems like there could be brackets placed on the wooden support post where a board could be placed right above where the pins would go to block them from pulling the pins high enough to get them out and to keep the board in the bracket you could put a pin through it with a wire hair pins the type you use for hitch pins to lock it from being removed easily
Question from a non-farmer… where is the bottle neck on your farm and most dairy farms to growing and milking more head? Milking parlor, prefresh or overall barn space or something else?
For us it's not having affordable land available nearby to grow more feed and we also don't have a desire to milk more. Milking more cows don't always mean more success.
Cut the top of the pin off flush with the stop washer, grind off the rough edges of the cut. This will eliminate the stem that they use to lift the pin out with their mouth. When you need to adjust the rod (if ever) just pull out your knife to slip under the pin washer to lift it out. Eazy pezy .............
The reason why you have such sandy soil is because you are using sand for bedding your cattle if you use cornstalk bales or straw bales that would help your field’s from soil erosion
heifers never give up they get bored to easily i had a tether ball in my heifer shed and they would whack that around for hours kept them out of trouble they had something to do
Maybe run an electric fence above the headlocks. It would be cheap, and definitely effective. You could take the electric out of it after they were trained, and just hook it up if they start causing problems later if you didn't want electric in it all the time.
Run an electric wire suspended 8 inches in from the top of the head locks to keep them from standing on rail. Put a rubber tube over the wire at the walk through entrances.
I was thinking about a clip for your pin problem. If you had an L-shaped wire piece that went around the pin at the top, bent at a 90, came down the side of the bar a few inches and attached to the bar with a screw or bolt, that should do it. (similar to a Hillman hitch pin)
I know this is random but have you ever thought about possibly hanging a jolly ball in the heifer barn? If you hang it lower than the pins you could give them something to mess with instead of the pins?
Like you said y'all tried. Trying to stop animals from getting into thing is a fun hard job. Trying to out think them is no fun. Y'all stay safe and good luck.
Hello! Greetings from Panama👋. I really like your videos, I am a faithful follower of the activities you do every day. I would like to see how you carry out the fertilization process in cows.
Monday we were talking about silos for silage in my ag class and my teacher was pulling up CZcams videos and he pulled up one of whenever you guys were filling a bag
If you cut and grind the top of the pin down so it's flush with the flange? The cow has less to grab but you can still have enough to grasp when you need to pull the pin? Can a cow pick up a big flat washer laying on a flat surface - sounds like a trivia question, LOL 😂
“Trying is the first step towards failure” - Homer Simpson
Dealing with cattle is basically dealing with 800 to 1000 lb toddlers: got to get into everything and put it in their mouth.
Sounds like Labradors! Only a big lighter😆
It's funny watching them being so interested in things happening around them.
That was hilarious to see that heifer standing up there looking at you, as if to say Thanks for the lift, now I can see over the gate. HAha
Eric, it's our finals week here at our college and I'm sitting here in my 10th Gen hoodie... Would be fun if folks sent in pics wearing the 10th Gen merch and have you all post the pics somewhere. Looking forward to the next vid.
You mean to set up collages of people wearing the merch.
@@michbostn yes
You ever thought of becoming a consultant for other dairy farmers who want to build barns? You have the 'lived experience'
Coat the pins with "1 Million Scoville" from Amazon. It will only take a drop per pin, trust me. No cow will touch a pin after that experience. I used it to stop a genius-goat from opening gates.
Eric; "Lets do this to stop those pesky cows."
Cows " HeHe , Hold my glass of milk and watch this you silly humans "
Just love watching your video's, you and your Dad take so much care of your cow's 🐄🐄🐄🐄, it show's just how much there loved, thank you for filming your farm 🚜 the new barn look's amazing, the cow's are so clever to take them pin's out, anyway be safe much love from me in the UK 🇬🇧
I admire and appreciate the care you have for your animals, Eric.😃❤️❤️
10:17 is the biggest “you thought so huh” I’ve ever seen from an animal.
First time I've ever heard Eric genuinely "pissed off" . LOL
In how many years? I'm glad he showed us.
Animals are so curious. Watching you and your dad clamping the pipes. Great video
Loosen clamps holding PVC pipe enough to move or roll. Unstable footing may deter. Paint pins with mustard, cayenne, horseradish, etc. Or with pureed weeds they won't eat. A few re- coatings may change habits.
I'm not sure if anyone else suggested using clear silicone to "glue" the pins in place. Should be relatively cheap, and yet remain somewhat easy to remove if necessary in the future. One other option if the pins fit loose enough, get some large heat shrink and use that on each pin to tighten the fit and create enough resistance to make it difficult for the cows to remove.
I had a Holstein steer a couple years ago that would stand with his front feet in anything higher than ground level. Feed bunk, hay bunk, and water trough. Anything I tried he would find with some way around it or something else to stand on. The bigger he got the more he would tear stuff up. He finally quit one day. It was the butcher man that broke him of it.
I noticed that Holsteins steers or young bulls feet or legs are taller.
A bit of SynergyLabs 538 Fooey may work to deter the cows from licking the pins.. Its a bitterant used for pets. but I imagine cows might find it pretty digusting too. Of course you may have to use it with each new batch of cows...
If you can't find a fix to keep the headlock pins in, maybe paint them bright florescent orange so they are easier to spot on ground if they fall into feed or shavings. Not ideal but just a backup.
Fun to see how you adapt to the conditions the cows present to you instead of forcing them to overtly comply!
Trying to force an animal to do what you want doesn't usually work out too well.
A cheap fix would be to take a heavy zip tie , loop around the top of the pin through the next hole to the rod thats the pin goes through. Don't have to tell you just how bored and nosey some of these heifers get . Hope this might help. Cheap easy fix if it does . This comes with 40 plus years of experience, sometimes the most simple ideas work out.
I'm with you guys - simple first cause it might just work. I think a cow is more curious than a cat actually.
Hi Eric great video as usual👍, had a similar problem one time, we put an electric fence wire along the top, was a quick and simple fix
I loved the pipe idea - you should have told the heffer "hey this video is going on youtube don't make us look bad ! ! " LOL
Animals are masters at finding new ways to annoy us humans.
I also have a lot of random stuff stored in my outbuildings. At 73 the problem is locating anything. Great videos.
Pretty cool reuse of PVC pipes! I can’t wait to see how long the fix’s lasts. 25 years ago I used white PVC pipe outside and the sun made it really brittle. But it was good enough
The constant battle between Farmers Ingenuity and the Cattle Smartness! Haha!
Try welding a small chain to the rod pins? Also love the videos keep it up!!
Put a self tap screw from the flange of the pin into the tube beneath it. If you need to remove the pin, just remove the self tapper.
Sorry but couldn’t stop laughing when I saw those girls standing up on the new pvc pipes. Better luck with the next fix. They probably think you did this just for them! Susan
Thank you for posting Eric hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving God bless y'all 🙏🙏🙏🙏
great video Eric. Love watching you and your dad working together. Be careful
Those are all new headlocks, perhaps the supplier might exchange your pins for longer ones or weld extentions on them.
Another thought might be to weight them so they are too heavy to lift out.
This would be good practice for you welding extentions on them if the supplier doesn't come up with a solution. You need a respirator if your going to weld all that galvanized metal. Not healthy to breath in.
Cheer all 🇨🇦
Time for a 20' to 30' addition to the barn! How about some of those cow brushes for the heifers'? That might keep them busy? Anyway Thank you for sharing:-) Stay safe and healthy:-)
I originally thought of the drill & pins idea(and probably loads others, I am not claiming to be the first to suggest it). But longer pins is a really good idea. If longer pins are expensive/not available, an alternative would to just welding a few washers together, then weld them to lengths of bar to make your own and make then a foot long or something, then quick coat of something to prevent corrosion. Trial and error, it is part of what makes life interesting.
Morning Eric.... hope all is well with you and your family!!! Herd is looking great!! Hard work 💪 pays of!! You and your pops have a wonderful relationship!!!
the curiosity of the cows is enjoyable to watch.
Not on the subject of the heifers and the pins, which is just how creative cows can be... I remember the video when you were planting grass on the newly graded area around the new construction. I see the grass has filled in nicely and, my father would be proud, you keep it nice and mowed so it looks great.
Bevel the concrete on the inside, by cutting of the corner sloping toward headlocker. We beveled our concrete curbs on both sides, so the bottom pipe is straight on the level part
You should do a tour of all the farm buildings/ mixing rooms. I love to see the way old building and barns especially, are constructed.
Cows can be as aggravating as kids. Who knew they would be standing on the pipes. They are something! Love the videos. If you get a chance show us your baby boy. I hope I have that right.😃
I would search out the little trouble makers and ship em to the farm next door! See if they can pull pins over there? Lol
I’ll bet the cow or cows that was doing that are mad you took the fun away, oh wait she figured it out she will still have fun. LOL
961! What a little stinker! The other one got down when you came over, but 961 is all like, "Yeah, I'm standing up here, I'm touching your shovel too. Neener neener.
cows are really curious creatures.. didn't even know that before I started watching your vids..
Maybe a hinged bracket with a hole to resemble the lower hole would work, it already has a lip on the pin, you could modify the hole to allow it to rotate over. Well just a suggestion, good luck on it, looks like you have a lot of suggestions, maybe one will help your situation. Enjoyed the video, have a great week and stay safe!
I see the bedding you put down in the barn. Years ago straw and hay were used but not practical today. What is the composition? Does it change the soil composition over time? Curious in my old age.
its wood shavings (sawdust) from local saw mills. its organic material, so it adds great nutrients to the plantable soil over time. i use it for my chickens over winter and in the spring i spread it all over the front yard at my house. kills the weeds and greens the grass up!
Thank you for the knit cap. Awesome service
I would weld a little chain on each pin. It would be faster than drilling and putting a pin in. I mean they can still knock the pims out they just wont get lost
Well done, greetings to you from Somalia
Build another extension further along for the calving pens then take all the gates out and make that area there all in to the pre fresh pen would be quite a cheap fix
Maybe you need a metal with a 45° angle so the cows wont be able to stay on it.
For the locking gates, just get tek screws one tek screw with do each one you will have the job done in 20 minutes.just drill one just under the 4 hole plate, pipe to pipe
Has anyone suggested Loctite? I feel like that is the fastest and easiest solution! Which product depends on how permanently you want those pins to stay.
I think what you did will certainly help the situation. I wonder if you took the pvc tubes and clamped them to the top so reaching the pins would be impossible. I can't really tell if there is room for that, but you guys did a good job discouraging pin pulling activity. There is always one heifer that no matter what you do, she will find a way around it. We had a cow we called Houdini - didn't matter what we did she was always her getting out. (Eventually she had to go). Hey, great video. Really enjoyed it as always thanks for bringing me along..
Maybe placing a temporary board right above the pins. Seems like there could be brackets placed on the wooden support post where a board could be placed right above where the pins would go to block them from pulling the pins high enough to get them out and to keep the board in the bracket you could put a pin through it with a wire hair pins the type you use for hitch pins to lock it from being removed easily
Question from a non-farmer… where is the bottle neck on your farm and most dairy farms to growing and milking more head? Milking parlor, prefresh or overall barn space or something else?
For us it's not having affordable land available nearby to grow more feed and we also don't have a desire to milk more. Milking more cows don't always mean more success.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. All you can do is your best. Great show.
Love the PVC pipe fix…genius Idea!!!
What is the purpose of the green ring in the cow's nose at 9:30?
Cows got too much free time , to cause trouble🙀😂😤
Cut the top of the pin off flush with the stop washer, grind off the rough edges of the cut. This will eliminate the stem that they use to lift the pin out with their mouth. When you need to adjust the rod (if ever) just pull out your knife to slip under the pin washer to lift it out. Eazy pezy .............
love your videos man 👍 keep em coming
It’s always a joy to watch your videos
I think she wants the shovel ! Lol 😂
How bout putting some cyan pepper on all the pins! One lick, never again!! lol
Might try ball lock pins, a little pricy but might work.
The reason why you have such sandy soil is because you are using sand for bedding your cattle if you use cornstalk bales or straw bales that would help your field’s from soil erosion
Electric wire just above the pins from post to post works perfect
heifers never give up they get bored to easily i had a tether ball in my heifer shed and they would whack that around for hours kept them out of trouble they had something to do
Maybe run an electric fence above the headlocks. It would be cheap, and definitely effective. You could take the electric out of it after they were trained, and just hook it up if they start causing problems later if you didn't want electric in it all the time.
Congrats on the subs. That was quick. ☺️☺️☺️
maybe a single strand electric fence wire above the head rail to keep them away from the pins
nice dad and son team.... gotta love 'merica!
Good morning from New England.
Love your videos, keep up the great work and good luck with the pins lol.
That was too funny.
Run an electric wire suspended 8 inches in from the top of the head locks to keep them from standing on rail. Put a rubber tube over the wire at the walk through entrances.
Maybe if you split some square planks into a triangle and then fasten those instead of the pipe, so it wont be a flat surface to stand on?
Do you feed salt to your cows? They may be licking the pins to get get salt in their diet? Just a thought
For the calfs to stop licking the bolts out u could put in the carige bolt that's what we did at our farm just for u to now and it worked pretty good
I was thinking about a clip for your pin problem. If you had an L-shaped wire piece that went around the pin at the top, bent at a 90, came down the side of the bar a few inches and attached to the bar with a screw or bolt, that should do it. (similar to a Hillman hitch pin)
Hi I'm happy watching in your vlog chanel about your farm and also buatifull dairy farm tnx u very much.
Always enjoy ur videos. Thank u for posting them.
все классно. как бы мне еще вас понимать хоть немного ) всегда смотрю просто смотрю👍
love the video's keep up the good work and your cow's always really nice to play with lol
I know this is random but have you ever thought about possibly hanging a jolly ball in the heifer barn? If you hang it lower than the pins you could give them something to mess with instead of the pins?
Pinch the pipe a little so the pins have some resistance.
God bless you my friend!
Like you said y'all tried. Trying to stop animals from getting into thing is a fun hard job. Trying to out think them is no fun. Y'all stay safe and good luck.
Really good problem solving there.
You guys make me nervous with that sawzall lol
You could try extremely hot hot sauce on the tops of the pins, but then again you may just be seasoning the pins for that special cow🤪
Hello! Greetings from Panama👋. I really like your videos, I am a faithful follower of the activities you do every day. I would like to see how you carry out the fertilization process in cows.
I think I can provide a tip. Execute your 180 turn while on the bedding to help save wear and tear on your tires?
Nice job with the pipes!
Monday we were talking about silos for silage in my ag class and my teacher was pulling up CZcams videos and he pulled up one of whenever you guys were filling a bag
Have you thought about the space from the old barn you tore down and what you might do with it that would be interesting to know your ideas?
LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS ERIC HAVE A GOOD DAY
If you cut and grind the top of the pin down so it's flush with the flange? The cow has less to grab but you can still have enough to grasp when you need to pull the pin?
Can a cow pick up a big flat washer laying on a flat surface - sounds like a trivia question, LOL 😂
PUT alum thats used for pickle making.or try hot sauce real hot ,lol they will stop puling the pins ,thank you very much ,
Another variety of chores glory I get tired out just watching, am glad I am retired 😴
Put some ghost pepper juice on those pins? That'll fire up ole Bessy.
Thats some hard work youre putting in.
Say, whats that smoke coming off the bedding? Does it generate that much heat?
Nice creative idea to solve a problem!