There’s a lot of kids Ethan’s age that don’t wanna work. They rather stay inside and be on video games. My folks need help with their yard work and I can’t be there to help because of work. Trying to find young help is tough these days.
I actually want to work on a dairy farm and learn from a farmer. I did work on one when I was a kid but now at 29 I actually want to get into farming. The best way to get started is to find a farmer who would hire me to work and teach me stuff.
@@Tyguyborgerding love our Fieldline blower over here in Wisconsin. We have, IH, H&S, Dion blowers and that Fieldline is a smooth running beast! Have four seasons on it so far
I remember well as a teenager bailing hay for a local farmer. Pick it up, throw it on the truck, bring the truck back to the barn and unload and stack all by hand and getting absolutely covered in fine particles of hay. I was always so fricken itchy with a thick coat of sweat. I smelled worse than the cows in the barn.....but I miss it. I learned a lot about work ethic working on the farm. Good family values too.
@@organbuilder272 Huge percentage of the farms here in CT have sold out to development. In my town, there are 2 Xmas tree farms left. The rest have sold there land to the town for open space or to a developer.
I remember that trip up the silo every morning at 4:30 AM to throw down the mornings silage for the dairy cows after milking. We weren't fortunate enough to have a unloader to do that for us. Guess that's why my dad had two sons.
Climbing the silo to fork out silage makes me think of a “funny story”. My Father I believe was quite progressive for the time, he bought a silo unloader in about 1960. But the interesting story his he had a barn cleaner installed in 1955, two years before my folks had indoor plumbing installed in 1957. That’s the year they had there 6th child, my Mother was taking care of 5 boys before indoor plumbing.
Thank you, and William W, for commenting! I've often wondered about what was done before unloaders, how long unloaders have existed, which lead to how long silos existed and if they always had unloaders, which seemed unlikely. Anyway, I wondered but that seemed like a heck of a thing to Google. 😆 I can really picture it now.
It’s amazing how much work goes into just getting the feed right. Around here (south Alabama) folks raise beef cattle they just put em out to pasture... Honestly makes me appreciate the Dairy products I consume.
NEW SUBCRIBER. Near 80, milked cows by hand, and farmed with horses. Hated heights. Seventh generation Michigan farmer. Great video 👍. God speed. Eaglegards...
I'm finding more and more that chopping hay is getting more common. 20 years ago I don't know of anyone that did. I suppose these mixer feeders and TMRs are the reason. Those weren't around in the '80's. At least not in my area. I always have and still enjoy filling silo. Thanks for bringing me along.
I'm System Administrator ( IT World ) and sometimes i wish i could leave my damn chair and go farming and working like you do. Much respect, im still saving for my futur Hobby Farm/Ranch. Keep up the good work Eric.
Great video today, enjoy watching you and your dad get things done. Brings back good memories, you guys be safe and take care of your family. God bless from San Diego Ca
Great looking feed for your cattle. Hard work is a typical day on the farm. These videos are good for people to experience the amount of labor that goes into putting milk on the tables.
The money and expertise needed for your equipment alone is astounding. What a complicated operation and run by just a few people. Amazing and impressive. Wow!!!!
Great awesome video Eric . Very nice feed . Ag bags yes better feed , faster to get it out , disadvantage is a lot of plastic , silo takes longer . Great feed. Advantage no plastic, they have there ups and downs .
Eric, great work as usual with you and your dad. Get that dust mask on! Watching your videos makes one appreciate the sterling work farmers do each and every day, to feed the rest of us. Thank you for what you and your entire family do each day! Now, get a dust mask on!
Hello from France, je regarde tes vidéos même si je ne comprends pas toujours ce que tu dis😏😏... C est très intéressant de voir ta façon de travailler,très bonne vidéo.bon courage 👍👍👍
That shirt full of dust every day takes me back - we didn't have an unloader, just a pitchfork. Good video -very interesting.Nice to have Ethan help you. Thank you!
13:45 - Great shot. 48 years ago - I did the same thing - climb silos and made sure the corn silage was piling up in the center. And, occasionally, 16:30, we had to move the silage around.
Gotta say seeing a large square bale grinder is a first for me and my family been around the hay industry for quite a while, but not so much anymore. We used to chop then bag everything for a number of years
On our farm, we call using the air compressor to blow off dust/hay, air washing. There certainly isn’t anything more relieving than a good ol air wash.
Looking down from the silo the tractors and wagons look like toys. It always gives me the hebbie jebbies when you are up in the silos definitely not a job for the faint hearted
Great camera angels Eric. Particularly like from atop the silo looking down on the carts full of alfalfa hay liege. Sure glad that you had the air hose to blow all that dusty silo dust off. Busy time of the year for you, but it’s a dairy, busy 365🤓🤓
That silo levelling, who needs a gym, WOW that was a huge physical effort by you both.... hope you had a good meal, and remembered to replace what you perspired out..?? I come from a dairy farm as a kid, and yes it is s physically challenging life, but so rewarding.. love your work....
This channel never get boring to watch Thanks for posting as often as you do I know it's a lot of work plus all your other chores!
It’s always nice to wake up to a new 20 minute video from Eric!
I love watching how your operation works! Thanks again for the great videos!
I like Ethan, he seems like a solid kid. Not too many young people like that would show up to a farm to work everyday.
Hi Eric and dad excellent video as always love how you working with your dad and as always you and your dad and families all be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I would everyday
There’s a lot of kids Ethan’s age that don’t wanna work. They rather stay inside and be on video games. My folks need help with their yard work and I can’t be there to help because of work. Trying to find young help is tough these days.
Well i would help everyday ofc bcs i hate being lazy and just wasting my time on doing nothing instead of working and helping someone out
I actually want to work on a dairy farm and learn from a farmer. I did work on one when I was a kid but now at 29 I actually want to get into farming. The best way to get started is to find a farmer who would hire me to work and teach me stuff.
You should ask the chopping guys if they would let you give a tour of their machine. It's pretty cool.
@@Tyguyborgerding krone is better lol
@@Tyguyborgerding love our Fieldline blower over here in Wisconsin. We have, IH, H&S, Dion blowers and that Fieldline is a smooth running beast! Have four seasons on it so far
Sitting on my computer doing school notification pops up you know we done school and watch the video. Great video eric
Hech yeah
Obviously not an English class.
@@HappyHarryHardon 13% of the world speak English as their first language. Don’t be a small minded bigot.
@@getur99 well said! 👏👍
@@getur99 speaks*
I remember well as a teenager bailing hay for a local farmer. Pick it up, throw it on the truck, bring the truck back to the barn and unload and stack all by hand and getting absolutely covered in fine particles of hay. I was always so fricken itchy with a thick coat of sweat. I smelled worse than the cows in the barn.....but I miss it. I learned a lot about work ethic working on the farm. Good family values too.
Memories of life on a farm. You should have stayed with it. Touch life but rewarding in many ways.
@@organbuilder272 Huge percentage of the farms here in CT have sold out to development. In my town, there are 2 Xmas tree farms left. The rest have sold there land to the town for open space or to a developer.
God bless you and all farmers you feed us three times a day 👍
You're an optimist, Eric. You see the silo as half full. Excellent!
That's because they are in the mind set of filling it. If it were winter and have been feeding from it for awhile it would be half empty. Sociology.
@@dylanmatter1088 That's hilarious that Neil Louise got 23 likes and you only got 2, including mine. Some people just have no common sense, huh? lmao
I remember that trip up the silo every morning at 4:30 AM to throw down the mornings silage for the dairy cows after milking. We weren't fortunate enough to have a unloader to do that for us. Guess that's why my dad had two sons.
Yikes that sounds fun
I remember that too! Pick axe and a fork. Down the chute to wheel barrow. Ugh
Climbing the silo to fork out silage makes me think of a “funny story”. My Father I believe was quite progressive for the time, he bought a silo unloader in about 1960. But the interesting story his he had a barn cleaner installed in 1955, two years before my folks had indoor plumbing installed in 1957. That’s the year they had there 6th child, my Mother was taking care of 5 boys before indoor plumbing.
Thank you, and William W, for commenting! I've often wondered about what was done before unloaders, how long unloaders have existed, which lead to how long silos existed and if they always had unloaders, which seemed unlikely. Anyway, I wondered but that seemed like a heck of a thing to Google. 😆 I can really picture it now.
And Old American Iron too! Thanks to you all!
Love you video from Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰
Silos seem like a huge PITA! Job well done!
Hey my fellow dairy farmer , well I’m retired lol but I live my younger years through this show
You and your Dad run a really tight operation, Eric! I enjoy watching!
Those chopper boys has some kind of operation. Very well timed.
Awesome!!! As always a great video Eric
I love watching the raker.... pretty cool😎
The Spring/Summer videos are just the best !! 🙋♀️😊
You've got some great blessings in having awesome workers like Ethan and Meaghan helping you out.
Eric, you are an awesome worker. You and your dad did a great job. Thank you for the amazing video
I,m indian i like video and your work tecnice
We are chopping first cutting in like 10 min or so. Your vid is perfect while waiting on the chopper to show up!
It’s amazing how much work goes into just getting the feed right. Around here (south Alabama) folks raise beef cattle they just put em out to pasture... Honestly makes me appreciate the Dairy products I consume.
Eric, your vids are one of the bright spots in our week! God bless you. Steve and Tami.
As god is a fiction, there can be no 'blessings' - whatever that means!!
As usual a pleasure to watch well done Peter UK 🇬🇧
Thanks for showing all the aspects of making salad for the cows!
NEW SUBCRIBER. Near 80, milked cows by hand, and farmed with horses. Hated heights. Seventh generation Michigan farmer. Great video 👍. God speed. Eaglegards...
… another productive day on the dairy farm. Thanks for having us along, Eric. See you next time.
You and Ethan had your work cut out for you in leveling the feed in that silo. God bless you both. You both work so hard.
Thanks for being a farmer eric and family
Thanks for that great video, sure enjoyed it! Have yourself another great day!
Wow your amazing you just keep going and going to get the job done
I'm finding more and more that chopping hay is getting more common. 20 years ago I don't know of anyone that did. I suppose these mixer feeders and TMRs are the reason. Those weren't around in the '80's. At least not in my area. I always have and still enjoy filling silo. Thanks for bringing me along.
I remember leveling the silage for the loader. Good times. Awesome video!
I'm System Administrator ( IT World ) and sometimes i wish i could leave my damn chair and go farming and working like you do. Much respect, im still saving for my futur Hobby Farm/Ranch. Keep up the good work Eric.
Satisfying video keep it coming God bless
I like your decisions to outsource certain jobs on the farm. Makes efficient use of time and machinery
You really had good help up in the silo. The feed looks really good. Congrats on getting the first crop done.
Great video today, enjoy watching you and your dad get things done. Brings back good memories, you guys be safe and take care of your family. God bless from San Diego Ca
Great looking feed for your cattle. Hard work is a typical day on the farm. These videos are good for people to experience the amount of labor that goes into putting milk on the tables.
Thanks Eric for showing me how the silo operates.
Really good pictures on filling the silo!
Looks like Dad has recovered nicely. God Bless.
Got to work on a dairy farm in upstate NY in the early 90's. Was one of the best years of my life. Really miss working on a dairy farm.
The money and expertise needed for your equipment alone is astounding. What a complicated operation and run by just a few people. Amazing and impressive. Wow!!!!
Good luck and big like from Ukraine with best regards.
Great video like always. Keep working hard. Blessings to you and your family.
Thank you for the awesome videos
I love your channel Eric. Keep up the good work!
Everyone should see all this, farming is such a real tough job and so important! You are too humble!
All best from Europe!
Thanks Eric for the video. It was GREAT.
Awesome videos and impressive for this old city boy!! Interesting material. Look forward to the next video!!
Love watching you work 💜🌹
Great awesome video Eric . Very nice feed . Ag bags yes better feed , faster to get it out , disadvantage is a lot of plastic , silo takes longer . Great feed. Advantage no plastic, they have there ups and downs .
Thanks for taking us along
Brings back a lot of memories filling an upright
Fascinating video Eric! 👍
Those guys chopping don't waste any time. Have a blessed day.
A machine like this big hay mill i see for the first time, the performance is incredible :)
Look up tub grinders also impressive.
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Happy fed cows give good quality milk. Thanks for the vids Eric.
The equipment involved in dairy farming is incredible, well done
Beautiful video 👍👍👍🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
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It was cool to see the silo rake in action always wondered about the wire rope winch i have seen you use. Great content as always. Thanks!
Eric, great work as usual with you and your dad. Get that dust mask on! Watching your videos makes one appreciate the sterling work farmers do each and every day, to feed the rest of us. Thank you for what you and your entire family do each day! Now, get a dust mask on!
Great video especially the view from the top of the silo. Lots of hard work to level inside of the silo!!
Wow. I did not know there was anything that would make Eric get winded! This is a first. He is usually the bionic man. 16:37
I love the smell of silage! Fond memories growing up at my Uncle's farm.
I don't live on a farm nor have done any work on a farm but I love your videos, much love and god bless from Ireland
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS I SEND YOU A GREETING FROM CHILE AND THAT EVERYTHING IS GOOD FOR YOU
Love your videos, I'm your biggest fan in New Zealand! I hang out for every new video much to my wife's amusement 😁
Good stuff y’all! Always look forward to your videos….
Nice i like your video’s. Keep on greets from Holland
Thanks for the informative video. All the best.
You do a great job on these videos always enjoyable and well explained
Great job as always!
Hello from France, je regarde tes vidéos même si je ne comprends pas toujours ce que tu dis😏😏... C est très intéressant de voir ta façon de travailler,très bonne vidéo.bon courage 👍👍👍
Great video. Thanks for sharing and stay safe.
I remember filling silo and baling hay all too well growing up! 😂 Great video!
That shirt full of dust every day takes me back - we didn't have an unloader, just a pitchfork. Good video -very interesting.Nice to have Ethan help you. Thank you!
13:45 - Great shot. 48 years ago - I did the same thing - climb silos and made sure the corn silage was piling up in the center. And, occasionally, 16:30, we had to move the silage around.
Gr8job Eric! Blessings.
That blower set-up is certainly quite the unit.
Gotta say seeing a large square bale grinder is a first for me and my family been around the hay industry for quite a while, but not so much anymore. We used to chop then bag everything for a number of years
On our farm, we call using the air compressor to blow off dust/hay, air washing. There certainly isn’t anything more relieving than a good ol air wash.
Air bath or compressor bath where I’m at
Hard working. Giving motivation to more.
Looking down from the silo the tractors and wagons look like toys. It always gives me the hebbie jebbies when you are up in the silos definitely not a job for the faint hearted
cool,eric and families,love checking in,keep well all
recards gnz
Never a dull moment thanks for the video ur a hard worker and u should be very proud of that
Great video love the chopper
Really cool to see how silos work for forage. Out west we only use pits for our corn and all fodder is baled.
Farming is super hard work. I appreciate you guys. I love milk. Lol!
Great camera angels Eric. Particularly like from atop the silo looking down on the carts full of alfalfa hay liege. Sure glad that you had the air hose to blow all that dusty silo dust off. Busy time of the year for you, but it’s a dairy, busy 365🤓🤓
Every time Erick up loads it make my day
That silo levelling, who needs a gym, WOW that was a huge physical effort by you both.... hope you had a good meal, and remembered to replace what you perspired out..??
I come from a dairy farm as a kid, and yes it is s physically challenging life, but so rewarding.. love your work....
Great videos always amazing I love the videos
Nice shots of the rake! 😃
Nice to see a young fella that knows the correct way to shovel. Let your thigh do the work.
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When you get the chance, please continue the silo content!!! Loving it. I don't do heights
Good morning Eric I hope all is well!
@Boaz van der Maarl hi🙂