An Early Start To The Day! | Fall Farmathon

Good morning y'all. We are headed out nice and early this morning because we have three loads of pigs to get loaded up. So here we go. Hopefully they aren't too difficult and we can get this done in decent time. We'll see. We've got one building emptied, one and a half loads done, and we're just going on our second building. Pigs are a little bit crazier this morning. We just got finished up loading three loads of pigs. We started at six o'clock this morning. It is now 10 minutes till nine and we just got home. I'm gonna go inside and get some clean clothes on. Those pigs are big and there were some ornery ones today. If they decide that they're stubborn and they don't want to go on the truck, it's a pain and there can be some crazy ones. So overall it went pretty well. We got it done and they weren't like terrible. They were just a couple difficult ones, but we got it done. We have two more loads going out this week, but we got three done this morning, so that's good. And now I'm gonna head inside, get cleaned up, and then we need to go to the barn and get barn chores done. Hi, I'm sorry I'm late. Let me get you turned out. No guys, no. This is her whoa, whoa, whoa, cinder block. There you go. This is their first time being in with the, we turned them in with the rest of the big sheep yesterday, so it's taking them a little bit to figure out how to go around the gate instead of jumping through it. It is time to head to the field. So we had a few chores to get done this morning. We loaded three loads of pigs this morning and got that done. Then we had a few more pig chores to do, get situated from that, and we came home, got cleaned up, and now we are heading to the field. It is 11 30, so we're getting a little bit of a late start today, but it should be a good day. It is a beautiful day. It's pretty warm out today, which is nice and sunny, and it's just a beautiful harvest day right now. I have to respond to my radio. I hear you. So dad just headed out to the combine. Papa is heading out in the auger cart. Once they get the first load in here, we will get the dryer running. We did have one small problem this morning. That fan that runs on the bin, we blow that every morning, turn it on, and let it run to blow the heat off of this corn, because when you put it in the bin, it is hot from the dryer and it will sweat and you'll get some moisture in there, so we run that some every day, and that blows the hot air out of there and cools it off. So that fan was not starting correctly this morning, but dad and Emma and Lemuel were here and worked on that while I was doing a few more pig chores, and it's running now, so I think we might need a little something for it. I'm honestly not entirely sure. I think dad was thinking it was a capacitor problem, but then I'm not sure if that's what ended up being, but the important thing is that it's running now, so we're just gonna let it run. And yeah, other than that, things have been going pretty smoothly. They're just getting crunk up now. Got all the radio checks going on, so everybody's got their radios on now, so it should be good. And now I'm just gonna wait for the first load of corn to get in here so I can get the dryer fired up. Okay, thank you! You guys were like living- you guys are keeping us alive this harvest, okay? The snacks that we've been eating were sent by a subscriber, and then we get up here and the mail just delivers a box of Dr. Pepper. Now, some of you all know my all-time favorite is Mountain Dew, and you guys have sent so much Mountain Dew. We still have Mountain Dew downstairs. It's honestly crazy. So I also love Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper is wonderful, so this will be very appreciated by everybody. We've been having- been being like very healthy this harvest, so I don't know how long it's been since I had pop. We've been- I've been doing good, okay? Drinking water, okay? Flavored water. But we are gonna really enjoy this, so thank you guys so so much. All of you who support us and send us goodies, it truly- it makes my day. We appreciate it so much, and it means so much that y'all want to send us stuff like that. So I don't always do a great job of like showing the snacks that we get on video. We eat them all, I can assure you, but I don't always do a great job of showing them on video, but I assure you we appreciate them so much, and thank you guys so much. It truly means a lot. It is humbling to have y'all that want to support us like this and send us stuff. It really really means a lot to us, so thank you so much to whoever sent this. We will move this out to the snack shack and put this in our little harvest fridge, and it will be enjoyed for the rest of harvest. Everything started correctly the way it's supposed to, so that started. Need to make sure the pneumatic system started correctly, which it did. You can hear the corn going up that pipe. You can get the blower started on the dryer as well as the burner. It is now three o'clock. The second marker is tripped on the wet bin, so it won't be long and we'll be full and we'll be done for the day. It's been a really chill afternoon, honestly, which has been very nice because this morning we started early and it was busy, so it's been a little bit of a slower paced afternoon, I guess. Just chill. Things have gone pretty smoothly, so that's been really nice. They are down here right now with another load. Dad is down there, if you can see him, going along the creek and he's full, so he's waiting on the auger cart. The dryer is going good and yeah, that's about it. We're gonna be finishing up here pretty soon and then we'll call it a day and harvest some more tomorrow. Then he's gonna come up here and park that and we will be done for the day. So we're getting set up out there to milk right now. Dad's gonna help milk when he gets up here and we'll be done for the day, so it's been a good day. I just took a sample of dry corn coming out of the dryer to test, see what we're looking at, make sure that we're staying on track with where we need to be, and then make any adjustments to the dryer if necessary. They're here with the last load now and we're gonna be wrapping it up for the day. Also, I think I forgot to mention this to you guys yet, but we do have the semi that- oh, I'm getting a call. Hold on. I think I forgot to mention this to you guys yet, but the trucker that came here yesterday and took a load of the dry corn out of the bin is coming back today, but I don't think he's gonna be here until about six o'clock. So we'll come out then and get him loaded up and then he'll take that. Anyways, this is the last kind of chore we have to do today. Flossie needs to get milked, so dad's gonna come up here and help mom with that. She's getting fly spray right now. These animals do not catch on very quickly that the fly spray is helpful. They come out here and they're like covered in flies and then everybody feels sorry for them and then we try to do fly spray and they don't like it, but it's good for them. So here is Flossie's little calf. He's doing good, getting big. He gets to run around. We keep him penned in the barn and Flossie outside for about half the day. That way he's not drinking all of our milk. Okay, Flossie. Flossie. I tell you what, this cow is affectionate. She is. And she will be affectionate, like very. Flossie. Okay, I kind of need to escape this. I'm just gonna walk backwards and vlog here. We keep, we keep, we keep. Here, Emma's lure. Oh no, she really likes me for some reason right now. Flossie. Just terrifying right here. Okay, I think we're finally safe. Continuing what I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted. I don't even remember what I was saying, honestly. That kind of just turned into utter chaos for a little bit, but. Oh yes, we keep this little guy penned up in the barn for half the day and Flossie's penned outside for half the day so he's not drinking all of our milk. So that when we come in here in the afternoon she actually has some milk for us. So then we get a little bit of milk. We leave one quarter completely for him and then the rest he can clean out as well. So then we turn both of them outside and he gets to run around after she's been milked. And then they both go in the barn and he gets to for all the time except for half the day. So that's kind of our milking situation right now. We have, I don't know if I dare go back outside right now. Flossie is actually a really good milk cow. She stands really nicely. She is extremely loving as you saw. But yeah, the night. Eliza and I are out here. We got Bonnie out giving her a little bit of exercise. So she's, I'm not sure what she's doing right now. She's having a good time doing it though. That is going to be about it for today. We have the semi coming at six o'clock. We'll just come out here and load him up real quick. And yeah, that'll be it. So today was a good day. Started early, got busy quickly. Got a lot of work done and then it was a good afternoon. Went smoothly with harvest and we'll be ready to have another day tomorrow. That is going to be it for today. So I'm going to head inside, get cleaned up, take a shower and then get to work editing a video. So hope you guys have enjoyed this video. Hope you've been enjoying the full farmathon series so far. If you have any questions or anything, leave them down below and I will do my best to answer them. That is going to be it for this video. Thank you guys so much for watching and we will see you tomorrow.