We're moving from the city to the country. Join along as we turn an abandoned 23 acres of country land into our home. Documenting everything from farming, gardening, home building, tractor work, wood working, saw milling, to discussions about how to live a better life and helping out your community.
I know this video is old but I was hoping you might do an update. Maybe explain how you did it and what trouble’s you ran into. How was duckriver to work with?
I moved my rear lights to the inside. I just had to move the left light over to the right inner and the right to the left inner. I'm now less likely to hit tree limbs.
I've literally never thought about the turbo while driving the tractor. I've also never lacked torque, just traction and lifting power. I also can't find a single chart that states the torque numbers either. I wonder what it does to the torque curve.
Nice review; Any tractor is better than no tractor, But a M-F tractor = A Mighty-Fine tractor. I own a 1959 M-F 50 gasoline, & a 2018 1526 love them both; They are both hard working tractors. I like all the implements you have for your M-F 1825 E; Nice setup.
That's a great question. @whiteduckoutdoors might be able to answer that. They have a chat feature on their website. And they're usually very responsive. We usually don't get a lot of snow out here in Tennessee. Snow load isn't something we usually think too much about.
I don’t normally leave comments, but this video is awesome and thank you for opening my eyes to hip camp!… what an awesome idea to allow people that don’t normally have the means to get out to experience and off the grid situation…God bless you folks!!
Watering livestock simply means getting water to your animals. But it’s so much more than that. Clean water can help keep your livestock healthy. Dirty water can bring disease to your livestock. When we first got pigs, we were carrying 5 gallon buckets of water (40 pounds) multiple times a day. This was often not enough, and pigs will often stand in their water container. This will add undesirables to their water. But there’s not much you can do about it if that’s the only method you have. Other than cleaning their water out multiple times a day, the next step is automation and automatic waterers. This pig season we changed things around a little bit. This time, we built a pig waterer, and rebuilt it, and reconfigured it a few times. Here’s what we’ve learned: Pigs break things. An IBC tote works great to hold a large amount of water. Our tractor can only lift about 125 gallons of water. A garden hose works well to deliver water. We needed 2 x 100 foot water hoses. Quick disconnect hose connections are extremely helpful for moving the waterer around and refilling the IBC tote PVC has gotten extremely expensive. Pig Nipples are amazing (metal watering devices.) Pigs break things. Have at least 2/3 the number of waterers that you have pigs. Gravity is your friend. The more fall from the water container to the waterer, the better pressure you’ll have. I need to invest in a rain catchment system to automatically fill the water reservoir
Have you ever felt that nagging urge to sell everything and move to the woods? We did… And we did it. We sold our “keeping up with the Joneses” house in suburbia and moved to the woods. We took the profit and bought a mobile home that we’re staying in while we build a house with our own hands for cash. We 23 acres of raw land that has historically been used for cattle but hasn’t seen a single head of cattle in over 30 years. We have started to grow our own food. We have a small herd of pigs that we’re raising to fill our own freezers and our family and friends’ freezers. These are rotating through our woods and helping clear out underbrush. We have 15 chickens that we’re raising for egg production. We have 2 outdoor cats to help control the rodent population. We’ll start our cattle production in the next year or so, but need more infrastructure (fencing, water lines, automation, etc.) The tent you see is from White Duck Outdoors and we built it to host people on AirBNB and Hipcamp.
This is your reminder to order chicks for the spring. We use @mcmurray_hatchery and have had great success with ours. Order for 6-8 weeks before the last frost so you can have chicks ready to go out on pasture when it starts to warm up. For us in Tennessee that would be mid March.
