This is a great channel, the insights, labour work ethic and the co-ordination needed to run a viable farm provided by this channel is truly engrossing. That's before you add in the daily stresses and drama, of weather, yields, time pressures for harvest or broken equipment. Farming looks to be 60% Labour, 20% being a mechanic, 10% being a fabricator, 5% financially astute manager, 4% dealing with emergencies/failing issues and 1% meteotrologist!
In all my years on this planet I have never seen anything like this done! I must say thanks for showing us RU-vidrs something that most people would never see in a lifetime.
Another great video Ryan. I agree with canvids 1. This is something most people will never witness in real life. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to see how it all goes together.
RYYYYAAAAAN. without an H! You are so awesome and I'm so happy to have met you! ^_____^ I'm excited to watch your videos and learn all the things. ALL THE THINGS! =]]]
So Ryan, since I have never done any farming business, building this new grain bin costs $$$$ amount of dollars to build. Finance or pay cash from reserve funds? How long will it take to recoup your investment in this grain bin? Pro rated tax deduction on expenditures or ?? I have no clue. Thanks for the videos.
....it would be cool to see the first grains of corn going into to new bin......not to be nibby...what does one of them things cost completed and really for use?.....
Depends on what the product is... For corn and grain sorghum it's 56 lbs. For soybeans and wheat it's 60 lbs. Other grain crops have different weights. Corn, beans, and wheat are usually measured in bushels out of the field... (yield). Grain sorghum is usually measured in hundredweight per acre (100 lbs). Rice is usually referred to in "barrels" (162 lbs). Agree that metric tonnes is the easiest measurement to use and compare... Later! OL J R :)
just watched you tear down the hog house. do you know what people are paying for that lumber from old farm buildings. Here in Kentucky you would have gotten 15 grand or more for for it and they would take it down.
+DON DUTTON The boards in the hog house weren't worth anything. Too short and tough to work with, as well as no visual appeal with them. We took the boards off of an old car garage at my place because they did have value.
Yeah my BIL had a bunch of people TALKING about wanting the "barn wood" off an old rickety and near-collapsing barn on his place a year or two ago... thing was, NOBODY ever showed up to actually DO THE WORK and tear the dang thing down and get the wood... He was about ready to pull it down and burn it. The neighbor came over and was going to pull some of the lumber off to build chicken coops, but once he saw how hard the nails were to pull out, he ended up running a chainsaw down the wall just under where the boards were nailed on and then ripped the wood loose from the bottom for his chicken house. A young guy that tears barns down and sells the wood and rusty tin off the roof came and took what he wanted off it, which wasn't just a huge whole lot... He threaded a cable up into the mow for the BIL and we pulled it down with the 2390 (IIRC-- the video of it is on my channel) and then he scavenged some tin off the roof... Sad thing is, he was paid pennies on the dollar compared to what these "reseller" folks are getting for the "distressed" barn wood and old rusty "distressed" tin off the roof... He made a few hundred bucks off the whole truckload-- the "reseller" sells sheets of rusted-out tin for nearly $100 bucks a sheet! It's crazy! He piled up what was left, burned it, and buried it along with the concrete footings... Finally off the tax rolls and an eyesore that is well gone... We had some of those "barn wood" people stop by our place wanting the wood off Great-Grandpa Bushnell's barn that had been standing on the farm since 1898... They just wanted the wood, didn't want to pay for it, and I didn't want the liability of having them on the place, so I told them no. It blew down in a wind storm and sooner or later I'll get around to piling it up and burning it and burying what's left. Lots of people TALK about "wanting the barn wood" or "how much it's worth" but when the rubber meets the road, they don't want to actually pay anything for it or do the work to get it... so it sits there and continues rotting, and it's an eyesore and better to just get rid of it. Later! OL J R :)
This just happened in Canada in a grain truck on the farm . People dont realize the dangers that can happen with farming.I know you are good with safety, but this is a reminder of what can happen. news.yahoo.com/farm-family-left-heartbroken-3-160752555.html
