Brenda's FIRST TIME driving Baron!! // Working on my Hay Wagon  

I think Baron will have " his swagger" attitude for some time yet .

I vote with Brenda, put the wall all the way to the top.

I think Baron would be fun to ride the way he prances! He is becoming a good "backer upper" like Bill! So, will you let us know if Lady's breeding took place! If it did, she should foal the end of May or 1st part of June next year, right?!!! As for good draft horses go, do you prefer one that's high energy or one with less energy? It definitely takes an experienced driver to handle/train him! Your cattle were telling you to drop off one of those bales for them!😘 The tameric(? sp) wood is beautiful. Would make beautiful tables! Brenda, your garden looks wonderful! Taters like nice and healthy. My goodness, what a huge bunch of grapes!!!!🍇 Delicious! And you will have plenty of apples to put up later on too! I remember you put up a lot of applesauce last fall. Do you ever make crockpot apple butter? My mom used to do that and her's was so good. Hope you all have a beautiful weekend! Will your son and family get to visit for the 4th? Hope the grandbabies get to see and love on Bree soon!!!

Thanks for the stroll through your gardens, Brenda. The grapes are amazing! Nice job driving the wagon, too!

Hey Brenda,,,I loved that lil wave you gave us. God Bless ya'll mightily.

I think it would be easier to add the strength to hold Baron if you just add in a huge support beam for building out the rest of the wall. It would look great, be efficient, give you something to screw your rings into, and get rid of that ruin of a top wall. I love old buildings and barns and farms. I love the way time has added a patina to everything. But when you stick a beautiful wooden wall beneath a broken, dirty, mossy wall…it just draws attention to all the problems. I know how busy you are. I also know how you love this farm. The legacy of what you show us and demonstrate to us is important. And that includes 1) keeping the wife happy 2) supporting the infrastructure of the farm and 3) demonstrating suck-up-manship (the ability to just give up and get-er-done).

Everything looking good there Jim Brenda, God has given you a blessing with the rain 🌧 🙏 to keep everything watered , 🌽 looking good , tralior looking great , Baron has got some energy alright l guess he's a young male , good job Brenda 👏 working Baron , we're they swallows flying around you in the paddock , ok all have a good weekend

Love your veggies and fruit! Great gardens!! And beautiful flowers!! Great job today busy lady! 🥰

Another enjoyable video. THANK YOU BRENDA AND JIM.

I agree with Brenda. The wall would look great with boards all the way up. 😊👍👍

I know it’s a family show and you won’t show the actual mating, but handling him before and after and how you pad her up would be so interesting. It’s part of farm life and us city folk are interested.❤

Brenda is a natural driving Baron. Re the bales, in Australia, many places wrap in plastic these days. While the rest of us are making concerted efforts to rid our lives of the retched stuff, agri is just now seeing the benefits! Those would be bales that need to sit through heavy rain and or snow mostly. But in anycase, most bales seem to be pushed together in long lines 2-4 deep and 2-3 high. If they need to go higher they will be sat on end and stacked 4 high, Those ones are often made stronger and denser to tolerate being stacked and placed on the bottom. Some round bales are getting to over a ton each these days. But pushed together with no air between and covered completely with huge tarps after stacking. I don't know how the inner bales are at the end of the sitting season right before use. Maybe they are not that good unless wrapped in plastic. Some use black plastic while others use white. I don't know if there is a difference or just manufacturers. Silage seems to come in black plastic here, so maybe that is the only difference. Those two horses are like chalk and cheese. Bill, being a Belgian is taller with a long slow stride. While Baron, being a Suffolk, is a stouter horse with a short choppy stride, so he is always going to be trotting or jigging a little bit because he sees Bill taking these long slow strides. He feels he needs to jig along a bit to keep ahead. He wants to keep ahead because he is a stallion. He will always be like that. If he was cut you would see him change and slow down in just a few months. Yes the garlic need to loose their scapes asap or they won't bulb up. It is best to remove the scape when you first see it curl around. The scape is actually new garlic bulbuls trying to reach the ground but if you allow that, the main plant won't form the big hefty bulb that we cherish so much. But it is possible to do both. Just leave a couple of scapes to touch the ground. The rest are then cut to form bulbs. Your garden is a treat, Brenda. I am so jealous! I can't grow anything in my typically Aussie impoverished dirt. It is far too thin to hold any nutrient. All vegetative matter is consumed by the ants in a few weeks leaving just the bones of dirt. I use potting mix with limited success inside a well-protected shade house. I can't have a grape on the place! The birds eat them while they are still tiny beads. If I net them I *may* get a few that the hares have missed! But again the soil is terrible so they rarely grow more than 2ft high so hardly worth the effort. I tried berries of different types but again if not the birds, it is the hares or the wallabies or some other pest getting everything while it is dead green. I don't feed any wildlife here. The garden does it for me! 🙄

Hello from Sweden!Storing bales outdoor during winter is mostly done in a pyramid stack close together and then a tarp over the top, not all the way to the ground to keep them dry and ventilated.

We’ve piled bales 3 high. 3,2,1. Without any trouble as long as you know they’re good and dry.

Brenda you do a excellent job at doing videos especially this time with the sawmill getting beautiful close cool shots of the working’s of the sawmill. You two are such hardworking couple. Brenda your garden looks so beautiful, of course with all your hard work. Happy 4th of July 🎉😂❤. Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

Here in Australia they lay the bales flush up against each other, in long rows with, in my case, just enough room for a horse to get between. The man who forgot to shut a gate had shoved an end bale aside with the tractor so he could get one more row in, a filly found her way down the row to a blind end, rows about 40m long, and stuck there, could not find reverse, how I found her one morning. Man came and shoved the offending bale aside, she carefully stepped out then took off like a rocket. That filly grew up and broke in never afraid of tight places! We could tell by the manure she had not been there very long.

Great job with your animals. supper watching them being worked

PG here, Love love the Garden tour! It is very exciting to see Baron High Spirit knowing the role God gave him in nature! I am guessing Brenda needs some strong forearms to keep Baron in check. That was a fun video. Even sawmilling lumber. But I did question to myself: I wonder why the bark had the silver bark mixed with the red? Thank You!

Oh, lookie how fast the corn has grown! In June in Seattle, WA area we get NO rain. Well we had one day with a little rain so far. But from now in July zero rain.

Make sure you guys stay hydrated in the hot weather

I always enjoy your videos!! 😊 If Lady's breeding takes, does she then lose interest in Bree & wean her herself? You guys work well together!! The two of you show a well rounded picture of your life. I have a little deck garden...I was hand watering for a long time. Then we finally got some good rain & wow! It took off!!! I see I have little tomatoes!! I am so excited!! Lol!! I pray you are blessed with a bountiful garden & many round bales!! God is so good!!

Good job Brenda!

Love how your saw mill works awesome job Jim 👍

Leaves me out Jim and Brinda, at 70 I see big Round Bales and big Square Bales every summer but have never messed with them very much. Little square 60 -80 Lb Bles by the 1000; s, Louse hay haled in on slings, dumped and spread and tromped in a Hay Loft. Yes, for me, Halling lose hay on slings is a lot of hard work, but I found it to be more fun than little square bales. I have had my hands on Hay saws and Pitch forks, you see them in Museums today, and some Foulks still use them. Foulks out her in the West use to stack Hay with a rounded top like a loaf of bread and salt the stacks. The Sault is used for curing, Mow the Fels, just like Jim and let it dry just like you would for baling, Rake the Hay into shocks or windrows. Makes for really nice dust free Hay if dune right. I can forge a Hay Knife or Saw lots (same tool joust a different name) of fun. John at Black Bear Forge can make Hay Saws or Knives, (this terminology depending on what part of the Country you're from) John may have even made a youtube video demonstrating how he make one.

Baron dances while he works!

Good morning Tim

Great video, content and teamwork. You've got quite a few units of (dry) lumber. I was wondering if you are saving them for a special purpose, or if some get sold from time to time? As much as I enjoy watching you mill, I was surprised that you didn't just grab some off the stack for Abby's house and your wagon.

This guy a one stop shop

We finished it all - very good!

I wonder who did such a good job with the planks of the wagon ! 😀 Excellent team work everyone.

Brenda is such a trooper - sloshing through the field to get the video! Great job driving the horses! Baron has so much energy. Your garden is amazing. Bless you guys.

Way to go Brenda!!!

If you have re-bred Lady, you are obviously pleased with Baron and pleased with what you have seen so far with the cross between him and Lady. Just curious; Are these foals the future workers for "Working Horses with Jim"?

Baron is ready to go!

Great video. A little repair, wood cutting, horses and gardening. Nice job.

Hi Jim, why not put another all thread through the frame on the other side of the door too, like the first one, It would keep the frame from pulling apart some, yet you would have to make holes for it. Just a thought. Love the videos.

Brenda- not sure but I think some snuff ran thru water and filtered might do for bugs - think my family used lime for that - lightly dusted on the plants - I am 73 yo and haven't done much gardening since my teen age years (12)- family was 9 people and we did 1/2 Acer garden to feed us and often times also collected from other sources too like fruits - mom did a lot of canning , pickling, and freezing till we moved out on our own

Brenda, you veggies and flowers are so pretty 😊. Working in the hay field brings back so many memories from my childhood 😊❤to all the horses.

I think the wall should be up higher.small gaps in the hay wagon floor are for drainage to keep it drier. Jim, that hay field you n Brenda drove through to go home is so thin you can see a cricket jump on the ground. You won’t have trouble baling that up being thin n coarse. Brenda can certainly wear a farmers hat as much as she can do on the farm.

We stacked in a pyramid once. Im not sure what would make us do it again. Where the bales touched they spoiled. We do tend to stack tight together in a single row though. That seems to work well for us.

Happy farming and gardening!

Use Neem oil on your garden. Totally organic. Pesticide Fungicide all in one

👍👍🙂 BARON je baš uporan drčko rešio, da razvali zid. 😎😁

LOVE THIS

Now Baron will go goofy around all mares lol

We wrap ours if they aren't being stored under cover, it slows down the mice etc.

Garden looks great.

Good beautiful 👍👍❤️

It was helpful to bale up first cutting as early as you did. Second cutting has been able to use this rainy stretch to grow back quickly. Jim, we found that when we used green lumber to re-floor a hay trailer, or to build a deck, putting the boards close together, without gaps on the sides, worked out fine. As the green lumber dries, they create gaps naturally.

THS lords bounty is abundant qn beautiful have a day ❤from TEXAS

At 39:50 what a team Duke and earle will be

Is that your clutch squeeling on start up on the sawmill Jim.

Gap but I tarp to for feed for my horses

And Brenda

Only have sound at the saw mill. The rest no sound.

Question: what do you do with all that sawdust? Great videos and awful nice filming. ( ...awful nice ... doesn't quite sound right, does it?) God bless. PS Jim, shame on you. Brenda just asked for few boards to be added all the way up to the top of the shed. That wasn't too much to ask, now was it? She works so hard on the farm and deserves a few things done the way she likes. Brenda, you did a fine job of driving Baron today, good for you!

I think Brenda can handle baron if he working bill or ken she's very capable, give her a chance

Seeing that Brenda is part of the Working team on the farm, it’s a small request to have her view of the mildew stained decrepitated wall boarded up. My vote is Just do it Jim.

Jim, new boards to the top of the truck box = Happy Wife. Just saying...

I love your gardens Brenda! You've certainly got a green thumb.

Baron seemed a perfect gentleman with Brenda..........I have found that sometimes a stud will react differently with a "lady driver"!! I remember my aunt always preferred to drive stallions

Brenda - For spider mites, aphids. Squash bugs. For most plants. Cucumber especially. Peppermint oil spray. 1-2 teaspoons of peppermint oil per gallon of water and a little squirt of dish soap to disperse the oil. From Gary at The Rusted Garden.

Love the videos as always! I find myself telling my dog 'careful, careful' when connecting his leash lol. But with Jim's accent.

I think the cows were cheering for Brenda. 😀 She did a super job driving Baron for the first time. Jim and Brenda are a very fine example of a farm couple working together. 😀😀😀

I know of some farmers who not only separate their round bells from each other but they also raise them up off the ground so that the bottoms of the rolls don't start to rot.

I can remember being a young stud but I didn't prance like Baron does. What handsome horses you have. I agree that you need some more vertical 2 Ex's to stop the boards from bending in to keep from breaking. I give you 4 thumbs up on all of your videos. God bless and keep safe

I am in Nebraska and we put them up tight to each other to try to protect the ends. Some put them in a pyramid. But I found the bottom ones go bad faster.

Barron's jigging is just swagger! Cool dude.

Brenda, your garden is so beautiful. You're becoming a teamster. Jim, your fields and mill look so orderly and well managed. You are both an inspiration.

The benefit of round bales is that rain runs off and moisture only collects where they sit on the ground. When you stack them on top of each other you create contact areas where moisture collects and can seep into the bales. So, in regions with a lot of rain it is not beneficial to stack round bales on top of each other.

I love your Garden Brenda, and great seeing you and Jim picking up the round bales of hay. The Horses look great too! Barron knows he is the Man. HE feels so good and healthy. As are the other Horses all look great!

We always butted the bales together! To me it seemed to keep the ends fresher. Y'all stay safe!

Brenda you're becoming one fine farmer, I bet Jim really appreciates having you home working beside him! Good job 👍

I know why you bread Lady,you are making a new team.

Having your own food and not needing the grocery store is true freedom. I agree that Baron needs to work harder. He is still being obedient, but he is full of himself. He's like a racehorse who just keeps getting fitter and fitter, and you just can't tire them out. Since the other two are older, they probably can't work him down on their own. It will probably take both Kenny and Bill to wear him out.

Why would you breed her this soon. Doesn't she need a break?WOOD TO THE TOP would look a lot better.. always put ours on pallets off the ground..

I agree with Brenda that the wood covering the truck wall should be extended all the way up to the top. The top part is ugly. Painting won't help. The wood would make it lovely to look at from any distance.

Your garden is wonderful in comparison with mine. We, in Western France, have had a very dry spring and summer. There was 6mm (Just about ¼ inch) last night. Feb, March and April were very dry with a NE wind winch made it cool. The water table is very low as last summer was dry and we did not have the winter rains to replenish it. Bravo for driving Baron.

Thank you for another enjoyable video. Love the updates of Duke and Earl and your lovely garden. I know the garden takes a lot of time and work. Do you still have chickens and guineas? Always look forward to your videos

I have always put the bales tight against each other. Unless you put a tarp over the bales, a pyramid rots the hay faster, I have found. The lower bales are soaking up the water that is shedding off the top bale.

Gardens looking really good. Good luck w/ weed control. I never enjoyed weeding. Barron is really full of himself. Hope Lady settles and delivers again next spring. Thank you for sharing.🐴🐴

Just watching Baron trotting along, his gait looks so smooth. I'd be willing to bet he would be a very comfortable riding horse too.

What is the wood for the wagon floor? Is it weather resistant, or do you coat it with something? Great job, Brenda!

I put our bales like you have them there up on slabs. I’ve read “the best way” to do it is to flip one up, then lay the other on top, making it look like a mushroom. I’m really not sure. Love your videos as always. 👍✌️

Love watching your videos. You are both truly amazing and I enjoy every minute. What do you do with your slabs?

I would love to know if alot of people are taking you up on breeding services with Baron

Thank you Jim and Brenda . Your hay and gardens look beautiful. I have been hauling water to my garden for a month . We finally got some rain . GOD bless you and yours❤

Wow! Brinda's two new careers becoming a Skid steer operator and a teamster.

I see Greg Judy storing the round bales on 6" to 7" cedar logs 4' to 5' long 18" to 24" apart. This keeps the bales off the ground and allows for air circulation. In your area you could use Tamarec. Hope spelling is correct. I thoroughly enjoy your videos all the way here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 👍🏽

Did you happen to notice all the swallows swooping around the wagon when you were loading bales??? ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Good job Brenda driving. I can see you're more confident in the way you handle the rains.

Old Pallets to keep them off the ground, pushed tight together is how I store the round bales. Keeps the ends for soiling.

I think the wall would look really good covering the complete side of the truck body and painted.

Hi Jim and Brenda, how I have my round bales is to stack them tight together with palettes underneath. I have seen that some cover it with fleece, but that fleece is quite expensive. Not sure if it makes a big difference. I would not put boards on the wall to the top, but you might consider doing it for Brenda if it makes her happy 😄 Today I have heard that the Canadian wildfire smoke reached Europe meanwhile 🤭 Have a nice evening and wish you good luck with further haying. -Chris

Enjoyed the video picking up hay❤. With the way u had the camera felt like I was literally riding along w yall!!💕💕 so excited to hear Lady is bred again. Her foals are GORGEOUS!! Bree will have a playmate in about a year👏👏🥳 Brenda your gardens are BEAUTIFUL!! I wouldn’t mind pulling some weeds w ya. Gotta make em look all pretty😊😊😊 God Bless!!

I look at your place with the tall grass and the stuff put not in a perfect straight line and and perfect condition and I think about my place that looks just like yours. thank you so much for being real. On a different note my little stud colt is three days younger than yours. His name is Loki and he lives up to his name. He is a blast. Oh buy the way I have Shires

Greetings from Wisconsin!! What an awesome job driving the horses Brenda !!! Hats off to all of you getting those bales in from the field!! Love love your videos!!!

Brenda, what a fine job you did with Baron!! I have to admit, he's my favorite, although I do love all your beautiful horses! My husband & I so enjoy watching your videos, & look forward to all your posts. By the way, the garden is looking lovely as well. Also couldn't believe your beautiful Clematis was that old, that's amazing! We just purchased one called Nelly Moser the other day. Have a safe & fun 4th of July weekend, Brenda and Jim!!!

I'm with Brenda, Jim you have the lumber, I would finish the trailer with wood..I put the round bales end to end tight together.

I see you have barn swallows flying convoy when you're driving equipment in the fields. I have some that 'help' me mow. :)