Hi Evan, congratulations on 100k, well deserved. I've been watching you since you were living in a camper, starting your homestead. It's been a great journey.
Thanks Pete. Your shout really helped me get there quicker. I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot from you. Got 2 gravity wagons we are turning into feed storage like you use. Should have them filled up soon.
Early congrats on 100K! As I'm watching this, the counter is at 99.9. Evan and Rebekah - you do a fantastic job with the channel. I eagerly look forward to each and every video!
Super idea to get the solar fence charger set up. Very interesting to see how it is put together. Isn't amazing how a little bit of electricity works to keep your animals in. Awful nice too that you can put in your poles/pipes so easily, we have lots of rocks. Am really enjoying your channel. Glad you get plenty of sun there. In Mid-Michigan we often get long periods of cloudy weather, especially once Autumn comes around and into winter, like right now. I have started to grade our cloudy weather, cloudy #1, #2 and so forth. Oh well. We had lots of sun and very little rain this summer, but things are headed back to normal now and the clouds have set in. My dad had a electric fencer that was called a "weed chopper" when I was younger that not only kept the animals in, but was supposed to burn the weeds off. It worked fairly well.
Congrats on 100k subscribers, Evan and Rebecca! I've been watching since you first started renovating the bank barn, tearing out the old hog farm stuff, shoring up the posts, building new stalls, etc. You've come a long way!
JudithB Interesting build!!!! Might build another one to go on the other pasture so you can rotate graze it too. Guess you will mow that pasture to knock down the weedy stuff. We had to brush hog our pastures to keep them clean of persimmon sprouts.
100,000 subscribers! Congratulations! When I started watching you weren’t yet comfortable looking into the camera while you talked, but you settled into it in a hurry! I’ve enjoyed all of your videos right from the start. All my best to you and Rebecca!
Yeah Rebecca didn't want to be on camera either. I remember them living in the camper and cleaning up the place, tearing down the old house and old barn too. They were just starting out. They've come along way.
Hello and yes congratulations! we have also been watching you for a long time and you have inspired us as well to start our own ranch. We have a herd of Alpine goats and we're having a terrible time keeping them in a barbed wire so we just got a solar fence getting ready to install it now. We are trying to wean the babies from the mommas but they just go through the fence. You helped us decide if we should go with solar or electric, we chose solar. Thanks for the inspiration and all the good that you guys do teaching people how to be self sufficient!
Great job on the solar fence charger, we use electric fencing several years ago and we had dc chargers, they were a real pain in the neck. I always wanted a solar charger in those days, not so much nowadays. Certainly enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing, have a great week.
I noticed one thing Evan. Your work bench is a place to keep washers, just like me. I never have washers with me in my pickup. Thanks for all the videos!
It's nice to have the tools you need, and have a building to fabricate what you need in, but without the skills it doesn't mean much, and believe you definitely have the skills to fabricate pretty much anything you want/need Evan! I enjoy watching your thought process as you fabricate something, since I do the same thing. I don't think the steers will come anywhere near the solar panel post, once they touch the fence by it and get shocked.
Ay yai yai... Gloves while operating a drill press... there was a guy at one of the local machine shops wearing gloves and lefty got wrapped up while he was boring holes... Good old Stubby... He's a hell of a guy... not as bad as the guy that got wrapped up in the lathe from his coveralls cuff that got caught... he didn't make it. HEY! 100K Subs! Congrats!
Good job Evan, got the rain too and the electric fence all set up so you're set to go now. Looks great and the place looks great too. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
Many congratulations on the milestone !! For some reason, watching your videos brings me a great deal of enjoyment, but also a calmness and escape from all the doctor crap I am, and have been going through for the past 4 or 5 years. Thank you both very much. Sincerely, Rod
I have really been enjoying your videos. Setup looks great. Not trying to be "that guy" but I noticed you didn't put a strap around the battery box. Animals and even weeds can lift up the lid and water can get in. Unless there is a way for the water to get out of the box it can freeze in the winter and ruin the battery. We run batteries in boxes on trailers for winches and have to ensure that water can't sit in the box for this very reason. Batteries are expensive as I am sure you know!
Congrats Evan and Rebekah on 100K subscribers! Thank you for all your hard work in producing entertaining and informative videos for us. Best wishes for your continued success on your RU-vid channel and in all your personal endeavors.
Ok im jealous of your soil. We farm on clay and it seems like rocks are the best yielding crop some years lol. I love the fence charger might consider building one of these some day. Keep up the good work!
You don't store Batteries on Concrete , The cold floor will cause it to fast discharge, and Sulfate the battery, if that happens there is a good change of loosing the battery. Set batteries on a Pallet.
Google search "battery on concrete" you will find several articles showing that isn't the case with batteries manufactured today. But was many years ago when batteries were manufactured with different materials.
I'll get good cattle people have cake for the cattle to tempted to move to one place to another their cubes and they're called cakes cattle will follow anywhere even Buffalo will follow you bison
Evan I think you building all of your projects bigger and or beefier is a good thing. I sometimes find myself wishing I would have made some of my projects bigger. I don't think you will ever regret it. Thanks for another great video keep up the great work.
Hey Evan where did find the heater in your water trough and how do you power it, your place looks great and y'all are so lucky to get rain, he in central Texas going on two months of no rain running out of grass round balers are very expensive, enjoy all your videos, thanks ROBERT.
I bought the heater at tractor supply. It was made to fit the rubbermaid trough. It just plugs into an extension cord. I think it kicks on when the water is 35 degrees.
Hello from the Netherlands . you have to put a piece of scrap wood between your concrete block and your battery. otherwise the cold from the concrete block will draw power from your battery. this also happens without frost temperatures. You should never put a battery on a concrete floor. thanks for the video . Sincerely, Hollandduck
That's actually not true. If a battery has an intact hard plastic case it will not discharge into a concrete or stone floor. Not sure how that myth got started but it has been disproven over and over.
Google "battery on concrete". You find several articles on why that isnt true anymore. That was when batteries were made of different materials. Newer batteries don't have that problem.
Congratulations on the 100000 subscribers, on another note, never leave a battery on cement. The old boys always told me that it's a sure way to kill them.
I would recommend building a box to place the charge controller and fence charger in. Regardless of what the manufacturer says, they will fail sooner rather than later with full exposure to UV rays.
Evan.. I believe we are in a similar line of work ... I have came to this conclusion watching how you do your projects.. the tools you use... and the terminology you use...🤣.. I could be wrong .. coz that happened 1 time..
Pete @justafewacres gave you some good kudos the other day. The two of you have great content. Thanks for sharing. Congrats for 100k subs too. How well does the tire changer actually work? I’ve been thinking about getting one myself.
100k!!!!!!!! Great job! I can't even imagine the journey! Very inspiring to us smaller channels! You and Pete should do a collaboration! Both Great Channels and Great Families!!!! Ever think about a few Dexter's for your feeder beef?
One small thing I would do that might just save the whole job ...... Vaseline! A quick dab of Vaseline on your battery terminals can stop corrosion that will shorten battery life and cause you headaches in the future. No need to put great gobs on .... just enough to cover it all! Or you could pay top $ for electrical grease ;0)
as much as they like that sweet feed that shows ya they like good green grass Even Better ! Ours Do To.. They Like Corn Really Good To Shelled And On The Cob They Love It..Its Like Candy To Them!!
How do you have the HEART To get rid of Fire Ball I say you keep him for Rebecca’s Baby he loves Rebecca and the heart of your farm li love watching your RU-vid to see fireball
Congratulations on 100,000! Way to go. We have been watching now for about a month all because my husband was looking for information on round balers and found your past episodes. Blessings from Ontario 🇨🇦
Hi Evan, congratulations on 100k. Your electric fence charger battery box would be easy to mount on the wooden fence post, keeping the grass from growing into and around the box. You need to build another electric fence charger box for the upper pastures, that would free up your portable fence charger to be used on other fence areas.
The joule is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units. It is equal to the amount of work done when a force of 1 newton displaces a mass through a distance of 1 meter in the direction of the force applied 🤓🤓
He was fortunate (and wise) to be able to use what he had on hand to reduce costs. Not all are so fortunate, but Evan and Rebekah seem very resourceful. Actually using that "saved" item after years means you aren't a hoarder after all, right, Evan? LOL
It's scalable. Build as big as the charger you want to use . Waiting on the next installment of the 4 wheeler fence running machine. I am sure it will turn out great. 👍
Neat project! Several years ago, I made a guitar neck straightener using those muffler hangers, and milled some pieces of aluminum. Worked real fine, but easy to over tighten ... Is the wind going to catch that panel? LOVE the drone footage!
Why don't you use some of those green fence post and build a fence post barrier around the solar panel post..........Cows can't get to panel pole then.......
We use a plastic battery box (has a lid you can make a strap for to keep it closed)and use an Anderson powerpole for the electrical connection. Its waterproof and sits on the ground just outside the garden fence. Its been working just fine for 15+ years. The strap is nylon webbing and a plastic clip. If Rebecca can sew, she can put it together for you.
