Getting ready for Feeder Pigs. Starting project to expand Our Pig Pasture & Building a new Pig Pen 

Evan your videos are the best out there. There is no other homesteading channel that even comes close to yours. You explain things in a very simple way but I always understand what you are doing. And you are always doing something different. Thanks for taking the time to share these videos with us .

The amount of work you and Rebeka accomplish while both working full-time is incredible! Thank you both for producing really enjoyable and educational content.

I like how you just talk to us like we're standing there. Makes for very enjoyable videos.

I love the new pen. what a nice place for the pigs. thank you for sharing with us. God bless.

Painting the water drum black will help stop algae from re-growing :)

Many years ago my wife and I built a pig farm in Oklahoma. We both had full time jobs so we always put in a second shift on the farm in the evenings. Most nights supper was after dark. Thanks for sharing your farm life with us, it brings back many memories.

Evan you’re videos are like I’m standing next to you

Very nice your a hard worker keep up the good work love your videos

Good job. Keep up the hard work.

Evan, this is a fun channel, you explain everything you do and make constant progress. You are also skillful on all sorts of things . Definitely a great place to learn farming skills.

Ethan your working your butt off between a regular job and the farm. Your enjoying it , lol to a certain extent, I do enjoy watching your work, I do know it's not easy. Take care and don't work to hard!

Great video as always, looks like a good place to put the goats to work. Thank you for sharing

Great job Evan and Rebecca, the piggy pen looks good for the starter pig and will be great for years to come. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.

Evan, I watch a heap of your type of videos from Here in Australia. I vote yours at the top of my list. I really enjoy your presentations.

That looks like goat habitat!

Good looking pig pen. Yup, drilling post holes is a chore in the Summer here in the Midwest. Water and wait is about all that can be done. Great video, Evan.

Love the video Evan and Rebb..

Great video again, you always do nice work Evan. Try not to worry about the key board warriors. It seems like there are always a few people that think they know what’s best for your farm. I appreciate you taking the time to take us along on the journey with you and Rebecca.

I have a 6 ft digging bar that I slip in at the top of the auger. Makes a really good fulcrum to put down pressure on the auger. I can dig through really hard ground with that.

Interesting video !

Evan, to ease your hole boring due to hard/dry earth maybe this trick will work for you. You need a length of solid pipe about 6foot long and a connection fitting to connect a hose pipe to the pipe. I use old copper pipe but any solid pipe will do, at one end cut some teeth 3 or 4 or so about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long. At the other end attach the hose connector. The rest is so simple connect the hose to the hose end of the pipe, turn on the water. Place the other end into the dirt, as you do the water will flush out the dirt in the middle of the pipe. Using some grips turn the pipe180 degrees one way then 180 the other. Backwards and forwards while keeping some down pressure on the pipe. The pipe will slowly but surly sink further and further into the ground till your at the level you want to be at. leave the hose running for a while to soak the surrounding soil. Remove the pipe and start to drill, you should find that you can do all this in 1/2 hour. While your drilling out the first hole you can have the second one being watered. Thanks for posting

You need to swing out when trying to load for the butcher, so you did it right! That looks great Evan. Happy 4th to you too! Hot one here in northern Indiana!

Happy Independence Day🎉🎊 God bless❤

I had a spot in a pasture where they had the metal fence posts in a small square, not sure what it was used for. Only had one fence panel tied between them. They used just about everything to hold them to the posts like zip ties, to wire ties. And the fact they were buried too. Then came the project of removing the posts. My property is mostly rocks everywhere you look.

Good 👍 job yall

HI GUYS When I worked for the Ohio Turnpike we had a tractor that we had welded a 2 inch by 1 foot long piece of hard pipe on the bottom of a piece of rectangular steel tubing and drilled holes for connection bolts to pin the bar to the bottom of the frontend loaders bucket on the tractor. With the PIPE on the bottom pointing down. We would raise and slip the fence post pusher (thats what we called it) over the post and with just a little downward pressure it would push the hundreds of post we had to drive for tight of way fencing. It eliminated the need to drive posts like your doing with a post driver. This worked real well. Your a very smart young man and a great fabricater I'm sure you can rig a piece of 12" long by 2 " steel pipe that can fit under your FRONT tractor bucket. WE HAD A GUY PLACING AND HOLDING THE POST AND ONE GUY PUSHING THEM DOWN INTO THE GROUND.. WE FOUND THAT THE 12 INCHES IN LENGTH KEPT THE POST FROM SLIPPING OFF THE POST AND HELPED TO KEEP FROM BENDING THE POST. WE WORKED SMART NOT HARD. LOL take care and GOD BLESS. Ps Sorry about your pond...

With Tee post try cutting a 2” pipe to the height of the T pose do you want out of the ground and slip that pipe oh you T post and use the bucket on your tractor to push down on the T post that 2 inch pipe will keep your T post from Boeing you may even go down to an inch and a half pipe but you can also use it to shove it in and out of your post holes that you’re trying to dig to get the water to go deep good luck keep up the good work I in joy your shows

Nice set up. I used hog panels on my starting paddock also. Now I’m actually using step in posts and poly braid to move them around to clean up my wood lines. We have 11 pigs this year and documenting some of my progress here on YT has been fun.

Hello from California. Enjoy your channel and all the hard work that goes with it. Need an update on the Turkeys

we got the heat now time to turn your compost plies,nice work ,i hope you buy extra pigs to sell

Great project. Have a great 4th.🇺🇸🇺🇸

You are right about the gate on a pig run. Never make it swing in.

G'day from downunder Evan, You should let the goats in that shaded area to clean the area up, they will eat anything

Like what y'all doing you goin have some happy pigs great video 😃🤩🎼🎵🇺🇲

Nice job!!

I like what you did with the waterer and the feeder. We have the same problem with digging holes here on our farm. Good job on the fence, thanks for sharing, hope you had a great 4th too, have a wonderful week.

Another great video! You guys work really hard and make a great team. It is a good idea to reuse your wood for your pig house. I see your wife was wearing her barn sandals lol

Happy Independence Day!! I love to watch you and Rebekah work together. With the two of you having a full time job you work hard at making improvements on the farm. The pigs will love all the brush they can roam through. GOOD JOB you two. Keep making videos and I will keep watching. Bye for now.

thx for sharing this nice video. Greetings from Belgium

Good job gate is perfect, go for 4 pigs you have the room and its no more work for 25% more meat :)

Wow that dirt sure is dry. At least you got them deep enough for the gate and fencing done.

I drooped a couple of sand bags on the top bar of the post hole digger. Hydraulicshad zero down pressure to bite

Evan, I think you are correct to have the fence gate swing out, much easier with a trailer. If you are worried about them rubbing the gate, just throw a 17 guage low sitting wire across connecting your circuit, and they won’t touch the gate. Good when people come in because they stay back. What kind of pigs are you thinking about getting? Thanks for sharing.

Good luck with the hogs and cows!

New here...just tuned in. Interesting channel. Got me some catching up to do. As we continue to follow ☺👍

Great job Evan those pigs are gonna be very happy don’t worry about negative comments sadly some people just love to pick at something I think you and Rebekah do a great job always awesome videos

Hello Evan nice but no matter what you do to pig proof things they with find a way to wreck it lol. Nice work have a great day.

hello, i think if u use black barrels or paint your barrel black the light wont make its way to the water and this prevents algae from growing. great work

Some pigs will climb over the hog panels, best to run an electric wire along the top of the new pen.

Gate's are perfect! Enclosure looks great! Boy I think it's a little dry!

Easiest way to dig in dry ground is to use loader bucket and set on post hole digger for down pressure. Need two people and two tractors of course. Usually just the weight of the bucket is enough .

Using the title from an Ed Bruce country song, you just had your "First Taste of Texas" as you dug your gate post holes. What you experienced is what we, here in Central Texas, get with every post hole. I guess that is why the Belltec augers originated here in Belton, Texas. Enjoyin' your videos, keep 'em comin'.

Some years back I had to build 3ft retaining wall using railway sleepers. Twelve posts on two levels down to at least 18 inches to fit a sleeper. The ground was shale and clay up a hill. Only way to dig was crowbar and shovel and after each couple of inches several gallons of water down the hole. I finished up letting a hose dribble in overnight. Did not have to concrete Thirty plus years later both walls are still standing.

Evan you know they will need a mud hollow so they can keep cool

Oh to be able to set t-posts so easy. We have to use a rock bar but mainly a jackhammer. Once set they stay.

Happy Independence Day

Hey 👋 Evan and Rebecca.

Evan- "I'm not giving up, I'm just saying this will be good enough. . . ok I'm giving up, we're puttin' in the posts." I have found myself saying this exact same thing on the homestead LOL. I do have to ask, Evan: how do you hammer in those t-posts without wearing hearing protection?! I hit a t-post three times and had to go get some hearing protection! Love your energy and content, thank you for sharing so much with us!

You have enough room there Evan for 20 pigs. Best of luck with them.

I live in Florida so my auger has no problem 😂

Looking good

You may want to use a handheld grinder and put a sharper edge on that post hole digger and also add some more down pressure. With the torque of the tractor it should grind its way through even the hardest soil. Enjoy your channel thanks

Evan and Rebecca you guys may a great team,great videos keep up the great work

Happy Independence Day to you and Rebekah! Thank you for sharing! Don’t listen to know it alls! Lol

I love your videos and your ingenuity. For really hard ground like that, you might want to drill smaller holes first and step up to the size you need. As for big concrete masses, I don't have a better idea, sorry.

thx again

Hint, if you are able always put some pig pans with feed and water in your trailer several days before loading for butcher or sale and park your trailer with loading doors open. They will get acclimated to the trailer and will self load. Hogs are sensitive to light and they hate going from lighted areas to shaded areas and are frightened by sounds never seen a stock trailer that was very quiet. Banging and clanging startles them.

Just a few ideas and observations. The fill connection might be better directly to the back of your water barrel so the hogs don't pull and chew it. Augering the holes might go better with adding weight to the auger like strapping that piece of concrete on and checking the cutting edges. Thanks for your videos and I enjoy all your projects.

Should be interesting to see what "junk" the pigs expose.

Hope you two had a great Independence Day Evan and Rebekah. As for that negative comment you're waiting on - Well, I don't think those pigs are going to do much "cleaning" on that big lot - however the goats would clean up the brush. The pigs will have small areas rooted out fairly clean but otherwise just pig trails. 🤷‍♂You are doing a super nice job on the drinker, fence and gate though ... that IS swinging the right direction👍. Looking forward to seeing those rooters in there.

I have the same problem with my ground. Post auger stops. Solved the problem the same - bucket of water and the next day the auger goes down.

Happy 4th of July Evan and Bekka

Fence building is keeping you busy.

Have you researched to see if augers need to be sharpened? Seems like it should still cut through hard ground. Love your place!

I do the same thing with my hog gates to the outside. I add a lower chain to the bottom of the gate to help with stability if they push on it gives it two anchor points then and I have never had a issue yet. Knock on wood.

Thank you

Hardest working couple on you tube.

We used an 8’ 2x4 put next to the gearbox to provide downward pressure. We planted a 24 vine vineyard, 26 tree orchard, and innumerable shrubs.

Paint the water barrel black should help stop algae from forming

Use a smaller augur to drill a hole, then water then your larger drill. Works better

Great stuff! The pigs will be in the proverbial (heaven, not the other!). I use a ground anchor to help start holes - the large corkscrew ones, which work surprisingly well. Also, I wondered if that burn pit you mentioned was where they made charcoal? It's unusual to have a pit where there's a burn pile otherwise - if a pit, it helps keep the air out for pyrolysis.

The new pig pen looks good and they will have plenty of room to root around in and you and Rebecca did a good job. You can dig about 18 inches down in south Alabama and you will hit red clay and it is hard as cement. I feel for you trying to dig those holes.

Paint your drum Black to keep the sun light out. It will help keep the algae from growing.

you are screwing a flat washer and fitting onto a curved surface of the barrel you could add extra thick washers or machine a curved/flat interface.

You need to put like a 6 ft bar on the back of your post hole digger so you can pull down on or add weight to it so it will dig better

always a great video...good job getting ready for the pigs ! Take Care.....

You’re exactly right about that gate. I have pigs and I set my gate to open out .

Evan see if there is not a place to put a rod at the top of your post hole digger if not weld one to it to allow you to put more pressure to help you dig. Mine has a place to insert a steel rod .

Using those panels is expensive but, wherever you use steel Tpost you can use UV resistant zip ties to secure to the tpost. Instead of using wire ties or baling wire to secure

Thx

....and you kept saying to yourself, "bacon and ribs are worth this work!!"

Happy Fourth of July If the shelter it is only for when the pigs are small, many people use a IBC tote, it even works for grown pigs, but then they need one each.

I was thinking about the 2 if you today. Did you do anything with the family for the 4th? I remember the year you had them all over...it looked like such a good time ❤️ I saw that Illinois was getting some pretty good storms today. Hopefully, if they hit you, they aren't too bad. The pigs are going to be very happy in the size of run!! Going to make some delicious bacon 😋

Nice work ethic young man! I will be in FLORA, iLLINOIS FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS GOT TO RUN MY WIFES BABY BROTHER BACK AND FORTH TO Champaign and Flora EMERGENCY rooms

put your goats in there for two weeks and it will be clean

Well done!! 🐷

Great video pigs will have plenty a room and you can probably put 10 pegs in there

Thanks for sharing

Nice job!

JudithB We had chain link gates and the horses and cows would scratch themselves on them. Really hard to fix the bows they would create. I ended up running a couple of strands of barb wire in n out the gates. When they went to scratch it would poke them, and that fixed the problem. That would keep your hogs from scratching on the gate.