It was a pleasure meeting you at the Ithaca Farmers Market yesterday. Also, thank you for being so generous in signing your book. I will enjoy the eggs and pork chops!
Just sat down after letting my chickens out with my coffee and some banana bread and opened RU-vid. Perfect timing to watch one of my favorite farming shows
Good Morning Pete, it was great meeting with you yesterday morning at the Farmer's Market! Thanks for taking the time to talk with my wife and me.. I have already started reading your book and the eggs were a hit with our family and friends in CT.. Best Regards, Joe & Cheryl from Florida
I always enjoy your hay cutting videos. BTW, I'm impressed with your ability to pull a spring into position despite having your hands covered in grease. That's impressive hand strength!
Im watching at the 4 hour mark after release and YT says 32K views. Still humming at 8k and hour. Thanks Pete for the many hours of fun watching you work your farm!
Awesome video as always...I have the exact haybine myself and love it. I'm running a 1750 Oliver tractor. Watching you cut makes me want to jump on mine and do some cutting but already did my 3rd cut. 😊
Your channel is important. It shows the audience that their food does not just magically appear at the grocery store every day. Hard-working, conscientious people like you are the ones making it happen. Thank you.
Hey Pete, how does a farmer find new cows to buy for his farm? He looks in the "Cattlelog" of course. I know Hilarie will enjoy that one. Great to have you back on the farm again. I always say, it's great to take a break and travel, but then it's always great to be back home again.
Nothings better than the smell of fresh cut grass in the morning. The Hawk having a field day hunting for mice or any other creatures running for cover under the grass. It's a peaceful life style among cows, chickens, turkeys and pigs as the seasons change. Nice video
The plant you referred to as African ground orchid, we refer to as Queen Anne's Lace around here. It's kind of a pain, as the seeds stick to your clothing like burrs. About the only good thing I can say about it is, if you pick the flowers before they're fully open and place the stems in water with food coloring in it, you can get pastel hues to the flower. Always enjoy your content. God Bless and stay safe.
hey James & Andrew...haven't you noticed Pete likes to come up with his own exotic names for plants? I can't remember what he was calling his lilacs back in an earlier video, but he is pulling your leg :)
Good Sunday Pete. Ah just made my day by having yall into my home on Sundays. Hot coffee and fresh made date nut loaf. They were popular when I was a child, for some reason it just disappeared. Glad I inherited my Mom & Dad's love of cooking. Never a dull day or stale loaf of breads around the house.
When helping the neighbor farming back in the 70's, we always carried tools in the step toolbox on the tractor. Pipe wrench, hammer, adjustable wrench, screwdrivers, maybe a punch, pliers and assorted bolts & nuts. Never knew what we might run into.
Good morning Pete. Hay looks good... and you're right she sure does sound good. Back in my younger days I used to cut with a sickle-bar mower. Had no conditioner. That was the fifties and sixties. Sure brings back memories watching you lay it down. Hope you and your family have a great day❤
Great job as usual Pete!! Hay sure was thick! Drone impressed me staying stable in the steady breeze. I love to leave a kind word each time although I'm not quite sure you read all of these (too many trolls and experts can bring you down). Know that there is a silent majority of us who enjoy and appreciate your efforts! Murfreesboro TN
I sure remember those early fall days, last cutting of hay, school back in session, getting ready to chop corn...shorter days, cooler mornings, colors starting and grouse season just around the corner,,,my favorite time of year in USNY. Great looking last cut.
Hi pete enjoyed your vlog the drone shots and other shots were great always great to see farming at its grass roots level hope you hilary and the family all the best from near sydney australia ❤❤😂😂🇦🇺
That is the slowest I've seen the chickens come out. I love watching them all in a hurry to get to the great outdoors. I remember when those 2 pigs wouldn't come up to you and now they hurry you along to feed them. LOL I love Orton's sound He reminds me of Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.
Good morning Pete. Wish I could have met you in Rantoul, Illinois. I live close but had to work. Keep up the channel. Hi Hillary. Don't want to forget you.
Great video Pete! What really amazes me is how sophisticated these inexpensive drones are. How it circles a moving object while keeping the target centered.
Hey Pete, I remember the silage chopper that we had when I was a teenager. It had a tensioner that had a lock nut on it. After the second time that the lock nut was replaced because it would start backing off, I decided to try 2 regular nuts and tightened them together. That worked until the chopper was retired. Apparently, vibration was loosening the nylon insert in the lock nut.
Hi Pete, another great video. From the hundreds of your videos I've watched, I'm convinced you are a master mechanic, master farmer and a great guy who manages life perfectly. Have a great holiday. See you next time!
Love watching your videos!! Great way to relax and brings back memories of my childhood. More people need to watch how a good farmer takes care of not only his livestock but also his equipment. Thanks for making these vidoes and keep 'em coming!!!
Lovely! Thank-you. I seem to recall that Autumn grass here was called 'All wind and piss'. Not much feed quality perhaps? My Somerset, Maternal Grandfather said, however, that, 'What doesn't fatten will fill'. Welcome back!
We did our final hay cutting here in southern Ohio. We have the same haybine as Pete and my Dad told me it broke on him, the universal joint broke apart from the PTO coupler side of the shaft and he said the shaft slid out and rolled across the ground 😅, he made a trip to the tractor supply store and bought a new one and pressed it back together and finished to field, almost a week later we baled and it took almost a week to let it dry because the humidity was %70-%80 (plus heavy dew) all week but it's baled, sold and we are done with that part for the year, next comes soy bean harvest.
Always so neat to watch you interact with your animals! They always seem to know what you are saying. Like to watch the hay cutting at ground level and the drone level. It's like a work of art! Glad you are back on the farm. All the different tractors were neat but the farm and the work that you and Hilarie do is what's most interesting to us. Really like the drone view of the entire farm. It makes it easy to understand how the farm is laid out!
Hi Pete, I love your videos. I have a few older tractors myself that I maintain myself and I make a couple of hundred bales of hay every year. I do it all myself so I can relate well to what you do. Keep up the good work and God bless.
Wore my Just a few Acres tractor shirt yesterday... bunch of compliments and I told about your site! Thanks for sharing the setup of hay cutter and all the lubrication work! How did the farmer find his cow? He tractor down! 🤣
I hate to disappoint the person who thinks all vegetarians will tell you, I don't. I really enjoy watching all the cooking you do. Your jokes are always a hit with me too. I am partial to green tractors but watching you work on and use yours is great fun. 🙂👍👌
Oh, yikes! Billy's first offspring! Of course, Brownie will have a good bunch. Now that brought back memories of haying. Thanks for sharing, Pete. (Even the jokes (?) are good here.)
Welcome home Pete ,thank you for the videos from your trip . Great seeing the livestock again . I know it’s work for you but for everyone else it’s a needful thing to have your farm in our lives . Thanks to you and your family .
You look so relaxed after exhibition and seeing so many subscribers. I was happy to your kids joined you as well, they had to be Impressed . Thank you for Sharing Pete as I enjoyed your walk through of the tractor history!
Hello Pete, I have been following your videos for several years from Belgium. I am often surprised how you have just the same thing on your daily schedule as I have here on my horse farm. I just came home from mowing the last cut of hay this year, and 6000 km away from here you do exactly the same :-) . I manage my pastures exactly the same as you do, without chemicals. I do wonder how you manage to have hardly any docks (this big leaf weed who spreads easily) in your pastures. Best regards, Ed .
I'm late getting to your latest video because I have moved over the weekend and my pc has been packed for a few days. Just got my internet up and running in my new place and was finally able to sit down to relax a bit and enjoy your video. It has been the highlight of my busy day today. As always, being on the farm with you and Hilarie is relaxing, satisfying and a pure pleasure to watch and enjoy. Your mowed hay is so thick, yes, it was easy to see how lush and full the grass was! I wasn't able to hear the crickets or the tree frogs however, I'm sad to report. But the Praying Mantis was a delight to see! And watching the cows with you was a delight as always. And to watch you stop in the middle of your mowing just to regale us with one of your corny jokes was the icing on the cake. lol Actually, that was a pretty good joke, Pete. :) Thank you again as always, and I look forward to the next visit on Just a Few Acres Farm. I'm excited that Fall is coming. :)
Pete & Hilarie your content is always a delight to watch here in the UK not least because of the hard work and principled ethics you both have, but also for the inspiration and ingenuity you constantly show in bringing us clips of your working life, with your rare moments of relaxation, that might at times otherwise seem very seasonally repetitive for you. I often wonder whether Ezra the stray cat still visits you. His inquisitive antics have always for me added to the wonderfully entertaining content of your videos. Your more recent slow drone footage expertly following closely while you work with your fleet of tractors is a splendid addition in allowing the viewer to feel even more involved with you in your work.
Missed you both on the farm. Happy your family is back to normal? Lol can't wait to see those baby pigs t o ,it is exciting. I look forward cto every video you post. Blessings 🙌 to all!! ❤🎉😊
Darn it. The tractor was coming off the field I was getting all set for the next set of chores and here it was the end of the video. Honestly I could watch this for an hour easily if not longer. I just love these videos you put out.
Good to see you back on the farm Mr. Pete! Saint Hilarie, keeping the home fires burning and the gates open when you need to pass. Hope y'all have a great labor Day!
Pete This is one of the few channels I stop what I am doing and watch the whole video when you are working on that farm. Hard for me to tire of watching you mowing and raking hay with those old tractors.
So as a vegan that supports your channel. The grass joke fell a little short. I love that your animals are so loved, you farm clean, and that nothing goes to waste. Vegan or not you are what we need millions more like.
Pete your channel is one of the best on youtube. Your great to listen to and your advise on changing careers and being burned out has helped me personally alot. Thanks again for you time and great videos.
