Love your story. Your parents and grandparents should be very proud of themselves for raising such a responsible hard working man. Continue to do right, God will continue to bless you in ways you never seen coming.
Man young guy never never never give up on your dreams long story short I left to he farm to make every one happy except me I totally loved the farm not one day goes buy I don't regret it follow your heart nice story
I did exactly the same as you did: I took over my grandparents ranch after having left Heidelberg University with a degree. Now I have been working as a High school teacher for over 35 years and running my farm which I got from my grandma . I am breeding cattles( Charolais) and horses on my 60 acres and I have my regular income from my teacher job. So I can afford a lot of stuff that makes my life much easier here on my farm. Greetings from Germany and go on with your awesome videos!
A Video from the Past! I’m grateful to see the beginning! The Grandparents’ Ranch! 31 acres! Lincoln California! Was brought in 1957! Square Bails of Hay! Rural Country Lifestyle! College! Hands on Learning! You’re down to Earth! The Brand! Beginning with six Heftier’s! Your Wife! What a Great Video! Thank-you for sharing! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have watched each of your videos multiple times, it never gets old!! Love seeing Mrs FTR , the kiddos, those wonderfully trained pups, the bottle calves and everything in your daily ranch life!! Look forward to every new video, you're amazing and one of the kindest, most caring person ever! Grandpa would be pretty of you.
I really enjoyed hearing your story. When I was young I always wanted to be a farmer. My dad was a county extension director. Both he and my mom were raised on farms. I helped friends during high school on their family farms. When I was old enough I joined 4-H and raised hogs. I rented space from farmers that were close enough to town to bike to. I learned early on that if you didn't grow up in a farm family it's hard to get land. So I did three years in the army, went to college to become a teacher. I taught for 33 years. I retired, sort of, 3 years ago. I now deliver mail. I am a small town guy and my happiest times are when I'm out in the country.
Loved watching this video. My husband has grown up farming all of his young life...he is 62 now. Times were hard & his parents lost their farm. He has always worked jobs that had to do with farming in one way or another. Now his youngest son has his own land with 40 pairs on it. And they also farm 400 acres of various crops corn/soybeans/hay. He is helping his son make it work. It's a tough road but they both love it. We live in Southeast Kansas & farmers around here are not of the younger generation...if you know what i mean. Stick to your dreams and "grow" with them. Much luck to you!
Tyler never give up your dream in life. Bet your grandfather was a neat guy. Hanging out with him I know you learned a lot. The one part which I would have like to have heard about was how you met your wife. Tyler thanks for sharing your story.
I'm in a similar situation. Currently living/working on a farm my grandparents owned. Seems like the ownership mentality skipped a generation or so and it fell into disrepair, so I moved in and am in the process of bringing it back to life. I see it much as you do. Keep thier legacy alive.
This video came up on my recommendations. Watched it when it originally came out, and watched it again just now. So much has changed on the Farmer Tyler ranch since then. You have surely honored your grandfather's legacy. Also, the progression of doggies at the beginning is kind of funny - the very old one that must be lifted, the second one that halfway makes it into the truck, and the third one that can jump.
I just came across this. I’ve been watching your videos for a while. It is nice to understand your story. Little bits of it resonate with my own - and other bits are completely different. What is the same is that we both run a small beef herd … and enjoy doing so. In spite of being at opposite ends of the earth … we share a Mediterranean climate and some other things. I enjoy the practical simplicity of your videos and pick up an idea for my own place every now and again. Best wishes from Australia (near Ballarat).
I made it to the end. I maybe an old lady from NC but I was raised on a farm and I can understand your dream. The sad thing is that things where I live have gotten so expensive that people are selling their farms piece at a time to people who want to live in the country but have no idea about loving the life. Hope your dreams work for you and your wife.
I give you credit for doing the job my grandson is 9 yrs old and with the virus situation and less school days a farm in coordination with education Dept is having the children go to help work on the farm tending cattle and learning all the work in farming planting and he loves it we need people like you!!!!!
I have worked in healthcare for 38 years. I have always felt that my education was excellent not just because we had fabulous professors who had many years of hands on experience, but because over the two years of the course we spent 2400 hours in local hospitals for clinical practicum. It was quite expensive for the era, but so excellent that I have never regretted it. This wasn't a profession I would have imagined for myself, but I took a job as a nurses aide to prevent starving and ended up helping the RTs and it all just fell into place.
Awesome story, I've been watching your videos but never heard the full story. Your grandparents sound like very wonderful people. God bless you all 🙏❤️ keep up the good work
I've been to Chico! My best friends moved there. I loved it there. ❤❤❤Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister. 🙏🏻 many prayers 🙏🏻 for you all 💙 🙏🏻
What makes me watch these farming videos is getting to know the stories . Some are better than others at telling the story . This is a good one . Thanks!
I agree with you. On the other hand it's hard for young guys like me to get into their own farming operation. Overall though most young people seem to have no interest.
@kyndakrazy we tried to find someone to we could transition our 211 acre farm to but never could find anyone so when we got to old to handle it we split it up and sold it ☹️
Only found this vid as have been scrolling back and forward to keep up with your story but also to find out where you been. Being a city boy who doesn't see enough of the country its actually strange that between your videos and another I enjoy called the "Hoof GP" I find them relaxing and very therapeutic. So thank Farmer Tyler and I hope you one day achieve your ultimate dream. 😊
Omg, what a wonderful story, hope your proud of yourself as I bet your parents and grandparents are VERY proud of how you and your ranch has came on, 😊😊😊😊x
Tyler, I appreciate you taking time out to tell us your story. There’s nothing like wonderful grandparents to give us our beginning in terms of love for whatever it is be at farming, gardening, raising flowers to sell Sewing, Carpentry etc. I had a wonderful grandparents to and they were big influencers in my life and I am forever grateful to him as well as my parents. I just wanted to share with you that from the time I was a little girl until I was 10 years old my father and mother leased land and I was in aware of this or even a difference between owning and leasing until we were forced to move off of a beautiful 640 acre property with a Victorian 2-story house with a large amount of rooms and cool things that no other house ever had had before or afterwards and we were in heaven there. My dad certainly had his hands full farming this place as well as working at Maytag and helping his father with his farm. We had moved twice in my lifetime but when I was 10 and we had to move off that farm I was devastated as was my siblings when we learned that it wasn’t our land or our house & instead they purchased a small farm under the wrong one and a half story house on it which what is so tiny and did not have running water in it except cold no I didn’t have a bathroom and by then there were 11 children and I’m telling you we were mad, but mom and dad had a vision to pay off the farm in five years and at the same time begin building a new house which we did last children whenever we had a free moment we’re digging the basement for the first room so that mother had a warm place to do her laundry in the winter time and a place for her canned goods and a furnace and firewood and a working toilet😃 Eventually, after we laid block and poured the cement flooring for that basement, daddy added a room on top and a hole was cut between the two so that we had a dining room for all of the people that came to our house on the regular basis and when I was 17 they began building the new house but I left for college and never lived in it. In fact half of the children did not live in it but it was a beautiful farm and we had probably 4 to 5 acres of garden and orchard where we had all the food we could possibly want… excellent food as well as beef and pork which was butchered on a regular basis so I grew up with the best and I’m grateful for how hard my parents worked and taught us to work and for all they gave us and they did pay that form off in under five years and I’ll never forget the day that my father came home and laid the deed to the property with it extra hundred dollar bill on the table and we all stood Garking at that hundred dollar bill because we’ve never seen one before… That was win a dime Would buy a lot. In fact recently my son computed value of that dime in 1971 to what it would be worth in 2022 and the price was $96.07. We were totally surprised!!!😊❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ Anyway I think my father was in his mid-40s when they bought that farm and I just don’t want you to give up on your dream of owning your own place!!!!!! Just start putting some money aside every chance you get and eventually it will be enough for that down payment on a place or where are you living the person will sell it to you or your grandmother will sell her place to you but you just have to have faith that something will come your way and you just do your part towards saving for it that’s exactly how my parents got it… they also started working on jobs in the evening calling daddy resurface the hardwood floors at schools in droves school buses for evening sports games; they went in and cleaned the restaurants locally after closing hours and I would babysit the six younger children till they got home… Things like that. Just some ideas and you’re such a great welder is it maybe you could hire for repairs or making gates and panels for people the internets a great place to advertise for your kind of talent and skills. Anyway I wish you and your wife the very best and as long as you work together and you make your goals together, everything will come out OK as long as you have each other that’s all that matters. My parents loved each other very much and it was obvious that they did and everybody admire them for their hard work in their Love for each other. They had great faith and nothing else matters❣️❣️❣️❣️
Old Video that I’m seeing for the first time! I love your stories! ❤ Seeing this makes me know how hard of a worker that you are! You’ve learned so much from your Grandparents and Parents! You’re an expert Weller! College! Basically! You’re a Jack of all Trades! ❤ I understand! I went home on weekends to be a Girl Scout Leader Leader for Seven Little Girls who had no leader! I worked at the local Ben Franklin to get money to come home! Your Wife! You’ve a Beautiful Wife! Beautiful Family! I’ve really enjoyed the History Story! Thank-you! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So much enjoyed learning about your start. It is incredible how our early paths paralleled each other. I spent time just like you on my grandpa's farm (corn & beans row-cropped, fed 250 head of feeder cattle, farrow-finished 400 sows, & 10-15 thousand turkeys each year) learned so much from my grandpa, who in addition to farming was a cattle buyer. From him I learned by actions, not words that a man's word was his bond. The buyer said I want so many head of calves at such and such weight, my grandpa said I will have them for you with no contracts signed. Those were the good old days! Very best of luck and continuing success to you! Be blessed.
Good Luck to You both. Ranchers are hard to come by. My grandfather farmed in WV. He raised cattle, crop and chickens, all were to live on. I spent my summers there. I loved it :) I enjoy watching your videos plus you look like my nephew :)
Great video! It explains a lot about your character. I grew up on a crop farm, vegetables, where they ran a few cows, chickens and hogs. As I near retirement, I’m finding myself looking for a place to do that myself. However, land in Texas is so expensive! In the meantime, I’ll just live that part of my life vicariously through you. Thanks Tyler!
I wish you and your wife all the luck in your endeavors. I do enjoy watching your channel. It would be great to see more young folk carry on what their folk before them laid out and started. Like watching you restore your grandpa's tractor. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I noticed a sense of pride when you were finished. I thought that was great. Blessing to you and your family.
I am fairly new to your channel but have watched all your videos and I like them all. I live in a rural area too and I love 🐄 cows looking forward to your videos each week
Thanks for sharing your story with us! It's always great to hear how someone has gotten where they are...and where they'd like to go. Best of luck with your plans! :)
great video series, this episode answered many of my questions. you really makes an excellent well balanced video. i have learned a great deal. i grew up helping local farmers hay, and i loved it.
Excellent video. I totally relate. Gramps was the one who instilled in me the values that you have today. Personal yes, but needed to be said to today's world. Hay, straw, alfalfa, timothy seed, clover to let the land rest, and keeping seed beans to replant the following year. Used wire, then bailing twine. We had trouble finding kids my age who would bail and work in the loft.. Jeans, flannels, in 110 degree mows. Then we'd find the nearest pond to cool off and semi wash and cool down. Hard work, wonderful life.
Later: I clearly have watched this video before, and I am not going to read what I typed earlier. I just want to say Tyler that your grandfather has to be very, VERY PROUD of YOU for your devotion to his ranch and the love you have shown him through your work ethic❣️❣️ I think you are a rare breed of person to be so loyal to family and ranch and work so selflessly for SO LONG for your grandfather is just unheard of. You are totally right that your piece of property is beautiful!! I have thought that many times as I watched your videos and I’ve even commented on videos how beautiful Lillian looks when your cattle are on the hillside, and the land is a lush green and the blue skies in the background. Thank you for demonstrating hard, work, ethics and loyalty to others, because there’s so many people that are just out for what they can get and you definitely are not that. I do pray that someday the land you would’ve worked royally will be yours forever, and it will not be in vain.❣️❣️❣️❣️ God bless you and your family and thank you to tell your story again. I know it was not easy for you. Love your channel.♥️♥️
Thank you for sharing your story it was beautiful, and so well done. I am new to your channel yet I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. I am from Northern California, Placerville area. I no longer live there and I truly miss it. I have lived many places but Northern California will always be my true home. I wish that all your dreams come true.
Super admirable nice story. I'm a small farmer in Michigan you made me curious about walnuts. My grandpa owned this place also and planted a lot of walnut trees didn't realize the value in them. Thank you for informing
Beautiful family Heritage. Awesome💖 respect for your heritage and lifestyles and values. I'm so glad I read this because I knew that your ranching and mechanical abilities were pretty informative and interesting and dedicated. I wish I best life for you and all your loved ones , grandparents, parents and wife and children. They are reaping a very quality blessing because of your choices that you have made in your lifetime and lifestyles. God is so Good, isn't He.⛪ 🌿👩👧👧👨👧👧👣👣👣👴👵🏡🌾🌱🐮🐂🐄🚜🐃⏳🕛🌠🌟
You are the most talented and caring person I have found. Keep doing what your heart and wife and family desire as you have shown everyone that your talents are unlimited. Hope only the best in your future endeavors. Thank you.
Your video(s) are my only current glimmer of hope/faith that there are still some people out there that are not only willing to do hard, honest, beneficial work, but love doing it. I sold a business several years ago and bought some property in the rolling hills of Tennessee....pretty much for a getaway property to hunt on. Over the next few years we built a cabin on it and a pole barn, got a tractor and some attachments, a decent used mini excavator, welder, plasma cutter, tools, etc... and so-on as needed to support my habit of making food plots, repairing equipment, fabricating odds and ends things, etc. I love for doing this stuff the whole time I'm there, there's no shortage of things to clean up, reclaim, haul off, etc... as I convert this sow's ear into a silk purse. I love doing it, from sun up til sun down when I'm here, yet my wife thinks I'm stressed out over all the work and hours......lol.....no matter how much I tell her I just love doing it and it gives me a huge sense of accomplishment. The problem here is NOBODY wants to work. I can't even get people to cut/bale hay off my property for FREE! Too bad you don't live close..... I'd be more than happy to let you farm the property, raise cattle, etc... as long as you were committed to maintaining/improving the land as you go and not letting it turn to overgrown briars, sagegrass, weeds, etc. I would even go as far as investing in equipment that could be paid off over a generous amount of time. Heck, my current neighbor has been running his cattle on some of my pastures for years, but has recently decided he may sell his place off....barns, ranch house, acreage, everything. Gonna miss him having his cattle around..... I even somewhat keep up with them during calving season as it's like a game to find where the mommas went and dropped calves, along overgrown fence lines, old timber wind rows, you name it. All of the fun, NONE of the responsibility....hahaha. Nevertheless, I really hope a good opportunity lands in your lap and you can take advantage of it. I know in a LOT of cases, that's all it takes.
Thank you very much Python 357! That’s really nice of you to say, I’m about ready to move to Tennessee now haha! The problem with this country in my opinion is people lost any sense of pride in what they do. They’d rather cash that government check, ill gotten unemployment, etc. and sit on their butt (I know there are legitimate cases and people truly in need, obviously that’s not who I’m talking about). People should be ashamed to take money they didn’t earn but instead they feel entitled to it. If things keep going this way I’m scared to see what this country will look like when my daughter is grown! Maybe whoever buys your neighbors place will put cows back out there. Thanks for the encouragement!
Thanks for sharing your story Tyler. Hearing it makes me feel like I know you a bit now and I would like to know more. Always felt like farming was my calling but I missed it. I have a bunch of farmer relatives including my grand parents. Spent my summers working on their farms and it taught me a great deal. Mostly how to put in an honest days work. Good luck with your efforts to grow your dream!
Love your story Tyler. You, my dear are one of the few younger generation who simply loves farming and does not mind the hard work involved. Then, you found a young lady who wants to share your dreams. I grew up on a small grade b dairy and cow/calf farm about 100 miles north of you. That life style is a very fond memory and certainly gives you great work ethics. At this age of well past retirement I still long for for the farm life...or at least parts of it. So glad to have found your channel, it is a joy to follow you along...and, to see that you really did learn from your grandpa the slow, methodical way with cattle. Good luck in all your endeavors and I will watch as long as you UT. Might even take a drive down your way.
You are a good person, Tyler. I am living on the homestead my dad bought in the 40’s. He started the farm after the war years, where he served. Good feeling to have deep roots.
So awesome wish I had opportunity to get land so I could have animals I'm trying to afford a place that I can just have a few goats a donkey and a few geese,turkeys,chickens I love animals so much it never seems like I have enough of them . your a great person I enjoy watching your videos your daughter on the tractor with you was so precious.wish you and your family well
Firstly can I say that's a beautiful photo of your wife and yourself with the dogs. Secondly, yourself and my hubby are so alike, not in looks but in farming history. He started working on a farm, helping the Cattleman. I think after several months they got him into the tractor ploughing. After that he done all jobs. He loved welding, doing the harvest crops, everything. Unfortunately after many years the farm went into Receivership and hubby was paid off but everything turned out well. I'm rattling on here, I hope I've not taken up too much of your time 😊😊 I really enjoyed that. ☺☺🌿💟🌿
Just found your channel on my recommended list. Like the video and your story. Christmas tree, pumpkin, corn and soybean farmer in southern IL. To wet here to get anything done, so I can probably binge some of your earlier videos in the next few days. Thanks for taking the time to do the video.
Thank you very much David! Dang you got your iron in a lot of different fires there! Great to have you I hope you enjoy the channel. Enjoy your wet break, I’m sure soon it’s going to be go time!
I lived all my life in city, but I know what you meant by "whoever gets it, gets it, who doesn't, doesn't"! Always loved to live a country life, always wanted a smaller house with big land. Married to a girl, who likes firm-living, but also like city life, and these two doesn't go together. Nice story, make sure you keep telling this story to your kids, it is a tradition that you want your kids to follow! God bless.
I'm fairly new to your show I have been enjoying it so much and have now came across your story. I completely agree my siblings and I grew up in a city and our Grandparents lived North about 7hrs on a farm every school break that's where we wanted to be on the farm and if our parents couldn't take us they would send us on the Grey Hound Bus sadly the farm is no longer in the family 😢. And I can't go a day with out watching your show Tyler !!
I sincerely loved hearing your story. Wow I did not know that about walnuts. My sister has a ranch in Sonora and I thought all the nut farms going up there were almonds, but maybe she was misinformed. If I had lots and lots of money I would have you running a farm for me. ❤😊I love that you keep it real
New subscriber just ran across your channel. I like to hear peoples storys, at first i wss thinking this was your fisrt video then realized there are priory, i will go back and check them out. Keep up the great content we need young farmer/ranchers in this business .
That was a really nice video , finding out how you started out was great it's nice to know how you hot set up and see also that your a home body great video
I made it to the end. 👍 And I enjoyed listening to you tell us, How it all Came to be what it is Today. I understand why you came back every weekend. Once you get the wide open spaces in your blood, NOTHING ever feels right, when you are rubbing elbows with a wall of ppl. Nothing holds a candle to being FREE. FREE IN SPIRIT IS THE BEST OF THE BEST 🤩👍😊 I could never go back to city life.
Thanks for sharing your story. I totally get it. It’s hard to beat experience. I’m in that same boat. It’s hard to keep growing the farm on a tight budget. Have a good one
Thanks Jacky. Yeah it’s tough for the small guy to get bigger, all we can do is substitute hard work and ingenuity for finances (like you’re doing with that rebaler). But when it’s something you love you’re happy to do it!
I am a new subscriber to your channel and wanted to say how much I enjoy it. You are so practical, knowledgeable, and articulate, and obviously a very hard worker. Listening to your story, it's clear that you have the heart of a farmer. You love the land, you care about your livestock, and you know how to manage it all as a business. I look forward to viewing the rest of your videos and watching what's yet to come!
Great video Tyler. I always enjoy somebody telling there history. I was tiped on your channel by Pete of "Just a few Acres Farm" in Ithaca New York , And he wasn't wrong. We wish you good fortune and look forward yo more videos.
I totally understand how you feel about living on the land. You either feel it deep inside or you don't. And no one can get that feeling unless you are born with it.
Truly enjoy your videos my friend, I have a small 6 acre farm in texas with lots of animals there's no better life than this. Wish your family and farm GOD's very best blessing's. your friend Frank
Thanks for sharing, my family owns a 44 acre ranch here in mexico, but im more into it than the rest of the family, this inspires me to continue my journey since im only 21and in college aswell, like you i go every weeknd and work the cattle, im still figuring out a lot of things but im doing good i believe, again thanks man, i can get some perspective of my future now, if someone has done it, why can´t i? Keep the hard work!
You’re only 21 that’s great you’ve got an early start. Learn all you can in school and set long term goals for the ranch. Good luck with your dream sounds like you’re on the right track!
