Trench tip: After placing the pipe/wire/conduit in the trench fill with 6-12" of fill. Then place caution tape in the trench. Then continue to fill. Years later you'll hit the tape before the pipe when digging.
You can also put in sheets of siding, like the stuff from the old barn. That would also protect it from rocks above puncturing whatever line is in the ground and spread the load, so they're less likely to get punctured by any rocks below.
Eric you and your dad make it look so easy working a farm. I realize you and your family have been at it for 10 generations. I don't think the viewer's could keep up. Thanks for what you do and for the big part your family plays in keeping America going.
The amount of work that you have to do so I can have a gallon of milk is phenomenal. I appreciate your work ethic and will never complain about the price of milk again. I know the farmer only gets a very small portion of what I pay at the store.
Just finished your latest video. You were the first Farm video I ever watched 2 years ago. Still watching. Great show. Really really enjoy seeing the progress you and your Dad have made in your farm. Congratulations! Looking forward to the future.
Congratulations on finishing the install of the new well!! So much to do and so little time. With the farmers work ethics it will all get done in due time. Love your videos Eric an I really appreciate all the extra time and efforts it takes to keep the channel going!!!
10th Generation Excavation & Utility Co. Good to be all around knowledgeable with this work. Great job and I will take a tee shirt with the new excavation logo when you get them 👍👍
It makes me nervous that you work on that rusty metal covered with poop with no gloves on. You are quite a seasoned equipment operator. Very impressive.v Very glad the new well worked out for you. Great video and thanks.
It's wonderful to watch you and your dad working so closely together. You are both so talented and knowledgeable in dealing with each aspect of your farm. You have to know EVERYTHING! Love your new barn and look forward to watching your farm grow. From southern West Virginia.
I’ve learned while watching these videos that you have to be party dairyman, part veterinarian, part wrangler, part mechanic, part farmer and the lost goes on. These are all skills that can be taught in school but clearly you learned them as an apprentice alongside your dad and that’s the best way.
I was born in the mid 60's...back when kids respected their parents and did what they're told. I see the bond and mutual respect that you and your Dad have for each other that's often just a remnant of the past. Much respect to you both.
Nice new well ya got there. 😁 Seriously though A new well is a blessing. My neighbors have to truck in all their water. Arsenic levels are super high in the ground water.
Eric I'm impressed with how straight your trench you dug with the backhoe, you got some nice soil there. Here on the Big Island that bucket would be wore down to a nub from all this Lava rock we are on, lol. Love you videos buddy, God Bless and Aloha🤙🏼🤙🏼.
Something that may be of interest , in my construction experience the best magnetic sweep for picking up nails is a 30 or 36 inch AJC with adjustable wheels , if you can find one you might want to run it over where the old barn was
When talking about your farm you use “they” as in when they put this in, when they built this, etc. Are you talking about older family members or previous owners? Thanks for taking the time to video, edit and post. You have a great channel.
You may want to put a new post in now while its fresh job site,good luck with the pump We put one in 3 weeks later lighting strike took it out so we replaced it 😉
Great video!!! Make sure you pay attention up on the roof I was doing some work on a roof turned round to speak to my friend just in time for him to disappear through it. He landed on some machinery and died instantly .
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 An open area ful of rusty old nails! That you all just dropped onto the ground when taking down that metal. When doing something like this, we always had a pail below each of us, to drop the nails into. I hope you're going to go over the area with a big magnet to pick upmost of them once you are done dismantling! Otherwise, you'll pick them up one-by-one for years to come, usually from out of the tread of a flat tire! Or the hoof of a lame cow.
@@beckyumphrey2626 1: what does Nicole have to do with the feed building? And 2: I didn’t make hateful comments towards Nicole. Nicole was the nicest person I’ve ever known.
I used to live 2 miles from a quarry. It will absolutely mess with your water table. I had a 75’ well and after they blasted one day, I had no water. They denied it of course, but then new well I had dug I told them not to stop drilling until I had 25 gpm at 65 psi. They went 230 feet through solid limestone to get that rate. When they hit limestone, the rate per foot doubles. With the pump it cost me over $10k. But we’ll worth it! Pun intended limestone wells are the best water you can get from what they were telling me
Don't know about your state but here in Wisconsin it's 30 inches or more in the ground for electric and other utilities and the wire and all is not cheap, it's heavy also
