she's going to the butcher 

I have to apologize to you. I had a preconceived opinion that anybody who drives a sweet animal to a butcher is cold hearted. Yet after watching your videos, you and your family have the utmost respect and kindness for your animals. I tip my hat for what you do and wish you and your family nothing but the best 👍

Your a lucky man to have your wife as your work partner. You guys seem to work well together amd enjoy each other!

Ending your last few videos while eating with your wife and kids is a nice touch. Thank you for giving us an insight into the details of butchering your cattle.

Family is everything! I especially loved it when you are tyring up the fencing & Hilarie pops her finger on to tie the knot. That's Love right there!

small farms like your one are the real soul of usa. Be proud of yor job!!! I like your videos. Greetings from Italy

Just got recommended your channel and I say thank you RU-vid Algorithms. I now have a new favorite channel. Much love from Upstate New York

i love this mans bubbly infectious outgoing positive personality anyone else

Another great video! Thanks. Just one comment..... that trailer..... I have two suggestions. A. Buy a couple of gallons of Rustoleum paint, some paint brushes and rollers and have your kids paint it over the winter or B. Go down to the local High School and see the Art Teacher. Propose a contest for the art students to come up with a mural to paint on the trailer along with a "Just a Few Acres Farm" logo. Pick the best one then have students paint the trailer. Buy them a couple of Pizzas and let them have at it!!

Just bumped into this video and thoroughly enjoyed it. Especially when everyone is at dinner. 🇺🇸❤️

I like how he just like yep it’s farming and raising animals don’t like it don’t watch.

I love it. Everyone around the table and all of you working together. Great Providers and hard workers ❤

I've been enjoying all of your videos. You're truly blessed with such a beautiful family, may God bless them all and thank you for the videos. 😃

Love the way you handle your stock.

City slicker my entire life, but I cant get enough of these videos. I now buy Dexter meat from a small family farm similar to yours outside of the city. I buy a lot of ground beef each time, usually 25 lbs., and get a discount. It costs more than supermarket, but it definitely tastes better because it is grass fed only.

I thought you might give the name and reason why she was a call cow. I know Sammy's day will come but I'm glad he gets a chance to see more sunrises.

Recent subscriber and love how you break down and explain everything. The why, how’s and how-not’s! Always looking forward to your next video. But watching your previous ones in the meantime.

You are now my favorite,love as your family is involved

Always good to see the kids involved. Keep up the good work!

I love what you put on RU-vid you have every sweet family Intuit help me to learn us so much about animals and farm life thank you

I hope your children know how cute (likable, personable, friendly) you are.

You guys work so hard but you seem to be savoring the farm life. I envy you! I appreciate your videos and I always look forward to your next one!

11:25 "Y'all are a bunch of Karens, asking to speak to the manager." Love it.

Lovely family 👨‍👩‍👦. Wish you the best from Morocco 🇲🇦 🇺🇸

Another great video! I just found your channel this weekend & I’ve been binge watching on all of your great content. Thanks for sharing!

That’s a lot of manure. Watching your past and learning lots.

2:16 the COW: I'll see you on the other side!

I ENJOYED THE FAMILY TOGETHER IN THIS VIDEO... SWEET KIDS...

Thanks for sharing Pete. I really enjoy your videos.

Definition of hard work. It never stops. All the best!

Its a good feeling knowing where your food comes from. Being home grown and farm raised, in my book is way better. That quick attach was a nice fix, you done good. My John Deere has quick attach but i like the Skid Steer style much better.

Just love your having the whole family involved in the farm activities.

Pete, great family.

Nice video. I really like your chicken house. And like always I enjoy seeing your tractors.

I just finally decided to watch a video of yours last night and I really enjoy the channel in general!

looks like u guys have a good and happy life style...good for u....

Your family is so fun to watch. Ever think about allowing one or two people to come work on your farm for free? I'm thinking like a week visit and they might even have to pay you for the experience. Having these farm helpers would give you more content for your channel too. I'm out here in Oregon, grew up on a cane berry farm spending hours on both the International Model B along with Massey Fergusons and Ford tractors. I love watching your channel because I've lived this life and do miss it now that I'm retired and living in the city. Any-who just an idea that people would love spending time on your farm and if they came with skills to that would be huge plus!

I twist the tail of cattle to get them moving if they are stubborn, as long as I have their heads in the right direction. It has been 20 years, but I never had problems with loading pigs. I just walk everyday with the bucket of their food and walk different paths to leave their food in different spots at different heights but where they easily get to it. If you leave their food on the same spot, they expect it there everyday and will not go through non familiar spaces. When I load them in the trailer, I walk the bucket of some food into front of the trailer and they get on, while I exit by the small front door and then close the back door behind them.

Beautiful family

My husband and I love watching everything you and your family does. I would like to suggest a pallet chicken roost for the chicken house. Something like that might work well for your setup.

Loving the videos keep up the good work!

Great stuff Pete👍👍👍👍

Hi Pete! Always great to see life on a working farm. You might not want to caption a video with "she's going to the butcher" and have a pic of your daughter at the same time. Lol

In my coop I used joist hangers for the roosts, just didn’t nail them to the cross pieces

Nails are the best cotter pins they make

Your Video's are very good. Keep them coming.

thank you Pete

Nice job on the chicken house (and the burgers...)

I could watch you for days. Hello from a fellow NYer.....right outside Buffalo 😊

Sammy lives to see another day!

Great Parents , produce Great kids. who produce great Grandkids, and the link go on. But it all starts with Great Parents. well done. all.ECF

If you mounted the bucket to the lower pin hole, assuming the hydraulic cylinders have some extra range left, wouldn't you have a greater arc of travel, and a steeper down angle?

I'm new to the chanel and I love your videos there entertaining and educational makes me want to buy some cows thank you for entertaining us God bless

Love your videos thanks for feeding. The usa

Good video making city life look not so appealing.but have always lived in city but learning some stuff from u so thanks.

I have been looking at the same quick hitch conversion for my 2250 loader. Let us know how you like it. I think you bucket will work better in the lower set of holes, if I remember from when I ran a 656 loader as a kid.

Pete i would NEVER make a stock farmer i couldn't bring a animal to slaughter i wasn't far off tears keep safe you lot.

AWE ITS sad to see when they go to the butchers , but its understandable. love the videos you guys do.

How about a lil paint on the cattle-car? al those tractors nice & red, ... a nice dark green cattle car will look gorgeous Pete!!!

If you go the upper hole on the loader, you will get a greater dump angle with the same length of stroke on the dump cylinders. You will not have the same load over height - it will be less but you don't load high sided trucks/trailers that I know of. I would check with your dealer but I think there was a higher flow pump for the 656 - you might also have them verify the relief valve pressure is where it should be. Some were marked on the end hex. I enjoy your videos - glad to see the old red iron still being used - takes me back to my early career.

Sitting here watching this...while eatin a t-bone. Quality entertainment right here!

Nice to have a good butcher close by I wish I had one closer,but I razed goats boar goats so me and brother did our on close to deer season so we could mixed some of the meat. Goat is very dry meat so we would mix it with deer and use pork belly in the mix too bring a better taste of it.

Im a pretty tough dude, I'm a philosopher, writer, machinist, woodworker and grumpy old bastard, and I totally love (in a manly way) you and your whole family. its whats wholesome about people like you and America, but Jesus H I could not send that cow top the butchers, Id be weeping even tough I eat tons of beef - you are a special guy with guts.

Now all I can think about is burgers!!!

New favorite channel 🤜🤛👍

I believe you might be wrong about the position of the bucket attachment. I think that if you change the position of the bolt you will gain some more “dumping angel”. It should help based of what I could see from the video. Best of luck from Sweden!

New subscriber lovin' it🇭🇲👍

Nice job on the video.

Trying to visualize by pointing my index finger (hydraulic arm) horizontally on the edge of a ruler and sliding my thump (main arm) downwards the ruler (bucket) seems to tip down, I would give it a try anyways. Given enough clearance it would also seem convenient to add a hole for the pin further to the bucket side to get it tip even further. Greetings and keep going.

Wont be long till you buy a quick attach for the other loader. then you can switch out the bucket and spike to whatever you please.

She's got her daddies jaws

I think the cows know....😉

The cylinder pivot and arm pivot holes need to be closer together for more range of motion on the bucket. Measure the old bucket brackets and I'll bet they're closer together than the forklift. The holes are farther apart on the forklift brackets for more leverage.

This is the process if you eat steak like I do it’s the process .

the animals look happy !! good job!!also excellent choice of grilling,,, charcoal is the best.. takes longer but so much more tasty!!

The nail trick has spread off the farm. You'd be suprised how often i find cars with nails in place of cotter pins, even in the city. Always sketches me out, but i suppose ive never seen a broken one.

Luv the analogy…..oh is that a corvette hiding under the tarp?

Good job

The coconut nut is a giant nut but is not a nut compost by Ryan Cayabyab. Its a great song😘

Nothing like a dinner with family

I had a Tacoma exactly like yours- still kicking myself for trading it .

Great job on the loader, your dad's a wonderful man!

I was surprised to see you with that hot shot. In our ten years raising Dexters we’ve never needed one. Usually a strong tail grab works for all but the most cantankerous.

I just started watching your videos really like Them What a shame that the American farmer Cannot make the money he should For his product

On my old Paulson loader on my Super C the top pivot has a long horizontal slot to allow the pin to slide forward and backwards at the highest tipping point so the bucket can tip forward and dump the bucket at the 80% point, then as the loader goes down it resets back . You would have to build new plates on the top pin bolsters to cut sliding pin slots and cut them a little at a time till you get the geometry right for the tipping point.

and it's nice to know that the cows don't scream like that just here

thats very smart, feed the pigs in the trailer !! and the last day close the door . More people should do that

If those cows were mine and they bellyached that much; I would want to walk up to each of them and say; “what is your problem?” Lol

I have a pin on my round baler that I put a nail in when it broke in the field. When I had time I put the correct pin in it. Next time I got to the field it broke again. So I field fixed it with another nail. This happened to me twice. So finally I just said I am going to leave the nail in there. That was probably 5 or 6 years ago. Still going strong. Not sure why the pin breaks but the nail doesn't. But not going to change it anymore

Pete I'm so glad your wife didn't have to get in that virus nightmare as a nurse. She is a blessing to be strong enough to be your partner. Your dad looks like a true gentleman also. I think what You have is such a blessing that was earned by you. What kind of tractors did your grandfather have? Did they make a living on just the farm? I've watched your videos on how you built the farmhouse. I've watched at least 3 times and used your advice on a few fixes on my house. I think you daughter will became a VET, she and your son are so caring and giving working with the animals. The work ethic is what is missing today, but I think this will change. Have you heard of the veggie boys ? They have mentioned your name before. 14 family members work on 400 acre farm they do silage in the huge bags, are you sure those are not biodegradable? If you did something with Andrew I bet both of you could grow quicker. Just an idea. All the best, keep up the great job , America needs more positive thinking and growth that you provide. Neal

I love this format. You are an excellent instructor but I know you must, at times struggle for content. You, sharing a day on the farm, then cooking a meal and sitting at the table, I will watch this over and over again. Great episode!

Hahaha, I really missed this Farm❤️❤️

Dad saves the day

I very much enjoy your videos. I do has a question, I grew up on a farm and we sold cows by the half, but you sell the piece, your thoughts on each way of marketing them?

Nice welds

I have the same problem with my trailer hitch. Too many salty highways.

Nest is the Best

Living the life.

Awesome video as usual. Just one request, could you compile all the 656 loader install videos into one video?

You need a skidsteer for Christmas lol

I wonder if you could move your lower pin hole closer to the bucket I think that it would have been better for dumping if the IH frame that you built off of had been turned over That girl frame was probably designed to keep the forks closer to level at higher levels.