Looks good Be happy with your work & don’t worry about all the key board heroes out there !! The goats want chew on the cords but once 🤣🤣 Keep working hard , enjoy watching you & your wife building the homestead 👍
Hey Evan, you and Rebekah did a great job on your barn and you followed code for safety 👍👍👍👍 for caring. You’re doing a great job around there so keep the good work and videos coming. We thank you for sharing with us.
Mighty handsome rooster for the ladies. That old barn has looks great and you have done well in fixing it up. Look forward to what you are going to do next. God Bless from Phoenix.
Well, I am an old dog and just learned a new trick, chickens need a “sundown” night light. I would think they do better off the cold floor and close together on cold nights. Thank you. Retired School Bus Garage mechanic, North Carolina.
In our area we pay $35.00 a moth just for a meter. We have one building on a separate meter because we bought the neighbor's land with the building on it. We will be doing the same as you and running wire from our box to the building and saving $420.00 a year! We have to use conduit because it crosses a road though
Poor little confused chickens and then there was light LOLOL. Your goats are darling for sure so cute. Now I had a meeting early this morning with the chickens and the goats they all said 100% they are so glad that you their owner and caretaker are doing a GREAT JOB....whew they are happy they said. Don't tell them that I told you now. God bless have a great day and I hope my post gave you a little giggle. They are happy campers now and should lay lots and lots of eggs.
Great video Evan. Though I dont think you need to explain yourself or decisions it's nice to know where your head is at when thinking of the things you are doing.
That pile of smashed up concrete by the barn door is bugging the hell out of me! I lie awake at night worrying about it. Is it serving some secret purpose? A goat mountain, perhaps. Love your vlog. Clear precise diction and no hesitations. Super.
thank you so much for explaining the moisture \ dampness in the barn. We are in the process of measuring our barn for wiring (note: we like our freedom to much and we have no animals, but do enjoy gardening) so this video was hugh help on how we decide to finish the electrical.
Excellent video . Great explanation in why you did and changed things . I remember you putting that electrical wire in . Most hydro companies use aluminum these days for their over head wires . Got a new service put in and the wire was aluminum to the breaker box . From there it's copper . Don't know why you were thinking of a dry barn . When you put your water line in almost to the barn you were thinking of continuing that water line inside the barn some day . Well now you're all set for when that happens .Looking good .
Great video update bud! I'm curious if you have plans to remove cinder block pile in the front of the barn? It looks like a good place for snakes to live and hibernate. Just a thought. Love how the homestead is coming along.
More snakes around the farm is a good thing. My grandparents had many snakes in their barns and buildings and two five feet plus king snakes that lived in the milk barn and seen almost every day during warm weather. Snakes don’t eat or contaminate grain and feed as rodents do. Rats won’t stay in an “apartment” where snakes live. Are you a rat, ha ha?
chickens tend to spill a lot of food out of the automatic feeders. easy to fix by putting a small diameter garden hose ouround the edge. you mesure the lenght of hose you need and cut only through half the diameter and slid the cut sixe over the ledge og the bottom feeder. Just an Idea
Sometimes it doesn't pay to be cheap. As a old firefighter emt, I have worked mobile home fires that was caused by the aluminum wire and copper wire reacting with one another.
I believe a GFCI outlet can be used to protect non-GFCI outlets downstream from it. I would look carefully at the possible wiring options. GFCI outlets have Line terminals for incoming connections (from the Breaker Box) and Load terminals for protecting downstream wiring.. Good luck and God bless. you all
If you decide to have a workbench or project area with multi outlets then you can re-use those non-GFCI outlets downstream from the first GFCI outlet on that branch circuit as Jeffery suggested. Just be sure you apply the "GFCI protected" labels on the downstream outlets. Also it is a good idea to run your main light circuit off a different circuit breaker than your outlets. I found out how dark a shed could be back in the '70's when running a circular saw through a heavy piece of wood as it bound up and blew one of those old 15A glass fuses.
I understand a GFCI can protect 3 additional outlets. But that goes back to more water buckets may freeze if it trips. So, individual gfci outlets was intentional.
In the goat pen use slanted boards on the wood feeder. Cut down a lot of waste of hay. Once the hay is on the ground they will not eat it. That is why you had to shovel so much when you clean their pen. A goat farmer used the method and saved a ton of money in hay........
Reading these comments on copper and alum wire. As I understand it, alum will vibrate in the circuit breaker box under the passage of high currents and vibrate right out of the connection with the passage of time. Arcing starts in the box and your house burns down. Copper wont do that. Hence modern wiring changes from alum to copper at the box. Or so I'm told.
Evan If I saw correctly you put gfci in every receptacle. This is not code. One gfci per curcuit. The first one feeds the rest and that is your protection. I enjoy watching you and Rebecca. God bless you!!!
Good video. I think you should move the blocks the goats climb on out back by the sun. Just saying.... or get them things to play on, oh how about a swing set...lol... have a good weekend.
Just found your channel. I watched the pasture update. Will you be using that for grazing cattle? Any thoughts on a few goats to clean out weeds in the future?
evan, if you had run the 2 inch pvc underground for your feeder you could have bought cheaper wire. it would still be aluminum but would not be direct burial cable making it a little cheaper. the cost would probably wash out. the advantage would be in being able to pull in new if lightning damages the original. one other thing would be the ease of teeing to another location if the future demands it. i think you did great and it all looks good.........g
joyce metheny , because they poo when they ‘sleep’ and sitting in it can cause it to stick to them and dry then possibly cause problems for the chickens.
The load center in the barn should be mounted on a piece of board attached to the wall to keep metal the load center from touching the concrete to keep it from early rusting. Just saying.......
I don't know who is feeding you this bs about chickens not able to find the roosts after lights go out, I been raising hundreds of layers for over 38 years, and my timers are set to come on in the morning at the same time as sun rise in mid summer, and turn off at winter sun rise, and come back on just before sun set at night and stay on until the longest summer day, they know when it is time to get on the roosts, and even if some fall off in the dark, they know were to go to get back one, young ones if the light go off before they are up, they always find there way up in total dark.. remember to pull a permit for any electrical work you do, even if your adding a plug or 2 as you can be charged for not doing so, also, if you have a fire and it is said to be started by electrical, and no permit is on file for that area, your insurance will be void
