Diagnose Solar Gate Malfunction

hey folks its Josh Downey Ridge farmer and welcome to the farm vlog today got some stuff going on here today my gate my wife called me this morning and said honey I can't get out the gate honey mmm so our gate is solar charged and I have a deep cycle battery and I think the deep cycle batteries gone bad so we've got our multimeter out here we're gonna test the battery I had to charge the battery probably about a month ago which kind of makes me suspect to where the battery may be going dead but it took a full charge so I don't know got a lot of stuff going on we had a big windstorm and a snow storm about a week ago and the new road that we built on the other side of the farm right over here has trees falling down all over it and that's the problem with these little pine trees these what we call Virginia pine or a scrub pine around here they just get a snow load on them and they break and snap and fall and leave a huge mess in the woods and they're not a very desirable tree to have around here anyway another thing we're going to do today is we're gonna go load up some fence post we've got a big pile of fence post up in the upper area of our farm kind of our junk storage area and I've got to start working on making that look a little bit nicer every time I ride by it I'm just not proud of what I got going on up there so we're gonna organize our old fence posts that we cut down and basically they're old cedar trees cedar fence post and we're also gonna go over to a friend's house a neighbor's house it's right over the hill here and we're gonna load up a bunch more he sold me these posts for a dollar apiece awesome I couldn't turn that down so guys come along with me today we're just gonna run around get some stuff done here on the farm it's gonna be 60 degrees beautiful sunny day we got to take advantage of these beautiful warm sunny days in December 60 degrees can't believe it come on with me let's figure out what's wrong with this gate all right [Music]