FARMING FUN...HOW DOES THE JOHN DEERE GATOR 825I DO IN THE SNOW??

morning guys it's Josh Tony rich farmer welcome to the farm blog today it's snow day guys we had a big ole winter storm blow through in my area of North Carolina we were not expecting this totally we weren't expecting this I did not prepare it all so this morning I thought I'd take you around and show you what we do on a snow day because we've got to go check all the animals first thing in the morning make sure everything's okay and we got to go check the goat make sure we don't have a baby goat back there there very well could be a baby goat they always seem to wait till the worst possible time the worst possible weather so come on on the farm blog today and we'll ride around on a gator and check everything out have some fun and this is Lexi's first time in the snow awesome first time ever [Music] man guys this look how beautiful it is out here and snow just makes it so pretty [Music] so we've got a problem here guys we gotta take care of this right away so what I didn't think about with this electric polyphen said we put up a couple months ago I didn't ever think about snow load being on it man look at this fence and just tore it up well it didn't it didn't break it but it's laying down on its side I got to shake it loose so we'll turn the power off and shake it loose well you don't know dawg no doubt so folks here in the South here in North Carolina we get really really heavy snows and this is what you get with a heavy snow it just kind of attaches itself to everything but all we had to do is just shake that off and we're good to go let's go around on the other side here it's all the way laying on the ground when I flew the drone over this morning to check the farm out I saw it laying on the ground let's go over there so if you look up the hill right here right there is the fence it's just laying on the ground I'll go over here and shake it off so I guess this is something good to know if you're considering using some of this Polly fence wire the it doesn't quite hold up too good to the heavy snow might have even broken a post I don't know no just kind of pulled it in so guys the biggest concern when it snows like this is do the goats have water well they can eat the snow for water it's not a big deal also the second biggest concern is food now they've got plenty of hay in here the hay is nice and dry underneath there so there's plenty for them to eat no biggie we also want to think about bedding now I've already put bales of straw inside their little bedding areas over here so they're good to go there so let's throw them a scoop of food and watch them go at it [Music] we'll probably just pour the food out on the ground today feeding time here is always a joyous time a time of sharing a time too but your friends so the next thing we got to worry about or think about is water okay so is the wire bucket frozen nope it's not supposed to get too awfully cold today so they'll have plenty of water now tonight it's supposed to get down to 22 maybe that's when we'll have the baby goat I don't know the goat seemed to have an internal barometer and they know when the coldest crappiest day is to have a baby and that's when they'll have it they might be wondering what's my job when the goat starts to have babies well pretty much my job is just to make sure that they're healthy hopefully they'll have good healthy babies all these goats have always had really good healthy babies so basically my job is to come up here I'm check on them and make sure everything's good make sure they have plenty of food and make sure the mama and the baby are getting along and the babies drinking milk which normally isn't a problem nature takes its course here guys the goats have babies the babies drink milk the babies do well if the baby doesn't drink milk the baby doesn't do well most of the time when you have livestock that doesn't really do very well at birth that just means there's signs for later on in life they're really not gonna do very well so it's best to let nature take its course in most cases now some cases are different now the next thing we've got to do is we got to go check our chickens let's ride on down there and do it right buddy hey snowbirds hey snow birdies hey snowbirds what are you doing up there so folks kind of a similar thing with the chickens we just checked the water and make sure it's got plenty of water and make sure they have plenty of food and that they're happy and they're not freezing to death and they look good and everybody looks good they just up there hanging out on the roost let's open up a chicken coop and we'll see inside all right open her up here here and here's the birdies and we'll check their food so the next thing we need to do is check for eggs and I think my neighbor came up yesterday and check the eggs too we'd like to check them before dark before nighttime because they can freeze and crack and bust inside the chicken coop so let's check and see if there's any eggs nope no eggs today guys the folks if you haven't seen the video on the how to build the perfect little chicken coop right there it is and I'll post a link to the video right here this is our little chicken coop and major concern for me with chickens and with the chicken coop was ease of access ease of access to get to the food ease of access to get in here and clean it out ease of access to get in there and clean it out and ease of access to get the eggs so I wanted that external location where I could lift up and reach in and get my eggs that's it follow that link up there and I'll post a link down below in the description in case you missed it and for all you Bronco lovers we got the Bronco in before the snow I knew what we're gonna have bad weather and I wanted to get the Bronco undercover guys this is a future project here on the farm oK we've got to get some new brakes on it I don't know if we'll do a full restoration on this thing or not it's been in my family for quite some time it's a 1969 Bronco it's got a 289 in it but we'll be doing some work to that in some future vlogs give me some time be patient they got a lot of stuff going on here it's more important than getting that thing running and going but it does run I can drive it it just has no brakes which really doesn't allow me to drive it so the next thing we got a check on this morning is our gate okay so we put a gate up here and it has the mighty mule Gate controller I'll show you that real quick but everything is solar-powered okay so right now the battery is fully charged everything's but when I hit the button it kind of hangs up a little bit I don't know why I think it's overloaded I think there's just too much weight on this gate so we're gonna try to work on that get the gate shut and make sure it's gonna work properly okay because we'd like to keep our farm secure so folks I think the biggest issue with this gate right now is just the weight of the snow on it it just it's just too much for this little gate controller to handle this thing's designed to hold a gate up to 16 feet this is a 16-foot gate this is the money mule of 350 and the mighty mule 350 I bought it online I bought on Amazon I'll put a link down in the description if you're thinking about getting a powered Gate controller for your farm for farm security for your driveway or whatever the cost of this thing and the installation is very very easy that we first caught a couple companies to come and build us a gate and we're looking at four and five thousand dollars well we did this whole gate system here for under eight hundred bucks and we've got some serious serious steel behind these posts right here so let's go ahead and knock all the snow off this thing clean it up and make sure it's gonna work properly I must date it really really heavy snow guys big-time heavy snow last but not least there's the antenna like I said heavy heavy snow these are also solar-powered really cool gate post lights so we'll clean off our solar panel down here and we'll give her a shot you see right there's our little solar panel so let's give her a try it's working always something to take care of here on the farm I'm not sure that the UPS or FedEx person didn't push the gate open just like try to force it open it seems like somebody has pushed the gate I don't know but I'll fix it it'd be all right now what good would a snow day be if we can't have some fun in the Gator and do some donuts let's go have some fun yeah [Music] now folks you might think I'm tearing up my field but it's not hurting a thing is having some good fun [Music] folks thanks a lot for joining me here on the stony reach floor I just wanted to go have some fun with it this morning and show you what we do on a snow day just a beautiful day mrs. Stoney Ridge is out of town otherwise she'd be over here playing with me too so let's go have some fun Iraq [Music] [Applause] it's become harder [Music] guys I'm gonna leave you with one final thought snow is beautiful it's so wonderful its water and guess what that means much snow on a farm equals mud on a farm equals mess on a farm so when you start planning to build your farm and you start planning and do this stuff think about that build your roads so you can get easy access to feed your animals and take care of your farm just a little tip thanks boom back see me whoa