FLOOD AFTERMATH: DAMAGED POND DAM! Visit with the goats...chickens and thoughts on food plots

[Applause] [Music] Hey, donkeys. [Music] Duckies. Hey guys, this is Josh Stony Ridge Farmer. The rain has finally subsided. We've had like two or three days of rain here on the farm. I think we've gotten over 10 inches of rain. I'm going to take you around, show you a little bit about what's going on on the farm after the rainstorm here. We've already checked on the goats. They're doing pretty good. We're going to go over to the pond and check on that pipe and make sure that there's nothing clogging the pipe. Also, you might have just noticed we've got a couple new friends on the farm. We got a couple new ducks. So, why don't you guys leave me a comment, name these ducks for me. I need some good names. All we're doing is calling them Ducky now. Anyhow, let's go walk around the farm, show you the aftermath after this storm, and we're going to go get in the pond with the waiters and see what's on that pipe. All right. Woo! Come here. Good boy. Good old boy. So, let's ride on down the garden here and check out what's going on. But I'm pretty sure my tomatoes probably got way, way, way too much water. So, we're going to ride over here, check it out. Things look so far so good. Everything looks pretty good. So, that's awesome. Let's uh check on the chickens, too. We got some muddy muddy chickens, guys. Check this out, guys. How you doing? Gosh, look at all the mud. That's crazy, guys. You might notice right here behind me, the barrel is tipped over. This is the barrel we keep our chicken feed in. And the barrel is sitting underneath the eaves of this fancy chicken coupe. Well, needless to say, the barrel took a pounding. Water got in it and ruined a bag of our chicken feed. At some point, we're going to build a garden shack down here and we'll keep our feed in a good dry place. But for right now, this barrel is what we got. And it's an old pickle barrel. Kind of cool. Look on Craigslist, you can find these kind of things. I think we paid five bucks for it. Well, here's our garden, guys. And this is the broccoli. That's broccoli. Also, this is cauliflower. Looks a little rough. Got some cabbage. Got a little uh worm problem with my cabbage right now. And this is some of our lettuce. And these are uh rows that we cut out. And you see the water puddles here. These water puddles are are here on purpose. I had issues with uh a lot of water standing in the garden and I wanted to raise the beds up. So I tilled the garden up and then I drove the tractor through and I put these tracks in there. So that basically I built a raised bed right through here and right through here. The tomatoes don't look too bad. I was expecting a lot more discoloration. So, we'll see how they go over the next few days. We're supposed to have some 80° temperatures and hopefully things will dry out. Right here, the honey bees. Honey bees are doing great. Coming out after the rainstorm. A lot of buzz around the hive. I like it. Woo. So, the garden swamp, the chicken swamp, the honeybees were swamped, the feed got swamped, and the pond got swamped. Let's go to the pond, get in, and do some ridiculous crap. Well, I'm happy to say that the pond doesn't look that bad. The pipe's right here. We're going to get out there. It's got a stick on it. I don't know if you can see it, but you're going to be able to see it really good here in a little bit. We're going to pull the sticks off of it. I'm going to show you also what eroded. We probably eroded oh 15 ft of the dam right here. I will go down and show you a good low view of what eroded and where the pond overfilled. Right in here's where the pond started eroding. And then this is the gully that it washed out. Pretty significant gully washed up underneath the pipe here and uh washed this old big chunk of concrete that used to be the old spillway. And now we're gushing water out pretty good. Let's get our waiters on and get stupid. Woo. So the waiters we're going to use aren't anything spectacular. They're just an insulated waiter from Walmart. I got a like a quadruple extra large in case I get any fatter because I seem to be getting fatter. I'm getting ready to turn 40 and evidently 40 means getting fat no matter what you eat. I did eat McDonald's last night. Stupid. I'm going to slip these on. I'm going to jump in the pond and we're going to get stupid. Oh jeez. So guys, this isn't very deep right here, but man, this is a weird feeling having these waiters on. It's all gooey and slimy underneath my feet. Going to get up here. Oh, it's a little deeper here. Ah, we're going to get over here and uh make sure we don't sink up. Here's a stick and down inside the pipe here. Oh, yeah. So, here's what our problem is. We keep getting sticks in our pond pipe. and it wasn't very significant [Applause] with that huge amount of water coming through here. It made it very significant. Now, I don't know if you can hear a difference in the in the flow of the pipe here, but there's a big difference in the flow of the pipe right now. Water is actually just smoking down through here. I can tell it's like a giant toilet flushing. I can tell a huge difference already. And it was just three sticks stuck on the pipe. That goes to show you guys, it just doesn't take that much to clog a pipe up for a pond. It's unbelievable how small an amount of water can affect the flow of this pond pipe. The other pipe is over here. It's still underwater. I really don't want to walk out there. I don't know how deep it is. I'll probably sink up this deep. I know how deep it is right here. I can get in here safely with my waiters. I'm going to show you something cool. I'm going to pull this little elbow off right here and show you just how much water gets sucked down to this bottom of this pond. Sometime if we are expecting rain like this in the future, we may need to come out here and just pull this cover off of this pipe. I'll show you what it is. I've got to come up with a design. If you guys know of anything, send me a link of anything I can put around my pipe to protect the outside ring. But check this out. I'm going to pull the uh top off of it. it goes. Whoosh. So, this is the way we've got it designed. The water goes up into here and falls over. It's designed that way so that nothing gets stuck on the top of the pipe. But things are getting stuck here. I've got to think of a better design. If you guys can think of something or if you know of something, let me know. I think this is like an 8 in pipe. It's huge. Hear it sucking. I'm going to slip it back on. [Laughter] That's how it works. It just slides back on. No biggie. I know one of you scientific guys knows the formula. If I've got an 8 in pipe here, how much water will flow through this pipe in 1 minute? Tell me how much water will flow through this pipe in one minute. I'm very curious. Leave me some comments, guys. Now, let's see if I can get out of the water. Rad. I'd call that a successful pond adventure, guys. Buddy loves the water. That's a good dog right there. Here's another thing I want to show you guys today. Behind me, we've got a couple wildlife food plots that I've dug in with the tiller. We've got a rotary tiller, a sixoot rotary tiller. And what I'm going to do with these spots is put different types of wildlife food so we can draw in turkeys and deer. I've got a winter plot type food that we're going to put in probably in the fall. Probably by this weekend, this will be dry enough that I can go ahead and throw out my seed. We've got a summertime deer food plot mix that we're going to put in. And it's supposed to be a tall plot mix. So, it'll be about this high. It's got sunflowers, uh, chufa, uh, I believe it's got chua in it, different types of clover, and some big tall turnup type things and beets for the deer to eat here. And basically, right back in this corner is my deer stand. And this is where I do my primary hunting in the fall for deer and for turkeys. So, the house is probably right down here. It's probably 300 yards away, but it's all through the woods. So, it's kind of neat that I can just walk right out the back door and do a little hunting on my food plots right here. And, uh, directly that way, I'll show you. So, directly back here, this is where we have the goats. Hopefully, the goats won't interfere too much with the wildlife, but I'm pretty excited about planting some wildlife food plots this year, and that'll be in the next vlog or two. We'll take you and show you what we're doing and how we're going to do it. We're going to ride over here and check on the goats. I haven't had the goats in the vlog in quite some time, so it's time you guys saw them again. The babies are growing up pretty awesome. So, these are the goats, guys. And I've got one extra friendly goat. My extra friendly goat here, Pepper is Pepper. Pepper's decided it's okay for her to stand on me. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, Blackie. [Music] So guys, that's it for the farm vlog today. It looks like I have a friend here. Thanks for watching. Come back to the farm. Check it out. I'm not doing much today. I wanted to show you how the stand pipe worked in the pond. I wanted to show you how the goats are doing. I know it's been a while since we got to see the goats. Uh, basically on the farm here, we've got chickens and goats. We had some pigs. We're going to get more pigs later on. We're uh trying to take our fields and reestablish grass in them. These were old, worn out tobacco fields. And basically, we've been throwing down grass seed, trying to get this farm back the way it should be. I'll pan around here after I'm done and show you what this field looks like. It was a big brier patch, big brier patch full of uh weeds and blackberries probably two years ago. So, pretty awesome. But anyway, that's the farm vlog for today, guys. Thought I'd take you around, show you a little bit about what's going on. Not a lot of education today, but maybe a little bit. If you got any suggestions about my pond pipe or anything you want to see, just leave me a comment down below. Give me some thumbs up, guys. Let me know you like what you see. And once again, I thank you for watching. All right. Woo. Well, come on down to the Stony Ridge. Bring your wife and bring your kids. We're living life pure and sweet. That's the way it's supposed to be. Stony Ridge. Pepper. It's a goat cam. Over. Good boy. Good boy. Here you go, Nate. Come on. [Music] Grew up on a dirt road with a cane pole. That's the best you ever know. My best friend with a fishing hole through a corn field never holler that's where I go. Never thought about the bright lights from the good times. [Music]