[Music] Stony Bridge. Stony Farm. Hey guys, this is Josh. Stony Ridge Farmer. You may wonder why there haven't been very many vlogs lately. Well, I'll tell you why there haven't been very many vlogs lately. I had a trip out of town. I got two crowns in my mouth, which hurts like crazy. I've been kind of sick and we've been mowing like crazy. I haven't talked about mowing a whole lot, but out here, our new fields, our new grass is doing great. And we've got to mow somewhere in the neighborhood of 55, 50 hours or so. It takes that long to mow everything we have. I tell you what, you don't want to sit on a tractor for that long in a row. Basically, you don't want to sit on it for eight or 10 hours a day. It just kills your back. So, what I'm doing, sitting on the tractor here, we're going to take you around the field. I probably got n halfway mowed for our big fields out here. We're going to take you show you a little drone footage. Basically, all I'm doing is going around in circles and mowing. But, it's a beautiful field. It's a beautiful place. Why not share it with you? So, we'll take you give you a little bit of footage uh mowing around here. A little drone footage. And uh you know, it's kind of cool. Things you need to know about mowing. When we're mowing out here, we got to really keep our eye out. It's like June 15thish, something like that, middle of June, and baby deer are out. So, we really, really, really have to keep our eyes out. Last year, I hate to say it, but I was driving the tractor in really, really high grass, which is what we have out here, and the deer went right under the tractor and it went and then squirted out the back of it in pieces. It was so sad. Broke my heart. And I'm really, really trying this year to be hypervigilant. I've scared up probably 15 deer in this field so far over the past four or five days I've been mowing. And I mow about four or five hours at a time so that my back doesn't hurt. Also, I ran over a turkey nest. Most of the time when you run over a turkey nest, you get close to them and they fly away and I can leave that patch of grass around it and the turkey will come back. But this turkey flew and I went right over the nest. I was right on top of him. So, we couldn't save the turkey nest. It's over way on the other side of the field. I've been checking on it with our drone. Just flying over. Try not to scare him. Just go way up high and look down. I'm not seeing the turkey on there. So, bummer. It had about eight eggs underneath it. That's the third turkey nest that I've ran up on this year mowing, too. So, a lot of mowing goes on here on the farm. We're not cutting hay this year. We're letting this go back to the ground. And basically, you can see these rows behind me. And that's just organic matter, that old grass that will go back to the earth and help to build top soil so that when we do start cutting hay, we won't have to put a ton of chemical fertilizer on it and stuff. So, that's the goal here. Our field is huge. It's awesome. 25 acre field right here that we'll be mowing in today and I'll just show you a little bit of footage. So, come on along with me, guys. All right. First thing I want to talk about is tractor safety. Okay. Flying a drone and sitting on water or wet seat. Flying a drone and running the tractor is not smart. Okay? So, I don't recommend it. All I'm going to do is program the drone to follow me around the field. We're going to go ahead and start the tractor up. We're going to let it run up to optimum temperature and then we'll get to mowing. Never ever start your tractor unless your butt is in this seat. I am a nurse. I work in the intensive care unit and I've seen people hurt badly standing right here trying to start a Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat.
