Introduction and Equipment Overview

morning folks this is Josh Tony rich farmer welcome to the farm blog today it's a beautiful morning here on the farm it's about 45 degrees in North Carolina thank you that feels so good I want to talk to you a little bit about what's going on today I've got hay on the ground that I cut two weeks ago we have had a hurricane on top of the hay we've had a whole lot of issues with rain it just rains like every other day and I can't get the stinking hay up so today we're gonna get over there we're gonna rake that hay up we're gonna bail it we're gonna do this as quickly as we possibly can and we've got an issue again with the Kubota tractor over here and it's the same issue that was going on before I'll take you over and I'll show you real quick there is a button system on the handle for the loader that runs the grapple here and this is the everything attachments wicked 55 grapple what I'm running into here and I've got this all disassembled is this hydraulic line must have gotten hung up on something and this is an extra hydraulic line that isn't from Kubota okay so it got hung up on something and it bent it wallowed out the connector right here so I'm not sure if that connector is wallowed out or if this connector is wallowed out but I am sure that it's a pain in the butt so I've got it all disassembled right now and I've got to go get some parts for it and in case you don't know this tractor belongs to everything attachments this is the tractor that we'll be using to clear all the brush so we're gonna be using the grapple around the farm to clear up all the brush from all the storm debris here pretty soon so that's what's going on with that situation there we've got hay on the ground it's a very urgent thing I've got to get it up and also if you guys follow the vlog I lost a friend and and the visitation stuff is tonight so I've got to get this hay up off the ground raked up it's nice and windy hopefully it dries then we'll get in here we'll Bale it then we'll go in clean up and we'll go over to the funeral home it's it's kind of sad the man that sold me the farm passed away very very nice man changed my life in a lot of ways so a lot of respect there well let's get busy we're gonna ride over on the other side of the farm I also have the power company there's a guy Carr down there you can't see but the power companies down there waiting for me we're gonna reroute the power lines they're all down there scratching our heads like well what we gonna do so let's…