Turn any tractor into a pickup truck!

hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm it's another beautiful day here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and we got our second frost of the year last night so the temperatures dropped well below 30 degrees last night and we got frost that means that this mess has got to come down the garden is kaput for the year so I've got a couple friends coming to visit me a couple of other youtubers you're gonna have a good time we'll meet these guys we're gonna put them to work here on the farm I told them if you're gonna come visit we got work to do man so we're gonna have some fun getting the work done playing with some new tools working in the woods working in the garden and having a good time all right whoa [Music] new h-bomb Kaka bars everywhere and it's chilly my nose is running guys I told you we were gonna be using a cool new tool we're gonna be using the big tool rack today to haul around our tools and all of our fence posts and all that stuff so it's gonna be a good time I actually have some shitake mushrooms in here in the shop drying I need a bigger shop look at all that stuff everywhere let's open up those real quick who shiitakes probably good Oh another eight hours of drying to do on those guys and then we can store them indefinitely in jars that's what we do you've got some shiitake mushrooms growing on the other side of the farm when we get a cold snap like this and it's rainy the shiitakes start coming in droves so we've probably picked another five-gallon bucket of shiitake mushrooms enough to last us for the whole year for probably a month here in the garage we finally got it put together it takes about two and a half hours to put together me and miss Estonia rich kind of tag-teamed it this is a tool rack that basically takes your tractor and turns it into a UTV and it's got tons of storage for different types of tools chain saws hammers whatever you want to store on it you can store on it and it's like the bed of a little pickup truck pretty cool we're gonna hook it up to the Massey Ferguson 240 tractor since we don't have the John Deere now this thing's pretty cool it can be an extension of your bed on your UTV in other words I've got a 2-inch receiver I can also hook to the rear of this machine or to the front of this machine it's a really versatile tool it's going to be a good time you'll see it a lot more here on the farm we're gonna be working with big tool rack and hopefully we'll be working with Kubota soon that'll be pretty awesome so what we've got to do is hook this up via the three-point to the 240 tractor so I'm going to run up and get it I got to drop the broadcast spreader off of it this is the first time I've hooked this up to the tractor this tool hasn't even made tool Tuesday yet we'll do a full on feature of this tool on tool Tuesday today we're just going to work with it a little bit all you got to do to hook it up to the tractor it rolls so we put it in the shop here and you can store all your tools on it but it rolls basically rolled into position to our three-point slide on scrap our pin go in here right top link which is fairly extended and I've got the old pin in here and pop this pin into place man doesn't go like that every time okay so here's what this critter is it's a big old truck bed basically for using on the back of your tractor effectively turning your tractor into a UTV I cannot wait to put this on the back of the Kubota now tailgate right here I think is rated for a hundred pounds I am 280 pounds check this out I think it's tough dude totally tough me and my wife both stood on that that's just the tailgate awesome again we'll have a total review on this thing on a tool Tuesday here in the very near future if I can get a coupon code from these guys I'll post it down the video description there will be a link in the video description for you we have to raise these wheels up tuck them away and get busy with it red we're having guests over more than two people on the Kabuto I'm going to show you how this thing transform so you pull a pin right here there's another one on the other side easily done by one person okay now there's a handle right here we'll release this is really cool guys this is why we bought this machine you got a handle right here you release actually there's a little rubber tab right here we'll grab this handle release a month don't make me out to be a bad guy fold our seat over and now we have four seats or actually five seats where we only had two seats before pretty cool that's the Kubota x 1140 it has been awesome really really awesome we're gonna do a comparison before we get rid of the Gator we've got a John Deere Gator 825 eye we wanted more of a farm machine more of a workhorse machine and this one foots the bill the bed's a little bit bigger and it's got some other cool details and we'll talk about all that when we do the review the comparison all right we're gonna go load up the chainsaw and everything on this what we're doing is pulling a lot of fence post up we're putting a lot of tomato cages in here and then I'm gonna take these boys over in the woods they already said they want to work they want to have some here so what good is a visit to a place like this without getting your hands dirty should be a fun time favorite gas can of all time right here this is a chainsaw gas can best Christmas idea for your outdoorsman ever I'll post a link down the video description and it has oil on this side fuel mixed fuel on this side and a little toolbox built in awesome awesome gas camp our safety gear for running the chainsaw we're also probably going to use our still MS 170 a little bit today husky 460 rancher are so good man first time using this also these are little what I call miniature fuel containers so if you want to mix up some fuel and have it on here all the time you can just load this guy up or you can just leave all your saws right on it push it back in the corner of your shot when you're ready to go outside and work look to it I'm impressed this thing's pretty awesome case you didn't notice this is one of them they're true farm vlogs what we've got here over at the honeybees is a serious serious problem wax malls got in here and destroyed this hive it fell over this hive right here all these hives were very very vigorous I mean they were growing like crazy this hive is done there's a bunch of bees that have not survived and I have not robbed honey from them I haven't done anything to disturb them at all really they are just dying beekeeping is and has been a good fun hobby to enjoy but a money loser man everybody loves fresh honey I love fresh honey I love farm honey but that it's a losing enterprise man totally dude what is that thing this thing is a monster holy cow man look at this vehicle coming up the road it's a school bus on steroids hey dude I have your mail we almost ran the door alright guys these are the guests that we're having here on the farm this is preps Ted or Bob right with the self-reliant Roadshow and that's what we'll be speaking at in a couple weeks on the 16th so hope to see you there now everybody introduce themselves a prep Center Bob were the self-reliant Roadshow this is my better half mrs. B and I'm Sam from Gregor homestead based in the mountains of Western North Carolina where we raise sheep do a lot of crazy stuff on the one acre we're gonna put these guys at work man pulling fence post whoo so you guys have been living in this it's an old school bus right we have 2007 international we converted it into a motor home for under $2,000 nice so guys we will go inside there at the end of the video so stick around to the end we're gonna go inside here and check it out I can already see a little bit of furniture and stuff in there so I'm curious as to what they've been going to the bathroom in first things first is we go for the farm tour and then we put them to work so it's it's not all work it's some pleasure right absolutely let's fire it up and go look let's not so we're getting all prepped up here basically all we're gonna do is pull all this stuff down the garden it won't take very long my deer fence is fenced around where we used to have some grapevines out here and the grapevines did not work out so the deer liked the grapevines more than the grapevines like growing right there so what we're gonna do is pull some fence post and we're going to clean this up and stack all the stuff up right here and we'll get you a little time-lapse all right [Music] mom if you're watching come get me he's putting me to work [Music] guys it sure is nice to have some good farm help here you know how you can tell if somebody's a farm boy when you smell free labor you take advantage you know about free labor there's no cover charge here that's right good stuff this uh this is what we use for trellises here on the garden this was a tomato trellis so that's what this is this is the paneling that you put in where you this disguise under concrete so in other words it's like concrete forms to hold concrete together pretty cool instead of rebar you use this these cost about six bucks a pop and they last forever the welds hold up they're great for doing trellis work we'll show you again this spring all right we're also pulling post we're gonna have a how big a man are your contest in a minute see mrs. Stoney Ridge can't help me do this because she's got a broken arm so it's nice to have somebody to help so guys we got a pile look at all that man we got like two hours worth of work done in like 20 minutes for me so I want to thank you a lot we're gonna send some people to your channel now it's Green acre homestead right yeah one acre one acre awesome and fresh tater Bob's channel Fred sitter Bob and then the second channel is the self-reliant Roach's self-reliant Roadshow and that's what we'll be speaking at good times got a little more work to go we're gonna take this pinch down this stuff goes up and down really really easy and only knocked it in the ground just about to where the Spade is along the t-post so it all should come up really easily I set this up so to be modular we have a premiere one fence controller right here solar fence controller it is charged it's energized if I turn it on it will pop pop pop and that kept the deer's out of the corn garden this was our corn garden for the year this year and we planted silver queen and sweet corn and I just happened to notice a nice big dead oak right over top of my barn supercool let's get busy let's get to work this is pretty cool this is how the intellicus intellij the ground rod is actually the stake that you hold it on there with pretty cool guys as much as I hate to say it this stuff is brittle it's falling apart and we're gonna get rid of it we're gonna end up throwing it away I hate to throw this stuff away it's expensive it works it keeps the deer out the deer fence totally worked for the garden up here we did have a bad turnout on the garden and we'll talk about that later we're gonna redo this and we're gonna mow it here soon with the big moe it's a zero turn brush hog let me show you real quick so here is it's a Swisher big Moe brush cutting deck and we'll have that on the switcher big Moe pretty soon you probably haven't even seen that video yet check it out Oh guys you gotta go check out Sam's channel because and your channel is one acre homestead acre Green acre homestead me and him just have just shared a male bonding experience with persimmons a very very friendly not so friendly experience so he he got a sweet persuasion he got a sweet persimmon at first I got a sweet persimmon at first and then I got a sour one it's on your teeth that's a bitterest fruit on the planet oh my god Bob knew better see how hard we're working so guys let me tell you Bob and Sam and mrs. B have to get on the road here so we're not gonna get the chainsaw out which that's kind of a bummer but that leads into some future videos we've got a lot of clearing to do we're gonna grab the big tool rack we're gonna take the Massie down in the woods and we've got a bunch of trees down and a bunch of area to clean up so we're going to be doing that and we'll take the ventrac with stump under around the stumps and have a good time together so guys for now I want to say goodbye this was a true farm vlog here on the Stoney Ridge farm we're getting some work done having some fun and Sharon first making memories the first time with a persimmon so don't forget to check us out on I'm gonna let Bob do is peel here hey prep Center Bob is where we do our DIY videos and self-reliant Road show is where we take our time our tools and our talents and sharing with farmers ranchers homesteaders all across America this November 16th right November 6 November 16th from 9 to 2 from 9 to 2 we'll be there in Burnsville North Carolina near Asheville North Carolina yep and we'll be there speaking having a good time so it'll be good be awesome hope to see you there thanks a lot guys we appreciate you guys coming and helping out and introduce you to some fun people guys see you next time on the Stoney Ridge [Music] alright guys I told you we give you a quick tour of the self-reliant Roadshow bus so get ready here come hey uh come on in [Music] watch your step basically we took a 2007 International bus for for the road show instead of buying a big expensive Motorhome our sponsor is quality bus and truck parts in Minnesota thanks Derek and the guys basically what we did is gutted it put in laminate floor full-size couch made all my kitchen table and everything else your storage underneath we do all of our YouTube videos are all rendered here full-size propane stove full kitchen sink refrigerator composting toilet so I didn't have to do a bunch of extra tanks and then a queen-size bed in the back this thing's pretty cool I'm not so sure I could talk mrs. Stoney Ridge into doing this but maybe I've got an uncle it's got an old church bus maybe we need to get on this man be awesome