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Homesteading the Hard Way
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We would like you to join our family in everyday farmstead activities in eastern NC. We will be doing some how to videos on equipment mechanics ,welding and fabrication. Please bear with us I'm good at fixing tractors and we're good farmers but we're not very good at making videos. Please be patient and continue watching while we learn. We promise they'll get better.
Email: homesteadingthehardway@gmail.com
Email: homesteadingthehardway@gmail.com
Farming Today Ain't Like Granddaddy's Day
Farming Today Ain't Like Granddaddy's Day
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What can Make or Break Your Small Farm/ Homestead
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What can Make or Break Your Small Farm/ Homestead
Making Tens of Dollars with Produce
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Making Tens of Dollars with Produce
Farm Update and Answering Email Questions
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Farm Update and Answering Email Questions
What to look for picking out a gilt.
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What to look for picking out a gilt.
What to do if your guilt gets bred too early
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What to do if your guilt gets bred too early
Can you make money on small farm/ homestead?
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Can you make money on small farm/ homestead?
Can you make money on small scale pig operation?
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Can you make money on small scale pig operation?
Homestead Talk and a New Way to Dress a BBQ Pig
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Homestead Talk and a New Way to Dress a BBQ Pig
Sears 919.75 Hammer Mill; Converted to PTO Drive
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Sears 919.75 Hammer Mill; Converted to PTO Drive
Amazon Corn Mill/Grinder - Easy Improvements
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Amazon Corn Mill/Grinder - Easy Improvements
Bad Pig "Piney Wood's Rooters" Update
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Bad Pig "Piney Wood's Rooters" Update
Cheap Amazon Corn Grinder/ Burr Mill Review
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Cheap Amazon Corn Grinder/ Burr Mill Review
Pig breeding: Hampshire/ Durock cross
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Pig breeding: Hampshire/ Durock cross
Owls eat rodents which host ticks. Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. Screech Owls have a 90% dietary overlap with Copperhead snakes.
Awesome Farmer’s show with tons of good information…My wife and I own ten acres of land in Mocksville, NC and want to start farming it…What size tractor(horsepower wise) do you think we need?
@@stephenhilliard5223 depends on what you're doing . If gardens /produce is the main thing a Super A -140 Farmall would be perfect if it's just bush hogging and utility work a 30 horse utility might be a better fit
Bad info on UA-cam? ... Lots of it!
A good machinist can replicate just about anything. And it helps to have the old part to fabricate a design from. Good Luck Chris. I enjoy your channel.
I love your channel. So authentic.
This was a fun video which shared a lot of practical experience. I have seen a video of a 12 gauge with target shot which penetrated seven sheets of drywall; ouchie that is a lot of power. I recently searched for 16 gauge shotguns and all I could find were Browning semiautomatics and Over/Unders. A young man I knew got a semiautomatic 12 gauge for his birthday in the Autumn of his Freshman year of college. In January he went to clean it and was unaware there was a shell in the firing chamber. It went off and blew a hole in his right dominant hand. Stick to Slide actions or something where you can readily check and easily clear the chamber. It is hard to beat a Ruger 10/22 and a 20 gauge shotgun of some kind other than a semiautomatic. Wear ear protection. Livestock Guardian Dogs are great to have around and can prevent problems as can cats which I personally don't care for (allergic). Owls eat rodents which host ticks and attract pit vipers. Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. I have watched several videos and learned quite a bit about raising pigs. Regards.
Right when you went for that dog fennel, I knew it was the right tool for me. Thank you for the demonstration on how to use it .
Just grow weed
Love all your videos Chris I’m thinking about getting chicken I was wondering how big of a pen would you recommend for 12 chickens ? I’m not gonna be able to let them out of the pen due to the facts I have lots of foxs and hawks in my area thank you so much
A 12 by 12 would probably do fine 6 by 6 for the coop . I think mines 20 by 20 with a 8 by 8 coup and I have thirty in there pretty comfortable
I prefer my hand edger to electric ones or using a weedeater. Electric ones can be finicky, and the weedester method leaves an undesirable bald trim around the yard. Good ol' muscle power, how low you want to go determines the depth of the cut, and it leaves a nice slice between your concrete and lawn❤. Thank you bery much for this video, I've been wanting to get one of these since learning about the billhook polearm. It's literally the "Common Man's Weapon" because probably 50% or more were produced by modifying the tool. By itself, the bush axe looks like something an 80s slasher badguy would carry❤!
I always wonder what’s in ole boys cup lol
I purchased a pig for "bush hog" reasons and to "plow" small areas for planting seed. Recently divorced and disabled..so money for getting someone to plow and keep the brush down was my reasoning. I've never kept livestock- so, I'm ignorant too it. For my purposes of having a pig, how much do I feed it? It is moved almost daily and has no bare ground when it's moved- so there is brush, tall grasses and weeds. Do I just give soaked corn or do I get hog finisher?..or both?
I'd start with about 4 lbs of 16% feed and go from there by condition. They don't get much from foraging
Turkey creek nc here. Used to work on tobacco farms years ago.
I know where that is
I can't believe that you get $1000 for a butcher hog! I sell mine for $285. The local butcher charges around $175 to butcher. I don't make any money on butcher pigs. I sell weened pigs at $100 each and that is the only way that I make money. I raise pigs, beef cattle and chickens. Last year I lost $4000 on my farm. That sure is a lot of work to lose $4000.
You have to sell customer direct. Ours are 6.00 a lb ( I went up this year) packaged pigs usually dress 200 lbs . So we bring in 1200.00 a hog but less than half that is profit, it's a limited market about twenty a years all I can sell. It took me years to build a market, I lost money hand over fist for years
How do you know when it's time to get rid of your breeding hog??
When he gets to big for the sows to hold up . Keep him on a diet and he can breed for five or six years
Thank you for the video, as a kid growing up my Dad had my using it every weekend cutting the high grass and weeds along the creek that ran through the property
We are looking forward to some new videos. Our family would like to see your tractor collection and more about your house.
I can do that , the house isn't anything special just an old FHA house my daddy built in the late sixty's
5 sows 2 bores 10-15 meat pigs 300 meat birds a year 15 turkeys And still can’t afford a new truck smh
I've got fifteen sows over 250 pigs a year .Selling twenty finished hogs a year plus a thousand chicks and nine acres of produce . We can barely put fuel in the trucks we already have. That's with being established we bring in a pretty good cash flow but the profit margin is low
You are 200 % right 😊
Chris you are spot on. Love the channel.. I live here in the very southwestern tip of virginia.
I have a 1998 Massey Ferguson 231 tractor. The rear tires are 56” center to center.
It might go into 50 which will work for 48 inch rows . I had a 231S but I can't remember. I know a 240 will go into 50 or out to 76 depends on which rims you have as well
When I was born my grandfather owned about 200 Acres, he was a farmer and his brother had Hogs. when I was a kid I used love to go over there, now I'm thinking of growing my own Hogs. thanks for the videos
They're not to much trouble if you only have a few , glad to help
The governments are intentionally making it harder. We all know the truth. People farm to survive, for the love of farming and for independence!!!
Thank you, God bless ❤
Always glad to help
The strongest desire to farm is the desire to be free. FREEDOM!
❤❤❤ gonna enjoy this channel first here😊
Do you rebuild and re sleeve super a tractors
Just about everyone of them has the block cracked and needs master sleeves. I usually have that done and skip the factory sleeves
“Its a momentum thang” You’re awesome . I hope to find more videos from you. Humans are dumb. We have really lost our culture with our minds. THANK YOU! First video I found doing things proper.
That's why I did this video, I saw a couple of those other ones . They couldn't help it found one in the barn and were just guessing how to use it . But you're right the knowledge of HOW to work is disappearing fast
Why do you have electric line on top of pig pen
To keep pigs in and dogs out . Even a piglet can make over a hog panel a big hog can bunny hop one
What breed of pig is that ?
Second generation Hampshire Duroc cross . Most people call them Red Hamps
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thankyou for the reply!
My hats off to you and your family, sir. I grow some tomatoes and peppers and know how hard it is simply at my scale. I think everyone should grow something just to keep that tradition alive. It is the most practical knowledge we have.
I'm trying my best to pass it on.
That was a good video.
Thank you
how bad you want it 7/24 365 out side 4 in morn cause not hot out right after wind stops light that fie cook that one pot meal crank tunes or sit and think either way its motivation it health wonder why people can or dry cure salt brine it survival each and every day not last day each and everyday ploting how take it i know i dont want what thier selling it paid for good enough is it works gets job done thats fact
Hey are u close to Fair Bluff NC
About a hundred miles or so north east
awesome video
Thank you
takes two or three generation yep payment plan damn bank seed money just sign that paper and pen ink on paper some people word and hand shake it freedom you can't buy take great pride in that sign private property that gate
asked your self does land own you or do you own land it was brown it was down if you could eat it you did ax and skillet nothing like homemade soap any thing home made
i do it old days old ways i now know new stuff rather old days old ways
Some of the youth are, particularly us who have seen their family farms sold before they had the chance to learn the game...
It skips a generation a lot , grand parents buy it parents sell it kids want to farm . That's the very folks I'm trying to help get started
My grandfather started a diary farm with three cows, and a borrowed bull in the 1930s, and made enough money in five years to build a new barn. Today ? Impossible !
It would be very difficult at least . It's extremely hard to make a dairy work especially with regulations the way they are
I use to mow the lawn with one when I was a kid. They work great and no noise.
If you see this, I need help with my TO 35 massey. The 3 point controls are reversed and I don't know why, all the way down is up and halfway up is bottomed out.
Email me homesteadingthehardway@gmail.com .I can't give my number out up here you've either got some control valve issues or a bent draft control rod , you are using the inside leaver for position ? The outside is draft and if it was set way wrong it might do that
Sir you're a breath of fresh air, I could listen to you all day. Just got 2.5 acres which ain't much but 1 acre is field, that field will be mine and my neighbors food for the years to come. Good food makes good people, great food brings people together.
You can feed a bunch of people off an acre maybe not everything they eat but you can provide some good fresh food
Watch europa the last battle people, its long but it will save our people, our country and our future.
You are 100% correct on the ground hogs from west to east NC and deer were not an issue in NC until the late 80s in the piedmont
I have a picture of my uncle catching deer to relocate. I think in Hyde county in the early 70s .
We are currently working on bottle calfs. We think we can make some good income of them if we can perfect the craft.
We did really good with them for years . Biggest thing is a source for good calves
Granddaddy didn't have the foreign owned federal reserve charging interest on paper script, or being misidentified as a corporate entity instead of lawful man and being charged taxes on private property. We have to end the FED. We have to end the BAR.
We need to bring the mule farming back.
That would definitely solve the obesity and over population problem. Unfortunately it would be impossible to produce the amount of food needed
How do you keep they're pen so dry
They're on a sand hill , won't hold water . We have to fill up the wallows everyday
Hell yea Thanks Chris about to go to my mom's and do this now.👍