It Is Finished! Harvesting Earlage In The MUD
We finished harvesting 2023 earlage! We had to switch from using tractor and carts to using the dump wagon due to all the mud that we have.
Thanks for Watching!
Mackenzie and Seth's Registry:
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls...
Acres of Clay's Amazon Wish List:
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls...
Acres of Clay Hats and Mackenzie's Soaps:
www.etsy.com/shop/shopacresof...
Our Paypal:
paypal.me/acresofclay
Harvest Right Freeze Dryer (Affiliate Link)
affiliates.harvestright.com/i...
Visit my blog: acresofclay.com
Follow us on Social Media
Facebook: / acres-of-clay-homestea...
Instagram: / acresofclayhomestead
Email: acresofclayhomestead@gmail.com
Mailing Address:
Acres of Clay Homestead
P.O. Box 23
Dorr, MI 49323
Пікірлер: 152
"A+" response from your husband: "I'll never tell you you're too close."
@kennethdean2417
8 ай бұрын
Lol any closer and he would be smooching with her 💋💋😊
Rain makes grain. What a pain dealing with mud good luck
Always Enjoy seeing McKenzie and her Fiancée. You can tell they are in Love and we Can’t Wait for them to Tie the Knot. 👍🙏
Except for the mud, what a wonderful season to be in. When the cold sets in, time to start the fire in the stoves and fireplaces. Comfort foods and freshly baked goods (I'm making hamburger buns this morning), snowscapes and fall colors. What could be better? Blessings for a safe, warm and productive week.
We do not see corn grown in Alberta as is grown in the USA. We enjoy your videos showing the various family members. Keep on keeping on. Sanders is shifting like he had an excellent teacher. 😊
Good Job, thanks for sharing, have a good time.
Have a great day Stay safe
good video thanks x
Nice that the powerlines are off the roadway enough to use the lift cart in that spot.
Cornfed boyz cows and deer!
I've been running up to Columbus OH. all week and I've been noticing that there's still alot of corn uncut, and was wondering about what you folks were doing with your corn sileage, And behold Rhonda puts up a video, perfect timing. So I guess the other corn fields I've been seeing is that it's not ready to be chopped yet. You folks have a Blessed weekend.
Great stuff!! Thank you all for sharing your journey!!! God's richest blessings I pray for you!!!! Eddy
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!!
That’s a good feeling to know you have finished one thing, so you can go the next job.
Good morning from keavy Kentucky . In keavy Kentucky the weather is in 50 and 60 and 70 the weather this week
Glad you guys are pretty much done. Tough year.
Sanders is a smooth driver.
Another great vid! The last load,the last bale are allways the best!
absolutely brutal harvest
Very great video for the farm again plus have a great farm year from Rome ga
Awesome video 👍great job everyone 😊Aloha from Hawaii 🤙🏽😎🌴
@missaloha808
8 ай бұрын
Mushimushi! 😂 Yes awesome teamwork as always fam. This was fun to watch!! Big love from Big Island 🤙🤙
I think the deer 🦌 must like your corn a lot hows is your cows 🐄 doing
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊
Another great vlog Ronda thanks for sharing
The field's were a mess over here also. Farmers were running doubles and triples tires on tractors to pull wagons. A couple farmers were helping others with their tracked tractors and harvesters in some really bad fields. Too much rain this fall, made harvesting tougher. 👍 Looks like the tandem dump truck could use a little TLC for heat and the drivers window. 😬
Kevin is sweet, Seth and Mackenzie looking Beautiful ❤❤ Great to see another harvest finish with a beautiful family love you all ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I really enjoy watching all of your video's I grew up on a farm in Kansas before I had to join the USAF. served 26 years. I saw combat action in Vietnam and then again during the First Gulf War.
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Thank You for your service!!!
Sometimes when you can't get enough heat check the antifreeze level. I had that happen in a Freightliner before they put sensors to watch the water level. Just a thought. I don't know how new that truck is.
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
8 ай бұрын
There might be a valve on the heater line that can be opened to circulate water through the heater core. Even if the fan is not working, you get heat in the cab. Something to look for, maybe.
Thanks for the video Rhonda! Rough time this year, but you're getting it done. Hang in there and have a good day! 😀
You Guys are awesome 😂😂😂
Nice Drone shots!
beautiful video congratulascions
Nice to see family working together.
Got to feel good with getting the earlage done especially after fighting with the mud.
Always an adventure.
Thank you Ronda, I enjoy your videos more than you know! I’d have to say watching Sanders drive that tandem as smooth as he did. Makes me think he might be the best driver I’ve seen in your videos. The confidence and smooth shifting is a hard thing to teach. He looks like a natural! McKenzie is a close second.
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Sanders is good at driving! 😊
@jeffrosen8237
8 ай бұрын
But McKenzie can make the Jake brake talk!! She is not only good at it, it looks like she enjoys hearing that diesel bark! I was a little disappointed when she said they put some baffles on it. Farm kids are good at driving and on this farm it's all hands on deck. Sanders is doing very good at driving. Looks like he is getting good at shifting without a clutch.
thank you
Nice tracker
I love that saying! We make it do" ❤ That's real America! 🇺🇸
I'm sure Sanders knows he'll have a hard time packing with that tractor😁
Ms Rhonda Kevin sure shows his love for you. I really like that.😊
Greetings from New Zealand … grew up on a sheep farm just out of Invercargill right down the very bottom ….put a pin on the world map you have in the house … Only found the channel recently and enjoy it … at that time was growing up (1950-70) we had two John Deere tractors … one was a 1928 model (32 horsepower) running on power kerosene the other was 1949 believe it was one the first to come out with electric starter
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Welcome to our channel!!
WOW,its so wet there! I'm in eastern KS and we are in a drought. It is so dry here. Harvest is almost over here. We still have about a little corn to get out and some milo to finish. Grateful for what we can harvest when the year was a hard farming year since so hot & dry here. Love your videos. God bless
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear about the drought. Hope you have enough harvest to get you through!
You guys did an amazing job with the corn harvest way to fight the mud love you guys take care and God bless y'all
Your right about standing water. I could plow through water OK but between water and drier ground was the issue where you could get stuck
Greetings from Southwest Virginia
Mighty job Everybody, to say that was a struggle would be an understatement, well done👌👍🙏🙂
Sanders should install a small roller behind lawn mower.
Rhonda you need to put in a work request for that truck to have heat and the window fiv.. Thanks for showing us harvesting time
Bravo Rhonda Kevin great result and always enjoy your family work ethics blessings
What a miserable looking slog. Kudos to the whole family for getting through it!
"Too Wet" a problem many of us don't have.
I'd be willing to guess you all are so happy to get the Earlage done. I think you all did good, have a great day!
well when you fed the deer, you get to eat them too. we got our first snow on the 29th of October mixed with rain so it didn't stick. had several nights below 0 so winter is here. is supposed to be 70 F. today. you probably are having to keep the grain cart pretty light to keep it from sinking into the mud. fun to watch Sanders packing with his tractor and the pup getting some loving. mud is not fun but drought is worse.
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
I agree! Drought would be much worse.
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
8 ай бұрын
It is!
Another phase of the sloppy, muddy harvest done. Whew!!!
👍👍
That is crazy Ronda the field is tiled and it still retains so much moisture. Good to see you all got through the mud and finished. Surprised you will be cutting silage for the neighbor this late in the year.
The problem of that not closing window can be solved by putting a wooden block under it, in the inside of the door.
Be sure and video chopping the neighbors hay. Thanks, the videos are really enjoyable, I watch all of them. Thanks
Its the same her in Denmark vi have field ther a to wet to drive in
Wow! The drone really shows the lay of that land. How do you prepare it for the next growing season?
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
It will be tilled in the Spring.
I am glad you are finally finished with the mud farming. I was getting cold helping you get unstuck. (Ha!Ha!) Now I can go back inside and warm up. Oh wait,.....I am already inside my cozy apartment!!! Must be a psychological thing, that I was feeling cold. (Ha!Ha!)
Keeping the cows happy and they will keep your pockets happy with all the white stuff that fills the tiny tank. I call it white stuff cuz I'm lactose intolerant and when I'm in the grocery store I bypass that entire section. Keep moving forward and stay healthy
I'm sure you all heaved a big sye when the last earlage went in the dump wagon. I like Sanders "finish" tractor. 😂
Awesome video, have a blessed day
Great video good to see y'all
Mud makes everything difficult. Y'all just do what it takes to get it done. Never thought about the older NH head being more aggressive, smart buy getting it. Great video!👍
I remember the video when you purchased the New Holland corn head. I never realized that it was on the chopper thinking it was a Deere head. Should have known better since Deere heads are green. Great videos Ronda. Keep up the good work and happy that harvest season is almost over for you guys.
I bet Ethan is glad to get out of that swamp.
happy anniversary kevin and rhonda
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@markmorrison3885
8 ай бұрын
how many years?@@acresofclayhomestead
@markmorrison3885
8 ай бұрын
oh, before i forget . tell ethan that i did notice on your last vlog
@markmorrison3885
8 ай бұрын
on your last vlog lol
Love all the videos from Ontario Canada farmer
love the silage videos. thanks
gonna be fun working up those ruts next spring
Good job nice to be done
In 1985 I cut 2500 acres of canola with a 20ft swather on tracks and combined with a 760 4wheel drive combine. It took 3 years before we leveled out the feild and got a decent crop. 1992 we made ruts again with the 4 wheel drive combine but summer followed the next year to level it out. 1996 was once again a mess on half of our land and after 2006 I gave up cropping and put it all into hay mostly alfalfa and timothy with treefoil in the low spots and if it was wet at least the light equipment didn't rut it up as much. It's very heavy clay with strips and pockets of peatmoss
26 year old combine head the only thing Larson has that old is Chet you are real farmers
Great video enjoyed it
Awesome job guys
That's what I call a real mud hole. I think You needed runners on that wagon instead of wheels.
Sometimes deer feed on corn. My uncle had deer in his corn time for deer hunting season soon
Field looks a little muddy glad you could get your corn off
Hi Ronda, I would like to offer a cheap way to really overcome the mud problem. Use a winch anchored to some piece of large machinery that can move to accommodate a straight line pull to a muddy area. It's going to be slow but it's bulletproof. You drag the cable to the stuck machine w/ a tractor or a Quad, hook on and pull finishing the row you were working. Kevin will know what to use as an anchor and a small gas powered winch w/ 100 feet or more of light duty cable should be all you need. You could always buy a tracked vehicle but it's expensive for such seldom use. ben/ michigan
👋😊
nope i would not want to be fighting the darn mud for sure
Hey, where's them there farmhands when the window and heat are broke? Actually, I wouldn't mind the cold but if the a/c doesn't work on the sweltering hot days with the sad choice of windows down and more flying dust or windows up and more swelter, that I would mind. Also, "I'll never say you're too close" is a very touching sentiment. If that is a true reflection of your life together then your lives must be pretty nice. Also, "probably", leaving the final decision to the cows, and Sanders straightening the walkie-talkie for the video were moments.
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
😊
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
With as many years as you struggle with wet muddy conditions and getting stuck, have you considered putting on floaters?
@MillerFamilyFarms
8 ай бұрын
With all that weight you’ll still sink some. Also floaters are really expensive and ride rough. They don’t wear good on the road so you’ll just be replacing them too much. Honestly from what I’ve personally ran your better off with skinny duals, that’s my 2 cents
Corn fed venison would be tasty? 😏
Of all the corn heads out there, the New Holland chain drive is the most aggressive. Good to know if you got a lot of wind damaged corn laying flat out in the fields.
Single axle under that cart and bigger gripped wheel on it would put weight on drawbar and be easier pulled
that ealy you goyt snow in Denmark wii have lots of rain
The corn might need some salt and a slight amount of butter.
It also doesn’t help that it snowed there before you started harvesting the corn either plus it literally likes to rain before harvesting crops it’s an ongoing issue every year in my experience of being a farmers kid
That Arial footage sures shows how wet the field is. What mess for plowing next time
It looks very cold there
Oh yeah. It is wet there. Great job driving young man, no clutch👍👍. Ethan get a deer this year?
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Ethan hasn't been out hunting this year.
Do not mean to tell you how to run the farm but you need to get a running under that dump wagon the way the 802 farmers did see their vid.. Chopping is all fun, but also one is glad to see that last row go in the chopper. I enjoy you vids and family greatly.
U R chopped corn silage is almost 95 % dry & has same % of dry matter & it will affect fermentation # the core of UR corn ears are red the other variety has white core # 👍🇵🇰
With the corn leaves and stalks that dry is there really much nutritional value left for the cows?
@acresofclayhomestead
8 ай бұрын
Not in the leaves and stalks, but we aren't harvesting those, only the ears.
Probably not to good of a chance at tillage on that feild before freeze up. Have a blessed day
Why not put the challenger on the dump wagon? I would think the duals would go through the mud better.