Welcome! We are a family of 6 living on Acres of Clay.
My husband (Kevin) and I (Ronda) own and operate a Dairy Farm in Michigan.
Although farming is our way of life, we are also
very passionate about being self-sufficient and living off the land as much as possible.
We raise cattle, chickens, and turkeys.
We also grow a garden and preserve much of the harvest.
We share videos of helpful ideas for homesteading, farming, do it yourself projects, gardening, and repairs.
We also post videos about gardening in zone 5b, food preserving, and recipes.
Our desire is to inform people of real-life farming practices and show you our life on the homestead.
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Mailing address:
Acres of Clay Homestead
P.O. Box 23
Dorr, MI 49323
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You guys are great. I buy tools, and collect 2nd sets. It just the thought of might needing them some day
Smart lady🎉.
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Thats the way to fit a tyre..... hope you get on with the build....Stay safe and see you soon
Green Acres of Clay, always enjoy watching the boys play with their big toys. That never ever gets old...What kind of music does Rhonda listen to. Cat Stevens " the morning has broken"? God Bless
Wow,2 coats of stain did the trick 🎉❤
Ethan needs an old tractor to restore and use with his baler
Another great video!
Grease is an old trick, help to seal up old rusty dirty rim beads, and it's cheap when you buy 5 gallon pails at auctions.
Could have used that part for a paint booth
When you had a chip For more horsepower,that’s telling the engine that it needs more fuel.
There is a good reason why farmers have lots of children, to help around the farm, and it's cheap labor! 😅
Thanks for sharing your story, keep up the good work and good times ahead , God’s blessings 🙂
What a great video, working on the job how quant.
A tire air cannon is like 100 bucks and we use it all the time. I think it would be worth the investment.
Yes I used to do the starting fluid thing until I had a tire blow up. I bought a bead blaster after that.
Those are may pops may pop anytime
I wish we had temps in the 80’s we’ve been having heat warnings with index of 112 too hot for me. I need to borrow that excavator to tear my old barn down. lol
Sorry you're dealing with such extreme heat. It's been comfortable here for the last several days.
@@acresofclayhomestead Thank you. Hope yall continue to have nice weather.
Watch out! FIRE in the TIRE! Also, I've never seen a floor jack that has a good controllable release. It seems like it would be very easy to implement. How annoying.
A pleasure to watch you all ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yeah buy new tires so you don't put everybody in danger. Farming cost money you said you don't like your son's doing that but here we are put an old freaking tires on
When you farm you do what you have to do. You obviously don't farm
Does the loss of power throw the cows off as far as the milking schedule goes?
You run the generator and get them milked, period.
Kevin, next time you are trying to get a tire to bead-up on a rim. try putting a 2" ratchet strap around the center of tread and tighten it. it will cause the out side of the tire to push out towards the bead lip.
how is making dry hay? i have adhd and i decided to cut hay which wasnr the greatest ideal.we got over an inch of rain
Flat Earth
Sanders is really starting to look like Sydney. I sometimes have to take a closer look to see which one it is.
Bravo Rhonda Kevin and family nice weather out always great viewing your posts blessings
A new shop for Kevin is what the popular guess is, I'd say that's a pretty good guess. Anyways, we had issues with the electric going out in the spring, unfortunately we have a small generator and it's not quite capable of keeping more than just the absolutely necessary things going. That was a deal on the used tires for the manure spreader, I mean why not, it's just for the farm. Had one adorable calf there and the baby rabbit too. Have a good evening and a great week too.
no more winter!
Good fix
You were pushing those boys buttons 😂
Sorry you had to wait while those union workers got the Governors power back on ?
When I was still on the farm, we were at the very end of the electric service and only had a 60 amp transformer. The barn cleaner took 11 minutes to make one pass. Picked up an old 20 k pto drive generator that didn't work. Had it fixed for the price of new brushes. Hooked it up to the barn for testing. Used the JD 4020. The lights were much brighter and the barn cleaner only took 7 minutes for one pass. Once we new it would work we put a plug in for it on the power pole betwen the house and barn. Power came from the road to this pole then split to go to house and barn. Shortley afte that the transformer blew and they replaced it with a 200 amp. Worked much better.
They didn't Kevin get that spreader for your 40th birthday present? I remember when Sanders had rabbits but he wasn't so tall. Boy has he grown up. Great family. Bless you.
Love it, mom razing the boys. Cheers.
Get some bead soap, works like grease, buy much easier to clean up and not so hard on your hands and clothes.
How often do you have power outage there ?
When I see hard working families like yours makes me proud to be an American!🇺🇸
Is it hard to get building permits? Do you need drawings and township approval?
Now when McKenzie in On Scene, she is Armed and Loaded with a Lot of Funny Comments. 😬👍🙏
A Generator is a Necessity and especially on a Working Dairy Farm. Glad to hear you had Options to Help a Neighboring Farmer get Power to Help with various Work Tasks.
Thats poor, the USA are so poor powered ? Never known that, never had this in europe
@@oldfarmer3001Storm took the electric lines down as Ronda said
You're funny Ronda!
Thank you Ronda for posting! Watching the progress on the building will be enjoyable as you have time to video and post! Best and blessings to your family!
I really enjoy your videos. Your family works together, which is great. This really helps in all situations. You are a hard worker yourself and have a kind voice.
I like the grease idea, keeps the rim from rusting out, My cat found a nest of baby bunny rabbits, and that was the end of the rabbits. I wasn't very happy with my cat. Thanks for sharing, your cool farming life.
Your husband could build a beedblaster with how much they build stuff.
The grease helps the tires come back off easily?
I love you guys your videos are so awesome God bless y'all ❤❤❤
Thanks for watching!
I love to watch y'all's videos that is a very cute baby rabbit i would have kept it lol keep up with the good work and don't work too hard.
You could put a strapped around the tire, tighten that up and it helps.😊
Rhonda from experience Sanders will go from lawnmowers to motorcycles then girls!
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