hi I'm Mike a couple of months ago we were able to do something completely new
here on the ranch and that was bring you along in a whole new way in our videos
with 360 video we did that last time with a cheap $50 360 degree camera now
thanks to the good folks at GoPro we're able to do that a whole lot better with
4k resolution and it's all coming up today on our Wyoming life
welcome back and thanks for joining us once again as we explore the ranch life
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this is 360 degree video the GoPro fusion actually films in 5.2 K
resolution which I'm not really sure what that means but it's pretty dang
high YouTube only allows us to upload in 4k so you're watching this in 4k
resolution if you see any blurry spots or anything like that what I want you to
do is look for something on your YouTube player says quality be sure you turn
that all the way up because YouTube will sometimes throttle you down based on
your your internet speed so make sure you have that cranked all the way up and
you'll get the best quality video that you can as we take a look at 360 video
once again here on the ranch now we are finishing up pretty much where we start
where we're starting this time where we finished up last time in our low res
360-degree view of the ranch we are down here in the summer past year once again
and this time we're joined by all the cows two months ago the cows were still
way farther up on the ranch this time they're down here with us and wondering
what the heck we're doing so they are all the way around us how you navigate
in the 360 video can be a little bit tricky so let me walk you through that
really quickly once again if you're if you're watching on your desktop grab
your mouse click your mouse on the screen move your mouse around that'll
move you around you can turn all the way around 360 degrees up-down left-right
you can see all the way around us you can also look for a little cursor
somewhere on your screen you can click on that and move around as well if
you're watching on your desk or on your on your phone all you have to do is just
move your phone around so you take your phone and you're watching the video and
as you move your phone it'll actually move the view you can also use your
finger to swipe around so you don't look like somebody having a seizure if you're
in public the other way you can watch our videos of course is is on your TV
now not all TVs not all Smart TVs recognize the 360 degree technology yet
hopefully yours does a dozen I apologize you can always watch
it on your desktop so our plan for today it's actually a very special day on the
ranch I'm going to share that with you here in a minute but we are going to
kind of just take a look around we're gonna head since we're farther back
we're all the way back here on the summer past year we're gonna drive
forward on the ranch this time and we're gonna head back up towards our house and
stuff like that stop at a few interesting features along the way I
said today is a very special day today on the ranch and it is because today is
my father-in-law Gilbert's birthday he passed away what seven years ago he
would have been 90 this year and it's thanks to him that we have everything
that we have at this time in our lives and that we're able to share it with you
so you know in a whole new effort to show you where your food comes from I
hope that you enjoy 360 video if you don't I apologize akin but we'll be back
next week and we're not going to actually just kind of do this all the
way through we're gonna obviously this will be a special thing that we do every
once in a while so don't worry about that but I hope that you enjoy it enjoy
looking around the ranch and really seeing where your food comes from first
off I guess I can start with right behind me is a windmill here on the
ranch this is part this is the oldest standing windmill on the ranch it still
pumps water it's filling up this this water for the cows right now we also
have an electrical backup on it there is a well a pump that's in the well as well
in the well as well and that pump is there in case we have a day with no wind
if there's no wind cows still need to drink so we can kick that pump on and
then that will fill up the the stock tank as well otherwise you can see today
the wind is blowing just fine and and keeping things moving all the cows
behind us they are down here for the summer this is summer pasture it's about
2,700 acres or something like that and it it's where the cows will hang out all
summer long until October when we bring them back and sort calves off for
auction also will be doing Craig jacking then but for now this is where they're
gonna live obviously they've got lots of grass down here and they will be
extremely happy we did do some hanging down here we're
gonna take a look at that as we cruise along and and we got all the hay bales
out of here obviously before we let the cows in so all those hay bales are gone
but you'll be able to see the fields where we hade also as we head farther
north on the ranch I'll point out a few more things and we might as well just
get on rolling so I'm gonna grab you and take you with me
cold and frozen feet Rangers as you can see the calves are getting nice and big
out here a faded piece of history no one can remember
here
zipping all of jeans you
yes
and no visit to the ranches are out here to the pasture anyway is complete
without stopping by and saying hi to Bambi I work hard every day waste my
time on yesterday I never shy away from a good time coming on Friday night see
my friends and feel alright there ain't no stopping us from have
being fun
there's one main road that actually runs the entire length of the ranch about six
and a half miles long in this road we just call the main ranch road there's a
few branches off of it so one of the interesting things is farther back here
on the ranch you can see the difference in the geography the coolies the dry
river beds or creek beds
which you don't see anything of the like as you get closer to the house
as we come over and crest this hill you can now see where we have hate over here
to my left is a hay field that was cut that's actually the field that we were
in when we got hit with the hailstorm
years
this wind will we call the one-legged windmill originally it was a windmill
just like the other one but it's somewhere along line tornado or
something took it out so this was rebuilt in its place a lot stronger it's
not hooked up right now there's no cows in here so there's no point in pumping
water for them but this is the old-fashioned one-legged windmill
obviously rain and cameras don't mix so we're going to take a little break and
we'll be right back
eventually though the rain stops and we can continue on our little adventure
the people
I worried something's wrong making it important to be the first in line
cookie crumbles the best peace table
danby
will
give me wrong I'm not
you
but all that's crazy right I'm looking for the
I think that's what it takes
it's right there
we're raising
and this is where I knew I'd end up all day long this is where my father-in-law
Gilbert is buried he's literally I don't know a hundred feet from the ranch and I
really don't think he'd have it any other way
so today's his birthday would have been 90 years old a little bit later on today
the girls and I and Lincoln and Aaron will come up and and see his grave all
together these bricks are here so that the girls they write him notes and they
leave the notes underneath the the bricks for him
I always come and pick him up and I and I read him and the last my read said
grandpa Gilbert thank you for leaving us the ranch thanks Gilbert and thank you
for following me around as we try out this new 360 camera
it's the 360 fusion from GoPro if you'd like to check it out yourself seems to
work pretty well for us again not every video is going to be 360 we're going to
go back to our normal videos in fact next week we start moving hey and we'll
get into the process of moving hey and different ways to stack hey I think
that'll be coming up on Tuesday until I see again be sure to subscribe have a
great week and thanks for joining us in our Wyoming life
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