my friend dave is adding the attachment points for a pull rope on the mobile sheet pen so i can
avoid further injuring myself more on that later i also get the ducks that change the scenery by
getting them out on pasture in a tractor all that and more coming up on the grass-fed homestead
last week my friend dave delivered a mobile sheep pen he made for me
it was a complete game changer for me being able to move the sheep on pasture the only problem
was he hadn't added the attachment points yet where i could put on a pull rope so i
had to push the sheet pen in order to advance it through the pasture at first it wasn't an issue
but eventually the mobile sheet pen got to some super thick grass that i wanted the lambs to eat
but i wasn't able to push the pen over that tall grass i tried so hard pushing it
that i actually pulled a muscle at least i hope that's all i did but i actually pulled a muscle
in my abdominal area and several days later it's still rather uncomfortable it was still
a few days out before dave was going to be able to come over and add the attachment points but i
still needed to move the lamps they need to be on fresh grass so i had to get a little bit creative
i'm not keen on driving my truck on the pasture but sometimes you just
gotta do what you gotta do the weather has finally warmed up on a consistent basis here
in north idaho so i thought it'd be a great idea to get the ducklings out of the brooder and onto
grass i moved my recently vacant chicken tractor closer to the house and transferred the ducks
the ducks did absolutely fine overnight they all survived and they're doing well on pasture
we reach the end of the line here there is not enough room to keep the sheep going along this
track so we need to get the sheep cage from this side of the driveway over to
back there the other side of the driveway where there's a lot more grass for them i've
recruited some muscle to come help let's see your muscle do it let's come on come on to your muscle
is that it are you flexing
so
the sheep have done a pretty good job of picking this over since we moved them over
here yesterday little buddy and i are gonna try and move him now there's definitely
some taller grass we're gonna have to push it through but it's not nearly the jungle as it
was over here trying to push that cage through this do you think we can do it i give it a bet
so what'd you think little buddy fun yeah that went fine there's not really a problem
with that at all yeah since we moved the pen to a section with a little bit lower forage i was able
to actually push the pen a couple more times by myself without any issues though it did aggravate
my abdominal issue a little bit i've received some viewer suggestions regarding moving the mobile
sheet pen cousin laura hi laura cousin laura suggested why don't you do what justin rhodes does
and mow before you move the tractor over it mow the grass down justin mows about a week
or two in advance of where the mobile sheet pen is going to go so the grass has some regrowth
time before the mobile pen gets there i didn't do that in advance so if i cut the grass now without
any rainfall coming in there's not going to be any forage for them to eat other viewers have
recommended hey why don't you try pulling it with your lawn tractor i didn't think this would work
so i haven't been trying it but since you guys keep recommending it let's put it to the test
we're going to try pulling the mobile sheet pen with a ratchet strap attached to the lawnmower
is it going to work little buddy most likely do you think it's going to work yeah all right
so
i tried helping in the back but still didn't work out so well no that did not work out so well at
all that does not work we made a little bit of progress but mostly those tires there just kept
spinning and this grass isn't even that tall this is fairly shallow grass here
compared to the jungle we were trying to get it through earlier i placed an order for a dump
truck load of wood chips to be delivered so i can finally finish getting the pig tent ready and the
pigs moved on to a deep litter system the wood chips have finally arrived that is an awesome
amount of wood chips i love it now with all these wood chips i can get the pig tent finished once i
get the wood chips in there and then i can get these guys moved out of here are you
ready to go to your new shelter are you looking forward to new lodging or do you like it in here
that is definitely not something i'm gonna do with just little buddy we're gonna need some more help
for that but help's not to be available until later this week which means that'll have to wait
to the next video two days later dave came over to do the welding job so i could add the pull rope
it was great timing because i had just hit some thicker forage again on pasture and i could not
push the pen anymore dave to the rescue dave is gonna get this thing fixed up where we can get
a pull rope on it how are we doing that though so we're gonna open up some little pad eyes at
either a hook or a shackle or just stick the rope through and tie it something like that
success dave that worked it was a workout but it did not aggravate
my pull straight muscle whatever i got going on there so we're good to go thank you again
dave for all your work on this i'm happy to report i'm able to move the pen just fine
with the rope even through some of the thicker forage and as always thank you guys for watching
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