hi I'm Mike holiday shopping for the kids is easy Santa takes care most of it
and what he doesn't grab well you can figure out but for adults who have their
own cars and the ability to shop on the internet whenever they want well that's
a different matter altogether today in a bonus video I get a chance to take you
around the shop and show you the tools and the toys that I can't live without
and maybe that'll help you out as you head out to fill the lists in for those
in your life we also have a special offer on our very own website our
Wyoming live.com that I'm gonna let you know about in just a few minutes and
Aaron's gonna pop in to to show you some of her must-haves garden gadgets as we
go shopping in the shop on our Wyoming Life
I really don't like shopping especially for adults and I know that people hate
shopping for me especially for the holidays if I really need something I go
and get it and if I don't have it I probably don't need it or at least I
don't know that I need it yet wait a subscriber suggest that we make a video
this holiday season showcasing our wish list for the ranch now for me that's a
little bit too self-serving so I thought it might be a bit more fun to help you
out as you go and shop for your loved ones or maybe just a Wyoming life fan in
your life as you know I get asked all the time what kind of hat I wear what
type of boots and even occasionally what kind of underwear you think I'm kidding
but I'm not and making this video actually helps me out because I get to
get all that stuff out of the way and even leave links down in the description
so you can find them easier some of these products are actually sent to me
but I can say with complete honesty that I either use these products before they
sent them to me or I bought them myself and then got the chance to try them out
and found out that I liked them or I can't live without him
now Aaron's still out doing chores but I expect her to be back here in just a few
minutes she's gonna show you some of her must-have tools and I guess I'm gonna
start it off at the top the top of my head and that's my hat the one thing
that some say actually made this channel but really it's a hat that I remember
since I was a little kid my dad always wore Stetson hat even when he couldn't
afford to wear one he'd have a hat that was two sizes too big for him and he'd
stuff it with newspapers so it fit his head not blow off just so that he could
wear a Stetson when we came to the ranch Gilbert told me to get a good hat to
protect my head from the Sun and the the the cancer that he was dealing with the
what is that called skin cancer there we go and I picked out
a black Stetson hat for winter and a straw hat to keep me cool in the
summertime my black hat is called the skyline model and my straw hat well
usually it's the cheapest point I can buy but it's still the Stetson funny
story but after wearing a Stetson hat in a few hundred videos I got ahold of them
and I asked for a hat to give away to you I told him that I'd been wearing
their hat in videos that millions of people had watched
and now we've given away hats in quite a few live streams and Stetson it is a fan
of arwen life as well as the other way around at the other end of the spectrum
well that's down on my feet you'll find Ariat boots this year I have waterproof
hybrid Rancher boots these are boots that I've worn since coming to the ranch
although I changed styles as the kids give me new boots the old boots are
always donated it'll to a local cause that rebuilds them and gets them out to
folks that that need them and these waterproof boots have been doing pretty
well for me the folks at Ariat set up a little program that allows you to get
10% off these boots are really anything on their website when you use the link
that's down in the description of this video now I'm gonna try to squeeze in 10
things into this video that so we're gonna cruise right along here and I'll
try not to take up too much of your time I've talked about it over and over again
and whenever I get an email and somebody asks me about raising beef cattle or ask
me for tips I usually get them aimed towards this book it's raising beef
cattle for dummies it was the first book after I came to the ranch that I bought
and although the title might be a little bit insulting to some people it's full
of useful information and I think it cost less than 15 bucks on Amazon every
single rancher that I know carries a knife and I've carried almost every
single type of knife that I can think of I'm faced daily with net wrap to cut off
a bails and the only way that I found to do it quickly and easily is with a razor
blade I carry with me a utility knife for me it's the easiest way to have a
knife that's always sharp all the time and if you're cutting that wrap don't
get one with a little string cutter thing in it it'll always get caught up
you're gonna have a straight one like this and this one's called the husky
work Pro another thing that we really like and if you don't want to carry
yourself the carry a razor knife was actually sent to me by a subscriber with
this this is called what is it called its called a hey knife that's what it's
called and it was sent to me by a subscriber and with it you can reach
across a bale and cut net wrap an twine runs about 21
mucks and there's a link for this down in the description as well we're already
up to five items on our list and here comes Aaron Aaron come on in with a few
of her tools from the garden I'm guessing that if you have a gardener in
your life they can benefit from these just as Aaron has over the years and you
have your your stirrup hoe with you my trusty handy stirrup hoe I think it's
time for an upgrade this one's I've been well used for several years
but a stirrup hoe was a game changer it's a lot easier to remove small weeds
it even goes in between my very tightly spaced 30-inch beds I definitely
recommend a stirrup code to anybody you can pick it up at your local hardware
store garden center I wouldn't say that you need the fanciest most expensive one
that you can find any old stirrup hoe will get you started and you can see if
you like it Hoss tools also has a push-pull hoe that I really enjoy also
so these very fancy ones are just pick one up at your local garden centers I
love this well used it's mine now
a couple of years we're gonna have to lift it up so people can see it it's not
your way isn't is the Hoff's we although it comes with different attachments it
comes with plows you can Hill potatoes you can cultivate soil and right now I
the most common tool that I use on it is a 12-inch oscillating blade works really
great to keep my walkways clear in between my beds of plants so love it it
is a must have and they're not horribly expensive you can have a get a single
wheel hoe for under $200 with with a few attachments so definitely something I
would also recommend what else you got over there my earth way cedar I switched
from when I first started working farming I didn't know that there were
such things as pushed Cedars and so I would seed everything by hand and I've
horribly tedious and time-consuming and I switch to an probably my first couple
years and market farming must-haves for anybody anything if you even have a
garden that's more than ten feet long by a push cedar comes with different size
plates for different seeds I have never found a seed that I couldn't put through
it with the different plates like you can get and it just makes things more
precise and that is a great entry-level push cedar definitely we recommend a
push cedar if you're starting in market farming there again all different price
points but the earth way is a great entry-level one so that takes us to
number eight do you want to jump back behind the camera in case I move around
so that takes us to number eight and if you're keeping track of things to do
actually let's head over here because this is the project list everybody's
pretty familiar with the project list but if you're looking at keeping track
of things to do around the shop I couldn't function without the list my
list is actually a four by eight sheet of plastic
it's actually from Home Depot it's screwed into the wall but really any dry
dry erase board will do in fact you could have two one for the shop or your
garage and one for the house that your wife can add things to your strict
they'll have only one marker and and keep a tight rein on it number nine here
on the ranch or power tools we couldn't really do anything without the power
tools and I've got a lot of them I really don't deal with any type of
manufacturer or anything like that in fact I just started by ending Walt years
before we started doing YouTube and I did those really had nothing to do with
quality or their warranties it was because Gilbert at the time was buying
Milwaukee brand power tools and I didn't want him stealing mine never did by the
way so no matter what brand you like a good impact driver like this little guy
is a must for me as well as a couple of portable saws I've been slowly
transitioning from 18 volt to 20 volt and I imagine by the time I get a moment
be on to the next thing which will probably 60 volt or something better
than that and the last thing here on the shop that I use almost daily and if I
can't find one drives me nuts is a good old bucket now you can get a bucket at
Harbor Freight you can get one at Home Depot I think they're a little bit
cheaper at Harbor Freight but they also make great containers to hold your items
while you're shopping and with a lid you don't even have to wrap anything just
smack the lid on there and throw it at the tree in fact I wonder how many
pictures of 5-gallon buckets underneath trees I can get this year so
Aaron if you want to come back around that's it for our Christmas list this
year that's our Christmas top-10 if you have any other ideas or items that you
can't live without throw them down there in the comments help some other people
me included come up with ideas for shopping this year if you know anything
Aaron wants put it down there too and get some ideas for yourself at the time
you're the worst I don't like shopping either so I mean
that's the way it is I thanks for putting up with us for just a little bit
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applied that's it for us a new video is due out on Sunday one that comes from
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question or anything else before the camera walks out the door we're gonna
get out of here have a great week and thanks for joining us in our wyoming
life maybe I should get a new tripod for Christmas
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