hi everyone it's Jack here at Mainsgill so thanks for tuning in to the youtube again
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can do so what we're on with today is uh very exciting actually so what we are doing is we
have come through to the farm so this is called Howden Hill Farm this is part of Mainsgill
and uh what we're doing is we're going to be building a new farmyard here so the old farmyard
is across over there in the background it's um it's old red brick buildings and some little
buildings there and uh it's real cozy to get in with anything these days so you can't get in so
good with any of the tractors so it's uh not fit for purpose anymore so it's past its days
so what we are doing is we are building a new yard so what we're doing is we're here now so we
fetched the digger ready uh don't mind the loadall and flat trailer we're just doing another job in
between so we've got that there for shifting some bales um but what we're doing is we've
got the digger here we're marking up now we've got matthew here dad and ian and then i've been
measuring as well and what we're doing is we're getting measured up and there's going to be here
there's going to be a cattle shed with a central feed barrier then there'll be a silage clamp
and then there'll be another cattle shed at the other side so that's what we're doing to
start with and then hopefully in the future we'll have a straw shed and a muck shed but for starting
we're going to get a cattle shed clamp cattle shed so it should be good it's going to be different
it's going to be all new state of the art so we're going to get it all looking smart hopefully
we'll be able to put the calving pens in there for when the calving time comes around again so
that'll be good so it's going to be good it's going to be uh quite good when it gets done
nice set up the sheds um so that's what we're on with now so we're just getting measured up
here they are dad and matthew ian over there as well so we've been measuring up getting it here
we're trying to just work out so we got the planning passed in this field here so this is where it's
going it's a green field site um because we just wanted it away from that yard really because it's
old old yard so we wanted a fresh start over here just across the field so we've come over here and
um yeah we're just working out exactly where they're going so we know it's going here but
we're just trying to make sure we get it all square get it all right and get it sorted out
so here they are so they're just measuring that square it up
so there you go so that's 54 foot off that edge he says so that's how far off that edge is so we're
leaving this down here because the track's going to come across from over there where the farmhouse
is through here and then we're going to leave a track around the outside of the buildings so we
can get around the back to all the backyards as well because we're going to have a feed passage
but we're gonna have it so it goes all the way through the shed so you can come in the front
go out the back have it like that um we'll have a bit of yard at the back for all the stuff so have
that here's the two foot trick right there jack fifty two four yeah yeah you managing i think so
i've let them take control of me tape measure anyway so the squaring it up now uh diggers here
like i said so that's our digger that's that's a js 130 so 13 ton jcb so it's a good digger
we got it a few years ago and it seems to done a lot of work since we've got it uh we've used
it for digging out for likes the muck shed you can see a video of that if you look on youtube
um the farm shop we dug all the farm shop out we've started building that
um we built that just before starting the youtube so that opened at christmas time
the last extension so i started youtube in january i think just after new year
so that's when i started it so the shop was all open then seen it digging that out but it's a good
digger we like it it's done a lot of work now for us we've done bits and bobs here and there and it
seems to do the job looks like we've got the plough part in there that's off the plough but there it is
good thing we'll show you that get going when we get digging hopefully we'll have
the first soil off today so it's later on in the afternoon when we've just come
here because we've been feeding around on that and getting bedded up with the cattle
so that tomorrow even if we don't get any off today we've got it all bedded up ready so
now to do tomorrow bedding wise so we can crack on here and get it all dug off so it should be good
so yeah i don't know what else to tell you really also if there's anything anyone ever
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so matthew's on the end of the tape they've measured from here
so that's the width of the building so that's the gable end of the shed there
so they've measured the width for the building there and then this is the length of the shed
so that's where he's going there now so he's making sure he gets the length right that way
but they've put this post here and now they need to measure it up so that it gets the right width
and length to make sure it's square to square it all so we do it that way but then if you want to
get proper square you can start cracking out the old pythagoras from school and if you measure
five one way and four the other way it should give you three the other way is that right five
five twenty five sixteen that leaves nine for three yeah so that's what you do so there we go
we'll keep going i'll show you a bit more
so all that there that they've just done so where matthew stood now so i don't know if you can tell
but over there as a post so we're just using electric fence post just to get it started
mark marking up to where matthew is so that's 100 foot wide so that's how wide the cattle shed is
and then from there to that post over there is 180 foot so that cattle shed there
is 180 foot by 100 foot wide that's how big that is so that's the first shed so that'll be good
the next shed is the silage clamps we want the clamp in the middle i don't know why
but we've always said we'll have a clamp in the middle we've always wanted to build a farmyard
anyway here we go so we're pretty good with lego so we know what we're doing anyway so uh
this here is going to be the silage clamp so once again keeping them square this is 180 foot long
but this is 120 foot wide so it's a little bit wider this 32 foot to the eave so it'll be a
tall shed so you can tip your trailers up not worry about taking my roof out
so that's what we're going to do there uh we don't know how we're going to split it inside yet
so we're going to split it into two i'll split it into three but we don't know we're
going to do it yet because uh you could go for either three forty foot bays or
two sixties or you could go for a staggered one so if you went for like 70 50 because um
we have the silage but then we also have we grow maize as well so we don't need as big
a clamp for the maze because we do a couple of cuts of grass but then we do we've done 60
acre maize last couple years that's what we've had for the cattle so that's what we've done
so it should be good and then finally
on the end another cattle shed exactly the same as that one 100 foot by 180 foot again
so we're getting them here but as you can see there's some big wires over there we don't want
to be close to them because they'll make your fillings hurt if you get them so we don't want to
go near them so we're putting it here but that's all arable on that side of this farm here and this
side's all grassland but because the farmhouse is there we wanted to put the sheds all here
handy for the farmhouse because you could put them up there and it'd be a good bigger area for
making a farmyard but you never know who's rooting around at night or anything you can't go and keep
an eye on it just the same whereas if you're just there at the farmhouse you can just look
across and everything should be fine so that's good and also when i've got my cow's calving
in the middle of night and that i can just come across and check him in the middle of the night
and not have to worry about going up the fields so should be good as you can see if you look over
here ian's down below now they're over there so there's quite a bit of building in here to do
not building but infill so what we're going to do is it's higher here so we're going to
drag this off level it through and we're going to get all levels drag our top soil off first
and then get it all leveled up make a big nice area because you need your sheds like this but
you're going to need some yard space because you need space to put things you need space at the
front space at the back so you need yard space so we'll have that as well uh we're gonna concrete
the cattle sheds out i don't know if we're gonna concrete outside yet we'll just see how we get on
uh we'll see what we think when we get going uh we might just we have a lot of tarmac planings
about and some over there i think 1600 ton over there so there's plenty
of tarmac planing around to make a track over and make a yard through so we've got plenty of that
um but that's just to look at that so i think i'll leave you at that for now and then as soon as we
get digging i'll take another video otherwise you'll be watching this all night because it
only make it too long um but yeah there's any questions you want to ask about the farm yard
and any ideas because we like good ideas so make sure if there's anything you think we
should be doing when we're building new farm yard it could be anything it could be from
the gates to the sides to the Yorkshire boards anything if there's anything you think we need to know
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