HI I'm Mike today we get to play with some big-boy power tools and kick up a
little dust on our wyoming life
hi there and welcome back thanks for joining me once again as we continue on
with 30 days with 30 vlogs right here on our lambing life an adventure that we
decided to start once we started seeing a lot of states going into the the
lockdown or whatever they stay home keep home whatever it's called Wyoming is
actually not part of that group yet I've heard that our governor is catching a
little bit of crap over that but we still are not under the stay home orders
we have pretty pretty open travel options and that kind of stuff but he
has came out yesterday I think he did a press release our governor did and said
that it's time to to maybe lock things down a little bit so we'll see what what
comes out of that really what and how it's gonna affect the ranch is is all to
be told we don't really know yet at this point today though however what I would
like to do is I'd get a chance to drag you around a little bit this afternoon I
just came back in from checking the cows that's something that I'll be doing
every few hours for the next few months you're gonna get really really sick and
tired of driving around with me and looking at cows but we are heading into
kavik we are officially now two days away from the first due date of any cow
on the ranch now those due dates were set by me and my first time preg
checking but you know I mean I could be close so we're gonna find out we also
have some weather coming in we have four to six inches of snow on the way in the
next couple of days I think our high temperature is right around two degrees
on Thursday which today it's it was 60 today so I think that was our high that
we reached today wind is starting to blow outside it's starting to get a
little bit breezy about 40 miles an hour is how fast the wind is blowing we call
that breezy here in Wyoming and that pretty much shows that we do have
weather on the way the wind is actually blowing out of the West so we definitely
have some weather on the way because normally our winter winds would blow out
of the so we have something something coming
don't know what it is and we're hoping to be able to drag you guys along for
the rest of that as we continue with our 30 days of 30 vlogs so today since I'm
not going to drag you around and make you check cows unless something happens
and then I'll I'll come back and grab you or whatever but we do have a few
little housekeeping things that we want to take care of before the storm gets
here now the pigs are gone they left yesterday so that's one thing we don't
have to worry about we still haven't run but he's pretty pretty well
self-sufficient back there in the barn but we do have some stuff over at the
gardens that we're gonna try to take care of before this frost hits this nest
this next freeze and the reason is that we want to clean up one of the high
tunnels get it all cut down get it all kind of tilled in and and then let it
freeze so that it kills any bugs or any anything else that might be in there for
that we're going to use the BCS and the flail mower in a way that we've never
used it before usually we use it as a as a weed cutter or something like that
that we go through and cut tall grass with today we're gonna use it as more of
a mulching tool as we're gonna put it right down into the ground we're gonna
see how that works and that's coming up in just a little bit also we're gonna go
out and see what else we can find and what are their trouble we can get into
so since we have to get started with the BCS we have to go up over here and find
it and the BCS we parked in the fall you may remember we ran this contraption on
it which is the potato digger the infamous potato digger and that's where
it's at after we got done digging potatoes
it hasn't been drugged out yet the only thing that I did to winterize it is I
put some fuel stabilizer in it that's it so I pulled it in here put some fuel
stabilizer in it and this is where it's sat since you don't however long ago
that was six months ago or whatever so we're gonna see if it fires up we're
gonna get the potato digger off of it and then get the flame oh we're on head
over the high tunnels and start working some soil over there little dusty
okay so the potato digger is still a thorn in my side I'm gonna go ahead and
get that thing pulled off of there so he can maneuver a little bit better with
the BCS so just give me a second
okay so now it's starting to rain so I'm actually glad we're gonna be working in
the high tunnel a little bit and get us out of this whatever this is so let's
get this done we'll get the flow more hooked up I'll show you how it works and
then we'll we'll get over to the high tunnel
nevermind don't need gas
okay so the flail mower is a front-mounted implement on the BCS and
this is one of the greatest things about the BCS is that you can actually spin
the handlebars on it take remember which one it is there it is and run
front-mounted implements quick and easy and this is the flail mower and maybe
once we get over in the high 1000 I'll show you how it works and you want to
see something crazy check this out I don't know if you'll be able to see it
or not there's a pretty good rainbow going on right over there alright get
this thing hooked up
much nicer in here okay so this is the high tunnel we're gonna be taken care of
and what we're gonna do is just roll through here with the flail mower and
basically it should we should be able to take out all of this that's been growing
pretty much over the winter
including that kale down there
which deserves to die anyway
but look at this up you cannot kill it like it has been in here all winter long
and there's little kales growing and whatever they're called they're still
going if anybody ever needs to get a bulletproof jacket for a dangerous
situation I say maybe rethink that maybe get one of those new fancy kale jackets
because apparently you can't kill that crap it might be bulletproof all right
let's take a look at this play lower and see what makes it so special the flail
mower is kind of a cross between a lawnmower and a rototiller and the
reason is I'm going to try to catch underneath here and see is these blades
as they spin obviously they chew up everything that they come in contact
with including kale and what we're gonna do is we're gonna set them all the way
as low as we can with this thing we're gonna set this thing all the way down
and hopefully be able to dig out the roots to plant and mulch basically
everything all in one pass at least that's the hope
I really didn't consult the owner's manual to see if this is what this is
used for but hey nothing ventured nothing gained and you know almost
everything in your house or at least in your shop should have more than one use
so I'm hoping that this is something we can use not only for cutting weeds and
and tall brush and stuff like that but also for this purpose so we're gonna
give her a try
well that works we'll just take all the pressure completely off those wheels
little dusty alright let's see let's see what it did obviously this is what it
looked like prior there's the pass we just made if only there was somebody who
could better explain how and why we're doing this so the reason that I wanted
Mike to to flip mode today is so that we can start prepping for our summer crops
we group stuff up until December and then it got too cold and it froze but we
also had a minor infestation of aphids which a lot of them have gone because
we've left it open and we have a lot of difference but there's still a few
aphids so the best way now to get rid of them is to remove the vegetation and
then hopefully it's gonna be really cold in the next couple of days and hopefully
that will take care of a majority of the aphids and so that we don't have to use
any chemicals so doing all this to kill the aphids and to not use any chemicals
so that we can put tomatoes in there and not have a fits on our Tomatoes
Rio Williams it down there's low people made wine like nobody
by one fighter night and said can you help make trio got a little girl waiting
oh man I wanna treat it right I got what you need son sit down in the cellar he
reached through the cob with every turn on
might be a little dumb
what's inside
yes we
sitting in the swings pulled up the driveway population magic climbed inside
said throw down to the lake boy watch the song breaking that big head
start I reached and
just been
don't let it fool you Bauer
gone about
I guess we do
hold on hold on I want to make sure that we get this I'm going to show you a
magic trick how do you make tail disappear
didn't we after all one thing
sunset
on the bottom but it's one of those things I guess we do
run over you again
against me
I'm tellin ya bulletproof
all right I know I said we'd go find something else to do when I was done
with this but really I just need a shower and nobody really wants to see
that so we're gonna call it things good for today thanks for continuing along
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