Building fences and baling last year's hay. (Farming The Alps #3)

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hello everybody it is another beautiful rainy day for some reason it's always raining but uh we're gonna be doing some fencing today this time for the cows as you can see the whole Army came out to help

a lot of the spring is spent getting the fields ready for the summer cleaning up trees and brush that has fallen into the fields over the winter and most importantly setting up and fixing the fences

going way back there weren't any fences at all and someone would follow the animals around all day and watch them kind of like it's depicted in the Heidi movie

later barbed wire fencing took over and it's still used today but like anything it's got its pros and cons barbed wire keeps the animals in really well but it's also kind of a nuisance I mean anybody that spent any time in the woods has tripped over an old rusty barbed wire fence at some point in time by the time these barbed wire fences start rusting and falling apart they've grown into the trees and gotten all tangled in the brush it's just a real pain to remove them from the woods so a lot of times they just get left for a number of years Eric's been slowly removing the barbed wire fences on his fields and replacing them with electric we just finished the first field and now we're starting on the second one the first thing we do is replace all of the bad posts

you just pushed on the post to see if it's rotten and drop a new one

normally the tractor can drive all the way up to right there but because the ground is so wet it'll just tear it up so we parked way down there and we're carrying the posts all the way up here knowing but uh it's working

after we've finished checking all the posts we start on one side and work our way around the edge of the field so I always give that important machine for those yeah this is these little things that we're attaching to the posts are called insulators and they just keep the electrical current from grounding

these electric fences are easy to put up and take down so every year before the winter they're removed which is good because you're not leaving stuff in the woods but they're also a little bit more fragile than barbed wire sometimes a wild animal might run through one and break it in half or the brush grows up and starts touching it causing it to ground overall they're just a little bit more maintenance you have to check on your fences a little bit more often but I think the trade-off is worth it I personally do not like barbed wire very much every time I mess with it I get tangled in it I much prefer the electric fences it's not a day that I'm normally working but Eric texted me they're gonna bail that extra hay so I'm gonna go check that out get a little footage of that okay we feel balding stuff

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so Eric was saying that this is actually a custom machine it's normally a just a Baler like every other Baler but this whole top part was added on to make Bales in a barn like we're doing today pretty crazy this is the hay that was left over from the winter it still needed this summer but it needs to be cleaned out of The Hayloft so that we can put new Haze it's bailed and then stacked here in the barn later on it will be moved to the barns in the fields

the hay has dropped into this Hopper and then it moves on a conveyor belt over drops down onto another conveyor belt and into the machine pretty crazy but pretty creative

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turns out there were 16 bales of hay left over from the winter if you'd like to watch the next episode subscribe thank you so much for watching and have a good week