Piglets

Yesterday (Dec. 23) one of our sows gave birth to piglets.

They are purebred Herefords

Today they were up and about. Baby pigs hit the ground running.

Storing Field Corn

We use conveyors to move the corn into the corn crib.

Corn Picker

The corn picker dropping the corn into the gravity box. Before I modified it the corn would drop towards the front, which meant I'd have to move it around with a shovel to fill the box.

Corn Picking Video

Picking corn in early November

December

Pigs enjoying the snow.

Our machine shed has most of the roof in place so we can get some of our equipment out of the weather.

Field Corn Harvest

The field corn was ready to harvest in early November.

We use a corn picker which picks and husks the corn.

I added a piece of roofing tin so the corn would drop in the center of the gravity box.

Unloading the corn onto a conveyor.

I'm moving the corn around to get as much as possible into another gravity box. We barely had room for all the corn.

October 2010

One of our tractors developed a leak in a coolant line.

To remove the line I had to take the sheet metal of the tractor.

To fix it I brazed over the area that was leaking.

The coolant line reinstalled and ready for a test drive. No leaks yet!


We are pouring a slab for our all season pig drinker.

The drinker won't freeze. This means we won't have to haul water when its -20 degrees out.

The last farmers market was the second week of October. Market starts again the first week of June.

One way to make a moldboard plow last longer is to weld old shares or moldboards to the parts that are wearing out. I patched our plow up to get it through the season, some places were starting to wear paper thin.