A WINTER NIGHTMARE | 200 CATTLE WITHOUT WATER!!

[@oppamaclare]

My solution to frozen pipes on the farm last week(Co. Clare). - Added a tee piece to where the pipe comes out of the ground. Add a shut-off valve to the tee-piece. Thaw the tee piece and valve every morning. Add hose reel to the shut-off valve and run hose to drinkers. Bring hose reel into house every night to stop it freezing. Simple but effective.

[@ag8556]

Phil the farmsca kip ud be better spending some time putting in better water supplies than pipes running up walls

[@ianosborne188]

Speaking as a Retired Thermal insulation Engineer.. Having Formed My own Business Whitchurch Insulations.. Insulate and No Froze Pipes etc.

[@vilhelmgrasbonde]

We had -22°c last week which wasn’t fun but manageable. All our waterers and pipes have heating in them which kept water flowing to all animals nicely. The 6280 barely starter up after 3 hours connected to block heater. Winter is expensive. 😂 But yeah get some heat cables and insulation for your pipes and that works well down to about -4 °c no need for heated waterers but below that it can be an issue. Good luck. 🍀

[@smalldairyfarmer]

Ya that frost was inconvenient was lucky did leave a tap running at night did help didn't have to drow water

[@agoodbluewilldo8359]

Absolute fuckin torture for 6 days there from Tuesday to Sunday getting water to 150 animals. Never wish for a wet mild day as much!! Great team work 💪

[@petelamps6055]

I have had drinkers freeze on me, the winters of 2009-2010 in NE Scotland was pretty full on! Some local farmers had the shed roof collapse under the weight of the snow and ice. It would snow all day and then freeze solid at night, was like that for weeks

[@klaaslammers6849]

We have a littel system what runs water true a pump what heats the water to a point and runs it true the water lines

[@rosethroop8410]

it was minus 24 here in Ontario today 31/1/23. Thats cold but we are use to that weather.

[@bkeenan32]

Happy to help with the boar👍 Hopefully I'll be over for some bacon next year👌👌🤞🤞 Frost is some struggle. We all have pipes out in the open.🤦‍♂️They were all put in on sunny days🤣🤣

[@williamdonohoe6842]

Frost is a pain in the hole, id say most farmers in the country was drawing water , Father Phil planed that holiday well , Fair play to him, everyone needs a break 👍

[@kt3537]

Nice fry up🤠

[@letirletir2101]

Watching Yas here from onoway in Alberta -34 real feel-44 this morning,we have heated drinkers great job. it's not about the cold it's the stupid hardship that comes with it,use to be from cavan

[@MagnumCamNZ]

We break feed dairy cow's during the winter on kale and never had to much lose from frosts, -2 to -10 average here in Methven, New Zealand. Snows the pain as it folds it over and crushes.

[@PhluterGoode]

Great video - non farmers don’t realize the hardship frost brings!!

[@brendanwhelan7972]

When pipes freezes they are a pain in the hole to get going

[@liamhennessy31]

Liv, you probably know this but make sure the goats get the best of the silage. Sheep and goats can be prone to listeria which can be fatal. Try some good hay instead if ye have some. I’m a sheep farmer and we are very careful what we feed to the sheep.

[@jamieroche287]

Our sheep eat the worst of bales you could give them there’s never a bother on them

[@mickeyjoe4357]

It’s more so goats that aren’t meant to get silage than sheep

[@AgriLifeIreland]

Haylige Is bad stuff for sheep

[@markallen6961]

Reminds me of when the pipes froze and i had to carry water from the spring to the yard with 3 gallen buckets, only 30 yards but 40 dairy cows did a lot of drinking.when i finished i had arms like an arangatang👍

[@gregschindel372]

It's -39C here in Northern Alberta, Canada this morning. -48C with the wind chill. Keeping the waterers unthawed here is a real challenge. 🥶

[@Tommymellett]

Good video Phil

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed

[@marianpradler1479]

Last week it was between -3 and -13°C Here in Germany. 2 little sheds the drinkers were Frozen. Years ago I welded Metal Water troughs. Using a IBC Container and bringing Water with the Schäffer works Out fine.

[@keithburke8577]

Pure hardship when things freeze. Just when I see the beet harvester in background. Two MF 3125 with armour salmon harvesters lifting beet in co kilkenny today. 3690 drawing away. Rented ground beside homeplace but whoever it was has a love for the masseys like yourself. All well minded and purring away.

[@dermotward6540]

Some hardship in frosty weather for man and beast. Great work as always though Phil and Liv. Keep on keeping on. A video on the top five things you would like to achieve around the farm over the next five years would be cool, even if its just small things 😁👍

[@soloheadlad]

Had no problem with d water until Thursday nite as we left a tap on that was at the end of the line that was filling 5 small drinkers in each pin and we slowed down d flow from d well but -5 on Thursday nite froze everything even d well just a nightmare for 3 days adding at least 2 hours onto the workload each evening after d day job. Love d videos and the honesty of them thanks mike in Tipperary

[@Andy-ix2ox]

We have had a rough week last week, frozen water,frozen slurry, frozen dairy and bloody hardship, noticed that you guys didn’t have any snow, well we did which didn’t help anyway we are back to normal this week wet windy and miserable, hope the boss man had a good time sunning himself for a few days!

[@haroldjones4309]

Brilliant Video Phil, spent nearly all day fixing leaks at my mates farm, cattle drink one hell of a lot of water in one go, I don't have that problem I just turn all the sheep down on our river fields👍

[@Jimbo2922]

I remember the winter of 2010 pipes froze in my neighbours yard had to bail water from the lake to keep all stock going thankfully it's was only two sheds but it was still tough going

[@ianhaggart1438]

Ibc and an ald electric blanket.... just a thought for future... Nice work on the vid as it bloody hard work in the cald ...😄 stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ingolfursnrjakobsson6743]

A little tip sure you probably know. Circulation pump on the water.good luck in the cold weather from Andoy northern 🇳🇴

[@martinnaughton6572]

I seen you passing the potato harvester in your video, a machine i always liked you probably have the potato dug by now, a good video as always

[@Modlendingen]

It's some hazzle with the water freezing, so I think the waterpipe needs to come onto the priority list :) But actually amazed the 62's started that easy, the Perkins 1006 was a pain in the butt getting going when it was cold... :)

[@richardknott7280]

Hi Phil I'm out wintering my Dexter cattle and I've been defrosting the water pipe for nearly a week, proper pain in the hole, I've actually stacked breeze blocks round the pipe and filled the holes in them with straw and it has really helped, keep up the good work, looking forward to the beet lifting video, a contractor near use had an Armour Salmon belt lifter years ago, good machine unless the tops got juicey.

[@DianeD862]

The best farmers in the world.

[@jusujoni8581]

good tip when u give cattles milk please use human temperature water so no diarrea

[@martinclifford9544]

Isn't there something about frozen rape leaves being bad for the cattle? I dunno I think I remember reading something sometime.

[@FARMERPHIL3690]

There is yes only found out when Goldcrop came that day but luckily the hay we were feeding was keeping them safe

[@MrPa1971]

Here in northwest of Sweden, we have -24 celsius last week

[@jackdouglas3254]

We had drinkers froze at home. Had one water tap still going so filled 1000 litre cube and added it to each diet feeder. Had still to carry water but not that much

[@wulliewhyte544]

Great video Phil and Liv the joys of cold weather conditions hopefully it won't last too long just as well them pigs didn't see your lunch plate 😂

[@seanlenehan7574]

Great video again Phil and liv 👌👍

[@DianeD862]

Wonderful view shots wonderful Phil and liv looking after all the animals.GodBless and Good Luck .☮️🥶🥶🥶🇮🇪🐶🐶🎅🎅🎅🎅🤶

[@colmanlong1032]

Winter wonder Land,super footage..got to get the Canadian water system.

[@upthereds4939]

Amazing drone shots 👌🏻 what a country we live in

[@eriksward6894]

It was a normal thing to have happen when we had cattle in Sweden when the temp dropped towards -20. Then it frose inside the barn. But that could be helped by rigging it so that the water always flowed. Combined with insulated pipes it worked most of the time.

[@kieranmcgroary5426]

L for got to say Happy Christmas 🎄, hope yous have a good one kieran from Laghey donegal town

[@mrdangill247]

I’d love to see a video of your future plans for the farm, which direction you would like to head in and what you would do if money wasn’t an option.

[@richardparkinson8651]

Nice aerial shots of the farm

[@seamusconnolly6550]

Frost bloody night mare

[@niallhanley4198]

Well done Liv. It’s not easy.

[@jamiec6217]

Oh god, you brought back bad memories, frozen water bowls.

[@user-rw2um8ro2p]

Great video Phil and liv Bruce is a fine pig jaysus a lot of work goes into getting the animals their water hope uncle Ian is doing ok

[@adriansheehan360]

Goodman phil, another interesting video, keep them coming,

[@BackyardMechCon]

You should make that vid of the list of things you want done around the farm that you mentioned at the end of the vid. You'll deffo work through it if you get people on your case looking for updates to finish stuff off 🤣.

[@minirallyer]

When chopping out silage with the big shear grab if you only push in half way then shut the grab a bit then open and push in the rest of the way the grab will fall off in smaller lumps when you open it over the feeder

[@samherbert1724]

Last week was -9 this wk 13 degrees strange weather lol

[@dellhell8842]

Beautiful drone shots.

[@eamonnbrennan7171]

Heat Tracing would be simple fix for your frozen leg of pipe. Thought you couldn't graze frozen rape because of increased Nitrate in plant!

[@FARMERPHIL3690]

We only learned about the dangers of grazing frozen rape when gold crop came that day but luckily we were feeding hay before the frost and that saved us from losing any cattle to it

[@williamottley6369]

Good video farmer pill and liv

[@paddy294]

Cracking video as always. Great drone footage. Yourself and liv make a great team. The dynamic duo

[@davidnyc487]

I love seeing more and more of Liv. 😊

[@Gearoid35]

Nice video, that was some frost

[@farmermoonshine1418]

The 6480 and load still looks sorry for itself

[@nigelhales874]

Extra cold weather phil &liv still busy

[@CFCPETERCFC]

Your a hard working couple great to see ,enjoy watching your videos .Peter clarke

[@Celtic-jr9cn]

Thought that was a classical singer at 1217 for a minute. Lol.

[@edwardhill1935]

That was a busy day.

[@tomcoleman1232]

Lucky enough the frost wasn't too bad here this year, drinkers outside did freeze but we were able to break them to allow for drinking during the day. in previous years we have had the pipes freeze going to sheds. Don't use the small drinking troughs for that reason. Use a 1000L ibc to refill where needed. This is filled from the working taps and will fill the troughs in the sheds. Just stick it on the pallet forks and drain straight down into the drinkers .Let it drain out empty at night and away we go again the next day. luckily enough the troughs are big enough that they can all get enough and arent waiting too long. we have done what you do with a big tank in the holding yard and fill this and let the cattle to it. Have a large water drinker on the passage to the yard and would fill this and just let the cows out the passage for an hour or so to to drink. Once they have had their fill they want to go back into the shed.

[@garymadden2656]

Great video Phil as always 👌

[@edwardhoulihan2895]

Great video

[@davidkellet1006]

I fed 32 shippon every cow with water when neck tied up and all other pens + sheep the good old days ive angina and cant work at 55

[@johnhayes4110]

Hi Phil, Have a look at "Dale farm" recant video Nick done some handy inclating with water pipe s, ☺️

[@chrismccann9837]

Deadly job Phil 👍, a man for all seasons💨

[@johnosullivan1342]

Great vid

[@ywilliamhamill5585]

I have had none frezzing up on me nore the parlour TOUCH WOOD 😬😬😬

[@unaoconnor3628]

My father reminiscing about having to break the ice on the river with a crow bar and turn the cattle down to it for a drink.

[@sandymcghee3328]

Another great video Phil @ liv 👍👍

[@montbeliarde100]

Dont worry about water for a week or so Just stop feeding meal no problem

[@thomasforbes8904]

The won't be much leaves left on the beet for pulling after that frost

[@senanm1603]

All cows kept water but parlour froze even after draining it and the house had no water which was fun

[@kieranmcgroary5426]

Well farmer phil, great video 📹 yea very hard frost indeed, love ur videos as aways, kieran from Laghey donegal town

[@pierce.ireland]

Trace Heating for frost free flow.

[@jeffreyhollink985]

whehad id always frozen whe put ah heating pump inside de line zo de line dousnt freeze

[@johnpick6829]

Have you tried putting plastic owls on poles to deter the starlings

[@mikeroutledge6929]

Bloody cold, great work you 2

[@cathalhynes9292]

Yes every 1 of them for a week

[@roryfitzsimmons6701]

We had no cattle drinker frozen

[@dexterquincy1]

I think you might want to be better prepared as you will probably start to see more weather like this.

[@martinclayton2746]

Sure must have well most farms have or brooke cheaper then metre moo moo ⛄

[@paulnewman2115]

Yea froze drinkers , but I still rather the frost than wind and rain

[@johnpbrown736]

i have we grounded out our welder on the pipes

[@oconnellsfarm811]

Frozen water pipes are a real ball ace cattle only wreck troughs

[@cianmccarthy5965]

Phil I no tye way we gave four days drawing with tankers for water

[@reynoldsbrothersltd]

Are frosty brassicas safe for cattle to eat, I know beet can’t be fed if frozen?

[@jeromequirke8464]

dont feed frozen

[@georgedoorley5628]

lot of frozen beet eaten round here last week ............

[@johnpbrown736]

you might try heat rap around the pipes

[@robdelaney5816]

I know you probably wont reply farmer phil but do yoi have any old tractors yoi would sell for really cheap

[@What..a..shambles]

Good to see the boar arrive ..👍🏻

[@seannoone6711]

Hi Phil I saw the zetor in the background and I'm just wondering how is it going

[@FARMERPHIL3690]

Not very well😂

[@patrickosullivan4021]

Phil have ye a Massy parked up there in the yard? Is it broken down or what? It looks like a fresh enough tractor

[@FARMERPHIL3690]

It is yes problem with the injector pump

[@patrickosullivan4021]

Ah ok, fresh looking tractor, wouldn't take much to get going but time I suppose, hopefully the frost is gone it's mild down here in cork, happy Christmas to ye all. Keep up the good work, love the videos always

[@bramblebeefarm2391]

Full time job water in this weather but back to mud now 😂

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Good video ye can run heat .tray on water line that what do in n y on construction sites great job