BREAKING GROUND ON OUR NEW BARN

Ever wonder what its like to be a manager at a horse stable? Work on a family farm? Follow along with me as we take care of and manage over 26 Horses! And 2 Miniature Donkeys. Care for and manage cows and chickens. Prepare, Plant, and Harvest Vegetables, Grain, and lots more!
My name is Joel, I work and manage Sunny Knoll Stables located in North Eastern Pennsylvania. There's always something happening as we do our best to take care of these beautiful animals. Between the weather the family and everyday shenanigan's, who knows what is going to happen next!
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Date Recorded: September 6 2024

[@LARRY-kp9xm]

spray paint your initial line makes it easier

[@amybracey6149]

That is the best way.

[@BethFoster-lm7qq]

Taking a dream to fruition, nice. 👍👏

[@stephenc2296]

Remember you can’t have any part of the building below ground level. Even with a road between the grass and the floor of the barn, hydrostatic pressure will push water up through the floor of the barn.. You won’t be able to store hay in it. I would check out KZbin channel RR Building, they specialize in barns. When you watch their videos you will notice that every pole is elevated over ground level. Then you can fill in with gravel.

[@thomasclark874]

Love seeing mom ❤❤💛💛💚💚

[@suewinston-elliott2674]

Like seeing Mum & Dad in Video

[@piper5363]

Hi Joel. you should use a spray can to mark the ground when you remove the posts and reminds you also your areas when digging.

[@shirleybewley6646]

Yes, love seeing you Mom and your Dad working together!

[@mikesaftich5223]

Mom doing the ATV Limbo.

[@terrykunst3883]

Yahoo!! What an exciting day. Cant wait to see the next steps!

[@leannekenyoung]

Yes Joel, you are well and truly blessed! I’m super excited to watch the build of your barn! Laya looks like she’s getting really old and worn out, poor ol puppy doggy. So happy to see the hay barn built! God bless you all! ❤️🥰🙏🏻🍁🇨🇦

[@sandrasinclair01]

I did think that ...where 's all the rocks!!

[@evquinn2156]

YAY, Dawn! Great move!

[@laurameier7069]

Breaking ground day! Woo hoo! 🎉

[@debbarrett9865]

So excited for you and your family

[@maxineclark6674]

To Joel and the stable life that is one very cool video Joel and I will be looking forward to the band being built.

[@karenchaney9160]

You are in a beautiful location

[@wardirvng]

The bacon Grammy was frying looked delicious!

[@judyhall2680]

Forget the barn and build a house with that view...lol just kidding.

[@Miss.C.]

And the view will be blocked 😢

[@smithyboy657]

Always good to see Pete. He helps make the videos more interesting 👍👍

[@SandraRhea-i8e]

That’s great Joel. I noticed the lack of rock too. We’re excited also!

[@garypyle8456]

Joel, something u might want to consider about ur driveway and entrance, being in a northern climate with snow and ice, south side melts faster

[@kens.3729]

Very Exciting Day on the Farm. 👍🙏

[@patriciaruppert201]

You should be proud. How very exciting. What a peaceful view. Stunning. Always great when Pete stops by. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@elizabethharrell8707]

Hire the Amish to build your barn! Love seeing your mom, she is wonderful!

[@janking2762]

They might not be close enough.

[@dennisreeves632]

Love seeing your mom in the video's!

[@billwilson1320]

I would have spray-painted along the line first as a marker.

[@dm7852]

Congratulations!! You are so blessed! Joel and Megan you are so cute together ❤

[@brianeisenga882]

Another couple weeks and you will start seeing some colors. Hard to believe it is that time of year already.

[@joyceheflin-casado5825]

Love watching the barn build and all the projects you take on! Very cool when your parents and “guests” join you on camera also 😊

[@isaacfehr5448]

Hey Joel n company A idea, why wouldn’t you add a water collector tank(s) for water for the horses from the roof?

[@kencotton4645]

I was surprised you didn’t use the marker along the line before you pulled it up to give you a nice straight line to dig along.

[@cattuslavandula]

Bwahahaha! So *that's* how they limbo on farms! Tractor Limbo!

[@dillangeiser4820]

Spray paint would have been your friend in this case

[@kimlindsey5178]

I love the music you use when you show scenes like this.

[@genefulgham5533]

If you all just start driving where you are going to put your road, by the time you are done building the barn, the road will have pretty much established itself. You are going to be making a lot of trips with a lot of different vehicles during the build. Mark your road and drive it and it will make itself. The places that need tractor work will show up as everyone drives it. 😃

[@toniatalley1977]

Im so very happy and excited for y'all!!!

[@snoykster2216]

Joel, reach out to Pete with Just a few acres farm (YT channel). He is very knowledgeable on drainage as it was part of his job as an architect. He could possibly help with design of your drainage for the barn and maybe along the stable.

[@antonweber9078]

Suggest you get a Lazer on a tripod. Measuring tape as a transit , to get your levels 'closer'.

[@johnkochenburger7293]

Good luck from Colorado 😊😊

[@markmcmeen287]

Sure seems like you would be ahead of the game to hire someone who knows what they are doing and who has the equipment needed to build your barn. The way to keep water out of your barn is to have it higher than the surrounding ground.

[@johnryan3400]

At least for the the layout and the footings or foundation.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Just by he way, a south side road will melt off sooner in winter. On the north side, the barn will shade the road and it won't melt off as fast, and it may pack down to ice. Looking forward to seeing how you do this. It seems unconventional to me so far. Normally, wouldn't you scrape off all the sod and topsoil from the pad footprint, plus some around the edges, then make a level, elevated pad for the whole footprint, and grade all around for runoff and access? Looking forward to seeing what you do! Thanks.

[@tinakon4386]

its nice and real good to see you and your mum working towards your dream Barn, best luck and success to you , in time to come will you get help from your brawny cousins? do you have a drawn pic or sketch of your future Barn, yea you were describing to us but I cannot visualize it in my mind!! a bit dim, ha ha! GOOD LUCK and THANK YOU for bringing us along!!

[@katrienvh4289]

Perhaps you can use the dirt to make the hill up to the barn less steep for the horses climb when they get into the barn from the big field...

[@margaretpriddle9541]

Such an undertaking! I can’t wait to see the progress as you go. We always love watching your videos. My dogs love watching the horses and the donkeys!🇨🇦❤️

[@lenalyles2712]

Good job!

[@iggy2u2002]

Really excited for you and SKS

[@kennethjacobs2151]

Looks like you need to buy yourselves an inexpensive laser to be more accurate on the tops of your footings (if you're are using them). Even more so for your elevations of the roof trusses where they seat.

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Looking good.

[@LynnMoewai]

I get that,,,It's a lovely view,,We live opposite a Very Pretty River called the Heathcote River Followed by the view of our beloved port hills in some countrys these would be called Mountains,,,Here in Christchurch New Zealand,,,,I could not live in a normal street once you've lived with a view,,there's no going back, I never get sick of watching the ducks , Herons,,Pukekos,,fish and eels,,small frogs,,People coming to feed them with their young kiddies,,walking their dogs or just walking along here plus all other sort's of birds,,we here in New Zealand do not have snakes,,skunks other weird rodent's that are around this world,, A bee or wasp sting is about as bad as it get's here...When we do visit Australia I'm quite shocked and thankful that we do not have Huge Spiders,,snakes and all sort's of things that can bite you,,makes me realise how lucky I am to get back home and appreciate how great it is to live where we can sit for hours just watching the beauty outside our house...

[@keithfrazier2558]

Surprised you didn't borrow a Veggie Boy tractor with a plow and plow the ground where you want to dig to break it up some first. Your barn and your property, do it how you want to I guess.

[@lizhaydon2250]

Josh, it looks good. Question on the road placement: do you need to be concerned about the road and winter weather? Where I live, winter and ice and north facing garages/driveways, it can be an issue. South facing melts off faster and rairly needs plowing. Have fun

[@nobillclinton]

that's a lot of work - best of luck to you. Beauteous stable life. 👍👍

[@adventure7434]

Well, yay that looks like pretty soft digging. Good for you.

[@candymckinnon8554]

Joel , this is so exciting.

[@munchkin5674]

Curious… as long as you have the construction area fenced off so that the horses can’t get in there, why can’t you use that that marker spray paint to help keep track of your dig lines?

[@pintobeans2973]

Great start! This is going to be exciting.

[@alexanderericverbrug]

Would a sloped roof work better for drainage? Veggie boys would love your field!

[@joannewilson6847]

Love the plan, xx

[@Gerald345-c4x]

Great job 👍🏼👏🏼

[@wayneculley5239]

Wow,,that is going to be awsum,,,good to see dawn in the videos,,,need more of her and dad both,,now,,,,get to wark,,,

[@gloriadavidson8599]

WOW the vision you and your AWESOME Mom have is outstanding 👏👏👏👏👏👏Explaining to us step by step is appreciated 👍👍 QUESTION????? How many years has gone into the planning AND any chance of seeing the plans of the Hay Barn. ps loving these Barn Build videos ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love from the UK x

[@WonderlyRitchea]

Looking good 😀

[@rogerpultz5597]

Great video Joel 👍👍

[@Phil-xs6wc]

Our house is really confused over here as to how you're gonna build without leveling? What about water running into it? We're all invested in this building and we're trying to understand.😂

[@timothykrott7248]

Better to break ground then to break wind 😅

[@deadfoot]

If you'd done that scoot under the fence trick, she would have sent you to your room!

[@Digeroo123]

Good news?

[@morticiamoo9886]

Will you be building a retaining wall at the rear/North side of the building to help support the dirt you have to put in place to support the structure?

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

You need an earth mover.

[@FirefighterGreg71]

Hey Joel. Curious about whether you can add rainwater tanks to capture the water from such a large roof that feed water troughs for the horses?

[@timothykrott7248]

I wouldn't slope anything towards barn or foundation. If anything slope up to barn and put your drain pipe on the down hill side of your slope.

[@bige.3474]

I would use all of that dirt to build a berm above the barn to divert water away.

[@janking2762]

That worked for us years ago.

[@TheHarper11]

Joel, draw a diagram of what you're talking about because you lost me. Put the points of the compass on it to give us and idea of orientation. Help us out here. Love seeing Mom and Dad.

[@bobbih1013]

😊

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Will the veggie cows and chickens be in the barn also?

[@johnwood7372]

Why haven’t you hired an excavator and operator who knows what he is doing?

[@evquinn2156]

Question- is working at the stable your only job?

[@ljdidupuis8121]

Are you going to have lights and outlets in the barn if so the boxes and the lights should be explosion proof and run in pipe

[@joannaridener1745]

Who owns the pretty dodge truck?

[@maryt3793]

You may have mentioned this but what type of flooring will your new barn have?

[@tonywheeler5173]

did you call 811 before digging?

[@rosieslade8416]

thats the plan stan lol hi dawn , hi gavin , hi lefty lol

[@kevinfogarty-hh6qu]

Should just skim the grass of 1st then your topsoil

[@rubyspencer6435]

Hi Petey

[@PeterWenzel-yn7fn]

Waving a hand from texad

[@mikef9966]

why dont you bulldoze it level

[@justmejustme1245]

Petie washed his shirt!!!!!

[@johnr3603]

Has a date ?

[@justmejustme1245]

@@johnr3603 you never know.

[@KenKritter]

Why not use a bucket with teeth it would dig better

[@Miss.C.]

Sad that you are covering up that beautiful view

[@kayerin5749]

Woah! Slow it down with the camera - I'm getting sea sick. Or is it pasture sick? Whatever, trying to show us everything you see in glances doesn't work for me!

[@MrandMrsBurns]

You can control the playback speed using the gear in the top right corner.

[@redeyedmongoose2963]

I like it

[@Gerald345-c4x]

Stop 😭😭cry baby

[@robynmorris2408]

@@Gerald345-c4xAMEN😊

[@daveklein2826]

Get a life