WORST SO FAR - Almost half the farm under water!

[@michaeljohnwilson6617]

How do you have the energy to work on the big build and then also do all that needs doing on a farm! Respect to you and the whole family. Glad you are all ok after such bad flooding.

[@blower1]

The man is a machine!

[@JamesHardiman99]

Wow! Thank heavens you're all ok!

[@C4sp3r123]

It would be good, if you have the footage, to see the aftermath once the water levels dropped. Hope you didn't have too much damage. Also don't worry about putting out videos like the September floods late, they are all interesting regardless of when they are released 👍

[@jsemichon2625]

Bert was bad. I was wondering how badly you were affected as you're not that far from us. I'm glad everyone is ok. We still have one impassable road out of the village but thankfully nothing worse.

[@DeafMaker]

I was thinking about you today, I was travelling to Leominster then on to Worcester . When got to Leominster all the main roads East were flooded or closed down. So had to go through the lanes over the hills past the Malverns. It has been quite a day today.

[@hughreynolds6183]

Some willow hurdles staked to the banks will soon begin to add structure to reinforce.

[@jonesconrad1]

I'm guessing the sheep tend to stick together ? like you don't get one left behind being difficult.?

[@fredsmith6725]

Scary stuff.😮

[@dannymurphy1779]

Thanks - I do love these water feature videos. Just saw you in T-Shirt saying 'I have enough tools', now you are talking Telehandler!

[@apcolleen]

I wish all of your neighbors could be sent this video (postcards w qr codes ?) so they could start preparing for whats to come and work together to slow these torrents. Definitely silt fencing and berms to keep runoff from entering the water away and taking topsoil with it should be on their lists. Maybe send the link to local schools for discussions about local farming practices. I moved away from Florida before things get too crazy there. I am only 44 but I have seen places and washed away in my lifetime recently we all thought would be there for much longer. I wonder how long it'll be before the fort in St Augustine is covered up by ocean. The floods in the Old Town get worse every year.

[@JohntyNich]

Hope you get to film the aftermath down there 🤞

[@Dannyp8038]

I realise you have a lot in your plate ATM (understatement). Have you thought about reinforcing your banks like they do on canals? Always good to see a vlog from the farm channel

[@oddjobkia]

At a rough cost of £240-300 per meter it might impact on the finances slightly

[@Dannyp8038]

@ I was more thinking of Willow, I heard it’s good to use to prevent bank erosion.

[@oddjobkia]

@@Dannyp8038 I was just being facetious.

[@timclarke8565]

​@@oddjobkiawhen I looked into it... I'd say put a zero on the end there. we had guesstimate prices of 200k for 175m 🤦😬

[@danielbarker8839]

Global warming and post second war destruction of the soil with fertilisers which has killed all biology and hence its ability to hold water is the cause.

[@felixreali7101]

omg, Maggie looks so happy in the water 🥰🥰🤗🤗🥰🥰

[@C4sp3r123]

Good to see you back posting on the farm channel 👍

[@samr8833]

The only fencing that is any good on a floodplain is strands of barbed wire so the debris flows through. Learned form experience.

[@diyfarm]

Think I'll just run the posts in and then run electric along it when needed and remove bottom strand in winter. 👍

[@judyking9171]

It would be interesting to know how badly your land flooded in the 2007 Gloucestershire flooding. It was the worst we have experienced in nearly 50 years

[@PazLeBon]

lost our barn :/

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Wonderfull dog . Looks like its having a great time . Hope you are weathering it ok . Been a hard year for you folks . What part of uk are you in ?? Your vidio came up .Thankyou for showing us . The erosian is domething

[@bridgetcastle7102]

Just love that Maggie!

[@belucky9630]

Have you thought about making a few more natural ponds? Just out interest, does your farm pay for the build is this your main source of income and then you invest it back into the build just curious how it works? .

[@diyfarm]

The farm side of things is 'non profit' for the time being. If we can make it pay for itself that enough for now but definitely a labour of love rather than a new income.

[@tomvalentine9985]

It's the colour of the water that would worry me as much as the volume

[@adamfooks7248]

Fencing water courses and potential flood areas with any sort of netting type wire is an absolute recipe to waste time and money sadly. You’ll never win!!! Instead, put in permanent electric fence using the same posts/stariners etc as you do for the rest of it. Build it with 5 or 6 strands of solid 2.5mm HT wire on insulators, spaced accordingly. Because of your goats you’d need to have all the lines hot but if it was only sheep and cattle you could just have 2 lines electrified. Posts can be 8-10m apart. A line wire fence like this is so sooooo much more resilient to water passing through it, and if it does get badly damaged, because the lines are so easy to re-tension, it’s an absolute doddle to repair and re strain. Run it from a mains fencer from an outbuilding and you’re golden. This type of fence is also excellent against older dry stone walls that are liable to collapse regularly because of the ease of repair if a wall falls on it. If electrifying isn’t possible you can build a 9 wire fence with post spacings 4-5m and run a couple of battens on the wires in between posts, much like they do as standard for all stock in NZ. But whatever you do, if you build net fence near river or flood, sadly you’ll always lose!! Hope this helps! All the best 👍🏻

[@tomvalentine9985]

Good advise here

[@michaelhorton6166]

YOU get to wash the dog!😂

[@apcolleen]

My old dog loved rolling in muck in parks in Florida. He would get covered in fine sand. I trained him to go to the bathtub right after walks because if I let him roll around in mud he knew he'd have to get a bath but it was a compromise.

[@JL-hn6hi]

Wow.

[@hughreynolds6183]

Get rid of that Himalayan Ballsam NOW. Before it's to late.

[@mws16sparks]

It’s November?!

[@barrieneill410]

We had a lot of HB in our woodland edges. Just before its’ seeds burst out the flowers, pull thecstem out of ground and leave to rot down. It’s easy to pull out and as an annual, does not grow from the roots. After two years it has all gone. This not like battling with Japanese Knotweed. The same approach is used by the rangers with volunteers on the Ashdown Forest with the same result.

[@welshherow2603]

Get a NFM grant!

[@derekr1113]

Remember when Greta told you this would happen and you laughed and continued to drive fossil fuel cars - enjoy your choice - at least you are still alive, as not all parts of the World have your luxury.