I was Given Some “GOOD” Advice

[@peewee.3138]

At least with the sand bedding, you don’t have to worry about fire like a straw pack! Always nice to have the Torch Master Padré!

[@jerryfish1303]

Tell Lonnie good luck on whatever he’s doing. I wish him the best.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

👍👍

[@robertmarino2158]

The best to Lonnie in the future.

[@brianpower1854]

Best of luck to Lonnie with his future plans, some nice improvements to the farm, had the same problem here in Ireland, made similar changes and was a great success, your stalls look to be the right width but if they are too wide this will also cause cows to walk up and turn around.

[@fredscott9090]

Been watching for long time from easr central in.your old man should be so proud as to raised kids as hard working ,giving and caring as you and your brothers and all kids. Keep on the good road buddy we will be watching

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@fredscott9090 👍👍

[@homey3051]

You need a bed buster for your skid steer to fluff up them stalls, you would save a lot of sand.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

I just looked it up, looked awesome probably $$$

[@jerryfish1303]

I can’t remember ever seeing your father. I seen him plenty in this video. That is absolutely awesome.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

👍👍

[@SteveNicoson-u1i]

Thanks. Good job on redoing the cow bunks. Nice. Everyone working together. Best of luck to Lonnie!!! The Iowa farm boy.

[@larrybruck2949]

Great video. Working together with your family is what it's all about! Good luck to Lonnie too!

[@kevingordon7426]

Good team. Congratulations and good luck to Lonnie and all.

[@peewee.3138]

I hope everything works out well for Lonnie. He was a great worker and he will do well wherever he goes and I’m sure that there’s always a spot for him at the family farm if things don’t work out in the future.

[@mikenawrocki1837]

Good luck Lonnie. I wish you the best.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@mikenawrocki1837 👍👍

[@whippee2]

Excellent improvement Kip and team!! Another thing I noticed is the lack of brisket boards in the stalls. These would certainly help as well 👍

[@TimothyNess-h8u]

The technical part of farming... Love and learn! Great work! 👍 😊!!

[@ryanbachman9227]

Good luck Lonnie on your new adventure in life. Kip it’s all about cow comfort going to be a good minor adjustment for the cows. God bles

[@timothyfry8470]

Wishing Lonnie good luck on his next adventure in life

[@timpingel9607]

Nice to see you making some changes for the positive on the dairy side of the farm. Nice work!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Thank you I’m digging in

[@jerryfish1303]

Merry Christmas, Kip to you and your family and your nephews and your father

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@jerryfish1303 yes sir, you too my friend

[@jerryfish1303]

@ thank you I really enjoy your videos

[@simontodd619]

It was great to see you all working together on a project as team, we don't often get the chance. Plus, good luck to Lonnie, hopefully we'll hear how he's getting on from time to time.

[@joepfeiler5911]

Reminds me of something we did a quite a few years ago. We bought new stalls while we were going thru the work of raising the stalls. We had a quite a few of the old ones that were welded and they were thin.

[@PetterPedersen-c5j]

❤ from Norway

[@Justangs]

Doing a great job, sounds like you got a great nutritious willing to help out in many ways!

[@steveketchum9836]

Your heifers learn to lay backwards in the dry cow lot. We had it where we always had a handful of cows in the alley. Then moved the young heifers to a farm with cow size free stalls. After that, nobody laid in the alley, but then we had cows laying backwards. Your adjustments are good, but don't be surprised if they still lay backwards some

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@steveketchum9836 I’ve heard that, I’ll be needing to pay a visit down there and more work to be done

[@peytonboggs7058]

Have you guys thought about buying a sand shooter for the skid steer I’m sure bedding would be much quicker

[@johnbeam-d3v]

Lets call it-"Free Stall Elevate"-great video. Loved seeing your beautiful family on the vacation video. Your kids were having the time and memories of their lives. Something they will remember for ever. You are a very good dad spending as much time as possible with your kids. Loved it. Wish Lonnie good luck on his venture. I am sure he will be successful with his venture. Thanks for the ride my friend.

[@pwhitkinn4543]

It was nice seeing Lance, again. Is this his last year college or does he have another year. I'm surprise to hear Lonny had left. Wherever he goes, hope he is happy and successful. Team work, getting things done. Dad, should have had safety goggles on, when using the cutting torch. I was afraid a piece of metal would fly up into his eye. Too bad the cows couldn't be litter trained😂

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@pwhitkinn4543 yes one more year left for Lance after this one

[@stevebiddle8912]

Best of luck Lonnie!!! Kip, you should do an update on your conversion of the weed eater to a driii. Amazing

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@stevebiddle8912 😃😃

[@EricWoods-vz3jr]

Good work

[@rothfarms]

Good luck Lonnie 🎉😊

[@steelydan42]

Hello from Hadley Michigan 👋👋

[@jamesryan9206]

Great video. Wish all the best for Lonnie. Nice to see Lance again Lets go Buffalo.

[@jasonbeecher509]

Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@bighill9556]

Cornell would be in my neck of woods , know someone in your backyard . Been there done that, stay safe peace out good luck with the new bam bam 😁

[@phyllishalley8972]

Looking good!!!👍👍👍👍

[@danielelliott1570]

How does raising the stalls keep then from laying backwards?

[@chrisburke848]

Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock

[@scottkonik3398]

Ever think about getting a sand shooter for bedding?

[@kevinwittstruck8764]

Hi good evening kip from Indiana

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@kevinwittstruck8764 good evening!

[@randyrussell9755]

Always something. Those girls are noticing something different with the stalls.

[@hughmclellan3099]

You need a bed buster for your sand

[@ericschmitt2597]

Another trick could be to get some twine and lock a cow in a stall for a while until she learns to lay in the stall properly

[@Marilou-g5t]

We used sand in our freestalls of our 750 head milking herd. Grooming the stalls was done every 8 hours. We had a fllush system for the alleys and recycled the sand. We milked in that system for 18 years.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

I might have to look in to something like that

[@OneStepHomestead]

been thinking.....you mentioned a loader for feeding..... and a second skid loader...... not sure if you watch staneley dirt monkey or heard of cast loaders but it may be a 2in1 machine for you.... small, powerful, nimble, and extendable boom

[@peewee.3138]

Sorry but I wouldn’t believe anything the Dirt Monkey is being paid to sell. Just my opinion.

[@Steven-i4q]

I've got 70 stalls just north of north branch, will best reasonable offer if you're interested

[@jerryfish1303]

I cannot believe how much Lonnie looks like you holy cow

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

In the video that’s lance

[@jerryfish1303]

@ after watching it a little longer I realized it was Lance, but he looks like you’re twin

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@ he’s a good tough smart kid 👍

[@peewee.3138]

Did you get any footage of them dumping the front trailer of sand? I’m sure they have to jackknife the rear trailer.

[@dknust9]

Around here they usually unhook to dump the front trailer

[@randybennett5417]

Do ya think the stabilizing pipe that runs the lenth of the row, is a little to far out away from the posts. Might be blocking their heads when they go to lay down. You"ll have to watch some cows to see.

[@KEVIN24098AFGLHJAF]

Kip, did you change a setting on your camera? You are recording in 720p. A little hard on the eyes in 2024.

[@bighill9556]

Stalls are too wide

[@tinafitzwater972]

Why is raising stalls gonna make a difference with them laying backwards ..just asking..not really understanding

[@Tom-fx2ox]

Free stall rehab👍

[@timnash6870]

Attention, Kip… TIM from Ontario Canada. Was wondering what kind of RYOBI INPACK You’re using I have Ryobi I have never seen that one was wondering which brand and model number this is

[@dknust9]

That’s a snap on impact with a lime green cover on it.

[@craiggarrison768]

You need a set of Swivel sockets

[@bighill9556]

Big cows genetics genetics genetics

[@flyfliker]

You raise the stations then you add sand kind of defeats the purpose.

[@peewee.3138]

Be patient, please

[@mattcaptein9626]

A engine powered hilty

[@cedricgates9976]

like tie stalls better just me

[@sammathias3498]

A big lose losing Lonnie

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Yes about 3 years he was here!