Fixing Water Fountains and Cleaning Pens! Dairy Farming in Wisconsin!

[@Daveco82]

Pops is a mechanical genius!

[@rustyhoefarms7499]

You guys should try to anti seize the studs that hold the waterers down. Might help to disassemble them next time

[@mikebrown1188]

George would make a great teacher. I love how organized he is. Hope his vacation is relaxing for him.

[@harveypenner2386]

I always like your videos! They take me back 50 years when I was a teen ager on the farm. Aaron could be my oldest brother and the equipment that we used is so similar.

[@Jacksonsfarmvideos2350]

Have you guys ever thought about getting a scraper blade for you skid steers it would make cleaning the barn yard easier

[@randycharest4507]

ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO AARON 😊

[@jpeel2066]

Make sure you enjoy these times working with your dad. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.

[@anthonymurry7935]

Love your videos. Great seeing you and your Dad working together!

[@mikewithers299]

Never ending fixes on farms especially dairy farms. That water fountain seems real fidgety but works well. I could still remember the smell of manure from my younger days. Grandpa called it "honey" 🤣🤣

[@bobsmith1814]

So dad is going somewhere it’s sunny and warm for some vacation. You will do fine caring for the cows and the farm.

[@clinthochrein888]

Neat water systems. Ours heifer barn was 3 empty oil drums cleaned an a water trough type. An on winter days when it came time to refill took two pails of hot water an fill in the water tanks.

[@heatherlandskron]

Great video!! Great seeing you and your family working together! Have a good day and week. Stay warm and safe

[@suecrothers9041]

Always something needing fixed on a farm! Thank you for sharing!

[@ronzezulka6646]

Gierok farms. Patience and perseverance. Farming master class.

[@DonWelter]

Cattle always seem to have to help if you're within reach. I carry extra insulators, tools, staples, etc. in a 5 gal bucket when checking fences. Cows never seem to be content until they've tipped the bucket and spilled the contents. Good info on the water cups. Clean up around the dairy is a never-ending project.

[@MiddleVAmicrodairy]

I’d be interested to see a video on how y’all break in a fresh calved heifer to being milked, especially a kicker? Everyone seems to have their own way.

[@danw6014]

The very best method to working with animals is calmness and patience. I was once given a hard time for spending a lot of time loading a fresh heifer into the parlor. She had been forced in a few times already and wanted nothing to do with it. I told the people I worked for that I'm going to make my idea her Idea and once I do, you'll never have trouble with her again. Now she one of the first cows to come in.

[@stanhensley3082]

Always fun to put your hands in cold water on a winter day in Wisconsin!!! Been there, done that. Thanks 😊.

[@karlkasper3012]

Thanks for the great videos. Your father’s knowledge of farming and mechanical are awesome. I think it would be interesting to work with my father sometimes as you do.

[@markflick1641]

😂George has a new gal he’s hiding in the barn .😁 Great video fellas . I love to see spring coming but it do make some mud . What a view

[@JoaoPires-pd9ot]

Oi 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏✌️

[@danw6014]

I run a horse stable. The barn has 26 stalls with 26 Nelson 730 waterers. The way they are wired, there is a 2 amp buss fuse that fails when the heater quits working. When the fuse fails there's a little light that comes on. All our pastures have 760 Nelsons. Unfortunately they are not wired the same way. When the waterers are in constant use i have little trouble with them. We actually don't use the stalls on a regular basis because the horses are much better outside plus our labor is much less. Once or twice a year we host horsemanship clinics which requires me to turn on all the waterers. As a result of sitting they often get rust in the valve that causes them to drip, over filling the water bowl.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

All we did was a poly tank under a hydrant with a tank heater. Not the best system perhaps but it does the job.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

The curiosity of cows never seems to stop, they are so neat and I remember their rough licks. Thanks for showing the repair of the water cup. Somehow I knew that your dad would have replacement parts at hand. A very wise and time saving thing to do. Plus parts never get cheaper in the future. My husband was raised in the city and has no experience with farming and I love showing things like this to him. Hope all goes well with his vacation and I know his replacement crew will do well. Take Care.

[@tammygurke7482]

George the Moos 🐄 🐄🐄🐄🐄just want to give ya some lovins 🥰

[@daleberghorn6504]

Looks like a real fun repair always something to fix on a farm jack of many trades I was sure dad hat was coming off from the cow licking

[@tomhill4765]

Cows are curious animals.

[@nathanalmond8280]

Thanks for sharing the video.

[@alithemagicbum]

Thanks for sharing.

[@AmandaDoll-hi4dr]

You have nice cows and calefs and bulls and chickens and ducks good jod of fixing the water cup

[@micorwavedcaprisun9461]

Awesome!

[@brianwestveer9532]

Great video

[@johnhenderson299]

That's quite the drinking fountain lots of pieces

[@markpigman209]

Send a magnet down on a string to get your tools back

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thanks

[@jaycool7805]

You guys should do a video on all the trators you ran throughout the years...

[@markschwab7829]

When you said breeding program do breed with bull or AI? Great video of the fixing that is never ending on a farm!

[@Joey966]

The old Bobcat on poop duty.

[@veetwin75]

magnet on a string will get the tools out of the bottom of the fountains

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

It's your farm, it's your business, but I have to ask if you have ever looked at the MiraFounts? They seem to be simpler, and easier to maintain. No electric, just a lot of insulation and a simple valve. Just curious. Great teamwork and video!

[@randynancywarkentine2810]

I’m up in Manitoba Canada and cheaped out and got four Mira Fountains. Never again, good valves but the doughnut heaters are not very good. The worst part of them is the small access hole on the side. Ritchie fountains are more money but are far better in cold climates.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

@@randynancywarkentine2810 I have never used a MiraFount with a heater, but I am in northern VA, USA.

[@randynancywarkentine2810]

This winter has been very easy on us. But we sometimes have minus 35 nights on a more normal winter, that kind of weather really shows the weaknesses in just about everything.

[@chrismarklevitz5217]

Hope I'm still alive to see George poke Aaron with his cane!!😂

[@paulmartin8784]

What are you talking about on getting old,you still get around like a young man There wont be much manure to haul in the spring,hauling it all wintee😊

[@user-eb2zc2vlad]

За сколько денег 💰 сдаёте литр молока??

[@melvinmandel2165]

Do u guys AI just queries love the videos

[@Ironvalleylarry]

The guy that designed the water cup never had to work on it.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

I don't think ANY engineer since 1970 ever turned a wrench on ANYTHING!

[@randynancywarkentine2810]

Drives me nuts as to why they don’t use 304 stainless for anything that might ever need to be taken apart.

[@daspicsman]

@@MorganOtt-ne1qjpreach brother! If I were an engineering manager my guys would be taking everything apart that they built.

[@daspicsman]

@@randynancywarkentine2810I think I’d build my own out of stainless

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

@@daspicsman I once met a VP from what had been a farm equipment manufacturer, and he said they required engineers to go out with sales staff to find out what the customers and mechanics wanted. In 1990 they had a 75% quit rate from engineers that had no idea how to improve things. I miss Gehl farm equipment!

[@jameslesliejr.5636]

Planned(engineers and corporations) obsolescence is getting old.

[@daspicsman]

You guys need some battery powered work lights.

[@TheCoopdway]

Thanks I think…..I had mostly forgotten this ‘fun’. 🥹