Like Herding Piglets

Ben is out in the woods today adding some electric line for new pig paddocks, and then getting the mama pigs and piglets moved to a new pen. Then he’s hopping on the tractor to dig out for our hog scalding barrel for our workshop this weekend.
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Intro: Let Me Love You by Loving Caliber
You Let Go by Thyra
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[@tobycatVA]

As a Dad, it was always a point of pride in my sons when they worked with me and I knew without them it wouldn't have gotten done.

[@marydingus4360]

I'm so impressed with those 2 younger boys of yours! They get right in there and work with you on just about anything you need help with. The other two help you too, but those younger two are always out there with you!! You are blessed with 4 boys to help you out on farm!❤

[@jamjar5716]

@marydingus...I think the older boys probably help just as much but prefer to do it off camera.

[@gelwood99]

@@jamjar5716 Without a doubt!

[@greghill254]

Nice that the whole family is involved in making your homestead so successful ! Favourite scenes: Jack and Corbin playing chess! Great that they learn this so early. 2: The boys helping to remove the stuck auger from the stump. You are blessed with such a wonderful family!

[@nanajack8527]

Brett and Corbin are 2 of the hardest kids I can think of, just like their dad. As for buggie, that girl can lead the world and I will gladly follow. Meg....well Meg is Meg, she has it all and we all (us ladies anyway!) all wanna be a meg.

[@caryrhea3974]

The older boys don't like being on camera. I'm sure they are a big help on the homestead too.

[@oxenrat]

@@caryrhea3974 exactly, Tyler and Jack are as helpful, just more off camera.

[@carolpoole2220]

Ben such is a day in the life of a real homesteaders. You just suck it up and do what has to be done. You and Meg are such great parents God bless.

[@carolwhisenhunt7504]

Love how everyone knows their job and does it. That Corbin is a worker for sure. I'm sure they all are. He just seems to be on camera more. Love your family.

[@cherylmiller2272]

I get the biggest bang out of watching your kids entertain themselves....such a sweet bunch!!

[@caryrhea3974]

❤❤❤ Good afternoon! I'm really liking your new neighbors. Thank you for introducing us. Ben you have played guitar most of your life, when are going to share that with us or take us to Marshall arts class? I love your post. Have a WONDERFUL evening. ❤❤❤

[@user-vx4rk9pj2w]

Ben, dude! Improvise, adapt, overcome. You rock bro and you inspire. And you're teaching the boys to be REAL men as you do. Muay bueno. Jesus Rules! Be blessed.

[@ritahall8653]

I love how your boys are happy to work with you

[@nuttallvlogs2362]

Buggy asking for a huge burrito while eating spoonfuls of butter is iconic 😂

[@MKCarol-ms7lg]

Buggy eating straight butter reminded me of a barbeque my parents took me to at a friend's home when I was around 2. They noticed I was missing from the back yard and went looking. When they found me, I was sitting in the middle of their dining table eating butter right out of the butter dish, with my hands. LOL Thanks Buggy for the memory.

[@perijetton9275]

I would love to hear Ben play the guitar sometime! Maybe a fireside concert 🎶

[@caryrhea3974]

I'm with you on this. ❤

[@carolcalf2032]

Love seeing a family working together to serve a purpose. Well done

[@kennethgibbons366]

Well the piglets really had you going there... great family entertainment

[@dixsigns1717]

You remind me of myself when I was younger, with that quick project statement. Hang in there Ben!

[@stellacontreras7740]

Those boys are pure Gold, such helpers , they are truly gifts from above. Great job dad. Meg with her yummy cooking. Your baby girl is a jewel. What a beautiful family God bless 🙏💖. Love with Helping hands. 🤝 Togethernes. God& Family 🕊️❤️

[@amilynnstapay796]

You are working so hard and well at everything. Watching you guys and the pigs was funny 😁!

[@robynobrien3610]

Your boys are great helpers! One question I’ve had over time…how can they handle being barefoot all over the homestead!?”

[@osmadchlo]

It's a very common thing in the south. The more you run around outside barefooted, the tougher the bottoms of your feet get. 😉

[@petebartlett2229]

Look at history,shoes was a luxury item,often kids shared one pair of shoes. Only now society says they are a necessity…barefoot is better

[@deecooper1567]

I was raised in the country & barefoot was soo much better than shoes 🤪. Now at 75 I can’t do barefoot but flip flops are close enough. I’m a tender foot now 😂😂😂 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@reginathompson9350]

Look up grounding barefoot. Take off your shoes and head outside and feel the effects of grounding right away. 30 minutes of grounding barefoot can heal pain, reduce inflammation and improve quality of sleep.

[@deecooper1567]

@@reginathompson9350 That is so true . TY 🦶👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@patriciahusk3428]

Ben, you have raised such a great bunch of young men!! They are all taking after you and work as hard as you do😉! Buggy will have yard skills and kitchen skills….she’s going to be strong and able to work alongside her big brothers when needed💜💜!

[@sheilak4493]

Amazing family like families should be!

[@RootsandCalluses]

It's so fascinating to me that people are fine with your kids being barefoot. I'm restoring a neglected garden, and mostly live barefoot. So many of my comments are about how unsafe I am doing the exact same things as your kids but as a 33-year-old woman. It shows that people's perception of risk is really more about how used people are to seeing something. Seeing a kid walk barefoot seems a lot less unusual, even if it's the same risk. Anyway, I think it's super cool that your kids get to walk around barefoot when they want to. It's so much better for them. Keep up the good work! Love watching your videos to shut off my brain. Thanks!

[@faithrada]

It's like you all fit 48 hours into a 24 hour day! I'm exhausted just watching. Well Done Beautiful Family. 🙏 👏 🐖 🐖 🐷 Buggie!!! That HUGE burrito will last you a whole week! LOL 😅

[@donnaokeefe6463]

I love watching all of your little men helping out. Buggy is such a good helper too

[@andyriley5460]

Love the little tails wagging wish I had space to have pigs.

[@StoneKathryn]

Wow, that looked really hard to back-up and out again! Wow, you are putting a new post in to have fence power up to the woods. I'm glad you got the auger back out! You came down into a stump. Who would expect that? That did look hard to get the piglets to move over to the new pasture in the woods. I hope it won't be hard to dig down and lower the pig scalding drum. I'm glad you have the power wench now! Wow, putting those cinder blocks down was a great idea. I hope the air will draw so you can get the fire going. Oh yeah, you have an electric heater so you don't have to build a fire under it! And the weed burners! Cool, chorizo and rice burritos! Thanks for this video Hollar family!

[@CreatorInTrng]

Science! Leverage and elbow grease to tackle the problem. Things people have practiced for centuries. In Buggie's (sp?) mind she ate a huge (grown-up) Burrito. Full and satisfied. Always a pleasure to watch y'all. Thanks for sharing.

[@Cthomas5678]

Meg is such a good mama!! I know what she does is very hard work cooking and preparing food for the week and using everything up !! Very impressive Meg don’t forget to take care of yourself too❤

[@katepopowski5535]

Butter is good for her😅😊

[@lavernfoy4591]

This is an amazing family. I love forward to every video. Ben and Meg are wonderful parents to amazing kids. Love them all. ❤️🙏

[@aprilbeth]

Changing the pigs location was making me laugh out loud! I love every video you all do ❤

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Boys are obviously having fun with Golfdzilla

[@greenbankreptiles]

Keep on, keeping on folks!

[@SanaUllah-jf2wj]

Very Cute Family.❤❤❤

[@malina1239]

Oh my gosh , those piglets are so so adorable 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@beckyskinner5145]

How blessed you are to have such amazing sons!

[@whitestone4401]

Sometimes getting a toddler to eat is so frustrating. My pediatrician used to reassure me, telling me that as long as they eat the equivalent of a dinner plate meal, in the span of 3 days, they are getting enough nutrition. You have taught your kids the value of good food, offering them an amazing, nutritious variety, and they will carry that through their lives.

[@amberamodei484]

Meg... Are your trees pretty enough for a new opening fly over? I do love seeing how your homestead keeps changing.

[@jerisutton6009]

I.ove the fact that u r teaching ur kiddos that work will not kill them. Praise God! Godd job parents.

[@robboone4367]

Good family bonding. Your children will value this their entire lives, Take it from an old man.

[@territn8871]

All those little black piglets are adorable, like little puppy dogs! And good ole Moe is the most gentle boar I've ever seen! You have good sows too. Moe and his ladies are very fertile!😘 If I were going to raise pigs, the American Guinea pig would be my choice. I always get hungry for everything Meg cooks!!! You all are my favorite family.🥰

[@bobmoroney3643]

Good thing you have young and healthy helpers.

[@motherofnecessity9141]

I love your family. Your boys are the best workers/helpers. It's refreshing to watch a family be so loving to each other. Your family is a blessing. I pray weekly for all of you.

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

Who would have thought that would happen. Good thing you have a team of boys to help you unscrew it.

[@MrJcalvino]

In the future would you clear more trees in the silvopasture forest where the pigs live so more grasses could grow? Have you tried seeding the paddock that pigs lived so when they come back they have more green edibles? Alfalfa( a lot of pretein), legumes (they help fixing nitrogen), Turnips, etc. What is you approach? Nice video and greetings from Spain!

[@steveboston6889]

Please shut off the tractor before doing anything with the PTO. It is unforgiving.

[@SandraNelson063]

And merciless.

[@katelinrhan324]

I’ve knew someone that was literally scalped by one of those

[@greenbankreptiles]

The PTO wasn't engaged. I grew up on grandparents sheep farm.. you need to be careful at all points..Life is dangerous on a farm

[@deecooper1567]

@@PiDurkin-xf2eh💔💔👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@thedelightfulcottage343]

He had. The pto off, you dont have to shut off the tractor.

[@pmartin6759]

👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ was on a farm for a long time working around equipment don't ever take a chance on working on your machinery especially dealing with PTO while it is running. That shaft will wind up on clothes, hair and even body parts please remember one thing....machinery doesn't care about human flesh it just does what it does so take extra caution with it to stay as safe as you can stay.

[@shirleymurphy1958]

Hard working family And those children are so smart . What ever they are doing keep up the good work!

[@gkiferonhs]

By digging down to set your scalding tank, you may also have the beginnings of a good pit BBQ for cooking those whole lambs. Anyway, don't forget to have fun at your workshop!!

[@cherylmoran5134]

As a Vermonter, I’m amazed at the color of your dirt and the lack of rocks. We apparently grow them here. 😂

[@jenniferrush8231]

When using the augur: go down a little bit, then reverse. Do that up and down a bunch before moving deeper

[@barbaramix1683]

Sometimes things just don't go as planned. When it rains it pours. Luckily you have a lot of really good helpers. Buggy really was hungry but her stomach is just so small.

[@graciegolden2290]

You dear wonderful people, thank you.

[@joethesampleguy3414]

Big lil' piglett excitement!

[@angelaburrell-lewis5712]

So many manly little men , YEAH!!

[@nanajack8527]

Oops, sorry I nearly forgot Jack a d Tyler, they are always so quiet in the background getting on with other projects. You all work so hard and so well together it's really something to be very proud of as a family.

[@judydaffron5472]

Look at y'all improving the process one step at a time!

[@theunsteadysteader]

When it aint workin, grab a cheater bar. When that aint workin, grab a bigger cheater bar!! 😂❤

[@belieftransformation]

Great progress; thanks for sharing! The building & maintaining of your homestead will be forged in the children’s memories & they will know how to do the same! Blessings to everyone 🤗💕🇨🇦

[@deannewilliams3321]

I was like, you need a bigger cheater bar! And then you said it lol 😆 Nice job under that boiler. Fantastic job cleaning the barn guys. It reminds me of when I babysat. I got the kids (5 boys, 1 girl was the oldest) to play “let’s surprise mom” and we would clean the house and surprise my sister. We had to hurry before they got back lol. It was fun. Two of their boys were twins too. They’re all grown now. Peace out ✌🏻

[@darrenharber6711]

Why don't you get a old cast iron bath tub to scold the plurasides?? Unless they are all gone I suppose a old metal spa bath

[@gabrielvankempen7863]

What a fun video! It was great seeing the 'really huge burrito' for Buggy. And very informative watching the process/progress of providing electricity to the pig areas. Thanks for sharing a 'typical' day in the life at the Hollar Homestead!

[@acornhomestead3575]

It's 730am and I'm a huge burrito hungry! Lol. Roll that puppy up again and ship it off to me! I love your scalding tank and stand. I need a stand like that for my ibc water tote for the garden waterer.

[@shamancarmichael5305]

I am a whole burrito hungry right now! Just wish I had one instead of my boring ham sandwich! 😁

[@anwenroberts975]

whew! I really did think you guys were stuck for sure. Loved how the boys both mucked in to help you get unstuck. And what a lovely job the other boys did on the space, Nicely done

[@sheliahyatt2531]

Living on a homestead, somedays you get started with troubles. Thankful you and the boys got it.

[@BiterAvid]

That was little piglets gone wild. lol

[@janetwithers7427]

You guys are hard working dudes. 💞

[@Steve-od6hi]

Sure looked GOOD at seeing the boys jump in to help on unscrewing the post hole digger, It warms the heart.

[@kathycortez232]

Those are some hard working boys all 4of them and buggy going to be right with them and mama is really hard working feeding everybody ❤

[@sharonhaas8503]

💝💗💓 you learned your water lesson Ben! Proud of you! Gret job with all your work all of you. See you soon. ❇❇❇

[@carriem7832]

We herd our pigs with marshmallows. They’d follow anywhere for them. Especially at fair showing…even the big sow…..

[@bettyadkisson1681]

Your youngest young man will be arm right arm person. And the strongest when he's full grown he's right beside you helping.

[@denisemusicnut]

If you have any problems with water accumulating in the pit, you could install a French drain.

[@helenhelps9619]

The twins are working of the farm until January. Jason mentioned it on the three guys vlog recently.

[@janetestis1472]

Be careful!

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya. love to see all the tasks are now being done by ben with more and more help from the boys. it's nice to have a big family

[@debrezo58]

Love you guys! And All doing a great job around the homestead💖 I love it💖

[@thestews4273]

that boy of yours is always right into the thick of it...he loves this id say..like my youngest ...always right in there

[@redshedacres]

Fun.

[@diannemiller4754]

That was some wicked job getting the drill out Wow! Impressive figuring what tools best released it.😊

[@almachapman5409]

Awesome

[@cathykillion6544]

Enjoyed the video

[@lillianperry6451]

A lot of hard work on your electric set up.

[@camicri4263]

Always something unexpected! I tell you ,a job is never easy and it always take longer than estimated, well there are happy exceptions! Blessings!

[@dorothycrowder8577]

Our tractor is the same way...no reverse on the PTO. If you move forward and reverse with the tractor it will start moving the auger in a reverse movement. Just have to keep pressure "up" on the auger. Move back and forth and it will work.

[@BirdYoumans]

❤❤

[@doityourselflivinggardenin7986]

A subsoiler on your tractor can make a shallow trench to run your underground hot lead for electric fences. You don't need 110 at the pens. I don't understanding why you have a stand at all if you are heating from inside the drum. Another point is that you could mount two electric heater elements into the bottom of the drum. Should be easy to install. Drill a hole, weld a large nut over the hole, and then screw the heater element into the nut. Now connect to 110. Just be sure to put an electrical box on it for safety (with a switch in the box). I agree about having reverse on that post hole digger. Mine does. I turn my hand posthole digger clockwise to drill, and then can turn it counter clockwise to get it out!😂 😉

[@dianeamaral3611]

😅😅😅 I want a huge burrito!!! She kills me 😅😅😅😅😅

[@barbarabrand190]

If it were me, I would dig a trench for some 3 inch pipe that ended up a bit lower than the hole heading down the hill.

[@philnorris3507]

A good job you have strong healthy sons to help you, Ben

[@RNX001]

Great channel, keep going!!👍

[@douglasgatian1401]

Them kids helpin alot and learnin alot!! love the family!

[@jills5939]

All is well. 🕊

[@wendyhall8834]

What a team this family is!!! They all work together to get the job done!! Making memories too!

[@gailbrault9251]

Now I want a burrito!😊

[@denataylor7377]

Good afternoon to you and your family

[@marycountry]

Good productive video as usual👍🏻😊

[@southloupriverhomestead4696]

Thanks for the video!

[@johnschnorr9271]

One of your best blogs you have done.