SAWDUST VS STRAW - COST VS COMFORT

[@mcalan20]

Legend has it Tom is still trying to jump over that wall

[@GeorgeSaunders]

Nice video Tom👍

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

George Saunders Thanks George 😀🙌

[@Fanya_valentine]

I like how half of the cows were absolutely fascinated by your jumps, hahaha. It was probably the highlight entertainment of their day.

[@oldchannel2004]

Great video. I really enjoyed watching it, your animals are so well looked after.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

A Chick Called Faith Thankyou, I'm glad you like it 😀

[@pmatch777]

Loved the “high” jump at the end! You should make a blooper video one of these days.

[@exact109able]

as composter you can compost the sawdust/woodchips.... I use it all the time here in the USA..Keep it up!! love your videos!!!!!

[@OffGridAnthony]

Hi Tom, really enjoying the videos. Trying to catch up on all your previous videos in my spare time, sitting here in the tractor 😂 During the winter, I bed our male goats on 6 inches of wood chip from leylandii trees, with straw on top & just keep topping it off with straw every week or 2 till the end of winter. Saves me time & money. The straw stays super dry & the antibacterial agents in the leylandia wood keeps everything bacteria free ! Cleaning out is a breeze, which I do by hand as the tractor doesn't fit in the door to that shed. I used saw dust from hardwood trees the previous year & a few of them ended up with fungal infections despite the sawdust being dry as well as it not seeming warm enough compared to straw. I'm only a small time farmer, trying out different things before I move onto bigger & better things hopefully. Anyway, Greetings from Ireland & keep up the good work! 👍🏻

[@AndersonCattleCo]

We are in a huge straw shortage this year . We have had a hard winter and had 6' of snow and lots of -40 days and 2 months where -20 was warm, I just bought 70 4x4x8 square bales and it was $100/ton CDN funds in the fall it was $60-$80. We are in such a shortage that a lot of guys are bedding on green feed or slough hay. I try to have 500 big round bales of straw for winter because everything lives outside but this year we used up the straw fast.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

AndersonCattleCo. It's crazy how cold you guys have it. What's summer like?

[@AndersonCattleCo]

In the middle of summer we will have high 30's in the day and at night 20's.

[@wisemantle8885]

Whereabouts are you?

[@Rabby_83]

How high can a farmer jump....Well no very high 😂 love the videos 🖒

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Rabby 83 hahah I tried so hard and was getting know where 🙈 Thanks mate

[@banditbeggers533]

Rabby 83 hahaha 😂

[@ournovascotiaadventure1619]

I get mine from a mill down the road, I use the stuff that comes of the plainer. All dry and even size. They make 2x4's. 👍

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

I use used sawdust. A horse trading company near by buys white sawdust, does it under the horses and every day they shovel out the wet spots. They throw in my dumptrailer and collect it once a week. Using it over 35 years, very good results. Important is that there's no bark in the sawdust or else the klebsiëlla bacteria can cause huge problems. Thanks for the video

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Alex the Dutch Dairyfarmer in glad you liked it 😀 we have got pretty good results so far

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life Good to hear that. And if it's cheaper, it's eating in your profit. Always a nice thing 😉

[@Cotlandfarmer]

Good video Tom, I'd try mixing the sawdust with straw in the keenan, you could add a bag or two of lime to have a bacteria kill affect.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Cotlandfarmer sounds like a good idea to me, you could even just do it with sawdust tbh

[@liamhennessy31]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life good idea but you don’t want lime or straw sticking to the Keenan and mixing with silage 🤔

[@tammyduffin2711]

we are in Scotland. there is 1 ton of straw for £180! we don't use sawdust anymore but it was good too!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Tammy Duffin £180 a tonne!! That's crazy

[@MichaelWilliams-ub3ow]

Tom, glad you're aware of hazardous dust in your job. My farmer dad abused his lungs with dust for sixty years and destroyed them.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Michael Williams you have to be careful, it's called farmers lung for a reason

[@2xxx2xxx21]

We chop.our straw but due to our supply going down abit because we are selling some to neighbouring farms because they have no bedding we bought sawdust at a similar price and choppin our straw into a pile and then mix the straw and sawdust in the mixer wagon to make our straw last abit longer its a real pain but has to be done,gr8 vid tom

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Tom Reel Thanks tom I'm glad you like it, yeah it's things you have to do some times

[@williamfawcett2924]

It spreads fine Tom we did some yesterday all I would say if you have a slurry door use it too just hold it back a bit too stop it falling in lumps. great video Tom can we get you running countryfile lol

[@banditbeggers533]

Brilliant video again mate. Best bit I think was you trying to jump the wall lol. Think with the money you save on straw you should get yourself a little ladder lol

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

David Begley thanks mate! Hahah how embarrassing 🙈 I added it because I thought it would be funny

[@geoffhirsh2402]

Behind the straw and sawdust pile,I noticed silage , are using that or it it old and spoiled ?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Geoff Hirsh it's wholecrop, we have started to use it from the left-right because we were struggling to get to it because of the straw

[@geoffhirsh2402]

Enjoy your videos Look forward to spring and summer videos Use to farm in Virginia with polled Herefords and Suffolk sheep. Dad sold the farm and I had to move on. When I mow my one acre lawn, daydream I’m mowing fifty acre hayfield.

[@DankMemesForAngryTeens]

Not a farmer but could you not mix the straw with the sawdust?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Very FRESH And Unsuspicious MEMES it would still mean buying straw and i can't see it mixing well. It could be worth a try though

[@DankMemesForAngryTeens]

I was just thinking you’d get the benefits of insulation and absorption and you’d half your consumption rate of straw if it worked...

[@Conservator.]

Very FRESH And Unsuspicious MEMES exactly my thoughts too. Keeps the calfs warm and dry.

[@jamesharrison3866]

Where do you get your sawdust from and how much do you get at one time Cheers

[@ketoanvuongphat8559]

With straw bedding, you just use straw? Do you mix straw with other chemical in animal cage?

[@brendanmccourt7408]

We use fine sawdust mixed with hydramix lime spread it on the cubicles using a AG maxi lime spreader cows are happy and dry

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Brendan Mc Court What's it coming in at a tonnes do you know?

[@brendanmccourt7408]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life it's work's out about 40 pound a tonne we get 4 pallets with 50 bags a pallet do us all winter only use straw for the calves and calving house

[@koryleague8833]

Granted I've never been around dairy. Around here.beleive it or not that use straw as a filler in cattle feed in some of the feed lots. But to my uneducated eye, other than the dust aspect, it's a good alternative to straw. You had said you were worried about the composting aspect. Again I'm just a lawymen, but I would think it would break down as good as straw, especially the fact there been bacteria interoduced from the manure. Enjoyed the video Tom.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

kory league Thanks Kory I'm glad you liked it mate 😀 yeah we normally feed with straw but with the wholecrop we haven't needed to this year luckily

[@OWELZIGEN]

Damn my noise itch watching this. Good farming 👍🏼

[@peterbrady5310]

Great video Tom

[@jordang204]

We’re from Yorkshire and are selling straw at 100-140 a ton, small bales at 22 a bale. The problem is a lot of farm on the east coast area, Scarborough, Bridlington, hull etc aren’t releasing any.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

jordang204 your selling it half cheap, the cost is worst than I first thought

[@jordang204]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life, yeah to our existing customers, gotta keep them happy they come first. It worries me for farmers because of the high cost I can’t see it coming back down so much in price the coming years.

[@niallgilmore2411]

You've made it now Tom!!!! Farm flix have talked about you on their latest episode!!!!!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Niall Gilmore yeahhhh boyyyyy 😄

[@philipcarr92]

If you used a straw chopper would you use less?

[@ewanfindlay9026]

At the moment we are using a byproduct from a paper factory which is similar price to sawdust and we're using it for the cows cubicles and all the incalf heifers and bulling heifers now and it's making a great job especially keeping them clean

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Ewan Findlay if it's clean it's not a problem. Yours could be cleaner than this stuff we have being paper

[@John-The-Farmer]

Tom, we deal with a firm who sell a fine sawdust in 25kg bags @ £3.70, very good stuff for cubicles, dusty but that's the stuff that absorbs the moisture! Currently paying £35 a bale here for big wheat, getting through a fair bit as we feed the young stock on it.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Farmer John bit more expensive than the stuff I'm paying for at the mo

[@rogerfleury3591]

306th! GOOD MORNING TOM AND THE GINGER GUY WITH A MUSTACHE! Roger in Pierre South Dakota USA 😮😊

[@niallgilmore2411]

Have you ever tried a full face respirator type mask Tom? I use it when spreading lime on the cubicles and it's amazing!!! You can stand in a cloud of the stuff with still have no issues breathing or seeing. gets a bit warm though. £90 off ebay

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Niall Gilmore i normally just use the cheap ones. It's does the job well enough and doesn't matter if you drop them in the muck because it's cheap to get a new one in

[@joannemiller1162]

Is the sawdust dust a health worry for you and the cows ? I had to stop using it for my small pets because of the dust

[@Dan.Whiteford]

Have you adjusted your rations (either for nutritional balance or quantity per head) for the cattle in view of them eating some straw bedding and of course not for the sawdust / woodchip material? I imagine that it would be best to heap and store the sawdust material for a while for it to rot down otherwise it will be slow to rot if spread "fresh" on the land. - this may get sucked up also into any silage?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Dan Whiteford we have the wholecrop that helps use us less straw this year which is a great help. I think it will have plenty of muck on it to help it rot. Fingers crossed

[@joseph-ur2ks]

will the sawdust/ wood chippings go through a straw blower

[@shanemanley8041]

Great vid Tom❤️

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Shane Manley Thanks Shane 😀

[@edwardmartin4130]

Personally I think the sawdust works quite well! We don't have to much of an issue with straw at the moment. We were lucky and managed to get a lot in. We sold a lot of wheat straw and got back nearly twice as much OSR straw because we use a lot of it for the outer yards. Thankfully we have enough wheat and barley straw to last us. But sawdust don't look bad!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Edward Martin that's good for you guys, OSR straw is pretty good, quite rough but works well. It does the job sawdust 😀

[@TheBrazyCastard]

a happy cow is a productive cow, bless when u tipped it in all the cows thought it was food

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

TheBrazyCastard haha some eat a little bit, it won't harm them but they are happy 😀

[@adharaadrian4190]

Cool videos ...great work ...regards andy NORTH BORNEO

[@andrewdrummond1870]

Here in Ireland there is a big lack of straw

[@diamondgaming9061]

Great video Tom, we currently have the same problem, your sawdust looks very clean (No foreign bits) the last load of sawdust we had came but contained tiny bits of metal plastic and glass so not very happy but can't afford the straw 😱 what are your thoughts on when spreading it on the fields will it take more energy out of the ground than it puts in rotting down would be interesting to know what the Nutritional value is

[@benburns5995]

It is amazing how curious cows are. They have to investigate everything. Glad that the sawdust is working better and more reasonable than straw. Have to save money wherever you can.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Ben Burns it's is amazing but they can be so strong sometimes. You have to be careful when they are around haha

[@fusion7865]

What's it like for spreading on fields

[@louiswrightson3303]

You want a Ag products dispenser to do your bedding for the saw dust

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Louis Wrightson doesn't sound cheap though mate

[@numptyjames1]

do you get any respiratory problems with all that dust

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

numptyjames1 I haven't yet but I try to wear a mask as much as I can

[@brandonkemp1635]

Great vid tom

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Brandon Kemp Thanks Brandon 🙌

[@mrDingleberry44]

Cows do seem to enjoy it. It may be cheaper, but that means you can give them a little more. Seems a good thing in the end.

[@charliegeorge9033]

Were in scotland and were paying £200 per ton and we've only got 30 bales left

[@Dextamartijn]

Great video cheers from Alberta Canada

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Dextamartijn Hiya Canada 🇨🇦👋 Thanks a lot

[@mchugh4899]

on my uncle's farm with uses straw blower cut up the bale really fine that saves and that saves time and effort because the machine does it for you and because it's such a fine cut

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Dara McHugh I looked at one at the dairy event, there looked really good to bed up fast and easier

[@williamdobbie8801]

I am not sure what the problem is £15 per round bale, is that high?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

William Dobbie that's pretty cheap mate

[@agridk8944]

We've always used straw cause it's way cheaper where I am but this year it's such a late spring in Ireland we still don't have much stock out and silage and straw is low at the moment but fingers crossed we won't have to buy in some

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

D-love farming fingers crossed it warms up but doesn't look like it. They are saying it's going to be cold again this week :/

[@agridk8944]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life ah I think it's raining tomorrow in wexford but hopefully there wrong

[@FarmallFanatic]

We always used sawdust

[@rescuecow90]

Good clip as usual Tom,I paid £135/t for barley straw last week,chap I got it off said it was his last load,it's to last me till August (not going to be easy) who are you getting your sawdust off Tom?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

rescuecow90 thanks mate, a company called lytham skip hire. Pretty good stuff

[@andrewkirwin4910]

Top tip Tom ! Bolt an old ladder to the wall before you injure yourself trying to get over it 👍

[@Danny_Boel]

7:03 they're like a bunch of kids that want to "help" you :-) 9:00 try a diffrent technique Tom; stand next to the wall, jump straight up , grab the wall with your hands and try to push yourself up the rest of the way with your arms... that is how I used to get up a horse ...over 20 yrs ago :-)

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Danny Boel my arms were just not working for some reason 🙈

[@Danny_Boel]

most likely a long day of hard work I guess :-)

[@Tom-gr6nx]

good video tom.

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Tom 30 Thanks mate 😀

[@jimthijs6256]

Good video Tom 14 k already

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

jim thijs Thanks Jim 😀

[@julioprem7141]

Saludos de Argentina !!!!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

julio prem heya man 👋

[@laytonphillips6667]

Nice video Tom, get that grass growing more n make some more bales this year, no dad in video?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Layton Phillips Thanks Layton, let's get some sunshine and fill on to make that grass grow! Nah can't have them in all of them haha

[@laytonphillips6667]

Have you done any harrowing yet?

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Layton Phillips not yet, won't be till a couple of weeks yet

[@Mack-cp3lz]

over here in new zealand dont use straw on many farms we only bed our calfs as our cows are out doors all seasons but saw dust is alright for calfs in our eyes

[@tomdarbyshire5348]

Great vid as always mate. Sure there'll be plenty of straw around next year after this years price!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Tom Darbyshire Thanks mate, hopefully so

[@farmermac530]

very great vid I use wood chips for my saddle back pigs

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

James East Thanks mate 😀

[@ppercut]

sawdust under the straw ?

[@annebell7274]

Tom you should wear a mask when working with that. You dont want to end up with Farmers Lung. 👌👌👌

[@EmiDK]

Why is the straw so expensive in your area? Is it a 100% dairy area or do other farmers use/sell it for something other than livestock? Here in Denmark baled straw is very expensive this year because of a wet harvest. 1-1,2 euro cent/kg+the cost of transport. Usually it is quite a bit cheaper.

[@Andrew-yz1lb]

wet harvest in 2017, alot of arable farmers turned on the chopper on the combine rather than messing about trying to bale wet straw.

[@EmiDK]

Okay. that makes sense. Thank you. :)

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Andrew yeah pretty much, it's not worth the effort for them

[@edwardball790]

We have 75% recycled paper and 25% sawdust mix for bedding which doesnt blow away so much as sawdust then we bed calves with straw but we've just run out of bedding so we've started bedding cows with straw too

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Epic Puffin it's it costly that stuff? Sounds like a good mix

[@edwardball790]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life cheaper than sawdust I'm pretty sure. because we live on the coast we really need it or the sawdust just blows everywhere

[@brendanmccourt7408]

It's works out about 80 pound a tonne we get 4 pallets with 50 bags a pallet do us all winter only use straw for the calves and calving house

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Brendan Mc Court that's a really good price 😀

[@Coyote87]

We use sawdust for bedding our dairy cows. I usually get it from the local carpenter, and once in a while I give him a case of beer in return. Can't get it any cheaper

[@basarabstefan8199]

I use small squares, about one hundred and fifty a year. 0.57 pounds per bale. Before we used sawdust, but the straw keeps warm în the winter..

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

Glad you wear a mask!!!

[@liamhennessy31]

My uncle is using peat moss under his in calf heifers. Not sure of the cost. 14 heifers are Bedded once a month on it. It’s cleaned out every time before bedding. Cattle are very clean compared with straw and the peat is super dung for the fields

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

liam hennessy that's sounds incredible stuff mate, bedding up once a month sounds abit iffy to me though

[@liamhennessy31]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life no it works perfectly. It would be a waste to clean it out regularly

[@barkerboy4526]

Sawdust is more work when you have got a straw spreader, Great Vid.

[@mbexotic0]

i wonder what wess would say to you if he seen you tried to jump up the wall lol my mate makes his own straw and hay and everything else for his cows love seeing cows happy

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

martin bates seeing happy cows it what's it's all about 😀 I wonder what he would say hahah

[@mbexotic0]

knowing wess it be something funny have you got sheep and if so when do you start with laming

[@DemikaNL]

In holland the straw is also really expensive at the moment !

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Lars Nijveld it's crazy, hopefully straw will be better priced in summer

[@kierancondren2994]

Going for about €30 for a round bale (4x4’) in Ireland we got no straw at all this year...

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Kieran Condren it's hard to pay that much for straw isn't it

[@steyrman2]

1200 bales bought in September 4x4 straw 14 euros a bale got 600 with 3 wraps on it cost a bit but saving in the long run

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

steyrman2 Massive saving in the long run

[@Masseyman-nv2kl]

We were getting it in November/December we got it shipped up north from main land Scotland for £70/80 a bale then it's just gone up and up

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Masseyman6480 that's still pretty expensive when it starts at that cost. How heavy is the bales ?

[@davidrickard9686]

We're short hay here in Ireland

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

DR Agri vids I heard it's getting sent in the wagon load from here because of the Irish shortage

[@cameronmurray3147]

Great channel

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Cameron Murray Thanks Cameron, I'm glad you like it 🙌

[@richiefrankland9471]

Were we are getting straw we started getting it at £80 per tone now it’s gone up to £100 per tone

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

NEWHOLLAND-GAMEIN still cheaper than a lot of people

[@richiefrankland9471]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life definitely but the only thing is person who we were getting it off Has run out :( Luckily we found another place for same price.

[@DaveC97]

We use straw but we got it all in the summer when it was at 15 euro a bale

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

David Coyne we got it all in summer aswel, it's scary thinking if we run out what cost we would have to buy it in for

[@harveyjackson2531]

Sawdusty shit spreads really well, very fine doesn’t take much to rot down, very even spread!

[@edwardtownsend422]

We use straw for calf pens and Straw yard and sawdust for the cubical shed

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Edward Townsend pretty much like me then, calves need that straw

[@TheRobbe88]

We have been chipping for some customers that have horses and it is much more less dust in it . Check out some off my videos .

[@paigebanks7552]

It will compost well. Carbon and muck....always a winning compost recipe.

[@hazellagriculturalservices3614]

We’ve run out of straw so we’ve put the suckler herd out! Still have access to run in and out when it rains!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Hazell Agricultural Services Ltd I bet your fields are trashed?

[@hazellagriculturalservices3614]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life not at the moment but I image they will be by the end of the week, not my decision dads! 🙈

[@wlagri7794]

Our sawdust spreads out well in the slurry and ours is a bit thicker than yours I think

[@jamesogilvie1649]

Northumberland, sawdust/Wood chip=£10/t , straw =£1000,000/t, Cow Comfort all depends on the straw/wood type, it's all a bit of a juggling act between doing things right and managing the margins.. Ps I'm down your way for the weekend, living it up in Black Vegas.. 😂 😂 😂 😂 sat in the Manchester bar watching the Mrs necking cocktails like they're going out of fashion... This could end up messy ha ha ha

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

James Ogilvie it could all end in tears 😂😂😂

[@donnajoyner1474]

You would have made it over the wall first time no problem if you had an angry Highland coming after you! Incentive drives effort!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

😂

[@onlygazza]

The power stations have earmarked all the straw this year the swines, none left for farmers and what you can get is expensive!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Gazza's fastrac farming they have taken a lot this year but will continue to do so, can't really stop that now though

[@minibenbow8216]

I was told by the man we have our straw off that a full load of straw on a 40 foot trailer lasts them 4 minutes at the power station he goes to

[@onlygazza]

Tom Pemberton Farm Life I'd be interested to know if it's possible to grow older variety types of straw, with longer stalks. Over the last decade or two they have been developing short straw brands with larger heads because straw was herd to deal with, maybe grow longer stuff again. The straw merchants here in Wales can hardly get any at all. in the straw auctions around here the chap I buy some off said it was almost developing into fist fights. Apparently when you buy a sale lot of straw, you have the option to buy everything that seller has in that section, this one chap was buying it all and then buying the option aswell, leaving a lot with nothing at all and it wasn't going down well. We are a sheep farm and it's a job to get the sheds comfortable enough for the ewes without it. Great vid mate, that wall got you though😀

[@onlygazza]

sam benbow 😳

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Gazza's fastrac farming they won't do it, arable lads just won't the grains and are not bothered about the straw. It's cost to much the bales and mess with. Thanks mate 😀

[@MrJudgementday99]

What about sand

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Interesting

[@fraserwright.424]

Just got a load of straw today at £180 per tonne is west Scotland

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

The Scottish Mad man no way! These prices are a joke!

[@stephenjones7211]

Could do with a good wide rake to pull that saw dust out

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Stephen Jones it would need to be stronger hats the issue

[@paulparnell3839]

Great video but wear that mask mate keep the videos coming and Happy Farming

[@patrickstack9626]

Straw in ireland is around €35 (£30)

[@rhyscampion3057]

Grate video, could you possibly do a milking video please? as it will be interesting to see

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Rhys Campion thanks mate, yeah I think I'm going to do one in summer 😀

[@rhyscampion3057]

Grate thanks

[@farmboss869]

Basically done the same thing this yr u should get paper dust for your cow shed

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Honda quad 250cc what's the cost of the paper dust?

[@willmoore3790]

Paid £120 a ton for wheat straw this week 26 ton =big bill the driver said it's over £130 now and barley is costing them £150 so add on delivery got to be pushing £170 like the look of that wood chip though roll on spring

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

will Moore roll on spring mate! I'm glad we are not buying it and have sawdust as an option