Trouble in The Dairy Barn! Barn Cleaner Breakdown!

[@brucehobbs1734]

Love the sparrows flying around.

[@Stukin_The_Pines]

The birds flying around are probably Barn Swallows.

[@fullers1966]

I miss farming I miss it enjoy watching the animals watching you guys make hay and corn

[@tederdmann2993]

The good old days of farming, god I miss them!

[@bobrat]

Love the pitch fork Cam.😅

[@gregcatlett1458]

Love the cow bell back ground music!!!👍😂😂. Thanks men !

[@richardharms8748]

You folks ,the Trinity family & others like you are the true American farmer. Thanks for sharing & what you do.

[@jclint1968]

One of the reasons I watch you guys is it bring back good memories of growing up on a dairy farm. I remember every day after school it was my job to shovel out the mature from the gutter. Our dairy herd was somewhere between 15-20 cows. The good part was getting to drive the tractor to spread the mature. My day alway had a day job and it was my job to get the hay down along with corn silage and straw for bedding. The best part of the day was going in for supper after the chores where done. My mother was a wonderful cook and always fed us really great. I share do miss her cooking.

[@TimKrenz-j8t]

Another video of information !!!! They're making a lot of New things for the Skidsteer!!!

[@MrTBALLS]

When you take good care of your cattle and treat them as well as you do, then things like leaving a gate open are not a catastrophe. They have been taken excellent care of and don't take of for parts unknown. I have known people who yell and holler and abuse their cattle, and they end up with an all together different outcome. As usual, another excellent video !!

[@graygildner3434]

I’m always impressed how organized you are. Everything you do is set up so well.

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

Sure beats shoveling gutters. I love the constant sound of the cowbells in the background. Thank you for sharing another day on the farm. Stay safe, and God bless.

[@bodiehot]

love your videos. you guys give the daiyman a good name

[@MrTonyharrell]

I’ve watched quite a few of your videos and really like your channel. One thing, I like your dad. A lot of farmers are so stoic but your dad seems very friendly and outgoing. He would fit right in here in Mayberry (Mount Airy NC). 👍

[@alithemagicbum]

Enjoy all your videos. Have a wonderful holiday weekend. Let's remember the ones that sacrificed their life for our freedom, our hearts go out to the families of our service men and women. God bless us all.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

I remember the video you were talking about where you worked on the gutter system. Also remember the time your parents were in Arizona and you had the problem with the gate. Glad the fix was pretty easy. Enjoy seeing you cattle wherever they are. Also enjoy the cow bells. Take Care.

[@randybennett5417]

Well back in 72 we had a Patz gutter cleaner. It worked well. Sure beat shoveling them out.

[@joelwindsor525]

We had a patz barn cleaner sure do miss the sound of that thing

[@br927]

Patz, love them & simple to work on! I worked with my Bro-in-law on his farm. He wanted to put a barn cleaner in, I told him put in a patz- well he put in an Agway, nothing but trouble- 5 guys to clean the barn- one on each corner , & 1 out on the chute- so, I got the bright idea that if we took out the barn cleaner, it would only take 2 guys to clean barn instead of 5! each one with a shovel, and the other 3 could be doing something else, so that's what we did! Barn cleaner layed in a heap!

[@duanebolen543]

The barn cleaner we had on the farm when I was growing up what's a wheelbarrow Pitchfork in a shovel that's how we cleaned our gutters

[@jacobmueller9227]

My dad always reminded us of this when i was growing up

[@joshk.6246]

I got to do that too but our gutters weren't that deep, we milked in a double 6 flat parlor with stanchions. Cattle lived in an adjacent barn. Still, being the barn cleaner wasn't much for fun.

[@derekjensen5918]

I really love all your videos just always calm and makes for a great day. Thanks again for sharing and God Bless

[@scottschaeffer8920]

A family run dairy, nothing but hard work, God Bless you!

[@krissyb1980]

I learn stuff watching y'all in your barn. I've never milked in a tie stall. My barn cleaner has always been a pressure washer. Always been a believer that pasture is where cows belong

[@verdagarner5112]

Love looking at and learning about old barn equipment. Love your channel, so interesting

[@949786293]

We had a Patz cleaner as well. They were very popular here in SE WI at the time - 1950's. Rarely ever broke down but always when it did, the gutters were full, as others have mentioned. It was always a good feeling when the barn was clean, straw laid down and feed laid out and ready for the evening.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Hearing your Dad talking about hitting gates reminds me when you hit a gate hinge last year when your parents were away on vacation Aaron. I'm guessing that didn't happen to you again. We have a Patz barn cleaner with the hook and eye chain. Out chute is metal on the incline and its been welded up and patched on the bottom too because it has worn through.

[@orinbeavers5941]

Your mom and dad have a beautiful Farm and they have raise you boys on a great American farm and it takes people like them and you boys to have a place like this to be proud of and a lot of hard work I am glad you guys have gotten snow and rain this year so far so hopefully you guys will have a lot of grass and crops to get you though a nether year here in Kansas were I live we are not so fortunate for the rain and snow I only have 7 dexter cos and heifers we rase for meat and we are going to have to get rid of them no grass and hay prices are going to be very high and hard to find around here you all keep up the hard work and we will keep praying for rain for us all for the summer keep them videos coming 👍👍🐂🇺🇸

[@canvids1]

Always a interesting video from you folks. Thank you.

[@DonWelter]

It helps a lot if the cattle are easy handling and a couple manage to slip out. Glad your gutter cleaner was an easy fix...amazing how many years some things will last and can be repaired via scrap pile engineering.

[@janmarjobartels5148]

Was a nice video again. How well are you all doing. In het Nederlands. Wat een leuke video. Jullie doen het goed met z'n allen.

[@robertlusnia506]

Another great video

[@bruceprentice6441]

My barn is 140’ long, with 2 rows of stalls head to head. The barn cleaner is a Berg , and it sits on the end of a 40’ split chits stacker. I like the split chute because there is no reverse corner. Takes 20 minutes to make a full revolution

[@bryanginder5903]

Usually when the barn cleaner broke it was terribly cold out! I'm fortunate to have a manure pit to pump everything into, just flip three switches and let it clean and pump out, o but it would brake down also!

[@markstoll9636]

idea. put a u shaped scoop on the front of the skid steer therefore drive forward instead of backwards

[@DAVIDZ-vk4yv]

i miss my swiss cows. thanks for showing them.

[@danw6014]

Our barn was set up a little different. We only had 20 stanchions. The cows faced each other. Ten to a side. Mangers with an area where we could roll a feed cart and shovel feed to the cows. The gutters where just right to fit a ten tine silage fork down and so we pushed it out one fork full at a time. Quite a few barns in my area were set up the same way. There were a few tie stall barns built in the sixties that were set up like yours with the gutter cleaner and one of my friends dad had a big chicken barn that they converted to a tie stall barn that held 80 cows. Sadly that friend was killed when we were 11, ironically because he was asked to take the manure spreader down to the neighbors because theirs was frozen. He didn't make it.

[@bryanginder5903]

Their isn't a day goes by your not fixing something around their!! Lol 😆 o isn't that the truth on a dairy farm!! So so true!!

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

My Dad's barn was 40 X 80 with a 40 X 40 addition and a 40 X 20 barn cleaner shed on the end of that. I can remember the bc shed going up but I was just a little guy. The barn cleaner was a Patz. The chute in the shed was wooden as I recall. I remember helping to do some repair work on two of the corner wheels, but no other breakdowns. The bc shed was also used for heifers.

[@daviddobson1113]

When I was a young man we milked 45 head but our cows only came in the milk barn to be milked they went out another barn the rest of the time or out to pasture and we cleaned the milk barn all by hand. We used milk cans back then and they went in a water bath milk cooler and the milk was picked up every other day and some times every day.

[@terrydarow8401]

When I worked for other farmers I had worked with barn cleaners and I dealt with issues as well but that is part of farming happy memorial day

[@terrydarow8401]

Yeap that is how I did it for shovel wheelbarrow ❤

[@rebelgaming7718]

Watch trinity dairy chore time video with them chopping up hay with they're bedding chopper and using a old badger chopper box with the back cut off and the sides cut down and using it as a poor man's tmr mixer that's a idea for you guys

[@brandonhoad9033]

I'm 52, grew up on the farm and it's been mine since '95. Never had a twin have twins. Can think of 7 sets of hand, may be more. 80ft long, mines 90. You milk 35-40 then? So wish my chute went out flat. Lots of run back especially in the summer. Replaced my motor couple years ago, same hp half the size. The gutter chain sprocket's getting wore good and it's coming off quite a lot. It's a patz Do the girls have their stall? I'm happy w them going on the right side, one side has slightly bigger stalls. Tie stall w 1 1/4 pipe. Left my dry cow gate unchained once and 2 got out. Neighbor called, got over there and ole Roebuck was standing in the opening keeping the others in. Called her Roadblock after that

[@theburnhams2925]

Always enjoy your videos! How do you manage the bailing twine? That orange twine seems to last forever...even our Florida sun doesn't break it down. If ingested it raises heck with a cow's digestion, usually a "leak" between the rumin and the reticulum. Also wondering if your cows have magnets to prevent "hardware disease." Keep 'em coming (we'll watch mos' ANYthing...even including manure handling....)

[@angelhope352]

Very nice Video 👍

[@davidkimmel4216]

Really enjoyed your video today. Thank You

[@johnhatt1219]

Good old manua labor

[@Travis_Rivers]

God those cowbells would drive me nuts after awhile

[@tractordan933]

My Dad had a herford/ charlet cross cow that had twins two times , back to back years. The calves were white as snow as our bull was pure bred charlet.

[@crazyoldbat7600]

Dad's driving like the Indy 500 on that bobcat.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

He always reminds me of the guy in the Pac-Man game, forwards, stop, turn, go backward and so on. Showing my age with this one as I think it was invented in 1980. Used it on our Commodore 64 which also came out in the 80's.

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

It would not be a Swedish farm without the cow bells.

[@joesteck6631]

Swiss.

[@stanhensley3082]

It's funny any manure cleaning machine lasts very long. Manure is so acid. That acid just eats up steel. Well at least it's not 30 below.Barn cleaners don't like the kind of weather.Thanks😊

[@banjobenson9348]

some old English paintings are of cows on pasture, did it ever make sense to put rubber mats out for the cows?

[@colorado1088]

Regarding George having that spare belt handy, I knew a guy that carried spare alternator, belts, tools and water pump in his car. He thought that was better than putting the new parts on as long as the old were still working.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

My brother-in-law does that. He has a pretty ancient auto that he has fixed up and refurbished and he doesn't want to take chances, especially since a lot of the repair shops probably don't carry parts for an old car like that. Michigan

[@jacobmueller9227]

You ever have gutters fill with water at all when it rained? I remember that causing difficulties in barn cleaning. We had a trench going across the barn so we could pause the barn cleaner and let water drain

[@GailZwick]

Curious why you don't use mats instead of straw where the cows kneel. Also my Uncles used a small lime spreader to put lime down, might be easier

[@duanebolen543]

I used to work for an implement dealer that's old badger equipment we had a farmer that packed into his chute of course it was on the northwest side of the barn the coldest place it could ever been and that was one hell of a job to get that back up on its legs and then it always seemed like the chain always broke when the gutter was completely full of manure the barn cleaners that had a cam on them and they would go forward and then back and then forward and back and the paddles would would bend and then they scoop up manure and then push it back up the chute that was an old-timer and you talk about how old that burn cleaner is

[@nirvairsingh1678]

👍👍👍

[@r.scotthill3082]

In the winter how do you get that manure auger clean enough that it doesn't freeze fast?

[@cedricgates9976]

standard question how many ya milking? started cause of trinity dairy love this kind of farming

[@timstevens2866]

an open gate and 2 seconds the pen is cleared... if it's the wrong gate and the animals get to go where they aren't spose to.

[@virginiagraber9070]

Cows , Yeah, Yeah . Thank you. 👍👏(N.G.)

[@williammatzek4660]

How long is your dairy barn? How many cattle do you milk?

[@brentalbrecht4837]

I’d rather be knee deep in cow crap than in some office slaving away. To each their own. Whatever floats your boat. What brand power head is the barn cleaner? I saw you put a J&D chain in. Is that the J&D in Eau Claire by chance?

[@carsontardy]

Does dad ever scrape much goin forward? I know back dragging is always cleaner it seems

[@brentalbrecht4837]

Headland power unit?

[@sparhawkable]

I think the cows didn’t go out because they are curious creatures and want to see what you guys are doing?

[@CarsonNolt-wq7sx]

What brand was it?

[@sheepfarmnearme5925]

GOOD

[@mikemclean1437]

where is your farm located

[@crazyoldbat7600]

It's in the description.

[@joesteck6631]

SW Wisconsin

[@joannielsen8502]

Morning, are you growing your beard back, you look much younger clean shaven🧔👨

[@michigantler5046]

more cowbell