Hello everybody and welcome back to the West Coast
The first episode since the Haloween special
And yeah we did quite a bit in the Haloween special
We've done
Well we've got two new greenhouses Just in there as you can see
Both of which have pumpkins in them
This has really inspired me to expand the amount of greenhouses we have
And
Also the different types of food
Or vegetables or whatever
We actually have in each greenhouse themselves
So
We can have
Obviously the common tomato
Although I do love tomatoes
And we can also have the cauliflowers the red cabbage the melons that kind of thing
So there's fruits different vegetables you can actually have in these greenhouses and I really do think
We should explore every single one of them
I think every single one has the same requirements so you just have the manure and the water
So it's not like there's anything really too different it's just you are producing a different crop
Which makes it much more interesting
It's not something we're going to do long-term in this series
There's still plenty of time to be able to do that I think
What are we on? Episode? I forget
I forget which episode we're on but either way it'll say it in the title of the video
We have loads of different things on the notification
Mod here we've got to give the cows grass and silage and total mixed ration
And we need to clean the sheep area
We'll clean the sheep area when we take this tractor back there either at the end of this episode
Or at the beginning of the next one because we're over at the store at the moment that's where we are going to
We're going to buy a different machine now this is against my rule as usual
The rule is not to go below 150,000
But it is a machine that is required straight away
Due to the fact that we now have cows
And although I could keep going over there to muck them out with this tractor
It's sort of belongs
I do apologize for my terrible driving
It belongs over at the sheep farm
So this has to go back really
Hence the reason why we have the water tanker on the back that is for the sheep
I think we are going to have to get a water tanker for Hill Ridge farm because we can use it for the greenhouses
And the cows over at Mountain View farm
Right we're going to go right down here in fact
And we're going to buy
A forklift
It sounds strange but it is a very interesting thing
You've maybe even seen it on modhub
But it just looked to be a fascinating thing to have on the farm
A little late indicating there
This can stay here for the time being
Ideally it should go on a low-loader
Or just on a transport trailer but we don't really have one so we're just going to have to drive it
Which is slightly worrying
But I'm sure it will be possible
We still need the Merlo but it's just out of our price range currently
I don't actually know where it iis
Bear  with me while I locate it it can't be too hard to find
Here it is so we have got I think is it pronounced Linder? or Lind? I'm not too sure
But we've got a shovel and a pallet fork which can be used with this I think we're gonna buy the pallet fork
But whether or not we're gonna put it into the shovel I don't Know
It would be very useful to be able to carry them both up there in one go
Since the maximum speed is only 15MPH
Ooh we can choose colour of the rim
It does look better with a oh wow it doesn't change the price fantastic
Well we'll go with this then and we need to buy the shovel which is pretty expensive the main colour
Yet again
Keep it standard actually
And these which are fairly cheep
attachers
Attacher on fork
long forks
standard
We just need standard I think although that is very tempting
Attacher on fork
Ahh this is too tempting I don't know
I, I really don't know we can modify it I suppose
Right, ok
So does that actually fit to the front of here?
Or have I chosen the wrong option
It does ok
Now I really want to put this in the bucket
Whether or not that is do-able I don't know because it may not let us actually take it off if it's in the air
Some mods don't allow you to others do but I want to drop it
Somewhere here should be able to tilt forwards
There we go
Wow it did work it did it's trying to fall back though
I need to grab the shovel
Ha hawwww fail
Ok a different approach
We put it in from the front
Maybe that'll work better
It is kind of in
Stay in
It's insisting on falling out
Maybe if we attach the shovel and then tilt it right back it will have enough gravity to keep it in there
The control might be back to front unless it's just me I probably can change that setting if I have to
But it seems to be a very nice mod indeed
So
Yeah that is as tilted back as I can go and it's sort of rocking
In it's place so its not ideal but we should be able to take it up there
And I'm sure you can now appreciate the reason why I said its a unique looking thing
Very interesting
Ok
Let me think of a new approach
Yes! I've done it
You can tip the bucket if anybody is concerned that you can only sort of tilt it forwards and backwards
That isn't the case you can fully tip it and unload it
Which we will be doing
You can probably also understand the reason why I said it would've been ideal on a low-loader
Or something similar
Just because I don't really think it should be on the road at all
This is the only time we're gonna have to drive it on the road
Because it's gonna live completely in one shed it is going to have a very fun life
But a very useful life
Mucking out is very important
And it just seems to be very handy for that
At the same time if we ever do have a delivery of seed or anything up there or fertilizer for the grass fields
Then we can use it for that as well and it lifts up really high
So if we ever have to load up the tractor
The fertilizer spreader
It is absolutely perfect for the job
In fact I would almost say it lifts higher than the telehandler
It's a very interesting machine
Anyway
I will see you up at Mountain View farm and we'll go from there it is going to rain very soon
Before I do get there actually I've just thought of something it'd be perfect for logs we could actually cut down trees
And log them up and put them in here, it's such a big bucket
It's gonna be very multi-purpose so that is just another possibility
Of different things that we can do
As well as just using it for manure which is not the cleanest of jobs but it's a job that has to be done
Here we are
I'm not really too bothered about mucking them out today
Because we've only just done it in the Halloween special but I do need to clear up this mess out here
Do we have a store area for manure?
Probably not actually so we could just
Yeah I suppose what we should do is have a trailer here to actually put it into
But for now let me just tip out the forks and we're going to do a full-on job of silage bales in a second
I think they do take time to actually work
Which is expected they need to ferment obviously
You can stay there
Self up-righting very nice
And let me just try out this bucket
I think really as long as you've set the height and the angle correctly
It's gonna be fairly easy to use you can see I just need to put a very slight angle on there
And then yeah it's simple, very very simple
It should be really good for mucking them out
So this belongs in this open fronted shed
We'll just put it here
Tilt it back a bit
And that is the Linde's job for today
So!
As you know we have a very nice Kuhn baler with a self wrapping unit on the back
We also have
The very nice Massey Ferguson forger or the mower I should probably call it
This field looks to be a very nice one to be doing and I think we did, yeah we did, we fertilized it all too
So I think if we can get cracking we can get this entire field done
Completely baled today as silage bales
We only have...
...Probably about two hours I would've thought because the rain in imminent so...
...Yeah shall we have to wait for somebody to pick us up
SOMEBODY... PICK ME UP
Well it took a few minutes to get that done
But we're here now
So fast, we need to be super fast at doing this
My pumpkins
Keep them there for the time being
They're seasonal enough
Right ok actually thinking about it I think I left it in the... yeah it's in the field
We'll go and get the header on the trailer
And then we'll take the baler which is just there and the John Deere up at the same time
And I don't know how well it's actually going to work on follow me
Due to the wrapper on the back don't know if it'll be able to wrap and bale at the same time
I would've thought it would do it is fairly intelligent
Which is surprising I don't tend to say that the workers are intelligent but
I think they are in that case so that's very nice
And yeah just get this field done we need to get it done and the bales need to start fermenting before the rain
Otherwise, they're going to be very very wet bales on the inside and it's just going to cause them to rot
There is the John Deere so everything is in the right place it's just not setup yet
I'll go and put this over at the gate
Thankfully from here Mountain View farm is not too far away
But very soon we're going to be able to do our own huge scale silage bale production
Because it's actually ahh I keep getting these two confused
It's field 14, not 15
Field 14 is going to be done as grass very very soon
And that is gonna be a massive
Silage bale and hay bale creation area
Meaning
We should have loads and loads of bales
If they're silage bales they should be worth a fortune
Ahh I have just thought of something
This tractor
Is overdue
What the
It's overdue for a service so is gonna keep cutting out
I need to service it first
It doesn't mean we can't attach to the baler first though
Jump out of here
Get it all attached including the PTO shaft
Good
And over to the workshop
I think it only needs an oil change or something like that
It would take a while but I think we'll be able to do it in a fairly short period of time
Right
Let's get this done
Very very important that it doesn't break down half way through
Which is the repair
I thought it was
Hang on...
Hang on what?
Hang on
That's weird
There we go
It's been a long time since I've repaired something clearly
But it's all now fully working
I just hope we don't have to contend with the rain
Put it onto follow me and then we'll be up at the field it's not too far from here
We can go either way, left or right
I think left might be a more sensible way
Because there's not as much of a incline really
And that shouldn't have any issues following us because we're much wider
If we can get through;
The tractor should get through
The thing we have to battle with is the traffic
Because this thing is actually wider than one side of the road
We have to slalom through the signposts too
Ok it's clear to the right, I can't see left
There's always a car
C'mon c'mon go go go go
Do we still have the header?
We do!
It's a break through
I haven't lost the header yet
Hmm few cars here
Close
Very very close
They don't pull over for you
Anyway I'll see you up at the field
It'd be nice if we owned all these big fields around here
Because with this smaller field there's so much turning to be able to do it all
And yeah this would really speed the job up
It would take longer but it would be easier
Certainly easier for the baler because I can imagine there's gonna be quite a bit of missing bits here
It's gonna miss lots of bits just because it's going to be finding it hard to do it
Ahh... ha
Overcompensated there
I think if we put the trailer
In this gateway where the grass is dead anyway
That'll be the best place for it
About there
Good, oh that thing needs to stop otherwise it's gonna come crashing through the trailer
And that should be close enough
Brilliant!
Ok
I think
Well actually it doesn't matter which way round the field we go
Maybe to begin with we should go this way since the John Deere is facing this way
Doesn't really matter
But
I'm just trying to make it as easy as possible on the driver of the tractor
We'll put it a 15 I think and we'll...
... Switch all that on
Is that all ready to go
I think it might be
Let's hope it works well
Let's keep a close eye out to begin with
As close to the edge as possible but not too close
Ahh look at this there's a tree that's probably got a collision
You do have to watch the trees
It's working well
Brilliant, ok we don't need the lights on
There we go
And off we go the silage bales begin
There is a setting actually I think for the wrapping
Hopefully it's defaulted to wrap
I hope it hasn't
Well if the first one turns out not to be wrapped
Then it doesn't really matter I could feed it to the cows
It would just mean I need to change the setting
Yes, it's actually...
Yeah there we go
Is it wrapping?
Ohh it is! Brilliant it's defaulted to wrap
This is going pretty well today
Which makes a change, usually things go horrifically wrong
Did a model farm video for everybody yesterday
It is fairly time consuming making those videos
And because I've never made a model farm before some things may come across as a bit
you know, like I'm a beginner but I am so
Any suggestions are appreciated
Any criticisms are appreciated if they're construtive
Any abuse is not wanted
Quite frankly
But usually the spam filter picks up on all that stuff anyway
Let's actually stop because it doesn't self unload
How annoying
That's very annoying
I wonder if the self-unloading mod would work in that respect
Luckily It isn't too hard to keep flicking between the two vehicles
All I have to do is shift and tab and go straight back to the John Deere
Which is good 'cos your vehicles can be quite far apart when you tab through them
So that makes life much much easier
As predicted on the bends it is a bit tricky to actually pick it up
We could always just neaten things up a bit but...
... If it does a fairly good job it won't be necessary
but looking at it so far
It is struggling a bit
But nothing I wouldn't have expected really
So far so good and the rain is holding off
The most important thing here is to keep the rain off
Otherwise it is gonna be all
Ground to a hault
Which would be sad to see
But judging by how long it took for it to start raining before
When we were doing the drilling it took all day in fact
I would say that we are very very safe here
But I've been wrong many times before so it may start raining in the next few minutes
I think what we'll have to do is wait and see but the clouds
They look fairly
Happy to me not very threatening
things are going well
Hmm just thinking about it that trailer which we've actually brought the header over on
I wonder if that could be used as a trailer for the forklift?
It looks like it could be I can't Imagine a forklift is too much heavier
Although forklifts are actually surprisingly heavy
I dunno
Let me just jump out and take a look
Doesn't look that substantial if you think about it it's wooden
Not saying that's not strong though
Just looks like it is designed to carry a header which is what it does do
I dunno
Maybe it would work quite well
Let me know what you think
We could use it for transportation
Of a forklift
The mowing side of things is pretty much done
Just finishing off with the baling
We haven't had that many bales out of it I suppose
But it wasn't really at it's longest, it's still only spring
You can tell that it's not at it's longest
So
I think we've done pretty well considering
Anyway let me just lift this up
We'll put it over here
But I'm gonna take over the baler in a second because we need to go and pick up the stuff which has been missed
Doesn't really need to be on there because we're gonna use it again soon anyway
So there we go
Turn the engine off
And just hope this doesn't crash into any of the bales which are
There in fact we'll take over
Cheaper anyway
Is that all still working?  It is good ok
We'll drop the bale off the back
I reckon
If we just
Lots of grass over here
Don't know how many bales we've created it should be quite good
You just can't get it all though
Just not really possible
And get these pieces here just because it's
quite obvious that it's been missed
But as for the small pieces, I can't really
See the need
Think we'll be doing ok anyway
Right ok
Then over here we've got this piece we've just cut
Would be nice to be able to finish this final bale but it's only 40% full
And it doesn't look like there's another 60% of grass on the ground
I dunno in fact I'll go off screen
I'll pick up as much as I can do
And yeah
I think we maybe finishing with a half created bale
Oh well can't win them all
Just the way it is
So if I just lift up
The pickup there
And we'll put this over in the yard
Then at least it'll be handy for next time
I don't think it's going to be too long until we do the next
Load of bales
We do have to do some straw bales aswell
So that is going to be on the priority list, how many have we got here though?
I could count, but I could also just click on here
Is that the page?
No, no no
On this one here
Created Bales 11
That's ok once they've fermented  then they'll be worth
I think they're about £2,000 I'm not too sure
It'll all depend on the price at the time but they are still worth a fair amount
But I don't think these will be sold
We may sell a few but they're gonna be required for the total mixed ration
And just for the silage anyway
Because they have silage and the TMR is a separate thing kind of
It's all sort of the power food sort of section
So you can give them just silage or just hay to keep them going
But to do the silage, hay and straw power food mix then creates this total mixed ration requirement
They do need grass as well so that is something we need to think about
Otherwise, everyone is doing okish
24 sheep , 6 cows
Not gonna moan at that, sounds quite good
Anyway I think we're gonna leave this here
Thank you so much for watching, hopefully you've enjoyed the video
And until next time
I'll see you again very soon
Oh it's about to start raining, that light just came on although four lights, four rooms
That means the rain is closing in you can see it's getting a bit murky
if we just skip forward
There we go!
We did it just in time anyway...
...Thanks again and see you again soon
Bye for now
