Maybe a dumb question but is it any tricks to keep the water from freezing in the winter

So smart! You need to give yourself more credit. I'm mechanically inclined and a plumber and didn't think about the bulk heads

what did it cost for the materials per hut ?

Get a PTO Link and save yourself the hassle.

Two questions. What do you plant after the pigs have cleared an area? Can you tell me about your waterer? Thanks!

Awesome thanks from Canada 🇨🇦

Lame.....

That’s great except when you have an implement you can’t rotate by hand.

Great option. I think it does depend on the pig though. My sow loves it and fully understood the assignment. However, our boar has gone through 2 bulkheads in like a month. He just doesn’t get to drink out of it instead of mess with it until you break it to get water out.

6 minutes 8 seconds to paint the quick disconnect and look at your field and hear about your field.

I’m not strong enough to pull push slide all at the same time, damn … but gonna do this for sure. The do the silicone., I didn’t understand what that first guy said, but every little bit helps for sure. Thank you.

1.5” hole was too big for the compression seals

Great info. Learned some good pointers from you. Thanks for making this vid!!

FYI... a controller like this manages your energiser as well. As others have said; 1 Plug battery into controller 2 Plug solar panel into controller 3 Plug client (energiser) into controller Everything runs via the controller, not directly to each other. The haywire reading on the controller at approximately 11:20 in the video is because you have the energiser connected directly to the battery. The numbers would be going up and down in time with the energiser pulse. Apparently (I'm still learning so don't quote me on this, but) you should have 10 watts in your solar panel for every joule in your energiser unit to effectively charge the battery with the energiser at full strength. But, unless you're trying to keep out lions or elephants, or maybe keep in an overzealous raging bull, you probably shouldn't ever need your energiser running at full strength. If you're finding it's not strong enough at low power, check that you have an adequate grounding system.

If you also spray some silicone lubricant on the pto it will make a world of difference!

Been building waterers for several years. your process is still complicated and expensive. Drill your hole, heat barrel use bolt with same thread as nipple. Thread using bolt. Remove bolt, crew in nipples done. You can also us same process and add a drain valve at bottom. 15-20 min done and no glue ot tape.

I enjoyed the video. My waterer is working great.

Hello Watts Way Farms family. You have made 2 very nice chicken tractors, I congratulate you. I follow you from Turkey. This video was very helpful to me, thank you. There are things I want to ask. Could you write me, plesase, the length, width, wall height, and roof height of this tractor in feet? I send you my love, respect and greetings from Turkey.

Did this hold up?

I see. You removed that guard for pot shaft.

Great idea! Don't why I didn't think of this! It's a pain to hook-up bushhogs...so anything one can do to make it a little easier helps!

What size hole do you drill 11/2 inch hole is to big I screwed up my drum

What did the calf receive at 10:44 ?

Hey Watts ! I too am south Alabama .

So i made a chicken tractor a lot like these years ago but for hoop i used hog panels. Its heavy and i didn't move it much but that was my fault. The back fell off the first move so instead of hearding chickens again it stayed put

People are not smart. You can add text to a video once it is posted. It is really pretty easy, Thanks for the video.

Wow.......😮 It's very nice sir.... Thank you for sharing😊

Beginning of the video was just priceless 😅

I agree with Greg. We castrate later now. In the past, we would try to castrate as close to birth as possible and you rapidly learn how strong a calf is.

where do you put your warming light? (maybe I missed that info, forgive me if I did)

Pretty good quality. I am binging. I give a thumbs up to all posts (except the occasional jerk).

When I have an old dead pine tree, if I can clear around the base and safely burn, I just start a fire at the base of the tree. If the tree is dead/dry enough, it will burn up into the roots.

Where do you get these pellets?

Have you ever used Improvac on your boar pigs?

Nice design, however the bolts you put in the kevlar hinge you should have just put them in reverse. Having the smooth end of the carriage bolt coming into contact with hog and the nut side on top other than that it's pretty nice.

I just threaded the nipples directly to the barrel. I’m guessing this is prone to leaking eventually?

THANKS!!! FOR SHARING!!!

The crazy thing....I keep a paint pen in my toolbox and never thought it to use it on the PTO shaft. Thanks!

Just use the front hay spike and flick the bale. That’s way easier than what you have going on

Have same one. Only thing I don't like is that it only squeezes from one side.

That’s pretty slick friend!

Nice job. The barrel at TS is $130 now 😮

Getting prepared for our first set of pigs. After watching numerous videos about these waterers yours looks like a winner. Amazon links were an awesome resource.

I have had these plans for a couple years, but have been just getting by with what I had on hand. I plan to build it this year, so this critique was helpful! We use 2 Suskovich tractors, just like you had planned to do here. Did you find that it fit your 60ish chicks pretty well? That's about what we order each batch. Thansk!

Please consider using a bowl insert for the tires, they are available in stores and online. Exposed steel wire used in the tires construction can ingested by the pigs, causing internal health problems 😬 The wire can also cut or poke the pigs. There is also the potential of chemicals from the tires leaching into the pig food, especially from heat and sunlight.

I realize this is an older video, but I wanted to say that I really enjoyed the before after in regards to the over seeding. Thanks for sharing.

Before youtube they called it a Hobbyfarm.

My kinda guy! Got the full size steel silhouette target. And child seat in the back seat.

This was cool. I did this with my Dad 20 years ago until we had a house fire and lost everything but now that I have the land I'm bringing back the farm so I can teach my boys how to live off the land and be self-sustaining. Great video thank you for sharing

Can you please add either the parts list or links for the parts from Amazon?