I've been using this method for a few weeks, since I saw your genius video. Lots of larvae, but none are crawling up the ramp to the top hole. Instead they were wriggling out through (and getting stuck in) my drainage holes. So I just enlarged my drainage holes so they're slightly larger than the BSF larvae, kept the bin at its normal tilt, and put another small bin below the drainage holes. I now have a big pan of squirming gold for my fluffy butts! Any tips on getting them to crawl up instead of down? I'm happy with the way things are working now, just curious if I'm missing something.

Great video Jeff, new subscriber & new parent of a 17 bird free range flock.

This absolutely genius

Thanks for this. QUESTION: Is it not better to just give the chickens your scraps

Thank you for this! 🙂

All I need is a double bit axe man

dude that is not efficient you had to hit the thing a thousand times man!!!! you need to swing harder manand sink one mall in and drive it with another mall. Frick it must take you a week to split a cord lmfao!!!!!!!!!! you dont know didley squat about firewood

Get a old camper works great

How do you get them to go into the little hole with the small tub? Legit gonna use this im starting a homestead and this is absolutely useful for raising chickens with no grain feed.

Excellent video. Thank you

Great video, thanks

Fascinating!! Talk about using your brains!!

I love Paul Gautschi teachings, he is is the best in the world. You obviously got listening difficulties.

Wrong back your wood off

I have that same exact splitting maul and I absolutely hate it. Its way to heavy to use for a prolonged splitting session. I save this heavy guy for stubborn knotted pieces only for when I need a heavy tool but for the most part it bounces off the round and requires way too much energy to swing. White oak just laughs at this thing. My technique is using my lighter Fiskars splitting maul . I don’t do any initial pizza pie strikes to try to spread the checks its just not necessary. I immediate start on the outside new growth rings and work my way around like you did but the lightweight maul requires much less effort than that heavy striker and cuts in so much easier. My neighbor did not believe I could split a round faster than a log splitter. I was like dude just check this out. I went through a round so fast and was jidt pop pop pop pop pop pop …….done. I told him a heavy, noisy, smelly log splitter would wear me out snd take me ten times longer to use with these large rounds. Im so glad I never bought a has splitter. The only use I could see for a has splitter would be for stubborn knotted up heart wood that had too many knots to het with the maul without wearing yourself out.

Crispity-Crunchity-Peanutbuttery!

Put tie straps around it

I’ve heard feeding chickens fly larvae can give them worms. Is this not true?

How long did these rounds sit after the tree came down ?

Amazing.

the guy knows his stuff

Thank you wholeheartedly.

I salute your technique!

9:08 Did you know manual wood splitting boosts a man's testosterone production so the wife is the happiest when lots of wood is getting split....lol....oh more on topic...fiskers make great splitting axes....great video sir.

Fantastic video!! Subscribed! One question... Always thinking sustainability, and when Amazon and big box stores eventually disappear... How long does the attractant last? And is there anything else that can be used as attractant when we can no longer buy it? 🤔

You are getting weeds because you don’t have enough wood chips, there’re talking about 6-12 inch high pile of wood chips.

I use larger branches to make V shaped barriers up hill from the garden beds and they work great to divert runoff around the beds

I’m having a heart just attach watching this 😂

brillianr

First I've ever seen this technique. This is a game changer for me. Thanks!

Mate if you think that’s tough try some ironbark or white box from Australia 🇦🇺

I loved your video brother. Keep creating more

Chickens: YUMMY!! Me:But I love them 😢

That's a lot of splitting.

That's the smartest and easiest splitting technique I've ever seen. Thank you!

Finally, someone doing it, right 😅

horse manure has all that bermuda. Had the same issue with it

How the heck do you only have 200 some likes?? Editing is pristine, and the video is wonderful knowledge! I'll be sharing!!

My husband would never let me grow out grass up that high 😞 even if he watched this. His worry about snakes is just too high. Which i also am concerned about for my kiddoes but i myself do not fear snakes. I know how to handle them and respect them. We only have 2 acres of land and half and acre is what is free of trees. And where we have grass. So i doubt this one would work for us. But we do have neighbors with really tall grass who never come to their camps. My chickens love going there and now i understand why

You got a sub from me. Keep it stupid simple. I like the way to explain things! Second video i watched and im coming back for more!!

Guinea fowl are better than chickens for ridding your land of insect pests. They will eat as many ticks as you have!

Great video. I appreciate that its still here. Also your patience with all the comments is commendable. I've learned a lot just reading the comments as well. Thank you

I'm not bothered by perennial rhizome grass. I suppress it with chips and\or leaves. When it pops up through I either fork it out from the nice loose soil\mulch matrix or just mulch it again to control the light. It always comes back, but not fast enough to be much work to continually suppress it. Cardboard to start with for extra suppression is good, as is making a deep edge and\or using pigs. All good advice. I just don't find continual suppression to be hard. Maybe the growth rate is slower in VT, or from it being a shorter season here. Shorter season, but very long days, the growth rate is crazy during peak season. Don't know, I'd have to try my usual method down there to see if it still works for me. If it didn't I would use more cardboard for sure.

Chicken manure is a hot manure. A couple 40lb~ bags of broiler feed per . dozen birds over the course of 12 weeks. You're essentially putting all that nitrogen back on but also living soil from the hot manure. You might try planting a short grain like millet and running egg ducks behind your broilers by a month or so. Ducks live millet but with that tall grass what they'd really be after would be the bugs.

I put an old tire on the ground, put the round inside the tire and split taking chunks off the outside edges. I don't find that the ground takes away power from the maul/axe. If the round's too big to fit in the tire initially I'll start splitting until it's small enough to fit, those rounds are too wide to tip over so no need for the tire anyway.

Nothin good is never easy

Almost 50 chickens and no shade. Why though?!

Soooooo much easier! Thanks!

Okay now this is my kind of BSFL farming. Thank you. Subscribed!!

Did anyone ever tell you that you are a bit like Michael Ironside?