I've stuck a couple little bits in different threads, but figured I'd make my own and start documenting the crap we are doing.
My brother, his wife, my wife and I all went in on a 20 acre parcel here in Alabama with the intentions of homesteading. The place came with power, a well, about 8-9 acres of fenced pastureland, a pond, a barn, a tiny house, and two sheds.
The barn- 40x50 with power, a tac room, and 3 stalls. The stalls are about 12x40 of the space, with no concrete, the rest has a slab.
The tiny home - 720 sq feet that my brother and his wife live in.
We have two horses of our own, joint family ownership of 2 donkeys that came with the property, and 4 horses we are currently boarding. They can't keep the grass down, and have gotten insanely fat. For us, that's a bonus, they'll do nicely during the winter with all the extra weight.
We have also added a chicken coup with 5 chickens. I don't care the least bit about them, but my wife and sister in law sure do, so get at it.
What isn't fenced for pasture is wetlands. VERY wet. Living on the coast, we are used to afternoon thunderstorms, but I don't think it has ever rained this much in my life; or at least I don't remember it. It rains every day, and for the past couple months, sometimes all day. That little tid bit of information leads us to today's adventure.
We have a LG Farmtrac on loan from some friends of ours, and I got it stuck. There's a path that leads from the west side to the east side of the property, around the wetlands. The water draws naturally from the north pasture, and also from a channel on the north side of the property that runs east and west. The path that leads east and west has a culvert that allows the water to flow south from the north, and I got my dumb ass stuck just on the other side in the channel. I locked the diff, stuck it in 4wd and stacked blocks and still didn't make any progress. We have a 450 Rhino that has a winch, and that was the ticket. Strapped it to a tree, the other end to the tractor and just added tension as I went. Fortunately there wasn't anyone else there so I had to do all of this by myself. Pretty fun though.
My brother, his wife, my wife and I all went in on a 20 acre parcel here in Alabama with the intentions of homesteading. The place came with power, a well, about 8-9 acres of fenced pastureland, a pond, a barn, a tiny house, and two sheds.
The barn- 40x50 with power, a tac room, and 3 stalls. The stalls are about 12x40 of the space, with no concrete, the rest has a slab.
The tiny home - 720 sq feet that my brother and his wife live in.
We have two horses of our own, joint family ownership of 2 donkeys that came with the property, and 4 horses we are currently boarding. They can't keep the grass down, and have gotten insanely fat. For us, that's a bonus, they'll do nicely during the winter with all the extra weight.
We have also added a chicken coup with 5 chickens. I don't care the least bit about them, but my wife and sister in law sure do, so get at it.
What isn't fenced for pasture is wetlands. VERY wet. Living on the coast, we are used to afternoon thunderstorms, but I don't think it has ever rained this much in my life; or at least I don't remember it. It rains every day, and for the past couple months, sometimes all day. That little tid bit of information leads us to today's adventure.
We have a LG Farmtrac on loan from some friends of ours, and I got it stuck. There's a path that leads from the west side to the east side of the property, around the wetlands. The water draws naturally from the north pasture, and also from a channel on the north side of the property that runs east and west. The path that leads east and west has a culvert that allows the water to flow south from the north, and I got my dumb ass stuck just on the other side in the channel. I locked the diff, stuck it in 4wd and stacked blocks and still didn't make any progress. We have a 450 Rhino that has a winch, and that was the ticket. Strapped it to a tree, the other end to the tractor and just added tension as I went. Fortunately there wasn't anyone else there so I had to do all of this by myself. Pretty fun though.
