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Stewartcreeksomethings

Hello, we would love to have you explore our journey on maintaining and improving a century old family farm while working full time. We keep it real both the heartaches, costs and joys of maintaining a small family farm

Almost done with tractor counterweight

The weight box project continues to be painful. I have flopped between the wire welder and the stick welder. The wire is great for the light duty sheet metal welding and the stick is great when doing heavy pieces of metal. I am just pulling scrap out of the machine shop that I have accumulated…

Predators 40/ Farm 5

This is an incredibly stupid problem. I am losing more chickens. I still don’t have the automatic chicken door repaired so after counting chickens this week, there were less than a dozen, I decided that a new automatic chicken door was a must. The new door was supposed to be here on Friday and I…

Trying to winterize

Wednesday Mr Golfpro came out to help me with the garden. It needs to be winterized. I had planted some black raspberries from a friend at work and they did really well but they were all over the ground. I had never bothered to put a wire for them to grow upright. So we installed…

Haying season finally over, still winterizing

Well I finally managed to get it done yesterday. I have turned the hay four times and cut it seven days ago. I would really have preferred to have turned it for two more days and then baled it but it is supposed to rain all day on Thursday and that could take me an…

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