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Monday, October 23, 2006

The Piglets Are Fine

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Well it was extremely disappointing to only have a litter of 2 piglets this time around. That is extremely rare and I am attributing it to t...

Building A Corral

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We need a way to better handle our animals when we are transporting. It is always a mission to try to coerce an animal into a trailer when i...

The Allis Is Apart

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It turned out that I needed to re-core the tractor radiator. I broke the solder on the fittings while I was changing the hoses. I took the r...

Pastured Chickens

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It occurred to me that I have not taken any pictures of the chicken pens. There are about 100 chickens left in our fields in three separate ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The New Tractor

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Over the weekend I picked up the newest addition to the "fleet" of Gold Forest Farm implements and vehicles. It is a 1954 Allis Ch...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

My Friends' Combine

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This is a friend who lives along the coast of BC. He operates a small diversified farm and uses this old Massey 35 combine each year to harv...

Inside the 8550

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The AC 8550 is a fairly easy tractor to drive. The controls are well thought out and handy. I was pulling a relatively small cultivator, but...

The Allis Chalmers 8550

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Time for Fall field work. I have been busy over the past while cultivating fields in preparation for next years' seeding. First, I was h...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Piglets Have Arrived!

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Last night 'Penelope' was in her hut and wouldn't come out to eat. This is somewhat unusual for her and when I checked her udder...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Another Picture of Digging Potatoes

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Here is another shot of the potato digger in action. As I mentioned earlier, the tractor wouldn't go slow enough. In a perfect situation...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Time for a little hunting...

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Garreth and I took a few days off to go Antelope hunting last week. It was fun to be out of the house together and I had been successful in ...

Digging Potatoes

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It was finally time to harvest our small field of potatoes. There have been a couple of killing frosts over the past 2 weeks and the tops ha...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Another Chicken Day

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I took another load of chickens up to St. Paul for processing last Friday. As you can see in the picture, it was terribly rainy that day and...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Small Farm Canada

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This publication is self-explanatory. It is a great magazine that has many different articles geared towards homesteaders and small farmers....
Monday, September 11, 2006

New Doors

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I finally decided to take on the task of building barn doors. Until now, and for the past 5 years, our barn has been without doors and doesn...

Weekend Tasks

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I spent the weekend busy as usual around the farm. On Saturday I was combining for most of the day down at Vince's place. We were still ...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

The 503...a blur of activity

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This photo didn't really work out. With the flash on, all you could see was the inside of the cab...with the flash off, it was dark enou...

The 503 at home

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Here is a picture of my new 503 at home in a field of oats. I am excited to have a combine and it is quite a bit of fun to use this old piec...

The New Combine

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I picked up my new combine last Thursday. My Uncle Ren gave it to me. It is a late 60's International 503. It is in very good working co...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Collecting Hay

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Summer is almost over and it is time to start getting ready for our long winter of feeding animals. To that end, we have purchased 100 2nd c...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Seed Drill Ready To Go

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I spent a good part of Sunday working on the new Seed Drill. I needed to get it degreased, washed out (Organic regulations) and then I had t...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

The Broke Seeder Part

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Here is a better view of the part that I broke. I assume that it is cast aluminum and it is quite thin. Any ideas out there for how I can fi...

My Project Last Night

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This is the new seeder that I bought. Well...as you can see it is definitely not new...new to me though. It is a Midwest One Way Disc seeder...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Happy Girl

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I moved both sows into their farrowing field. I am hoping that they are now both bred. The farrowing field is approximately 100' x 100...

The Farrowing Hut...another view

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Here is a view of the roof opened. You can also see the carpet flaps that allow the pigs access to and from the hut. When I last farrowed at...