These Pigs Are Leaving the Farm

What?

Are you ready to the

do the deed?

Yes. We got plenty of pigs and I think

it'll go quick. If I could do this EVERY

DAY,

OH BOY, WOULD I BE SOMETHING. But then I

realized I already am something. God

doesn't make junk. I don't know

what you're up to, but probably nothing

good.

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>> Good morning, folks. It is bright and

early this morning. Well, it's not too

bright and it's not too early. It's

around 6:30 this morning. We got five

loads of overstocks going out up at my

site, site three. I'm I'm assuming

there's going to be three trucks and so

we'll do three loads and then two of the

trucks will come back and we'll load

them again and that'll be our five

loads. It is

like 11° outside, but it actually feels

like -15 and the wind is blowing about

12 to 13 mph. It rained yesterday and

then I think it froze. So, hopefully no

trucks get stuck on the driveway or

trying to go up the hill or whatever.

Luckily, dad has the tow strap ready to

go with the tractor just in case, but uh

it could get dicey here with the

weather. Uh it definitely could get

dicey. I don't know how well the pigs

are going to move and I don't know how

well the trucks are going to be able to

navigate up the hill and in the driveway

with everything being so

being [clears throat] so icy. So, uh

we'll just have to see. It might be an

interesting morning this morning, but

without any further ado, let's get up

there and start loading.

Well, looks like we have no trouble at

all. I don't think we're going to have

any trouble with any trucks getting

stuck. So, we're in good shape. All

three trucks are already up here ready

to go. So, that's always nice. I tell

you what though, it is freaking [snorts]

cold out this morning. Not as Not as

much ice as I thought there was going to

be. I thought we were screwed for sure,

but actually the roads are pretty good

and there really isn't much ice. So,

that's great. But that wind with that

cold temperature, it does feel like it's

-15° out. I'll just tell you that. So,

we'll see how good the pigs move. Feel

like they're going to walk out of the

barn and they're going to get into the

chute. They're going to feel that cold

wind and they're not going to want to

move very good, but fingers crossed that

I'm that I'm wrong. Hopefully hopefully

they'll move just fine. What?

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>> Are you ready to the

do the deed?

Yes.

I am. Better than 2:00 a.m. It's not

icy.

No, it dried. Thank the good Lord it

dried cuz I thought we were going to

have trucks stuck everywhere after that

rain, but it stopped raining and the

wind started blowing and blew all the

water off and

now it's just freaking cold, so but

that's all right. We'll get them. It's

cold. The only thing I'm worried about

now is how well pigs will move.

At least the wind's out of the west and

north and not out of the south or the

east cuz that makes a difference. We're

loading to the south, so it'll be a

little bit of a shock to them, but

they've got them bedded and all their

plugs in their trailer, so

shouldn't be too bad. Okay, so we're

going to take pigs out of both the north

room and the south room. So, in the

south room we're going to take this

north half,

north side, all these pigs and in the in

the north room we're also going to take

the north side.

But

since we have two empty pens that were

for the runt pens, we'll probably have

to take a few off the south side in the

north room as well. So, we'll just see

how we end up, but we got plenty of pigs

and I think it'll go quick. We're not

going to run pigs down the traditional

alley like we if you've ever watched. We

always run them down the backs of the of

the

we like to call it the fast alley. We

open up these rear swing gates and the

pigs move really well. So, we're going

to give it a whirl and uh

hopefully we can knock it out. I don't

know

what you're up to, but probably nothing

good. It's like Festivus. It's the

airing of grievances and I've got a long

list of grievances. Not really.

Well, can you get that rod in there?

It's not looking like it's lining up

very well. That's why you need a little

what my dad called subtle manipulation.

Look at that. Trisha uses that on me

sometimes

if she doesn't get her way.

Like a champ.

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>> All right, first truck down. Second

truck's going to back up now.

It's starting to snow a little bit. It's

starting to feel like winter here in

southeast Iowa. We had a pretty

lackluster December. I feel like January

is always the worst month when it comes

to winter. Just is a sneaky winter month

where feel like you get the worst snow

in January. So, we'll see how we end up,

but first load went pretty good. The

wind's still blowing pretty decently, so

the pigs definitely hold up a little

bit, but hey, we're getting it done and

that's that's the most important thing.

So, glad to have it done.

One down, four more to go. How are you

doing?

I'M JUST GETTING WARMED UP.

If I could do this every day,

OH BOY, WOULD I BE SOMETHING. But then I

realized I already am something. God

doesn't make junk.

I think that's what he tells himself in

the mirror before he gets up. You just

got to tell yourself in the mirror those

words of affirmation really do help.

They help you they get you prepared to

load some pigs. So,

that's the energy Torque's giving off

this morning. I could tell you it's a

lot more humid in the building than in

the loading chute. So, I think he's

sweating and I'm just trying to keep

warm.

Well,

fourth load down.

One more to go.

So,

four trucks showed up. I was wrong. I

thought only three were going to show up

and then two of them were going to be

turnarounds, but four trucks showed up.

Only one truck is going to be a

turnaround load, so they're going to

come back and load us another time and

that was the first guy that was here.

So, he's on his way back now, but we're

slowly but surely getting this

north side of the south room all the way

empty. The north side in the north room

is all the way empty, so just working

down the south room. We should have it

knocked out here

pretty quick. So, uh it's 10:00 10:00.

He said he'll be here around 10:15. We

should be done before 11:00 or right

around 11:00 and then we'll probably go

get something to eat. So, yeah. Oh,

it's hard being Torque.

It is hard being Torque. For every step

you take, I have to take two. So, just

think of that. You just can't let the

old man in. You got to keep him out.

I don't know. How old am I? 54? 54. 54.

He wouldn't guess a 54. Well, you know

what? We need to get back in the habit

of loading loading more fat hogs.

Cuz if we are loading fat hogs hot

heavy, this would feel like cake. But we

don't load all of them anymore cuz we're

soft. Then when you have to do this, it

feels like work. But hey, just imagine

look loading these out of a barn lot.

No bueno. No bueno.

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>> Come on.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Well, that's one pot of 60. Got to do

another one. So we're doing

We're doing 60, 60, 50, and then six

compartments of 70.

We're doing about 520 or so pigs a

truck.

Come on.

Hey, hey, hey, HEY, HEY, HEY.

THEY'RE MAKING A CHALLENGE RIGHT HERE.

THEY really do.

Cuz that group never goes all the way up

to the door. Therefore, you can't get

any more pigs in there. So you got to

just stand there like this and hope that

nobody tries to get through there and

get through there and get through there

and get through there. So

just like that.

So I just typically wait. I wait for Dad

because

there's no way I'm going to be able to

fit all these pigs in there. So

kind of the necessary evil. Okay, come

on.

Hey.

Do you want to take half? Do you want me

to start bringing 30? Uh we'll do the

50.

Okay. We'll do the 50 and then after

that we'll do 50. All right, bud.

Okay.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come

on. COME ON.

GUYS, MAKE IT HARD ON yourselves if you

go out the gate. That would make things

a lot easier.

Come on.

There you go.

This way.

Let me do this.

Uh it doesn't matter.

Got one behind you.

Thank you.

Have a great day.

The best job or the best part of that

job is that it's done.

If I thought it would help to cry, I

would cry, but it won't help. So

I'm just going to go home and eat some

bacon

and know in my heart

that I won.

That's my daily affirmation.

Well, we might be running in a little

bit of a predicament here. Torque's

truck might not start. The battery in my

truck's about shot. So I don't know if

my truck's going to start. But I do know

that this truck's already running and

it's going to be off like a herd of

turtles here in a second.

You get it? You get it going?

There it goes.

I'd rate the truckers give them an A+

today. They did a good job for us. They

did do a good job. They did a good job.

Nobody got stuck.

Good deal.

That is the best part is we didn't have

to go pull anybody out.

Well,

somehow we made it. Are you a lot

happier now? Do you got more energy?

I'm feeling better by the spoonful, by

the forkful.

A little quality maple sausage. [snorts]

No bacon, but sausage today. We didn't

have bacon thawed out, but we had maple

sausage. So you ended up winning. I

still won.

Every day I wake up

it's a winner.

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