I saw a picture that might interest you!? It showed a large antique digging bucket on the floor of a place, with the 'simulated arm' going up into the ceiling. Inside the bucket was a cast iron wood burning store and the stove pipe went up inside the bucket 'simulated arm'. Great idea, for a Man Cave Cabin!
That tree line looks so much better. So nice to have the right equipment to do the work. The fact that it is yours, even better as you can leave it most of the time at home so you are able to work on the farm when you have a chance. Most would have to hire it done, rent the equipment or buy it. A lot to purchase unless they are like you who use it for your business as well. Thanks for sharing.
It's so nice seeing your plans come together. And it has to be nice having a blank canvas (so to speak) to be creative with and to keep you occupied when work isn't possible. (Somehow I just don't see you working in the greenhouse or high tunnel. No big equipment in there!😜🤣) Both halves of the farm are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this with us all.
Opening up and clearing underbrush allows air flow - your property can breathe. You are to be commended for your care and improvement of your property since 2017. Everyone is allowed a "whoops" once in a while. Glad Robert fixed the radio - when will the wiper motor on Barney get changed with a new blade?
With Beally getting a close to flood event it would have been interesting to see how all your other ponds in the area did if they got the same amount of rain. If I was you I would also add a few mini points along the edges with some gravel/rocks on them if you are wanting good fishing structure. It's simple and cheap, I'm talking just 6-10' little surface/underwater points that the fish will use to ambush.
Never lived/worked on a farm myself, but one saying I've heard is that it doesn't matter if it's a big farm or a little farm, no matter how much work you do there's always more waiting
Chris, you had a good day working on your farm. Thank you for giving me something good to watch as I sat in my recliner watching TV.....😂. Man you make me tired just watching you do work!!!!😂 Take care and I'll look forward to your next one!👍🙏❤️🇺🇲
Well Chris, your idea of yard clean-up, takes on whole different meaning.., those 20-ton shovel & rake set-ups are a pretty nice to have around…, hahaha… Looks great, Thank you sir.
For a great fish habitat, try cutting tree about 8 feet high before pulling up the roots. Turn it upside down and stick it in the bottom of your pond. Make them look like umbrellas. The bigger, the better. Just an idea.
I know you have a vision for what you want your farm to look like, and see it from a man's perspective, but I still think a stump with a roof on it and a little door would look really neat out there for when you go walking around the farm...it'll look great either way when your done.
"I'm just going to take out a couple more trees " The rattle that we hear ,is that the bucket pins and bushes ,she has done some work for sure . Good work Chris
I don't care what you say Betty is your best girl. Always starts and works her heart out. Tree line looks much better. That was a huge sweetgum tree. "Missed the chainsaw!!! " That's a good thing. 5 o'clock time to play with Winston.
Betty looks as if it has a more powerful bite on the root ball than Volvo excavator, so loaded more easily. The rest of the project is starting to look good.
Betty the Stump Hauler - glad You made her work - Stumps for Fish Habitat - that soooo Great ! Tree Trimming to be done - more Progress ! You got Terrific Skills - Pleasure watching You and yes - taking the lower Branches off makes such a Difference indeed ! Another Fun Filled Saturday comes to an End ! Many Cheers from Australia !!!!
And you doubted Betty - grand ols workhorse. You certainly know where to place a pond - no problem with inflow. Cleanup along tree line looks neat. Do you add or have crayfish to the pond? (We call them yabbies.)
You should put up a trail camera so we can see what it looks like when all the rain comes through. I know here in upstate SC the weather tends to change drastically through out the week.
Always something to do on a farm, of course you already know that...lolol...Get one thing done and seems like a 1000 more to do...lolol... It does look a lot nicer with all the limbs cut out of there so, you can see threw the woods a little better. But, Great as always Chris !! Have a great Sunday Evening, And, On too the next !!
that vine growing in the trees there is plenty strong stuff the way it pulled that tree back also did not take much to knock it over good idea to take it down for sure as you say it had a rotten bottom keep up the work on your farm it is looking real good and now producing crops of hay nice to see some one that works so hard at all he does rep the benefits of his laborious Cheers
How relaxing it is watching you work ,your just so smooth ,and know exactly what your next move it ,Farm work is time sensitive no matter what the weather is if it's to wet to work then there's maintenance on equipment ,Always something to do ,i wonder who does Chris's editing ?
We had our first day above 30 F since Sept. 25, 2022 yesterday and its barely above 25 F today! So the snow on our seven hills are still 50+ feet thick course we are 3980 feet above sea level! Down in the valley where our tree plots are and our food plots are its now in the high 30's so almost all of our ponds are melting towards the shoreline. Another week and they should all be melted and we will be able to start pumping water out to our food plots and drip lines to our trees. We get VERY LITTLE rain so we capture as much snow melt as we can. Our neck of the wood in Alaska gets less than 6 inches of rainfall a year but 20+ feet of snow in the low lands and double to triple that in the hills and mountains. We have very little natural top soil do to flooding if the decades prior to when this area was homesteaded back in the mid to late 1920's when my parents first homesteaded here (long story)! because of that my father created soil over time and made runnels along the base of our hills to holding ponds that was allot of work back then but it was that or starve without workable land! Also it was a gold/silver (later copper and jade veins)back in the 1880's to the 1900's. The miners striped the land of every tree for 40-60 of miles in any direction! So my father went into the wilds with my oldest brothers and found seedlings and seed from the closest forest 44 away just 9 miles from the closest town to us at the time. Over the decades since we have repopulated our entire homestead and other homesteads not only with trees but a collection of connected holding ponds for not only the wildlife and plant life but for our homestead neighbors as well! We started with mules now we have heavy machinery to the work faster and more efficiently. I personally have planted hundreds of thousands of trees on our homestead and double that on other homesteads and our states parks after we became a state on Jan. 3, 1959. I was born on Oct. 6, 1946 my wife was born on Feb. 22, 1947 and we have held residence from berth here till now. All our children (5 girls, 3 boys) and spouses, their children (28 girls, 27 boys) and their spouses, and now 13 great grandchildren (5 girls, 8 boys) all live on this homestead. A few others we have either bought or were given by homesteaders that could no longer handle the harsh conditions here or have passed on and left us their plots. I have live a good life here in general but I do like to see others that have the same drive I have instilled in my 3 generation (besides the wife and I) after mine. That drive was instilled in me by my parents as well as my wife's parents. I am the last of my generation and my wife has only an older brother left of our generation all of her other brothers and sisters and their kids have either died in the same wars as all my brothers or have moved back to Norway where we all came from. So with the internet it gives me hope to see some out there that do the things we do here in our neck of the wood Alaska...Family, Faith, Freedom Always...
You got that one stump with a longer trunk remnant, with all your clay, bury the trunk standing root up. Shade is what ponds need most, up a half bucket of pea gravel on top and if the depth on top is right, fish will also bed on it.
I found one pond where someone wrapped chicken wire around rocks for small fish habitat. It was the best hook collector on earth! The rocks were about 18 inches across.
The woods look much better now it is thinned. The farm has come a long way in ten years. Thank you and have a awesome day. PS Are you going to remove the forked tree at 30:51 on the right of the frame?
Chris please check the pins on the bucket or claw, beginning to rattle. If you hadn't told us your plans for dropping the tree, we would have thought you dropped it like you wanted. As you always say "Everything Is Coming Right Along".
Chris? I hate to see you working alone especially with a chain saw involved, you never know when something might go haywire. I know you used to doing it that way but it only takes one time and it can't be reversed. Your a safe person and I would like it to stay that way. Your videos are awesome and I enjoy all of them.
The way you use the bucket to pick up stumps I wonder why they did not cut teeth into the back side of clanshell ? and bottom of blade. Never seen one like that. Would help grabbing things with 4 way buckets.
You better watch it Chris, the land owner is going to complain the way you load brother! lol 😂 😂😂😂 looks like a good day cleaning up Chris, thanks for sharing! Kirk from Louisiana! Take care my friend! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I've never seen anybody run an excavator the way this guy does. Didn't even tear up the ground at all picking up the branches. Awesome 💯
The big rocks would be a cool water feature in the pond.
I agree… and provides greater fish habitat.
I saw a picture that might interest you!? It showed a large antique digging bucket on the floor of a place, with the 'simulated arm' going up into the ceiling. Inside the bucket was a cast iron wood burning store and the stove pipe went up inside the bucket 'simulated arm'. Great idea, for a Man Cave Cabin!
@Alan Smith I saw that too & thought of Chris! 👍
Love how the new pond is coming along!🌳🪵
Chris, you are never idle. Your piece of paradise is looking awesome and will make a great get-a-way for your family and friends in the future.
Love when you work on your own property good job Chris 👍🏻
Oh yee of little faith, I had no doubt you would have any trouble loading pond habitat stumps into the rock truck.
That tree line looks so much better. So nice to have the right equipment to do the work. The fact that it is yours, even better as you can leave it most of the time at home so you are able to work on the farm when you have a chance. Most would have to hire it done, rent the equipment or buy it. A lot to purchase unless they are like you who use it for your business as well. Thanks for sharing.
It's so nice seeing your plans come together. And it has to be nice having a blank canvas (so to speak) to be creative with and to keep you occupied when work isn't possible. (Somehow I just don't see you working in the greenhouse or high tunnel. No big equipment in there!😜🤣) Both halves of the farm are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this with us all.
Opening up and clearing underbrush allows air flow - your property can breathe. You are to be commended for your care and improvement of your property since 2017. Everyone is allowed a "whoops" once in a while. Glad Robert fixed the radio - when will the wiper motor on Barney get changed with a new blade?
Man that finished clearing on the edge of the field looks good.
Chris you sure are going to have a beautiful farm can't wait to see your pond damn.
dam.
Chris how is Winston doing?? Great videos great job your farm is really starting to take shape. That new pond is really looking great
Be nice to get a forestry mulcher there to take down the smaller under brush, open it up even more and have a nice view to the pond!
With Beally getting a close to flood event it would have been interesting to see how all your other ponds in the area did if they got the same amount of rain.
If I was you I would also add a few mini points along the edges with some gravel/rocks on them if you are wanting good fishing structure. It's simple and cheap, I'm talking just 6-10' little surface/underwater points that the fish will use to ambush.
Seems like the projects around the farm are never ending. Always enjoy the videos! Looking good!
Yes, I think so.
Never lived/worked on a farm myself, but one saying I've heard is that it doesn't matter if it's a big farm or a little farm, no matter how much work you do there's always more waiting
You are making paradise out of your place. It is very nice for a retreat to sit and just enjoy life. It will take a lot to maintain it. Great video.
Chris, you had a good day working on your farm. Thank you for giving me something good to watch as I sat in my recliner watching TV.....😂. Man you make me tired just watching you do work!!!!😂
Take care and I'll look forward to your next one!👍🙏❤️🇺🇲
I agree on the tree line. It looks so much better.
Hello Chris it is so nice to see your ideas coming to fruition, keep up the videos and thanks for bringing us along.
Man I'd love to get into that kind of work in the future. Some smaller excavation jobs to get started
That hay feild would look real good with some hot weather grass , like burmuda grass. It makes really good hay.
Well Chris,
your idea of yard clean-up, takes on whole different meaning.., those 20-ton shovel & rake set-ups are a pretty nice to have around…, hahaha…
Looks great,
Thank you sir.
For a great fish habitat, try cutting tree about 8 feet high before pulling up the roots. Turn it upside down and stick it in the bottom of your pond. Make them look like umbrellas. The bigger, the better. Just an idea.
I know you have a vision for what you want your farm to look like, and see it from a man's perspective, but I still think a stump with a roof on it and a little door would look really neat out there for when you go walking around the farm...it'll look great either way when your done.
Best part: Betty!
I agree with your perspective on "being able to see 'into' the trees."
"I'm just going to take out a couple more trees "
The rattle that we hear ,is that the bucket pins and bushes ,she has done some work for sure .
Good work Chris
The cutting edges on the bucket are floppy
Always something to be done, doing something everyday makes the something to be done, “DONE”. Like your vision for finish project.
That was close..... taking down that tree! Enjoy your videos and progress on the farm. Best wishes.
Enjoy watching you work on your farm !
Love the "opening it up" between the trees!
Betty and Barney Rubble working together to load stumps!
I don't care what you say Betty is your best girl. Always starts and works her heart out. Tree line looks much better. That was a huge sweetgum tree. "Missed the chainsaw!!! " That's a good thing.
5 o'clock time to play with Winston.
Betty looks as if it has a more powerful bite on the root ball than Volvo excavator, so loaded more easily. The rest of the project is starting to look good.
That is the nicest looking work truck i have ever seen.
That thing is really nice
It's new! There's a video about it, few videos back.
Betty the Stump Hauler - glad You made her work - Stumps for Fish Habitat - that soooo Great ! Tree Trimming to be done - more Progress ! You got Terrific Skills - Pleasure watching You and yes - taking the lower Branches off makes such a Difference indeed ! Another Fun Filled Saturday comes to an End ! Many Cheers from Australia !!!!
And you doubted Betty - grand ols workhorse. You certainly know where to place a pond - no problem with inflow. Cleanup along tree line looks neat. Do you add or have crayfish to the pond? (We call them yabbies.)
So gratifying to work on ur own farm. Looks amazing! Thank u so much for video. God's blessings and be safe!
People just love them there balloons. Bealy Good pond took alot of water, looks like systems working as designed.
I can totally understand why BETTY is one of the favourite machines on the farm it’s so versatile
You should put up a trail camera so we can see what it looks like when all the rain comes through. I know here in upstate SC the weather tends to change drastically through out the week.
Chris love the look how it's coming along , you got good taste .
Make sure you get all those branches out of your hay field…they tend to play havoc on haying equipment…..😅
Always something to do on a farm, of course you already know that...lolol...Get one thing done and seems like a 1000 more to do...lolol... It does look a lot nicer with all the limbs cut out of there so, you can see threw the woods a little better. But, Great as always Chris !! Have a great Sunday Evening, And, On too the next !!
that vine growing in the trees there is plenty strong stuff the way it pulled that tree back also did not take much to knock it over good idea to take it down for sure as you say it had a rotten bottom keep up the work on your farm it is looking real good and now producing crops of hay nice to see some one that works so hard at all he does rep the benefits of his laborious Cheers
How relaxing it is watching you work ,your just so smooth ,and know exactly what your next move it ,Farm work is time sensitive no matter what the weather is if it's to wet to work then there's maintenance on equipment ,Always something to do ,i wonder who does Chris's editing ?
he said earlier he does it himself
We had our first day above 30 F since Sept. 25, 2022 yesterday and its barely above 25 F today! So the snow on our seven hills are still 50+ feet thick course we are 3980 feet above sea level! Down in the valley where our tree plots are and our food plots are its now in the high 30's so almost all of our ponds are melting towards the shoreline. Another week and they should all be melted and we will be able to start pumping water out to our food plots and drip lines to our trees. We get VERY LITTLE rain so we capture as much snow melt as we can. Our neck of the wood in Alaska gets less than 6 inches of rainfall a year but 20+ feet of snow in the low lands and double to triple that in the hills and mountains. We have very little natural top soil do to flooding if the decades prior to when this area was homesteaded back in the mid to late 1920's when my parents first homesteaded here (long story)! because of that my father created soil over time and made runnels along the base of our hills to holding ponds that was allot of work back then but it was that or starve without workable land! Also it was a gold/silver (later copper and jade veins)back in the 1880's to the 1900's. The miners striped the land of every tree for 40-60 of miles in any direction! So my father went into the wilds with my oldest brothers and found seedlings and seed from the closest forest 44 away just 9 miles from the closest town to us at the time. Over the decades since we have repopulated our entire homestead and other homesteads not only with trees but a collection of connected holding ponds for not only the wildlife and plant life but for our homestead neighbors as well! We started with mules now we have heavy machinery to the work faster and more efficiently. I personally have planted hundreds of thousands of trees on our homestead and double that on other homesteads and our states parks after we became a state on Jan. 3, 1959. I was born on Oct. 6, 1946 my wife was born on Feb. 22, 1947 and we have held residence from berth here till now. All our children (5 girls, 3 boys) and spouses, their children (28 girls, 27 boys) and their spouses, and now 13 great grandchildren (5 girls, 8 boys) all live on this homestead. A few others we have either bought or were given by homesteaders that could no longer handle the harsh conditions here or have passed on and left us their plots. I have live a good life here in general but I do like to see others that have the same drive I have instilled in my 3 generation (besides the wife and I) after mine. That drive was instilled in me by my parents as well as my wife's parents. I am the last of my generation and my wife has only an older brother left of our generation all of her other brothers and sisters and their kids have either died in the same wars as all my brothers or have moved back to Norway where we all came from. So with the internet it gives me hope to see some out there that do the things we do here in our neck of the wood Alaska...Family, Faith, Freedom Always...
You got that one stump with a longer trunk remnant, with all your clay, bury the trunk standing root up. Shade is what ponds need most, up a half bucket of pea gravel on top and if the depth on top is right, fish will also bed on it.
Farmers: don't mess up the crop before we get a second cut.
Chris: let's make another path to haul 😊
I got a little nervous with that tree. Looked closer than it was im sure. Glad it didn't hit the saw as well.
Really taking shape. Every day it gets prettier❤❤❤❤
I was skeptical if the Bealy good pond would fill up. I stand corrected. :)
Man, you're good operating that equipment. I believe you could pick up a toothpick with it. Thanks for the videos.
love watching your videos, everything you do is nice and neat and comes out great looking. Keep up the good work and please keep making the videos.
Chris made the right call on that red oak it went over easily.
You want to be careful Chris. If you get that whole property parked out you will have a full time job with your mini and mulcher maintaining it.
Betty Loader ain't no joke 👍👍
Farm is looking nice with leaves growing now
Great way to spend your Saturday Chris😊
I guess you had the same rain that Bealy Good had his overflows seemed to handle it well,great videos as always
I found one pond where someone wrapped chicken wire around rocks for small fish habitat. It was the best hook collector on earth! The rocks were about 18 inches across.
That red oak was ready to fall on its own.
It sure was, wasn't it - one shovel pull and it started to go.
When you get your fence’s up you need 10 goats to clean your wood lines and children to pay to fish and watch the wildlife. Gold Gold it’s all Gold 💰😎
Great Video Thanks Chris!!👍👍
You’re going to have the prettiest farm in NC, Chris! Thanks again for the vid.
With those stumps, it looks like you're gonna need a bigger pond.😂
The woods look much better now it is thinned. The farm has come a long way in ten years. Thank you and have a awesome day. PS Are you going to remove the forked tree at 30:51 on the right of the frame?
One project leads to another that's just the way it is anywhere great video thanks Chris
I would like to see those bigger trees used as lumber in your future cabins.. seems like a great repurpose of Raw Materials.
You have Your Pond finish, clear the Surroundings from Your new Pond. And to think on a Other Project, what You can make on the Farmland.
Watched a video on the Volvo A60, you could haul a lot of pond material in that.
good pond video
Now that you've opened up that ground floor up to sunshine, you better the 24D ready!
Wish I had a haul truck for when I was “pruning”….
Thank you for my daily fix, watching you enjoying life 😅
From this grandmother in Queensland Australia 🇦🇺
That worked out great. You had the RUBBLE'S working together.
BARNEY & BETTY
That was one sexy bucket change.
Chris please check the pins on the bucket or claw, beginning to rattle. If you hadn't told us your plans for dropping the tree, we would have thought you dropped it like you wanted. As you always say "Everything Is Coming Right Along".
A commentator named, thatdave, asked about his pins.
Chris responded and said the cutting edges on his bucket were floppy. 🙂
Betty is earning her keep a little bit at a time.
Those trees are hoping the pond will dry up soon or they will become extinct ,just saying letsdig gotta be doing something!!
Amazing work.
That looks nice Chris ! Do you plan on going any deeper with the pond ?
Had a wonderin moment; would some of those trees make some beams or lumber for the future pavilions or cabins for Mrs. Letsdig?
A few feet to the left and you might have had a lap full of gum tree🤔😜
Will be nice. It seems like it rains a lot in your area.
Any day you get to play with heavy equipment is a good day to me
Seems to me that a mulcher attachment would work better for this. No need to haul all that brush.
Even as loose as that escalator is your still smooth as possible with it, bet it throws you off hopping right in the new ine
I thought the vines here in Texas was bad. Look's like vines nightmare there in North Carolina.
How's Winston? We haven't seen him in a while.
First out of the day -Betty, the little loader that could! Second highlight of todays video -BALLOON! 😁
Chris? I hate to see you working alone especially with a chain saw involved, you never know when something might go haywire. I know you used to doing it that way but it only takes one time and it can't be reversed. Your a safe person and I would like it to stay that way. Your videos are awesome and I enjoy all of them.
Could of had all those wood chips and when you weed underneath your trees you could have put them down and cut down all that weeding you had to do lol
The way you use the bucket to pick up stumps I wonder why they did not cut teeth into the back side of clanshell ? and bottom of blade. Never seen one like that. Would help grabbing things with 4 way buckets.
There's always something to do on a farm.😊
You better watch it Chris, the land owner is going to complain the way you load brother! lol 😂 😂😂😂 looks like a good day cleaning up Chris, thanks for sharing! Kirk from Louisiana! Take care my friend! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Betty is at heart an excavator with short arms. 😃
Very entertaining this home project, thanks
Looks better every day
Well that was a lot of fun little cleanup projects…looking SO good. Now for some much deserved R&R!! 👏👍👍👏