I Bought An Abandoned Farm - What The Hell Did I Get Myself Into?
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We have our work cut out for us at this grown-up farm.
#newpurchase
#brushcutting
#morestorage
#hyundaiconstructionequipment
#oldfarm
My dad used to say “they are not making more land so buy as much as you can”. Sound advice. Looks like a diamond in the rough.
Your dad apparently wasn't familiar with our Dutch traditions of reclaiming land. :-p
Here's one for the team. I'm going to bite on the comment generator! You never mentioned it, but I know you contacted the "Call before You Dig" folks! Up here most of the utilities are just inches from the edge up the road, but I have a phone line underground that's 30 ft from the edge of the road in one section, along a farm field. A neighbor asked me to bury a horse for them, with the CASE 480 backhoe. I said, "Yes, but not until I mark the spot and call the locators. "There's nothing here! Go ahead and dig." "Nope, not until they come and check." Well, there was a 2 inch medium pressure gas line right where the wanted me to bury the horse! So, I never dig until I call. Great Video and Congrats on the new farm and the much needed rood space! Thanks, Mike & Aaron! Lee
Lol😊 I have 1.6 acres and a barn in the very back that someone ran power underground to. I've never been able to trace it and I know where it is.
I decided to dig a hole to plant an apple tree with my backhoe and of course, with all the area the line could have been, it was under that spot.
Broke the line and had to do a repair to withstand underground direct burial.
I add a plastic utility type box to access it in the future if needed.
Always good to know what's running underground.
My first thought was locates too Followed by DOT permits for filling in the road drainage
Must be on a holiday weekend
Fact check That Google maybe call 611;;
Cablelines might get lucky pot of #Gold Just #Think #Positive If #God.Wants it
It #Will #Happen
@Wakeupandsnifft😊hecoffee
This is going to be fun to watch!! I love to see abandoned farms reclaimed and made useful again.
Alot of work done in one day. Best wishes on your farm adventure! 👍👍
That's something I could do every day all day is take down some brush. When we had our 10 acres all I had was an old Ford jubilee and a brush hog. Had the time of my life clearing our way in. I started to do it for a living and my tractor went down on me and that was that. I haven't been able to get another piece of equipment and things just haven't been real bright for a while. But I do miss it. One of these days I'll be able to get back to it. Looks like a good purchase, I'm sure you will turn it into an amazing place. Congratulations.
Went down,as in an accident, or broke down? Hope you werent hurt!
@@cathiwim broke down. The only time I'd say I got hurt was either thorns or the time I mowed over an underground hornet nest. Talk about a time to bail and run lol. I play it as safe as I can when using any equipment. Even more so if I don't own it. Thanks for asking, sorry I didn't clarify.
Really not a bad purchase at all. Just a little tip. When using a brush hog on the front of that CTL in overgrown weeds like that it always helps out tremendously to take the first path with the brush hog tilted up a couple feet off the ground. Then go back for your final pass. But that is a lot of work. And again great investment on the net worth of Dirt Perfect. Farm work/dirt work/mowing just kinda centers me. I love it. Great video nice camera angles and the sound of the jake brake is always a nice touch lol😊
Hard work, success, determination, commitment to family and a vision!! Well done Mike.....well done!!!
Happy new year guys! This looks like your in need of some good farm equipment. A 100+ hp tractor and a bathing cutter can make fast work of all that overgrown pasture. Then a good offset disc and a drag harrow make pretty work to bring back the new ground. Curious to know what's in plans to plant or intent of using the farm for?? Looking forward to seeing what transpires. Good luck!!
i love abandoned / restoration videos make sure to film everything about everything cant wait to see the videos
🤔FARMING ? Green house ? Shrubs ? Vegetables ? Goats ? Fantastic. Great video thanks
That brush would probably make a 15 foot batwing mower beg for mercy, we’ve been doing a rehab area similar to this, the random junk in the brush has made it a challenge, great work!
we got a DR mower with the government checks issued at the beginning of covid, since we had just purchased an overgrown property that had sat for over 20 years. that sucker is tough, mowing down 6ft briar bushes and small trees.. the corner owner had pitched broken things out the door, so i hit sink faucets and tons of other debris. we final got it all cleaned up, and hauled 3 loads of scrap metal to the recycle yard.
Congratulations on the property. Like my grandfather used to say “if you want something nice, you’ve gotta work hard for it.” I think you and your friends/crew are the epitome of that statement. Your videos prove it. Thanks for sharing!!
Well done, you are almost buying up most of Derby at this rate
Already owns most of it !
Captain Kleeman is right behind him.
Nah, Derby is bigger than that.
Should have borrowed the woppa choppa from captain lol
Well that would be awesome, more content and i would make MBTS Mayor of Derby, Fire chief Captain kleeman, and head of Inspectors NyA Millennial. Ohh not forgetting the Sheriff Chris.
Great job MBTS and the brush cutter. The little green machine was tough too. Can’t wait to see the finished product. Soon it will be called DP Indiana not Derby Indiana. Thanks again!!!!!!!
Now I see the connection between this and the Captain Kleeman World Headquarters😁. Great Vidja and good to see two friends working together for one purpose, no matter how daunting it may seem. Take care, best wishes and may this year be filled with abundant blessings for you, your family, Arron and his family. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.
Thanks
As a lurker here on this channel I feel the excitement and am so looking forward to this project. Love the sasquatch Aaron Tee, got to get me one! OH boy this is great.....
Smooth flying into no turbulence CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SIMON FAMILY
Awesome job brush clearing. Looks to be an interesting project as your new land purchase develops.
Very smart purchase, Mike. My favorite series of videos. Taking a chunk of coal and presto, a diamond. Good black dirt for farm ground, more cash rent from Farmer Chris. More storage, income, many videos, all pluses. I love seeing something bad turned into something amazing. You do that every video, but this will be the culmination of all those things. The intangibles, youtube videos help pay for it AND the value of the land doubles after you clear it and clean it. I suggested this farm situation purchase a year ago, glad you were listening. I have a feeling there will be another one in the future. In 20 years, you will be super happy that you bought every farm, assets on the balance sheet and retirement income. Great job Mike.
How many times can I like this comment!
You can tell this is a major challenge. What a mess! The best part is you're making progress, and that's the key thing. That is always I'd say you and Aaron's work very well together. So much fun at the same time. Thank you for sharing! 👍
30 acres is going to be excellent addition. Going to be lots of storage for equipment. Great decision for you & Captain.
"We're going round the skidsteer not over it, seems like a wiser move" ..... ten minutes after doing the lucky 50/50 with the semi on to the road!!
Priceless... You guys crease me up!!
Congratulations another piece of the pie.Your family’s future is doing well in your hands.
I hope your hard work pays off in the(Golden )years.❤
I can’t wait to see the process of this I just purchased 82 acres of land and I plan on doing exactly this on it turn into a small farm and hopefully the local community will help me with everything.
Aaron was just wanting to show that you guys took the time to chain the equipment down even though it was super close. 😊
I'm thinking that we were setup for a CZcams experience with that secondary parking brake, lol.
Congratulations on your new acquisition.
Looking forward to future videos as you work on the place.
Lookin forward to you and MBS tranbsforming the farm.
Enjoy watching the clearing and cleaning up property
Awesome! No shortage of future projects for us to watch now!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Good morning sunshine! Happy New Year! So excited to see what y'all are gonna do with the new land! Much love from Henderson Ga USA
Cant wait to see more of the new farm.
Man, I could listen to that Mack run all day. She sounds sweet!
I was watching you go along behind the barn and was hoping you didn't find an old engine block or such.
You have some industrial strength briars there friend.
Have fun and be safe!
Cheers
Terry
Looks like that's going to be some beautiful property. Can't wait to see how it turns out. Staying tuned.
Nice day after New Years day episode of Mike and Arron clearing Mike's new property.
Congratulations Mike.
Looks like you're becoming a farmland landlord for Farmer Chris.
Putting neglected land back into production feeding America and the world.
Next episode should be just as entertaining as this one has been.
Starting off 24 with a bang DP !!! Look forward to many more vids in the new year !!!! 💪💪💪💪💪
You'll make the new place shine. Lord knows you have more than enough equipment to get it done.
Nice piece of property. I can see the diamond in the rough.
Look forward to the video series.
Thank you sir.
Just came across your channel, so glad I did, your in for an epic time with the new property, reminds me of when we purchased our lakes that hand been neglected for years! The Mack sounds amazing the Jake brake is awesome! Great toys and good to see some genuine people out there enjoying life and sharing with others 👍👍👍
Thanks and welcome to the channel
You guys give new meaning to the phrase boys and their toys. Nice upload.
Congratulations! Can't go wrong in purchasing more land! Best investment, hands down. I like the idea of Chris farming some of it too.
Just a note...Aaron and you are such fun to watch when working together!
Nice property Bud! Gonna take some work, but you got this!!
Your drone footage at the beginning of this video was awesome. That is some beautiful country down there (up there). I'm in Alabama. Good luck.
Mike AWESOME project for a series of videos, it is like making a puzzle, keep up the great work 🇨🇦💪
Bright back great memories Thanks, I spent 30 years of my life on most all types of heavy equipment. Loved every minute of it, especially the excavator and finish Dozier. If I was able I'd be right there with y'all.
I do have to say y'all do some quick work of alot of jobs .....Kudos catch on the next one
As hard as you every dollar work foryou, I'm sure this will be a good program for you all! Happy New Year to all!!
Congratulations on the purchase of the farm. MBTS would make a great farm manager.
MBTS = Man Behind The Shed? ;-)
@@chrislaarman7532 different "S" with an it in the word.
Love the sound of the green simi. Beautiful piece of land 😮
Congratulations on buying the farm. Will be a great investment for developing. Continued success in 2024.
Congrats. A great day for the scrap book.
When my kids were young I bought the house next door to get the garden.
Our playroom was built up against the overgrown side wall near the end of its garden. As we had a long 4 month close on it, I sneaked in and dismantled a door size hole in the wall behind the bushes where no one could see. Then I consaw-ed through our wall. Next I got an old large wardrobe and screwed it to the inside of our wall. Took the back of it and lined the way through and put mini barn doors on the other side of old timber as it was near invisible in the garden. For one summer we had Narnia in a wardrobe as very few people knew I had bought it.
Hope you all have great adventures there.
Capt Kleeman is already working on the Gym building, your farm looks like it has grt potential 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Congratulations! I could have watched another hour or more easily
Congrats Mike, you can make this work, just takes patience; you have the equipment and skills. The river is what makes this so desirable..Good luck and persevere.
Good farming ground around rivers for sure.
Holy cow, should have been holy cattle! That's a lota weeds! Loved the music, just right for your jungle cutting adventure.
Thanks for the video.
Absolute looking forward to this adventure!
I really like the Hyundai Wall-E; it's a happy little skidsteer with power and agility!
I'm sure this is the rerun of Mr Bealygood and Lets Dig, now their version got the tractor stuck! Hmmm, could this be the less disastrous version or is there more Laurel & Hardy action to come. Be safe guys you are a joy to watch, thanks for sharing.
Me too: DP on his green tractor reminded me of Geoff Bealy entering his 90-acre land on his orange tractor before getting stuck. :-)
@@chrislaarman7532 Must be the green not getting stuck, DP doesn't do Orange anymore they seem to be the troublesome ones😝
@@simonthomas2181 Would that be the origin of the expression "comparing [green] apples and oranges"? ;-)
The excitement is growing 🎉🎉❤
My favorite thing to wear when dealing with briars is the old BDUs. Between the thickness and the ripstop of the fabric they work great. I hope ya'll were wearing tick repellent - I know you don't have a lot of lyme there but you do have some and there are other things those critters carry. I've been disabled because of lyme since I was 12 years old - 27 years ago. Great video as always Mike!
Doctor thats an expert straight up told me thats a issue specifically in very rare spots on the east coast only and that people should not worry about it.
@@pilsplease7561 Doctor is full of shit. There are higher levels of it in the north east coast but people in every state except alaska and hawaii have contracted it. I've got a friend in california who never left the state and contracted lyme and when she went to get checked they refused to do a lyme test because it doesn't exist in that state.
The view of the loader climbing on the trailer reminded me of rail head operations in Germany where we would load our M109A3s on narrow rail cars. Always careful as the tracks overhung the rail beds!
You are definitely on the road to being an even bigger success.
Congrats to you and Jenna Mike. This is exciting news for the channel. Can’t wait for the rest of the videos on this farm.
Aaron did an excellent job Running the ole Cadillac Mower .
Fellow farmer here. I have 30,000 acres here in Michigan. Just came across your channel!
Awesome welcome to the channel
Just love the sound of those pipes on that MAC
Well that is exciting! A new place to transform into a functional depot for your equipment. Can’t wait to see your plans for the site. HNY.
looking good, will enjoy future videos of this project..
Thanks for taking us along on your voyage of exploration.
Thanks for watching
Hey... another place where a root rake would be handy! Congratulations Mike, and happy New Year.
I think it’s a great place for your kids to grow up Mike, plenty room for them to learn about country life! Awesome! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I think you really had a lot of fun, It sure looked like it.
One of life's pleasures was cutting the overgrowth between 1200 apple trees on the families farm weekends. I used a small vineyard tractor and the PTO driven twin rotor skid. It made a change from my week working In a factory. - good luck with your latest project.
Looks like a mulcher for the skid steer coming soon like what Chris has
We run 5 different styles of cutter heads between the loader, Skid steer, and excavators and for the type of material you are cutting the bush hog style on the skid steer just like you are using is the one we would choose. It seems to cut a bit quicker, maybe not as fine of mulch in the end but that is probably not an issue in your situation. looks great, so satisfying to look at the before and after on a job like this.
Y’all will getter looking fantastic like all the stuff yall do or touch!!!
Thanks for taking us along on this adventure. It was very exciting on the little tractor in the big woody weeds. It must be exciting thinking about the potentials of the new property.
This is going to be Cool! Let it be said you love a challenge Mike. Keep up the good work Sir.
On the old bryer patch, an orchard, PYO fruit trees and bush would fit well with visiting tourists and locals.
Congratulations on the new purchase Mike. Looks like a mess but I bet you get it looking good in no time.
The farm we bought was just like that one. My brother in law bought a 650 JD 2 WD with turf tires and a 5 foot bush hog that was good on dry dirt but any wet areas and it was stuck. I then got a Yanmar4220 4WD with R1 tires and a 6 foot BH. I mowed down up to 4" trees, basically anything I could ride over with the 4220 FEL, I could chop up. We took out almost all of the pine trees and sweet gum that was covering every thing and turned it into pasture land. That was 13 years ago and now everyone comments about how beautiful the place is.
You have a adventure ahead of you. But it will take some time to make it happen.
just found your channel and love it ,we had a life style farm of 3 acres ,we loved it it was all on to keep everything on top of it all,we built a small pig pen for our 3 pigs,we had a small hen house for our 16 hens,and we let our 8 sheep run free range with our 2 calves ,in the winter we would feed the stock hay and grain ,i also put flower gardens around the house i planted roses fruit trees/with a number of vegetable gardens/pumpkin patch--and it all grew well,,the last thing i did to our property was to build a large bird aviary facing the kitchen my birds would sing all day it was lovely to listen to them i had canarys and finchs i had a total of 40 birds i am in new zealand,good luck with your adventures
Awesome glade you enjoy the channel
This brings back some nightmares .
When someone wants to know why they should get a tractor with a cab for bush hogging , I will show them this video from now on .
That is an unholy mess for sure .
You will need a tarmac road laying and yellow lines putting on it to make it a safer entrance in stead of getting stuck in the mud see sense please it's also health and safety in the UK
I love videos like this and would love to see more.
Bringing a farm back in to productivity helps alleviate the world hunger problem. Good Job. You went thru that brush like Moses parting the Red Sea.
I bet that slip clutch was begging for mercy by the time you were done.😀
Mowed through some stuff like that before with an old Farmall and pull behind brush cutter. At least it was a taller to get out of the some of the briars, PTO was a bit dangerous tho. Lookin' good, so far & look forward to seeing the progress.
That scene of the break through reminded me of all those films I've seen of TBMs breaking through to connect the tunnels.
Running the brush mower would be satisfying for sure. Hell I would run that free, just to see what the results would be
Happy New Year from across the pond to all at D.P.
I hope Aron at least bought you lunch for letting him sit in an enclosed cab bush hogging while you ran the gauntlet on the JD open station. That JD gets the over achieving gold star of the day.🍻
Nice job Mike and mbts. Looks like a nice piece of property.
Looks like an excellent training job for your boy on the old cat dozer you have
We didn't have Hyundai skid steers in my time Mike but I would like to get behind the controls of one. That smaller machine seems to handle the brush-hog nicely without any trouble and the drone footage gave us the view of how nice your property is. Good video guys. 👌
Congratulations on the new Farm Mike! I know with Your determination and hard Work, You and Aaron will have that place shinning bright before you know it!
Happy New Year to You and Your Family!
Looking forward to stopping by to visit this summer!
Stay safe in that thick brush!
Oh my gosh!!!! SO exciting!!!!! Can't wait to see what you do!!!!!
The little guy now has a hobby when there's down time. It would have been epic to have Chris there to say " what have you got me into".
More like , " aren't you done yet , I'm ready to start planting now ! "
Next time you have to do briars with your John Deere just strap a 12-16’ 4x4 or 2x6 to the front of the bucket to knock the stuff down/out of the way. Those narrow footprint tractors are super nice except in that situation.
This is a good way to stem the tide of TB and POLIO by keeping possession of arable land and not letting squatters come in and take it.
How exciting and congrats with the new purchase! You having lots of equipment will help a bunch.
Looks like a solid investment!
In Alabama and Thank you guys for the memories, my hubby was a truck driver and ran a backhoe doing railroad work for local company for 40 years before he passed away in 2018. I got to run with him and drive a little, and you guys with your loading, unloading and taking out the bushes & undergrowth remindered me just how much FUN, even if it was work we shared...watching you was a treat for me this morning....so Thank U...❤