The road idea was called a "corduroy road" 200 years ago and was a common way to create a road in wilderness areas until enough people moved in to maintain it. There is also archaeological evidence they were used in north Europe around 2,000 years ago, too. It makes sense they would use them in your situation.
No it wasn't. Corduroy roads weren't built like that. They were rough-cut logs laid transversely and also laterally across across loamy and wet areas, not to prevent damaging the land but to resist wagons and other vehicles from sinking into the loosened soil created by hooved and wheeled traffic. The logs were intended to sink into the soil and form a compacted area. As traffic did this,additional layers would be added until sinking stopped. The texture created by the rounded logs resembled corduroy cloth. This is construction matting, temporary access for heavy construction equipment and the material is very likely to be removed and relocated as the work progresses to the consecutive construction areas. The closest equivalent in modern history to this mat construction were pedestrian boardwalks adjacent to unpaved roads where lumber was more economic to use than stone or gravel, as in some towns in the American west, and for light vehicle traffic, as planked roads.
@pschmied6721 I humbly disagree that I am incorrect. :) I chose to make a simple observation that could be researched by curious readers more interested in farming than road construction, since the channel is mainly about farming.
@@alabamatechwriter6959 you are correct about how roads use to be constructed around the world. But in this case you are incorrect and really fucking anal. The electric company built that fucking road. To insure their vehicles needed to service the fucking powerlines didn't sink in the fucking mud.
@@alabamatechwriter6959 This is a temporary plank road made from matting, not a corduroy road. A more permanent plank road would include spacers, bull rails, and horizontally laid mud sills, but this is a temporary plank road meant to be pulled up again. P Schmied is correct. We use them in the farmlands and some marshlands while working on lines. Since you're more interested in road construction than farming, a corduroy road is logs, a plank road is flat board. This is flat board. This is a plank road. I don't understand how you disagree. He explained it perfectly. This just isn't a corduroy road. Full stop. P Schmied is a bit off re: closest equivalent being boardwalks. The closest equivalent to plank roads are plank roads. It may be fair to say that the closest pedestrian equivalent to plank roads is a boardwalk, but not that boardwalks are the closest equivalent to plank roads. Logging towns and communities all over the South and throughout the Appalachias used them as main thouroughfare for years and years. Plank road was historically the more common road construction method used throughout my state. The main US highway where I live was once called Jerusalem Plank Road and was quite literally a plank road for miles and miles. All of the surrounding roads in the area were plank roads. This is a plank road.
I've never seem them build a full length road like that but it does makes sense. Those wood tiles will kill the vegetation but the vehicles that will be driving over those tiles would literally destroy the Earth. The weight mostly pushes all the soil away till you hit rock. Afterwards when they remove the tiles it will be flattened but the land can be reseeded and used again fully.
Here in New Hampshire, we also have wooden roads through fields that run along electric power lines. Public Service company lays the wood planks down to prevent equipment from getting stuck in the mud, but more importantly to protect the land.
'Workin' dirt'..this video reminds me of the summer I spent working part-time for a local farmer after I retired from full-time employment. When I wasn't making produce deliveries for them..they'd put me on a tractor and I'd disk up fields and cultivate crop fields..it was so relaxing and satisfying work the end result was fields full of crops.
Yea, I'd have had to see how fast I could go too. I have those same wooden poles across one farm. About fifteen years ago they replaced the bottoms of the poles with concrete to about fifteen feet up. It was a hell of an operation with the biggest cranes I've ever seen. We had that same kind of road through the fields. Best regards from Indiana.
Im a auto shop owner. I always explain to people about oil changes and following "Manufacturer recommendations" which is when the dash says to change oil. Most vehicles will allow you to go 10k + between changes. Also manufacturers want to sell you another car or truck before 100k Im sure equipment is same way.
Great video Andy. Knowing what we do about Deere Reman engines, I would have cut the oil filter open and checked it for pieces of bearings and crankshaft 😂
I’ve been in a few places I wish I’d had those planks lol the boss said you see that weed right there by the tractor it’s called swamp grass lol there’s a reason why it’s called that I was hung up good that day thanks for sharing
Wow, they have some money tied up in those mats. Them babies aren't cheap. You have a good outfit there andy. I deeply appreciate what your family business does for our country. Thank you.
Beautiful country where you are! Few people today know that prior to 1860 and into the early part of the 1900s most "paved" roads were actually plank roads. In Mississippi where I live there was an area between Canton, Miss. and Yazoo City which had so many severed drops and swamps that a plank road was built all the way, some 26 miles. If you look at old photos taken during the time Ive mentioned, there are not many woods or forests where it was fairly easy for people to live because wood was used for everything, roads, rail fences, building any structure, and of course, were I am talking about, there is no coal so all fires were wood. By 1860s though, the steam boats began hauling coal and so coal was introduced for industry and home heating and houses with wood fireplaces were altered with attractive grates and inserts to close up all the space which wood fireplaces needed but not coal. Those wood mats can be reused, but if it was the Federal government, the would require that those mats be destroyed afterward, such is the waste of federal projects and a bottomless pocket book.
Love the videos Andy They did the same thing where I live and put metal poles in and left the old wood poles They had those wood mats all over the fields but now you can’t tell they where there
They replaced the poles in our area last year, did exactly the same tie mat roadway. They're still doing it somewhere fairly locally because they still have hundreds of mats stored about a mile from our house at the ADM facility in Hudson NY.
@@tomsmith3045 Could be the same improvement project. The electrical infrastructure needs MASSIVE improvement if we're all going to be driving EV's any time in the next 10 to 20 years. Every one blathers on about generating electricity, but distributing that power is at least equally important.
I'm thinking those are turning around. In Wisconsin they took down some big metal supports and if was on your land they gave them away. Maybe you can get some of those poles
They always let landowners take the poles. Usually if you have your own feeder poles you are responsible for replacement and it is good to have useable poles lying around.
Those upgrades to the electric towers are much better for a variety of reasons. My son is an electrical engineer for a large regional power company and works on high-volume transmission. Much love to the farmers. I used to do CAUV inspections for a midwestern county auditor.
Andy, we had the same mats along the right away of the road for 4 rural counties here in NE rural Ohio, last year it was to replaces all the poles. The new ones were sandwiched together 4xs and tapered at top, extra tall and way stronger. They said they were doing to bring extra/demanding power ( plus grid ) cuz of all new construction in rural area, it took them a whole year.
They will probably put more of the crane mats down depending on where they will be setting up their bucket trucks and yea the kick outs are for turning around or possibly for the four drum units they use for pulling in new conductors ,,, probably will demo the wooden H beam tower and put up steel press together poles to erect new H beams kinda surprised they aren't using track buckets to access the lines but who knows ,,, it is cool when they string up the sheaves on the structures and fly the lines in off the four drums with the helicopters tho
I originally thought this was a farming sim video lol. That's an awesome tractor. People don't really appreciate the sheer size of this equipment and what it takes to keep them up. Great video!
We literally have a road named "Plank Road" in out community that was built through the forest as the land was cleared in the 1800s. It was built by a steam driven tractor/sawmill to tie the earliest oilfields in North America to a freshwater port.
The high power electricity towers here are all metal, and have been from the 60's. The towers are generally replaced mostly around 25 years. Back in 2016 we had a massive storm that caused 22 towers to collapse. Power was out right across the state for days. As luck would have it, they had new towers ready to be installed. You could have a bike race with all the E bikes you now have, should make for a cool video. OLD Andy Young Andy the girl's and Jerad ;)
That's usually done when there is a utility easement through your property and they need to work on the lines, they lay down mats and airbridges through the area to drive on so they don't get stuck. They usually inform you by signature mail that they have to do work in advance.
Out here in Western NY, the timber "roads" are called Swamp Mats. There's one road that stretches 20+ miles to install an additional transmission line to connect to the wind farms and solar farms. Far better than tearing up miles and miles of land.
They put in a new power line in up here in northern Mn and they brought these pass in by the rail car load then transferred to semis so they could cross the swamps, they had to hold up large bucket trucks and semis hauling the equipment that went into the in ground structures to hold up the metal structure and anchor points! The main metal structure for the lines were flown in by helo as well as stringing the lines by helo also, very impressive to watch!
A fellow Minnesotan here. Have they left their road & if so, do they plan to come in and remove it? The reason I ask is because there’s a plan to run underground pipelines through private properties to move captured carbon gas to underground storage. This is part of meeting the zero carbon goal. So, if they’ve left it behind,I’m wondering if they’re planning to use it again. Have you heard of this before? You might want to look into it. Let me know if you have trouble finding the info. Maybe I can find the link again.
That’s a road you don’t get to drive on everyday. When you’re finally done with the green Chevy you and your kids and the famous guys on your crew, Tim, Nate, Jason, Sarge. Should sign the engine hood and auction it off to your viewers. Bet you’d get a good dollar for it
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. I was wondering where the transmission upgrade near Syracuse was happening, over the winter I noticed the huge piles of Timbers being stockpiled. Since I retired the company I worked at is very tight lipped of any information and were expectedly ignorant when I asked where it was talking place. 😂 just have to watch CZcams and you will have the information.
I lived on an Island, when they ran new telecommunication lines, they used clydesdale horses and canoes to cross the fields and swamps, it was fun to watch.
That is alot of wood and a lot of work to put that road in. People that complain about their power bill have no clue what it cost to keep the light on.
Yeah those mats get expensive, and take time to build. I actually build mats, and these are what we call flush mats, since they don't have notches cut on the sides for chains to hook the bolts. And they can get pretty big, I have seen them as 40 ft long.
We have a 115Kva line 2/3 of a mile from our place on twin wood poles like yours. This summer everything comes out for a new 345Kva on a single metal pole. ITC is doing the job.
Tks for sharing Andy and Sarah. I always look forward for your videos. Boy if that old 4 bolt dis could talk It looks like it's been there with the old Horse days. Andy stop showing off. Lol. You know "Bear Paws Sarah" loosed that Filter so it was easier for you to remove!!! Lol. Sarah you show alot of pride in what you do in the garage or fields.. You and your Brothers and Sisters all make your Family Proud.
Hi there, so this road covers a few acres in all and pases through your best crop so just compensation for your loss is due even if they clean up properly and don't disturb any extra crop while removing this road , I'd still bill them for your loss they won't give you any discount or reduced service fee etc
Hi Andy ! 8360 first ride whit the boss ripping and spinning , first feeling , love it .ELHO Scorpio 710 stone picker for picking rock on you tube it looks very good but i do not known the price of that ELHO SCORPO 710 but i known now what is the result whit the chopper and rocks . Thanks Andy for your time and have a good day !
Nice to see them using mats. Do not recall that being done around here. Unless soils suspect. And then likely where the crane is working. Have seen them stringing with helicopters over swamp areas though.
Hard to imagine how much those mats cost. Good thing it was a company and not the government doing it. Sarah is such an impressive young lady. You did a great job raising her. Wishing your family all the best.
They get repaired and reused. I saw the power company use mats made from recycled plastic once on a 50 mile project. But they made a huge mess of chunks and pellets that I think pissed off farmers. The hollow insides of the mats looked like half melted beads of grocery bags not quite fused together. I have only seen wood mats used since then.
I thank the Lord first for all the farmers; I love to eat, wear cotton clothes, and benefit from all the other farm products and industry. Thanks guys!
At least you can service your equipment. where I'm at is a retired PA dairy farm, but there was still an active tractor here for years. She needed a hydraulic pump rebuild; leaking like a sieve. but it being a Davey Brown 990A mean you couldn't get squat for it, and she's been parked for quite a while in storage. the neighbors work the fields but have been ethanol and field corn in the same pattern for over a decade by now, and I think the land's getting tired (they don't plant till June or July and wait to pick into DECEMBER) I'm down to just the lawn, but got a surprise this year; you can't even get the Oil Filters now.
I knew you would hit the accelerator to see how fast you could travel it lol, but take your bike down there and ride a wheely down that stretch, that would be an awesome video
Yep. Saw & seeing more power infrastructure being built in area. Construction zones look the same. In one area, wooden poles were used until the transmission line had to make a turn. The used the hollow steel poles to withstand the torquing.
Board roads are common in the oil fields. They lay them to move the heavy equipment to the drill site. Once the well is completed, the boards are moved to the next drill site. If a well is made, a permanent road is built in to the well site.
I know the way our lease agreement was set up with the utilities that went through our farm. They have to compensate us for the amount of square footage they take up with these roads because like you said it's obviously lost crop.
That is a lot of timber in that temp hydro road . That is some project just to do setup for pole line change out. No body like change and inconvenience , but as you say , " we like or HYDRO " be looking for updates !
Was gonna say that the scrap metal looks like a disc blade, but then remembered you probably already knew that and was only wondering what specific kind of equipment it broke off from.
Ya should put remote drain kits on the tractor well worth the investment. We got them on most of our big mining equipment, no more spilling or dicking around with 5 gallon pales... just plug in a quick connect and suck it all out...
Way to go Sarah for taking care of the equipement. Shows your character and pride in whatever task your doing.
She will never have sex with you.
Hands down the best job I've ever had....being alone in that cab.. listening to some good music, perfect job for a person who likes to work alone.
The road idea was called a "corduroy road" 200 years ago and was a common way to create a road in wilderness areas until enough people moved in to maintain it. There is also archaeological evidence they were used in north Europe around 2,000 years ago, too. It makes sense they would use them in your situation.
No it wasn't. Corduroy roads weren't built like that. They were rough-cut logs laid transversely and also laterally across across loamy and wet areas, not to prevent damaging the land but to resist wagons and other vehicles from sinking into the loosened soil created by hooved and wheeled traffic. The logs were intended to sink into the soil and form a compacted area. As traffic did this,additional layers would be added until sinking stopped. The texture created by the rounded logs resembled corduroy cloth.
This is construction matting, temporary access for heavy construction equipment and the material is very likely to be removed and relocated as the work progresses to the consecutive construction areas.
The closest equivalent in modern history to this mat construction were pedestrian boardwalks adjacent to unpaved roads where lumber was more economic to use than stone or gravel, as in some towns in the American west, and for light vehicle traffic, as planked roads.
It was done by the fucking electric company servicing those huge powerlines in the middle of the fucking picture. Brainiac.
@pschmied6721 I humbly disagree that I am incorrect. :) I chose to make a simple observation that could be researched by curious readers more interested in farming than road construction, since the channel is mainly about farming.
@@alabamatechwriter6959 you are correct about how roads use to be constructed around the world. But in this case you are incorrect and really fucking anal. The electric company built that fucking road. To insure their vehicles needed to service the fucking powerlines didn't sink in the fucking mud.
@@alabamatechwriter6959 This is a temporary plank road made from matting, not a corduroy road. A more permanent plank road would include spacers, bull rails, and horizontally laid mud sills, but this is a temporary plank road meant to be pulled up again. P Schmied is correct. We use them in the farmlands and some marshlands while working on lines. Since you're more interested in road construction than farming, a corduroy road is logs, a plank road is flat board. This is flat board. This is a plank road. I don't understand how you disagree. He explained it perfectly. This just isn't a corduroy road. Full stop.
P Schmied is a bit off re: closest equivalent being boardwalks. The closest equivalent to plank roads are plank roads. It may be fair to say that the closest pedestrian equivalent to plank roads is a boardwalk, but not that boardwalks are the closest equivalent to plank roads. Logging towns and communities all over the South and throughout the Appalachias used them as main thouroughfare for years and years. Plank road was historically the more common road construction method used throughout my state. The main US highway where I live was once called Jerusalem Plank Road and was quite literally a plank road for miles and miles. All of the surrounding roads in the area were plank roads. This is a plank road.
I've never seem them build a full length road like that but it does makes sense. Those wood tiles will kill the vegetation but the vehicles that will be driving over those tiles would literally destroy the Earth. The weight mostly pushes all the soil away till you hit rock. Afterwards when they remove the tiles it will be flattened but the land can be reseeded and used again fully.
Pipeline companies use these mats to protect the ground from erosion. Once the mat is removed, the vegetation will grow back.
Here in New Hampshire, we also have wooden roads through fields that run along electric power lines. Public Service company lays the wood planks down to prevent equipment from getting stuck in the mud, but more importantly to protect the land.
God bless the farmers and future farmers. Sarah is a beautiful gem and you are obviously very proud of her. Glad YT made this vid to my suggestions.
Sara tried bless her heart. Such a great pleasure watching ya family working together In running a business. Thank you for such great videos
'Workin' dirt'..this video reminds me of the summer I spent working part-time for a local farmer after I retired from full-time employment. When I wasn't making produce deliveries for them..they'd put me on a tractor and I'd disk up fields and cultivate crop fields..it was so relaxing and satisfying work the end result was fields full of crops.
Yea, I'd have had to see how fast I could go too. I have those same wooden poles across one farm. About fifteen years ago they replaced the bottoms of the poles with concrete to about fifteen feet up. It was a hell of an operation with the biggest cranes I've ever seen. We had that same kind of road through the fields.
Best regards from Indiana.
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Im a auto shop owner. I always explain to people about oil changes and following "Manufacturer recommendations" which is when the dash says to change oil. Most vehicles will allow you to go 10k + between changes. Also manufacturers want to sell you another car or truck before 100k Im sure equipment is same way.
Very interesting Andy. Sarah is a great member of your family. You have to be so proud of her and the rest of your family. ❤
You had just enough rain to settle the dust. 😊
Thanks for taking us along with you as you deal with the power boys and girls! :)
Great video Andy. Knowing what we do about Deere Reman engines, I would have cut the oil filter open and checked it for pieces of bearings and crankshaft 😂
I’ve been in a few places I wish I’d had those planks lol the boss said you see that weed right there by the tractor it’s called swamp grass lol there’s a reason why it’s called that I was hung up good that day thanks for sharing
Wow, they have some money tied up in those mats. Them babies aren't cheap. You have a good outfit there andy. I deeply appreciate what your family business does for our country. Thank you.
Great job Andy! Glad you have responsible kids..... I'm sure you're very proud dad, husband and farmer.
Wow we all do love our power! How many acres does that impact for you ? Definitely not 30 mph road!
Thanks for a nother great video!
Nothing like beautiful, rural upstate NY
I give a low bow to the young woman learning to farm 🙏
The little slab at 18:50 is for turning around. Sometimes it gets built a little larger for passing, or they just add a second row for a bit.
Beautiful country where you are! Few people today know that prior to 1860 and into the early part of the 1900s most "paved" roads were actually plank roads. In Mississippi where I live there was an area between Canton, Miss. and Yazoo City which had so many severed drops and swamps that a plank road was built all the way, some 26 miles. If you look at old photos taken during the time Ive mentioned, there are not many woods or forests where it was fairly easy for people to live because wood was used for everything, roads, rail fences, building any structure, and of course, were I am talking about, there is no coal so all fires were wood. By 1860s though, the steam boats began hauling coal and so coal was introduced for industry and home heating and houses with wood fireplaces were altered with attractive grates and inserts to close up all the space which wood fireplaces needed but not coal.
Those wood mats can be reused, but if it was the Federal government, the would require that those mats be destroyed afterward, such is the waste of federal projects and a bottomless pocket book.
There is the remains of a plank road through the northern Sonora Desert in California a bit north of the U.S./Mexico border too. Pioneer built.
Love the videos Andy
They did the same thing where I live and put metal poles in and left the old wood poles
They had those wood mats all over the fields but now you can’t tell they where there
2nd thumbs up for Wales, UK.Good video, haven't seen it yet but I think it will be a good one, always is.Thanks Andy & co.
They replaced the poles in our area last year, did exactly the same tie mat roadway. They're still doing it somewhere fairly locally because they still have hundreds of mats stored about a mile from our house at the ADM facility in Hudson NY.
No idea if it's the same ones, but they are making roads like that to get into swampy land just north of Albany in Menands to replace towers.
@@tomsmith3045 Could be the same improvement project. The electrical infrastructure needs MASSIVE improvement if we're all going to be driving EV's any time in the next 10 to 20 years. Every one blathers on about generating electricity, but distributing that power is at least equally important.
Yes sir I sure do love your new bike path
Maybe send a sample of that oil for analysis because fresh rebuild?
I can’t imagine the cost of all that matting for the power line. The power bills reflect their impute costs.
Welcome to the club!
You're now a Mat Road Trucker. 🤟🏽🐻
Andy I know your fully aware of how lucky you are with those kids. Girls and Boys. Worth a million. Even after taxes
Andy I know it makes you proud to know Sarah is mindful enough to know the tractor needs a oil change taking care of your equipment. 🍻
I'm thinking those are turning around. In Wisconsin they took down some big metal supports and if was on your land they gave them away. Maybe you can get some of those poles
They always let landowners take the poles. Usually if you have your own feeder poles you are responsible for replacement and it is good to have useable poles lying around.
I just want to congratulate this young lady on her fine work ethic.
Thanks good human.
Sarah is a hero she's an American farm I will have a beer with you guys tonight a silver bullet no Budweiser
Sorry your parents are siblings 😢
@@cptbuiltk7944 do you not like his choice of cheap near beer? Or are you the cousin Karen 😂
Another great video! Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us.
Great job Sarah taking care of your favorite tractor
Those upgrades to the electric towers are much better for a variety of reasons. My son is an electrical engineer for a large regional power company and works on high-volume transmission. Much love to the farmers. I used to do CAUV inspections for a midwestern county auditor.
Andy, we had the same mats along the right away of the road for 4 rural counties here in NE rural Ohio, last year it was to replaces all the poles. The new ones were sandwiched together 4xs and tapered at top, extra tall and way stronger. They said they were doing to bring extra/demanding power ( plus grid ) cuz of all new construction in rural area, it took them a whole year.
Ditto in NY, common to put down the wood. They do have a right of way, so they have the right.
They will probably put more of the crane mats down depending on where they will be setting up their bucket trucks and yea the kick outs are for turning around or possibly for the four drum units they use for pulling in new conductors ,,, probably will demo the wooden H beam tower and put up steel press together poles to erect new H beams kinda surprised they aren't using track buckets to access the lines but who knows ,,, it is cool when they string up the sheaves on the structures and fly the lines in off the four drums with the helicopters tho
I originally thought this was a farming sim video lol. That's an awesome tractor. People don't really appreciate the sheer size of this equipment and what it takes to keep them up. Great video!
That crazy how long that is. Awesome video Andy
I miss running big machines like that. I disked and ran a field cultivator over many, many sections in high school. The tractor was blue though. 😂
We literally have a road named "Plank Road" in out community that was built through the forest as the land was cleared in the 1800s. It was built by a steam driven tractor/sawmill to tie the
earliest oilfields in North America to a freshwater port.
The high power electricity towers here are all metal, and have been from the 60's. The towers are generally replaced mostly around 25 years. Back in 2016 we had a massive storm that caused 22 towers to collapse. Power was out right across the state for days. As luck would have it, they had new towers ready to be installed. You could have a bike race with all the E bikes you now have, should make for a cool video. OLD Andy Young Andy the girl's and Jerad ;)
The power company did a great job. In the long run it can save them time and money in wet weather.
That's usually done when there is a utility easement through your property and they need to work on the lines, they lay down mats and airbridges through the area to drive on so they don't get stuck. They usually inform you by signature mail that they have to do work in advance.
Out here in Western NY, the timber "roads" are called Swamp Mats. There's one road that stretches 20+ miles to install an additional transmission line to connect to the wind farms and solar farms.
Far better than tearing up miles and miles of land.
Great job Sarah make woman farmers proud❤❤❤😊😊
They put in a new power line in up here in northern Mn and they brought these pass in by the rail car load then transferred to semis so they could cross the swamps, they had to hold up large bucket trucks and semis hauling the equipment that went into the in ground structures to hold up the metal structure and anchor points! The main metal structure for the lines were flown in by helo as well as stringing the lines by helo also, very impressive to watch!
Where in northern Minnesota did they do this and when? I'm in Lake County.
@@adelechicken6356 power line came across hey 71 north of big falls and there’s another south of big falls that has been there for quite awhile!
A fellow Minnesotan here. Have they left their road & if so, do they plan to come in and remove it? The reason I ask is because there’s a plan to run underground pipelines through private properties to move captured carbon gas to underground storage. This is part of meeting the zero carbon goal. So, if they’ve left it behind,I’m wondering if they’re planning to use it again. Have you heard of this before? You might want to look into it. Let me know if you have trouble finding the info. Maybe I can find the link again.
@@Asti.pronouncedAhstee they removed the wooden pads after power line was erected
@@dannyharris7218 glad to hear it. Then if it’s going to happen, it’s not anytime soon. Enjoy the rest of this lovely Memorial Day!
Enjoy watching your videos Andy .
That’s a road you don’t get to drive on everyday.
When you’re finally done with the green Chevy you and your kids and the famous guys on your crew, Tim, Nate, Jason, Sarge. Should sign the engine hood and auction it off to your viewers. Bet you’d get a good dollar for it
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. I was wondering where the transmission upgrade near Syracuse was happening, over the winter I noticed the huge piles of Timbers being stockpiled. Since I retired the company I worked at is very tight lipped of any information and were expectedly ignorant when I asked where it was talking place. 😂 just have to watch CZcams and you will have the information.
Beefing up the grid for all the solar panels they want to build on the farm fields 😮
I lived on an Island, when they ran new telecommunication lines, they used clydesdale horses and canoes to cross the fields and swamps, it was fun to watch.
We called these roads "corduroy roads" in Michigan, "plank roads" in Missouri. In Missouri, we also had "rock roads", and "gravel roads".
Wow weld change oil and bake a cake to
Thanks Andy nice job top team awesome 😎
Getting closer to planting! Spilled oil and grease helps to seal the concrete shop floors...
Man I wish I worked for someone with this kind of energy! I would love coming to work!
Sarah loves that big tractor and.really takes care of it. Great video.
The farming you do under those power lines saves the utilities a bunch of money in right-of-way maintenance.
That piece of board road sticking out is for Turning around so they do not have to back up whole way out
That is alot of wood and a lot of work to put that road in. People that complain about their power bill have no clue what it cost to keep the light on.
Yeah those mats get expensive, and take time to build.
I actually build mats, and these are what we call flush mats, since they don't have notches cut on the sides for chains to hook the bolts.
And they can get pretty big, I have seen them as 40 ft long.
I always enjoy seeing your spring tillage videos with the Landoll coulter chisels.
Thanks
The pads out mid span are to remove the spacers. The poles are probably 80 feet. The rule of thumb is 10% +2 ft. So (80x.01) +2=10 feet in the ground.
We have a 115Kva line 2/3 of a mile from our place on twin wood poles like yours.
This summer everything comes out for a new 345Kva on a single metal pole.
ITC is doing the job.
Good ole National Grid! Conversion and Upgrades! I believe that’s a 115kv line out there.
That scrap disc looks like it would fit my original Ferguson two-disc plow 😂
Tks for sharing Andy and Sarah. I always look forward for your videos. Boy if that old 4 bolt dis could talk It looks like it's been there with the old Horse days. Andy stop showing off. Lol. You know "Bear Paws Sarah" loosed that Filter so it was easier for you to remove!!! Lol. Sarah you show alot of pride in what you do in the garage or fields.. You and your Brothers and Sisters all make your Family Proud.
Hi there, so this road covers a few acres in all and pases through your best crop so just compensation for your loss is due even if they clean up properly and don't disturb any extra crop while removing this road , I'd still bill them for your loss they won't give you any discount or reduced service fee etc
Looks like you need to check your planters to see if any of the row markers are missing.
Hi Andy !
8360 first ride whit the boss ripping and spinning , first feeling ,
love it .ELHO Scorpio 710 stone picker for picking rock on you tube it looks very good but i do not known the price of that ELHO SCORPO 710 but i known now what is the result whit the chopper and rocks .
Thanks Andy for your time and have a good day !
Nice to see them using mats. Do not recall that being done around here. Unless soils suspect. And then likely where the crane is working.
Have seen them stringing with helicopters over swamp areas though.
Hard to imagine how much those mats cost. Good thing it was a company and not the government doing it. Sarah is such an impressive young lady. You did a great job raising her. Wishing your family all the best.
Sarah will never have sex with you.
we got a company out where i live that builds these mats, solid oak - 2x8x 12ft, they build these ones 3 deep and they are strong af.
They get repaired and reused. I saw the power company use mats made from recycled plastic once on a 50 mile project. But they made a huge mess of chunks and pellets that I think pissed off farmers. The hollow insides of the mats looked like half melted beads of grocery bags not quite fused together. I have only seen wood mats used since then.
I thank the Lord first for all the farmers; I love to eat, wear cotton clothes, and benefit from all the other farm products and industry. Thanks guys!
At least you can service your equipment. where I'm at is a retired PA dairy farm, but there was still an active tractor here for years. She needed a hydraulic pump rebuild; leaking like a sieve. but it being a Davey Brown 990A mean you couldn't get squat for it, and she's been parked for quite a while in storage.
the neighbors work the fields but have been ethanol and field corn in the same pattern for over a decade by now, and I think the land's getting tired (they don't plant till June or July and wait to pick into DECEMBER) I'm down to just the lawn, but got a surprise this year; you can't even get the Oil Filters now.
I knew you would hit the accelerator to see how fast you could travel it lol, but take your bike down there and ride a wheely down that stretch, that would be an awesome video
Yep. Saw & seeing more power infrastructure being built in area. Construction zones look the same. In one area, wooden poles were used until the transmission line had to make a turn. The used the hollow steel poles to withstand the torquing.
Another good video Andy KEEP THEM COMING 🐄 🚜 🇺🇲 🌽🐘👍
Thanks Andy for another great video
Enjoy the video 📹 Andy Sara = ROCK STAR.
Great job andy and sarah enjoyed the video thanks andy
Should get awesome traction with the new tires! Great video safe farming a
Board roads are common in the oil fields. They lay them to move the heavy equipment to the drill site. Once the well is completed, the boards are moved to the next drill site. If a well is made, a permanent road is built in to the well site.
This is the most fascinating channel on CZcams to me. Your operation is amazing. Very much appreciate the explainations.
Those extra bits on the wooden road:
Maybe that's intermediate storage for the wood. To get it closer to the live end of the road.
'Through the field,' as it is very difficult to throw a field 😂😅✌️.
When changing filters hold a big cup under them. The biggest convenience store drink cups are about perfect
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do you get compensated for lost crops or there some kind of easement rights ?
Both sometimes.
A wooden road, now I've seen everything.
I know the way our lease agreement was set up with the utilities that went through our farm. They have to compensate us for the amount of square footage they take up with these roads because like you said it's obviously lost crop.
That is a lot of timber in that temp hydro road . That is some project just to do setup for pole line change out. No body like change and inconvenience , but as you say , " we like or HYDRO " be looking for updates !
Sarah loosened the filter a bit for you to take off lol
This is incredible
Spit is rain, furies is snow.
Was gonna say that the scrap metal looks like a disc blade, but then remembered you probably already knew that and was only wondering what specific kind of equipment it broke off from.
That's alot trees make that Corduroy Road. Have a great day
They bad roads like this in the early days for real roads out somewhere in California, was an interesting program I watched.
Ya should put remote drain kits on the tractor well worth the investment. We got them on most of our big mining equipment, no more spilling or dicking around with 5 gallon pales... just plug in a quick connect and suck it all out...
those mats sure are interesting.
Same was done up here few years ago.they replaced the poles and powerlines. Must be for something bigger and better.