Growing up in the fifties, I worked with my parents and brothers to clear land with a cross cut saw, axes, Maddox and Kaiser blade. Dad finally bought a chain saw, but it probably weighed twenty-five pounds or so. Thank God those days are long gone.
You've done a great clearing the homestead lot. The excavator is a really great way to take trees down and clean up the site. Thanks for the great camera work.
I really enjoyed the drone footage of you taking down the trees. It gives a great perspective of just how tall they are, how you manipulate & maneuver them while taking them down and what is going on digging the roots. Your concern for the neighbors and giving the customer a great end product are exemplary. Thank you for the great videos. They go great with my morning coffee.
I wish everyone that lights a fire would pay attention like you on where the smoke is going. Nothing worse than having wood smoke blow in your house for hours. Great job! Looking forward to the pond build.
Where I live all the farmers used to burn the slash piles from the orchards but now they leave the slash on the ground and have a large machine come in and shred it. Once it's shredded, they till it into the ground. No more burning, which is good since we don't need any more eye irritation.
I have to say that you do a dangerous job with such skill , it is good that you allow others to see how you approach it , and enjoyable to watch . hi from Melb Australia .
All that dust reminds me. I cut. firewood all summer one year the dustvwas 3 and 4 inched deep in places. Dragging tops and logs out to a clover field to cut up and split. Shoving brush into a hollow with an old Oliver tractor. I wished I had a water truck for the dust.
505K,,,great number Chris. Yea, that light hard stuff must be like the 'bathtub bottom' of your neighbors forgotten pond you cleaned up. Growing projects are called 'change orders'. Looks like you are about down to cleanup time. You have done a job making the old BG Farms look good - probably like it did in the 1950s.
Chris, you have to do the drone shot anytime you are taking down trees from now on. I have taken down trees with a track hoe and watched it in person, but watching from the drone is the BEST! Great video and can’t wait to see the big fire that you will have.
I love watching you operate, especially on this video with the grapple on the skid steer. I bought a machine with one and am "decent" with it, but from watching you I pick up little "tips and tricks" on how I can do better. I am by no means an operator. My wife and I purchased 35 acres of wooded property here in north Florida that we have been clearing for our "retirement home". Our "McMansion" should be completed in a few months and once we get moved in with our current residence in the city sold we can spend our retirement years out in the woods away from the crazy people.
Love the drone shots, the stump is always interesting. :) That is a lot of work clearing the land and now only the pond left. :( :) That one tree stump was to close.
Chris, congrats on 500K. I'm fairly new here and just wondered where you were from and if you were married or had any kids. Would love to see a video of you and your life and how you got started and so on. Thanks for the videos, wouldn't miss any of them.
It is so pretty up in there with all the trees around it’s so beautiful up there to be in the Carolina ‘s which I’ve never been to or seen and I’m not getting any younger but I’m planning on going to the smokies in July
Oops I missed this video Chris of you digging up the sweet gum trees and it fascinates me how you dig up the roots and just yank the tree right up out of the ground
Just realized the Gum trees as you call them we call them Eucalyptus trees or Euc’s. Farmers planted them as wind breaks. Several cars try to move them and they just stand there.
Eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus spp.) are often referred to as gum trees, and most eucalyptus species have common names ending in “gum.” There are several other trees, however, that are also referred to as gums, which are not related to the genus Eucalyptus.
Chris I have been watching your videos since the beginning of the Pandemic around March 2020. Ii's has become part of my daily zen-relax time every morning. I've gone back and watched just about every video you've ever made. I just wanted to let you know how much it is appreciated. I've come to learn quite a lot about excavators, pond building, proper dam building with clay and how much you 'love' snakes 😆 from watching your videos. By the way, if you auction anymore bucket teeth to raise money for your sister's classroom let us know. Thanks again.
I hope your farm, cow’s and Winston are doing well Chris, haven’t seen them in a while! I bet your calves are growing and multiply! lol I hope you still take Winston for breakfast every once in a while too! lol 👍🏻
Hi Chris. Great to watch your TH-cam channel. This Q you have probably been asked many many times. I know you send trees 🌳 to the mill for pulping and lumber, but how much of what you fell can be used as house heating. ie, are there any types of trees which can not be use for this?? If and when I come over the pond from London UK, I'd love to work a site with you for a few days.......NO charge.👍😎
@@BealyGood Hi BGF. I saw your vid from the homestead with Chris. The explanation of what trees had been taken down and what type they were.. Basically, I'm asking if Gumtree can be used in a house or does it have too much Gum to be safe in an open fire 🔥 ?? Hope all goes your way with the rest if the build. Good Luck. David
No. Sawn wood is high but timber prices are at an all time low. The mills have a massive backlog 🤣 so that’s the supposed reason for the high lumber prices. One of the mills here is doing a 20 million expansion. I’m sure it’s like that everywhere.
Great Video.house Lot is comming along nicely. Stupid wind blowing in the wrong direction for a fire i was hoping for.lots of trees To be cleared there man lol.stay safe 😀i liked the drone footage clearing trees.awesome.
Love the drone perspective. Of course it wouldn’t make sense not having seen all the video footage down ground level from inside your cab, and all the shots from the ground tripod. It all works together pretty niftily. Nifty? Did I make up niftily? Is that a word. Okay I’ll shut up.
I never heard of Gum trees but I am not from the South, from North Dakota, are Gum trees good lumber or are they trash trees? btw the eastern 3/4s of N.D. the soil is black, pretty good farming country, not a lot of trees!!!!
No one has taken care of the property for years. So tons of fallen trees to cleanup. Great question though, I’ll add it to the list for the interview. Thanks
Coming together a little at a time Chris !! Ought to look better once you get to root raking and burning.....Atleast ya ain't gotta chainsaw no more !! well, may be a little from here on out. Waiting to see ya get digging on the pond !! Looking nice Man !! Have a Great Evening !! And On too the Next....
@@dennis2376 True, but I had to wear a helmet in the back of a 113 to keep from getting a concussion. I had a driver who thought he was Evel Knievel. He loved to go airborne.
Oh 1/2 million subscribers. I just noticed . CONGRATULATIONS.👍👍💞
Congratulations, that is quite the accomplishment.
The drone shot is very cool because it shows how much the trees keep moving at the top
Absolutely awesome photography. Congrats on 500k.
You maneuver those machines with finesse like they were extensions of your arms!
Impressive!!!
Clearing the trees with the excavator really brings home the point of how hard it actually was for the pioneers to clear the land for their farms.
Best comment in a long time
Growing up in the fifties, I worked with my parents and brothers to clear land with a cross cut saw, axes, Maddox and Kaiser blade. Dad finally bought a chain saw, but it probably weighed twenty-five pounds or so. Thank God those days are long gone.
You've done a great clearing the homestead lot. The excavator is a really great way to take trees down and clean up the site. Thanks for the great camera work.
Received the sticker in the mail this week. WOW, was that fast!!!!! Thanks, Chris, for getting our goodies out to us so quickly! Much appreciated! 👍😎
Man that stumper attachment really gets the dirt off the root ball's 👍 Making progress !!!
I really enjoyed the drone footage of you taking down the trees. It gives a great perspective of just how tall they are, how you manipulate & maneuver them while taking them down and what is going on digging the roots. Your concern for the neighbors and giving the customer a great end product are exemplary. Thank you for the great videos. They go great with my morning coffee.
Chris you’re the man nothing stands in your way. Thanks for sharing. Kevin
I wish everyone that lights a fire would pay attention like you on where the smoke is going. Nothing worse than having wood smoke blow in your house for hours. Great job! Looking forward to the pond build.
Where I live all the farmers used to burn the slash piles from the orchards but now they leave the slash on the ground and have a large machine come in and shred it. Once it's shredded, they till it into the ground. No more burning, which is good since we don't need any more eye irritation.
Dropping those trees, pure skill and experience.
New behind the scenes video is uploading now. Great video Chris!
amazing what can be accomplished with motivation, skill, and the proper equipment.
That's going to be a fun day of burning and thanks for the video it's really coming together
Again, that drone footage of the trees going, Timber, is awesome. I guess it's nice to do one big project. Less equipment moving.
It's great to see someone that knows how to operate a skid steer with a grapple 👌👌👌
I have to say that you do a dangerous job with such skill , it is good that you allow others to see how you approach it , and enjoyable to watch . hi from Melb Australia .
Neat drone shoots of tree tipping!! Thanks' Chris.
Cool angle from the drone watching you taking the trees down.
The nicest feeling in the world is being in the cab and there comes a much needed rain. It’s comfy lol
Love the drones view. Congrats. Love and Peace
All that dust reminds me. I cut. firewood all summer one year the dustvwas 3 and 4 inched deep in places.
Dragging tops and logs out to a clover field to cut up and split. Shoving brush into a hollow with an old Oliver tractor. I wished I had a water truck for the dust.
505K,,,great number Chris. Yea, that light hard stuff must be like the 'bathtub bottom' of your neighbors forgotten pond you cleaned up. Growing projects are called 'change orders'. Looks like you are about down to cleanup time. You have done a job making the old BG Farms look good - probably like it did in the 1950s.
It’s getting there!
You Sir are a one man logging operation!
Yeah, where's Timmy when he would need him !
Keep watching you. Interested your project, the Homestead
Chris, you have to do the drone shot anytime you are taking down trees from now on. I have taken down trees with a track hoe and watched it in person, but watching from the drone is the BEST! Great video and can’t wait to see the big fire that you will have.
I could watch this for hours. Thanks for sharing!
Good job and good video Chris! Thanks for sharing! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Looking awesome Chris, it's going to be big pile to burn.
Great improvement at the HOMESTEAD project.
I love watching you operate, especially on this video with the grapple on the skid steer. I bought a machine with one and am "decent" with it, but from watching you I pick up little "tips and tricks" on how I can do better. I am by no means an operator. My wife and I purchased 35 acres of wooded property here in north Florida that we have been clearing for our "retirement home". Our "McMansion" should be completed in a few months and once we get moved in with our current residence in the city sold we can spend our retirement years out in the woods away from the crazy people.
I really enjoyed the drone footage,nice video as always,keep doing what your doing 😎😎😎👍👍👍
Had no idea that this little job would turn out to be so big and time consuming, a lot of work !!!
Me either 🤣
Great camera shots with the drone Chris, 👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧👌 thanks for the video 👍
Love the drone shots, the stump is always interesting. :) That is a lot of work clearing the land and now only the pond left. :( :) That one tree stump was to close.
Another great video Chris the way you drop those tree's very impressive love whatching you work those machines 👍
Chris, congrats on 500K. I'm fairly new here and just wondered where you were from and if you were married or had any kids. Would love to see a video of you and your life and how you got started and so on. Thanks for the videos, wouldn't miss any of them.
Keep the questions coming. I’m doing an interview with Chris at the end. Can’t promise he’ll answer them all, but you never know 😁.
"I felt like these right here were just goin' to piss me off later on." best one liner ever!
It is so pretty up in there with all the trees around it’s so beautiful up there to be in the Carolina ‘s which I’ve never been to or seen and I’m not getting any younger but I’m planning on going to the smokies in July
Oops I missed this video Chris of you digging up the sweet gum trees and it fascinates me how you dig up the roots and just yank the tree right up out of the ground
Just realized the Gum trees as you call them we call them Eucalyptus trees or Euc’s. Farmers planted them as wind breaks. Several cars try to move them and they just stand there.
Eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus spp.) are often referred to as gum trees, and most eucalyptus species have common names ending in “gum.” There are several other trees, however, that are also referred to as gums, which are not related to the genus Eucalyptus.
Please keep these awesome videos coming! Enjoy watching you work. Always impressed.
I appreciate the quality music. Not sure who it is but it’s sorta like a soft version of the Outlaws. Good stuff.
i seen it rain sideways i heard of it raining frogs ,, never seen it rain tree stumps ,,, great video ..
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Love the ariel footage it puts on a different perspective that shows more detail to the task that you are doing ..ps like the music too
Definitely some hard ground to stop that machine pulling up those little trees. That digging claw-is just what you need on a hard ground. 👍☕️🍩
Chris I have been watching your videos since the beginning of the Pandemic around March 2020. Ii's has become part of my daily zen-relax time every morning. I've gone back and watched just about every video you've ever made. I just wanted to let you know how much it is appreciated. I've come to learn quite a lot about excavators, pond building, proper dam building with clay and how much you 'love' snakes 😆 from watching your videos. By the way, if you auction anymore bucket teeth to raise money for your sister's classroom let us know. Thanks again.
Good evening from Wales! 🏴
Your a very hard worker and its so nice to see someone take pride in what they do. Another from Wales UK 🏴
Looks great Chris 🇺🇲 another great job well done 🇺🇲
Great Video and thanks for sharing! Stay Safe!
On the top of the excavator just behind the glass pane is a perfect place for one of the large LD18 logos.
Thought you were going to land that 2nd tree from the drone across the others. Then I saw you starting to swing it around the 220. Good job....
it's a good day when LD18 and paydirt videos follow each other. Coming along well bro. Safe travels
Chris just hang on I'm in North Texas and from what I'm seeing rain and cooler temperatures are on the way my friend.
Thanks for sharing video.
I am a huge fan of burning lol... but here in Holland it's extremely hot and dusty too.... so I know it must be raining a bit for burning piles lol :)
People tend to not realize how strong a tree root system is.
I've had a 6" diameter locust stump stop a D4 in its tracks.
Like the Time-Lapse portions.
Way to go Chris I never get tired of watching that equipment roll it feels a very important void in my life since I retired
Just like pulling teeth when you ripped out those trees. I had 4 wisdom teeth pulled out last Monday lol. Thanks for the good videos Chris.
With all that sorting I see why you brought the skid steer. Good idea there. That made quick work of that task.
HELLO from las Vegas Nevada, is good to start lunch and have a new video, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
Nice backspin off them tree stumps! Olympic sport in the making.
Great 👍 job 👌
I hope yall get more rain , it's a big improvement so far LOADS of brush
Everything is looking nice!!👍👍
I hope your farm, cow’s and Winston are doing well Chris, haven’t seen them in a while! I bet your calves are growing and multiply! lol I hope you still take Winston for breakfast every once in a while too! lol 👍🏻
Love the video, and when you do a fire, I love the smell of a wood smell smoke
Thanks for the drone footage bonus Chris!
Logger Chris... good video.. again. tks
Man, That Drone is stable in flight!!!
I like the drone videos
It's great to see the trees taken as logs, it's just too bad that the economics don't always work out to make it worthwhile!
Hi Chris.
Great to watch your TH-cam channel.
This Q you have probably been asked many many times.
I know you send trees 🌳 to the mill for pulping and lumber, but how much of what you fell can be used as house heating. ie, are there any types of trees which can not be use for this??
If and when I come over the pond from London UK, I'd love to work a site with you for a few days.......NO charge.👍😎
I’ll add this question to the list for the interview. Thanks!
@@BealyGood
Hi BGF.
I saw your vid from the homestead with Chris. The explanation of what trees had been taken down and what type they were.. Basically, I'm asking if Gumtree can be used in a house or does it have too much Gum to be safe in an open fire 🔥 ??
Hope all goes your way with the rest if the build. Good Luck.
David
@@davegeorge5140 good question. Added to the list. Thanks!
Nice job 👍
The stumper really earns its keep in that hard ground.
You need two things on that site, Logging trucks and fires. It is getting a lot more open.
They make paper out of pulp wood folks. Chris doing his part making sure we can wipe our butts each morning.
Does the high price of lumber make more sense for you to save more wood than before?
No. Sawn wood is high but timber prices are at an all time low. The mills have a massive backlog 🤣 so that’s the supposed reason for the high lumber prices. One of the mills here is doing a 20 million expansion. I’m sure it’s like that everywhere.
Great Video.house Lot is comming along nicely. Stupid wind blowing in the wrong direction for a fire i was hoping for.lots of trees To be cleared there man lol.stay safe 😀i liked the drone footage clearing trees.awesome.
Some of the others would have knocked themselves in the head with those branches using that skid steer contraption! Go git em Chris!
Glad it’s dry for you.
Not too dry here.
Love the drone perspective. Of course it wouldn’t make sense not having seen all the video footage down ground level from inside your cab, and all the shots from the ground tripod. It all works together pretty niftily. Nifty? Did I make up niftily? Is that a word. Okay I’ll shut up.
great job buddy and great video as always 😎👊🏻👍🏻
Looking good
That's when you need that Volvo 950!
I never heard of Gum trees but I am not from the South, from North Dakota, are Gum trees good lumber or are they trash trees?
btw the eastern 3/4s of N.D. the soil is black, pretty good farming country, not a lot of trees!!!!
Good for pallets. Chris does an informative discussion about the various trees in a video on my channel.
Wish I would have had you when I had my underground utility company. You are a artist on the machine. Bet you could roll an egg.
Do the homeowners ever want at least the trunks for firewood?
No one has taken care of the property for years. So tons of fallen trees to cleanup. Great question though, I’ll add it to the list for the interview. Thanks
you should do a video on how to price a job
I am going to ask that in the upcoming interview
"...these were just gonna piss me off later on..." HAHAHA Love it man! lol
Coming together a little at a time Chris !! Ought to look better once you get to root raking and burning.....Atleast ya ain't gotta chainsaw no more !! well, may be a little from here on out. Waiting to see ya get digging on the pond !! Looking nice Man !! Have a Great Evening !! And On too the Next....
Good timing for a lunch break!
I'm taking an early breakfast for this one
Nice job man and love the camera shots with the drone .
I reckon you could use another Timmy 👍 another excellent vid, thanks Chris 👍
Riding in that thing looks like riding in an APC back when I was in the army. It felt like being in a constant car wreck.
And that would be why heavy equipment operators are my chiropractor’s best customers!
Duce and halves where just as bad. :)
@@dennis2376 True, but I had to wear a helmet in the back of a 113 to keep from getting a concussion. I had a driver who thought he was Evel Knievel. He loved to go airborne.
It’s like watching the desolation of Smaug.