Excavation Dirt Work and then I Totally Accidentally Started a Forest Fire | Excavation Week 2 of 4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- #comettroy takes the viewer along for his first hand experience of excavator dirt work after the actual land clearing excavation with heavy equipment (Hitachi Zaxis 200LC track hoe and John Deere bulldozer) shown previously in Week 1 of 4. "Dirt work" is a excavation industry term for moving earth from one location to another. Watch the transformation of Linden Camp, a future RV park and barndo 5 minutes southeast of Linden, TN. The heavy machinery may be doing all of the heavy lifting, but Comet Troy is the man with the vision and aspirations to make a computer sketch become a reality. This week will be mainly focused on the dirt work but ends with a wild chain of events for Comet Troy including a forest fire, a new battle scar on the RV and a spooktackular Pagen Witchery tree! You won't want to miss this!
Excavation 4 week Mini Series
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Week 1 - Land Clearing: • How to Clear Land Fast...
Week 1.5 - Bonus - Pro and Cons of 7 Land Clearing Methods: • 7 Land Clearing Method...
Week 2 - Excavation/Dirt Work: This video!
Week 3 - Finish Grading/Build Site Development: • Find Out How Much Exca...
Week 4 - No Burn Land Clearing & Rustic Hollers Camp site: • Avoid these Septic Cle...
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* Disclaimer: Comet Troy is not an attorney, not a CPA, not a tax guy and not a relator in the State of Tennessee. Although he is a real estate broker in Wisconsin, that doesn't apply to Tennessee where he is just a regular Joe and a new Tennessee land owner sharing his life experiences. The information presented in this video is his opinion and must not be accepted as fact without doing your own due diligence and research. ie. He isn't responsible for any bad decisions made after watching the information presented in this video. Consult your own legal, financial, tax and real estate professionals before making decisions that could have a substantial impact on your future. You've been warned!
This video is one of many in a multi-part series on how to build a RV park and Bardominium. Follow Comet Troy as he faces the trial and tribulations on how to build a RV park and barndominium amongst the vast hardwoods and transplanted LobLolly pines of Middle Tennessee.
Contents
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00:00 Introduction
00:21 What to expect in today's video
01:19 Contractor Day 3, Monday, April 11, 2022
02:40 Today's objective and moving the chert
03:55 Comet Troy discusses the build site plans
04:43 Checking in on the progress of the build
05:23 Uhoh, we've got a track hoe mechanical breakdown!
05:54 Mother nature has other plans and brings rain
06:19 Contractors returning to work after the rain storm
06:48 Contractor Day 4, Tuesday, April 12, 2022
07:25 A quick lesson on what chert is and its uses in construction
9:00 Bulldozer spreading chert & trucking in more since we ran out
9:42 Building turnaround area for big rig RVs
10:33 Recapping progress made on day 4
10:45 Comet Troy's eventful, destructive evening
12:15 Taking the very first lap on the NEW driveway!
14:43 It is time to move the RV onto the new driveway
15:14 Relocating the RV gone wrong - backing into a tree!
16:09 Building Linden Camp's very first campfire pit!
18:44 Fire escapes pit and the forest catches on fire!!
20:31 The odd looking Pagan Witchery Tree
22:47 Coming up in week three
23:00 Like, comment, subscribe!
MORE ABOUT
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#CometTroy has been full-time RV'ing since 2016 in his 2007 40' DP (diesel pusher) Class A RV with his primary partner Panelopie, a Black Lab mix.
#CometTroy bought 56 acres (a 35 acre and a 21 acre lots) of raw undeveloped Middle Tennessee Woodlands in Oct 2021 from Tennessee Land and Lakes RV. In the fall of 2021, he stayed in a nearby campground to sleep at night and planned improvements on the land during the day. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
This is one of my favorites so far. Great job on it. It's exciting to see the progress being made and now I really see it instead of trying to visualize it . Love it ❤️
Our subscribers have been asking for these excavation videos. We are glad they are finally coming to fruition! Thank you for your support!
We had no idea that it takes that long to create a video. We truly appreciate all that you go through to share your experiences with us!
We just started this channel in April 2022 and began very unorganized. There was no video plan and we just recorded EVERYTHING!
Fast forward to August, we came up with a video plan for excavation, sorted through all our video and then had to record new content to fit the plan. Then it all needs to be edited (removing uh, ah's, redundancy, etc) and stitched together. Rendered (Produced) into a single video. Reviewed. Uploaded to TH-cam. Fill out on the TH-cam fields/links. Whew, it is a lot of work!
I think we've got better through this learning experience and have more "intention" now and going forward. We just need to get through these darn excavation videos first! HaHa
NEVER LEAVE A FIRE UNATTENDED. Other than that, excited to see the progress of the site.
That is very true and great advice! #comettroy has been building fires successfully for decades without incident. In this case, he believes he let his guard down under the false sense of security created by placing the rocks to build the firepit that day. The false sense of security came from "I've had fires out here without a pit at all and didn't have an issue. Now that I have rocks organized in a containment ring, I've got an extra level of protection and have lowered my risk."
A very interesting video that got my heart pumping! My A-Fib almost kicked in -- especially when I saw that Witchery Tree! When you said it was the most stressful day you've had there so far, I can see why. But it's very interesting to see all the progress being made. It's really starting to take shape. Excellent job with this video! Like how you explained chert.
Lookin good neighbor! Trees of heavy almost pushed over my garage in Ohio years ago... nasty fast growing messy messy
We are on our way to Linden Camp and have gallons of Triclopyr 3 and 4 with us to battle those pesky invasive plants & trees! Stay tuned to see some videos on this topic and how well it works.
Great progress, so exciting to see! Very sorry about the motorhome damage! I thought I'd die when I saw the fire jump! Keep a shovel and a big bucket of dirt or sand near your fire ring. Hubby suggests keeping an Indian Pump (pressurized backpack pump) as well. See you next video!
We'd like to put 55 gal drums or a 300 gal container up on an 8' stand to catch rain water near campfire pits that don't have a water spigot nearby. Then use as an outdoor shower and also as a fire safety measure. We'll have to check into an Indian Pump as well!
@@RvParkBuilder great ideas.. especially love a nice outdoor shower in the woods!!
I guess we were a larger grading and excavation company than you're dealing with. If there was to be any burning, we put a 1200 gallon hydroseeder full of water on the site. We also disposed of the wastes instead of leaving it to the site boss. Good luck with your development.
You have to understand how rural Perry County is to put things in perspective. Swarey Excavating is the Dad and his three sons... their operation is on the larger side in the immediate area!
FYI, we requested they leave the larger logs for us to cut up into firewood. Otherwise, they would have gladly addressed and disposed of them.
I had cut down a small tree like the Witchery tree last week. I had never seen anything like it. We live on TN-KY state line north of Nashville. Probably similar plant life to Linden.
It looks like we have at least two invasive species (Tree of Heaven and another with giant leaves) on Linden Camp that are native to China. The witchery tree may have been a full grown adult version of one of those. We will do more investigation this fall when back on site and have some future video ideas. Additionally, we have found some sources and clues indicating our loblolly pines planted by wood harvesting companies may be GMO. Stay tuned!
There was a giant leaf plant 2 ft high near the witchery that I also cut down. Our land has hardwoods(tulip poplar, oak, hickory, ash, walnut) in the hollers and had been pasture and replanted pines on the ridges before it was subdivided into .5 to 2 acre lots around a Army Corps of Engineers lake.
If it's the same giant leaf tree (looks like a plant when small) we have, it's probably called a "Princess Tree". This may be witchery tree in it's infancy. We just love the names of these invasive plants/trees..... "Tree of Heaven" and "Princess Tree"! Who wouldn't want them growing on their land? LOL
BTW, cutting them down is NOT what you want to do! The sprawling roots will detect the decapitation of the tree and will shoot up a bunch of root suckers in it's place for survival. From the research we've gathered so far, those invasive plants/trees need to be slowly poisoned over a 2 year period by breaching the bark with a hatchet and applying the chemical to the wound. The tree won't know any better. The chemical is also applied to the root suckers and no need to cut a slit if they are small. Good Luck!
I want to hear more about the GMO tree situation!!
@@HeadWestOn90 We are planning a video for that! If we get more interest, we may produce that video sooner than later.
How many dangerous snakes 🐍 you witnessed in Linden? Anyone? 👀
We've heard there are copperheads and rattle snakes in middle Tennessee. However, we have not seen any on our lot. If they are here, they probably hear us coming and slither away in the opposite direction!
@@RvParkBuilder haha 😂! Well I’m your neighbor at lot 191. Gabi, the realtor show your lot yesterday. Awesome 😎 job my dude.
Im am interested in land in that area. Can you tell me how to check on what tracks are available?
When you drive through the area, each lot will have a yard sign displaying a lot number. Once it is sold, the yard sign is flipped around and it will say "SOLD". When #comettroy drove around in November 2021, that's what he did.... Looked for yard signs.