Hey All, I know a lot of you have missed the riding clips as of recently. I've started a channel primarily short riding clips. I could use some subscribers to help jumpstart it! th-cam.com/channels/CFkehBNVnPA8g7KBx9ENIA.html
8:45 Most birds of prey (well, most birds) absolutely loooveee baths!! There is a rescue center for birds of prey in Alberta, and the visitors get to take a hose and spray mist on the birds being displayed. they just love it haha!
Phil, I've been getting back into mountain biking really over the past year, and watching each of your videos is seriously a blast. They usually make me get pretty pumped up and ready to run out and hit some new trails, but this one just makes me jealous 🤣 Keep up the good work and thanks for being an inspiration to the community to get out there and rip it up on a bike!
This is one of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam all year. Not just biking vids either. The pacing, story telling, diagrams, etc. At no point did i want to fast-forward. Great content man!
She's always been a hard worker. She was the only girl that worked on her towns tree farm growing up amongst all the guys. This isnt her full time job. She works doing cancer research :)
I love this. I’ve been building bike trails on my family’s 500 acre mountain property in western NC, but with no excavator. Luckily the old logging roads and livestock trails offer a head start, even eroded and overgrown. The stream crossing rock work is my favorite thing to do. Better than shoveling
Greetings from a fellow Vermonter and mountain biker, Phil! I thought you lived in Canada. Nice to know we have talent like yours in these green mountains.
Great work man! This is going to be a great series of videos. Look at those rocks you dug up doing that dirt jump line too! Definitely going to come in handy.
Bro your instagram clips lately have been awesome. I love waking up and seeing your pov footage, gets me hyped to ride my trails! We did drops and chutes the other day and it was cool to see you hit it as well!
Kudos for wearing proper PPE while using a chainsaw. As a Forester, ive seen plenty of nasty injuries from chainsaws from folks who thought it wasn't necessary
Nice Gator! It was great to hear you say that the Gator also "fit your budget". So often, TH-cam content doesn't seem to take budget into account, leaving one with the impression that they need brand new $15k machinery to succeed and, frankly, not everyone has $10k for one thing, $3k for another, etc. Sometimes you gotta look for the deals and make do with what you can find.
im so impressed how you have done so much on the trail like a civil engineer and just all your insights and knowledges along the way, and how you troubleshoot the gator and able to fixed it as well as the track for the excavator, i would not have known what to do if there wasn't someone who knows how to fix them to show me. how do you figured all that out by yourself? you must just have a brilliant mind, or did you have helps? or searched online for answers?
Which trail system would yall rather ride? A. Skill with Phil B. Seth's Bike Hacks C. Backyard trail builds I'm thinking C is more my actual level, A is my aspiration, an B is just crazy sketch for no particularly good reason.
I learned to know better than to judge the jumps on camera versus what they actually look like and feel like in person lol. Everything looks awesome but I will definitely chicken out on all of the features lol
It's very nice to have a place to quickly get a ride in when you don't have much time or need to test something out on your bike to see if it's working right.
@@SkillsWithPhil I recently moved from Socal to Northwest Arkansas (can you blame me?). We now have 6 acres compared to 6000 sq ft of land. I have a small subcompact tractor and a zero-turn Bad Boy mower. I want all the excavating/moving "land toys"! I'm a little jealous that you have a forest to play with as my land is mostly cleared save for a few trees. Thanks for sharing your progress! I appreciate the work involved.
Hey All, I know a lot of you have missed the riding clips as of recently. I've started a channel primarily short riding clips. I could use some subscribers to help jumpstart it! th-cam.com/channels/CFkehBNVnPA8g7KBx9ENIA.html
THUMBS DOWN
Dang this is "Skills with Phil" to another level! The trail building, lumberjacking, mechanic, mountain biker showing us how it's done!
"I'm a lumberjack, and I'm ok. I sleep all night and I work all day!"
You said it!
and professional owl watcher
I also have to film and edit these videos. I honestly don't know how to answer the question "so what do you do for work?".
@@SkillsWithPhil All of it.
8:45 Most birds of prey (well, most birds) absolutely loooveee baths!! There is a rescue center for birds of prey in Alberta, and the visitors get to take a hose and spray mist on the birds being displayed. they just love it haha!
The map of the property was really useful!
Hope to see you at Highlands this season!
Same
Phil, I've been getting back into mountain biking really over the past year, and watching each of your videos is seriously a blast. They usually make me get pretty pumped up and ready to run out and hit some new trails, but this one just makes me jealous 🤣
Keep up the good work and thanks for being an inspiration to the community to get out there and rip it up on a bike!
This is one of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam all year. Not just biking vids either. The pacing, story telling, diagrams, etc. At no point did i want to fast-forward.
Great content man!
Phil just seems like a wholesome guy. The way he explained the theory of his tree clearing and creating sun for the little fellows was pretty cool.
same vibe i get
Ive never seen an owl take a bath! Trail is looking awesome Phil keep it up!
Love these build videos!
3:40 He is completely correct. I am a downhill coach in Mid Vt and we didn't open until last weekend.
The weather seems to have been completely messed up all over the world this spring 😂 good job though 👍
This is pretty typical New England weather :)
@@SkillsWithPhil Here in Finland, the spring weather has been absurd 🙈
@@SkillsWithPhil im from MA ..but live in asheville now but where you live..vt
10:34 Andrew Camarata would be proud
He's one of the reasons why I knew what to do when it happened. Ranks in my personal top 5 favorite channels on TH-cam.
Came here for MTB trail tutorial. Subscribed because of MAD RESPECT for the lumberjack and engineering skills on display.
This video for some reason never gets old. I keep watching it constantly and it brings me inspiration to make my own trails.
Love the graphics. Very good job with the trail map illustrations.
Owl Bath was the best part. Totally agree, most adorable thing!
Haylee busting ass to help out is awesome! Props to her!
She's always been a hard worker. She was the only girl that worked on her towns tree farm growing up amongst all the guys. This isnt her full time job. She works doing cancer research :)
I love this. I’ve been building bike trails on my family’s 500 acre mountain property in western NC, but with no excavator. Luckily the old logging roads and livestock trails offer a head start, even eroded and overgrown. The stream crossing rock work is my favorite thing to do. Better than shoveling
that 6x4 is gonna be awesome for roll packing features too.
Really cool phil! I love the biking/trail building community so much! Cheers to all the riders and builders out there!
Your property is awesome. Great job on the trails! I'm jealous
Phil, your water resource and general sustainability knowledge is very well appreciated!
Greetings from a fellow Vermonter and mountain biker, Phil! I thought you lived in Canada. Nice to know we have talent like yours in these green mountains.
That's cool - wish we had a huge property to do that with! The possibilities are endless. Good work, mate!
You and Seth constantly one uping the features and equipment. Trails getting more dailed in by the day. Great work.
You're winning in life Phil. Nice work.
Great work man! This is going to be a great series of videos. Look at those rocks you dug up doing that dirt jump line too! Definitely going to come in handy.
Loved the tib bit about forestry and growing trees! Thanks Phil!
Wow, this is cool! I didnt expect your property to fit even more trails, but its awesome that it is that way!
Bro your instagram clips lately have been awesome. I love waking up and seeing your pov footage, gets me hyped to ride my trails! We did drops and chutes the other day and it was cool to see you hit it as well!
Super cool dude! Love that you did everything all by yourselves and learning how to do it along the way. Great footage of the owl!!
Loved the bathing owl. Good job guys! Love to watch you having fun!!
Love your trail building videos Phil! So good and such a sick rider!
Thanks for the upload Phil.
So glad to see your videos coming out again!!
That gator brings me back to my days working at golf courses.
Great update love the way your managing the property keep it up! Also really enjoyed that owl footage how cool!
Looking great out there Phil!! Great job brotha
Trail is looking great!
Production of these videos is really good! Keep up the good work Phil!
Kudos for wearing proper PPE while using a chainsaw. As a Forester, ive seen plenty of nasty injuries from chainsaws from folks who thought it wasn't necessary
How did you become a forester???
@@br9760 went and got my BS in forest management and went to work.
Man I love these videos! Keep 'em coming
This video is awesome! Haven't watched any of your content in a while. Congrats on your sweet piece of land!
I can't even describe how jealous of you I am having that kind of land to work with. It's looking so awesome, Phil!
Love the neon lumberjack chaps Phil! Awesome video
Well done!! Really coming together.
Little frame of reference for how brutal Vt mtb is Killington Mountain closed skiing May 16th and two years ago their last day of skiing was June 14th
there trails are open for biking yippeee
Great work on the trail, but the Owls stole the show!!!!
Love the owl footage. :)
Nice Gator! It was great to hear you say that the Gator also "fit your budget". So often, TH-cam content doesn't seem to take budget into account, leaving one with the impression that they need brand new $15k machinery to succeed and, frankly, not everyone has $10k for one thing, $3k for another, etc. Sometimes you gotta look for the deals and make do with what you can find.
Dude, you Are a craftsman!
Ha, I like the sound of that. Thanks for watching :)
Please upload more often you are my favorite mtb TH-camr
Awesome video dude! Love seeing the progress!
Man thats a lot of work!!! Awesome job!!! Rock on with he owl!!! too cool! New trail name OWL.....
I love that you wear appropriate safety equipment running that chainsaw. Glad to see safety taken seriously.
I love this kind of Video
im so impressed how you have done so much on the trail like a civil engineer and just all your insights and knowledges along the way, and how you troubleshoot the gator and able to fixed it as well as the track for the excavator, i would not have known what to do if there wasn't someone who knows how to fix them to show me. how do you figured all that out by yourself? you must just have a brilliant mind, or did you have helps? or searched online for answers?
really inspiring, thank you for all the effort you put into these videos.
Well done guys!
Love the map and the animations!!
Cool Phil, great to see the progress, you’re going to be a master mechanic as well as a trail builder
love me some Gary Larson! #thefarside
Phil, the man with a plan !!
Great stuff SWP!! Love the owl footage almost as much as the trail system
Which trail system would yall rather ride?
A. Skill with Phil
B. Seth's Bike Hacks
C. Backyard trail builds
I'm thinking C is more my actual level, A is my aspiration, an B is just crazy sketch for no particularly good reason.
A is really sick
Looks awesome dude. Waited so long for this video
I love the owl intermission! 😊
Great video Phil!! Love me some VT snow
Nice dude! I really like the longer vids! mostly because i don't watch tv anymore an mostly watch TH-cam or a podcast on Spotify
Love it!!! Phil vids are so great!
I remember you riding biggie smalls at sunset ranch. you shredded that line with Ian. still looking good Phil!
Wait Chris, did you have a line called biggie smalls there too?!
@@SkillsWithPhil yea you rode it all day with Ian and I
Good work! Makes me want to get out back and get building!
Always awesome videos Phil...thank you!
The owl swimming was so cute
that UTV is sick
Sweet! Love the content! Can’t wait to see more of your trails take shape!
Sick Phil! Way to take on those challenges! Haters gonna hate lol
That’s so cool and crazy that you have snow in the winter I live on the east coast of Canada and we have warm and dry weather all the time
Love that you put the owl footage in! Unexpected and very cool.
Love your piece of paradise
Yes!! 👍👍👍 Great video - worth the wait!
Next time you pop a track you can use your bucket to help get it back on by giving it a friendly push
I tried that first for a solid 20 minutes. Maybe a better operator would have more luck but i wasn't able to get it to retrack.
100% Does what it says on the tin. Skills indeed with and by Phil. Superb 💪✊
I learned to know better than to judge the jumps on camera versus what they actually look like and feel like in person lol. Everything looks awesome but I will definitely chicken out on all of the features lol
Missing Vermont a lot. Cant wait!
so pumped. you going to highland anytime soon!!!?????
Excited for the dirt jumps!
Really loved the footage of the bathing owl! :D
THIS MADE ME MISS BUILDING SNOW SUMMITS BIKE PARK
I absolutely love your vids man
Love the vids Phil, keep up the great work.
Great video. It is great to watch the progress. Must be fun to ride ?
It's very nice to have a place to quickly get a ride in when you don't have much time or need to test something out on your bike to see if it's working right.
Living the dream, man!
That John Deer Gator is awesome.
It's way too cool. I'd seen these 6x4s growing up but didn't think much of them until i looked into them more.
@@SkillsWithPhil I recently moved from Socal to Northwest Arkansas (can you blame me?). We now have 6 acres compared to 6000 sq ft of land. I have a small subcompact tractor and a zero-turn Bad Boy mower. I want all the excavating/moving "land toys"! I'm a little jealous that you have a forest to play with as my land is mostly cleared save for a few trees. Thanks for sharing your progress! I appreciate the work involved.
You deserve a million subs
Looking at this video makes me wanna build my own trail!!
Great map Phil! Sick video as always!
dude! looks like a lot of work, but well worth it!
This was already a cool video, but that clip of the owl took it to another level!