I can only imagine the shear determination the early settlers needed to do what was just done without the heavy machinery and just their 2 hands and backs🥵😯🤦🏻♂️
We've been saying the same - it's insane, right?! Especially because since this video was filmed, they've brought some *really* big machines on site to deal with some of the rock we've encountered. Then you look across at the old stone wall next to it or the ruins of the sugar house and it puts into perspective just how much work it was for them to build!
If you don't mind answering financial questions, could you please share how you purchased the land and are paying for the ongoing construction? And thanks for the videos! My wife and I enjoy watching your journey and dream of pursuing a similar project someday soon.
Ball park what was the cost of the 200 stump removal and carting them away? How big of an area would you say it was in feet? Thanks in advance. Heading up there soon.
It was one day's work for the excavator and covered about an acre. That cost about ~$1000 for the excavator time. We carted away all the stumps ourselves into the forest so $ for tractor diesel and lots of sweat :)
@@AdventurousWay I figured in the tractor for lots of things and already have a trailer. So that is a pretty reasonable price goes by the day good to know.. Guess it would have been more if the trees were attached to the stumps:) Just trying to get ball park numbers. Thanks.
You could push all of the stumps into a circle, take a 5-gallon container of diesel and cover the pile of stumps with it. Then add 2-3 gallons of gas. Get out of the way before lighting it up. I would make a small trail of gasoline to the wood pile so you have plenty of time to get out of the way. Make sure you get a burn permit as well so they can alert the local fire department, wildlife/fisheries department and police department about the burn going on. Much much quick economical solution.
How much would a company charge for 200 stumps??, I recently got a customer who needs roughly 200 stumps removed from his fence line, I am only used to doing 3 or 4 stumps at a time and my way of quoting would take all day, let alone grinding all those stumps, this will surely put me and my machine to the test
We only have seen contractors charging by the machine time how long it takes them to do it, not by number of stumps. Our trees were mostly spruce with shallow roots so it was pretty quick. We moved the stumps into the forest ourselves with a tractor into a big pile to save time on grinding them.
I grew up in western Washington state. Out there I think these stumps would have been piled up and burned in a “stump pile”. Might take several days to burn though. Seems like the stump removal would have been easier for the excavator operator if he had one of those hydraulic “thumbs” on it.
Burning isn't uncommon around here either, but we preferred not to. A stump pile, especially with greens stumps like ours, can take weeks to fully burn and monitoring that the entire time didn't seem like a lot of fun. Instead, we preferred to leave them to Mother Nature to deal with - better for the environment too! I'm sure a thumb would have made life easier for the excavator operator but he seemed to get it done pretty quickly anyway!
Coming from California with it's wild fires, honestly, I'm a bit scared of making big fires :D It seems much simpler and faster to pile them in a pile in the forest instead of tending to a smoldering fire for a few weeks. -Diana
You guys are killing it! Can’t wait to see when you start putting in the home and the observatory 😁
I can only imagine the shear determination the early settlers needed to do what was just done without the heavy machinery and just their 2 hands and backs🥵😯🤦🏻♂️
We've been saying the same - it's insane, right?! Especially because since this video was filmed, they've brought some *really* big machines on site to deal with some of the rock we've encountered. Then you look across at the old stone wall next to it or the ruins of the sugar house and it puts into perspective just how much work it was for them to build!
Look to the Amish, they build a barn in a single day. The key is the have a large community that all works together.
just drove past u guys my dads a big fan
Must be nice to have a good woman who helps. Very rare
Looking good. I was just wondering how you cats were getting on.👍🏻
If you don't mind answering financial questions, could you please share how you purchased the land and are paying for the ongoing construction?
And thanks for the videos! My wife and I enjoy watching your journey and dream of pursuing a similar project someday soon.
Ball park what was the cost of the 200 stump removal and carting them away? How big of an area would you say it was in feet? Thanks in advance. Heading up there soon.
It was one day's work for the excavator and covered about an acre. That cost about ~$1000 for the excavator time. We carted away all the stumps ourselves into the forest so $ for tractor diesel and lots of sweat :)
@@AdventurousWay I figured in the tractor for lots of things and already have a trailer. So that is a pretty reasonable price goes by the day good to know.. Guess it would have been more if the trees were attached to the stumps:) Just trying to get ball park numbers. Thanks.
How much did the excavator expend to do this job?
It took about a day. Not a big job at all.
You could push all of the stumps into a circle, take a 5-gallon container of diesel and cover the pile of stumps with it. Then add 2-3 gallons of gas. Get out of the way before lighting it up. I would make a small trail of gasoline to the wood pile so you have plenty of time to get out of the way. Make sure you get a burn permit as well so they can alert the local fire department, wildlife/fisheries department and police department about the burn going on.
Much much quick economical solution.
You could do that if you wanted to. We preferred not to burn them so moving them into the forest was a better option for us.
How much would a company charge for 200 stumps??, I recently got a customer who needs roughly 200 stumps removed from his fence line, I am only used to doing 3 or 4 stumps at a time and my way of quoting would take all day, let alone grinding all those stumps, this will surely put me and my machine to the test
We only have seen contractors charging by the machine time how long it takes them to do it, not by number of stumps. Our trees were mostly spruce with shallow roots so it was pretty quick. We moved the stumps into the forest ourselves with a tractor into a big pile to save time on grinding them.
I grew up in western Washington state. Out there I think these stumps would have been piled up and burned in a “stump pile”. Might take several days to burn though.
Seems like the stump removal would have been easier for the excavator operator if he had one of those hydraulic “thumbs” on it.
Burning isn't uncommon around here either, but we preferred not to. A stump pile, especially with greens stumps like ours, can take weeks to fully burn and monitoring that the entire time didn't seem like a lot of fun. Instead, we preferred to leave them to Mother Nature to deal with - better for the environment too!
I'm sure a thumb would have made life easier for the excavator operator but he seemed to get it done pretty quickly anyway!
Just curious is the wife the only one that runs the tractor?
No, we both operate the tractor - it really just depends on the nature of the job as to who does what.
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Watch letsdig18 on TH-cam he does those types of works all the time light it on fire and what remains bury it in the ground
Coming from California with it's wild fires, honestly, I'm a bit scared of making big fires :D It seems much simpler and faster to pile them in a pile in the forest instead of tending to a smoldering fire for a few weeks. -Diana