Removing stumps for our leach field isn't that easy on our Alaska Homestead
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- We have to remove some stumps to install our leach field for our gray water. Living in southeast Alaska removing stumps can be difficult sometimes. A lot of times trees roots grow together making one big root ball but if we want to have a functional leach field on our Alaskan Homestead we have to get them out of the way. We used the Stihl MS291 and the Kioti CK3510 Tractor to get these stumps removed.
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The diligence to make your space a home & carve out all that you need... so much respect♥️
Thank you Sheila.
So happy to support you..!!
The view from your beach is breathtaking
We love it
Here’s an early Happy Birthday Wish to my first born. 51 years old on this Wednesday!❤️❤️❤️
Happy Birthday to meeee😝
@@AnAlaskaHomestead oh my happy early birthday! Hope you have a rockin party planned!
Thanks Susan. A chicken party, with Gunner🐶 😂
Happy birthday 🎉🎈🎂
Old man...😂😂
So cool to have all that ocean activity in your front yard. Lots accomplished in this video.👊
Thanks Ron. The chickens want to be outside all the time now. 🥴 one escaped yesterday I had to put her back in the run. Lol
You are truly Blessed! What a Beautiful
Place!
Thanks Matt
Awesome video, hard work, beautiful views and nature at it's best. God bless.
Thanks
love your channel and love both of you , your place is beautiful so glad i found your channel , love your alls laughter
Thank you Connie. Glad to have you here.
I recently started following your channel, what a incredible view you have!!
Thanks James
My God, how many things we take for granted and never give it a thought and you have to work hard to get it! Bravo for your diligence and ingenuity!
I missed this one... now I see how you messed up your tractor cylinder. Damn! Well at least you got er' fixed! Great vid buddy... enjoy your Sunday!
Thanks TSP. We got some big ones. You have a great week.
Another great episode,Thankyou Brian .
Thank you Robert. Have a great week.
Happy Birthday ! Thanks for sharing the whales. Sometimes they come up the cook inlet but I've yet to see them.
Thank you.
It does t matter if your first time seeing them or you 5817 time, it’s always exciting.
Chickens get to play..❤️ love the garden..😊
Never a dull moment.
Ha no, never
I really enjoy your conversations. You live in a beautiful place. Thanks.
Thank you John
Ghetto Gutters 😄 I like the sky to water the plants whenever possible too. That’s one reason to be happy about it raining during the summer because otherwise I’d be cursing the weather. Those were some gnarly stumps to get out. Good work and hope that tractor can get his broken arm fixed soon.
Sky to garden is the best.😂. I hope we can get it fixed sooner than later. I need to dig a trench for some electric cables soon.
That stump was huge! Bet your glad it's out now. Love the ghetto gutter fix...it works!
😂thanks Jewels
I live in the mountains in North West Montana. But every time I see one of your videos it is like Wow !! What an awesome sight to see in your every day of living on this earth. Great video... till the next one
My friend has a small hobby farm in Montana. I’m hoping to go down and see it some day. Have a great week.
Yes! Go and seal the bottom of walls of the green house. It will keep the heat in after that.
Thanks
Great video. Those stumps
can be tough to deal with.
I seen the birthday wishes.
Hope you have HAPPY
BIRTHDAY BRIAN.
Thank you Kerry
You are one of a rare breed, young fella. Working from can see to can't see is unusual. Well done. Mind you, it wont get done otherwise, right ???
Thank you sir👍
Love watching!! Thank you! And Happy Birthday!!
Thank you
Each struggle a step to success
Ouch cylinder
True
What a view!
Another great video. There's a lot of work involved in the way y'all are living but I think you are fortunate to have the opportunity to do it. Hope your birthday went well!
You guys are inspiring. I hope to fulfill my dream of an off grid remote island life in SE Alaska. It is a lot of work but well worth it. I grew up living on a primitive boat hopping from one remote Island to another.
Thank you. We hope your dream comes true.
Loving the tractor 👊
Always enjoy your videos! Look forward to seeing what your doing and the beautiful scenery👍‼️‼️
Thanks Mark
It’s amazing the amount of excavation you’ve been able to complete with that tractor. It’s tough to know just how big those stumps are unless you see them in person. I was looking at that cylinder thinking something looked a little off. Great job and stay safe.
Ha yeah me and the tractor got a little to big in our britches😂
If I could go back and change one thing it would be to buy that tractor from the get go.
Have you ever seen sea lions and humpbacks hang around watch other?
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I don’t recall ever seeing those two hang around each other. I thought that was unusual when you said that you saw them together.
I THINK YOUR PLACE IS AWESOME YOUR LIVING A AWESOME LIFE LOVE TO LIVE THERE I AM IN EASTERN KENTUCKY ON 22ACER MOUNTAIN SIDE I THINK ALASKA WOULD BE AWESOME GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR WIFE FOR SHARING
Thanks Bobby.
Oh man those huge stumps! Are they good for future firewood? Looks like a LOT of wood. Lookin good! Sorry about your cylinder, that sucks. Hopefully your part won't be in backorder! Garden looks great already, even with those low temps. Looks like you got a jump start on the season.
They can be misleading until you’ve seen one blown down like in the thumbnail. Some of the roots can be as big as regular trees. It does suck about the cylinder but we’ll get it fixed and be back at 100%. We sure are trying I the garden. Last year was not very productive but that was most of our area.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead have you considered a wood stove in the greenhouse? I mean you could do a makeshift rock one. Wouldn't have to be fancy. Just something to get the temp up. Even got stones heated outside. Idk that might be a lot of work but not needed very long.
@@susanhighfield8284 🤩 it would give me an excuse to build a rocket mass heater.
Love your videos good luck with your tractor❤️😊😷
Thanks Mary
Hahahaha, those Ghetto Gutter Systems worked out just fine for the time being Brian. Good thinking, great problem solving. Too bad you bent that cilinder, but luckily it could be fixed rather cheaply. Yeah to the community who're willing to help you guys out!
I was surprised it was just a few hundred dollars. I thought it would have been $1000 at least.
Great video,wood stove going now,lots of rain here got in 12 cords of wood last week,now to stack but its raining to hard.be safe
Let the fun begin😂
Good job done on the stumps. Weather in the 40's made me shiver. Those beds are awesome along with the greenhouse. Whales was priceless! Bear? Rocky sound the alarm!!! Ouch on the cylinder. Hydraulics does not know limits so something has to give. Rain gutter is working and that is all that counts! Git-R-Done!! Stay safe and have a great week!
Ha I said get R done and I didn’t think of the comedian I thought of you😂
Yeah tomorrow’s low is 39. No wonder we can’t grow tomatoes here😂 We are going to give ‘er hell though. You have a great week guys.
You coined a new phrase: “Ghetto DONE!”
LOL ❤️ (hey, as long as it works … McGiver would be proud!)
Ha I agree, if it works why not.
Good job with the stumps, they are tough!(actually I had more choice words for stumps but they can't be printed)...I cut them up to use as firewood, stump wood has lots of embedded pebbles, dirt and rocks, so I outfit one saw with my least favorite chain and bar and I have to sharpen the chain teeth more often(like every use) But stump wood takes a long time to dry, bad side. Good side, it has a LOT of energy in it. Like hemlock extra....
Ha I have a couple of “dirt chains” I keep for projects like this.
The stumps of Alaska, 🙂Good job keep it up you’ll get it done! We are working on removing stumps too 😅
Good luck, hopefully they come out fairly easy for you.
They never come out easy
@@AlaskaRuralHomestead 😂
this needs looking again :)
Thank you Roger
Oh no you have to do everything. I know what that’s like.😂 ❤️ you guys have a wonderful week..
😂true you are an one man army.
Hahah 2021 goals save money!!! 2021 spent more money than ever!!! I feel yah.
Ha that's true
Wow fantastic to see orcas in the wild , you are truly blessed to live in such a beautiful place , Alaska truly is the last true wilderness on earth
We feel blessed every day.
What an amazing view to look at whilst doing your chores, the chickens are super cute and well done on the flower beds
Thank you Wendy.
Lots of work but it's sure great to have the tractor, but the stick cylinder piston bending must of peeved you off, eh Brian...I snapped one boom cylinder off on a 9 yard Sandvik scoop tram once trying to lift an oversize piece of muck, metal fatigue I guess, lol....A great video Brian, you covered so much today, and I hope that it all goes your way, Thanks!
Well I wasn’t happy about it but I thought I might be testing the limits. 😂 I found them. Have a great week Frederick
@@AnAlaskaHomestead you too, Brian.
I see lots of comments about the huge stumps lol but huge they are. That water catchment works so don't knock it, I've seen some a lot worse looking but they work. Have a good week
Ha It works and that’s the important thing. Have a great week Jo.
Those were some big stumps! Sucks about the cylinder. Rocky is a good rooster. 🐓 Of course you need to stop what your doing to pet the dog!! Have a good and safe week.
Ibrahim I bit off more than the tractor could chew🤣 I can still do some work kits not really heavy stuff and it can’t extend out 100%. Rock can be a butt at times but he’s number one goal is to keep the girls safe.
wow... the bend in that hydraulic cylinder ram!!!! cant believe its not spewing all over! Go u! I cant wait to get a tractor for us to do the same. Clear out some wood to plant more fruit trees and make garden beds. Only our trees are not that big. Those were huge ass stumps dude wow!!!
Y'all ever look into eating the fresh pine buds? check out this awesome lady at Haphazard Homestead eating from her yard, she said they have the texture of steak!! What!
Garden looking great. Every layer of plastic should be another zone warmer supposedly. minus the wind below I agree. Cool to see the whales. Rocky Roster to the rescue!
Ha... Nice price on the new cylinder for sure!! Go u!
Yeah I was surprised it bent but it is what it is. I’ve never tried pine cone. Thanks for watching.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead not the cone she eats the fresh needle growth at the end. definitely check out Haphazard Homestead!!! You will not be sorry :) .. but she does harvest the pollen from the new cones that yellow stuff and she gets jar full and just eats off a spoon... I guess be your own bee lol :) she is great!
happy belated birthday dude got to love them playful whales
Thanks Allen
Cool whale shots. Man that's a big job moving those stumps. Good to hear that the bent shaft won't set you back too much. I like your gutter system. Work with what you got. Have a good one!
Thanks Jay. We need an update on the new property, unless I missed a video. I’ll go check.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I staked out a few spots for the cabin and the shed up there. I've haven't been feeling that great since Monday so haven't got a lot done. This weekend we're going to work on the basement some more.
There is a some what cheap way to make some oversized gutters you can put on the cabin or any other structures using rebar and roofing tin sheets. Using a stump and pipe you can bend sections of rebar into the shape you want for the supports to hold the gutters and sheets of roofing tin cut down the middle make for good curved oversized gutters once you know where to cut to get the ridges to line up between sections.
A ring roller can make the rebar bends easier and access to a welder can let you weld on flat stock to make attaching it to the wood easier. You can also cheat by including a wood shed and other out buildings into the water collection areas to increase how fast you can refill the water. IBC totes at the far collection points to reduce the large pipes needed as you can then run smaller pipes to gravity drain from the tote to the big tank over a few hours
That’s Ingenuity at its finest
Happy Birthday week 🎹🎻🎼🎂
Thank you Stacy
Wow that must have been quite a stump to bend the cylinder like that.
Yeah it was pretty big. My replacement just arrived in Juneau yesterday.
Happy Birthday
Thank you.
Brian I’ve been told at the speed of life, that gutter patch will last forever.
😂true
You need to start making chicken hawk soup lol. I figured you must have had a vistor they are probably looking for something a little better than skunk cabbage now days. That weather up there doesn't look like it's warming up to much. Some of those stumps off the old spruce and hemlock trees how they grow around just on a few feet of dirt they get heavy. I remember a couple of the root wads out North Douglas and up eaglecreast 10 to 20 feet around. After it rained the dirt and a few rocks off of them there was a family that lived past Auke bay that was trying to get them. Part for the wood to burn and part to make things out of because the swirling around root wood. Have a good week up there
They are out and lurking around now. Yeah it’s 40s and 50s still. That would be cool to have something with a nest grain pattern.
P.S. Are you planning on burning those stumps, would like a video on that. It would be interesting. Thanks for this video.
I’m thinking about burring them out front.
Happy Birthday Brian,, I had one,, on the 21st day of the 21 week in the 21 year & the 21 Centaury!! lmao
Ha that’s awesome! This is your rear.
Happy Birthday.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I never knew it till someone told a story on f/b..
Happy birthday. Enjoy your homestead, it’s looking great! I love when nature surrenders quality building materials to the cause!
Agree with you on the greenhouse… need to seal it off at the base.
Last time I had fowl in the yard, the dogs would walk behind them and lick up the poop…. Animals are so nasty…
Thanks 🤙
Getting old comes with wisdom and a bad memory 🤣
Yeah I had to keep Gunner out of the run because he’s eat all their poop. Gross.
Yup I noticed the cylinder right away. Why??? I have 2 bent ones from lifting stumps and such LOL.Your roots are as big if not bigger than my trees LOL. Granted your coastal , we,re inland and much drier climate. Good luck with the repairs. My machine will have to wait. No ETA for the cylinders I need.
Oh that’s a bummer. They shipped mine but I’m looking at a 4 week delivery.
Those are some mighty 'Old Growth' trees your cutting down there?
No this area was logged back in the early 1900s for a near by gold mine.
Wish you had shown us more on the roots removal. By the way did you get it all cleared up. I enjoyed the video very much, and keep up the good work.
Thank you
Wow some big ass trees. Can't wait for the flowers to bloom should look awesome. I'll say it again you have such beautiful scenery. Question: are the other islands from your view inhabited?. Blessings to you & your families. 😊🇺🇸🐳🐓🦅🐔
You took the words right out of my mouth😝
Most of the islands are in inhabited with cabins and the big island has a town, Angoon, on the southern end. Hope you have a great week.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Thank you.
a heavy duty stump grinder would probably help turn those roots and stump into good soil sooner.
I never got winter or spring only only state bird season but 3 months counts for me
i wonder if you put some black plastic on the greenhouse ir that would help heat it up? man that sucks about the cylinder amazed that it happened but progress is being made
Hey Cedric, that’s a good idea. It sucks but that’s life sometimes.
Those stumps will not burn for crap either so its learn how to grow or build around them... I lived in the S.E.alaska for around fifteen years and then moved to wasilla and times have never been better. Sure some of the finest people I ever met were down there around wrangle and petersburg ...even ketchikan... I lived more on the prince of wales and loved it there but wow the rain is so miserable and bugs that will drain your blood down quick. I live in wasilla now north of anchorage now for the last close to thirty three years and now wished it was first but being a young logger was the deal then the hard times and mills started shutting down... no place to live unless you built it yourself. I do miss the deer hunting tho....... even though it takes two of them to makes stew for everyone around the table.... ok thats a stretch but the moose here are just as thick as the deer and one of them are a meal for several months. Just about anywhere you go here is like living in the states except for the "adverbs" and work a plenty except for logging but there is still timber like you have there in your front yard. Costs came down significantly too. Housing is still hard but in the southeast, it was always tuff. I have wintered in a car down there before with money in my pockets.In that stump patch that your a living in.... a need for a good excavator is very high.... a dozer will get it done but a decent excavator will get you through and still have money in the pockets.. I haven't seen this channel before but now found, did the honorable thing and subscribed to you as that won't hurt nor help very much... least a man can do for a fellow alaskan. Where are you all from? what got you up here and what kind of work do you follow???
Yeah it’s hard to get them stumps to burn. That’s pretty cool, logging down here in SE. We head up to my brother in laws in Fairbanks for moose. Mmmm
I’m from Oklahoma and my wife is from Juneau. Her parents still live there and that’s why we settled in the SE. I retired from the army and then worked at a gold mine for a few years when we first moved here. Now we just live off my retirement and maybe some day TH-cam could bring in some money.
you need a "thumb" attached to your tractor boom.....wonder if they even offer one?
They do, I need some extra spending money.
And that's why I learnt how to make explosive stuff. How is the wife's foot doing? Hope she is doing good. Last Monday I ended up having my leg amputated below the knee. I have probably close to a year before I can even think of getting up there.
Man that sucks. I hope the rehab is going well. The Mrs. is doing much better. Thanks.
We hope you have a speedy recovery.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I'm glad shes doing good. I came home yesterday. Its gonna be a process. I need help coming up with a cool prosthetic. I am definitely doing a peg leg. Maybe one with a trac so I can go 4 wheeling when I get up there.
@@MrChunkydunk 😂there you go. A track would be awesome and a peg leg would be very fitting for a sea boat captain.
Great video, great content and even greater sound editing 😂❤️👍
I'm not gonna lie, though, you should appreciate EVERYONE who even watches and subscribed to you channel
Thank you Joanna. It is mind boggling. 17k people is half of the population of Juneau. I started making videos to show my family in Oklahoma what we were doing and it just morphed into this.
You should get a thumb made for the your excavator
Contrary to popular belief I’m not rich😂 I have other things I need to spend my money on right now. If kioti or another company wanted to give me a thumb, I wouldn’t turn it down. 👍
I wasn’t suggesting you buy it or anything you can actually make them fairly cheap there’s a couple TH-camrs on here that made a couple of them cheap
@@cappaman2058 👍
Thanks for the great content! Wondering if you added some black plastic to your green house that could be removed as needed would do to increase your temperature. Just a thought.
Would that block out the sun?
@@AnAlaskaHomestead wouldn't have to do the whole house just at the base. Darker color will draw the heat. Easier to remove as needed. Have not tried it myself, just a thought.
Happy birthday
Traditionally to heat up greenhouses, etc. manure would be put down deep before each season… a lot of people in Alaska use water barrels, painted black, filled and left in a row inside the greenhouse along the north wall, and if necessary using multiple layers of plastic with spacing between and sometimes bubble wrap to extend the growing season up where it’s cold…..
@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ Thanks for the info! Very useful.
The size of that root is huge.how big was tall was that tree and what did you use it for
That tree was around a 110 foot.
Did you remove the trees those stumps belong to yourself ? They're huge!
Yeah, they are huge.
Question about the hollowed out log for growing mushrooms. Does the type of tree matter like in smoking fish?
I’m not sure, we haven’t grown any mushrooms.
What were you growing in the log?
It’s a flower bed, so just some native flowers.
One more question is rain your only water source? For drinking and everything?
Yes we get all of our water from rain. There is a natural spring on the island so if we got desperate we could always go fill up jugs there
How big is the island you live on? Seeing you letting the chickens out wondering if you have any natural predators on your island?
Ha yeah we let them out when we are here to supervise. There’s bear, mink, marten, river otters, eagles, hawks, owls the list goes on and on. I don’t know the exact size of the island. There’s roughly 25 cabins on it.
You’r living my dream sir
$500.00 My first thought was 1500.00 Min. My question is....... How in the world did you do that? Looks like a Hold my beer monent!!! lol
😂it kind of was. I was trying to get a stump out on the other side of the cabin and the bucket got stuck under it. While I tried to free it somehow it got damaged in the process.
I think it’s time to go fishing.
Me too
How much meat do you eat ? And do you hunt ? Besides crabbing?
I try to eat meat every meal😂 We do hunt along with fishing.
:)
Fried chicken for everybody except that nasty ole Bear...
He sure wanted some chicken😂
How do you keep wild animals or bears out of your green houses and garden s.
Electric fence
Praying for supernatural help from God and His angel s
What model of Kubota tractor do have.
It’s a Kioti 3510
Why would you pile that all up on your beach..?
Two reasons, 1. Gets them out of the way. 2. They get more rain down there and washes off a lot of the dirt. When I’m ready to cut some fire wood out of them my chain doesn’t get dull right away.
We need a tractor , harder to do homesteading without one
Best investment I’ve ever made.
TNT
Ahh crap we knw you aren't let's dig but hell go to town for y'all is s day trip by boat. Meanwhile its 80?+ and 50 at night
I have no clue what you said?
leach
Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar. I have corrected the error.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead And you are a class act for accepting that correction. I will enjoy your content.
Thanks
The thumbnail looks like click bait. How honest are you?
My friends call me honest Abe or is that also a lie😉
:)
Just pulled two stumps today.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead cool.