You have no idea how much I am enjoying this series on the bridge build, because it is exactly what I would be doing if I were in your place. I am giggling and laughing all the way thru this because of the commentary you’re doing as you are building and especially the comment about not videoing because its a family channel, I love it man, thanks for the update.
I was cheering for you and went 😮no,no,no,when that rock slid back down the hill but so happy when you got it all in place.Looking forward to the next video 😊
Thanks for sharing, always enjoy watching whatever you get to on your days off. You remind me of a few people I worked with over the years that went to work so they could rest up from their day off activities. 😆 never stop making things. Wishing you and your family the best.
I just love the "run wutcha brung" approach on this channel Capt. Just use what you've got around you to make do.....like our ancestors did growing up. Keep up the great work and attitude....very refreshing in today's world.
Mike, you had me as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs watching you pulling these rocks with a chain! I see you had a “safety blanket” hanging on the chain, but after seeing a chain blast through a tractor cab, narrowly missing the operator, you can say I am “gun shy”!
Who doesn't like rock genga, tell you what for a 50 year old machine your 555 has some serious grunt, all the work you put it into it is really paying dividends. When you've completed the stone bridge its going to look really good, you'll be able to run all sorts over it. 🙂👍
The recognition of how special it is to get paid to play with rocks and dirt is amazing. I know these videos are a ton of work, but I so appreciate you doing them. It is wild and truly awe inspiring when I get to see people making dreams into realities.
Capt. I love this kind of content. Making something out of what's laying around/making something out of virtually nothing. Keep it up, I'm living vicariously through your projects.
The Captain is living his best life, like a kid in a sandbox making stuff. I was thinking, which I do occasionally, that a hoe-ram attachment for that backhoe would be very useful for these kind of projects. Keep up the good work and the great attitude.
Hey Mike When you move some of the bigger rock take your metal detector and check the lowest point where the rock had been laying for all those years. Good luck and happy hunting.
Funny, your thought about doing a larger version of playing with rocks and dirt had already come to mind. Thanks for letting us enjoy it too, take care!
I really enjoyed watching your video. You found a way to move that flat rock when it seemed like it wasn't going to move more than a few inches. I like how you figure out a way to make the nearly impossible happen. Such as using the chain fall to lift both large flat rocks into position. Your commentary is great. And the rock bridge is excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Loved the video. I really like watching people that think outside the box and actually use their imagination to find a solution to what they want. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
Nice stonework, you have the beginnings of a castle there. I thought you had broken out the hair hat with the cold weather coming, but I see it was just natural growth. 😃😃 Enjoying your videos as usual.
nice hair cut Mike, great progress on the rock bridge, you proved the old saying where there is a will there is a way, can't wait for the next one 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌
Excellent video, I really enjoy watching your thinking process of how to accomplish a task using what equipment you have at that moment. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊
I’m surprised the pins you were putting in the stones didn’t split them. Seem like a tight fit, but hey you got the job done! Great job and it looks kool.
There are two ways to look at this project: 1. Your way - this is fun. Every challenge creates a new opportunity to overcome built in limitations and challenges. You are not limited by time/funds because you use time away from the firehouse to work projects and materials are free except fuel which is baked into your general farm/land budget. Small items which are sitting in inventory (without commitment) are the same as fuel and available for use. The 5 bags of secrete is either a quick request to the admiral or utilizing petty cash or allowance funds. You love what you do. 2. The 100% business method - the cobblers wife walks around barefoot. There is no free time because that is already spent on making extra money. Oh, you found a few hours…that gets auto-claimed by default, for a profitable side project thats been waiting for just such a time. The materials are NOT free, you could have sold those rocks (either directly to a rock lover or as materials on a for profit project) and the idle supplies used on this so called free project are now no longer available to be utilized on “for pay” projects to increase profits. You don’t dare ask the admiral for additional expenditures because she was instructed to be vigilant in guarding against such frivolity
Good morning Captain. My wife says please wear safety glasses and gloves 😊 I say you're a Professional and you know what you're doing. Have a great day.
Mike, this video started off a little rocky! 😂😂 It is so nice to see new guy do a little bit of rock climbing, while we witness a whole bunch of rock slides! 😂😂 Very exciting as well as Very Dangerous indeed! What a workout for you and Mr Ford! Something to be proud of! 👍👍 Looking very good! Now, will it hold up the heavy equipment!
I catch myself forgetting I’m watching a video with your channel. The way you interact with the camera feels like we’re just two buddies figuring out a project in the woods lol. On almost every one of your videos, I catch myself almost saying, “we could try it this way.” Then I remember I’m not really there, and what ever ‘we’re’ figuring out, you’ve already figured out several days ago. It’s a fun sort of virtual reality experience.
👍 Yep, you nailed it, that's the kind of stuff my brother and I grew up doing on a smaller scale at the mountain spring behind our house in Bama. Enjoying this very much....and yeah, can't knock the el cheapo thumb!
Very very cool Capt. and only getting better with every stone. Look forward to the next one and the the finished product when you get it there. No hurry of course, you make the journey as much if not more fun than the destination. Keep up the great work my man 😁👍
Also consider at low areas (that you will not drive over), stake a bag of concrete deep right through the center of the bag. It will anchor the foundation. Don't be afraid to use a 4-6ft #8, or double bagged for more support. I would put a few bags on each side to limit erosion, then backfill over it. No mix, it will setup just fine.
Cap’n, three years ago you introduced your audience to Terry Hale (The Wounded Woodsman). He is a master at using levers, ropes, pulleys… and such to move trees and boulders. I couldn’t help but think you were channeling your Inner Wounded Woodsman in this video!!!! I love the progress you’re making! Keep chipping away!!!!!!
Hey Captain if you keep playing with those rocks you’re gonna have to change your name to Count Rockula I know you may already know this but for anyone else reading comments be sure to fill the holes you drilled in those rocks with hydraulic cement or epoxy (even if facing the ground -I learned from this from the school of hard knocks of cracked rocks) because otherwise water and other crud and corruption will freeze in them and more than likely will cause your rocks to crack and split apart. PS I do like the rock bridge project and definitely like that you are going to pin the big rocks together
You do have amazing adventures on the homestead. Mine include daily logistical work, at work. Then being tired the rest of the day. I think I prefer yours... At least you're investing into personally owned stuff.
We’re not here for a good time, Cap’n… we’re here for a long time. Not often we can rub shoulders with genius. The difference between your channel and others is they’re occasionally good. Yours is consistent. As someone once said about the strange ol’ game of cricket: form is temporary… class is permanent. We’ll be waitin’.
This video started and I had no idea what your vision was and by the end it all makes perfect sense. I hope we get some videos during a good rain showing how this thing lets water through?
Looks great Mike, good job brother! Thanks for sharing, Kirk from Louisiana sending prayers and good vibes to you and your family! I enjoyed your video! 👋🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸GOD BLESS AMERICA 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Ya know, watching you chuck the small rocks and then push the bigger ones with the 555, I can see you saving money by the second! If you were going to pick these up from a Landscape yard, not only would you have to buy the rocks, then haul them but you are not having to pay extra for "Tumbled" stone! Man, what bonus! Did I mention I love this project?
Pretty amazing what you've been able to accomplish with that machine. Even with a somewhat handicapped thumb. It has certainly served you well. Good deal at twice the price.
I love your ingenuity and the stuff you accompolish solo with equipment the average joe could afford, youre very motivating and informative. I wish you success but i hope with success your channel doesnt trun into a cubic dollars channel, by that i mean the guy that goes for humble equipment beginnings to all brand new and copius amounts of equipment that most of us common folk could never afford. Thanks for sharing all your hard work. 🍻
Hi Mike. The rock bridge is looking good. Once you got that big one moving up the hill, it practically flew up on its own! I'm not an engineer but it does look like it could use some more support underneath. Physics has a way of messing with you if you don't make things bulletproof! Thanks for the video! -mike
Do you seal the holes you drill so they don’t fill with water and crack during freezing weather? This rock bridge is going to be a great project once completed.
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You have no idea how much I am enjoying this series on the bridge build, because it is exactly what I would be doing if I were in your place. I am giggling and laughing all the way thru this because of the commentary you’re doing as you are building and especially the comment about not videoing because its a family channel, I love it man, thanks for the update.
I was cheering for you and went 😮no,no,no,when that rock slid back down the hill but so happy when you got it all in place.Looking forward to the next video 😊
I enjoy watching what a resourceful person like you can accomplish! All while having a wonderful sense of humor. Thank you!
Appreciate the support
A set or two of tire chains work very well for moving big boulders and with multiple points of contact , are less likely to slip off .
Hi Mike, Great job! Your perseverance has really paid off, it looks fabulous!! Well done!! Jerry..UK
Thanks for sharing, always enjoy watching whatever you get to on your days off. You remind me of a few people I worked with over the years that went to work so they could rest up from their day off activities. 😆 never stop making things. Wishing you and your family the best.
I love the stone bridge, your work on it with what you have is awesome!
I just love the "run wutcha brung" approach on this channel Capt. Just use what you've got around you to make do.....like our ancestors did growing up. Keep up the great work and attitude....very refreshing in today's world.
Mike, you had me as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs watching you pulling these rocks with a chain!
I see you had a “safety blanket” hanging on the chain, but after seeing a chain blast through a tractor cab, narrowly missing the operator, you can say I am “gun shy”!
Who doesn't like rock genga, tell you what for a 50 year old machine your 555 has some serious grunt, all the work you put it into it is really paying dividends. When you've completed the stone bridge its going to look really good, you'll be able to run all sorts over it. 🙂👍
What a cool project. Love your persistence and creativity.
Thanks!
Never been a more gooder creek crossing than this I do believe. Fine work again!
The recognition of how special it is to get paid to play with rocks and dirt is amazing. I know these videos are a ton of work, but I so appreciate you doing them. It is wild and truly awe inspiring when I get to see people making dreams into realities.
Capt. I love this kind of content. Making something out of what's laying around/making something out of virtually nothing. Keep it up, I'm living vicariously through your projects.
The Captain is living his best life, like a kid in a sandbox making stuff. I was thinking, which I do occasionally, that a hoe-ram attachment for that backhoe would be very useful for these kind of projects. Keep up the good work and the great attitude.
Thats an awesome job Captain looking forward to the finished product.
Your ingenuity is awesome capt! That is an awesome crossing.
Thanks!
Hey Mike When you move some of the bigger rock take your metal detector and check the lowest point where the rock had been laying for all those years. Good luck and happy hunting.
Nice job getting those moved up the hill and into place Captain!!
Thanks!
Funny, your thought about doing a larger version of playing with rocks and dirt had already come to mind. Thanks for letting us enjoy it too, take care!
Appreciate ya watching
I really enjoyed watching your video. You found a way to move that flat rock when it seemed like it wasn't going to move more than a few inches. I like how you figure out a way to make the nearly impossible happen. Such as using the chain fall to lift both large flat rocks into position. Your commentary is great. And the rock bridge is excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching
Loved the video. I really like watching people that think outside the box and actually use their imagination to find a solution to what they want. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
Love you're determination. As your wife may say , "My Mike can do anything"
Straps over chain in most cases works. Good to see the Ford working well.
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Hey Captain, i would love to come help you with this project, if I weren't a thousand miles away, it's looking really awesome. Y'all take care.
Nice stonework, you have the beginnings of a castle there. I thought you had broken out the hair hat with the cold weather coming, but I see it was just natural growth. 😃😃 Enjoying your videos as usual.
Hey Mike, there’s an old South African saying “ ‘n boer maak ‘n plan” which fits you perfectly. Well done for your persistence
Farmers spent decades moving these rocks out of the way Mike…and then you move them back. Oh, the labour! I enjoyed the video, thanks!😊
You are doing an excellent job! I can hardly wait to see what is next! 😊
See ya then!
Captain no doubt you’ll get it done! Your imagination and determination is awesome! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Thanks Kevin
Hi Mike. The rocks you used to hold the cement in place, as you said, were not structural, but it sure looks good! Have good days!
It's coming along great.....I often can't picture what you're trying to do......but by the end it always makes sense 😂
The bridge is looking good I know it’s a lot of work but it will be nice once its done
WoW, thanks for the fun Captain, keep them coming.
See ya on the next one!
nice hair cut Mike, great progress on the rock bridge, you proved the old saying where there is a will there is a way, can't wait for the next one 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌
Excellent video, I really enjoy watching your thinking process of how to accomplish a task using what equipment you have at that moment. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊
I’m surprised the pins you were putting in the stones didn’t split them. Seem like a tight fit, but hey you got the job done! Great job and it looks kool.
It appears- where there's a Kleeman, there's a way! Way to hang in there!
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There are two ways to look at this project:
1. Your way - this is fun. Every challenge creates a new opportunity to overcome built in limitations and challenges. You are not limited by time/funds because you use time away from the firehouse to work projects and materials are free except fuel which is baked into your general farm/land budget. Small items which are sitting in inventory (without commitment) are the same as fuel and available for use. The 5 bags of secrete is either a quick request to the admiral or utilizing petty cash or allowance funds. You love what you do.
2. The 100% business method - the cobblers wife walks around barefoot. There is no free time because that is already spent on making extra money. Oh, you found a few hours…that gets auto-claimed by default, for a profitable side project thats been waiting for just such a time. The materials are NOT free, you could have sold those rocks (either directly to a rock lover or as materials on a for profit project) and the idle supplies used on this so called free project are now no longer available to be utilized on “for pay” projects to increase profits. You don’t dare ask the admiral for additional expenditures because she was instructed to be vigilant in guarding against such frivolity
Mike you are a determined man.love your engineering techniques.great little video,just keep doing what your doing 👍👍👍😎😎😎
Great Perseverance 👍 ❤AWSOME my friend Thanks for sharing 😊
Good morning Captain. My wife says please wear safety glasses and gloves 😊 I say you're a Professional and you know what you're doing. Have a great day.
It's always fun to watch you work through different problems.
Mike, this video started off a little rocky! 😂😂 It is so nice to see new guy do a little bit of rock climbing, while we witness a whole bunch of rock slides! 😂😂 Very exciting as well as Very Dangerous indeed! What a workout for you and Mr Ford! Something to be proud of! 👍👍 Looking very good! Now, will it hold up the heavy equipment!
I catch myself forgetting I’m watching a video with your channel. The way you interact with the camera feels like we’re just two buddies figuring out a project in the woods lol. On almost every one of your videos, I catch myself almost saying, “we could try it this way.” Then I remember I’m not really there, and what ever ‘we’re’ figuring out, you’ve already figured out several days ago. It’s a fun sort of virtual reality experience.
i absolutely loved this video mike the way you stacked the stones reminded me of old 1800s building and wall work absolutely beautiful
Thank you!
👍 Yep, you nailed it, that's the kind of stuff my brother and I grew up doing on a smaller scale at the mountain spring behind our house in Bama. Enjoying this very much....and yeah, can't knock the el cheapo thumb!
Very very cool Capt. and only getting better with every stone. Look forward to the next one and the the finished product when you get it there. No hurry of course, you make the journey as much if not more fun than the destination. Keep up the great work my man 😁👍
Tough as the rocks you are turning out to be a real cool project 👍👋🇨🇦
I’ll say one thing Captain you’re not afraid to use the 555 in unconventional ways. Gold Sticker for you well done. ⭐️
Also consider at low areas (that you will not drive over), stake a bag of concrete deep right through the center of the bag. It will anchor the foundation. Don't be afraid to use a 4-6ft #8, or double bagged for more support. I would put a few bags on each side to limit erosion, then backfill over it. No mix, it will setup just fine.
I thought the carport looked to be a new addition!
Cap’n, three years ago you introduced your audience to Terry Hale (The Wounded Woodsman). He is a master at using levers, ropes, pulleys… and such to move trees and boulders. I couldn’t help but think you were channeling your Inner Wounded Woodsman in this video!!!!
I love the progress you’re making! Keep chipping away!!!!!!
Hey Captain if you keep playing with those rocks you’re gonna have to change your name to Count Rockula
I know you may already know this but for anyone else reading comments be sure to fill the holes you drilled in those rocks with hydraulic cement or epoxy (even if facing the ground -I learned from this from the school of hard knocks of cracked rocks) because otherwise water and other crud and corruption will freeze in them and more than likely will cause your rocks to crack and split apart.
PS I do like the rock bridge project and definitely like that you are going to pin the big rocks together
Well done, your ingenuity amazing. Our forefathers would be very pleased. Thanks for sharing.
Well Mike anytime I want too see someone do some crazy stuff , I watch you. 😅😅😅😅😅 Great video my friend. Lol😂
I appreciate that
You do have amazing adventures on the homestead.
Mine include daily logistical work, at work. Then being tired the rest of the day. I think I prefer yours... At least you're investing into personally owned stuff.
We’re not here for a good time, Cap’n… we’re here for a long time. Not often we can rub shoulders with genius. The difference between your channel and others is they’re occasionally good. Yours is consistent. As someone once said about the strange ol’ game of cricket: form is temporary… class is permanent. We’ll be waitin’.
This video started and I had no idea what your vision was and by the end it all makes perfect sense. I hope we get some videos during a good rain showing how this thing lets water through?
Would definitely be cool to see
Morning, Sir, this is going to be a fine crossing (bridge) appreciate your hard work and content delivery
Appreciate ya watching!
Looks great Mike, good job brother! Thanks for sharing, Kirk from Louisiana sending prayers and good vibes to you and your family! I enjoyed your video! 👋🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸GOD BLESS AMERICA 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
You should use hydraulic cement or non shrink grout, sack crete will shrink. Love the bridge!
Cool video Captain, Neil showed me what you sent him, VERY COOL, kudos to you
Either those are soft rocks - or you are a MONSTER with a sledge… 😮
Just have to know where to hit
He has mentioned that they are sandstone. On the hardness scale soft to softer.
The impossible just takes a little longer guy, great video
Almost like watching a roadrunner cartoon.... Wyle E Coyote : GENIUS 😅😅😅
"We are rock rich here, if they're easy to pluck, they're easy to chuck!" What fun, love this project.
Ya know, watching you chuck the small rocks and then push the bigger ones with the 555, I can see you saving money by the second! If you were going to pick these up from a Landscape yard, not only would you have to buy the rocks, then haul them but you are not having to pay extra for "Tumbled" stone! Man, what bonus! Did I mention I love this project?
Looking awesome Captain! Great to be able to bring dreams to life!
Pretty amazing what you've been able to accomplish with that machine. Even with a somewhat handicapped thumb. It has certainly served you well. Good deal at twice the price.
Looking good Capt. Love the idea. Keep up the great work!!👍👍
Oh Captain! You have a Illusion, and You work on this Dream from You Days and Days! Go Your Way farther and to by Happy. 👍
I love your ingenuity and the stuff you accompolish solo with equipment the average joe could afford, youre very motivating and informative. I wish you success but i hope with success your channel doesnt trun into a cubic dollars channel, by that i mean the guy that goes for humble equipment beginnings to all brand new and copius amounts of equipment that most of us common folk could never afford. Thanks for sharing all your hard work. 🍻
Wire rope is stronger, but chain doesn't go whipping through the air and kill people when it breaks. Your rock work rocks.
Its very satisfying to see your techniques work. 👍
Wow Mike, some good manoeuvring! Lol One hell of a bridge ;)
Thanks!
You received a shout out from Neil at Dig-Drive-DIY. He was using a 655 backhoe and referenced your 555.
You are getting a lot of work out of the 555. Nice job!
Looking good for a KleenMan. Nah it’s looking fabulous for a low budget job Capt Kleeman.
Thanks!
It looks great! I'm impressed by your persistence and tenacity. Very well done, Captain..
so enjoyable to watch your projects and the great attitude towards them, Plus using what mother nature provided to put to good use
Thanks ken
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Hi Mike. The rock bridge is looking good. Once you got that big one moving up the hill, it practically flew up on its own! I'm not an engineer but it does look like it could use some more support underneath. Physics has a way of messing with you if you don't make things bulletproof! Thanks for the video!
-mike
I was thinking about the forts we built in trees and valleys when we were kids. It prepared us for this ❤
Rock bridge is going to be great when finished. Little rocks & mortar will help hold big rocks. Looking good.
You felt that way as a kid, now as an adult and tomorrow as the old one - you will do it again. You never outgrow your childhood.
Mike - great job and well planned out.😅😊
Howdy Cap’n, this is quite relaxing to watch. Looking good.
Thank you!
Glad you're having fun.
Always!
Nicely done once again, Captain! One could say you’re a “rockstar” ?
Classic great Captain Kleeman ingenuity and do it yourself mentality! Awesome stuff.
Do you seal the holes you drill so they don’t fill with water and crack during freezing weather? This rock bridge is going to be a great project once completed.
Another great video. Thank you.
Appreciate ya watching
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. YES I can. Rock on Captain. Great video.😂💯👍👌💥
Totally did that as a kid. Rerouted a couple of creeks. Funnest was at the beach using rocks to rechannel the runoff from high tide.
It's always a good time!
Keeping the rocks 🪨 stable you may need to have a gravel base or something else to settle them into for the foundation. They need support too.
Come on, Muscles, smack that sucker like you mean it :). You've got to be pleased as heck with the way the old 555 is working :)
I just love that old Ford!
Me too!
Captain Kleeman, just think. There was someone that was going to scrap that 555. And you're giving the ole girl a new lease on life. 😊😊
👍🏻👍🏻because one is just never enough. Great job Captain 🤛🏻🤛🏻
hello mike & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks mike friends randy
Looking good Captain. And you kept ya hair on. Ready for the next one young man.
Its looking good so far bud