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So funny watching you receiving a sudden snowstorm at 21:40! Nice start to the logging season! I have some of those pasture trees. I know what you mean about the structural issue when it is being cut in small lumber. To have the trails freeze earlier, I drag a pair of 22.5 tires (semi truck tires side-by-side) behind the UTV to remove the insulation factor and level the trails as well. Works very well. I think it can be pulled with an ATV as well. Thanks!

Looking like some fun too me!!! Subscribed

Where did you get those front tire chains? I need a set for my Kubota. I already have a set on the rear which makes it unstoppable but only if I go straight 😂 The snow in the trees looks beautiful!

Hello from KY. It’s so muddy we can’t get into and out of the woods right now. But as soon as we can get to the skidder, we will be putting chains on too. Whew, looks cold up your way! New subscriber! Great video

Glen I too have many wet spots in where I log, I take the boughs cut them into maybe 3' long pieces and tread them into the mud the green live boughs work pretty good for me. They help give a much more solid base to drive on rather than depending on the Ice thickness alone. You have some very nice equipment I envy you that tractor is just right it is a luxurious skidder!. Great work one tree done 45 minutes of clean-up is about how it goes sometimes. Good luck and be safe. JeffinMaine

Morning & Merry Christmas

I wish that you wouldn't call me a "hack"...LOL 😂

could be easier to cut all out, straitened and reweld( i post in half of video)

Great job Glen, that's called a "Farmer Fix" because it just works! I believe I am going to steal your vice Idea; I have a spare small vice. I have what I call a " Saw box" it is a wooden box 4' long 3' wide and 3.5' tall. I mounted it on snowmobile skis and put a hitch on it. I keep a couple saws in it and tools gas and oil and a vice mounted to the top cover. It works great other than it is either in the woodlot or the wood yard but never in both places at once. If I do what you did the most often used tool is always seems to be the vice, and mounted on the tractor it will be with me always a great solution, I think. Great job lots of luck in the woods JeffinMaine

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Too much maintenance! The old central classic are load and go. I had one of these and got rid of it.

Nice job Glen you do very well, t's hard all alone sometimes it would be so nice to have an extra pair of hands. At least that is what I say after I get on and off the tractor 5 time for one twitch. JeffinMaine

Long trail! How long is this from the beginning? Also, from the mark of 26:28, which seems to be the highest point, going to the lowest point, what is the altitude difference? That is not so easy to work on inclines. I tend to put an inside incline whenever I can, example at 5:52. So rather sliding towards the bank. That also helps to avoid the logs sliding off the trail while skidding logs. I must assume you have snow now, as we are! Thanks!

Nice work! Love that machine

Beautiful property Glen, I bet the deer hunting is amazing. I used to visit with an older relative that lived in Vermont for 50 years or more. He and his wife had recently moved up here to Maine to her childhood home. One day we met up in the woods in November where we were hunting here in Maine. He was frustrated with the visibility in the area we were in. He said you must be a better hunter than I am to get a nice deer every year He and his wife had recently moved up here to her childhood home. He said, "I cannot see more then 25 yards in any direction up here" at home in Vermont, I could see a deer 300 yards away.

Morning Glenn

That should accomplish what you want. Especially that it is now freezing as we speak. I've seen in the past where they did logging trails (for wood/pulp industry), they would put the trunks and branches as a base material... provided they had enough filling material to put on top. That worked good for them, as it is only a temporary trail. Thanks!

Looks good Glen, those rocks should make a good base. Now I would spend another couple hour's tracking in the whole new road surface as wide as you can. Then clean/ slick up the bottom of any rough section of your ditch I think the water will flow pretty well. When you do try to do some corduroying remember, if you want your finished road width to be 10' cut your slash at least 13'. Do one small area at a time or you will / may get discouraged if you try to do a too large of an area all at once. Small bites!. For instance, drop a Hemlock or Fir limb it out save the limbs, cut the logs to length and place them into the roadway with the boughs on top curved side down just like us old folks used to do when "banking the house for winter" all those years ago. Track this area in, cut 2 or 3 more trees do the same. Then try covering that area with the area fill you have available and see what if anything you should do different on the next section This way anything you find you are doing wrong it will have only been for a few feet, and not for hundreds of feet before you discover the issues if any. It is slow but enjoyable work, and it smells great! It works great, your buried slash will last for decades as long as NO AIR can get to it. Take care you're doing great love to listen to the machine work I just enjoy that sort of thing. JeffinMaine

Looks awesome , I didn't think that it would produce good gravel / rocks and it did .

Morning , I was waiting on ya today since I got up at 4

That is going go help a lot skidding logs without those big boulders sticking out of the ground! Thanks!

Really enjoying watching your videos, greetings from northern Europe

If I would have remembered it was Friday I would've been 1 st lol

2 .5 hr late and I'm still 1 st 🤪saying good morning

Would have put some plastic drain pipe in before gravel it will never dry out .

Thanks for posting this, it was very helpful. It gives me the confidence to replace the bricks in my 560. This will be their 6th season and I’m starting to notice some unburnt coals falling through.

Some 3- would work good

Hello Glen! At the mark of 2:04, did you almost forgot to go to the scale? Lol! Or was that only to step down on the right side of the tractor? At the mark of 9:05, you have to be very careful not slide sideways toward any tree.... or you would need another machine to get you out of that situation... Hard to level ruts with a wheeled machine. The excavator has the advantage of being able to level the material without rolling in it first. But much longer process. As far as the end result is smooth, as you did, it shall begin to dry. With any ruts, it's a basin of water to keep moisturizing the dirt around... Thanks! Hey! You are about to reach 1k subs! Congratulations!

Your road is now a dam, If you would consider cutting all the trees within 10'- 20' of the road on the left that would be a great start, then dig a ditch. One tree is all barked up as it is, the others may be worth $50.00 maybe. Dig a ditch the entire length of the we area, it might need to be 100' might be 300' don't matter ,..you need to collect all the water from the high side and then with a 12" or 16" culvert put it all across the roadway off to the right. Dig a " get-away ditch" on the right if need be but get the water away from that area. At this stage I would be ditching first then 6" minus at least, not screened gravel It looks to be swallowed up by the mud and clay that is the roadway as of now. Drain the roadway of water first don't dump expensive gravel into a clay muck hole. Just my .02 cents worth Glen good luck you have all the equipment you would ever need to make this road a good one but start with water drainage first ! JeffinMaine

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Good drainage helps a lot when it comes to maintain the land. Especially if this is going to be lawn. I am not a big fan of the clean crushed rock without fabric, as it can sink in muddy spots and change established levels. I prefer the minus crushed rock, although it does not drain as well. Whenever I have a trench where I have excess of water collecting, I add a parallel perforated pipe and join it to the "carrying" pipe with a Y downstream to it. So the water flowing from the "carrying" pipe will not irrigate the zone. Then the drainage pipe will flow into the "carrying" pipe. Firewood season is going to begin soon!!! Have a good weekend!

Morning , I was up checking on my heifer that is about to calf . 01:20

That's quite a large job! Not a weekend thing there! Well done sir! Thanks!

I have been busy with my baby bull calf

If it dried out a bit more, if you had a harrow for your ATV that could be drug around to try and smooth out the area a bit and likely not sink in like the heavier equipment.

Good informative video.❤Thanks

Your recent videos have stopped me from complaining about our sandy soil 😁

Morning , I was actually thinking it wasn't loading

Very nice job Glen it will be a beautiful driveway. JeffinMaine

That's another winter season coming! I've also cleaned my boiler this week. I do use a device called "Inkbird" to control the pumps. Basically, it will sense if the glycol (in my case) is 130°F or more, in which case it will activate the pump. I have one pump circulating the glycol in the boiler tank 24/7. The other pumps are activated on demand. Would that be for heating the pool, or in the present moment, to stop pumping glycol if weather is warmer outside. It does send me signals on my phone about current glycol temperature and alarm if it raises above 200°F. In which case, I can also have automated tasks to dump heat. Everything can be customized to infinite. Very nice device in fact, not so expensive on Amazon. (Inkbird ITC-308).

What a nice pile of wood as a wood burner myself i always admire others hard work. There must be 10 cords in there lots of vary hard work. Looks great Glen. JeffinMaine

When u build your new house r you going to hook this up to it or r you going to put in a new one ? R u going to still keep your house that u are currently living in ?

Morning Glenn

Good job! I would have linked that low spot of the trench to the nearby frend drain. (at 46:00). So that in the near future, any tractor doing work in that area do not sink into the trench, running a wheel parallel, right on top of it. Over time, it should just be fine though. I've found that an initial soft spot takes a few month to harden (like 1:08:16). Thanks!

Good job Glen, Maybe a good idea to mark the exit of each drain with a 8' tall, galvanized post " like a "U" Channel signpost" like what is used for roadway signs. Some day you may want to find the very end of these pipes to clean away sediment. JeffinMaine

21 min late ⏰ I am lol great job I need to remember to check at 05:00 Friday for u r video

Cleaning the bottom of a trench by swinging the bucket left-right is something that does not work on smaller excavators... (ref. 8:55) Thanks to the power of a bigger machine! You are right, filling only up to 12 inches from the top makes it much longer. I wish I had done that when I installed the insulated glycol pipe back then. At the mark of 44:13, i was sure you were going to tip the tractor. That beast is impressively stable! There must be sure liquid in the back tires! What I did on my side is to take a full bucket of dirt with the excavator and extend it perpendicular to the trench, so that 90% of the weight of the machine be on the track that rolls over the trench being filled. Again, you make me want a bulldozer! If my wife is mad at me because I spend too much on machinery, I'll blame you! Lol! Great job Glen!

Looking good! Take care....

Great job Glen you will be very proud of this work for the rest of your life. JeffinMaine.

I made it 🤪 morning