I always liked to burn my brush on the farm when it was damp, drizzling even better, with heavy evening rain forecasted. Never had to worry about the fire going anywhere.
Your audio and video skills and equipment are great Chris, as I am elderly and hearing is not great, but your awesome narrative skill amaze me thus I can watch for hours. Thanks for taking the time and hard work in sharing ! My favorite as I can relate and greetings from “Bluff Country “ Iowa!
I'm 70 years old and damn I love watching a man work that really knows his business. You handle those machines professionally with ease. Keep up the great videos and thanks for sharing with us.
You would be surprised how easy they are to operate. Chris could show you in 1/2 hour how to operate the excavator for sure. Now there are going to be people that say that you’re not efficient at it you’re not fast you’re not good and all that other crap but at least you know what the controls do and don’t be intimidated by the size of the machine, the controls are similar on all of them. To get as good as Chris you need lots of experience.
One of the things about machines like that whether it be an excavator or a skid steer, if you let go of the controls everything stops. It’s not like a car where it keeps on rolling you have to want it to do something and if you take hands off it stops.
been watching for awhile now and have to say you are the best operator i have ever seen. so pleasurable to watch someone that knows what they are doing. love that you take good care of your equiptment without beating the snot out of it. please keep doing what you do always an adventure and hard to walk away from. all the best for the future. thanks
Tree clearing as a science! Snap em' in half and grab the stumps in one move. 😉 Really enjoyed the drone shots of the burn pile. Hard to believe all the debris is gone in one day. ♨️
I see you have been using the bucket Too send up puffs of smoke like smoke signals. 😆. Ive noticed the same people telling you to get a chipper are the same ones telling the same thing to the guys clearing land with Fecons. Guess it means they don’t know very much. Good work Chris
Ya know If it were my dime ... I'd do it my way ... His dime so it's his way .... AND AND AND a great vijit to boot......... SO :p~~~ on the naysayers.
Ordinarily, watching a bonfire for three quarters of an hour would be like watching earthworms copulating for that time, but Chris turns a mundane exercise into an instructive art form with droll asides that makes for truely compelling viewing! I possess my soul in patience awaiting the next installment! Col, NZ
I know you do a lot of work to clear land but the arial view at the end really drives home how much work you do to accomplish clearing land for a home site.
Chris I will never question your business practices with the speed and efficiency that you do your jobs shows you know what your doing and making good money so dont even acknowledge the na sayers out there they are not worth the effort 🍻
Chris , I absolutely love your videos , it is amazing to watch a professional who not only does great work but also takes pride in his job !! Thank you
Just want to say thanks Chris for the last year or so of entertainment,it’s been great watching and listening to yah. With all the crap going on it’s been great to have some consistency and accomplishment,not much in the media,so thx Chris!!! I hope the stinking epa keeps its prying eyes and overreaching hands out of your business! PS yah build a really nice fire.....
GREAT ! Now the damn Volvo has a smoking habit .... Damn it Chris you should know better. mumble mumble grumble something bout the Volvo being to young to SMOKE mumble grumble.😂😂
I've got the bratwursts and buns, onions Now we just need a couple of strong men to bring the Adult beverages and we can party til the fire burns out. Lol
Yea only thing that crap good for is ashes. The ashes are good for clay it will improve it. Now if you could find someone to buy the ashes. Spread it around and work it into the soil or bury it. I agree.
Good for the clay??you mean by adding nutrients or something of the like to it?...good for the soil,not sure what you mean by saying its good for the clay...are you able to elaborate further?
Sundays are for burning fires!! Fire is rapid oxidation , mullching is decomposition or slow low temp oxidation. results are same with identical biproducts and atmospheric results. Hey, Chris, I really like the acoustic guitar drone music.
Loved it all ... Even the going to Kansas City instrumental in the drone shot. Mumford did a super version of that in the lost tapes video and dvd. Thanks for taking time to do all the filming. As an old person, I love to watch...
I went to Alabama this spring have watched many of your videos and wanted to say thank you for sharing the experience made my life a lot easier to clear the land
For what it's worth, you can attach an old 110 volt oil furnace squirrel fan to a 14 inch X 14 foot galvanized pipe and turn your standard fire into a blast furnace. Works great for burning stumps and large fire piles in a hurry. Best to turn the fan off when getting near the fire with equipment as it will melt your hydraulic lines. On the down side, all the dirt under the fire pit will be sterile and not grow anything.
C’mon Tim,,,,, you and I both know, that it just wouldn’t be a proper Letsdig18 series without a “Big Ass Bonfire” once in a while!!!! I think all those that complain should allow you at their job for a day to question the heck out of them why they do this and don’t do that, then allow you to have access to their email to question them even more!!! Haha. When I hire an expert, I trust the expert to do their job. The contractors I have hired are happy to come back for other work, especially when I was still Ranching! They knew they weren’t going to be questioned and have to deal with ridiculous expectations. They could just come out and do the job they were paid to do!! Keep doin what you do Chris!! I’ll keep watching and learning!
We've been burning in GA with a pit and an ACD permit. First time burning really doing 30 acres of stumps, underbrush, and slash. Its crazy how hot that pit gets and how fast you can feed it.
Impressive accomplishment today.. worked like a charm, and sure pays to have the right equipment and the knowledge how to use it. tks for taking us along.
Wow, the way you can grab a clump of trees eight feet of the ground, break them off, drop them and then pull up their trunks and root balls, shake off the dirt and throw the whole mess on the pile in one fell swoop is ….. amazing!!
Sap's not so bad for burning, as it contains a good deal of sugars. Flakes of dried sap added to tinder actually makes it burn hotter. Trouble with trees in spring is all the extra water being pumped up alongside the sap.
I think if we built fires like that over here in the UK or most places in Europe on a building plot we would be shot and we would have to chip it or pay to have it put into the closest landfill. The joys of all our laws
@@Skorpychan there is a big market for it from compost makers but selling to them already chipped, don't think there would be any profit and would probably end up running a loss unless you are the one making the compost
You guys do know that if it turns a buck Chris would have considered it. He's still filling that dream equipment list. He alluded to the fact that there is dense underbrush. A recipe for disaster when wooded areas are neglected. Show me one job where he didn't leave it better than he found it. Karen? I didn't think so.
That under brush is the exact reason we have so many fires out here in the north west the envirimentlist made the forest service stop cleaning the forest so God has to do it for the.
Man we r slow w work right now. Storm clean up should provide little but not sure. I'd so load up am come work for someone like u or John n a minute if i knew I could stay busy a few weeks. Awsome video man as usual!!! U r blessed to have plenty of work
When I was a kid, my dad would tell me to got to the local tire shop and get an old tire. We would fill it with diesel and let it burn! Those were the day! If Chris did that now they would probably kick him off RUclips. Lol
That turned out great.everything gone as if nothing happened.couple horseflies wanted To be in Front of the camera 🤣🤣.i always like the drone views from the jobsite. That was a Lot of brush and debris for 1 acre clearing .stay safe 😀
I keep wondering how many people are going to keep asking why you don't grind and sell mulch when you have explained that over and over time after time, give me a break guys he has explained that so many times that anybody that has watched a few of your videos had to have heard you explain it, keep up the good work and good videos, Thanks
I’ve been watching your videos for the last couple of weeks now after I ran into your feed. Look forward to every new one. I work in the coal mines and run big equipment every day. Usually a 260 ton end dump or a 24 Cat grader. Ran excavators years ago. Like your style. Keep the videos coming!!!!
The amount of pollution your fire was putting out Chris compared to what all the volcanoes that are erupting at the moment are would be minute have a great day burning.
Not to mention all the countries that have nothing at all for checks on air/water quality. They burn any and all kinds of stuff that pollute beyond their own borders even.
' Once the fire gets a hot nugget ' ...... Playing in mud, making fires, making rivers in the mud.... I used to do that when I was a boot 10.... GOOD TIMES
Your so right about mulching Chris its knowing where it is needed like clearing a very good landscaped garden to a clearing project.....upsetting a bees nest though that brings a bad day (24:00)
Chris, I respect the fact that you are in this business, and you know what makes economic sense. I do appreciate you educating those of us who don't know the business, and don't know why you don't chip. Thanks. I have a chipper that mounts on my tractor, and people say "... but I gave you that whole pile of limbs." they don't realize that that pile of limbs ends up as three wheel barrel loads of chips. I chip when it makes sense, definitely not to make money. Between my time, the fuel and the machine, it always loses money.
Where I live, they would still run it through a chipper. The laws on burn piles are rather restrictive, so contractors have gotten inventive. I haven't seen a company take down a tree like you do anywhere near where I live. Everything that might be usable is cut down, sorted and meticulously stacked before being sent out. There's plenty of "we sell firewood, you figure how to move it". There's a variety of uses other then for mulch. For exemple, my town used a large amount of mulch on a muddy walking trail in a parc. It did wonders and didn't cost anything other then transport. It's a great solution that has almost no environmental impact. Contractors will also use it for similar reasons to deal with muddy soil. Crushed more finely, it can be added to compost piles. Some companies clean the mulch, compress it and make compressed fire logs. We've also got a cogeneration facility north of where I live that will burn just about any wood waste. When they can't do that, they just chip it up on site and mix it with the dirt. I get where you are coming from, and there's no question that if everyone else is doing it, you probably have little choice but to go along if you want to keep your prices reasonable. It also helps tremendously to have an entire industrial core that is capable of handling that product.
What if they send YOU to the Suez canal . . . would you raise the water level around the ship or dig it? I really enjoy your videos - - you make complicated work look simple. Don't change anything, please.
Love the random insect photobombs. Must have been the Annual Ugly Bug Ball. (that was a Beetle not a spider a :37:00) "Come on and crawl, gotta crawl, gotta crawl, to the Ugly Bug Ball, to the Ball, to the Ball and a happy time was had there, one and all, at the Ugly Bug Ball" LoL (thank you Burl Ives)
Chris, I am amazed that you can get all that done in 8. Be careful out there, I think those were bees around your camera, don't want anything stopping the videos.
Couldn't help notice how the overhead drone shot at the end made it look like a small campfire. I could blink one way and see a huge debris pile burning, and blink another , and see something I'd walk up to with hotdogs and marshmallows on a stick.
When I started clearing my property I would save any trees 12" or more in diameter for firewood (mostly Hickory and Oak trees). I have a log splitter and a wife that likes to split wood. After giving away a lot of wood I still have more split firewood than I know what to do with, so now pretty much every tree that I take down goes to the burn pile. Chipping anything up for mulch or whatever would be nothing more than a huge waste of my time.
Looks like fun with the dozer, but i think you could benefit from a vertical brush guard on top of the blade to help tame the top of the brush pile. You could make it removable.
Cr is of you had longer spikes on the fixed rake you can but further under the rubbish we call it nuclear in the UK saves a lot of reversing back and forth ,Try it . Excellent work by the way.
But you can use the chipper in conjunction with the concrete pump and the dragline and the lowboy and I’m sure the chip hauling trailer. Then you’d need some kind of loader for loading the chips. Pretty easy to spend other people’s money
I enjoyed watching the hummingbirds fluttering around your camera when you first started pushing stuff. I was hoping that at least one would have come up to the camera to inspect it.
About your "rant" Chris... I always have to chuckle when people tell you how you should be doing things. I think to myself: "Don't you think he would be doing those things already if they were worth doing?". I mean, after all, you've been uploading videos for 14 years now, so they should at least give you a little credit that you know what you're doing by now, lol.
The ole Straw trick! LOL ...... We are in a burn ban ... i have a permit but im trying to hold off due to it being so dry and windy .... its a huge risk up here not to mention I'm enjoying the break from smoke!
I notice over the few years I been watching you have become quite talented at starting fires! When you were a small boy we know you liked playing in the dirt, did you also play with matches? Kidding, love the videos, thanks for sharing.
In Louisiana, in the swamp march areas. Where the want a pad or clear area like you have there! They cut in a road then cut a square in circulating the area pushing all brush inward then set it a fire outside in. Burn it all then come in push anything up and re burn. . The haul in clay and base. Level area. And done they haul out nothing! Main work clearing and cutting in road and perimeter road and burn inward! Then haul in fill cover it all up!
I always liked to burn my brush on the farm when it was damp, drizzling even better, with heavy evening rain forecasted. Never had to worry about the fire going anywhere.
Your audio and video skills and equipment are great Chris, as I am elderly and hearing is not great, but your awesome narrative skill amaze me thus I can watch for hours. Thanks for taking the time and hard work in sharing ! My favorite as I can relate and greetings from “Bluff Country “ Iowa!
I'm 70 years old and damn I love watching a man work that really knows his business. You handle those machines professionally with ease. Keep up the great videos and thanks for sharing with us.
I am a 80 year old woman , but I sure would like to play with one of those machines. Lol I want to rip something apart. ☺️
You would be surprised how easy they are to operate. Chris could show you in 1/2 hour how to operate the excavator for sure. Now there are going to be people that say that you’re not efficient at it you’re not fast you’re not good and all that other crap but at least you know what the controls do and don’t be intimidated by the size of the machine, the controls are similar on all of them. To get as good as Chris you need lots of experience.
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My ex said the same thing lol
One of the things about machines like that whether it be an excavator or a skid steer, if you let go of the controls everything stops. It’s not like a car where it keeps on rolling you have to want it to do something and if you take hands off it stops.
Freaky
been watching for awhile now and have to say you are the best operator i have ever seen. so pleasurable to watch someone that knows what they are doing. love that you take good care of your equiptment without beating the snot out of it. please keep doing what you do always an adventure and hard to walk away from. all the best for the future. thanks
love the "crunchy" sound of the trees being pulled out and broken.
Tree clearing as a science! Snap em' in half and grab the stumps in one move. 😉
Really enjoyed the drone shots of the burn pile. Hard to believe all the debris is gone in one day. ♨️
Yeah right into the ozone layer.
I see you have been using the bucket Too send up puffs of smoke like smoke signals. 😆. Ive noticed the same people telling you to get a chipper are the same ones telling the same thing to the guys clearing land with Fecons. Guess it means they don’t know very much. Good work Chris
Why are you building fires? You should be on your way to the Suez Canal, to show those wing dings how to dig a pond quick
I 2nd THAT! ! ! ... (haha he said wing dings hehe)
I was just being polite....... people get pissy when your not.
I think they need more than a little pond. Good idea though!
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I rode through the Suez Canal on a Tender (repair ship) when I was in the Navy. That canal is soooo narrow!
Don’t listen to the naysayers Chris. You’re the one with the experience. Keep doing you man!
Ya know If it were my dime ... I'd do it my way ... His dime so it's his way .... AND AND AND a great vijit to boot......... SO :p~~~ on the naysayers.
What Jake and Fat Dan said. 😜😝😛 may a herd of milk cows p§§§§ on the naysayers
Ordinarily, watching a bonfire for three quarters of an hour would be like watching earthworms copulating for that time, but Chris turns a mundane exercise into an instructive art form with droll asides that makes for truely compelling viewing! I possess my soul in patience awaiting the next installment! Col, NZ
You like watching earthworms copulate too huh?
I KNEW I wasn't the only one! 😁
Where do you watch 🪱 porn?
@@thomaswypyszinski3645 YEA ME TOO.
I know you do a lot of work to clear land but the arial view at the end really drives home how much work you do to accomplish clearing land for a home site.
You have to love the armchair operators out there Great job as always 👏
Chris spending a quiet day doing a bit of gardening.
When a man knows how to roll his ball and not get it dirty you know he knows how to operate
I now have a mind picture of Chris rolling a gigantic spliff with the dozer. Now wouldn't that be something to see? 🌿🌿🌿🌿🚬🚬
Chris I will never question your business practices with the speed and efficiency that you do your jobs shows you know what your doing and making good money so dont even acknowledge the na sayers out there they are not worth the effort 🍻
Chris , I absolutely love your videos , it is amazing to watch a professional who not only does great work but also takes pride in his job !! Thank you
Just want to say thanks Chris for the last year or so of entertainment,it’s been great watching and listening to yah.
With all the crap going on it’s been great to have some consistency and accomplishment,not much in the media,so thx Chris!!!
I hope the stinking epa keeps its prying eyes and overreaching hands out of your business!
PS yah build a really nice fire.....
the smoke rolling out the bucket is so satisfying!
GREAT ! Now the damn Volvo has a smoking habit .... Damn it Chris you should know better. mumble mumble grumble something bout the Volvo being to young to SMOKE mumble grumble.😂😂
I get the feeling this job will produce several burn videos, and I'm here for it.
I've got the bratwursts and buns, onions Now we just need a couple of strong men to bring the Adult beverages and we can party til the fire burns out. Lol
@@maryschillinger2909 we could fill the bucket of the skid steer with ice and turn it into a 5 in 1.
Bring the Cheerwine!
Amazing how much you get done in a single day!!
That was awesome Chris!! That dozer can push an enormous load! Burning all of that crap was the best idea.
I would like to thank you ! I have been watching you now going on 3 to 4 years and have enjoyed every minute . Thank you Keith
It’s always nice to tell someone else how to run there business over the computer!!!! Keep up the great work and videos!
Yea only thing that crap good for is ashes. The ashes are good for clay it will improve it. Now if you could find someone to buy the ashes. Spread it around and work it into the soil or bury it. I agree.
Good for the clay??you mean by adding nutrients or something of the like to it?...good for the soil,not sure what you mean by saying its good for the clay...are you able to elaborate further?
Sundays are for burning fires!! Fire is rapid oxidation , mullching is decomposition or slow low temp oxidation. results are same with identical biproducts and atmospheric results. Hey, Chris,
I really like the acoustic guitar drone music.
Loved it all ... Even the going to Kansas City instrumental in the drone shot. Mumford did a super version of that in the lost tapes video and dvd.
Thanks for taking time to do all the filming. As an old person, I love to watch...
I agree as another old guy & did work like this it’s still nice to watch
I went to Alabama this spring have watched many of your videos and wanted to say thank you for sharing the experience made my life a lot easier to clear the land
For what it's worth, you can attach an old 110 volt oil furnace squirrel fan to a 14 inch X 14 foot galvanized pipe and turn your standard fire into a blast furnace. Works great for burning stumps and large fire piles in a hurry. Best to turn the fan off when getting near the fire with equipment as it will melt your hydraulic lines. On the down side, all the dirt under the fire pit will be sterile and not grow anything.
C’mon Tim,,,,, you and I both know, that it just wouldn’t be a proper Letsdig18 series without a “Big Ass Bonfire” once in a while!!!!
I think all those that complain should allow you at their job for a day to question the heck out of them why they do this and don’t do that, then allow you to have access to their email to question them even more!!! Haha.
When I hire an expert, I trust the expert to do their job. The contractors I have hired are happy to come back for other work, especially when I was still Ranching! They knew they weren’t going to be questioned and have to deal with ridiculous expectations. They could just come out and do the job they were paid to do!!
Keep doin what you do Chris!! I’ll keep watching and learning!
We've been burning in GA with a pit and an ACD permit. First time burning really doing 30 acres of stumps, underbrush, and slash. Its crazy how hot that pit gets and how fast you can feed it.
Impressive accomplishment today.. worked like a charm, and sure pays to have the right equipment and the knowledge how to use it. tks for taking us along.
I always love these burn videos.
Wow, the way you can grab a clump of trees eight feet of the ground, break them off, drop them and then pull up their trunks and root balls, shake off the dirt and throw the whole mess on the pile in one fell swoop is ….. amazing!!
Thanks for taking the time at the end of a long day to fly the drone over the site -excellent perspective.
Well that looks great Chris, awesome job brother! Thanks for sharing my friend! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Chris, I wait to see your next job brother! Stay safe brother
Sap's not so bad for burning, as it contains a good deal of sugars.
Flakes of dried sap added to tinder actually makes it burn hotter.
Trouble with trees in spring is all the extra water being pumped up alongside the sap.
I think if we built fires like that over here in the UK or most places in Europe on a building plot we would be shot and we would have to chip it or pay to have it put into the closest landfill. The joys of all our laws
There'd actually be a market for the shredded/chipped remains, though. Mix with cow shit, pile it up, compost in a few months.
@@Skorpychan there is a big market for it from compost makers but selling to them already chipped, don't think there would be any profit and would probably end up running a loss unless you are the one making the compost
Random person: Chris, you ever build a fire?
Chris: 😏a couple small ones.
Opposite of that is
Chris you ever put any fires out?
Just a couple land fills
You guys do know that if it turns a buck Chris would have considered it. He's still filling that dream equipment list. He alluded to the fact that there is dense underbrush. A recipe for disaster when wooded areas are neglected. Show me one job where he didn't leave it better than he found it. Karen? I didn't think so.
That under brush is the exact reason we have so many fires out here in the north west the envirimentlist made the forest service stop cleaning the forest so God has to do it for the.
Man we r slow w work right now. Storm clean up should provide little but not sure. I'd so load up am come work for someone like u or John n a minute if i knew I could stay busy a few weeks. Awsome video man as usual!!! U r blessed to have plenty of work
YOU ARE ONE HARD WORKING MAN!!!!.ALWAYS LOOKING FINISHED AT THE END...
Thank you for the insight into the mulching question; it seems logical at first glance but if it's worthless then it's worthless.
When I was a kid, my dad would tell me to got to the local tire shop and get an old tire. We would fill it with diesel and let it burn! Those were the day! If Chris did that now they would probably kick him off RUclips. Lol
@KR ok! It just brought back a childhood memory. I would never do that now! Thanks for the info!
Chris is a One Man Show! Very therapeutic watching this vlog and others you do. Keep em coming!
Don't know why but watching you burn and clear is enjoyable, thanks.
The Carpenter Bee drove me NUTZ! I wear a headset so I don't disturb the rest of the house and I thought the darn thing was buzzing MY HEAD!
That turned out great.everything gone as if nothing happened.couple horseflies wanted To be in Front of the camera 🤣🤣.i always like the drone views from the jobsite. That was a Lot of brush and debris for 1 acre clearing .stay safe 😀
I keep wondering how many people are going to keep asking why you don't grind and sell mulch when you have explained that over and over time after time, give me a break guys he has explained that so many times that anybody that has watched a few of your videos had to have heard you explain it, keep up the good work and good videos, Thanks
Absolutely 💯job. Thanks for sharing your videos
Yeah! The burn videos are my favorite!!!
Have you asked Greta's opinion on it? How dare you!!😡
I’ve been watching your videos for the last couple of weeks now after I ran into your feed. Look forward to every new one. I work in the coal mines and run big equipment every day. Usually a 260 ton end dump or a 24 Cat grader. Ran excavators years ago. Like your style. Keep the videos coming!!!!
The amount of pollution your fire was putting out Chris compared to what all the volcanoes that are erupting at the moment are would be minute have a great day burning.
Not to mention all the countries that have nothing at all for checks on air/water quality. They burn any and all kinds of stuff that pollute beyond their own borders even.
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Yep Chris, my dad always said if you get a burning pile hot enough it'll burn anything!
?? All day long and you never picked up, ran over, or knocked over the rest of that fuel jug??
' Once the fire gets a hot nugget ' ...... Playing in mud, making fires, making rivers in the mud.... I used to do that when I was a boot 10.... GOOD TIMES
You do such a great job in everything you do. I love your videos.
Your so right about mulching Chris its knowing where it is needed like clearing a very good landscaped garden to a clearing project.....upsetting a bees nest though that brings a bad day (24:00)
WOW, You Really Get The Job Done! That is inspirational.
EYL Chris and Rick From Chicago❤
You know you should talk to your bucket about smoking. LOL Stay Safe Chris!!!
In Scouts, use to hear about fetching a bucket of blue smoke. Now I know!
Chris is a one man wrecking machine got to love his professional work .
Drying out nicely, love the clean burn piles not full of dirt.
45:20 Got a lot done today.
Indeed you did Chris, a lot for one guy.👍👍
Thanks for explaining why this wood couldn’t be used for other things.
Crap soft wood. Not even great for firewood either
This wood is garbage, this what is known as weed wood.
Aaaaand the know it alls are out again.
Love watching the birds chase the bugs you stirred up
Chris, I respect the fact that you are in this business, and you know what makes economic sense. I do appreciate you educating those of us who don't know the business, and don't know why you don't chip. Thanks. I have a chipper that mounts on my tractor, and people say "... but I gave you that whole pile of limbs." they don't realize that that pile of limbs ends up as three wheel barrel loads of chips. I chip when it makes sense, definitely not to make money. Between my time, the fuel and the machine, it always loses money.
Houston, this is Mars Colony Alpha. Is Chris building another bonfire?
Houston: Roger Mars Colony Alpha.
MCA: Oh....thought so.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where I live, they would still run it through a chipper. The laws on burn piles are rather restrictive, so contractors have gotten inventive. I haven't seen a company take down a tree like you do anywhere near where I live. Everything that might be usable is cut down, sorted and meticulously stacked before being sent out. There's plenty of "we sell firewood, you figure how to move it". There's a variety of uses other then for mulch. For exemple, my town used a large amount of mulch on a muddy walking trail in a parc. It did wonders and didn't cost anything other then transport. It's a great solution that has almost no environmental impact. Contractors will also use it for similar reasons to deal with muddy soil. Crushed more finely, it can be added to compost piles. Some companies clean the mulch, compress it and make compressed fire logs. We've also got a cogeneration facility north of where I live that will burn just about any wood waste. When they can't do that, they just chip it up on site and mix it with the dirt. I get where you are coming from, and there's no question that if everyone else is doing it, you probably have little choice but to go along if you want to keep your prices reasonable. It also helps tremendously to have an entire industrial core that is capable of handling that product.
What if they send YOU to the Suez canal . . . would you raise the water level around the ship or dig it? I really enjoy your videos - - you make complicated work look simple. Don't change anything, please.
I enjoy the 2 different angles of the same work !
Love the random insect photobombs.
Must have been the Annual Ugly Bug Ball.
(that was a Beetle not a spider a :37:00)
"Come on and crawl, gotta crawl, gotta crawl, to the Ugly Bug Ball, to the Ball, to the Ball
and a happy time was had there, one and all, at the Ugly Bug Ball" LoL
(thank you Burl Ives)
Thank Chris, always look forward to a new video of yours. Can you show a little of the root raking sometime? Thanks! Cheers from the Pacific NW.
Chris, I am amazed that you can get all that done in 8. Be careful out there, I think those were bees around your camera, don't want anything stopping the videos.
Fun video. I like how the smoke gets trapped in the bucket. 👀👍
Couldn't help notice how the overhead drone shot at the end made it look like a small campfire. I could blink one way and see a huge debris pile burning, and blink another , and see something I'd walk up to with hotdogs and marshmallows on a stick.
you move dirt like a baker decorating a cake. Impressive as always.
the brush rake works great love it
I agree, none of that stuff would make decent mulch but the ashes will make a good addition to the soil for future grassing etc.
Chris I like the way you tell about what you are doing and no you don't talk to much and you do have a good sense of humor
Hey Chris look into thunder creek trailers for fuel and service equipment needs up to 900 gallon fuel tank
The 'slap it on the top' technique is working well.
Hey Chris, why don't you still the ashes for fertilizer? Lolol
Looks like a few comments are fertilizer.
When I started clearing my property I would save any trees 12" or more in diameter for firewood (mostly Hickory and Oak trees). I have a log splitter and a wife that likes to split wood. After giving away a lot of wood I still have more split firewood than I know what to do with, so now pretty much every tree that I take down goes to the burn pile. Chipping anything up for mulch or whatever would be nothing more than a huge waste of my time.
Wow man.. this is awesome. I hope to get into this line of work one day. Your videos are inspiring🙏🏼 can’t wait to see this finished up.
Spring Cleaning takes on a whole new meaning....
When you get Betty ready it will make the larger piles easier to push.
Looks like fun with the dozer, but i think you could benefit from a vertical brush guard on top of the blade to help tame the top of the brush pile. You could make it removable.
a great video with sweet drone footage going to dark excellent chris
You need to give Captain Kleeman a few lessons in fire starting! 🤣
He's more used to putting fires out :)
I was thinking lessons on land clearing LOL
What? No rocks in this lot clearing? I'll bet you are happier than a skunk. Good job young man, keep up the good work and videos.
Umm. Did you bring the burgers and buns, I could see a fantastic BBQ going there .
Cr is of you had longer spikes on the fixed rake you can but further under the rubbish we call it nuclear in the UK saves a lot of reversing back and forth ,Try it . Excellent work by the way.
But you can use the chipper in conjunction with the concrete pump and the dragline and the lowboy and I’m sure the chip hauling trailer. Then you’d need some kind of loader for loading the chips. Pretty easy to spend other people’s money
I enjoyed watching the hummingbirds fluttering around your camera when you first started pushing stuff. I was hoping that at least one would have come up to the camera to inspect it.
Yeah, looks like Chris really stirred up some nests in that area. NC has become a new winter home for many hummingbirds.
About your "rant" Chris... I always have to chuckle when people tell you how you should be doing things. I think to myself: "Don't you think he would be doing those things already if they were worth doing?". I mean, after all, you've been uploading videos for 14 years now, so they should at least give you a little credit that you know what you're doing by now, lol.
they are the same ones that tell the cops to just shoot them in the leg
Drone shots are like a moving games of Where's Waldo as I look for Chris lol
I said that a couple of videos back! I do that too!
The ole Straw trick! LOL ...... We are in a burn ban ... i have a permit but im trying to hold off due to it being so dry and windy .... its a huge risk up here not to mention I'm enjoying the break from smoke!
I notice over the few years I been watching you have become quite talented at starting fires! When you were a small boy we know you liked playing in the dirt, did you also play with matches? Kidding, love the videos, thanks for sharing.
In Louisiana, in the swamp march areas. Where the want a pad or clear area like you have there! They cut in a road then cut a square in circulating the area pushing all brush inward then set it a fire outside in. Burn it all then come in push anything up and re burn. . The haul in clay and base. Level area. And done they haul out nothing! Main work clearing and cutting in road and perimeter road and burn inward! Then haul in fill cover it all up!
You gotta name that little Dozer Thomas. The little dozer that could.