I used to do a lot of brush hogging - you never knew what you were getting into - junk , ruts ,rocks , old perk test holes , stumps , ground bees - kept you on your toes . got a underground cable junction box you know the kind they paint grass green , made a good rattle , then there was the time I sucked up 12 ft. of farm fence and 2 wooden posts , that brought things to a halt !
Ditto on the brush hogging. Managed to somehow brush hog a cement cattle feeder hidden in six foot tail field of weeds, strangely enough the brush hog survived the ordeal.
I contracted high tension line right-of-ways. I definitely know what ya mean about ground bees/hornets - we used to swear they got educated enough to know to build under the pylons. We kept the line area pretty clear, but it’s amazing what people will dump on someone else’s space!
I’ve been under a bush hog a few times myself cutting out barbed wire someone just left lying on the ground with no regard for what trouble it will cause for someone else. Had to grin and bear it a couple of times as I was on a steep hillside getting eat up by yellow jackets I had pissed off.
My guess is that the owner didn't get to where he is by being a slob and he won't put up with sloppy work so probably the contractor that put the fence up has received a phone call.
My fix on Christmas Eve. Its Sunday here in New Zealand. The lovely woman preparing the family dinner for tonight. Thanks Chris. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
seams that way but look at the bright side if it doesn't stop it will brake the cam shaft or worse.there is always a limit how much one can take but we being who we are tend to push the limits to a braking point lol. that was the best bush waker iI have seen so far and i have seen quite a few.
You improve the land in every job you do. No half assing about it. Thanks for sharing this and a very, very Merry Christmas to you, David, your families, and everyone who has worked with you this year.🎄🎄
That mulcher is honestly one of the best I've seen. It does a phenomenal job with a very consistent chip size. Probably nice doing something other than digging dirt for a day or so after the big pond job.
Congratulations, Chris, on a behemoth job well done! This is one for your personal records of achievements. Now you will be in demand to build over the top pond dams. 😊I'm looking forward to your next project.
With mulchers, Bolt cutters should be a standard tool. So many just leave fencing material in the weeds.. and when barbed wire or other fencing gets old and in the weeks... it's invisible..but the mulcher will always find it. Have Merry Christmas.
Hazard reduction in progress - patience tested as well. Always good to see tree and brush clearing to allow greater growth of trees - environment protection. Merry Christmas LetsDig18 to you and yours and to all the best of the season.
That's one of the hardest lessons to learn, no job is finished until everything is cleaned up and properly disposed of, when you leave trash behind it becomes a hazard for you and everyone else.
When I saw you were still at the new pond site, I thought you would have brought the 220 over and buried that brush pile. Mulcher does clear the fence line well - owner needs to go along the fence with 55 gallon drum of weed kill concentrate. Merry Christmas Pond Master and landscape magician.
Welcome to mulching !!! It will wind just about anything into the head !!! I once would a 10 ft piece of 3/4 inch rebar up in the middle of the woods !!! No idea where it came from !!!
Worst thing I've found with my mulcher is a knotted 1" rope ships ladder/climbing net laying next to a woodland confidence course... muddy nylon rope does not cut very well. Finally found that a "hacksaw" sawzall blade would cut it while it was frozen solid in the morning. It sure pulled the drum to a sudden stop though - fortunately it didn't warp the drum when it wadded up in it.
Unprofessional contractors with little or no work ethic are the persons who leave job site debris for others to find regardless what is damaged or the costs of repair/replacement. As Jack Webb said as Sgt. Joe Friday in “Dragnet”, “You (in this case, a-clown contractors) make me want to vomit!” I yield back. Great site, Chris. I’ve learned a lot from your site
I was all like, “HE IS NOT GONNA RUN OVER THAT TREE….. oh ok…. Well now what’s he gonna do, can’t mulch a whole tr.. oh……. Nevermind”. That’s badass.. 😎😂
I could be wrong but that fence looks extremely familiar… way way back in the beginning start of the mini lake.. and the building colors up on the hill are super close… and if I am not mistaken this would be on the other side of the Chain-link fence🤔🤔 lol I tend to pay attention to detail when moving into a job site. There are several Landscape scenes I remember being on the other side of the fence … 🤷🏻♂️ but I could be mistaken… but regardless that is way WAY better job than my brush hog when your done it doesn’t look like a nuclear blast or a tornado!! Nice and extremely neat
Man, I wish I had use of that mulcher at a place where I am from in Pennsylvania. There is a cow field that I watched thorn bushes grow bigger and bigger over the years till they are a good 20 feet across. I always thought of having the ability to clear those for the cow's sake more than the farmer.
@@Skorpychan: That's why you ask around about "borrowing"/"renting" the goats to turn the weeds, etc. into fertilizer, and return them as soon as you start seeing any bare ground, or grass stubble in the area of your "project". 🙂
Wishing you and your dearest loved ones a very happy christmas time, Chris.. thank you for all your videos of your projects and on the farms.. love to you always from Australia
buried 'treasure' in overgrown thicket that like always fun. aside from mulcher ingesting a couple tires , trying to floss with barb wire. each time you use mulcher Chris you getting better. behind the fence was a disaster, it looks 100 times better now. Happy holidays Chris, enjoy some time off
Wait till you mulch over a bumblebee nest. Just stop and make sure all your windows are closed then shut off your mulches and skid steer turned off. You will think you in a hail storm with the force they hit the metal. We only had brush hogs and no cabs on the tractor. I would shut the tractor off locking the brakes and getting under the tractor for protection. It was insane how many times they would hit the tractor.
Friend of friend does clean up work. Doesn't have as nice a mulcher but he told me before hogging the area, he walks it and has a metal detector on a long handle. Found many a hazard. But ideally, who has that time you ask, well you know how much time costs and down time costs. And yeah, its a go and pray work...glad you have bolt cutters and you are doing this in cold weather as no worry of yellowjackets! Merry Christmas to letsdig18!
We all see why these drum mulchers are the preferred machine wow like a lawnmower going threw grass, heaven help anything in front of this monster. Merry Xmas guy's hope you have a good holiday and Happy New Year
Doing that mulching in winter time was likely the better move, cuts back on the chances to stir up yellow jackets or ground wasps. Plus its not just a near impenetrable green wall. This did get me thinking though, as to why not just have you tear it all out with the 220 when you had it there but then comes the question of where you' be able to put it if not dig a burn pit and bury it all.
Just be glad it was chain link which is a mild steel. You will hate the days of barbed wire that is often harder and high tension steel. Nasty stuff. Especially when it is embedded in trees that had the wire stapled to it and then grew around it. Much better to rip out those wind breaks between fields with the excavator and burn the mess than to run into that old wire with a mulcher. Fire does not mind hidden wire.
You're not kidding. I've hit wire that's in trees with a chainsaw before. Thank God for chain brakes. My dad has a scar going down his face from hitting barbed wire in a tree he was cutting up for firewood - there was no such thing as a chain brake at the time. Over 40 stitches from it.
@@m2hmghb: One of my Aunts' husbands had a chainsaw kick back on him, before chain brakes existed, it really tore his face up, and during the recovery of the saw from the kick back, it tore up one of his legs, as well. His recovery from the injuries took a while.
Ooof. That really sucks. I hope he recovered well from it. I wear chaps for a reason, my legs are worth more then the 90 bucks to buy a decent pair of them. @@daleallen7634
Good morning, Chris! I want to thank you for another year of awesome videos. This may sound cliche, but keep up the great work! Hope you and yours and all the puppies have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year! God bless.
Who just abandons chunks of fencing and old tyres? That should have gone in for recycling! At least all the brush is being recycled into soil now. Even though it'll only grow back again as soon as you turn your back, it's good to have organic matter in the soil.
A friend hired a mulcher to help clear some woods behind his house and he asked me to bring my chainsaw and handle the bigger stuff. We got started and things were going great right up until the world went crazy around the mulcher. Friend had forgotten he had pulled an old trampoline bed off into the woods. It sounded like a Huey had landed in the backyard when it grabbed it and there was a cloud of leaves and dirt covering the mulcher. It was a significant emotional event!!
I used to do a lot of brush hogging - you never knew what you were getting into - junk , ruts ,rocks , old perk test holes , stumps , ground bees - kept you on your toes . got a underground cable junction box you know the kind they paint grass green , made a good rattle , then there was the time I sucked up 12 ft. of farm fence and 2 wooden posts , that brought things to a halt !
Ditto on the brush hogging. Managed to somehow brush hog a cement cattle feeder hidden in six foot tail field of weeds, strangely enough the brush hog survived the ordeal.
I contracted high tension line right-of-ways. I definitely know what ya mean about ground bees/hornets - we used to swear they got educated enough to know to build under the pylons. We kept the line area pretty clear, but it’s amazing what people will dump on someone else’s space!
Keep your battery powered grinder handy 👍
I’ve been under a bush hog a few times myself cutting out barbed wire someone just left lying on the ground with no regard for what trouble it will cause for someone else. Had to grin and bear it a couple of times as I was on a steep hillside getting eat up by yellow jackets I had pissed off.
Oh come on now, pitter patter, brush hogging ain't nothing but child's play. Get with the program Sally! I remember when I was 7 years old 😂
Merry Christmas to everyone! 🎄
Man, that's just crappy workmanship to leave construction debris laying around. Did they think that would just... go away? Love the mulcher.
Wood, even treated pallets, will rot eventually, but not much else.
"Did they think"
I think I'd make it known that the contractor hires lazy, disrespectful workers, and that they should be avoided at all costs.
My guess is that the owner didn't get to where he is by being a slob and he won't put up with sloppy work so probably the contractor that put the fence up has received a phone call.
Happens all the time unfortunately.
My fix on Christmas Eve. Its Sunday here in New Zealand. The lovely woman preparing the family dinner for tonight. Thanks Chris. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Happy Christmas, it must be close to midnight there at 2:00 pm Pacific my time. :)
Merry Christmas Eve Mike. Take care and may 2024 be a good year for us all.
@@dennis2376:
I believe that North Carolina is on Eastern Standard Time, it's only 3 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time.
🙂
@@daleallen7634 Well close counts. :)
That thing is a beast! Briars, brambles, trees, the occasional body...not much stops it...
seams that way but look at the bright side if it doesn't stop it will brake the cam shaft or worse.there is always a limit how much one can take but we being who we are tend to push the limits to a braking point lol. that was the best bush waker iI have seen so far and i have seen quite a few.
@@2012isnear-my-my-myYou must be 5 years old judging from the amount of spelling mistakes lol
Merry Christmas Letsdig 18
You improve the land in every job you do. No half assing about it. Thanks for sharing this and a very, very Merry Christmas to you, David, your families, and everyone who has worked with you this year.🎄🎄
It’s blowing my mind that it’s colder where you are. I’m in northern PA, and it hasn’t hit the low 20s yet
That thing really makes the place look great
It's relaxing seeing the mulch head at work.
Enjoy this video too Chris the Mulcher ad ad a bad day with the fence line .
That mulcher is honestly one of the best I've seen. It does a phenomenal job with a very consistent chip size. Probably nice doing something other than digging dirt for a day or so after the big pond job.
TMC CANCELA THE BEST
Congratulations, Chris, on a behemoth job well done! This is one for your personal records of achievements. Now you will be in demand to build over the top pond dams. 😊I'm looking forward to your next project.
I think it would be interesting to see the sharpening of the blades on your mulcher. Nice work!
You replace the carbide teeth on the hammers. No sharpening. It wears away to nothing.
@@mke723much slower mulching and ugly mulch also. The carbide’s are rough on a skid I think I like the knifes just cut nice
It’s not interesting lol 😂 I do it twice a day
@18:34 YEET!
Lovely pond in the background!!! Wonder who made that diamond appear!!!😊😊😊
With mulchers, Bolt cutters should be a standard tool. So many just leave fencing material in the weeds.. and when barbed wire or other fencing gets old and in the weeks... it's invisible..but the mulcher will always find it. Have Merry Christmas.
We keep a 18V grinder with a pkg. of cutting disk!!
Bolt cutters, some kind of torch, grinder, penetrating oil and impact gun would be my list. Merry Christmas to you as well.
Nice quick mulching job . Looks great as always.
Just keep warm in the chilley wether. It is not 2 b a coold in not.😊🎉
One Carolinian to another Merry Christmas Let’s Dig 18
That looks like some of the best fun you can have with your pants on, that a superb machine.
Always a mystery what's hiding in the brush . Good thing nothing solid like a engine block .
I've found cars hidden in the brush before. Neighbor pulled a car out of the swamp when I was growing up.
Hazard reduction in progress - patience tested as well. Always good to see tree and brush clearing to allow greater growth of trees - environment protection. Merry Christmas LetsDig18 to you and yours and to all the best of the season.
Merry Christmas from Northern Ontario Canada
This is strangely satisfying... i could watch this for hours. I love seeing the progress you made. I guess that why i enjoy mowing lawn. 😂
Right behind the big pond job! That is one good machine. Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧👍👍👍
That looks like the property where you just finished the massive dam. I would love to see the pond after all the rain we just had.
Thanks
Nice job on the briar/wood pile. Glad to see your going to get your money's worth out of that mulcher.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL
This lot looks familiar!!!! Just saying. Love the munchers! Amazed every time I see them being used.
Merry Christmas to all.
“A Tire!”….wonder where that came from….guess homeboy finally picked it up from behind the dam and chucked it over the fence….real nice!
Merry Christmas, Chris. 🎄🎄
That fence wire " protects " the mulcher blades 😂
That's one of the hardest lessons to learn, no job is finished until everything is cleaned up and properly disposed of, when you leave trash behind it becomes a hazard for you and everyone else.
Dr. Destruction with a mulcher! Great job! Thumbs up - as always!! Have a wonderful & safe Merry Christmas!! Jim
When I saw you were still at the new pond site, I thought you would have brought the 220 over and buried that brush pile. Mulcher does clear the fence line well - owner needs to go along the fence with 55 gallon drum of weed kill concentrate. Merry Christmas Pond Master and landscape magician.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Cris🎄
Welcome to mulching !!! It will wind just about anything into the head !!! I once would a 10 ft piece of 3/4 inch rebar up in the middle of the woods !!! No idea where it came from !!!
There's a good perspective view of the backside of the dam giving some sense of scale.
Merry Christmas to you and all your family, i don't comment on your videos but i do appreciate all of them thanks 👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍
The mulcher has come in handy. I like the mini with the mulching head. It's a tool for a different area as well. Merry Christmas.
Good morning Chris❤😊
Worst thing I've found with my mulcher is a knotted 1" rope ships ladder/climbing net laying next to a woodland confidence course... muddy nylon rope does not cut very well. Finally found that a "hacksaw" sawzall blade would cut it while it was frozen solid in the morning. It sure pulled the drum to a sudden stop though - fortunately it didn't warp the drum when it wadded up in it.
Fire, destruction and mulching
Things to make my day
Unprofessional contractors with little or no work ethic are the persons who leave job site debris for others to find regardless what is damaged or the costs of repair/replacement. As Jack Webb said as Sgt. Joe Friday in “Dragnet”, “You (in this case, a-clown contractors) make me want to vomit!” I yield back. Great site, Chris. I’ve learned a lot from your site
That's a perfect site for a giant pond...
Merry christmas everybody
Merry Christmas from Siesta Key Florida
The high flow Takeuchi high flow has really made the mulcher perform
I do love the way a mulcher can clean up fast.
I was all like, “HE IS NOT GONNA RUN OVER THAT TREE….. oh ok…. Well now what’s he gonna do, can’t mulch a whole tr.. oh……. Nevermind”.
That’s badass.. 😎😂
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo🎅
I could be wrong but that fence looks extremely familiar… way way back in the beginning start of the mini lake.. and the building colors up on the hill are super close… and if I am not mistaken this would be on the other side of the Chain-link fence🤔🤔 lol I tend to pay attention to detail when moving into a job site. There are several Landscape scenes I remember being on the other side of the fence … 🤷🏻♂️ but I could be mistaken… but regardless that is way WAY better job than my brush hog when your done it doesn’t look like a nuclear blast or a tornado!! Nice and extremely neat
Man, I wish I had use of that mulcher at a place where I am from in Pennsylvania. There is a cow field that I watched thorn bushes grow bigger and bigger over the years till they are a good 20 feet across. I always thought of having the ability to clear those for the cow's sake more than the farmer.
What part of Pa? I’m in western Pa, and have equipment. I do fence rows , fields etc.
@@Badgermatt-nc5nr Jefferson county. Not my field n no way ever in my budget
@@michaelsnell4034 I hear ya! I was just offering if you were in the market. Merry Christmas!
Goats will fix that, given time. But they'll go on to eat the grass right down to the soil.
@@Skorpychan:
That's why you ask around about "borrowing"/"renting" the goats to turn the weeds, etc. into fertilizer, and return them as soon as you start seeing any bare ground, or grass stubble in the area of your "project".
🙂
One can never be too careful, near fenceline
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Chris to you and your family!! Great videos. Thanks for sharing!!
Dang! I’d forgotten how good that mulcher was! And satisfying to boot!
I can watch this for an hour don't listen to those who say
I still think the 973 fitted with a mulcher would be awesome 😉👍
The mulcher is a "handy dandy" machine, excellent results! Thanks for the video.
Am i the only one who liked watching the hydraulic pressure gauge on the mulcher?
Wishing you and your dearest loved ones a very happy christmas time, Chris.. thank you for all your videos of your projects and on the farms.. love to you always from Australia
I hope you show us the sharpening when you do it. Thanks.
You should name it Power Beaver.
Merry Christmas Chris and your family, hope you all have a great one!
That brush hog gives instant gratification.
Merry Christmas Chris.
Merry Christmas Chris, your a good man , God Bless you
buried 'treasure' in overgrown thicket that like always fun. aside from mulcher ingesting a couple tires , trying to floss with barb wire. each time you use mulcher Chris you getting better. behind the fence was a disaster, it looks 100 times better now. Happy holidays Chris, enjoy some time off
When is the sawmill gonna have your deck boards ready.
Wait till you mulch over a bumblebee nest. Just stop and make sure all your windows are closed then shut off your mulches and skid steer turned off. You will think you in a hail storm with the force they hit the metal. We only had brush hogs and no cabs on the tractor. I would shut the tractor off locking the brakes and getting under the tractor for protection. It was insane how many times they would hit the tractor.
Merry Christmas to you, your crew and all your viewers
Friend of friend does clean up work. Doesn't have as nice a mulcher but he told me before hogging the area, he walks it and has a metal detector on a long handle. Found many a hazard. But ideally, who has that time you ask, well you know how much time costs and down time costs. And yeah, its a go and pray work...glad you have bolt cutters and you are doing this in cold weather as no worry of yellowjackets! Merry Christmas to letsdig18!
Chainlink fence, barbed wire top, warehouse building. 25ft deep round pond with island. I'm thinking secret mini submarine testing facility. 😂
Jet boat racing is my guess
Good morning everyone it is Christmas eve here in Australia I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas holidays ❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same to you. Hopefully not hot where you are. Hot in FNQ
No it is 17 degrees not to hot
Happy Christmas. :)
34°C here. Happy Christmas to you as well
Merry Christmas to you all
Looks like the most recent pond build in the background??
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Best thing to carry with you on those mulchers is a battery angle grinder cut off disc's and extra batteries lol.
That thing is a BEAST. I bet it gets a workout over at Bealy Good Farms when you start on that project.
Already been there, to cut a perimeter path for the surveyors.
@@JohnShalamskas Yeah, but think how much more there is to do . . . 🙂
Good looking job with that machine!! Bet that makes quite the noise when it gets wrapped up with wire!!
We all see why these drum mulchers are the preferred machine wow like a lawnmower going threw grass, heaven help anything in front of this monster. Merry Xmas guy's hope you have a good holiday and Happy New Year
Doing that mulching in winter time was likely the better move, cuts back on the chances to stir up yellow jackets or ground wasps. Plus its not just a near impenetrable green wall. This did get me thinking though, as to why not just have you tear it all out with the 220 when you had it there but then comes the question of where you' be able to put it if not dig a burn pit and bury it all.
Little late watching have a merry Christmas and all the best for 2024 can’t wait to see what’s coming up the mulched Is a beast 👍👋🇨🇦
Wow , that has some power !!!
That’s where you just finished the big dam?
Just be glad it was chain link which is a mild steel. You will hate the days of barbed wire that is often harder and high tension steel. Nasty stuff. Especially when it is embedded in trees that had the wire stapled to it and then grew around it. Much better to rip out those wind breaks between fields with the excavator and burn the mess than to run into that old wire with a mulcher. Fire does not mind hidden wire.
You're not kidding. I've hit wire that's in trees with a chainsaw before. Thank God for chain brakes. My dad has a scar going down his face from hitting barbed wire in a tree he was cutting up for firewood - there was no such thing as a chain brake at the time. Over 40 stitches from it.
@@m2hmghb:
One of my Aunts' husbands had a chainsaw kick back on him, before chain brakes existed, it really tore his face up, and during the recovery of the saw from the kick back, it tore up one of his legs, as well.
His recovery from the injuries took a while.
Ooof. That really sucks. I hope he recovered well from it. I wear chaps for a reason, my legs are worth more then the 90 bucks to buy a decent pair of them. @@daleallen7634
Merry Christmas to you and yours
Good morning, Chris! I want to thank you for another year of awesome videos. This may sound cliche, but keep up the great work!
Hope you and yours and all the puppies have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year! God bless.
I think that is one of your better purchases, Chris. It does such a good job.
You and your family have a fine Christmas and New Year!
Good job Chris,hope you have a merry Christmas
Happy Christmas and New year to you Chris....... been a fabulous year of videos.......
Who just abandons chunks of fencing and old tyres? That should have gone in for recycling!
At least all the brush is being recycled into soil now. Even though it'll only grow back again as soon as you turn your back, it's good to have organic matter in the soil.
❤❤❤ Merry Christmas Eve!
Ho Ho Ho Chris...🌟
A friend hired a mulcher to help clear some woods behind his house and he asked me to bring my chainsaw and handle the bigger stuff. We got started and things were going great right up until the world went crazy around the mulcher. Friend had forgotten he had pulled an old trampoline bed off into the woods. It sounded like a Huey had landed in the backyard when it grabbed it and there was a cloud of leaves and dirt covering the mulcher. It was a significant emotional event!!
WHOP WHOP WHOP
That mulched is a beast!!
It would be great to see you sharpen them.... :-)
A wonderful non-pound video. Love it.
Nice thanks for sharing Merry Christmas and see you next 🎄❤️🎄🦃😄