I remember 15 years ago taking my sons out on their first deer hunt. We were sitting on buckets close to each other. Really cold light snow cover. The oldest gets bored and decided to do a snow angel when he got up there were about a hundred ticks in him. Thankfully he was I blaze orange so we could remove them quickly, lessen learned. Here in Wisconsin the cold does not deter the ticks.
I grew up in Pittsburgh Mike, and we did not have the ticks around back then. We spent every day out in the woods/fields and nothing more than a mosquito bite. Use permethrin on your clothes/gear. I use Sawyers on my hunting clothes, and haven't had one on me since. Worth every penny. Lyme disease is nothing you want to mess around with.
Concur with permethrin. Sister got some in concentrated bulk from a vet and we mix it to spray. Cheaper than the commercial spray, but that Sawyer brand does work. We have had good luck with it.
Fred, we id not have the deer and bear ticks in our area either until neighbors brought in elk for their fenced in farm and a taxidermist became well known and they had people bring in animals from all over the US and africa.
@@realairplane261, It was strange here because the Upper Peninsula had dog Ticks, I assume from Bear hounds coming to hunt from the South. It took a while for them to come to my area but we have them now. My next oldest Brother woke one Morning with a fully engorged Dog Tick on the right side of his face. I don’t want any Ticks around me. That’s why I use Sawyer’s when I Turkey 🦃 Hunt in May! Keeps the Squibes away too! (My Son’s name for Skeeters.) I actually saw a mosquito land on my coat and fall off dead.
Mike - I think Troy McKinney makes a good point below about Archie and his sticks. When I saw previous videos with trips down the paths, I was thinking Melissa could have a ball with the chipper cleaning the stuff that had fallen next to, and across the trails. Oh well, Your woods, Your rules. :) Blessings to you and the family. Hi to Hunter, Hannah, and Eva.
Good morning everyone. 28º in Kansas City now. Overslept this morning, sorry for the late post. Ticks don't bother me as much as the chiggers. Stay safe, be humble & kind and have a day.
Well Mike, I see what you could be doing the rest of the winter. Piling up brush and deadfalls and having bonfires every few days while the snow covers the ground. Good way to improve your woods.
I like your show you have god music today the info. Is good. I'm a retired librarian 22 years, I am a vetetan of 3 years Army, and was a stay at home mom for 14 years My husband & I watch your show together
Permethrin on your clothes will last for 6 washes. It doesn’t mess up fabric like deet does.keeps the ticks off. I use it during turkey season and it is still on the outer layers for deer season.
you will find those tracks are hard on the land Mike. I've torn up more than I cleaned up many times. Sometimes its better to let Mother Nature reclaim it unless you are really clearing the land. But its definitely a must have tool for the shed!
Hey Mike, I really love the music choices you've featured recently. Thank you! I'm sorting these artists, adding their songs to my "walking in the woods" Playlist.
Good morning! Cut our walk about a half mile short this morning because it started to sprinkle, which wasn’t too bad but just a little uncomfortable at 35F. Good practice for the excavator, cleaning up the forest like that. Concur with other commenter that the excavator making grapple-sized piles that then get moved to the burn pile might be a little more efficient, but the grapple wasn’t there and some practice with the excavator was desired. But walking down a trail with that, cleaning everything within reach into small piles that get transported some other day might be the long-term way to go. Nice to have options! Y’all have a good day!
Mike, a controlled burn to clean up the forest floor will help greatly in reducing the tick population. burning will also clean up all that leaf litter so natural plants will grow to provide food for the wildlife, (not a biologist, but I did sleep at a holiday in express once)
You are right about the ticks. I’m 70 years old and as a kid I was in the woods constantly winter spring and fall and don’t remember any problems with ticks.
Goodmorning Morgans and everyone reading comments. Cleaning up the trail area and getting ready for spring nice, I'm doing the same here in the yard raking weeds and getting the garden for spring. Great video always enjoy watching everyone have a great day
Cleaning up the forest floor helps prevent big fires. This kind of work should be standard for all forests. We do have so much of risk , as we see on TV news every summer. Pay now or pay later.
Good morning Mike, great evening with the excavator, sure can get a lot done in a little while when you know how to handle that machine. You’ll get your money back from it PDQ. Thanks for sharing with us it’s beautiful out there with the sunset and the work that you all have done! 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
That excavator is just badass!, I got lymes disease 6 yrs ago after three days of a tick in my back!, took medication for 30 days !, and got rid of it I thought!, dr. Told me it will effect my lower joints with arteritis and it's TRUE but I keep going!. We put 50 guineas on our place and haven't seen a tick in 6 yrs.!, that hydraulic arm is so essential to an excavator!. Morgans have a day!.
You may want to consider letting Mellissa do what you are doing to let her get more experience and familiarization with the excavator. Also, consider putting the grappler on one of the tractors and hooking up the dump trailer to it and go around and load all the dead debris into the dump trailer thus covering more ground then dumping the trailer at your burn pit/pile.
Great video Mike,,,beautiful sunset,, got to be nice to come home from work and say....Melissa, I'm heading out....to go play with the new toy..have a great Day Morgans👍👍👍👍
Increased deer and wild game populations equal more ticks, at least in my opinion. I never worried about the ticks when I was a young boy. It was a miracle to see a deer in those times, and there were trappers and varmint hunters keeping those populations down.
That excavator does a great job of cleaning up all the brush and dead stuff. Mite your big tractor with grapple be easier to move little pile to the big pile . Just saying .We don't have more than 2 inches of frost .,up here in Orillia . We are in lockdown now until middle of Feb. Hope we have building permit to rebuild our home . Have a day eh!
Peppermint essential oil works great for repelling tics. Just a few drops on you socks, jacket. We use it on our dogs, a little on their collar or down their back, tics fall right off. Doesn't take much, my dogs don't like the smell
Oh Mike....man I can't wait to get my tractor back with the new backhoe attachment! Gonna be awesome! Hope ya'll are doing well. I'm still sick...but showing some improvement
I've said to you before I live in California (not a fan of it) but one of the good things about this area is there are no ticks. I've been told it's the elevation and the dry climate (no fleas on my dogs either)
Morning Mike: It's great to see the clean-up around the forest that you use. I've seen you use a chipper on the back of your tractor and I have always wondered why, after cutting down trees, you don't go back with the chipper and clean up what you don't harvest? I am aware that naturally the small pieces will rot but it takes years and it looks messy especially in the areas that you frequent and film in and you and your family just strike me as the messy type of people. Anyway "have a (good) day"
I was having problems typing what I wanted to say.... to wards then end I typed that you and your family were messy ... my intent was to say NOT messy, that you were caring for the land Question though: does the nutrients from what you don't use go back into the soil faster after chipping or after burning???
Yes Mike you run that machine like an extension of your arm and very well I might add Your rated amongst the top 5 operators that I've seen in my lifetime Anyway missed you yesterday Great video and stay warm
I do not recall wen I was a kid and practically living in the woods that I ever saw a tick. Now days if you wander into some places you can get covered up with them.
Mike, Watching you clearing away the brush into a bonfire pile, it occurred to me that the Moritz tipping trailer coupled to the big tractor, might save double handling the load. Just forwarded for consideration..Cheers Robin.
One thing you can do to keep tics away. Is get some mint seeds. Scatter them along each side of the trail. Ticks hate mint and will stay away. God bless
Hello Mike, Well its all down hill from here on out lol. I just picked up power tilt grading bucket and a ripper for my KX057. One thing i suggest to you is to watch the Cotter Pin on the bucket. I lost a couple on mine & both time the Pin was out more that half way by the time i saw it.
I didn't know anything about ticks until a news story about serial killer Roger Dale Stafford being track and captured through heavy forest in Oklahoma. I remember after the news story aired, every time we came in from being outside our mother was checking us for ticks and talking about lime disease and other various diseases carried by ticks. Today it seams as if tick are everywhere. Enjoy the seat time Mike ...
We missed you Mike. I never thought of it Mike but you're right on. When we were kids we played in the woods all the time and I don't ever remember getting a tick on me or my friends. I wonder what's changed to be invaded now?
Consider gathering the wood debris in small piles, then let Melissa use the tractor and grapple to move the small piles to the large fire pile while you continue to make more small piles.
@@realairplane261 It was Mike that mentioned he intended to burn it. Most likely because it has been on the ground for so long that it is punky. Regardless, Mike is at the scene and if he feels it best to burn, then who am I to question him?
A couple thoughts. Looks like the weather patter of the previous 5 or 6 weeks will continue for the foreseeable future. If you have to do some housekeeping there is no better conditions nor equipment to have available. Envy is not something I dwell on,,, usually,,, but man oh man, this video stirred the pot.
Great way to end a day. Sure will look nice around mini-cabin this spring. I do envy you. My dad made really good money, but never invested in land, just basic yard, nice house and cement drive. Died in '85, lung cancer. Last couple years, mom only had SS income. He was into hunting and being outdoors until he got into management, then he was 100% company man. When he was in R&D for a copper cable company, he got 17 patents. He had a photographic memory. After quitting his job as vice president at Valtec Fiberoptic in Massachusetts, he came back to Hickory, convinced investors in Franklin NC to building a copper wire manufacturing plant in Claremont NC, after building got paid for, plans were to switch to fiberoptic. A year later he was diagnosed and 6 months later died. Cigarettes, what a waste. He was 52. Said that to say how great it is that your kids and grandchildren get to be with you, get to know you and enjoy your life and property long after you're gone. Kudos my friend!👌🚜
Morning Morgan's! Mike did you have your camera in your deer stand for a bit filming? Hope everyone is well and safe. Have a great rest of the week and come on Friday! Have a day!
I wondered the same thing when the higher angle view was shown. It appeared to be about twice the height of the excavator, which would be about the height of the mini cabin roof, maybe. But I think I saw the mini cabin over to the right in the background. Is the drone that steady and have that much battery time?
One year a buddy and I were building my garage and my 3 year old son was under foot, so I told my 5 year old boy to take Mike for a ride in his wagon. About 20 minutes later he came back and I noticed a tick on Mike. I pulled it off and found another, and another, and another. My buddy came over and helped me. He would smash them with his hammer as I pulled them off. We pulled off 53! That was a bad year for ticks, lol.
Great clean up Mike. I am really tempted to follow your lead and get a small excavator for clean up operations. My full size one is just too big and tractor with root rakes have limits. Nice work
Well it's about time you tidied up that messy forest floor, NOW lets see about getting those trees lined up in rows lol. Thanks Mike Central California Watching
Really like the cab - allows you to work comfortably in most weather conditions. You said it was about 25 - it would be tough working in an open station at 25!
I don't remember ticks at all growing up in the woodlands of upstate NY and Western PA. I'd never even seen one until we moved to the mid-south 15-years ago. Since then, there have been years when I'd have as many as 50 that needed to be removed with tweezers and have had (and treated for) bulls-eye rashes more than once...
Hey Mike...this is my kind of video. Little talk and music along with the video content. Nice job. Like the music you chose as well. Oh ya...and getting that fuel up off the floor in the woods is always a good thing. I used to burn more of that than i did green wood when i was burning wood for heat. It is a good mixer with the green wood.
burn piles and building stone walls....so much fun....
I could sure use that excavator for 2 are 3 days! Have a day Morgans and God Bless Y’all! ❤️👍🇺🇸!
I agree with you completely. I've always said there's nothing I can't drive, but, operating is another thing entirely.
I remember 15 years ago taking my sons out on their first deer hunt. We were sitting on buckets close to each other. Really cold light snow cover. The oldest gets bored and decided to do a snow angel when he got up there were about a hundred ticks in him. Thankfully he was I blaze orange so we could remove them quickly, lessen learned. Here in Wisconsin the cold does not deter the ticks.
Dang
So pretty you cant ask for better way to spend your afternoon and to get a good sunset like that well top it off
I grew up in Pittsburgh Mike, and we did not have the ticks around back then. We spent every day out in the woods/fields and nothing more than a mosquito bite. Use permethrin on your clothes/gear. I use Sawyers on my hunting clothes, and haven't had one on me since. Worth every penny. Lyme disease is nothing you want to mess around with.
We didn’t used to have Ticks in Southeast Michigan either, now we do.
I have been telling people about Sawyers every time Ticks are mentioned.
Concur with permethrin. Sister got some in concentrated bulk from a vet and we mix it to spray. Cheaper than the commercial spray, but that Sawyer brand does work. We have had good luck with it.
Fred, we id not have the deer and bear ticks in our area either until neighbors brought in elk for their fenced in farm and a taxidermist became well known and they had people bring in animals from all over the US and africa.
@@realairplane261,
It was strange here because the Upper Peninsula had dog Ticks, I assume from Bear hounds coming to hunt from the South.
It took a while for them to come to my area but we have them now. My next oldest Brother woke one Morning with a fully
engorged Dog Tick on the right side of his face. I don’t want any Ticks around me. That’s why I use Sawyer’s when I Turkey 🦃
Hunt in May! Keeps the Squibes away too! (My Son’s name for Skeeters.) I actually saw a mosquito land on my coat and fall off dead.
Mike - I think Troy McKinney makes a good point below about Archie and his sticks. When I saw previous videos with trips down the paths, I was thinking Melissa could have a ball with the chipper cleaning the stuff that had fallen next to, and across the trails. Oh well, Your woods, Your rules. :) Blessings to you and the family. Hi to Hunter, Hannah, and Eva.
Good morning everyone. 28º in Kansas City now. Overslept this morning, sorry for the late post. Ticks don't bother me as much as the chiggers. Stay safe, be humble & kind and have a day.
You needed the rest Phil!
@@oldmanfred8676 evidently.
@@oldmanfred8676 Fred!
@@rphiliprogers Phil!
@@HallnoutMhall Morning coffee with the Morgans!
For cleaning up wood it work well to hook a hay wagon up to the excavator so you can haul it all into a big pile
Beautiful sunset. Nothing like watching a man use a new piece of equipment that he really likes. It puts a smile on your face.
Stay safe.
i agree with you about the ticks. I think the first time I saw one was in the last 20 years. Now they are everywhere
Nice job Mike cleaning up looks Great!!👍👊
Well Mike, I see what you could be doing the rest of the winter. Piling up brush and deadfalls and having bonfires every few days while the snow covers the ground. Good way to improve your woods.
I like your show you have god music today the info. Is good. I'm a retired librarian 22 years, I am a vetetan of 3 years Army, and was a stay at home mom for 14 years
My husband & I watch your show together
Permethrin on your clothes will last for 6 washes. It doesn’t mess up fabric like deet does.keeps the ticks off. I use it during turkey season and it is still on the outer layers for deer season.
you will find those tracks are hard on the land Mike. I've torn up more than I cleaned up many times. Sometimes its better to let Mother Nature reclaim it unless you are really clearing the land. But its definitely a must have tool for the shed!
Hey Mike, I really love the music choices you've featured recently. Thank you! I'm sorting these artists, adding their songs to my "walking in the woods" Playlist.
Good morning! Cut our walk about a half mile short this morning because it started to sprinkle, which wasn’t too bad but just a little uncomfortable at 35F.
Good practice for the excavator, cleaning up the forest like that. Concur with other commenter that the excavator making grapple-sized piles that then get moved to the burn pile might be a little more efficient, but the grapple wasn’t there and some practice with the excavator was desired. But walking down a trail with that, cleaning everything within reach into small piles that get transported some other day might be the long-term way to go. Nice to have options!
Y’all have a good day!
Mike, a controlled burn to clean up the forest floor will help greatly in reducing the tick population. burning will also clean up all that leaf litter so natural plants will grow to provide food for the wildlife, (not a biologist, but I did sleep at a holiday in express once)
You are right about the ticks. I’m 70 years old and as a kid I was in the woods constantly winter spring and fall and don’t remember any problems with ticks.
Nicely done. I could almost see a small processing head on that machine.
Thank you for sharing your day.
Goodmorning Morgans and everyone reading comments. Cleaning up the trail area and getting ready for spring nice, I'm doing the same here in the yard raking weeds and getting the garden for spring. Great video always enjoy watching everyone have a great day
Cleaning up the forest floor helps prevent big fires. This kind of work should be standard for all forests. We do have so much of risk , as we see on TV news every summer. Pay now or pay later.
Absolutely beautiful sunset over that snow covered flat with the hills in the background. Good drone work too!
YOu have a remarkable way to make burning diesel sound way more productive than just seat time :)
Good morning Morgan’s. Putting the new machine to work again. It’s like a Swiss Army knife, 1,001 uses.
Good morning Mike, great evening with the excavator, sure can get a lot done in a little while when you know how to handle that machine. You’ll get your money back from it PDQ. Thanks for sharing with us it’s beautiful out there with the sunset and the work that you all have done! 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
That excavator is just badass!, I got lymes disease 6 yrs ago after three days of a tick in my back!, took medication for 30 days !, and got rid of it I thought!, dr. Told me it will effect my lower joints with arteritis and it's TRUE but I keep going!. We put 50 guineas on our place and haven't seen a tick in 6 yrs.!, that hydraulic arm is so essential to an excavator!. Morgans have a day!.
A little pond repair inspiration. Check out yesterday’s let’s dig 18
I've got a severe case of 'toy envy'
"I have nothing to do this weekend" said no one ever that owns a mini-excavator and a woods! Love it Mike!
Absolutely true! 😎
He be out there all weekend messing with it. LOL
You may want to consider letting Mellissa do what you are doing to let her get more experience and familiarization with the excavator.
Also, consider putting the grappler on one of the tractors and hooking up the dump trailer to it and go around and load all the dead debris into the dump trailer thus covering more ground then dumping the trailer at your burn pit/pile.
Mike! At this point, the excitement over that excavator among all the viewers is epic! You could literally sell tickets! 🤣
Great video Mike,,,beautiful sunset,, got to be nice to come home from work and say....Melissa, I'm heading out....to go play with the new toy..have a great Day Morgans👍👍👍👍
I got a new KX-040 for the farm in December. I am enjoying your videos! I am learning how to use it, and your right, the excavator has a million uses!
You're just showin' off now, Mike!! LOL!! That looks like so much fun!! Glad you're enjoying the new excavator.
Increased deer and wild game populations equal more ticks, at least in my opinion. I never worried about the ticks when I was a young boy. It was a miracle to see a deer in those times, and there were trappers and varmint hunters keeping those populations down.
That excavator does a great job of cleaning up all the brush and dead stuff. Mite your big tractor with grapple be easier to move little pile to the big pile . Just saying .We don't have more than 2 inches of frost .,up here in Orillia . We are in lockdown now until middle of Feb. Hope we have building permit to rebuild our home . Have a day eh!
Peppermint essential oil works great for repelling tics. Just a few drops on you socks, jacket. We use it on our dogs, a little on their collar or down their back, tics fall right off. Doesn't take much, my dogs don't like the smell
Good morning Mike and family!!
One just published
Mike Morgan makes running an excavator look easy. It's not that easy my friend.
Good morning Hunter ;-)
Good morning BadCat.
@@HallnoutMhall / Good morning Michael ;-)
Nice control - you obviously know how to use that bucket and thumb.
MIKE, really like your plan for the weekend,! Don't forget the marshmallows n hot chocolate!
Mike, you are having way too much fun! I love it! I'm glad to see you pursing your happiness!
Sounds great to have a two-acre manicured natural park on the property!
Awesome.. Trenching, Conduit, French Drains.. That's the Beast... BeCareful Brother.... 👍
The drone footage is really a good addition to the videos. It’s amazing how it stays so still. Great job! 👍😊
Sunsets always look impressive through the trees
Wow that’s a great clear up Show us the burn 🔥
Summer when it’s bushed it should look the bizo 👍👍👍👍👍
A good start of the day,indeed.......Bless the Morgan Family..
You've convinced me. I need one. Drop it off in front of the barn.
Congrats on a thousand videos Mike.
Sunny today!! Yes - Sunny … and, get this - hi of 52. Wow! Hi Huntman..hope you’re doing well today.
Oh Mike....man I can't wait to get my tractor back with the new backhoe attachment! Gonna be awesome! Hope ya'll are doing well. I'm still sick...but showing some improvement
Glad your turning the corner
Glad to hear your improving. It took about 6 weeks for me to get over it, but I’m 60, not a healthy 29!
Glad you are getting better sir!
Glad your getting better...
I do like that excavator you got. Nice. I enjoyed the video. Thanks 👍👍👍❤️
New building what new building it's all about the new toy now.
Pile that stuff up and let it dry and burn it in outdoor wood furnace. Heat the shop and house and pool!!
I've said to you before I live in California (not a fan of it) but one of the good things about this area is there are no ticks. I've been told it's the elevation and the dry climate (no fleas on my dogs either)
Nice machine Mike, you will get many hours of use out of it!...thanks 4 video. be kind.
Morning Mike: It's great to see the clean-up around the forest that you use. I've seen you use a chipper on the back of your tractor and I have always wondered why, after cutting down trees, you don't go back with the chipper and clean up what you don't harvest? I am aware that naturally the small pieces will rot but it takes years and it looks messy especially in the areas that you frequent and film in and you and your family just strike me as the messy type of people. Anyway "have a (good) day"
I was having problems typing what I wanted to say.... to wards then end I typed that you and your family were messy ... my intent was to say NOT messy, that you were caring for the land
Question though: does the nutrients from what you don't use go back into the soil faster after chipping or after burning???
Yes Mike you run that machine like an extension of your arm and very well I might add
Your rated amongst the top 5 operators that I've seen in my lifetime
Anyway missed you yesterday
Great video and stay warm
I do not recall wen I was a kid and practically living in the woods that I ever saw a tick. Now days if you wander into some places you can get covered up with them.
When is was kid in east Texas the was real bad now you ever see them in must be fire ants the are little devils
@@Jim-fr3gr U need a editooor.
@@yessir6523 Lookd guud too me!! kidding :-)
Mike, Watching you clearing away the brush into a bonfire pile, it occurred to me that the Moritz tipping trailer coupled to the big tractor, might save double handling the load. Just forwarded for consideration..Cheers Robin.
Nice excavator Mike! One of those are definitely on the wish list!
One thing you can do to keep tics away. Is get some mint seeds. Scatter them along each side of the trail. Ticks hate mint and will stay away. God bless
I think this may be one of the top things you do with the excavator. Especially stumps and short dead tree removal.
Hello Mike, Well its all down hill from here on out lol. I just picked up power tilt grading bucket and a ripper for my KX057. One thing i suggest to you is to watch the Cotter Pin on the bucket. I lost a couple on mine & both time the Pin was out more that half way by the time i saw it.
Yea I can see how that could happen
Like the video Mike .
If you are going to keep the area around the mini cabin that clean, try planting some clover, the deer will love it
That's a truly beautiful wintry sunset scene at the cabin. Using the excavator is fun, huh?😀
I didn't know anything about ticks until a news story about serial killer Roger Dale Stafford being track and captured through heavy forest in Oklahoma. I remember after the news story aired, every time we came in from being outside our mother was checking us for ticks and talking about lime disease and other various diseases carried by ticks. Today it seams as if tick are everywhere. Enjoy the seat time Mike ...
Great song on the intro!
Nothing like listening to Mike tell us what "Tick" magnet he is....LOL!
We missed you Mike. I never thought of it Mike but you're right on. When we were kids we played in the woods all the time and I don't ever remember getting a tick on me or my friends. I wonder what's changed to be invaded now?
Consider gathering the wood debris in small piles, then let Melissa use the tractor and grapple to move the small piles to the large fire pile while you continue to make more small piles.
Why burn it!
@@realairplane261 I AGREE
@@realairplane261 It was Mike that mentioned he intended to burn it. Most likely because it has been on the ground for so long that it is punky. Regardless, Mike is at the scene and if he feels it best to burn, then who am I to question him?
A couple thoughts. Looks like the weather patter of the previous 5 or 6 weeks will continue for the foreseeable future.
If you have to do some housekeeping there is no better conditions nor equipment to have available. Envy is not something I dwell on,,, usually,,, but man oh man, this video stirred the pot.
Liked you find a way to keep the numbers
Mike, got to say; I really love how smooth the excavator sounds. Nothing like a new one. 😁
You should look into a mini logging trailer. Between the mill and firewood. It would maybe help move it faster from woods to processing location
I spray Permethrin and Deet on my clothes and let it dry. Never had a tick since.
Great way to end a day. Sure will look nice around mini-cabin this spring. I do envy you. My dad made really good money, but never invested in land, just basic yard, nice house and cement drive. Died in '85, lung cancer. Last couple years, mom only had SS income. He was into hunting and being outdoors until he got into management, then he was 100% company man. When he was in R&D for a copper cable company, he got 17 patents. He had a photographic memory. After quitting his job as vice president at Valtec Fiberoptic in Massachusetts, he came back to Hickory, convinced investors in Franklin NC to building a copper wire manufacturing plant in Claremont NC, after building got paid for, plans were to switch to fiberoptic. A year later he was diagnosed and 6 months later died. Cigarettes, what a waste. He was 52. Said that to say how great it is that your kids and grandchildren get to be with you, get to know you and enjoy your life and property long after you're gone. Kudos my friend!👌🚜
Morning Morgan's! Mike did you have your camera in your deer stand for a bit filming? Hope everyone is well and safe. Have a great rest of the week and come on Friday! Have a day!
I wondered the same thing when the higher angle view was shown. It appeared to be about twice the height of the excavator, which would be about the height of the mini cabin roof, maybe. But I think I saw the mini cabin over to the right in the background. Is the drone that steady and have that much battery time?
@@johnsadler8637 I think your right about the mini cabin. Not sure about the drone? I suppose it's possible.?
Good morning
One year a buddy and I were building my garage and my 3 year old son was under foot, so I told my 5 year old boy to take Mike for a ride in his wagon. About 20 minutes later he came back and I noticed a tick on Mike. I pulled it off and found another, and another, and another. My buddy came over and helped me. He would smash them with his hammer as I pulled them off. We pulled off 53! That was a bad year for ticks, lol.
Having fun Mike with the excavator
Beautiful sunset, end to a Beautiful Day in these United States of America. PJ IN O-HI-O
Have a day
Fantastic video! I like when you cleaning up trees/wood/brushes 😍😍
Great clean up Mike. I am really tempted to follow your lead and get a small excavator for clean up operations. My full size one is just too big and tractor with root rakes have limits. Nice work
Looks like your machine is doing a great job.
Great clip..
Well it's about time you tidied up that messy forest floor, NOW lets see about getting those trees lined up in rows lol. Thanks Mike
Central California Watching
That is a mighty big extension of your arm!!!
That's impressive!
Really like the cab - allows you to work comfortably in most weather conditions. You said it was about 25 - it would be tough working in an open station at 25!
I don't remember ticks at all growing up in the woodlands of upstate NY and Western PA. I'd never even seen one until we moved to the mid-south 15-years ago. Since then, there have been years when I'd have as many as 50 that needed to be removed with tweezers and have had (and treated for) bulls-eye rashes more than once...
This is Scott from nw PA, Warren area. Just wanted to thank u for thr DOTS pretzel tip. They are really good.
Hey Mike...this is my kind of video. Little talk and music along with the video content. Nice job. Like the music you chose as well. Oh ya...and getting that fuel up off the floor in the woods is always a good thing. I used to burn more of that than i did green wood when i was burning wood for heat. It is a good mixer with the green wood.
Hey Mike, That seems to be a very handy addition to the family.
Oh by the way, Haven't seen the pond in quite awhile...thanks
Your property is going to end up looking like a park, all neat and tidy. Not a bad thing.
Where's the chipper ? Melissa'd make short work of all those trees that have covered the ground if Archie doesn't run off with them !