Growing up in the fifties, I worked with my parents and brothers to clear land with a cross cut saw, axes, Maddox and Kaiser blade. Dad finally bought a chain saw, but it probably weighed twenty-five pounds or so. Thank God those days are long gone.
I really enjoyed the drone footage of you taking down the trees. It gives a great perspective of just how tall they are, how you manipulate & maneuver them while taking them down and what is going on digging the roots. Your concern for the neighbors and giving the customer a great end product are exemplary. Thank you for the great videos. They go great with my morning coffee.
You've done a great clearing the homestead lot. The excavator is a really great way to take trees down and clean up the site. Thanks for the great camera work.
I wish everyone that lights a fire would pay attention like you on where the smoke is going. Nothing worse than having wood smoke blow in your house for hours. Great job! Looking forward to the pond build.
Where I live all the farmers used to burn the slash piles from the orchards but now they leave the slash on the ground and have a large machine come in and shred it. Once it's shredded, they till it into the ground. No more burning, which is good since we don't need any more eye irritation.
I have to say that you do a dangerous job with such skill , it is good that you allow others to see how you approach it , and enjoyable to watch . hi from Melb Australia .
Chris, you have to do the drone shot anytime you are taking down trees from now on. I have taken down trees with a track hoe and watched it in person, but watching from the drone is the BEST! Great video and can’t wait to see the big fire that you will have.
Love the drone shots, the stump is always interesting. :) That is a lot of work clearing the land and now only the pond left. :( :) That one tree stump was to close.
Chris, congrats on 500K. I'm fairly new here and just wondered where you were from and if you were married or had any kids. Would love to see a video of you and your life and how you got started and so on. Thanks for the videos, wouldn't miss any of them.
I love watching you operate, especially on this video with the grapple on the skid steer. I bought a machine with one and am "decent" with it, but from watching you I pick up little "tips and tricks" on how I can do better. I am by no means an operator. My wife and I purchased 35 acres of wooded property here in north Florida that we have been clearing for our "retirement home". Our "McMansion" should be completed in a few months and once we get moved in with our current residence in the city sold we can spend our retirement years out in the woods away from the crazy people.
All that dust reminds me. I cut. firewood all summer one year the dustvwas 3 and 4 inched deep in places. Dragging tops and logs out to a clover field to cut up and split. Shoving brush into a hollow with an old Oliver tractor. I wished I had a water truck for the dust.
505K,,,great number Chris. Yea, that light hard stuff must be like the 'bathtub bottom' of your neighbors forgotten pond you cleaned up. Growing projects are called 'change orders'. Looks like you are about down to cleanup time. You have done a job making the old BG Farms look good - probably like it did in the 1950s.
Just realized the Gum trees as you call them we call them Eucalyptus trees or Euc’s. Farmers planted them as wind breaks. Several cars try to move them and they just stand there.
Eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus spp.) are often referred to as gum trees, and most eucalyptus species have common names ending in “gum.” There are several other trees, however, that are also referred to as gums, which are not related to the genus Eucalyptus.
Oops I missed this video Chris of you digging up the sweet gum trees and it fascinates me how you dig up the roots and just yank the tree right up out of the ground
Great Video.house Lot is comming along nicely. Stupid wind blowing in the wrong direction for a fire i was hoping for.lots of trees To be cleared there man lol.stay safe 😀i liked the drone footage clearing trees.awesome.
Chris I have been watching your videos since the beginning of the Pandemic around March 2020. Ii's has become part of my daily zen-relax time every morning. I've gone back and watched just about every video you've ever made. I just wanted to let you know how much it is appreciated. I've come to learn quite a lot about excavators, pond building, proper dam building with clay and how much you 'love' snakes 😆 from watching your videos. By the way, if you auction anymore bucket teeth to raise money for your sister's classroom let us know. Thanks again.
Man i got dust in my eye! Lol love the music btw! Normally i mute it on most vids, but yours and Kleeman’s are my favorites. How much do those stumps weigh, on average? You toss those things around like they are pebbles! Skillz!
It is so pretty up in there with all the trees around it’s so beautiful up there to be in the Carolina ‘s which I’ve never been to or seen and I’m not getting any younger but I’m planning on going to the smokies in July
By the looks of the flood warnings in your area, several large fires are going soon. Will you be dredging the pond this summer where you extracted the buried excavator?
No one has taken care of the property for years. So tons of fallen trees to cleanup. Great question though, I’ll add it to the list for the interview. Thanks
No. Sawn wood is high but timber prices are at an all time low. The mills have a massive backlog 🤣 so that’s the supposed reason for the high lumber prices. One of the mills here is doing a 20 million expansion. I’m sure it’s like that everywhere.
I hope your farm, cow’s and Winston are doing well Chris, haven’t seen them in a while! I bet your calves are growing and multiply! lol I hope you still take Winston for breakfast every once in a while too! lol 👍🏻
@@dennis2376 True, but I had to wear a helmet in the back of a 113 to keep from getting a concussion. I had a driver who thought he was Evel Knievel. He loved to go airborne.
Hi Chris. Great to watch your RUclips channel. This Q you have probably been asked many many times. I know you send trees 🌳 to the mill for pulping and lumber, but how much of what you fell can be used as house heating. ie, are there any types of trees which can not be use for this?? If and when I come over the pond from London UK, I'd love to work a site with you for a few days.......NO charge.👍😎
@@BealyGood Hi BGF. I saw your vid from the homestead with Chris. The explanation of what trees had been taken down and what type they were.. Basically, I'm asking if Gumtree can be used in a house or does it have too much Gum to be safe in an open fire 🔥 ?? Hope all goes your way with the rest if the build. Good Luck. David
Oh 1/2 million subscribers. I just noticed . CONGRATULATIONS.👍👍💞
Congratulations, that is quite the accomplishment.
Clearing the trees with the excavator really brings home the point of how hard it actually was for the pioneers to clear the land for their farms.
Best comment in a long time
Growing up in the fifties, I worked with my parents and brothers to clear land with a cross cut saw, axes, Maddox and Kaiser blade. Dad finally bought a chain saw, but it probably weighed twenty-five pounds or so. Thank God those days are long gone.
The drone shot is very cool because it shows how much the trees keep moving at the top
Absolutely awesome photography. Congrats on 500k.
You maneuver those machines with finesse like they were extensions of your arms!
Impressive!!!
Chris you’re the man nothing stands in your way. Thanks for sharing. Kevin
Received the sticker in the mail this week. WOW, was that fast!!!!! Thanks, Chris, for getting our goodies out to us so quickly! Much appreciated! 👍😎
I really enjoyed the drone footage of you taking down the trees. It gives a great perspective of just how tall they are, how you manipulate & maneuver them while taking them down and what is going on digging the roots. Your concern for the neighbors and giving the customer a great end product are exemplary. Thank you for the great videos. They go great with my morning coffee.
You've done a great clearing the homestead lot. The excavator is a really great way to take trees down and clean up the site. Thanks for the great camera work.
I wish everyone that lights a fire would pay attention like you on where the smoke is going. Nothing worse than having wood smoke blow in your house for hours. Great job! Looking forward to the pond build.
Where I live all the farmers used to burn the slash piles from the orchards but now they leave the slash on the ground and have a large machine come in and shred it. Once it's shredded, they till it into the ground. No more burning, which is good since we don't need any more eye irritation.
Man that stumper attachment really gets the dirt off the root ball's 👍 Making progress !!!
That's going to be a fun day of burning and thanks for the video it's really coming together
I really enjoyed the drone footage,nice video as always,keep doing what your doing 😎😎😎👍👍👍
Dropping those trees, pure skill and experience.
I have to say that you do a dangerous job with such skill , it is good that you allow others to see how you approach it , and enjoyable to watch . hi from Melb Australia .
The nicest feeling in the world is being in the cab and there comes a much needed rain. It’s comfy lol
New behind the scenes video is uploading now. Great video Chris!
amazing what can be accomplished with motivation, skill, and the proper equipment.
It's great to see someone that knows how to operate a skid steer with a grapple 👌👌👌
Cool angle from the drone watching you taking the trees down.
Neat drone shoots of tree tipping!! Thanks' Chris.
"I felt like these right here were just goin' to piss me off later on." best one liner ever!
You Sir are a one man logging operation!
Yeah, where's Timmy when he would need him !
Chris, you have to do the drone shot anytime you are taking down trees from now on. I have taken down trees with a track hoe and watched it in person, but watching from the drone is the BEST! Great video and can’t wait to see the big fire that you will have.
Love the drones view. Congrats. Love and Peace
I appreciate the quality music. Not sure who it is but it’s sorta like a soft version of the Outlaws. Good stuff.
Again, that drone footage of the trees going, Timber, is awesome. I guess it's nice to do one big project. Less equipment moving.
Great improvement at the HOMESTEAD project.
I could watch this for hours. Thanks for sharing!
Love the drone shots, the stump is always interesting. :) That is a lot of work clearing the land and now only the pond left. :( :) That one tree stump was to close.
Chris, congrats on 500K. I'm fairly new here and just wondered where you were from and if you were married or had any kids. Would love to see a video of you and your life and how you got started and so on. Thanks for the videos, wouldn't miss any of them.
Keep the questions coming. I’m doing an interview with Chris at the end. Can’t promise he’ll answer them all, but you never know 😁.
it's a good day when LD18 and paydirt videos follow each other. Coming along well bro. Safe travels
Good job and good video Chris! Thanks for sharing! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love the ariel footage it puts on a different perspective that shows more detail to the task that you are doing ..ps like the music too
Keep watching you. Interested your project, the Homestead
Please keep these awesome videos coming! Enjoy watching you work. Always impressed.
I love watching you operate, especially on this video with the grapple on the skid steer. I bought a machine with one and am "decent" with it, but from watching you I pick up little "tips and tricks" on how I can do better. I am by no means an operator. My wife and I purchased 35 acres of wooded property here in north Florida that we have been clearing for our "retirement home". Our "McMansion" should be completed in a few months and once we get moved in with our current residence in the city sold we can spend our retirement years out in the woods away from the crazy people.
Had no idea that this little job would turn out to be so big and time consuming, a lot of work !!!
Me either 🤣
All that dust reminds me. I cut. firewood all summer one year the dustvwas 3 and 4 inched deep in places.
Dragging tops and logs out to a clover field to cut up and split. Shoving brush into a hollow with an old Oliver tractor. I wished I had a water truck for the dust.
Another great video Chris the way you drop those tree's very impressive love whatching you work those machines 👍
Great camera shots with the drone Chris, 👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧👌 thanks for the video 👍
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
505K,,,great number Chris. Yea, that light hard stuff must be like the 'bathtub bottom' of your neighbors forgotten pond you cleaned up. Growing projects are called 'change orders'. Looks like you are about down to cleanup time. You have done a job making the old BG Farms look good - probably like it did in the 1950s.
It’s getting there!
Just realized the Gum trees as you call them we call them Eucalyptus trees or Euc’s. Farmers planted them as wind breaks. Several cars try to move them and they just stand there.
Eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus spp.) are often referred to as gum trees, and most eucalyptus species have common names ending in “gum.” There are several other trees, however, that are also referred to as gums, which are not related to the genus Eucalyptus.
Looking awesome Chris, it's going to be big pile to burn.
I feel like I missed a video, where'd you get that grapple for the skid steer? It's pretty handy. Nice work today Chris, thank you for the video.
About 14 years ago lol
Just like pulling teeth when you ripped out those trees. I had 4 wisdom teeth pulled out last Monday lol. Thanks for the good videos Chris.
Definitely some hard ground to stop that machine pulling up those little trees. That digging claw-is just what you need on a hard ground. 👍☕️🍩
Your a very hard worker and its so nice to see someone take pride in what they do. Another from Wales UK 🏴
Oops I missed this video Chris of you digging up the sweet gum trees and it fascinates me how you dig up the roots and just yank the tree right up out of the ground
Great Video.house Lot is comming along nicely. Stupid wind blowing in the wrong direction for a fire i was hoping for.lots of trees To be cleared there man lol.stay safe 😀i liked the drone footage clearing trees.awesome.
With all that sorting I see why you brought the skid steer. Good idea there. That made quick work of that task.
Thought you were going to land that 2nd tree from the drone across the others. Then I saw you starting to swing it around the 220. Good job....
HELLO from las Vegas Nevada, is good to start lunch and have a new video, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
Good evening from Wales! 🏴
Chris I have been watching your videos since the beginning of the Pandemic around March 2020. Ii's has become part of my daily zen-relax time every morning. I've gone back and watched just about every video you've ever made. I just wanted to let you know how much it is appreciated. I've come to learn quite a lot about excavators, pond building, proper dam building with clay and how much you 'love' snakes 😆 from watching your videos. By the way, if you auction anymore bucket teeth to raise money for your sister's classroom let us know. Thanks again.
People tend to not realize how strong a tree root system is.
I've had a 6" diameter locust stump stop a D4 in its tracks.
They make paper out of pulp wood folks. Chris doing his part making sure we can wipe our butts each morning.
"...these were just gonna piss me off later on..." HAHAHA Love it man! lol
I am a huge fan of burning lol... but here in Holland it's extremely hot and dusty too.... so I know it must be raining a bit for burning piles lol :)
Some of the others would have knocked themselves in the head with those branches using that skid steer contraption! Go git em Chris!
On the top of the excavator just behind the glass pane is a perfect place for one of the large LD18 logos.
Man i got dust in my eye! Lol love the music btw! Normally i mute it on most vids, but yours and Kleeman’s are my favorites. How much do those stumps weigh, on average? You toss those things around like they are pebbles! Skillz!
i seen it rain sideways i heard of it raining frogs ,, never seen it rain tree stumps ,,, great video ..
Everything is looking nice!!👍👍
Thanks for the drone footage bonus Chris!
It’s like watching the desolation of Smaug.
It is so pretty up in there with all the trees around it’s so beautiful up there to be in the Carolina ‘s which I’ve never been to or seen and I’m not getting any younger but I’m planning on going to the smokies in July
I hope yall get more rain , it's a big improvement so far LOADS of brush
Like the Time-Lapse portions.
Man, That Drone is stable in flight!!!
The stumper really earns its keep in that hard ground.
By the looks of the flood warnings in your area, several large fires are going soon.
Will you be dredging the pond this summer where you extracted the buried excavator?
Chris just hang on I'm in North Texas and from what I'm seeing rain and cooler temperatures are on the way my friend.
Great Video and thanks for sharing! Stay Safe!
Thanks for sharing video.
Your editing skills are getting better and better every video! Great job! Very entertaining
Nice job man and love the camera shots with the drone .
Do the gum trees & stumps burn hotter when they're in the pit?
Way to go Chris I never get tired of watching that equipment roll it feels a very important void in my life since I retired
Nice backspin off them tree stumps! Olympic sport in the making.
Do the homeowners ever want at least the trunks for firewood?
No one has taken care of the property for years. So tons of fallen trees to cleanup. Great question though, I’ll add it to the list for the interview. Thanks
Does the high price of lumber make more sense for you to save more wood than before?
No. Sawn wood is high but timber prices are at an all time low. The mills have a massive backlog 🤣 so that’s the supposed reason for the high lumber prices. One of the mills here is doing a 20 million expansion. I’m sure it’s like that everywhere.
It's great to see the trees taken as logs, it's just too bad that the economics don't always work out to make it worthwhile!
You need two things on that site, Logging trucks and fires. It is getting a lot more open.
Trees look like monster next to your machine Chris! lol 😂. I like that view brother! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love the video, and when you do a fire, I love the smell of a wood smell smoke
I hope your farm, cow’s and Winston are doing well Chris, haven’t seen them in a while! I bet your calves are growing and multiply! lol I hope you still take Winston for breakfast every once in a while too! lol 👍🏻
you should do a video on how to price a job
I am going to ask that in the upcoming interview
Riding in that thing looks like riding in an APC back when I was in the army. It felt like being in a constant car wreck.
And that would be why heavy equipment operators are my chiropractor’s best customers!
Duce and halves where just as bad. :)
@@dennis2376 True, but I had to wear a helmet in the back of a 113 to keep from getting a concussion. I had a driver who thought he was Evel Knievel. He loved to go airborne.
Hi Chris.
Great to watch your RUclips channel.
This Q you have probably been asked many many times.
I know you send trees 🌳 to the mill for pulping and lumber, but how much of what you fell can be used as house heating. ie, are there any types of trees which can not be use for this??
If and when I come over the pond from London UK, I'd love to work a site with you for a few days.......NO charge.👍😎
I’ll add this question to the list for the interview. Thanks!
@@BealyGood
Hi BGF.
I saw your vid from the homestead with Chris. The explanation of what trees had been taken down and what type they were.. Basically, I'm asking if Gumtree can be used in a house or does it have too much Gum to be safe in an open fire 🔥 ??
Hope all goes your way with the rest if the build. Good Luck.
David
@@davegeorge5140 good question. Added to the list. Thanks!
Chris,
On a scale of 1 - 10 how well do those gum trees burn?
There may be a little bit more money in firewood than pulp wood, if they burn well.
Great 👍 job 👌
Looks great Chris 🇺🇲 another great job well done 🇺🇲
That's a rough and dusty job there. I bet you you gotta give that equipment a power wash when it's over.
What do you do for entertainment beside work?
Wish I would have had you when I had my underground utility company. You are a artist on the machine. Bet you could roll an egg.
What is the botanical name for what you are calling 'Gum trees'?..............curious in UK.
Congrats on 500k subscribers! Chris, how many subscribers do you need to be full time youtuber??
Did you ever think of adding a Grapple Saw attachment to your arsenal?