Spring Has Hit At Our Off Grid Property, It's Time To Prepare For The Next Big Project
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2024
- Spring has hit at our off grid property and we are preparing for the next big project by milling, cleaning up a fallen tree and building a road/trail on the hillside
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A log arch would make your life so much easier moving logs. You would not need to carry them sideways up the trails, just pull hem behind the tractor or even the wheeler.
I appreciate every time that Greg takes a moment to be grateful for doing this type of work rather than working or being somewhere else. It's a good reminder to us all to just stop and notice what we have. 💜
Somebody buys this man a grapple!….its killing me bro 🤣
A easy way to figure out what size post out of a log is,if you want a 6x6 is 6x1.41=8.46 you would need a 8 1/2 “ log to make a 6 x6 post. 4” post 4 x 1.41= 5.64. So you would need a 6 3/4“ log and so fourth. If you have a log that’s 13” 13 divided by 1.41 = 9 1/4 so you could make a 9 1/4” post.
The new road is also an awesome fire break, god forbid if there is an ever fire coming your guys way. Lots of work being done and looks amazing.
Greg you need a grapel on your tractor! Love watching you working your Mill! Awesome looking Wood!
Actually, you should be dragging the heavy logs with the bulldozer. It’s much safer. An old man told me once that you never move heavy logs with rubber tires; always tracks.
Love Katie's idea of the little cabin set into the bank - how about a hobbit house?? That would be so cool with a sod roof.
Suggestion: cut a 6x6 block and use it to check the end of the logs. Can even hold it against the log end and use it to mark your cuts. 😊❤
the other easy option is to make a cardboard cutout of the size that you require
Once you get the bulldozer operating better, things will become much easier, (your little tractor and you are doing a stirling job though Greg) maybe even widen the new road a bit more using the dozzer, and with its extra weight, you can compact the road down better, you'l get there in the end, of that I have no doubt, You and Katie work so well together, but work safely.
Don't waist ash put it in compost pile and it works wonders in farming
Why don’t you make a cart for big logs out of old car axle then tow logs
Gosh my stomach was in knots watching you create that “road”. You do sketchy well 😂
Dozer , Dozer , it will push over and pull anything on your property and also do the work that you just did with your tractor in about 1/10 th of the time !
Great video...that road that Greg was creating looks great...really impressive handling of the tracker...watching all the work you do around the homestead is not only impressive, but deeply satisfying. Love your care for the animals and the land. You two are excellent stewards of your homestead and this is one of my favorite RUclips channels. ❤
I take these comments to heart, thanks for the kind words! ❤️
Building you own home is a life-time of work. It never ends there is Always MORE you can do. I built our house over 40 years ago in a 5 acre hay field in Missouri. Every tree and bush; each flower bed; planted with love and cared for by my wife and I. Would not trade our experience and memories for anything. Sometimes when I am mowing or "gardening" I kinda wish our yard was a little bit smaller. I really respect what you two young people are doing.
I enjoyed your tractor work in the woods. You are careful and that is good. Loved the goats all over the area where you were working!
Katie, you guys need to look into a used excavator. Also maybe a grapple bucket to go on it.
I love watching the lumber work, from cutting up logs to making boards. Must be the long line of lumbermen in my family, including my son. He has his own small milling business, which comes in very handy indeed.
I'd mulch it all and put it on the roads over all the mud.
I’m always blown away at how much lumber you get from the wood from your land and your mill! I also can’t wait to see the addition to your newly acquired barn, eek! 😁🙌🏻 It’s always a pleasure to see you guys, glad to see that spring has arrived for you, and love you lots! 😊❤️
How about you use a couple of snatch blocks to pull that large tree out. Double your tractors pulling power with a simple block and tackle setup. Works great. I've used one or two snatch blocks with the winch on my sxs at our place in the mountains pulling logs out of the woods.
I like Katie 's idea about a cabin in that niche. Nice road Greg. I enjoyed your tutorial about the 6×6 lumber.( not timbers)
33:27 Welcome to another episode of “Sketchy sh!t you shouldn’t do with your tractor!” with your host Greg! ✨😂🙌🏻👀
I think those tractor forks are too long for much of what I see you doing with the tractor, and a lot of the time you seem to run loads with them set too high - keep 'em low and tilted well back and perhaps take a minute or two to use straps or chains on the load you are carrying!
I'd recommend making a compact concrete counterweight for the rear three point linkage - not only will it prevent the rear wheels lifting off it will also increase traction.
The tractor without the wide scraper blade hanging off the rear end would also be more manoeuvrable as well.
It was good to see the place getting a tidy up too: you can't beat a good bonfire so nice work!
Have you ever seen the 2 wheel carts that uses a chain to lift the front of the log and drag the back. Horse drawn sleds were similar, tow the log
the more videos you put out a week the better I like it !!!
Now that the weather is getting better we should be able to keep it up!
Suggestion: put a heavy log on the blade as a counterweight.
Hi Greg, There are a couple of things that you may consider to make moving timber far easier and with less effort (work smart not hard) If you google two things 1 tying a timber hitch which is the correct method and 2 blocks and tackle which doubles the pulling power adding one pulley block correctly.I hope that these suggestions are of benefit to you.
Love that you can mill your own lumber with trees from the property, & cant blame ya for wanting to construct a fence to keep the doggies safe from the wild great idea !. I get great pleasure watching you felling the trees you need and in doing so make room for the others to grow. and yet giving you folks a great view of the landscape around you. Lol love how the dog & goats came to watch what you were doing, Looking real good folks . Love your small cabin / Bunkie idea Katie it would have an awesome view.
Good job Greg on the mountain track that is scarry work and Katie your always helping your so strong lady !!!
My wife and I have been watching your channel for several months. Really like the content. We bought an LS MT125 compact tractor almost 2 yrs ago. My wife to talked me into buying a grapple at the same time. Man, that was the best purchase we've made for the tractor. The grapple makes moving fire wood and brush a heck of a lot easier. We wouldn't be without it.
We only see a snippet of all the work you two do! So impressive!!!
@ 9:55 did Greg just say 6.6.6. ought oh !
Make a loggers cart from a mobile home axel. Even weld a 2 in ball on it.
You guys need a grapple for the tractor to help when moving logs and brush. That roadway will be helpful when building your fences. Thanks for the video.
Well done with the new track, slow and steady wins the race.
Tractor fence tensioning could be exciting. Exciting is what something is until someone gets hurt, then it is instantly dangerous. Cable come along is the best for tensioning, good luck.
Maybe you guys should make a v shaped log roller with wheels
Also the path you are cutting in with the tractor should be with the bulldozer. It’s so much safer and more efficient. I know you are aware of it.
Pretty sketchy even the goats are shakin their heads !
Good job, getting the most usable lumber out of those logs.
Personal opinion, it's okay to have bark on the outside of your lumber, and actually it makes it look beautiful. I also love the leaf blower...
Bugs like the bark too though, so you may end up with issues later
Bark on is unfinished lumber.
Use croakers and pick up logs like that from a point behind the forks.
You still got that old bull dozer???
No need to dig out the embankment for a guest suite just dig round holes and put on piers with concrete in the holes..
Greg are your rear tires filled with fluid for ballast. If not I would try that. Also using a snatch block to pull trees will help. Use your truck to pull your trees and cut them up where you can get them easily.
Wow, that was intense watching you finagle that log!!!
spring time!
greg do a great job this new porject will be a good thing for your porperty, best regards from FRANCE.
Cut a 6x6 template with a hole in the middle and put your tape measure away
Yeah that dozer would make short work on that road. Make you can drag the big logs up to the mill? Maybe use logs adjacent to the log so it rolls. You would just need a few good rolling logs.
Good-looking road / trail for what you are working with
Why not take some of those big logs and use them for hill embankment to prevent erosion. Especially along your road?
Very cool video you guy's 👍
A good spring cleaning outside and Greg doing very sketchy things on the tractor as usual 👌 🙌. Great progress for sure. ❤
another idea.....i know on my kubota it came w a class 1 reese hitch i can put on the back of the tractor. you could get a largeish winch and the reese mounting plate for it and then put on the tractor and pull logs onto the rd w that on the roadway where u cant really turn to get right at them
Looks like your road is comming along fine.
You did a really good job cutting that road. You are crazy though!
You are off to a good start and I look forward to seeing and following the progress n the project. I was wondering if the dozer was fixed, running and if so why Greg wasn't using it. At the end you sort of answered that one. Have a good week ahead and be safe. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
Putting up a 2 acres fence is going to be a lot of work. Good luck.
As an Architect I would love to help you in the design of your guess house in the hill by the road.
you know what I did to mark the small logs quick I cut a 6x6 piece of plywood and traced it on the end works great
Why not - cut a piece of waste siding or something flat into a 6x6 square. nail it on a stick, and then just hold it to the end of the log and paint around it? easy, no measure
I just learned this trick! It's a very good idea!!
Hello 👋 from LIVERPOOL UK PATRIOT 🇬🇧 😀 😊
I would say that little tractor Kiotti has done a magnificent job.
Just wait until you see what it does in a future video!
You can’t beat a good burn day and them blower are a godsend. Good roadways there Greg😊😊😊😊
Nice job on the road. Hang in there.
I love a big bonfire! 😁
GREETINGS FROM THE UK 🇬🇧 👍👍👍👍
Greg you need a log lift with wheels
Use the little saw like a chain saw it will cut a hole lot better ........you got to member its a chain it does work just like a big one
Thanks 4 lesson in cutting 6x6 etc. Very interesting - wondered how you got the best from each log. Forest clear-up, you certainly aren’t daunted by the big prep. tasks! Enviable ‘tractor technique. Predators- black bear, wolves, coyotes? Our biggest prob. here is cats digging in the flower bed ☹️🤣!
😊Phil, suffolk, 🇬🇧
Nice Job on the new “road”
@ 15:10 when Greg says dangerous, you can take it to the bank
Lol, I was inches away from loosing my tractor down the mountain for about 6 hours that day. Sketchy
Yes - I thought your tow rope for the 1st ponderosa trunk was too long.
I could watch log milling all day long...lol 😂 Awesome job on the cleanup, it really makes the property look great. I'm wondering why Greg just doesn't drag the larger logs to the mill, instead of bringing the precariously on the tractor forks? Love ya'll ❤
Hey Russell, it's the dirt. If I drag logs home, they destroy my blades, I have done it in the past, but it is very tough to get the dirt off.
@@ThisOffGridLife Great explanation, 😊
I just love watching you guys❤❤❤
I worked on a breaking down saw in a mill in NZ 60 years ago. They taught me to cut railway sleepers with the heart ( pith) in the centre, but I never knew why. Thank you
I have learned the hard way, I have cut many timbers that twist because of the heart on the side of the board.
OK don't know how big your land is , maybe a log dolly, (for the 3 point hitch ) drag down to road, I know easy for me siting on my chair enjoying my coffee watching you work, thank you for the video. PS A youtuber Captain Kleeman made one he uses with a jd 755 garden tractor
Nice looking lumber
"Is that a sign from God, I dont think so"
You Are Hysterical 😂🤣
Yeah spring time
been watching since my illness,love your channel'would you ever sell the lumber? beautiful work,land and young people
1st day of spring and its been snowing all day where I live in Toronto. 😩
Nice job on the road
i paint heavy layer of tar on bottom 3 feet of my posts so they last long time
Your new nickname is "Grace" ! 4:00
Fabulous video!!! As always! 😊
Loving how all the animals get on, another action packed video ❤️💙
Good morning, how are you folks doing today?Hope everybody's having a wonderful day.Keep up the great work and I'm enjoying what you're doing out there.Enjoying the new barn.I guess and I'm having a great day and God bless both of you.See how are they animals
All this road building will come in handy in the future as terraced walkways. You won't have to slop through high brush.
good looking road
You have greatly improved on road building!! Good tractor 🚜 skills
Great Job guys!😇!😇
Use a 90 Degree Cable pulley system.... Anchor a pulley on a standing tree and run your cable from the downed tree through the anchored pulley to the tractor. I hope that makes sense.:) The object is to pulley the cut tree down to the road as straight as possible to pick up with your Forks.
Y’all need a pulley to redirect your rope off other trees to pull the logs off the hill and keep your tractor on the road. 👍
Good job Gregg, that’s definitely a sketchy hill to be cutting a road into. Life is about the journey and not so much the destination. Your channel reminds me of all things that are important while we live our lives. Thanks buddy
Them goats follow you around like dogs
buy a Graber for that task.
Hello, I've provided you with tips in the past about Axe swinging. A tip on the bon fire. Using the blower is a great method to get it going, but don't use it once it's going well. Here's why. It appears harmless, but the coals can get so hot that the fire can literally jump your barrier without a flame reaching the other side, it will simply ignite brush 5 ft away and get out uncontrolled. I've done this in my woods which are even greener and wet than yours, so just be warned.
Adds weight to rear axle