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Sorry for it. But I watch both Channels since years. Dustups from the First Video and Cerro Gordo since thrid. I grinning - Not Just smiling 😁😁😁- Like Kid at Xmas tree. I told both - Brent and Shaun. - to Work together. But that they meet !!!! Even better
slowing the water will definitely help stabilize and vegetate the washout, but if the road cut is a multiple time a year issue, he should probably just invest in a buried culvert to cross under the road. and continue the water harvesting down hill of the road, maybe a chain of seasonal pocket ponds that spread the water over a little wider of an area. Need to mobilize the dust ups fans to go build 50 more check dams. 😄Great work guys. 👍
@@dustupstexas Was thinking the same thing. Probably Numerous Culverts grouped together inorder to ensure no Blockages. The Check Damn & Bathtubs with the Terrace from Dustups... Check Dam Slows the Water... the Terraces Divert the Water and Bathtubs Collect the Water... Like a Pine Tree Image... Overlayed into the Valley. Main Flow like the Trunk... The Terraces are the Branches... The Bathtubs are the Needles.... Needles = ->Bathtubs and are Natural like Dust Ups (Settling - Debris) but also -> LINED collection Ponds (Rudimentary Storage and Irrigation) -> Tanks for Long term Storage & Filtration (UV Light Solar Powered) have them linked via endless tubing Creating your own Mini Hydro Electric Dam... @YoutTube Search away any Gravity Feed Should have a Mini Turbine, maybe Multiple in Series Down the Slope and a Small Diameter pipe could create a Strong Force..... Use Solar to run a reverse Pump to create an endless Waterfall..
I give more credit to Bret. At least he doesn't wast time he just burns it down. Dustups spends hours and days for nothing. Guy has absolutely no clue and that's why people watch. Two car wrecks together. Woo Hoo
This would be a crazy volunteer project for Brent. Imagine having people line the channel completely with rocks and many check-dams. Would look absolutely sick.
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
@@TheKlink well all you can do is see how long this "weir" will last OR make them "fatter" in the first instance = to do this on scale you need machinery = start at top and make multiple "weirs"
Shaun, I trained as an environmental scientist at the University of Melbourne and I can just about for sure say that your ghost town used to be a pinion pine and opuntia/cylindropuntia forest. Using opuntias, cylindropuntias, ocotillo and century plant as nurse species would be okay, IMHO. When the Pinion Pines get big,the cacti will go away all on their own but until then, their forms will create a much needed reservoir shade and moisture. I also think you'll find that once the pinions are well established, all the other species that used to be there will come back, all on their own! You'll need to guard against predation by deer, rabbits, hares etc, but that almost goes without saying, doesn't it?
@@dustupstexasit took you forever to come around to this conclusion about cacti. Who told you early on about them to cultivate at Dustups? Then you brought in Joao whom you flew over from Brazil just to tell you the same thing. Then, of course, you had your secret admirer who used Niccolo Machiavelli like tactics against you by turning you over to the TDA. Though he was within the letter of the Law, his methodology was reprehensible as was yours. You have wasted too much time already. I hope you would put mesquite, huizache, and Tithonia at the Dustups. Stop being superstitious about bats. Learn how to attract them so that would pollinate your agaves and leave guano for them as well.
To do, in life, what makes you happy is truly a blessing. I worked as a Chef and Managing Restaurants all my life til I didn’t want to anymore. I was working crazy hours in pain and stressed. I stopped. I moved to a smaller house, a cottage with a garden and took up gardening for the first time aged 40. Now I’m so aware of bees, butterflies, birds, wildlife, insects, plants,trees and flowers. Give me a big garden over a big house!
Add pitch to the roads - raise the center of the road slightly so the water runs of to each side. It will reduce roads washing out and will slow the water. You can also incorporate "rain gardens" periodically along the road as well by breaking the side groove into a spiral depression pond that can be lined with rocks or brush to pool and puddling to soak in the water and reduce the volume going down the road.
The roads get eroded from the sides, by water crossing over them instead of water running on top of them. Pitch wouldn't help that -- the water would just erode the material beneath it.
And there is the cost of the pitch, and the cost of getting said pitch to the location as well as the equipment to apply it . Sadly, I don't think they have the money or means to do so. Sounds great on paper but reality is not so great ...
NZ has great dirt roads that survive high rainfall, I remember looking at their road document for making a rally stage in a game Look for public documents on how to do it right the first time.
Unfortunately CPBD said he wasn't interested. Maybe if some of us super crossover fans make some donations and send letters to Crime, he will make it a priority. I feel like I need to make my own channel just doing collabs with the dozens of cool people I see on here.
I keep thinking that that would be such an interesting personality dynamic because Shaun's personality is so gentle and he doesn't even swear, but the Crime Pays guy is so GRUFF! I absolutely love both of them and would love to see a video of them working together.
@@samrijijkot possibly because Brent is a retired investment banker who purchased Cerro Gordo with an investment group having the ultimate goal of turning it into a for-profit tourist attraction. Joey has his own projects which seek to educate and better the general populous.
Interesting. I have seen a lot of Ghost town living, including episodes about the washed away roads. Back then, my very first thought was, that a lot of that could be prevented with some targeted nature restauraution. And ever since I kept thinking, how much the area could benefit from restauration projects. However, I always figured, that the chanel is about exploration, mines, museum work and other building projects ...
In my humble opinion, Brent should put a 5ft culvert in that spot where the water crosses his road. It allows a large volume of water to move without disturbing the road. And I've often thought of suggesting Permaculture principles to terraform his hillsides to capture as much water as possible. But of course, that puts the mines at risk. I think it's awesome that you hooked up with him. I enjoy watching both of your channels and have watched both for years.
I remember the das I watched the Episode when the American Hotel 🏨 burnt down. I thought that maybe that would end the Channel but the opposite happened. Brent Had a New goal
What a wonderful idea to reforest the mountain. Undoing the damage humanity has done to the planet is a noble profession, and it helps secure the futures of our children as well.
life weaves in strange and wonderous ways - Well done to you for doing what ive wanted to see Brett do for the last 4 years!!!! so much raw material in those tailings piles, so many hundreds of check dams, diversion walls, gabions and vegetaion mulch harbours to be made, ... great start, ..now repeat 6000x everywhere about the town - and lets osme how terrace out those tailngs piles and replant !!! I recommend Brent also gets a beehive, all thise wildflowers in bloom this year wow! love the mashup of Dust and Ghosts!
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
What a surprise collab! I have been watching Brent from almost the beginning and Dustups since the beginning. Giving your knowledge and experience to Brent will surely help him out. The Over & Under Podcast, discussing what both of you are doing, there is something there!
I think brent misunderstood Shaun's point at 11:00. Big rocks aren't a problem because you have to crush them, they're a problem because they indicate how powerful the stream can get in it's biggest floods. Meaning you probably won't be able to contain it.
At 5:04 you mention picking up the loose stones because “why disturb” the ones buried in the ground. I would recommend looking into why those stones are exposed, oftentimes stones exposed to the air fully like that one is because the water eroded the soil under/around it, meaning undisturbed exposed stones are a good indication for water down-flow.
A colab I would have never seen coming, yet after watching, makes total sense! Excited for more potential colabs in the future! Benn sub'd to both channels for quite some time now.
What I learned from DNR on my afforestation project: use plant material sourced from close by. So, if you start seedlings onsite from trees at your location then that plant material should do the best at your site.
You can plant trees inside giant clay pots like the ones for indoor apple trees or orange trees. A giant clay vat with a tree already planted on it can start to fill the empty spaces with shades until the trees start growing for transplanting into the soil. The Italians use giant clay pots to fill their backyards with big trees to provide shades from the sun and cool the area during hot summer months. Planting pine trees on giant clay pots to populate the landscape with trees is a good start. Or You can use rocks as raised beds to hold trees.
P1 of both channels. Shawn so cool to be sharing knowledge that is so helpful. Great nostalgic ending Brent! I’m hope to travel to both destinations one day 🤞🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Hi. A solution might be to start from the top with a short swale of 50-100m to pacify your water and divert it into 4 seperate streams with 2m windowsills every 20 m. Depending on the elevation, 30m down another longer swale with 8 windowsills to pacify all the water up until down to the road. I think it will work and will also regenerate your soil. All the best it’s very hard but fullfilling work.
Yep, awesome! Looking forward to Brent giving us a wet weather update in the future… Well done guys, love the collaboration. One thing there is no shortage of at Cerro Gordo is rocks! The ultimate resource Brent… 👍
The road washout looked a huge problem and I pondered on solutions myself but i think this solution nails it. And its so enviromentally friendly. Great work. Divide and Conquer.Looking forward to the first test.
The amount of fresh vegetation that will spring up after the thaw is going to be incredible. You should definitely start a greenhouse nursery up by the ghost town.
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
At 17:46 you're discussing a means to move the stones down to the dam position in the gully. A technique I have used is to make a set of shutes from old corrugated iron sheets by nailing a 12-18" wooden tie of scrap 2"x2" across each end forming a "U". If you want you can form them so they nest together (one end wider than the other). That way they work seamlessly and can be assembled and used again and again to position the rocks.
I was just gonna recommend this, same concept but we used old abs storm pipe cut them in half length wise and linked them together. one guy in the truck or loader dropping down the chute and another stacking rocks at the bottom.
@822516bigbear Exactly what I was gonna say, same material but just overlap the pipes like shingles, then they'll be more adjustable to match the terrain.
Hey, Brent and Shawn! I've been warching both of your videos for ar least a year each. I grew up in El Paso, Texas, and spent time in and around Big Bend National Park as a kid. My husband and I also drove up the trail to Cerro Gordo during our honeymoon. It's really col to see you team up. Thanks for the video!⁹
Hope you can help Brett. The first year on my land, there was nothing but dirt and stone and we struggled with soil erosion every time it rained. Now the grass and other plants have finally started taking this year, there is nearly no soil erosion anymore.
Your best size rock would be sizes considered to be riprap to fill those small flow gullies leading to your road. the check dams are a great start, but the more rock added to those small washes, the better the smaller material will be slowed when the water is flowing. A layer of rock on the bottom of the wash, all the way between check dams , will just further help slow the water and capture smaller particles being moved downhill by the water (erosion). As you get to areas where the flow is greater, you would need larger stones and an excavator with thumb to move them.
I'm a huge fan of Brent's channel thank you so much for sharing I've been binging on a bunch of your content as well keep up the great work thanks so much for all you do!
i live in an area that is basically three major plants - pinyon pine, rocky mountain juniper, big sagebrush. We have a lot of rabbit bush?- Yellow flowering grass and a bunch of other grasses with few cacti. I mostly appreciate the wilderness around me from the prospective eye of a bonsai enthusiast and love how the trees here look. I really hope your efforts can rejuvenate the forest in that land. Love how the pinyon-juniper trees look. Really outstanding. Much love.
I'm wondering if you could partner with Mossy Earth for replanting the Pinyon Pines? I hope we get video from the next rain fall there and see how all the new little check-dams work.
I have been following Brent since the beginning, and I have been following you since the beginning. Seeing my two favorite channels collide is awesome! Keep up the great work! Cheers from the Netherlands!
I hope Brent takes videos of the rains and floods so we can see those check dams in action. I was also watching Ghost Town videos when I then found the Dustups videos and got hooked as well. Kudos to you both and hoping for more cross overs! Good job to Sam on those animations!
very cool to see the two of you working together. I have been following Brent for some time and came across you channel more recently. Really interested to see you both succeed in your endevours. Hope you both make your goals.
Great video. Its great to see the knowledge you've acquired being applied elsewhere. The Ghost Town is a great project and have been following it for years.
Being a radio guy, the microwave relay site jumped out at me! Glad to see the animation has returned! In the Spring and early Summer, it will be interesting to see how well the check dams worked.
All looks great! I'm sure Brent appreciates y'all's help! Might add too, glad you captured video of Brent's New American Hotel! I haven't seen the roof completely finished. Did hear he's waiting on the windows now! Thanks for this super informative post! 😊
THIS is the sort of thing I was thinking when seeing his road get washed out for 2nd time. Pinion Pines shouldn't require any water beyond natural precip as little as that is, they thrive all over in similar conditions, I suspect they just need help via planting seedlings all over. (perhaps that wasn't even implied, IDK)
Love me some Ghost Town Living. I believe Brent has planted some saplings before but not in the most ideal locations. Doing some more work like this and planting more in and around these dams would be cool to see.
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OH GREAT IT'S DUMB AND DUMBER.
😂😂😂
I always wondered how close in distance you guys were as neighbours? So here’s the proof.
Brilliant rock project of dam building
Do they have cricket protein options? It's so much better for the environment and all that
@@ConstantChaos1 not everyone can digest chitin.
Shaun OVERton & Brent UNDERwood. You should make monthly Chats OVER&UNDER
very punny
the Over&Under podcast. Heck yes :)
Sorry for it. But I watch both Channels since years. Dustups from the First Video and Cerro Gordo since thrid.
I grinning - Not Just smiling 😁😁😁- Like Kid at Xmas tree.
I told both - Brent and Shaun. - to Work together. But that they meet !!!! Even better
OH GREAT IT'S DUMB AND DUMBER
so awsome
slowing the water will definitely help stabilize and vegetate the washout, but if the road cut is a multiple time a year issue, he should probably just invest in a buried culvert to cross under the road. and continue the water harvesting down hill of the road, maybe a chain of seasonal pocket ponds that spread the water over a little wider of an area. Need to mobilize the dust ups fans to go build 50 more check dams. 😄Great work guys. 👍
I'd love to do a follow up where we build check dams all the way to where the creek crosses the road
Concrete a shallow depression covering about 15 feet of the road bed.
@@dustupstexas Was thinking the same thing. Probably Numerous Culverts grouped together inorder to ensure no Blockages.
The Check Damn & Bathtubs with the Terrace from Dustups...
Check Dam Slows the Water... the Terraces Divert the Water and Bathtubs Collect the Water...
Like a Pine Tree Image... Overlayed into the Valley.
Main Flow like the Trunk...
The Terraces are the Branches...
The Bathtubs are the Needles....
Needles =
->Bathtubs and are Natural like Dust Ups (Settling - Debris)
but also
-> LINED collection Ponds (Rudimentary Storage and Irrigation)
-> Tanks for Long term Storage & Filtration (UV Light Solar Powered) have them linked via endless tubing
Creating your own Mini Hydro Electric Dam...
@YoutTube Search away
any Gravity Feed Should have a Mini Turbine, maybe Multiple in Series Down the Slope and a Small Diameter pipe could create a Strong Force.....
Use Solar to run a reverse Pump to create an endless Waterfall..
I give more credit to Bret. At least he doesn't wast time he just burns it down. Dustups spends hours and days for nothing. Guy has absolutely no clue and that's why people watch. Two car wrecks together. Woo Hoo
@@jimbennett2795 lol. I approve this salt.
This would be a crazy volunteer project for Brent. Imagine having people line the channel completely with rocks and many check-dams. Would look absolutely sick.
Now I am looking forward to seeing what happens after it rains.
We all are!
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
@@Jack-w5k4p a widening of the channel would certainly disperse a lot of the energy. wonder what the unintended consequences would be though.
@@TheKlink well all you can do is see how long this "weir" will last OR make them "fatter" in the first instance = to do this on scale you need machinery = start at top and make multiple "weirs"
Shaun, I trained as an environmental scientist at the University of Melbourne and I can just about for sure say that your ghost town used to be a pinion pine and opuntia/cylindropuntia forest. Using opuntias, cylindropuntias, ocotillo and century plant as nurse species would be okay, IMHO. When the Pinion Pines get big,the cacti will go away all on their own but until then, their forms will create a much needed reservoir shade and moisture.
I also think you'll find that once the pinions are well established, all the other species that used to be there will come back, all on their own! You'll need to guard against predation by deer, rabbits, hares etc, but that almost goes without saying, doesn't it?
It would be cool to put the cactus planting knowledge to use
Those thorny shrubs are perfect starter kits for planting young trees right inside of them to protect them until they reach 2 years in age.
They have make a nursery for trees in Cerro Gordo. Growing for two or three years, watering them and giving fertizer - Lhama poop 💩???
@@dustupstexasit took you forever to come around to this conclusion about cacti. Who told you early on about them to cultivate at Dustups? Then you brought in Joao whom you flew over from Brazil just to tell you the same thing. Then, of course, you had your secret admirer who used Niccolo Machiavelli like tactics against you by turning you over to the TDA. Though he was within the letter of the Law, his methodology was reprehensible as was yours. You have wasted too much time already. I hope you would put mesquite, huizache, and Tithonia at the Dustups. Stop being superstitious about bats. Learn how to attract them so that would pollinate your agaves and leave guano for them as well.
an annual application of bone sauce would deter most grazers.
To do, in life, what makes you happy is truly a blessing. I worked as a Chef and Managing Restaurants all my life til I didn’t want to anymore. I was working crazy hours in pain and stressed. I stopped. I moved to a smaller house, a cottage with a garden and took up gardening for the first time aged 40. Now I’m so aware of bees, butterflies, birds, wildlife, insects, plants,trees and flowers. Give me a big garden over a big house!
Shaun on DustUps: "One thing I have in abundance, is rocks."
Brent in Cerro Gordo: "Bro... BRO! Let me show you a pile or rocks."
Accurate
Rocks, rocks everywhere
@@dustupstexas most understated way ever to say "yeah he's got lots more rocks for sure!" 🤣
Add pitch to the roads - raise the center of the road slightly so the water runs of to each side. It will reduce roads washing out and will slow the water. You can also incorporate "rain gardens" periodically along the road as well by breaking the side groove into a spiral depression pond that can be lined with rocks or brush to pool and puddling to soak in the water and reduce the volume going down the road.
The roads get eroded from the sides, by water crossing over them instead of water running on top of them. Pitch wouldn't help that -- the water would just erode the material beneath it.
And there is the cost of the pitch, and the cost of getting said pitch to the location as well as the equipment to apply it . Sadly, I don't think they have the money or means to do so. Sounds great on paper but reality is not so great ...
You need to see it before you help problem solve. Wash out. Flash flood. Bad.
@@davethebeard2706I think they're talking about pitch as in slope, rather than pine pitch.
NZ has great dirt roads that survive high rainfall, I remember looking at their road document for making a rally stage in a game
Look for public documents on how to do it right the first time.
You might need to try to contact the guy that runs the channel Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't, he has a wild knowledge on desert stuff
Unfortunately CPBD said he wasn't interested. Maybe if some of us super crossover fans make some donations and send letters to Crime, he will make it a priority. I feel like I need to make my own channel just doing collabs with the dozens of cool people I see on here.
@@Nphen Did he say why he's not interested?
I keep thinking that that would be such an interesting personality dynamic because Shaun's personality is so gentle and he doesn't even swear, but the Crime Pays guy is so GRUFF! I absolutely love both of them and would love to see a video of them working together.
@@samrijijkot possibly because Brent is a retired investment banker who purchased Cerro Gordo with an investment group having the ultimate goal of turning it into a for-profit tourist attraction. Joey has his own projects which seek to educate and better the general populous.
@@Nphen there are other experts out there who would be only too happy to help - I suggest Andrew Millison to start....
My first job for $4 an hour was clearing a 3 acre field for a farmer. 2 months of hucking rocks into a dump truck. Awesome collaboration!
Interesting. I have seen a lot of Ghost town living, including episodes about the washed away roads. Back then, my very first thought was, that a lot of that could be prevented with some targeted nature restauraution. And ever since I kept thinking, how much the area could benefit from restauration projects. However, I always figured, that the chanel is about exploration, mines, museum work and other building projects ...
In my humble opinion, Brent should put a 5ft culvert in that spot where the water crosses his road. It allows a large volume of water to move without disturbing the road. And I've often thought of suggesting Permaculture principles to terraform his hillsides to capture as much water as possible. But of course, that puts the mines at risk. I think it's awesome that you hooked up with him. I enjoy watching both of your channels and have watched both for years.
Problem with that is its a county road. The state of California has to do that, he isn't allowed to do anything to it. His hands are tied.
Maybe five 1foot Pipes are better.
Love both your channels - what a great combo!
Now this is the kind of youtube teamup I'm here for!
I love to see that the Hotel is almost finished!
I remember the das I watched the Episode when the American Hotel 🏨 burnt down. I thought that maybe that would end the Channel but the opposite happened.
Brent Had a New goal
@@maxschon7709 A good man will never fail.
What a wonderful idea to reforest the mountain. Undoing the damage humanity has done to the planet is a noble profession, and it helps secure the futures of our children as well.
Yes what a perfect mashup ❤️
True. I asked them both to Work together long time ago. But how they met !!!!
Love it when channels I follow colab!
life weaves in strange and wonderous ways - Well done to you for doing what ive wanted to see Brett do for the last 4 years!!!! so much raw material in those tailings piles, so many hundreds of check dams, diversion walls, gabions and vegetaion mulch harbours to be made, ... great start, ..now repeat 6000x everywhere about the town - and lets osme how terrace out those tailngs piles and replant !!! I recommend Brent also gets a beehive, all thise wildflowers in bloom this year wow! love the mashup of Dust and Ghosts!
No way!!!
a col lab of the two best desert projects i know💪😀😀
I'v been following both of you for a long time, so happy to see you coropporating - thank you
Shaun is becoming the check dam Yoda. So cool to see!
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
@@Jack-w5k4pBS, they are at top of hill, different volumes
7:26 I really like the idea that the old workers from way back ago are in some way helping you rebuild the town.
It's awesome to think about
Fantastic project, Shaun!! Cheers from Spain!!
True. I Hope Shaun sende some Prickly pears to Brent to plant some cacti
What a nice cooperation!
Thank you so much for what you did to start helping with that problem. I’m one of the volunteers that comes from out of state to help at CG.
Make a wooden slide to move rocks from high spots to low spots. "Using your head can save your legs."
I’m sure there’s some tin roofing material around, turn them into a slide.
Excellent idea! I’m all for it.
This Collab has been in waiting for ages.
Me too. I Hope Brent makes some silver coins for Dustups now.
Maybe some Texas Prickly pears grow in California too??
Very cool Shaun. Sharing the knowledge wisdom and experience with others is rewarding. This will help his project advance in ways he never imagined.
It’s good too see this help getting water management up at the Sierra Gordo
What a surprise collab! I have been watching Brent from almost the beginning and Dustups since the beginning. Giving your knowledge and experience to Brent will surely help him out. The Over & Under Podcast, discussing what both of you are doing, there is something there!
I am so glad you did this colab. both channels are such a good fit for one. i hope you both do more.
Wonderful. This is so exciting and a long time coming. Try to divert the water away from the road to prevent flash flooding
I think brent misunderstood Shaun's point at 11:00. Big rocks aren't a problem because you have to crush them, they're a problem because they indicate how powerful the stream can get in it's biggest floods. Meaning you probably won't be able to contain it.
Correct
Yes! Collab with Brent: excellent!🌵🌱
At 5:04 you mention picking up the loose stones because “why disturb” the ones buried in the ground. I would recommend looking into why those stones are exposed, oftentimes stones exposed to the air fully like that one is because the water eroded the soil under/around it, meaning undisturbed exposed stones are a good indication for water down-flow.
A colab I would have never seen coming, yet after watching, makes total sense! Excited for more potential colabs in the future! Benn sub'd to both channels for quite some time now.
What I learned from DNR on my afforestation project: use plant material sourced from close by. So, if you start seedlings onsite from trees at your location then that plant material should do the best at your site.
What a great collab two of my favorite channels very excited to see you working together to make things happen can't wait to see him in Texas
Awesome! So inspiring! Thank you very much!
Dutch man in the heavy rain on a ranch in center point Texas waiting for this amezing episode to start
oh damn, didn't expect this collab!
This collab makes so much sense!!!
Hi guys. Maybe just build a reservoire at that place could comulate the water that will be use by the people during the year.
Depends If the law in California allows to alter washes.
You can plant trees inside giant clay pots like the ones for indoor apple trees or orange trees. A giant clay vat with a tree already planted on it can start to fill the empty spaces with shades until the trees start growing for transplanting into the soil.
The Italians use giant clay pots to fill their backyards with big trees to provide shades from the sun and cool the area during hot summer months.
Planting pine trees on giant clay pots to populate the landscape with trees is a good start.
Or
You can use rocks as raised beds to hold trees.
Sounds like a good idea to work with, adapt to fit the situation
Sounds pricey
Unless they happen to own a clay pot factory, this would be a very expensive solution for the whole mountain.
What an amazing colab, got me stoked!
P1 of both channels. Shawn so cool to be sharing knowledge that is so helpful. Great nostalgic ending Brent! I’m hope to travel to both destinations one day 🤞🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
yay I love it when two of my favourite youtubers come together
I'm subscribed to you both, so when I saw the thumbnail and clicked the video, it took me a minute figure out what channel I was watching. 🤣
😄
How cool, two of my favorite RUclipsrs! Thank for sharing with Brent!
Hi. A solution might be to start from the top with a short swale of 50-100m to pacify your water and divert it into 4 seperate streams with 2m windowsills every 20 m. Depending on the elevation, 30m down another longer swale with 8 windowsills to pacify all the water up until down to the road. I think it will work and will also regenerate your soil. All the best it’s very hard but fullfilling work.
The world needs more people like you. 🤘
True. You can feel their love for their Projects.
Yep, awesome! Looking forward to Brent giving us a wet weather update in the future…
Well done guys, love the collaboration. One thing there is no shortage of at Cerro Gordo is rocks! The ultimate resource Brent… 👍
This was great!!!!!!
Great how Shaun and Brent Match in their love for the Projects.
The road washout looked a huge problem and I pondered on solutions myself but i think this solution nails it. And its so enviromentally friendly. Great work. Divide and Conquer.Looking forward to the first test.
The amount of fresh vegetation that will spring up after the thaw is going to be incredible. You should definitely start a greenhouse nursery up by the ghost town.
This was awesome!! I really hope the check dams help!
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
Two of my favourite creators together.
I have been watching Brent from day one… He has done such a great job and I am glad to see that you are helping with the erosion issues.. thanks
NOT SURE if you saw Floods in Valencia SPAIN = ONE BIG RAIN and this PUNY Little ROCK WALL will Wash AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOU NEED Width not NARROW - ask an engineer
At 17:46 you're discussing a means to move the stones down to the dam position in the gully. A technique I have used is to make a set of shutes from old corrugated iron sheets by nailing a 12-18" wooden tie of scrap 2"x2" across each end forming a "U". If you want you can form them so they nest together (one end wider than the other). That way they work seamlessly and can be assembled and used again and again to position the rocks.
I was just gonna recommend this, same concept but we used old abs storm pipe cut them in half length wise and linked them together. one guy in the truck or loader dropping down the chute and another stacking rocks at the bottom.
@822516bigbear Exactly what I was gonna say, same material but just overlap the pipes like shingles, then they'll be more adjustable to match the terrain.
Hey, Brent and Shawn!
I've been warching both of your videos for ar least a year each. I grew up in El Paso, Texas, and spent time in and around Big Bend National Park as a kid. My husband and I also drove up the trail to Cerro Gordo during our honeymoon. It's really col to see you team up. Thanks for the video!⁹
Two of my favorite rough living channels. I grew up in a ghost town in the deserts of NM... both feel a bit like harsher versions of home.
He seems like a great dude too! I am hopeful you two can reach your goals 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
I'd love to see a fast follow update on how the check dams do after the first rains and during snow melt season next year.😊
I can't wait!
Hope you can help Brett. The first year on my land, there was nothing but dirt and stone and we struggled with soil erosion every time it rained. Now the grass and other plants have finally started taking this year, there is nearly no soil erosion anymore.
Great to see you helping other channels, hopefully it'll drive some subs too
Your best size rock would be sizes considered to be riprap to fill those small flow gullies leading to your road. the check dams are a great start, but the more rock added to those small washes, the better the smaller material will be slowed when the water is flowing. A layer of rock on the bottom of the wash, all the way between check dams , will just further help slow the water and capture smaller particles being moved downhill by the water (erosion). As you get to areas where the flow is greater, you would need larger stones and an excavator with thumb to move them.
I'm a huge fan of Brent's channel thank you so much for sharing I've been binging on a bunch of your content as well keep up the great work thanks so much for all you do!
Sweet! I never expected two of my favorite RUclips channels to team up for an episode. Thank you guys for the inspiration.
i live in an area that is basically three major plants - pinyon pine, rocky mountain juniper, big sagebrush. We have a lot of rabbit bush?- Yellow flowering grass and a bunch of other grasses with few cacti. I mostly appreciate the wilderness around me from the prospective eye of a bonsai enthusiast and love how the trees here look. I really hope your efforts can rejuvenate the forest in that land. Love how the pinyon-juniper trees look. Really outstanding. Much love.
This is so cool!
I'm wondering if you could partner with Mossy Earth for replanting the Pinyon Pines?
I hope we get video from the next rain fall there and see how all the new little check-dams work.
Cool idea
I have been following Brent since the beginning, and I have been following you since the beginning. Seeing my two favorite channels collide is awesome! Keep up the great work!
Cheers from the Netherlands!
A good start, but a lot more work ahead building more of these all the way to top.
I hope Brent takes videos of the rains and floods so we can see those check dams in action. I was also watching Ghost Town videos when I then found the Dustups videos and got hooked as well. Kudos to you both and hoping for more cross overs! Good job to Sam on those animations!
very cool to see the two of you working together. I have been following Brent for some time and came across you channel more recently. Really interested to see you both succeed in your endevours. Hope you both make your goals.
Great video. Its great to see the knowledge you've acquired being applied elsewhere. The Ghost Town is a great project and have been following it for years.
Glad you can help Brent. He's a good guy.
17:03 Bucketttts!!!
Brent has a great channel also. Glad you got to visit and help him out with some "manual labor".
Can you share the channel name.
@@spacecowboy7856. youtube.com/@ghosttownliving?si=E0FXDA1CAKGOyI2R
Good on you hombre ! Spreading knowledge…awesome. Kudos to you.
I have been waiting for this video, except on Brent's channel. 😂 Cool to see it being addressed.
It will be cool to see how your work effects his issues..
Last year when the road got washed out, I made a comment on the Ghost Town Living RUclips page where I suggested these dams
True. I read it. I told Brent to make a "Swimmingpool" for His Lhamas" there but I think you aren't allows to alter the washes.
Love the fact that you two got together! Great episode
Being a radio guy, the microwave relay site jumped out at me!
Glad to see the animation has returned! In the Spring and early Summer, it will be interesting to see how well the check dams worked.
All looks great! I'm sure Brent appreciates y'all's help! Might add too, glad you captured video of Brent's New American Hotel! I haven't seen the roof completely finished. Did hear he's waiting on the windows now! Thanks for this super informative post! 😊
Fantastic collaboration!
THIS is the sort of thing I was thinking when seeing his road get washed out for 2nd time.
Pinion Pines shouldn't require any water beyond natural precip as little as that is, they thrive all over in similar conditions, I suspect they just need help via planting seedlings all over. (perhaps that wasn't even implied, IDK)
Ohh this is so great! I love both of you guys! The check damn are perfect for the ghost town! I as totally thinking that!
So great watching you both together! Please give us videos to show how this works! Thanks!💖✨🎉
Love me some Ghost Town Living. I believe Brent has planted some saplings before but not in the most ideal locations. Doing some more work like this and planting more in and around these dams would be cool to see.
Wish you bouth success and belssings. Amaizing colaboration, from two wonderfull people.
I LOVE the kids cartoons!!
Thankyou 😊
You did a lot of good work with the stone works. 😊
Very cool video! I've been watching Brent from the begining.
“goodness is an old man that plants a tree knowing he’ll never enjoy its shade”!!
nice collab