I talked to a guy about extending our driveway on our raw land and he said the trees are easier to knock over and push into a pile roots and all if you don't cut them down before because of the leverage you get.
I'm building just north of wausau, and it has been a very wet year, I feel your pain. I just found and binged your series tonight. You should really consider renting a dozer for a month. It can strip all of the top soil and clay without getting stuck and it will blow through all of your stumps much quicker than the back hoe. I love the Fl panhandle state parks in March, too! Good luck with tonight's storms...
We're staying about an hour north of Wausau (our property is hour and half northwest)! So I can imagine you're a little muddy as well. A dozer is absolutely what we need - it's what the guy we were going to hire would use. We almost considered just selling the backhoe and getting a bulldozer instead (not helpful for scooping, though!). Really we just need to make friends with the neighbor down the road who has two. :) These storms... UGH.
3:01 😂😂😂 And also I feel your pain with the rain.. it's been terrible. And now it's dry! So weird! Omg watching you guys tag team the tractor was fantastic. Again, feel your pain. Great job using the backhoe as an extra arm. Jason does it all the time with the bucket to get out of tricky situations. Felt the relief 100x when you got it unstuck!!! PHEW! How frustrating and time wasting! 16:51 😂😂😂 Praying you can get this all resolved soon. Maybe just a few loads of gravel would help? Not sure. Looking forward to the next update! ✌️🇨🇦🇺🇸
@@thiscreativehouse the back how will be so useful in maintaining the property, but you really do need the dozer to just finish clearing the site and removing all the overburden so you can get down to some decent subgrade. Friends with dozers are the best!
That wet spot in your driveway that you though was a spring could very well be a clay bathtub filled with some junk material. The clay won't let the water drain, and then the junk squishes when driven over.
Jason is finally getting around to watching and has some tips for getting unstuck. First, if you had extra weight in the bucket it would help keep you straight and you would be less likely to sway back into the bad mucky parts. Second, this tractor should have left and right brakes. So if he uses just the left in order to go left it will help. Might be good for next time you run into these types of problems. Hoping you guys have your RV out by now! Happy Labour day!
@@lorettaandjasonoffgrid Thank you, Jason!! 😃 That backhoe is TOO big for the tractor, so it definitely pulls us allll over. Also, you're right. We SHOULD have brakes. But alas, we do not. 🙄 Thanks, old tractor. 😆 Getting close!
@@Southalabamaoutdoors We just learned about this from a local yesterday. He called it "crusher run." Definitely going to try it out. Thanks for the tip!
@@thiscreativehouse yes!!that's what you need, when I moved up to Glidden Wisconsin I had a similar issue and had several loads brought in and leveled out well worth the extra money..spending so much time trying to get a driveway in, being always stuck will just be frustrating and wear you out before you start any building.
Goodness, and good on you for showing all the challenges. I didn't realize it has been SO wet. Not to hopeful for my second trip up to my raw land, seeing this. :) Any reason you are getting dirt, instead a large gravel? I would guess its to build a base first, then lay a barrier and then large gravel, but honestly not sure.
@@craftsoda Yes, much wetter than normal. But, we've had a super dry week. So hopefully it's better now where you are! Also yes - working on that base layer first (worked awesome last year, super solid) then will lay down large gravel. We've done some research on the barrier, and decided we won't be doing that. But we're excited for the gravel part!
I talked to a guy about extending our driveway on our raw land and he said the trees are easier to knock over and push into a pile roots and all if you don't cut them down before because of the leverage you get.
That makes sense! We really need to invest in a dozer...
I'm building just north of wausau, and it has been a very wet year, I feel your pain. I just found and binged your series tonight.
You should really consider renting a dozer for a month. It can strip all of the top soil and clay without getting stuck and it will blow through all of your stumps much quicker than the back hoe.
I love the Fl panhandle state parks in March, too!
Good luck with tonight's storms...
We're staying about an hour north of Wausau (our property is hour and half northwest)! So I can imagine you're a little muddy as well. A dozer is absolutely what we need - it's what the guy we were going to hire would use. We almost considered just selling the backhoe and getting a bulldozer instead (not helpful for scooping, though!). Really we just need to make friends with the neighbor down the road who has two. :)
These storms... UGH.
3:01 😂😂😂 And also I feel your pain with the rain.. it's been terrible. And now it's dry! So weird! Omg watching you guys tag team the tractor was fantastic. Again, feel your pain. Great job using the backhoe as an extra arm. Jason does it all the time with the bucket to get out of tricky situations. Felt the relief 100x when you got it unstuck!!! PHEW! How frustrating and time wasting! 16:51 😂😂😂 Praying you can get this all resolved soon. Maybe just a few loads of gravel would help? Not sure. Looking forward to the next update! ✌️🇨🇦🇺🇸
@@thiscreativehouse the back how will be so useful in maintaining the property, but you really do need the dozer to just finish clearing the site and removing all the overburden so you can get down to some decent subgrade.
Friends with dozers are the best!
That wet spot in your driveway that you though was a spring could very well be a clay bathtub filled with some junk material. The clay won't let the water drain, and then the junk squishes when driven over.
Interesting! That'd make sense.
Jason is finally getting around to watching and has some tips for getting unstuck. First, if you had extra weight in the bucket it would help keep you straight and you would be less likely to sway back into the bad mucky parts. Second, this tractor should have left and right brakes. So if he uses just the left in order to go left it will help. Might be good for next time you run into these types of problems. Hoping you guys have your RV out by now! Happy Labour day!
@@lorettaandjasonoffgrid Thank you, Jason!! 😃 That backhoe is TOO big for the tractor, so it definitely pulls us allll over. Also, you're right. We SHOULD have brakes. But alas, we do not. 🙄 Thanks, old tractor. 😆 Getting close!
@thiscreativehouse ohhhh gosh I didn't know that! Uggh! Any closer to moving the RV into the driveway? At least for a couple of months?
@@lorettaandjasonoffgrid Yeah, working on it! RV pad is about done, then it'll be a matter of waiting and letting it firm up 🤞🏼
You need to get a couple loads of driveway rock you'll get nowhere waiting for it to dry up.
@@Southalabamaoutdoors We just learned about this from a local yesterday. He called it "crusher run." Definitely going to try it out. Thanks for the tip!
@@thiscreativehouse yes!!that's what you need, when I moved up to Glidden Wisconsin I had a similar issue and had several loads brought in and leveled out well worth the extra money..spending so much time trying to get a driveway in, being always stuck will just be frustrating and wear you out before you start any building.
@@Southalabamaoutdoors Sounds exactly like us at the moment. 😅
Goodness, and good on you for showing all the challenges. I didn't realize it has been SO wet. Not to hopeful for my second trip up to my raw land, seeing this. :) Any reason you are getting dirt, instead a large gravel? I would guess its to build a base first, then lay a barrier and then large gravel, but honestly not sure.
@@craftsoda Yes, much wetter than normal. But, we've had a super dry week. So hopefully it's better now where you are! Also yes - working on that base layer first (worked awesome last year, super solid) then will lay down large gravel. We've done some research on the barrier, and decided we won't be doing that. But we're excited for the gravel part!