Don't worry...mud season should end in May. Silt + water = mud porridge, yum! Best way to keep the water from destroying your bank and road is lots of steep culverts. If you keep the water on the uphill side, it builds pressure, like the Colorado river made the Grand Canyon.
My father worked for the Ohio Department of Transportation as a Heavy Equipment Operator. He has cleared many mudslides and fixed many driveways in his 35+ years of state service and side gigs. He would advise you to crown your driveway, and slope your ditches at no greater than 45 degrees on the sides. Road cloth, then gravel. If you have a spot that is rushing fast through a turn in direction, you need to dig out a bowl like a mini pond to slow it down. You might also use some gabions to catch and slow your soil/gravel to keep it from washing away as you sort out your trouble spots.
Hey you guys this made our news tonight on the southern coast !! A family had a ring setup on their front door in northern Utah and showed a large Cougar checking out the porch, snow still on ground at night.Check or set game cameras or look for prints in snow the cats maybe hungry by now..Do you have any thing that goes BANG REALLY LOUD take it with you for the last tree break after dark!!!!!!!
To save your self a big headache down the road save all the bigger rocks and stack them against the falling bank. Also have you guy's thought of a rain water gutter system on the top of you building, with a larger insulated poly water tank you might be able to up to maybe 6 month of water each year.
I fully understand how you feel. I also have a dirt driveway approximately 500 feet long, with a very steep curve in it, and all the gravel in the world just won’t fix this type road. But, try to maintain, we must, we must! Much luck wished for you and your family, and all your endeavors!
I thought the worst was coming when you went on the road after dark! Travel recommendation: Canadian East Coast. Just give me a bit of time to finish our camper and join the tour!
I guess you both have your summer planned, lots of wood to harvest beside the roads to push out the tree line and a road rebuild, hopefully there is a crushed rock source close. Getting away for a trip during melt to reduce traffic on your road may not be a bad idea so when you come back to work you are well rested. Thank you for all your effort and time, life is hard enough plus filling and editing and looking presentable. Well done. I think you should take it somewhere warm to enjoy spring.
@@AmbitionStrikes I use to have a cabin where the highway was closed all winter so in late May or June we could inspect the damage and spend what time we could through summer cleaning up and learning from the year before, I have 3 miles up a hill much like your area surrounded by mountains at the start of the Rocky Mountain Foothills but it was an old logging road so good bones to start with, nice culverts and really it was more maintaining than building a road but it often would wash out or a land slide would force a detour making summers a real treat. The region was lost in a fire a few years ago but I hope to rebuild, not much left though. One tip I have for your excavator is your blade and bucket are all you need to move around, if your tracks are not working you can caterpillar up the hill stopping with the front blade to reposition your arm and pushing backwards uphill with the bucket. Takes some experience but that is only time, that excavator can crawl up mountains. Ice makes it tricky to say the least though and it is always a struggle but I bet by the end of summer you want to use the excavator for everything. Is a skid steer in the plans and maybe a dumping trailer for gravel and eventual dirt for garden, sand for traction. Do many locals winter elsewhere?
Controlling the speed of the water is critical. Riprap (softball size and larger rocks) placed correctly help. Check out hydrology videos. Good luck! You can get it.
Might be helpful to watch Vanwives videos on youtube of their driveway/roadway building to their cabin in Nova Scotia. They have a cabin series from last summer. Might be helpful ideas for mud season while you figure out your drainage, erosion areas, and ditches. Your new knives are sharp. Having sharp knives is key to happy prepping of foods. It looks like you previously used Cutco knives. They have a lifetime warranty and can be sent in for sharpening for about $10. We have a few and just rotate each month or two to keep sharp ones on hand. They will also replace handles etc. if they get chipped. Of course your new ones look nice too. Enjoying your videos!
So good to see the camper drive. Watching the build is what originally brought me to your channel and now I can’t wait to see every new video. You guys rock!
Looks like some extremely serious summertime roadwork and drainage work is in your future. It will be interesting to see what kind of advice you receive via comments, local professionals, and web searches you find and are given to get the best advice to end up with a far superior road and drainage system. And one that hopefully will last for many years to come and isn't too expensive.
If you haven't already, you need to put some kind of porch roof above your man door. Frozen snow falling from your roof could seriously injure someone. Another option would be to install snow guards on the roof.
Love seeing the progress. One safety tip, always throw something over your winch line in case it snaps. I know the synthetics don't recoil like steel cable, but better safe than sorry.
Great reminder: every cable under load can become a slicing knife flashing across the ground about knee height. See aircraft carrier arrested landing failures.
@@wildwoodwood9153 another tow strap folded over a few times, an old chunk of carpet, door mat, even a coat or blanket. Just something to add weight in the middle so if the cable snaps there is something to pull it down.
The summer months are going to be super hot haven’t you guys considered a rain catch system. Especially with it becoming spring this is a great time to catch all the rain and all the water that’s happening in IBC totes or something
You guys so need to make and sell SNOWVERLANDERS (like you need something else to do) you would sell them like crazy!! You two are an amazing team and always get it done with hard work and perseverance. It was good to see the killer B's running around having a ball in the snow!! Can't wait for next week!!
We lived in a rural area for 40 years. The first 15 were spent on a place with a longish drive. When we were looking to buy the second place, a short drive was a priority. This video shows why.
After seeing what you guys went through on your road, I won’t be complaining about our .5 miles of mud and ice to reach our property anymore. Riley’s spa treatment/ mud bath made me laugh.
When building your ditch lines along the road make them deep and broad. Then line the ditch with riprap rocks. This keeps the ditch from washing out. Hill sides need to be build up with either riprap, old jersey barriers ect with french drains in them.
I'm no road engineer but it looks to me, along with your suggestions, that there are a couple of spots on the road that would benefit from installing drainage pipe under the road to divert water from the high side to the lower side. Reducing the amount flowing all the way down on one side only.
You guys really should be careful when the snow starts sliding off your roof. Its not a huge concern right now but sometimes you can get an ice buildup on the roof and if one of those falls off and hits you on the head it can kill you. In places where ice slides are more common you will often see arched porch roofs that extend past the upper eves at each entrance.
Definitely put a snow brake on the roof over your doors so you don't get killed or injured by snow/ice sliding off the roof. Also I think you're up in glacial till country which can be very hard to build roads in and have them stay put in spring thaw. I'm down here in Post Falls.
we in a farm never had a vinch, we always ct tree limbs and chainsaw the fallen trees. sometimes no delimbing even. trow in to the side to pick up later. several times had to have all working crew of the farm, 6 people, cuople tractors, because there were over meter thick trees on the road :) or sevelar thinner ones
Even a D6 would do it--but they ended up with a D8 with winch--all the dozer they should ever need. I have a Liebherr PR 731 (D6 size) and it does clearing, pond-building, road work.
Pully aka snatch block for the winch. Tree guard wrap to put around tree to protect it. Casey LaDelle channel has a lot of using that, especially on the winter videos.
Best rain jacket will be called GoreTex...created by REI...secondly...the snow and sometimes ice that can fall from your roof...are called widow makers...be mindful whats above you...your roof material may be a benefit and not allow them to get that way, I don't know...gravel might be a good option on your road...the water and such could go right thru most of it...other than that...it's spring time in north Idaho.
If you put your water catch tank up the hill from your house, you can use the hydro-static pressure of the water column to pressurizer your water system without using electricity. Just a regular water hose can siphon the water down hill with pretty good line pressure.
A perfect surprise ending!!! Thanks for the laughs Riley 🤣😂🤣😂 We appreciate what you guys go through to bring us your videos 😋 We also love seeing how happy Boone and Bailey are. They are so precious 🥰 Love watching you all and your progress. Happy Spring 🌷🌻
Great video ya'll!! That mud can really be a pain to mess with glad ya'll made it out with camper. Love ya'lls homestead. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun
Don't know how long your road is, or even the current price of road base.... but it would sure help you in the future.... when I was growing up, our road looked just like that, and would wash out a little every year, UNTIL we put road base in.... but the road was only about 1/4 mile long.... you may need to rob a bank or something.... if you do, however, film it!!
Almost to the end of snow land time, what a fun winter you had!............A fun video would be a complete video in real time of the road in to your home. Maybe after mud season!
The issue you will have removing trees is that every time you remove a tree you create another place for the bank to collapse. A similar issue with the ditch is that unless you protect it the water running will just undermine the road and hill causing bigger and bigger problems as time goes by.
This is true, cutting a road up a mountain side is the same as cutting a creek bed to drain the top of the mountain to the bottom, cutting a drainage ditch on the inside of the mountain side is turning all the drainage into a narrow creek, being narrow the water runs faster and cuts deeper. Driving up and down this road helps in its destruction. A road bed has to be built not destroyed, check with your county engineer on best practice for your road.
An Idea; Deeper ditch with Large Rocks in it. The bank on the sides need to be leveled out or just taper it where its not above the drainage ditch its self. But with any heavy snow & melt, creates its own channels under the snow. Good luck!
💕If you set up a decent water collection system you could collect the clear melt water from further up via pipes & have a years worth of free water💕That mud looks like good clay💕
Great video. You might want to use some of the wood you cut to build up low parts of the road bed - basically building a corduroy road, with a log bed under gravel. It should work to eliminate some of the low spots.
When we were kids and walking to and from school like a couple miles we had so much fun breaking ice and stomping chunks of ice back in Minnesota. When it was like this we knew winter was going away.
Riley, in Colorado I had some issues along a long ditch in front of our property so did some rip wrap with large rocks where erosion was a problem. Especially in front of large drainage pipes. Also on any banks you want to secure. Good luck, john
A humble comment. I think that until all the frost is out of the ground, that you leave your track studs in. Unless they are detrimental to the tracks, I would say leave them in until you know the average night time temps are above freezing. You'll know best. I also know this video is from last winter. I didn't know about Abition Strikes then, so a late comment.
Feel sorry for the dogs, they can't go anywhere else they'll be neck deep in mud. Glad you took them with you when helping the neighbor out. I'd get the heck out of there ASAP... come back after mud season. Good luck. I'm feeling really good now here in sunny Florida. LOL.
You need to concentrate on getting that road of yours metaled up and some real hardened area in front of that building so that you can trucks on to your property. Trouble is it is not a cheap job to do and you will take several hundred tonnes just to do hard standing and few hundred feet of road. We here in England are able to get recycled railway ballast, which is good stone for roadbeds,
Terrific episode guys! That out take shot at the end where Riley was stuck in the mud and suddenly fell caught me completely of guard followed by me laughing out loud. You two have a great outlook on life’s surprises.
I agree those pruning blades are great. we've got zoysia grass which is impossible to cut with a shovel. When we planting brushes I had to cut a round whole in the grass and to remove the "sod" before I could dig with a shovel.
Love your videos! Just fyi the Cutco knives you held up as dull have a lifetime sharpness guarantee. Just pay shipping and Cutco sharpens them for free and sends them back to your for free. In some cases Cutco even replaces them for free for various reasons. I use the free sharpening all the time.
Omg, I love mud and rocks. Wish I can play everyday like that in my yard... start putting shell down once drys up. Put down where you think it needs it more. Wish i live by yall, I would give y'all helping hand. Get some winter grass seed put down.
Wow what a mess....kkkk....yea, snow malting ...a nightmare, anything can happen...I did slide down in the the stare way out of a class. It was a movie for us studying about the process of moviemaking, and I was coming right out with lots of people behind me, the snow had melted and the stair seemed to be just wet ...it wasn’t, it was the frozen transpiring snow....very slippery and I felt like a falling box with all my books flying around and me just crashing down....so embracing 🤪😄😁....
You are in such good shape having positive drainage/slope away from the building on the uphill side! That looks like everything is working as intended and you have the potential for a nice dry building once the slab has been poured. Excellent work to you both! 👌
The joys of spring!!!! lol Crawling and playing mud monster, I have done those things also. The woods roads I drove on with the logging truck were way, way, worse than your road. I had no doubt your camper would make it down with little effort, up would be a little more challenging. Getting it out while it was still frozen was smart. You are developing a "system" of living around the weather and the mountain. Take care
Ah nothing like spring thaw! FYI- most states you need to change your plates for your vehicle with 48 hours of moving. Unless you residence is still in California.
I love all your videos but seeing the Dodge leave made me happy!! I'm excited for you guys to hit the road and take a much needed break! I thought about you all this morning. We just got back from a 4 week vacation and it was so nice to take a shower!! . . . haha
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Ready or not, mud season has arrived. 😬 We knew it would be bad, but just how bad?
Don't worry...mud season should end in May.
Silt + water = mud porridge, yum!
Best way to keep the water from destroying your bank and road is lots of steep culverts. If you keep the water on the uphill side, it builds pressure, like the Colorado river made the Grand Canyon.
Alaska sounds like the perfect next adventure with your rig.
Badlands bad! Lol!
Same environment here in Alaska
My father worked for the Ohio Department of Transportation as a Heavy Equipment Operator. He has cleared many mudslides and fixed many driveways in his 35+ years of state service and side gigs. He would advise you to crown your driveway, and slope your ditches at no greater than 45 degrees on the sides. Road cloth, then gravel. If you have a spot that is rushing fast through a turn in direction, you need to dig out a bowl like a mini pond to slow it down. You might also use some gabions to catch and slow your soil/gravel to keep it from washing away as you sort out your trouble spots.
Please tell him thank you very much for the advice!
Hey you guys this made our news tonight on the southern coast !! A family had a ring setup on their front door in northern Utah and showed a large Cougar checking out the porch, snow still on ground at night.Check or set game cameras or look for prints in snow the cats maybe hungry by now..Do you have any thing that goes BANG REALLY LOUD take it with you for the last tree break after dark!!!!!!!
To save your self a big headache down the road save all the bigger rocks and stack them against the falling bank. Also have you guy's thought of a rain water gutter system on the top of you building, with a larger insulated poly water tank you might be able to up to maybe 6 month of water each year.
I love your bangs, thanks for adding them more often...lol Great video once again!
I fully understand how you feel. I also have a dirt driveway approximately 500 feet long, with a very steep curve in it, and all the gravel in the world just won’t fix this type road. But, try to maintain, we must, we must! Much luck wished for you and your family, and all your endeavors!
Neighbors helping neighbors. Thanks y'all for another nice video.
I thought the worst was coming when you went on the road after dark!
Travel recommendation: Canadian East Coast. Just give me a bit of time to finish our camper and join the tour!
That sounds like a fun trip!
I guess you both have your summer planned, lots of wood to harvest beside the roads to push out the tree line and a road rebuild, hopefully there is a crushed rock source close. Getting away for a trip during melt to reduce traffic on your road may not be a bad idea so when you come back to work you are well rested. Thank you for all your effort and time, life is hard enough plus filling and editing and looking presentable. Well done. I think you should take it somewhere warm to enjoy spring.
Something tells me you've lived on a road just like ours! 😉
@@AmbitionStrikes I use to have a cabin where the highway was closed all winter so in late May or June we could inspect the damage and spend what time we could through summer cleaning up and learning from the year before, I have 3 miles up a hill much like your area surrounded by mountains at the start of the Rocky Mountain Foothills but it was an old logging road so good bones to start with, nice culverts and really it was more maintaining than building a road but it often would wash out or a land slide would force a detour making summers a real treat. The region was lost in a fire a few years ago but I hope to rebuild, not much left though.
One tip I have for your excavator is your blade and bucket are all you need to move around, if your tracks are not working you can caterpillar up the hill stopping with the front blade to reposition your arm and pushing backwards uphill with the bucket. Takes some experience but that is only time, that excavator can crawl up mountains. Ice makes it tricky to say the least though and it is always a struggle but I bet by the end of summer you want to use the excavator for everything. Is a skid steer in the plans and maybe a dumping trailer for gravel and eventual dirt for garden, sand for traction. Do many locals winter elsewhere?
You guys have some serious road building to do in the spring, maybe some tarmac and gravel
Great video, the last clip getting stuck in the mud and falling over was epic, i might of laughed a little bit🤣🤣🤣
Got to love the hydrolic nature of water.
Nice Family Demo of self made roads, constructions, planning, executing, .. will help many families.
Controlling the speed of the water is critical. Riprap (softball size and larger rocks) placed correctly help. Check out hydrology videos. Good luck! You can get it.
Might be helpful to watch Vanwives videos on youtube of their driveway/roadway building to their cabin in Nova Scotia. They have a cabin series from last summer. Might be helpful ideas for mud season while you figure out your drainage, erosion areas, and ditches. Your new knives are sharp. Having sharp knives is key to happy prepping of foods. It looks like you previously used Cutco knives. They have a lifetime warranty and can be sent in for sharpening for about $10. We have a few and just rotate each month or two to keep sharp ones on hand. They will also replace handles etc. if they get chipped. Of course your new ones look nice too. Enjoying your videos!
So good to see the camper drive. Watching the build is what originally brought me to your channel and now I can’t wait to see every new video. You guys rock!
We've got some good camper content coming up soon!
The music in the first 3 minutes has some The Big Lebowski vibes. It really ties the video together man.
Looks like some extremely serious summertime roadwork and drainage work is in your future. It will be interesting to see what kind of advice you receive via comments, local professionals, and web searches you find and are given to get the best advice to end up with a far superior road and drainage system. And one that hopefully will last for many years to come and isn't too expensive.
Building that road is as important as your Barndominium and will probably cost as much in materials.
If you haven't already, you need to put some kind of porch roof above your man door. Frozen snow falling from your roof could seriously injure someone. Another option would be to install snow guards on the roof.
Snow wonderful snow! Wait till the weather gets really bad!
Love seeing the progress. One safety tip, always throw something over your winch line in case it snaps. I know the synthetics don't recoil like steel cable, but better safe than sorry.
Great reminder: every cable under load can become a slicing knife flashing across the ground about knee height. See aircraft carrier arrested landing failures.
What is a common item used to put “over” that does the job?
@@wildwoodwood9153 another tow strap folded over a few times, an old chunk of carpet, door mat, even a coat or blanket. Just something to add weight in the middle so if the cable snaps there is something to pull it down.
The summer months are going to be super hot haven’t you guys considered a rain catch system. Especially with it becoming spring this is a great time to catch all the rain and all the water that’s happening in IBC totes or something
Catching rainwater into an inground cistern would work and, if big enough, the water would store throughout & not freeze in the winter.
You guys so need to make and sell SNOWVERLANDERS (like you need something else to do) you would sell them like crazy!! You two are an amazing team and always get it done with hard work and perseverance. It was good to see the killer B's running around having a ball in the snow!! Can't wait for next week!!
We lived in a rural area for 40 years. The first 15 were spent on a place with a longish drive. When we were looking to buy the second place, a short drive was a priority. This video shows why.
After seeing what you guys went through on your road, I won’t be complaining about our .5 miles of mud and ice to reach our property anymore. Riley’s spa treatment/ mud bath made me laugh.
It’s all about perspective! We love the privacy of a long driveway, but it certainly comes with its challenges.
I have total confidence in you two; you’ve got this!
I hunt in Louisiana/Mississippi, lots of mud, but the sheer amount of snow/ice on top of the mud you have certainly adds to the “Fun”…
wow, I am from south TX..I would love to see snow like that. BLOWS MY MIND.
Beautiful! Life is wonderful if worry nothing else.
Someone needs a lot of rock. I see some projects ahead on the road stay safe
That's exactly what I was thinking a lot of gravel going to be needed very soon.
When building your ditch lines along the road make them deep and broad. Then line the ditch with riprap rocks. This keeps the ditch from washing out. Hill sides need to be build up with either riprap, old jersey barriers ect with french drains in them.
I'm no road engineer but it looks to me, along with your suggestions, that there are a couple of spots on the road that would benefit from installing drainage pipe under the road to divert water from the high side to the lower side. Reducing the amount flowing all the way down on one side only.
You guys really should be careful when the snow starts sliding off your roof. Its not a huge concern right now but sometimes you can get an ice buildup on the roof and if one of those falls off and hits you on the head it can kill you. In places where ice slides are more common you will often see arched porch roofs that extend past the upper eves at each entrance.
I agree. That was very dangerous. If Ice falling off a building can flatten a car, it can certainly kill a person or DOG.
Definitely put a snow brake on the roof over your doors so you don't get killed or injured by snow/ice sliding off the roof.
Also I think you're up in glacial till country which can be very hard to build roads in and have them stay put in spring thaw. I'm down here in Post Falls.
Yes!
we in a farm never had a vinch, we always ct tree limbs and chainsaw the fallen trees. sometimes no delimbing even. trow in to the side to pick up later. several times had to have all working crew of the farm, 6 people, cuople tractors, because there were over meter thick trees on the road :) or sevelar thinner ones
You two make such a good team.
CLEARLY, THOSE TANK TRACKS ARE UNSTOPPABLE!!! WHAT AN AWESOME INVESTMENT!! EVEN IM AMAZED.
Even a D6 would do it--but they ended up with a D8 with winch--all the dozer they should ever need. I have a Liebherr PR 731 (D6 size) and it does clearing, pond-building, road work.
Winters are beautiful yet risky and labourer 🤗
True community in the mountains. Neighbours working together for the win 😊
Pully aka snatch block for the winch. Tree guard wrap to put around tree to protect it.
Casey LaDelle channel has a lot of using that, especially on the winter videos.
Nope.. thats my worst nightmare. Thats why i live in the tropics. No snow ever!
I for one am really glad the shed got put up when it was frozen... lol
Good job guys.
So are we! We'll take an icy road over a muddy road any day!
Best rain jacket will be called GoreTex...created by REI...secondly...the snow and sometimes ice that can fall from your roof...are called widow makers...be mindful whats above you...your roof material may be a benefit and not allow them to get that way, I don't know...gravel might be a good option on your road...the water and such could go right thru most of it...other than that...it's spring time in north Idaho.
I know the mud is not fun to deal with, however, the scenery is just beautiful!
It makes the price worth it!
I love you silly and light hearted you two are! Who said becoming an adult meant you had to become all serious and stodgy right? : - D
If you put your water catch tank up the hill from your house, you can use the hydro-static pressure of the water column to pressurizer your water system without using electricity. Just a regular water hose can siphon the water down hill with pretty good line pressure.
You guys should watch Matt’s recovery channel. Tons of knowledge to learn for where you live, regarding driving in those elements.
You need to ask yourselves “What would Andrew Camarata do?” LOL!!!
A perfect surprise ending!!! Thanks for the laughs Riley 🤣😂🤣😂 We appreciate what you guys go through to bring us your videos 😋 We also love seeing how happy Boone and Bailey are. They are so precious 🥰 Love watching you all and your progress. Happy Spring 🌷🌻
Thanks Vivian! ☺️
The things you do for us guys!!! Thanks.
Hey guys! This summer try to line your ditches with gravel and rocks (something I’m sure you’re planning to do). It’s sooo helpful!
That is a great idea!
I used to build mtb trails and we used gravel in all of our drainage ditches and it helped with erosion so much! Cheers
Along with fabric...
Great video ya'll!! That mud can really be a pain to mess with glad ya'll made it out with camper. Love ya'lls homestead. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun
Looks like you and the dogs 🐕 🐕 are having fun
Oh my but the fur babies are so happy
Must have went on that road trip. Saw the rig pulling out of Costco in Reno today. Bummer didn’t get a chance to say hi.
That's life at night 😂 in Idaho mountains, Just when you are dry an war.m neighbour calls for resque👍😀
Those dogs are hilarious!
Don't know how long your road is, or even the current price of road base.... but it would sure help you in the future.... when I was growing up, our road looked just like that, and would wash out a little every year, UNTIL we put road base in.... but the road was only about 1/4 mile long.... you may need to rob a bank or something.... if you do, however, film it!!
It's always something aint it
Always looking forward to your videos
My word!! I would be a nervous wreck!!! And that mud, UCK!
Love it, glad I can do it with ya while sitting at the table with my morning coffee
Almost to the end of snow land time, what a fun winter you had!............A fun video would be a complete video in real time of the road in to your home. Maybe after mud season!
Enjoy you two and the dogs a perfect relationship.
The issue you will have removing trees is that every time you remove a tree you create another place for the bank to collapse. A similar issue with the ditch is that unless you protect it the water running will just undermine the road and hill causing bigger and bigger problems as time goes by.
This is true, cutting a road up a mountain side is the same as cutting a creek bed to drain the top of the mountain to the bottom, cutting a drainage ditch on the inside of the mountain side is turning all the drainage into a narrow creek, being narrow the water runs faster and cuts deeper. Driving up and down this road helps in its destruction. A road bed has to be built not destroyed, check with your county engineer on best practice for your road.
You have to do something about the roads into your place. Maybe in the spring. Thanks for sharing
An Idea; Deeper ditch with Large Rocks in it. The bank on the sides need to be leveled out or just taper it where its not above the drainage ditch its self. But with any heavy snow & melt, creates its own channels under the snow. Good luck!
💕If you set up a decent water collection system you could collect the clear melt water from further up via pipes & have a years worth of free water💕That mud looks like good clay💕
Monticello FL! We have a great farm with lemurs and kangaroos, and full hookups!
Great video.
You might want to use some of the wood you cut to build up low parts of the road bed - basically building a corduroy road, with a log bed under gravel. It should work to eliminate some of the low spots.
When we were kids and walking to and from school like a couple miles we had so much fun breaking ice and stomping chunks of ice back in Minnesota. When it was like this we knew winter was going away.
Riley, in Colorado I had some issues along a long ditch in front of our property so did some rip wrap with large rocks where erosion was a problem. Especially in front of large drainage pipes. Also on any banks you want to secure. Good luck, john
Yes!
A humble comment. I think that until all the frost is out of the ground, that you leave your track studs in. Unless they are detrimental to the tracks, I would say leave them in until you know the average night time temps are above freezing. You'll know best. I also know this video is from last winter. I didn't know about Abition Strikes then, so a late comment.
Feel sorry for the dogs, they can't go anywhere else they'll be neck deep in mud. Glad you took them with you when helping the neighbor out.
I'd get the heck out of there ASAP... come back after mud season.
Good luck. I'm feeling really good now here in sunny Florida. LOL.
There is a nice local dog park that we take the dogs to when we run to town. They can get their wiggles out and stay clean!
@@AmbitionStrikes Awesome! So glad to hear that. Thank you for letting me know. That would be a great part of any video, BTW.
You need to concentrate on getting that road of yours metaled up and some real hardened area in front of that building so that you can trucks on to your property. Trouble is it is not a cheap job to do and you will take several hundred tonnes just to do hard standing and few hundred feet of road. We here in England are able to get recycled railway ballast, which is good stone for roadbeds,
Thanks for making me smile!
A bunch of us are going camping at Coal Pink sand dunes in May...
That sounds awesome! We love southern Utah.
Terrific episode guys!
That out take shot at the end where Riley was stuck in the mud and suddenly fell caught me completely of guard followed by me laughing out loud. You two have a great outlook on life’s surprises.
You guys did a good job not getting stuck so I’ll keep watching you keep doing God bless
What a production just to leave home wow.
I agree those pruning blades are great. we've got zoysia grass which is impossible to cut with a shovel. When we planting brushes I had to cut a round whole in the grass and to remove the "sod" before I could dig with a shovel.
Bless you!
Mud mud glorius mud. I love it from time to time. 😉
Cheers to bolth of you. 🍺&🍷
Essential Mountain is good Grading and leveling and drainage issues maybe ask him❓
Josh is awesome! We talk pretty often.
Love your videos! Just fyi the Cutco knives you held up as dull have a lifetime sharpness guarantee. Just pay shipping and Cutco sharpens them for free and sends them back to your for free. In some cases Cutco even replaces them for free for various reasons. I use the free sharpening all the time.
That's great to know!
Holy Moly! I knew there would be some erosion, but that is next level. Can't wait to see just how bad it gets.
And the adventures of Courageous Courtney and Reckless Riley continues 😊!!
Omg, I love mud and rocks. Wish I can play everyday like that in my yard... start putting shell down once drys up. Put down where you think it needs it more. Wish i live by yall, I would give y'all helping hand. Get some winter grass seed put down.
Southern Idaho has a number of Hot Springs…check em out…not the commercial ones…go find the good ones
Glad youu got your camper out of the mud. Hope you have a Great Vacation!
Wow what a mess....kkkk....yea, snow malting ...a nightmare, anything can happen...I did slide down in the the stare way out of a class. It was a movie for us studying about the process of moviemaking, and I was coming right out with lots of people behind me, the snow had melted and the stair seemed to be just wet ...it wasn’t, it was the frozen transpiring snow....very slippery and I felt like a falling box with all my books flying around and me just crashing down....so embracing 🤪😄😁....
Yikes! We hope you were okay. Riley has taken quite a few tumbles this year on what he thought was “not slippery water”. 😂
That truck is an absolute beast! It’s quite the trek but the Great Lakes region is pretty awesome to visit.
I see several culvert projects in your future.
Looks like an education in road and drainage is in your near future. May need a D7 or facsimile.
Nice to have the awesome camper to "escape". :)
Coming back home will be so nice though after the adventure on the road.
Powerful wet muddy smiles 😁
You are in such good shape having positive drainage/slope away from the building on the uphill side! That looks like everything is working as intended and you have the potential for a nice dry building once the slab has been poured. Excellent work to you both! 👌
People pay a fortune for mud baths ,,, you get yours for free! Well done guys! Love you guys!
The joys of spring!!!! lol Crawling and playing mud monster, I have done those things also. The woods roads I drove on with the logging truck were way, way, worse than your road. I had no doubt your camper would make it down with little effort, up would be a little more challenging. Getting it out while it was still frozen was smart. You are developing a "system" of living around the weather and the mountain. Take care
Welcome to the world of living in the mountains 👋👋👋
Thank you again Folks always good.
Ah nothing like spring thaw! FYI- most states you need to change your plates for your vehicle with 48 hours of moving. Unless you residence is still in California.
Nice to be able to help your neighbour out! Hello Spring
I love all your videos but seeing the Dodge leave made me happy!! I'm excited for you guys to hit the road and take a much needed break! I thought about you all this morning. We just got back from a 4 week vacation and it was so nice to take a shower!! . . . haha
There’s nothing like a proper shower after a long trip!