Clearing Wooded Land with Anchor Chain and Bulldozer

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  • @mikmik9034
    @mikmik9034 Рік тому +578

    "Can clear a forested land in a mater of time..." Really? A single man with an axe can also clear a Forested land in *'in matter of time'!*

    • @gregblanton9386
      @gregblanton9386 Рік тому +5

      😂🤣

    • @chopperdude407
      @chopperdude407 Рік тому +14

      A BIGGER matter of time

    • @ChrisBussells
      @ChrisBussells Рік тому +24

      Really, who writes this crap?

    • @TheGrimReaper1
      @TheGrimReaper1 Рік тому +10

      Yes I noticed that, should have said “in a short matter of time” but I guess robots don’t know that and haven’t been to grammar school.😀

    • @mikmik9034
      @mikmik9034 Рік тому +5

      @@TheGrimReaper1 Linguistically laziness, Like say, "I could care less", when meant to say, "I could NOT car less."

  • @paulpence8895
    @paulpence8895 Рік тому +96

    Think this guy narrated all the videos I watched in grade school during the 1970's...

    • @Richardsmith5280
      @Richardsmith5280 3 місяці тому +3

      His voice but AI. I watched those same documentaries in the 70's on 8mm projectors

  • @lonniebrunner483
    @lonniebrunner483 Рік тому +114

    They did this in North East Arizona and turned nice wooded land into a desert. It's been 60 years and it devastated the area. It will never come back. THANK YOU ARIZ FORST SERVICE. 😢

    • @RomeKG471
      @RomeKG471 Рік тому +9

      Yea that's why it's 120 degrees there!!!!!

    • @Kaegis
      @Kaegis Рік тому +6

      Someone paid them. They're the ones to thank.

    • @lonniebrunner483
      @lonniebrunner483 Рік тому +3

      There all dead now. The arizona forest serv. Paid the ranchers to do it. And are still doing it.

    • @ronniewilliz153
      @ronniewilliz153 Рік тому +3

      Not to mentiom the wimd picks up a lot frok no trees.

    • @ricksanchez7459
      @ricksanchez7459 Рік тому +3

      I have to agree with the hippys on this one, that ground is to arid to do this. This has to be mexico or SA... In the US you would have to hydroseed right behind the dozers.

  • @evzone84
    @evzone84 Рік тому +493

    How is it this can be both satisfying and depressing at the same time.😕

    • @LarsLarsen77
      @LarsLarsen77 Рік тому

      How is it depressing? They're replacing one kind of plant with another kind of plant. We don't need trees for anything. All the oxygen we need comes from algae in the ocean.

    • @morganfreeman1906
      @morganfreeman1906 Рік тому +11

      Because God created humans with sympathy for our surroundings. There is no reason evolution would ever produce that effect because if destroying our environment is beneficial then it spreads our genes more and we should enjoy it.

    • @Duppavich
      @Duppavich Рік тому +6

      I had the same thought 😢

    • @ajmann1187
      @ajmann1187 Рік тому

      I enjoyed seeing the cedars get taken out, invasive species here in my area.
      They need to be burned though, it takes decades for them to decay.

    • @SublimeSynth
      @SublimeSynth Рік тому

      ​@@morganfreeman1906 seek mental help please. this is unhinged and not how ecology works.
      also god doesn't real

  • @woody5109
    @woody5109 Рік тому +189

    We did this in Canada back in the 1980s, it was used for reclamation of previously logged areas. In the middle of the cables we had a steel ball maybe 3 meter wide and filled it with water. This was an effort to keep the cables from climbing up and over the remaining standing trees. Once all the trees were down, new once were planted. You go there today and it’s a whole new forest.

    • @sixoh_diesel5662
      @sixoh_diesel5662 Рік тому +21

      Yet the narrator speaks like this is a bad thing. I almost laughed at the ominous music and did when he suggested fire was a bad thing. Forest fires are a natural way that the floor is cleared, regular use of fires prevents the catastrophic losses we're seeing in the news now. People are dumb to listen to this shit like its bad.

    • @codejunki567
      @codejunki567 Рік тому +12

      ​@sixoh_diesel5662 Idk if you watched the entire video but he literally said "most of this is done to produce land for, soy, palm, and cattle". Those are arguably bad....fire or not.

    • @EnFuego79
      @EnFuego79 Рік тому

      ​@@codejunki567 🤣 Propagnada much?

    • @codejunki567
      @codejunki567 Рік тому

      @EnFuego79 Destroying forest for palm and soy.....is fucking bad. Theres no propaganda there. Propaganda isn't even in the right context here because my government benefits from this destruction....try to use your head, if you have one.

    • @jakerazmataz852
      @jakerazmataz852 Рік тому +3

      @@sixoh_diesel5662 A learned man. So few people know that the big forest fires in CA, NV etc. are because we have become to good at fighting fires.

  • @edmundsveikutis1698
    @edmundsveikutis1698 Рік тому +310

    It’s just a pity that trees can’t be planted at this speed .

    • @davidborboa77
      @davidborboa77 Рік тому +12

      They can probably faster. Tree bomber look it up

    • @TRPGpilot
      @TRPGpilot Рік тому +4

      So true but no profit in that.

    • @locklear308
      @locklear308 Рік тому +1

      Pretty sure they can.

    • @AdrianJNyaoi
      @AdrianJNyaoi Рік тому +1

      Sure it can be done, just take time to grow.

    • @jcarry5214
      @jcarry5214 Рік тому +8

      In some of these locations the trees are actually detrimental to the ecosystem by venting water into the atmosphere, they shouldn't be there and wouldn't have been in the age of normal wildfire cycles. If that makes you feel any better.

  • @hearsemonkey
    @hearsemonkey Рік тому +301

    What if they were both Killdozers with the chain, driving through town destroying all the corrupt government stuff....

    • @makeitpay8241
      @makeitpay8241 Рік тому +37

      then you could make a lot of money selling popcorn and cold drinks while folks watched

    • @pleasurewasmine3173
      @pleasurewasmine3173 7 місяців тому +12

      @@makeitpay8241 yep i like my beer in a can on ice and my philly cheesesteak fresh off the grill

    • @dorhocyn3
      @dorhocyn3 7 місяців тому +8

      But what about the non-corrupt government stuff, said no one

    • @2hi4u2c.4
      @2hi4u2c.4 6 місяців тому

      This comment definitely wins!!! 🏆 🏆 🏆

    • @yommmrr
      @yommmrr 6 місяців тому +1

      You mean the stuff our tax pays for?

  • @itwasntme8770
    @itwasntme8770 Рік тому +111

    “ Forests are often located in areas that are well suited to farming “. That’s some statement !

    • @iandaniel2153
      @iandaniel2153 Рік тому

      Destroying ecosystems for monocultures real smart but there $ to be made. How self serving and demonic is that.

    • @chrisc7265
      @chrisc7265 8 місяців тому +2

      Is the implication we should stop eating so that farmland can be re-forested? I don't get it.

    • @itwasntme8770
      @itwasntme8770 8 місяців тому +5

      @@chrisc7265 No! That's a rather bizarre conclusion. We make better use of the farmland we have.Employ better farming practices. Use technology like hydroponics. We need forests and oceans to transform carbon dioxide to oxygen. We need forests for bio diversity, water regulation and climate regulation. They are a precious and diminishing commodity.
      We could say that, "Farms are often located in areas that are well suited to forests."
      And I farm.

    • @monkeymanwasd1239
      @monkeymanwasd1239 8 місяців тому +1

      many historically forested areas were replaced with farmland then that farmland was abandoned and invasive species can pop up and pose more of a fire and ecological hazard than well planned agroforestry operation or intact native forest. this actually seems likely a very effective form of chop and drop and looks like it would be fantastic for removing invasive blackberries and pine monocultures in favor of mixed stands of timber nut and fruit trees.

    • @monkeymanwasd1239
      @monkeymanwasd1239 8 місяців тому +1

      @@itwasntme8770 hydroponics is basicly the same as this video aquaponics anthroponics and compost ponics are better. agroforestry and regenerative grazing make a great pair especially if the goal is to directly feed the crop to the livestock. biodiversity easily works its way in and around the edges and water catchment areas timber areas and such.

  • @randolph229
    @randolph229 7 місяців тому +3

    Thought this was a beer commercial.

  • @jakerazmataz852
    @jakerazmataz852 Рік тому +53

    I'm no tree hugger, but that is horrifying. I had no idea a dozer was strong enough to do that.

    • @monkeymanwasd1239
      @monkeymanwasd1239 8 місяців тому +3

      as a tree hugger this is amazing for putting replacing monocultures, doing chop and drop, and planting regenerative agroforestry and silvopasture farms.
      i spent a ton of time removing blackberries and clearing brush on an abandoned road after the trees grew up and properly shaded it. let me tell you this is outright amazing

    • @natevanlandingham1945
      @natevanlandingham1945 6 місяців тому +1

      Those are probably D11 or D10s normal dozers you see around construction sites NO WAY

    • @jakerazmataz852
      @jakerazmataz852 6 місяців тому

      @@natevanlandingham1945 Still impressive, but sad.

    • @shanerorko8076
      @shanerorko8076 3 місяці тому

      In mining there's a 575, it's massive.

    • @SgtRyansPrivates
      @SgtRyansPrivates 2 дні тому

      More impressed with the chain

  • @GMT_400
    @GMT_400 Рік тому +460

    I would like to know if the chain technique with the right anchor chain could be used to efficiently quickly de-mine large flat terrain, such as a farm field.

    • @davehughesfarm7983
      @davehughesfarm7983 Рік тому +26

      This wont work on Missouri hardwoods.. No way wade...

    • @GMT_400
      @GMT_400 Рік тому +70

      @@davehughesfarm7983 Oh, I was wondering about the land mines in the farm fields. Like using the chain to explode them, so they don’t explode when you went to plowing. Thought it might work but maybe makes it worse. IDK.

    • @Bikinirecon
      @Bikinirecon Рік тому +24

      @@GMT_400 sounds like it would be a good idea. Not sure if it would be enough weight to set off anti-tank mines though

    • @Axeman1224
      @Axeman1224 Рік тому +14

      @@Bikinirecon it doesn't take as much weight as you would think to set off most anti-tank mines. A heavy enough human stepping just right can set them off.

    • @whiskeythetwisty5564
      @whiskeythetwisty5564 Рік тому +29

      ​@Axeman1224 pretty sure anti tank mines take more weight then a single person. I have heard of them taking 500-1000lbs. Anti personnel mines can be set off pretty easily. I think they have a pretty light trigger.

  • @robertt6327
    @robertt6327 Рік тому +15

    I have heard of dragging an anchor chain behind two bulldozers in order to clear trees and brush. This was done in central Texas at the start of World War II. It was a quick way of clearing the land, and preparing it to raise cattle.

  • @danforster6525
    @danforster6525 9 місяців тому +65

    "no koalas were hurt in this clearing operation" Yes, of course we believe you NOT.

    • @vladtepes97
      @vladtepes97 7 місяців тому

      There aren't many koalas in usa

    • @danforster6525
      @danforster6525 7 місяців тому +3

      @@vladtepes97 LOL. The clearing takes place in Queensland which is in Australia.

    • @fantasticfox411
      @fantasticfox411 7 місяців тому +3

      There is also a lot more than just koalas living there

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 Рік тому +160

    It amazes me that the big dozers have so much power just to pull the chain like that

    • @Skygt2RS
      @Skygt2RS Рік тому +15

      Weight torque and grip

    • @maxxresults3974
      @maxxresults3974 Рік тому +9

      lol you have to go ride in a big one some day. i grew up learning on a d9 it was a beast. Pull a house down.

    • @maakikursi2860
      @maakikursi2860 Рік тому

      D6 is the stronger

    • @JoeSevy
      @JoeSevy Рік тому +7

      @@maakikursi2860 No. It is not.

    • @maxxresults3974
      @maxxresults3974 Рік тому +6

      @@maakikursi2860 nit even close. You have never run one it's ok.

  • @DomingoDeSantaClara
    @DomingoDeSantaClara Рік тому +101

    That would be handy for some housing estates.

    • @Only10re
      @Only10re Рік тому +24

      Or Chicago

    • @jim-ce5kt
      @jim-ce5kt Рік тому +4

      Good for the southern border!

    • @Only-one-life-68
      @Only-one-life-68 Рік тому

      They actually have used D8’s to demolish terraced houses in the Uk 🇬🇧.
      In the 1980’s

    • @karen7366
      @karen7366 Рік тому

      Good for the lawn

    • @Christislord5
      @Christislord5 Рік тому +6

      Washington DC anyone?

  • @williamcunningham1448
    @williamcunningham1448 Рік тому +27

    I remember hearing about clearing land with an anchor chain way back in the 1960's, this is the first time actually seeing it being done, awesome idea.

    • @chrisundertow8464
      @chrisundertow8464 Рік тому

      you bet awesome idea, shame there clearing arid land thats going to blow away without trees on it but i suppose all the good lands been cleared a long time ago

    • @oldtimefarmboy617
      @oldtimefarmboy617 Рік тому +1

      @@chrisundertow8464
      Arid land is not known for having lots of trees on it. I know because I live in an arid area and the native trees only grow around gullies and rivers. Once you get past them and onto flat land that crops can be grown on there are no native trees growing. And the only non-native and native trees growing beyond the gullies and rivers are those people plant and keep watered.

    • @janeEriley
      @janeEriley Рік тому

      Very damaging!

    • @janeEriley
      @janeEriley Рік тому

      Not good!

  • @gregspence617
    @gregspence617 Рік тому +92

    I've helped clear land for our family farms but I've got where I just hate to see wooded areas cleared. That said, it appears to be an efficient method of doing it.

    • @seashackf1
      @seashackf1 Рік тому +1

      Weren’t your farms land wooded at one time and then cleared though?

    • @CumminsTurbo4
      @CumminsTurbo4 Рік тому +7

      ​@@seashackf1pretty much exactly what he said 😂😂

    • @robertmccully2792
      @robertmccully2792 Рік тому +1

      @@seashackf1 yes it is what he said.

    • @jordanwhite7222
      @jordanwhite7222 Рік тому +1

      @@seashackf1 literally what he said lmfao learn to read

    • @seashackf1
      @seashackf1 Рік тому +3

      @@jordanwhite7222They’re saying they are ok with THEIR family land being cleared, but now that they have their cleared land don’t like seeing others clear land to get theirs. Lmfao learn to think.

  • @chris_2413
    @chris_2413 Рік тому +71

    One use of that in the American west is to help clear cedar to allow sage brush and grass growth that benefit mule deer and pronghorn antelope. The cedar trees that are taking over a lot of the sage brush flats used to be kept down by buffalo and provide very little feed for ungulates like deer.

    • @bradley7454
      @bradley7454 Рік тому +1

      Why don't you just chop down cedar trees for wood?

    • @trevorcapper4488
      @trevorcapper4488 Рік тому +3

      @@bradley7454cause cedar trees are a problem before they are mature enough to harvest for lumber

    • @lapalomas
      @lapalomas Рік тому +7

      Fire used to do the clearing

    • @effervescentrelief
      @effervescentrelief Рік тому +6

      @@bradley7454 They also use an enormous amount of water and water sources become very brackish as they leave the salts behind. And since they grow in widely separated clumps, it's very difficult to make it commercially viable. And until it's commercially viable, it won't happen until it becomes a necessity. Human nature.

    • @bradley7454
      @bradley7454 Рік тому +3

      @@effervescentrelief interesting. Maybe plant them in places where water is stagnant. Maybe just throw the trees into the mulcher. I looked online at Cedar tree. Cedarwood oil is used as an insect repellent. So it is commercially viable unless you need to put in more money than you can get out of it.

  • @warant7295
    @warant7295 Рік тому +81

    RIP to any wildlife caught in its path

    • @isaactrujillo76
      @isaactrujillo76 Рік тому +9

      Ah, shut it.

    • @anthonyplayground1402
      @anthonyplayground1402 Рік тому

      No wildlife ... thats a dead forest. No grass or vegetation that could support life .... single species forests like this one spell death to wildlife.

    • @waltershoults8803
      @waltershoults8803 Рік тому +2

      Exactly my sentiment! 💯❤️🌎🔥

    • @iandaniel2153
      @iandaniel2153 Рік тому +4

      Says a lot abt the human race doesn't it.

    • @lunargentleman3750
      @lunargentleman3750 Рік тому +1

      You every hear a cat dozer start up and move? Everything has fucking ran off.

  • @Dixon_Yamada1
    @Dixon_Yamada1 7 місяців тому +4

    Barely even mentioned the real hero here who's actually taking most of the punishment, that CHAIN.

  • @bobgrob4
    @bobgrob4 Рік тому +3

    Supervisor: clear this land. Use the chains.
    Operators: Trees are down, sir but land is not clear.
    Supervisor: Get me Andrew Camarata.

  • @USMC_LAterZ
    @USMC_LAterZ Рік тому +3

    Tree huggers need camping chairs and beer and sit front row for this fantastic view.

  • @ThiccHarambeGaming
    @ThiccHarambeGaming Рік тому +45

    Honestly wish that they'd at least plant more trees after deforesting an area instead of just deforesting a massive area and not planting any trees to compensate for it. Trees are a vital and important aspect of our lives, they take the CO2 we exhale and create through man made processes and converts it into breathable oxygen through photosynthesis, they're a very important and vital thing to our daily lives. Without trees we humans would actually cease to exist, they're extremely important and vital to the cycle of life. It's honestly not all that hard to replant trees anyways, hell you can go into a forest, take some saplings that would otherwise end up dying, and replant them in an area where they can get sunlight without spending any money on buying the trees lol.

    • @lkjohnson71
      @lkjohnson71 Рік тому +2

      They literally do that

    • @chaddufour7693
      @chaddufour7693 Рік тому +5

      Trees grow back. Its why you can't run out of toilet papers

    • @robsmith6093
      @robsmith6093 Рік тому +12

      You know what else is important to our lives? Food

    • @againstallenemies215
      @againstallenemies215 Рік тому +8

      And crops don't do that? What do you think those leafy greens are doing?

    • @ocd_in_the_kitchen
      @ocd_in_the_kitchen Рік тому +1

      @@chaddufour7693 And remind me, how long does that procedure take?

  • @deernutOO
    @deernutOO Рік тому +10

    Watched this exact technique in New Mexico the summer of 1958, clearing mesquite and Pinyon pine to restore range land to production. Also aids seeding to trees.

  • @Quarterpounderspatch
    @Quarterpounderspatch Рік тому +39

    The missle knows where it is because it knows where it isn't.

    • @dundonrl
      @dundonrl Рік тому +4

      Being a retired US Navy Tomahawk cruise missile technician, love that skit/video!

  • @Chipotle661944
    @Chipotle661944 Рік тому +13

    There two reactions to this video: 1) What an outrage! The poor trees. OR 2) Wow, that big D8 is a beast!

    • @Jaguartmb
      @Jaguartmb Рік тому +1

      Nailed it.

    • @mattrafferty2836
      @mattrafferty2836 Рік тому +2

      Third reaction: my kids will probs starve cos nothing will grow because the earth is being hotboxed

  • @Utubegofukurself
    @Utubegofukurself Рік тому +5

    I love the positive narrative along with the menacing music

  • @igvtec
    @igvtec 5 місяців тому +3

    If you have big properties, you should have a 15 metre wide mix native tree buffer around that whole property. As Australia experience a lot of droughts, if you don't when the grass dies off nothing to hold your top soil it will blow away. As most old school paddocks, did not have topsoil anyway due to that reason etc. The trees, will act as a windbreak/buffer.

  • @loadblock4995
    @loadblock4995 Рік тому +11

    Humans doing what they do best

    • @EnFuego79
      @EnFuego79 Рік тому +4

      Yup, building society to house and feed the completely brainwashed and thankful apparently...

    • @svenrump3287
      @svenrump3287 Рік тому

      Destroy?

  • @foonus406
    @foonus406 Рік тому +17

    Next time you wonder why we now get 40MPH winds in the early spring, remember this video.

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege Рік тому +4

      All the better to power the windmills with

  • @petery53
    @petery53 Рік тому +19

    I was clearing land back in mid 1970's on a cereal farm east of Esperance in Western Australia, we used two D8's pulling a anchor chain from a large ship. We cleared about 30,000 hectares over 3 years doing about 10,000 hectares a year. After it was knocked over the D8's would push it up into long windrows and it would be burnt.

    • @dodge33445
      @dodge33445 Рік тому +5

      I bet that anchor chain is worth a lot of money.

    • @maudepotvin8660
      @maudepotvin8660 Рік тому +6

      Awesome job destroying wildlife ! I'm sure you're proud !

    • @mattrafferty2836
      @mattrafferty2836 Рік тому +3

      ​​@@maudepotvin8660This guy was probably just doing his job, and if you've eaten cereal...you were probably supporting it. It's the big companies you should be mad at

    • @petery53
      @petery53 Рік тому +5

      @@maudepotvin8660 What did you have for breakfast this morning?

    • @petery53
      @petery53 Рік тому +1

      @@johnnichol9412 NO,we have a huge block of wheat and barley feeding people,people like YOU who complain about about trees being cleared.

  • @GodzHammer
    @GodzHammer Рік тому +34

    Thank you. Adding all of this equipment to my shopping cart now.

  • @Jason-bu9sv
    @Jason-bu9sv Рік тому +22

    The Tree menace must be fought constantly.

    • @iandaniel2153
      @iandaniel2153 Рік тому

      ... you mean the life forms that give us the O2 to breathe and of course there's the CO2 they need to survive must cut that back as well ... seems like a plan in there somewhere.

  • @MineStrongth
    @MineStrongth Рік тому +6

    0:13 "...they can clear a large area of thick forested trees in a matter of time..."
    You don't say! In a matter of time? That's almost a useful statement.

  • @evil2rs
    @evil2rs Рік тому +9

    Lol try that in almost every other country that’s not a dead wasteland, the dozers won’t go anywhere

  • @igvtec
    @igvtec 5 місяців тому +2

    Peter Andrews, Natural sequence farming is the only real way to go to be a custodian and look after your property. Facts!

  • @randywilson6869
    @randywilson6869 Рік тому +16

    Back in 1980 I worked in the oilfield and south of Henneryetta Ok they was cleaning land with a chain and those dozers was so big we was watching them as a 15 foot drop off was nothing for them they never even slowed down going over those cliffs it was amazing to watch

  • @dennisighowho351
    @dennisighowho351 Рік тому +19

    My question is, after using the tractor and disc harrows, wouldn't it make the subsequent operation of removing the rootsand trees more tedious?

    • @evolutionCEO
      @evolutionCEO Рік тому

      they are not worried about that. destruction of the trees is the goal. creation of deserts. like the Sahara, which was all rainforests not that long ago. desserts create shortage and shortage creates wealth.... at least, that's the business model that they are working to.
      forests give independence and you are not allowed independence.

    • @LarsLarsen77
      @LarsLarsen77 Рік тому +1

      You think the roots would be easier to remove if they were still buried in the ground? LOL. There are machines designed to pick up felled trees and cut all the branches off and saw them into logs.

    • @BrianBourgeois-
      @BrianBourgeois- 7 місяців тому

      They either harvest it or pile it and burn it.

  • @andrewpinheiro7202
    @andrewpinheiro7202 Рік тому +18

    Using the chain with dozers is a good idea I’ve never seen it done like that before.think of all the people who will benefit from the cleared farmable land . It’s not like they’re knocking down the trees for a shopping mall.

    • @ogopogo1916
      @ogopogo1916 Рік тому +1

      As long as they don't grow water intensive crops like almonds, sugarcane, tomatoes etc.

    • @mastershua9991
      @mastershua9991 Рік тому

      If people weren't so dependent on the government and huge companies and grew their own food this wouldn't be happening. People are parasites. We need a Thanos finger snap.

    • @CumminsTurbo4
      @CumminsTurbo4 Рік тому

      Today, farmland. 20 years from today, suburbia and shopping malls 😂😂

    • @andrewpinheiro7202
      @andrewpinheiro7202 Рік тому +1

      @@CumminsTurbo4 does seem to be how it goes in California and other places in USA that’s for sure

    • @CumminsTurbo4
      @CumminsTurbo4 Рік тому +1

      @@andrewpinheiro7202 same way in Texas and the midwest. Sad. Humans have an obsession with converting green into pavement and concrete. It's like it's in our blood from when the pioneers did it....!

  • @jaimecoburn1339
    @jaimecoburn1339 Рік тому +3

    It's like watching a horror film, just to grow Palm oil.

    • @swordofallah1129
      @swordofallah1129 8 місяців тому

      Palm oil is good stuff. I use it to make fried rice

  • @Javelina_Poppers
    @Javelina_Poppers Рік тому +6

    I have seen a couple of large dozers drag a chain down a weed choked irrigation waterway............impressive and effective I must say.

  • @Hawgfrog
    @Hawgfrog 2 місяці тому

    This has got the tree huggers crying I bet. I love it. Looks fun as hell.

  • @richardthomas1566
    @richardthomas1566 Рік тому +6

    Need this in those vacant Neghbor hoods in detroit.

  • @armick57
    @armick57 Рік тому +14

    Man's ingenuity to to destroy the Planet never ceases to amaze me.

    • @mattt198654321
      @mattt198654321 Рік тому +2

      Funny, it seems to still be here...perhaps the word "Destroy" is a bit sensationalist

    • @brendanmouat6942
      @brendanmouat6942 Рік тому +2

      And your house or apartment and shopping center has always been on a cleared drain free land without human involvement, grow up.

    • @armick57
      @armick57 Рік тому

      @@mattt198654321 by every definition, using a device such as this is certainly destructive. And at no point did I ever state or imply “complete” destruction.

    • @armick57
      @armick57 Рік тому

      @@brendanmouat6942 I never said or implied that. Maybe one day you will realize how totally unnecessary man’s intrusion and exploitation of our earth has become.
      I realize that we,being a dominant species, will always develop more and more destructive means of exploiting our planet.
      Perhaps when, and if you “grow up” you will realize the extent to which mankind has exploited our
      Planet.

  • @Iz0pen
    @Iz0pen Рік тому +5

    I like how the anchor chain has railroad ties welded across the links!

    • @kylerayk
      @kylerayk 7 місяців тому +2

      You mean rail. Railroad ties un the U.S. are made out of wood and cannot be welded.

    • @akumpi
      @akumpi 6 місяців тому

      They make plenty of wood sticks to weld wood with ​@@kylerayk

  • @justdoingitjim7095
    @justdoingitjim7095 Рік тому +5

    We have several acres and some of it gets overgrown. Instead of hiring someone with a tractor and a brush hog each time, we made a heavy drag to pull behind my AWD Subaru Outback. It's an 6 foot length of telephone pole, with chain link fence wrapped around it. A tow chain is attached at each end, with a trailer hitch ball welded to the center of the "V." The hitch ball goes in the receiver hitch on my Outback and I just take off driving. I can clear 2 acres in an hour if I drive slow.

    • @davidlove47
      @davidlove47 10 місяців тому

      That can’t leave it very visually appealing afterwards? You could just hire somebody who specializes in clearing like myself and get it done quicker and visually appealing after…

    • @justdoingitjim7095
      @justdoingitjim7095 10 місяців тому

      It's the back part of my property that no one sees anyway. I have contacted a few people about clearing it, but people around here want $600 or more just to unload their equipment! Some say it's not profitable to come out for just 3 1/2 acres and don't even quote me a price. It only has to be done once a year and it only takes me about 2 hours of driving around in air conditioning, listening to the radio, so why not just save that money?@@davidlove47

  • @MATTW3R
    @MATTW3R Рік тому +5

    The missile knows where it's going because it knows where it isn't.

  • @DronosDrakkar
    @DronosDrakkar Рік тому +7

    And here we have D9's in their natural habitat

  • @FarmerDrew
    @FarmerDrew 5 місяців тому +1

    This is the most gloriously autist-satisfying thing I've ever witnessed. You're telling me you weld SECTIONS of RAILROAD track onto LINKS of ANCHOR CHAIN and pull it with a D9?! YES

  • @Aatell764
    @Aatell764 Рік тому +4

    I fail to see how this could possibly improve agriculture in the area. That's a great demonstration of how to make a desert, yeah you can grow on it but you're going to be getting your water from somewhere else and it ain't going to be staying there. The place already looked arid as hell the only reason anything was growing there was because the cover created by the trees.

  • @heliosone1
    @heliosone1 4 місяці тому

    Cool. To all the people that are saying this is sad or whatever - you don't know how the world works.

  • @bimmersandars9221
    @bimmersandars9221 Рік тому +6

    The narrator said it was satisfying to watch. I thought it was actually pretty disgusting how easily we can rip our planet apart.

  • @pickuo580
    @pickuo580 Рік тому +2

    Almost 60 procent of the earth is changed in desert because we are chop trees. And trees cool down the earth temperature, if you don`t know.

  • @slackerdug3423
    @slackerdug3423 Рік тому +38

    Have to make way for those solar panels and wind farms.

    • @jerrygriffin7629
      @jerrygriffin7629 Рік тому +1

      Yes because Biden voters love China

    • @drmodestoesq
      @drmodestoesq Рік тому +1

      It looks like a low wind area. I don't know if they would be putting any wind mills there. And wind mills take up a small footprint. Farmers in Minnesota are renting their hedge row land for windmills. They don't take up any actually farm land space. And the farmer gets a huge land rental fee. So he's happy.

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege Рік тому +4

      I’ve logged an 8 acre circle, mulched it down, all for a test windmill to see if they could put up a real windmill plantation. A 20 million dollar project that was to break even in twenty years if everything went correctly. Obama.

    • @johns3106
      @johns3106 Рік тому +3

      Even if that’s what this clearing was being done for (which it most likely isn’t…most of this clearing is probably done for grazing in the under-developed parts of the world) clearing land for solar and wind is still WAY less destructive than clearing land for a strip mine. Your “argument” shows a bit of simple-mindedness.

    • @owentimo
      @owentimo 2 місяці тому +1

      They dont work and are a waste of $$$

  • @kryptokrypto702
    @kryptokrypto702 7 місяців тому +1

    Damn, did not even know there is a technique like this.

  • @kaceesavage
    @kaceesavage Рік тому +9

    I would love to see how they load and haul the chain.

    • @Aaron-u9x
      @Aaron-u9x Рік тому +2

      Ya for real

    • @tomkelly8827
      @tomkelly8827 Рік тому

      probbably the dozer pushes it up a ramp, I would guess

    • @benhuddleston7011
      @benhuddleston7011 Рік тому +2

      You have to use a semi truck with a winch kit. Winch on 40’ at a time.

  • @syrus3k
    @syrus3k 6 місяців тому +1

    Did nobody stop and think "Hang on a minute, this is fucking mental"?

  • @concernedfriend.9329
    @concernedfriend.9329 Рік тому +5

    Crazy how close the camera man was to the chain. I wouldn’t be within 100 feet of that process unless im in the dozer.

    • @n0b0dy07
      @n0b0dy07 Рік тому

      Pretty sure they're using a powerful zoom like when filming Savannah

    • @Brownshabsfan
      @Brownshabsfan Рік тому

      I would be nervous even in the dozer. If that chain breaks...look out!

    • @TheWolfIsMine
      @TheWolfIsMine 11 місяців тому

      I was thinking the same thing. No way that guy was using zoom. Not a chance I'm standing that close to moving anchor chain period

  • @beadcutter8644
    @beadcutter8644 Рік тому +11

    I watched some guys doing this in Texas. Lots of prickly pear cactus and scrub brush. Very efficient.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape Рік тому +1

      I was bout to say, I don't live in dense forest but this looks great for clearing all the desert crap off the ground and scraping it clean where I live.

  • @rr4298
    @rr4298 Рік тому +3

    They plan to use this on homeless camps soon

  • @ForestryMachines-i2l
    @ForestryMachines-i2l Місяць тому

    The work efficiency is truly unbelievable 😲

  • @geckoproductions4128
    @geckoproductions4128 Рік тому +8

    anchor chains work well for clearing mesquite in west Texas too

    • @philliphall5198
      @philliphall5198 Рік тому

      I’ve seen it done and it’s cool as hell

    • @tygerrr5002
      @tygerrr5002 Рік тому

      If they are sprayed first. Or they’ll keep coming back.

  • @Evan-3355
    @Evan-3355 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for admitting that it’s quite satisfying to watch.

  • @philliphall5198
    @philliphall5198 Рік тому +3

    I’ve seen this done and it’s wild watching it happen and the size of the chain

  • @GlitchSystem-xf7jb
    @GlitchSystem-xf7jb Рік тому +1

    There's an environmentalist crying in a corner somewhere after seeing this

  • @SnakeHandler-g7u
    @SnakeHandler-g7u Рік тому +4

    This is like in a movie when the greedy evil corporation is clearing the "natives'" land.

  • @Chillin4030
    @Chillin4030 5 місяців тому +1

    Onceler is taking notes

  • @garyt3hsna1l82
    @garyt3hsna1l82 Рік тому +3

    that chain is amazing.

  • @Noelzsazsa
    @Noelzsazsa Місяць тому

    Barbecue koalas round the camp fire after a days work

  • @jonnymoka
    @jonnymoka Рік тому +6

    When he said it was kinda satisfying to watch I cringed and thought only a heartless person could find that satisfying.

    • @Bandito071
      @Bandito071 8 місяців тому

      Why is that, you like eating dont you ??

  • @jonescg
    @jonescg 7 місяців тому

    Great to know there's an environmentally friendly way of clearing woodlands :(

  • @JLawL
    @JLawL Рік тому +9

    Gotta make room for more avocados.

  • @USChainSaw
    @USChainSaw 2 місяці тому

    Watching this machine is like witnessing magic!

  • @urbanbasementoperator
    @urbanbasementoperator Рік тому +20

    The anchor chain knows where it is at all times by subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the anchor chain is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it may be corrected by the GEA.

    • @leinie6683
      @leinie6683 Рік тому +4

      You are the Rich Little of our age- impersonating artificial (lack of) intelligence🤣

  • @geraldking4080
    @geraldking4080 Рік тому

    "I just got really mad watching the machines tearing down the trees and so forth."
    - Dr. Theodore J. Kacinsky

  • @allamericanlandclearing6577
    @allamericanlandclearing6577 Рік тому +3

    I wonder if this would work on mature pines, and oaks here in florida?
    Some of these trees even take a cat 326 or a deere 350, 10 to 15 minutes to dig around and push over a single pine.
    This method might only be used for those small trees out west???

    • @michaelwhite520
      @michaelwhite520 Рік тому

      Def smaller trees. I’m in a 326 clearing in Mississippi and no way in hell it’s chopping down old oaks, white oaks, huge pines, etc. Like you it’s takes 15-20 minutes digging around alone before you can fall them.

  • @josephastier7421
    @josephastier7421 10 місяців тому

    0:50 Some excellent alligator juniper firewood getting created.

  • @jackpinesavage9806
    @jackpinesavage9806 Рік тому +3

    That system was used in American west to clear brush and improve habitat for deer, elk and other critters.

    • @jcarry5214
      @jcarry5214 Рік тому

      Replacing fire and first nations forestry in controlling the junipers.

    • @playonnightmare3691
      @playonnightmare3691 Рік тому

      and destruction of lizards, snakes, birds and other animals

  • @eddieco
    @eddieco Рік тому +3

    Umm, no. Nor "satisfying to watch" like the narrartor says at 1:16 in the video. This is how we destroy the land. Unless you're using this to get rid of invasive plants, this just strips and destroys the land.

    • @flight2k5
      @flight2k5 15 днів тому

      You don’t realize how big the world is

  • @SouthernDrinkSlinger
    @SouthernDrinkSlinger Рік тому

    Might be the most satisfying thing I've watched this year

  • @alecdacyczyn
    @alecdacyczyn Рік тому +17

    It was as if a billion environmentalists cried out all at once and were suddenly silenced.

  • @josiahlomas2111
    @josiahlomas2111 5 місяців тому

    The amount of tree huggers crying here is funny asf

  • @cnote4461
    @cnote4461 Рік тому +5

    A couple of questions: Whats the purpose of a small wheel running ontop of the tracks? Are those types of trees easy to take down? And finally - it looks like mostly their just bent over flat. Won't they spring back up?

    • @bradsmith5838
      @bradsmith5838 Рік тому +10

      The small wheel acts like an odometer in a car.

    • @Dr.IanPlect
      @Dr.IanPlect Рік тому

      @@bradsmith5838 I thought that, but surely the dozer knows that anyway through the transmission? Even traction losses are still accounted for through the standard onboard systems.

    • @bradsmith5838
      @bradsmith5838 Рік тому

      @@Dr.IanPlect that model only has an hour meter, traction losses are negligible in the calculations for 100s of acres being cleared.

    • @Dr.IanPlect
      @Dr.IanPlect Рік тому +1

      @@bradsmith5838 'only an hour meter' answers it, thanks

    • @renatomota9830
      @renatomota9830 Рік тому

      I think it's to mark the ground so that the operator can orient himself on the next pass in a way that doesn't destroy the work already done

  • @logger711
    @logger711 Рік тому +2

    Another great way to warm the planet

  • @MrPummi88
    @MrPummi88 Рік тому +14

    The should cut then down and at least use the wood! Energy is expensive!

    • @dundonrl
      @dundonrl Рік тому

      I'm sure they will.

    • @woodlandwrench
      @woodlandwrench Рік тому +1

      Or mulch it into the ground. The dead vegetation provides very nice nutrients to the soil.

    • @topduk
      @topduk Рік тому

      Energy is only artificially expensive. Nuclear power was initially sold to the public as too cheap to meter. Of course they soon figured out how to squeeze the public. A similar scam is charging for radio licenses.

  • @kennycoye3907
    @kennycoye3907 Рік тому

    I forgot to cut my yard last week! Better go grab 2 Cats and a huge chain to cut it! 😂. This is a Mans dream right there!

  • @TylerJones-kv3ls
    @TylerJones-kv3ls Рік тому +3

    Interesting fact that most environmentalists will not share with the public but grassland and prairies sequester much more carbon than forests…period!

    • @artgreen6915
      @artgreen6915 Рік тому

      Per square mile?
      Or are you saying in total on the earth?

    • @artgreen6915
      @artgreen6915 Рік тому

      I don't see environmentalism as some conspiracy to mislead.
      I'm not anti science.
      I haven't seen a load of research or scientists saying what we really need to do is cut down all the trees because they're causing us a problem.

    • @TylerJones-kv3ls
      @TylerJones-kv3ls Рік тому

      Per square mile.

    • @TylerJones-kv3ls
      @TylerJones-kv3ls Рік тому

      Especially when combined with intensive grazing of herbivores. After grass is grazed it is thrown back into the teenage growth stage and sequesters even more carbon. Basically, the millions of buffalo that once grazed the plains were producing more carbon sequestration than any forest can sequester. Healthy pasture and prairie lands have more photosynthesizing surface area pre square foot, therefore more sequestration ability than almost any forest. And it can recover in weeks as apposed to years if it is grazed/cut, and the cutting actually improves the sequestration activity!
      Clean little secret, grasslands and herbivores are the answer if we are honest.

    • @lyleswan4106
      @lyleswan4106 Рік тому +4

      Grassland that is grazed and turned to infertile soil after a few years does not sequester more carbon that trees.. rich, diverse praries maybe yes, grassland, definitely not.

  • @JSProjectWild
    @JSProjectWild Рік тому +2

    In the meantime, here in the states, tens of thousands of acres of already productive and prime farmland are being converted to solar farms with mostly made in China components at the taxpayers' expense.

  • @davidwagner9644
    @davidwagner9644 Рік тому +5

    Each Link on a ship anchor chain, the chain used here, has a weight of 125 to 150 pounds.

  • @backzeats1863
    @backzeats1863 Рік тому

    Ill admit it, it is quite SICK to watch

  • @davehughesfarm7983
    @davehughesfarm7983 Рік тому +4

    "bulldozers are cheap to operate" Ummmmmmm NO.....

    • @HebrewHammerArmsCo
      @HebrewHammerArmsCo Рік тому

      My D6RLGP costs me $50 hr to run. $40 in diesel and $10 in maintenance.. It can push allot in a day.

    • @BramBiesiekierski
      @BramBiesiekierski Рік тому +1

      For the amount of work they do, in such little time, that actually looks very efficient.

  • @simplesepticsecrets
    @simplesepticsecrets 4 місяці тому

    That’s an impressive chain

  • @DobberD
    @DobberD Рік тому +6

    Isn’t there a way of integrating the trees into the livestock farm fields?
    So that maybe not all trees have to be removed?
    + animals often also prefer to stay in the shade, right ?
    It’s just sad to see it happen.

  • @rk-ec7kx
    @rk-ec7kx Рік тому

    Nothing more satisfying than watching a dozer destroy mother earth, what a shame

  • @LyonsLover
    @LyonsLover Рік тому +2

    I really need to get a bulldozer soon.

  • @mikeduwe
    @mikeduwe Рік тому +2

    Looks like sections of railroad track welded to the chain

  • @scotthultin7769
    @scotthultin7769 Рік тому +5

    When you can't guarantee great prices and good food coming from other countries you have to do what you need to do to survive sounds like there's no Democrat politicians and then country

  • @BananasananaB
    @BananasananaB 10 місяців тому +1

    40 years to grow a tree, 4 seconds to clear it. Things in this world seem to take a lot more time to create than they do to destroy.

  • @Lookawabbit
    @Lookawabbit Рік тому +3

    Great video!!! Awesome content and voice over!

  • @MrPjespinoza21
    @MrPjespinoza21 12 днів тому +1

    The man, destroying the houses of birds, reptiles and many other species, they are eliminated day by day, they are disapear to extinction..😢😢😢