Great idea and I use that technique as well. Next time line your ditch with road fabric or less expensive landscape fabric then fill with rock otherwise dirt will eventually seep in between the rocks and stop drainage.
Basically your rock culvert is what we call a French drain. In order to keep it from plugging with dirt in our country, we would put filter cloth around the rock to keep the dirt out of the rock. Good luck with your projects
Y’all are going to have a wonderful place. My wife and I are doing something similar in Arkansas. Improving our property. Not to the scale of what y’all are doing! Y’all are an inspiration to us. Blessings to your family!
I really REALLY like the retaining wall and its form and the building process! Big boy playing in the mud is a fun part too...HE is full of energy----------WOW!
Always innovating! Good "no pipe" solution, but some geotextile or landscape cloth would keep the driveway dirt from washing down into the rocks unless I missed that step. 3pt hitch equipment is always a joy to attach/detach. We're working a 700' fencing project and when we hooked up to the post hole auger, the PTO shaft had rusted together! Always something.... Happy New Year.
I love trying to accomplish things "pioneer style," if that makes any sense. Just like the retaining wall. I didn't pour a footer or lay any grout. I just stacked some stone and packed in some clay around them, thinking nature will do its job and weather it in nice and tight. I'm hoping there's not much silt moving around. It's hard to show on camera, but that soil is basically clay. Not much organic material at all, so I'm not too concerned about the trench clogging up. I'll do an update in a year and see how it's working. I agree with 3 point hitch joys. Haha! It usually leads to something needing to be fixed, or a sledgehammer, or a band-aid. 🤠
Ricky having a hydraulic thumb makes that lil guy amazing! I wish my Case had a hydraulic thumb on it!!!! Maybe someday after it gets some much needed attention I'll add one on to it. Loving these videos.. binge watching like a fiend to catch up! LOL
Great informative videos. I found your series when researching snatch blocks and tree felling. Your are Me except I live in Interior Alaska and have a 10 acre homestead and a Kubota BX25d. There is a LOT of information in your videos that most would not understand. good job.....
I appreciate your words, Matt! My mindset is to work with what you've got (or play the hand that's dealt to you). You're right about others not understanding. I tend to get comments about how I could do things easier or "If I were you..." all the time. It's not about that. It's about doing it yourself and figuring it out with what you've got. Anyway, I also came up with another culvert alternative that works amazingly well. It's episode 70 - called "Rock Bridge". I've made about 4 of them now on the property and they function flawlessly. Consider watching that one if you are planning a DIY culvert up there. I'd love to see Alaska one day.
Over time dirt will probably plug that ditch. Be a few years. Just keep a eye on it and if you have to redo it get fabric to line the trench with then put the rock in and cover the top of the rock with more fabric before the gravel for the driveway. ✌️👍👍
Short videos would be great! IF you can tease us for the weekly video that’d be cool too… like “why is Jon hooking up box blade?” Then weekly shows you scraping roads. Some requests for shorts: Jon’s Toolbox, Megs Designs and Discoveries, Bugs!, Flora: the Explorer. Thank you for taking us with you 🤠👍
I did not realize how different your backhoe was from the RK25. It attaches clear up to the front towards the engine. It can also take a while to hook up but after you do it a few times it's not bad. The idea is great for the rock culvert, but what really got me was your hose syphon. I haven't seen it work that well before!
Hey, you might want to think about putting landscape cloth down… Just kidding - you may have read that 50 or a hundred times by now. Very nice looking solution, especially with materials on hand!
If you need to do another area of the road, maybe build a small tunnel with rocks. Big square rocks on the sides with a long flat rock on top then cover it with dirt. I don't know I'm just thinking.
Perhaps, take large flat rocks and use them as a base for your walls. Build the walls and top off with more flat stone as you have been doing. This should prevent erosion in the bottom due to water flow. Keep going great show.
Happy New Year, Dean! The box blade is certainly worth the aggravation of taking off the backhoe and hooking up the 3-point system. Very effective when used correctly - which is no walk in the park.
Thank you, appreciate that. It seems that the response has been in favor of the idea so far. I'll try to make them short and to the point with a lot of information.
Would love to see some shorter vids on the backhoe. I have an RK 55 and have been thinking of getting a backhoe for it. But the hassle of getting it on and off was the one thing holding me up on it.
Nice! That RK55 is a beast! Wouldn't mind having one of those or even a 37. Just some more HP sometimes would be great. I'll be putting a video out in the next couple of weeks. I'm sure it will apply to your tractor. I know Kubotas in that size range have a similar setup as mine.
I have TYM 25hp with backhoe. It takes about 15 minutes to install or remove (being extra careful). It's a good attachment to have but you need different size buckets. On RK55 you need the factory how with factory subframe. 3 point aftermarket home without subframe and you'll break tractor in half. Lots of YT posts of snapped tractors.
They say 'Lessons will be learned', so there's nothing wrong with going back to basics and employing the same system used by the Romans two thousand years ago. Big stones. medium sized stones followed by smaller stones and finally small pebbles. Regards Robin.
Yay! You get what we're going for, Robin. Very refreshing to hear. We still need the additional layers like you mention, but that will come when we add stone to the driveway. So far, so good. Working like a champ with the recent heavy rain.
I love your videos. I've been watching you since your Maker Pipe video. I learn so much by listening to your thought process as you work. Videos now are so fast-paced that you often have to stop, rewind, stop, rewind or you find yourself asking, How did they get from here to there. I would love the short videos on your equipment. Keep up the good work and enjoy your progress.
Thank you, Dianne! I appreciate you sharing that with us. I've gotten a very positive response to the shorter and more focused mechanical videos on top of what we normally do, so you can expect to see those later this month (weather permitting). Many thanks!
Put a bunch of food dye in the water to see where it comes out somewhere from that hole. also, make a deep spot somewhere where you can haul water from for other purposes, making concrete, or w/e you might need water for. 2 buckets wide, , 1,5 bucket deep, line outsides with stones sticking out up from the water so water can flow between but not fill with garbage.
Will do. With all the on and off I did pulling stumps with the drawbar, I learned some nice tips to do it quickly. I will say hooking it in is not about using the stabilizers. All about the boom to get those four spots into place.
Isubscribed to your channel so I can see you continuing to deal with this kind of soil and water. I'm guessing central eastern U.S. or the Carolinas country. Where walnut grows, not much in central Montana. Virgina, explains the clay.
First time on your channel. Another option in the future would be to "old school" a culvert. Prior to steel, clay and eventually plastic the old timers used to lay 2 logs 6 inches or more apart perpendicular to the roadway. They would then lay thick boards 2 to 3 inches thick across the logs and bury the whole thing under good road base. If you have the right logs available it will last decades or more. I can think of 2 places in the great north Maine woods that used this technique that are still flowing water over a century later.
Love building with what you have rather than buying material, like plastic culvert, to throw in the ground. Thanks for sharing this old technique. We are doing something very similar in our next video.
Like the concept of coarse grout for your road ditch, but, yes, in time the stones will fill with fine dirt and will stop flowing - yep, sorry about that but in time it will happen and then you will learn that using, in this case, a double piping system to carry the water under the road and out the other side will have greater longevity. But it will make more opportunities down the road for more videos of doing this all over. Love how you make a small tractor do the work around your place - what a great commercial for your tractor company, too bad they are not paying for it - hmmm do I see an opportunity here for another revenue stream?! I can remember when I used horses to do the work your doing with your tractor, that's how old I am. Like the old EF Hutton commercials, you'd do well to listen. Again, you and your channel are relevant and in time you will do very well with it.
I see one problem with your idea. With the water coming down one side of the driveway to the large rock portion that you are going to dig in the water coming down the edge of the driveway will start to erode the edge and as it does that it will carry the finer dirt to your large rocks and will then fill in the path you are trying to create. As the silt fills in the gaps the water will again be on the top and turn the driveway to a mess. You may get it to work the way you want it to but every couple of years you are going to have to dig it all up and redo it. Large rock going down the edge of the drive with a drain pipe running through it and a culvert across will be the longest term fix.
Definitely a valid point. My only hope is that the material is very clay heavy, and I feel that most of it will stay in place, unlike a soil that contains more organic matter and sand. I'll do an update a few months from now and let you know if it worked or not. If it needs attention every 2 or 3 years, I'd rather do that than put an expensive culvert in. Happy New Year, Tim!
@@WalnutsandWineberries try visiting one of your local parks that were built during the Civilian Conservation Corps. Those ditches/culverts were built with the stone on site and many are still in active use almost 100 years later.
I took it on and off multiple times a day when we were moving those boulders with the snatch blocks. I think that's where I got really confident and proficient at doing it. I'll try to make a nice instructional video soon.
THE KEY TO GET A DRY ROAD WHERE WATER POOLS IS TO GET THE WATER TO MOVE AWAY FAST MAKE THE PIPE FROM 30 OR 50 GAL. DRUMS WITH THE ENDS CUT OFF / COST TOPS $50 DOLLARS / IN OLD DAYS THEY USED A HALLOWED OUT TREE FOR A PIPE THEN STONE / STONE ALONE WILL CLOG UP FAST WITH FINE SOIL
Thank you! We hope to put little characteristic elements like this all over the property. I enjoyed the retaining wall stacking... until I fell in the mud.
On that creek, after the bigger stones, put progressively smaller stones to the top of the surface and then clay and dirt on very top, your need is to research more about drainage with natural materials but I like the efforts
happy new year, i took mine off easy off but a pain to put back on love see some tips.do you know what the third hydraulic line is for? look forward to next week.
Hi Glen! The third line is just a return back to the hydraulic tank. It should have a one-way valve inline somewhere. Mine has come disconnected before without me knowing it, so I really don't know how important it is, but I hook it up anyway.
@@WalnutsandWineberries thanks, also I connected my grapple bucket to my rear remotes and found that you have to disconnect the backhoe lines and loop it to the tractor, did not hook up my 3rd function yet. Thanks for the info and happy new year.
I will get those tractor specific videos going. The deck for the tractor was too expensive for what it was. I bought a small zero turn instead and I hope to find a used bush hog somewhere local, so I have something to clear new area on the property.
you can do irish passway as we call in europe. wide open dich (2-3 metres wide with stone base) in the low spot, that you can drive throu easy but water can go throu without cloging from earth or leaves
most every tree that you have exposed the roots on on the uphill side will probably have to come out.You have slowly killed them. May as well do it now before you build that road or they will give you fits in the future.
I haven't checked the comments, but I hope I'm the first to suggest that your shovel technique needs work. You're going to kill your back. If you're right-handed, put your left hand at the end of the handle, and your right hand near the middle. Bend at the knees, right foot forward. Use your right knee to push your right hand (or near the wrist) as it grips the shovel handle. Don't chop the shovel into the dirt. It has a jarring effect, and you you will injure yourself. Otherwise, use the step on the back of the shovel blade, and just push it with your foot and your body weight. It's a simple tool, I know, but I couldn't tell you how many hours my father spent breathing down my neck and yelling at the back of my head as I dug out his ditch for the second time. I just have to share that experience... Sorry.
@@WalnutsandWineberries I soooooo wish our farm tractor had a backhoe.... Very jealous. Anyways, have fun with your farm but do take care of your health! Cheers.
Great idea and I use that technique as well. Next time line your ditch with road fabric or less expensive landscape fabric then fill with rock otherwise dirt will eventually seep in between the rocks and stop drainage.
Basically your rock culvert is what we call a French drain. In order to keep it from plugging with dirt in our country, we would put filter cloth around the rock to keep the dirt out of the rock. Good luck with your projects
newest techiks dont put fabric. it close faster than the holes from the stones
Y’all are going to have a wonderful place. My wife and I are doing something similar in Arkansas. Improving our property. Not to the scale of what y’all are doing! Y’all are an inspiration to us. Blessings to your family!
Thank you, Danny! Best of luck to you. When you're working hard, you're creating adventure and countless memories.
I really REALLY like the retaining wall and its form and the building process! Big boy playing in the mud is a fun part too...HE is full of energy----------WOW!
I like the idea of using rocks in place of a culvert. Good idea.
What a fabulous video. I have 69 acres in the Hocking hills of Ohio. This gives me the knowledge I need for an area I have on our property. Thanks 👍🏼
Thanks Steve! Good luck on your project
Always innovating! Good "no pipe" solution, but some geotextile or landscape cloth would keep the driveway dirt from washing down into the rocks unless I missed that step. 3pt hitch equipment is always a joy to attach/detach. We're working a 700' fencing project and when we hooked up to the post hole auger, the PTO shaft had rusted together! Always something.... Happy New Year.
I love trying to accomplish things "pioneer style," if that makes any sense. Just like the retaining wall. I didn't pour a footer or lay any grout. I just stacked some stone and packed in some clay around them, thinking nature will do its job and weather it in nice and tight. I'm hoping there's not much silt moving around. It's hard to show on camera, but that soil is basically clay. Not much organic material at all, so I'm not too concerned about the trench clogging up. I'll do an update in a year and see how it's working. I agree with 3 point hitch joys. Haha! It usually leads to something needing to be fixed, or a sledgehammer, or a band-aid. 🤠
Ricky having a hydraulic thumb makes that lil guy amazing! I wish my Case had a hydraulic thumb on it!!!! Maybe someday after it gets some much needed attention I'll add one on to it. Loving these videos.. binge watching like a fiend to catch up! LOL
Nice idea, greetings from Aruba. Just cane across your channel
Great informative videos. I found your series when researching snatch blocks and tree felling. Your are Me except I live in Interior Alaska and have a 10 acre homestead and a Kubota BX25d. There is a LOT of information in your videos that most would not understand. good job.....
I appreciate your words, Matt! My mindset is to work with what you've got (or play the hand that's dealt to you). You're right about others not understanding. I tend to get comments about how I could do things easier or "If I were you..." all the time. It's not about that. It's about doing it yourself and figuring it out with what you've got. Anyway, I also came up with another culvert alternative that works amazingly well. It's episode 70 - called "Rock Bridge". I've made about 4 of them now on the property and they function flawlessly. Consider watching that one if you are planning a DIY culvert up there. I'd love to see Alaska one day.
WOW!!!! I thought I was the only one that used the phrase "physics is fun"!!!! My kids and I say that a lot!!!! 😍😜
Yes love the short videos on how to…. Learning. A lot and enjoying it too.
As they used to say, 'It's great when a plan comes together' Cheers Robin.
Over time dirt will probably plug that ditch. Be a few years. Just keep a eye on it and if you have to redo it get fabric to line the trench with then put the rock in and cover the top of the rock with more fabric before the gravel for the driveway. ✌️👍👍
Short videos would be great! IF you can tease us for the weekly video that’d be cool too… like “why is Jon hooking up box blade?” Then weekly shows you scraping roads. Some requests for shorts: Jon’s Toolbox, Megs Designs and Discoveries, Bugs!, Flora: the Explorer.
Thank you for taking us with you 🤠👍
I did not realize how different your backhoe was from the RK25. It attaches clear up to the front towards the engine. It can also take a while to hook up but after you do it a few times it's not bad.
The idea is great for the rock culvert, but what really got me was your hose syphon. I haven't seen it work that well before!
Haha! I was surprised at the flow of water with such a small gain of elevation. Worked really well!
Hey, you might want to think about putting landscape cloth down…
Just kidding - you may have read that 50 or a hundred times by now.
Very nice looking solution, especially with materials on hand!
If you need to do another area of the road, maybe build a small tunnel with rocks. Big square rocks on the sides with a long flat rock on top then cover it with dirt. I don't know I'm just thinking.
Perhaps, take large flat rocks and use them as a base for your walls. Build the walls and top off with more flat stone as you have been doing. This should prevent erosion in the bottom due to water flow. Keep going great show.
That was a great job John. I love my box blade. Highly recommend them. Happy New Year looking forward to a prosperous 2022.
Happy New Year, Dean! The box blade is certainly worth the aggravation of taking off the backhoe and hooking up the 3-point system. Very effective when used correctly - which is no walk in the park.
Nice work. I go back and forth between crick and creek. I'm not consistent even with myself!
hey neighbor, i'm in east ky, just stumbled onto the channel
Hi neighbor 👋
Like what you and your family are doing just keep up the hard work and it will pay off in time for y'all.......
Yes, do some videos on backhoe removal and installation.
Really like your channel.
Thank you, appreciate that. It seems that the response has been in favor of the idea so far. I'll try to make them short and to the point with a lot of information.
I agree with making a playlist of shorter instructional videos. Seems like I always learn something from your videos.
Would love to see some shorter vids on the backhoe. I have an RK 55 and have been thinking of getting a backhoe for it. But the hassle of getting it on and off was the one thing holding me up on it.
Nice! That RK55 is a beast! Wouldn't mind having one of those or even a 37. Just some more HP sometimes would be great. I'll be putting a video out in the next couple of weeks. I'm sure it will apply to your tractor. I know Kubotas in that size range have a similar setup as mine.
I have TYM 25hp with backhoe. It takes about 15 minutes to install or remove (being extra careful). It's a good attachment to have but you need different size buckets. On RK55 you need the factory how with factory subframe. 3 point aftermarket home without subframe and you'll break tractor in half. Lots of YT posts of snapped tractors.
They say 'Lessons will be learned', so there's nothing wrong with going back to basics and employing the same system used by the Romans two thousand years ago. Big stones. medium sized stones followed by smaller stones and finally small pebbles. Regards Robin.
Yay! You get what we're going for, Robin. Very refreshing to hear. We still need the additional layers like you mention, but that will come when we add stone to the driveway. So far, so good. Working like a champ with the recent heavy rain.
I love your videos. I've been watching you since your Maker Pipe video. I learn so much by listening to your thought process as you work. Videos now are so fast-paced that you often have to stop, rewind, stop, rewind or you find yourself asking, How did they get from here to there. I would love the short videos on your equipment. Keep up the good work and enjoy your progress.
Thank you, Dianne! I appreciate you sharing that with us. I've gotten a very positive response to the shorter and more focused mechanical videos on top of what we normally do, so you can expect to see those later this month (weather permitting). Many thanks!
Put a bunch of food dye in the water to see where it comes out somewhere from that hole.
also, make a deep spot somewhere where you can haul water from for other purposes, making concrete, or w/e you might need water for. 2 buckets wide, , 1,5 bucket deep, line outsides with stones sticking out up from the water so water can flow between but not fill with garbage.
YES Please do a video on taking off and putting on the backhoe. I have a Mahindra 24 max and absolutely struggle with this.
Will do. With all the on and off I did pulling stumps with the drawbar, I learned some nice tips to do it quickly. I will say hooking it in is not about using the stabilizers. All about the boom to get those four spots into place.
Good job
Finish grading, check.
Go Rikky 👍
Isubscribed to your channel so I can see you continuing to deal with this kind of soil and water. I'm guessing central eastern U.S. or the Carolinas country. Where walnut grows, not much in central Montana. Virgina, explains the clay.
Remember there is a reason highway Departments use culvert pipe to control water runoff and erosion. Which I fear you will find out in the future.
I agree. Think you waisted your time.
He’s drawing from a smaller tax base, and isn’t getting Federal money.
In those wooded areas it hard enough to keep culverts open from leaves and dabree.
First time on your channel. Another option in the future would be to "old school" a culvert. Prior to steel, clay and eventually plastic the old timers used to lay 2 logs 6 inches or more apart perpendicular to the roadway. They would then lay thick boards 2 to 3 inches thick across the logs and bury the whole thing under good road base. If you have the right logs available it will last decades or more. I can think of 2 places in the great north Maine woods that used this technique that are still flowing water over a century later.
Love building with what you have rather than buying material, like plastic culvert, to throw in the ground. Thanks for sharing this old technique. We are doing something very similar in our next video.
Thank you for this idea!!!!
Hallo, the best art in landscaping is build with the natural material what finds in the near, stone and gravel.
Love little accents like this around the property. Turns it into a home.
Like the concept of coarse grout for your road ditch, but, yes, in time the stones will fill with fine dirt and will stop flowing - yep, sorry about that but in time it will happen and then you will learn that using, in this case, a double piping system to carry the water under the road and out the other side will have greater longevity. But it will make more opportunities down the road for more videos of doing this all over. Love how you make a small tractor do the work around your place - what a great commercial for your tractor company, too bad they are not paying for it - hmmm do I see an opportunity here for another revenue stream?! I can remember when I used horses to do the work your doing with your tractor, that's how old I am. Like the old EF Hutton commercials, you'd do well to listen. Again, you and your channel are relevant and in time you will do very well with it.
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You need a rock and dirt shifter to get the big rocks to make drains with and small rock to cover your driveway with I have seen some made with 2x4
We here in Northeast England 🏴, call your Creek a Beck or more often a Burn.
I see one problem with your idea. With the water coming down one side of the driveway to the large rock portion that you are going to dig in the water coming down the edge of the driveway will start to erode the edge and as it does that it will carry the finer dirt to your large rocks and will then fill in the path you are trying to create. As the silt fills in the gaps the water will again be on the top and turn the driveway to a mess. You may get it to work the way you want it to but every couple of years you are going to have to dig it all up and redo it. Large rock going down the edge of the drive with a drain pipe running through it and a culvert across will be the longest term fix.
Definitely a valid point. My only hope is that the material is very clay heavy, and I feel that most of it will stay in place, unlike a soil that contains more organic matter and sand. I'll do an update a few months from now and let you know if it worked or not. If it needs attention every 2 or 3 years, I'd rather do that than put an expensive culvert in. Happy New Year, Tim!
Are we not going to talk about the real issue? Leaves. They will plug those holes faster than a beaver builds a dam.
@@WalnutsandWineberries try visiting one of your local parks that were built during the Civilian Conservation Corps. Those ditches/culverts were built with the stone on site and many are still in active use almost 100 years later.
Adding corrifine would help keep the gaps between the rock flowing.
Did you put landscaping material between the stone and road bed material? Won't the earth eventually just filter down between the stone?
We are getting better with disconnecting backhoe, but any helpful hints would be appreciated. Happy New Year!
I took it on and off multiple times a day when we were moving those boulders with the snatch blocks. I think that's where I got really confident and proficient at doing it. I'll try to make a nice instructional video soon.
That's called a French Drain, I've done a few of those on my property to drain springs that popped up in the middle of my roads
THE KEY TO GET A DRY ROAD WHERE WATER POOLS IS TO GET THE WATER TO MOVE AWAY FAST MAKE THE PIPE FROM 30 OR 50 GAL. DRUMS WITH THE ENDS CUT OFF / COST TOPS $50 DOLLARS / IN OLD DAYS THEY USED A HALLOWED OUT TREE FOR A PIPE THEN STONE / STONE ALONE WILL CLOG UP FAST WITH FINE SOIL
Please don't be to hard on yourselves. Remember its a marathon, not a sprint!!!😂God Bless you all 🙏.. 🙏❤..
Add water to your front scope to dump in your drainage rocks.
when stacking stone you go one inch in to every foot up. for ground movement
Happy New Year Y'all!!
🍾 Happy New Year! 🎉
Looks nice
Thank you! We hope to put little characteristic elements like this all over the property. I enjoyed the retaining wall stacking... until I fell in the mud.
Won’t last the dirt will fill the rock then make it ever tighter the water will wash out and erode each side of the trench with the rock.
On that creek, after the bigger stones, put progressively smaller stones to the top of the surface and then clay and dirt on very top, your need is to research more about drainage with natural materials but I like the efforts
happy new year, i took mine off easy off but a pain to put back on love see some tips.do you know what the third hydraulic line is for? look forward to next week.
Hi Glen! The third line is just a return back to the hydraulic tank. It should have a one-way valve inline somewhere. Mine has come disconnected before without me knowing it, so I really don't know how important it is, but I hook it up anyway.
@@WalnutsandWineberries thanks, also I connected my grapple bucket to my rear remotes and found that you have to disconnect the backhoe lines and loop it to the tractor, did not hook up my 3rd function yet. Thanks for the info and happy new year.
John put some red food dye in the sinkhole an see where it comes back to the surface. SEMPER FI
I would love to see the attaching and removing of the backhoe. Also, Do you have the mower deck as well?
I will get those tractor specific videos going. The deck for the tractor was too expensive for what it was. I bought a small zero turn instead and I hope to find a used bush hog somewhere local, so I have something to clear new area on the property.
Pleaseeeeee if you can make the backhoe instructions to get it easy and faster will be great appreciated :)
you can do irish passway as we call in europe. wide open dich (2-3 metres wide with stone base) in the low spot, that you can drive throu easy but water can go throu without cloging from earth or leaves
anyway is cheapper from brige or pipe. you can dig alone, you have enought gravel to do the bottom and water is not so much all the year
Is there a cave below where the water flows into.
Probably. There is a very large cave system nearby and I'm sure this one channels in.
Angle that ditch. No 90 degrees
Get some smaller rocks to stabilize your rock wall, tuck em in the gaps
You cut through a natural spring run a 3 inch plastic pipe up into the grou6
You can cut alot faster and save fuel by cutting down hill instead of up hill.
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put some plastic over th rock so the trench does not fill in with silt over time.
Why don't you clean the creek for better flow
This look like be a good application for concrete cloth (Anas Cherkaaoui) channel if you are curious
most every tree that you have exposed the roots on on the uphill side will probably have to come out.You have slowly killed them. May as well do it now before you build that road or they will give you fits in the future.
Nope, very unlikely.
I haven't checked the comments, but I hope I'm the first to suggest that your shovel technique needs work. You're going to kill your back. If you're right-handed, put your left hand at the end of the handle, and your right hand near the middle. Bend at the knees, right foot forward. Use your right knee to push your right hand (or near the wrist) as it grips the shovel handle. Don't chop the shovel into the dirt. It has a jarring effect, and you you will injure yourself. Otherwise, use the step on the back of the shovel blade, and just push it with your foot and your body weight. It's a simple tool, I know, but I couldn't tell you how many hours my father spent breathing down my neck and yelling at the back of my head as I dug out his ditch for the second time. I just have to share that experience... Sorry.
Thanks for the tips. Luckily most of our digging is done with the backhoe. The soil here is hard as a rock!!
@@WalnutsandWineberries I soooooo wish our farm tractor had a backhoe.... Very jealous. Anyways, have fun with your farm but do take care of your health! Cheers.
Deer country. Probably whitetail.
Good Job .... Well done .... BUT what I did notice was how much S L O W E R it was without the wife ( hehehehe ) Paul from Quebec