DISASTER STIKES AS WE WORK ON A TREE PROJECT!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- We got hired to work on removing some volunteer trees from terraces before they create damage! We had a little problem with the skid steer along the way!
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iowANFarmer, Ben Van Roekel, is a 2nd generation farmer in southern Iowa.
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I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO Ben 😊
Thanks!
Hopefully you guys haven’t been hit with any of the crazy weather that’s been going on.
I enjoy your videos, fond memories of living in Iowa for a couple of years. Had a few buddies whose parents farmed.
Ben, it looks like you need a push bar on that shears so they will quit falling on the skid steer, Be safe and have a great spring.
Most of the time they fell to the side! A push bar would help!
@@iowANFarmer I really hate mulberries, I spend a lot of time each winter digging them out. We no-til most of our crops and they are a constant problem, especially in our non-GMO crops.
Too bad about the tracking coming off. Always enjoy watching you removing trees and improving there farm.
Well, I'm impressed with size of the trees the shear can handle. Best of luck this season. Gonna be a test of manhood I fear, lol.
You could take down some nice sized ones. Sometimes have to snip your way around the tree
HEY YOUNG FELLA, JUST A SUGGESTION WHEN I PUT MY TRACK BACK ON ,I LOSEN THE GREASE FITTING LIKE YOU DID THEN I TAKE A 2 or 3in ROUND PICE OF FIRE WOOD PUT IT AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN DRIVE COG AND RUN IT BACKWARD ,
THE TRACK GOES RIGHT BACK ON .
LIKE I SAID IT'S JUST A SUGGESTION .
No, great suggestion. I’ve seen some fabricated ones that help. That’s what I was trying to do with the pipe and pipe wrench. Tools were very limited to us.
I had a track break but we didn't know it in a mud pit. took for ever to get it back on, and when we did it kicked off again. But we saw it was broken, so we had to get a spare. And do it all over again.
I’m sorry you had a lot of rain, but am very relieved that you don’t have tornado or wind damage. I watch Ryan Hall cover the storms & was worried about your new bins. It’s been a crazy tornado season.
That sounds like a fun day!
Yep, everything’s okay thus far. Just lots and lots of rain.
@@iowANFarmer so glad to hear that. I’m still banned from Big Tech SM so I can’t check in. I saw Marshalltown area was included in the state emergency, hoping the Cornstars didn’t get hit again.
Those are mulberry trees fyi. Pulling and cutting trees is an endless job!
What’s the difference between that and a hedge tree. It’s hard to tell them apart. (I know hedge gets the balls)
@@iowANFarmer I believe hedge trees have thorns on them and the hedge apples. Both have the bright yellow wood. I could be wrong, identifying that as mulberry. I live in eastern Nebraska and we have tons of mulberry trees that grow in fence lines. Birds eat the berries and shit them everywhere!
You can also drill holes in a tree and pour tordon in the holes, couple years the tree will be dead
Or ring them!
I fully enjoy watching the videos. On the toro, I love using that stuff. I want to say that after about 2 years with some of the around 4inch trunks ive went back and popped the stumps out with a bucket. But in my opinion (yada yada), one thing i found with toro is. Grab a sprayer, and that will go a lot further on how many stumps you can get out of a bottle. (Yes, I've bought and used a case of that one time.) So this gets me to my next question: Do you have any more anomalies of trees where you need to track or move them halfway across the field? If you do, I've got a setup that I'd be willing to bring over and let ya try it for a day. I'd just ask for some secret drone footage if our work schedules would line up.
Like a tree spade?
Well, I can tell that video was made a few days ago. Where is all the tree leaves?😂😂😂😂 Thanks to all!!!
Great job guys
Great video Ben
That was quite the transformation.
Killingstumps is a pain without 24-d but we found going deep 6” with chain saw vertical and fill with roundup kills cheaply
Great job running the excavator Ben
Why does it seem machinery breaks down when Colt is operator...
Hedge Trees the Hardest Wood on Earth!
They aren’t a lot of fun!
You can't beat a forestry mulcher for a job like that, nothing too big nothing too small, and nothing to haul
Why are you taking the trees out?
You could have taken the root ball and everything with that excavator. Why didn’t you do that?
He said early in the video that removing the root ball would damage the terraces and cause more work having to fix them. By cutting and spraying the integrity of the terrace is not affected.
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someone 's gonna get hurt you need to learn how to cut trees just saying spent a month in hospital because of inexperiance
We aren’t lumber jacks that’s for sure!
Karen is watching 🆗
Why are you taking the trees out?
They interfere with the farm machinery and they shade out the crops and rob the moisture and nutrients.