Fertilizing My Desert Forest: Why Does 147° Manure Cling to My Trailer?
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In this episode, I attempt to move 12.5 yards of manure to my terraces to enrich the desert soil. But between a stuck truck and one stubborn dump trailer, nothing about this process has been simple.
Manure could be a game-changer for restoring the desert. But is it worth the insane effort? To find out, I’m testing different soil amendments-hydrogel, biochar, vermiculite-to see which gives me the best return for my time, effort, and money.
Of course, the truck gets buried again, and the only way out is big boy bulldozer time. It’s never as easy as I think.
In the next episode, I’ll test a crazy idea: what if we mimic how nature plants seeds, by turning this manure into... cow pies? It sounds weird, but it just might work.
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get a ball atachment for the dozer of fab one out of scrap
Maybe move that international on to a new home and buy a small water truck from auction. Like an f650 just under cdl. 2000 gallon per trip and would be capable of towing a large trailer when 90% empty as well. Especially with the weight being over the rear axel.
Bless you Dustup's . now i know what Kickapoo means , hee hee
Every show is like watching DUMB AND DUMBER. WHAT A JOKE !!
Ever considered snow chains? Very Canadian, but they've got me out of mud and sand before as well.
Can we just appreciate Brandon? What a great and enthusiastic guy to have working on the project!
Brandon is building a desert forest with Shaun as the money guy.
@@bobbun9630Yeah haha! Shaun is awesome too, just investing all this money and time into this amazing project. I love this youtube channel.
Ya It's like watching DUMB AND DUMBER every show. I would be embarrassed but not you lol
Kinda weird, but that's what it takes
@@jimbennett2795 it's easy to criticize when you're parked on your butt in front of a monitor. 😂 I'm impressed that Shaun has learned the futility of spinning his tires in the gravel when he gets stuck. I think that he's had the "advantage" of paying for enough chewed up tires to drive the lesson home. Most people never seem to grasp the concept and keep digging themselves in until they get high-centered on the frame. 👍 I also admire the courage of people that are willing to try things that are outside of their sphere of experience and comfort.
Just put a hitch on the dozer.
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Exactly.
My thought
Great idea! Is it a legit thing g you can do?
This is how not to use the resource you have at hand ..Let's struggle for the views.
Check "enarenado". Basically "sand mulching". Its an agricultural technique from Spain where a layer of manure is covered by a layer of sand. Because otherwise the manure "fossilize" and turns unusable. By covering it with sand you get a permeable layer that protect from the sun but allow water infiltration to the manure layer and support for the plants. Its also has benefits like neutralizing slightly salty water and thermal retention for earlier season crops.
Was looking for a comment like this. The problem with making pies in this environment is that the top layer protects underneath, but becomes too hard for the plant to push through and up to the sunlight. Most places receive rain and animal traffic that break down the outer layer. This will need to be addressed if you want to go with the man-made pie method.
@@NickGreydencould you spread the sand out enough or smart enough that the plant can go through? Or use a larger aggregate spread out more sparsely?
u a the very least need a cover, like top soil or multch. Sand may work, depends on the type of sand.
The manure looks dead, I think it has been processed in some way. No lumps and clumps as it comes out of the horse, nothing flying, buzzing or crawling through it. It might as well be sand.
I agree with this completely. This is like he Father Fish aquarium setup or the walstad method. one inch of soil in the bottom of the tank and two inches of sand on top. Keeps the soil from mixing with the water,
Here in the desert you want to cover the manure with a layer of sand to prevent drying out and being blown away by the wind as it is quite light when it loses its moisture.
In this terrain you should be running low tire pressures and driving really slow. I've lived 44 years in this area with tons of offroad experience. Tire pressure is everything.
Dude, the truck has no traction because you're not playing with the clutch right. You see that at every stroke, the wheel spins on the gravel, and there's the repetitive sound of the engine firing and the wheel spinning/sliding? Well, if you keep the clutch pressed halfway or more, you will make the speed of the wheel match with that of the vehicle, therfore allowing the wheel to grip on the surface. I'm not sure if the concept is very clear, but anyone who rides a manual on rough terrains daily can perhaps explain it better.
^bump^ what this guy says.
@@albertoghall1you'd burn the shit out of the clutch holding it down half way then need a new clutch. 😂😂 tires 100% would make a difference. And so would tire pressure. You can only do so much with insanely rock hard truck tires and super soft and silt filled gravle. Even a dam prius could get stuck there with rock hard tires. Lmao
@@albertoghall1I wouldn't let you drive anything with a manual transmission 😅
@@albertoghall1 💯 What you describe is the need to keep friction as high as possible. Car systems like ABS, ESC, etc, do just that. You match angular tyre speed with the speed of the ground. Basic physics. (Physics, not some religious creationist ideas).
My heart aches for what Shaun is doing sometimes thus I have unsubscribed. Worst driving possible here.
On the other hand - people who move on despite their mistakes and lack of talent do succeed. And it's an interesting lesson from his videos.
When using a chain with a hook, always put the point of the hook in the opposite direction from which you would want the chain to travel if the hook broke, PARTICULARLY if you have the chain attached to the cab of an occupied vehicle. If the point is pointing up and the hook breaks, the chain will snap down into the ground instead of snapping back toward the windshield of the cab. If you have someone watching the pull, don't let them get closer than the full length of the chain.
Lesson #1 have a shovel with each vehicle. They are cheap too so no strain on the budget.
Yeah, might be good idea to keep a tool box if sort for possibly needed items, shovel, ax, some type of saw, lopers, shears, rake or whatever types of tools that you have needed or used that aren't really expensive so you can have multiples & don't takes up a lot of room in each of your means of transportation, dozer, trucks, excavator,
Think & plan ahead could save time & make work easier
Doesn't matter, he won't learn. He ignores almost every tip he gets in the comments.
He gets all the basics wrong, yet he thinks about permanent housing. Imaging wasting so much time and energy on those profane problems.
He could have been miles further down the road with his project, yet he keeps ignoring even professional help from his audience.
This project will fail, he simply doesn't have the mind set for it.
@ He's running it as a business. As long as people keep watching and he gets sponsors, its succeeding in his book. Even if achieving the proclaimed goal of reaching a desert forest could be done in less than half the time.
DUMB AND DUMBER EVERY SHOW GIVE IT UP LOL !!!!!
@@randomviewer3494 100%
This channel is crazy cause it's like 4 rains away from exploding with growth and transformation, but we're all here like "aanytime now" 😬
So 4 years?
like watching DUMB AND DUMBER EVERY SHOW LOL LOL
@@soulreaver8466That terrace is such a small part of the ranch. 10 years if he is lucky.
@@jimbennett2795I bet your hands are soft, and you watch a lot of movies.
@@mitchellfolbe8729once he gets soil that can hold water it should be exponential from there.
This video was hard to watch, it's kind of like watching a comedy of errors.. You had two totes on the back, but they were empty so you had no grip on your drive tires, missing 4000 pounds of traction. You bought highway tires for a vehicle that's going to be mostly on dirt. You have the tires at what appears to be full pressure when unloaded and trying to haul a trailer. If you did have traction with the load stuck you could just back up and hit the brakes to dislodge it. Then you're trying to pull the trailer forward and there are some big rocks helping hold the trailer back. You're in some of the worst conditions so everything will be extra painful until you learn the tricks. But you got'er done, so good on ya! Keep it up! Thanks for posting!
And rising the trailer up that high with all that weight still in it gave a real chance of buckling the hydraulic cylinder when it's a bit more out of level. And then going forward the first time trying to loosen the manure, didn't you see the three big rocks right in front of the trailer's tyres? Yeah, hard to watch.
Mind numbingly boring.
Using something slippery as a trailer liner would help the dump effort.
arrrrgghhh...NO water in the totes!!! was wondering why you were bouncing...
yeah, I would get more aggressive tyres
Few episodes ago "oh its crazy how much grip this thing has when its loaded with water" This episode: "lets do something that requires loads of grip but without the water in it and complain everything is hard in this place". Yeah... If you make it hard, its hard. Fill it up with water next time and you can just drive and dump out the stuff without problems. Do take a shovel with you tho for the remaining crumbs.
Every episode is like it's his first time in the desert
At this point I’m questioning their memory or lack there of. Did they not learn from their mistakes or just need problems for UA-cam?
To be fair. The water had to go uphill too. The trailer has a lot of weight. So dumping was harder. But driving that shit uphill worked. Wasting water is not a great option either.
But man a shovel would have been useful 😂
@@irrichman The added grip of the water still makes it easier to drive than without it. Even with a full trailer. Also keeps the weight on the axle/wheels when trying to dump it, so to keep traction.
@@randomviewer3494 The bouncing when he tries to move forward is such an obvious sign of the axel weight being too low, that as soon as I saw it I knew the totes were empty without even having to look at them. And I don't even drive heavy vehicles at all.
Every time you stutter the wheels you are damaging the gearbox axles and diff. The damage is cumulative and some point in the future you will be draining metal pieces out of something in the truck.
guys make a mtn out of a mole hill, just hook dozer to the front of t he truck, and pull it forward.
Now use your welder and add a ball to the Dozer blade and use it as your truck to drag that trailer.
Use your head guys, quit doing things the hard way...
Lastly add some water to the tanks on the truck, add traction.
I drive a truck like that all the time at work, sometimes delievering machines off road..
Does he do it on purpose? I can't tell anymore. Also let some damn air out of the tires
yep or a double ended stiff tow
You saw these antics with the truck
I wouldn’t trust load bearing welds from this guy
I think you might improve your grip by filling up the latter IBC with water - the weight on the back axle might help you ...
Trucks are designed to carry not to tow. Google Ballast Tractor
He knows this. He said it in a previous episode. Still doesn't do it tho, maybe for the content?
yeah man you just need weight in them back wheels
my eyes hurt watching him trying to tow with those empty ibc containers on there.
Please, guys... It's the desert after all. You don't just go and get 2 containers of water from the neighbors, do you? How far away did he say is he from the well? Lately there wasn't even enough water in the well to fill both containers for the plants.
If you have more opinions then knowledge, please, at least frame it as a suggestion, right?
I watch your videos every week and I usually find myself shaking my head at some of the things you do but I think I was shaking it more this week than usual.
Hi Shaun.
Mate how have you not learnt from past mistakes.
Your truck will not get traction on the ground without weight over the rear axle.
You got stuck before pulling the frame because you had no weight over the rear axle.
Now you try and pull something even heavier without weight over the rear axle.
In the future if you are using the truck to pull anything, make sure to fill the IBC's with water first.
I can be absolutely sure that if you had water in those IBC's you would not have had to resort to needing the Dozer.
Thoroughly enjoying, watching your channel.
yes mate, good advice china.
Spread straw on the trailer floor before loading the horse manure.
THEY CAN'T FIGURE ANYTHING OUT IT'S DUMB AND DUMBER AT WORK DOING NOTHING EVERY SHOW AMAZING HOW DUMB SOME PEOPLE ARE !!
@@jimbennett2795 they are new to it all ... they are people that have never been in this kind of field or setting so they are learning... all the things we rural people have learned though our fathers and working the land is not common to people that have never done it before... so sir. you are the one lacking the overview here..
@@jimbennett2795 You are the joke. Bro literally works an office job and has zero experience with this type of stuff. He's learned so much already and obviously has much more to learn, but he acknowledges that. Can you?
@@Jetraychamp55They probably have office butt and no experience. Armchair quarterback routine.
@@jimbennett2795 Unlike you, they are out actually doing something 😅
You need to put both those water tanks at the back end and keep them full at all times. That suspension needs the weight to work correctly. It'll keep it from bucking when towing
Not dumping the clutch might be helpful too when he is trying to get going. It's a fine line between slipping a bit and abuse, but he is going to break the thing doing what he is doing now. Poor choice of truck is the real issue.
NO IT WON'T . WRONG TRUCK FOR THIS APPLICATION DUMB AND DUMBER AT WORK
@ No need to yell. Why do you write like that?
@@--_DJ_--could not choose worse.. how can a truck pull heavy toll? I don't know the name in English, but he could bought a truck with the bucket attached to it.
@ I'm not sure what you mean by heavy toll. Heavy soil (dirt) maybe? I think the truck you are talking about would be a dump truck. That would only be good for one job unless he went down in size and got one with fold down sides. That probably would have been a much better choice as they can be found in 4x4 very easily.
Also if you make your truck "jump" when you are "stuck" like you have been.....you WILL break axles, u joints, and or drive shafts
right , instead remove half the manure and take two trips
@@ikeronnie3723 Have you seen the price of fuel?? And do you know how far he has to drive? That makes no sense 😏
You should consider getting radio headsets for communication while working on the ranch. Makes it much better for communicating with someone while operating machinery/hooking up trailers and such.
Great suggestion.
Shoot, some cb or gmrs radios would be great
And this is illustrates why managing land is such a challenge, so many factors you cannot predict, adapt, improvise and overcome.
It's like watching an exercise in futility. I hope this is old footage, because he just keeps making the same mistakes time and time again. I honestly am rooting for him, but he just makes everything more difficult than it needs to be.
"I didn't bring a shovel". My God, the poor planning in this series is hilarious!
I've been watching this channel for a while and never seen it rain there
We're all being edged together... wait what?
There are a few episodes where it does rain
Back near the start there was an actual flood there.
Yeah... you'll have to go back for some pretty old episodes, but there is rain now and then. :-)
@@peterheinrichs7634sadly not much since he's done all this work
19:07 😮😮 Soo my dad tought me to work smarter not harder, watching this was breaking my brain.
Again, if you would have just pulled the truck out with the dozer while the bed was up, you'd been empty and out without literally playing in sh1t.😂😂😂😂. All that to say, thank you for reminding me of my dad. Keep having fun shaun.
I'm going to suggest 300 bales of hay and 200 goats. Plus the needed electric fence wire. Move them twice a day. Cover every area with Hay They will eat all that and crap everywhere. at the end of the 150 days take them all to market and sell them off. You Might break even plus you will have a full area established for your forest.
@@TheWhale45 you gonna deliver those? Including the water those goats need to survive on for 150 days?
@@randomviewer3494 Depends on the Price.
At that speed, it'd take 5y to do so...
@ To do what at what speed.
@ UNless you have tractor trailer loads of dirt and manure this is going to be a long process.
So in case you didn’t know, much of the manure these days comes from hay or pastures grown with herbicides that can stay on your manure for several years after it has been 💩 out. Not sure if you were aware of this or if it is an issue in your area. Only mention it because it could affect your ability to grow for several years and flaw your experiments. Praying for your success. I may try something like this on a smaller scale myself someday.
Not on my farm. We were all organic.
RoundUp is a beast.
I've worked at producing compost for a few years now and, while manure is awesome, you're missing carbon, which needs to be at least 2 to 1 ratio with your green or nitrogen rich components (some folks claim as high as 20 to 1 is optimal), like the manure. A cheap, often overlooked source of carbon that works great in compost is plain brown, unadorned corrugated cardboard. You might look around at businesses that produce a lot of cardboard waste from boxes they receive stuff in and offer to take it off their hands. Shred it in your cheapo shredder and combine with your green components like manure. The cardboard helps retain moisture and provides the critical carbon component. Worms love it - one guy on UA-cam showed how he could successfully worm farm with feeding them nothing but cardboard and water. If you're not already, you should keep your urine waste separate from your poo. Human urine combined with water and allowed to sit a while becomes a really good, practically free fertilizer high in nitrogen. Lots of UA-cam videos on it.
DUMB AND DUMBER WILL NEVER FIGURE IT OUT. SO FUNNY TO WATCH LOL
takes one to know one
One thing to keep in mind though - cardboard is made partly from recycled material, so it will have tons of microplastics in it. Fine, if it's just for inedible desert plants though.
Composting cardboard is harmful, don't do it.
He doesn't have any worms.
I think you need to have a shovel rack and a shovel on all your work vehicles...!! 😊
NO KIDDING WATCHING DUMB AND DUMBER AT WORK EVERY SHOW LOL
I live just north of Houston. I check the weather each morning and I always zoom out to west Texas and hoping to see some rain clouds.
Me too, amigo. Me, too.
Excellent advise from the viewers ! It is a lot easier to learn from someone else's experience !
when the trailer was detached it was looking like a 4 ton trailer. but when you brought it up on the hill and started dumping i realized it was like a 20 ton trailer full to the brim. victory!!!! stay safe out there
might help to drop pressure in the tires on that loose stuff, spread the footprint of the tire. thats what i do when offroading through sand and gravel here.
Neet trick, nice suggestion.
I've kind of missed this type of content where you guys show how you're doing things. I was super geeked to see you posted a new vid "14 minutes ago". Seeing your progress is so satisfying. Keep up the amazing work. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
YA DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME NOTHING EVER GETS DONE LIKE WATCHING DUMB AND DUMBER LOL
Sometimes is make sense to take smaller loads the last few miles. Instead of 12 tons, make 4 tons per trip (3 trips) so you do not need multiple days for one huge load.
That is a good thought. He could make a drop area somewhere before the road gets bad and haul smaller amounts as needed.
You should get a proper EN:143 FFP3 particle filtering respirator for Brandon. And yourself. A piece of cloth is not enough for your lungs when working in that environment in that dozer. Take care!
Hey Shaun, after a lifetime of love and hate with mesquite - we call them bayahonda - I believe you should spend most of your time trying to grow it. Those are really hardy. As fabaceae they'll bring nitrogen to the soil. Once the climate is rainy it will generate a lot of organic matter through the leaves and will create a nice environment around it for other plants and animals. I recon I don't have a clue how it behaves on cold weather, though.
Did I mention the deepest mesquite root ever found was over 50m deep? If there is water underground it will find it.
Great idea and they definitely can thrive in the west Texas cold. Plus Shaun wants a food desert and the pods are edible and use as a flour substitute ❤
@@hiphop4teddy as a child I'd go into the bush and eat the pods. Not delicious or anything like that, but certainly edible. I'll take notes regarding the flour.
If you bolt together a couple of 4X4 posts the width of the trailer, add chains, then locate the posts at the front of the trailer (before the manure), when you tip the trailer, hook the chains to the dozer and drag the wood along the bottom, helping to move the pile along. Might need more than one of these (e.g. halfway), but anything is an improvement on shoveling by hand!
i think you need a 4x4 tractor or make your dozer able to pull heavy trailers for the last leg of tranzit. loading your truck with something probably would help but for the last leg of delivery your dozer is most cost effective right now, in my opinion. also if you get a tractor with loader it could be possible to make unloading area for very large loads of organic matter to split large loads into smaller loads but that depends how close to your land you could get with large loads and maybe your neighbours. This looked like a lot of work and expense for just one load.
Hey thanks for the care and love youall show this land, it’s
Going to be well rewarded, just think of the day you can sit under the shade of a tree and possibly even have free flowing water, if not all year round at least some vernal springs or streams, water that doesn’t disappear into the air or flow completely away right after a shower. Water slowed by roots and grass and cactus, recharging the springs and feeding roots. This sort of rehabilitation is awesome to see, so thank you!
Also put a couple buckets of sand from the road in the trailer just before adding manure to break the friction when dumping
I love the honesty of your channel. It can be brutal to watch the on-the-go struggle and problem solving. You are learning how not to do things and therefore learning how to do things. Perhaps a shovel should always be on your list of essential items to keep with a truck/trailer. Keep it up, fellas! You'll figure it out.
You guys will figure it out. Keep improving the roads, weigh the backend of the truck down and air down the tires on both the truck and trailer, get a rack for the truck to keep a shovel and rake, and add some straw or sand to the bed of the trailer before you pickup the manure to make it easier to dump it
I have been a truck driver for over 40 years. I've done a lot of construction hauling. If you put the containers of water overt career axle with them full of water, this should help your traction, you'll get more traction, the farther you put it back because they carry the weight more on the axle skin and letting it bounce
You need more weight on the drive axle but don't put any aft of it because it can reduce your steering control. I would fill the IBCs with water before you bring it up the gravel roads. I would also suggest fabricating a push cushion for the front of the crawler you have some spent tires that would work. I would also recommend dumping the trailer at the mouth of the terrace and use the crawler to push the compost into the terrace. Then it will help with the soil to bind together and increase traction for the next load that you can back over.
DUMB AND DUMBER EVERY SHOW WHAT A JOKE LOL
Your heroic efforts to create a dessert forest are to be commended. Blessings 🔥
The dozer is the Swiss army knife of Dustups ranch.
Just have water in the totes. That will improve your truck dramatically!
add weight to the truck and it will have WAY better traction,
Yes those empty square water tanks should have been filled. It would have helped.
Easy math and science here😂
Good job team
I think a lot of the viewers are not understanding how many clips are out of order in these episodes. The water totes are empty because this episode takes place before the episode of getting the water, so of course they are empty. But hey let’s all jump in and couple on Shaun because he’s making mistakes episode after episode.
Shaun - please do yourself and the community a huge favor and release episodes in chronological order!
I’m still here for the long run and keep watching and hoping to see an episode with rain!
That's the most cloudy, never rain dessert in North America.
Try using a shovel to dig out the bottom of the manure. It won't take long until the overhanging weight will collapse the pile and flow out. You need to work from the side or be prepared to jump back. Worked for me.
Brandon is such an amazing addition for the project. I really love his calm dedication.
Love seeing the dedication to making this land thrive! Hauling in that manure is no small feat, especially in such a tough environment. Excited to see how this all comes together-keep up the awesome work!
Plastic hexagonal mats will probably solve your problem. You can lay them on ramps, significantly increasing traction. Also, when stuck, having a few of those mats and a shovel may get you quite far.
Man, the terrain sure is resisting being terraformed 😂
Now imagine mars
NO IT'S DUMB AND DUMBER HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE AND NEVER WILL GIVE IT UP !!
Never gonna happen, he knows it, but the ad revenue is great 👍
You would be better off with a simple Ford F250 Diesel 4x4 lol. Keep a car tire off the rim on the dozer somewhere. When u get stuck put the tire between the dozer blade and back of trailer and just push out. All that spinning and hopping on your truck rear axle is going to snap a drive line or break teeth off ring and/or pinion gear in rear end (axle)...
It's a shame he went with that truck, I'm amazed he hasn't broken the driveline already. A clapped out old 550 or 5500 would have been a better choice, or like you said even just a 250 and a smaller trailer.
Not sure if you'll be able to do something similar, but my friend who has land put wood chips down on their dirt roads, so not only does it add biomass, it gets pushed into the dirt/mud and gives more traction and stability to the road. It keeps them from getting stuck, especially when its wet/damp. Similar to gravel but less disruptive to the ecosystem. There are companies that literally just need to get rid of wood chips from jobs and if you give them a dump site they will give the the chips for free. This is how my friends do their roads for basically free in their nature preserve east of Dallas.
I am doing Master's in Environmental Science in Wuhan, China, and I watch your DUSTUPS updates from time to time. Wishing you strength and willpower.
Studying the Wuhan flu and the pangolins?
Learning NOT WHAT TO DO.
Why 🍗 na? Why not the USA?
I just wish that your hate fade away somehow. ✊
@@crystalknight8968 Why would he go all the way to the US when China's closer and cheaper to get an education in?
Double layer of cardboard on the trailer bed might help the load slide, weld some brackets to the trailer to permanently hold shovel and pick, consider matraks for the drive wheels. Better traction with flotation, consider tracks to go over trailer tires (they make them for skid steers) and mid roller between the wheels.
You need a Unimog, thats way better for your conditions than your truck^^
Absolutely!👍🏻
Unimogs are great, but he's still got the issue of the abrasive ground eating the tyres...
Or a simple tractor. Reactors are literally designed to pull heavy equipment over loose soil
and way more expensive
Geeat series Shawn !
Take a roll of biodegradable mulch and drill some holes through it, then line the dump trailer with it before you load the manure.
Check off road tips to get better traction for your truck.
I would try lowering the tire pressure
These videos help me realize when it's Sunday, my time
Bro it’s Saturday
@@tommypouncey5667not everywhere at the moment
@tommypouncey5667 I said "my time" for a reason. I don't live in the United States right now. I'm on the other side of the planet where it's Sunday right now
@@ChristopherRucinski i had some one say this to me the other week, "iTS sATuurdyy NIGht NOt sNUnDay"
Jesus Shaun, do you have any idea what that load weighs? Theres' a reason those tires blew out. The trailer itself is about 4,000lbs, you've probably got another 12,000lbs of whatever in the trailer, looks pretty full. You're lucky you didn't have blowouts on the freeway. Just cause you got a beast of a truck that can PULL the weight, doesn't mean the everything else is rated for it. Future reference, should you ever do anything like this again, put a 25' strap on a 6x6 post at the head of the trailer, When you get the the mid/end of the load, hook the strap to the dozer blade, and drive the truck forward. The 6x6 will pull the compost right out of the trailer.
Also, if you want free manure, call up a feed lot, most of them would be quite happy to send a few 30yd loads your way. If you're REALLY lucky, and not too far away, they might be willing to use their own trucks.
I just watched two dudes dump a bunch of shit in the desert for 24 minutes... Somehow I'm entertained. Shaun and Brandon, keep making videos. For some reason I love this shit.
Few thoughts on this one
-Water in the two IBC would add 2t on the back axel of the truck = traction
-Did you say the truck jas a diff lock but cant find an engage switch? I didn't quite catch what was said
-Might be ideal to have a slip mat layer put in bottom of trailer
-Or at least a spade holder on the trailer/kept in the cab of the truck
-Prehaps tow this trailer with the bulldozer just add a trailer hitch?
Love watching the progress from my couch 😉 😂. Keep at it Shaun!!
So lesson learned? Permanently set up both the truck and dozer with a shovel and a rake. The two tools you always wish you had.
They didn't need shovels. He needed to just keep moving forward.
DUMB AND DUMBER AT WORK EVERY SHOW NOTHING EVER GETS DONE RIGHT EVER !!
Shawn, I think you need to keep those 2 - 220gal totes full of water in the back there - WHEN you are going to need the traction. At the end you had the dozer right there by the truck, all that would have come out of the trailer if you had just chained up the truck to the dozer and pulled it ahead 20 ft or so.
just fill the ibc with water you need wight over the the rear axle
DAAAAAA WHAT? THEY DON'T KNOW HEADS FROM TAILS DUMB AND DUMBER AT WORK
Hey Shaun! Great video!! I cannot fathom how much of a headache this load of manure was to haul out there. BUT I think you’d be remiss not to try one more now that you have the truck semi in condition and a lot of comments especially in this video on how to better prepare/be setup for towing the trailer with that truck. More weight on the rear axle by filling the IBC totes, offroad tires, lower tire pressure, shovels in all the vehicles, etc. (just compiling what I read while video was playing)
Either way, love the mission and the videos! Keep up the hard, honest work and I can’t wait til you get a few solid rainfalls!
i THINK u might get better traction on that flatbed truck if those water tanks are full of water. my dad used to say he got better traction in his truck when his quad was in the back. u burn more fuel but u dont get stuck as easily.
A few thoughts. I love the idea of the experiments. Measure the manure for a light, medium and thick layer. I think based on Rodger Savory's work that you might want to go about 1inch thick.
He does it with the cattle actually on the site and says that makes a difference rather than scooping up and moving it. Something about the fresh urine immediately on the ground. But you are in the middle of no where.
The manure protects microbes from the UV light. Also the manure introduces fungi - which you dont' have in your "dirt" Like you noticed the thicker manure traps the moisture.
Another few ideas for experiments. I wonder if you might consider starting with a circle and expanding the growing out. I remember this from Bill's permaculture book. Just start with focusing on a smaller area and grow outward - expand the circle
Another idea - not sure if it is possible to bring guinnea pigs or chickens out there but if you could, you could start expanding the circle that way
Great content.
Lack of experience clearly shows.
The drone talking is hilarious, and the pop up Celsius appreciated.
YOU REALLY NEED TO TIGHTEN THOSE 2 BOLTS THAT HOLD THE HITCH HEAD ON THE TRAILER......YOU WILL HAVE A WRECK ON THE ROAD IF YOU DO NOT.....p.s. if you put water in your tanks on the back of your truck......you would have traction.......................
JUST DUMB AND DUMBER AT WORK LOL
You need to keep more weight over top of the truck drive wheels. When the back end jumps up and down like that it's a clear indication that you need more weight.
Don’t go to all the work to make cow pies. Put 2 to 4 inches of cow manure onto your dirt. Rack it in and cover it with straw or hay. Water it and the grass will sprout sending down roots.
Friendly Tip...you can use Fahrenheit measurements because you are in Texas which is part of the United States.
Keep shovel on truck at all times. In Africa that is the way we handle things.
In America too. Except for Shaun.
He does not understand it!
Truck & dozer both need to have a complete grease lubrication done.The truck also need its transmission inspected.
I can hear graining noises & the smoke looks serious plus heavy duty trucks are not designed to be towed backwards
So awesome work... but a thought... what if you add water to the tanks on the truck to weigh-down the tracktion!!!
Miniature habitats water source: Small container pond for fish. Nutrients flowing and use solar pump.
Airdown the Internationals tires, they're to inflated and its floating instead of gripping--------- Also get yourself an anderson plug for the dump trailer. It hooks up directly to the alternator off the truck and your battery will never go flat on the trailer
Your setting your truck up for failure, it's not a pickup truck running around the suburbs. It needs weight in the back and lower tire pressure since you are basically running in sand, like others have said in the comments.
That truck is really suffering.
A lot of those trucks have lockers in them… also you could fill the back tires 1/3 or so with antifreeze and lower the pressure a bit. To try and avoid hopping and breaking a u-joint
DUDE! if you drop the pressure on the drive wheels of the truck and fill the water containers up enough to sink the springs a little, she'll climb cliffs!...
Come on rain gods give this guy a week off slow steady rain!
slow with low tire pressure I agree with. It's easy to comment from the outside (especially outside the heat of the moment - some other comments here are over the top). You want friction coverage of the tire as much as possible on the loose ground to increase grip. No idea what pressure you need for your truck, but it would be what I try first next time it comes around.
If it works for 4WD off roading it should work here.
You can use your brakes as a budget diff-lock. If you've got a mechanical/cable linked handbrake, even better.
Just enough pressure to affect the drive distribution.
Well done! Suggestion from a landscape contractor... Weight is often underestimated when transporting supplies. Filling a trailer up with such dense, wet, living material won't let it go through Gravel, especially uphill. Limit the weight in the trailer, and your tires will thank you. Also friendly reminder to check if tow mode is turned on in the truck [if it has the option]. Is it automatic, or manual?
Scratching my head as to why you don't have a shovel attached to every vehicle.... You are in an area prone to soft sand and you never know when you'll get stuck or you'll come across a random stranger stuck and a shovel is just the tool required for freedom. It's cheap and simple enough to obtain a few and get some U-brackets and affix them to everything with a motor & wheels
He's always busy with expensive, time consuming stuff, he never gives himself time for any basics. Let alone some analysis before he tackles an issue.
Sad. But apparently it keeps us coming back
What you need for a situation like this to get out is a big sheet of thick plywood (28-36mm or 1-1 1/2 inch is good enough) and a 12t jack or similar to lift the bed up -then you slide the board under the tires and move the vehicle to sturdy ground bit by bit, it takes time but it works because the plywood sheet keeps the tires from sinking. wide planks are ok too if there's no sheets to be had on hand.
This just feels like a truck channel now, forget the ‘desert forest’ schtick. An incredibly dull watch. Like looking out the window at a building site. So far from the desert forest vision well all fell in love with at the start.
It's winter still. Be patient, Shaun can only do so much in winter.
Well, as I see it, there are many parts to the desert forest and this is one of them. Yes, Shaun could make videos only about the glamorous side of planting seeds, but for me it would be insincere and incomplete.
I appreciate that he is showing us the enormous variety of tasks and struggles he needs to overcome in order to reach the goal.
Also, the seeds are there, the plants are there. It's all happening, it just needs time. And right now, Shaun is preparing the best conditions for new plants. 🙂
I'm wondering why you do not keep those totes on the truck full of water. Traction is an issue and one extra trip to fill those totes takes way less time than waiting on the dozer every time you get stuck, which is nearly all the time. Put weight on the bed and run minimum air pressure. Also, a rack to hold racks and shovels would be a handy addition to the truck.
Shaun, none of that will amount to much if there is no life in and on your soil. The mulch on your terrace has sat there for months, and nothing has eaten it, that is a bad sign. You need to introduce worms and detritivores to process that organic matter and produce actual living soil. If you want bang for buck, find a bait shop, buy all their worms, and dump them on the terrace and in the manure.
Growing things is not about dirt and dust and adding water and chemicals, it's about nurturing an ecosystem. You could write software with pen and paper, but to get results you need a working computer to run it, the same is true for plants. Otherwise you've just bought one giant pot plant and the worlds messiest patio.
that manure will put life into the soil.. There are already worms in it.
@@TalRohan Did you see any?
@Argrouk even if their aren't worms in the manure now the eggs will be plus the manure is composting so it's heaving with nitrogen bacteria which what the soil on the ranch desperately needs. Besides worms can't live in dry nutrient depleted soil anymore than plants can.
@@TalRohan That's an assumption, not a given.
Bacteria works on the micro scale, he needs some actual macro detritivores to make headway, as I pointed out, nothing has eaten his mulch and the manure has been baking under intense sun and appears to have been processed before that.
I was saying months a go, Food waste , from local shops in town and lots of the right type of worms that can live in a hot dry climate. They can turn it into composes and help with the soil. Also next time half fill the trailer and fill the water butts for weight and traction, see if that works easier and faster. I also thought Shaun was going to use the bushes and grass from the other site to make more mulch.
I used to run a little freightliner like your truck. Diff lock rear end and off road tires go a long way. Weight on the rear end in the ibc totes also helps get traction on the diffs. Keep an eye out for an old power company truck with a boom
Fill up the water tanks to drive around in that sand.....that may improve the traction.
HOW ABOUT WRONG TRUCK FOR THE APPLICATION LOL
Victory! It’s where nutrients need to be, at the top of your watershed. The test beds sound great, just don’t ever have more manure than dead carbon matter on a bed or you’ll ’nitrogen burn’ your plants dead. You really need way more carbon than nitrogen for a healthy mix. Someone else’s suggestion to put sand (caliche in your case) over the top of the manure to protect it from the sun and wind sounds very wise. Your manure will hold a lot of water if you protect it, which you already talked about right at the end of the video. I love your cow pat idea, although I’d put the same amount of dead carbon in the pat as manure.
We have to get you a deuce and a half. 46 inch tires would make this seem like playing in a sandbox. you need a M35 with super single rear tires. They would go through the silt and stones like it was nothing. Bring the loads out with the international and the trailer then stockpile them at the end of the good road and then put them where you want them with the M35.
I've been looking at FMTVs. The newer 5 tons. But they are pricey. I found that international local to me in El paso for about 10 grand and low miles.
FINALLY! He took his viewer’s advice and brought horse manure!