From Ontario Canada, I worked in the Heavy Equipment industry for 42 years as a Mechanic and retired as a College professor. Now I cut grass at Golf Course and during the winter I cut fire wood for a good friend on his farm. I see that you took care of a item on the honey do list. Great to see all the new growth in your area, we are not there yet. It would be nice to see the family photo that Melissa requested for Mothers Day, don't forget the dogs. Hunter, just one picture with the family please.
Retired math school teacher (35 years) living in Hermitage, PA. Now every week is the same, 6 Saturdays and a Sunday, doing whatever and enjoying it. Love your videos.
I lost the ability to do what you do with one fall. Disabled now. I have worked as mechanical repair for shirt and hard wood flooring companies. I have worked construction and worked for a city operating motor grader and other equipment. I have operated a dozer and love heavy equipment. I worked 11 years in law enforcement. That is why I now watch you and others work outdoors. You help me mentally and I thank you for it. If you can imagine losing the ability to go do the things you enjoy. How to cope with it. My meds give me some relief from pain but it never stops. I use a walker now and can't lift or pull on things anymore. I tell you my short story to remind everyone not to take life for granted. God bless and always be thankful.
Your videos inspire me to do more on my own place. I thoroughly enjoy each one. I love seeing all your family in the videos. Our family is so much like yours-hard workers but we make it fun, thanks to my wife!
Vietnam Veteran 69-70, International Project Manager (been to 47 countries), Own and operation a 300 acre tree in NE Georgia, Retired. Love your channel
56 yo medical doctor here practicing north of Chicago who loves to spend his weekends in southern Wisconsin on my walnut tree farm. Love working with my tractor, maintaining the trees and creating paths. Love your channel and all the projects, many of which I have to do on my farm!
Former Quality Assurance Manager in Furniture Manufacturing... now retired to Woodworking, country living and family time. Love watching others work, that’s why I enjoy your channel... LOL
Good day Mike and Melissa. StealthCam trail cameras. Excellent quality from positive temperatures all the way down to -37 degrees celsius. 2 years running out in the forest - all seasons- and never missed a beat. Cheers and all the best!
I do heavy highway and i just want to thank you for all the videos. I work on the road 6 days a week and live out of a camper. You videos are like my tv i watch every night to relax. So thank you!
Retired from the gas company here in Oklahoma, project manager for highway relocation work. Have some property in Arkansas that my wife and I are going to build on, starting real soon. Love your tractor videos.
I’m a retired union carpenters I built a lot of bridges and sky high buildings . now I’m having fun building a lot of different wood stuff I love watching your videos and congratulations on your new job life
Hi my name is Ben I was a welder for just about 40 years. I enjoyed this so much it was fun. I feel if you're not having fun at what you are doing get out. I am retired now and I find I am doing more now than ever. I work for hospice, I work with the birds up at Bays Mountain park and involved with the senior center here in my town wood carving. Thank you so much for being real. God Bless Ben
Great stuff Mike and family ! Retired field mechanic for surface coal mines with 43 years experience . Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. You all be safe and God bless you !!!!!!! EDDY
Well I’m a corrugator supervisor for International Paper. I’ve worked there for 28 years and I’m 48 as of April 6th. I do love to garden I wished I’d bought a small farm years ago when I married the love of my life 26 years ago. Thanks for sharing some of your life with us. May God bless your family.
32 year Airline Captain flying the friendly skies in a Boeing 777. A Small time farmer, cow calf operation. Kubota tractors living near Corpus Christi Texas. I watch these videos all over the world. I love them and look forward to seeing each and every one. I feel like I’m part of the MORGAN family. I support seeing Hunter and seeing him and his personal development and hearing the encouragement he gets. Love seeing you Mike, Melissa and your family doing the daily chores and helping us to learn more and new ideas. Please keep it up.
Retired small-town firefighter in north MO. Live on 1-1/2 acres in the edge of town with a 140 acre brush farm (with cabin) 30 miles from home. I have a 2004 JD-790 w/300 loader & a 1993 JD-755 which is my farm finish mowing tractor. Most of my farm work anymore is wildlife related, timber thinning w/brush piles, sowing native forbs & grasses, etc. Also collect older small farm tractors, four at the present time, maybe five by the end of the week.
I am a school bus driver and my husband is a diesel mechanic for a Cat Dealer. We live near Smithsburg, Md. Like you we enjoy working outside, cutting firewood, etc. Used to have our own sawmill and enjoyed sawing lumber in our younger days. Hope to retire in 2 or 3 years.
Im a union sheet metal worker. I first came across your channel because I was rural king when it opened in Monaca and they had a sign that youd be there to meet people. I had just bought 4 acres in Fombell after growing up in the city near Kennywood so I didn't know anything about tractors. Your channel was a huge influence on breaking my wife down to allow me to buy one. Keep up the good work, Mike!
Retired from the construction industry, now working harder than ever on a 20 acre ranch in Northern Ca. Been clearing overgrown tree density, fire fuel reduction and management with a variety of equipment. Kubota L3800 w/grapple, forks and bucket (I found your tractor videos very helpful) Kubota KX 080 excavator w/ 56” grading bucket, 18” tooth, 12” tooth, TMK300 tree sheer and an FAE masticating head, (again I enjoyed the excavator videos and some of your techniques👍)60ft Genie 4x4 Z-boom man lift, Vermeer chipper, Northern 37ton log splitter, 96 Dodge 3500 4x4 12 valve service truck. Thank you for your help in so many areas that I work in daily. Keep them coming, looking forward to each new video👍
Started working on a dairy farm, moved on to wood products manufacturing company and eventually started my own business and now own three companies in Maine. Enjoy watching your videos.
I am wrapping up my second career. I served in the Army as a military intelligence analyst and retired in 1998. I currently hold a position within the Department of Veterans affairs as Unified Communications supervisor. I plan to retire from the VA in May of 2020. For the past 18 years I have been building what some would call a modern homestead. I built my home in 2003, we raise all are own livestock and vegetables. Our equipment is a lot like yours, we have a Mahindra 2255 which is basically the same tractor as the RK55. For tractor accessories we have a backhoe, loader, forks, bucket, grader blade, snowplow, 6' bush hog, wood max 990 wood chipper, Frostbite grapple, Wallenstein logging wench, and a Wallenstein 236 wood processor. We also have a Polaris Ranger 6X6, an old Case 1816 skid steer I rebuilt last year, I also just bought a Norwood LM29 sawmill that I haven't finished assembling yet (maybe this weekend). Our plan is to provide a place for all our kids to move back to the homestead and build a home here, one of them has all ready bone that, the other two are working toward it. We would like to give our house to one of them and the wife and I could travel North America for a few years in a camper, just turn the whole place over to the boys and their families.
Former engineer turned CFP/Investment Advisor for the past 30 years. I have a small 40 ac farm and love your channel. Keep up the good work. Blessings from Springfield Missouri
Hey Mike and Melissa, I'm a retired Sheriff's Deputy from Tennessee but now I love working on my mini farm, well its really playing to me. I bought me a little Tractor about the size of your RK 24, used, from a fellow that lives up your way in the Milroy, PA area. Its a Yanmar sa424 TLB and I love it. Thanks for your videos Mike, their great.
Retired as a Command Sergeant Major, U.S Army after 32 years. I presently live in Camden, South Carolina. I have 30 acres, 15 pasture and the other 15 are woods. I love the outdoors, I am constantly doing something to beautify my homestead.
I was a 25C Single Channel Radio Operator. I spent most of my time in the 75th Ranger Regiment, Special Operations Command Europe and the 82D Airborne Division. I grew up in Hawaii and fell in love with the woods at Fort Benning.
Another great video. I have a little over 2 acres in Western NC and after watching the capabilities of the RK24 shown in your videos will probably be buying one soon. I am a retired fire chief. Thank you for all of the effort that you put into your videos.
Retired engineer from NCDOT with 35 years service. US Army from 68-70. Hobbies, farming and beekeeping. Need to do the family picture. Hello to Hunter, enjoy seeing him in the videos.
Mike, I have to say this video series is one of the better "family photo albums" any family could ever ask for. Neuroradiologist/Teacher/Part-time Timber Farmer
carpenter most of my life retired now my knees gave out but still cut my own wood just takes a little longer now but enjoy being out side and hunting and fishing when i can great video thank you mike and your wife
I work from our "almost homestead' in the IT dept of a leading plastics manufacturer. (O365 Admin). We moved an hour or so away from our city life into some temporary living quarters on our small acreage in June 2017.
I'm a retired computer technician, now substituting as a bus driver for our city transit bus. I grew up farming and cut my teeth on a 9n ford tractor graduating up to the Ford 3000. I love the things you do and envy your ability and desire to constantly maintain and improve your property. Keep up the activity and keep those videos coming for the rest of us to enjoy. I also thoroughly enjoy the way Melissa finds time to help and her undying dedication to Hunter and his well being.
I'm a disabled veteran, retired business owner. I just purchased a 27 acre farm as an upgrade for my parrot sanctuary. Your videos have been extremely resourceful in the decision making process for equipment I will need going forward. A knowledgable, objective opinion is always a great help. Thank you for what you do :)
Inside sales for the largest engine / trans remanufacturer. 2 miles from work but my retirement property is 60 miles away. You and Stoney Ridge Farmer have inspired me to use "all" of the day, not just plop down on the couch when I get home. Thanks for that !!
Retired in 2012, sold my oil additive business. Have time now to enjoy life, fly my airplane (s) 2 of them. Enjoy watching your UA-cam productions. Have fun and keep them coming.
Hi Mike worked 32 years in maintenance for a public school system retired 10 years ago now I enjoy my 5 grandkids with my 6th coming in July can’t wait love them very much they make my day Joe NWNJ
I am superintendent of the county highway department here in Guernsey County Ohio. Been employed for 41 years in October of this year. We are busy with the oil and gas industry here. It makes my job interesting as I deal with the companies working here along with our regular work. The oil and gas industry fascinates me. I enjoy working with them.
Hey Mike. We are certainly like minded. I love working outside with my 4x4 compact JD with front loader and rear tiller. I am on the coast in Washington and hired on with the Boeing company and just retired a couple of years ago but spent 40 years as a toolmaker/crane operations. I couldn't have asked for a more better and interesting job. Very blessed.
Police officer for 17 years and 18 years military service, currently serving in the National Guard as well. Before that I was a carpenter for about 10 years. But I'm a farmer at heart. God bless.
Hi Mike I’m a Telephone and Data Engineer in the West of Scotland near Glasgow I live in a townhouse and have a small garden, no tractors or plant unfortunately. Love the Chanel. Cheers Jim
Retired Furnace Melter Operator for a steel company in Canada . 35 years of working shifts . Never new what it was like to be off on holidays such as Christmas or New Years . Operated the first Basic Oxygen Furnaces that were in North America . Graduated to run the twin Electric Arc Furnaces which were installed later until I retired . Was proud to be only a handful of people in a company of 13,000 that actually made steel . One day I pulled into the parking lot and said to myself that I have had enough of this shift work . Retired 3 months later at the ripe old age of 53 . Now I do what I want , when I want and how I want . Cancer survivor for 18 years . I'm one of the lucky ones . God was on my side this time . I don't sweat the small stuff any more . Life is good .
Your English is perfectly understandable! If you're looking for improvement, "an university" should be "a university" and "sory" is "sorry" no need to change as what you said is understandable!!
You are doing great Vincent.....English isn't simple. Some of us spend our whole lives speaking it and still have challenges. Keep at it, don't slow down. Bonne chance!
@@stephendobie5013 for sure on the English language! Yinz get really screwed up if ya tried to speak or desifer (western Pennsylvania English slang !) We call it "yinzer" its always been funny when people say, You're from Pittsburgh!
Hi Mike, Retired Locomotive Engineer BNSF Railroad 46 Yrs . Putt around my two acre ranch on a 1963 Ford 4000. Sure wish we had RK 's available out here in Arizona. I'd have one in a heart beat. Hope Melissa gets her wish for Mothers Day. Hi to Hunter and the girls...
I`am retired from Northrup Grumman, Instrument and Metrology repair cal tech, Shelton,Ct. Keep up the videos, enjoy watching you take care of your properties.
Hi Mike, I am retired from a maintenance job I had for 42 years at a paint manufacturing company in Harwick, Pa. Still working, can’t slow down yet, and have a great job at the Ace Hardware store in Oakmont, Pa. love helping people with any kind of projects they are attempting. I am like you, love to cut and split fire wood, only have a fire place for enjoyment. Enjoy your videos, keep up the great job, and give a big shoutout to Hunter😊
Hi Mike & Melissa. I’m a 59 yo physician. Worked in ER for 18 yrs, now own and operate 3 Urgent Care Clinics. Have 130 acres in south central Ohio. Work 3 days a week than spend my time maintaining my place, hunting big Ohio Bucks, turkeys and coyotes. Got a quarter mile gravel driveway and lots of trees. Just had my new RK55H with granite grapple, box blade, back hoe, front forks and dump trailer delivered last week. Very happy with it. Your videos were very influential I’m decision to purchase the RK products. Keep up the good work
Retired Disabled Combat Veteran 22 yrs. of Service ... my last Deployment was a Combat mission after Sept.9/11/01 "NAJAF IRAQ" 04 & 05 ... God Bless America. & Thanks to "All" who fly "Our" Flag . ... Robert L. Rogers Jr. North East Alabama ... Jackson Co.
Hi Mike and Melissa, I'm an operating engineer Local 49 . I run a rock Crusher on heavy Highway Construction in northern eastern Minnesota. I also have a Norwood LM 34 sawmill as a side hobby in the spring during break up. I like your videos and say Hi to Hunter. Take care
retired dairy farmer ,work part time on a hog farm as a handyman, look after grandkids, and mow some lawn. just bought a 1025r John Deere to play with .Love your channel
Hey Mike I drive a tractor trailer for UPS. We take care of 14 acres of horse property in Martinsville In. Sure love watching your channel! Keep up the good work!
Retired Over the Road trucker and Navy vet . I really like the QD12K infrared camera , 12 mega pixels with 1 sec. trigger speed and a 60 ft. Range , it comes complete with batteries and an SD cardinals also straps , I own 4 and they never let me down but I waiting on that Million dollar BIG FOOT shot ! Lol
Hi Mike. I'm hooked on you man, love your videos and all the things you share from your heart 💓, and the many things you teach us. I 62, in Kuwait, contractor for the US Army, Electronic Warfare Technician, and communications. Dreaming of the day I can get a tractor for my new 6 acre property in northern Idaho, cut some 🌲's, mow some grass, and grade some gravel roads.
I own/drive a semi home on weekends with my wife and 15 month old. My boy loves riding on the tractors. We have a 1023e John Deere and my grandpa’s Allis Chalmers 5040 love them both. Keep up the good videos love them!
I am a Network Architect for the Defense information Systems Agency. been an IT nerd since 1997. I have a weekend place 264 Acres, 14 Acre Lake and a cabin where I spend my unplug time. No Cell service, and 2 TV channels : ) . I am just now starting the process of transitioning to Semi-Retirement and Spending Much more time down there. You and GP have inspired me to document the City to Country migration. I am going to have a Log Home built next year and looking forward to sharing the experience.
45 yr old Business Adviser for a consulting company in California. Enjoy your videos. I'm jealous of the freedom of space to roam with all the tools. Your wife & yourself do a great job. Thank you for sharing & keep it up. What's up Hunter, spicy chicken is my fav. Too.
i am a chiropractor in Manhattan, Kansas and have 15 acres in the country and am an avid lumberjack. I have cut and stacked 22 cords of wood for this upcoming season. I do it all alone with the help of my three labs. I will be entering the woodstacking competition and am sorry that I didn''t last year. Love your videos and lifestyle keep true and keep them coming.
I am a operations manager for a wholesaler in the DFW area. I moved out to the country for the first time ( 20 acres ), bought my first tractor ( Kubota L2501 ) and lovin it! I am new to this life but love being outdoors. Wish I had done it sooner. I am learning so much from your videos. Thank you. You seem to have a great family as well.
I do Anesthesia at a small hospital in North Central Ohio. Have 20ac that keep me busy enough with firewood, etc. Enjoy watching your channel....keep em coming.
Hi Mike, I really enjoy your videos. I spent 15 years in the Canadian Army as a Combat Engineer, and 10 years in the Canadian Airforce as a SAR Tech which is much like your U.S Airforce PJs. I currently live in Ontario and commute to work in Newfoundland working a 3 week rotation for Cougar Helicopters as a Rescue Specialist which provides Search And Rescue to the off shore oil industry. I gain a lot of information from your videos which I then apply to projects around my cottage up North. Keep up the good work.
Hey Mike and Melissa, hey Hunter you know what you Mom wants for Mothers Day , only you can make this happen. Happy Mothers Day Melissa. Loved the video, thanks for sharing.
Retired- industrial maintenance mechanic, wife also retired-USPS letter carrier. Now we enjoy working outdoors on our property (7 acres), lots of ash trees that need taken down this year. Have a day.
I was a heavy duty truck mechanic until about 10 years ago, now I work in R&D for Stanadyne. We make high pressure diesel fuel pumps for many engine companies such as Cummins, Deere, Liebherr, and the US Military HMMWV (Humvee) and Gasoline Direct Injection pumps for GM pickup trucks, Camaros and Corvettes.
Had a job in a paper mill 28yrs up here in Millinocket Maine till it went through bankruptcy had the opportunity to go to college at 50yrs young got an associate degree in HVAC hardest 2 yr I ever completed. As a result I now have a career at the University of Maine In Orono long commute but enjoying the challenges. Enjoy your videos thanks for mentioning Bucking Billy Ray man knows how to drop a tree. By the way Mike do use wood heat in your home and if so what kind of stove or boiler? Personally still burning 6 to 8 cords a winter for the old homestead can't beat it warms you up more than once and beats going to the gym. Like you I am blessed with a very nice live partner who helps in all chores works out everyday and is a full time nurse. We are blessed and Mothers day is one of the ways we can show our appreciation take care and have a day!
Thank you again for interesting video, I was a carpenter by trade, but run concrete crews builder of hi-rise in Chicago at one time had maybe 400 workers working for me, all trades, carpenters, laborers, cement finishers, iron workers, operating engineers, technical engineers, thanks again for sharing your videos,, I am retired and crippled how, up in my years,👍👍👍👍👍
Hi mike this is Fred from ar I,m 91years old I’m retired and injoying it my hobby is wood working I have a 20x30 shop it made from medal and in the summer time it sure do get hot in there and in the winter it cold .i have watched you for a one time and I like the advise you give on defend things keep up the good work
Hi Mike, I am retired. I spent 42 years in Law Enforcement, retiring from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office out of Tampa FL as a Master Sergeant. Really like your channel, been following for 1 ½ years. Both my wife and I retired at same time, spent 3 years traveling the country and the world. Finally bought 35 acres of raw land in NE Tenn. Been delevoping the land, bought a RK 55 open station after talking with you last year, I love it.
Network Engineer, Winona MN. I have many trail cameras from many manufacturers and the Bushnell 14MP Trophy Cam HD Aggressor No Glow Trail Camera has fantastic video with sounds and will do still shots as well, good trigger distance.
Retired Letter Carrier ! Houston Texas. I done yard work also for at least 60 years and can't due much anymore due to health! But sure love watching a craftsman at work! And you young man better get that photo or Momma gonna be unhappy !lol Hunter help dad ,it's for Mam! Lol
Love your videos...Thanks for asking about us. I'm a retired engineer (electrical engineer and engineering management) and professor. Started in electronics in the Air Force in '64 and went to college with the help of the GI bill. Linda (also retired professor food science and nutrition) and I live on a small place south of College Station, Texas where we met and went to college at Texas A&M University. While I love your videos and have great respect for your RK family of stuff, we are pretty much a John Deere House. I have owned a 65 hp tractor (got to be too much trouble to hook up with my bad back...bending over the pto with the heavy coupler and shaft was too much.) then a 25 hp 1026R (nice with back hoe, but needed to add a grapple and would have to do a bunch of after market mods) so traded for a 46 hp JD 3046R...about the same as your midsize RK I think. Has grapple, hydraulic top and tilt, box blade, blade, land plane (which I learned about from you) grapple, post hole digger, tiller, fence mower and sprayer. She is equipped with an air ride seat to protect my back and it works well... We call her Goldie...just the right size. Lately I've been doing a bunch of road maintenance, tree cutting and moving with grapple and disassembling an old camp site. She also does a great job of taking out the trash in the frame I built for the cans... I mow about 8 acres of "yard" but it is really close pasture that we keep short to prevent problems with snakes and fire around the house. The mower is a John Deere ZTrak 930M Zero turn with suspension seat (again, protecting the back...and it does a great job.) Ill try to post some pics, but my Facebook page is doc.tom.talley ... We reached the age where we had to decide what to do about moving to town or staying. We have had an RV and didn't want to have to keep up with that any more, but we both like the country. Room for antennas as a ham radio operator and a place to put the barn full of equipment...(by the way...the Gator is hers...!) She uses it to supervise me when we go on pothole patrol. Thanks again for going to all the trouble to make the videos...They are an inspiration. I'm very tired today from riding Goldie...
I'm in North West Mississippi. I retired 5 years ago after working in Public Safety for 30 years. Now I work as a Paramedic for a local ambulance service 2 days per week and play with my tractors the rest of the time.
Retired Firefighter/Paramedic after 27 years. Air Force veteran. Now sales rep for largest Fire Truck manufacturer. Love working with dirt and equipment.
Fire & Explosive Investigator 20 years, on Fire Dept. 33 years, 7 Months from retirement !! Really enjoy the videos. you've sold me on the RK tractors.
Wildlife Biologist for thirty years, managing deer and turkey populations....looking at retirement in a few years. I really enjoy your videos.....great camera footage.
From Ontario Canada, I worked in the Heavy Equipment industry for 42 years as a Mechanic and retired as a College professor. Now I cut grass at Golf Course and during the winter I cut fire wood for a good friend on his farm. I see that you took care of a item on the honey do list. Great to see all the new growth in your area, we are not there yet.
It would be nice to see the family photo that Melissa requested for Mothers Day, don't forget the dogs. Hunter, just one picture with the family please.
Retired math school teacher (35 years) living in Hermitage, PA. Now every week is the same, 6 Saturdays and a Sunday, doing whatever and enjoying it. Love your videos.
I lost the ability to do what you do with one fall. Disabled now. I have worked as mechanical repair for shirt and hard wood flooring companies. I have worked construction and worked for a city operating motor grader and other equipment. I have operated a dozer and love heavy equipment. I worked 11 years in law enforcement. That is why I now watch you and others work outdoors. You help me mentally and I thank you for it. If you can imagine losing the ability to go do the things you enjoy. How to cope with it. My meds give me some relief from pain but it never stops. I use a walker now and can't lift or pull on things anymore. I tell you my short story to remind everyone not to take life for granted. God bless and always be thankful.
Sorry Randy.
God bless you Randy!
Thanks for the nice comment and the reminder to be thankful!
I am in the same boat it is tough. Thanks for sharing your experience. It only takes a second and your life can change forever.
Hang in there Randy.On those rough days,Push Yourself.God Bless.
Proud to say I am an American farmer, 72 and going strong.
72 years old?
Retired airline pilot, loving more time to fish, hunt, and maintain my property and hunting land.
Civil Engineer working in oil and gas industry in PA, WV, and OH.....thanks for all the great videos!!!
Good deal, Im in Oil & Gas as well
Your videos inspire me to do more on my own place. I thoroughly enjoy each one. I love seeing all your family in the videos. Our family is so much like yours-hard workers but we make it fun, thanks to my wife!
Vietnam Veteran 69-70, International Project Manager (been to 47 countries), Own and operation a 300 acre tree in NE Georgia, Retired. Love your channel
56 yo medical doctor here practicing north of Chicago who loves to spend his weekends in southern Wisconsin on my walnut tree farm. Love working with my tractor, maintaining the trees and creating paths. Love your channel and all the projects, many of which I have to do on my farm!
Former Quality Assurance Manager in Furniture Manufacturing... now retired to Woodworking, country living and family time.
Love watching others work, that’s why I enjoy your channel... LOL
Good day Mike and Melissa. StealthCam trail cameras. Excellent quality from positive temperatures all the way down to -37 degrees celsius. 2 years running out in the forest - all seasons- and never missed a beat. Cheers and all the best!
Retired last year as a mental health professional. Love the channel because my roots are from country living and farming. Brings back great memories.
Still working, Law Enforcement Officer 47 years.Will be 73 June 6th.If you Love what you are doing, keep doing it, God Willing!
I do heavy highway and i just want to thank you for all the videos. I work on the road 6 days a week and live out of a camper. You videos are like my tv i watch every night to relax. So thank you!
Thank You!
Retired from the gas company here in Oklahoma, project manager for highway relocation work. Have some property in Arkansas that my wife and I are going to build on, starting real soon. Love your tractor videos.
I’m a retired union carpenters I built a lot of bridges and sky high buildings . now I’m having fun building a lot of different wood stuff I love watching your videos and congratulations on your new job life
Hi Mike, I'm a Vietnam Veteran (68-69), retired Southern Pacific Railroad freight brakeman/conductor.
Thank you for your service.
Hi my name is Ben I was a welder for just about 40 years. I enjoyed this so much it was fun. I feel if you're not having fun at what you are doing get out. I am retired now and I find I am doing more now than ever. I work for hospice, I work with the birds up at Bays Mountain park and involved with the senior center here in my town wood carving. Thank you so much for being real. God Bless Ben
Great stuff Mike and family ! Retired field mechanic for surface coal mines with 43 years experience . Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. You all be safe and God bless you !!!!!!! EDDY
Well I’m a corrugator supervisor for International Paper. I’ve worked there for 28 years and I’m 48 as of April 6th. I do love to garden I wished I’d bought a small farm years ago when I married the love of my life 26 years ago. Thanks for sharing some of your life with us. May God bless your family.
32 year Airline Captain flying the friendly skies in a Boeing 777. A Small time farmer, cow calf operation. Kubota tractors living near Corpus Christi Texas. I watch these videos all over the world. I love them and look forward to seeing each and every one. I feel like I’m part of the MORGAN family. I support seeing Hunter and seeing him and his personal development and hearing the encouragement he gets. Love seeing you Mike, Melissa and your family doing the daily chores and helping us to learn more and new ideas. Please keep it up.
I’m a forklift driver in an precision automotive machine shop in Michigan. Love your videos Mike and family!! Keep it up and God bless you and yours!!
Retired small-town firefighter in north MO. Live on 1-1/2 acres in the edge of town with a 140 acre brush farm (with cabin) 30 miles from home. I have a 2004 JD-790 w/300 loader & a 1993 JD-755 which is my farm finish mowing tractor. Most of my farm work anymore is wildlife related, timber thinning w/brush piles, sowing native forbs & grasses, etc.
Also collect older small farm tractors, four at the present time, maybe five by the end of the week.
I am a school bus driver and my husband is a diesel mechanic for a Cat Dealer. We live near Smithsburg, Md. Like you we enjoy working outside, cutting firewood, etc. Used to have our own sawmill and enjoyed sawing lumber in our younger days. Hope to retire in 2 or 3 years.
Im a union sheet metal worker. I first came across your channel because I was rural king when it opened in Monaca and they had a sign that youd be there to meet people. I had just bought 4 acres in Fombell after growing up in the city near Kennywood so I didn't know anything about tractors. Your channel was a huge influence on breaking my wife down to allow me to buy one. Keep up the good work, Mike!
Retired tobacco worker,retired trucker,vietnam veteran 70-71,,also,proud owner of ,,RK24,,👍👍
Retired from the construction industry, now working harder than ever on a 20 acre ranch in Northern Ca. Been clearing overgrown tree density, fire fuel reduction and management with a variety of equipment. Kubota L3800 w/grapple, forks and bucket (I found your tractor videos very helpful) Kubota KX 080 excavator w/ 56” grading bucket, 18” tooth, 12” tooth, TMK300 tree sheer and an FAE masticating head, (again I enjoyed the excavator videos and some of your techniques👍)60ft Genie 4x4 Z-boom man lift, Vermeer chipper, Northern 37ton log splitter, 96 Dodge 3500 4x4 12 valve service truck. Thank you for your help in so many areas that I work in daily. Keep them coming, looking forward to each new video👍
Hi Mike, I'm a full time meatcutter going 38 years. I love the outdoors working on my little slice of heaven in west michigan.
43 years in acrylics and automotive supervisor. Now I’m a sawyer and working on the farm. Love working outdoors. Have a great day!
Started working on a dairy farm, moved on to wood products manufacturing company and eventually started my own business and now own three companies in Maine. Enjoy watching your videos.
I am wrapping up my second career. I served in the Army as a military intelligence analyst and retired in 1998. I currently hold a position within the Department of Veterans affairs as Unified Communications supervisor. I plan to retire from the VA in May of 2020. For the past 18 years I have been building what some would call a modern homestead. I built my home in 2003, we raise all are own livestock and vegetables. Our equipment is a lot like yours, we have a Mahindra 2255 which is basically the same tractor as the RK55. For tractor accessories we have a backhoe, loader, forks, bucket, grader blade, snowplow, 6' bush hog, wood max 990 wood chipper, Frostbite grapple, Wallenstein logging wench, and a Wallenstein 236 wood processor. We also have a Polaris Ranger 6X6, an old Case 1816 skid steer I rebuilt last year, I also just bought a Norwood LM29 sawmill that I haven't finished assembling yet (maybe this weekend). Our plan is to provide a place for all our kids to move back to the homestead and build a home here, one of them has all ready bone that, the other two are working toward it. We would like to give our house to one of them and the wife and I could travel North America for a few years in a camper, just turn the whole place over to the boys and their families.
Former engineer turned CFP/Investment Advisor for the past 30 years. I have a small 40 ac farm and love your channel. Keep up the good work. Blessings from Springfield Missouri
Hey Mike and Melissa, I'm a retired Sheriff's Deputy from Tennessee but now I love working on my mini farm, well its really playing to me. I bought me a little Tractor about the size of your RK 24, used, from a fellow that lives up your way in the Milroy, PA area. Its a Yanmar sa424 TLB and I love it. Thanks for your videos Mike, their great.
Retired as a Command Sergeant Major, U.S Army after 32 years. I presently live in Camden, South Carolina. I have 30 acres, 15 pasture and the other 15 are woods. I love the outdoors, I am constantly doing something to beautify my homestead.
Hoaa!! New challenges daily with that acreage? Did you run, supervise, lead, or command heavy equipment or tracked vehicles units while serving?
I was a 25C Single Channel Radio Operator. I spent most of my time in the 75th Ranger Regiment, Special Operations Command Europe and the 82D Airborne Division. I grew up in Hawaii and fell in love with the woods at Fort Benning.
Things shaping up nicely drive and parking area!!👍👊
Hi Mike. I have worked in a steel mill in Alabama for the passed 13 years. Before that I was a long haul truck driver.
Another great video. I have a little over 2 acres in Western NC and after watching the capabilities of the RK24 shown in your videos will probably be buying one soon. I am a retired fire chief. Thank you for all of the effort that you put into your videos.
Retire USN Chief after 24 years been working as a oil field lease operator in California for past 7 years and love it
Retired engineer from NCDOT with 35 years service. US Army from 68-70. Hobbies, farming and beekeeping. Need to do the family picture. Hello to Hunter, enjoy seeing him in the videos.
Mike, I have to say this video series is one of the better "family photo albums" any family could ever ask for. Neuroradiologist/Teacher/Part-time Timber Farmer
I am a medically retired little Debbie distributor in NY and enjoy watching what i used to be able to do
Me too Dale
Assistant Fire Chief and paramedic at a small rural fire department. Thanks for all the entertaining and educational videos!
Retired educator. I was with Pitt Community College in North Carolina. I enjoy your channel.
carpenter most of my life retired now my knees gave out but still cut my own wood just takes a little longer now but enjoy being out side and hunting and fishing when i can great video thank you mike and your wife
Hi Mike. Electrician turned carpenter turned retired. Now farming my garden part time and camping across America. Good job filming.
I work from our "almost homestead' in the IT dept of a leading plastics manufacturer. (O365 Admin).
We moved an hour or so away from our city life into some temporary living quarters on our small acreage in June 2017.
I'm a retired computer technician, now substituting as a bus driver for our city transit bus. I grew up farming and cut my teeth on a 9n ford tractor graduating up to the Ford 3000. I love the things you do and envy your ability and desire to constantly maintain and improve your property. Keep up the activity and keep those videos coming for the rest of us to enjoy. I also thoroughly enjoy the way Melissa finds time to help and her undying dedication to Hunter and his well being.
Firefighter/paramedic. I work 96 days per year so I have lots of time on my days off to do outdoor projects on my property! Love it!
I'm a disabled veteran, retired business owner. I just purchased a 27 acre farm as an upgrade for my parrot sanctuary. Your videos have been extremely resourceful in the decision making process for equipment I will need going forward. A knowledgable, objective opinion is always a great help. Thank you for what you do :)
Inside sales for the largest engine / trans remanufacturer. 2 miles from work but my retirement property is 60 miles away. You and Stoney Ridge Farmer have inspired me to use "all" of the day, not just plop down on the couch when I get home. Thanks for that !!
Retired in 2012, sold my oil additive business. Have time now to enjoy life, fly my airplane (s) 2 of them. Enjoy watching your UA-cam productions. Have fun and keep them coming.
Hi Mike worked 32 years in maintenance for a public school system retired 10 years ago now I enjoy my 5 grandkids with my 6th coming in July can’t wait love them very much they make my day
Joe NWNJ
I am superintendent of the county highway department here in Guernsey County Ohio. Been employed for 41 years in October of this year. We are busy with the oil and gas industry here. It makes my job interesting as I deal with the companies working here along with our regular work. The oil and gas industry fascinates me. I enjoy working with them.
Hey Mike. We are certainly like minded. I love working outside with my 4x4 compact JD with front loader and rear tiller. I am on the coast in Washington and hired on with the Boeing company and just retired a couple of years ago but spent 40 years as a toolmaker/crane operations. I couldn't have asked for a more better and interesting job. Very blessed.
Police officer for 17 years and 18 years military service, currently serving in the National Guard as well. Before that I was a carpenter for about 10 years. But I'm a farmer at heart. God bless.
Hi Mike
I’m a Telephone and Data Engineer in the West of Scotland near Glasgow I live in a townhouse and have a small garden, no tractors or plant unfortunately.
Love the Chanel.
Cheers
Jim
Machinist for the last 30 years, love your channel!
Retired from the United States Air Force. 20 years and loved it!
Welder fabricator In Dallas Oregon.
Hi Mike,I'm an underground miner at kl gold now for 36 years, in Ontario Canada, at camp most every weekend, love your channel.
Retired Furnace Melter Operator for a steel company in Canada . 35 years of working shifts . Never new what it was like to be off on holidays such as Christmas or New Years . Operated the first Basic Oxygen Furnaces that were in North America . Graduated to run the twin Electric Arc Furnaces which were installed later until I retired . Was proud to be only a handful of people in a company of 13,000 that actually made steel . One day I pulled into the parking lot and said to myself that I have had enough of this shift work . Retired 3 months later at the ripe old age of 53 . Now I do what I want , when I want and how I want . Cancer survivor for 18 years . I'm one of the lucky ones . God was on my side this time . I don't sweat the small stuff any more . Life is good .
I'm a french public servant.
I work in an university (in Avignon)
(sory for my english, this channel is a way to improve my english)
Your English is perfectly understandable! If you're looking for improvement, "an university" should be "a university" and "sory" is "sorry" no need to change as what you said is understandable!!
You are doing great Vincent.....English isn't simple. Some of us spend our whole lives speaking it and still have challenges. Keep at it, don't slow down. Bonne chance!
@@stephendobie5013 for sure on the English language! Yinz get really screwed up if ya tried to speak or desifer (western Pennsylvania English slang !)
We call it "yinzer" its always been funny when people say,
You're from Pittsburgh!
Hi Mike, Retired Locomotive Engineer BNSF Railroad 46 Yrs . Putt around my two acre ranch on a 1963 Ford 4000. Sure wish we had RK 's available out here in Arizona. I'd have one in a heart beat. Hope Melissa gets her wish for Mothers Day. Hi to Hunter and the girls...
I`am retired from Northrup Grumman, Instrument and Metrology repair cal tech, Shelton,Ct. Keep up the videos, enjoy watching you take care of your properties.
Hi Mike, I am retired from a maintenance job I had for 42 years at a paint manufacturing company in Harwick, Pa. Still working, can’t slow down yet, and have a great job at the Ace Hardware store in Oakmont, Pa. love helping people with any kind of projects they are attempting. I am like you, love to cut and split fire wood, only have a fire place for enjoyment. Enjoy your videos, keep up the great job, and give a big shoutout to Hunter😊
Hi Mike & Melissa. I’m a 59 yo physician. Worked in ER for 18 yrs, now own and operate 3 Urgent Care Clinics. Have 130 acres in south central Ohio. Work 3 days a week than spend my time maintaining my place, hunting big Ohio Bucks, turkeys and coyotes. Got a quarter mile gravel driveway and lots of trees. Just had my new RK55H with granite grapple, box blade, back hoe, front forks and dump trailer delivered last week. Very happy with it. Your videos were very influential I’m decision to purchase the RK products. Keep up the good work
Retired Disabled Combat Veteran 22 yrs. of Service ... my last Deployment was a Combat mission after Sept.9/11/01 "NAJAF IRAQ" 04 & 05 ... God Bless America. & Thanks to "All" who fly "Our" Flag . ... Robert L. Rogers Jr. North East Alabama ... Jackson Co.
piano tuner, was for 49 years now retired .now restoring my 1954 Corvette
Hi Mike and Melissa, I'm an operating engineer Local 49 . I run a rock Crusher on heavy Highway Construction in northern eastern Minnesota. I also have a Norwood LM 34 sawmill as a side hobby in the spring during break up. I like your videos and say Hi to Hunter. Take care
retired dairy farmer ,work part time on a hog farm as a handyman, look after grandkids, and mow some lawn. just bought a 1025r John Deere to play with .Love your channel
Hey Mike I drive a tractor trailer for UPS. We take care of 14 acres of horse property in Martinsville In. Sure love watching your channel! Keep up the good work!
Cant get enough Mike! Landscaping, excavation, and firewood business owner, 7th year.
Retired Over the Road trucker and Navy vet . I really like the QD12K infrared camera , 12 mega pixels with 1 sec. trigger speed and a 60 ft. Range , it comes complete with batteries and an SD cardinals also straps , I own 4 and they never let me down but I waiting on that Million dollar BIG FOOT shot ! Lol
Hi Mike. I'm hooked on you man, love your videos and all the things you share from your heart 💓, and the many things you teach us.
I 62, in Kuwait, contractor for the US Army, Electronic Warfare Technician, and communications.
Dreaming of the day I can get a tractor for my new 6 acre property in northern Idaho, cut some 🌲's, mow some grass, and grade some gravel roads.
I own/drive a semi home on weekends with my wife and 15 month old. My boy loves riding on the tractors. We have a 1023e John Deere and my grandpa’s Allis Chalmers 5040 love them both. Keep up the good videos love them!
I am a Network Architect for the Defense information Systems Agency. been an IT nerd since 1997. I have a weekend place 264 Acres, 14 Acre Lake and a cabin where I spend my unplug time. No Cell service, and 2 TV channels : ) . I am just now starting the process of transitioning to Semi-Retirement and Spending Much more time down there. You and GP have inspired me to document the City to Country migration. I am going to have a Log Home built next year and looking forward to sharing the experience.
45 yr old Business Adviser for a consulting company in California. Enjoy your videos. I'm jealous of the freedom of space to roam with all the tools. Your wife & yourself do a great job. Thank you for sharing & keep it up. What's up Hunter, spicy chicken is my fav. Too.
Career Electrical Engineer working in aerospace. Born and raised in PA! My dream is to own enough property that I'm forced to buy a nice TLB! :)
i am a chiropractor in Manhattan, Kansas and have 15 acres in the country and am an avid lumberjack. I have cut and stacked 22 cords of wood for this upcoming season. I do it all alone with the help of my three labs. I will be entering the woodstacking competition and am sorry that I didn''t last year. Love your videos and lifestyle keep true and keep them coming.
Police Officer for 22yrs. Just bought a B2650 to help with my 10 acres of land. Love the videos!
I'm an electrician and electrical inspector. Best trail camera Reconyx hands down. I've had many can't beat them.
Asphalt plant operator from Delaware. Also a volunteer firefighter for 17 years. Keep up the good work thanks
I am a operations manager for a wholesaler in the DFW area. I moved out to the country for the first time ( 20 acres ), bought my first tractor ( Kubota L2501 ) and lovin it! I am new to this life but love being outdoors. Wish I had done it sooner. I am learning so much from your videos. Thank you. You seem to have a great family as well.
I do Anesthesia at a small hospital in North Central Ohio. Have 20ac that keep me busy enough with firewood, etc. Enjoy watching your channel....keep em coming.
Hi Mike, I really enjoy your videos. I spent 15 years in the Canadian Army as a Combat Engineer, and 10 years in the Canadian Airforce as a SAR Tech which is much like your U.S Airforce PJs. I currently live in Ontario and commute to work in Newfoundland working a 3 week rotation for Cougar Helicopters as a Rescue Specialist which provides Search And Rescue to the off shore oil industry. I gain a lot of information from your videos which I then apply to projects around my cottage up North. Keep up the good work.
Hey Mike and Melissa, hey Hunter you know what you Mom wants for Mothers Day , only you can make this happen. Happy Mothers Day Melissa. Loved the video, thanks for sharing.
Retired- industrial maintenance mechanic, wife also retired-USPS letter carrier. Now we enjoy working outdoors on our property (7 acres), lots of ash trees that need taken down this year. Have a day.
I was a heavy duty truck mechanic until about 10 years ago, now I work in R&D for Stanadyne. We make high pressure diesel fuel pumps for many engine companies such as Cummins, Deere, Liebherr, and the US Military HMMWV (Humvee) and Gasoline Direct Injection pumps for GM pickup trucks, Camaros and Corvettes.
Flatbed truck driver, retired US Marine living in eastern NC. Grew up on 16 acres in upstate SC.
Had a job in a paper mill 28yrs up here in Millinocket Maine till it went through bankruptcy had the opportunity to go to college at 50yrs young got an associate degree in HVAC hardest 2 yr I ever completed. As a result I now have a career at the University of Maine In Orono long commute but enjoying the challenges. Enjoy your videos thanks for mentioning Bucking Billy Ray man knows how to drop a tree. By the way Mike do use wood heat in your home and if so what kind of stove or boiler? Personally still burning 6 to 8 cords a winter for the old homestead can't beat it warms you up more than once and beats going to the gym. Like you I am blessed with a very nice live partner who helps in all chores works out everyday and is a full time nurse. We are blessed and Mothers day is one of the ways we can show our appreciation take care and have a day!
Retired teacher of Technology in Shropshire, England. New convert to watching your channel.
Thank you again for interesting video, I was a carpenter by trade, but run concrete crews builder of hi-rise in Chicago at one time had maybe 400 workers working for me, all trades, carpenters, laborers, cement finishers, iron workers, operating engineers, technical engineers, thanks again for sharing your videos,, I am retired and crippled how, up in my years,👍👍👍👍👍
Hi mike this is Fred from ar I,m 91years old I’m retired and injoying it my hobby is wood working I have a 20x30 shop it made from medal and in the summer time it sure do get hot in there and in the winter it cold .i have watched you for a one time and I like the advise you give on defend things keep up the good work
Hi Mike, I am retired. I spent 42 years in Law Enforcement, retiring from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office out of Tampa FL as a Master Sergeant. Really like your channel, been following for 1 ½ years. Both my wife and I retired at same time, spent 3 years traveling the country and the world. Finally bought 35 acres of raw land in NE Tenn. Been delevoping the land, bought a RK 55 open station after talking with you last year, I love it.
Network Engineer, Winona MN. I have many trail cameras from many manufacturers and the Bushnell 14MP Trophy Cam HD Aggressor No Glow Trail Camera has fantastic video with sounds and will do still shots as well, good trigger distance.
Retired Letter Carrier ! Houston Texas. I done yard work also for at least 60 years and can't due much anymore due to health! But sure love watching a craftsman at work! And you young man better get that photo or Momma gonna be unhappy !lol Hunter help dad ,it's for Mam! Lol
Love your videos...Thanks for asking about us. I'm a retired engineer (electrical engineer and engineering management) and professor. Started in electronics in the Air Force in '64 and went to college with the help of the GI bill. Linda (also retired professor food science and nutrition) and I live on a small place south of College Station, Texas where we met and went to college at Texas A&M University. While I love your videos and have great respect for your RK family of stuff, we are pretty much a John Deere House. I have owned a 65 hp tractor (got to be too much trouble to hook up with my bad back...bending over the pto with the heavy coupler and shaft was too much.) then a 25 hp 1026R (nice with back hoe, but needed to add a grapple and would have to do a bunch of after market mods) so traded for a 46 hp JD 3046R...about the same as your midsize RK I think. Has grapple, hydraulic top and tilt, box blade, blade, land plane (which I learned about from you) grapple, post hole digger, tiller, fence mower and sprayer. She is equipped with an air ride seat to protect my back and it works well... We call her Goldie...just the right size. Lately I've been doing a bunch of road maintenance, tree cutting and moving with grapple and disassembling an old camp site. She also does a great job of taking out the trash in the frame I built for the cans...
I mow about 8 acres of "yard" but it is really close pasture that we keep short to prevent problems with snakes and fire around the house. The mower is a John Deere ZTrak 930M Zero turn with suspension seat (again, protecting the back...and it does a great job.) Ill try to post some pics, but my Facebook page is doc.tom.talley ...
We reached the age where we had to decide what to do about moving to town or staying. We have had an RV and didn't want to have to keep up with that any more, but we both like the country. Room for antennas as a ham radio operator and a place to put the barn full of equipment...(by the way...the Gator is hers...!) She uses it to supervise me when we go on pothole patrol.
Thanks again for going to all the trouble to make the videos...They are an inspiration. I'm very tired today from riding Goldie...
I'm in North West Mississippi. I retired 5 years ago after working in Public Safety for 30 years. Now I work as a Paramedic for a local ambulance service 2 days per week and play with my tractors the rest of the time.
Retired Firefighter/Paramedic after 27 years. Air Force veteran. Now sales rep for largest Fire Truck manufacturer. Love working with dirt and equipment.
Fire & Explosive Investigator 20 years, on Fire Dept. 33 years, 7 Months from retirement !! Really enjoy the videos. you've sold me on the RK tractors.
Was a digital electro mechanical Technician and before that a ASE GM mechanic. Now I watch the Morgans! and fix the fences !
Wildlife Biologist for thirty years, managing deer and turkey populations....looking at retirement in a few years. I really enjoy your videos.....great camera footage.