Building A Cool Driveway Through The Woods And Testing Zachs New Chipper!

look he's actually gonna go to work today so he says all right well I'm here this morning I'm gonna start the excavator and finish clearing Lot number two here I gotta go back about another 40 feet or so and take some more back that should get the size of the lot we are looking for and then pick the path for the driveway to go back there to the easement and I need to start clearing the easement all the way from that back corner all the way across to the other property corner and tie this driveway into that so getting some more trees down here this morning cleared back about uh I'd say about 40 more feet like I wanted to got another pile d it's working my way down the lot now across it I mean I've already kind of gone down it found a real nice red oak tree right here I know you can see nothing but the trunk over right here was a really beautiful tree so I'm going to leave it that way they have the option of having a couple nights hardwood trees a lot here I think this one would be I think these houses where you're going to look at the front coming this way so the back will be facing the I'm not sure it may be it may be backwards where the the front is facing the bottom I'm not exactly sure in the back of the house so they will uh have the option to have a couple nice trees in the yard what I'm trying to leave looks like we got a chance for some nasty thunderstorms this afternoon so or evening so we'll try to get all this down and if it's wet enough tomorrow try to burn that pile over there that other one up towards the front and then maybe add some of this to it if I can just really depends on the weather and the wind which way the wind is blowing it's blowing towards that subdivision I'm not gonna be able to really burn a lot but if it's blowing that way or that way I don't care because there's nothing for a very long ways which as dry as the ground does this stuff is fairly fairly dry so it should uh turn pretty good I think and I don't know why people can't grasp the excavator is the best choice for this because you can tell it struggles to take down the trees could you imagine the mess I would have if I used a bulldozer all that dirt would still be on the stumps I couldn't reach over here break that in half a pile like I said I mean don't get me wrong I probably could push all this over a lot quicker but it takes me five times longer to clean the mess up and just cleaned everything up as I went a nice little white oak possibly for now it's kind of right there on the edge anyways and let everything else is pine trees foreign even a four inch pine tree making this thing not wanting to dig it up all right well I'm gonna keep knocking down I'll get all the way across I'm going to go over there into the center and try to round up and make a pile out of this stuff that way if it does rain I can attempt to set it on fire duh clean up a little bit more room and then I will start working on the driveway easement to the back here that way I have a path to drag the material out well first I got to go in there and flag it figure out where that is going to go off like a Center Line it may take you along for that so you can kind of check out that process clear that and then that'll leave me a open path here in the center to be able to get the dump truck through to haul the brush out of the easement for the back of the property where enough from these two lots will be down so lots and lots of stuff to do today and this one well two and a half hours later this back path is clear now so everything is cleared from here back another 40 feet wind Road up and there's a lot of debris there now but pretty much the house lot is cleared now I'm gonna go over here and try to make my way into the center of This Disaster and pile it up a little bit better I'm going to leave all this laying out right here so the pile doesn't get so big because I'm trying to burn in the midst of all these trees then I'm going to try to figure out where I want to punch my path through right here somewhere in the center to tie in for the driveway so I'm gonna there's some big trees in there and I'm going to try to snake the driveway through it because I think it'll be a pretty cool uh route in there so may somewhere through the I don't know I'd figure it out when I get in there I can see all right let's go stack some brush up well Zach's done went and got him a new play toy here but you got tired of working on chipper so he went out and bought you a nice one three of them and they're all broke down you got three this is the fourth one yeah Oh I thought you had this was gonna be the third one oh you go about a third one oh heck England more I don't know blow all the way back this way Maybe I don't know I was thinking more like that away just so it doesn't go in the pond I'm sure it will I'm putting it back to your truck if you want to hahaha so so you bought a chipper that cost about as much as my F450 does yeah yeah 86 Grand but you picked the perfect job because everybody wants to know why I'm not chipping all this so I bought it just for this he bought it just for this project chip it I mean we'll only be here like three weeks but he's eager to try it out so we're going to uh 0.7 hours on it we're gonna run at least a few of them logs through there and see what it does 125 horsepower 125 horsepower and how how big of a tree can it will fit an 18 inch lot and I'm it's the same one he has okay but what with a diesel it says gas oh more ponies what are the two little things that hang down in the feed chute oh there it is they're the safety cable the safety cables yeah if you get drug in there you pull it hit them oh okay ready back interesting well I hope that nobody ever gets to that point heater yeah [Music] drag it in there do what somebody oh no problem at all all right well here's the camera I'm gonna go grab a uh a log there all right [Music] let's see what his chipper will do we're not gonna put all this in there at one time but I'm gonna lay it out there to be able to feed it uh you cannot put stuff through there well well can but you're going to be buying a lot of knives Zach's got the other camera so we'll see uh see what happens see how long it takes to grind a tree here he's eating it so Zach does tree work he needs a wood chipper [Music] but you can see from my standpoint how long it would take to chip this pile it would literally be here I have 10 grand to try to chip this pile of brush [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] about a five or six hundred thousand dollar grinder for my type of work and I just don't know if the homeowner budgets can withstand that thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I would say for a tree guy that that's gonna work pretty good I saw that somebody found me looky there mulched it we'll just cover it all in mulch it'll be fine then you gotta rake all this up now we gotta put compost out bring the tractor it's about four inches deep there [Laughter] I mean that actually made some nice like ground cover but also people don't understand that you know mulch like this comes from clean logs not stumps and pine straw you end up with that so that's all just kind of it's I mean it's all I mean that's how you make mulch is you just sew all that crap in there but no you actually get chips out of pure clean logs August I think you say chips make logs make the best chips they do they do we have definitely uh made a mess Jeff's Gonna Be Wondering where'd that come from where'd that come from he'll probably like it well he's well he's already seen it because we got cameras everywhere oh yeah I told them we were making a mess the one day he had to work yeah okay clean it out I think that'll do you well Zach what is still running ready to go is that the motor's still running or just the clutch oh it's still winding down I got you takes a while yeah a lot of momentum there sounds like you need to get put that on a job site and make some money now first oh you're gonna get your logo put on it I hear you [Music] let everybody know let everybody know whose it is going down the road good deal well I'm gonna go back here and start clearing the driveway easement and Zach's heading out of here so that was fun to try that out and break in the new chipper for them there but as you can tell even a 90 000 chipper like that is not practical at all for Lane clearing purposes uh just the amount of time it literally I think it would take us a week to uh chip this right here and then I still can't do the stumps and the dirt and a lot of extra work a lot of extra work so what we're going to do is burn it and uh instead of you know even a big company to come in here and grind all this is going to be 7 500 to probably 9 000 an acre to grind it just to grind it and we can buy the compost for a fraction of that so we are uh we're just going to buy some compost to go around the pond and make everything uh nice and pretty all right let me walk in the woods here and see if I can pick a path of Destruction for the road and uh get that flag so I'll know where to clear I'm thinking it's going to come right through here and go in between these big trees right here because then it turns to like little saplings and that'll be very easy to clear out and kind of go right straight through there is my plan so this is going to be in the the back easement back here the property line is just on the other side of these big trees so it's a 45 foot wide Road easement through here which is going to go to about that tree so the main road is going to come through here and go all the way down to property line we're going to kind of scooch in around these trees right here and keep it within that easement right there but this driveway for this house is going to come in right here it's going to come through the woods I flagged it kind of a little bit of an s-shaped pattern that way it's kind of as you come down the driveway you can't exactly see the house it's kind of I like that reveal as you come out of the woods and then you see the house so it's going to kind of come through here I got this flagged I'm going to shoot for about 20. 22 feet wide or so look where the deer have been bedding down and then it's going to come right through here big red oak on the right big nice white oak here on the left it's going to snake in between here got another big poplar tree right there and another red oak on the left so I'm going to scooch right here in between these that'll make a nice Trail through here and then curve back to the left and the driveway is going to come out dead center of the lot because they don't know if the garage is going to be on the left or the right so I said let's put it right here in the center and then you'll have the option to figure out if it needs to hook to the left or to the right once it gets to this point right here so I'm gonna go ahead and knock some of these trees down and get started on that it's kind of nice clear in this uh easement here through the woods nice little Peaceful Trail luckily I haven't had any trees too big yet so it hasn't become an absolute nightmare which is probably about to be short-lived I'm sure I think this pine tree needs to come down I'm gonna try to pile stuff up right here and we'll take that pine tree then oh that big tree looks dead I need to get it the property line kind of starts going left a little bit more so I need to kind of scoot it a little bit farther towards the left but still trying to leave all those big oak trees we got 45 feet to work within or where the driveway is as long as it's within the 45 feet from the property line which is in the back but I would say 45 feet is probably pushing to about where my right track is so uh he left a little bit but this also becomes Lot number two right here which is the last lot on this side so it cuts in a little bit on the there's I don't think it's going to be a major problem because it's their land [Music] but here knocking out this little stuff first I'm gonna get a path opened up so as of today still no balloons yet just kind of very shocking that I've found yet I'm sure one is coming though the good thing is I can probably break that dead tree off what's up foreign would get some rain tonight so that I can burn a little bit tomorrow get rid of some of this stuff so it doesn't keep so much I'd rather have a smaller fire that lasts a little longer than to try to burn all this at one time the Apollo just ends up so big you end up having to rework it looks like it becomes a lot more work kind of like the last job I was on when I had to pile it all up it literally took like two days two or three days to burn the pile down I didn't stay there all the time but I'd run there and pile it up and then go work on other stuff still the fact of the matter is luckily back here literally all I have to do is just Blade the leads off and the ground is like half an inch topsoil the ground is good enough to put Stone down on a dead tree down so it doesn't fall over on me I'm gonna hit nothing thank you it's not quite villain as planned I don't want to fall into the path because that's not not there oh we might have to do something here let's watch this so the bucket's too wide to fit in there we might have to do this right here pretty wide let me move up just a little bit I think this is going to work okay let's um get behind it pull it over there we go like so that just worked handy if I could only line the bucket up a little better than that like so Tada what that tree now I can pile everything up right there in that opening opening grab a couple of these little small trees and I'll be able to put a pile right there and build a back of the truck down here and remove it we'll take this pile cleaned up I'm gonna get out and see if I can't find the property stakes make sure we're still heading in the right direction so let me see how that goes in your driveway through the woods is shaping up to be a nice little scenic view here working on taking these trees down luckily like right through here there's all the little saplings so actually making some progress thing pine trees seem to take forever we've got a couple of them right in here to have to deal with and break up drag out of here he's taking all this and and breaking it up making a pile and then I'll grab it and walk out of here with it throw it in the burn pile back behind me clear this out and bring the Dozer down here and break through here we'll probably just use the blade and kind of skim through here and push everything out there and then I can kind of rake through it that way I'm not dragging that root break I don't want to dig it too deep in the ground right here because a lot of these big trees were saving and uh and I don't want to destroy the roots to them I think it'll rip a lot of these roots out I don't want to do that [Music] foreign stuff grab it just kind of probably get the camera on there you can probably see it I'm just gonna sleep away back out of here and once I get back from there that's far enough I'll start making piles then I'll drop the dump truck in here and load it into the dump truck fall out here to dump in the pot this is what's time consuming it's you know it's got to be delicate about it to not destroy everything but that's going to make a real nice driveway through here I think nice little curve but still nice and wide enough is they can push that straight through there saving anything right in there foreign [Music] foreign way through the woods that's a nice little curve right down through there so all this is staying woods so that'll be a nice little privacy buffer the easement is eventually going to go all the way around so I'm going to have to clear a path through here gonna go around that big tree for now but the Stone's going to stop right here but I think they're dedicated easement does come around that way but we are doing the road this way right here because he does have access to go across the pond dam but Jeff does want me to clear a path around here um while I'm clearing everything and then the road's going to go from here all the way down to the property corner and then it's pretty much cleared down that line that I've already cleared uh the first go around when I did the pond for that property line so I'm going to work on that I'm going to knock some of these trees down right here and kind of get this opened up where I can back the off-road truck down in here to be able to load some of this brush out and make room as I continue to clear on another one in the back a little white oak right there okay what in the very back did you know it's dusty back here oh God maybe a rain shower tonight would be good so cleared a lot back today started on the well I did get the driveway cleared I'm adding back to it adding back to it yep it's a nice little path through here yeah it does a little turns it's got a little orange little curve I worked around the Big Trees like customer wanted then we're gonna come down here and then the rest of your easement we're going to clear that way right but then I started clearing the main road for the two houses and all the trees oh yeah this this is beautiful this way sometimes just drive home take the scenic route but I mean I think so I kind of we need to measure it off tomorrow but I walked it off and that was 45 feet to that ribbon right there but yeah there's some street signs in here but we need to walk down here and figure out our path if we want to hop out and walk we'll go down here and check it out all right well we got a game plan we're going to come through here and then curve around that oak tree and the other one and tie back in to the property line over there so not too much farther to go got a couple gum trees to take down and some small stuff luckily this is this has actually gone smooth because it's smaller stuff and uh no humongous pine trees like the house lot so look at our saving trees look at it I mean that's that's actually really that's an awesome ride that's really actually a really beautiful driveway down through here so I should charge more I can charge you more and then you can charge them more I like that idea it's a fun I haven't even gave you a price yet so I did when I talked to you on the phone that day okay I recorded it did you good because you'll have to remind me where it's gonna charge you laughs

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Length: 40min 13sec (2413 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 09 2023