Day 462 - CONTROLLED CHAOS with the Baumalight MP360

BPO3 is supported by Timber King sawmills. For more information on my 1220 CRZ mill or one of many fully hydraulic options, go to timberking.com. 7:27 a.m. It is not raining yet. Supposed to rain later today, but I think we've had enough direct sunlight to dry out one of the two areas that I really want to focus on with this mulchure. the the trail ride that I just recorded for this channel. Uh can't get to that one today. It's just too muddy on the way to it. So, instead, I'm going to a little spot that's kind of clear, kind of open, and big time overgrown. Just to recap the entire setup here, this is a bad boy 4035H tractor. 4035. So, it's a 35 horsepower tractor with 29.5 PTO horsepower. And I have a grapple up front to move stuff around as needed. The mulchure on the back. This is the real star of today. I want to really put some good use on this. This is a Balmite MP 360. M for mulchure, P for PTO powered, and I'm not too sure on a 360, but they also have an MS. The S is for a skid steer. Uh and then various various different sizes. This is not their smallest one. They make these much smaller for smaller tractors. Now, this one is sized the range of of tractor for this particular one. Uh my tractor falls close to the bottom end range. Close. Not quite there, but close. And that is because if I decide to upgrade tractors up to like a 50 horsepower tractor, this is still within the range for a 50 horsepower if I'm not mistaken. So, what is this? It is. It is an aggressive mulure. PTO powered mulure. So, right here is the gearbox. We have a slip cut slip clutch, excuse me, on the PTO shaft going into the gearbox. Gearbox has a shaft going out this side with a pulley. This drum over here has another pulley and a belt connects them. On board is a spare belt right there. And that that uh drivetrain spins this drum. On this drum is a bunch a bunch of whackers. Now, I've already used this as you can see. I just tested it out a little bit in the clearing that I'm standing on right now, and it is rewarding to see the before and after instantly. A lot of instant gratification with this particular implement. Today's objective is multifaceted. I guess you could say multiple objectives. I've got to produce a bunch of photographs and marketing images for Bomalite. Uh, you know, part of part of uh putting these machines out in the wild, I guess you could say, in front of viewers is to produce marketing images and whatnot. Marketing marketing media. And that's what one thing that I want to accomplish today. As well as I really want to clear up this particular area. I've been wanting to clear this up since uh I first uncovered it on the property. This this particular area we're going to, we call it baby hawk area because when we first discovered this trail, there was a downed tree, big diameter downed tree. And one time when I drove up to it with our old side by side, this massive hawk just you could hear the you could hear the air off the off the wings as it lifted out of this tree and then flew away. Whoa. Kind of kind of shocked me because it was 5t from me. And then the next time we went up there, I realized why the hawk was there because there was a bunch of baby hawks down below the tree. And these hawks, I don't know what what type of uh hawk it was, but they were they were like the size of a chicken, full grown chicken, and they were that fuzzy white color. So, they weren't they didn't have their their feathers on them or whatever. Uh anyway, so we we we didn't mess with that tree until they were gone. They were completely gone. Then I I moved the tree out of the way and opened up this big clearing area. Now I want to finally a year later tame that area. We are deep deep into the woods right now and I've got about 3 lb if you measure it that way of mosquito spray on right now thanks to a very very deep gully right there. That's way deeper than what it looks. The trail is dry right here, which is great. That's the trail we came in on. This is the trail that I cut around the tree, the baby hawk tree when there were hawks in it. But this is the real trail. And this little sunny spot up here is the focus for today. Now, most of this is just overgrown vines and small stuff that, you know, a rotary cutter could handle. But in here, we've got a lot of small trees that I may or may not want to get into. I'm just going to kind of expand as I go and and assess as I go. Uh, but right here is a huge limb that came off of that tree. There's another limb just dangling right there, ready to fall. That's stuck up there. That's fun. Uh, but all of this I want to clear out and make it to where you can drive through here and figure out what is over here. If I'm not mistaken, over there was some berries. Actually, let's go check on that. See if there is any. These were uh ah I think that's it right there. Southern dewberries. Yep, southern deberry vines have taken over, which as far as my daughter's concerned is great. She loves them. But there's a lot of uh junk under here that I want to open up and maybe have this as a nice grassy area. Yeah, this was all berries last year. Not so much this year. Okay, noted. But you see how much dead debris is all over the place. I don't know how much of this bigger stuff I'm going to get into, but this area is just riddled with it. So the the rotary cutter could handle all the small stuff. But like this tree, this tree is basically dead and it's covered with Oh, man. Is that kudzu? Oh, buddy. I don't I don't think this is kudu. It's too small for kudzu. Okay. Well, it's some type of vine. Could be wrong, but anyh who, I'm going to try and clear this out. As you can see that there's there's an opening in the canopy right here. So, if this could start growing grass, maybe put some wheat down or something to um just give deer some extra food and that would be great. All right, so this limb that I'm getting into, yeah, this is taller than I am. So, rotary cutter would be a no-go. Definitely. It's not really showing up. Definitely not. But this is all just nothing. There's no value here. There's no value. Well, may maybe shade cover for the uh uh local small stuff. But yeah, so right right in between that dark spot and that light spot is kind of like a land bridge that goes over to another little a high open area. There's a goalie right there. There's a goalie right here. They kind of bridge up and connect. I don't know how far I want to push off that way, but if I can get all this cleared, definitely going to be a win. Ouch. Stickers. Thorns. That hurt. Nature gives us some amazing examples on stuff, right? Life comes from the sun. Without the sun, we don't have life here, right? Where the sun shines, all this is just exploding. where the sun doesn't shine, not so much. I guess the plan of attack is to come in and start working through this and go that way. Uh, this was overhanging quite a bit last year. And I remember I just chopped the limbs and just let them sit. So, if we can mulch up these limbs, that would be a that'd be a fun start. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat [Music] [Applause] [Applause] up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. 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This is like having a rotary cutter, chainsaw, and a stump grinder all in one as far as doing doing stuff out in the woods. So, a chainsaw. You don't necessarily have to mulch the entire tree if you don't want to mulch the tree, but you can definitely take it down very easily with this and then move the top of the tree somewhere else and then use it like a stump grinder to mulch whatever is left behind. You can do that. You can, of course, do anything that a rotary cutter can do. It just it just mulches everything. I am uh I'm thoroughly impressed. Um, to be quite honest with you, I was a little bit hesitant about going to this particular size for this particular tractor. There's two different options that would fit my tractor as far as having 35 horsepower, 30 29 12 PTO horsepower, and this one, like I said earlier, is on the larger side of that scale. Uh, but it it handled everything just fine. It really did. uh the stuff that it you know I I killed the tractor twice and that's because I mean I shouldn't have been in that kind of stuff to begin with. That's when I started moving stuff with the grapple uh bigger logs and down trees and whatnot. But I I don't I couldn't tell you how many trees I took out. There's look I mean just look at this. It's it's insane how much work was done in just a few hours. All right. And so the original trail comes through here where the side by side is and it wrapped around this trail or trail this tree and went that way. Okay, there's just a little bit and this was like a wall of just gross vegetation, vines and briars and nothing really valuable. And now I mean I don't know how many trees I took down, saplings, bigger stuff. Um, of course you can mulch this up even more fine if if you wanted to do that. You could even mulch that big old monster if you wanted to. Take you a while, but theoretically it could be done. Um, this is just so much so much instant gratification. So, this is so cool. I didn't realize how much real estate was right here that's just nice and open and and nice and flat. Um, this is going to do several things. Number one, it's going to promote some grasses to grow back and and if the vines take it over, well, I'll, you know, tidy it up with a rotary cutter or whatever. Um, I I'm contemplating leaving this tree or taking it down. It's kind of in the middle of this area, but it's a nice little shade spot. Uh regardless though, when I cleared this out, got off the tractor, and looked around, I couldn't help but think that somewhere right around here, there should be a cabin. There should be a cabin somewhere. Let me back up just a little bit over to this side over here. The creek is over there. You can almost hear the creek. There's a land bridge going over to that other green plateau area that that's all rotary cutter stuff. Easy stuff. But I'm thinking somewhere right here is a cabin. Yeah. Yeah, there's a cabin here somewhere. Got all the vines out of this big big tree right here. This looks like a willow oak, I think. Uh, that limb needs to fall. Of course, I can't get to it just yet. But this is the trail. This is one of the main trails coming through here that we take to the creek. Now, we have really good access. Let me turn back around. And oh man, this is so cool. I mean, it all just looked like this gross overgrown nothing or other. Nice. [Music] It's going to be interesting to see how long these cutting edges last. Um, they're dished out on the inside just a little bit and they're circular. So, essentially you can rotate this twice to get three different cutting edges. Uh if you take into consideration say the first third of the circle is impacting as you make a cut or as you mulch then that gives you three different sections uh that will are effective at actually cutting. Not necessarily four sides like a you know like a carbide tip on a a helical head planer or something like that. Those are square four sides. I think this is recommended for three different cutting edges. However, I did a tremendous amount of work with the factory edge, and I've already played around and tested this out. Just a little bit. Not a lot, but just a little bit uh a couple days ago before it rained on me. But it's interesting. It's going to be interesting to see how long that these last. Um curious uh curious about that just to see what the cost is to keep this thing operational. [Music] Little by little, piece by piece, I take back what's been stolen from me. Little by little, piece by piece, until I'm complete. [Music] [Applause] I got my eyes on you and you got no clue what I'm supposed to do. I can't help myself. Little by little, piece by piece, I take back what's been stolen from me. Little by little, piece by piece, until I'm confused. 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