Day 472 - Poison Ivy Powder of Doom

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. [Music] You act like we don't feed you guys. What are you doing? While the tractor is warming up, I want to show you what I'm working on today. So, yesterday I was in that corner back there of the clearing and got a fair amount done. Quite a bit done. I I ended up stacking two piles. Halfway through working, I was like, you know what? I should really be piling up fuel to get rid of those root balls. We've got about eight root balls that are left and hopefully we can get rid of these one day. It's been about a year. Well, it's more than a year since we've been burning constantly trying to get rid of these root balls. Anyway, I've got two piles of fuel that I can stack on top of the root balls. Uh, left for those rather than mulching them. Today, I'm on the opposite side of the clearing in what it will be the future orchard. All of this vegetation you see is one year's worth of growth. We paid to have this forestry mulched last year, and it looked I mean, it just looked magnificent. I love the look of real tall, thin pine trees with a line of sight all the way through to the bottom. I just I just love that look. Well, anyway, it's all grown up to the point to where we can't even see a car coming up the driveway anymore cuz the vegetation's in the way, which that's always going to be that's never going to be a long-term goal anyway because this will eventually be a fruit orchard and we'll be able to see through it anyway. That's the plan for this space. But I do want to maintain it, not keeping it knocked down so that way it doesn't get out of hand. And to do that, I'm going to use the muler to clear up all this stuff. Now, most of it is just saplings that have grown back. Sweet gum, silk tree, there's some oak saplings, a few red maples. Um, but most of most of all this is easily knocked down with a rotary cutter. But there's a lot of this right here. This is unmulched debris from when we had it forestry mulched. When I paid to have this mulched, it's 200 bucks an hour. And I said, "Hey, do your best to just knock everything down. Don't spend the extra time mulching it all up and getting it all, you know, well, mulched up. Uh I want to pay you to knock it down more so than mulch it up." And uh that's what they did. But I thought that this stuff would decompose faster than what it actually did. I was like, "Oh, this our rainy season. This stuff will get soggy through the rainy season and it'll be uh it'll be primarily gone next year." No, it's not primarily gone. It's a lot of big stuff like this. That was That's uh probably a sweet gum. So, this is It's hard. It's dense. It is much harder than what I want to um run a rotary cutter over. So, uh perfect timing for the mulchure. I've got a lot of stuff to do here in this area. This is 1.3 acres as far as this lowlying stuff can be seen. That's 1.3 acres. Uh, I also got to get a couple things out of here. My wood chipper, I just parked it right here last time I used it. It needs to be put back into the shop and I need to work on getting the blades or sharpen either sharpen the blades or have them or rotate them around for the other uh sharp edge. This my goodness. Well, if you would quit eating grass, you probably wouldn't spit it back up, dude. Life's good, though, huh? Yeah. Life's good. Life is good. I got to get a couple other things out of here. I've got to get uh some pipe that I left out here. Just just everything else is just the chaos from when we moved in and everything was a rush and then rainy season hit and you couldn't access any of this cuz it was all mud and you forget about it and then stuff grows through it and you know the spiel. One big annoyance that I'm starting to encounter is all three of my cameras are overheating in the sun. So, this is a Sony I'm sorry, this is not a Sony. This is a GoPro 10, and it doesn't like the sun at all. If I put it on the rocks on my tractor, you get about 5 10 minutes in the sun before it overheats. uh my Sony a6500. I pre-ordered that camera in November of 2016 and that was like my I guess my studio camera from 2016 up until my moved out of the last shop. Um and then when I we got this property, I knew I needed something a little bit more run and gun, a little bit more video focused with the flippy forward screen. So I got a Sony AX700. So, those are my three camera three cameras, and all three of them are starting to overheat when left in the sun. I think I can get by with a lot more today because the majority of this is shaded from the pine trees above, which thank goodness, that's what I'm saying, cuz it's it's hot out here. It's starting to get really really hot. All right, time to work. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Heat [Music] up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat up here. [Applause] Heat up here. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat up [Applause] here. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Applause] [Music] I think about 2 hours is all I can handle. Breathing in a lot of this dust. Oh, there's a hole there. My goodness. Breathing in a bunch of dust. And it's it's just too hot to wear a mask. It really is. I don't want to be breathing in a bunch of carbon dioxide when it's, you know, 98° and 80% humidity. Whatever it is, it feels rough. Um, it's kind of a messy job. Real messy. Dust is everywhere. I'm filthy. But I think I got, you know, 90% of it done. Uh there's still a few things here and there, but nothing like it was. I'm I'm so impressed with this implement, this mulchure. Right. I'm kind of using it like a flail mower right now, but just driving forward because I don't have I don't really have a there's there's not really a need for me to back up. like this is a excuse me, my sinuses are all jacked up right now. This is a one of those implements you back into your target, you know. Um, but because the majority of what I'm doing is is mulching stuff that's already down and then mulching these green um little saplings and whatnot, there's there's really no resistance. So, I'm driving it forward like a uh like a lawn mower, and it's it's doing a fantastic job. And it's still mulching everything, right? So, we still have some big pieces here and there, but the more that I do this and maintain this, uh the more it's just going to keep keep getting mulched up and mulched up and mulched up. Some big stuff like this. But yeah, driving forward just lets it eat, you know. Oh, that breeze. Oh, can you hear the wind on the microphone? I can feel the breeze on me. I was able to uncover my extra section of covert that got buried in the grasses. Those are just straight up grasses and they're like 8 to 10 ft tall right there. Just that little area right there. Uh the section of Culvert was right in there. Oh, they let the doggies out. It's okay. It's okay. I missed you, too. I missed you, too. Yeah, daddy was doing some work. Oh, I love you. Gracie, Gracie, Gracie, Gracie, I love you. Mr. Nollie, boy, I don't know if it's my helmet or I'm all, you know, a different color from mud. But nollie doesn't want nothing to do with me right now. Mr. Nlly boy. Mr. Nlly Boy. He's unsure. Gracie. Gracie. Where's your stick, Mr. Nollie? Grace, I'm right here. You can bring me that right here. Yeah. Can we throw it? Can we throw it, Gracie? Gracie, I might have to just whip it behind me so I don't whack him in the head. Mr. Nollie Boy, he is so unsure of me right now. That's interesting. I'm like, well, there's my legs. I'm a little bit dirty. You know, you look like a different human. Mr. Nollie Boy, you want to stick? Look at you stick. Good boy. Come here, Nolly boy. Come here, Mr. Let me take the helmet off. Mr. Nollie boy. Good boy. Oh, he's a good boy. Boy, you don't think this is daddy, huh? It's daddy. He's daddy. A It's okay, Mr. Nollie, it's okay. Mr. Nollie, wag that tail. Good boy. Good boy. Where's your stick? Oh, it's the helmet. Ah, you don't like the helmet, do you, bug? What is that? What is that, Mr. Nelly? Mr. Nelly, what is this? What is it? He doesn't like the helmet. It's okay. It's okay, dude. Let's quit circling. You're making me dizzy. All right. Good puppies. Tail wagon time. Good puppies. [Music] That was interesting, dude. He's not too sure about that. Grace, I'll Okay. Okay. I'll do it. I wonder how much use I'm going to be able to get out of each one of these before I have to rotate them. I mean, the back feels just the same as the front, maybe. I don't know. They like, these don't feel dull at all, like at all. I just did 1.3 acres. A lot of wood debris. Uh, yesterday I did about a quarter of an acre. 3 or 4 days before that, I did about an acre. Yeah, maybe about a about a half acre that first day. And then I experimented a little bit in the clearing and these still feel sharp. That's a good sign. That's a really good sign because I thought for sure that these cutter heads would be a uh often replaced item. But, you know, the the carbide uh inserts on my jointer and planer, I've never rotated them. Uh, the jo my first grizzly jointer was a Okay, I'm being eaten alive. There's a horse fly back there just bugging the snot out of me. Um, my first jointer was an 8 in helical head or spiral head uh carbide insert jointer from Grizzly and I used it for several years before I sold it to upgrade and at that point I had never never rotated the cutter head on it. Uh, I also had a DeWalt, is it the DW735, the big DeWalt planer, benchtop planer, and I had a Sheilix cutter head insert put in or I put it in and I used it for a few years, never before upgrading, never rotated the heads on it, cutter the knives on it. I had a Hammer A341 and I had that for a few years before upgrading again. And I don't think I ever rotated the cutting edges on it. Maybe I did on that one. It sounds weird to say that I didn't. Ah, something's biting me. Sounds weird to say that I didn't. Maybe I did on that one. What I'm getting at is carbide insert cutter heads are extremely extremely durable. And I wonder if I'm going to see the exact same durability out of those cutter heads. I don't know what material they are, but by the time I edit this video, I'll research it and put it on the screen. But they seem to be very, very durable. I think Grace Grace caught a mole the other day. These dogs love to dig, which yeah, they're dogs. I don't really mind it too much. He That's what they do right there. They They root a lot with their noses. And the other day, you want the root. Oh, buddy. You're going to get it. Mr. Nollie's pretty strong. You're going to hurt yourself, Mr. Nollie. That root is not forgiving. The other day, Grace dug up a mole and brought us a mole. That was that was interesting. All right, bugs. Let's go. Heat. Heat. All right, I got a shower. I call dibs on the bathroom. [Music] >> Good boy. [Music] >> Hey [Music] All right. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music]