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It's Oct. 2020. I took a nasty fall in my garage the other day and landed on a snow blade. I've been laid up for about a week and I am close to insanity and driving the wife crazy. I stumbled across this old video you posted and laid down and watched. Mike it was just what the doctor ordered. My blood pressure dropped dramatically and I relaxed for the first time in days, then fell asleep. Well, when I woke I cued up several more of your video postings and set them to auto-play. For the next few days I will be living vicariously through you. I hope you don't mind. Mike I thank you and your wife and my wife sends you both big hugs. We love your videos.. Please keep them coming.

Love to hear about Hunter, He is a joy to you and yours and a smile to us viewers.

Checking each other for ticks is what passes for foreplay in Minnesota. 😉

WOW, another awesome video. My daily job is driving a concrete mixer for the largest concrete producer in Columbus, OH - Anderson Concrete. And, on slow days I help out in the "yard" department mowing and trimming about 40 acres of grass and 2 miles of tree lines. Since I turned 62 a few years ago, I have worn Carhartt Force breathable LONG sleeve shirts. They keep the sun off my arms and the ticks at bay. Plus, they really do breath and actually seem to keep me cooler. I have worked highway construction since I was 20 and now I have a better respect for skin cancer. Thanks for the great videos - my wife and I enjoy watching your family. Have you ever considered trying out the a Rural King UTV? Thanks, Charlie

I really like the music for background It's always different, excellent choices ,nice work it's nice to see a family with values My wife and I always did everything together , unfortunately I lost her to an illness 2 years ago

Can't believe there are people who vote "thumbs down" on these videos. If they don't like them, then they should just go to watch someone else's videos. You and Melissa did a great job clearing that trail. Made great use of the equipment you have and the manpower (and woman power, lol). You really keep your property looking good.

I don't have hills on my property, I have made several trails in my little hundred acres woods with my ventrac and I love walking in the woods on my property. I have even thought about putting up some small LEDs here and there for a night time stroll back to the pavilion. God bless you and your family.

Excellent job Mike & Melissa. Melissa is not afraid to get a good sweat going, way too go girl! Amazing what a couple hrs. work can do... I was doing very close to what you guys did yesterday too. Day (15) clearing brush above my pond area & laying it down off to the side. It was 89° @ 4:00 pm & 88° @ 4:10 pm & dropping. No chainsaw work, all brush work opening up the view to my worksite & the pond itself from my house. 2.5 hrs. later I called it quits, profusely sweating, temps had dropped to 82° @ 6:40 pm... Ticks are thee most insidious insects amongst parasites & totally grosses me out when I find them on my body! I will be looking into a lightweight, breathable (1) piece jumpsuit in all white that has velcro closures at the ankles & the wrists, with only my neck & head areas exposed. I am also looking into " natural " repellents that I can apply to my neck, ears & face & also onto the brim of my hat. Currently I have been using isopropyl alcohol & I have used witch hazel also. Witch hazel isn't quite as powerful but it is also an excellent astringent in either case. I DON'T use harsh chemicals on my skin for obvious reasons as the body does indeed absorb them! At the end of my workday, without exception, I strip down naked outside the porch, do an all body check for ticks & each & every stitch of clothing gets thoroughly checked, both inside & out before entering the house... I also wear a set of 12" RedWing logger boots with high calf work socks with my work pants pulled down outside the boots... I apologize for the novella here, but this is a most important topic that justly deserves attention. Bill on the Hill, Vermont, USA... :~)

I am subscribed to and was watching Wead'em & reap yesterday. They are suburban ARIZONA garden, goats, pigs, chickens family. It was 107 F and they were milking the goats. ( they showed killing scorpions a while back ) I guess we just have to put up with hazy, hot & humid ( MUGGY ) You are a lucky man Mike to have Melissa helping. Take care and thanks

LOL I know what you mean about steep slopes not showing up well on video! It's always a good feeling the clean up the wooded Trails! Nice work!

Just so you know. ..on the back of your tractor. ..the top link arm...you can replace it with a chain...this will let the rear of the Bush hog go up and not hang you up when the tractor goes into a ditch. .. Great job...she still out works you. .. :)

You little piece of heaven. Try lights on the front and back of the tractor, you can work way past sunset.

Something so satisfying about seeing overgrowth turn into a manicured trail. Great Video!

Having a beautiful assistant with you always makes the day go by much faster did a a lot of brush hogging in my life always by myself 😕

You got a really good helper there, I've been doing this all around our farm and fields all on my own, it gets very tiring, by yourself I cut a little while then pile some break up the process

You guys are such a inspiration to just keep moving and things will get done.

Nice job the two of you teaming up on the nasty overgrowth!!👊👍

Just send me an invite I’ll come help you guys polish off those hamburgers and hotdogs no problem. As for that creek crossing I remember seeing that in an older video in which the ranger kinda struggled with it. So is pretty amazing to see how filled in and how firm it actually is. Mother Nature is a beast.

Overall I think Melissa look best in overalls of anyone I know. Hard worker and charming and cheerful. Then she does something special for the small creatures. God Bless you all

Rosie the riveter! All dressed up to battle the infamous Ticks! I was out on our trail the other day and picked up 16 ticks... Cut the brush and trees back 10' from the edge of the trail! Nice and open!

You are a mighty blessed man to have a wife that's willing to go out and do things like that with you.

You all are really Bless to be able to work together like you do God Bless you both.

You need one of those side cutters that you put on 🚜's that the road crew has. would make life simpler

In south GA heat index is about 113 80% humidity, those woods would be full of timber rattlers moccasins and giant spiders. Seems very nice up there.

Now “hickok45” uses a shotgun to trim trees and believe me it’s a lot more fun than pole trimmer. I use a 20 gauge shotgun. Hate the extra work of cleaning up, all the kids left home(my work crew). Great vlog, thanks for sharing with us. Much care, love, happiness to you two!

Nice work Grandpa and Grandma Morgan. Will make a great practice track when your grandson starts racing dirt bikes.

Dang! Melissa needed caution tape in a 20' radius with that trimmer! She is the "trimming ninja"!

Boy she is a working fool, go girl. Real good looking and a great worker and person, Mike your a lucky guy.

Beautiful trail clearing. If it is so wet, I would guess you'd need to spray a good dose of deet to keep the skiters and tics off you. Maybe you said, but I didn't catch it......how long in your trail?

I never tire of watching you two work🤗. Good job! Those numbers keep climbing; subscribers and videos.

The deer ticks here in CT are horrendous. I treat most of the clothing I wear when working on my woodlot or hiking with Sawyer insect repellent (permethrin). It will kill most ticks and such when they make contact with treated clothes. My Mom and a few friends have had Lyme Disease from ticks, it can be very nasty if not detected early. I'm on vacation next week and hope to spend time in the woods at my lot. Be safe! Hi Hunter, hope the ankle injury is better.

Too bad you don’t get more snow. Your place would make an excellent Nordic ski center.

Only two hours, a union landscape company would've taken two weeks with 50 people. Wonderful job ! Thank You for "Making America Great Again !"

Peaceful video!! Think I was hearing running water at the head of the trail. Battery power of Stihl pole saw and hedge trimmer is awesome!!

Mike, if I had your hundred acres, I'm afraid no one would ever find me again, LOL! I'd be back there all the time. Love it Brother!

LOVE WATCHING COUPLES WORKING TOGETHER. SAY HI TO HUNTER. HOPE HE ENJOYS HIS CHICKEN SANDWICH.

Mike I love your property, it's absolutely beautiful! I'm excited to start building my trails this winter. I'm thinking a excavator is the way to go after watching your videos

Can’t wait for the next Hunter Sammich pick. Should start a pool to see which one he picks the most over a month and the winner gets a t-shirt. He’s had his fill of Parm for a while so he’s doing Spicy several times. Doubt he’ll ever go back to plain ole chicken. ONE DAY he’s gonna fool us all and get a hamburger or something. That is truly some of God’s country you’re livin in there. I’d never leave if I had that. Perhaps Sherman could make it up that hill since he’s a lot lighter? Is there a natural looking way to add some traction or perhaps find a way to drain or divert water away from that hill? Love the shot at 14:00. It ALMOST looked like you were using a drone.🙃

Should put a little bridge over that creek at the beginning of the trail

Awesome to see your better half working with you on trails 💪 My wife enjoys cutting & busting wood She can almost out work me 🤫🤫 Hope Hunter is doing better 🤘🤘

Hi Mike...I am new to your channel and I LOVE it! Its nothing like watching other people work from the comfort of your own home. Hey, I do have a question...I am sure it was covered in another one of your videos somewhere, but tell me about your ear protection...is it noise reducing? Is it a radio also, hence the antenna? I have been looking for a new set of muffs.

Hey Mike and Melissa, that was a good workout in the woods this evening. You both did a good job making the trail look good again. It was relaxing watching you two work. Thanks for sharing.

We seem to have a bumper crop of ticks in northern NH this year. I have had a number of them, and one bad incident with a deer tick who embedded itself in my leg and ended up giving me a bad case of cellulitis. (many weeks of antibiotics later, and all the swelling and pain is finally gone) I hope your tick issues are better in PA than in NH.

LOL we hit a warm spell here in our neck of the wood Alaska yesterday, it was 44 F(that global warming is glorious). Course this morning it is back to 28 F, but being at 3718 feet in elevation on my porch overlooking the lake and all of our compounds around it at varying elevations depending on the rock base the pads were set into. All of our plants up here are in protected home made greenhouse style structures, admittedly odd looking but serves its purpose when seen inside. Everything in those greenhouse are edible (for human consumption) and are part of our waste disposal. We have no non human processed soil, its all specific to the species needs. Everything is organic in these different soil and processed by us, in other words the plants thrive with no interference with parasites, disease, molds, invasive plants or "weeds". Horticulture was and is still my favorite study in my college years when I was young and still stupid. I have found that over the decades that everything I was being "taught" in college was not at all practical at all, when it comes to places like Alaska. The only thing of value that I learned in allot of my studies from those 3 1/2 years is to question everything, and trial by error is THE BEST education. I was luck that my mother could grow corn with NO SOIL, take that one U.W.! Yes we do allot of hydroponics, and other ways of growth without UNNATURAL means. Our seeds are hardy because of hydroponics methods, again beat that U.W.! We grow ALL of our trees as well, protected from the high winds but open to the environment. They are all in individual clay pots till they are 5 years old, then they are rotated into plots in the valley outside and down the banked walls of our man made plateau hills, surrounding our enclosed man made deep water lake/water shed. Its been in the making since 1927 and over the past 4 decades it has surpassed my father and mothers dreams who started this venture. We are a fully sustainable community and we have over the past 2 decades shown our fellow homesteaders our way of living WITH THE LAND not in the land. (even though allot of our homestead is rooted in the rock of our plateau, for it all started by excavating out mines that the gold rush created in this area, but that's another rant) Our entire family lives within our homestead, works in our homestead thrives in our homestead and has for going on a century. Very few have achieved what my parents and my wife's parent's and an entire section of a once so called uninhabitable state! We have proved adapting to ones surroundings not stripping it of its resources and moving to another resource. We give just as much as we use, nothing is wasted nothing is buried that does not grow. There is no trash collection here for there is no trash! Family, Faith , Freedom Always...

I envy couples who can work together as you do. My wife would come to help out if I would just ask. But, when I ask her to move something forward, it usually goes in the opposite direction I intended. We once had a spirited discussion over which was a red screwdriver and which was a blue screwdriver (think Craftsman). I enjoy your videos, but don’t get anything done while watching!

That part on the steep where the tractor does not like take that Walker zero turn induct it down with that. It should be stable and light enough to get it cut. As always think for the video

Good job, with minimal music, and some actually road ( trail ) maintenance being done. This is the type of video I subscribed to. Good looking trail, you two!

I know you've stated in the past that you don't do mulching but have you thought about doing it for the trails? It would keep the maintenance down.

Good video but i would look at getting a lane shark for the front of the RK37 cutting down and moving limbs and brush out of the way thats the hard work of maintaining trails a pto chipper woodchipper helps buts its still work tell hunter johnny says hey from north Mississippi

Just got up to a new job 3 hours from home, had to decide what’s for supper. Subway or Burger King? I thought to myself. . . What would Hunter do? I’m having a whopper ha ha thumbs up

Good camera angle on that hill, shows how steep it really is. Those batteries ARE very impressive! Looks like you could use a bridge onto that trail.

Awesome job on that trail. Battery technology is sure getting a whole lot better as far as power tools go

Mike Melissa is a very good lady..ur a lucky man..and it’s always good to hear about hunter

Mike and Melissa, Great job again. Mike you look awfully confident using that brushhog in reverse so much. I would be afraid to hit a tree or a hill or something else that would twist or bend something damaging the brushhog or tractor.

Maybe you should talk to your local coaches, and run a cross country race, through these awesome trails. You have parking, and plenty of trails, of true cross country trails

It's a rain forest this year. Thanks for being a fine steward.

Mike you and I must have been cut from the same bolt of fabric: great job Awesome job! Andy

If you cut that steep hill with the strimmer it will dry much faster because tall grass or other growth limit airflow and evaporation. Plus the regrowth of that gras will also wick up moisture from the ground.

you def need to test a ventrac with the rough cut and the finish mower for your prop might go places the bigger tractors cannot go maybe try the cycle bar and the stump grinder

Nice, you need a flat fender jeep and a picnic table on your trail

Now, that's life. Doesn't get better than making trails.

Good work guys! The trial does look nice Mike. Looks like the hedge trimmer is working well for Melissa.

I like that trail you two work good as a team and made short work of cleaning up that trail well done.

Is Melissa wearing her homage to "Rosie the Riveter" ! Good work you two!

I vote Chicken Parm for Hunter What limb size can that brush-hog devour? I’m really liking that RK37, just wish it had a belly mower attachment. I don’t have storage for a zero turn and a tractor and need a tractor more.

MELISSA, dem coveralls were the ticket for the work yinz did. Prolly sweated off 3 pounds! But......, while Mike was taken the 37 back in to mow, I'da said " too hot to eat now , goin over to Cliffs to cool off !!!"

Entertaining video. You guys achieve a lot working as a team. I don't have issues with Tics but the leeches come at you in battalions .

I know that RK doesn't have a flail mower but it would be real interesting to see one put to use in those trails. I have the RK37SC and rotary mower but wish I had a flail instead.

I was amazed at the undergrowth there versus when you hacked it all down with that machine.

People are going to walk ALL THAT WAY to get to your house for the party??? I wouldn't do that, especially at night lol. Nice job an great video though, big thumbs up!

Looks a lot like our wood's trails. Nice job Melissa! I don't think I could get my wife to go into the thick stuff like you do.

Last video, Mike I like when you claimed you had nothing to do....Melissa had a honey do list and then all of a sudden an area of grass needed mowing! Good Save.

How many people think that might have a love nest in all of the wood that the kids can't catch them in playing stuffs lol

Melissa rocks! She's a worker! Oh, downstairs too Melissa Go Hunter!

Funny man...your wife looks so small in that side by side...she's a small lady just like my wife Always enjoy your vids Mike!

That looks really good and you two have a lot of fun doing stuff, cool overalls Melissa.

Y’all are a joy to watch

Spicy chicken for Hunter...he's a machine sore leg or no. Mom and Dad are no slouches either and the girls are superhuman!

You two made it CLEAR your made for each other

You are fortunate,I live in central Pa. and we have tons of rock everywhere!

9:01 Coveralls Hair back with a Band and Trimmer on Knee, Looks like ROSIE THE RIVETER!

Good video! Keeping trails open can be a full time job in grow season.

Good job. A lot of work to keep up all those trails.

I see why you do the beautiful trails - my two dogs would love to run through there everyday - I see why Melissa walks your three through the trails

Ticks----Possums are a ticks worst enemy. I forget the numbers but they are big that one possum will eat in a weeks time. So, if you see possums on your property, your tick problems will be a lot less than if you have no possums at all.

Another great video, looks like fun! I purchased the Stihl hedge trimmer with the 300 battery a few weeks ago , it really works well, the guys on the crew have been impressed

Yeah Mike that looks really nice, Melissa will be screaming up and down that trail with the Polaris. I also commented on a message the other day that I knew why Hunter was getting back on his feet so he could get over there tomBurger King and get a spicy chicken that was my vote also.

only thing missing now is a wood chipper for the waste tree stuff

You really didn’t need your wife out there to help you, you just wanted a reason to check her for ticks. Smart man.

Your a lucky man! Not many wives will do this type of yard work. Not all women but most. Just like a lot of men won't change diapers, do dishes or laundry. Well I'm not one of those men either. I believe husband and wife are a Team.

Maybe Hunter will really throw a wrench into the works and pick McDonald's!!!

Wow, this is the trail from way back, I remember a video with the Polaris taking a few attempts to get up that bank?

Hey Mike & Melissa, this was a great video. I've been watching since about #50 or so. This was a good one. You two make a great team on the trails...Mike, does she really know what you are up too? I'm thinking she does...Deer season? Ha ha.

Two hours AND the right equipment!

how about a link to the overalls your bride is wearing, good Christmas present for my girls

Hi everyone, nice video I like this kind of outdoor activities, nice job in cleaning up that trail. Can someone please tell me the name of the first song. It starts at 7:07 and later second part is played. I really like it. Thanks

Give her a chain saw i bet Melissa would be a force to recon with. Is there a competition in the near future? Just saying 😀

Thanks for sharing your video again Mike, that was fun and interesting and enjoyable for me👍

You two did an awesome job. Turned out nicely!

I can leave comments again yeah. Nice work love the videos.Tell Hunter hey for me. God Bless