I Bought An Abandoned Farm - What The Hell Did I Get Myself Into? 

My dad used to say “they are not making more land so buy as much as you can”. Sound advice. Looks like a diamond in the rough.

Here's one for the team. I'm going to bite on the comment generator! You never mentioned it, but I know you contacted the "Call before You Dig" folks! Up here most of the utilities are just inches from the edge up the road, but I have a phone line underground that's 30 ft from the edge of the road in one section, along a farm field. A neighbor asked me to bury a horse for them, with the CASE 480 backhoe. I said, "Yes, but not until I mark the spot and call the locators. "There's nothing here! Go ahead and dig." "Nope, not until they come and check." Well, there was a 2 inch medium pressure gas line right where the wanted me to bury the horse! So, I never dig until I call. Great Video and Congrats on the new farm and the much needed rood space! Thanks, Mike & Aaron! Lee

Really not a bad purchase at all. Just a little tip. When using a brush hog on the front of that CTL in overgrown weeds like that it always helps out tremendously to take the first path with the brush hog tilted up a couple feet off the ground. Then go back for your final pass. But that is a lot of work. And again great investment on the net worth of Dirt Perfect. Farm work/dirt work/mowing just kinda centers me. I love it. Great video nice camera angles and the sound of the jake brake is always a nice touch lol😊

This is going to be fun to watch!! I love to see abandoned farms reclaimed and made useful again.

Hard work, success, determination, commitment to family and a vision!! Well done Mike.....well done!!!

That's something I could do every day all day is take down some brush. When we had our 10 acres all I had was an old Ford jubilee and a brush hog. Had the time of my life clearing our way in. I started to do it for a living and my tractor went down on me and that was that. I haven't been able to get another piece of equipment and things just haven't been real bright for a while. But I do miss it. One of these days I'll be able to get back to it. Looks like a good purchase, I'm sure you will turn it into an amazing place. Congratulations.

Well done, you are almost buying up most of Derby at this rate

i love abandoned / restoration videos make sure to film everything about everything cant wait to see the videos

🤔FARMING ? Green house ? Shrubs ? Vegetables ? Goats ? Fantastic. Great video thanks

That brush would probably make a 15 foot batwing mower beg for mercy, we’ve been doing a rehab area similar to this, the random junk in the brush has made it a challenge, great work!

Aaron was just wanting to show that you guys took the time to chain the equipment down even though it was super close. 😊

Very smart purchase, Mike. My favorite series of videos. Taking a chunk of coal and presto, a diamond. Good black dirt for farm ground, more cash rent from Farmer Chris. More storage, income, many videos, all pluses. I love seeing something bad turned into something amazing. You do that every video, but this will be the culmination of all those things. The intangibles, youtube videos help pay for it AND the value of the land doubles after you clear it and clean it. I suggested this farm situation purchase a year ago, glad you were listening. I have a feeling there will be another one in the future. In 20 years, you will be super happy that you bought every farm, assets on the balance sheet and retirement income. Great job Mike.

You can tell this is a major challenge. What a mess! The best part is you're making progress, and that's the key thing. That is always I'd say you and Aaron's work very well together. So much fun at the same time. Thank you for sharing! 👍

Enjoy watching the clearing and cleaning up property

Great job MBTS and the brush cutter. The little green machine was tough too. Can’t wait to see the finished product. Soon it will be called DP Indiana not Derby Indiana. Thanks again!!!!!!!

30 acres is going to be excellent addition. Going to be lots of storage for equipment. Great decision for you & Captain.

Congratulations another piece of the pie.Your family’s future is doing well in your hands. I hope your hard work pays off in the(Golden )years.❤

Cant wait to see more of the new farm.

Awesome job brush clearing. Looks to be an interesting project as your new land purchase develops.

Smooth flying into no turbulence CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SIMON FAMILY

As a lurker here on this channel I feel the excitement and am so looking forward to this project. Love the sasquatch Aaron Tee, got to get me one! OH boy this is great.....

Lookin forward to you and MBS tranbsforming the farm.

Looks like that's going to be some beautiful property. Can't wait to see how it turns out. Staying tuned.

Congratulations on the property. Like my grandfather used to say “if you want something nice, you’ve gotta work hard for it.” I think you and your friends/crew are the epitome of that statement. Your videos prove it. Thanks for sharing!!

Now I see the connection between this and the Captain Kleeman World Headquarters😁. Great Vidja and good to see two friends working together for one purpose, no matter how daunting it may seem. Take care, best wishes and may this year be filled with abundant blessings for you, your family, Arron and his family. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.

Congratulations on your new acquisition. Looking forward to future videos as you work on the place.

Awesome! No shortage of future projects for us to watch now! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Congrats Mike, you can make this work, just takes patience; you have the equipment and skills. The river is what makes this so desirable..Good luck and persevere.

I really like the Hyundai Wall-E; it's a happy little skidsteer with power and agility!

My favorite thing to wear when dealing with briars is the old BDUs. Between the thickness and the ripstop of the fabric they work great. I hope ya'll were wearing tick repellent - I know you don't have a lot of lyme there but you do have some and there are other things those critters carry. I've been disabled because of lyme since I was 12 years old - 27 years ago. Great video as always Mike!

Nice piece of property. I can see the diamond in the rough. Look forward to the video series. Thank you sir.

"We're going round the skidsteer not over it, seems like a wiser move" ..... ten minutes after doing the lucky 50/50 with the semi on to the road!! Priceless... You guys crease me up!!

You'll make the new place shine. Lord knows you have more than enough equipment to get it done.

Good morning sunshine! Happy New Year! So excited to see what y'all are gonna do with the new land! Much love from Henderson Ga USA

The excitement is growing 🎉🎉❤

Congratulations on the purchase of the farm. MBTS would make a great farm manager.

You guys give new meaning to the phrase boys and their toys. Nice upload.

I can’t wait to see the process of this I just purchased 82 acres of land and I plan on doing exactly this on it turn into a small farm and hopefully the local community will help me with everything.

Just came across your channel, so glad I did, your in for an epic time with the new property, reminds me of when we purchased our lakes that hand been neglected for years! The Mack sounds amazing the Jake brake is awesome! Great toys and good to see some genuine people out there enjoying life and sharing with others 👍👍👍

Just love the sound of those pipes on that MAC

I do have to say y'all do some quick work of alot of jobs .....Kudos catch on the next one

Man, I could listen to that Mack run all day. She sounds sweet! I was watching you go along behind the barn and was hoping you didn't find an old engine block or such. You have some industrial strength briars there friend. Have fun and be safe! Cheers Terry

Nice day after New Years day episode of Mike and Arron clearing Mike's new property. Congratulations Mike. Looks like you're becoming a farmland landlord for Farmer Chris. Putting neglected land back into production feeding America and the world. Next episode should be just as entertaining as this one has been.

Nice property Bud! Gonna take some work, but you got this!!

Congratulations! Can't go wrong in purchasing more land! Best investment, hands down. I like the idea of Chris farming some of it too. Just a note...Aaron and you are such fun to watch when working together!

We run 5 different styles of cutter heads between the loader, Skid steer, and excavators and for the type of material you are cutting the bush hog style on the skid steer just like you are using is the one we would choose. It seems to cut a bit quicker, maybe not as fine of mulch in the end but that is probably not an issue in your situation. looks great, so satisfying to look at the before and after on a job like this.

As hard as you every dollar work foryou, I'm sure this will be a good program for you all! Happy New Year to all!!

Love the sound of the green simi. Beautiful piece of land 😮

Starting off 24 with a bang DP !!! Look forward to many more vids in the new year !!!! 💪💪💪💪💪

The view of the loader climbing on the trailer reminded me of rail head operations in Germany where we would load our M109A3s on narrow rail cars. Always careful as the tracks overhung the rail beds!

Absolute looking forward to this adventure!

Congratulations! I could have watched another hour or more easily

I'm sure this is the rerun of Mr Bealygood and Lets Dig, now their version got the tractor stuck! Hmmm, could this be the less disastrous version or is there more Laurel & Hardy action to come. Be safe guys you are a joy to watch, thanks for sharing.

Your drone footage at the beginning of this video was awesome. That is some beautiful country down there (up there). I'm in Alabama. Good luck.

Congratulations on buying the farm. Will be a great investment for developing. Continued success in 2024.

You are definitely on the road to being an even bigger success.

Looks like a mulcher for the skid steer coming soon like what Chris has

Aaron did an excellent job Running the ole Cadillac Mower .

Capt Kleeman is already working on the Gym building, your farm looks like it has grt potential 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

Mike AWESOME project for a series of videos, it is like making a puzzle, keep up the great work 🇨🇦💪

looking good, will enjoy future videos of this project..

On the old bryer patch, an orchard, PYO fruit trees and bush would fit well with visiting tourists and locals.

Y’all will getter looking fantastic like all the stuff yall do or touch!!!

Thanks for taking us along on your voyage of exploration.

Hey... another place where a root rake would be handy! Congratulations Mike, and happy New Year.

Congrats. A great day for the scrap book. When my kids were young I bought the house next door to get the garden. Our playroom was built up against the overgrown side wall near the end of its garden. As we had a long 4 month close on it, I sneaked in and dismantled a door size hole in the wall behind the bushes where no one could see. Then I consaw-ed through our wall. Next I got an old large wardrobe and screwed it to the inside of our wall. Took the back of it and lined the way through and put mini barn doors on the other side of old timber as it was near invisible in the garden. For one summer we had Narnia in a wardrobe as very few people knew I had bought it. Hope you all have great adventures there.

I think you really had a lot of fun, It sure looked like it.

You will need a tarmac road laying and yellow lines putting on it to make it a safer entrance in stead of getting stuck in the mud see sense please it's also health and safety in the UK

I love videos like this and would love to see more.

Bright back great memories Thanks, I spent 30 years of my life on most all types of heavy equipment. Loved every minute of it, especially the excavator and finish Dozier. If I was able I'd be right there with y'all.

Congratulations on the new purchase Mike. Looks like a mess but I bet you get it looking good in no time.

Holy cow, should have been holy cattle! That's a lota weeds! Loved the music, just right for your jungle cutting adventure. Thanks for the video.

This is going to be Cool! Let it be said you love a challenge Mike. Keep up the good work Sir.

One of life's pleasures was cutting the overgrowth between 1200 apple trees on the families farm weekends. I used a small vineyard tractor and the PTO driven twin rotor skid. It made a change from my week working In a factory. - good luck with your latest project.

I bet that slip clutch was begging for mercy by the time you were done.😀 Mowed through some stuff like that before with an old Farmall and pull behind brush cutter. At least it was a taller to get out of the some of the briars, PTO was a bit dangerous tho. Lookin' good, so far & look forward to seeing the progress.

Fellow farmer here. I have 30,000 acres here in Michigan. Just came across your channel!

This is a good way to stem the tide of TB and POLIO by keeping possession of arable land and not letting squatters come in and take it.

Great news more for farmer Chris ❤❤

Looks like a solid investment!

That scene of the break through reminded me of all those films I've seen of TBMs breaking through to connect the tunnels.

This brings back some nightmares . When someone wants to know why they should get a tractor with a cab for bush hogging , I will show them this video from now on . That is an unholy mess for sure .

I think it’s a great place for your kids to grow up Mike, plenty room for them to learn about country life! Awesome! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The little guy now has a hobby when there's down time. It would have been epic to have Chris there to say " what have you got me into".

Well that is exciting! A new place to transform into a functional depot for your equipment. Can’t wait to see your plans for the site. HNY.

You have a adventure ahead of you. But it will take some time to make it happen.

The farm we bought was just like that one. My brother in law bought a 650 JD 2 WD with turf tires and a 5 foot bush hog that was good on dry dirt but any wet areas and it was stuck. I then got a Yanmar4220 4WD with R1 tires and a 6 foot BH. I mowed down up to 4" trees, basically anything I could ride over with the 4220 FEL, I could chop up. We took out almost all of the pine trees and sweet gum that was covering every thing and turned it into pasture land. That was 13 years ago and now everyone comments about how beautiful the place is.

Looks like an excellent training job for your boy on the old cat dozer you have

Nice job Mike and mbts. Looks like a nice piece of property.

God bless you, dirt, perfect you and your sidekick. One day, I'll be buying property as big as you buy it, and owning equipment 22:12 is quite beautiful as yours

Happy New Year from across the pond to all at D.P.

Best advice I’ve ever gotten was buy land! Gods not making any more ! Was told that many years ago when I was spending $ $50,000 a year drag racing and investing in cars and 4 wheel drive trucks! While it took me years to fully understand what it meant I’m grateful nonetheless for the lessons!

Next time you have to do briars with your John Deere just strap a 12-16’ 4x4 or 2x6 to the front of the bucket to knock the stuff down/out of the way. Those narrow footprint tractors are super nice except in that situation.

Running the brush mower would be satisfying for sure. Hell I would run that free, just to see what the results would be

Just might be good spot for a root rake to prep for planting

I hope Aron at least bought you lunch for letting him sit in an enclosed cab bush hogging while you ran the gauntlet on the JD open station. That JD gets the over achieving gold star of the day.🍻

Congrats on the new property!

I think you need to get your one of those full car hard suits if you're gonna be on that little John Deere. And then you know driving through that because in and of a shield or even a motorcycle helmet with a face shield because it looks like you had a rough time but you did a good job

Congrats to you and Jenna Mike. This is exciting news for the channel. Can’t wait for the rest of the videos on this farm.

Thanks for sharing your videos, looking forward to seeing the job continued. Reminded of times with my Farmall H and a 6’ brush hog when I was in my teens. Certainly gave me a sense of accomplishment. Wishing you and your family the best.

In Alabama and Thank you guys for the memories, my hubby was a truck driver and ran a backhoe doing railroad work for local company for 40 years before he passed away in 2018. I got to run with him and drive a little, and you guys with your loading, unloading and taking out the bushes & undergrowth remindered me just how much FUN, even if it was work we shared...watching you was a treat for me this morning....so Thank U...❤