Installing a flail mower on an excavator 

I'm always so impressed how you manage to keep track of - probably - thousands of hours of raw footage over many months and manage to video edit these great videos. 😌👌

Seeing Cody and Blue brings a smile to my face. Just lost my lab Casey today. Made it almost two months past her fifteenth birthday.

Really enjoy the "work/equipment" videos AC used to put out, haven't really been following his channel lately due to the "toy" videos he seems to be focused on, glad he's where he wants to be and doing what he wants but I'd like him to get back to the work/maintenance videos that he used to do.

So jealous of all your equipment, serious goals some day.

Looking forward to seeing you make a nice driveway. Blue grew quite a bit in this video

Glad to see you picking up the pace on new videos. My wife and I watch a few channels regularly, and yours has always been our favorite. Enjoy watching the pups.

This is what I like about Andrew, no sponsors, no videos everyday of the same ole things,he does it his way with his own money,great job!!

I love when you show the full story, including getting it up that hill. Great content! Thanks

I love your videos. You remind me of me when I was younger...a lot younger. Always entertaining. I will be 71 my next birthday and there is NO generation gap. I believe you can do anything. Love your Pups❤

The fact that you include a lot of dog content in your videos tells me you're a dog person. I love dogs and am very happy viewing your dogs interact with each other, as well as noticing how smart they are, in terms of staying away from the vehicles and heavy equipment. Enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing.

Andrews's property is like my farming simulator maps, with different machines everywhere. He's living my dream!

Amazing how he can run pretty much any equipment and is a master at video, editing and knowing how to keep us all glued to the screen.

The flail mower with be very useful for the snowmobile trail was well as the side of the road mowing when you can't get a brush hog in there. Good purchase!

Sometimes the timeline of Andrew's videos can be confusing. Some cover a whole year and all the sudden you see a clip of Blue when he was just a puppy and you know it was made 6 months ago. Very cool to see four seasons in one video

Hi Andrew and all. I ran this type of machines of the PTO of a tractor and best to put a cage across the front (and sides even) of the excavator. Protects against flying debris and when going through hedges it makes live easier. things come back from all angles and it only takes one bad one to hit you. You know how to install but worth doing. Danger doesn’t take a day off 👍. Great content as always. Cheers

Much respect Andrew! Thanks for not being a sellout!

I love that one friend you have that always helps you! I call him Mr Smiles, because he’s always smiling 😊

Pretty interesting to see this as I operate excavators with this attachment daily. I would recommend getting a mulcher attachment, it cuts through brush and trees faster and easier then this will. This is perfect for grass, small saplings and branch overhangs, but really struggles to cut up anything bigger than that and can get bogged down. It will cut it if your patient enough though, just more wear and tear on the blades, drum and bearings. On some machines that struggle to track and cut at the same time, I find that if you put it in a rabbit mode you are able to track at a decent speed again, except uphill of course. Lastly if you intend to put a lot of use into this, I suggest welding another layer of flat bar on the bottom sides. They wear out very quickly and start to deform, at least on ours that we use daily it did, on every single one we have. Anyways, thanks for another awesome video, love all the entertainment and knowledge you bring to us all. Cheers!~ PS; Watch out for barbed wire with this, you have been warned, keep a roll around to replace the whole fence row when it sucks it all into the barrel lol

I like how he honestly assesses the equipment.

Andrew, your videos are watchable because they’re interesting, intelligent, and show real accomplishments of being a “doer”.

A little treat for post work garden beers! Cheers Andrew🍻 EDIT: Couldn’t wait... Blue looks so sweet bumping up and down in your jacket on the snowmobile!

I love these longer videos filmed over a few seasons. It cool to see the progress and how things are different in the different seasons.

My dad had a 1986 trooperr and my mom had a 1992 trooper. Best trucks ever made.

Now THAT was funny! Loved the footage of "dragging" the trailer up and down the Mountain!!!!!!! Nice attachment! I can see that mower head coming in handy a LOT!!

I love how not driving like a maniac was never an option. might be my favorite part about this channel 😂

Once I see installments like that flail mower rotating, I always have to remember the brush-mincer-scene in the snow from the first "Fargo" movie. That flail mower could definitely make for some nice memorable scenes with the right directors, that's for sure.

Andrew is so good at providing entertainment value, I would probably watch him rake leaves because he would find a way to make it interesting

Great video of the "Yard Barber" at work. From trims to full scalpings!

Once again amazed at the variety of attachments for skidsteers and excavators that this guy has. Eventually he's going to get one that does his taxes for him.

Very cool! When the borders re-open properly, we gotta get Andrew to Japan for a tour of the Yanmar factory.

I envy you. Live and work in an area that's not traveled very much and no nosy neighbors. The multitude of jobs that you do. AND all those great toys. Keep up with the great videos.

Wow, that gang of Labs looks excellent, and your pup is getting big fast. I love the color what a coat.

I have to agree that flail mowers are awesome. It was really cool to see what you can do if a flail mower is attached to an excavator arm. Last year we bought a 3 point hitch mounted offset flail mower for our small 1025R tractor. It is an incredibly versatile and incredibly useful attachment. Function wise, it includes the hydraulic offset (you can shift it all the way from centered to beside the rear of the tractor if desired), hydraulic tilt rotation (it can even mow vertically), 3 point hitch to raise and lower, hydraulic 3 point top link (which adjusts the mowing cut height when it is lowered so the rear roller rides on the ground), and the PTO to efficiently power it. One feature I like about ours is with the rear roller and top link to accurately adjust the mowing height, you can even use it to mow the lawn. For example, in this video, that area surrounding the pond would be mowed right down to say a 3" height, leaving all of the brush finely chopped and would look great. One big feature i wish it had was the ability to be raised more than 24" off the ground, like Andrew's can. We can't trim the top of trees and hedges for example. We can trim the sides up to about 60", just nothing higher than that. There is one thing I don't like about ours and that is the fact it is at the rear of the tractor. This means you have to twist your body around if you need to clearly see what your mowing.

The episode of the trailer "broken for no reason" is absolutely delirious, and then 3 videos in 3 days there we are approaching ecstasy, it's great! 🤣

Another quality video, just watching you work helps me figure out lots of chores and how to work around machinery,,,,,thanks from Florida

Andrew is definitely winning the game "He who dies with the most toys, wins!" Not sure if you said what the plans were for that area, but since you already have a castle, now you need a FORTRESS!

Love how you can see the previous attempt to get up the hill by the tire tracks. You can almost see the lightbulb that went off in his head to say: “I should film this bs!” The dude is brilliant!

Thank you. Andrew for making these vid's for me to watch. Keep up the good work.

Good to know a friend that has the right tool for EVERY job!

If its ever been made at some point in history, Andrew has one of them!!!!!!!

Your videography, work ethic and work output continue to earn mad respect man.

Very very impressed with the flail attachment! Nice Andrew

I think Andrew is just low key prepping for a zombie apocalypse

the new pup in the snow , lol made me laugh . worth watching just for that

In my work life, I never see this kind of work being done. Just computers and people on phones. This work is so interesting to watch. Oh and the cute doggies:)

Andrew, your videoing skills have gone crazy lately ! I know nothing about filming but the rendering is awesome in terms of angles, movements, and the colors are just WOW ! Just can't wait for the next one !!! Any big projects ahead, with lots of episodes, like that lady that you had dug the driveway for, and the foundations, installed the leach field and all ???

Great control on the Kubota getting it off the trailer without damaging anything.

I’d love to see Andrew get a Unimog. All the Unimogs. Andrew and his collection of Unimogs :)

Hey Andrew long time viewer here, and I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say I think you should make a full equipment tour because I’m sure there’s a lot of machines people just forget your have and all those different attachments you have. I just feel it would make for a neat video

Hi Andrew, I really like your channel! I always tease my husband and say” that’s not how Andrew would do it” and we chuckle a little 🤣 I found you during lockdown, when you where welding the castle. You are so super AMAZING!!!!! I watched all your vids, they are editing perfectly, as soon as I think the vid is getting boring you fast forward. Your timing is perfect.

How he does this ad free is amazing. Put an ad in its worth it for what you put out!! We really wont mind!

Man I retired from a career in excavation and site work. I supposably have PTSD but you're videos calm me down every time I watch them. Thank you sir keep up the good work.

The man of many attachments!

You make the best content on RU-vid

You can clean your snowmobile trails with that thing brother, those overhanging tree limbs and branches! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻 You know, it’s so cool but weird seeing the weather change going up the mountain to your new camp and property! Seeing the snow at the top of the mountain after being at a different elevation and seeing no snow and calmer temperature! It’s cool brother! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻 Thanks for sharing Andrew, stay safe and healthy my friend and I love your kids, Cody and Blue! Keep them babies safe and healthy too brother! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Old school Isuzu Troopers always impressive how well they were at off roading.

I’ve been waiting for this since I saw a sneak peak in the past video on the skidsteer grapple. Great work!

Very satisfying watching that machine do its duty. Thanks again Andrew, great job

You folks and your dogs and your open country...I grew up that way but I have been living in a cement jungle for 30 years. I watch Andrews videos and I just get lost. I need to move back home out east...right about now in my life.

Enjoyed the content on the new flail good job, I wanted to cry when you chewed up the pine trees around the pond you should come out to Utah for a week or two and see how precious a new pine tree is if they grow we leave them alone and we don't touch them because they are rare, we have one species of pine tree that is over 1,200 years old needless to say it's protected, keep up the good work.

Wooohoooooooo AC!! 2 vids in a week, I am happy ☺️

It’s amazing how those labs immediately form a pack and work all together!

Trooper full of doggin’s , I like it!

Another great way to end my day - thanks AC, that was very interesting to watch, and I love the whole earth being green there at the end too!

Hi Andrew, for the most mulchers / flail mowers are Hammerknifes/blades instead of Y-knifes/blades availiable. These are much heavier and way more suitable for chopping treebranches and stuff like you cut in the Video. Y-blades are meant more for high grass and thinner stuff. Maybe think about it, when the first set of blades is worn out and you need new ones. best regards from germany and thank you for all your efforts, David

Keep them coming Andrew! I love these videos.

Awesome as usual .... Blue Boy is growing up to be so smart , I am sure Cody is a great trainer just like Levi .

Blue is getting so big, so fast! They grow so quickly.

That mountain road sure could use some widening and smoothing. The flail mower works good for brush and small saplings. You should consider some type of chipper for mulching some of the smaller tree branches.

Oh nice I’ve been waiting for a long video to watch. They are my favorite Dont get me wrong I watch what ever you put out but long videos just hit different lol. Thank you for the content keep it up

I mean... who could have seen anything happening to A.C.'s buddies trailer when he was hooking up to it🤣never saw that coming. I've used all the cutters on a mini (55), a mulcher, frail and brush cutter and I still say the brush cutter does the best production by far at 1/3 the cost of a mulcher. The 42" C.A. unit I have will wack off a 4" locust no problem. Keep on living the good life A.C. , nice job Brother! 👍🏼

Thanks for the video. You dont know how much I appreciate them.

Im really liking this recent string of videos, youve obviously been putting in a lot of hard work making these videos look as good as they do, 5k 60fps really high bit rate, cant beat it.

Great video, thank you! Do you think you will ever lay in a road that a regular sedan could drive up? I love what you’re doing with it all.

showing people how to work to help each other probably inspires alot

Holy Schinke's, two videos this week. It's a good day! Thanks AC!!

Nice job Andrew , I love your Videos especially when you go into Warp Speed .

Thank you for the consistent uploads, these long videos are like therapy treatment for me. I love all the angles, the machines, the dogs and most important the operator with that cool New York accent. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

Thank you again Andrew that was a Great picture there at the end of the video I can’t wait till you come out with the next on Thank you so much

I'm impressed with that trooper. That thing sounds like it's about to blow up but it destroys that mountain

This is one of the attachments I thought you could really use, though I think I would want to use a Mini with a cab because digging splints out of my body would suck. The other I have seen is an attachment that converts excavator quick attach to skid steer quick attach which saves you buying things twice.

Had a bloke do my property last year with an 8ft one he had on a 90HP tractor. Absolutely terrifying to watch how long it kept spinning for after he cut the PTO and opened the guard panel on it. Certainly did an amazing job of mowing down all the weeds and pulverising them into mulch though!

Blue Cody & you....Star of the show = Awesome....Thanks Andrew and friends....Shoe🇺🇸

Watching the flail eat the trees around the pond reminded me of the movie The Langoliers.

I saw one of these personal and close up. Great for fields and between trees, and steep grades.

You are the man no one can put a candle to you, I remember watching you almost 10 years ago and wondering what you were up to, and wondering if you had what it takes. and now I'm addicted to your Channel I love the way you figure things out, you have a lot of great ideas and aren't afraid to tackle any job that comes your way and you have to admit you are a workaholic which results in a lot of stuff getting done all the time. I drive up and down the Hudson Valley between Millbrook and Oneonta and drive through your playground very often I love the mountains you are very lucky be a little more careful stay safe and keep having fun love the dogs, keep up the hard work:-)

That is a spectacular view overlooking the valley there Andrew.

It's about time you got some lockers in that old Dodge. Game changer.

Great video as always Andrew. Dump those tyre pressures prior to that muddy hill climb. 12 -15 psi all round will help. If you going to continue driving 4wd's up this hill, diff locks will also help.

Great tool when used properly. Some of our beautiful state highways are desecrated by flail mowing, Ditches, and shrub clearing is great but what I hate is when they use them to prune trees. Broken shattered branches look like storm damage.

I never thought I would hear Andrew have concerns for a vehicle. Andrew, you must reallly like that Isuzu.

I love your videos Keep making them

20:33 , When i used to run mini hoe, this was how i always unloaded my machine out of the dump trailer we used to have. The ramps were unbelievably heavy and we moved it alot, so this method was much easier on the back. Only thing i would suggest, use the blade as a way to perch yourself up on the unloading side. Push the blade all the way to the ground so you sit a little more even, it made it feel alot less sketchy when you would swing around. Love the vids

I can’t believe I heard Andrew say “I don’t want to smash up the back of that car.” What?! First time.

Well I pulled what I like to call a camarata. And started playing with equipment. Thanks for the inspiration good sir. It’s all small stuff and not hiring out or anything. Just doing personal stuff and learning.

Entlich mal wieder eine klasse Arbeit 👍

Is blue gonna get his own video?! Can't wait to watch him grow up

Great to see you posting more vids Andrew, your content is always engaging and well produced. Hope to see more in the near future. Thanks for the entertainment and have a great week!!

So many weather-changes in one video, extraordinary.

I still have a 97 Isuzu Rodeo 5spd 4x4 (310k miles) .. and I've taken that thing everywhere offroad, and nothing has ever broken on it. Not even the U-joints on the driveshaft. It finally needs a new timing belt-- but man that thing was my favorite thing to drive for many years... 3.2L V6