Very wise having a perimeter road. That helps keep intruders at bay in making it more difficult for them to come in without the risk of being noticed. Also, if needs be, you can erect surveillance camera equipment and have it monitor that road, whereas without a road, the surveillance equipment has no space to view what is going on (that is the problem that "Outdoors with Erik" faces with his intruders.
Matt, I think it's a great idea being on the front of a bobcat whereas being dragged behind a tractor etc you have to go into the track first, this way you cut the track and can see better what you're getting yourself into or don't want to go into etc... and being on the front of a bobcat you and get into areas that a tractor cannot and the maneuverability is totally easier....
A lot of people don't realize just how much goes into clearing a piece of property from native state to useable land. Everything has to be worked over. From brush(undergrowth) to saplings to full blown trees. Thank you for showing everyone what it is like. And to think. We used to do BY HAND, no machines.
"The Point" would make a nice home site, with views in every direction. High on a hill, no flooded basement. One hell of a long driveway to get there. Nice and quiet.
Don't forget you can often get free/cheap labor for forest/woodland clean up projects by taking advantage of the local scouting type programs. You supply them with a space they can camp on and they in turn do work that helps both you and themselves. Trail clearing, firewood recovery, trimming off lower limbs and a lot of other forest work that matches up with requirements in their program for patches/badges. They will naturally search around the camp site for dead/downed trees for firewood so you would quickly see all the dead stuff on the ground and the standing dead smaller stuff gone after just a few trips out.
@@DieselCreek Most people forget that it is beneficial to both sides as you are providing a free/cheap activity for the kids in exchange for service they would need to do anyways. There are a few options outside BSA also so the troop might know of any local groups. I remember one of the farms we would camp at we would always do trail work and clean up from the groups that would leave trash behind so the farmer loved having us.
Matt I think you need a forestry mulcher. By need I mean would probably be very useful not actually need. But then you could take out some of the slightly larger trees the brush cutter can't but mainly for the dead trees/logs that inevitably fall due to age and storms on property like this. Of course you've probably already thought about this and if you decided you do then I'm sure you'll get one when and if the time is right. Love the jobs you've already done with what you have and can't wait to see how everything turns out for you brother.
Matt I’m a truck driver and I love what you do and how you do it. When I wear the Diesel Creek hat and shirt I get questions from the other drivers I know. I tell them to check out your channel and see what you think
I inherited 450 acres in Texas, it was completely covered in Mesquites, Cedar, Sage, and Pecan Trees. Took me 10 years to get where I wanted it, Mesquite trees if you cut them a hundred more will popup from the roots, so you have to dig them out. Still have to maintain it be it's manageable now.
I just sit back in awe at the work that our ancestors had to do to clear all the land that they did with nothing more than axes and horses, still boggles my mind.
Fantastic job on that mowing job. I myself like the looks of that double chain coupler you put on the cutter. But it's what works best for you. you have a blessed day, Sir.
I would brush cut less area and concentrate on brush cutting roads and narrow strips so I cold comfortably walk or ATV to most areas, but most of the property is still in natural brush. Though livestock is also an option.
Matt the rubber vibration isolator is designed to also accommodate some minor misalignment between the steel couplers. Be weary of the cheap rubber ones stick with Dodge or LoveJoy rubber polymer isolators. Also alignment matters most so check with a straight edge from steel coupler to coupler(12,3,6,and 9 o'clock) and realign retighten/shim shaft supports to align properly I'd try to find a new complete set with quality machined/ balanced steel couplers & isolator. Get a spare quality isolator. Also modify the wear bars before they warp the sides and damage the shaft bearings and blades.
That’s quite a transformation! That Chinese brush cutter is looking like a good investment! You have some beautiful property. That point would make a great homesite.
Starting to look like a garden right there, trees already grown with sunlight throwing shadows thru their leaves - really beautiful. Neighbourhood party definitely a good idea - no, wait, you would've already had it by now! (And if not, due to COVID or procrastination, then maybe now?) Anyway, who'd da thunk I'd be watchin' a video of some guy mowin' for 20 minutes... OK, true, I do use RU-vid shortcut keys (L & R arrows and "J" & "L" keys to skip forwards/backwards 5 secs/10 secs respectively - as handy as an ugga-dugga).
Once you add the new coupler and reinforce those skid plates the only thing left will be to paint the name on it. I like cicada or locust. Motto "Only thing that stops a Cicada is a cold beer and a great steak" or whatever you think and then ask your subscribers to submit names motto's and cool graphic mascot pictures you then can put on merchandise.
If you're going through Lovejoys that fast, even cheap ones, you definitely need to check to make sure you don't have an alignment issue or maybe that thin top plate is allowing both pump and motor to flex while using it. I recommend taking a the safety guard and mounting your gopro where it can record that area while you do a couple of test passes. That should give you an idea on what's happening. You may need to strengthen that area, it'll eventually crack around the mounts if that's what it is.
Also, a lesson I learned a long time ago about those is to always leave a slight gap on either side of the rubber spider. If it is in there tight, it wont last long. It has to have room to move. BTDT!
There is this big yellow horizontal crane at the water edge I drive past to and from work. It's been rusty and not used for as long as I remember and I lived in this city for my whole. Nature is about to swallow that crane whole, over the years more and more brush grew and not much yellow crane left. There is like a boat shop next door and on the other side has been a very large dirt pile storage but that is all gone now. But no one bother to keep nature in check in between.
Weld some thicker steel on those skids - even angle iron will work well. We use to weld it on the tread of the bulldozer. Love watching you use the bush hog. Back in the day, we had to use a hand hook ax to clear brush. It would make or break you using that all day. Nice job, looks like a million dollars now.
Awesome job. I miss doing that stuff.i lost my homestead 6 yrs ago had a ole ford tractor with a bush hog an a scraper blade u would be amazed what i got done with it. Been living in a 30 ft camper since. Keep up the good work
Hey Matt if you haven’t fixed the misaligned drive coupler problem. Have you tried elongating the mounting holes on hydraulic motor till you’ve achieved realignment of the coupler. ( essentially pulling the holes in the direction of realignment) . Then weld fender washer under the nut to cover elongated holes. Good luck bud.
You own your own little piece of paradise there Matt. I'm still on the search for mine. I love the idea of the loop around the boundary of your property!
Hi Matt. Great to see you getting the bugs out of the cutter. I love the woods myself,having grew up surrounded by them. It never gets old. Has always I liked,shared.All my best.
Some women should take inspiration from this video and appreciate how much nicer it looks when all the wild growing brush is trimmed and shaved down nicely.
Hello Matt, cracking job with the brush cutter, just imagine using a small brush cutter, hand held type, no contest with your new cutter. Really clears it away, good music again, BEST RU-vid CHANNEL with you music, and content 👍👍👍please keep your videos coming, looking forward to the big workshop, best wishes Geoff Lewis, Wales, UK, 🏴🏴🏴
I think that you found the "Fountain of youth" as its so nice an peaceful. My OCD would drive me nuts till I got all the trash brush knocked down and cleaned up so it was of use and the property was cleared under that canopy. Not many places near somewhere that is close to what you have which is wrong for me to say as I really don't know texas that well but I think desert when dreaming of places to see. I see you work between those small diameter trees that a good unit would chew and "not break the machine" and know that this one too could knock down but would kill it doing it... Makes you want to look for that commercial unit that takes all that it comes up to down so that it starts looking like a field again. Some chick berries would keep the property to where you could grow if you wanted. I know that your not a farmer but oh boy Roy, you could sure fool a lot of people were they to see it. I like all the stuff but this brush cutting is way fun to watch... rooting for you to take this or that down and it would stay down longer. Beautiful property.... I bet getting power out there is something else
great repair ! awesome job on your land , your living my dream , keep this stuff coming , love the property , looks so much better with all that brush gone thanks !
I used to deal with those couplers on electrically driven water pump. They need good alignment, despite the rubber drive. Vertically, horizontally and angular needs to be pretty close and also not too big a gap between the shafts. I have had some so badly aligned, they wore a rubber out in a few hours.
Awesome job Matt, you should be very proud of yourself mate. The preperty is looking really nice from over in Australia brother. Definitely very rewarding to watch. Stay szfe and well buddy, take care. 🤝🍻🤠🇦🇺👍
After watching Letsdig18 on his farm, he cleared a lot of insignificant and small trees allowing the sun to hit the ground and it was easy to see across the field. The loggers in Southern Indiana call it weeding the garden. Made sense to me. Like what you are doing, cheers from Sydney, Australia.
Oh man if I had a spot like that I'd build me a masonry fireplace/smoke pit back there, set up a tent and a picnic table and spend most of my time back there fishing in the creek for cold ones lol
We have 10.3 acres and I always find it very satisfying when I can get rid of the tangled scrub with my Messy-Frickinson brush cutter attached to our Johnny Deere 4700. Hurts the neck if I was to do as much as you did in the video as our cutter is pto on a 3 point but it works! Keep at it, looking good.
You make me realize how much of a wimp I am. I have a 6' LandPride PTO brush cutter (looks almost identical underneath to that one) and hate running over small mesquite saplings due to the clanging and banging it makes (the cutter handles them easily, just a lot of banging) and you are cutting saplings down at twice the thickness... man I'm a wimp.
Boy that brush hog on front of bobcat looks fun to use, the only brush hogs I used were the ones you pull behind a tractor, and i like how you can mow more and closer to trees and buildings more precise. Your friend from Larned Ks Eric Houser.👍👍👍👍👍👍
