We Blasted with Dynamite... AND FOUND A NEW CAVE!!!!! 

Matt, while the river is dry you should dig out a few areas in the river for swimming pools and swing ropes so when the water comes back you have these ready for fun.

This was wild watching in person! Thanks for havin' a guy out and lettin' me hook his peepers on it

Matt, because the river dry this is a great time to make sure there are no hazards like old metal or broken glass or other dangers that normally you cannot see when the river is full and flowing. You could fix it now and even shape the river to flow better. In the end it will be well worth the time and effort now vs later regretting you could have fix it now. Keep up the good work it will be worth it all in the end.

Matt I really recommend that you get a dozer in that river bed and flatten it out some it would really make a heck of a difference when the water starts flowing again. We do it to ours every year before labor day and it is nice all the time it fills up evenly and mainly to maintain it is great cause we usually just pull tree branches and old leafs out. #justsaying

Hey Matt, There is a silver lining of the river drying up "only 3 months after you buy it". That silver lining being that the resort isn't open yet. Meaning it doesnt affect business at all. Aswell as the fact that you now have time to check the river for any cool stuff thats fallen in over the years and some potential trash cleaning. Atleast its not drying up 3 months after you OPEN the resort.

Last dumptruck video: Matt drives faster than the professionals in Pearl on rough roads This video: Matt's surprised that Pearl is breaking all over the place.

You should get the diggers down to the river while its dry . Lots of small gravel for the wall and make the river a little deeper for when the water comes back. Make a few deeper pool areas under over hanging trees for rope swings .

You could make these an hour long and I would watch them every time. Just love seeing what you're up to

Matt is the type of the guy to turn an abandoned resort into a giant adult playground.

Pearl is proving the wisdom of what my father used to say - "There's nothing more expensive than a cheap truck".

The massive earthworks is phenomenal . To see you moving all that incredible quantity of rock about and making the berm is hard to believe . What vision you have . It does help me understand how it is that you have acquired the amount of support your have ,because to watch your doings is gripping and inspiring. I think that cave will be such a thrill to investigate, how fabulous to unearth it . Think boats to travel below stalactites with glow worms scattered about reflecting in the water ,and crystals adding to the beauty …….. OOOOH wouldn’t it be loverly !

I’m looking forward to having my 70th birthday at the resort. Only 348 days to go!!!! I’m bringing the ‘51 & the little trailer to park right by the FLOWING river. I doubt I’ll be able to play at the big boys park but I’ll bring my pew pews just in case. Blessings, debby

I agree with Eva Elfie. With the river dry this would be a good opportunity to "clean up" the river bed, create better swimming holes ensuring there is no broken glass or metal to cause injury. Possibilities of improvements for the future are endless.

I see that as an opportunity to clean up and shape the riverbank how you want. It can also allow you to create a more even/ level riverbank for people to enjoy along with cleaning up the grade into the water. You could take this time to also make the river bed deeper in areas if you want.

Hope the river returns soon, but on the plus side if you ever wanted to build a bridge across, now is the perfect time. With it being dry, building pilings is a lot easier and cheaper vs when there's water.

Watching this series is like equal parts exhilaration and anguish. Buying a recreational property and the river it sits on disappears? I don't know how you and Mere don't cry yourselves to sleep at night. Your attitude is inspiring.

honestly the cave content has been my favorite thing you’ve posted out of any of your channels

If you find some good size caves that can be made safe, cave tours can be popular tourist attractions

Love the progress Matt! Excited when folks start visiting!🙌

You need to give whoever finds all these tunes for your videos the biggest high five you possibly can! I constantly have Shazam app open so I can put them on my personal playlist! Y'all have great taste!

Hey Matt, I’ve worked in quite a few resorts across Europe and the potential for ure resort is incredible, u should definitely create an archery trail through the woods with plenty of targets for all year round competitions, also building an adults only pool/space away from the main resort opens it up to people who want to enjoy the resort away from the noise, can’t wait for the day I can book a stay 😊

Matt and Derick together!!!! My two favorite RU-vidrs togetherrrrr! I’ve been waiting for this. I hope they do more!!

That opening minute...all those dreams, all that hard work. What might have been and what it might become. How are you guys being so poetic?

I am really enjoying all this new content with the new property. I look forward to it everyday matt! It has become a part of my days!

Maybe while the river is dry, you could dig out the river bed to make it deeper once it starts flowing again. Deeper means more options like rope swings, inflatable obstacle course, swim up bar, etc.

You must protect Derek with your life if he comes to visit you!!!! Love how Mikey sent those 2 trespassers down to see what was in the cave.

Matt, when it comes to weather, one thing you can be sure of, it will all come full circle. Don't be scared, in a year that river will be back. We had a similar situation her in WI this summer...terribly hot/humid and dry for about 2 months. Then the skies opened up, that river will be back for sure.

While the river is so low, you could recover alot of good materials (i.e gravel and river rock) and at the same time shape the channel and bottom.

Pearl has lived a life of "Rode hard and put away wet" 😂😂

Derek and a new cave! Matt is just full of surprises, I can’t wait until next episode.

You should dig out the river while it’s dry so you can make it deeper for when it fills up and maybe not so rocky

Matt, you are doing a great job and also keeping us entertained. keep it up man.

Matt keeps knocking out of the park with his content in these videos. I enjoy this show so much

That flywheel is sooo balanced right now I can totally not see big problems coming

matt i cannot put into words how excited i am to come to desperado ranch once its complete whenever that may be!!! i can picture in my head what some of it might look like, i literally get so excited when i see a new offtheranch notification. i watched the entire playlist you made (22 videos) in one day. i kid you not. and i truly fell in love with this place as if i bought it, im so happy i found your videos and i get to watch this awesome fucking thing unfold day by day. and dude the caves are insane, i had no idea there were caves like that just scattered in texas, your videos are seriously becoming my favorite. youre unintentionally hilarious and youre good spirits radiate through my laptop screen. props to you for buying this piece of work and even BIGGER props for continuing despite all the expected left turns. I LOVE DESPERADO RANCH!!!!

I absolutely love the longer videos but I also love the shorter one as they are great for my break at work

Matt standing next to the berm was a great sense of scale, since we all know Matt is 7 feet tall

Matt, I just wanted to say, that even though the likelihood you'll see this is slim, I wanted to say, I've been having a very rough time the past 6-7 years, but the content you've provided both on and off the ranch, has been a major factor in helping prevent me from doing "the thing", and honestly, I'm sure I'm not the only one that you and the other creators you hang out with have helped stay around, and I really want you to know how much you help a lot of people, without even intending to. Thank you.

Derrick for the save. Great Episode Matt! Never fired a weapon before, hope you can handle newbies.

You can tell how much Matt is stressed out by this project by how quickly he’s went grey

The berm is looking great! But that ring gear will snap eventually, they do not like being welded. And also, dig a tanako while the river is down. This will give you a chance to groom the swimming area for when everything is back to normal.

As a resident of Texas it saddens me to see the Guadalupe river run so dry. Canyon Lake broke its lowest water level record. Hoping the Farmers Almanac is right and we are in store for a wet winter.

Your entire team that you've got is absolutely remarkable. I've not had this much fun watching a series of videos. These guys and gals should have the rental units named after them!

Great job on the video folks! Thanks for making it.

Your mechanics need to start a series of “What Matt Broke This Week”

I keep getting serious Tremors vibes when the dirt and rock lifts up like that 😂

Hopefully the Farmers Almanac's prediction of a wetter than normal winter comes to fruition. Praying for rain for you! ❤

Thank you .Nice fix on your dump truck. Big cave, watch the cracks

Matt will the Corps allow you to skim out some of the fines from the dry riverbed so you can use it for fill/berm cover? It will also give you some nice deep spots when the water returns.

We want more abandoned resort content. So excited to see a new video posted.

Well Matt, I know one fun activity in the dry river bed. As someone who grew up on a river, which had washouts from floods, there was nothing better than grabbing a handful of nice, smooth river stones to fire out of my slingshots. OK, not recommended and way less accurate than steel shot, but they are FREEEEE! The best place ever was on the Lake Michigan shore next to a campground we were staying at, but I have to say, from what I see there you have the JACKPOT of smooth stones with the right sizes for a wrist-rocket or any sort of slingshot. Can't wait to see you guys drop into the new cave! I always sign up for the "wild" cave tours - crawling, climbing and squeezing with just headlamps and flashlights.

I love watching this channel there's always something interesting and exciting in your videos and most of all I love seeing you guys creating great buildings ❤❤

Man I'm loving this cave series ❤

We need Joerg from the Slingshot Channel to come to Demo Ranch for a collaboration. It would be fun to see him in the caves too. Oh and he's gotta do a beer mile with the local gun tubers. Y'all need to take air quality meters and maybe gas masks for exploring down there. It's very possible that the air is bad already and you can stir up gases when you walk in the water. It's a serious threat in some places, Idk about your area. But it's worth checking in to.

I admire ur patience n persistence matt. This resort gonna be epic!

Keep your head up Matt, your videos are amazing and everything you do is great. Living out a lot of everyday peoples fantasies. At least that's how I'm relating to your stuff, and feel like how it appeals to most.

Can we please get an “All Home Grown Episode Of Demolition Ranch” with guys like Mikey, The Holden Bro’s, Clint, Brandon ect. In some kinda challenge??? Can we make this happen??

Almost positive the orange "dust" coming out of that cave opening was gas. I cant remember the name of it but theres an element that when it comes in contact with oxygen it almost immediately starts emitting an orange gas like that and its super not good to breathe in 😂

It's incredible that I get to see some guy renovate a ranch when listening to my favorite music playlist!! Fun video, Matt! Once again the music is incredible!!

Very nice calming music at the very beginning of the video 👍🏼

Put a wooded Disc Golf Course out there a full 18 baskets, you can get a disc golf club local to come and help you put a course together and they will help you clear more shrubs and clean up the landscape for hiking trails and walking paths. The best part about this is they might be able to hook you up with some equipment or free/cheap labor just an idea

It seems like a good opportunity to dig a long, shallow pit in the riverbed so when the water flows again you'll have a nice swimming hole. Bonus: you get more rocks for building up your range wall!

It's awesome to see another Rock Commander drill. Been running one for 7 years now. Just got one with the new Super Jet hammer.

Steven and Willy are the man. Collectively they are the man.

With all that heavy equipment and zero river, it seems like a perfect time to do any bank/shoreline type work you may want to do! Access points, stairs, docks, etc

SUGGESTION: Get a tractor to the river and make deeper areas for swimming, rope swing, slides, or whatever.

Going to be such a nice gun range. And it's cool how many caves the property has I'm sure you'll find some old treasures b4 too long

Great video! There is always a bright side......look how much time you get to spend with the Holden Bros!!!! 😎

You know if everyone donated 50 cents, we can get a Matt an actual dump truck

Mikey is a good friend, helping dispose of those bodies and all 😂👍

Can’t wait till the resorts done so I can go vist it and love how much fun these videos are

Matt should take the opportunity of the River being dry and send someone down and remove all debris and junk that could be laying around along the river bed, plus wouldn't hurt to run a metal detector along the dry river bed and see if there are any hidden metal objects that could injury future guests who would be in the river over the water gets turned back on!

This would be a perfect time to dig out the river to make some more deep spots. As always, this is yet another amazing video!

This would be a good time for you to do any improvements to the river bank you wanted to do, like stairs and so on.

Cave tours would be cool in the future, I'd love to come out and stay at the resort. I hope that cave is big enough for people to walk in that'd be sick!

Cool to see VGG showing up. I look forward to those videos. Also - with a dry river, time to take advantage and deepen the swimming hole/rope swing. A few scoops should do.

Since the river is dry Matt you should dig a giant whole in the river so you can build a big rope swing

This would be a really good time to walk the river and see if you find anything in it

God I can’t wait for the resort to open up! It is definitely an item on my bucket list now! 🤘🏻😝🤘🏻

I can’t wait for it to open its such a beautiful peace of land I can’t wait to stay week out there camp with the family

Matt, you should definitely rename one of the future cabins after your brother who passed. In memory and honor of him

Explanation: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE DRY RIVER BED!! You could metal detect for jewelry along the river bed Also build docks and piers so cofferdams will not be required for subterranean structures

this is the perfect opportunity to do some stuff in the river Matt. Smooth out the riverbanks, dig deeper places for diving spots. Could be cool!

Holden bros coming in clutch. Good work guys.

Be careful with that new cave you found while blasting. That yellow smoke that came out looked like sulfur gas/dust. The gases in that type of caves can be very dangerous and you need to check it out properly before going down there. First I thought it shouldn't be sulfor since it doesn't look like volcanic rocks but I checked it and the San Antonio Are have ancient volcanic formations so it could be sulfur that got out there.

Knew they shouldn’t of left explosives lying around matt

As always matt i enjoy you and your dads video may god bless and keep up the videos

In my area, a few of the property owners with riverfront will pull canvas across the rivers tied to the trees to shade the water. Makes for pleasant shade in the sun but it also cuts down on evaporation too.

Matt the Adventure Twins did try to contact you for your caves to explore , you did not react 🙏🙏

Am I the only one that thinks we need to see more of Mere and the kids?

my best memories are of that river and the hill country in general , dont you get down. you hang in there we want to visit asap .

Love the content... keep it up. Cant wait to visit your Resort.

*How are Marks wife and kids doing?* *We all Hope and Pray they're all doing well 🙏🏻*

Those Holden Bros are awesome, always there when you need them! Pearl is doing a fine job, she's old and fragile! That cave looks interesting!

I hope you plan on keeping remnants of the burned down building, would make a great background for photo shoots. Especially with the ground cleaned up

Hey Matt, while the river is dried up you could take advantage and clear some stuff along the bank to make some nice spots. Maybe for like camping tents, camper/rv’s, picnic, etc…

That place is going to be amazing when you get it finished.

I’m so relieved that your Pearl Rescue Doctors make house calls! That rocks!

you really need to take advantage of the dry river bed and dig out some of the gravel to create deeper swimming hole to enjoy. Imagine a bad ass rope swing into the water.

Matt, the river going dry is a blessing. Hear me out... now in the areas that aren't very deep you can dig it down further to make swimming holes and fishing areas. You can also clean it up of debris and resculp it