WEEK 2 AWESOME LAND CLEARING PROGRESS! BEST FOOTAGE! 

Did you ask him about those tracks? If it rains the track loader is stuck. The tracks are past due for changing.

That drone footage is spectacular! Frank is doing an awesome job! Looks great Mr. Stony Ridge Farmer:)

You should think about including seed oats with your grass seed. The oats germinate rapidly, and robustly, provide cover for the grasses, help control erosion, provide food for wildlife and are annual.

Keep up the good work. It's tough for some people to understand that not everywhere can be farmed the same. I grew up in Maryland where you cut a hay field three times a year. Now when I moved to the mountains of northern Pennsylvania we get one good cutting a year

Hey I just want to say that whenever I watch your videos I automatically press the “like” icon because I know it’s going to be a great video!

Those gullies in NC were what prompted Hugh Hammond Bennett to write “Soil Erosion: A National Menace”, and eventually get the Soil Conservation Service authorized about 1930 (renamed NRCS now) and also the Soil and Water Conservation Society started. Interesting story about all that. Natural resources conservation was my career until I retired last January. Hope you soon get a good stand of grass established on that bare ground. Nice that the timber is funding (most) of this transformation. It’ll be nice to have the additional pasture.

Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Ka-ching! You can't get anything out if you don't put something in. You're really improving your land, Josh. Way to go!

Good work bud. Really enjoying this series.

What a difference two weeks have made. Much has been accomplished. It is sure looking awesome Josh.

You don't have alot of topsoil but doing this and planting it you will make alot of topsoil over time .good things take time godbless bud

Josh your Operator is doing the fine job And I totally agree what your saying as far as these top soil hes not taking a lot off ...... I was born into the Grading business and been around it my Whole life 56 years.... 👍🇺🇸

Five years from now, go back and excavate those dump piles. You'll find some of the richest soil on your property. One big compost pile. Screen all the woody debris out and you'll have the best top dressing you can find.

I can see why you're channel has grown so much since I have been watching you keep everything interesting and it makes me keep watching I remember when I decided to check out your videos it was when you were just getting started in your quest to get where you are now I really enjoy watching your progress through the years keep doing what you do wooooo

You should see the way I clear pasture! I use a battery powered chainsaw and goats to eat the brush. Granted, not as fast, but it's what I have. Unfortunately, I have a few larger trees I need cut down that my chainsaw can't handle. 🙁

Nice place there josh.. the land is looking good! You’re exactly right about the land here in this area! It’s hard for someone to comprehend until they see it for themselves

A five acre lake at the bottom is a nice fit. Great long term planning. Rain in the forecast- get done what you can

All that forest edge along the future meadow looks like a great place to put a deer stand- especially if you can plant some clover. People who aren’t from this area have no idea of how bad the soil is. It took years for me to get my garden soil tuned up. I haven’t seen real topsoil in years. Looks great Frank

When we moved into our 3/4 acre we found nothing but clay. we had to rototiller the garden bed and haul in bags of dirt. I mixed the soil and added horse manure to just get a garden started. we composted for a year in a compost heap and then started another compost heap. this year we used our own compost. Wow what a difference. a shovel and a hoe and a rake is what I used because of how small we are. But all was worth it. So far this year we have had radishes and strawberries already and onions are coming up and the squash is really coming up. I planted a pomegranit tree and my son planted a lemon tree. We are doing everything by hand. Oh I forgot the birds brought us some Sunflowers.

Big project but it's going to be really nice to have when it's all done and planted .I can picture it as it is and what it might look like so anyways brother great job and it's just a beautiful place bud godbless

The production quality on this was superb. Great job....thanks for doing this

Frank is The Man!!! he does awesome work!! ^5 Respects!! Brian - Nor Cal

Plant oats with your grass seed for fast germination to help with erosion and dust.

Stoney ridge farmer, you are doing a wonderful job with your and mrs. Stoney ridge farmer land is looking great great job

Hey man...Realize that you are changing the face of the planet in your little corner...Addressing the keyboard commandos comment is starting to affect your content...Do what you do and be proud of it...Great content and I really enjoy your explanations of why you are doing it the way you are...Remember that we are just observers and should enjoy what you are sharing...In the end, it's your money being spent, so enjoy the progress...Looking forward to more content.

You should get a Rock Picker for your tractor, then I can borrow it when you're done! Lol

this would have been a fun project if I wasnt so far away! thats about all you can do with that mess is push it into a low area it would never burn! mulching does not get the stumps out and they all start to sprout back or rot and make sink holes. Not sure why so many people dont understand mulching does not work for pastures!

Very big project. Hope it all works out. Thanks for sharing.

It's great how your making the land work for you! And excavator would be perfect too but that loader is just as multi purposeful keep at it I love watching the land clearing!!

Triple 17 fertilizer, good stuff, and hot. Assume you have already thought about chicken droppings or processed Milorganite, slow release bio-solids. and way less $ than the chemical. Just an inquiry, not questioning you judgment for sure.

The drone is a very handy tool to look over the farm any given time from the house watching the livestock or checking fence lines.

It's looking good Josh, going to be beautiful with grass!

Everything filling up the gully us being recycled! The small amount of topsoil going in the gully will help break down the roots and debris into some incredible fertile soil!!! Great job Josh, don't stress over the money, it's all gonna work out great with your master plan brother!!! Love Ya!

You have a beautiful farm, thanks for sharing your experiences

Your really lucky having such a good opperater on that tracks cavator . Looks really great 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🆒❤️🇺🇸👌🏼

Get some annual rye on that dirt ASAP!

looking good! can you imagine how hard it must have been to do it all via hand and horse....

Great project. This kind of stuff is really fun to watch. Your videos are top-notch. That makes it even more enjoyable. Keep up the good work.

Love what you got finished in the last year . Fantastic videos keep up with what your doing with the farm. Tell Mrs Stoney hello and Thank You for what she doing. Good luck with her School work. I live in Tamarac, Florida. Whoooo God Bless

By about the 8th day. The dude is probably like. GET ME OUT OF THIS THING!!!!! Looking great. Nothing wrong with what your doing. Going to be Beautiful. Vic

Progress is looking awesome, that is gonna make for some nice cattle pasture all that hard work is paying off.

What a massive undertaking! Got to love the constant arm chair land clearing critics out there, ugh. The drone footage is amazing, makes the dozer look like a tonka toy. It is amazing how much you guys have gotten done in two short weeks! Could you do a day to day time lapse? Blessings

The 953 does a great job of pulling out the stumps, rocks, roots, etc. plus can load. Versatile machine being put to good use. Enjoying the videos.

Looks like your doing a great job clearing land for pasture. All I have is pasture and we are planting shade trees for out goats, trying to secure for the future

Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍

Should use those rockd to build a fence or something decorative. Rock tower at your Ranch Entrance

Working hard everyday u and Frank are good job love seeing progress

That gulley will have more topsoil than anywhere around

Looking great Josh! Keep doing it your way and what works best, for you!

Wow you have a ton of land and I just think your videos are wonderful...

It took a good while and many You Tube videos for me to learn the difference between soil and dirt. From the videos it all looks the same. We have to trust you and Frank to know the difference. It would cost a fortune for Frank to screen and sift all the dirt,rock and stumps. If you look at the rest of your farm you are doing something right. Good luck, take care (especially your wife who is doing heroic work)

we did the same thing on our farm in West Virginia back on the 70's I was 5 or 6 at the time. My grand father had large sections done with a dozer not a track loader like you are doing. we did loose a lot of top soil that is still pilled up at the edge of the fields today. if you can afford to hydroseed that would be a good way to quickly help with the erosion issues and get the seed done quickly.

Looking good. Land like that with rocks , stumps , and brush is hard to clean up , and make it look like a golf course. So far, so good. U missed a spot. Lol🤣🤣🤣

Great progress on the clearing! Don’t worry about the armchair quarterbacks. Your farm. You know best what works.

Really amazing to see that type of land clearing being done.

Well Done!! ... And by the way,, DON'T listen to all kind of RU-vid Farmers, who never plow an acre & never seed in their entire life.

Thanks for the videos. Wife and I considering homesteading and doing research. Really good content.

Awesome Josh looking good

Hey Josh, you should let Mrs Stoney Ridge do a segment of the show with you in the background. We would love to see her more on camera. Go get um brother.

That's a Big League project you got goin on there !! :-)

Great music, what is the name? That guy is good, he's putting enough soil in each load so you don't wind up with big sink holes as it settles. How long has he been operating heavy equipment. He's always moving with purpose. You seem to get your moneys worth out of everything you do, you will do well. I enjoy your videos, they're all interesting. Thanks again, my friend and my best to the Mrs.

that gully actually looks like a very good location for a pond

Really enjoy your channel and appreciate the work you put into it. Keep up the great work.

Geology 101: just because it's brown doesn't mean it's topsoil. I think you would have been ok to do the middle section now if you left some "wind rows" of debris on the hillside for the time being. Either way you'd have to bring the equipment back in at some point. Do you think from a cost perspective it would have been better to do this project immediately after the logging was completed? Either way it's nice to see someone reinvesting the money realized from their timber into the land.

Woah! It looks BEAUTIFUL!

Maybe some neighbors have leftover last year roll bails they will give you to get ride of or sell super cheap to help with erosion

I think some of those rocks would make cool seats around a fire pit or swim area! Great progress and videos!

Wow, that's looking great! I can't wait to see what it looks like all finished.

Looks good Josh 👍🏼🇺🇸 Jennifer from Australia 👍🏼🇭🇲

Looks great Josh, i think your being very productive with your property. Hope your successful in your in this project. I believe you will be too.

Love watching the progress Josh. Have you thought about laying wattles every 100 feet or so to keep erosion in check? Doh! I spoke too soon!

Very nice video. You should make more like it

Looking good Josh proud of you my brother ...

I like that track loader was always fascinated by those machines I wish someone would have thought to design 1 a bit smaller with 4n1 bucket even though you have skidsteers on the market

Josh! Jumping in here to leave a message. OPEN END RATCHET WRENCHES ....When working on gates, I saw that you had a need for a tool. It's available at Sears and a few other places. Open end ratchet wrenches. NO MOVING PARTS Individual wrenches, 4 piece set and 7 piece set. YOU MUST CHECK IT OUT ....While I was an aircraft mechanic in the USAF, I made one to do a special job. Some time later, I saw that they were made by a tool company. Coincidence? Hmmmm. ....I made mine from a conventional combination wrench. I ground down the long jaw of the open end until it would turn back to make another grasp at the bolt or nut. Don't go too far or it won't work.

OutstNding work there!!!!

Wow josh it looks amazing. Unbelievable!!!! I know it feels good.

Fun project for you adding value to the land but I wonder how much grief it would cause Frank to use a grapple to lose more soil. I've only watched about a million videos with grapples the last couple years.

Hey Josh - Can you relocate some of those boulders down to the section of creek where the bridge washed out?

Gonna be a good looking Rock Plantation.

Very cool thanks.

S/R, nice job on camera work like that love that land I did that to our land back in middle 60, looking Good . Ron for Ga.

Nerve racking until that seed is up and green. After you roll hay out next winter that's going to blow up. Your going to need more cows.

It’s amazing how much the land differs from one area to the next, I am from Pa and my one neighbor/friend put in about a 3 acre pond and they hauled 300+ tri-axle dump truck loads of top soil out to get down to the subsoil underneath, I dug holes to put fence posts in for a pig pen and had 3 feet of topsoil, my parents live 5 miles from me and have about 3 inches of top soil

Looks like the future site of Stoney Ridge Golf coarse...

The soil, good or bad, contains the bugs (micro-organisms) that will seed everything to make the decomposition and settling go a lot faster. For the part you are leaving consider getting/renting a bunch of goats to clear out most of the munchies stuff.

Looking good stoney 💪

WOOOOOO!!🇺🇸

Looking great Josh. Keep up the great work!

You need to explain you plan on creating topsoil, by pasturing the land. It is clear to me you want to improve your ground. Pasture can use and improve poor ground if done right. My mother was from a farm in Maine. It pastured lots of rocky ground and hayed the better areas. Reclaiming ground from woods or logged over areas is expensive and hard. This project may take years to complete. Once grass is planted, it will grow. A solid thick sod takes more time. It takes care to see grass beats weeds and trash plants ( unwanted trees and bushes).

Josh, man just ignore the naysayers, not worth the response. You forgot more than they will ever know. Soldier on sir., looking good! Hopefully you can get the grass in before the weed seeds germinate big time, but no problem, grass will crowd the weeds out.

Saving any smaller rocks for construction?

Hey Josh, I think that’s your name. Ignore the naysayers about anything that you do because you have more brains in your little pinky than they do in their whole body. Keep up the good work and enjoy your levity and great attitude on this channel.

Seem like a grapple would be better than a bucket. Hard to watch that soil go over the hillside.

I like your channel, there is always a lot gettin done.

Apparently many of your viewers don't know jack about excavating. Anyone with even the the slightest bit of knowledge knows that, your operator is VERY experienced. It's actually impressive how much soil he is leaving behind. Considering all the brush and stumps he is going through. And you can't beat that price with a stick where I live. A green horn operator gets about $85 an hour plus the cost of fuel. Ask Wesley he lives by many of excavation companies I talk about. My cousin is one of them. Lol

Your so blessed to own Stoney Ridge Farm. Love the content!!

Josh I'm sure u know this but I think there is a implement used to remove rock from your soil.

Hi Josh, GFS weather model shows potential heavier rains on Monday and Wednesday next week. Your friend GaryB

Amazing work

Great video. Thanks. Can’t wait to see some grass growing !! Craig. Pa. Guy