AWESOME! Time Lapse Clearing an old Abandoned Field on the farm!

AWESOME! Time Lapse Clearing an old abandoned Field on the farm! You won't believe the results! Come along with me today as Frank and I clear some land with some heavy equipment. This old pasture was abandoned back in the 70s and we're taking it back for the cows!
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[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Stupid Should hurt shirt and more Stoney Ridge Goodies at stoneyridgefarmer.com

[@MontsFamilyHomestead]

I always love running equipment, Tractors, Excavators, Dozers, I many be over 50 but still got a lot of kid in me.

[@davidbeltz5005]

DC in PA Nothing better than running heavy equipment . The smell of diesel fumes and raw dirt does it for me!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

most folks never get to smell that fresh dirt smell....it's a pleasure...this field is now grown up in native grasses!

[@dhansonranch]

Looks good. Being dry sure helped knock the dirt off those roots!

[@shanepotter7722]

a lot of those smaller trees would make perfect fence posts for the new pasture

[@matthewclark6037]

Good stuff buddy

[@HamiltonvilleFarm]

Howboutcha! fun times!

[@chelemichele1524]

👍 Have a good evening 🌷🌷🌷

[@dmorgan28]

Cool video. Opened it up and got more land to grow hay. 👍👍👍❤️

[@timziegler9358]

I am impressed with your running that excavator; good job!

[@daveyoder1436]

Enjoying the video Josh. Thanks for sharing

[@TheBaken1]

Good to see a video that isn't full of one product endorsement after another. Great job remembering why a lot of us are here.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

yep....I enjoy the tool vids and the stuff...and it takes stuff to get this done...but sometimes it can be too much. Back to basics on several upcoming vids

[@RickyVentures]

Hello from Minnesota!

[@chookiat5834]

Glad to hear that biochar will be made for soil.

[@PurpleCollarLife]

Nice future hay area!

[@andrewscott2866]

Looks great! An acre seems pretty big when you're doing something like this!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Amen!

[@brianhina8538]

You can use some of those trees to fill the bottom half of your raised beds.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

invite termites to the raised beds...I thought about it brotha...but I thought better of that.

[@brianhina]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I have been doing that for years with no signs of termites. Hugal Kultur mounds

[@willisdockery3972]

Looking good

[@jasonmckee5030]

Good video! I own a small excavation business in North Alabama.

[@jalopyjoe4483]

Was hear Looks like fun-work. Wooooo!

[@lvsaltwater]

Love these type video's ,,

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Glad you like them!

[@christinashawgo6510]

Love it‼️

[@sunjaybedi4389]

Nice work, we had to clear about 1000sf to extend the parking area, it was mostly small trees plus some big stumps and quite a few big rocks...excavator and the operator was real good...packed down now and parkable

[@johnsadler8637]

Good morning! The ground is so dry the soil is cleaning right off of the roots. Just explodes into dust when you drop them. I get a kick of of the Stupid Should Hurt T-shirt. A friend back at the lab used to say either that or Stupid is Supposed to Hurt while he was raising his 2 boys. I’m sending him an image of yours.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

crazy dry! Glad someone else sees that...we are in a drought condition here

[@johnsadler8637]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We’re about the same here 30 or so miles SW (? Unsure exactly where you are) of you in Summerfield (off NC158 between Witty and Church). Lawns that aren’t irrigated are turning brown, and even the ones that are irrigated aren’t exactly lush.

[@JunComeo]

God bless idol more power,watching from the philippines.,Mabuhay

[@riverwolfoutdoors6120]

Josh you should do a farm equipment tour

[@larryparish5984]

Besides a lumber business, looks like you could also sell firewood on the side. 😊

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... 👍👍👍

[@eddeetz493]

Smart way to reclaim pasture Josh. Harvest the saw logs, fertilize with bio char, new pasture. I hope you also begin deer lease with whole beef purchase. 50% down 50% at final weight. Hunt am and pm. 3 days. Teach and harvest beef in-between. Process venison, pork and beef. Make sausage, cure and smoke with vacume packaging. Custom raise extra broilers ect for on farm processing by owner during classes. Start the online sign up. Animals raised in feed lots need to be inspected. Those raised on pasture, using rotational grazing and on farm harvest should be exempt. Your building the wild and cattle herds. You will have a wait list on farm help. Future cabins to barter trade labor for staycations. Plan pasture recovery to include some food plots to hold the deer that can also be winter grazed. Standing corn, beans and one day hemp. Seed for Fuel, Fibre for insulation, shiv for hempcrete wall insulation and protein for human or animal consumption. All raised on farm, processed on farm to build the farm. Run remote post and beam training seminars with shelter institute. Same with hemp companies to train contractors to build with. Hempcrete slip form wall insulation is the best fire proof, mold and bug resistant wall you can build. It regulates humidity, breathes and sequesters carbon actively and passively. Fun stuff. Cut out the crooks in the middle.

[@dougdavis4439]

Looks good Josh. One win at a time man! Wooooo

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

For sure!!

[@helodriver20]

An excavator with a thumb and a compact track loader can do just about EVERYTHING. Nice work Josh. Wooooo! ❤️🤠🇺🇸

[@Yvonneb_]

That was very interesting. I loved it and you worked so hard as usual xx

[@thomasyerbey337]

Great video Josh 🇺🇲 WOOOOOO 🇺🇲

[@joannsuggs1636]

This was fun to watch! You sure know how to use that excavator! You make it look like pulling weeds from a garden!! Beautiful aerial footage!!

[@johnspoon923]

woooo!

[@jimmysquires5093]

Joah nice work. BioChar is not just wood ash. You have to burn wood in an oxygen depleted enviroment to get BioChar. It would be great for your land, but does take more work than just burning a pile of wood in open air.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

interestiing...so we're spreading ashes on our land then.

[@expatconn7242]

Have you looking into investing in a used Vermeer as another tool on your farm ?.

[@ronwolford3782]

Hi Josh. My wife went to nurses school many years ago. I was wondering if the curriculum has changed that they now teach heavy equipment operation along with emptying bed pans? Ha Ha You seem to have learned well.

[@themintlord4744]

Nice work Josh! We've got a cat 305.5D excavator on our farm for some general cleanup work. It's not as big as that one, but it's a lot of fun

[@jenniferr2057]

Did you do a follow up on the muskrat hunt? Curious!

[@leroywaller7604]

Good. Use of the thumb. Josh

[@stevenpeterson8444]

i get on my kids for watching videos of other kids playing with toys, but this really isn’t any different, lol

[@joeh4295]

Yes it is. This is educational, at least for me

[@OhioGentlemenArms]

I just rented a dozer for the same project. It’s tough learning on the go especially when you need to get done.

[@flir67man84]

You could sell the wood to a chippermill or make ruff cut fence post out of the trees. the fence post are popular forsmall farms like yours are to use in mountain communties like floyd, va on blue ridge parkway way. Lots of cattle in those small communities.. just cut and stack let dry

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

do you understand the amount of time and money that it would take to do that...this is pine and poplar...will rot in 2 years my brotha..if it had any value I'd be using it..I'm not a wasteful person

[@Will7981]

I don't know how much more clearing and dirt work you have, but if you find the right excavator, and get a machanic to look it over with you, it is possible to buy it and use it for your needs and sell it for close to the same you paid for it assuming you don't wear it out. I'm not giving investment advice. I'm just passing something on I've seen done before.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

1 bad problem means a $30k excavator is a paperweight...folks don't sell good excavators..they sell problems my friend

[@knemstyxx]

You have to metal detect you might find a meteorite or gold . Rocks are so awesome . I hope you take the time to figure out your rocks and hints on how your land was made and what nutrients are in it and what grows best . Great Job by the way. My dad didn't care about rocks and grew wrong crops plus gave away over 3 million In rocks well one million for sure . The big Spring Water meteorite is from our farm . 667000$ yikes

[@melaniekeen3611]

United Rentals in Greensboro delivered this machine

[@flir67man84]

Nice!

[@texasboy2005]

How come you left tree in the middle standing?

[@anthonyraines5951]

A quick search says it's a 134 hp and 355 ft/lbs

[@xTheJmanChannel]

I noticed you put a bunch of poplar in the brush pile. Would poplar not make good lumber?

[@abrad3061]

How many hours were you on the machine the first day

[@lucasrayatterton6767]

When are you going to build a garage for everything

[@joeh4295]

At first I was thinking why not grow those woods for timber? But then I saw how overgrown and tightly packed those small trees are.

[@richhoward1848]

Where is Mrs. Stoney Ridge? Did she finish her schooling yet, keep up the great Videos

[@tommmarree3689]

Josh said the other night Mrs Stoneyridge left again. About 3 months ago (when she came back) she said it was the last time she was coming back. Such a shame 2 mature adults can't figure out their problems, they both deserve a better life. She did finish her PhD in Nursing....

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

It is a shame Tomm....a pure shame my brotha. It's been going south for about 3 years now...and no matter what I did....it just went back to bad again and again. Very disappointing to say the least but I won't live in misery, life is too short

[@tommmarree3689]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Josh, find a good girl and have kids, you need to have some little ones to take over when you get older, that would be cool, woo!

[@garysweeney155]

Children is what keeps a healthy marriage and you could do with the help..

[@rezyness]

Time to move on Mr Stoney Ridge, get one that loves farm life...just saying

[@petermavus4131]

As a deer 🦌 hunter cringing at a nice wood lot gone

[@georgedavidson7986]

Buy your own land-or talk to a crop farmer they all want to get rid of deer No joking every cornsnd soybean farmer wants the population down do a deal and share a steak

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

lol...can't hunt in forest that ya can't see 3 feed in front of your face my brotha

[@petermavus4131]

@@georgedavidson7986 I hunt an airport on special depredation permit from the state... Stand of woods and brush that floods One plane almost tipped over with wing tagging a deer near runway

[@georgedavidson7986]

@@petermavus4131 Deer are rodents

[@davesilvia9711]

@@georgedavidson7986 people are too, just a little more evolved

[@marauder2525]

@Stoney Ridge Farmer Wouldn't a forestry mulcher help you hit your goals? The mulcher would chip up your trees and leave the organic material on the land. And, you would need one machine not two for most of the work. So, a low carbon footprint and less cost. Just a thought...

[@davesilvia9711]

there is carbon comming out the rear of every cow he has, everyone has 4 footprints

[@brianhillis3701]

Then he would still have to deal with stumps. This way he is done.

[@marauder2525]

@@brianhillis3701 No stumps left. The forestry mulcher takes trees down to ground level. If that still bothers you then pluck them out. You will keep the organic material on the new pasture. It does not have to be all butt fertilizer.

[@marauder2525]

@@davesilvia9711 Yes, and you just wasted all of the organic material and burned a great deal of fossil fuel in another machine. The cows in the pasture are the end result!

[@brianhillis3701]

@@marauder2525 the stump is at ground level, you said it yourself. Still a huge root ball and unproductive land.. cannot plow, rototill, level, or even seed it. When it rots you have major divots that cows can break a leg in and mowing or haying is difficult and dangerous. The little staubs can get exposed and flatten a tire. He is doing the smart thing.

[@davideuton5361]

Could you get some logger to come in and chip the trees for pulp? Give it to them.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

No logger around here would even take it...kinda sad...I'm not a wasteful person...but this had to go

[@5150Lane]

I often wonder what the men that first cleared that land would think if they could've seen how quickly clearing goes with modern machinery.

[@mxlman26]

ISNT it better the mulcher attachment on a tractor,?..... And more fun

[@robertkoons1154]

So your clearance rate is about 1 acre per day, so about a month to clear the 26 acres?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

with one guy and an excavator on this same kinda brusshy mess...at least

[@jasonmckee5030]

How far are you from "Lets Dig 18"?

[@pegleg7621]

That’s a lot of firewood

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

folks around here don't burn pine or poplar very much....poplar is like paper and pine clogs up the flu pipe

[@neiledwards9835]

Hey Josh. How much did that Excavator rent for a day? My farm is about two hours from you in Gaffney. I’m looking for a good machine rrental place.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

rented on a monthly basis...you'd have to call and check...availability is very scarce also

[@neiledwards9835]

Yeah I did Southeastern machines on Shelby. Monthly is what I’m thinking. And I needed bigger. Thanks man

[@leroywaller7604]

josh NOW tats a way to go. see if YOU can help AL LUMNAH He setting out to reclaim 500acres. THE TWO OF YOU CA SHARE A LOT OF N IDEAS any methods of reclaiming a FARM. AL IS GOOD at building out BUILDINGS. THANKS!!!!!!!!

[@terryeason4319]

👍👍🔥

[@arameshrastin227]

Hey josh, nice job man! How much does it cost to clean one acre of land like this?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Cost me around $2k in rental, fuel and labor...which is a steal!

[@arameshrastin227]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer thanks man!

[@stevecapps6332]

Just curious are you full time farming or do you still have another job?

[@allanwatt6635]

Do you have to do a wild life check before you clear all those trees and disturb all that soil.

[@davesilvia9711]

i thought he was gonna call miss utility first.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Every county and state is different, if clearing for farmland and not residential rules are different. If this were residential or commercial you'd most likely have to get a permit if over 1 acre in my county...again...different in every place

[@allanwatt6635]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer You can still check just to be shore there is no wild life . I would call it conmen sense.

[@MrBruce0777]

I'm kind of surprised you did not buy a fairly nice backhoe or excavator in the $8,000 to $15,000 range one in very good shape use it for a couple hundred hours or less and resale it. ..I bought a backhoe JD 210 I think it was one time not running for $3500.00 My helper and I were able to get it running but it had a nasty Hydraulic leak but we still able to get it loaded on a trailer. To our surprise it was a o-ring or gasket that went bad and it was in stock cost us WOW ! ouch $7.95 LOL We did a 2 acre plus land clear with it and dug a pretty big pond as well. We ran it long and hard 7 or 8 hours a day. We brought down 20 gallons of diesel the first morning and I told my worker come on now fill it up with the other 13 gallons .remaining. He said I can't she is full it only took 7 or so gallons of fuel.....NO way a gallon an hour somethings wrong we worked it extremely hard.. But ever morning it was about 8 gallons to fill it up....We got done with the job washed it down good listed it and within an hour a guy said he was coming to get it sold it $12,500 with delivery LOL I finally got to drive it unloaded it at customers mountain top property Scary steep miles in the woods...Glad she had brakes.. The next one I bought was Her twin sister again non running my worker did not do the " golden rule " and check the oil pressure as it started up...ALWAYS ALWAYS check the oil pressure constantly at start up.. I broke even or lost a little on his mistake....

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I had a 210...but this is well beyond the JD210 type work. Break something on one of these machines and it'ss tens of thousands off $$$. Only about 20 more acres to clear...I'll hire it done or work with someone like this

[@Jschmitz17]

Sounds like you need some Andrew Camarata in your life lol

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

no idea who that is

[@louisbrown2279]

My link was Saturday the 6th at the house

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

why did you make your link restricted? Cutting a tree?

[@louisbrown2279]

Sorry didn't mean to

[@louisbrown2279]

Did you not let you see it

[@donbrutcher4501]

Most of those small trees look like chipper material.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

if you wanna spend 500 hours picking ticks off ya for a truck load of wood chips...that's the way to go brotha. I'd never get anything done trying to chip up this stuff...I couldn't even give it away to a timber company...believe me I tried

[@emojiking8580]

✋🤩🤚

[@noelcahill6707]

If you had ur time around again would u have got a second digger for clearing land

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Nobody to run it...I would have done just what I did...pretty happy with the results and time/money spent

[@noelcahill6707]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer was just woundering with all the ground you clear thank you for taking the time to reply

[@stevensargent2063]

SAVE ALL THE SAWMILL SIZE STUFF EVEN IF YOU WILL ONLY GET A FEW 2X4'S OUT IF IT, EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

It's not worth running through the mill my friend...you do understand that milling two 2x4s isn't worth 2 hours of work hauling, slabbing, cutting and running the mill. Hang tight...there's a reason we're over here working...it gets me closer to some pine I wanna mill up in the future

[@davesilvia9711]

be like cutting tooth picks,lol

[@stevensargent2063]

​@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I'M ON MY 3rd WOODMIZER LT-15 SAWMILL AND I HATE TO SEE GOOD LOGS GO TO WASTE, I'M FROM THE "PNW" -- EASTSIDE ABOUT 5 MILES FROM IDAHO SO THAT IF I COULD NOT MAKE CANOES OUT OF IT I WOULD USE IT IN MY SMOKER, MAKE CHARCOAL OUT OF IT, OR JUST USE IT IN MY WOOD COOK STOVE, BUT THAT IS JUST ME.

[@stevensargent2063]

@@davesilvia9711 I'M ON MY 3rd WOODMIZER LT-15 SAWMILL AND I HATE TO SEE GOOD LOGS GO TO WASTE, I'M FROM THE "PNW" -- EASTSIDE ABOUT 5 MILES FROM IDAHO SO THAT IF I COULD NOT MAKE CANOES OUT OF IT I WOULD USE IT IN MY SMOKER, MAKE CHARCOAL OUT OF IT, OR JUST USE IT IN MY WOOD COOK STOVE, BUT THAT IS JUST ME.

[@calvingreene90]

I would rather see anything too big for a brush hog to chip cut into firewood. If you don't sell the firewood the ash can still be used as fertilizer.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Man....as I've said in about 100 comments earlier....I couldn't give this stuff away. Folks don't burn pine and poplar around here...pine clogs up the stovepipe with creasote and poplar burns up like paper. There was litterally no value here

[@reillyberg7761]

If possible would it have been better to cut the trees down, let them dry where they fell for 1-3 years, then just burn them? Or would that be too long of a time line?

[@vandycommer1]

He pulled the stumps for pasture land

[@santa4735]

I’m sure Frank is a great guy! Unless your getting a family deal a cat four times the size could save you some money...

[@scrapshackfarms1349]

Shame you dont know someone with a kiln to dry out wood, that would be alot of fence post.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

nobody uses poplar for fence posts my friend, and spending $100 in labor and fuel to get one post out of a 6 inch pine tree isn't cost effective, I couldn't even give this amount of brush to a timber company...believe me I tried

[@safffff1000]

You can do so much if you have money

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

There's a theory that I live by....I ask my self "How can I make this happen"...not "I can't afford that so why try"....the power of positive thinking...I've been so poor I had to wipe my backside with newspaper...work smart, set goals and don't buy silly things

[@danmiller4774]

Well I am I the farmer and part of the Township Board and it costs our Township 150 dollars an hour for an excavator. So I don't know what your paying but I think you're doing a good job. The other thing I was going to comment on I heard that you were going to plant a bunch of trees that you can harvest in 30 years or so. Seeing a show on Novi believe it was and those people that did what you're trying to do they lost money. I would encourage you not to go that route and just a focus on your pastor and your cattle tread have a great day and most of all be safe God Bless America and God bless you

[@philstocks7859]

Stoney Ridge Farm = lots of rocks. With all your connections you have with equipment manufacturers, why not work out a deal to use and demonstrate a mechanical rock picker?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

No rocks on this side of the farm to speak of my brotha. It would be nice to have a rock picker ...so far just raking them and scooping them up

[@robindavies2204]

Would you been better to hired a big chipped and chipedti

[@memyselfandifarmer]

seen a coke add, NEVER DRINK COKE PRODUCTS.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

yep..sorry I don't control the ads my friend

[@robertkizer779]

SAD to see all that timber ripped down no respect for the wild life that lived in it.