Cleaning up after the 50 year flood..

[@jestempies]

Tree: Me: Marty:

[@markparker2873]

HHHaaaa! 🙂

[@PowerTom286]

Hilarious!

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

...... decent firewood ..... 😁

[@viriato8566]

Our unflappable and intrepid host rises to any occasion no matter how daunting. Good luck with the clean up Marty!

[@bunny-jayfalwasser4404]

Fallen tree = good firewood in NZ

[@87xfute]

Hey Marty, I think that rock is called conglomerate. It's a mixture of stones and mud sort of petrified into a rock. Seeya Rob

[@graemewhite5029]

We call it "pudding stone" over here. Reminds you of old fashioned steamed fruit puddings !

[@Darwinpasta]

I've heard them called concretions out here, but, yeah, bunch of rocks stuck together. That's a pretty one. (Edit: looked it up and a concretion is something else. That is indeed a conglomerate.)

[@altronixvideo]

Hertfordshire puddingstone is quite well known in the uk

[@jasonpatterson8091]

It also might be a tillite - a conglomerate that formed from ancient (like pre-dinosaurs ancient) glacial till. Puddingstones tend to be formed from more weathered rocks in the conglomerate, tillites from more irregular. It's hard to say just looking at it, because it's been sitting in a creek since who knows when weathering the outside.

[@jamesgibb9737]

Beat me to it!

[@reggiefaggart196]

You have a full time job keeping up all the roads. Good job

[@ManxAndy]

That rear blade on the David Brown is fantastic for finishing the track surface, does a better job than most modern gear…..👍🇮🇲

[@Thedavidsavage]

Marty your such a great neighbor. 👍 Doing those kiwis proud. Friendly happy helping people. Gives me hope for this world. 🙏 ❤ 😃😊🙂

[@jimthode]

At 10:08 Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock made up of rounded clasts that are greater than two millimeters in diameter. The spaces between the clasts are generally filled with sand- and clay-size particles. The rock is bound together by a cement that is usually composed of calcite or quartz.

[@c.ebenfranks4473]

I was going to say it was from a pyroclastic flow: mud, gravel and other material sizes, ran down a hillside during some long-ago volcanic eruption. Called a lahar.

[@johndoe1778]

You guys 😘 interested me into rocks more than you'd know now haha

[@mattywho8485]

Hey Marty, Love your straight forward way of dealing with everything from fixing the gear train of the old grader to flood recovery. I do see a problem with that dual culvert installation @3:06 that your neighbor's had done though. The culverts are placed too close together, which doesn't allow for adequate compaction between them which will eventually lead to the water finding its way in between them and washing it out all over again.

[@MartyT]

Yes I did think the same about the culvert pipes, the fill should be compacted especially at the sides

[@davidp8157]

@@MartyT depending on ownership and degree of nuisance value if / when it chews out again, a relatively cheap option at this stage is do a "sandbag" structure where the sand bags are filled with wet concrete and stacked to form a swirl chamber wall. Swirl chamber needs to extend far enough up stream to cope with anticipated problem. Successfully did this with something over 20 feet deep, similar width at its narrowest with a 4 foot culvert and much larger area involved 20 odd years ago, still going strong after several 1 in a 100 year issues since. 1 in 50 and 1 in a 100 years downpours and floods seem to happen a little to regularly to not plan adequately for them...... In my case this was the only access, so until partially rebuilt, walking access only.

[@essexfarmer9610]

@@MartyT Maybe put a concrete plug to stop the wash out? Nice approach to the issues at hand! Greetings from Essex, England. We only get 600mm in a whole year!

[@mouse454]

one of the pipes isn't plastic, situation not so bad

[@larrymiller4]

If I were to offer a suggestion, it would be to line the basin on the upstream side of your culverts, either with well-placed rock, or bags of concrete stacked so as to prevent erosion on that side of the culverts. The "downstream" side of the road that is heavily eroded is another story. It looks like it will need a structural solution rather than merely adding fill. That was one serious storm you folks had.

[@Bristoll170]

That storm made a hell of a mess in several parts of the country, yours included. Good to see it being out back as it was. Very handy having the tools on hand for the job, Thanks for taking us along Marty. Cheers Pete'.

[@thaddeustroyer]

I don't know if the neighbors know how much you "do" for them. I know some of it is self serving but with that said you still do a ton of helping. You are one awesome dude.

[@bruceleealmighty]

Always enjoy your adventures. Straight forward no fluff. The Hydro projects seem particularly inspiring.

[@robertburns3014]

Once again, I am in awe about your abilities to make things work for you! I am especially impressed with your hydro-electric generator system. Free electricity for your mountain home! Thank you for showing us what can be done with some ingenuity and some restored tools and equipment. Cheers to you, mate!

[@magnuscolable]

Mate that was a wicked flood, you did a good job reconstructing the culvert afterwards.

[@horsebee1]

Love the way that the birds waste no time in inspecting your road work. You never know there just might be something worth eating there

[@Pierreboro]

The bird was a nice touch indeed!

[@matthewfrankcook]

Loved the cameo appearance by the Toutouwai, the bush robin 😊

[@virtuestreams2616]

You did a bang up job of repairing things so life can be lived at bit easier until more permanent repairs can be made. One certainly needs to be self-sufficient and self-reliant when residing in remote areas like yours. I suppose you will be working quite hard to prepare for your aging self for years to come, but it’ll certainly be a worthwhile endeavor, learning experience, and rewarding accomplishment for you and your family, especially your children-imagine when your children gander back in time and realize how blessed they are to have had the y’all as parents. 👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

Best thing to have for the "aging times" are strong sons and lovely daughters .....

[@PS-Straya_M8]

Where that road got washed out and revealed the round concrete pipes should really be replaced with a big square concrete culvert - money permitting of course. Thanks for the vids Marty and all the best with the cleanup! 😁

[@jp-um2fr]

Dreadful storms in the UK but not where I am. It blew the cover off my wife's clothes dryer - how terribly, terribly sad. It has been rough though in some parts and we are having another blow coming. Doing an excellent job young fella, good neighbors. What a fantastic country. Look after yourself and family, keep your heads down.

[@breakfixbuildimprove4326]

I like the stone age hammer and file being used to restore turbine number 2. It certainly save a bit of weight carrying them up there. Nice clean up job!

[@darrylthehorntoadpiper]

Marty just found your channel & love it with all the finding & fixing you do , very interesting! Great idea in the water power 👍👍👍😎

[@carlosmontoya8658]

Hello Mr. Marty T. from Virginia USA. We've had a rather frigid up and down temp winter this year in central VA. Lost power 3 days, scores of trees down. In our small borough we had 500 trees on power lines. But nothing like you have experienced on the 'island'. Kudos to you and your neighbors and friends for pulling together to remedy the storm result. Humans sticking together is the glue of society. Cheers!

[@shanedavies9564]

Marty the joys of having a life style block but it's great mate cheers shaneo nelson 👍

[@Meatlove]

Roadworks in Western Europe: Takes about 30 days and 50 roadworkers just to resurface a stretch of 2 kilometeres 2 lane highway. Roadworks in New Sealand: No worries m8, I'll just grab some gravel from the ditch and spread it out. That'll be just fine for now. :) Not bad for an hours work with an anchient tractor saved from the scrapyard.

[@jogden6632]

Marty in the US we call those rocks "pudding stones." They're sedimentary rocks made up of a ton of different stones. Very cool rocks.

[@bobcranberries5853]

Also known as a concretion

[@viriato8566]

Famous for a high end building material in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Locally called Roxbury pudding stone. Believe a product of glacial deposition & compression.

[@jogden6632]

@@viriato8566 people inMochigan have found gold or deposits in them.

[@justinp2559]

@@viriato8566 Puddingstone around Boston is from the Roxbury Conglomerate (Roxbury gets its name, "Rocksbury" because the colonialists found value in the material). The Roxbury puddingstone is also found in West Africa, from the geologic dislocation of the Gondwana supercontinent. Massachusetts has a very interesting geologic history!

[@andrewbraithwaite1365]

There’s rock sorta like that in Kata Tjuta, near Uluṟu, but the inset stones are larger, about head size.

[@KocaineNWaffles]

Here in the states we call that stone a pudding stone. Not sure why but collectors love them

[@puirYorick]

You were made for times like that, Marty. Thanks for bringing your cameras along as much as you do.

[@marcryvon]

520 mm of rain ! That's mad ! Sorry for the whole mess it did. On the lighter side: I'm not so familiar with your accent, so I use the subtitle function of YT. When it hears your old tractor sounds, it spells *Music or Applause*. So funny ! 🤣🤣

[@russw5301]

Another great video showing you using the restored equipment and your talent to "Fix Anything" Love it. Well done.

[@waynemclachlan6480]

Nature can throw us some testing time's , but to keep going with a positive attitude and tomorrow will give us a better day... Always enjoy your video's 😊 Cheers from NSW Australia

[@rickoliver2059]

It`s so good seeing good ol` Kiwi ingenuity being used in such a calm and needs to be done attitude Marty , cheers .

[@brentmulqueen377]

the rock you talked about looks very much like greenstone cheers 😊

[@avrel820]

I enjoyed watching you as always. Good show clearing the tree and doing the road with the David Brown.. Glad you got your other turbine going again... Talking about power i was talking to a guy i know about making his own power he lives in a old water mill so there is a power wheel already there unused.. He told me he couldn't use it to make and sell power cos it would have to be upgraded to better quality standards.. I was thinking of you and you generators i said to him try to find out if you can make power for yourself (not selling it) without having to upgrade quality standards and safety. ..

[@manitobaman5588]

I see you have enough problems to keep you busy and enough equipment and ability to keep operating. Keep up the good work.

[@markhensley9378]

Looking better now. A 20 minute video doesn't come close to the days that you probably spent cleaning up your roads and making repairs. Thanks again for your time and videos. Be safe on the mountain and enjoy your week.

[@roycsinclair]

Short video I suspect because he's gotta devote more time to basic work and thus has less time to edit together bits an pieces for us to watch.

[@horstszibulski19]

Much work in aftermath...glad your turbines work again and your roads are repaired. The "rock" just looked like a piece of concrete polished by years in the creek... We had 3 storms in a row here in Germany, the 2nd one the worst since 2007... Thx for showing!

[@danielmurphy9140]

Great! I think you are the only one in the neighborhood with the equipment and know-it-all to fix the damage. Great job, keep the video's coming

[@benhowe5506]

Hi Marty I'm glad you and your family are ok after that storm mate. But as usual you just get on with getting things back in order. Love your work buddy. Stay safe and well mate.

[@kevinsmith-zu5it]

G'DAY MATE; I love your videos. No job too big or small. I've been watching for this one for as long as you've been cleaning up. My dad was a backyard mechanic that would tackle anything with a smile...

[@hadynmcloughlin4661]

Have got the grader working its magic perfectly Marty. Interesting to see other parts of your property and what it takes to keep it all ticking over.

[@keyera1378]

Even with the flooding hiccups, I envy your turbine setup.

[@leslieaustin151]

Marty, as adaptable as ever. Using a stone as abrasive to clean the end of the irrigation tube. And why not? Les in UK

[@graciebelton9318]

You will make a good living filming and uploading all the repairs necessary to your road after the flood, and we viewers will be entertained by watching!! Good on ya

[@rjdijk3109]

The solid David Brown 😍love that

[@carlosmontoya8658]

My family really enjoys your content, so, thank you so much for sharing a tad of your life!!

[@seafieldgrant6957]

Marty you have all the right equipment to repair your roads. Good stuff ! thanks for the video.

[@davidwiggins3451]

Glad that you made it through the historic rainstorms with no major damage. You asked about the rock with all of the smaller stones embedded in it. I live on the South Coast of Massachusetts USA and a native rock we call "pudding stone" looks a lot like what you have. I was told that it is metamorphized sedimentary rock from river beds. There are outcroppings of it all over the county where I live, and while ours doesn't have all of the lovely colors as your does, it looks remarkably similar. By the way, I love the editing of your videos. It must take you forever, but it makes viewing very enjoyable. Cheers.

[@corylannon8546]

ah, another Masshole, love that Roxbury puddingstone.

[@alexandermarken7639]

That is what I love about rural communities, everyone gets in and helps. I have seen it first hand and would give my left nut to live in a self sufficient rural community. The 900watts per hour from the two hydro systems is fantastic. It equals the performance of a 3 to 4 kw solar system but the bonus is it is all day every day.

[@DavidSuttoninSpain]

Simple yet effective hydro electric power, nice job Marty, and for keeping the roads open.

[@SteveeCee]

You're a good man Marty, your neighbours are luck people.

[@BarnStangz]

I REALLY like your hydro setup! There is so much potential there with a small stream, man I wish I had something like that. It's all farm land around here... Looks like you and your neighbors help each other out nicely and recovered well. Glad all is sound Marty.

[@chjp2346]

Love your show Marty. I see that rock a lot here in Oregon where we get a lot of rain, we call that rock wet. 😲 Sorry I couldn't resist.

[@stevecoomber7061]

You must be getting bored of replacing the inlet of that pipe now Marty 😅 none the less hope this will be the last time you do it for a long time ! Wish you kiwis all the best from here on out 🤞 from the uk 🇬🇧

[@DarkFlamage]

People talk about a 50 or 100 year flood, right? Is this kind of thing the new normal now? Thanks for the good content, Marty.

[@garethjudd5840]

The David Brown performing like a trooper once again.👍

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video, Impressive what you can do to repair the track and the turbines, thanks for sharing

[@ohcrapwhatsnext]

If it's not one thing, it's another.... You have all the tools to fix what comes your way.... Nice blessings...

[@marhuf]

From one "Marty" to another, I love your videos. Keep up the great work good sir.

[@JacePenderwick67]

What a epic place you live in!! Thanks for all the great video's . Your David Brown tractor looks very similar to the one my Grandfather used to have. Cheering you on from Alberta , Canada.

[@markbehr88]

Excellent. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I would be interested to see what other damage occurred in the surrounding area too.

[@jacquesdor50]

That cute little bird did not waste any time!

[@alanrobison3298]

We here in Texas are just glad that you and your family weathered the storm mate.

[@h276wah7]

Your output makes my day, sorry to say despite the circumstances Keep em coming Marty !

[@kennethhudson8013]

Marty you should dig out a swimming hole from one of those streams for summer, fun!

[@cnnpp4428]

Marty just built different.

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

Nice to have the right equipment to tackle a huge job like that. Good luck Marty; hope it all goes well for you.

[@chesterraybon3442]

Just glad everyone is OK. Hate it destroyed so much but you'll have it all back up and at 100% before long. Take care from all of us here in NC USA.

[@cassiacries]

wow! great repairs. so impressed your turbines survived. Would you consider showing a (crude, non locatable) rough plan of the place.. all the roads make my head spin!

[@cassiacries]

I've been binge watching this channel from the beginning while under the weather. It's wonderful. Very soothing for a city living farm kid! .. hence my slight over investment in the road layout!

[@scowell]

I believe that rock is called a 'conglomerate'... which is a fitting term! Good job all 'round.

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

We live up off one of many of the thousands of miles of dirt / gravel roads in Montana. In fact, Montana, Wyoming, and North & South Dakota both, all 4 have 3-times the amount of gravel / dirt /rock roads than paved roads. I’m not kidding you. We live up off 16 miles of high mountain, 6,465 feet up Rocky Mountain Very wide hard smooth road. Snow in winter. Our County is responsible for the main county dirt road. Even the plowing of snow all winter. Winter for us is from, all of October up until about The 1st to middle of April. We are 100% fully responsible for our dirt road that runs off our county dirt road. Our private, family owned dirt road is almost, Almost a mile long. We live on part of my families Ranch that my great grandfather founded back in 1880. It’s a-lot smaller than the original, Ranch. Only 31, 687 acres now. Anyway, I know that Australia & New Zealand has what we call Counties. So, Why is your friend installing / fixing the washed out road / culvert? Here, the County Road Dept does it. (What you will read about Grizzlies is waaaaaay off!! This should have been updated!! 20 years ago!!!! They are as thick as Wolves now. And Wolves are bad here now and, Not just in the very NW part, of Montana. But, All over Western Montana and, SW, Montana. yaakvalley.org/about-us/about-the-yaak/

[@dnel83]

I caught only 98.3mm rainfall from the 3 UK storms of the pass week. This really put it all into perspective. Garden is flooded but at least it didn't wash it all away!

[@pamike4873]

I see New Zealand birds are the same as US birds, lol. That little guy at 6:31 was hoping to find a worm I think. When we plow our fields in the spring, it's like an invasion of birds. Especially the American Robin. They fly south for the winter, so everyone in the northern states use the sighting of Robins as the unofficial start of spring. You'll hear "I saw a Robin the other day". I tell them "Oh yeah? I saw about ten thousand yesterday". Ravens and common black birds also fly in by the hundreds. It's one of my favorite things to do in late winter/early spring.

[@D4NS80]

Great job mate, I'd be building a hydro setup like that in a heartbeat if the creeks ran like that here in Central QLD.

[@thedos2922]

That rock is some form of conglomerate sedimentary rock, beaches, river beds and glaciers are common places for conglomerates to form

[@MartyT]

Thanks for that. The torrential flood has washed away the growth and I'm noticing all sorts of nice looking rocks

[@thedos2922]

@@MartyT haha all good man

[@artisansportsman8950]

Great work Marty , look forward to your video's. We've had some bad weather recently in the UK.

[@M.TTT.]

Fixing or cleaning up storm damage can be fun sort of, takes your mind off other worries as it becomes top priority, like survival almost. Helping neighbors and stuff after storms is nice also.

[@terryrogers1025]

Water damage always increases repairs. I have found that Water damage is worse than fire damage. Best wishes to you you on the storm damage recovery sir. Thanks for the ride along.

[@hopeter7648]

I just love your videos and the direct approach I to life, amazed you haven't got yourself a road roller with the miles of track you have to maintain, take care and stay safe..!

[@michaelpage7691]

I personally would have liked to see you repairing the large wash away where you put the 2 pipes under the road, but that’s probably just me. Great job. The rock was a conglomerate. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

Never discourage the neighbours....next time...?

[@michaelcollins6851]

Good job as usual Marty

[@BESHYSBEES]

Hey Marty on your DB there should be a diff lock pedal at your right heel if you didn’t know, comes in handy especially when using the bucket or implements. G’day from Oz

[@bryanewing5058]

Glad you got it all sorted out. Hopefully you don’t see another rain like that for at least another 50 years.

[@dougwilson1769]

Brilliant job.

[@theodoranorton4779]

Hope all the sheep are accounted for...what devastation for such a lovely place. You are lucky to have your family safe and to be able to help your neighbors. Mind the slippery slopes and keep us posted. Thanks.

[@yeagerxp]

Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing

[@mdouglaswray]

Always impressive to see you toe-to-toe with M. Nature!!!!!

[@MegaKencam]

Conglomerate (that large rock) is really pretty if you polish it.

[@danq.5140]

It's a good thing you know a "guy" that has all the right equipment. 😉

[@kiwi_comanche]

Gonna need a snorkel on that wagon boss!!!!

[@paulwomack5866]

The OCD in me says this should be added to the "Broken Tractor with front end loader for $500" playlist, given the content from 6:00 to 9:00

[@joemaney8753]

Always waiting on your next video

[@lind0865]

Even in such horrible circumstances kiwi land is such a stunning place. Man id love to have a farm there. Love your vids mate.

[@DiHandley]

Agreed!

[@shiTthebed86]

IV always dreamed of going to new Zealand, but that woman they have running the country is a nut job and don't think I'll get a chance to go now.

[@ebutuoyebutouy]

@@shiTthebed86 Why u call her a nut job? U have facts or u repeating what your news told u? Yup, your dear leader made a fool of himself criticizing her when it turned out that she was correct. She was recently reelected. Is still real popular. Does that mean the majority of kiwis are also nut jobs?

[@jamesmorton8431]

Beautiful Country!

[@marcryvon]

@@ebutuoyebutouy Agreed. If not for her courageous decisions, the pandemic would have been terrible down there. BTW, that DamBreeze guy is the kind who dismiss the reality of the damn Covid. Trumpist.

[@summahstuff2496]

pudding stone !!!! verry kewl you should go back and get that its worth money 🙂

[@mozartjv]

Another wonderful video. Thank you 🙏

[@El_Chompo]

When I buy land to build on, I would like to take on board Marty and Camarata and we would have the ultimate diy land settling crew.

[@craigrik2699]

Reminds me of that story about General Freyberg and a British General at Cassino. They were driving along a road where part of it was targeted by German artillery, every now and again the Germans would shell it. While their vehicle was approaching that section of road, they were halted as Jerry was conducting their daily Fire plan onto the road. While they were sitting in the car, the British General commented on the "illegal" head dress the Maori bulldozer driver was wearing, a top hat. The bull dozer was located off to the side waiting for the shelling to stop. As soon as the shelling stopped, the bulldozer rolled out and repaired the road, Freyberg commented back to the Pom, "As long as my men can do their job, they can bloody well wear what they like!" No BS kiwi get it done mentality lol

[@bishopkinlyside8477]

Hi mate wow what a mess thank God you have all the tools or toys To fix it up thanks for the video Cliff from over the ditch in Logan city Queensland Australia

[@My_Op]

That rock looks delicious to me, reminds me of a panettone 🙂

[@billbly1691]

Sure enjoy your channel great content thanks

[@_Skim_Beeble]

I can't believe all that work you did before the rain was destroyed.

[@daveknight1154]

Good morning Marty. It's 6:00am in Canada having a coffee and enjoying your video.